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CupoIi's Students

At the Colony Lounge, 1927
DeSales street. through Aug
ust 2, is an exhibition by stu
dents of James Cupoli. Sew
enteen paintings were Sc
lected from the works Of 40
students.
The most competent paint
ings. in my opinion. are
Nancy Aliens pastel &C e. o
Canal; Winifred Arm
strong's 'Dahlias":: a still life
by John Fitzgerald; Frank
M C Kinleys illustrative
Bayou" and a pastel of corn
by Machtel van Hattinum.
There are some more am
bilious compositions less we'll
realized. One wonders at
times, whether the most
promising students are those
whose reach exceeds their
grasp, or those who concern
trate on what they can ham
die. Educators argue con-
vincingly on both sides, but
1t probably boils down to O
matter of temperament.
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Art Book Review
BELLINI AND TITAN AT

BELLINI AND TITAN AT
FERRARA. BY John Wal
ker. (Phaidon-G Garden City;
$6.50.)
More than four centuries
ago. in a small study in the
castle Of Alfonso d'Este. Duke
of Ferrara. four paintings
were installed. Now con-
sidered among the greatest
masterpieces Of European
painting. they made that
little room one of the most
beautifully decorated of the
Renaissance. They a / o
heralded a new relationship
between the work of art and
its decorative function at the
beginning Of the 10th century.
Our National Gallery
counts among its outstand-
ing treasures the oldest of
these paintings, Bellini's
Feast of the Gods" John
Walker. who as a Harvard
fellow studied Italian art
under Bernard Berenson,
and now director of the Ma
tional Gallery. has long been
fascinated by the stylistic
problems the painting pre-
sents. Despite his innumer-
able administrative duties he
has given this painting in
recent years the most search
ing study. with X-rays, mira
red and ultraviolet photo
graphs and many other
kinds Of scientific investiga-
ton. The results have enabled
him to formulate new
theories about this MASTER
piece and its relationship to
the three great Bacchanals
which Titan painted for
the same little room in the
castle Of Ferrara. Two of
them, THE Venus Worship"
and THE Andrians" are in
the Prado, Madrid, and
"Bacchus and Ariadne" is In
London's National Gallery.
This volume by Mr.. Walker
brings together for the first
time all that is known about
the history, setting and copies
made from these four paint
ings. which have intrigued
scholars since they were
created.
An Important Study
This study is of inter-
est TO every serious stu
dent Of the history OF
Painting, and to laymen with
more than a superficial in
terest in art. Mr.. Walker
explains how and why Titan
refashioned Bellinis painting
in an effort TO make il har-
monte with his NUN and "to
accord with the fully de-
veloped taste OF the 18th
century" But although IT.
tan was successful in some
respects. he could do nothing
with the mood Of the Feast"
For Bellini. says Mr.. Walker.
was a pious octogenarian
who preferred to paint
'ChriFian themes" while IT.
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Not as the Romuns

When in Rome. I shame
lessly bought American news
papers, which for the traveller
have great charm because Of
the familiarity Of their sub
ject matter and phrasing, but
produce certain feelings Of
guilt in Calvinistic American
vacationers because Of their
implicit. reproachful re-
minder that while they are
at leisure. the sterner types
at home are going about
their business as usual. That
is why the columns Of Art
Buchwald are so popular.
He seems, although the daily
appearance Of his column be-
lies 1t, to be perpetually on
vacation. writing about all
the frivolous matters that
catch the tourist eye.
The NetD Yorker, which
makes light Of many matters,
is lalso ideal tourist fare,
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RocyStory
Of PIushy
Hotel Life
TIE PINK HOTEL. BY Dor

THE PINK HOTEL. BY Dor
othy Erskine and Patrick
Dennis. (Putnam's: $500
The author Of "Auntie
Name" has elaborated with
Dorothy Erskine to write this
racy novel of some unsavory
types among stair and guests
Of a plush Florida hotel. The
moral standard. set by the
historical homosexual pro-
prietor. is not very high. Or
binary department is poor.
Yet true love fiourishes in
this den Of iniquity. The
hard-boiled cashier loses her
heart to an aging, classics
quoting. harried. married
businessman from New Eng
land; and the amorous as
sistant manager finds him.
self talking of marriage to
the gentle. Midwestern Sec
rotary of the manager. Be-
tweentimes. the staff is mo-
bilized for the observation
OF a genuine old-fashioned
Christmas in the hot sun.
THE Pink Hotel" is full of
cynicism,. broad humor and
snappy dialogue and makes
for lively summer reading.
M. Meg.
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A New Horizon

THE world today" writes
Herbert Agar in THE PRICE
OF POWER university of
Chicago Press; $500 has
grounds for a sober hope. in
spite of the bomb and in spite
of the recent martyrdom of
Hungary. In Mazzini's phrase,
the memorable logic of facts
demands that we appeal to a
long-neglected form of power
the power of thought"
Mr.. Agar adds that "a two
power world can never be at
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leries. 1912 Connecticut ave-
nue.. through Friday. Some
of them are loans from the
Indonesian Embassy, but as
these are not accessible to
the public. they might as
well have come from
Djakarta.
Despite its size, this small
show helps to point up
the fact that contemporary
painting is international. For
example. the fresh, colorful
naturalistic "Harbor in Toll
Toll" by Henk NGantung,
could have been done on the
Atlantic coast by an Ameri-
can painter, or on the Med
iterranean by a European.
Even more international"
are the several expression
istic works by Derachman
of the Embassy's staff, who
was influenced by several
American and Mexican paint
ers. This 29-year-old Indo-
nesian artist had a one-man
show at our National Mu-
scum the first week of July.
The show contains several
works that would be recog-
nized Immediately as Indo-
nesian because they follow
the traditional art of that
country-"Bathing" by DIV.
Pu TIL Bedil and a mythology
ical or religious theme by
Dewa Njoman Leper. These
have allover decorative pat
terms Of lush foliage and fig
ures. The same indigenous
flavor heightens the appeal Of
two. painted cocoanut masks
and two bas-relief panels.
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tan was a pagan tempera-
mentally acclimated to the
splendid. voluptuous court"
Of Ferrara. And so, in spite
of all Titan could do, the
intrinsic purity of Bellini's
conception has remained"
This treatise has 20 ex-
cellent half-tone illustrations,
well-placed in the text for
the readers easy reference.
These illustrations include
not only the four MASTER
pieces with details, but also
copies by Rubens, Poussin
and many others.
Washington art lovers,
who can study the original
Feast" armed with this
book, can approach nearest
the sort of enjoyment Of
painting, II seems to me,
which is given with much
less effort to music. There
is no doubt that music lovers
are more numerous than art
lovers. A music lover gives
is minutes or more listening
to a musical composition
each time it is played: but
the average person considers
that one visit with a few
minutes of Ticking his eyes ,
over a great painting. is suf-
flcient to appreciate it. Mr..
Walkers book calls attention
to details, subtleties and
nuances that most of us have
never noticed. along with
discussions Of history, per!
Sonalities, changes of taste,
and the literary sources Of
these masterpieces.
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Levon Dali. who met an Iowan
clubWoman on a train en-
route to Chicago and, as a
result. went to Council Bluffs
to lecture to her club and
stayed to make his fortune
in the dry cleaning business.
Then there is Uncle Pousant
n New York, who runs an Ar
menian restaurant on Lexing-
ton avenue and has q dispo-
sition that almost explodes
into murder when q patron
puts catsup on his shish-
kebab. And Hadji, the heavily
f1eshed woman who can tell
endless stories and has an
encyclopedia memory for Ar
menian lore. We have, too.
Boghos, the artistic one, who
paints scenes of the old coun-
try on postcards, and Kelesh,
who was willing to take a
chance on anything and al
ways hoped to win the Irish
sweepstakes. And we must
not overlook Marta-mama, a
vigorous 81.
When She Was Little
These recollections are told
by a member Of the family
who was a little girl at the
time. They are amusing,
sometimes touched with
pathos.
Marjorie Housepian was
born in New York of Arme-
MAN parents and spent her
early childhood near Ora
mercy Park. This is her
first book.
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In the Cause
Of ItoIy's
Lost Children
CHILDREN OF THE SHAD-
OWS. By Morris L. West.
Doubleday & Co.; so


Doubleday & Co.: 50
Love and wrath have
gone into Children Of the
Shadows" - love for the
damned innocents of
Naples" wrath for those
whose greed and indifference
has condemned them to a
sub-human existence that
will end only with the grave.
Others have written Of the
"scugnizzi." those elderly
boys with withered hearts
who dart through the alleys
selling their sisters, contra
ceptives and contraband Gig
arettes at an age when
youngsters in more fortunate
countries are playing base
ball or collecting stamps.
Blistering Indictment
But no one to date has
proceeded from these appall-
ing sights. to such a blister
ing indictment of all Of
Southern Italian society, its
Church, its political institu-
tons and its leading citizens.
The poor families who
watch their young grow up
as professional cheats. liars
and hieves, Mr.. West de-
spairingly forgives. THE
people of the bassi (slums)
live so close to hungerf and
death that they cannot spare
a thought for the morals of
an act that puts bread in
their mouth" In a city where
there are, by his estimate,
100000 unemployed, every
thing is for sale, including
diplomas. jobs, and the di-
version of foreign aid funds.
Long Overdue
A Catholic himself, and
not of the anti-clerical Ital-
ian kind, Mr.. West believes
that the centuries overdue
reform of public morals
should begin with the church.
AS a start. he suggests an
occasional sermon directed
to the stony-hearted. tight
listed rich who ignore the
poor they have always with
them, and a call from the
pulpit for social justice and
charity. Yet he comedies that
the charitable efforts of the
church, inadequate though
they are, are the only ones
being made at all.
In this black picture of COR
ruption. apathy and vice, Mr..
West found one great shin
ing light. This emanates
from the doughty little figure
of Dom Mario Borelli, the
tough. loving priest who with
practically no encouragement
from anyone. went down into
the slums as a scugnizzo. and
lured its miserable little deni-
zens to an abandoned church
he has made into a home for
them.
A Good Case
Readers Of Herbert Kubly's
American in Italy" already
know Dom Borelli. the David
Of dark Naples. Mr.. West
tells more about him and his
arresting views of the emo
tional and practical needs Of
his precociously wise charges.
Mr.. West makes out a good
case for American interest in
the future Of these doomed
children. Our heavy invest
ment in tourism and aid in
the country is reason enough.
He also makes some sugges-
tons Of what should be done
to halt the eternal circle of
misery. M. Nc @.
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cling either way by flying
machine-that book fare be-
comes a problem.
In that case the only thing
is to live of the land.
I recently set forth on a
trip to Europe armed with no
more reading material than a
long steamship ticket printed
in three languages. My ship
was Italian, and the language
most commonly spoken was
a kind of fractured English.
The daily announcements
over the loud speaker eau
toned parents against Chill
dren without accompanied by
adults" The ships news
paper, the ships menu were
SO rich in typographical mis-
haps vegetables soup was
staple fare) that cautious
Anglo-Saxons used to spend
whole mornings on the sun
deck collecting choice SAM
nleS
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peace. Frightened men can
not be trusted to refrain
from pushing that all-decis-
i've button Why not at
tempt new thoughts for a
new world? If we truly be-
lieved and felt the danger,
We would accept the adven-
ture."
While Mr.. Agar's sugges-
tions are no more definite
than an appeal to thought.
a belief that thought might
solve what power, generat-
ing menace and fear, has
not. he has some provoca-
tive things to says in the
course of reviewing recent
years.
Mr.. Agar feels that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his adj
visers should not be blamed
too much for being optimis-
tic about Russia toward the
close of the war. Nearly
everyone was. the author
points out, and in l945 Gen.
Eisenhower. after a trip to
Moscow, wrote that nothing
guides Russian policy so
much as a desire for friend
ship with the United States"
Mr.. Agar insists that it was
not the secret agreements at
Yalta that upset the hopeful
Western world. but Russia's
reputation Of the agree
ments. Russian power, how
ever, would have dominated
nothing. harmed nobody. If
the agreements made at
Yalta had been kept"
Mr.. Agar, a former editor
Of the Louisville Courier
Journal, won q Pulitzer Prize
for his book The Peoples
Choice"
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after the start of the first
World War, trying to forget
an ill-advised affair with an
elegant-about-town in Mos
COW, Volodia. Her husband,
Michael, a prosperous cloth
merchant, learning of the
affair. has enlisted as a pri-
vate and gone to the front
to try to forget.
A Grim Triangle
But Tania is through with
Volodia and repulses his
frantic efforts to renew their
affair. Tania realizes that she
loves her husband, Michael,
and that the other liaison
was only a passing infatu-
alton. Volodia tries to kill
himself. Michael volunteers
for a mission that seems
suicidal. and he is desperate
ly wounded, but is captured
by the Germans and RECEIVERS.
Two other Arapov sons are
In the fighting. Their political
views differ from extreme
socialism to loyalty to the
Car. There are two other
daughters and they and
their husbands figure prom
inently in the story.
The Imperial Regime
The action moves from
Ekaterinodar, the original
family home, to Tania's
home in Moscow, and to
points at the front. Through
1916 we watch the revolution
gradually fomenting. We see
the corruption and indiffer-
ence Of the imperial regime,
with the army, fighting
bravely under Skillful officers,
denied essential ammunition
and supplies.
Those who want to see the
Car deposed are ascendant,
but there are many shades
Of opinion. When the revo-
lutionists take over, many
hope that the moderate gov.
eminent Of Kerensky will
prevail. Even when the
Bolshekivs begin conquering
the vast country. most people
hope for a socialist govern
ment with a maximum of lib
erty. Few foresee what they
will get :. the tyranny they
still have.
Scenes Of Revolution
There are vivid scenes of
the revolution in Petrograd
and Moscow and Of the later
civil war which split the
country for two years. And
the characters are never mere
cardboard props to support a
stage Of history; they live
and breathe.
One Of them is worthy Of
Dostoevski. This is Kisiakov.
He manipulates Tania's one
time lover. Volodia, dominat-
ing the young man as q pup
PETER controls a figure. XII
siakov Is for whichever side
benefits him at the moment.
He is a scoundrel who lives
in some dark world Of his
own, offering his unwanted
soul to the highest bidder.
The Red and the White"
is q remarkable novelistic pic
ture Of q fateful moment In
history.
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encieS embodying trends and
characteristics considered to
be significant of future de-
velopment of American ar
chitecture. Following this
are more than 200 black and
white photographs Of IS
buildings representing i'm
portant steps historically or
esthetically in the narration
of architecture during the
past century in the United
States, as well as a gallery
full of architectural drawings
of Is additional buildings
during the same period. The
arrangement of the show is
a sort of "flaSh-back" in that
the visitor begins with the
present and moves back to
the mid-l9th century. But
since many earlier buildings
are part of today's scene, it
is not entirely a nostalgia
pilgrimage.
Striking Catalogue
A catalogue of the show
$4,000 containing all the
photographs and a text by
Frederick Gutheim, exhibf-
ton director, is a striking
publication. with permanent
interest. In his foreword he
forestalls and diSarms criti-
cism, not of the show itself,
but of the attitude expressed
in the explanatory placards,
and also of contemporary
architecture" as exempif1ed
in buildings rising through
out the country.
To many of us, these colos-
sal boxes with glass walls are
a depressing bore, and we re-
call noStalgically the fine
buildings many Of them have
displaced. But a majority
of these monotonous beehives
with waff1e-iron facades
lacked the attentions of a
qualified architect, we learn:
or he was called in too late to
be Of much help. And even
when engaged at the outset,
the architect of today is ham,
strung by many factors that
were non-existent in earlier
days.
Well Labeled
Reading the placards ac-
companying the exhibits
greatly enhances their in
terest. Those dealing with
earlier buildings praise some
of them unreServedly; others
they criticize with bludgeon
attacks or stiletto innuendoes.
Yet the architects were re-
garded as outstanding in
their respective periods. And
however irrelevant, inmate
rial. extraneous, derivative,
superficial and useless GER
tain features on older build
ings may seem to the form
follows-function men. mo-
notonX seems worse to some
Of us laymen.
Let us hope. then. as we
take leave Of this show. that
we shall not have to wait too
long for the realization Of
two Of Mr.. Gutheim's pro-
phecies Of emerging archi-
tecture"-that 1t will seek
to humanize mans environ
ment more fully" and that it
will admit once again to
architecture color and the
arts of painting, sculpture
and decoration"
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The Story Of Corn
CORN AND ITS EARLY FA-

CORN AND ITS EARLY FA.
THEIRS. BY Henry A. Wal
lace and William L. Brown.
michigan State University
Press; $3.759
In ancient America, an ear
OF corn was no larger than
an almond. Certainly the first
white man who saw it could
not have dreamed of its flu
ture. a future made by many
men. including. strangely,
Cotton Mather. More than 90
per cent Of the corn does not
appear as roasting ears or
whisky. More than IS per
cent is fed to animals and
ends up on our tables as milk,
eggs. butter. cheese, pork and
beef. Its story is more fas-
cinating than one might
imagine.
ID. X.
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Memories

A HOUSEFUL OF LOVE.
by Marjorie HouSepian Ran
dom House; $500 is a chatty.
wholly delightful novel in the
form Of "reminiscences of an
Armenian family. its con-
nections and friends in New
York In the late l920s.
These memories center, to
IN extent, around an uncle,
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READING AND WRITING
AReoder's Adventures
On q Holiday in |toIy
By MARY McGRORY

If you are travelling by then the matter of vacation
reading is comparatively simple Such worthy projects
as reading War and Peace to the end acng the entire
works Of Sir Walter Scott be and launched
simply by putting them in with the glasses It is when
going farther aed-say ocean and travel
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The Back Pages

word I would try to unravel
the clotted paragraphs about
the ethical nuances Of Zeli's
acceptance Of Fascist votes.
I soon began to cheat, read
ing shorter items in the back
pages about unrequited love
in the mountains. about a
child who didn't come home
from school cone can un-
derstand the anguish of the
mamaO. about the hdigna-
ton Of the old maids in Pal
estrina who we're considering
calling of their annual vo-
tive procession because of the
embarrassing Mount of
publicity they had received.
Occasionally I would get
away from it all with an
English newspaper. 1t was a
nice change to read so easily
about the squabbles among
the Mayflower sponsors,
Princess Margaret's new beau
and the unreasonable wealth.
er at Whitsun. Nowhere was
the enormous gap between
the Anglo-Saxon and the
Latin temperament more
wildly illustrated than in
the letters-to-the-editor col
umn. Italians were always
making soul-searching in
quiries about the enduring
nature of love at first sight.
Your English letter-writer
was more concerned with the
beauties of nature. One I
read had carefully counted
all the cuckoo-calls he had
heard for the last 10 springs.
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Hold Your Breuth

The Sicilian bus driver
makes jet-propelled progress
through these needle-wide
streets Of ancient towns. AS
one whirls through. one sees
those black-bordered death
notices pasted on the house,
positive that all the deceased
have been victims Of traffic
accidents. But Italians in
sist, maybe with justice. that
fatalities are not really so
high. The car, being COM
paratively new is a toy to
the average Italian. AS for
the pedestrians, one is as
sured they are an alert and
agile folk. And 1T is true
that if you keep your eyes
open you will see that the
encounter between vehicle
and pedestrian seems to be
a sporting proposition, akin
to that between matador and
bull. Each one tries to brazen
it out. I once observed a
Sicilian pig skitter to the
side Of the road, but he was
an execution.
Italians themselves have no
nerves in the Anglo-Saxon
sense. Noise, crowds, confu-
sion. peril of sudden death
they seem to accept as COM
monplace. One day on a bus
that was careening over
hairpin curves on a road that
fell straight TO the sea, I
watched an old native inn
perturbably reading an Ital-
ian translation Of Tolstoy's
account Of his early youth.
Other Hozurds
Literary discussion can be
hazardous. too. It was in
Sicily that I met Massimo
Simili, an Italian Journalist
and writer. who like so many
Of his countrymen belongs
to a racing guild. We were
talking about books che, like
so many Of his countrymen,
admires Hemingway. the
apostle Of dangerous living
and then I unwisely inquired
about the political party OF
a candidate whose name I
had seen painted on many
walls.
We were at that moment
roaring down the main street
OF Catania. Mr.. Simili. so
glad to be able TO enlighten
me. without slackening his
speed. took both hands of
the wheel and made the sign
OF the cross. joining his
hands at the finish. to in
dictate that the gentleman in
question gave his allegiance
to the Christian Democrats.