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Piper's Second

John Piper, English painter
who had a one-man show at
the Phillips Gallery a season or
two ago. Is having one at the
Fantasy Gallery through this
week. Only one or two Of the
paintings here, e.g. School
House at Pavestock." continue
the romantic treatment Of
architecture seen at the Phil
lips show. in browns and
chalky white against dark
backgrounds.
Other oils and watercolors
of the Is or 50 on view at the
Fantasy reveal several facets
Of Piper's work: "Foliate
Heads" theatrical masks: cos
tune design (Mr. Piper de-
signed the sets for THE
Quest" produced by Sadlers
Wells Ballet; figure studies
and portrait heads ("Head Of
q Girl" Is outstanding); and q
number Of semi-abstract land
scapes and harbor scenes.
Some Of these have CALI
graphic detail cTryfar Noun
tain, for example) others such
as "Resharf Bay, Anglesey"
have interesting texture and
surface. Semi abstract indus
trial landscape Portland
Stone Perspective" has more
varied color than Mr.. Piper's
earlier work.
Born at EPSON, Surrey. Eng
land $1,000 Mr.. Piper studied
at several schools, including
the Royal College of Art and
the Slade School. London. He
was employed as q war artist
and painted a group of pic
lures of bomb damage. He was
commissioned by Her Majesty
The Queen to make drawings of
Windsor Castle 1940-42, and
subsequently by Sir Osbert
Sitwell to do q series Of REM
shaw Hall. Derbyshire.
Mr.. Piper has had many
one-man shows. and is repre-
sented in museum collections
in Great Britain and ireland
and other commonwealth
countries, also In the United
States. including the Phillips
Gallery here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
BY FLORENCE BERGMAN

The FIRST major exhibition OF
1855 In Washington is Sport
In Art" which will open at
the Corcoran Gallery Of Art
with q members preyiew on
Wednesday, to the public be-
ginning Thursday. to remain
through January 80. Sports
Illustrated Magazine originated
and sponsored the exhibition,
the American Federation Of
Arts, New York City. obtained
more than 100 oils. watercol-
ors, prints and drawings on
loan from So museums. GAL
leries and private collectors.
and arranged the itinerary Of
7 major museums (the Cor
coran being the second on the
circuit) which will take the
show across the continent to
San Francisco next August.
NEARLY a quarter century
ago. the American Federation
Of Arts. then located In WASH
ington, arranged an interna-
tional Sports In Art" exhibit
ton for the Olympic Games In
California;
At the end of the current
tour, the u. S. Information
Agency will sponsor this large
exhibitions voyage to the Ma
tional Gallery of Victoria in
Melbourne. Australia, where 1t
viii finally appear at the
olympic Games next autumn.
In each city in the United
States. a store will co-sponsor
the exhibition; here. it is
Julius Garfinckel's.
The National Gallery and
the Corcoran are Washington
lenders TO the show. Eighty
five artists represented range
from the Netherlands 18th
Century David Teniers the
Younger. and SPANS 18th
Century Goya. to Roman-born
Titina Maselli, not yet 80 years
old. A majority Of the works
are by Americans. among them
our 18th Century masters
Homer and Eakins, and early
goth Century Glackens. Luks
and Bellows.
This exhibition promises to
appeal to people with widely
divergent interests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
A More Travelled
.SuiIor Could Have
T old q Better Tale
MARS IN CAPRICORN. !

MARS IN CAPRICORN. BY
Beverley Cross. little,
Brown g. Co.: $500
This first book is rather
artificial. In it. q crew Of
Europeans Is evil and stereo-
typed as to nationalities and
traits; all. that rs. except the
author. who lusts after no
women. never clouds his mind
with too much drink, and
manages to do his duty when
everybody else on shipboard is
walloWing.
One finds 1t difficult to at
tribute the mishaps Of the
voyage to the writer's person
atty and influence. as he tries
to interpret things in the horo-
scope title. The attempt to
cloak the story in the trap
pings of q who-done-it also
fails.
The ship makes a swing
down the west bulge of Africa,
thence east to the Congo delta,
and back to Marseille. En-
route men die. disappear,
jump ship. misbehave in
bistros and fiea-bag hotels,
get murdered and otherwise
prove themselves much lower
than angels. But there is
little or no plot and less con-
Germ about the outcome.
One gets the feeling that q
more experienced sailor could
have told a good yarn, but that
here an incompetent speaks.
True, the writer's apparent
purpose is to show how brutal
the voyage was for him in the
light Of his comparative inno-
cence. But this Is q personal
matter and life is full of such
rudeness. Few will be bothered
by his plight.
III. A. LYON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
The Seas Never as Rouqh
AS the Reading in This One

way the league does business.
Their way of showing it is to
attack league ships at sea.
The pretagonists. Of course.
are lined up on either side Of
this quarrel. They're swash-
buckling enough. but they. as
we'll as the other characters,
seem to step out of q we'll
worn mold. All the ingredients
of today's stock historical-sea
story are here too-he-man
men at the helm: slender
young bodies in passionate
pursuit; stormy weather. and
the inevitable fierce sea battle
fought word-to-sword. finally,
on the decks.
Cliches roll with the tides.
While the sea in The Mag
nificent Enemies" gets rough.
it's never as rough as the
reading.
DORIS KANTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01

FRENCH GIRLS ARE VI
CIOUS, by James T. Farrell
vanguard; $500 is a new
volume Of the novelist's short
stories.
The dreadful title happens
TO be the title of the opening
story. It's simply the opin-
ION Of an American girl. at
tached to an American mis-
sion in Paris, who has gotten
herself involved with a French
man who-you might know
also has q mistress. a girr he
feels sorry for and does not
know how TO get rid Of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
james T. Farrell I ukes In
Some New Territory

Most OF these stories have q
European setting-a departure
for Mr.. Farrell. who In his
family sagas and casual stories
has stuck pretty closely to
Chicago and New York.
AS in all Mr.. Farrell's stories.
these make their points clearly.
The points. though, seem
rather old-fashioned. including
some Freudian approaches. and
there's not much glow in the
writing. The story called
"They Don't Know What Time
1t Is" is a cogent self-told ac-
count Of a paranoiac's mental
and physical wanderings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
Bookutz' Solo

Samuel BookatZ, whose
Lighthouse Cove received
one of the 8 painting awards
in the current Corcoran area
annual. has q one-man show
at Artists Mart. 1861 Wiscon-
sin avenue, Georgetown
through Wednesday. Between
20 and 30 works in various
media give a glimpse Of the art
lists versatility.
He had a thorough educa-
ton in art. extending over o
decade, which began in Cleve-
land, Ohio, included a 4-year
scholarship at the Institute
there. a two-year scholarship
to the Boston Museum School.
and from that institution, the
Paige award for two years.
study abroad. He spent the
time in two well-known schools
in Paris, subsequently attended
the American Academy in
Rome.
Mr.. Bookatz has received
more than 20 awards. IS Of
them In the past 3 years. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
|ADeep Look
Into Fiction

THE TECHNIQUES OF FIG
TION: AN ANALYSIS OF
CREATIVE WRITING, by
Theodore Goodman Liver
right; $500. contains no short
cuts for students of writing,
no diagrams on how to succeed
overnight. 1t is. indeed, a
scholarly examination Of some
great literary figures and their
methods. It should be of inter-
est not only to those who want
to learn to write, but to those
who would like to know more
about the creative processes Of
novelists whose books are clas-
sizes.
Prof. Goodman taught mar
rative writing at the City Col
]ege Of New York for 80 years.
He was revising the manu-
script of this book at the time
of his death. Several Of his
colleagues completed his work.
The editors are Marvin Maya
laner. Brooks Wright. Julian
B. Kaye and Kenneth w. Rice.
&C. B. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
Nantucket Recalled

Washington area artists who
have made brief or long and
repeated visits to the island of
Nantucket. have lent paintings
to the current show at The
Playhouse Art Gallery lex
tending through January $50
Prentiss Taylor. the Gallery's
director of exhibitions, has
made some intriguing COM
ments on it.
"All the paintings" he said,
have been to some degree based
on the artists visits. Some
have handled the local scene
representationally, as a pic
turesque place, or with indica-
tons Of q more profound sig
nificance. Others have used it
as a congenial and inspiring
place to be. but not directly as
subject matter. They take their
feelings Of place into the alb
stract, the cosmic and the mys-
teal. Some will go out with
their materials: others work in
their studios much as Ger
trude Stein when she expressed
her feelings about a view: Yes,
I like a view, but I like to sit
with my bacA to it," Hazlit
expressed much the same idea
in his essay on taking a walk
on a winding road.
Where observation ends and
mysticism begins is a line as
invisible as the equator in some
of these works. And when the
visiting public adds its own OBJ
servations. recollections and
meditations- to these paintings.
they acquire quite a patina.
Mitchell Jamieson's Inside
Wave" for example. a swirling
mass of human bodies, will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
Recent Poets Quoted
In Pocket Anthology

THE NEW ROCKET AN
THEOLOGY OF AMERICAN
VERSE: From Colonial
Times to the Present. (World
Publishing Co.: $500
This anthology follows con-
ventional lines with consider
able emphasis on such recently
published poets as Theodore
Spencer, Richard Eberhart,
Theodore Roethke, Gene Der
wood. Elizabeth Bishop. John
Bergman. Richard Wilbur and
Robert Lowell. The novel idea
of the book is that the poems
are arranged alphabetically
rather than chronologtcally. It
seems quite sensible.--E. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01

Now, as 1856 energies from
the wings of time and looks
across an empty stage, we
have Mr.. Roberts first novel
in nine years. It's called:
BOON ISLAND. Doubleday;
$3.50
IT'S based on an episode out
Of history-the wreck Of the
galley Nottingham. iS5 days
out of Greenwich. England.
bound for Portsmouth. N. H.,
in ITO.
Boon Island. of the south
coast Of Maine, never was, at
least In recorded times. more
than a ledge out of the sea,
consisting of huge rocks. the
SUBMITS dry at most high
tides. Today q lighthouse
rises from it. warning ships
away from the lethal menace
Of its hidden fingers Of rock.
But in ITO it was nothing
except rocks and seaweed.
A Sudden Departure
Mr.. Roberts narrator is q
student at Oxford. We meet
him as he s on vacation at
his home in Greenwich. We
meet his father and some OF
his friends. How he came TO
embark suddenly on the Not
tingham as a supercargo for
his fathers friend. Capt. Dean.
IL q complex matter which
you'd rather. I'm sure. learn
from the book. 1t might be
mentioned, though. that the
students protege. a l4-year-
old boy. was in a little trouble
and must be smuggled away.
The ship, with her crew Of
IL. stopped in Donegal Bay.
Ireland, for a cargo Of the
finest cheese and butter for
the good folk of Portsmouth.
There was a sinister under
current of trouble on the long
voyage to America through q
troublesome. mutinous mate
named Langman, and his two
stocges. But Capt. Dean, a
fearless man If perhaps over
kindly, an unusual trait for
shippers in that day. kept
things under control until that
terrible December night when
q gale drove them against the
rocks Of Boon Island. BY
some miracle the men man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
Alec Waugh
this Very
|Liveliest
ISLAND N THE SUN. By Alec

ISLAND IN THE SUN. BY Alec
Waugh. lFarrar. Straus d
Cudahy: 1885,
It IL the function Of . ship
board recreation director TO
keep the passengers diverted
ct all costs. Mr.. Alec Waugh
apparently feels it Is also the
mission Of the novelist. and he
could not be more conscien-
tious about It. What starts
out as q little excursion through
9 beautiful tropical isle In the
West Indies turns out to be
more feverishly complicated
than preparations for amateur
night on the s. 8. Joyride.
Mr.. Waugh Is the elder
brother Of Evelyn Waugh. the
satirist. Alec takes life more
seriously, nor does his prose
have have the greyhound grace
Of his brothers. Alec runs
more to the relentlessly infor-
NATIVE dialogue and his char
acters are forever feeding each
other facts about history. soci-
ology, cricket. and American
chain stores Literary Guild
subscribers win certainly feel
they are getting their moneys
worth. for in addition to oceans
Of plot. they get bucketfuls Of
lore.
Island in the Sum opens
with q lawn party on the lawn
Of the Governor Of Santa
Marta. a beautiful little OUT
post of Empire supervised by Q
splendid old soldier who is q
great white father to his
people. A cast of characters,
as difficult to remember as
passing faces in a receiving
line, is flung onto the stage at
once. A chart is recommended
for all but the most nimble-
minded readers. Under the
warm sun. passions simmer.
designations are soon abound
ing, and although 1t is finally
worked out 50 that all but one
pair are altar-bound, it must
be understood that this is no
mere game Of marital musical
chairs.
No, murder is in the air,
racial crises are in the maxi
ing, questions are to be asked
in Parliament, cabinets to
quaver, heads TO roll. To start
the pot boiling. Mr.. Waugh
places under 1t a burned-out
cigarette butt. This is dis
covered in an ashtray by Max
well Fleury. neurotic young
planter. who supposeS 1t was
smoked by q rival Of his
for the affections Of his chilly
blonde wife. 1t wasn't, but
Fleury kills the chap anyway.
The trouble arising from this
discovery are too numerous to
mention. and they are COM
pounded in the dispatches Of
an American journalist. who
works for an outfit called the
Baltimore Evening Star"
which makes Confidential"
seem like . Sunday school
gazette.
Mr.. Waugh Is in complete
control Of the strings, like q
good puppeteer. Some OF his
characters are intriguing at
first. but they are bound by the
plot. The murder mystery Sec
ton Is quite interesting. We
think that he wanted merely
to entertain those who are not
fortunate enough to be head
ing southwark at this time.
Otherwise. It is a tremendous
argument In favor Of emptying
aShtrays.
MARY McGRORY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
French Posters

The Whyte Gallery is show.
ing through this week. about
20 beautiful posters by French
artists, reproduced by the
Mourlot Press. Paris. The edi-
ton Is limited to 125 copies Of
each, by this press which
makes a speciality Of poster
publication. Paintings. draw
ings, engravings, stained glass
and Illuminated manuscripts
are reproduced in remarkable
facsimile by a photographic
process. The price Of the re-
productions is within reach of
collectors Of modest means.
Subjects Of the posters
range from 18th. century
stained glass, medieval wood
cuts and a handsome illumi-
mated manuscript page on
French wines, to the Post I'm
pressionistS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
THE MAGNIFICENT EN-

ANANAAAS0s ~ A|A6NA A'A&1CSs
(Charles Scribner: $3.50
If you like your platitudes
salty, you may be able to wade
through all the sea business
In this historical novel.
We're as addicted to ro-
mances Of ships and seafaring
men as anybody. This one,
though. has the tang Of q stale
cracker.
The plots . little knotty.
but 1t centers about q ship
ping conflict of the late 14th
century. The Hanseatic League,
q German import-export mer-
chants combine. does business
in its own traditional way.
Another group of shipping
men - the Likedeelers - are
presented as an independent,
free-wheeling lot from the
lowlands who don't like the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
AL About Golf
Save How to Play
A HISTORY OF GOLF. BY

n nlSlOhI Or OOLr. ny
Robert Browning. Dutton;
So
Just as every fool who foun-
ders at the flowing bowl must
on the morning after wonder
bitterly who discovered the
devils own art Of distillation,
so must every elbow-bending
golfer who takes more than his
allotted number Of shots at
times ruminate over the iden-
tity Of the f1end who intro
duced this particular form of
self-torture. So, fellow hack
ers, here is an Informative and
entertaining volume for the
bookshelf, perhaps with match
ing divots for book ends. It
tells everything there is to
know about the game-except
how to play it,. F. L.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01

the part the Druids played in
that rebellion.
OUT OF THE STRONG by
Stephani and Edward Goodwin
tOxford University Press. $50
concerns the early Christians
in Rome. SO does THE FLAME
OF HERCULES by Richard
Llewellyn Doubleday. $500.
The Flame takes its title from
It's climax, when Mt. Vesuvius
erupts and the molten waves
roll down. marble temples fan
in ruins. and flames envelop
the soldiers and the slaves.
You have the feeling that "you
are there"
Readers Of the so-called
"middie-age" from eight to
twelve have q natural craving
for mystery and excitement.
too, even though they are not
ready for the brutal historic
close-ups. which may entrance
their older brothers and sisters.
Dunish Mystery
Denmark is the setting for
THE STRANGE MAN AND
THE STORKS by Bessie White
tKnopf. $2.25l. The author
has never lived in Scandinavia.
but no native could make you
feel more "at home" in Dem
mark. And she Is equally sue
cessful in making you share
the excitement Of the Holbek
children and their wonder at
the strange man who appears
and disappears so mysteriously.
1t is a great pleasure TO me
to see this book in its gay. tile
red and yellow jacket. q
finished book at last. for I
watched the manuscript in its
early stages take shape in my
first workshop class at George
Washington University, nearly
three years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
Witchcroft, voodoo

The locale OF Dragon Run Is
the Shenandoah Valley. back
in the latter days Of the eigh-
tenth century. when pirates
still tied UP their black ships
at Georgetown wharfs. and
carried on their wicked ways
behind locked doors Of quiet
country estates. Mrs. Dawson
piles magic, mystery, WITCH
craft and Haitian volcano rites
on top OF young Christopher,
when he sets out to rescue the
boy who is held prisoner at
Dragon Run.
Boys and girls Of eleven or
twelve, with a yen for spine
tingling adventure stories will
get their fill in Dragon Run
and in several other adventure
tales about pirates and slaves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
Kenneth Roberts Novel
Is Highly Commended
By CARTER BROOKE JONES

And happy New Year to you'll Remember Kenneth Roberts?
He wrote some immensely historical novels such
Northwest Passage" Lydia Bailey" and solver Wswe"
These were that best sellers because
they mixed ingredients skfuly they were carefully
wrought period novels filled their times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
Far Into Space

WORLDS BEYOND THE
HORIZON. BY Joachim G.
Leithauser. alfred A.
Knopf, Inc; $6.75)
Space, says this Berlin
thinker. is a logical theater
of exploration by courageous
men. He reviews, without ever
being dull, mans unceasing
forays into the geographically
unknown, then points pro-
phetically skyward.-H. A. L.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
The Role of the College
Fraternity Is Analysed

signs in the broadening of stu
dents attitude toward those
Of alien race and color and
different faiths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-01
Pirute Tricks

There have been several re-
cent books about the infamous
pirate Blackboard. who liked
to astonish his guests by light
ing candles in his beard. The
best Of these tales is PIRATE
QUEST by Nancy Faulkner
Doubleday, $2.75), in which
Blackboard interferes with the
destiny of young Ian McDon-
aid from Scotland. Pirate Quest
is primarily a story Of revenge,
in which the Colonial town Of
Williamsburg provides an oc-
casional quiet moment.
Revenge and religion are
curiously interviewer In sew
eral other historical adven-
ture stories for early teens.
There is plenty Of red blood
spilled in THE GREAT AXE
BRETWALDA by Philip
Ketchum Little, Brown, $2.75).
The great axe was a weapon
with strange powers. When the
right man lifted it, he felt a
tingling in his arms and in
battle he bad the strength of
ten men. The great axe was a
deciding factor in many battles
between the warriors of Odin
and Thor and the followers Of
Alfred the Great. who would
rather die as free men than
live as slaves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01

country and to make clear that
the full protection of American
laws extends to all aliens resid-
ing in the United States"
This reinforced the American
action of last week in expelling
two members of the Russian mis-
sion tc the United Nations on
charges that they exceeded their
assigned duties in helping per-
suade three Soviet seamen to
return to the Soviet Union.
Similar action, American Off
Icials indicated, could be expected
If any satellite diplomat persist
ed in Objectionable activities.
OF the satellite embassies, Po-
land has perhaps the widest OPP
Iportunities. About $1,000 Poles
came to the United States under
the Displaced Persons Act which
authorized persons from Europe's
postwar DIP camps to come here.
Other Poles have come here un-
der the Refugee Relief Act and
some individuals have sought po-
litical asylum. The American aim
lis to protect these people from
|molestation by representatives of
the Communist government of
Poland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-01

which he handed yesterday to
Polish Ambassador Romuald
Spasowski. 1t said that repre-
sentatives of the Polish gov
eminent "are seeking out Polish
nationals in this country and,
in the course of unsolicited per-
sonal and by various methods,
are attempting to prevail upon
them to return to Poland"
1.-THE United States Govern
ment does not consider that
these activities come within the
scope of normal and accepted
diplomatic practice" the Amer
lean note said. Attempts to
exert pressure on or to influence
in this manner private persons
living in this country are con-
trary to the traditions of de-
mocracy and individual freedom
which prevail in the United
States"
In a supplementary press
statement, the State Depart
ment said that any Polish ma
tional in the United States is
free to return to his homeland
but that the American protest
ARISES from this Governments
determination not to permit
police state activity in this