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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
This Was AIexundre Dumas
AS the Purisiuns Knew Him

everywhere, his amorous ex-
periences recounted at every
soiree. His plays and stories
pried out the secrets of Paris
society and were the talk of
the continent.
The book is titled king of
Paris" because it was Dumas
desire to be thus described by
posterity. But the giant Negro,
son Of a top cavalry officer
under Napoleon, became a
public jest in his latest years
when his stunts for notoriety
became commonplace. For
this weakness, it was Alex
andre Dumas the son who suf-
fered. He it was who wrote
Lady of the Camellias, I"
which made Paris weep.
An Essay Study Novel
This essay-study novel has
many shockerS for the I'M
sophisticated. There is sotne-
thing at once La Parisienne
and Rabelaisian in the telling
and this makes the pages easy
to turn. The author admits
he has put his own twist on
many of the incidents. He
even imagines a plot-crit;caI
duel. But in an addendum,
in which he explains all this
mischief. he lets everyone in
on why historical novels are so
easy to digest. It's the sugar
on the pill that does it. "a
Book Of the Month selection,
already in its second printing. }
HENRY A. LYON
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Paintings by George Vincent
Bayliss, jr., occupy the gallery
Of the Arts Club through next
Friday. This young Washing
ton-born artists talent was
developed at the University Of
Maryland, where he obtained
his B.A. degree last year. This
year he. received an MIA.
from Cranbrook Academy Of
Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
He has won six awards since
1858. including one in the
Corcoran Gallery's ninth an
nual area show, from which
the gallery purchased Mr.. Bay
liss' watercolor Forest Pri-
meval."
The majority of his paint
ings at the Arts Club are
wholly abstract, a number Of
them concerned with colors
applied in rough squares, remi-
niscent Of work by the late
Nicolas de Stael. I preferred
the one-man show Mr.. Bayliss
had at the Dupont Theater
Gallery last year. 1t was semi
abstract. but still vouchsafed
a glimpse of the theme, and
was more varied and interest,"
ing than the current collec-
ton.
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|Rumirez' First

The first one-man show in
Washington by Eduardo Ra-
mirez Villamizar opened at the
Pan American Union the Sec
ond week Of this month, under
auspices Of The Columbian
Ambassador to the Organiza-
ton Of American States and
Mrs. Delgado. A biography
OF this young Colombian
painter Of the avant-garde
was published in The Stars
news columns September 10.
Twenty-four paintings which
will remain on view through
October 8 are mostly large
compo sitions, non-objective in
theme, with geometric forms
clean-cut in execution and
cool in color, with occasional
vivid exceptions. A few paint
ings suggest themes somewhat
more specific than geometric:
"Nocturne." for instance, with
its moon and subtly architec-
tural forms; and Magyar
"Reminiscences" with its motif
distracted from ancient May
an remains.
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IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
Vital Role of GuerriIIus
In CiviIWur Revealed

treated at length in the book.
Their hit-and-run COM
mando operations swept over
the Shenandoah Valley. North
ern Virginia, the Western Vir-
ginia slopes and the Maryland
area adjacent to Washington.
They kidnapped generals in
bed, made mincemeat Of rail-
road track, seized supply cara
vans, pillaged, sliced telegraph
wires, captured couriers and
wrought such destruction upon
communication lines that army
and corps commanders were
left reeling.
Book Is Fast Paced
Phil Sheridan begged down
in Virginia, looking over his
shoulder for the next raid.
Sam Grants final hammer
blows were postponed because
the rangers kept chipping
away in his back yard. WASH
ington had the filters. seeing
a partisan army in every dust
cloud.
Mr.. Jones' book is fat, but
the prose is lean and quick
moving. Students Of the wars
most fascinating theater must
read it to get a full picture of
the war.
RICHARD RODGERS
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GRAY GHOSTS AND REBEL

GRAY GHOSTS AND REBEL
RAIDERS. BY Virgil Car
rington Jones. Henry Holt
g. Co.; $4.50)
Our Civil War has been
scrutinized and thumbed over
so often it seems impossible
anything was left undiscov-
cred. But Mr.. Jones has pieced
together scraps amounting to
a new, important discovery.
His theme is that the South's
guerrillas have been brushed
of too lightly, whereas they
were the main reason the
North didn't win as early as
the summer Of 1864.
Even Lee, Early and other
Confederate generals growled
that their irregulars were more
trouble than they were worth.
On. the North, Grant ordered
them hanged as common GRIM
inals. Sheridan, Custer and
others strove to obey him.
Hit-and-Run Operations
John Singleton Mosby. CEN
trail figure in another of the
authors works, dominates this
one. Other leading Partisan
Rangers included Turner Ash
by, "Lige" White, "HanSe"
Mcneil and Harry Gilmor, all
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sion of one coming face to face
with all wars brutal realities.
But he expressed these horrors
in the impact on individuals
or small groups rather than
the fields of battle. Despite
their specific origin. they are
universal In character.
The second exhibition COM
prises recent paintings by Jean
Fabert in the I. F. AS own
gallery. 1888 Connecticut ave-
nue.. Both shows are sched-
uled to close next Saturday.
M. Fabert was one Of the
Painters of Promise" each
represented with several works.
In the galleries July exhibit
tons. The young French
painter depicts landscape, har-
bors, urban scenes and figures
with broad but representa-
tional treatment, emphasizing
pictorial appeal with verve.
-Four times winner of the first
prize Of the Ecole Municipale
des Beaux Arts, he was re-
Gently made a laureat for life
OF the Academic DIES Beaux
Arts. He is also the recipient
OF the Premier Prix Chevenard
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News in Brief

Marvin D. Mangus is hav-.
ing an exhibition Of oil paint.
ings through next Saturday at
Del's Gallery, 5000 Wisconsin
avenue, Bethesda. A member
Of the Landscape Club Of
Washington, Mr.. Mangus has
received awards in the Clubs
ANIMALS and at the Harper's
Ferry annual show.
Today is the last to see an
exhibition Of watercolors and
drawings by John Myers Of
New York, and Larry Perron
Of Connecticut at The Gallery,
1918 o street.
The National Gallery offers
q timely lecture this afternoon
at 4 o'clock, by Margaret
Bouton. She will speak on
"Goya and His Times" and
will show a film THE Glory
of Goya."
The Freer Gallery Of Art
will launch its lecture series
for the 1867 season on Oc-
tober is at $3.50 pm. when
DR.. Richard Edwards, associ-
ate professor, Washington
University. st. Louis, will
speak on Unique Aspects Of
Chinese Painting" The lee
ture will be illustrated with
slides. 1t will be held in the
gallery auditorium, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive S.W
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SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
IN STUDY OF MATHEMATICS

THE WORLD OF MATHEMATICS. Edited by
James r. Newman. (Simon & Schuster $20.)
1t Is impossible to reviewer even to catalog
the contents of such maSterwork as this in
the brief space allowed here. Simon and
Schuster describes The World of Mathematics"
as "a small library Of the literature Of mathe-
matics from A,hInoSe the Scribe to Albert
Einstein, presented with commentaries and notes
by James r. Newman" An apt description.
Mr. Newman, well known in Government
circles here as mathematician, spent IS years
at the job of winnowing wheat from chaff in the
literature of mathematics. He has done his
tedious job well. What has resulted is four
volume package, 2535 pages long (including
index dealing with every phase of mathematical
thought
Much Of what is in these books viii be miles
over the head OF even a well-educated reader.
probably some Of the articles would be incom-.
prehenSible even to reasonably well-trained
mathematician. But this is unimportant even
to the casual SKINNER. There u.s. in "The World
Of Mathematics" something for everyone. And
most important, that something is bound to
make the reader think-which is healthful, if
unfamiliar exercise for most of US.
This is not something to read while the tele-
vision set is blaring away. It Is, however, some
thing to read on those long winter nights when
the grey matter needs workout.
WILLIAM HINES
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temporary artists Of Europe
and Asia are doing in one print
medium.
This exhibition, which viii
remain only through October
IA, was arranged and lent by
, the Victoria and Albert Muse
UNI, London. Organized by
Peter Floud, keeper Of its cir
culation department, the show
had its initial display in that
museum in November, two
years ago, then Travelled
through Britain and on the
continent, and began its Amer
lean tour at the San Francisco
Museum Of Art, whence 1t
came to the Library of Con-
greSs.
Twenty-Five Countries
The exhibition has 200
woodcuts by 1870 artists Of rs
countries, including IS by nine
American printmakers. Most
of the artists are represented
by two prints each. Represen-
tation by nations is not UNI
form. ranging from several
countries with one artist each,
to Germany's IL and Great
Britain's Is artists.
Instead Of the usual pro-
cedure for such international
shows, In which each section
is selected by its own national
committee, this show was Sc
lected solely by the London
Museums circulation depart
ment, for the sake Of a uni
form standard. consequently,
arguments can be advanced
that it is not as representative
as it would have been If organ
lied by the aforementioned
national committees.
incidentally, the "represen-
tativeness" of those from the
United States Of America pro-
vides a gauge Of sorts. There
is no question about the Amer
lean artists abilities. But in
view Of the hundreds Of native
born printmakers of extensive
regulations in this country, it
is interesting to note that Of
the nine in the American
group, five were natives Of
foreign countries ranging from
Latvia to China to Uruguay.
At any rate, there is one Wash
ington area artist--native
Virginian Charles w. Smith,
now head Of the Art Depart
ment, University Of Virginia,
who began his study Of art at
the Corcoran School.
Gifted Pr1ntmakerS
But since there is no jury
method yet discovered that
satisfies everyone on all scores,
visitors to the show may as
well accept the fact that the
representative quality of the
various national groups Cor
single artists, in four caSes)
is unreliable. and enjoy the
show for the opportunity it
presents to meet some gifted
printmakers from far couns
tries.
Whatever his limitations in
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|. A. Galleries

The I. F. A. Galleries re-
Gently opened two exhibitions.
In conjunction with the movie
war and Peace" just launched
at Loew's Capitol, a collection
of Goya's Disasters of War;
original etchings from the 1868
edition, is installed in the
theater lounge. Like the. film,
these deal with the Napoleonic
invasions. Goya's Disasters"
record the horror and repul-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
KING OF PARIS.

KING OF PARIS. BY Guy
Endore. (Simon q Schu-
ster: So
Big porcine Alexandra Du-
mas poured out q torrent of
romantic plays and stories.
This book is an effort to make
him as understandable to us
as ne was understood by Paris.
ians q hundred years ago.
Before Dumas, plays were
written by formula and news
paper serials and books fol-
lowed the precept that authors
must do right by mobiles. Sud-
denly an almost Unsuitable de-
mand for popular literature
sprang up from nowhere, and
at the same time q revolt Of
all artists fiared. Dumas was
In the forefront, insisting that
reality in social relationships
must be admitted; art must
spring from nature. be vibrant,
live.
Talk Of Europe
The wonder is that Dumas
was able to add so much fire to
the conflagration. He chal-
lenged his contemporaries to
the limits Of his monstrous
vitality. His notable powers
were unchecked in boudoirS
and editorial Offices for so
years. while his Three Mus
keteers," Monte Cristo," and
Twenty Years After'-among
hundreds Of others-were
crowded through the publish
ers' mills. His wit was echoed
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nevertheless reached creative
ly into hundreds Of lives,
guided many careers, and
plucked the disconsolate out
Of despair.
His Plays
While still in his 20s in the
early part Of thiSscentury, Ed
ward Sheldon, the son Of q
wealthy Chicago family,
dazzled the theater with a
series of plays which were
smash hits and in some cases
rld-famous. One must take
the story of their impact on
faith, since the synopsis here
indicates them to be rather
melodramatic in content.
In any case, he had the
world in the palm Of his hand
when his whole body began to
stiffen and he was confined to
!. his catafalque-like bed in his
New York penthouse. But II
he was embittered or bewil-
dered by this blow, he never
showed it. He began de-
liberately to spend every bit of
his little strength in becoming
what Anne Morrow Lindbergh
in her forward calls "a crea-
tive observer of life, one who
sees the potential of people as
much as their performance"
Theater Came to Him
Since he could not go to the
theater the theater came to
him. in the person Of John
Barrymore, Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell, Katharine Cornell, Helen
Hayes and a host of others.
When he stopped writing plays,
he still elaborated on them.
Plays were written in his room,
rehearsed there, tried out
there.
More than that, lives were
patched up. advice was given,
and messages sent all over the
world to friends who needed
This cabled line MY hand in
yours"
1t is indeed a triumph that
makes self-pity in others seem
like nothing less than an Of
tense against nature. He reso-
lutely forbade pity from others.
Mr.. Barnes has written the
story with the help Of Mr..
Sheldon's legions Of friends
and admirers. The tone of the
writing is q trifle elegaic and
inonotonous. But the story of
a man. who without any formal
creed, endlessly preached the
wonder Of life while deprived
from any participation in it
himself, is one to reach,
hearten or disturb anyone
within its range.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30
Charles Mercer
Writes a Vivid
Novel Of Africu
RACHEL CADE. By Charles

RACHEL CADE. BY Charles
Mercer. putnam: $3.50
Charles MERGERS third novel
has as its heroine an American
nurse who devotes herself to
service in the Belgian Congo,
with the hope Of finding hap
piness through purpose.
Her life in the imaginary
village ct Dibela is divided into
three major episodes: The
conquest Of the Mountains Of
the Moon (tiSe Ruwenzori, q
mountain range in the heart
of the continent> over which q
"thahu," or curse, has been
placed; the advent and even
tual departure of DIR. Paul VIII
ton, whose son she bears, and
the subsequent arrival Of the
more solemn Reverend Caleb
Aldrich.
In outline, perhaps not COM
polling. But the authors prob
ing beyond the facts Of his
characters behavior and his
fine-point description Of situ-
atoms give a fast-paced mar
rative its third dimension.
That there actually might be
women like Rachel Cade-
beautiful, noble and perfectly
imperfect--so dramatically la
boring away their lives in
missionary clearings Of the
Congo doesn't seem likely nor
too important in a backward
glance at this book.
What does seem important
is that Mr.. Mercer, who Gas
an Associated Press reporter)
once Travelled thousands Of
miles through Africa, has
been able to wildly depict the
Eden-like magniflcence Of
that dark continent" and
define some Of the unique vir-
tues Of its people. His book
is the october selection Of the
Literary Guild.
AMY YOUNG
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representative selection, Mr..
Floud has been liberal as to
technique. The prints range
from detailed traditional to
non-objective, running short
gamuts in some national
groups. and wholly conserva-
tive or modern in others.
Three Of the most conserva-
tive groups are from Com
munist China, Czechoslovakia
and Hungary. which is not
surprising to those who recall
art in the USSR.
The groups from Spain
and France have exceptional
charm. The Scandinavian
groups are strong and rugged.
One Of the South African
artists has been inspired by
the unique aboriginal rock
paintings Of his country. The
group from Japan confirms its
artists long-famed mastery
Of the medium, used in the
present instance mostly for
large distractions.
These visitors from abroad
are worth meeting.
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case Of rain, the following
Saturday.
This is a wide open show
for professionals, amateurs
and children of Virginia and
Washington. Original works
in six categories in each class
are invited to be hung on the
stores picket fence. Wood
ward & Lothrop and others are
giving prizes. Complete infor-
nation can be obtained by
writing for the rules sheet to
Mrs. Ralph A. O'Neill, 4541
Nineteenth street North, Ar.
lington 7, Virginia.
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Harvest Art Mart

The National League Of
American Pen Women, Alex
andria Branch, in cooperation
with the city and Woodward &
Lothrop's Alexandra store viii
hold its fourth annual "Har-
vest Art Mart" next Saturday,
October 8, from Q to 4. or in
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their incredibly complex lives
and natures that gives such
force and zest to her work.
She seems supremely at home
in these courts where politics
and passions were intricately
intertwined as to make mere
Republicans and Democrats
seem very pale indeed.
Her style is admirably sinu-
Gus and tough. The transla-
ton, by Stuart Hood, could
hardly have been improved
upon.
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READING AND WRITING
Praise and Pleas Still
Resound for Ezra Pound

When last December, Life
magazine, which no one has
ever suggested is a hotheaded
rag, published an editorial in
which it said that enough was
enough, Ezra Pound should go
free, many people began to
feel that the worldwide efforts
to liberate the poet from st.
Elizabeths might now come
into focus.
A month before, the Italian
author. Giovanni Pappini, since
deceased, had written a letter
to our Ambassador in Italy.
Clare Boothe Luce, suggesting
that the aged bard be set free
and allowed to come back to
Italy where he had lived for
more than IS years, and for
whose Fascist government he
had broadcast during World
War II.
But nothing came of this,
nor Of the reported activities
on his behalf in the highest
echelons Of the literary world,
captained at one time by T. S.
Eliot, and later, by Archibald
McLeiSh.
Many Activities
Meanwhile, the. poet who was
indicted for treason in 1947
and never tried, continues to
live at st. Elizabeths, visited
daily by his faithful wife. and
weekly by loving friends. He
writes his cantoS, he cor
responds with experts in an
tiquities and the arts. He
makes friends, it is said, with
all around him including the
squirrels who. play in the trees
outside his windows.
His freedom, If it is ever
achieved, can only be secured
through a Government quash-
ing of the indictment against
him. ANY disposition to do
this, if it exists, is a well-kept
secret.
Recently he observed his
10th birthday. and this was a
new signal for his brothers In
the arts to unleash new trib-
utes, and new demands for his
freedom.
Hemingway's Tribute
The most outspoker of these
comes from Ernest Heming-
way, and deserves repetition as
a virile restatemenG of the old
truth that politics and poetry
rarely mix. q
will gladly pay tribute 70
Ezra" writes the Old Man,
but what I would like to do il
get him the hell out Of ST.
Elizabeths; have him given 9
passport and allow him to re-
turn to Italy where he Is justly
valued as a poet. I believe he
made bad mistakes In the wal
in continuing to broadcast fol
Mussolini after we were
fighting him. But I also be-
leve he has paid for them IL
full and his continued con-
flnement is a cruel and I'M
usual punishment"
In the same pamphlet issued
by Pounds publishers, New
Directions, Dame Edith Sit.
well dweils on the ''flute-musis
Of the short lyrics"
Dissenting Voice
In the chorus Of praise thai
reSounds endlessly for Pound
only one dissenting note ha.
been recorded in recent
months. That was in Robert
Graves THE Growing Priv.
ilege."
Says idol-smasl1er Graves.
But remove the layers art
layers Of cloacinal ranting
snook-cocking. pseudo-profes.
serial jargon and double-tall
from Pounds verse and what
remains? Longfellow's plump
soft, iIl-at-ease Granddaughter
rematnsl"
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Boswell
BOSWELL IN SEARCH OF
A WIFE" Is the title given to
the new installment Of the
mercurial Scotsman's mem
oirs, to be published next
month. Here is an excerpt
which reveals how dilatory the
hunt may have been from time
to time.
Upon receiving the note from
Margaret Montgomerie saying
Eyes," the ever candid one
wrote: For a minute or two
my habits Of terror for mar
rage returned. I found myself
at last fixed for ever: my heart
beat and my head was giddy.
But I soon recovered and felt
the highest admiration and
gratitude on a conduct so
generous.
MARY McCRORY.
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Wonder of Life

In these days of the five
minute spiritual uplift, the
word "inspirational" has be-
come slightly debased. And
yet in its true meaning, it is
the one which best fits "THE
MAN WHO LIVED TWICE"
by Eric Wollencott Barnes
(Charles Scribner's. $50.
This is the life of Edward
Sheldon, who was handsome,
rich and talented, and who at
20 was stricken with an ar
Thrills, which paralyzed him
to the jaws and in time blinded
him. Totally immobile, he
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But Graves is virtually q
minority Of one in the liter
airy world. His fellow-poets
close ranks at the mention Of
Pounds name. Their indi.
vidual protests at his confine-
ment, which they say has
lasted longer than a prison
sentence that would have
been imposed on him had he
been tried and found guilty.
have so far proved Intellectual.
It is strange that the most
articulate group Of men In
modern society have failed to
give concerted voice to their
deepest indignation.
1t may be as simple as this:
They could not agree on the
wording. Meanwhile, their
idol langM shes.
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Books
New Biographies Make
This a Vintage Year
BY MARY McGRoRY

Whatever other have disappointed in the literary
vineyards complain Of the biography and
autobiography. 1t has been something of vintage year.
Just in the last few weeks there been choice
the poignant NUNS STORY" Of Kathryn Hume Richard
Churchs poetic story Of London boyhood. LOVER THE
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ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
International Show
Of Color Woodcuts
By FLORENCE 5. BERGMAN

"An International Exhibition Of Colour Woodcuts" has
placed the Library Of Congress 14h National Exhibition
Prints which view May through August It happy
installation In the place souh gallery second floor main
buldng which affords Washngtonans who became well ac-
quaned with the Penne show opportunity to see what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-30

MARY McGRORY,