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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-08
British Troops Rushed
In Secret to Honduras

BELIZE. British Honduras. Dec. OP.-Brsh troops
rushed from Bermudastood watch this Central American
colony today Nevertheless political leader accused Of plotting
for union with Guatemala summoned his followers to
outdoor meeting.
The troops were called by British Gov Colin Hardwick
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-08

E -. d M ;rHs ne ';. 3d. ,o:, We s.
or on Columbia pike rev. IA. 5-7sei
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Hollywood Report
Jack Webb Plans

for new TV series and another Aim shocker.
From Amongst the Dead the kim NOvak-
Jimmy Stewart starrer for Paramount. :.
Charlton HestOn offered leads in a number
of TV series. says he is not interested in the
roles or in the potentially big payoffs via
residuals. And he adds. Il will never consent
to being typed"
Jack Benny turns television producer in the
fall, for GiseIe Mackenzie on NBC. OF course,
he still has his own starring show on CHS.
and he Is talking to dancers Chiquita and
Johnson to be regular guests in the series.
The number of ticket requests from members
of the press and others, to watch the filming
of the first hour-long LucyDesi show came to
more than 5000 Seats avalabe 300
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-28
Hollywood Report
By SHEILAH GRAHAM

HOLLYWOOD (NANAp.-Jack Webb has
decided to go ahead with his Pete Kelly Blues"
series for TV, but not with himself as star. He
is paging Bob Crosby. and this would be real
switcheroo for Bing's brother.
Writer Cleveland Amory. who didn't see eye
to-eye with the Duchess of Windsor while work.
ing with her on her autobiography. has been
signed to script the life story of the Duke Of
windsor for the new fall CHS Aim show, the
Twentieth Century" -. Beverly Garland and
David Jansen. TVS new" Richard Diamond
Private Detective, are a new twosome.
Alfred Hitchcock is spending the summer
week ends at his Santa Cruz ranch, girding
himself for vigorous fall schedule which calls
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-28

This Is pour chance to sound o6-dnd
TV Critic Bernie Harrison lciH do his best
to ons,oer questions. Please keep letters
brief. Pen names ariu be used If desired.
I have a sincere apology to make to you.
When I saw part of my letter to you ! was
really Mortified to think that I would infiict
my nastiness on anyone.
The day after my letter was printed, my
Tv went on. Just sound-no picture. So maybe
I was punished for sounding my mouth on. For
two days had no Tv and suffered.
From now on, love everybody. Please
forgive me and If I write very nice letter
viii you publish it?
MF
A nicer letter than this icould be hard to
find. And please-continue to sound OIL
In regards to your --latest TV information"
(which appears in the Sunday amusementS
section-Ed noteI you say something replaces
MY Little Margie" at pm. WTOP-9. July IA.
You say usually seen at this time" May
ask who has ever seen M. L. M on Sunday at
this time? And why must corrections be made
the same day TeleVue is issued?
Arnold C.
Just checking back fen issues June %,
June 30 and July u find My Little MGrgte
scheduled at 4 pm, Sundays. WTOP-9. Good
enough?
Wed lore to print TeleVue the night before
it appears in The Sunday Star-but there isn't
a newspaper Tor magazine. for that matter that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-28
TeIeVue MaiIbaq

has the facilities to accomplish this. The
--latest ~ information" Dor contains any
changes that might haze occurred after Tele-
Vue's deadIine-and you'll notice that they are
generally very fetO.
Have been intending to drop you line
ever since noted that Cradle Song" which
brought tears to our eyes. got no mention what
soever in the Tv list for 1856. Guess we should
now cry" over the lack Of artistic taste, stupid
ity, etc. of those who make up such lists, eh?
What brought me the energy to write today
Is your mention Of Gunsmoke and Nat King
Cole Do you mean to say that radio is to
lose its finest voice and greatest personality?
If so. "doeful is just not strong enough word.
Why has not the beautiful, charming and
talented wife OF the great K c. ever appeared
again after the fine performance she gave with
her husband about year ago?
Jim H.
GunSmoke the radio not the TV Uersion)
appears doomed. Maybe Mrs. c. toiU appear
Nth her husband on his NBC ShoD soon
although no ,oord of this has been tntimated yet.
As for Grade Song"-GlGS. nominated it
for Syluania Gicard last year but ,0GS outUoted.
The Stars by-liner CIV and radio) who
put Nat King Cole and frankie Lame in the
same class with Pearl Bailey needs to be called
before a congressional committee-without
benefit Of cross-examinaton.
Unsigned.
Whatever you read you misread
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ment in this Central American
republic Is associated with the
school.
From this still active CEN
ter have come a number of
artists who have impaired new
directions to painting and
sculpture" in the country, the
exhibition catalog notes.
Studied Abroad
Julia DiaZ is professor of
painting in the Department Of
Plastic Arts Of the Salvadorian
Ministry Of Culture. She
studied in Europe on a schol-
arship awarded by the gov
eminent Of FL Salvador. Later,
she received a scholarship
from the Institute of Hispanic
Culture to study for six
months in Madrid.
She has won a number Of
awards since returning to her
native country. Examples of
her work appear in the Ma
tional Museum Of Ell Salvador
and in private collections in
that country. France and the
United States.
Es~,.-~ n~s-ks--
In the Pan American ex-
hibit. she shows a group Of
large figure paintings in oil
and tempera. skillfully exc
cuted and showing much hui
man insight. Among them is
a captivating portrait of a
barefoot little boy and an APP
pealing study Of a careworn
mother with two wondering
children. Differing somewhat
in style from the others is a
loosely defined composition of
a boy in a yellow shirt lying
face down in a patch OF bright
flowers.
Raul Elias. art director of the
Salvadoran National Tourist
Commission, shows a striking
group Of landscapes. An out
standing work is a forest
scene with a three-dimen-
sional quality, fine textures
and arresting effects of light
and color. Another compelling
work is called Hills" bold,
vivid and full of spaces.
After graduation from the
Valero Lecha Academy, the
artist continued his studies in
France and Spain on a schol-
arship awarded by the Min
istry Of Culture in 1949. He
attended the National School
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mails and birds. His gawIsy
fledglings are a delight Of
characteristic movement, and
his gaping rhino seems caught
in mid-yawn in some miniscule
kingdom.
There are many attractive
paintings. some Of them all the
more charming because Of
their small size and intricate
work. Among the tiniest are
Betty Bakers exquisite oils,
hardly more than an inch
square.
James v. Cupoli's Virginia
Countryside" Kathryne c.
Dimmit's First Snow" Glen
ora Richards still life, THE
Pin Light" Herbert Foerster's
lovely blue coastal scenes,
Eunice Haden's water color,
Reached" Sallie S. Smalley's
"Thunderhead," and Merle
Foshag's "The Street" are only
a few of the admirable small
paintings included.
Other attractive works in
clude a dry point of odd
Willows" by Roy c. Fox, a
drawing by Ruth Osgood, Q
two-color block print by Doro-
thy Van H. Harrison and q
terra Gotta bear by Katharine
Hobbs. :
OF the rs artists represented,
some 46 are from the WASH
ington area. while the others
are from - other States as
far away as California and
one is from Canada.
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Al LIbKANT
ChiIdren's
Book Art
Is Shown.
AT LIBRARY

The Arts Club Of Washing.
ton Is showing a group Of 81
illustrations for children's
books from the private collec-
ton Of DR.. Irwin Kerlan, chief
Of the research and reference
branch Of the Food and Drug
Administrators Bureau Of
Medicine. Dr. Kerlan recently
was named honorary COM
sultant to the Library of Com
gress on the acquisition Of
children's books.
He began collecting chill
dren's books as q hobby only
q few years ago, but amassed
an extensive and unique library
with original illustrations from
books representing the work
Of more than 100 artists and
numbering over 1000. He has
presented the collections to the
University Of Minnesota.
AS may be imagined, there
is much Of interest in this ex-
hibit for the grown up child"
in its range over the noble,
the sly, the fetching and the
adventurous among men and
animals. The paintings and
drawings all date in the last
rs years or so.
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Not Guilty?

Robert Graves. the scholar
ly British writer. classicist,
novelist and poet, has explored
one Of England's celebrated
crimes in: THEY HANGED
MY SANITY BILLY: the Life
and Death Of DR.. WilIiam
Palmer Doubleday: $3.50.
Dr.. Palmer's likeness has
been preserved in wax in Nine
Tussaud's famous Chambers of
Horrors in London. He has
been regarded for a CEN
tury as one of England's
more adroit PRISONERS. He has
been credited with a number
OF murders, including that Of
his wife. But he was tried and
hanged publicly In 1856 for the
death Of one John Parsons
Cook, Palmer's partner in turf
operations.
Mr.. Graves doubts that the
surgeon who forsook medicine
for the turf was guilty of poi
soning anybody. THE medi-
cal evidence against him had
broken down completely and
the circumstantial evidence
conflicted, but the Lord Chief
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-02
Space Travel
OF Tomorrow
MAN INTO SPACl

MAN INTO SPACE. BY Her
mann Oberth. (Harper;
$4.50.)
The chief interest in this
new book on space travel IS
not SO much its contents as
its authorship. Hermann
Oberth, the Transylvanian
schoolmaster, has become a
legend in the burgeoning field
Of rocketeering.
1t was Oberth who. i'm
pressed by the wonderful tales
Of Jules Verne. applied his
mathematical knowledge to
Verne's fantasy and developed
the school Of space science
now peopled by such folk as
Wernher Won Braun and Willy
Ley. Oberth is as much the
father Of the ballistic and
guided missiles Of tomorrow as
the Wright Brothers were the
progenitors Of theeairplanes of
today.
Yet. despite his excellent
background. he offers little
new in Man Into Space" The
translation. by G. p. H. de
Freville. is rather turgid,
which may indicate only that
it is a faithful rendition of
the original German. 1t is,
additionally, inaccurate in
SOME Of its conversions from
the metric to the English
system of measurements-and
this can hardly be Oberth's
fault. WILLIAM HINES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-02
By MARY McGRORY

One might approach the
LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE,
edited by Stuart Gilbert (vik-
ing; $500 with expectations
Of incomprehensions. of mind
swaying obscuEities. Of wild,
dark fancies. Their minds can
be Immediately set at rest.
These letters have the one
quality one would least expect
that Of dizziness.
James Joyce was q giant Of
his time. Ulysses" plunged the
intellectual world into q state
of reverence analysis and imi-
tation from which It has not
yet recovered. But never were
the letters of a literary man
less literary. If you did not
know that he had written
Ulysses" and ''Finnegan's
Wake" you would never dream
it from the contents Of these
letters.
His Materially
After his departure. from
Ireland. Joyce lived in three
other countries: Italy. Switzer-
land and Paris. He never in
these letters writes a single
generality about the people
and places or the changing
scenes. In one letter, he says:
This letter is full of mate
riality. So, alas. 1 am"
And so it is. In the begin
ming there is a fleeting glimpse
of the noble note of Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man"
To Henrik Ibsen. he writes:
"As one Of the young gen.
Grafton for whom you have
spoken. I give you greeting
not humbly, because I am OBJ
scure and you in the glare, not
sadly because you are an old
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ltuliuns at Seq

Some surprising things come
out in THE ITALIAN NAVY
IN WORLD WAR ii, by
Comdr. Marc Antonio Braga-
din. with Vice Admiral Giu-
seppe Fioravanzo. director of
the historical division Of the
Italian navy. as editorial SUI
pervisor: translated by Gale
Hoffman Omitted States Naval
Institute. Annapolis: $3.50.
The heroic exploits of the
Italians in the Mediter.
ranean. especially with sub
marines and small surface
craft. never have been fully
appreciated. Nor has the help
which the Italian navy gave
the allies after the armistice
of 1943 been properly ~nown
"The vast scope of all these
activities" says the author,
"even though their character
was primarily defensive. or
ganizational and logistical, re-
suited in deep bonds of mutual
trust between the Allies and
the Italian navy" This book
is an important historical
document.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-02

Perhaps the most narrowing
moments were those between
the time President Theodore
Roosevelt sent a note to
Caruso that he would like to
congratulate him upon the
evenings performance to the
time somewhat later when the
great tenor finally appeared
before the long-waiting Presi-
dent. And perhaps a high in
anti-climax was reached when
the second act Of Norma was
played to an empty Presi-
dental Box, Mr.. Coolidge hav-
ing packed the entire White
House party of at the end Of
the first act.
Cast and Dates
These and hundreds Of
episodes In other cities are
detailed IN this book. the f1rst
account Of the Metropolitan's
out-of-town tours. There is a
supplement which gives the
cast and dates for all the Met
ropolitan'S tour performances.
This is information not avail
able in one place elsewhere.
But the mystery Of this fas-
cinating book is how the
Metropolitan ever gets even
one manager-to say nothing
Of a whole succession Of them
to put It's temperamental stars
on wheels. II must be some
thing like spreading a picnic
lunch for a hundred small
children on the main tracks Of
the Pennsylvania railroad be-
tween here and Baltimore.
EDWIN TREBLE
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Met Found 1t Tough Going
When 1t Took to the Road
OPERA CARAVAN: Adven.

OPERA CARAVAN: Adven-
lures Of the Metropolitan on
Tour, 1SS3-1956. BY Quain-
lance Eaton. CFarrar. Straus
e. Cudahy: So
The Metropolitan Opera Co.
gave performances In WASH
ington in its very first season.
1884. Christine Nilsson sang
in Faust and the young Mar
celia Sembrich sang in Lucia.
But even with such stars 1t
was not a success. The public
thought the prices too high.
The company came occa-
sionally until 1927. In that
year Manager Gatti-Casazza
expressed himself forcefully
about Washington's lack Of a
suitable opera house. With
that blast (there have been
many like 1t in the interview
ing 80 years and still no opera
houseD the Metropolitan
called of It's Washington visits
for many years.
Its experiences hereunder
local managers from the first
one twho is UNIDENTIFIED
through Mrs. Wilson Greene to
Patrick Hayes-were tame by
Metropolitan standards.
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Letters Of james Joyce
Are Studies in Paradox

man and I am q young man,
not presumptious, not seiiti-
mentally - but joyfully. with
hope and love. I give you
greeting"
Spiritual Liberation
And again in q letter to an
Irish friend: II believe that
in composing my chapter Of
moral history in exactly the
way I have composed 1t have
taken the first steps toward
the spiritual liberation Of my
country"
But for the most part. the
m ateriality predorninates.
There are endless details about
where to send cheques. Of how
to fight litigation. the worry
Of apartment hunting in Paris,
Of trouble with typistS, Of neu-,
ralgia or the agony. Of recur-
ring eye troubles which re-
Quired 10 operations.
Saving Graces
Yet it is finally this prosaic
quality which makes the let
tiers fascinating. Joyce paints
a self-portrait here which Is
stunningly at variance with
those of his books. Here is q
faithful husband, a loving
father, man utterly devoted
to the needs of his family,
troubled over his wife's illness,
tortured by his daughters
mental breakdown, writing in
delightfully."- comic vein to his
son and daughter-in-law in
America to help them over
inconsistencies and failure.
Their humor is another saw
ing grace Of the letters. Here
he is writing to his wife's
uncle from Zurich: IF I could
find who is the patron Of men
OF letters ! would try to re-
mind him that I exist: but I
understand that the last saint
who held that position re-
signed in, despair and, no other
will take the portfolio"
The book is indeed passing
strange and full of curious in
terest: The life story of a
driven. decent, respectable
man who just happened to
write one of the crucial books
Of his generation. This vol
ume, bulky as it is, will give
you no clue as to how it came
about.
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Do You Understand
Fifth Amendment?
COMMON SENSE AND THE
FIFTH AMENDMENT. BY

COMMON SENSE AND THE
FIFTH AMENDMENT. BY
Sidney Hook. (Criterion
Books; So
There are probably tens Of
thousands of Americans who
can outline vaguely the con-
tent Of the Fifth Amendment.
yet who cannot tell you how
many times the Constitution
has been amended.
But the public discussion Of
"the fifth" and the most
sacred right which it guaran-
tees seldom lends anything to
the understanding of it. More
often than not. 1T gives more
currency to the unjust dis
repute to which it has fallen.
DR.. Hook seems to write with
the deep knowledge ard un-
yielding conviction OF a man
who might have been a mem
Der Of the First Congress.
which proposed the Bill of
Rights.
The chapter headings give
evidence of the logical struc-
ture DR.. Hook has built for
his discussion: Logic and The
Fifth Amendment. Psychology
and The Fifth Amendment,
Ethics and The Fifth Amend
ment, Politics and The Fifth
Amendment, and The Individ-
ual and The Fifth Amendment.
The distinctions he offers in
considering the use of the
fifth" is something quite a
few Congressman could re-
fleet upon. His position-that
the use of the amendment is
neither proof of guilt nor
should 1t protect the user from
suspicion of quilts well pre-
sented and in a style that
should put no one to sleep.
And, Of course. 1t Is timely.
DAVID KOONCE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-02

Of Fine Arts in Paris and held
one-man shows in Paris and
Madrid. He is represented in
the National Museum of Ell
Salvador, the National Library
Of Guatemala and in private
collections throughout Latin
America.
Chilean Artist
The Salvadoran artists
show continues until June 10,
while the painted enamels by
the Chilean artist Hugo Marin
may be seen until June 80. A
painter of considerable note,
he attended the School of APP
piled Arts in Santiago and
later studied in France and
Italy on scholarships awarded
by the governments. of those
countries.
His group of some 40 pieces
deals with religious. folk and
natural subjects with color
and movement and an inter-
esting young yet ancient flavor.
A series Of landscapes with
varying color treatment in
cludes some Of the works !
liked best.
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Civilization

THE ANVIL OF CIvILIZA-
TION, by Leonard Cottrell Ca
Mentor Original, New Ameri-
can Library; so cents is an
archaeological history Of the
earliest known Egyptians. Hit
tites. Sumerians, Assyrians.
Babylonians, Greeks and Jews.
AS the author points out in a
prologue, in an area centering
on the Mediterranean. less
than half the size of Russia.
civilization first rose on this
planet" This scholarly book
is written in a style easy TO
read. 1t is one of the Ancient
Civilization Series.
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old Traveller

ROAD TO SANTIAGO. BY
Walter Starkie. CDutton;
$3.50
A pilgrimage through North
ern Spain is herein taken by a
devout hummer possessed Of
the rare powers necessary to
observe and record the rich
cultural past Of an ancient
land. His authoritative and
searching survey is valuable
both to traveller and historian.
This is no e-glimpsed i'm
preston. DR.. Starkie has been
over the ground many times.
H. A. l..
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that still, after 10 years, seems
unable to rebuild any sort Of
stability. The book?
THE TAXIS OF THE
MARINE. translated by Harold
King (Simon and Schuster;
$780,
The title, of course, comes
from the daring coup by which
Gen. Gallieni in 1914 gathered
up in the taxicabs of Paris
reinforcement for Marshal
Joffre as the Germans stood
aNthe Marine in sight of the
French capital. The Germans
were stopped, and the French
fought on to victory.
vingt Ans Apres
Jean Dutourd contrasts the
spirit Of 1914 with the lack Of
1t in 1910. What happened to
the French in 20 years? How
could the deathleSS courage of
the four years Of the first war
have turned into the weakness
and indifference of the second
war?
Mr.. Dutourd tells us what
he thinks, and he scores some
blistering points in the course
of his argument.
Cowardice and Stupidity
Certainly. he comments on
l939-40. lit is possible to be
crushed by an enemy greatly
superior in numbers or in
equipment, but this was not
what happened to US. On the
contrary. we were in fact the
strongest. ;. Our fathers. the
poilus who pulverized the re-
doubtable army of the Kaiser,
would have made short work
of these young Nazi gutter
snipes trembling in their card
board fortletS. Yes, the only
thing our big battalions lacked
was courage, and courage was
a word nobody even whispered.
1t might have been some
shameful disease. -. / can
find only one reason for our
defeat: stupidity and coward
ice. The generals were stupid.
and the men did not want to
be killed "
The author, then a youth of
90. served briefly in the army
in 1910. He was captured, es-
capped twice. once after
sentence Of death, and fought
on in the underground. though
he tells us nothing about that.
For a while he felt that COM
munism was the answer.
though he never joined the
party. Now, looking back, he
sees no worthy wartime leader
Of France except Gen. De-
Gaulle. who. he points out.
after keeping the historic
spirit of France alive, was re-
warded with being repudiated
by his own people.
Gloried in Weakness
For nearly 20 years. he
charges. France has honored
defeatism, gloried in weak
ness.
THE choice is always be-
tween Verdun and Dachau
Let France perish rather
than that principles should
die"
Nobody but a Frenchman
could have taken the country
apart so expertly. No wonder
this book caused a sensation
when 1t was published in
France recently. 1t was praised
and denounced with equal
vehemence. Francois Mauriac
called it IAN important book,
an Otltcrv at last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-02

Justice and the Attorney Gen.
eral were both out to secure a
conviction from a hand-picked
jury. DR.. Palmer was. I grant.
a scoundrel and a spendthrift
though hardly in the class of
John James, @. c., one of the
crown counsel who helped to
hang him and got disbarred
five years later for frauds
amounting to over 5000
pounds :"
Mr.. Graves has recon-
structed in narrative form the
crime, if there was a crime,
ana its background. He has
drawn on the record of the
trial, letters and other data.
It's a fascinating account Of
DR.. Palmer, his friends and
enemies and the times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-02
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Outstanding Lotin Art
In Pon-Americon Shows
BY HARRIET GRIFFITHs

Two outstanding artists of Ell Salvador exhibiting
at the Pan American Union we'll Chilean painter who
now has won distinction in the field of enamels
Julia Daz and Raul Elias Reyes products of the private
art school established in FL Salvador 10 ago
Spanish painter Vaero Lcha modern art move