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relatives and many friends. Friends
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4 pm. Funeral services viii Be heit
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TO-, JAMES v. CARTER. W. M.
THOMAS W ovFRTON, Secy 10
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At The TakOms Funeral Home. s5l
where services viii be held on Friday
c NAY, l 3;,, At 100 go pm. Interment
WATSON. MARY e On w.are.a.v
May 8. 1857, MARY c. WATSON q
the Masonic and Eastern Star Home
Of Mrs. Margaret NJ. Cannon. Mrs
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and Mrs. Elizabeth v Palmer sery.
ICES at the s. II. Hines Co Funeral
Home sgol l4th st; NV. on satur-
issIl!Is.ay inte a G Mount 'D' ofivsi
WATSON. MARY c. The ofncers ant
IN members Of Bethlehem Chap
Is; J; !: Il /! 4. A
May 10, 1857, at pm. al
Jne II Hines Co. Funeral Home
DOROTHY NJ. BoYpEN.
BLANCHE NJ. uPDDiKE, se ~s.'O 10
wHITCRAFT. R. JOSEPHINE. Or
HM .nad May 8. 1857. at her resi-
Prime WHrTcRAFT. oeiovec wife II
the late William II. Whitcraft. aunt
o. Mrs. Eunice T. Crittenden She
also Is survived by other nieces and
nephsws. Services at the S, H. Hines
co. Funeral Home, .gO1 18th ST. NV
on Friday, May 10. at pm. park
ins facilities Interment Newport
WILLIAMS. FANNIE 3. On Wednes.
day, May &. 1857, FANNIE B. VIII.
LlAMS Of l43s Columbia I'd. NV.
Williams. ALSO surviving are two
nephews, Bonnie and George Cole.
man OF Boston, Mass Nrtice OF
funeral later. ARRANGEMENTS by Nc.
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
CrpmatOrillm

Crematorium
J. William Lees Sons Co.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
9Th and Mass. Ave. NJ. ii. 5.52Oo
Malvan & Schey, Inc.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
ga r st. NV. NO. 7-0l33
81.
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Lodge. No. Z. F. 4 4. NJ, is
HEREBY called in special COM
munication Friday. May 10.
1857. at $3.50 p.m.. at the
temple 1000 You st. NV.
10 attend the funeral of our
late brother. ALONZO r.
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GEORGE b MOVER, Master.
c. c. HUTCHINSON. Secy, b

THo Isss Ms AsY 81 M q Ma ",
ssmu. pPsnsis ana p'9 Joseph Th SssSs
sister Of Mrs. irene Gray Mrs Ida
Adams and Mrs. Catherine Wfight.
mot s.. q Mrs MaraaEst Theme.
survived BY eight grandchildren, Of.
teen Observation-Disclosures othtr rela.
tiyes and friends, The. late Mrs
n. Hish mass will Be ofisred of
Friday. MAY 10, at the Holy Redeemei
Church. .sl0 New York ave NV al
am. Interment Mount ollvet Gene.
tery. Services By Stewart. n
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May, A.. 1857, at st. EliSabeths Hos
pital. ABRlE II GRAYSON. beloved
2; C.; Gertrude Brooks, William and
Rhineheart Carter of Philadelphia, Pa.
Randolph. Carter OF Spotsylvania, Va.
Also surviving are ten nieces. fourteen
After 4 pm. Friday. Nav 10, friends
may call al the Henry 8. Washington
d Sons Funeral Home, 467 N st.
nv, where services will be held on
Rev. Edward Fountain oficiat.ne. In
terment Woodlawn Cemetery. Family
NAV be contacted at 141l 18th st. n W
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MARY c. The oncers and
members OF Bethlehem Chap
ter. No. .. o. Z. s.. are
hereby notihed of the death
OF our late sister, MRS.
MARY c. WATSON. Serv-
ices will be held on Friday.
May 10. 1887. at 4 pm. at
!. Hines Co. Funeral Home.
= 81; nv
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MARY D. soBoLEwsKI.

ELLEN A. FERGUSON. i ses MessGs'
JONES; THOMAS HENRY; On wednes;
Hospital. THoHRs HENRY II s'ps1 Jones Hs' 81
l4Ol North Taylor St. Arlington. va.
beloved husband Of Harriet r. Jones
OF FL Segundo Calf: 1t Comdr. Mil
dred z. Jones, U s. n, Washington.
.. C.; Carl z Jones OF San Mateo.
ACADIA An ea gun services ana sard n,. o.
ment at Philadelphia. Pa Services
bv the Birch Funeral Home.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
DARE COUNTY FALLS SHORT
RED CROSS CONTRIBUTIONS

Mrs. Doris A. Fry reports that
with less than one week to go, the
1857 drive for funds for the Dare
County Chapter of the American
Red Cross is approximately $3.50
short of its goal in the Town of
Manteo, alone. AS Mrs. Fry feels
no one in the County would like
to see the fund fall short of its
goal, she suggests that those Who
have not contributed please mail
their contributions to Mrs. Doris
A. Fry, Box 1927, Manteo, N. C.
Seems rather short too doesn't
it,, that Dare County, in adverse
times, having receivd so many
thousands of dollars from the Red
Cross, for nets, homes, household
supplies, food, etc., should forget
the benefits they have enjoyed?
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
AIRCRAFT REFERENCE MARK
PROPOSED IN PAMLECO SD.

The Commander, Naval Air
Bases. Fifth Naval District, Nor
folk. Va, has made application for
permit to construct an aircraft ref
ference marker at latitude So $780,
30". longitude 750 -43'-59" in Pam
leo Sound, near Long Shoal Point,
Dare County. N. C.
The proposed marker will be
utilized for reference purposes only
and under no circumstances will it
be subjected to fire of any type.
Plans submitted show the proposed
structure will be located in approx
imately 8 feet of water and will
consist of a pile supported steel
frame covered with marston mat
ting. Plans showing the proposed
work may be seen at this office
and at the post office at Engel-
hard N. C.
Objections to this work, if any,
will be received at the office of
H. C. Rowland, Jr., Colonel, Corps
of Engineers, District Engineer,
Wilmington, N. C. until % April,
1857.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
REBEK AIS TO MEET IN
MANTEO ON APRIL 18th

The Missouri Midget Past
Noble Grand's Club will meet
Wednesday evening, April 18th at
500 in Manteo at the home of
Mrs. Tracy Ward, with Mrs. Hilda
Francis, hostess.
Mrs. Mildred O'Neal heads the
club as president for the ensuing
year, with the following officers:
Vice-President, Tracy Ward; Sec
rotary and Treasurer, LESSEE Davis,
Chaplain, Salina Midget; Birth
day, Lois Midget; MARSHALL Grace
White; Guardian, Katherine Ken
nedy; Ways and Means, Lois Mid
gett; Membership, Hilda Francis;
Publicity, Tracy Ward; Cards.
LESSEE Davis; Program Chnh.,
Salina Midget.
The president urges all members
to attend this meeting.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
JOHN EARLE JR. AWARDED
STAR SCOUT RANK SUNDAY
Other News Of Boy Scouts in Manieo
and Vicinity Reported

At Court of Honor held Sun
day, April z, in the Mt. Olivet
Methodist Church, John Earle, Jr.,
was awarded the rank of Star
Scout by Gustaf Huffman, 1nsti-
tutional Representative.
Second Class ranks were grant
ed to Tommy Taylor Of Manns
Harbor, and Billy Crumpacker of
Manteo. Merit Badges were award
ed as follows: John Earle, Jr.,
Radio; Melvin Twiddy, Jr., Camp
ing; Buddy Boyce, Citizenship in
the Nation.
80 Miles of Hiking: Eleven
scouts and two adult leaders COM
pleted last Saturday, the third of
series of hikes planned for the
Troop this spring. The goal has
been set to have the entire troop
qualify for the Hiking Merit
Badge, a feat which has seldom
been accomplished by troops in this
country. Required are five 10 mile
hikes followed by a 20 mile hike
making a total of 10 miles. The
Manteo Scouts plan to go on from
there and form an exclusive "10(
Miller Club.
Progress made on North Enc
Camp Site: With a target date fol
completion of the first of June
the scouts are working hard or
their new camp site. An overnight
camp was held on March 80, ano
the day was spent constructing {
latrine, clearing trails and genera
camp maintenance. Prior to this
camp the Eagle aPtrol spent a ola!
preparing the site and digging {
See SCOUT, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
CHARLES r. COMBS, IREDELL
co. NATIVE DIES IN DARE

Charles Reuben Combs, "a, died
Friday at 2:15 at the residence in
Manns Harbor after an illness of
six months. He was a native of
Iredell County, but has been re-
siding in MAINS Harbor for the
past five years. He was the hus-
band of Alice Terrell Combs and
a member of the Oak Grove Meth
odist Church at Winfall. where he
had also resided.
Besides his wife, he is survived
by two daughters, Mrs. Lee Den
ton and Mrs. Roger Langston,
both of Zebulon, two sons, Charles
Frances and Fred Wilson Combs,
both of Manns Harbor; a sister,
Mrs. Minnie Hoover, of Statesville,
and four grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday at Oak Grove Methodist
Church in Perquimans County by
the Rev. Earl R. Meekins, pastor,
assisted by the Rev. A. l.. G. Ste
phenson, pastor of Mt. Carmel
Methodist Church. Burial was in
the church cemetery. Pallbearers
were Emmett Stallings, Ben Smith,
Jeff Pierce, Clarence Pierce, Am
brose Elliott and Ramsey Elliott.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12

MISS MARGARET PEARCE of
Manteo was elected beauty queen
for Dare County last Friday night
in a contest sponsored by the Man
teo Rotary Club for selection Of a
representative at the dedication OF
the William B. Umstead Memorial
Bridge on April Is. Miss Pearce,
who is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. R. Pearce of Manteo, was
selected from So contestants. Sec
ond place was won by Miss Carol
Fulcher, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hayes Fulcher of Buxton; and
third place went to Miss Ursula
Austin, daughter of Mrs. Virginia
Austin of Hatteras.
The beauty contest was held in
conjunction with a fashion show
and hill-billy program put on by
the Young Adult Fellowship class
of Mount Olivet Methodist Church
in Manteo, and played to a packed
house. Approximately $3.50 was
cleared, to go toward the purchase
of chimes for the church.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12

MRS. CLARA HARRINGTON, the
active head of one of Manteo's
best known business firms, has
this week closed the store, after a
career of excellent service to the
community for the past SO years.
More than so years ago, L. D.
Harrington entered the business
world in Manteo, and the name has
been a by-word ever since. Except
for an interval in business in Bel
haven, the native home of Mrs.
Harrington, he has been in the
mercantile business at Manteo. Mr..
Harrington, for some years has
been living at home in quiet re-
tirement.
Mrs. Harrington says she has
enjoyed the entire period of bust
ness in Manteo, she likes the town
and likes the people, and has APP
preciated their patronage. But
there came the time when her doc
tor advised her to drop the bur-
dens of running a store, and she
is quitting business as a matter
of necessity. Tarkington's has been
a store greatly valued by the peo-
pie. 1t has been good to people,
liberal in credit when considered
necessary, and always well stocked
with quality merchandise. No local
firm might be more greatly missed.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
LITTLE SIX-YEAR-OLD
GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO
AND KILLED AT SALVO

When Jerry Allen Mooney, %,
set out from Buxton Saturday
morning, with his wife and two
small children, one of them babe
in arms, he didn't know that the
life of pretty little girl less than
six years of age would be snuffed
out as he drove through Salvo.
What some say was result of
the usual speeding through viii
lagos, and others say was driving
at not more than SIS miles per
hour, ended in the little girl being
run over and killed. Dora Hooper,
one of the four children of Mr..
and Mrs. Leslie Hooper of Salvo
was found to be dead when her
father got her to a doctor at Bux-
ton, 20 miles away.
Mooney, who had just been
transferred from the Naval Air
facility, and was leaving the island
for good, is to be heard on a
charge of manslaughter Tuesday
of next week in Manteo.
The little girl was buried Mon
day morning in the family plot at
Salvo, following services conduct
ed by Rev. Mrs. Louise Leary of
the PentecoStal faith. Beside her
parents. she is survived bv two
See TRAGEDY, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
TOWN REGISTRATION HAS
MANY PECULIARITIES

Registering to vote in the Man
teo town elections is a most con-
venient chore. Under the town law,
Mrs. Juanita Parker, town clerk
advises, the registration books
have to be open every day in the
week from 9 am. to five pm. with
business hours running. until 9
pm, on Saturdays, at the Dare
County Courthouse.
Mrs. Pearl O'Neal is the regis
trar this time, and she will be on
duty at the courthouse on hours
above stated. First day to register
is April goth, running up to chal-
lenge day April 9th.
Mrs. Parker stated that the
final date at which candidates may
file for Mayor or Town Aldermen
is April 23rd, which must be done
at her office at the Manteo Town
Hall.
Registration days for county
and state election are usually on
Saturdays only.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
HATTERAs WINNERS

Edison Meekins and Ursula Aus
tin won first place in pre-Pirates
Jamboree costume contest at Hat
teras Saturday night. Their run
nerups We're Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Gray. The male winners wore con-
ventional styled costumes. Miss
Austin wore u red and yellow brief
combination and Mrs. Gray an
18th Century styled frock. The
winners are scheduled to take part
in the jolly, Roger Ball on Mays
Head at The Casino, Saturday
night TO complete in the king and
queen selection.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12

REV. LOUIS E. AITKIN, Method
list Minister of Manteo, will serve
as chairman for the 1867 education
al and Embarrassing campaign of
the Dare County Chapter of the
American Cancer Society. The cam
paign began April 1. He will be
assisted by Rev. w. E. Cholerton,
Baptist Minister, and Mrs. Tracie
C. Ward.
Under his leadership, volunteers
will seek to alert all residents to
the need for regular health exam
nations as a protection against
needless cancer and they will work
to raise Dare County's quota. The
national goal is $30,000,000 which
will be used to further the ACS
three-fold fight of research, educa-
ton and service.
~ am proud to be associated
See CANCER, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE
TO BE HELD AT MAINS HBR

The Manns Harbor Methodist
Church is planning an Easter Sun
rise Service on the western shore
of Croatan Sound at the Joe Groom
Mann place near the State Ship
yard at Manns Harbor. The public
is invited to attend.
The Woman's Societies of Chris
tan Service of the Manns Harbor
churches are having a joint study
class and cover dish supper at the
Manns Harbor Community Build
ing on Friday, April 10, beginning
at $3.50 o'clock in the afternoon.
The study class is to be taught by
Stanford White.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
JAMBOREE PIRATE
ROYALTY WILL BE
CHOSEN FRIDAY
Many Events In Connection With
Festival Begin This Week End
BY AYCOcK BROWN

10y N NONAA 1AS0NVA
Royalty that will reign during
the third annual Dare Coast Pr
rates Jamboree April 1928, will be
chosen during two coloIful events
planned for the current week end
on Mays Head.
On Friday night at the Dare
County Shrine Club, a prince and
princess will be selected from an
all-county group of costuned teen
ayers. The costume contest and
dance, with music by an imported
orchestra will be only for persons
between the ages of Is and 10, and
those attending must be enrolled
as students in Dare schools. The
prince and princess selected will
receive handsome trophy cups
while the runnerups will receive
prizes. Those winning regal honors
win take part in day time events
of the Forthcoming Jamboree and
also at the William B. Umstead
Bridge dedication which will be
held Thursday, April Is. on the
eve of the vacation launching fes-
tival.
A pirate king and queen to reign
over the third annual Jamboree
will be selected at colorful all
costume Jolly Rogers Ball in Mays
Head Casino on Saturday night,
April Is. The 1856 pirate rulers
were King John Donoho and Queen
Sue McCown, who had succeeded
Oscar Sanderlin, the original king
and Sara Afford, queen of the
first Jamboree. In addition to the
new king and queen to be selected
on Saturday night, four attendants
will also be chosen. The new 1857
royalty will be. officially crowned
at the big Coronation Ball on Sat-
urday, April 81, an event also
scheduled to take place in the
Casino.
Only one pre-Jamboree event is
scheduled during Holy Week, be-
ginning Sunday. On Tuesday eve
ming, April 16, the dozens of men
who have grown boards for the
Pirates Jamborees an annual Gus
tom since the event was first start
ed in 1866, will be entertained at
a dinner party by George Croker
Jr., his parents and King John
Donoho of Beacon Motor Lodge. At
least so bearded men are expected
/. to attend the banquet which in a
way will be their payoff for going
to the trouble to grow and groom
boards for the Pirates Jamboree.
After Easter weekend there will
be a caravan of pirates invading
Elizabeth City for radio appear
ances and promotional activities
and also to the Norfolk area. These
trips will be similar to the success
full visit to North Cardinals state
capitol at Raleigh recently and the
invasion of Virginia last week enc
when Dare Coast pirates stormed
the present capitol in Richmond
and the site of the first capitol
at Williamsburg and also James
town Island, scene of the 35Oth
anniversary festival. At James
town the score or more pirates
literally captured the replica of
the Godspeed, one of the boats in
which the jamestown colonists ar
rived in the New World of 1907
In Williamsburg they visited the
( ancient goal (jaiD replica where
IL members of the crew of Black
bearr. the notorious North Caro-
lima pirate were incarcerated for
trial, later convicted and then
hanged, for their crimes on the
high seas.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
CAPE HATTERAs FISHING

Edgar Hooper, operator of
Lighthouse View Cottage court,
Buxton, reported that two anglers,
F. j. Pollock and E. w. Mccoy Of
Wilmington Del, landed 10 sea
mullet (or kingfish) in the surf at
Cape Hatteras Wednesday. They
also caught trout, founder and the
first bluefish of the season to be
reported on rod and reel, The sea
mullet weighed up to two poupds
each.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12

Richard o. Howard, a native of
Ocracoke Island, formerly Assist
ant Chief Engineer at the Edge
water Beach Hotel in Chicago, has
been named Chief Engineer of
Hotel Cleveland, it was announced
by Robert F. Brydle, Managing
Director. Howard studied Mechani
cal Engineering at North Carolina
State College in Raleigh, where he
graduated with a Bachelor of Me-
chanical Engineering in 1912.
Mr.. Howard has been transferred
to the Hotel Cleveland from the
Edgewater Beach Hotel, a sister
hotel in the Hotel Corporation of
America. Others hotels in this ma
tionaf hotel chain are Somerset
Hotel in Boston, Hotel Roosevelt
in New York and the Mayflower
in Washington, D. C.
Having served from March, 1912,
to September 1916, in the 257th
Engineering Combat Battalion, Mr..
Howard joined the Reynolds To-
bacco Co. in 1947 as a mechani-
cal engineer. In 1851 he moved to
the Dan River Mills in Danville,
Virginia, as a Control Engineer,
leaving in 1868 to join the Ford
Motor Company as an Assistant
Plant Engineer. In December 1866,
Mr.. Howard became the Assistant
Chief Engineer of the Edgewater
Beach Hotel.
A member of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, and
the North Carolina Society of En-
gineers, Mr.. Howard is the Past
President of the Danville . Engi-
neering Society and North Caro-
lima Registered Professional Engi-
neer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard and their
daughters will make Cleveland
their home.
Richard DIN Howard is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Wyche
Howard of Ocracoke. Following in
the footsteps of his father, who
was with the U. S. Army Engineers
for many years, Olin chose engi-
neering as his profession. His ele-
mentary and high school education
was received in cities all the way
from New York City to Galveston,
Texas, because of his fathers oc-
cupation and assignments with the
Army Engineers.
He served as lieutenant one
year overseas, and while there
spent good deal of time in France
studying mine operations.
He married Mary B. Dalrymple
of Sanford. They have two daugh-
tiers, ages IL and 1.
Although Olin only had the, OPP
portunity of visiting Ocracoke but
occasionally during his youthful
days, and only had a month of
schooling here, he is devoted to the
island and its people and has al
ways considered it home. He was
delighted when his father retired
at Ocracoke about five years ago,
since this gave him and his family
the chance of vacation visits. When
he is here he is always interested
in what is going on in the commu-
nifty. Five years ago he took an
active part in the first big July
4th Parade and Celebration.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-04-12
MACS HEAD FISHING

James S. Batter, Pittsburgh, Pa,
and Jack Sacks of Chevy Chase,
Nd, landed near-limits of large
mouth bass on Wednesday while
casting in the Colington Island
area. Julian Oneto reported the
catch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-03
YuqosIuv Pointer

The romantic and beautiful
Dalmatian coast is the theme
of a large exhibition more
than 40 paintings) by Gaia
Dujsin in the garden gallery
of the Middle East Institute,
1851 N Street. through Fri
day. concluding a brief show
ing.
Miss Dujsin's paintings,
traditional but simplifled, de-
pict majestic palaces. many
damaged in the war. magni-
ficent panoramic landscapes.
with villages set like jewels in
the hills: earnest, hard-work-
ing peasants. picturesque
towns and houses on the wa
ter's edge. The paintings have
marked carrying quality.
They are solidly executed. but
subdued in color.
Miss Dujsin began her ca
reer between the two wars.
She had a thorough educa-
ton in art and Travelled and
exhibited extensively. Follow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-03
An Unconvincing Novel
By Nancy Wilson Ross

thing of herself. Her verdict:
She has always been a fraud,
in full flight from reality.
What she learns about the
others is not especially heart
ening either. Her brother
loves her too much. He was
doing to her what he had
always been able to do: Fill
ing her with shapeless appre-
hension. a sense of creeping
decay, inevitable decline,
malignant invisible forces to
be found in the very spores
Of moss on the timbers Of a
rotting barn on Long Island.
or in obscene orchids feed
ing on perfumed air in
Ceylon :"
Miss Ross writes Of these
matters in sentences that are
we'll constructed but Of mo-
notonously equal length. Her
characters talk a kind Of
English-type patter that is
not terribly convincing. What
is really lacking. however, is
a true clash of values. a gen.
uine conflict. Venerable Sir's
dicta which she finds brac-
ing, seem merely traditional
Western comfort in Oriental
phraseology. All Of Miss Ross
sensitive observation and
sound characterization can
not Offset the slight un-
pleasantness Of the whole
exercise. M. McG.