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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-27
RETURN FROM ENGLAND

T/Sgt. w. j. Thomas, of the U.
S. Air Force, Mrs. Thomas, and
their two sons, Mike and Pat, have
arrived from Sculthorpe Air Force
Base in Norfolk County, England,
where Sgt. Thomas has been sta
toned for three years. They are
visiting Mrs. Thomas grandmoth-
er, Mrs. HI. C. Smith, before NOV
ing to Hampton, Va, where Sgt.
Thomas will be stationed at Lang
ley ALB.
The Thomas family is glad to
be back in the States, although
they enjoyed living in England.
Mrs. Thomas first job will be to
go shopping for summer clothing,
as the entire family has only win
ter clothing, which they found nee
essary in England in even summer
time. Their heat was not turned
off at any time during the year,
as the air was too damp and cold
to do so. The place they lived
while in England was near the
North Sea, and the region is famed
for its fine beaches, but the
Thomas family, being warm-blood-
ed southerners, found it entirely
too cold for swimming, which they
tried only once. However, since
warm clothing was essential, they
found woolens of fine quality at
most reasonable prices, and were
delighted with the British woolens
which they brought home.
They went from London, Eng
land, to Prestwick, Scotland, to
emplane for the states, landing
first at Goose Bay, Labrador, then
at Mcclure AFB, New Jersey,
from which point they lost no
time heading south.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-27

DIR. L. SIGSBEE MILLER of Eiiz-
abeth City, a former teacher in
the Dare and Currituck County
schools for 20 years and native
of Avon, is now on his 25th year
as pastor of the Pearl Street As
sembly Church in Elizabeth City.
At the recent annual convention
of his church association in Cleve-
land, o. he was chosen with four
others from several thousand min
listers, to speak at the convention
to be held in Atlanta in late Octo-
Der. DIR Miller is General Secretary
for the International Pentecostal
Assemblies, is a member of the
Board of Directors of the William
Carter Bible College and Theologi-
cal Seminary of Goldsboro, and a
member of the official board of
the Beulah Heights Bible Institute
of Atlanta. He is the son of Capt.
w. B. Miller and the late Mrs.
Carolina Gray Miller of Avon.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-27
FIRST FASHION SHOW
AT MACS HEAD SATURDA

Mays Head, April 25.-In cor
trast to the scheduled program of
the second annual Dare Coast Pr
rates Jamboree at Mays Head on
Saturday will be the first fashion
show of the season, sponsored by
the Carolinian hotel and presented
by E. L. Beale's Beach Mart in
the Driftwood and Dogwood rooms
of the Carolinian during the lunch
con period.
Lovely models including Mrs.
Wayland Fry, Mrs. Julian Oneto,
Mrs. Harold B. Mays and Miss
Jean Rose will feature the latest
in swimsuits by Tina Lesser, Rose
Marie Reid and Roxanne. They
will also model cordinates, play
clothes and dresses by Haymaker,
Lady Manhattan, Justin McCarter,
of Dallas and Servia of Miami.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-27
WANcHEsE PERSONALS

Mrs. Bernice Midget and Mrs.
Preston Daniels returned Friday
from a weeks trip to Wilmington,
N. c., Sumter and Charleston, S.
C. In Sumter they visited Mrs.
Midgett's daughter, Mrs. C. L.
Case, who, with her son Don ac-
companied them home for weeks
visit.
The Bookmobile will make it's
customary stops in Wanchese on
the first Tuesday in the month,
May l. This will be the last visit
to the school until Fall and books
should be returned on that date.
Any later change will be an
nounced before the trip in June.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-27
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

The engagement of Mrs. Rose
Elliott Hall of Andover, New York
to Alexander Worth Midget OF
Manteo and Norfolk, Va, has been
announced, the wedding to take
place at 2:30 in the afternoon Of
sunday, June 8, in Colonial Avenue
Methodist Church, Norfolk.
Mrs. Hall is the daughter Of
Mrs. May Lincoln of Mount Nor
ris, N. Y, and the late Homer Lee
Elliott of Allegheny, Pa. Mr.. Mid.
gett is the son of Mrs. Neva Mid
gett of Manteo and the late Alex
ander Midget of Manteo, and is
employed in Norfolk.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-27
PRE-sCHooL CLINICS

Pre-school clinics will be held
in the following places, according
to announcement by DIR. w. W.
Johnston, Dare County health Off
Ger:
Tuesday, May 1, Stumpy Point
at 10 am; Manns Harbor at
pm.
All parents with children start
ing to school next fall are request
ed to bring the children to these
pre-school clinics for check-ups.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-27
AUSTIN TO ALASKA

Bm1/c David F. Austin, USCG,
son of Mrs. Kate Burrus and the
late Ernest Austin of Hatteras
left by plane April 81 for Alaska
for a years duty. in this isolated
northland, after having been in
charge of the Coast Guard Depot
at Coinjock. He was accompanied
to Norfolk by his wife and mother.
Two brothers, Bert in Japan, and
Decatur in Newfoundland are vet
Grams in the country's service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
Mart Trio

About 80 paintings by Kath-
leen Bruskin, Grace Gorlitz
and Benjamin Lawless are on
view at the Artists Mart, 1851
Wisconsin avenue, Georgetown,
through next Wednesday
tclosed today. Biographical
data about these Washington
area artists are hung with the
show.
Mrs. Bruskin's group in
. cludes both abstract and nat
uralistic paintings. Con-
struction" seemed to me the
best of the architectural abb
stractions. Her simplified
German Winter" and Flor
ence" conveyed the atmosphere
of these European scenes
Benjamin Lawless loves
boats and sailing vessels, and
paints them in a way that
should appeal to many other
devoteeS of water craft.
Grace GorlitZ shows oils.
water colors and gouaches.
somewhat expressionistie. with
calligraphic details in ink. in
many instances. She has an
uninhibited color sense, which
occasionally reaches garish
extremes. I thought her best
works are "Facades" of old
houses conveying cluttered
Victorian effect. and her alb
stract Circus" Of swooping
roller coaster. round ferris
wheels and other carnival fea-
lures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
.SurreuI Ghosts

Kurt Seligmann. one OF the
original surrealists, who e
work is regularly included in
Corcoran Biennials, is having
q one-man show at Fantasy
Gallery, 1865 Connecticut ave2
nue., through March 5.
Those who have seen his
latest work at Durlacher Gal
lery, New York City, will re-
call that while he continues to
paint fantasies, his conception
has changed noticeably. But
the IL paintings at Fantasy
Gallery date from 1914 to
1850. and although the color
in the earliest is fresh and
bright compared to the subtler.
richer colors of the later can
vases, the subject matter is
akin throughout this group.
Seligmann paints weird crea-
lures of his imagination.
witches. ghosts. ETC., which in
visibly fill out the tattered me-
diaeval garments and armor.
These figures make curvilinear
patterns in handsome color
schemes with violet mauve,
earth red, olive green, brassy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
Guild and ScuIptors

Both the Artists Guild and
the Sculptors' Group have
members who represent a va
riety of modern movements as
well as naturalism. ConSe-
quently. their ANIMALS are
little cross sections of contem-
porary performance in their
respective media in Washing
ton. Less than 100 works by
both organizations are effec-
lively displayed in the foyer of
the Natural History Building.
The Guilds 81 paintings offer
variety in approaches exem-
plifled by works I considered
among the best. Mimi dubois
Bottoms "Daybreak," Samuel
Bookatz' "Seascape," suggested
the lines of sailing vessels,
Robert Gates Figure" built
up in a succession Of warm COL
ors. and different from any
work in his large one-man
show at the Corcoran Gallery
last year; and Leonard Maur-
er's mosaic-like Army with
Banners" seemed to me out
standing abstract paintings. ]
wished that two paintings en-
titled Flamenco" the natur-
aliStic miniature genre by
Prentiss Taylor, and the large
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
Objective Criticism

Pope Plus XII, speaking to a
recent gathering of priest
critics had some advice of pith
and moment for book reviewers
everywhere. ,
The critic must maintain
the greatest objectivity," the
Holy Father said. and should
accept the authors good will
until with positive reading
that is both certain and seri-
Gus. contrary conduct on the
authors part is indicated"
"A critic habitually subject
to fits Of passion should never
take pen in hand the Pope
went on. Mobility of char
acter and goodness Of heart are
always the best armor in any
kind of conflict. So 1t is with
the critic when ideas and opin-
ions meet in contrast. A
critic shows his courage by
writing calmly and without
fear. AS the Judge who is
not courageous enough to sus-
tain the law ought to resign.
a critic who loves a quiet life
more than truth ought also to
resign"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26

Art through next Friday. Or
ganized 8 years ago to run as
a non-profit, experimental stu
dio, the Workshop owes its ex-
istence to the active support
of the artists.
Forty EIGHT lithographs.
etchings. engravings and wood
cuts. many in colors, by more
than 40 artists, compose Q
show primarily contemporary
in idiom. But it is a true
cross-section Of work produced,
as Blackburn himself says in
his Introductory note to the
catalogue, which also has q
comprehensive foreword by
Jacob Kainen, curator of the
Division Of Graphic Arts,
Smithsonian Institution.
There are some outstanding
traditional prints, among them
Ernest Critchlow's portrait Of
a wistful Negro child; Charles
Whites velyety head Gideon;
Milton Glaser's Girl and Bird"
with its interesting textures:
Teckla Selnick's meditative
woman in a hospital bed; and
Margaret Cogswell's Boats at
Harbor," all black and white
Autographs.
Excellent color prints in sew
eral media include Lydia
Grimes exquisite engraving Of
trees: Gus Leiber's etching
"Flounders":; abstract "Japa-
nese Dancer" by Dorothy L.
Feigin and Ronald Joseph's
stylized Man and Horse"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
important New Shows
In Local Galleries

abstract expressionist work by
Helene McKinsey could have
been hung together. It would
be a striking demonstration
for the layman, of how one
theme can inspire two artists
to such radically different
paintings.
Omar Carrington's romantic
"February's Forest" mostly
black. white and gray and
John Chapman Lewis semi
abstract yellow Still Life"
arrest the attention. Eliot
O'Hara's superb simplified
Lake Louise" a sparkling per-
Torrance, Marcella Comes still
life "Sumac Leaves" glowing
ruby-red in surroundings of
lighter warm colors, and Alice
Acheson's Cutting Flowers, I"
a tapestry Of color and sun
shine. are admirable.
There are quiet. companion
able naturalistic urban and
harbor scenes by Rowland
Lyon, Lois Mailou Jones
(Pierre-NoeD, Carl Nyquist
and Shefheld Kagy.
The Sculptors' Group exhibit
ton Of 40 works will be re-
viewed here next Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
We See q Master c Craftsman
Working Out His Style

the goth century's literary
giants 1t is very much worth
while.
A ForeshadOwing
Autobiographical-it. too, is
about a young man making his
way in the world of fashionable
Paris-it foreshadows the giant
Remembrance. It's not pure
Proust but it's Proust. The
material was reworked and
polished before it found its
way into the masterpiece that
is Remembrance" Quite
early, for instance, we find the
author in a three-page dis
sertation on the beauty and
purity Of the apple blossom.
Later we find a surging dis
cussion Of the social implica-
tons Of the words a duke said
upon taking leave at a party.
This collection of scenes and
impressions is full Of the
Writer and his touches. AS a
novel It's hung together simply
as a literary trick, but who
cares? And has not the Writer
disarmed the critics In ad-
vance by saying:
r.. the value of a book is
never in the material pre-
sented by the writer, but in
the nature of the operation
he performs upon it,"
An Author at Work
BY this standard Jean San
teuil" is a success. 1t enables
US to watch as a master crafts
man works over his material.
Readers of Remembrance"
will find many persons and
scenes that went, in different
form, into that masterpiece.
A few scenes -- notably some
school passages. - apparently
were never used anywhere at
all after they were first put
down here.
Scholars will be comparing
Proust's early and late treat
ment of his material for a long
time to come. They may find
a freshness in some of the
passages here which was lost
in the rewriting that came
later. That is for them to de-
eide.
It is sufficient for Proust's
reading public to have more
from the Master. The appeal
of this book is as simple as
that. EDWIN TREBLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
JEAN SANTEUIL.

JEAN SANTEUIL. BY Marcel
Proust. (Simon & Schuster;
$3.50
1t Is not at all unusual for
earlier versions OF successful
poems to be published. To ap-
ply the same idea to full-length
novels is almost unheard Of.
1t is nice compliment to the
worth Of the novel but is
something to be undertaken
only with generalization. This
is what is now done in the case
of Marcel Proust's "Remem-
brance Of Things Past"
Shortly after the last world
war a young French scholar.
Bernard de Fallois. came upon
10 notebooks and numerous
boxes of torn and detached
pages of notes in the Paris
quarters where Proust once
lived. He put them together
and produced what may
loosely be called a novel" It
is issued here as Jean San
teuil."
AS a novel it leaves much
to be desired. AS a compilation
of narrative scenes by one Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
BY FLORENCE BERGMAN

Important exhibition OPEN
ings In the past fortnight in
clude Dali's surrealist jewels at
the Corcoran Gallery, of major
popular interest, already de-
scribed In detail in The Star
February I'D; Irene Rice
Pereira's geometrical abstrac-
tons. also at the Corcoran;
Modern Art Influences on
Printing Design" at the Lii
brary Of Congress, which will
remain to mid-May, and OF
local interest, the 18th annual
of the Artists Guild. In con-
junction with the fifth BIZ
ennial Of the Washington
Sculptors' Group at the Ma
tional Museum. The last two
remain only through March 8,
as does also the 43d annual Of
the Landscape Club Of WASH
ington. at the Arts Club. The
avantgarde. middle = of the :
road and conservatives will all
find something of interest in
these varied exhibitions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26

by the NKVD In 1886. the
order had changed and hard
ened. Karel. incommunicado,
died in prison. His dauntless
widow became q reporter for
the Journal de Moscou, liter
ally picked UP Robert Magi-
doff, an American correspond
ent at a skating rink and later
married him. She transformed
all over the country dur
ing the war, returned to
find that her husband was be-
ing called a spy. and under the
personal flag of Gen. Bedell
Smith. our then Ambassador,
fed again.
Mrs. Ethridge has allowed
Mia to tell her unusual story
in her own way. with mis-
placed adverbs, etc. Some
times this leads to q real Rus
sian flavor. but occasionally.
as when Mia calls pedestrians
''presbyterians." it simply hob
bles the readers progress
through an interesting &C
count. M. MEG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26

yellow. etc. Some depict
witches engaged in ancient
magic (on which subject Selig-
mann is an expert; others are
drawn. from classic mythol-
ogy. For some of us, Selig-
mann's paintings have haunt
ing appeal.
Born in Basic, Switzerland
$4,000, Seligmann studied
there; later in Florence and
Paris. After a decade In the
French capital. he settled in
New York City in 1899. Best
known as a painter, he is also
a book illustrator and designer
for the theater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
Hal Ellison Stays on Heels
Of Young New York Hoods

realism without once resorting
to the vulgarity Of phrase so
popular today. Stories like the
one that gives title to the book
and Cool Cat" are particu-
larry vivid psychological
studies of the minds of these
adolescents. They are not at
tracted to the life of a hood
lum but more or less forced
into it by pressure of other
boys held by custom and
taboo. II you go along with
them, you're a cool cat to be
admired by the girls, too, and
If you don't you're chicken"
a pariah.
Does anyone contend that
Mr.. Ellison makes his points
less effectively than if he
wrote long, dull stories with
literary pretensions. probing
with complex Freudian sym
boliSm?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
Two Printmukers

The Division of Graphic Arts
Of the United States National
Museum departed from its
usual one-man show policy by
opening last month an exhibit
ton of color woodcuts by two
artists, Angelo Myrer and Ferol
Sibley Warthen. which extends
through next Sunday.
This combination comes
about as close to a solo exhibit
ton as possible, since the two
women produce color prints by
the sinsle-block process, and
their work is similar. Each
has II prints on view. The
process, originated by the late
B. j. o. Nordfeldt in 1915, was
perfected by Blanche Lazzell,
with whom both Mrs. Myrer
and Mrs. Warthen studied in
Proyincetowrl. The design is
cut into the block in outline
and water-base pigments are
painted on the surface.
Sunken lines separate the COL
ors, and when printed. appear
as white lines. slightly en-
bossed.
Although the woodcuts Of
both are well designed. clean
cut in execution. fresh and
decorative in color, Mrs. War
then's prints seemed to me the
stronger in composition and
richer in color. Her work is
semiabstract in the styliZa-
ton of boats. houses and other
details, with emphasis on
straight lines and angles. Her
subjects are divided between
seacoast themes presumably
Provincetown) and floral sub
jects.
Mrs. Myrer, too. shows sea-
coast and floral themes. with q
dominant angularity of pat
tern, but her work seems
closer to poster design. and
her color thinner and higher
keyed. She has somewhat
more subject variety. showing
a few figures, urban and land
scape themes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
"A Soviet Newspoperwomon
Tells the Story Of Her Life

Mia. Her story as told to
Willie Snow Ethridge. tSimon
g. Schuster; $500
Mia. daughter of the Soviet.
entered the Kentucky Eth
ridges lives via the Russian
War Relief. After prelimi-
nary sniff, Mia told Mrs.
Ethridge. an author, and Mr..
Ethridge, publisher of the
Louisville Courier Journal
ALREADY I smell you Estridges
are good people" The feeling
was mutual. In due course, the
Soviet lady and the Southern
lady sat down. one to talk and
the other to listen, and this
book is the result.
Mia, a real-life Ninotchka.
was IL when the Soviet SOL
diers marched through her ma
tive town. Brooding Slav that
she was. she had made several
girlish attempts at suicide.
Fooled, she grew up to tempt
fate in other ways. She be-
came a lady merchant mari
ner, a parachutist, joined the
Oppositionist underground and
drew a cartoon of Stain on
the wall Of her prison cell at
Lubyenka.
A surprisingly non-political
animal for the time. Mia has
little to say about the ideolog-
ical struggle in the Soviet
which eliminated in the purge
of 1896. Her first husband. a
Communist Party member,
was an anti-Stalinist whom
she followed to prison. Soviet
life in the Dos was compare
lively humane. Prisoners re-
ceived letters, sometimes got
their way with hunger strikes.
Kindly guards once arranged
a meeting between Mia and
her husband. Karel. Nila's
"reminiscences of those days
are wonderfully diverting. On
the whole she preferred to be
with criminals because TITS a
strenuous life with political
prisoners.
But when Karel was taken
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
BY MARY McGRORY


The centenary year of the
death of Adam Mickiewicz,
Poland's foremost poet. is over;
but not so the bitter struggle
between East and West for the
possession Of his soul.
Adam Mickiewicz, who died
in Constantinople, November
26, 1855, was not only his
country's greatest poetic voice.
He is also reverently regarded
as a spiritual and patriotic
leader.
Exiled from Poland at the
age Of IS for revolutionary ac-
tivity, Mickiewicz never saw
his native land again. But his
love for 1t was the ruling pas
sion of his life and reached
It's fullest expression In his
magnificent Pan Tadeusz," an
epic Of exile.
Poland's Suffering
AS q Polish national leader
who had almost religious au-
thority because Of his Book
Of the Polish Pilgrims. Nick
iewicz expressed the belief that
Poland has to suffer because 1t
was created by God to suffer
In order to save other nations.
Even so, the Soviets have
tried to claim MickiewicZ as
one of their own.
Why" asked Poet Archibald
MacLeish at a mass meeting in
Hunter College on the ami
versary date, does the Polish
Peoples Republic risF the
outlaws Of planetary laughter
which its actions invite?"
In celebrating Mickiewicz,
the Soviets have flooded peri
odicals with memorial articles,
sponsored translating and re-
citing contests, held a MCKEE
wicz evening at the Moscow
Academy, published memorial
anthologies. dedicated monu-
ments.
Mickiewicz is represented by
them as "a precursor Of &C.
mocracy," who during the
years of his exile to Russia by
the czarist police. was lionized
by Russian intellectuals much
influenced by Voltaire and
prophesied Polish friendship
with Russia.
A Different Mickiewicz
On this side OF the Iron
Curtain, a differen. MCKEE
wicz has been presented at q
series of mass meetings and
celebrations: Mickiewicz the
lonely exile, the implacable
hater of Russian tyranny. the
devout Catholic, the fighter
for freedom, the fervent pa
triot. the inspired lyricist. The
Voice of America devoted 40
broadcasts r. the poet during
the year.
The contention has not
ceased. Recently UNESCO
issued a commemorative vol
ume IN which four out of
seven contributors were from
either the Soviet or satellite
countries.
But within the next few
months the West will have its
say in books about Mickiewicz.
Mrs. Marion Coleman. a dis
tinguished Polish scholar, will
present an edition of English
translations of MickiewicZ'
poetry. Waclaw Lednicki will
offer a book Of essays by
free world admirers of the
poet. a biography and selec-
tons Of poetry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-26
A SuspensefuI but SIow-Poced
Novel of War in Indo-Chinu

sees the political situation
more clearly than the Min
lister or any other foreign
observer. There is a Vietna-
meSe doctor, in fight from
Red troops and Swallowed by
gents; there are others,
French and natives, who have
places in the complex intrigue.
"A Forest of Tigers" also
could be called a story of sus-
pense. but it will not be. be-
cause Mr.. Shaplen Is too lit
erary for that.
The suspense inherent in the
story is smothered in long de-
scriptions and atmospheric
passages. The narrative, which
could have been enthralling.
proceeds too slowly to stir
much excitement.
But Mr.. Shaplen does know
the country and the curious,
cruel war waged there. He
does convey. the diverse feel
ings of natives and aliens as
they go warily about Saigon.
interrupted now and then by
the explosion Of a grenade
tossed into a cafe from q BIZ
cycle and leaving the shattered
body Of a Frenchman or of a
suspected spy. often, too,
this atmosphere is portrayed
with artistry. even if it does
halt the story.