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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-06
By w. H. YOUNGMAN
Star Garden Editor

Have you taken time to
notice how often and how
effectively the attractive
commercial ads employ
plants or flowers in the pic
ture? They are just as i'm
portant to the public rela-
tions man as they are in the
finishing touches of the
home. Where they are used,
and how, depends to some
extent upon the homemaker,
but the newest trend is to
have them in planter boxes
at various strategic points.
Room dividers are another
usage that has achieved
recognition in the modern
interiors.
Plants lend themselves
effectively in interior decora-
ton in that they provide a
wide range of textures as
well as foliage tones. OF
course, the colors primarily
are in shades of green but
there are many shades to
which we may add hints Of
gold and silver. A few plants
offer other colors and should
only be considered when
those colors or tones are
needed to carry out a scheme.
Flowering plants seldom
have q very important place
in the indoor planter boxes.
This is because most planter
boxes are lacking in Suffici-
ent light for Towering plants.
However, 1t Is possible to
provide the light and to in
clude them If that is desired.
Probably q better practice
would be to use potted flow
ering plants for special &C.
casions, removing them to
well lighted areas when they
are not on duty in q planter.
Planters should not be so
skinny as to preclude a de-
sirable number and arrange
ment Of plants. In most small
planters it is difficult for the
plants to have sufficient root
area to thrive. so the rule
should be to make them fit
the space but still be wide
enough and deep enough TO
permit an effective display.
Indoor planters to be sue
cessful should be Of easy OPP
Grafton and still provide the
essentials for good growth.
One of the major problems
is, of course, water and so the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-06

report suggests that blinds
be treated with a cleaning
and polishing wax as soon as
they are installed, repeating
the process when they
needed special attention.
I'VE would seldom, If ever,
use water but instead would
use the cleaning wax. We
would never dunk them in a
bathtub or hang them over
a line and spray with a
hose" the report states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-06
shade

may be noted that plants much tolerant
than others both to heat and to light Obviously because
conditions in every home and between the
tolerant plant is the easier 1t to for and the
likely to give the desired ornamental effect to the
Because of the plants being brought to the stores
in recent years. list should be considered compee-
might have been yesterday, but not tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-06
A Guide to Indoor PLANTING

The following classification will give rough approxma-
ION Of the adaptabiy Of number Of plants available for
Evening star., 1961-11-05
Inside and Out the Cages
Of the London Zoo

is attacked by a European
alliance. She falls but soon
is liberated. The war had
been unconsciously fore
shadowed by the newspaper
Of the zoos chairman, a man
who wants to use alarumS
and tocsins for political pur-
poses. Why are the animals
being removed from London
if informed people are not ap-
prehenSive of air-raids2 Why
are they brought back? Why
also, the reader may ask, is
this war introduced into Mr..
Wilson's book, where it seems
injurious to the allegory?
Some readers who are in
trigued by the skeleton of
1.-THE Old Men at the Zoo"
will be less happy with the
flesh that covers it. Mr.. Will
sons style is often heavy
handed, and his scenes are
attenuated almost beyond en-
durance. The death Of a gi-
raffe-keeper could well be the
motivation of a good novel,
but in this book, l think, its
after-effects are dialogues
that are too long and situa-
tions too stilted. Fantasy is
not factual report, but it
nevertheless cannot afford to
be unreal.
Evening star., 1961-11-05

reported in his paper. One of
his principal concerns while
writing dispatches from Mos
COW was the pro-Soviet bias
attributed to him because of
censorship which permitted
only favorable commentaries.
He tried repeatedly to per-
suade the Times to carry a
warning to readers with each
dispatch that the text had
been subject to censorship.
Mr.. Salisbury never ex-
plains why the Times refused.
But he adds weight to his
point by printing dispatches
killed or cut by the Soviet
censors and some of the writ
ten exchanges he had with
Soviet officials in charge of
censorship.
There is no mistaking that
Mr.. Salisbury's favorite Amer
lean Ambassador in Moscow
Evening star., 1961-11-05
Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

ters by Stephen A. Douglas,
a major American political
and historical figure, often
remembered only as the
opponent of Abraham Lin
coin.
LABOR MANAGEMENT
CONTRACTS AT WORK.
BY Morris Stone. (Harper:
$500 An analysis of cases
and awards of the Amer
lean Arbitration ASsocia-
ton in the critical areas of
union contract administra-
ton.
FROM MIASMAS TO MOL
ECULES. BY Barry Wood,
jr.. MD. columbia; $500
-Four essays on the progress
of medical science.
ON SOCIALIST REALISM.
BY Abran Tertz. CPanthe-
on: $2.95.) An examination
of Soviet literary doctrine
by a young Russian writer.
YOUR PRE-SCHOOL CHILD.
By Dorothy Kirk Burnett.
(Holt, Rhinehart & VIM
ston; $4.95.) A handbook
which shows mothers how
to live with, and enjoy,
their young children all
day, every day, during the
rugged pre-School years.
Evening star., 1961-11-05
ButHoInes
PurIoined
The Show
CONAN nnvTF

CONAN DOYLE. BY Hesketh
Pearson. (Walker & Co.:
$1,000
"He was the very incest
man I ever met; a grand
man." a friend Of Conan
Doyle wrote his biographer.
And this was the general
verdict" Mr.. Pearson con-
cludeS.
The creator of Sherlock
Holmes came to hate Holmes
because every one knew who
Holmes was and not enough
knew, or cared, that Doyle
had written other books he
believed were better.
The famous fictional detec-
tive robbed his creator, too,
of full awareneSS by poSterity
that he was a real-life cham
pion of the underdog. Doyle
saved two men unjustly sent
to prison, one for murder;
wrote and spoke against
atrocities in the Congo so
vigorously that the public was
aroused and some policies
were changed; almost dam
aged his dignity as a doctor
irreparably before his first
patient called when he got
into a fist fight in the street
with a man who was beating
his wife.
Many people will fight for
humanity and become mar
tyrs for abstract causes: but
Doyle had the far rarer vir-
tue of fighting for individual
human beings, and counting
ridicule for his eccentricity,"
Mr.. pearson observes.
No one has written better
detective fiction than the
Holmes stories, or better short
adventure sagas than the
Brigadier Gerard tales, Mr..
Pearson believes.
Yet, he says, Doyle was
really a fanciful, not an
imaginative man. Great writ
ers are imaginative.
Though not unsophisti-
Gated, Doyle was gentle. Ap-
palled at what he considered
the brutality of Bernard
Shaw's stinging criticism of
the sentimental press cover
age of the sinking of the Ti-
tanic. he sat down and wrote
a rebuttal. Reproduction of
the letters they exchanged
publicly is a highlight Of the
book.
In his later years Doyle
believed in spiritualism. and
with characteristic courage
risked his reputation and "a
lifetime's stock of goodwill by
lecturing around the world to
promote it.
Mr.. Pearson has given us,
in page after lively page, a
portrait of a warm, witty,
decent man.
BETTY MILES
Evening star., 1961-11-05

work in six volumes. The
first appeared In 1941 and
the final one, covering the
War of 1912 and the retire.
ment years, last week. One
may regret the WORKS short
comings but not deny its
authority.
The events covered in this
volume are the War of 1912
Gin its inconclusivenesS a
model for the Korean war;,
Madison'S attempts after he
left the presidency to solve
the slavery problem. his work
as rector of the University of
Virginia, and his life in re-
tirement at Montpelier. For
Mr.. Brant, Madison is one of
three American Presidents
who would hold first rank as
statesmen even if they had
never been Chief Executive.
He, Washington and Jeffer-
son, form a class quite apart.
Other statesmen rise to the
pinnacles of their careers in
the office of the White House,
but Madison's greatest work
was achieved before and dur
ing the Revolution and again
in his counsel during the last
years of his life.
Twenty years ago I read
the' first volume. Preparatory
to opening the present con-
Evening star., 1961-11-05
PAPERBACKS

FRIDAY NIGHT POKER. By
Irv Reddy. (Simon &
Schuster; 95 centsJ A
guide for everything that
should be known about all
forms of poker.
THE VALIANT HOURS. BY
Thomas Francis Galwey.
(Stackpole; 95 centS.) A
Civil War book based on
the unpublished diary of a
Union soldier.
THE PEACE CORPS: WHO,
HOW AND WHERE. BY
Charles E. Wingenbach.
DAY; $1.950 An analysis
of the dream transformed
in a few quick months to
reality.
THE POETRY OF HISTORY.
By Emery Neff. columbia;
$1.30O
THE RUS SIAN REVOLU-
TION. BY Nicolas Berdyaev.
(Ann Arbor; $1.750 The
author approaches commu-
niSrn as a religion.
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF
PLASTIC MODEL KITS.
(Dell; so cents.)
THE GLORY OF THY PEO-
PIE. BY Father M. Raphael
Evening star., 1961-11-05
THE OLD MEN AT THE

THE OLD MEN AT THE
ZOO. BY Angus Wilson.
(The Viking Press; $4.500
Seeing a ZOO as a little
world, Angus Wilson creates
one in London in the year
1910. His ZOO, old-fashioned
architecturally, is peopled
with inter-react. The mem
bers of the staff and direc-
torate are all individualists
who live in the hazardously
balanced equilibrium of the
jungle. One wants to use the
zoo for personal aggrandize-
ment;; another, for political
power; a third is offended by
its Victorian appearance and
exerts his effort to changing
the zoo into a natural animal
refuge. Another man, Mr..
Wilson's hero, is beset by a
sense of justice. The incident
on which the story Is based
is the death Of a young
keeper, killed by a friendly
giraffe who, suffering the
pain Of a tumor, should have
been put away. But whose
responsibility was it? Carter
finds that each person, for
his own particular reason, is
loath to have the problem
resolved.
Then comes a war. England
Evening star., 1961-11-05
Fall and Decline
Of q FictionuI
Fiction Writer
DANGERFIELD. BY Barnaby

DANGERElELD. BY BarnaDy
Conrad. (Harper; $3.50
This is a novel about a
disastrous few days in the
life of Winston Dangerfield,
a man described as having
more titles in the Modern
Library than any other living
author. Dangerfield, although
he is still the most famous
writer in America, has been
nine years between novels.
The whole country, therefore.
is eagerly awaiting the publi-
cation of his new book, "The
Prelate." Dangerfield con-
siders it his finest work and
has his heart fixed on win
ming a coveted literary acco-
late called "the Shavian
Award" His complete pre-
occupation with the reception
of his book is diverted only
slightly by the arrival of his
22-year-old son, David, whom
he has not seen for 10 years.
Complicating the rather
shaky father-son relationship
is the Actress Lucha, Danger
fields young and beautiful
mistress, who has left q sue
cessful play in order to be on
hand when the reviews start
coming in.
There is obviously a high
potential of a drama in this
combination of characters
and events and Mr.. Conrad
has made the most of it.
RUTH HUME.
Evening star., 1961-11-05
Queen Victoria
As On Author
LEAVES FROM A JOURNAL.

LEAVES FROM A JOURNAL.
BY Queen Victoria. With
an introduction by Ray
mond Mortimer. (Farrar,
Straus g. Cudahy; $4.95D
Queen Victoria is coming
into her own as a writer. Ear
lier this summer she was rep
resented in a collection of
her petulant and lengthy ex-
changes with her Foreign
Minister, later her Prime
Minister, Lord Palmerston.
Here she is recording her i'm
preSsions and remembrances
of two state visits, that of
Napoleon III and Eugene to
England, and that of herself
and Prince Albert to France.
The Queen was a formida-
BILE penwoman, extremely OBJ
servant and fluent. Nothing
in these pages can refute the
statement made in the ad-
mirable introduction. "She
had not been born with a
powerful intellect, and a lady
like education had neither
strengthened her reasoning
powers. But she was shrewd,
industrious and possessed by
an exceptional sense of duty"
She would have made a
good society reporter. She
never fails to describe her
dress and that of Eugene
"the dear Empress" as she
came in time to call her.
She notes the music played
by the bands, enumerates all
the dances at the ball, counts
the crowds. She falls down,
unaccountably only on the
matter of menus. She dis
misses French food as simple,
a curious adjective from a
British Queen.
The visits on both sides
were an unqualified success.
They helped dispel Victoria's
early distruSt of Napoleon III
and brought the two royal
families close both person.
ally and in policy. She is a
somewhat self satisfied
chronicler. She describes Eu-
genie's emotion on being CIV
en- a gift, and says it showed
how much she valued my
kind regards and treatment
in private as an equal"
Both state visits lasted 10
days and featured schedules
that make those of today
seem quite leisurely.
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1961-11-05

cluding volume I went back
to the first, which I remem-
bered with pleasure, and
found it still good. But sad
to say, Mr.. Brant is not now
the historian and writer he
was in 1941.
1t is as though the author,
having over a quarter CEN
tury assimilated everything
that touched his idol Madi-
son, has forgotten the ne
cessity of communication
with the reader. His book is
vague. incoherent, slovenly in
style, even ungrammatical.
The first chapter, THE
Causes of War" may be pro-
vocative to the student, but
to simple interested curiosity
it is only unintelligible. AS
Mr.. Brant gets into his story
the obscure becomes no clear
er. Congressman Wright"
and publisher Duane of the
Aurora" enter the story with
out even first names; the
"Cheves BILL" the ''frigate
Chesapeake" the "Perceval
ministry" are not deemed
worthy a line Of explanation.
There is hardly a page that
does not exasperate with its
antiquities.
Evening star., 1961-11-05

geniusl, cav Girl" (where-
in she was an American In
dian princess), "Oh, Henry"
ditto Ann Boleyn), and
many others. How she took
to marijuana, but was re-
habilitated through finding
God in Southampton" How
she wrote a book about this
experience entitled HE and
Me-" and how, finally. she
winds up her autobiography
in 1860 with an epilogue
Frankly Forty" The diff
Guilty lies not in summarizing
Mr.. Dennis story. 1t is so
well told it sounds precisely
like Louella Parsons and the
reader is gratified to find
the rollicking and deadly
humor sustained throughout,
with no let-down. The prob
lem is to describe the pic
lures.
Jeri Archer, who takes the
part of Belle, Bellies mother,
Bellies daughter and Bellies
granddaughter, is a comedi-
enne without a superior, and
the wit and imagination in
the masterful and elaborate
sets and properties OF Chris
Alexander are pictorial par
ody of a very high calibre
indeed.
I understand this book is
to be made into a musical
by its lighthearted creators.
Up until now, my interest in
all musicals has been SO
slight as to appear missing,
but whenever Miss Archer is
cast as Belle Poitrine I want
to experience the result. It
will be the funniest thing
since "The Divine Comedy"
Evening star., 1961-11-05

Simon. Macmillan; $1.100
The autobiography Of a
Jewish psychiatrist who
became a Catholic monk.
THIS BELIEVING WORLD.
BY Lewis Browne. (Macmil-
Ian; $l.750 A history of
religions. 4
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
AND CONVERSION. BY G..
K. Chesterton. Macmillan;
95 cents.)
SAN FRANCISCO. BY Ben
Adams. Chill & Wang;
$1.95.) An informal guide.
THE BOOK OF REVELA-
TION. BY j. B. Phillips.
Macmillan; 95 cents.) A
new translation of the
Apocalypse.
THE MIND OF NAPOLEON.
Selected by ]. Christopher
Herold. columbia; $1.950
Selections from his written
and spoken words.
THE WORLD OF ROME BY
Michael Grant. (Mentor:
rs cents.) A survey from
1873 BIC. to AID. 217.'
MARRIAGE AND THE FAM
lily. BY Alfred M. and Eliz-
abeth B. Lee. Barnes &
Noble; $2.25.) A college out
line series book.
DOCTOR AT THE CROSS
ROADS. BY Elizabeth Sci
fert. (Dell; IS cents.) The
doctors wife's dilemma.
THE FINAL DIAGNOSIS. By
Arthur HALEY. (Bantam;
go centS.l A medical novel
about birth, emergency.
love. surgery and autopsy.
THE BOOK OF ETIQUETTE
AND MANNERS. BY Caro-
lyn Coggins. (Royal; SO
centS.)
JOHN GREENLEAF WHIT
TIER. BY John B. Pickard.
. Barnes & Noble; $1.25.)
An introduction and inter-
probation.
GETTING ALONG IN ITAL-
IAN. BY Mario Pei. Ban
tam; so cents) One of a
series of language guides
for beginners.
A THUNDER OF DRUMS.
BY James Warner Bellah.
! (Bantam, IS cents.) A lieu
tenant and general forget
about Indians and fight
each other.
Evening star., 1961-11-05

instantly recognizable as
Life" a magazine for which
he once worked.
The only mystery remain
ing when he has set it all
down is why, if life on Life"
was such fun, he ever left it.
For Vital" is not only
stated by, but stuffed with,
interesting, amusing, madly
gay, creative people who are
given to gags, legends, par
ties. random lovemaking,
sailing paper airplanes out
the window, gathering for
hours around the coffee ma
chine. and working hard on
Saturday nights-after par
taking of a delicious buffet
provided by the company
from the best French restau-
rant in the neighborhood.
It's on the Company
The staff of Vital" is as
spoiled as a pupil in a pro-
gressive kindergarten. Its be-
nevolence and paternalism are
such, the author says. as to
make 1.-The welfare state look
like a soupline." Psycniatric
care is included in the medi-
cal plan. The office girls call
the managing editor by his
first name and when the
martini flag is hoisted, the
party is not only on COM
pany time but at company
expense.
Is everybody happy? Well,
no, not entirely. The more
or-less hero, Henry Gaskin, is
wondering If this is all there
is to life. Montgomery
Shanks, the Don Juan of
photographers, cannot seduce
Charity Cabot, the unreason-
ably chaste researcher. Crys-
tai Bidwell, the chief of re-
searchers, who sprinkles her
needlings with instantly
translated French, is scorned
by Anthony Pinckney. When
she discovers Pinckney dis
pensing human warmth to a
researcher, she has him dis
Evening star., 1961-11-05

realistic junior fiction. All
three of the following will
appeal to boys of 10 and up
who are beginning to have
their own notions of = in
dependence.
The Sarsparilla Kid" was
the nickname that a Kansas
farm boy earned when. he
ran away to join Bat Master
son and Wyatt carp in Dodge
City. Dale White writes so
convincingly about the Kid
and his innocent mistakes in
YOUNG DEPUTY SMITH
(Viking. $2.75), that the book
rises above its unrealistic
premises. Younger brothers
who suffer from teasing and
tyranny by older brothers
will especially relish this one.
HOG WILD by Julia
Brown Ride CHarpers; sass
is a substantial and dramatic
story of an old-time ranch
in Idaho. Cattle drives and
sheep drives are familiar, but
few people know the special
perils and problems of a hog
drive. Can even the most ex-
perienced roper manage to
rope a slippery hog?
The author has dedicated
this, her first book, to
Heather, who says: You
write such unexpectable
things"
A third western" with
more depth than the usual
horse-and-boy- is
Jack Steffan's FIRM HAND
ON THE REIN Gongmans;
$2.95). Born of a growing
boys protest against the dis
ciplines of growing up, the
book is psychologically sound
and packed with action. The
special hazards of riding an
Appaloosa in a horse race
and winning the trust of the
Nez Perce Indians are inter-
woven with neighbor feuds.
War stories are perennial
favorites, especially in times
of peace. Il, OVER THERE
Morrow; $3) Phyllis Fenner
has put together an an
thology of World War I fic-
ton.
Evening star., 1961-11-05
Your Fovorite Star?
She Is Little Me-

LITTLE ME: The Intimate
Memoirs Of That Great
Star of Stage, Screen and
TelevisiOn, Belle POitrine, as
told to Patrick Dennis, with
photographs by Chris Alex
ander. &c. P. Dutton &
Co.; $3.50
Of her multitude of con-
tributions to American life
and letters, perhaps the most
lasting will be Belle Poitrine's
use of quotation marks. What
we shall call the "Poitrine
Quote" its originator might
use like this:
Little did Little Me- lnee
Maybelle Schlumpfert) imag-
inc as I was being brought
up in Venezuela, H., that
someday I would be a star
a lady (the Earl of Baugh-
die was one of my hus-
bands), and the great actress
Belle Poitrine. I know this
'smacks' of boastfulness and
that some will not see eye
to eye with me, but as Sarah
Bernhardt used to say, there
are always smart alecks' of
that stripe who carp"
This autobiography, while
it perhaps hides behind a
pseudonym. is not the life
of zsa zSa, Marilyn, Mae, or
Louella, for Patrick Dennis,
the ghost writer, says in a
note that their lives will fol-
low. The life of Little Me-"
however, is as American as
apple pie-I mean, as "apple
pie"-and it brings a lump
in the throat.
= y y
1t is difficult to give the
reader an adequate idea of
the life and opinions of Belle
Poitrine-how, born at the
turn Of the century, she early
determined to be a great ac-
tresS like her mother, the
girl with the most admirers
in the house in Venezuela.
How her career led her to
Chicago, New York and then
Hollywood, and through sew
eral, indeed countless, mar
riages. How she became a
part of the British nobility,
then the wife of a million
aire movie producer, and
then that of her leading
man. How she took the coun-
try by storm in her famous
vehicles 1.-THE Scarlet Letter."
Paradise Lost, Jesus Wept"
Tin her production the cur
rent refinement of shaving
the armpits Of the actor in
the title role was not thought
of, but Belle would have ap-
preciated the small touch Of
Evening star., 1961-11-05

was George Kennan. The
sudden custer of Mr.. Kennan
from Moscow was a tragic loss
for the United States, Mr..
Salisbury believes.
Leaks out of the State De-
partment, based on a Kennan
dispatch about Italian
fellow travelling Socialist
Pietro Nenni's meeting with
Stain, may have led to
the Soviet Foreign Offices
declaring him persona non
grata. The authors recon-
Struction of how fact and
evaluation were garbled be-
fore the report reached the
public prints is an interesting
case history on how historical
legends are built.
EARL HI. VOSS.
Evening star., 1961-11-05

patched to India, instead of
Washington, where he had
set his heart. Georgia Dewey,
the ace girl photographer,
sleeps with generals, Cover
norS and corporation presi-
dents for story purposes,
really hates men.
A Documentary
Mr.. Brinkley surveys them
all lingeringly and lovingly.
If he derides them and their
resolutely democratic over
seers, he is really one Of them
at heart. "The Fun House"
Is not so much a novel
as a documentary, which
illustrates various phases of
existence on the most pow
erful popular magazine ever
gotten out by bizarre man.
agerial methods. He pays his
respects to the writer who
must do seven rewrites of a
farm crisis story, to the re-
porter who must carry the
photographers equipment
and listen to his unexpur-
gated "reminiscences of nights
of love, to the sadistic copy
editor who pushes a gentle
egghead too far. There is a
long, unproarious sequence
about a presidential cam
paign, which has a curiously
dated air since it takes place
entirely on trains. 1t ends
with an epic office party.
with the Cossack photogra-
pliers being trampled under
foot, romantically at least, by
the writers.
Mr.. Brinkley wants his
readers to know all about
life, perhaps a shade more
than they strictly want to
know. Some strenuously
whimsical passages might
better have gone under the
copy editors pencil. But it
is also hilarious, and if some
of it is rather self-conscious-
ly cute, perhaps his charac-
ters must be blamed.