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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02

Free to residents of WASH
ington are the adult educa-
ton classes in art given at
the Theodore Roosevelt Eve
ming High School, Thirteenth
and Upshur streets NV. The
new term has just begun.
Glasses, taught by Ellen
Geiger. are Monday, Wednes-
day and Thursday evenings
in oil painting and compost
ton, and in drawing.
Flowers in Painting"
fourth in the Corcoran Gal
lery's Wednesday Morning
Lecture Series, will be given
February 5 at IL am. by
Margretta Salinger of the
Metropolitan Museum staff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02
james Joyce Pictured
In His Brothers Eyes
BY MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

1t is hard say which the greater excellence of MY
BROTHERS KEEPER Stanislaus Joyce book about James
Joyce Viking $751; There its razorsharp intimate portrait
ora young genius and there Also implicitly its classic self
portrait genius younger brother In Stanisaus attitude
there that curious recognzabe mixture Of resentment and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02

adventurous career around
the world and descriptions Of
her paintings were the sub
ject of an extensive illustrated
article in The Stars Ca
reer Girl" series, January 5
(page DID.
Anthony Padovano, now in
Headquarters Company, U. S.
Army Garrison at Fort Nc
Nair, is a New Yorker who
graduated from Columbia
University's School of Paint
ing and Sculpture with high
honors. The University held
a one-man show of his work
last February. Gle has had 6
solos in New York City, He
worked on scholarship with
Oronzio Maldarelli, and also
had help and criticism from
Zorach and LipSchitz.
Fifteen works in stone and
wood reveal Padovano's YER
satility in conception and use
of materials. Some Of his
figures have flattened or
blocked surfaces, e.g., the lit
tie Dancers" whose rhyth-
mical twirling makes a good
composition. Another good
figure in this treatment is the
larger Cello Player"
Outstanding Of several nat
uralistic sculptures is his
beautiful marble "Bather";;
and his marble portrait head
of a young girl carries a con-
viction of likeness. Bulk and
weight are stressed in a third
class of works, among them a
pink marble seated nude, and
styled limestone bird. Sew
eral bas-reliefs include q we'll
COMPOSED "Peta."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02

SCULPTURE BY RoBUs. Cor.
eoran Gallery Of Art. February g.
TRio EXHIBITION OF PAINT
MGS AND SCULPTURE. The Obe-
lisk Gallery, 3241 p street NV.
Current--February IS.
WATER COLORs BY FRANK
DORM. Countess d'Amecourt. 2110
Bancroft place NV. February s.
DRAWINGS BY ALDEaaIR MAR
TINS. Pan American Union. Cur
rep H1sTs2S w l7 ,iozrr p,rAor.
Dupont. Theater Gallery, 1882 Con.
necticut avenue. Current-March 10.
PAINTINGS BY OSSIP LUBITCH.
Fantasy Gallery. 1855 Connecticut
evenue NV: February l-March l.,
NICHOLS. The Art Shop and GAL
lery. S433 Georgia avenue. Silver
Spring. Current-February 8.
CHILDREN'S ART FROM CLASSES
OF VIVIAN LICHTENSTEIN. Chevy
Chase Elementary School. Rosemary
and Hillcrest, Chevy Chase, Md.
Tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02

many media. It is nationally
representative, with work by
artists Of 80 States and 2 ter
ritories. The work is gen.
orally competent, skillful,
distinguished by technical
virtuosity. But the average
person will have to hunt for
the minority Of prints he
would like to own. In other
words, this, like other con-
temporary print shows. re-
minds one of a well-balanced
meal, with vitamins, proteins,
carbohydrates, etc. but much
of it is not very tasty. =
The Society will present
this year two prints to the
Library of Congress and the
Smithsonian Institutions Di-
vision of Graphic Arts respec-
lively. These were selected
by Edgar Breitenbach, chief,
and Alice Lee Parker, as
sistant to the chief, of the
Division of Prints and Photo
graphs, and Prentiss Taylor,
president of the Society.
Purchase Awards
The purchase awards were
bestowed on Rudy Pozzati's
large woodcut 'View from
Pipila" and on June Wayne's
"Goe and catche a falling
Stare" The aforementioned
is a semiabstract architec-
tural subject, well composed,
vigorously cut, with a strong
linear pattern. The second
depicts a more or less poetic
idea, two embracing falling
figures which resemble the
Joined manikins used. in art
instruction.
When about one-fourth Of
the exhibits in a collection
have beauty, appeal or some
other engaging quality as
well as technical excellence,
one should, perhaps. be too
grateful to complain about
the others. Such is the case
with the twenty-seeond print
makers.
Most of the prints which
one would like to frame and
hang in ones home, or
keep in a handy portfolio,
are less clamorous in effect,
smaller in size and also more
modestly priced, than the
meritorious but unappealing
Ito mel majority.
Exceptional Work
For beauty of subject as
well as handling, it would be
difficult to surpass the Maine
Autographs by Stow Wengen-
roth, Gerardo Belfiore's"
Barnegat Light Beach" Line
Blooms tiny etching of old
roofs in Journal. Dorothy
Harrison's Snow Shadows"
Hilda Katz' Leaves and
Trees" Chester Leich's
Lite h field Hills" Ann
Marsh's "Harbor," Virginia
Myers Early Spring." Jesse
Reeds romantic "River Tip
ple," Moishe Smiths large
intagii0, "Autumnp; Ruth
Sutton'S Reflections" Rey-
mold weidenaar's superb meg
zotint, Bridge and Storm"
and T no mas YanoSky'S
Great Falls"
The most successful prints
in modern idioms, in my
opinion. are those which are
most abstract or non-objec-
tive. The exhibition has some
admirable examples: Meri-
kay Campbell's lice Sky"
Jacob Kainen's "Intersec-
ton" (Oriental quality, Guy
Maccoy's linear, high-keyed
"Shipyards";; Frances Mac
Donald's Deserted House."
"Circe's Enchantment" by
Barbara Neustadt, Gennaro
Prozzo's interesting design.
web of Thorns"; Grand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Memorable Moments
In American Past
By BARBARA NOLEN
Special Writer for The Star

Actions may speak louder than words but it takes both
to make book that youngsters will want to read This
especially true in the field of biography and history where
writers sometimes get tangled their research The
boys have word for it They call 1t "gruny" book when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Big Printmokers Show
Technically Excellent
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

The twenty-second exhibition Of the Society of WASH
ngon Prntmakers which last Sunday National
Museum, Constitution avenue at Tenth street. to
through February 49, has points in common with other
portant graphic arts shows in this era. IL
The twenty is large. with nearly prints in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02
Lincoln Himself

One trend in recent biogra-
ply has been strongly in favor
of the why" to explain forces
Of character or circumstance
behind important people and
events. May McNeer follows
this trend most successfully
in her AMERICAS ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN (Houghton,
Mif1lin. $3.50. The reader
over 10 who is already ia
miliar with the main facts Of
Lincoln's life will have an OPP
portunity in these pages to
know Lincoln better as an in
dividual. The illustrations by
Lynd Ward have the same
warm personal quality as the
text.
The little-known story Of
Robert Smalls, one time
Negro slave who became a
member Of Congress in Re-
construction days, is told by
Dorothy Sterling in CAP
: TAIN OF THE PLANTER
doubleday. $2.95). This
many-sided and absorbing
biography is we'll documented
and packed with vivid cpl
sodes Of Charleston and
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02
Northwest Passage

Now that. modern ice
breakers have actually pene-
trated the northwest passage,
the stories of early ex-
plorers who searched for it
in vain have an added
pathos. The grim disap-
pointments of Cartier and
Hudson are told briefly and
brilliantly in two narrative
biographies for younger
readers: CARTIER: FINDER
OF THE ST. LAWRENCE
Morrow. $2.50) and HEN
RY HUDSON by Nina Brown
Baker (Knopf, $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02
Revealing New Light
On Nikito Khrushchey
: BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
star Book Critic

Behind the swift of Na Sergeevch Khrushchey
to the dominant position in the Soviet government to
at least approxating that of the late Josef Stain
are angles which escaped notice been hidden Mron
Rush of Washington studied these details and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02
Burnum Shows orr

The 10th century was q
time Of great change in
American social customs. No
one realized this better than
p. T. Rarnum, who liked to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02

keep one jump ahead of the
public with his fool ideas.
In BARNUM, SNOWMAN
OF RIGA mckay,
$500 Helen Wells takes us
behind the scenes with Bar
mum, stressing his family life
and friendships. his childlike
pleasure in being biggest
and best" Even when his
home and his precious me-
nagerie were burned to the
ground again and again,
Barnum's bombastic opti-
mism was unchanged.
Baltimore Belle
Another colorful 10TH CEN
utry character was the Bal
timore belle, the beautiful
Betsy Patterson, who mar
ried the younger brother of
Napoleon, to the dismay Of
both families. Betsy's life on
the fringe of royalty was al
ternately gay and wretched
as she pursued the will-o-
the wisp of royal recognition.
Rom antic but sharp
tongued, Betsy is not a low
able character, as Alice Cur
tbs Desmond presents. her in
BEWITCHING BETSY BON.
p APARTE tDodd, Mead,
+ $3.50. Lovable or not. she is
likely to be as fascinating
to teen-agers today as she
was to her contemporaries.
Yacht Rucine
Yacht racing was the sport
of millionaires in the days
when Americas cup defend
ers were built in the Here
shoff yards in Bristol, Rhode
Island. LET THE BEST
BOAT WIN by Constance
Burnett tHoughton, Mifflin,
$3.50 is the. story of the
yachts which sailed to victory
against Lipton's Shamrocks.
and of the remarkable broth
ers-one of them blind-who
designed and built the win
ming vessels. Altogether. the
book is an exciting chapter in
the history Of international
sports as well as engineering
craftsmanship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02

there is not enough action
and too many words which
they don't understand.
No one is likely to make
this complaint about Robert
Lawson, one of our distin-
guished author-artists, who
has been most successful in
interpreting the fascinating
contrasts Of American his
tory. In his latest book
and unfortunately his last
Mr.. Lawson tells the story of
THE GREAT WHEEL wi
king: So, the colossal attrac-
ton built for the Columbian
Exposition in Chicago in
1893.
The Ferris wheel. designed
by a young engineer with big
ideas, sounded more fantas-
tic then than space travel
does today. The man must
be crazy. other engineers
said. Who could build
tension wheel $50 feet high,
taller than any building in
Chicago? Who would ride on
such a contraption?
A Shining Wonder
The ambitious directors of
the Worlds Fair liked the
idea of the big wheel-and
told George Washington
Ferris to 60 ahead. He hired
the best steel-riggers he
could get, among them Conn
Kilroy, an Irish lad "as green
as the fields Of Erin" Some
people called the wheel Fer
ris's Folly but ON the APP
pointed day it. swung splen-
didly in its orbit. a shining
wonder for thousands of
Fair visitors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02
Liberty

ROBERT Lawson is also the
author artist of WATCH
WORDS OF LIBERTY
Little, Brown. $3.50, words
which sum up big men and
big ideas, or sometimes little
men with big ideas. Naturally
curious about human nature.
Lawson must have hunted
through shelf after shelf of
history books for the illumi-
mating background of each
"watchword." The result is
an ideal family book, both
informative and stimulating.
Jiqsuw Puzzle
GOLDEN BOOK OF AMER
ICA (Simon 81 Schuster.
$4.95), Bruce Cation points
out that the American record
has everything: comedy and
tragedy, greatness and folly.
The individual stories fit to-
gether like the pieces of a
jigsaw puzzle; but each
separate piece is interesting
on its own account, too.
For THE Golden Book of
America" Irwin Shapiro has
adapted As selections from the
American Heritage" maya
zine, whose fresh approach to
history has swept like a
prairie fire through the dry
grass Of research. Junior high
boys and girls will pore Gag
erly over the Indians and
ironclads. Yankees and rebel
raiders. whose fortunes are
reported with the vigor Of
front-page news.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-02
NEW OPENINGS

h nearly 200 prints in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-13

President Eisenhower has
Just placed an important
''bet" on the future trend Of
American business. He bets
that the bottom of the pres
emit recession" will have been
reached next month and that
the pickup" will then begin.
He doesn't say when the
recovery" process will be
completed but predicts that
1t will be well under way
"later this year."
Mr.. Eisenhower, in effect,
says the Government will use
its economic and financial
power to promote recovery
but only Gin every sound
way"
The mere fact that such
a statement was issued shows
an awareness on the part Of
the administration of the
psychological impact that
could result from Tuesdays
announcement that AS mil
lion persons are unemployed.
Mr.. Eisenhower accom-
panies his comment with a
fact sheet outlining the
measures being taken by
the Government to encourage
construction, to speed up the
fulillment of defense con-
tracts already authorized and
to operate more fiexibly the
credit machinery Of the Ma
ton, especially in the mort
gage field.
The real problem is to de-
termine exactly how and
when the various remedial
measures will take hold in
our complex economy. Per-
haps the most important fac
tor Of all is to be found on
the psychological side. The
President is positive the re-
covery will be under way
soon, and he is emphatic
that I'VE are not facing q
prolonged downswing in &C
tivity." This in itself is q
stimulus.
The President doubtless has
In mind the experience Of the
country in previous recess
sions and that 1t takes a
year or more for them to
run their course. To most
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-13
DAVID LAWRENCE
Predicting the Turn in Business

Thus, when President
Hoover said recovery was
"just around the corner" he
was basing his judgment on
economic factors. Indeed. the
records Of the League Of Ma
tons bureaus at the time re-
veal the history Of that period
to have been one of world
wide recovery during the sum-
mer Of 1882 except for Amer
lea. The psychological inn
preston caused by the large
unemployment figures had,
however. produced in this
country q chain reaction Of
excessive curtailment q nd
caution by businessmen, and
fear begot more fear.
The climax came in the
bank holiday" of 1898, and
an era of disintegration in
business followed which was
not over till 1910, when war
orders began to bring full
employment. There were 1913
million unemployed in 1888,
and there were still 9.5 mil
lion unemployed in 1899.
Thus the Roosevelt depres-
sion" was much longer and
much more severe in unem-
ployment than the Hoover
depression"
The reason for this was the
utter failure Of the New Deal
policy Of leaf raking," which
was based on erroneous con-
cepts about benefits from in
creases in purchasing power"
through inequitable taxes
and relief projects. 1t was
wrongly believed this would
bring full employment.
America could experience
the same disaster again II
the Democrats in Congress
force a return to their earlier
doctrines and neglect the
stimulus that can come from
sound measures to revive the
heavy-goods industries. 1t is
this primarily which can
bring substantial decreases in
unemployment.
If. however, politics messes
up the picture again, as it
did in the 1930s, the latest
predictions of recovery could
be wrong. If politics is ad-
journed, the Nation can make
real Roadway toward. recov-
cry this year and realize full
employment again in 1859.
Reproduction Rights Reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-13
Determining When Remedial Factors
viii Take Hold Called Real Problem

people the present recession"
began this month, when they
first heard Of large unemploy-
ment. Actually, the "readjust-
ment" began in the spring Of
1857 but was not recognized
as having considerable mo-
mentum until the last quar-
ter Of 1857.
This correspondent. on Oc-
tober 20, 1857, wrote Of the
economic recession" then
going on and said: There
is no denying that a major
change in the economy is in
process of evolution this
year."
Later-November 10, 1857
it was pointed out in these
dispatches that the action at
that time of the Federal Rex
serve Board in reversing its
tight money" policy may
historically emerge as a step
that possibly avoided a de-
preston and, in actual fact.
curbed a recession +"
The question all along has
been how far the downward
swing would go, and on jan
uary %, 1858, this corre-
spondent said:
"All of the bad news about
the impact Of the recession
has probably not materialized
as yet. Unemployment is
around 4 million, and there
are many predictions that it
will reach beyond 5 million
and even to 6 million before
the first quarter of 1858 is
over"
Now the President says that
I'VE have had most of our
bad news on the unemploy-
ment 'front.'" This is reassur-
ing. 1t means that, while even
a further rise in unemploy-
ment could occur, this would
be Of short duration as spring
planting pulls more workers
to the farms.
The President is in q bet
ter position than any other
man in America to forecast
employment trends, but he
could be wrong about the
time Of the turning point in
the recession" The reasons
could have nothing to do with
the facts he has presented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-13
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

OF one fellow who's going back to work next montas
as he bags the quail limit in Georgia
New Jerseys Governor Meyner says he isn't running for
President Too early for that In fact at this stage fellow
hardly knows yet which issues worth straddling
The Soviet Ambassador calls Vice President Nixon
Crowded schedule He got in just after Nixon honored
Goldfish Of the monthand just before crowned Miss Flag
stone of 1858.
The Eisenhower team will build thousands of post offices
to combat recession Republicans say lot of buildings
are eye-soresm Farleys name all the cornerstones
Vgnas Harry Byrd decides to retire from the
Chief Justice Warren to Supreme Court THAT may the
first decision make stick in that State"
First thngs-second department. 1t appears we'll
COLOMBO the moon before we solve the parking problem
earth.
Turmoil in the House investigation of the FEC indicates
that every is against sespeciay the he didn't
happen to commit recently
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-13
DORIS FLEEsoN
Byrd's Successor on Finance

billion before long. There is
a tendency. too. to accept
imitation as the natural price
Of prosperity and this is
anath EN- q to the Senator
from Virginia.
Nobody likes to be a ma
tional monument while he is
still breathing. This the in
dependent. strong minded
Senator Byrd was rapidly be-
coming and space-age pres
sures are accelerating the
process. AS an attractive, au-
thentic person, he will be
greatly missed. but his poll
cies are already sinking with
out q trace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-13
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Statement That Foreign Minister Talks
Aren't Necessary Called Surprising

The new summit" politi-
cal boulevard. lined all the
way from Washington to
Geneva (the prospective
meeting place. with Judas
trees, is being rapidly con-
structed. The meeting last
Tuesday between President
Eisenhower, with Secretary
Of State Dulles at his side,
and Soviet Ambassador Mix
hail Menshikov paved the
way for the heads-of-state
meeting long sought by Boss
Khrushchev. What new pro-
posals the Soviet Ambassador
was able to give our two poll
icymakers is for the time
being a well-kept secret. But
at the press conference which
followed the White House
meeting almost Immediately.
Mr.. Dulles announced al
most as casually as If he had
said that he enjoys salmon
fishing that he sees no need
for a conference of foreign
ministers, preliminary to a
summit meeting. This. re-
versal surprised not only the
newspapermen present but
also a number of Senators .
who last week precipitated a
debate on the Senate floor
proclaiming their confidence
in the Secretary of States
policies.
Nobody in this country OPP
poses a conference which
could bring about a relaxa-
ton of tensions and an end
to the cold war which started
within q few months after
WI day. What the American
people are opposed to is an
other conference such as
those at Yalta, Potsdam and
Geneva.
At each and every one Of
these top level meetings the
free world suffered serious
losses and Communist tyr
amy gained either terri
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-13
s9--S- -xIM1I DN0MN
Dulles and Summit Conference

detect a genuine unity Of
purpose between this country
and its major European allies.
In the event of a Soviet prov
ocation leading to a show
down, is it generally but
reluctantly admitted we can
count only on our own ca
pabilities and on those Of the
minor allies such as the
Turks. possibly the Greeks,
and some of the Asians (Pak-
istan. Thailand, the Philip
pines. Nationalist China, and
Korea).
Whatever the real mean
ing of last Tuesdays state
ment by the Secretary Of
State may have been, there
is no question that Americas
faithful minor allies got the
impression that we are fol-
lowing a diplomacy of "on
again. on again, gone again,
Finnegan." Such a policy Is
not conducive to the deep
confidence required Of in.
ternational alliances these
days. =
Senators who rushed to
Mr.. Dulles defense last week
because the Kremlin told US
in thinly yelled words that
Dulles must go" were sur
priSed at what appears to
have been a change in his
position. The Secretary Of
State had told them that
the actual work for a summit
meeting must be made by the
foreign ministers behind
closed doors. 1t is they who
establish definite agreements.
The finished product is
brought before the heads Of
states who sign it at a cere-
monial meeting where toasts
are drunk for a lasting
friendship" Unless foreign
ministers are able to come to
some agreements on substan-
tive questions, there can be
no point for the heads Of
states to get together. The
position. many Of Mr.. Dulles
supporters in the Senate feel,
now appears abandoned.