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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-30

Daniel Millsaps. associated
with Ernest s. Johnston, Star
Building. has recently opened
his own studio at ASA X street
NV. He IS inaugurating Q
changing exhibition Of water
colors at the Henlopen Hotel,
Rehoboth Beach. Del. for the
summer. and maintains his
continuing show at the d. c.
Veterans Employment Coun-
ellis, l70e Rhode Island avenue.
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Art Book Review
MATISSE: 50 Year

MAT1SSE: 50 Years Of His
Graphic Art. BY William 8.
Lieberman. George Brazil
Ter, Inc: 500
Henri Matisse, as much at
home In graphic media % in
painting. did not work con-
tinuously in them as did
Picasso and others Of his con-
temporaries. But ut intervals
during half q century. he
turned out q large amount Of
work In etching. drypoint,
lithography. and some in lino-
leum cut. acQuatint. monotype
and book illustration. This
volume. largely composed Of
reproductions (l24 black and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-30

John william O'Mara. young
Washington area artist. is
having his first one-I1ian show
at the Silver Spring Art Gal
lery. 0216 Flower avenue,
through July 10. He has par
ticipated in group exhibitions
and received awards last year
and this in. the George WASH
ington University Arts Club
annual.
Born in st. Clair. Mich, in
1887. John O'Mara came to
Virginia in his childhood. On
his graduation in 1855 from
George Washington High
School. Alexandria. he won a
scholarship to the Corcoran
School. His work in classes
under Richard Lahey and Ed
mund Archer fetched first
awards. Two other scholar
ships from the Corcoran ex-
tended his study there through
the season just closed. He has
also been teaching the Satur-
day young peoples class at the
Corcoran, and is currently
teaching at the Silver Spring
Gallery.
Wel-Merited
Visitors to his one-man
show there will undoubtedly
agree that he deserved the
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Eisenhower's Mother

EARNING THE RIGHT TO
DO FANCYWORK, by Kuni-
gunde Duncan university Of
Kansas Press; S1.25 is the
surprising title of q little book
on the late Mrs. Ida Eisen-
hover. the Presidents mother.
The author got to know Mrs.
Eisenhower well through fire.
quent visits to her large house
in Abilene, Kans., during
World War II. President Ell
senhower's mother explained
that she lived in the roomy
house, alone except for q
nurse companion. so that her
i've sons could still visit
her: they came at least
once a year. She had
always regarded the fancy
work which, she did beauti-
fully as q sort Of reward for
doing the gardening. which
she also loved. and the other
chores well. She once ex-
planned how 1t was her son
Dwight had become q fighter
while she was 30 much OPP
posed to war. From child
hood I chose my way. He was
free to choose his. War win
never bring peace; but 80 long
as there are those who make
war, some one has to 90 to
our defense" Mrs. Eisenhower
died in her sleep. Sept. IL,
1916. at the age Of 81.
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Summer Reading?
Look No Further

you CAN'T GET THERE
FROM HERE. BY Ogden
Nash. Little. Brown e. Co.;
$3.75.)
This is the first completely
new collection Of poems by
Ogden Nash In four years.
It's entirely UP TO his usual
standard and proves two
things.
1. What q waste these last
few Nash less years have
been. And
2. There isn't much reason
why any other book for sum-
mer reading should bother 10
come out at all.-E. T.
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ART NEWS II
japanese
Art Work
On View
By FLORENCE BERGMAN

0---"-~
Contemporary japanese ar
lists work in printmaking and
oil painting can be studied at
the Corcoran Gallery Of Art
until early September. The
larger and certainly the more
pleasing Of these exhibitions
is the one-man show of prints
by Kiyoshi Saito. This inter-
nationally famous 50-year-old
resident of Tokyo is also hon.
ored in his own country as
one of its greatest living ar
lists. He is represented in
museum collections throughout
the world. including that Of
the Museum of Modern Art,
New York City.
Mr. Saito uses the traditional
rice paper and woodblock. and
works in a style reminiscent of
the. 18th and 18th century
Japanese printmakers, Of the
great flowery Yedo." But
there are not-so-subtle diff
ferences. Mr.. Saito has been
influenced by such European
artists Of the recent past as
Gauguin. Redon and Munich.
The use of distortion, simplifi-
cation and non-objectivity is
obvious throughout his coll
lection here. No one could
mistake 1t for anything but
japanese work: but we're 1t
placed beside prints by Hoku-
sal and Hiroshige. for instance,
the differences would show up
more strikingly.
In Great Variety
Bright colors, numerous little
figures and details Of the older
Japanese prints which SO
faithfully reflected "the pass
ing show" Of that era, are abb
sent from Mr.. Saito's prints.
His are generally larger in size
and somber in color, being
dominated by black, white.
gray. and brown. with occa-
sional red or other dark color
(as well as his little maroon
seal or signature) in large nat
areas Of forms which appear
simple, but are masterful in
the rightness Of their horizon
tai, vertical and diagonal lines
and bars. and flowing curves.
These prints have greater Sc
renity or quietude. as an over
all characteristic. than the old
Japanese prints. And such is
the variety despite the effect
OF uniformity) that 1t seems as
If every visitor should find one
or more with which he would
like to live.
With the exception Of win
ter in Aizu" (illustrated)). the
only early print. dated 1898,
the prints are recent, most Of
them done in the l950s. Some
Of them reflect Mr.. SAito's
impressions Of Mexico and the
United States. which he visited
last year. His subjects are
landscapes. urban scenes. fig-
ures, animals and birds. and
still life. He deity extracts the
essence Of these varied sub
jects. One print Of q heroic
sized cat for example. entitled
Steady Gaze" is hypnotic in
its felinity.
Extensive biographical data
on Kiyoshi Saito. as well as
notes on his technique. are
hanging with the show; read
ing them will increase the Wis
itor's appreciation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-30

lAAc O4 Tie young WOkklaL1 WIZ
was once the happiest and
most light-hearted Queen in
Europe and later its most trag-
ic. is:
QUEEN OF FRANCE, trans
lated by Denise Folliot (Har-
per; So.
Marie Antoinette probably
has a place in popular memory
as the Queen who, when told
the people of France lacked
bread, said: LET EN- eat
cake"
She Did Not Say IL
In hard fact. Marie Antoi-
nette was neither so naive nor
cold-hearted enough to have
made such q remark.
She was a tender girl, easily
moved to tears, but she was
not in the least naive. She
knew her way around. She
made many a decision of state
for her well-meaning and
weak husband. And in a letter
to Count Florimonde Mercy
d'Argentau. Austrian Ambas-
sador to France, while the
French Revolution was gather
ing force. the Queen made a
worse remark than the deg
endary comment about cake.
She said:
1T is not possible to 90 on
like this. All we have to do
is hoodwink them and make
them trust US so as better to
defeat them afterward."
To Be Forgotten
And the biographer, who is
sympathetic to the Queen but
never relinquishes his duty to
verify, adds: "One would very
much like to be able to tear
this page from the Queens
life!"
Again. 10 days later. she
wrote Mercy: Our only re-
source now is in the foreign
powers. At all costs they must
come to our aid"
M. Castelot comments:
Like most rulers Of the time.
Marie Antoinette had no feel
ing of patriotism For them
the country was a possession.
just as a landowner possesses
farms. In their eyes all SOW
ereigns formed one large
family, and it was not betray-
ing the nation to want to cor
rect it when it was unfaith-
full"
She did intrigue with her
brother. Joseph II. King Of
Bohemia and Hungary. She
was. from the viewpoint of the
sans-culottes who tried her,
guilty. but they could not
prove it. They didn't have the
letters and documents the
present biographer has. Just
the same, with their farcical
evidence, they sent her to the
guillotine. TO which they pre-
viously had consigned her hus-
band. Louis XVI. It was q long,
tortuous path Of % years from
the days Marie came to YER
sailles. q lovely. delighted girl
Of II, the toast Of Parisians
throngs, to the sorrow-aged
woman Of 81 who was cursed
and ridiculed by the mob as she
rode to her death in o cart.
M. Castelot's book Is clut-
tered with details. many Of
them irrelevant. but all Of
them adding UP to a lifelike
portrait Of the unfortunate
and pleasure-loving mistress
Of the Trianon. Queen Of
France the July selection of
the Literary Guild.
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Deuth Sentence

In REFLECTIONS ON
HANGING Macmillan; $4.5O
Arthur Koestler takes a long,
hard look at capital punish
ment and does not like what
he sees.
The author of Darkness at
Noon," the famous novel Of the
Russian purge trials, was born
in Budapest. but has been a
British citizen since World
War II. and 1t Is mainly with
the hanging system In England
that he Is concerned here.
Sadistic Punishment
As Mr.. Koestler points out.
the British have been In the
past sadistic In their punish
ments, even up to compare
lively modern times. At the
beginning of the 18th century
the criminal law, commonly
known as the Bloody Code.
prescribed the death penalty
for between 220 and $50 Of
lenses, including the theft Of
turnips, associating with gyp-
sizes. damaging a fishpond,
cutting down a tree, picking
pockets and shoplifting. AS
late as 1888. a boy Of Q was
sentenced to death for steal
ing something worth tuppence
from a shop window, but won
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Here at Home

OUR NATIONS CAPITAL,
by E. John Long Nelson
Doubleday. Inc; by mail sub
scription only. the American
Geographical Society. Know
Your America Program is q
well-informed. crisply-written.
booklet. illustrated in color.
Some Of the photographs are
reproduced from The Star. Mr..
Long. a former captain in the
naval reserve. is well known
In Washington as a Navy his
torian and a free lance
writer. He now is associate
editor of Sea Frontier, the
bulletin of the international
Oceanographic Society, pub
lished at the marine laboratory
Of the University Of Miami,
Coral Gables, Fla.
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Bowmun-Brcdford

Dorothy Bowman and How
ard Bradford have Q small
but excellent show Of seri-
graphs at the IFA Galleries.
2623 Connecticut avenue.
through next Saturday. This
Pacific Coast husband and
wife team had q Joint show
here at the Whyte Gallery q
few years ago. The same quail
tiles that made that show
outstanding continue in the
current one.
Mr.. Bradford IL responsible
for the large majority Of these
prints. Birds. the California
coast and mountains appear to
be his favorite subjects. which
he interprets In semiabstract.
somewhat expressionistic COM
positions. with all-over pat
terms. His earliest print on
view, Might Bird" Is remi-
niscent Of Morris Graves; but
the others are Bradford's own.
simplified and stylized. My
favorite of this collection is
the handsome yellow, brown
and gold Partridge No. O."
All Of his prints are held to q
few harmonious colors. In
marked contrast to some Of the
strident schemes Of other
serigraphers.
Mr.. Bradford has received
about 30 awards in Nation
wide exhibitions. including the
Library Of Congress Pennell
Show, and he Is represented
in many permanent collections.
Dorothy Bowman. too. received
a Pennell purchase award.
among others.
Her few serigraphs in the
IFA show are varied in theme
and handling. with a high
level Of quality. Her yellow
and gold Opera Exterior" is
ablaze with linear "Sunbursts";
Rain" has rich color and
variety OF compartmented
shapes; and her "Moonlit Pier"
has the gentle haunting IL
Elimination Of the subject.
Haitian Art
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-30
RIDDLE OF A LADY. BY
Anthony Gilbert. (Random
House; S2.95.)

RIDDLE OF A LADY. BY
Anthony Gilbert. (Random
House; S2.95J
Flamboyant Arthur Crook
takes on charming Henry
Greatorex as a client after
Henry's discarded mistress Is
murdered. Things look bad for
Henry, but no client Of Mr..
Crooks ever says die--or does.
The story moves along nicely
as the complex love life of the
deceased is uncovered. but
slips badly at the end. Attor-
ney-detective Crook drags led
herrings as big as Mobv Dick
across the path before he final
ly fingers the real'killer
DEATH OF A FOOL. BY Ngaio
Marsh. Little. Brown:
oosOO.(
A fine. brooding book. al
though a little rustic for our
taste. that fevolves around the
Dance Of the Five Sons. a
primitive sword dance and play
performed each year in the
court Of ancient Mardian Cas-
tie during the winter solstice.
Old William Andersen, the
blacksmith. and his five sons
involved In the dance are more
like reincarnations of their
ancestors than recreators. The
decapitation in the dance is
not symbolic this time. and
Inspector Alleyn Of Scotland
Yard must learn how Old Will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-30

New Spotlight Shines
On Marie Antoinette
By CARTER BROOKE JONES

Andre Casteot French and bographer put in
hve Of research before writing biography
Anoinette One rich which he mined had
used-archves in Vienna which contain letters
and other information concerning the daughter Empress
Maria Teresa The resulting book undoubtedly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-30
.Huitiun Art

Forty paintings from Haiti
are hanging in the museum Of
the Washington Cathedral
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Wen-Merited

Visitors TO his one-man
show there will undoubtedly
agree that he deserved the
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TODAY's SCHEDULES
STAGE

ARENA--"Answered the Flute; z pm.
NATIONAIr-Dark. "A Shadow Of My Ener
morrow.
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baton, in "Will Success Spoil
Rock Hunter?" and mo
Down Payment"
I'm glad to be starting at
the top in movies" he said.
you can work yourself up on
the stage, but / feel that it's
far more diffieult in films"
Won't Desert Stage
Randall expects to be able
to continue stage work on
Broadway between motion
picture activities.
I'm not going to move to
Hollywood, but will work
there as required" he ex-
planned.
Tony's operations have
been centered on New York
since he arrived from his
native Tulsa, Okla, In 1941.
One of Randall's rare croch-
cts is refusal to disclose his
precise age.
II like to be thought Of
as thirtyish," says the cher
ub-faced actor.
The Randall story has
been tinged with big names
Continued on Page ASS, Col. 3
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to count calories and hold
in your stomach. Who cares
about a directors waistline?"
Ferrer, who certainly has
no weight problem, says he
finds directing brings a
much greater feeling Of
achievement than acting"
On the other hand Lam
caster decided, after produc-
ing, directing and starring in
THE Kentuckians." that, for
the time being, at least, he
would leave the directing to
someone else: ut just takes
too much out Of you," he said.
Brando, who plans to star
in as we'll as direct Conan
chero," for his own company,
Pennybaker Productions, is
eager to get into his back-of-
See HEFFERNAN, Page A-35
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THE PASSING SHOW
Lies Looking Up
In Film Business

ished, with still another
fairly unpretentious Aim,
slaughter on Tenth Ave-
nue." The values Of this pic
ture looked agreeably solid
in its simple black and white
photography and moderate
screen dimensions. Richard
Egan's face and acting added
a touch Of freshness. The
people came out to see an
other movie and get more out
of life, as the industry's
new slogan encourages them
to do.
All this, plus the upcoming
Thanksgiving holiday, has
lifted spirits that were mimi
NAL. to reach for a word.
Holidays Helpful
Holidays always have this
aspect Of encouragement for
the movie business. They even
bring the film studios and
the exhibitors an interval Of
truce in their endless dis
agreement about when and
how pictures should be re-
leased. Not peace. merely an
armistice.
On such occasions, the
studios let the big pictures
loose.
One Of the more promising
Of these turned UP a few days
ago in LES Girls" a four
star musical in the high
fashion of IAN American in
Paris" It's cast headed by
Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall,
Taina Elg and Mitzi Gaynor
makes a hilarious thing, If q
quite different one in story
line. of Vera Caspary's &C
count Of a girlhood as a
dancer in Paris.
The film is even more
extravagantly underpinned
than it is blessed with viva
cious cast. what with John
Patrick ("Teahouse of the
August Moon") as author Of
the screenplay and Cole
Porter to provide the music.
Rounding out the talent ros-
ter and shaping up the
others for it. is George Cukor.
He is the director with just
the proper flair for this sort
Of gay, sophisticated, Wis
ually glittering production.
Came Miss Masina
Another film worthy of the
industry's and exhibitors
holiday confidence is Cab
iria." This one is notable for
another of those incompar-
able performances by Giu-
lietta Masina, the girl OF la
Strada.' last years best for
eign film.
Miss Masina is an actress
with a quality that inspires
comparison with Chaplin in
his heyday, that of the little
tramp. In "Cabiria," as in
her earlier film which was
also directed by FREDERICK
Fellini. her husband, she
catches the invincible radi-
ance of the human spirit
against odds that could not
be more desperate.
With Asian flu going, then,
and the good pictures COM
ing, Thanksgiving will find
the movie makers and ex-
hibitors feeling less hollow.
Along with the rest Of US
on that day Of feasting.
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waukee by kind friends. She
has no birth certificate
doesn't even know her age
and has only q faint remem-
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BY JAY CARMoDY

The movie industry Is feel
ing better. and the movie
business, the exhibition
branch, is perhaps a little
less despairful. Say Of the
latter that its 'scowl is less
grim.
Autumn's cheerleSsness has
left its mark. This is prin-
cipally the memory Of one
more of fate's bitter tricks.
the Asian flu. This highly
publicized visitor may well be
remembered longer by the
movie makers and exhibitors
than by those who took to
their beds as its uncom-
Portable victims.
True or false, it is bitterly
blamed for the sag in film
attendance over the last two
and one-half months. It's
precise degree Of guilt is not
ascertainable. to be sure.
Show business. all the way
back to the early Greeks. has
ignored precision in its ex-
plantations for bad business.
A Creative Branch
As a matter of fact, these
have long been one Of the
most creative branches of
dramatic art, including the
pinnacle achievement Of the
desperate company manager
who finally explained mo-
body came"
Asian flu this autumn un-
doubtedly had its effect. This
is evident in the circumstance
that with its abatement, at
tendance has spurted as much
as seven customers to every
six who were showing up
three weeks ago. Another
way Of saying this is as per
cent" but new patrons are so
welcome the other greeting
is warmer. Or at least less
like a statistic.
Some of film business
sympathetic friends on the
outside have had another
feeling about the drop in at
tendance. Although they
have lacked the cruelty to say
so, the fllm fare itself has
been less than sensational.
Locally, this began to
change coincidentally with
the squirt in attendance.
pal joey" for one instance,
arrived and set about proving
what a touch Of excitement
could do for the boxofice. At
the same time, came And
God Created Woman"
with Brigitte Bardot, the
shapely French girl, who has
stirred UP a storm of acclaim
that has nothing to do with
her acting or the quality Of
her pictures.
Patrons Came Back
Wherever the patrons had
been. they came back for
these two. They came also
for 1.-THE Tin Star" one of
those brooding Westerns that
had comedy overtones and a
cast headed by Henry Fonda
and Anthony Perkins. Mr..
Perkins, who can also act,
is to freshness Of male faces
what Miss Bardot is to fem
mime figures. The box Office
has found this good.
Quality picked up, and
managerial despair dimin-
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GiIdo Greys Story Will Make Novel Film, One About Star
Of the Roaring Twenties Who Didn't Become an Alcoholic
HOLLYWOOD R

HOLLYWOOD R -
Hooray! There's q movie
coming up about a show
business queen Of the roar
ing twenties who didn't be-
come an alcoholic, take dope
or commit suicide.
Her name? Gilda Grey.
who will symbolic that giddy
era. Gilda pioneered the
shimmy, the Charleston and
the black bottom and says
she was the first white
woman to sing THE st. Louis
Blues" She gave Rudy Vallee
his first megaphone.
An Upbeat Story
Erna Lazarus, one of the
top screen writer's. has writ
ten THE Gilda Grey Story"
"It's an upbeat story" says
Erna. II remember the twen-
ties as an era when every
BODY had a good time, so let's
laugh a little"
Erna, in private life the
wife of onetime Broadway
dancer George di Verdi,
finished the Gilda Grey
script, and producer Hal
Wallis assigned her to do
Elvis Presley's next.
From Gilda's shimmy TO
Elvis the pelvis." she quips.
II shook all the way to the
bank"
Gilda wants Lana Turner
to portray her on the screen
and Lana is definitely in
terested. AS to Lana's, dane
ing apllltyI
A Package Deal
"I've seen her dance in
some old movies on TV." says
Gilda, land she dances the
way she feels. And that's the
way I always danced"
Gilda and Erna have q
package deal for the movie
script, and as Gilda says:
I'VE want TO move the pack
age fast because I'm running
out Of twine."
But she's only kidding.
Gilda was rescued from a
Polish pogrom when a child
and spirited away to Mil
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Soon We May Be Running Out Of Movie Actors
If the Actors Keep Becoming Movie Directors

two recent pictures to his
credit, "A Woman's Devo-
ton" and For Men Only"
under the Republic banner.
Ray Midland left his acting
Oscar on the shelf last year
to boss "Lisbon"-and with
the same sure hand he dis
plays in front Of the cameras.
Critics Liked Kelly's
Gene Kelly directed and
starred in MGM's Invita-
ton to the Dance with crit
ical honors about even in
both fields. Somewhat earlier,
Burt Lancaster did the same
for 1.-THE Kentuckians," q
triple-threat enterprise in
which he also functioned as
producer. Charles Laughton
tried his hand giving the cues
with Might of the Hunter"
at about the same time.
The distaff side, too, is
well represented by Ida Luz
Pine who, after turning her
attractive back on acting to
direct such successful movies
as 1.-The Hitchhiker," has
more recently spent most of
her time in TV.
The Trail Blazers
Before all these were such
trail blazers as Dick Powell,
who has just completed pro-
ducing and directing 1.-The
Enemy Below" starring
Robert Mitchum; Robert
Montgomery. who changed
over with such pictures as
ride the Pink Horse" before
moving into TV, and Orson
Welles, one-time hoy Won
der" who did virtually every
thing in making such films
as Citizen Kane" and THE
Magnificent Ambersons." He
has now returned to acting
in 1.-THE Long Hot Summer"
Montgomery, by the way. has
been using his megaphone in
pretty fast company-direct-
ing the President Of the
United States in his TV
chats.
What prompts actors to
desert the limelight for the
multiple problems of direct
ing? The reasons vary-as
do the reactions Of some who
have bridged the gap.
No CalOrie- Counter
Powell explained his de-
cision with characteristic
candor. Il reached an age
where it's great not to have