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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-20
Window Show

The Georgetown Artists are
having an exhibition (through
next Friday of more than SO
works in windows of shops, res
taurants and other firms along
Wisconsin avenue between
Reservoir road and M street, q
few in nearby locations.
First awards and mentions
were made by this critic as fol-
lows: Oils, Samuel Bookatz'
Forest Mood" Sally Osborne's
Violin and Case" and Mary
Elizabeth Kings still Life"
respectively; watercolors. Ruth
Safford's Interior" Helen
Rennie's "Siamese Cat" and
Philip Bells Capri; sculpture.
Katherine Hobbs baby tiger
and Moon Jones portrait bust,
Gregory; one award each in
graphics and ceramics to Lucy
Gomersall for Ancient SYM
bols" and Gwen Anderson's
6-tile abstraction. respectively.
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Has America Seen
Better Days?
A SURFEIT OF HONEY. BY


Russell Lynes. (Harper; So
Mr.. Lynes takes a bemused
look at America in this era of
peace. prosperity and progress
and finds it not all good. He
even expresses a slight nos
talgia for the depression years.
not their grimness and want,
but the atmosphere of COM
radeliness and simple pleasure
which they produced. when
everybody is in the soup Ito
one worries about sitting
above or below the salt" Now
everyone wants to be well
rounded" and mot really diff
ferent." Mr.. Lynes examines
with an admirable absence of
that berating note so often
struck by less congenial social
historians, The Upper Boz
hemians." 1.-THE Part Time
Lady" and What Has Sue
ceeded Success"
A thoughtful. stimulating
altogether companionable
book. M. MEG.
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Arts Club Members

Artist members of the Arts
Club are having a winter
juried show, through next FRI
day. Between 40 and so oils
and watercolors confirm the
generally conservative char
acter of the painter members
work.
DR.. Thomas M. Beggs. direc-
tor of the National Collection
of Fine Arts, and John Chap
man Lewis, well-known WASH
ington artist and member of
the Corcoran School faculty,
juried the show and made
the awards.
First in oil was given to
Phoebe Pryor'S "Greenery," q
composition of potted snake
plants with writhing leaves.
rich in color. One of the shows
few distractions. inside" an
interior by Margaret Ellis. won
second. Garnet Jex' beautiful
landscape, Sunny Day. Early
Spring" received honorable
mention in this medium.
In watercolor, Marlin Fene-
calls vigorously brushed Gull
Pond Road" was awarded first;
the diagonals of dead tree
limbs give 1t a strong struc-
ture. Ruth Safford's exquisitely
painted gouacne Eighteenth
Century Stair Hall" fetched
second, and the red and black
crayon portrait of Henry Par
rett, by Helen Minifee, honor
able mention.
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and at Harvard University.
He enlisted in the United
States Army in l941, served
four years as a combat artist.
His present show is largely Of
paintings done in Italy on a
F'ulbright Fellowship.
He is an abstract painter,
markedly individual. In each
of his paintings, the point Of
departure is clearly appre-
hended. His color is strong
and bright. and in a number
Of these works is applied in
a technique of separated
square strokes. In such man
ner are the pediment and coll
onnade of Ruins of Pompeii"
built up, also "Rialto Bridge"
and several New York City
facets, as well as a self-por-
trait seen as through a screen.
His stunning red "St. Marks
Square" Venice" and "City
Lights" with swooping color
lines and strokes are all effec-
tive. He impressed me as the
better of the two painters,
and much the most interest
ing.
Lowell Nesbitt is completely
abstract. His oil paintings
and gouaches were presumably
inspired by his work in stained
glass which he studied for a
year at the Royal College Of
Art in London, although some
of them seem too monochfo-
matte to be successful as glass,
and the forms anonymous and
indefinite in outline.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-20
ART NEWS
NotionoI
AccIoiin1s
Bellows
BY FLORENCE BERGMAN

George Bellows was a Titan,
and the choice Of him by the
National Gallery Of Art to be
commemorated in the first
one-man show the gallery
has arranged in its history, is
a happy one. Furthermore,
the show represents "a new
focus upon the gallery's Amer
lean collection. Director John
Walker said 1t is fitting that
one of our most significant
painters and most interesting
recorders Of the American
scene will inaugurate this new
policy"
Bellows was no ivory-tower
resident. He was an extrovert,
loved life, lived 1t exuberantly,
and painted its kaleidoscope
aspects. Nor did he consider 1t
necessary to go far afield to
find worthy subjects. Ohio
born (1882) he went to New
York at %, and lived there
the rest of his life. spending
summers in New England,
mostly Maine. or near New
York, with a single visit to
the Pacific coast. New York.
then. with its swarming pop
ulation. Maine coast scenes,
and his family and friends,
constituted his subjects.
The American Scene
Bellows was a pupil of Rob-
ert Henri, one of THE Eight"
whose discovery Of the tenn
ing life of New York City for
themes, was revolutionary
movement in 1908. These were
painters of the American
scene. which had a strong
revival in the 1905. But Bel
lows will surely have the pre-
eminent place as the greatest
of our early Goth century
American scene painters. He
combined his interest in life
with an admirable technique
derived from the impression
lists via Henri-rapid slashing
strokes. a strong feeling for
tonal values, directness of
observation, fair for suggest
ing movement. Furthermore,
his painting was large in con-
ception as well as size.
The panorama Of his life's
work. the broad sweep of his
vision are here, in this largest
retrospective collection, COM
prising So paintings in three
galleries and SO Autographs
and drawings in five galleries,
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Hamilton Laid the Busis
For Our National Success

sively. that Hamilton was not
q mercantilist. He puts him
down as a follower of Adam
Smith and quotes passages
from Hamilton's writings in
fiuenced by Smiths THE
Wealth Of Nations"
Prof. Hacker describes his
book as an essay in political
and economic ideas rather
than a biography. AS such it
is a thoughtful and welcome
contribution to the discussion
Of Hamilton now under way
and bound to increase in the
celebration Of the bicentennial
OF Hanilton's birth. That the
celebration is two years tardy
is due to the fog which here
tofore obscured the actual
date Of birth.
FRANCIS p. DOUGLAS
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THE LIFE OF MARY WORT
LEY MONTAGU. Bv Robert

LEY MONIAGU. BY Robert
Husband. COxford; SD
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
was a minor literary figure
but a major personality of
her day. She was a bluestock-
ing who regarded "a reputation
of learning as a misfortune in
a woman; a feminist with so
little love of her own sex she
said that the chief advantage
of being a woman was that you
couldn't marryA one ! Aristo-
cratic. witty, spirited and
f1ighty. she was the subject of
many squibs. lampoons and
ballads. idolized by Pope,
whose love turned to hate
either on being repulsed, or
having had some of his
verses attributed to her. She
was a pamphleteer who did
much to popularize smallpox
incubation True child of the
18th century. she thought that
virtue carried too far became
a vice. Her chief fame is as a
writer Of letters from Eng
lands Embassy in Turkey.
Worldly wise and mercenary,
she could also be incredibly
gullible. and in her declining
years allowed herself to be
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CRIME AND MYSTERY
By BETTYtMILES

serbs the tensions at the local
bistros-and SO will you. in
this new story about Paris
pride. The Chief Inspectors
pride, on this occasion. is in
slight disrepair because Of the
unwinking gaze of a Scotland
Yard man sent to observe his
methods. indeed, Maigret isn't
sure he has any. But he solves
the murder Of a man who is
done to death minutes after
he announced to all the bis
tro's patrons that ne was the
Chief Inspectors friend.
A MEETING WITH MUIR
DER. BY Miriam Lynch CAR
cadia House. $2.50). A pleas
ant enough tale about a news
paper woman who gets a
chance to write for more than
the "Sociable page" when a
murder is committed on her
beat. Our heroine is the kind
who persists in calling on the
murderer alone even though
she knows who he is, and fur
thermore knows he knows she
knows. But we enjoyed this
story of a murderee whose past
killed her present.
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Printmukers' 21st

The Society of Washington
Printmakers can be counted on
to present an excellent show.
Its twenty-f1rst, in the foyer
of the Natural History build
ing, 10th and Constitution
avenue, is a national exhibit
ton. More than 200 prints in
many graphic media, juried
by the officers of the Society.
represent 20 States, 2 Terri
tories, and Canada.
The prints run to large
sizes, as has been the case
in graphic shows in recent
years. They also reveal wide
spread technical competence.
In fact, mastery of media out
strips subject appeal. Abstract
and other modern movements
predominant, as usual but the
traditionalists are well repre-
scented with beautiful prints,
admirably executed. These are
spotted throughout the show;
but there is a large concentra-
ton in the cases along the
middle aisle. due to the fact
that traditionalists still make
small or medium sized prints,
while the abstractionists seem
to need more and more elbow
room, and produce prints
measured by feet instead Of
inches.
The Society's purehase
award was bestowed on Maui
ricio LasanSky's large color in
taglio entitled vision in Spain
No. l." 1t has Goyaesque flavor
in the staring white-robed fig
ure on a horse, a grieving
woman and infant lying on the
ground-as battling to me in
meaning as many of Goya's
"Provechos." This print will
be presented to the print col
lection of the Library of Con-
I greSS.
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lent by nearly SO museums
and private collectors, includ-
ing the Corcoran and Phillips
Galleries and the Library of
Congress here, as well as the
National Gallery.
A True Realist
Here are loving and know
ing captures of his wife and
daughters, his parents and
other relatives and friends,
the frailty and sweetness or
serenity Of age. the charm of
childhood, the beauty of
women: his violent dramatic
series of prize fights, smashing
impact of blows emphasized by
the diagonal lines of straining
bodies; other exciting sports
subjects; his majectic views
Of the Hudson River; the
crowded tenements, industrial
districts and beaches: the
lush beauty of Central Park
and rural landscapes: and in
contrast, the lonely grandeur
Of the coast, and the heaving
sea.
Bellows was a true demo-
crat. he accepted and painted
people, places and situations
as they were. without con-
descension or disapproval.
with no perceptible desire to
reform or change.
Much of his work, both
painting and graphic. is al
ready important as documen-
tary His Autographs and
drawings record the multi
faceted aspects of the first
quarter century = the fights;
revival and prayer meetings.
political campaigners, chain
gangs. to mention a few. One
phase of his work alone. ex-
presses his frenzied indigna-
ton over events - those of
World War I. To most of us.
that war has faded behind
the more lurid decades of Hit
ler's rise to power, World War
II, Korea. Communistic inn
perialism and tyranny. But
in Bellows dramatic painting
of THE Murder of Edith Ca
veil" and Autograph of the
same subject. and a number
of other prints, we are face to
face wildly again. with the
brutality of the Hun" ex-
pressed in specific instances.
Extraordinary Success
Bellows death at AZ Gin
1925 after a short illness. ter
minated a career of barely two
decades. at the beginning O.
his prime. But seeing this
work. one cannot but feel that
he reached his prime earlier
than most; he enjoyed an ex-
traordinary success. both pro-
fessionally and with the pub
lie. His was a happy life, and
his output was more prolific
than that of many an artist Of
twice his span.
This exhibition will remain
at the National Gallery
through February "a. A
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Controversial Figure

PATRICK ]. HURLEY, by
Don Lohbeck (Regnery; $500
is a biography of a success
full and colorful figure of our
times. Unfortunately the BIZ
ography is much less colorful
and interesting than its sub
ject.
Gen. Hurley was born in the
old Indian Territory. His par
ents were Irish immigrants,
plagued by bad luck. Pat had
to work in the mines and as a
cowboy from his early teens.
But he was determined to get
an education and become a
lawyer and he did. He had
grown up among leaders Of the
Choctaw Nation. and his first
important Office was a chief
counsel for "the five civilized
tribes" Mr. Hurley enlisted
as a private in World War
I and ended as a lieu
tenant colonel. with val
liant record at the front. Pres
ident Hoover made Col. Hurley
Secretary Of War. Although
Pat Hurley was opposed to
most of the New Deal policies
and was cordially disliked by
the more ardent New Dealers,
President Roosevelt recognized
his diplomatic and executive
ability and sent him on mis-
sions all over the world during
the second war. Hurley be-
came a major general and
ended, under President Tru-
man, as Ambassador to China.
There, as is well known, he
broke with State Department
policy and resigned. denounc-
ing the administration for al
legedly dropping Chang Kali
shek and allowing the Commu-
nists to take over.
There is no question that
Mr.. Lohbeck had access to
most Of the documents and in
formation affecting Gen. Hur-
ley's spectacular and tempes-
tuous career. But the biog-
rapher never really gets in
side his subject; we learn very
little about him aside from his
official life and his public ut
terances, Mr.. Lehbeck uses a
lot Of space denouncing on his
own hook Gen. Hurley's enc
mics and their ideas rather
than allowing the subject of
the biography to do so. The
writing Is, at best, merely COM
petent; at worst. wooden.
Gen. Hurley, a favorite tar
get of liberals, whose fine
career has been obscured by
controversy, deserves q much
better biography.
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wright, daughter of a socially
and financially secure family
which fingers in an outmoded
Victorian mansion; Wesley
Warren, a 39-year-old Million
aire who recently bought the
Gateway City newspaper, and
Ben Weber, courthouse re-
porter for the paper. There
are, too, of considerable i'm
portance to the narrative. a
United States Senator. KeeSter.
and Mildred's widowed mother
Nancy.
NeurOtic Girl
Mildred, a pretty girl of 26.
but neurotic to the point
where she feels insecure in al
most any situation. is being
swept through a swift court
ship by Wesley Warren. She
is captivated by the handsome
Wesley and wants to marry
him. but is haunted by the
fear that she will drive him
away with some inept or IRA
tional word or act. However.
everything goes we'll and they
are married. Their lavish
honeymoon starts blissfully,
but then. in the middle of it.
the girl finds herself suddenly
unable any longer to be a nor
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ARMS AND ARMOR IN CO.
TONIAT ANTERVCA 1Soc-

ARMS AND ARMOR IN CO.
LONIAL AMERICA 1885,
1888. BY Harold L. Peter
son. (The Stackpole Com
pany; $3.50.
Almost every American
knows about the sixguns that
won the West and something,
too, of the rifles and Bowie
knives of frontier fighters like
Davy Crockett. But our
knowledge of the arms and
armor used in the fightingest
time of all-when our ances-
tors carved themselves a new
world and made it free-is too
often hazy and inaccurate.
Filling perhaps a unique
place among reference works
on American history, Harold
l.. Peterson's ARMS and Armor
in Colonial America" supplies
the facts with which we can
better understand life in
America when strife with In
dian or European enemy was
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In q Mexican VILLAGE

FATHER JUMPER AND
THE GENERAL, by James
Norman Morrow, $3.75) is a
highly amusing story Of a
small mountain town in Mex
ico.
In the town which ti1e au-
thor calls Santiago de Gante,
a new pastor, Father Juniper,
takes over the parochia. or
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parish church, succeeding a
priest who, the bishop felt,
had gotten himself too en-
broiled in local factions. Fa-
ther Juniper, a modest, devout
man. arrives incog, so that he
can look the town and the
people over a day before max,
ing himself known.
The town is pretty much
run, he finds. by a Gen.
Braga. whom Villa once made
a general by a simple flick of
the finger. Braga has become
wealthy, is the mayor and
owns the tourist hotel, a law
ish structure fashioned from
an old monastery. The fac
tional troubles range around
Santiago or st. James, a
wooden figure supposed to
date back to Spain circa the
seventh century. When the
Bishop and his emissary. the
monsignor, insist that Father
Juniper impress on the people
that Santiago is merely a
wooden figure, an image of a
saint, the new priest learns
that he can't persuade most
of them that the carving
hasn't miraculous powers,
proved more than once. Nor
is Father Juniper sure he
wants to disillusion them.
At the moment Santiago is
not in the church. where the
people feel he should be, but
in a little shrine inside the
generals hotel, where the
figure is tourist attraction.
The new priest is urged to
persuade Braga to return the
image to the church. This
leads to all sorts of complica-
tons, which / won't attempt
to go into.
Delightful Persons
In the course of unfolding
the complexities of the little
town, the author introduces
us to such delightful persons
as Old Vasco. reputedly a CEN
tury old, a retired bandit; Po-
licarpio Flores, owner of a
saloon called the English Par
lament: Don Ignacio. the
town atheist, who makes Az
tee idols for the tourists:
Zapopan, church bell ringer
art brewer Of pulque; Senior
O'Murphy, a professional
h-American, and others
equally diyerting.
The story becomes. toward
the close, pretty broad farce,
but it is not too hard on any
one, the priest, his friends and
his enemies. 1t is unfailingiy
entertaining, apparently a rare
quality for a novel in these
interpretive times.
Mr.. Norman has a deft. d.
verting style. And he has lived
in just such a town as he des-
cribes for a number Of years.
This is his sixth book.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON IN
THE AMERICAN TRADI-

TON. BY Louis M. Hacker.
(McGraw-Hlil; $4.750
Since Hamilton and Jeffer-
son were political opponents
with conflicting philosophers
inevitably their contemporaries
and successors were prone to
adopt a Hamilton VS. Jefferson
attitude toward them. II one
was favored the other had to
be cast in the villains role.
Prof. Hacker attempts a
more balanced estimate. If
Jefferson. he says, guided the
young nation toward demo-
crazy. Hamilton's economic
policies laid the basis for its
success.
The author asserts. but per-
haps not sufficiently persua-
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NAL wife. On their return, the
despairing Wesley takes her
to a psychiatriSt. The doctor
cannot help her and he sug-
gestS a famous clinic in an
other State. They go there, and
Mildred receives treatments as
an out-patient for six months
before her doctor concludes
that she will not cooperate.
does not want to get well and
he can't help her.
Meanwhile. Wesley has
branched out, starting a mag
aZine which commands a cir
culation in many States. His
boyhood friend, Ben Webber,
is taken of the courthouse
beat and made editor of the
magazine. Wesley. who made
his money in Texas oil is more
than a businessman. He has a
touch of idealism and, as he
puts it, he wants to accom-
plish something before he gets
old. He also is stirred by po-
litical ambition. Senator
Keester, who is a commanding
political figure, virtually prom
Uses Wesley a cabinet post if
he'll support Gen. Eisenhower
in the 1852 campaign. Wesley
does this. but finds he has
only been used by the Senator.
Double Crossed
Wesley, in fact, ends with
his love blighted, double
crossed by the two men he
considered his best friends
Ben, who tried to become Mil
dred's lover, and Senator
Keester.
Thus there ar, two TRACE
dies in the story, Mildred's
thwarted young life and
her husbands establishment.
Mildred was not a mental
case in the sense that she was
unable to go through the mo-
lions of ordinary living and
yet she was as helpless as
many an outright psychotic.
Because she lived SO COM
pletely within herself, mar
cissistic to the last degree,
she preferred the power she
welded over her loved ones
and the Difference she exacted
to leading a normal life, and
SO, since she wouldn't try,
however much she promised
to, psychiatry could do MOTH
ing for her.
A Close Observer
: Mr.. Jonas is rather an
awkward writer, and his plod-
ding phrases have little glow
Or sparkle. 1t takes him q
long time to get started and
lpnger to maneuver his story
TO its climax. And yet he is
thorough, a close observer Of
Contemporary life, and you
emerge from the story with
8 clear view Of his characters.
The inner study of Mildred
and her encounters with the
psychiatrists are ably done
and persuasive. Thus, "Our
Revels Now Are Ended" Is
despite its dull passages. no
small achievement.
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Duo at ObeIisk

Savo Radulovic and Lowell
Nesbitt are having an exhibi-
ton of 10 to- IL paintings
each, at the Obelisk Gallery,
324l P street. Georgetown,
through next Sunday. (Closed
MondayJ
Mr.. Radulovic, born in
Yugoslavia. came to the United
States at the age Of 10, OBJ
tained his art education in the
st. Louis School Of Fine Arts.
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Carl jonas Third Novel
No SmoII Achievement
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

Carl Jonas, native of Omaha, Coast Guard veteran
of bteng action in the South Pacific wrote two popular
novels Jefferson Seeck" and Riley Mccullough" From
mountanside shack at Aspen Colo. his novel;
OUR REVELS NOW ARE ENDED Morton: $3.75).
The Middle Western town which Mr.. Jonas calls
Gateway City
The three most important characters are Mildred Cart
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lavishly illustrated catalogue
is available, with a foreword
by John Walker and an intro
duction by Henry Mcbride.