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IRomun Tyront
Is Recalled

TIBERIUS: The ResentfuI
Caesar. BY Gregorio Mara
non. CDuell. Sloan and
Pearce: $3.75.l
DR.. Maranon, the distin-
guished Spanish scholar, does
not pretend to have the COM
plete understanding which
would end forever the mys-
teries Of Tiberius, Roman
emperor at the time Of the
cruciflxion Of Christ. But he
does have q theory. 1t is
that Tiberius was moved
mainly by resentfulness. Be-
meath the surface Of his
forced acceptance Of the Inn
moralities and treacheries Of
his time. his passions slowly
fermented into q bitter re-
sentiment. This accounts. the
author feels, for Tiberius'
paradoxes. his cruelties and
his cynical acceptance Of his
base world.
This is not a biography:
nor is it a history. 1t is,
rather, an extended essay on
decadent Rome, an essay
dashed with DR.. Maranon's
theories on just about every
thing. Some Of them tsuch
as his Interpretation Of the
real meaning Of pre-maturely
gray hair will strike some OF
his readers as very strange
indeed. But these are asides
The main points of his inter-
probation Of the Emperor
seem reasonable enough.
EDWIN TREBLE.
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eloquent and always in deadly
earnest. AS q memorist. she
suffers from total recall.
Naturally all that has hap
pened to her is of intense in
terest to herself, and it Is true
that many Of her experiences
during World War II in Lon
don. a mother Of two children
evacuated to America. are
alas, too common. But a
little selection, a little syn
thesis and above all. q little
humor, might have made
this long record Infinitely
more readable.
Unusual Marriage
What may interest Ameri-
can readers-at least women
far more than her wartime
ordeal, is Miss Brittain's un-
usual marriage. In her case,
the marriage versus career
conflict was resolved by a
"semi-d detached marriage"
which meant long separa-
tons between herself and her
husband, George Z. @. Cat
lin. 4 professor of politics
and philosophy. Upon COM
ing to the United States with
him in 1925 The was an assoc
ciate professor at CornelD,
she found America totally in
different to her modest Brit
ish literary reputation. Her
lot was intellectual and
spiritual Illustration.
She took stock. In this
characteristic passage, she
gives her reasons: by suffer-
ing and experience. and later
through continuous reading
and thinking. I had become
convinced that there were
certain ideas, however, too
difficult to realize and pro-
mote, which could save man
kind from its suicidal follies.
And I believed that. through
experiment. patience and the
integrity by which the artist
transcends the cruder ex-
pedients Of the propagari-
dist, I could learn TO embody
those ideas in my work with
SUFFICIENT conviction to make
others think. too. Only thus
could ! atone to my dead
contemporaries for the cruel
ty Of having outlived them"
In England
And with that lofty mission
in mind. Miss Britain de-
camped for England and set
up housekeeping with her
friend. the brilliant York;
shire novelist, Winifred Holt
by. In the years that fol-
lowed. Miss Britain and her
husband often exchanged
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protestations Of satisfaction
at the rare benefit accruing
to their unusual arrange
ments. But these merely add
to a certain humanity, or
lack Of warmth, which per-
vades Testament Of Experi-
ence."
For the rest, Miss Britain
details. sometimes tediously
sometimes Interestingly, her
many lecture trips, and those
Of her husband. the current
history which overshadowed
their personal fortunes, her
sudden dizzy, lionization as a
result of Testament of
Youth" One Of the by-prod-
ucts Of that book. incidental
ly was that her husband
thought that her wartime
lover Roland, so wildly re-
called in the book, stood al
ways between them. And no
wonder. an objective observer
might add.
War Perils
During the war, the usual
perils were intensified by a
misinterpretation of Miss
Brittain's arduous efforts in
behalf of the pacifists. A
Nazi prescribed list later
showed that both she and
her husband we're marked
for special attention by the
Master Race.
But Miss Brittain's second
rs years were much happier
than her first IS. Her chill
dren are grown and happy.
She has found herself in the
high esteem Of her contem-
poraries. All that would make
this record Of more moment
would be the observation of
others that is not possible in
one of Miss Brittain's intense
preoccupation with self.
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Rally Around Max ShuImun
For q Very Funny Story
RALLY ROUND THE FLAG.
BOYS! BY Max Shulman.
(Douhladav. "a SnN

RALLY ROUND THE FLAG,
BOYS! BY Max Shulman.
Doubleday; $500
My advice to you is to
rally around Max Shulman.
He has a very funny story
to tell. built around war and
peace in q Connecticut COM
muting~ community.
His hero is an amorous
commuter who after 10 years
Of marriage is still in love
with a wife whose preoccupa-
tons are civic. He promptly
falls into the clutches Of a
disconnected wife down the
street.
The arrival OF the United
States Army on the scene
to set up a guided missile
base has a critical effect on
the lives Of one and all. To
soften up Putnam's Landing
for the invasion, comes Guido
di Maggie. who is madly in
love with a local maiden
who has explained and illus
trated the facts Of life TO
the second-grade and pre-
cipitated q local crisis COM
parable 10 the question Of
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.HuIfworId Of
Hong Kong Is
Story Theme
THE WORLD

THE WORLD OF SUZIE
WONG. BY Richard Mason.
world Publishing Co.;
$685.
This Oriental pipe-dream
concerns the decision of q
British rubber planter. quite
suddenly, to become a painter
because he liked TO doodle.
1t is possible that Richard
Mason decided to become q
novelist by some similar
route.
The mealy mouthed hero
goes native in Hong Kong as
a means Of dedicating him.
self to his art. But the beach
he combs is a Chinese-style
cat-house which the reader
Is asked TO believe the hero
mistook for a genteel hotel.
In the bar he attracts a GER
tain amount Of attention
among the yum-yum girls
because Of his indifference to
them. After this point, veris-
similtude dies a sudden death.
The painter, by now a
smash-hit in English art gall
leries, becomes enamored of
Suzie Wong. He waits faith
fully for her each day to
complete her schedule, which
involves several designations
and a visit to her bastard
child. Mr.. Mason obviously
considers this to be a likely
background for a heart
warming love story.
Having gone this far, the
reader will find nothing STAR
ting in the marriage Of the
painter and the prostitute,
nor their trip to England.
But the trip is far too tedi-
Gus. The painted ladies OF
Hong Kong may be sprightly
company for the sea-going
gentry who visit that port.
They seem only drab in the
listless words Of this Eng
lishman.
The old pidgin English Joke
about how two Wongs don't
make a white keeps recur-
ring to me as / reflect on
THE World Of Suzie Wong"
One Wong doesn't, either.
JERRY oLEARY, Jr.
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collection which was opened
August 7 by the Ambassador
of Chile and Sonora de Puga.
It will remain through Sep.
TENDER IS. The artist, too,
was present, a young man in
his thirties. This is his first
one-man show in the United
States.
Argentine born, Mr.. Baba-
rovic has lived in Chile since
he was two years old. He
attended the School of Fine
Arts of the national univer-
sity, Joined a workshop and
simultaneously studied civil
engineering, receiving his de-
gree in 1851. Only then did
he begin to participate in
group shows in Santiago and
elsewhere in Chile. Last
year he had his first one
man show at the Chilean.
British Cultural Institute,
Santiago, from which exhi-
bition were drawn some of
the paintings in the current
display at the Pan Ameri-
can.
Fine Color Work
Mr.. Babarovic's feeling for
color is subtle and Interest,"
ing. Blues. yellows, greens
and browns, sometimes
grayed, are used in dark
tones in some of his work;
in others, he combines lighter
tones with magenta, warm
turquoise and orange. These
schemes may sound too ami
mated. but they do not
appear so.
6uL MS IOruS are cOnSld~
erably less engaging. Six Of
the IL paintings are devoted
to women. some half-nudes,
distorted with asymmetrical
faces and figures, others re-
duced to drastically simplified
symbols. The distortions Of
his reclining nude make her
comical; those of the Girl
Eating Fruit" seem merely
to enliYen her.
I prefer Mr.. Babarovic'S
interiors and still life, pos
sibly because a lopsided vase
or rickety furniture can be
studied with detachment by
the average person. Indeed.
some Of the objects are re.
duced to administrations,
which with the artists fair
for color, make very decora-
tive patterns.
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THE MAN WITH The
CANE by Jean Potts
(Charles Scribner's Sons.
$2.750
Since our childlike inabil-
ity to be Sure-really sure
about the murderer before
the last page is read is q
cause Of our addiction to
mysteries. Miss Potts must
have made it very easy this
time. The solution was not
telegraphed in the opening
paragraph. however, and the
book is a good one, about q
man found dead on the steps
of q Greenwich village
church, killed with his own
cane. Perceptive Miss Potts
has developed an admirable
cast in Val Bryant, his ex-
wife Doris, their daughter
Annabelle and others in the
family circle. all Of whom
knew the man with the cane,
and one Of whom killed him.
4 # 4
END OF CHAPTER. BY
Nicholas Blake. Harper
a. Bros; $685.
When an aging best-sell-
ing lady author is found with
her throat cut, it comes as a
blow to the dignif1ed publish
ing firm Of Wenham and
Geraldine. The corpse is
found in their office. They
had already asked sleuth
Nigel Strangeways to investi-
gate the staggering appear
ance Of libelous statements in
a book from which they had
been expressly deleted. All
kinds Of hidden relationships
swim to the surface as
Strangeways probes the past
Of the publishers and their
associates. First rate.
\
DEATH OF AN AAIBASSA-
DOR. BY Manning Coles.
Doubleday g. Co., Inc,
$2.95.)
Tommy H a m bledon Of
foreign service intelligence
knows the Frenchman the
Esmeraldans are holding
for the murder Of their
ambassador to London is
innocent. But he also
knows little CASTOR Dubois
will lead him to the killer.
Tommy follows CASTOR TO
Paris. and with the help Of
M. Letord Of the Surete I'M
covers 9 story Of intrigue and
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trial Of Napoleon's great
cavalry leader for alleged
treason-at least the first to
reach this country.
It was after Napoleon had
returned from Elba and lost
the battle Of Waterloo and
been driven into final exile
that Ney and others were
charged with treason by
Louis XVIII. Ney's treason
was technical - not against
France. since he felt that in
; rushing to Napoleon's de-
Tense he was doing the best
thing for his country. Mr..
Kurtz places the Ney trial.
late in 1915, among the three
great historic political trials
OF France. The others were
the trial Of Joan Of Arc and
the Affaire Dreyfus. The au-
thor gives an excellent ae-
count of the trial Of the man
whom Napoleon called "the
bravest Of the brave" and its
background.
incidentally Mr.. Kurtz
takes cognizance Of the leg
end that Ney was not ex-
ecuted. that the firing squad
was fixed" and that he
escaped to North Carolina,
where he rounded out his
days as q somewhat alco-
holic schoolmaster. This was,
the author concludes, a myth
which went farther than
most such myths do. He
points out that the marshal's
body was seen by many and
was cared for until burial at
the Hospice de la Maternite.
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ated from the University Of
Chicago, where she had
majored in philosophy. She
studied sculpture with Alex
ander Archipenko and draw
ing and painting with
Rudolph Weisenborn before
coming to Washington in
1943. Here she worked with
William Calfee and Pietro
Lazzari.
In Great Variety
She Is showing at Bader
Gallery Through August 800
more than 30 sculptures and
an equal number Of draw
ings in several media, pen,
ink and wash, watercolor
and gouache. There is much
variety in her work. Her
terracottas rang from the
nonobjective Concerning
Form" vaguely reminiscent
of a snail and its SHELF in
mottled black. blue and
cream: her abstract Cello
Player" and nude figures in
varying degrees Of distor-
ton, to naturalistic works
such as "Kneeling." There
are also draped figures
including Leave Taking"
which won Mrs. Shapiro
first prize in the Society
of Washington Artists an
nual last year at the Ma
tional Museum. There is one
other award winner Gin a
Corcoran area show ALE
CORY" q romantic tattered
figure.
While Mrs. Shapiro's APP
pealing Garden Head" and
her sentimental polychrome
bas-relief Lullaby" are ira
ditional, she shows strongly
individual viewpoints in such
original sculptures as "The
WALL" q landscape with fig-
ures. and Triangle" q bend
ing torso with q nice flow Of
line.
Her drawings are varied,
from watercolors complete in
themselves to rough sketches
presumably made for sculp-
lures. There are i've varia-
tons on two themes, Mother
and Child" and Lovers"
Some Of her line drawings
with color wash of robust
figures. have q monumental
quality. It Is q good show,
and all the more welcome
because sculpture solos are so
seldom seen.
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Shapiro Solo

Marilee Shapiro mas been
n Washington artist for the
past II years. Her work is
familiar to gallery visitors
here. as she participates reg
ularly in local as well as
out-of-town group exhibit
tions. Consequently, it is
surprising TO realize that her
current solo exhibition at
Franz Bader Gallery (1705
@ street N.W0 is only her
second in Washington, her
flrst having been held at
Watkins Gallery, American
University, 10 years ago.
Chicago born. she gradu-
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was last years presentation
print Of the Boston Print
makers. Others are Edwin
Fulwilder's bright color litho-
graph Of a village on q water
front; Mauricio Lasansky's
engraved life-size self por-
trait. unfiattering, vital and
humorous; and Jeanne Rich
ards fine etched self-portrait.
(She is an Alexandria, Va.
artist Wilfred Readio's Nth-
ograph Of a mountain land
Scape is the shows top work
in this subject class-superb.
Reynold Weidenaar's mezzo-
tint Bridge Builders" with
its vertical and swagged lines
and Clayton Whitehill's wood
engraving "Shimmering
Night" are admirable. / liked,
too. Zeke liners large lino-
leum cut Of a little boy, and
Raul Anguiano's two over
lifeSize heads Of women like
masks (lithograph).
Middle Group
Three purchases in the
middle group which seemed
o me praiseworthy are Mr..
Perlmutter's aforementioned
Boardwalk" Frances Mac
Donald's Bridge" having q
delicacy reminiscent of the
japanese. and Eugene Mech
kalski's wood engraving The
Kill" Other laudable SEMI
abstract prints include Nor
man Bates very large zinc
etching Gothic Steel Web"
Richard Florsheim's color
Autograph We'll Towers"
outstanding color, Margaret
Goulding's color woodcut
Mother and Child" Harold
Keeler's delicate linear color
Autograph Sailing Ships"
and Paul Shaub's color wood
cut Bleaching" with its
beautiful wood-grain texture
Of boat and sea.
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ART NEWS
PrintShow
AtLibrory
Is Studied
BY FLORENCE s.
BERGMAN

When the National Exhi-
bition Of Prints opens each
May I at the Library Of Con-
gress, to be on view through
August. the four months Pc
Rod seems ample to study
this show, one Of the ma
tons largest, Of outstand-
ing Importance to print-mak-
ers. But time flies, and only
two weeks remain for the
18th National, whose quality
greatly impressed the jurors.
A factual report was pub
lished in The Stars news
columns May 5 (page A-4O)
and in these columns, q brief
preliminary notice. Repro
auctions Of 3 Of the prints
have also been published
here: May IL, Boardwalk"
color Autograph by Jack PERL
mutter, only District Of Co
lumbia artist represented in
the show; June 2, Autograph
Of q woman with a bird by
Dorothy Kennon, and last
Sunday. "Hangman's Tree"
serigraph by Bob Burkert.
The Perlmutter and Burkert
prints are among Is pur-
chased from the exhibition
for the Pennell Collection.
Different Viewpoints
When the jury Of selection
made their enthusiastic COM
ments on the high technical
level Of the prints, their
variety and interest, they
were talking about qualities
which appeal to authorities
and experts on graphic arts.
Certainly those qualities are
somewhat different from
those which appeal to the
general public. Impossible as
it is to measure beauty,
which is Gin the eye Of the
beholder." and has different
meanings to individuals, new
ertheless. the earlier Pennell
shows had a much higher
content Of what the average
person would probably con-
slider beauty.
More recent shows have
become increasingly abstract
and expressionistic; and no
matter how masterful the
use of medium, how varied
the textures, original the
imagery, ingenious the COM
position, and emotional the
shapes, nevertheless many of
these prints are ugly, mean
ingless or just plain dull to
the layman.
OF the 148 prints in the
show. about one-third are alb.
stract; just under half are
flgurative recognizable SUBJ
jects but not naturalistic)
and the remainder, about 80
prints, are realistic. This over
simpliflcation is merely for
convenience; naturally, there
are many gradations within
each group.
Library Purchases
The is prints purchased by
the Library are marked with
blue labels for visitors easy
Identification. Eight Of them
are among the % which
seemed to me the shows best.
Three Of the 8 / particularly
liked, are abstract: Leonard
Edm0nson's color etching
"Escarpment" which suggests
heraldic emblems; John Paul
Jones intaglio White Table,"
with its variety Of fine text
ures; and John Pages color
intaglio 'Plowshares" in gold
en- browns. A fourth fine abb
straction is Lorenzo Homar's
linoleum engraving "Sapo."
a swirling wave-like design.
Ten naturalistic prints ! adj
mired include 2 purchases:
The aforementioned Hang
mans Tree" and Nora I'm
wins exquisite wood erigrav-
ing Mexican Women" which
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CRIME AND MYSTERY
By BETTY MILES .

vengeance ct times light
years away from the ambas-
sador's murder before it
comes full circle. Written
with Mr.. Coles unfailing wit
and grace. 1t Is very pleasant
indeed.
THE NIGHT OF THE GOOD
CHILDREN by Marjorie
Carleton civilian Morrow
and Co.. Inc, $3.50.
Yet another book about
kidnapping. This time teen
aged baby sitters cope with a
professional kidnaper and
killer. Driven from the house
with the baby by a gas leak,
they are stalked in a road
house and in the country
side before the chase ends.
The teen-agers are human
beings, and responsible and
courageous ones at that.
4 y y
THE MARY ROBERTS
Rim E H RT CRIME
BOOK. CRinehart & Co.,
Inc, $3.50
In an introduction, Mrs.
Rinehart points out that she
is not. never has been, nor
ever wanted to be a writer
Of detective stories. She is,
she says, a novelist who also
writes about crime. Three of
her well-known works, fresh
and exciting still, are pre-
sented in this omnibus
1.-THE Door," THE Confess
sion" and THE Red Lamp"
POOR HARRIET. BY Eliza
beth Fenwick (Harper and
Bros, $3.50
Try as we might, we never
could bring Harriet into
focus. When New Highlander
Marianne Hinkley is talked
into selling a bracelet in New
York to raise money for
Irma, her boss wife, she finds
herself in a strange world,
not the strangest inhabitant
Of which is Harriet. The
wife Of Moran, to whom
Marianne is told to take the
bracelet. Harriet Graves COM
panionship and beautiful
baubles, and is more than a
little mad. Irma's death re-
veals her true relationship
to Moran and his wife.
Through all this Harriet.
huddled in her sealskin coat
and her Special world. wan
ders lYnel as a cloud.
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the location OF the garbage
disposal plant.
Mr.. Shulman mixes all
these ingredients merrily.
There are moments Of slap
stick, but for the most part
this is a pleasant. earthly
human comedy in which
everyone behaves in a fetch
inxly witless way.-M. MEG.
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Bdruch Tells Story
Of EventfuI Career !
By CARTER BROOKE JONES

Tomorrow is the eighty-seventh birthday anniversary
OF Bernard Baruch nancier confidential adviser to six
Presidents and frequent counselor to the Government
the appropriate publication date of the FIRST volume Of
autobiography:
BARUCH: MY OWN STORY dIolt; So
And most interesting story it turns out to be.
The first Of two projected books it tells Of boyhood
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Vero Brittoin Continues
The Story Of Her Life
By MARY McGRORY

Vera Britain is the English writer known for her
Testament Of YOUTH passionate of
tered young womanhood. Now in TESTAMENT OF EX-
PERIENCE Macmillan: $751; she continues the story Of the
second Is years of her life.
Miss Britain demonstraby sincere often
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-18
Celebrated TriuI

THE TRIAL OF MAR
SHAL NEY, by Harold Kurtz
CKnopf; So, is perhaps the
first detailed account Of the
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Chilean First

Color is the best feature
Of paintings by Two Bahia
rovic Of Chile. in q small
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REDIscOvERINc SCIENCE
Modified Broinpower
VitoI to Mons Future

levels, from high schools to
high places in Government. "
says DR.. Joel Hildebrand of
the University Of California.
Citizens generally and states
men. too. must be more aware
of what science is and does,
others declare.
Politicians who wouldn't
dream of tinkering with an
alarm clock do not hesitate
to recommend the removal Of
all sorts of gears and governors
from the complex mechanisms
of society,"" says DR.. George r.
Harrison, dean of science at
Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology.
Basis Of Military Defense
Military defense or survival
depends more and more on
science. new ideas, new weapons.
Science is the cradle for
methods Of defending against
intercontinental missiles.
Today's and tomorrow's chal-
lenge is as great for the social
sciences. the study of man. his
behavior, his control over his
society. More basic research is
needed to win this knowledge.
This is critical. How will men
and nations use the powers and
knowledge from science-for
good or bad. to destroy or build?
Will the new things yet to come
be good or bad?
No one can say, remarks
DR.. Lee Dubridge. president of
Caltech. Things aren't good or
bad; it is only people who are
bad, and some of them GER
tainly always will be bad.
But. DR.. Dubridge declares,
these new things are going to
come anyway, for no force on
earth can stop men from think
ing, from inventing, from ex-
ploring."
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Animal CumoufIoqe
Will Be Topic

"Camouflage, Animals Best
Protection" will be the sub
ject of special programs at the
Rock Greek Nature Center
tomorrow.
Illustrated talks, demon
STATIONS and nature walks for
children and adults will begin
at 1890 am. and 2:30 pm. at
the center, near Porter street
and Williamsburg lane NV.
A hike through the park,
conducted by park naturalists,
will begin at 2 pm. tomorrow
at the nature center.
Another hike will be held in
the Carderock area of the
C&O Canal o nSunday, with
the mixers gathering at 2 pm.
at Macarthur boulevard and
Cornell avenue, Glen Echo
(Stop 80 on the Cabin John
streetcar line).