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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-12-26
Rockville
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Rockville
100 CeIebrants
Attend Party
OF Maxwells
By Cissy Morgan
Poplar 1854

Our Rockville people are just
too busy with holiday prepare
tons this week to offer great
quantities Of social goins-on. One
Of the largest gatherings of party
folk these past few days took
place at the home Of DR.. George
Maxwell on South Washington
Street, before the last-minute
rush started. DR.. Maxwell enter
tanned over 100 guests December
IA at his annual holiday cocktail
buffet party. From all reports
his guests had perfectly marvel
Gus time and look forward TO this
event every year.
The conversation piece of the
day was the menu. 1t included
green olives stuffed with--now
get this toasted grasshoppers.
Those seen jumping around
afterwards were the Dave Belts,
Frank Williams, Jr., Vinson
Peters, William Bouics, Jay Daw
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13
'ltuly Observed

Departing from its custom
Of holding one-man shows
by Washington area artists.
the Franz Bader Gallery is
presenting the first Ameri-
can showing of recent paint
ings by Harry Engel. art
faculty member Of Indiana
University bloomington for
nearly 80 years. In addi-
ton to teaching both paint
ing and the history Of art.
Mr.. Engel has also been an
indefatigable painter who has
exhibited extensively and has
had occasional one man
shows. He has received more
than II awards and men,
tons.
Born in Romania. Harry
Engel was brought as an in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13

Thomas does not pay Brinnin
back as she seemed to prom
Use at one time. Instead. she
simply swamps him with her
salty. flooding "reminiscences.
And plainly she knows, too,
about the urge for self-de-
struction.
Cut Glass Awareness
She speaks of her own
,''cut-glass awareness. It is
q remarkably apt phrase. No
one knew better than Caitlin
Thomas the ridiculous figure
she cut on the island Of Elba
when she took for her lover
an l8-year-old mine worker
who was three years older
than her eldest son. The
easy-going Italians were APP
palled. She was. too. but
driven by her own particular
furies and the eternal, child
ish need to be loved,
brazened 1t out. There were
endless, sordid scenes with
the landlord. 1t was an I'M
seemly idyll-and enthralled
readers may uneasily be
thinking 1t is all none OF their
business-but 1t is retrieved
from mere sordid self-exor-
cism by her genuine tender
ness for the boy. Joseph,
through her superbly ex-
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Best of BemeImons
THE WOMAN OF MY LIFE.
VI W III 70
BY Ludwig Bemelmans.


BY Ludwig Bemelmans.
viking Press; $500
Mr.. Bemelmans unfailingly
dispenses charm, that luxury
commodity increasingly in
short supply. His books are
light and dry without being
brittle, sophisticated but
never sour. The present Of
fering is in his best vein.
Here he is bordering gently
the dilemma Of a truly noble
French nobleman whose re-
fusal to take advantage of
any woman-from the CO.
cottes presented to him by
his father. to the yearning
wives OF false hearted friends
makes him the laughing
stock Of his lascivious Pari-
sian friends.
The Duke is so gallant and
kind that he is. Mr.. Bemel-
mans shows us. quite ludi-
crous In this wicked world.
But he is a darling, and many
readers will feel, deserving
OF a much better fate than
the managing American
woman'who finally appears in
his life. All this is served
up with succulent details of
gracious living to which
Mr.. Bemelmans unblushingly
u dyes allegiance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13

for sitting around talking
about writing"
The creator Of Forever
Amber" believes that most
writers are equally inarticu-
late about their work. She
herself has been writing since
she was 8 years old, but she
couldn't tell you why.
Her latest. a novel Of a
typical American small town
childhood. AMERICA WITH
LOVE. is just of the presses.
She rewrote it is times be-
fore 1t suited her. Actually,
1t started out. as q play,
reached the production stage,
but was strapped because Of
the difficulty Of finding
enough children to round
out its predominantly juve-
nile cast.
Demon Researcher
Is it photographed? The
beautiful poker-faced Miss
Winsor winces at the word.
This Is understandable when
she tells you that at one Of
those ladies literary lunch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13
Shakespeare
Was Never
Like This
TWISTED TALES FROM

TWISTED TALES FROM
SHAKESPEARE. BY Rich
ard Armour. CMcGraw-
Hill; $2.95.)
Richard Armour's spool of
the pedahtc style of many
ShakeSpearean scholars will
be a delight to all who
studied the Bard. (And that
includes most everybody
Although even the most
ornery student Of Shake
speare will cringe a oft on
seeing Hamlet reproduced as
a comedy Of errors. he will
find great satisfaction in Mr..
Armour's ridiculous explana-
tons complete with foot
notes. OF some of the OBJ
scure passages which have
plagued both the scholar and
the student Of the scholar
since the beginning Of Shake
speare classes. Equally as
satisfying are the questions
at the end Of each play
Consider the effect on
Ophelia's future II she had
known how to swim. and
Mr.. Armour's own treatment
OF The Question - Who
wrote Shakespeare?
Although the synopsis Of
the plays leaves one feeling
rather guilty latter all.
Shakespeare is Shakespeare,
the takeoff of those schol-
arly tones We consulted be-
fore that theme was due is
most gratifying.
MARTHA LIVDAHL.
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Studio Solo

Grace Oehser is having a
solo exhibition Of watercolors
and woodcuts at Alexandria's
Studio through next Satur-
day. Her first in the Wash
ington area was one of block
prints at the Division Of
Graphic Arts gallery, Smith
sonian building, in 1858. She
has lived in Washington for
80 years. Her husband, Paul
H. Oehser. is chief Of the
Smithsonian's editorial and
publications division. She OBJ
tanned her art training en-
tirely in Washington schools,
the Corcoran, Phillips Gall
lery and American Univer-
sity.
For the past decade, Mrs.
Oehser has sketched and
painted in the Adirondacks.
She finds inspiration in for
est surroundings, deserted
upland pastures. wilderness
lakes and the upper reaches
Of rivers. Her girlhood on q
farm left her an enduring
fondness for domestic ami
mails and farm implements
as subjects.
Her paintings and prints
are semi-abstract, very
broadly treated. so that their
best effect is from a distance.
The quality is somewhat un.
even. OF % works on view,
the best watercolors I
thought, are Adirondack
Stream, River with Rocks
August" and two sketches
from a canoe on the Potomac.
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Events

Frank Lloyd Wright. the
United States most famous
living architect, an out
standing individualist whose
original ideas were interna-
tionally influential as early
as the first decade of this
century. viii open at three
O'Clock today the exhibition
of his most recent architec-
ture Gin drawings and plans
in the Institute Of Contem-
porary Arts room at the Cor
coran Gallery Of Art. To-
morrow evening at S:45 he
will lecture on The Mile
High Building and My Re-
cent Architecture" at Lisner
Auditorium. Twenty first
and H streets NV. Guest
tickets are required and can
be purchased at the door.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13

In his lively volume of
travels in Greece, ATHE-
MAN ADVENTURE. C. p.
Lee has this to say: Greek
conversation is not only
personal, but 1t is in no need
OF printing. Strangers talk
more intimately in ten min
utes than old friends in Bos-
ton. The Greek begins
with intimate questions in
order that the conversation
may rise, those matters set
tied, TO politics, religion, or a
more abstract discussion Of
love. He is, In fact. an ex-
ponent Of the Platonic lad
der The discussion first
deals with the individual,
then the group. then that
generality known as man
kind. In the West. the re-
verse procedure is polite"
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Members Annual

The Washington Water
Color Club is having its an
nual members show cele-
brating its 6lSt year. at The
Arts Club. through October
IS. Over SO items. selected
by the officers and board Of
the former, compose a show
with more good work mostly
repreSentationaD than can
be mentioned here.
Harbor and SeacoaSt and
other scenes with water seem
to lend themselves particu-
larly to watercolor. AS usual.
some Of the best papers in
the exhibition depict such
themes: the stormy, dramatic
island by Carver Miller. Ruth
Safford'S serene "Windjam-
mers." Eliot O'Hara'S drasti-
cally simplifled Anchor Bay.
California" and others by
Vaughn Jackson. Constance
White, Henry Olson. Marlin
Fenical and Lois Jones.
John BryanS. now president
of the Water Color Club, ex-
ecuted his thawing snow
scene with broader treatment
than he has used heretofore
Mary Eta Sharpe'S towering
Fog Over Ketchikan" with
a hint of Oriental infiuence)
is the best work l have seen
by her; and Reynolds Wei
denaar's "Hark." flying near
an old tree. is beautifully
done. Ralph de Burgos got
varied textural effects and
nuances into his odd Bell
Tower"
Elena de Hellebranth's ar
resting. lifeSize old woman
(tempera. Finn Sherman'S
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War Reporting
We'll Worth
Remembering
FOREIGN CORRESPOND
ENT. BY Robert st. John.
Doubleday: $685.


ENT. BY Robert st. John.
doubleday: $685.
Here is high adventure in
the Balkans as Eric Amber
might have conceived 1t IL
this were a novel but the
memoirs Of War Correspond
ent Robert st. John need no
assist from Imagination.
The bearded Mr.. st. John,
whose writing might be en-
We'd by any of his former
colleagues on the Associated
Press. went to Europe in
1899. joblesS and almost PEN
nileSs. No one would hire
him to report the scene as
World War II lurched toward
its beginning because, at 81,
he was considered too old.
On the Spot
But he CHANGED into the
APP office in Budapest the
night Germany invaded Po-
land and may have been the
only man in the world who
didn't know there was a war
on when they put him to
work on the spot.
His travels took him to
Romania, Turkey. Yugosla-
via, Greece and Egypt be-
fore he came home TO Amer
lea, wounded and spent by
the continuing struggle to
stay one country ahead of
the Nazi invasions.
ROmania Plight
He is at his best decribing
the collapse of the Yugoslavs
and his fight down the Adri-
attic Coast TO Greece on the
untrustworthy coaster, Make
donka. This sequence was
the subject Of an earlier book
by Mr.. st. John but its in
clusion in FOREIGN COR
RESPONDENT was like
finding an old friend.
Amateur historians may
find his description Of the
bloody fiagellation inflicted
on herself by Romania TO be
4 considerable valve. That
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pressed. bemused apprecia-
ton Of the Italian character.
Her exasperated loving pic
ture OF her 5-year-old son,
Colin is remarkable. too.
Il do everything to excess,
as though for the first and
last time! And nothing
teaches me to modulate, to
moderate" she says. It is
true. One wishes that she will
go on writing, This distress
ful, incandescent book is a
brilliant beginning.
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On PUTTING
Soul Into
.Toothposte
THE CLOWNS OF COM
MERGE. Walter Goodman.
(Sagamore Press: $4.95)


This entry in the anti
Madison avenue sweepstakes
Is marked by the bitterness Of
the author and the bite OF
his writing. Mr.. Goodman,
q young New York magazine
editor. gives no quarter in his
attack on the inhabitants Of
his clown alley-admen, pub
lie relations men. promoters
and manipulators in every
field. For him they are not
only an unethical bunch,
they are often overtly evil.
Hear him on the admen:
THE person who Grams his
soul into a tube OF tooth
paste is pathetic. When he
reaches out to drag the rest
OF US in. he is dangerous,
When he proceeds TO ex-
patiate on his contribution
to his captives' well being,
he becomes comical. We
laugh, but without much
pleasure. Now our laughter
is edged with bitterness, now
with scorn. now with de-
spair :"
Mr.. Goodman covers the
field. The ludicrous COMPETE
ton among the toothpastes.
q fantastic peace Of mind"
sell used for a tranouillizer,
trading stamps. the making
Of a television m. c., the
rough undercover tactics in
the fight for the consumers
buck-those are Just a few Of
his targets.
Some of his weapons are a
bit battleworn from earlier
assaults on the Avenues bar
ricadeS-the shocked land
shocking) report on motiva-
tional research, for example,
and the transcript of a Ses-
sion Of "brainStorming." the
new technique for getting
ideas without thinking. But
these tours over old ground,
along with such side excur-
sions as visits to a Washing
ton rally for Senator Nc
Carthy and the New York
Billy Graham crusade, are
compensated for by Mr..
Goodman's ability to be pen
etrating and entertaining
even when edging over into
diatribe. and by his effective
use of the words of the men
he calls clowns, as cleaned
from their trade publications.
house ads and other sources.
All in all, this is good read
ing for everyone on the re-
ceiving end Of the Avenues
output-which means all Of
uS.-CHARLES r SEIR
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Speaking Books

Mentor Library. publisher
Of paper-bound classics, has
just launched a series of
Mentor records. The leadoff
speaking books are THE LIV-
ING TALMUD, read and
commented on by Judah
Goldin. dean of the Semi
nary College Of the Jewish
Theological Seminary. and
HIGHLIGHTS OF DON
QUIXOTE, which was voiced
by Walter Starkie. a bril-
liant. ebullient authority on
Spanish literature and folk
ways.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13

FAINT TO the United States,
grew UP in New York and
Michigan. graduated from
Notre Dame University,
studied painting in Paris, also
art history at the Sorbonne
on a Carnegie fellowship,
continued at Columbia Uni
versity. He also participated
in such projects as the
WPA Federal Art Project
in the 1930s. After World
War II, he began spending
summers in New England,
first in Ogunquit, Maine,
more recently in Province
town, Mass, where he con-
ducts a summer school.
He had sabbatical leave in
1855. went to Italy, the source
Of many paintings he has
done since. including those
in the Bader show. More
than 20 here were painted in
encauStic, the difncult
medium he now favors. He
has mastered many media
oil, watercolor, TYPOGRAPHY,
serigraphy and photography.
Mr.. Engel's paintings range
from impreSsionistic to wholly
or partially abstract. OF the
aforementioned, l liked best
the little horizontal panel
Venice" depicting Santa
Maria on the Grand Canal
with a palace, facade or two.
He has a gift for selecting
the telling detail vouchsafed
for the pleasures of recogni-
ton in an otherwise abstract
work: e.g., the distinctive
helmet on the equestrian
Roman Statue" Among
outstanding paintings here
are st. Marks interior. with
a blaze of orange and other
brilliant colors, as contrastcd
with the Somber browns and
grays of st. Francis crypt;
the hot blues Of Venice" on
q sunny afternoon, and the
bright colored mooring posts.
One Of the very best works
is the sun-drenched Piazza
Signoria." with its chalky
blues, grays and creamy
white, and its lion statue.
This exhibition remains
through this week.
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cons held at the time Of the
publication of Forever AM
ber." an account Of one Of the
most insistently available
girls in all historical fiction,
a lady sent up a note asking
simply. rs this the story OF
your life?"
Although her books have
derived their popularity from
their boudoir rather than
their scholarly qualities. Miss
Winsor is nonetheleSS q
demon researcher.
Her handsome custom-built
white handicapped writing
table is strewn with books
about 10th century America.
Miss Winsor is plodding
through them 800 before
she's through, she estimates)
making notes with sharply
pointed white pencils. She
has transferred these notes
into three huge notebooks
with a scholars care. index
ing them under such SUBJ
jectS as Dress" Customs"
Food" etc.
Il think you should know
the background completely
before you start to write"
says the conscientious Miss
Winsor.
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recumbent girls in a land.
scape, and caricatured types
by Merle Foshag and Evelyn
Wynne. account for most If
not all Of the shows figures.
Although drawings. prints
and pastels were eligible for
this annual, very few are here.
Well-executed items are
James D. Ravens color wood
cut, Isabella Walkers lino-
cut. and Margaret Longacre's
etching and aquatint.
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Brilliant Beginning
LEFTOVER LIFE 10 KILL

BY Caitlin Thomas. cat
lantic-Little Brown; $4.5O.)
Now Dylan Thomas widow
is sure never to be just that,
any more than when she was
alive. she was merely the
wife Of the most lionized poet
Of the age.
She used to turn her back
on him when he tried to read
his poetry in progress to her.
She reflects, IT must have
felt I had something Of my
own worth preserving and did
not want to be influenced by
Dylan's highly disturbing
stuff" She does have some
thing of her own. She is q
first-class writer. Of prose
that slashes clean to the
bone. that pulses with drama,
humor and images as vivid
as his. Either, in spite Of
herself. she was Influenced by
Dylan's highly disturbing
stun" or-and this seems
more likely-they were twin
Souls.
Urgent Expression
Surely she was as immod-
crate as he. The fact shrieks
from every one Of these as
tonishing pages. for which
candid" is far too pale a
word. And she is plainly a
stormy. thorny, cross
grained. abundant woman, a
spendthrift Of money and
emotion. She needed to ex-
press herself as urgently as
he did. and 1t Is easy to I'M
derStand their house shaking
quarrelS as well as the "spe-
cial love" whose removal
caused the bottom to drop
out Of her "Dylan-infested
world"
For the catastrophe OF his
death she does not blame
America. John Malcolm Brin-
nin's painfully documented.
Scrupulously unreproachful
description Of Dylan's last
disastrous days in America
seem pastel in comparison
with the widows wild, fiery,
Sardonic teeth-clenched rec
objections Of those hum
drumly golden hearted"
parties. where other women
fiocked around Dylan and he
Tapped UP the admiration the
"chilblain island" OF Wales
had never granted him. Mrs.
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ART NEWS
4 Artists
In Special
ShowHere
By FLORENCE BERGMAN

ny ELOAENOE DEhh 4 MAN
-Four Washington artists
who have exhibited in Cor
coran Biennials or area ex-
hibitions in past years. are
having a joint show at the
Corcoran Gallery through
November 10. Each artists
works are hung as q group,
and the total Of 38 is divided
between representational and
abstract. The artists are
we'll known in Washington;
but comprehensive biogra-
phies are In the catalogue for
the benefit Of visitors.
MaFcella Comes has six ex-
cellent portraits and almost
as many colorful abstract
stiIl-life paintings. Among
the former are near-lifesize
captures Of a charming little
blond girl and q handsome
boy. There are smaller but
no less speaking, likenesses Of
Poet Robert Frost. Novelist
Eudora Welty and others.
When Miss Comes turns TO
experimental still-life ar
rangements. she dissolves the
forms in misty. pervasive
color. or accentuates one rep
resentational area tsuch as
the dish Of fruit with abb
Stract background color. My
favorite of these still-life
distractions is Green
Leaves" swirling against a
plangent blue background,
with a felicitous touch Of
vermilion for contrast.
Helen COsteIIO's group is
a love affair" with Mexico.
where she spent the past
summer. Her paintings. all
traditional, tell Of brilliant
colors, lush foliage. tempting
fruits. gardens, patios and
natives. The visitor will
wish he were relaxing in the
tropical garden on which
Red Doors" open; or in the
airy kitchen with its unin-
hibited color scheme and
contented women. "Yelos
Chilis" is distinguished by its
subdued, satisfying color and
simple pattern. Quite diff
ferent from all these gay
paintings Is the gaunt. tragic
Heads From Hiroshima"
lent by Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Murrow.
Walter Gretschel's group
has strong simple paintings
Of ships and boats zone of
which won an award in the
Corcoran Area exhibition
three years ago and was re-
produced here and abstract
compositions. All. however.
are emphatic in formal
pattern, subdued or somber
color-black and white. blue
and white, brown. etc. Be-
sides these, there is an ex-
quiSite naturalistic painting
of laurel leaves; and an air
view of a freeway, the loops
and diagonals Of which make
an effective abstract pattern.
Alfred McAdams' group is
the most modern. composed
chiefly of~expresSionistic fig
ures and nonobjective COL
lagos. which by means Of
sandpaper, gauze. other ma
terials and paint, achieve
interesting textures. Mr..
McAdams' figures are on the
somber side - The Hurt
One" The Lonely Ones"
The Lovers" also unhappy,
and Exodus" presumably
inspired by the Hungarian
uprising. He has achieved
some remarkably mournful
expressions with pen outlines.
His arabesque pen work
reaches its apogee tin this
group in his landscape
Park on Hill" in architec-
tural detail, branches and
foliage.
The four groups make q
varied and stimulating ex-
hibition. which will remain
thrnuph NnvoYnher IN
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Forthcoming

Look for some choice bio
graphical entries during the
season.
From Andre Maurois, THE
TITANS, q three-generation
biography Of the Dumas.
From Nancy Milford, VOL
TAIRE IN LOVE.
And in the way OF auto
biography there will be THE
DREAM OF MY LIFE by
Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce and
from the crack theatrical
press agent Richard Nancy,
FANFARE.
M. Moo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13
Art Lecture

George Alexander Kubler,
professor Of the history of
art. at Yale University. is the
National Gallery's first guest
speaker for the season. His
subject is ''Olmec Sculpture"
to be given this afternoon
at 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13
READING AND WRITING
Kathleen Winsor Joins
Ronksof Local Authors

To the scraggy of resident authors Washington
there has come in recent months gering addition in
the Of Kathleen Wnsor who Mrs Paul Porter
now makes her home Tracy place.
The absence Of fellow craftsmen dsrbs the glamorous
Miss Wnsor not at all Says she simply never one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13
Books
Long, F Fascinating Novel
Defends Capitalism
BY MARY McGRORY

Wagner had attempted to set the code Of the NAM
to music the results might have been something like ATLAS
SHRUGGED Brandon House; $685. preposterous endless
and ntermittenty fascinating novel in defense capitalism
Those who read THE Fountainhead," Avn Rand's de-
tense Of rugged indduas which another batternR-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13
In Verse

Rolfe HUMPHREYS has edit
ed a new Ballantyne book Of
NEW POEMS BY AMERI.
CAN POETS. In his intro
duction he has heartening
words as to what is going on
in American, poetry today:
THE obscure and minatory.
which E. NJ. Forster, less than
a decade ago. considered the
characteristic Stigmata of
modern poetry seems to be
disappearing. There are not
nearly as many atom-bomb
or I feel terrible pieces as
there we're last time" We
just hope that his next coll
lection won't signify a new
swing of the pendulum with a
whole crop Of satellite or II
feel worse" lyrics.
And speaking Of poetry,
Father Daniel Berrigan. S. j.,
a lecturer in theology at
Fordham University summer
school and at lie Moyne Uni
versity. Syracuse. has won the
1857 Lamont Poetry Selec-
ton sponsored by the Acad-
envy Of American Poets for
his first volume entitled
Time Without Number"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-13

ishing ATLAS Shrugged" want
to take q walk in the park
and glare at q bureaucrat or
two.