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Evening star., 1960-11-06
NEW OPENINGS

THE SPLENDID CENTURY. FRENCH
CENTURY. The National Gallery
Of Art, Constitution avenue at
Sixth street NV. Next Thursday
through December Is.
ITALIAN FABRICS. National Hous-
ing Center. 1925 L street NV.
Tomorrow through November.
PAINTINGS BY JEAN DE CAVIAR
DIE, Fantasy Gallery; 1865 Con.
asrs1Eds tsfo1ss November sSsaSs sH' SO. current
PAINTERS OF NEW ENGLAND.
eonsin avenue % NV. i Wednesday
through November 81.
THIRD ALL-ARMY ART EXHIBIT,
CELEBRATING 1860 Army Arts and
Crafts Week. Concourse of the
Pentagon,, Current through No
PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY
EDWARD DORSEY. Sponsored
by Xavier University Alumni Club
No. 8, 1881 Harvard street NV.
This afternoon only. 5 to 9.
PAINTINGS BY DOROTHY GOLD
BERG; CERAMICS BY AUDREY
WEAVING BY HORTENSE AMRAM.
avenue, Alexandria. Va. Current
through November 80.
PAINTINGS BY SHAO-AN CHAO.
Social Hall, Chinese Community
Church. l011 L, street NV. Just
opened. through next Saturday.
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION. new
Twenty-flrst street, to open for
visitors during coming week.
Evening star., 1960-11-06
TODAY'S RADIO
HIGHLIGHTS

$3.50, WTOP-Church of the
Air. A talk on why Teach
Religion in an Age Of
Science?"
1880. WWDC-Mass for Shut
Ins. Father Daniel Power
celebrates the service from
Georgetown University.
1880, WEAM Army. Hour.
From Fort jackson, South
Carolina, a report on the
s2nd Airborne paratroopers.
1890, WQMR-Music in the
Air. Armando Foresio plays
beloved Italian music.
2:O0, WTOP-Football. T h G
Washington Redskins VS.. the
st. Louis Cardinals.
| 2:00, WOL-Foot tball. The
Baltimore Colts VS.. the
Greenbay Packers.
$500, WRC-Meet the Press
Guests are Leonard Hall. for
mer Republican National
Committee chairman, and
Robert Kennedy, brother of
Senator John F. Kennedy.
1880, WAIAL-E n ginee e r ing
News Report. Guest is Thom-
as Meloy, president of Mel
par, Inc.
$3.50, WTOP-In vitatio n to
Learning. A discussion of
"Gulliver's Travels" satirical
novel by Jonathan Swift.
9:O5, WASH-FM t97.1 Mc.)-
The Spoken Word. A per-
formance Of Shakespeare's
1.-TWO Gentlemen Of Verona. i"
s:S5, WWDC-District Round
table. George P. Nicoletopou-
los. assistant general coun-
sci for the International
Monetary Fund. is guest.
1850. WTOP-City Side. The
WTOP News election fore
cast, with Jack Jurey as
moderator.
Evening star., 1960-11-06
InformuIist Leader

The first American one
man show of Mario Pucciar-
elli of Argentina Is at the
Pan American Union through
next Sunday. (Open Mon
day through Friday 9 to S,
Saturday to 4, Sunday / to
So The catalogues critical
analysis of his painting says
that he is the somewhat
theoretical leader of infor-
malism in Argentina"
The group he leads "allows
the elements in the picture
to flow in free forms through
out the canvas" and "the
color is often indefinite; the
tendency is to the somberly
neutral, the dexterity of the
artist being demonstrated by
the use of different tones in
subtle modulations and nu-
ances." This sounds much
more impressive than the
paintings appear. In Senior
Pucciarelli's paintings of this
year and last, dark browns,
grays and dun combinations
predominant, and the in
cised, scratched, paint-ridged
surfaces and amor p h O u S
forms induce boredom.
Earlier paintings of 1857
and '58 have fine color COM
binationS. One in particular,
with many high-keyed warm
colors in long horizontal
strokes, is a thing of beauty.
One may hope the artist will
eventually regain his feeling
for color.
Evening star., 1960-11-06
Bomb-SheIter
Kim's for Free

HOLLYWOOD (AP).-
Kim Novak is building a
bomb shelter on her Bel
Air estate-for free.
Recently on TVS per
son to Person" show, she
mentioned that she planned
the shelter. The response
from listeners was tre-
mendouS. Letters of COM
mendation came from the
Office of Civilian Defense
applauding her foresight.
Many people wrote that
her remarks made them
think about civil defense.
Others wanted her advice
on how to build shelters.
Most important, a num-
ber Of contractors offered
to build her one free for
the publicity.
Evening star., 1960-11-06

bars of music, so many square
yards of painting. But these
are the facts.
OF course Moscow brags Of
the rewards" given to the
"activist on the intellectual
front" Such rewards showed
up during the Pasternak af-
fair. Most of us ignored the
meaning of what we saw in
the Sovfoto picture published
everywhere by the wire serv-
ices. We missed the meaning
of that refrigerator smack
in the middle Of Pasternak's
living room. The shot had a
clear meaning, however. for
the common folk from Vladi-
vostok to Kiev. 1t was proof
that a novelist who had been,
up to now in favor with the
party, had food enough to
store and had been given a
rich mans strange appliance
in which to store it. It meant,
to a happy Soviet worker,
Pasternak had been given
cards to buy food in stores
closed to the Soviet masses,
the ones reserved for the
elite of the classics society.
At the time, we missed the
point made by that photo
graph. 1t is worth reprinting
for it is a classic.
A few months later Paster-
max died of, at least, a broken
heart. Several Soviet writer's
are believed to have had the
courage to attend his fu-
neral. One of them was mo-
ticed at graveside.
Modern Pictures
When we hear that Soviet
painters have organized an
underground in order to
paint modern" pictures, our
disbelief dulls our under
standing of the facts.
We forget that two years
ago the Hermitage Museum
caused a furor from one end
of the Red empire to an
other by merely placing on
display its magnificent COL
lection of French impression
lists. These had not been seen
since 1921. Day after day.
tens of thousands of Musco-
vites joined by people who
had obtained the difficult
permission to travel to Mos
cow from elsewhere, stood in
Evening star., 1960-11-06

endless lines to see the new"
painting of 80 years ago.
Soviet art histories dis
missed the impressionists'
study of light and color as
sinful bourgeois Journalism"
and had never reproduced a
single of these works. A page
of recorded history had sim
ply been obliterated by total
Soviet thought control. We
can't imagine that such a
thing should be possible. We
can't think of artists being
trained even by a state su-
preme, with no knowledge Of
entire periods Of art.
Our Moscow Show
The press reported the
overwhelming attendance at
our American art show last
year in Moscow. This was
not idle curiosity. It was q
traumatic revelation to the
hundreds of Soviet artists
who had obtained permission
from the party to visit our
show. We might expect that
Jackson Pollock would amaze
these people or that Franz
Kline might bewilder them.
This, also, occurred.
The impressive central
fact, however. and what
caused the deepest emotion
among Soviet artists and
students was something to
which we, in the luxury Of
our democracy, never even
give thought. It was, simply,
that American artists painted
in more than one way. Again
and again they asked our
harried guides how could this
be. These party-trained
artists wanted to be shown
those paintings which were
considered oficially right, +"
correct" and orthodox"
Reared within the confines
of an empire where no man
chooses, where the ever
changing Zine" of the party
is today's law although dig
ging pitfalls for tomorrow.
the Soviet artist could not
understand that neither our
Government nor our ruling
circles" impose on our artists
a single right" way to paint.
This is our blessing. 1t is
a free gift that will endure
only If we cherish 1t in this
world divided.
Copyright. 1860, Gen1 Features Corp.
Evening star., 1960-11-06
japanese Drawings

:
Contemporary Japanese
Drawings" in the Jewish
Community Center's art gall
lery, at 1929 Sixteenth street
NV, earlier illustrated and
mentioned here. has one more
week. This beautiful exhibi-
ton. organized by Atauo
Imaizumi, deputy director Of
the National Museum of Art
in Tokyo, which lent many
Of the items, is sponsored by
the Embassy Of Japan, and
will go on a tour Of leading
American museums under
auspices of the Smithsonian
Institution Travelling Exhibi-
ton Service.
Contemporary" in this in
stance takes in the past half
century, since the beginning
Of Western arts influence in
Japan. More than SO draw
ings and scrolls by 40 artists.
done in sunni ink and wash.
crayon, pencil and other me-
dia, illustrate both the tradi-
tional and Western currents.
Fortunately, the detrimental
effects Of contemporary
Western art show up only in
a few of the most recent
drawings (e.g. a scribbly de-
lineation of Venice).
Japanese artists are mas
ters of the use Of line. devel-
oped from calligraphy. It is
marvellously expressive in
their hands - delicate or
sturdy, adaptable to .aReyy
need, from depicting a feath-
er to realizing a mou 1.
There is a wide range irY th3s
collection. from economy of
means, illustrated in a sim
gle red curve in Ogawa
Usen's Sunrise" to a wealth
Of precise and exquisite lines
with which Ono Chikkyo
drew 1.-THE Nagato Valley"
Besides extensive variety Of
subject and handling, nearly
all the drawings have beauty
in the popular meaning Of
the word, which is not to be
spurned. No one should miss
seeing this show. (Open Mon
day through Friday, noon to
3; Sunday, 2 to 81
Evening star., 1960-11-06
Hecht Colleges

Alice F. Hecht, whose first
solo exhibition, at Collectors
Corner Gallery, 1925 Wiscon-
sin avenue NV, ends today
(open 3 to 81, began to study
art only five years ago. But
she had been interested from
an early age; in her childhood
she visited the Paris home of
her cousin Gertrude Stein
and saw her famous collec-
ton.
Mrs. Hecht's paintings at
Collectors Corner are COL
lagos. nearly 40 colorful
works done with scraps from
magazine illustrations, heav.
lily Veined japanese rice
Evening star., 1960-11-06
ART NEWS OF THE D. c. AREA
French Art Exhibition
At National Gallery
BY FLORENCE s. BERGMAN
star Art Critic

The most important exhibition of French l7th century
presented in the United States will open
National Gallery Of Art next Thurshy This magnificent
display, entitled "The Splendid Century" viii 166
paintings drawings sculpture and tapestries the majority
never before shown country by the Musee du
Evening star., 1960-11-06
LATEST TV INFORMATION

Televson programs for the week are carried In TV
Magazine with Sundays Star Following Is supplement
tary information todays programs received after Tv
Magazine went to press.
400, WRc C)-Political Broadcast. Interviews with
Senator Henry jackson, chairman Of the Democratic
National Committee. and Senator Thurston Morton,
chairman Of the Republican National Committee.
300. WTOP (9)-Political broadcast An address by
Vice President Nixon replaces GE Theater.
$3.50, WTTG (5)-Modern Science Theater. science
documentary "Fbers and Civilization" replaces Amer-
can Forum.
Evening star., 1960-11-06
Art Lecture

A new lecture series, on the
Origins Of Christian Church
Art" will begin today at the
National Gallery of Art, to
continue into December.
Margaret Bouton, the gall
lery's associate curator of ed
ucation, will inaugurate it
with a talk on Early Roman
Church Art" in the lecture
hall at 4.
Evening star., 1960-11-06

paper, colored tissue. netting
and other materials, painted
with oils. Five were sold
during the shows first two
days, including her large
Three Rings" a circus pic
ture. and the shows most
representational. Others, too,
have images, e. g., Seated
Nude" Trees" Glass Vase, "
which resembles a high-keyed
water color because of her
use of tissue pieces. Other
collages are abstract, "Sun-
burst" being one of the best.
Evening star., 1960-11-06
Two Members

Carolyn Conley and Odell
Wooten. painter members Of
the Arts Club, 2017 I street
NV, have exhibitions there
through Friday. Mr.. Wooten
has studied art at seven
schools in as many cities. in
cluding our Corcoran. where
he is now an instructor.
Among his awards have been
five BEST of Show"
His 10 oil paintings and
pastels in the gallery. DEM
onStrate q number of ap-
proaches. Such distractions
as 1000 Footed City" and
Lower East Side" have COM
positions built up in masses
OF rectangular units which
convey the feeling of crowded
cities. Semiabstract works
include a number of regatta
and other ship subjects with
the swagged lines Of sails
emphasized for pattern.
Among his naturalistic paint
ings are portraits and land
-scapes, and a series depicting
testers, more like drawings in
black outline on dark green
grounds.
Mrs. Conley has also stud
led in several art schools and
private classes. Her IS oils
and pastels, mostly tradi-
tional. record bright days and
picturesque places which the
artist has visited in Europe
and Central America, as well
as Washington area scenes.
She reveals an eye for pic
torial beauty in her travel
souvenirs and flower studies.
Her oils show changes Of
technique, and a promising
departure in the contrasts
and simplification of Low
Tide" (Mont st. Michel and
Lines, Angles and Shad-
ows." which warrants fur
ther exploration. (Open daily
II to So
Evening star., 1960-11-06
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
Quick Look at the Russian Arts
Under Communist Domination
BY RICHARD HIRSCH

Director. Allentown Art Museum
While the master Of the
Kremlin is still erratically In
orbit it Is timely to examine
the role which Communist
No. plays in the arts with
in his empire.
In spite of the ballyhoo
about personality and whims.
his role is impersonal. It is
solely political. In the name
of the party, it Is absolute
Such an ideal, Of course.
is shocking to US. We think
of the arts as being by defini-
ton. solely in the realm Of
the spirit. Always we equate
this with freedom.
We Often Forget
We suspect propaganda
when the point Is made about
unrelenting dictation Of the
party to the artist. the musi-
clan, the novelist. the ballet
dancer in the Communist
world. And yet the facts have
been reported repeatedly. Un-
fortunately, we forget so fast.
How many times. over the
years, have we read in dis
belief that composers such
as Shostakovich or Prokof1ev
have had to arise at meet
ings of their union" to de-
nounce themselves? Over
and over they accused them
selves Of bourgeois devia-
tionism," Capitalist formal
ism" or of having been
tempted into western de-
cadence" in their latest quar-
tet or symphony. This has
happened many times, while
the name of No. / changed
on Red Square.
The artist, criticized by
the party machine, abased
himself. The system demand
ed it. Under Stain he crawled
to stay alive, under the pres
ent Car he does 1t to stay
on top.
Fears0me Artists
But we forget.
This is partly due to the
fact that it seems irrational,
to us, that a system which
controls a billion men should
be terrified Of the artist.
Strangely, it is.
Do you remember your
amazement when Moscow told
Novelist Pasternak that he
could not accept the Nobel
Prize for his Doctor Zhi-
vago?" Do you remember the
furor in the party when Du-
dinstev smuggled out of Rus
sia the manuscript his quite
uncritically Communist Not
by Bread Alone" and had it
published? Too many of us
forget how the author re-
canted, writing desperate
letters of repentance, because
the party insisted on it?
Such things are distaste-
full to us; they must be faced.
And what of painting? The
story is the same, disheart-
eningly the same. It cannot
be otherwise where any free
dom is heresy and where the
spirit of man is totally denied.
Soviet propaganda specialists
rarely mention Soviet paint
ing If they can avoid it, just
as we don't send toothpaste
billboard posters to foreign
art festivals.
The Soviet Artist
Socialist Realism, the
party-line style, is a selling
tool. The Soviet artist, tied
to an assembly line, produces
pictures of happy socialist
workers and happy socialist
farmers and happy socialist
students. Such a dictated
style. the propagandist re-
alizes, is not likely to
recruit foreign intellectuals.
He knows that we don't like
to think of the artist coerced
by a production norm" of
so many articles per year,
so many poems, so many
Evening star., 1960-11-06
Botero Returns

Fernanoo Botero, young
artist of Colombia (still in
his 20s) who had a one-man
show at Ores Gallery, 1929
Twentieth street NV. just
two years ago, has an en-
core there now, through next
Saturday.
Twenty-six paintings and
drawings are a logical de-
velopment of his work Of two
years ago. He continues to
paint doll-like creatures with
enormous heads, surmounting
telescoped bodies. Propor-
tionately. the heads are as
large or larger than the rest
Of the figure; literally they
are considerably more than
Nfe-size. Mona Lisa at H."
for example, has a head and
face measuring about 18
square feet.
Sr. Botero seems to have
been obsessed with Velas-
quez's Eel Nino de Vallecas,"
one Of the Spanish masters
remarkable series of portraits
in the Prado, of dwarfs,
buffoons and other menials
of Phillips court. Senior
Botero has painted his ver-
sion of this boy many times,
four or five of these varia-
tions on a theme being
here, in red, in brown, in
blue, ETC., with subtle
changes of facial express
sion. Other subjects he
has painted in triplicate or
more. are Girl in Profile"
and his near-abstract "Sun
Flowers" In a few small
panels, he continues to deride
the clergy.
Senor Botero has a gift for
color, fresh, rich and glowing.
Busic Color
Howard Mehring. Washing
ton artist by birth Q93D,
education, and residence, has
a beautiful exhibition of
paintings at the jefferson
Place Gallery, 1916 Connecti-
cut avenue NV. through next
Saturday. (Open Tuesday
through Saturday, II to S.
Fifteen canvases, ranging
in size from 4 square feet to
100 or more, appear at first
glance to be modern, adapta-
tions of mile f1eurs tapestries.
Their colors are superb; the
canvases are richly stained,
leaving the weave visible,
not heavily laden. In an TX
planation presented with his
show, Mr.. Mehring says "The
dot of color has become the
basic element of my paint
ing" These dots" have
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produced all-over patterns.
in some instances dominated
by one color. e.g. the deep
blue in Pendulum" with
yellow and pale green sub
ordinated. The color has q
bubbly or effervesceHt ap-
pearance in some Of the
paintings, through tonal vari-
ationS.
Mr.. Mehring was the first
graduate student to attend
Catholic University on Q full
tuition scholarship given by
the National Society Of Arts
and Letters.
Evening star., 1960-11-06

Louvre and the Chateau OF
Versailles, several churches
and more than 40 provincial
museums Of France.
Evening star., 1960-11-06
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Evening star., 1960-05-22
BY WARD MoOREHOUsE

NEW YORK CNANA). -
Maureen O'Hara is some
thing of a sorceresS. She can
turn crusty old drama critics
into awed and smitten school
boys. Her appearance in
Christine" a musical play
otherwise blasted by the
press, was hailed with wild
enthusiasm and jubilation.
This was the first Bread
way role for this beauty from
Hollywood. She has found it
an exhilarating experience.
Notwithstanding the numbing
notices accorded the play.
Its been so gratifying"
she said in her apartment on
Central Park south. I'D like
to come in with another show,
a happy one. The reception
by the critics has given me
that much confidence. But
I just don't know. I'm under
contract to Columbia for a
new picture. I've never made
a musical film in HOLLYWOOD,
but I've sung in quite a few.
People probably supposed my
singing voice was dubbed in.
Started at Six
II was raised in the thea
ter. so the stage doesn't
bother me a bit. I started at
the age of 6 in Dublin, doing
those Christmas pantomime
things. For a time ! acted as
the abbey-and oh, yes, I've
done Shakespeare and Shaw.
I went to Hollywood in the
1940s. going there under con-
tract to Charles Laughton."
Maureen's eyes have the
greenness of the Ionian Sea
and her hair the redness of
an autumn leaf. She is as
slim-waisted as the Charles
Dana Gibson girls used to
be. She is crisp and direct
and becomingly freckled.
"I've had a lot of things
submitted to me for the sum-
mer theater," she said, but
I couldn't take the heat. I'd
Just die. I like the cold and
hate the summer. California
Evening star., 1960-05-22
Moureen Was q Hit,
But Not Her Show

weather seems to me to be
the finest in the world"
The trim and gracious
Maureen has had abundant
success on the coast. Her
outstanding pictures have in
cluded "The Quiet Man."
How Green Was My Valley"
and THE Long Gray Line"
Her most recent film is Our
Man From Havana" now
showing at the Globe on
Broadway.
A Royal Movie
ut was great fun shoot
ing The Quiet Man in Ire
land" she said. although I
did break my wrist and my
ankle" John Wayne was
wonderful; he is a marvellous
person and has always been
like a big brother to me. i.
Il have a little house, all
on one level, in West Los
Angeles. My daughter Bron-
wyn, who is IA, and my two
brothers live with me. My
Evening star., 1960-05-22

parents live near by. I have
a maid but no cook, a small
swimming pool for Bronwyn
Il like to keep an eye on
herr, and no secretary. I
drive myself back and forth
to the studio"
Maureen was divorced nine
years age and doesn't know
where her former husband is
today. Z
I asked if she would marry
again.
She looked at me coolly
and smiled. You have to
live with hope. 1t would be
terrible to think I might
never marry again."
Evening star., 1960-05-22
Tony Likes to Act
The Risky Roles
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD. - Anthony
FrancioSa is an intense actor,
and that can be both an ad-
vantage and a drawback.
His penchant for realism
had a minus effect during a
fight scene with Gina Lollo-
brigida in Go Naked in the
World" He got carried away,
and the Italian actress end
Evening star., 1960-05-22

ed up with a sprained ankle.
On the positive side, Fran
ciosa had a scene in which
he was supposed to walk
across a steel girder 20 stor-
les high to get some money
from his father, played by
Ernest Borgnine. The scene
was done IL feet above the
floor of the movie stage. and
FrancioSa insisted on doing
the balancing act himself.
The result: A tense, exciting
scene; a nervous few minutes
for the production crew.