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E'(sLTCE SLOGAN,

Drive with reason-every sea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

Paul Scott, q young Brit
fish novelist, probably has
written for his generation in
A MALE CHILD Il. p. Dut-
ton q Co.. Inc. $50.
He writes well. His style
Is subtle: his dialogue real.
But it Is the mood Of his
story OF a lost soul unable to
hope that marks his book as
an expression Of the degen-
crate spirit pervading the
post World War II world Mr..
Scott understands so well.
Within the bounds Of this
hopelessness, Mr.. Scott both
reveals his sensitivity and
limits his scope.
He writes Of two men-Ian
Canning. the II" Of the book,
and Alan Hurst, the hero.
While Ian delves into taut
family relationships as II to
find q reason FOR his own
suffering in the unhappiness
Of others, Alan gently but
firmly remains aloof.
Ian, by tortuous self
analysis and attempts to as
sociate himself with the psy-
Ghosts Of Alan's mother,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
APost-WorId War Punorumu
Viewed With Understanding

fails to fnd peace Of mind
or ease tensions of those
around him.
Beset by as many frustra-
tons. Alan mends his own
marriage with a wife who
seems not to love him and
probably does not deserve
him. He lives by doing. And
steadily his actions form a
basis Of meaning for his own
and others lives. !
The point of the story is
not so clear as the contrast
between the two mems at
tempts to find the meaning
they both crave in life.
But action by Alan appears
to find direction as intro
spection by Ian fails. The
direction, toward what neither
can know, finds its "physi-
cal proof" in the birth Of
Alan's son.
A baby boy is. and this is
to Mr.. Scott. everything to
live for without a reason why.
You get the feeling impulse
tive. tortured Ian is inclined
to agree.
GRACE BASSETT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

ularly when the subject is
ironic: Mr.. Moravia, being q
Roman, is steadily aware Of
the irony Of life.
His people are simple folk.
attempting to improve their
lot one way or another. The
outcome of their pitiful striv-
ings is frequently practicable,
a factor which does not d.
minish the pleasure Of read
ing about them. Mr.. Moravia
is a born writer who tells you
precisely what you need TO
know about his people. For
instance, the outcome Of a
story about a young couple
with too many children who
try to leave their lastsborn
in a church is Immediately
foreseeable. But Mr.. Moravia
describes 1t with such wry
sympathy and. small fine
touches. that 1t is absorbing
TO the end.
The best story and the one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
Tabernacle Given

Rita De Lisi. graduate stu
dent at the Catholic Univer-
sity of America. fulfilled her
requirements for the master
Of fine arts degree by execut-
ing a tabernacle to be used by
the Newman Foundation at
the University of Maryland.
OF Honduras mahogany,
the tabernacle is IL inches
high, elliptical in shape. The
front is adorned with 4
bronze panels depicting the
Evangelists. The natural
colored linen liturgical veil
was also designed by Miss De
Lisi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
Short Fiction

Wolf Mankowitz, author Of
the best-seller, "A Kid for
Two Farthings" and of the
even more amusing "Old
Soldiers Never DE-" seems to
improve as he writes on, des-
pite the fact that he sticks
to the same general field.
His new book, THE MEN,
DELMAN FIRE little.
Brown; 1915 is a collection
Of short fiction.
The title story, q novel;
cite, Is an excellent example
OF how Mr.. Mankowitz can
turn Out memorable charac-
tiers while merely seeming to
tell. in a conversational way,
one episode after another.
The subtlety Of this method
is in describing without
seeming to. Mendelman is
a resourceful fellow who goes
into many businesses, from
time to time. some Of them
making money. others fall
ing for no special reason.
His wife dies. and his daugh-
ter, growing into an attrac-
tive young woman, is as much
OF q problem, with her ambi-
ton to paint. as his numerous
business ventures. There is
plenty of sly l1umor and more
depth than at first meets the
eye in this story.
The second section Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

THE REFORMATION, by
Will Durant CSimon and
Schuster; $3.50 is part vi
Of the authors tremendous
historical panorama, the
Story Of Civilization. This
volume is subtiled: A History
Of European Civilization from
Wyclif to Calvin: 1300-1564.
Mr.. Durant. tracing causes
Of the Reformation, remote
and immediate. remarks that
"tne reader will be amused to
find that Luther arrives on
the scene only after a third
Of the tale has been told.
But let us privately agree
that the Reformation really
began with John Wyclif and
Louis Of Bavaria in the l4th
century. progressed with
John HIiss In the 18th and
eliminated explosively In the
18th with the reckless monk
Of Wittenberg."
without Prejudice
The Reformation. the au-
thor emphasizes. is the cen
trail but not the only subject
Of the book. Indeed, in the
course Of his thousand pages,
Mr.. Durant goes into many
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
His Own Ticket

A salesman, says Elmer O.
Letterman, a famous insur-
ance salesman, in his new
book, THE NEW ART OF
SELLING Harper: $3.50 "is
one Of the few workers in
our contemporary society
who cans decide for himself
what he is going to earn
and accomplish. He can
never justifiably say that
he is worth more than he
gets. He decides what he is
going to get. He is not in a
position to claim that he is
bigger than his job. He sets
for himself the size of his
job.y
And Mr.. Letterman adds
that the salesman stands
apart from a current ten
dency 10 emphasize what is
called security Those who
seek security accept its limi-
tations. They take q limited
income which will progress
through the years by limited
amounts. They move at
a pace set by somebody else.
The salesman lives and works
outside such limitations. He
is free to make as much Of
the world his market as he
can, and himself to become
as much Of a man as he can
in the process"
AS in his previous books.
Mr.. Letterman has much
practical advice for statesmen,
who, in one way or another,
make UP so much Of the
business world Of today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

characters who constantly
protest Richards boot-lick-
ing conniving and call it
what it is: Jeanne Cooper,
the Jewish girl he tries to
seduce, and Stuyvesant Gold,
the talented but unmistak-
ably Jewish artist who tries to
follow him into the Lampoon.
Parental BewildeFment
And the bewilderment Of his
parents at the sight Of a son
who wishes to forsake his
race. is touchingly presented.
Adam Amsterdam. who opens
his court with the singing
Of The STAR Spangled BAN
ner." is in his fumbling,
grotesQue, explosive way stiIl
digniied. And Bessie, with
her Yiddish phrases, her
acid-tOnglle and warmheart-
edness Is engaging.
Dorothy. the innocent, ig-
norant sister. whose disas-
trous encounter with q lech-
erous soldier is q more ap-
pealing character than her
brother. She is the half
child. half woman whom
many novelists have tried to
portray. Mr.. Kaufman is
uninhibitedly specific in pre-
senting her difficulties.
Richards about assault
on assimilation and accept
ance comes when. engaged to
q featherheaded Yankee girl,
he decides to become a Con-
gregationalist. In the best
scene in the book, the Rev.
erend Stringfellow Todd,
after hearing Richards to-
tally social reasons for con-
version says. I'm trying to
bring people to Christ. not to
Beacon Hill"
In its exploration Of sex
ual experimentation and So
cial attitudes. Remember
me to God" maybe too nat
uralistic and messy for some
tastes. But Mr.. Kaufman
has a future as a novelist as
long as a sense of humor and
a sense Of life insure an au-
dience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

Lllacs," BY former Washing
ton painter Nicolai Cikov-
sky.
Outstanding anon g abb
stract paintings are Irene
Rice Pereira's large geomet-
ric ..Center Right" with its
beautifully executed recti-
linear pattern: Mimi Du Bots
Bottoms lively "Mazurka. /"
composed Of bright lozenges
Of color: Romare Bearden's
walk in Paradise Garden,
with vertical forms in fresh
primary colors. and Jane
Carriers abstraction Of round
and oval forms in light
brown and blue. Richard
Dempsey's "View" (lighted
windows in a facade) is abb
stract in effect: the paintings
by Jack Perlmutter and Ruth
Galoon are ADMINISTRATIONS,
emphasizing color.
Two Interesting Works
But more interesting (to
mel than the above. are
Leonard Maurer's crisp. SIM
plified street in Paris; Eliza
beth Catlett's Woman with
q Broom" and David Dris-
kell's romantic little Moon
and Pines" The gallery is
now open noon to 7 daily. 2
to 5 Sunday.
James v. Herring. profess
sor emeritus Of Howard Uni
versity's department Of art.
and associate director Of the
Barnett-Aden Gallery, re-
Gently left Washington for
Talladega (Alabama) College
where he will teach art ur-
der auspices Of the American
Missionary Association for
the fall semester.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

Artists Professional League,
d. c. Chapter. will open its
Goth Annual October 20, to
extend through November
IL. Entries will be received
in the foyer. Natural History
Building, Tenth street and
Constitution avenue, October
8, from 10 am. to 8 pm. A
prospectus and entry blanks
have just been mailed to sew
eral hundred artists; but
those not on the leagues
mailing list can obtain them
from Eunice Haden. Apart
ment Ill. 5112 Connecticut
avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

given, occasional mistakes
and their somber conse-
quences. Three babies are
stolen, q prowler who will
one day kill waits in the fog,
q girl follows her lost hus-
band into obscurity. and
street gangs wage war. No
one knows better than Gideon
that q policeman's lot is not
a happy one. but readers,
along with his son, who
wants to be a policeman. too.
see the worth of his work.
Gideon's fellow officers. with
their strengths, idioyncracies
and problems. are as real as
he. This, one feels. is the
way it is. A fine book. excit-
ing and true, from beginning
to end.
HISTORICAL WHODUNITS.
BY Hugh Ross Williamson.
(The Macmillan Co.; $3.75)
A good idea, Historical
Whodunits suffers from lack
of variety and too short q
time span. With a few excep-
tons. including a defense Of
Richard III as the protector
Of the little princes. the stor-
les run from the days of the
first Elizabeth through the
18th century. The atmosphere
is good. and the author eff
fectively brings to life per-
sons who have long been
dust. AS Mr.. Ross William
son claims. history is often
rewritten to suit the man on
the throne. and this period
was hardly an exception. But
he himself appears to rest
his facts on his conclusion
occasionally in finding new
solutions to old mysteries.
The villain is practicable. but
1t isn't the butler who did
1t. It's the Protestants.
- 4 y
THE TIGHT CORNER. BY
Sam Ross. (Farrar. Strauss
and Cudahy; $1,000
True love triumphs while
Tommy Berk. a down and out
onetime middleweight cham
pion, hides from a killer on a
shrimp boat. The killer is
the fiunky Of the racketeer
Tommy sold out to as a
fighter and both men de-
eide he knows too much about
their latest escapade to live.
The girl on the shrimp boat
helps Tommy out of the
tight corner-which is q
trite corner, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

Henderson. now on the staff
Of the University's language
center. Important to all stu
dents in the field of the hui
manities. this course will be
offered each autumn term.
The course in "Oriental
Art" will fill a need for study
Of this exciting area Of the
visual arts with the great
collection Of Oriental art at
the Freer gallery available for
study. This course will be Of
fered each spring.
Commercial Arts
Two courses in the design
field will supply the basic
studies for q general expan-
sion Of the art department
into the field Of the COM
mercial arts. They viii be
taught by Hubert Leckie, one
of the best-known designers
in this area. In addition to
the new Meyer grant courses,
q new course in Elementary
School Art Education" will be
given in the spring term. by
Lynn Egbert, widely known
as a textile designer. who will
also direct the workshop for
art teachers which was begun
a number Of years ago
through an earlier grant
from the Meyer Foundation.
In addition to the above
named new instructors there
will be three others: Jacob
Kainen, curator Of the Smith
sonian Institutions Print
Division. and well-known
painter and teacher: Helene
McKinsey, talented young
painter and director Of the
Watkins gallery, and Prem
tiss Taylor, one of Washing
toms best-knewn painters
and print makers. all Of
whom will give courses in
painting. Day and night
sculpture classes viii receive
greater impetus with the
addition Of the German
sculptor Lothian Brabanski
to the full-time teaching
staff.
Registration at the univer-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
Atkyns Gallery

Lee Atkyns' Studio Gallery, /,
47l2 Wisconsin avenue NV,
has just opened for the sea-
son. Local artists are in
vited to submit paintings in
watercolor and color prints
for possible exhibition. Items
are to be matted, but in most
cases, unframed. Mr.. Atkyns
prefers middle-of -the-road
themes. with occasional nom
objective designs, with at
tractive color schemes to fit
into the average home. Artists
who wish to submit works
are to make an appointment
telephone Emerson 2-7845.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
Israeli Artist

Although the exhibition OF
woodcuts by Jakob Stein
hardt at Fantasy Gallery
tl3B5 Connecticut avenue)
through October 5 comprises
only 20 prints, they consti-
tute a retrospective Of sorts,
ranging through more than
three decades The earliest
print. Lithuanian Town. .
dated 1923. is a small simpli-
fed gimplses of the subject
in black and white. Later
prints are larger, more COM
pick in composition, more
emotional in content, and
most Of them are printed in
several colors.
Now living in Jerusalem,
Mr.. Steinhardt draws his
subjects from the villages.
landscape and people of his
region. as well as from the
Old Testament: Cain" "Jo-
nah," with a stylized whale
and waves curling in ara
besques, and 'Hagar." There
is expressionism in such an
guished heads as Gains and
the grieving Sad"
Some of the architectural
and village scenes have the
peace Of age and resignation.
In contrast, such scenes as
Arabic Fisher Port with
people and trees bent by a
bowling wind, and the tor
tured trees and curling waves
Of beach and shore scenes
are full Of motion as well as
decorative effect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

currents and eddies Of life
and thought in Europe be-
tween 1900 and 1864.
AS Mr.. Durant points out
in his introduction. he has
tried to be impartial. though
he realizes that "a mans past
always colors his views, and
that nothing is so irritating
as impartiality." He adds:
1.-THE reader should be warned
that ! was brought up as q
fervent Catholic, and that I
retain grateful memories Of
the devoted secular priests
and learned Jesuits and
kindly nuns who bore so
patiently with my brash
youth: but he should note,
too. that / derived much Of
my education from lecturing
for Is years in q Presbyterian
Church under the tolerant
auspices of sterling Profess
tants like Jonathan c. Day,
William Adams Brown, Henry
Sloane Coffin and Edmund
Chaffee. Less than any
man have I excuse for preju-
dice: and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy Of one
who has come to learn that
even the trust in reason is a
precarious faith. and that we
are all fragments Of dark
ness cropping for the SUM-"
Counter Reformation
Mr.. Durant has. in the
course Of his penetrating
study Of the whole period, an
excellent account Of the
counter-reformation within
the Catholic Church. After
stating the conflicting argu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

tiers, and his dialogue has the
final and incontrovertihle au-
thority Of a tapped telephone
conversation.
Remember Me to God"
has so many faults. as a mat
ter Of fact, that 1t would be
possible to review it on those
alone. 1t is far too long: it
details innumerable irrele-
vancies: it is repetitive, at
times tasteless. Its narrative
passages are clumsy and
cliche-ridden. On the other
hand. Mr.. Kaufman has
written some first-class So
cial-comedy. and as I say,
every time one Of his char
acters opens his mouth, you
are there.
Boston Setting
Mr.. Kaufman has chosen
a Jewish family in the sub
burbs Of Boston. a city where
racial and religious differ
ences produce the subtlest
and most unnerving tensions.
He has focused on the two
children Of Adam Amster-'
dam. who has lately arrived
at the bourgeois respectable
ity Of q house in Newton and
a minor seat on the bench.
The daughter, Dorothy, IS q
suffering adolescent. The
son. Richard. a student at
Harvard, rs q social climber,
whose inch-by-inch progress
into the strongholds Of the
Yankees, he eenvinces him
self. is a crusade for his race.
Richard is no hero in the
ordinary sense. He Is in fact
something Of q heel. Mr..
Kaufman has managed to
present him in all his hair.
raising faulty without, some
how running him out Of the
human race.
This takes doing. as Rich
ards pipe-smoking poise,
his Inexperienced distress
at the Jewishness of Jews,
his writing Of a book called
How to Become a Gentle
man "a handbook" his
carefully calculated progress
into the inner circle of the
Harvard Lampoon and the
Hasty Pudding Club are ex-
tremely alternating. Mr.. Kauf-
mann for the relief of his
readers. however. has other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
University Expands

The curriculum in art has
been greatly expanded at
American University this au-
tumn. New courses have been
made possible by q $4,000
grant from the Agnes and
Eugene Meyer Foundation.
INTERROGATION of the Arts"
will be taught by Hanford
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15

Texas Panhandle in the early
1a70s.
1t was q time when raising
cattle and driving them to
the nearest railhead at
Wichita. Kans.. was q bitterly
hard task. uncertain. strewn
with hazards. There were
hostile Indians about, and
you never knew when they
would raid your ranch and
try to massacre your family.
You were dependent on your
horses. and you guarded
them with your life. Men
went about their daily chores
with carbines in the crooks
Of their arms.
The Zachary family lived
in a sod house in a vast
unfenced prairie. thousands
of acres Of which the father
had loosely claimed, though
there was no certainty he
would keep title. He had been
drowned q few years before
in q flash flood while trying
to save some cattle from the
stream. The man Of the FAM
lily was the oldest son, Ben,
at "A q poised, canny cattle
man. fearless. hard-bitten.
His younger brothers, II and
Is: Rachel, their foster sis
ter, also Is. and their mother
made up The family.
Prairie Founding
They had found Rachel on
the prairie when she was a
few weeks old. They never
knew who her parents were.
but the rumor. spread by
enemies of the ZachSrys, was
that she was a Kiowa, though
she didn't look it. The Kio-
was. If they took this report
seriously, were sure to raid
the Zachary "soddy" to take
back the girl stolen" from
them. Meanwhile Ben, who
had made the sod house q
fort and taken every pre-
caution, had sent the second
brother In charge of q cattle
drive up to Kansas.
But when it came to the
showdown and the Kiowas
struck, Ben was away, and
there were, as fate would
have it. only the mother,
then desperately III, her
youngest son and Rachel.
But the boy and the girl
fought with the courage Of q
battalion.
Fight for Survival
Aside from q story edged
sharply with suspense. Mr..
lie May describes the bitter
struggle Of cattlemen in those
days to survive and prosper.
He writes as If he had lived
through the experience. The
many little ways they toiled
to make their primitive ex-
istence less stark, the way
they faced danger, regarding
It as an expected daily risk,
the loneliness Of that vast
country :. all these elements
take on a gripping reality.
And the characters are alive:
not one is merely a rope
throwing, gun-toting dummy.
as in the average Western.
BY every standard Of writ
ing and honest portrayal,
THE Unforgiven" is a dis
tinguished novel. So far as
I'm concerned, it's one of the
best Of the year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
Art Lecture

Raymond S. Sites, curator
of education at the National
Gallery Of Art. will speak
there this afternoon at 4
on Leonardo da Vinci: How
to Paint a Picture-Part II."'
The lecture win be supplies
mented with a film on THE
Drawings of Leonardo da
Vinci."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
September Group

A group show by artists
invited to exhibit this month
at the Artists Mart, 1861
Wisconsin avenue, will re-
main there through Septem-
Der 80. 1t is smaller and
less interesting than the
shows Of July and August,
but has some good works.
Samuel Bookatz' abstract
Bull Fight" is outstanding,
vouchsafng just enough
naturalistic detail to indi-
cate the subject, conveyed
through high-keyed color
areas. sharp black lines, acute
angles and diagonals. Jack
Perlmutter's Ride the Front
Car" and Gustav Trois' alb
stract still life in black,
brown and green also raise
the shows quality.
Juichi's insouciant "Satyr"
in silvery grays. is delightful.
Ruth Starr Roses lively
Cock Fight. Haiti" Kath-
crime Claude's "Thee Herons"
and Kathleen Bruskin's
DRY Field" which truns a
drought parched landscape
into fiat areas Of warm Colds
and yellows all have their APP
peal, as does Noel Schweig's
warm flower painting in the
window.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
ScuIptors' Studio

Sculptors' Studio, 1927
Wisconsin avenue, GeorRey
town, has inaugurated seven
sculpture, painting and draw
ing classes to run through
November 2. Sculpture will
be taught by Alexander Gil
ampietro. Don Turano and
Pietro Lazzari; painting by
Juichi Kamikawa and Ken.
meth holland. For further
information, telephone Fed
eral 3-4688.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
Italian Q. Henry
ROMAN TALES. BY Alberto

ROMAN TALES. BY Alberto
Moravia. Farrar, Straus
& Cudahy: $3.50
Alberto Moravia is a kind
OF Italian o. Henry. He
writes short stories that are
pithy, and move boldly for
ward to double-edged end
ings. He uses a device
American practitioners Of
the art rarely employ, the
first-person narrative. 1t is
enormously effective, partic-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
Mr.. Koufmonn's People
Are MorveIousIy Real
By MARY McGRORY

Myron s Kaufman spent years writing REAlEM-
Der ME TO GOD u. B. Lppincott $495). it sug-
gested both from the expenditure of time the bulk Of
the production that he have hoped achieve
thing in the nature of the Great American Novel Well he
hasn't But he has presented maveosv real charac-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-15
A Distinguished Novel
Of Texas in the 7Os
By CARTER BROOKE JONES

Alan lie May. who belongs in the company Of the best
writer's Of the West including Guthrie Dr. and Walter
Van Tburg Clark has surpassed his high standard in
his novel:
THE UNFORGIvEN (1arper: $3.50.
This story Of cattemen and their families In the