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St. Paul recorder., 1956-05-18
For Women:
For women:
A Pretty Coke Is A
Compliment To Guest

Every special occasion calls for
a cake birthdays, anniversaries,
and, Of course weddings bridal
parties and showers, and tea and
dinner parties for visitors. A
pretty cake is a compliment to the
honored guest, the focal point Of
the table decoration and the dra-
matte highight at dessert-time.
Some years back every family,
or at least every neighborhood,
had a skilled baler-a woman TO
whom everyone turned when there
was a cake to be baked for a
special occasion. Now, although
Aunt Hatties are still nice TO have
around, they are not essential for
cake baking because, with cake
mixes and frosting mixes, anyone
even a small girl-can make a
beautiful and delicious cake, These
mixes have taken all the work Of
measuring, sitting, creaming the
butter, beating eggs separately
etc, out Of cake making, and all
the tedious cooking, stirring and
guessing out Of making the frost
ing.
The cake pictured, pretty
enough for an engagement party,
a brides dinner, a reception for
the new president Of the club or
the new minister, is made from
one package Of instant white cake
mix and one package Of instant
fluffy frosting mix
The fluffy frosting, so soft and
lively to look at, so good 10 eat is
made without any cooking at all
You just prepare the frosting ac-
cording TO the easy directions on
the 1OIz ounce package The
frosting, usually Is snowy white,
but can be favored and colored
TO suit any occasion or taste. Our
cake today is favored and pink
tinted with marischino cherry
the juice being used as part Of the
liquid for mixing You get enough
frosting from one package Of mix
10 60 between two layers and 10
swirl generously over the top and
sides Of the cake. Candles may be
set in the frosting II the cake il
for a birthday, or small candies or
flowers may be used to decorate
IT, Because this cake is designed
for a brides party or shower. we
placed bits Of evergreen and fresh
pink rosebuds in a wreath around
the base Of the cake.
Here are the easiest Of direc-
tons for making this cake.
Cherry Fluff Party Cake
/ package instant white cake mix
2 tablespoons marachino cherry
Juice
/ package instant fluffy frosting
mix
y teaspoon vanilla
4 teaspoon almond extract
Prepare instant white cake mix |
according to directions on the |
package, baking in two round g.
nch layers. Cool
Place cherry juice in measur- |
ng cup and add enough cold water !
10 make q cup liquid Pour into |
ieep IL quart mixing bowl Add |
contents Of bag / from the frost /
ng mix package. Beat with egg /
oeater or at highest speed Of |
electric beater until stiff peaks
are formed when beater Is raised.
Scrape bowl occasionally. II
1eaten mixture fills the bowl. /
transfer 70 larger bowl
Add contents Of bag 2. Mix
slowly, then beat at highest speed |
until frusflny n apno.rfh urioaalv /
St. Paul recorder., 1956-05-18

If a man empties his purse
into his head, no one can take it
from him.
Tis said you can air-condition
your own car with a new S235 do
it-yourself kit Of equipment, and
lots of ingenuity.
St. Paul recorder., 1956-05-18
Attendants Named
For Jones-Buford
Nup+iols On 26th

Miss Julia Elizabeth Jones.
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
a. Jones Of 1922 Rondo Av.. has
selected the attendants for her
St. Paul recorder., 1956-05-18
THIS WEEKS RECIPE
Sour Cream Potato Salad

AAAAN "Natn = ANhNAAH
Sour Cream Potato Salad
(Serves A.
" cup thick soured cream
u cup mayonnaise
3 cups diced cooked potatoes
l teaspoon chopped chive or onion
3 slices bacon, diced and fried
salt and pepper
Lettuce or other green's
Blend together soured cream
and mayonaise. Add 70 potatoes
and mix well Fold In chives and
bacon. Season 10 taste with salt
pnd pepper Serve on lettuce or
other greens,
5rl=lEEgESlSsE5ESEll=aS=lN=sE
cuts Il Co top with melted
cheese sauce and slivercd al
monds.
II you want something differ
ent 10 serve with hamburgers,
youm like fried bean cakes Mash
cooked dry hmas and season
with chopped onion, salt and pep
per. shape into cakes and fry in
drippings until golden brown,
A bit Of leftover sausage or
frankmrter can he sliced thin
aud used for gnruishing as well
~ adding flavor 90 pea or bean
soup.
Use the last bits Of roast leg Of
lamb for curry, As condiments 10
glamorize Il, use cocoanut, chut-
ney. almonds and raisins
St. Paul recorder., 1956-05-18
WEDDING
ANNIVERSARIES
MINNEAPOLIS


May l9-Mr. and Mrs. Albert
True, S60S Third Av. s, nine
years.
May 2l-Mr and Mrs, Albert
Banham, seas Smelling Av., one
year; Mr.. and Mrs, Robert Dye,
1855 Smelling Av. one year; Mr.
and Mrs, Bennie Owens, 720 Ere
mont Av. N, one year,
ST. PAUL
May 24-Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Light, 661 w. Central Av., II
years; Mr.. and Mrs. Lionel Allen,
65S w. Central Av,, SO years.
St. Paul recorder., 1956-05-18
Social and Personal
y MINNEAPOLIS

iowa visitor Mrs L. Scott Of Mason CITY, Ia while at
'ne General Conference of the Methodist church in Min
was the guest OF Mr. and Mrs l. c. Mumord of 35Oq
AV D Mrs Scott is cousin of Mr. Mumford She left
Tor her home Tuesday Nav Is "
Sad News: Word was received of tb. 5...L e n n, -
St. Paul recorder., 1956-05-18

In the talks Mr.. wilkins made
during his stay here he frequent
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Suspense and Entertainment
Give Story Lively Interest

married. had a son whom they
called Keith Stuart, separated.
and at length were reunited
for a few years of serene hap
piness. But there were pc
RODS when Noel's amoral past
came out Of unexpected hiding
places at unexpected times to
terrify him and all but wreck
his career.
Into this hiatus came a
breath Of life in the form Of
a belle from Texas, and even
Noel's fiamboyant youth, early
marriage in Ceylon. barn
storming days in the U. S. A..
and wartime career in the
Raj, had not prepared him
for the events Terry Lomax
set in motion. Also, there was
the matter Of Noel's intracta-
bic son. and the disturbing
antics of a hoodlum named
Stuart. But here again, it
developed that all's well that
ends we'll.
AS the story ends, Noel is
the proprietor Of an ancestral
manor-houSe and an estate In
East Anglia where, he relates.
his life is strenuous but happy
with Jean whom he. calls a
perfect wife.
IAs Noel philosophers, some
people find happiness because
they deserve 1t. others merely
because they are lucky. And
he Is one Of the lucky ones.
GLADYS WOOD DANIEL.
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A Risky Business
For q Young Girl
Just Turned Il

HOOKED RIGHT. BY Eliza
beth Denham. doubleday &
Co.; $500
When she was 81, Elizabeth
Denham was asked to help
bring British soldiers trapped
in Frante during World War
II back to England. This
meant weekend trips from
England to France to find the
men and bring them out. It
meant working with other
brave Englishmen. the Maquis.
and the French and Americans
in occupied France who were
willing to risk their lives to
help the men.
It meant a constant fear Of
discovery if a little thing gave
you away-like looking right
in France when about to cross
the street.
Mrs. Denham was asked to
do this job because of her eff
fectiveness at Dunkirk. Leav-
ing her husband and baby,
she made these trips to France
for three years. With very
little preparation, she and
her companions improvised
constantly. Mrs. Denham has
told what is one of the more
improbable stories of the
year. Improbably. it's true.
B. M.
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University Show

The university's exhibition is
drawn from a collection of
1900 items presented in 1850
by Miss Matilda Wright as a
memorial to her brother, w.
Lloyd Wright, who assembled
the collection throughout his
life. They were native WASH
ingtonians, whose family
owned property in Washington
in the early 1905. Wrights
were active in the District gov
eminent more than a century
ago, and for half a century.
w. Lloyd Wright was a civil
ian mathematician and ship
designer with the United States
Nays Bureau Of Ships.
The show is not arranged
according to chronology, but
neither are most peoples men,
cries. One can get the full
flavor of it by wandering hap
PLY from item to item, and
reading the labels, which add
much to the interest.
Chronologically, the show
covers about a century and a
half. 1t begins with the old
stone house on M street,
Georgetown, built nearly two
centuries ago; there has been
much in the press this year
concerning plans to restore it.
It's restoration, is imperative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-19
THE WIND WAS COLD. ]

The WIND WAS GUILD. by
Hugh Clevely. Morrow a.
Co.: $780,.
This entertaining novel and
fine suspense story is told in
the first person by a strange
character named Noel Stuart
Dicton pronounced Dyton).
He was named Noel because
he was born on Christmas Day,
and Stuart because all Of the
Dicton boys we're so christened.
He was aptly described as a
rolling stone that had gathered
no moss.
His father, the Hon. Francis
Stuart Dicton was killed in a
hunting accident three weeks
before Noel's birth, and Noel's
mother, who had been a
French actress, returned with
him to Paris. when he was but
two months old. She brought
along a prin. young English
miss named Ella Mouse. whose
duty it was to superintend
Noel's early education.
'Mousey" became a cherished
member Of the household until
her death.
After Noel's sudden and en-
forced exit from Eton at 1914
years Of age, he became an
aviator, and wound UP with a
wartime hitch in the Raj.
Meanwhile, he fell in love With
a beautiful girl in Ceylon
named Jean MacAllery. They
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tons complement each other;
they do not overlap. Each has
a descriptive catalogue, which
other collectors of Washing
toniana will want to keep.
The Kiplinger exhibition
contains a selection (the first
made for an exhibition of the
best and most valuable items
in the 35-year-old collection,
including the first official map
of the District. dated 1892;
the first detailed map of the
area published in 1912 by Cap
tain John Smith; and an orig
inal wash drawing Of the Cap
itol by Benjamin Latrobe in
1910. The collection in its en-
tirety. said to be the largest
privately owned group Of rare
prints of Washington more
than 300). hangs in the Offices
of the Kiplinger Washington
Agency in the Editors Build
ing.
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FuIbriqht Artists

Washington area artist Ben
L. Summerford vienna, Va.)
is one of 80 young American
artists who have studied
abroad under the United
States Government Fulbright
program, whose work will be
exhibited at the -Gra-
ham Galleries, New York City,
for three weeks beginning Sep.
TENDER Is. The show is under
the joint auspices of the gall
lery and the Institute of Inter-
national Education, New York
City. the preliminary selection
agency for student awards UNI
der the Fulbright program.
In this first group show Of
former grantees, nearly all the
exhibitors will be presented
in New York for the first time.
Since the passage of the
Fulbright Act 10 years ago,
more than $500 American
graduate students have stud-
led abroad under its auspices.
of these, 230 were in the field
of art.
Ok Mr.. Summerfield spent his
Fulbright ssignme emit In
France in 1949-50.
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artist exhibition at De Sando's
restaurant, 1870 H street NV,
through August. Both are
painter-members of The Arts
Club. and both have exhibited
elsewhere, including The West
Chester. Pa. County Art Assoc
citation earlier this year, which
showed work at the same time
by two other Washington art
lists. Bette Hartnell Smith and
Garland Niche.
The quality in the show at
De Sando's is uneven, as both
young artists are trying out
various approaches. Miss Mill
er's work is more exuberant
and colorful, Mr.. Miller's more
restrained and objective. Miss
Miller's best paintings, I
thought, are her self-portrait
in studio (not a LIKENESS, still
life Beside the Sea" and land
scape Abandoned Gold Mine,
Great Falls"
The larger part Of Mr.. Mill
er's group comprises land
scapes, harbors, village scenes,
of which up from the Shen-
andoah." blue Road" and
Boats, Benedict" seemed best
to me. All were done in water
color reinforced with ink.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-19

40 years. The speaker is the
doctors lifelong friend, head
of a printing firm and former
editor of the local paper.
The doctors life comes into
sharp focus as Albert Shoe
maker describes it in his COL
loquial way, pointing up cpl
sodes they shared, uncovering
some commendable things the
community had never known.
A New Departure
This story, perhaps. is some
thing of a departure for Mr..
O'Hara, though not entirely.
In describing a plain citizen
who put on no airs and did
much good, it emphasizes the
more idealistic, less selfish side
of a community. The story is
entirely free from the embar-
RAISING intimacieS and crude
vulgarities which Mr.. O'Hara
has felt he had to bring into
his full length novels in the
interest of naturalism.
"a Family Party" is his first
book since he published "Ten
North Frederick" which won
the National Book Award for
fiction last year.
\ - n n
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poison he buys for the pur-
pose. and the chase to find it
rings in assorted characters
who say all the things the au-
thor obviously has always
wanted to say to people who
tell her she can't be sure of
her motivation. A childish
broad side on psychology
straight from the authors un-
conscious.
HARM INTENDED. BY Rich
ard Parker. (Scribner's;
$1,000
Mr.. Parker, himself the
father of FIVE, describes the
evil that befalls an ordinary
man, Edward Hawks, his wife
and their five children after he
wins 10000 pounds on the foot
ball pools. An unsavory char
acter and his sidekick prey on
the family, with the life of one
of the children eventually in
the balance. The children's
endless wrangling puts a con-
slant brake on the action. If
this is the way it is, our envy
of life in a large family is
thoroughly disSipated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-19
japanese Novel

THE SOUND OF WAVES,
by Yukio Mishima, translated
by Meredith Weatherby
(Knopf; So is a Japanese
novel about the people on a
small island off the coast of
Japan. An appealing love
story is woven into the au-
thor's vivid descriptions of a
fishing village and its customs.
Shinji. a youth of 10. is in
love with Hatsue. but her
father, the wealthiest man in
the village, owner of two
coastal freighters. has plans
for her to marry a more eligi-
BILE young man. Shinji. his
widowed mother and small
brother, are poor, dependent on
Shinji's wages as a crewrnan
on a fishing boat and his
mothers profits from diving
after abalone and other edi-
bles. Shinji's courage.
strength and spirit win over
the reluctant father in the
end.
It's an old situation, as love
stories go, and yet Mr.. Mish-
lima, who at 81 is one Of
Japan's highly regarded novel;
lists. writes with a poetic touch
which shines through the diff
ficulties of translation. And
his account of life on such an
island is decidedly interest,"
ing. "The Sound of Waves"
won the Japanese Shinchosha
Literary Prize.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-19
ART NEWS
Recalling
OurCity
Years
BY FLORENCE BERGMAN

Native Washingtonians can
revisit their childhood (and
their several times great
grandparents childhoods) and
resident Washingtonians from
other places can get a glimpse
of Washington in its youth. in
two exhibitions, now current:
early Washington" at George
Washington University Lii
brary, 2023 G street NV,
through September is, and the
w. M. Kiplinger collection Of
old Washington prints, maps
and photographs at the Edi-
tors Building Auditorium, 1929
H street. only through next
Friday.
Most people probably regard
their youth as the good old
times" a fancy repeated pre-
Sumably every generation since
Adam and Eve. Jim Bergman
stated it succinctly recently:
I'm my childhood Washington
was giving a lot of time and
effort to campaigns to save
the dogwood. Now we're Civ
ing frenzied thought to saving
the city from the H-bomb."
Happy memories are immor-
tai, while the less agreeable
ones fade to some extent.
Throughout history, there
have been golden ages at in
tervals. although they were
golden only for a minority at
the top. Elmer Davis, director
of the owl during World War
II, writer and news analyst,
said years ago, something to
the effect that the worlds gen.
uine golden age was from 1870
to 1914 COR thereabouts) be-
cause a larger proportion of all
classes benefited from adj
vances made. during that four
decades. than in any other era.
Shows Compared
The university's exhibition
is composed of ITO prints,
paintings, letters, documents
and books, about 95 per cent
of them never before exhibited.
1t gives a comprehensive view
of everyday life in Washing
ton, the city'S rather than the
Governments. The latter is
well represented, but not DOM
inant. The Kiplinger collec-
ton, on the other hand, is pre-
dominantly Federal: The city
plan, early panoramic views,
and series of engravings, lith-
ographs, woodcuts, most of
them colored, on the Capitol,
White House, Monument and
Mount Vernon. The exhibit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-19
.Deft Comedy
OF Manners
THE HAPPY EXILES. B,

THE HAPPY EXILES. By
Felicity Shaw. Harper d.
Bros; $500
MIS-. Shaw, a Colonial wife,
has written a def comedy of
manners about a little group
living in an unspecified outpost
Of Empire. Her heroine is a
pretty girl with broken heart
who hopes to find in the weller
Of personalities all flung to-
gether at the edge of the
world, a suitable husband.
AS for the rest of the char
acters. they are what you find
everywhere, only living closer
together in the curious garri-
son existence that bearing the
white mans burden imposes.
Chief among these is an As
sistant Chief Secretary, whose
mistress blithely cuts through
the careful lines drawn all
about her. Choosing and main
tanning an attitude towards
her takes most Of the other
ladies time. although occa-
sionally they have the native
ladies in so they can sew to-
gether, and solidify interna-
tional sentiment.
Mrs. Shaw exhibits a pretty
wit in setting down the fine
points Of Colonial behavior.
She also does some pleasant
character drawing. The plot,
however. Is a trifle insubstan-
tial. M. MEG.
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The Old Algonquin

BLESSED ARE THE DEB
OMAR by Margaret Case Har-
riman (Rinehart: $500 con-
tinues her account of adven-
lures in her youthful years
when her father, Frank Case,
owned New York's famous Ho-
tel Algonquin. Mrs. Hartman
described in THE Vicious Cir
Gle" some of the celebrities of
her girlhood. She had more
than enough material for an
other book, and here she re-
lates more of the experiences
of a child brought up in a no.
tel frequented by theatrical
and literary stars. We learn,
entertainingly. as always. more
about such figures as Douglas
Fairbanks, ST., the Barrymores,
Elsie Janis, the John Drews,
Joseph Hergesheimer and H.
l.. Mencken. The book is per-
ceptively illustrated by Mircea
Vasiliu.
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Mart Pair

Lie All lSLS MdTC mas IN
stalled what amounts to two
part exhibition this month; a
group of some so paintings in
oil. casein and watercolor in
its own gallery, 1861 Wisconsin
avenue, through August Is;
and another group in The
Gallery Calf Espresso) at 1918
0 street, one block away,
through August. 81. Many Of
the same artists are repre-
sented in both, and not a few
Of the paintings have been
seen earlier in other combina-
tons or one-man shows. But If
worth seeing once. they are
worth seeing again.
Among the best groups
(scattered through the two
shows is that by George Bay
liss. jr.. whose semiabstract
paintings have arresting COM
positions and color schemes.
New to me is his ''DiSmounted
Figure" a knight and horse in
armor on a red background, at
the Mart.
Other new and effective
paintings at the Mart include
Carlos Lopez interior with an
elderly woman After Tea" a
vital portrait; and another fig
ure, "Repose," by Lucille San
ders, simplifled in form and
quiet in color: Constance Law
sons Marina" apparently
viewed from a helicopter; Ben
Lawless' high-keyed semi
abstract Reflections; Chris
Karras' colorful river land
scape "Sardine Factory;
Katherine Hobbs Canoe" a
nostalgia glimpse of summer;
John Dundin's broadly treated,
semiabstract Bridge; and
Carver Miller's strong linear
after Fiesta"
At the Gallery, there are
better paintings by some Of the
artists than the Mart displays;
Lucy Gomersall's Swimmers"
for instance, also Gloria Bes-
ser's mosaic-patterned AN
chorage" and "Mending the
Net by Liddell Burford.
Mart artists obviously prefer
the sea to the mountains: for
besides the above. the show at
the Gallery has other good
paintings, all inspired by the
sea: Helen Beccard Niles mer-
maids floating in blue and
green; Katherine Claude's
"Gulls at Evening; Lois Jones'
glimpse Of Menemsha fishing
docks and boats; Marlin Fem-
calls vigorous port by Sea-"
and Jules Eboli's Rocks in
Waves" a stratified abstrac-
ton in effect.
Also at the Gallery is a Sc
rene nonobjective painting by
d. Ruelofs, a composition Of
curving vertical bands and
lines in black. white and gray
on a subtly changing ground;
at the other pole. several ex-
quisite wash drawings by Caro-
line Binyon. depicting familiar
Georgetown vignettes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-19
Two New French Variations
On the Old Theme of Love
1 CERTAIN SMILE. By Fra

A CERTAIN SMILE. BY Fran
coise Sagan. (E. P. Dutton;
$2.50)
ANIELIE IN LOVE. BY Henri
Troyat. (Simon 81 Schuster;
$4.500
These two French novels
are as different as two stories
on the same theme could pos
sibly be. FRANCHISE Sagan and
Henri Troyat are both writing
about young girls who foresake
younger men for older ones.
But the difference between
them is as vast as that between
pre- and postwar France; be-
tween intellectuals and petit
bourgeois; between sensuality
and sentiment; between love as
experiment and love as total
commitment.
Mile. Sagan is of course, the
appallingly precocious 20-year-
old who in her teens startled
her elders with "Bonjour iris
tesse." They will not be re-
assured by the knowing tone Of
"A Certain Smile"
The Russian-born M. Troyat,
being at least twice her age,
is not afraid to display kind
ness and even Sentimentality.
Her First Affair
Mile. Sagan's Dominique is
a 20-year-old university stu
dent who is having her first
affair with Bertrand, a fellow
student when she meets his
uncle, Luc, the contented hus-
band of FRANCHISE. "A GER
tain smile" is exchanged and
soon Dominique and Luc are
meeting in bistros and Luc is
telling her, 1T would give me
a great kick to have an affair
with you"
With a firm understanding
that there will be no broken
hearts. Dominique and Luc go
of to the Riviera for a week
of love and sun, during which
they speak with tenderness
and common sense" of their
absent loved ones.
At one point she laughingly
says to him: Am I not a typi-
cally vicious little existentialist
girl from one of the cafes
around Saint German dies
Pres, the kind that breaks UP
a marriage without even put
ting her mind on it?"
He laughingly rejoins: And
what about me?, The model
husband, carried away by lust,
when the dangerous age came
upon him the solid citizen
led around by the nose"
Actually. this is just about
the size Of 1t. Mile. Sagan's
prose shows logic, precision,
clarity. But what remains is
the chillingly heartless tone,
which is Of course remarkable
in one so young and also
rather sad.
More Tenderhearted
M. Troyat, by contrast, has
a warm fire Of a book in
amelia in Love-" which is the
first Of a thVee-paneled novel
about a gentle village girl who
leaves of a tepid engagement
with the local sawmill scion
and falls heavily in love with
a barkeeper.
Amelie's story Is the story
Of her village and the early
chapters abound in toothsome
details Of provincial life. The
Aubernat family are pleasant,
fully realized human beings,
practical but tenderhearted.
The prim Amelie, fearful Of