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Evening star., 1960-10-16

Meeting announcements
must be in the hands of the
CiDic Calendar editor BY noon
Thursday OF each tDeek to
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Those
received too late iDiH not be
used separately unless there
is some special netOs Signif-
canoe attached to them.)
The Capital View Civic AS
sociation, with the Washing
ton Urban League, win sponsor
a parents workshop at their
regular meeting at 8 pm. to-
morrow in Richardson School,
Fifty-third and Blaine streets
NE. The role of parents, the
changing employment scene
and educational preparation in
the lives of children will be
discussed.
other citizens groups meet
ing this week. all at 8 pm
unless stated otherwise, are:
Tomorrow
BloominRdaie Civic Association -
Tabor Presbyterian Church, 6econt
and 8 streets NV.
Southeast Civic Associstion--Peynt
School. Fifteenth and c streets Sc.
Chillum Heights Citizens. Associa,
tion-Luther Rice Memorial Baptis
Church, North Capitol street and Mis-
souri, avenue NV.
Chevy Chase Citizens Association
ne;sticut avenue and Mckinley stree
Edgewood Civic sociation--Lang
ley Junior High School, Summit plsc'
and Lincoln road NE.
Friendship Citizens Association =
Columbia Federal SAVINGS y LOAF
Association Building, Wisconsin ave
nue. and Jenifers street NV.
InterfederatioTissC i Council Of Citizen
Associations Of thes Greater Washing
Sstist fSa a''ESREian safdins and
Marshall Heights Civic Associate
Male School, Fiftieth and c street
Sc
| Randle Highlands Citizens Associa
tion-National Capital Bank, Twenty
seventh street and Pennsylvania ave
nue.. sc.
Shepherd Park Citizens Association
Shepherd Park School. Fourteenth
street and Kalmia road NV.
Fort Davis Citizens Association-Ry
land Methodist Church. Branch ave
nue. and 8 street Sc.
! TUESDAY
Northeast washington Citizens A
Evening star., 1960-10-16
THE SHAPE
OF THINGS
Busic Issue
Is: Whyu q
Picture?
BY RICHARD HIRsCH


No critic, either In this
country or elsewhere. wheth-
er within this decade or
within this century. has been
willing to tackle the basic
question underlying all crit.
cism Of the arts.
The question: why q Pic
ture?"
Frankly, this is the most
difhcult Of all art questions
to answer.
Somehow, the mind. the
heart, perhaps even the ap-
petites Of man-Rny man,
anytime, anywhereZdeInand
form, carefully contrived by
the ingenuity Of other men
by those men whom we call
artists.
But, to date, no one has
ever answered the question:
"Why q Picture?"
Natural to Man
Perhaps it is also because
the picture. the image, the
totem, the symbol, is as inn
portant to man and as nat
ural to him as faith, love.
hate, hunger and ambition.
Perhaps it is because we do
not question such necessities.
Perhaps the answer will
be found only in a satisfying
definition Of the spirit of
man. And no such definition
has, as yet, been offered us.
We have definitions Of what
man should do, such as the
Sermon on the Mount. We
have, in the great literature
Of all ages, the definitions Of
what man is inclined to do,
from the second chapter Of
Genesis to Dostoyevski. We
have not, however, any SIM
pie description Of what he is.
What Is the Need
The physicist, the physiolo-
gist, the psychologist. the
psychiatrist and even the
novelist or the pollster. may
cut him up into segments.
anatomize him Tor atomic
him), but what he is remains
unsaid. Thus remains un-
said what it is that makes
all mankind need the forms
created by the artist.
These thoughts re-occur
upon browsing again through
one. of the finest books Of art
criticism to appear in years,
John Canaday's Main
streams of Modern Art" pub
lished by Simon and Schus-
ter.
Canaday has produced a
superb study. 1t would be
helpful to even the most
casual spectator Of the arts.
1t will be q basic text for
thousands and thousands
of students interested in the
sources of the arts of our
Evening star., 1960-10-16

tion, upon a bone instrument
in the dawn of time to the
most widely acclaimed mas
terpiece. of easel painting,
one could invent any num-
ber of systems to explain the
arts. If, in the process, the
hunger and need of man, of
all men, for this carefully
controlled pattern of form
which we call art was given
serious consideration. almost
any such theory would, bas-
ically, be valid.
It is this hunger which de-
mands attention and poses
the question which even so
splendid a book as John
Canaday's "Mainstreams Of
Modern Art" does not at
tempt to answer.
Three Answers
It is this hunger, born into
every man, whether space
man of the 21St century or
bushman Of Australia's wilds,
which suggests that the why
of art might be answered by
three propositions:
God or the Divine never
acts without means and all
means require forms;
Man hungers for ways to
praise the gifts thus freely
Evening star., 1960-10-16
NEW OPENINGS

CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE DRAW
INGS sponsored BY the Embassy OF
Japan. Jewish Community Center,
1929 Sixteenth street NV. This
afternoon through November 13.
SWEDISH ARCHITECTURE. sponsored
BY the Ambassador Of Sweden. The
OctagOn, 174l New York Avenue
NV Next Thursday through No
RECENT PAINTINGS BY HOWARD
MEHRING. Jefferson Place Gallery
Tuesday throuEh November 12.
NEW TDENDs IN FRENCH PAINTING
Erans Bader Gallery, 17O5 @ street
S;w SeT 10. Thursday thr0usA N0'sm'
PAINTINGS BY FERNANDO BOTERO
Gres Gallery. 1129 Twentieth street
NV. Tuesday through November IL
ART OF SUAII.E BY UKAI UChIYAAA
Hiratsuka Nippon Gallery, 3l16 M
street NV. Current through Oc-
PAINTINGS BY VIRGINIA RILEY
Stitt Library. United States National
Naval Medical Center. Bethesda
Nd. Current through October 20.
PAINTINGS BY AREA ARTISTS,
CERAMICS By MEMBER POTTERS.
Lees Gallery, 5000 Mount Vernon
throISS November i. w. 'n'
SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION or
reation Building. Moyaone Reserve,
through October Der 30. SeNS sCNUSLPfUGiRdEE fUGidEEGsS BY
LENORE STRAUS, In Straus garden.
9ryans Point Road, Accokeek. Nd.
October 22, %. 90 and 80.
Evening star., 1960-10-16
Leagues Fall Show

The American Art Leagues
fall exhibition at the Arts
Club, 2017 I street NV.
through next Friday, pre-
sents between 40 and SO
works, most Of them paint
ings. The show is predomi-
nantly representational, al
though the Leagues policy is
broad, as stated by its presi-
dent, Francis Peters: I'VE
support the broad funda-
mentals of all good art, with
each one free to choose his
own manner and STYLE"
First and second prizes
were awarded to coast scenes
by . Elizabeth Curtis and
Ruth McCollum, respectively.
Evening star., 1960-10-16

through next Saturday. They
include Robert Kuhn's>welded
metal figures and several by
Jane Love. particularly an
amusing small bronze Of o
young couple on a bench; and
others by Dean Carter and
Harvey Moore. as well as
Katherine Hobbs admirable
representational animal fig-
ures.
Most of the paintings are
in abstract idioms: Express
sionist by Lee Deffebach.
Marjorie Dec, Beverley Hoge,
Kathleen Bruskin and Kay
Kerst:; modern flgurative by
Samuel Bookatz and Gustav
Trois, and a beautiful orange
and brown abstraction by
Benjamin Lawless. Millicent
Tomkins' golden Woman in
an Interior" is q representa-
tional departure from her
earlier painting. (Open week
days, 10-5:30)
Evening star., 1960-10-16
Marriott GuIIery

The Marriott Motor Hotel,
Key Bridge. Arlington, Is now
showing paintings by WASH
ington area artists, in an ex-
hibition arranged by Lees
Gallery of Alexandria. A rep
resentative group Of works
ranging from abstract to
naturalistic, is well displayed
in the Rosemont lobby, re-
Gently redecorated. at the
entrance, and paintings will
be changed from time to time,
and as works are sold. T.
Evening star., 1960-10-16
Technical Writers,
Publishers to Meet

The Society Of Technical
writer's and Publishers will
meet at 8 pm. Wednesday at
the National Housing Center,
1925 l. street NV. Lee Shim-
berg, head Of the publications
division, Naval Ordnance
Laboratories, will discuss
Qualifications Of Technical
Writerms and Editors"
Evening star., 1960-10-16
Art Lecture

Michael Jafe, Fellow Of
Kings College, Cambridge,
England, will be guest speaker
this afternoon at 4 at the
National Gallery. His sub
ject Drawings Of the Mas
terS, Raphael" is related to
the great exhibition Of Ital-
ian Master Drawings.
Evening star., 1960-10-16
West End GoIIery
To Open Tomorrow

A new art gallery, the
West End Gallery, 1914 I
street NV, will open tomor-
row under direction OF Miss
Jean L. Miller. A set Of
Felix's Topolski's Chronicles,
ION the spot" drawings COW
ering eight years, will be
shown. Included in the first
show are oils, water colors
and drawings by Paul Hoff-
master, David Komuro and
r. Salon Dorfman Of WASH
ington and James Elliott Of
Maine.
Evening star., 1960-10-16

Third went to Carver
Miller's watercolor street
scene, %. C. Chinatown" in
which the calligraphy on
signs and buildings was done
by Toy Wong. Cecilia Rogers
translucent near = life size
head of a woman in alabaster
fetched the sculpture prize.
Honorable Mentions
Mentions were bestowed on
five works: Glib Crockett's
watercolor Of palm trees and
shacks in a muted scheme of
browns and grays; Ruth
Lees vital watercolor por-
trait of a farmer; Jean Nc
Cams modern oil, Sun
Drenched;;" Harriet Rosen-
baum's oil: and one sculp-
ture, "Brunhilde," q self
conscious figure in wood by
Edith Mason.
Paintings which impressed
me as better than the top
prize winners are those by
William F. Walter, Garnet
Jex. Theodore Kane, Francis
Peters atmospheric water
front"), Carver Miller
(Great FallSC, Dorothy Leef,
Ralph de Burgos (his gouache
Of Clipped and broken
Bricks" beautiful In color /;
Katherine Sunny: a modern
still life with emphasis on
light and shadow by Flea
more Van Swearingen; and
those by Ruth Meixner and
James OBrien. (Open daily
II to So
Evening star., 1960-10-16
Opening Show

The new Associated Art
lists Gallery, 2156 Florida av-
enue NY. opened early this
month with a group exhibi-
ton by its four founders,
which will remain through
October. open Tuesday
through Saturday / to 5,
Sunday 2 to So
Dorothy Goldberg's IL oils
and watercolors, continue
her experiments with COM
binationS Of words, music
and paint. In her Milton in
Beatnik." for example, she
scattered on a varicolored
background, frag m entary
quotations from q Milton
poem, and parallel to them,
are words Of a calculating
and raucous vulgarity which
nonetheleSS are in an aural
sense similar to Milton" She
says she responds to the
world Of words around her
that assault and batter at
the sensibilities Of the indi-
vidual." Words, single sor in
brief phrases, dominate all
her paintings.
Largest Group
Lillian Goldman has the
largest group, Is oils on can
vas and paper. All are alb
Stract expreSsioniSt, with
several on the subject sea
and Land Forms" in which
the tonal contrasts Of color
convey the theme, aS in her
other solo show at Watkins
Gallery. reviewed here last
Sunday.
OF MariIee Shapir6's IL
sculptures. I thought the
small bronzes. near. abstract,
with recognizable images.
such as Lovers" and
Queen" the most interest
ing. Her terracottas have
simpler forms, and incised
decoration.
Harvey Moore, who since
1858 has had his studio and
own foundry in Georgetown,
where he casts his own Sculp-
lures and some by other
artists. is showing II
bronzeS, mostly branched
and curved abstract forms.
Evening star., 1960-10-16
ART NEWS OF THE D. c. AREA tf
ItoIion Art Draws
Approving Crowds
BY FLORENCE s. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

italian Drawings Masterpieces Of Five Centuries" the
exhibition which opened last Sunday at the National Gallery
Of Art to remain through November provides literally
opportunity of lifetime. One hundred and fyfour mas
tepeces IS outstanding artists Of the Renaissance
drawn from II museum and private collections in Italian
Evening star., 1960-10-16
Mart Group

Modern sculptures i'm
pressed me as the more in
teresting exhibits in q group
show at the Artists Mart,
1861 Wisconsin avenue NV,
Evening star., 1960-10-16

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Evening star., 1960-06-24
Alexandria Notes
Log in Housing

The Alexandria Redevelop-
ment and Housing Authority,
which accommodated 4,942 ten
nants in its 1,247 dwelling units
last year. still lacks facilities
for $40 families.
The agency's annual report,
released yesterday by John Y.
Kerr, executive director, said
the scarcity of low-income
housing makes enforcing the
city's housing and hygiene
codes difficult.
This need for low and
middle-income housing facil-
tiles takes on an added signifi-
canoe when viewed in the light
of the community'S duty to re-
locate families displaced by
public action code enforce
ment or an urban renewal pro-
gram" the report said.
Finished last year, 46 low
rent units on the block bounded
by First, Patrick, Montgomery
and Alfred streets were filled
Immediately, the report said.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
District Driver
Gets Prison Term
In Auto Death

BALTIMORE, June "a (Spe-
ciaD "A Washington motorist,
Wilfred c. Starns, was sent
enced to Is months in prison
yesterday when he pleaded
guilty in Federal Court on man
slaughter and drunken driving
charges in connection with a
fatal accident on the Balti-
more Washington parkway.
StarnS, 81, of the 1400 block
G street NE, was charged
with manslaughter in the death
Of his passenger, William Har-
vey, who was fatally hurt April
90 when the car struck a guard
rail near the Kenilworth in
terchange.
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut
imposed the 15-month sentence
after hearing that Starns had
a record of a previous hit-and-
run accident.
Assistant United States At
torney Arnold Weener told the
court the April accident oc-
cured when Starns, who had
been drinking, lost control of
his automobile while passing
another car.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
johnson Doomed
By New Club in
North Virginia

A Northern Virginia johnson
for President Club has been
formed to work for the nomi-
nation of Senate Majority
Leader Lyndon B. johnson of
Texas.
The club is mailing a letter
to each Democratic National
Convention delegate urging
support of "the best candidate
the Democratic Party can pre-
sent"
Roger Nick. Shea, chairman
Of the club, said the organiza-
ton has several hundred
members" Earl L. johnson, jr.,
is co-chairman, and Kenneth
S. Kelleher is vice chairman.
Mr.. Shea said two members
of the club, Mrs. Diana T.
TSchurSin and Paul Green,
have been selected to attend the
national convention next month
in Los Angeles. Headquarters
for the club is located in the
Kicker Building, 2040 North
Sixteenth street, Arlington.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
SundayC|osinu
Test Planned

More than rs Northern Vir-
ginia merchants have organ.
lied to fight the States Sunday
closing law which goes into ef-
feet next week.
Frank Seidel, spokesman fol
the group, said the merchants
are opposed to the "blue law
because I'VE feel it is definitely
discriminatory"
The group heard Robert l.
Mandell, co-chairman of the
Richmond Committee in Oppo-
sition to Restrictive Selling on
Sunday, at a meeting last night
at the Arlington Seventh-Day
Adventist Church.
Mr.. Mandell, a supermarket
operator, said his group has
engaged David J. Mays, a law
yer, to prepare a court test of
the law.
"A test case will eventually
have to come" Mr.. Seidel said.
Since the law is so confusing,
someone will undoubtedly sell
something he is not supposed
to sell unintentionally."
He said merchants in North
ern Virginia did not know
what they can and cannot sell
on Sunday.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
Bottle Gives Kennedy
Strong Endorsement

Former Gov. Battle paid his
respects to Senator johnson in
his Endorsement of Senator
Kennedy when he said:
"The Virginia delegation will
under its instructions. of
course, vote for Senator john
son. He is a very able leader
and with his Southern-or as
I believe he prefers to call it,
his Southwestern background
would make a formidable and
acceptable candidate, one
whom We could enthusiastical- l.
ly support in the general elec-
tion.
In the event it should de-
velop that Senator johnson
cannot secure the nomination,
I believe that of the candidates
mentioned. Senator Kennedy
of Massachusetts,, should have
the most favorable considera-
tion."
Evening star., 1960-06-24
BY ALEX r. PRESTON
Star stan Writer

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
June 24.-Former Gov. Johr
S. Battle today gave Senator
Kennedy an enthusiastic in.
dorsement as one who woulc
make an outstanding candidate
for President"
Virginia's delegation to the
Democratic National Conven-
ton in Los Angeles next month
is instructed to vote for Sena.
tor johnson of Texas.
Former Gov. Battle played
a key role in the 1852 conven-
ton when, as chief executive
he kept Virginia from being
thrown out on the loyalty oath
issue, and in 1856 when he
worked on the platform COM
mittee for a moderate civil
rights plank.
Mr.. Battle is sailing today
from Norfolk on a 43-day tour
OF Europe with other Virginia
officials and businessmen. AL
though he will be out of the
country when the Democratic
National Convention convenes
July II, his son, William Bat
tie, will be there as a delegate
at-large.
The younger Mr.. Battle, a
close friend of Senator Ken
nedy from World War II days,
has led efforts in Virginia and
neighboring Southern States
for the nomination of the
Massachusetts senator.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
BY JOHN BARRON
Star Stah Writer

A large lake on the Potomac
above Great Falls would help
solve some of the Washington
areas impending problems
Northern Virginia planners
were told last night.
Donald Birrell of the Army
Corps of Engineers declared
such a reservoir not only would
assure the area a continuing
water supply. but would pay
for itself in new recreation
areas.
He said it also would keep
the lower Potomac from be-
coming great mud bank of
silt, prevent floods which could
inundate parts of the Capital
and shave 81 million annually
from the water bills of nearby
Maryland and Virginia resi-
dents.
500 Million Cost Seen
The Corps of Engineers is
making a prolonged study for
Congress of the desirability of
building a series of dams to
store water for consumers and
prevent flooding in the four
State Potomac River Basin.
The dam above Great Falls at
River Bend would cost $50 mil
lion to $l00 million and create
a lake 40 miles long with a
shoreline of 37O miles.
Noting that political as well
as technical considerations
must influence any decisions
regarding the dam, Mr.. Birrell
emphasized that the Corps of
Evening star., 1960-06-24
Durham Again Denied
Release From Hospital

Psychiatrists have agreed
that Durham is suffering from
a sociopathic personality of an
antisocial type.
DR.. william G. Cushard,
| psychiatrist and clinical di-
rector, and DR.. Margaret Ives,
chief psychologist at the hos
pital, both testified at the hear
ing that Durham acts on i'm
pulse.
DR.. CuShard said Durham is
unable to defer the gratiflca-
ton of any desire" He sug-
gested that the only treatment
is slowly to give Durham in
creased privileges and RESPONSE
bility again in hopes of de-
veloping a better behavior pat
tern.
Durham testified during the
hearing on the habeas corpus
petition that he is anxious to
go home to his wife and two
children and get a job. He
expressed dissatisfaction over
treatment he has received at
the hospital.
Judge Youngdahl commented:
you feel you know better than
the experts. You took matters
into your hands and decided
to do things the way you
wanted to-"
Wife Called
Durham's wife was called to
the stand by Durham's court
appointed lawyer. Mrs. Dur
ham suggested that psychia-
trists study her husbands
mind Ito see why he does these
things"
In the houSebreaking and
larceny case several years ago,
Durham was twice convicted,
but each time the conviction
was set aside by the United
States Court of Appeals. In
one of its decisions the Ap-
pellate Court established a new
criterion for dealing with in
sanity in criminal cases. It
held there are grounds for ac-
quittal when a crime is a prod
uct Of a mental disease or de-
feet.
The housebreaking and lar
ceny case finally was disposed
of when Durham pleaded guilty
to petty larceny, for which he
received a one-year sentence.
The HOUSEKEEPING charge was
dismissed.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
$4,000 Awarded
Bethesda Firm

A Bethesda flooring contrac-
tor has been awarded $4,000
in damages by a Federal Jury
in Alexandria in his suit against
a California construction firm
The suit, filed November II
in District Court by Otto Haue
of the Southeastern Floor Co.
4935 Bethesda avenue, accused
the Gersten Construction Co.
prime contractors in the Cape
hart housing project at Fort
Belvoir, Va, of breach of con-
tract.
The Bethesda firm had SUBJ
contracted flooring work at the
project.
The judgm ent, issued
Wednesday, also called for a
payment of 10 per cent interest
on the $4,000, to be calculated
from June %, 1859.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
Language Teachers
To Sturt6 6-Week Study

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
June "a (AP).-Six weeks of
intensive training for high
school teachers of foreign
languages the first such State
supported institute ever held in
Virginia-will begin here Mon
day.
Approved by the last session
of the General Assembly, the
program in French and Spanish
will concentrate on teaching
the teachers how to speak their
particular language. A separate
course in advanced Latin gram
mar and Roman culture will be
held for teachers of Latin.
Evening star., 1960-06-24

present signed as sponsors or
guarantors of the flve-year
lease with R. M. Compson for
use of a large red brick resi-
dence on Main street as quar-
terS for the private library.
Earlier this week, a mass
meeting of persons wanting to
reopen the public libraries and
operate in accordance with the
court order. agreed to circulate
petitions asking City Council
to reopen the facilities.
City Council defeated. sd, a
motion to reopen the libraries.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
Merchants Protest
Penalty PARKING Fine

The Silver Spring Board of
Trade has voiced opposition to
a local ordinance increasing
parking meter fines from 81 to
So.
A letter to the Montgomery
County Council, signed by the
boards president, William j.
Brannan. jr., asks the council
to reverse its decision.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
Fuirfux Woman
Is Convicted in
Auto Death Case

Miss Mary H. Hall, "a, oi
Route 4, Fairfax, was found
guilty in Fairfax County Court
yesterday on a reckless driving
charge filed in connection with
an accident in which two per-
sons were killed.
Miss Hall originally had been
charged with manslaughter in
the May 8 accident on Route
1921 near Centreville. Her
driving license was suspended
for six months and she was
fined $100 by Judge j. Mason
Grove.
Mrs. Dorothy Tates, 90, OF
35l7 Ames street NE, and hel
mother, Mrs. Agnes M. Cole
SO, of 49l0 Arkansas avenue
NV, were fatally injured when
their car was in collision with
an auto driven by Miss Hall.
In another County Court case
yesterday a manslaughteI
charge against a 19-year-old
Fairfax youth involved in a
fatal traffic accident last April
was reduced to speeding.
David R. Thomas pleaded
guilty to the speeding charge
which had been reduced from
manslaughter on the recon-
mendation from Assistant Com
monwealth's Attorney Lionel
Richmond. Thomas was fined
500 with $75 of the fine sus-
pended.
Charles Wesley Kidwell. jr.
II, of Chantilly, was killed April
2l when Thomas car struck
him, tossing the boy over a
concrete bridge on Route 657
into a creek. The car also
plunged over and landed on
the boy.
Evening star., 1960-06-24
Woman, 81, Is Held
In Abortion Case

A 81 = year old woman
charged with producing an
abortion, was ordered held for
grand jury action July 6 after
a hearing yesterday in Alex
andria Municipal Court.
Miss Ethel Mae Duvall of the
400 block of East Glendale
avenue, Alexandria, was ar
rested June II after a 20-year-
old unmarried Alexandria girl
told police of her alleged abor-
ton.