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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04
Has
Look at Our
Country Clubs
LIFE AT HAPPY KNOLL.
BY John P. Maruuand.

BY John p. Marquand.
Little. Brown; $3.50
John p. Marquand, veteran
investigator of the upper
middle class. has filed an
other report. 1t is the inside
and outdoor story of the
American country club.
Envious nonmembers NAV
be consoled to know that
life at Happy Knoll is Just
one delicate problem after
another-a few perennials:
How to keep peace in the
bar, women in their place,
sports attire decent, dues in
the till and Cadillacs on the
parking DOT. To top 1t on,
a rival club, Hard Hollow,
tries to lure away not only
members but longtime en-
ployeS VINO Know and talk
too much.
Mr.. Marquand presents his
material. poker-face style, in
q series Of letters mostly
from Mr.. Roger Horlick Of
Happy Knobs Board Of Gov
ernors TO Mr.. Albert Magill,
its president emeritus.
This letter advice becomes
tiresom e on a straight
through reading Of the book.
The chapters (which orig
inally appeared as separate
magazine stories) are more
fun II taken one or two at
q sitting.
AMELIA YOUNG.
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because the identity of the
slayer is not known-there is
no doubt of that from the
opening page-but why he
killed. The victim was q
woman Of the streets. whom
the killer had just met for the
first time. and there was no
apparent motive.
Cam Bradley. by then q
bemused tramp. hardly know
ing what he did or why he
did it, was picked up by the
police. A prosecutor. more
human than the cops, sensed
q spark Of something in the
prisoner, and insisted on
questioning him alone. The
prosecutor won the mans
confidence. and he talked on.
hour after hour. The story Of
his life unfolded. The states
attorney reconstructS it.
Despite this awkward de-
vice, forgotten after the first
few chapters, the narrative
moves swiftly and tensely.
The Real Criminal
Cams mother was from q
great family, the CameronS,
for whom a city and a college
were named. She was a cor
rect. soft spoken, terrible
woman. She wrecked the life
of her second husband-her
first husband mercifully was
killed in an accident within a
year Of their idyllic marriage
and she ruined her young
est son. Cam. She broke up
CAMS two marriages.
Mother wasn't addicted
to violent scenes. She was
far too subtle for that. But
she managed always to in
tervene at crucial moments
in her sons life, whether on
the night Of his first wedding
when her long-distance call
came changing into the bridal
suite Of a resort hotel, or at
some later crisis which she
decided for him.
Cam loved his mother and
hated her. He realized what
she was doing to him. and he
could not stay away from
her. When she spoke he
could not choose but hear"
The theme. Of course,
hardly is new. 1t goes back
to the old Greeks. But I
doubt that any one in recent
years has written so devas-
tating an account OF q
maternal fixation. Of what
Philip Wylie less formally
called Momism. Naturally
Cam is not a strong char
acter, far from admirable,
and yet he is a pitiable one,
even likeable.
Martin Flavin has written
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LIGHT (Lippincott, S2.75) is
notable for its authentic ma
vor and the delightful real
ism Of the Arab boy and ais
companions.
Unusual Mysteries
There's q Great Dane pup
py QaSt-minute substitute
for q Pekinese) and q miss
ing gloxinia in BLUE MYS-
Terry (Harcourt. $2.95) by
Margot Benary-Isbert. The
authors skill in creating
vivid characters helps sustain
suspense in this curious mys-
terry based on flower culture
in an old German village.
Dozens and dozens Of Dali
matianS appear and disap.
pear in q slightly wacky mys-
terry by a new English author,
Dodie Smith. THE HUN
DRIED AND ONE DALMA.
TIANS viking, $2.75) as
SumeS from the beginning
that all humans exist only to
make life more comfortable
for animals. I believe Chris
topher Morley would have
given this book his blessing.
Donkey, Donkey
The merriest donkey story
I've read in a long time is
GRISELLA THE DONKEY
by H. M. Denneborg mckay.
$2.75). Grisella was q small
handsome donkey. like many
other Mediterranean donkeys,
except for one black ear. You
will want to read the book
aloud. for your own pleasure
and the rapt attention Of the
wiggle-and-giggle age.
Regional Picture Books
Picture books also bring
foreign sights and scenes
close to the American child.
A Japanese author-artist,
Sanae Kawaguchi. creates an
authentic. spontaneous pic
ture Of a boys games and
holiday sport in TARO'S
FESTIVAL DAY little,
Brown. $3.50.
Humor is uppermost in
Phyllis Krailovsky's amusing
incident Of THE cow WHO
FELL IN, THE CANAL
Doubleday. $2.75) but the
pictures Of Dutch life by
Peter Spier are authentic.
Emma Brock, well-known
for THE Runaway Sardine,"
writes another flsh story
about four Cornish fisher
men in COME ON-ALONG,
FISH CKnopf. $2.25:
Regional backgrounds enter
into American picture-books
in the rollicking adventures
OF q mountain boy and his
pet raccoon. A SONG FOR
GAR by Jean Merrill whit
tlesey. $2.25) is illustrated by
Ronni Solbert.
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Stevenson Biography
Is Definitive Work
By MARY McGRoRY

pages-may well seem UNI
considerable. And Mr.. Da-
Wis prose. Of an unrelieved
banality, Is no help at all.
Summary Of . Man
Occasionally he does sum-
Marie: Though there was
inevitably . change Of en-
phasis among them a. his
total self enlarged through
experience, all his former
selves remained alive in him,
organically joined, including
the sanity little child, the
overmothered schoolboy, the
insouciant Princeton man,
the Chicago man about town,
the reluctant lawyer" But
this is unhappily rare in the
nat expanse of Mr.. Davis
narrative.
In his preface Mr.. Davis
draws a brilliant contrast be-
tween President Eisenhower
(subiect of a previous Davis
biography and Mr.. Steven
son. Mr.. Eisenhower he
thinks was a Roman" "the
pragmatic administrator, the
general who applies the mill
tary staff concept to govern
ment. the politician who has
become a prime focus and
symbol Of human engineer
ing" Mr.. Stevenson is q
Greek, "in his aversion to all
forms Of excess, his espousal
OF a temperate and indivi-
dualiStic reasonablenesS in an
age Of conformist passions,
his personal example Of
Observation-Disclosures toward an
integrity Of spirit and body"
Unfortunately. Mr.. Davis,
this is the high point of the
book.
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blue Rider" group in Mu-
mich.
Examples Here
The Guggenheim Museum
owns 100 paintings by Kan
dinsky. Two are at George
Washington. The earlier
1914) resembles an abstract
expressionist work; the later
O94D is gay and cheerful,
with varied shapes in fresh.
high-keyed colors on q gray
background. Forty-five Of
the Guggenheim's most i'm
portant Kandinsky paintings
compose a travelling show in
Europe. which opened In
Brussels in June.
George Washington is
showing three works by Paul
Klee of the whimsical doc
dies. which stif some de-
voices to ecstatic enthusiasm,
and leave the rest of us stone
cold. These three are ink
drawings; Drawing Colo IT,
is one of the shows more rep
resentative items, compare
lively speaking.
Washingtonians who have
not been to New York's Mu-
scum Of Modern Art to see
the most comprehensive ex-
hibition Of Picasso's work yet
assembled Through Septem-
Der 81 can catch q tiny
glimpse at George Washing
ton-the little Figure" from
his early Cubist period. Pr
casso's earlier and later works
in the National Gallery Of
Art are more appealing to
the public.
A composition by Georges
Valmier, French Cubist; "Sa-
lone" by Paul Nash, English
Surrealist. and q geometrical
problem neatly worked out
on q chocolate brown back
ground by F. Vordemberge
Gildewart, German youngest
artist represented complete
the selection at George Wash
ington.
In recent years, the Gug-
genheim Museum has had II
or more groups Of paintings
on loan to institutions
throughout the United States,
in accordance with the trus-
tees plan to maintain a pro-
gram Of long term loans to
centers where paintings Of
the type they feature are not
commonly available to the
public. These loans are Of
fered. the foundation says,
not as exhibits. but rather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04

TimelineSS is not all in
biography. But when a BIZ
ographer Is too late for news
and too early for history,
then he Is in trouble. Ken
meth s. Davis UNDERSTOOD
this study Of Adlai E. Ste
venson. A PROPHET IN HIS
OWN COUNTRY Double
day: So. at q time when
there was q possibility that
Mr.. Stevenson might be-
come President. AS we all
know. 1t . never happened.
But here, anyway. is q defin-
tive biography of the man
with the golden tongue.
Mr.. Stevenson remains q
man Of extraordinary inter-
est and completely. He will
never become merely a DO
litcal has-been or might
have-been. But Mr.. Davis,
at the moment Of his pub
LEGATION, is fighting against
odds Of untimeliness that
might have dashed Plutarch,
and 1t is too bad to report
that he does not defeat them.
Fresh inSightS into Mr..
Steyenson'S character, a
penetrating analysis Of the
forces that twice defeated
him at the polls-these
would have been welcome.
But this is q relentlessly
definitive biography, posi-
lively swollen with only re-
Gently twice-told details of
the family tree, the boyhood.
the events leading up to the
two brilliant. hopeless bids
for the presidency. Doubt
less the book will be of great
interest to future historians;
but to the current reader its
length---500 closely printed
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FuIbriqht Awards

Young American artists will
have an opportunity to study
abroad under the Fulbright
or Buenos Aires Convention
scholarship programs for
1889. The competition for
these awards has opened and
young artists can apply be-
tween now and November /.
Opportunities to study
painting, graphic arts and
sculpture, also industrial
arts. exist in Australia. many
countries Of free Europe. the
Orient and the United King
dom, in addition to many
Latin American countries.
The Fulbrieht awards cover
transportation, tuition. books
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04
Wilson Had
His New Deal
WILSON: THE NEW FREE
DOM. BY Arthur s. Link.
princeton; S7.5O.)

DUN. BY Arthur 8. Link.
princeton; $7.50)
This is q realistic and
scholarly account OF Wood
row Wilson and his New
Freedom from his election as
President to the start Of
World War I. His program
produced important reforms,
but left liberals with ambi-
tons unrealized until the
New Deal.
With the war interrupting,
this could hardly have been
otherwise. What would have
been the course at home had
not war come is one Of those
IFS Of history improbable to
pursue. The initial impetus
Of the New Freedom saw tar
IN reform. the adoption Of
the Federal Reserve Act and
antitrust legislation.
The author makes clear
not only the services Of Will
liam Jennings Bryan to Will
son In carrying out the pro-
gram, but also Wilson's and
Bryan's naivete in foreign af-
fairs in dealing with Mexico
and other Latin American
countries. Those are only two
points Of q number which
stand out in this carefully
documented work.
1t is the second volume in
the biography Of Wilson
which Prof. Link is writing
and which promises. to be Of
inestimable service to those
interested in the history and
politics OF that stirring period.
The FIRST was "Wilson: The
Road TO the White House."
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.
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Wartime Brot

NATALIE, by Alexandra
Orme (Simon q Schuster:
$685. is the fourth book to
come from the lively POLISH
born author, now dividing
her time between Maryland
and Wisconsin. Natalie" is
the first book she has written
in English and it shows ade-
quate mastery over an
adopted language (Miss Orme
speaks severaD.
Natalie" is the story Of
an adolescent Polish girl who,
with her mother and aristo-
cratic grandmother, the lat
ter known as the Princess,
are refugees in Budapest dur
ing the second world war.
They live in a pension along
with q strange assortment Of
people Of various rationale
ties and proclivities. Natalie
Is only II when the story
opens.
This girl has spirit enough
for i've youngsters. She is,
in turn and sometimes stimuli
taneously. kind, mean, gen.
erous. cruel. But are not all
adoleScents? Natalie Is less
inhibited than most Of them.
She takes advantage Of the
circumstances of war, the
un con ventionality which
crowded, precarious living
brings. She steals when it
suits her. She lies when 1t
seems indicated. And yet she
has her better traits, and you
feel that maybe she'll come
out all right in the end.
The author of Comes the
Comrade" has written q
warm. intimate account of
Natalie's adventures. The
friends land enemies) she is
thrown with are sketched
clearly,
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the metropolis. And like
most. If not all of Wright's
designs. it has stirred con-
troversy. The plans call for
q wire-glass-domed concrete
cylindrical building, six sto-
ries high. with a hollow CEN
ter and a spiral ramp, which
allows continuous gallery
space. It's appearance in a
sketch released by the foun-
dalton. suggests a mammoth
layer cake; illuminated at
night, its vast dome and
glass areas between stories
will certainly be something
startling to see.
The Guggenheim Museum
is temporarily located at 7
East Seventy-second street,
New York, and loan exhibit
tons from its collections Of
goth century paintings and
sculpture are travelling
around Europe and the
United States. George WASH
ington University has IL
paintings on view in its
Library. 1923 @ street NV.
into September. Last year
Howard University had q
long-term loan; q few years
ago, the Arts Club showed q
group.
Each painting in the uni
versity library is accompa-
MED by q label supplying BIZ
ographical data prepared by
the Guggenheim Museum
stan. Only three Of the eight
artists represented are still
living; but all are so well
known Gin the art field at
least) that it is difncult to
realize all these paintings
were done during three dec
AIDES from the beginning of
World War I to the end of
World War II.
The Guggenheim Museum
Is commonly known as the
Museum Of Non-Objective
Art. But several paintings
in the university loan show
are figurative. Indeed, Oskar
Kokoschka's lush far-reach-
ing landscape. Valley Near
Rapallo." is traditional
enough to suit the most con-
sentative tastes.
"St. Julien" the groups
earliest work (l9l3), also
figurative. is by Franz Marc,
who played an important role
in modern art movements be-
fore he was killed in his mid
thirties at Verdun in World
War I. With Vastly KAN
dinsky he had founded the
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and maintenance for one aca-
demic year. The Buenos Aires
Convention awards provide
transportation from the
United States Government
and maintenance and tuition
from the government Of the
host country.
Persons interested in these
awards available to almost
1000 American citizens) can
receive further information
from the Institute Of Inter-
national Education, WASH
ington ONCE, 1880 p street
NV
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Art Book Review

REMBRANDT AND SPI-
NOZA: A Study Of the
Spiritual Conflicts In 18th
Century Holland. BY W..
r. Valentiner. (Phaidon
PresS.)
Although this books stated
objective Is Ito show that
Spinoza and Rembrandt rep
resent two opposing concep-
tons in the Dutch culture Of
the 18th century: the ration
alistic and the intuitive," &C
tually it seems to have sever
al aims.
1t is most successful in es-
tablishing the spiritual mi
lieu. freedom in some re-
spects (e. G. existence Of
many religious sectS and de-
nominations). intolerance in
others, as Of the Orthodox
Hebrews Of Spinoza and the
cruelty of the rigid Calvin
lists Estate religion in Holland
at that time) to those con-
sidered heretics. Also, DR..
Valentiner's delineation Of
Spinoza's and Rembrandt's
ideas and personalities, as
revealed by their actions and
the formers writings, car
ries conviction.
But the book is full Of con-
lecture. DR.. Valentiner has
given considerable thought
and has pursued research,
without uncovering any def
mite indication that Rem
brandt and Spinoza had any
personal contact, although
for a period they lived in the
same neighborhood. His in
dustrious efforts to get them
together are bathing, unless q
possible meeting is merely q
peg on which to hang his dis
cussion Of mutual friends and
acquaintance and places
they both frequented.
For Rembrandt was q gen.
Grafton older than Spinoza,
they were at opposite poles in
ideas and temperamentS, and
DR.. Valentiner admits they
could never have been mu-
tually attracted. In a final
chapter. he is more convinc-
ing in his correlation Of Spi-
noza and Vermeer just as he
correlates Frans Halls and
DeScartes in his first chapter.
DR.. Valentiner is an emf
nent authority on Rem
brandt. and has a long list Of
books to his credit, the more
impressive in view Of his ST.
multaneous decades Of activ-
ity in museum administra-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Authors Roam World
For Exciting Tales
BY BARBARA NoLEN

Authors and artists nowadays 60 abroad for their
vacations or job assignments and full Of
chdrens books John Hoke has Just left Dutch Guiana
with his Della Goetz is bound Vet-Nam to work
textbooks: Erck Berry bound from Scam
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18th Century England

The GREEN DRAGON,
by Robert d. Bass holt:
$3.50. Pitiless, thorough, this
too-extensive probe concerns
the life Of Banastre Tarleton.
a British officer who was the
scourge Of the southern COL
onists and the epitome of
valor In the eyes Of Lord
CORVALLIS. Tarleton was also
a playboy and spendthrift.
and in reviewing the Amer
lean campaigns and the
postwar years the author
presents a rich commentary
on the social climate of Eng
land in the late 18th CEN
tury.-H. A. l..
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ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
n-Objective Art
Is Displayed Here
By FLORENCE S. BERGMAN

During 1858 the Solomon r. Guggenheim Foundations
new building. designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
will be completed Fifth between Eighty-eghth
and Eghtynih Streets New York City, according to the
foundations announcement in May. 1856 1t is the first
building by this architectural genius to be constructed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04
MotiveIess Murder
Explored in Novel
BY CARTER BROOKE ZONES

Some years back Martin Flavin the Pulitzer Prize
when he around so. for novel called Journey the
Dark Since then, in addition to travel book about Africa
he has published The Enchanted" enchanting novel Of
children, refugees who shpwrecked Comes
now another novel:
CAMERON HILL. Harper; $500
It would be hard to believe. II you didn't know to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04

q dark, powerful psychologist
cal novel. It is recommended
to those who can take q study
of disintegration. not to those
looking for light summer
reading.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04

APPLEBY TALKS AGAIN.
BY Michael Innes. (Dodd,
Mead q Co.: $2.95)
Pull up . chair for the ur-
bane inspector from Scot
land Yard, with IL tales to
tell. about things like MUIR
der. fraud, intrigue. identity,
and decaying houses that live
by moonlight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-04

as nuclear groups around
which the borrowing institu-
ton may build exhibitions,
or which may attract other
loans or gifts to the institu-
tons showing them.
In addition to the Guggen-
helm loan, George Washing
ton is also showing q group
Of paintings and prints from
its permanent collection, i'm
GLIDING items by Washington
artists Richard Lahey, Ruth
Starr Rose and the late Eu-
gen Weisz and Alexis Many.
Two HortneII Shows
Betty Hartnell Smith has
two solo exhibitions running
simultaneously: At Rouman-
ian Inn, BIS Thirteenth
street NV. and at Napoli
Restaurant, 919 Sheridan
street NV. (off Georgia ave-
nue). Both extend into Sep
TENDER.
The majority Of her more
than 20 paintings at Rou-
manian Inn show progress.
Her color is cleaner, her
composition stronger. Hill
side Near Taxco," "Guada-
lupe Stone Cutters" kids
in a Landscape" the moody
Pigeons in Puebla" circling
near the cathedral dome, the
bright still life CLAN Shells"
and gay Circus Balloon" are
the shows outstanding works
in my opinion.
She is also showing some
nat. geometric distractions
based on Indian motifs,
empty compared to those
listed above; and q few fig-
ure compositions. which fall
below her general level. The
Mexican girls in these, while
conventionalized and poster
like. are nevertheless too
close to naturalism to carry
faulty foreshortening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-11

tobacco is king. irrigation is
more of a newcomer. Approx
mately IT'S acres were being ir-
rigated in the five Southern
Maryland counties this summer
OF this total. 400 acres were
in truck crops. 100 in tobacco
and us in pasture.
Ample Water Assured
Agricultural experts no longer
question that Maryland has
ample water for irrigation. Or.
Joseph t. Singewald. head of
the State Department Of
Geology, Mines and Water Re-
sources. seems to have con-
WINGED even his skeptics that it
is there for the taking. The
problem is how to get it to
crops at a cost low enough to
make it profitable.
The great percentage Of
Maryland farms presently ir-
rigating are either located
alongside streams or rivers or
can develop a low cost water
supply from ponds fed by
springs or from shallow wells.
A few others are drilling deep
wells.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-11

Mr.. Linowes said billboards in
urban areas are less distracting
than many commercial installa-
tons. The tract proposed for
the billboards is zoned COM
mercial.
Mayor Dickran Y. Hovsepian
said the City Council would
take the request under advise
ment and announce a decision
later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-11

Farm equipment dealers say
there will be more irrigated
farms next year as a result Of
this summers drought.
In Anne Arundel County, for
example, distributor Frank
Baldwin. jr.. reported his An
napolis firm sold is systems
this summer compared to five
last year. Distributors in other
areas also are experiencing an
upswing in business.
c. P. Merrick Of the Univer-
sity of Maryland extension
service at Denton says irriga-
ton has tripled on the Eastern
Shore within the last three
years.
The Shore is the largest user
of irrigation with an estimated
6.400 acres Of truck crops, 625
OF pasture and 100 of orchards
being watered by artificial
means. according to the uni
versity's reports.
Western and Central Mary
land follow next with $500
acres of orchards, 1910 of pas
ture. and LOO acres of corn
and truck crops under irriga-
ton.
In Southern Maryland, where
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who are thinking of investing
In systems before next summer
A committee of farm leaders
and legislators will start work
this week end on a program for
the Maryland Legislature to
put irrigation of crops within
reach of even more farmers.
And the University of Mary
land is collecting information
which will reflect the expert
ences of farmers who have the
benefit of irrigation, the type
of crops best suited for it and
the numerous problems to be
encountered.
Maryland has only recently
begun to get serious about ir-
rigation on a wide scale.
80 Farms in l94s
In 1949 there were only sc
farms and 697 acres under irri.
cation in the State, mostly
truck crops. The first substan-
tial increase came in 1858 anC
by 1854 the State had 1875
farms with 1899 acres under
irrigation. This year, University
of Maryland researchers say
there we're at least 240 farms
using irrigation. The total area
involves at least 1887 acres