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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-10
These Are Shockers
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT

NOBODY KNOWS WHAT
THE STORK WILL BRING
AND OTHER STORIES, by
Charles Criswell Mcdowell,
Obelensky; $3.50 is an ex-
cellent example of the artis-
try which some of our writ
tiers are developing in this
medium despite the difficulty
Of getting such short stories
published.
The opening story, 1.-THE
Linden Trees" is a beauti-
fully compressed, under
written sketch of a woman
who was repaid for her ruth
lessneSs by madness. THE
Hobby" has a sardonic twist
which lays bare the secret
which a character cherished
to his death. Goddess of
Mercy" exposes the utmost
inner life of a wealthy child
less couple. Moment of
Truth" touches the ultimate
establishment of a man
who has devoted his life to
a futile sacrifice.
If most of these stories
leave an almost terrifying
impact. well, that's the way
Mr.. Criswell sees the persons
he has chosen to depict.
Strangely enough, the title
story seems to me the weak
est in the book.
Mcdowell, Obolensky, a
new publishing house, is one
Of the few who are going In
for short stories. Most pub
fishers print them rarely.
They are not supposed to
sell. And yet they are a
literary art form which
American writers have raised
to a high point.
Outside of the little maya
zines, whose stories are apt
to be pretentiously avant
garde, there is little en-
couragement for real short
story writer's. The more lit
erary magazines now use
short stories only as filters,
and the mass circulation mag
zines, as always, print a type
Of story which has no rela-
ton to life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-10
Water CoIors

A group Of fresh and pleas
ing water colors compose the
solo exhibition Of Mildred
Casgrain at the Napoli Res
taurant, 919 Sheridan street
NV. continuing until Satur-
day.
Particularly easy TO look a.
these muggy days are her
scenes from Maine. Mrs.
Casgrain's Camden Hills
from Castine" has q fine feel
ing Of open space. Other
scenes are from Miami, Nash.
vile. Oklahoma City and San
Antonio.
The artist Is an inter-
viewer with the National
Capital Housing authority.
land previously was with the
Department Of Interior.
where she exhibited In the
annual art shows.
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PART OF A LONG STORY.

BY Agnes Boulton. Double
day; S4.500
Unlike other reminiscing
ex-wives or widows of lit
erary heroes, Agnes Boulton
suffers no compulsive urge to
Standardization or self-reve-
lation. She has simply. and
commercially tried to recre-
ate the mood Of her youthful
marriage to Eugene O'Neill.
who later divorced her to
marry Carlotta Monterey.
There is neither prophetic
no retroactive bitterness in
her account Of her life with
the brooding young genius
who told her, hours after
they met in q Greenwich viii
lage speakeasy that he want
ed to spend every night Of
his life with her.
Agnes Boulton, a young
widow with a small child,
had come to New York to
make her way as a writer of
popular fiction. She never
doubted ONeill'S rare gifts.
He was a moody'suito and a
difficult husband. He went
on periodic drinking bouts
especially with his brother
Jamie. He demanded silence
and utter solitude for his
writing. During one winter
they spent at her old New
Jersey home. displacing her
family, who were forced to
huddle in a cottage. she met
her father clandestinely in
the hardware store. where
the disgruntled old gentle
man was a clerk.
Genius at Work
Genius at work" was an
unwritten sign on the walls Of
any house they lived in.
ONeill's high irritabihty,
most often expressed in heavy
sarcasm. had to be constant
" Modified. The New Jer-
sey episode has moments Of
sheer domestic farce. Poor
Agnes was trying to cope with
skeranky windmill, q whole
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Who Wrote 1t?

THE WHITE PAPER,
anonymous (Macauley; $3.50
is a strange documentary
about a French homosexual,
with typical existentialist
touches. Did Jean Cocteau.
the novelist and dramatist.
write it? He has illustrated
this little study with sharp
sketches. and he writes an
introduction in which he
says: The White Paper.
whence does it come, who
wrote it? Did 1? Perhaps.
Another? Probably. Do we
not become others the mo-
ment after we've done wri-
ting. :" And he follows
with three pages of para
| doxical discussion.
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be better. For several CEN
turies," begins ours of that
date. personal correspond
ence between heads Of gov
eminent has been an ex-
tremely valuable channel of
communication However,
it has always been recognized
that-not just as a matter
Of diplomatic form but as
a requirement of efficacy
the essential ingredient in
such correspondence +.
was a tone of serious purpose
and an absence of invective."
The beautiful inscription
on the main postoffice about
messenger Of sympathy and
love, ETC." can never APP
ply, alas, to the missives of
the last month.
+ y y 4
FORTHCOMING MEM
OIRS: Gen. Albert c. Wede-
meyer. an old China hand,
tells his story in "Wede-
meyer Reports; U. S. Treas
urer Ivy Baker Priest tells
hers in Green Brows IVY"
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School Architecture

Future generations win
have O far different recol.
lection of the little red
schoolhouse," judging from
the examples Of school archi.
lecture selected by an Amer
lean Institute of Architects
committee for exhibition at
the Octagon. 1741 New York
avenue.
Circles, slants and CORFU
CATION predominant over the
conventional shapes Of school
buildings. The structures
are. for the most part, low
and spread out. making much
use Of glass. And everywhere.
there is space and light.
Eighteen architectural
firms from different parts Of
the country designed the con-
temporary school buildings
shown in photographs and
drawings.
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ACiviI War Book
For the Birds
WHY THE CIVIL WAR? BY

WnI lnE CAVIL WAX! by
Otto Eisenschiml. (The
Bobbs-Merrill Co., $3.750
1t was probably inevitable
that the current flood Of
books on the Civil War-a
flood likely to increase with
the approach Of the centen-
NAL year Of the great con-
f1ict-should produce fan
tastes as well as facts.
Serious students Of the
Civil War are If anything
more eager than most his
torians to explore new areas,
to track down heretofore un-
revealed facts, to delve into
new theories however start
ling. But the rules of re-
search must apply. sources
must be evaluated, fact must
be carefully winnowed from
conjecture.
Here is a book that has
literally nothing to recon-
mend 1t or even to excuse
it. 1t is a hodge podge Of
speculation presented as
logic, based OH hearsay,
double-talk. occult percep-
ton. Confederate RATIONAL
izations and Copperhead
rumor, and pure gossip. II
1t we're presented as pure
detective fiction rather than
as a serious analysis 1t
would still be presposterous.
FRED THEROUX.
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A Young Eugene O'NeaI
Brought Back in Memory

menagerie of pets and seven
stoves, and still present a
smiling face to her irascible
playwright. She bore it all,
with love, as she remembers
it.
Miss 'Boulton consistently
tells only what she knows.
Thus her impressions Of
O'Neill's parents is of enor-
nous interest, as it is at quite
striking variance with the
picture given by O'Neill him.
self in "A Long Days Jour-
ney Into Night" ONeill told
her early in their romance
he was proud" of his par
ents. When she met them,
they were charming: the
father jovial, and golden
voiced; the mother exquisite
in dress and manner. Sur
prising, too, in view Of the
neurotic miser Of the play. is
her revelation that the SEN
Tor ONeill secretly bought for
the young couple a deserted
Provincetown Coast Guard
station they had long coveted.
In Sidelight
There is much here for the
admirers Of O'Neill: his
methods Of work. the cir
cumstances of his first, hast
lily dissolved marriage; his
application, when he decided
to become a dramatist, to the
reading Of every play he
could find, so that he trained
himself to think in dialogue;
his affection for his What
hoing" brother Jamie. The
book ends with the birth of
Shane ttheir other child was
Oona).
Part of a Long Story" is
written with no particula-
distinction. Miss Boulton re-
lies rather heavily on italics
and dots. But its recapturing
some of those frantic nights
in Greenwich Village and OF
shimmering. sunlit days by
the sea is not only convinc-
ing; 1t is often very moving
2 M. MEG.
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August Tack

A session with the color
distractions of Augustus Vim
cent Tack is an adventure In
reflection.
The Phillips Gallery is now
having a summer exhibition
Of the late American artists
paintings from the collection.
Tack's decorativeN panels
suggest maps in form and
color, and perhaps this i'm
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plication Of far away places
acts straightaway TO liberate
the imagination for the art
lists meditative hospitality.
The paintings have q dis
tinctive texture, with delicate
encrustations and films Of
lighter tones. offering a mat
like quality and adding TO q
feeling Of venerability and
oriental timelessness.
In Many Moods &
The distractions which
make up most Of the group
call UP a variety Of moods
and emotions from the cloth
Of human experience. Tack
suggests them with COMPOSE
tons Of form, color and
movement: now slow and
flowing. now busy and joyous,
now poetic.
A majestic richness per-
vades Christmas Night"
with exultant golden forms
moving against a blue back
ground above muted reds and
greens below. The rugged
power of dusky mountains
and q wonderful symmetry
make storm" a deeply COM
polling study.
A Representations work
included In the group is THE
Entombment," a poignant
work Of 1924. A semiabStrac-
ton entitled THE Crowd"
depicts an agonizing crush OF
struggling. falling people.
The noted mural deco
rator and portrait painter
was q native Of Pittsburgh,
and for a time had a studio
in Washington. His portrait
Of the late Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes was
the first work by a living art
ist to be accepted by the
Board of Trustees Of the Ma
tional Gallery Of Art in 1912.
Tack died ut his summer
home at Deerfield. Mass, in
l949, at the the age of 70.
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red chalk about 1886 or 1897.
The first signed and dated
is a study Of an old man,
drawn by Rembrandt in 1880
when he was about "a years
old. II arouses q compan-
ionable feeling Of recogni-
ton, along with new respect
and sympathy for age. There
Is an etching Of his mother
In oriental headdreSs, done
in 1881. about the year he
left Leyden TO 60 TO AM
sterdam.
From Rembrandt's middle
period is the familiar etch-
ing, Christ Healing the
Sick" 1.-THE Hundred Gull
der Print"). the famous The
Three Trees" his sad self
portrait after his wife Sasha
had died. and some Of the
anatomical studies he made
In the l640s.
Peaceful Landscapes
This group also includes
the peacefully beautiful
drawings, Landscape With
Cottage and Hay Barn" and
"View Of the River Amstel
From the Rampant" One Of
his last drawings is the i'm
pressionistic Landscape at
the Diemerdijk," with the
people coming back over the
bridge at market time.
More landscapes are In
cluded from Rembrandt's
last great period. Then come
some Of the great Biblical
themes. famous examples of
his unrivaled etching skill
and greatness of conception.
Here are The Presentation
in the Temple" Christ CRU
cited Between Two Thieves"
the Three. Crosses, q
miracle Of light and dark
ness, The Descent From the
Cross BY Torchlight," and
The Entombment," almost
all in blackness and impel-
ling the eye nearer to peer
through the shadows.
Late Portraits
Finally are presented some
Of the late portraits, includ-
ing those of the "Old" and
the Young" Hearings Of
1855, and one of the great
series of nudes Rembrandt
did when he was very old,
The Woman With the Ar
row." with the artist himself
in the background.
The Symbolical etching,
"The Phoenix" perhaps sig
miles an enduring hope as
the artist approached the end
Of his care-fllled life. It Is
dated 1868, the year before
his death.
Some Of the works in the
show are newly acquired and
shown. These include Land
scape With Sportsman and
Dogs" and a drawing Of Jan
Cornelis 'Sylvius done years
after the man died and hung
beside an etching made In
1646
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They write their letters to the
world. not to each other. The
outgoing from both the
Kremlin and the White
House seem to bear the
smudges Of many hands. and
the odor Of midnight oil
hangs around them.
On the other hand. the
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The Reds Are Ready
For Any Kind Of War
BY WILLIAM HINES
star stan Writer
SOVIET STRATEGY IN THE N

SOVIET STRATEGY IN THE NUCLEAR AGE BY Raymond
L. Garthof. Praeger, $500
Dr. Garthof an able student Of Soviet affairs be-
composite notion of Red capabilities and intentions
is compounded of transformation skewed logic and wishfu
thinking his book he undertakes to set us straight The
Job he does is both complete and disturbing.
According to Dr. Gartho the Soviet Union is ready for
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B'nui Birth Show

Gallery goers may renew
acquaintance with work Of
outstanding Jewish artists at
the exhibit hall Of the B'nai
Birth Building, 1910 Rhode
Island avenue NV. The
painting and sculpture is on
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NEW OPENINGS

CONTEMPORARY nnrTIeH PRrnra,
Erana nadsr GALLERY. iIos d street
NV TomorEoM .AnFast ll.. -.
LITERATURE 4 n A. GALLERIES.
ssss connsclisui avenue NV. Cur
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f0rt Myer drive. Rossiyn Va. cuf-
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READING AND WRITING
A Literary Letdown
In Climb to Summit
BY MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

Observers who have been watching the approach to the
summit from strictly literary point Of view already feel let
down To them the whole bewldeFng overwrought exchange
has represented decline in the art Of letter-wrtting
While many matters divide them, President Eisenhower
KhrushcheY have this in letterwriters
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ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
New Show
AT National Gallery
by HARRIET GRTFFITHs
AlAF star writer

Periodically. in anyone should have forgotten.
happy reminder from the National Gallery Of Art
that washington contains considerable legacy from the
great masters n
This time Il Is a newly-auanged exhibition Of draw
ngs and prints by Rembrandt selected from the RosenWad
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YOUTH AND INDUSTRY-The young flutists
and the salt works at Atlit are pictured in
'Israel-Tenth Anniversary Album" which is
edited by DR.. Yigael Yadin and Abraham Har-
man, and published by Doubleday $50. The
only official book sponsored by the government
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Mr.MotIey's New Novel
May Be Authors Best
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
atar pnnk Critic

In 1947 Willard Motley brought out first novel which
sold widely and attracted critical attention This KNOCK
Any Door, the story of onetime altar boy who ended
hoodlum and died in the electric chair And after
intervening novel, he offers a sequel to his first novel;
LET NO MAN WRITE MY EPITAPH Random House;
1886
This is the story Of the dark-fated Nick Romanos
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This Is the story OF &
son, who bears the same
name. Those who read
KNOCK on Any. Door" will
recall that the senior Nick
Romano, shortly before he
shot q policeman and was
arrested for the last time,
had an affair with a waitress
named Nellie. The sequel
begins five years after Nick's
death. Nellie, still a waitress,
is trying to bring up little
Nick, but she lives on West
Madison, Chicago's skid row.
and she is sinking deep into
alcoholism. From alcohol she
graduates to dope, and in
time she takes UP with q
particularly vicious criminal
called the Wolf.
Turns 10 Drug
Nick, who early develops a
talent for drawing. has his
hard little life frightened by
some sentimental denizens Of
the area-an alcoholic ex-
Judge and three young men
who want to see Nick escape
his environment. Nick also is
befriended by a wealthy
writer who lives on the Gold
Coast. but slums to get mate
rial for his sociological es-
says and prefers some Of the
fortnight buns Of West
Madison and North Clark to
the more devious people Of
his social strata. Nick grows
up with a horror of drug ad-
diction. which he sees all
around him, even a terror Of
alcoholism, and yet, as a
young man he goes on heroin.
There is hope in the end that
he has shaken the habit and
will turn out all right.
Mr.. Motley's novels are in
the naturalistic pattern,
which has been centered in
Chicago ever since James T.
Farrell began his sagas of
poor Irish families. Nelson
Algren wrote of Chicago's skid
row in THE Man With the
Golden Arm" particularly of
drug addiction, and, moving
to New Orleans, continued
his naturalistic excursions in
"A Walk on the Wild Side"
Nodded by Fates
The philosophy Of natural
ism seems to be that people
are the way they are and
they can't do much about it.
They're nodded by fateS be-
You'd their control. It's true
that a naturalistic writer's
characters sometimes change
the best Of these novelists
are too skillful to have COM
pletely static characters
and yet even the changes
seem manipulated.
Mr.. Motley's people, for all
the careful detail lavished on
them, have no more life than
so many charcoal sketches.
Nellie is a leading character.
We go back into her girlhood.
She has always drifted. like q
tumhleweed, going where the
wind blew her. She takes UP
with any man who wants her.
When drinks are placed in
front Of her, she drinks:
when drugs are offered, she
shoots them into her arm
Apparently it's all the same
to her what she does. She
has no more initiative or Sc
lectivity than q robot. It's
hard to feel sympathy for
someone so negative. Her son
Nick is stronger, but he does
not develop character or he
would never have succumbed
to q horror of his childhood
His uncle. the senior Nick
Romano's kid brother Louie.
IS a first-rate hoodlum. a
feared youth, and yet When
he finds out what happened
to his big brother some Is
years ago. he, Louie. sud-
denly turns lawful. becomes
q stable citizen. In reality
Louis probably would have
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and Widener Collections. The
showing viii continue into
September.
The u pieces have been
grouped In sequence In three
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correspondence Of Prime
Minister Macmillan and
Charles de Gaulle, who also
disagree about the best route
upward. has a morning air.
Each freely uses the first per-
son singular and each an
swers briefly the missive from
Moscow as if 1t we're one
among many the poStman
had brought that day.
De GauIIe Is Exception
General de Gaulle is gen.
orally held to have carried OF
stylistic honors in the inter-
national round-robin. This
rests mostly on q single dis
dainful sentence from his Of
the 23rd. Il must point out"
he says. that a number Of
passages in your letter can
hardly facilitate an easing Of
tension and the spirit of
understanding needed by the
possible participants"
And of the four the general
alone INDUCES in those -four
ishes which were so much q
part Of the epistolary exer-
cises of a more gracious era.
please accept, 1 pray"
writes he elegantly to Khru-
shchev. "the assurances Of
my very great regard"
Eisenhower and Macmillan
President Eisenhower ha-
bitually signs of with q
scant, exhausted, Sincerely
yours"
Prime Minister Macmillan,
the pithiest Of all, addresses
his fiery correspondent from
the steppes with a Guards
man-like briskness. Come,
come, my good man." he vir-
tually says to him. Get hold
of yourself. You're raving."
For the most part like q
Jane Austen character, he
seems to find Mr.. Khru-
shchev's fulminations mot
worthy Of a rational reply"
One Kind Word
Writing to C hairm a n
Khrushchev Is indeed like
writing to a man with a
fiamethrower who, having
scorched the earth all around.
asks you to sit down on it
. with him. The only kind
word in the red letters is the
dear" in the salutation.
His favorite device is one he
has copied from Cicero and
no doubt claims to have in
vented himself. Called
"praeteritio" it consists in
saying that you will certainly
not mention something and
then writing several para
graphs about it. His letters
are studded with Il will not
go into the fact that -" and
ut is hardly necessary for
me to say. :"
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Not to Be OutdOne
De GaulIe Is Exception

The White House penmen
laboriously answer all these
wild charges and at the same
time reveal that they will not
be outdone In the matter Of
classical oratorical devices.
We favor another favorite Of
Cicero. the rhetorical ques-
ton. Are we as civilized
people 2" we ask. knowing
Mr.. Khrushchev will not
answer.
BY July 25th, however, re-
plying to a red letter Of the
23d, our Augustan elegance
has slipped somewhat. The
President opens on a testy
note, asking Khrushchev
please to read his incoming
mail a little more carefully.
Khrushchev Talks Back
Khrushchev fires back with
a nasty suggestion that the
President is no one 10 talk.
having plainly skipped over
the part in his of the 18th
about Mr.. Nehru. Further
more, one hears the pen
scratching hard here, the
lips being licked at the
thought of clear oneupman.
ship, the President is a daw-
der over his mail. Il should
like to receive your answer
to this message" cackles
Khrushchev "at your earii-
est opportunity"
BY August !, the weary
White House team has de-
cfed . general opening win
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galleries 10 offer an idea Of
the scope and variety Of the
great Dutch artists work.
Just as the Rembrandt
paintings on regular exhibit
ton at the museum do. they
provide an opportunity Tor
studying the development Of
his style and his magical gift
Of reading human character.
Earliest Drawings
Arranged by Miss Eliza
beth Monean. curator Of
prints and drawings, the ex-
hibition starts with some Of
the earliest known drawings.
among them one Of the many
self portraits. rendered in
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Florence BsFpmsn: The S,ofs srt
critic. Is On vocation.
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Industry Use
PIunned for Tract

A syndicate Of three Airing
ton businessmen has an
nounced purchase Of q 53-acre
tract in Alexandria that II
plans to develop for industrial
use.
The purchasers. organized q:
Cameron Industrial Park. Inc.
are headed by Lawrence Mi
chael, president; N. c. Hines
who also maintains Offices in
Miami, vice president. and C.
w. Michael, secretary-treasurer
The tract. which fronts for
5000 feet on the Southern Rail-
way tracks at Quaker lane. was
purchased from the Northern
Virginia Construction Co.. &C
cording to c. w. Michael.
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Drop Is Noted
In D. c. Home
Projects

Contracts for future residen-
tial construction in the Wash
ington awarded during De-
cember totaled $1O.4S2. 900. or a
decrease Of SO per cent from
December. 1856. according to
the F. w. Dodge Corp, con-
struction news and marketing
specialists.
The area covered by the
Dodge report includes the Dis
trict, Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties in Maryland.
and Arlington and Fairfax
Counties in Virginia.
During the whole year Of
1857. residential contracts
awarded for work in the area
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totaled $1s6, 6s5. 900. This was
a drop of 10 per cent from the
total reported by the firm in
1856.
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DIRECTIONS: North on Route 7,
one and sixteenth, miles from in
teFseetion with Lee Hishwoy in
Fslls Church 10 George Moson
High School; left on Dole Drive
let FoIIs Hill Entrsnee Sisnl LETT
on Pineeostls Rd., right On
Venice ST., 10 house.