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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16
WHY GROW OLD?
Improve Your Figure
While Doing HouseWork

for something on a high
shelf stretch for 1t. Stretch
higher for a moment than
you need to. You then can
reach up with both hands.
Take a little time and stretch
through the torso also.
Leg, Foot Exercise
Once In a while when you
are walking you can do a
wonderful leg and foot exer-
else. When you step forward
place only the heel Of your
foot on the floor, and point
toe toward the ceiling; then
snap the toe down to the
floor. Therefore. every step
includes two counts: heel
toe. Try it. With a little
practice you can walk at
your regular speed.
This may all sound labor
ious when you think Of all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16
READERS CLEARING HOUSE

with sharp edged meat
FOUNDER. Cut in serving
pieces. Combine -four and
seasonings: coat meat in
mixture. Brown in hot fat.
Place in l3x9x2-inch baking
dish. Drain mushrooms. re-
serving liquid. Add water to
mushroom liquid to make I
cup; heat to boiling. Dissolve
bouillon cube In the hot
liquid and pour over meat.
Bake In moderate oven at $50
degrees for 80 minutes. Com
bine tomato sauce, green pep
per, mushrooms: pour over
the meat and continue baking
for is minutes.
Meanwhile. cook noodles
until tender in boiling sailed
water. Drain. Basic meat
with the sauce just before
serving Sprinkle with par
mesan cheese. Serve with hot
buttered noodles. Makes 9 to
Q servings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16
BY DIR. PAUL POPENOE
National Newspaper Syndicate

Kathy just graduated from
high school last January and
is looking around for a Job.
I'm not going to stay at
home and be mothers little
helper" she writes. II want
to make my own way. Of
course. But. above all; I want
to marry and have a family Of
my own.
II don't know that I have
any particular talents. but
! think ! could fit into a wide
variety Of jobs. What ! have
in mind Is to pick out one in
which my chances Of marry
ing will be greatest. Which
jobs do you adviser"
In order to get a wider basis
for judgement. I asked 100
intelligent and mature women
to list the various professions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16

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skin, leoves not q troce Of
grease on your foce or pill
low.
Use Flowing Velvet by
doy. It sinks at once be-
low the surface, with only
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it wos ever there, but oh,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16

you have to do, but actually
1t takes very little more time.
AND, don't forget that good
posture is an exercise you
can indulge In constantly. II
viii give you q lovelier figure
II you do not slump or hump
or shufiie while doing your
household chores.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16

use 3 pounds veal steak, u to
y inch thick; "a cup en-
riched flour: l teaspoon salt.
dash pepper. 2 teaspoons
paprika and 3 tablespoons
fat. You'll also need I 8-oz.
can broiled sliced mushrooms.
bouillon cube. 8-oz. can Il
cup) seasoned tomato sauce.
" cup chopped green pepper
and l S-oz. package green
noodles (tagliatelle verdi.
Il tried the green noodles,
also spaghetti. and like the
spaghetti BETTER.
Pound the meat thoroughly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16

But keep out Of q blind
alley, matrimonially speak
ing. ! think you have the
right idea.
For more specific help,
write me for my bulletin,
Where to Meet Men," It will
save you a lot Of lost time.
1t Is free but please enclose
a stamped. self-addressed
envelope with your request.
Good luck to you. Kathy!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16
More on Williomsport
Mrs. J. H., Wheaton

Mrs. J. H.. Wheaton
To Mrs. J. B.. Washington
Williamsport, Pa. has q
population Of about $4,000.
The schools are not new but
they have built recently a few
elementary ones. There are
four junior high schools. We
believe the schools there are
given more Of the things than
the ones here In Montgomery
County where the school
budget gets pared down very
low.
The section OF South Will
Transport. separated from the
city by the Susquehanna
River, is very nice. This par
ticular section has its own
school system. fire depart
ment, etc.
There are q good many
restaurants in Williamsport,
but only two department
stores. Recreation facilities
include q YMCA and q
YWCA. During the winter
areas are flooded all over
town to make wonderful out.
door ice skating facilities,
free of charge.
There are not many good
Jobs available in the city.
however.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16
Are Bought Clothes Badly Mode2

would like to know anyone else is having trouble with
the clothing they getting nowadays.
bought two pair of wash -andwear pants for my son
and they both out at the knees already
He only them TO school, not for everyday play.
the trouble the wearing quality of the fabric would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16

You have seen fruit grow
old in O bin. You have
seen your coursoee drv up
while you wore it. You
know what couses this,
dehydrotion. Thot's whot
so often happens to your
skin, too, dehydrotion,
and sensitive skin dehy-
drotes sooner.
JocqueIine Cochran, top
flight beauty authority,
wos determined to find O
formula thot would give
the skin the balanced
moisture thot it requires.
Thus Flowing Velvet wos
CreoteO.
This combination of rich
cream, lotion and fociol
oil, containing q new
moisture giving ineredi-
ent, hydroIin, octs on your
skin in these three ways;
. It furnishes moisture
thot octuoIIy sinks into
your skin.
. 1t supplies necessary
oils for essential Iubrico-
ton.
. II mointoins the nor
nal balance Of oils and
moisture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16
Veal Scoloppire

Mrs. T. A. r.. Washington
Here's q recipe that was
requested by a reader way
back in September. Even
though it's late. I thought
other readers might be in
tereSted.
To make veal scaloppine,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16

like to know so I can write the
manufacturer. The cost Of liv-
ing Is too high now to have
materials In your clothes wear
out In such q short time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-16
JACOUELINE COCHRAN

sreaseless flowing beauty formula that
brings dewy moisture to aging or
drying.up skin
Evening star., 1959-12-20
NEW OPENINGS

THE NATIONS CAPITAL IN THE
10th CENTURY, wstercolors,
prints. drawings and maps, Library
Of Congress, Main Building, North
Gallery. Just opened, through
June 80, 1860.
MIXED MEDIA" mosaics, seri-
graphs, and other works by stu
dents Of Sister Mary Corita, / H.
M, professor Of art at Immaculate
Heart College, Los Angeles. Just
opened. through January g, 1850.
WATERCOLORS AND DRAWINGS
BY RICHARD DREW. Collectors
Corner. 1925 Wisconsin avenue
NV. Current TO January 3.
PAINTINGS BY JEROME KATZ AND
JOSEPHINE TERRELL. Gallery
Coffee House, 32l3 o street. Cur.
rent through January Il, 1850.
PAINTINGS BY JEANNE BEAUnRY.
Art Shop and Gallery. 5000 Geor-
gia avenue, Silver Spring. Current
through December 81.
PAINTINGS BY DOROTHY HAIR
WOOD. Plaza Theater Lounge.
Current through December 81
Evening star., 1959-12-20
DeIevunte Debut

Delevante, an artist Of
Portuguese ancestry, born in
the British West Indies, has
been teaching for 20 years at
Cooper Union in New York
City. Incredible as it seems,
he has had only three one
man shows there, all in the
past five years, and is having
his fourth first in Washing
tom at the Obelisk Gallery,
3421 P street NV. Next
Thursday closes a mere fort
nights display. open today,
3 to 6; Tuesday through
Thursday, II to g.
Delevante's paintings are
unique. weird fantasies care
fully delineated in bright,
harmonious colors, occasion
ally enriched with gold and
silver. His figures are totemic,
reminiscent in some in
stances (e.g. THE Drummer
DrummedO of K atchina a
dolls; in others, of the
strange being sometimes i'm
agined' as inhabiting other
worlds.
Delevante seems to paint
these whimsical creatures and
situations from some private
personal mythology. The titles
are evocative, but unfamiliar.
Evening star., 1959-12-20
Christmas Group

The Artists Mart, 1861
Wisconsin avenue NV, is
showing through December
81, a large selection of paint
ings, sculpture. priNts, enamel
jewelry and decorative OBJ
jects. Their wide price range
makes it a practical place
for Christmas shoppers who
want to give original works
of art, not only some who
can ignore price tags, but
also others on budgets.
Appealing sculptures are
Robert Kuhn's semi-abstract
attenuated metal figure of
Mother and Child; Dor
othy Briggs charming little
Creche figures and ceramic
lamps; Florence Higgs' love-
ly terra Gotta angel on con-
crete; Katherine Hobbs baby
llamas and polar bear cub,
and j. Dewitt's streamlined
little Sandpipers, herons and
other birds of polished wood.
Paintings and watercolorS
are numerous and varied. I
liked best Claire Ferriter's
"Choir Boys" as elusive as
If they were walking through
a shaft of sunlight from a
stained glass window; Gar
yer Miller's strong Western
Landscape; Benjamin Law
less "Riverfront" and Sam
uel Bookatz' Georgetown
Spires" both good abstrac-
tions; Jack Berkman's ex-
presSionistic Line Storm;
Gustav Trois' robed Mother
and Child; watercolors by
Kitty Claude and John
Bryans. Orsini's enameled
jewelry is eye-catching.
Evening star., 1959-12-20
BY DAY THORPE
Star Music Critic

Star Music Critic
I went to Cologne, Ger
many, several days ago, to
hear the new opera by the
American composer, Nicholas
Nabokov, with a libretto by
the English poet, Stephen
Spender.
The name of the opera,
which has a text in English,
has not yet crystalized, being
called variously "Rasputin's
End" The Death of Ras-
putin" or simply "RaSputin,"
but in the German transla-
ton used in Cologne the mat
ter is exactly decided by the
title Der Tod deS Grigori
RaSputin."
Practically everything else
about the new score has been
brilliantly established by the
Cologne premiere, for the
production in almost every
respect must have set an ex-
ample for the work which
will be deflnative for a long
time to come.
CThe original version of
"Rasputin," under the title
THE Holy Devil" was given
In Louisville, KY, in April
1857. Nabokov says that since
the Kentucky Opera did not
have the physical facilities to
produce the complete opera
with full orchestra and with
all the acts, he considers the
Cologne production actually
the world premiere).
Superlative Drama
AS drama, the opera is
superlative, and it is easy to
believe that it may have a
lasting appeal to the public
certainly the full houses in
Cologne show no evidence
that the audience is attending
this contemporary opera for
any son other than
genuine entertainment.
1t is the story of the
Russian priest Rasputin,
Christlike in the contemp-
tuous directness of his
methods, but also brutal,
vulgar, carnal. He maintains
a fanatical hold over the
people, not only the illiterate
but even many of the edu-
Gated, and in 1916 group Of
ariStocratic conspirators de-
cideS that assassination is the
only way out for the saving
OF Russia. Rasputin is lured
into the palace of the prince
and given several lethal doses
OF poison. He falls into a
stupor.
Series of FlaShbacks
The body of the opera is
a series of flashbacks of his
life-his miraculous cure of
the CZarevitch, his seduction
of a child under the casual
guise of driving out devils
from her person, his drunken
orgy with a gypsy.
The final scene of the opera
finds him where he was left
at the end of the first scene,
not dead at all, and clutch
ing a Christian cross. The
frenized conspiratorS attempt
to finish their deed by shoot
ing him point blank with a
Colts revolver. but Rasputin,
after having been pronounced
dead by a doctor, comes to
life once more, struggles
with the terrified Prince,
and escapes through the
window. Pistol shots are
Evening star., 1959-12-20
MUSIC PROGRAMS

Brightly Beams the Morning Star,
Bach; Prepare Thyself Zion, Bach
Sing Praises, Glarum: Shepherd S
Farewell, Berloiz; Mary Had q Baby
Reece; Ding Dong, Merrily on High,
Came. Clokey.
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
CHOIR, Harlan Laufman, organist
director. At the church, pm. The
Christmas Story, SchuetZ.
Evening star., 1959-12-20

of experience in the world Of
art has given him the extern
sive knowledge Of many sub
jects, which enabled him to
be comprehensively brief. This
magnificent survey of mani
est h e tic achievement in
painting, sculpture, and archi-
lecture, and some minor arts,
ranges from the first millenia
OF the Upper Palaeolithic
Age, to the present. One of
the volumes many assets is
M. Bazin's introduction to
each chapter, presenting the
essence of the civilization
and artistic epoch to be con-
sidered.
This is no dry encyclo-
paedia, but a lively, readable
distillation, combining his
tory with critical analysis
and concluding with a dis
cussion of important art his
torians' theories; and the
evolution of styles, both like
nesseS and contrasts. M.
Bazin's final sentence is:
Thus art history confirms
the findings of modern
psychology, which tends to
see the principle of ambi-
valence beneath all the man.
ifestations of the individual
human being"
Nearly 600 pages of text
have 668 illustrations, IA
full-page color plates. They
are usefully placed either on
the page where mentioned,
or very near it. Our National
and Phillips Galleries are
represented with important
masterpieces.
BENJAMIN WEST AND
THE TASTE OF HIS TIMES
by GroSe Evans, Associate
Curator of Educational Work
at the National Gallery of
Art, is a volume beautiful in
printing and formal, with a
gallery of "a plates, most of
them full page.
Mr.. Evans mentions in his
introduction that Vests
colorful story has been Of
ten told and his early pic
lures, painted in America,
carefully analyzed. What
this National Gallery author
does is to revive the artistic
aims of Vests age and to
examine his mature figure
compositions in the light of
18th century expectations"
a study which has not been
made before. And yet, as Mr..
Evans says, ITO understand
the enthusiastic approval
Vests pictures won, the 18th
century criteria of judgment
must be recalled"
He traces Vests develop
ment and several changes of
style, discarding the terms
neo-claSsic and romantic, in
favor of three more descrip-
tive terms, Stately Mode"
Dread Manner" and "Pathet-
ic Style" each of which is
given detailed consideration,
as we'll as is the background
for Vests history painting.
There are in addition, notes
to every chapter, appendices,
and a photography of both
books and important maga-
zine articles.
Evening star., 1959-12-20
Christmas Art Books

Two handsome art books,
recently published, would be
excellent Christmas gifts for
art lovers libraries: "a HIS
TORY OF ART FROM PRE-
HISTORIC TIMES TO THE
PRESENT" by Germain Ba-
zin CHoughton Mifflin Co.,
5000 and "B ENJAMIN
WEST AND THE TASTE
OF HIS TIMES" by Grose
Evans (Southern Illinois
University Press, $22.50).
M. Bazin is chief curator
Of the LouvSe. His lifetime
Evening star., 1959-12-20
BY JAMES G. DEANE
Star Record Critic

Sir Thomas Beecham, one
Of the sprightliest Of the
more veteran generation of
musical leaders and one who
has not yet foregone the
pleasure of bold endeavors
(witnesS the upcoming pro-
duction here of Berlioz' "Tro-
jans"), determined at some
recent point to bestow upon
the public another edition
Of Handel's ever-enduring
messiah" He has done so
twice before.
The recording, now being
circulated and advertised and
otherwise touted by RCA
Victor, has been handsomely
packaged as a part Of the
new semiautonomous Soria
series, coming accoutred with
a 23-page booklet laden
with reproductions of religious
paintings, assorted photo
graphs and a Beecham essay,
and of course a text.
Signifies Riches
All this obviously signifies
riches. Unfortunately, the
riches provoke embarass-
ment, for Sir Thomas-who
can hardly do a wrong-this
time seems to have mis-
stepped. In a period when
a wide public has come to
admire music Of remote eras
performed as automatically
as available means will al
low, he has chosen to do a
baroque masterpiece in a
typically modern-day image,
or in other words cut, re-
arranged and rewritten.
Leonard Bernstein, who is
enjoyinging the flush of box
office success, perpetrated a
mutilated Messiah" a short
time ago and Eugene Or
mandy has been responsible
for a more recent one which
I have not heard and do not
care to. The Beecham en-
deavor is not in their cate
CORY. 1t offers most of the
music, although nearly a
Evening star., 1959-12-20
Art Lecture

The National Gallery of
Art continues its series on
art and religion with a lee
ture on Greek Religion and
Greek Art" this afternoon at
4. Guest speaker is Francis
R. Walton, of Florida State
UniversitX's Department Of
Classics.
Evening star., 1959-12-20
ART NEWS OF THE D. c. AREA
Norwegian 7 tapestries
In Special Exhibition
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

The most important collection Of Norwegian tapestries
carved and painted wooden furniture and household objects
presented in the United States which opened week
end by H. E Paul Koh the Ambassador of Norway the
foyer the Natural History Museum Tenth
stution avenue NV transports the visitor in time to the
Evening star., 1959-12-20
NEWS OF MUSIC
NewOPero 'RusPutin'
Performedin Cologne

hearQ from the courtyard
and the opera is over.
(Nabokov is a cousin of the
other Nabokov, the author of
Lolita" When he was in
town several months ago, he
remarked ruefully that people
will probably never believe
that his scene of the mans
carnal affair with a child
was written before he had
read or heard of the famous
book Of his relatively
LibrettO Convincing
Spender's lines and the
dramatic development on the
stage are strong, clean. and
convincing. CThe Cologne
performance was in German,
but l have read the original
English of two of the three
acts.) The music of Nabokov
also is powerful. 1t is dis
sonant, rhythmically grip
ping, highly colorful in or
cheStration, melodically not
particularly distinguished.
The excellence of the score is
that it is throughout the
handmaiden of the visual
drama-I suspect that "Ras-
putin" will never be a success
as symphonic suite. To say
as much is not adverse criti-
cism. The unity achieved by
Spender, Nabokov and the
Cologne producers is a much
rarer thing than Just a
musically good opera score.
Nothing could be wished
for in the fine production
given the new opera in the
year-old Cologne opera house.
The orchestra under RoSen-
stock was as good as any
opera orchestra l have ever
heard, as good as the Ma
tional Symphony on stage in
Constitution Hall.
Casting Is Excellent
The actor singers were all
good, most of them superb.
Frans Anderson as the
baritone Rasputin had the
difficult task of creating in a
couple of hours the ambigu-
GUS evil-good. appealing
repellant, mean-superhuman
priest. The role dominates
the show, and both in An
derSSon'S acting and singing
he was an outstanding
success.
The American Negro Shir-
ley Carter, as the voluptuouS
gypsy, was scarcely less good,
although she appears in only
a single scene.
Hanna Ludwig, the Czarina,
is so good an actress and
has so remarkable a soprano
voice that the wonder is her
reputation has not, as far as
I know, yet crossed the At
lantic. More about her in a
moment.
The sets and the direction
were excellent. The opera
house at Cologne Q,366
seats is as nearly perfect
acoustically as any hall I
have been in, and the para
phernalia for the most spec
tacular stage devices seem
limitleSS. The parterre of
the theater is supplemented
by about a dozen boxes jut-
ting out from the back wall
like suspended toboggans.
These boxes. on massive
wooden partitions, are a
feature in the acoustic prop
critics of the hall.
The 10 active opera houses
in Germany should be of in
Evening star., 1959-12-20
TURNTABLE TALK =,
Messiah Offered
By HondeI-Beechom

half-hour of it has beer
excised from the places where
Handel left it and tackled
onto the end of the four
disc album as a disembodied
appendix.
Sir Thomas intention, as
set forth in his essay, appears
chiefly to be to provide
some Of the opulence Of the
modern orchestra which was
not afforded by the resources
of Handel's day, and there is
nothing dishonest in such an
objective. Mozart and a good
many others, including Sir
Thomas himself, have re-
written Handel before with at
least some practical success.
And Handel's music has
managed to survive.
But the chief apparent
Beecham argument-that the
original Handelian forces
were inadequate for a modern
concert halls not valid in
the case Of a recording made
to be played in a living room.
And Beecham has simply
given us, this time, too much
opulence.
1t is too bad that this has
to be said, for the expectable
and ordinarily laudable-
Beecham touches are gener-
ously audible in the RCA-
Soria album. There is vim
and vigor and a good deal Of
expressiveneSs; the chorus is
efficient and reasonably nom
gigantic and the soloists are
generally quite good.
Singers OVerpOWered
But the orchestral palette
has become the BrahmSian-
Berliozan Wagnerian sort,
the cymbals and triangles
and trombones sometimes
almost drown out the singers
and the fine-lined clarity and
bite of Handel's original
scoring are virtually smoth-
cred. If one were not to
read the label he might sup
pose the leader to be named
Leopold, which is far from
the customary Beecham i'm
print. The imprint. what
ever it is. certainly is not
Handelian.
This is not entirely Sir
Thomas fault. Sir Eugene
GoossenS is credited (al-
though not in the album
with the orchestration and
the technicianS and record
ing director had a middle
man role which might or
might not have been crucial
in any of the specific in
stances where voice or voices
and instruments seem to be
at acoustical variance. But
the endeavor was subject to
one magistrate and the basic
intention is stated plainly.
In Solomon" or Judas
Maccabaeus" or some other
unfamiliar, non-competitive
endeavor the matter might
claim less notice. but Mes
siah" is different.
How did this odd situation
come about? Perhaps Sir
Thomas would have Jared
better in greener Handelian
pastures. In any event, the
Handelian year has ended on
a note of disappointment.
May the new year, with Ber-
lioz and a Glyndebourne-
Beecham Magic Flu t e"
hopefully both in the offing
record-wise, prove more re-
warding.
The subordinate forces in
the Handel album include
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano;
Monica Cinclair, contralto;
Jon Vickers, tenor, and Gior-
gio Tozzi, bass. (LD-LSC
6409 mono stereo)