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B-3 OAKLAND TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1943 Heine's Prose WAR OBSERVER Literary- BOOKS and AUTHORS mwmwummiwmumimiKmuiuwHn ART and ARTISTS 3- Life in Great Lakes Ports Pre-Hitler Literature TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE i Rickenbacker NOVEMBER STORM, by Jay Mc- WORKS OF PROSE by Heinrich BLIND AUTHOR 'SEES' WORLD WtTH FINGERS7 By JOHN SELBY AP Arts Editor CormickDoubleday, Doran edited by Hermann Kcstftril and translated by E. B. AshtonH Two Accounts of Ordeal On Life Rafts in Pacific Reviewed by JOHN O'ROURKE This is a book of strong characters. Through its pages, obscure men stride out of their shadows of L. B.

Fischer, New York; $3. Reviewed by GLENN E. HOOVER Heine is perhaps the one German writer who Has been increasingly NEW YORK, April 3. The hotel anonymity and into the limelight of room is small, high up, with a good loved and admired since the advent view of East Side back yards and SEVEN CAME Cap. alley cat hangouts.

You sit at the tain Edward V. Rickenbacker; oubleday, Doran and Company, new York; WE THOUGHT window facing tne door, -wext 10 the door is a Closet, next to that the bed! On your right is a writing of Because he was a Jew his works have been condemned in the land of his birth, but this stupidity has only added to his popularity abroad. Although WE HEARD THE ANGELS SING, tahle. on your left a chest of by Lieut. James C.

Whittaker; drawers. P. Dalton New York; $1.50. he is best known' as a poet, his prose combines a wit and wisdom Reviewed by JOHN MORELAND It is Karsterf Ohnstad's room and you are waiting for him. In a moment the key is inserted in the Every literate American already knows the stirring tale of Captain that makes a universal appeal The English translations his 'prose lock, the door opens, and Ohnstad saysr-Hellb." He takes off his top coat and works are now out of print and it i Eddie Rickenbacker's ordeal and escape from death.

The story has i been told often and well in the newspapers. But Captain Ricken- hangs it quickly in the closet. "How is the aim of this volume to acquaint are you?" he asks, walking easily the American, readers with the de down the room. He shakes hands literature. Make no mistake, November Storm" is literature, genuine literature, no matlr what description of the writing rt appeals to its reader.

Jay McCormick must be ranked, after this book, as among the most powerful of the many voices which have been rising -out of. the Great Lakes of recent months. It is altogether probable that what Willa Cather did for the Midwest, or Edith Wharton for New England what any of the so-called "sectional" writers did for their, particular areas McCormick is capable of doing for the Great Lakes region. He has the knack of probing beneath surfaces to bring out the universal elements that make books live, and of doing it delicately yet vigorously. And he knows the lakes as thortfughly as any of 'the "sec-tionalists" know their regions and loves them as thoroughly, "November Storm" is strong evidence of his ability.

PLOTLESS AS LIFE The. story of Sean Riley and the freighter Blackfood, with which he becomes identified, is not an intricately plotted affair; it is as plotless briskly, takes out a pack of and says "Have one?" You do, and lights that are in store for them when, the complete translations of backer own story of the 21 har- rowing days he spent at sea is now at hand and nothing you have read before about the experience will I give ydTHhe same thrill of pride as he seats himself In the chair by the I 7 -i I I 1 '-v-- II i I his prose works again become Margaret Culkin Banning writes intimate letters of, wartime England have been assembled in a book. British Life In Crisis window. It happens so naturally you forget that it almost a miracle, or Uhn stad has been blind since he was 17, and he been in the hotel only a this simple account written by the chief actor in the event. FORCED DOWN AT SEA The plain facts of the story are these: the plane carrying Rickenbacker -and his aide on a special mission to Pacific battle fronts was forced to make a landing in the sea.

few hours. AUTHOR OF BRIGHT BOOK Ohnstad' book, "The World at LETTERS FROM ENGLAND, by Margaret Culkin Banning; Harper available. In a lively' preface, Louis" Unter-meyer, who has translated much of Heine's poetry, describes him as a "commentator whose prose style was a stiletto," with which he punctured every fraud, pretense and hypocrisy which he, encountered. The editor of this volume unhesitatingly calls Heine the wittiest German writer who ever lived and also the wittiest Jew of whom we have knowledge. This is high praise but it is not undeserved.

HYPOCRISY UNVEILED A clue to Heine's humor is his The plane sank almost immediately, My Fingertips," made quite a stir. It's a bright book, gay in in which he tells just what happened to him and -why, and Jiow he has and Brothers, New York; $2.50. Mrs. Banning's new book consists i leaving the survivors afloat in three I life rafts. There were three men in of "two "large" life rafts (about managed ot overcome one handicap fas life really is.

But there is a se of a series of letters written to hem after another, and even to find a Capt. Rickenbacker few advantages in his sightless state. of your bath tub) and two men (one of them very sick) in a smaller life raft. The survivors were almost wholly without provisions and entirely without They I had no means of catching fish since For example, a friend taught him Dong Kingman, San Francisco artist who has been awarded to tell -from echoes the size and shape -of things along the sidewalk a second Guggenheim fellowship. there was nothing to use for bait; daughter during a month's visit to England in 1942.

The letters cover Mrs. Banning's activities and her observations in war torn England where she had gone to investigate conditions. It is a particularly inter esting book because it covers those small and intimate details of daily life which are so often neglected. Mrs. Banning knew exactly what difference.

they had a few signal flares, but some of these were duds; and they ries of stones, air of them deeply stirring, because all of them probe deeply beneath the ordinary appearances of their heroes. The crises met by each of these heroes, and the true-to-self methods by which they face them, rimke vivid reading. Whitey, big city gambler whose veneer is melted by friendship; Captain Starr, lonely in his pride of responsibility, yet always unwilling to trade his mastery in return for affection; Burgee, club-footed ancient of the crew, reading his own failures in the mirror of I He can mark' cards inconspicu revolutionary temperament which enabled him to see straight through the hypocrisy and pretense which were invisible to his conservative contemporaries. It was revolutionary temperament not revolutionary beliefs which accounts for Heine's ously, and play good bridge and had no means of navigation other FECHIN WINS FIRST AWARD than the aluminum oars in the rafts. In this almost hopeless dition the three rafts and their eight humor, what' i called "the skating is one of his favorite sports.

He skates and knows by the sounds he hears when other skaters approach. He admits that he avoids crowded ice rinks but so do sighted people. solemn ass complex" is as common she wanted to see anct.she wrote in occupants drifted for ,21 days on the open sea, exposed to the terrific heat of a tropical sun. Of the eight men only one died and he was in her letters to her daughter exaetly IN LOCAL SHOW Shakespeare's Richard tl, pathetically imagining himself a villain DONG KINGMAN WINS ART FELLOWSHIP By H. L.

DUNG AN Dong Kingman was born in Oakland, some 30 years ago. Hia parents were Chinese who had the wisdom to send their son to China to study art. Dong Kingman's adventures In WENT THROUGH COLLEGE lie can locate curbs, partly by lw yj Is mum if -I I wi.ni.- ous Gloucester, breaking as he real bad health the accident. AMAZING MORALE Artists who visited the Oakland Art Gallery's annual exhibition of hearing and partly by the contour izes he is not; Arch, the mild mate of the paving, and quite often he What is most impressive in Cap who discovers his own manhood after years of timid questioning oil paintings selected the prize winners, each one voting by himself, has been asked directions by people who saw him striding along and tain Rickenbacker's story is the conviction these men had that they these are the plain men who become writing on-a card his selection for thought he could see. He went would be saved.

At first the con viction was easy to maintain there giants at Jay McCormicks bidding. Around each of their characters the author a microcosm within the macrocosm of his novel. The thrStiga-a "sighted" college, made 'a fraternity, earned much of hig own keep and a good time out of it. was a cheerful, optimism in almost China were very fortunate for him. and for.

the art of his own country. everyone. Then came the full real- what we want to know. For example, she tells us of women's work in munitions plant's, of details of British rationing, of the difficulties of shopping in a country where most women are engaged in some kind of work which keeps them from the shops. She describes also the work of the WAAF's, WREN'S, and the ATS.

It is not only the new England girded for battle which Mrs. Banning pictures. She flashes back 4o the happier days before the war when she and her family were in England and she wrifes with deep emotion of the tragic changes which have- takeh Dlace. This is a book Oddly, he accepts all these things ization of their desperate situation. He has received many honors in art, result is a well-knit cloth of many first and other Then all the votes were collected and They turned out in this manner, to which most of us-will agree: First prize to Nicolai Fechin, Los Angeles, "The Corn Dancer," followed by a kind of- forlorn trust among radicals as among conservatives.

It was in fact the revolutionary temperament of Heine which -made it impossible for him to fit into the heavy and obscure system of his German-Jewish contemporary, Karl Marx. Heine's wit could detect the ludicrous even among his -fellow1 for such perspicacity they could never fully forgive him. His description of the German revolutionary exiles in the Paris pf his day is unforgettable. Readers who are not familiar with Heine's wit may judge, from the following samples: "The aristocracy is composed chiefly of asses asses that talk about horses." Of a handsome but very minor poet he said: "All women love himall sexcept the Muses." When asked whether his mysterious Illness ipcurable. Heine replied: "Of course riot.

I shall die of it some day." And to the friend who hoped that God would forgive the dying poet, Heine replied: "Naturally He will and a great many more as perfectly natural. He asks no quarter from colors, embroidered with fondly-detailed sketches of Great Lakes in Captain Eddie's luck, since he anyone. was the 'man who always comes The difficulty with too many scenes. LAKES LIFE BACKGROUND back." Finally, after Sergeant Alex including, most recently, his second fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. These fellowships usually carry a yearly honorarium of $2500 which enables the recipients to carry out a certain designated work.

They, go It James C. Whittaker death came the Complete let-down that marvelous adventte' in, paint "November Storm" is not a lot of of morale. Starving, thirsty, con which became an Indian girl in her sightless people," he says, "is that they have given themselves an inferiority complex. You can sit on your rear end in a room for a life-. tim, worrying about crossing that wide street downstairs.

stantly accompanied by a collection of sharks, which performed a ma hearts sank low and God seemed very distant indeed, Captain Eddie things it might appear to be at a glance. First of all, it is hot provincial: the Great Lakes back-, ground is much less important than cabre convoy duty to the party, tne was always there, full of encourage men turned their thoughts to some native dance. With this award the artist becomes the Guest of Honor in the 1944 annual and receives the Adele Hyde Morrison gift of $100. Fechin won first honors at the Oakland annual in 1939, so now he is ment, haranguing the weak, lashing which will answer many of your questions and which will help you "If you can realize your own only to those who "by their previous work have shown them--selves to be persons of unusual ability." The artist won his first Guggenheim scholarship last year. He was the guest of honor at the Oakland higher being as the only refuge from the universal story that is being enacted against that background.

out with a caustic tongue at each the despair of their situation. Neither is it a "character one who showed signs of giving tip. capabilities, the rest isn't difficult. You may have lost your sight but you are still a capable person. Use to meet your new proMems in tne same spirit in which the English McCormick is not a psychologist, by It was this magnificent sense of women uiu.

hors concour, but we trust he will continue to exhibit at future an morale possessed by Rickenbacker ful, too, if you. want." One piece of equipment which they had was a copy -f the New Testament With this and their own prayers they addressed God in intimate but not irreverent terms and Art Gallery in 1938. having won the first award the year before. He Ohnstad lives now in Northfield, mat sept tnem going ana Drougnt any stretch of the imagination; he is talking about the down-to-earth thoughts and ambitious of real-life people, and he tells about them, real nuals. Art of Flower was the irst.Chinese-American from forgive me.

That is His business." (C'est son metier.) PROPHETIC WRITINGS Those who like their prose to be them through-rsome of thfem said they would live through it to spite Second prize went to Paul Lau-ritz. Los Angeles for "Spring Day," whom the Metropolitan Museum of Minn. He's going home by way of Indianapolis and Louisville. More, he's going alone and he expects to have a good time. him.

Art purchased a painting. they saw their prayers answered. The most irreligious and skeptical among them gained faith when in istically and interestingly. The book has action in the cafe brawls and a view of California's green hills. We noted -this same combination JJong Kingman's home is in San more Serious than witty may prefer this warning which he gave to the Arrangement shiDboard crises and crushing hur Ffancisco where he brought from As good a time as he had when answer to their prayers a sea-swal ricane that thread through it and Third prize to William Ritschfcl, for "Glorious Pacific." a which the title describes in full.

low' landed on Rick's hat, when a ARRANGING FLOWERS, by Mar-- he saw "Uncle Harry" and went to the Music Hall. I form its 'climax lrain smiall relieved their thirst. garet Watson; the Studio Publica China about 13 years ago some youthful undestanding of Chinese art and a fearlessness in the face of. wortc. We suspect that it is work that has made his success.

He has when two fish jumped info the raft. of prestige, authority and sense of duty in the story of Dixon and his two men in their 34-day ordeal in the Pacific as told in "The Raft" by Robert Trumbull. I think it is only fair to point out that any of these men, Captain Cherry, Lieutenant Whittaker or Colonel Adamson, world, concerning the possibilities of his fatherland: "Christianity has occasionally calmetkthe German love of war, but it cannot destroy that savage lust. Once the Cross, that restraining is broken, the old Norse tions, New York and London; r. Margaret Watson's advice, when An Okie's Songs you tackle a flower arrangement, is to "give it a little thought and time yes but don't take it too seri could have performed as heroically as Rickenbacker had they been Vagabond Woody Guthrie Those who received honorable mention: "The -Punch Bowl," Oafence Hinkle, Santa Barbara; "Arrangement with Pewter," William A.

Gaw, Berkeley; "Petrudies' Shack," Leonard Kester, Hollywood; "Jean," Marion Olds, Los Angeles; "La Ballerina." H. S. Wainwright. Berkeley; "My Garden," William Wendt, Laguna Beach; "Maritime," Hamilton Wolf, Oakland. As a sort of -comment on the side, and meaning nothing, it would ap ously." Then she proceeds with text and illustrations to show how flowers can and should be arranged called upon to do so.

COMPLEMENTARY STORIES to them to their best fury will take command. The old gods will rise from forgotten ruins and rub the dust pf a thousand years from their eyes-. Thor will leap to. life and his hammer will bring down-ttie cathedrals. When the crash comes it will come like nothing ever heard in history.

A drama will be performed which will make the French revolution seem like a pretty idyl." Of the two books, Rickenbacker's mingled the art of China with that of the skilful a r-coiorists of! California. Sometimes we think he goes a bit too far on the California side, neglecting the' great art of China. The artist will paint War scenes by request of the fellowship he has received. These war scenes do not have to be blood and thunder, as we understand it, perhaps just ships going to sea, soldiers and sailors about their business, before the shooting begins. Sings of Earthy Things is undoubtedly the better, not only Most of the arrangements are simple, indeed, considering the few because he was the person of most interest.

His story is more detailed, simpler and mare dramatic than Whittaker's. The comparison is not flowers used, but not so- simple if pear tnat Cauiornia artists Horn BOUND FOR GLORY, by Woody Guthrie; E. P. Dutton $3. "Anyone who has heard Woody For prophesying the greatest of Laguna -Beach, Carmel, and on down South, are doing some good you consider the thought and artistic skill which went into each arrangement.

On the'other hand, the flower arrangements shown in many full page illustrations and in PRAYER IN A CRISIS It is a common phenomenon that the nearer one gets to the battle-fronts the more. praying is done, and this has been expressed hypme-one who said that -there were no atheists in the fox holes of Bataan. It is true also that the poor are always religious, the rich rarely so, and the intelligent clergy who lead comfortable lives are almost always skeptical. To Lieutenant Whittaker, a confirmed agnostic, these manifestations of divine guidance were unmistakable signs of the efficacy of religion. He emerged from the ordeal a stronger, better and more convinced man than before.

The lame" is- probably true of all Jhe Ithers including Rickenbacker. The fact benev- alent divine force was at work in their favor, there was one force that was present with them all the time and that was Captain Eddie's morale and his sense of duty. CHEERED BY RICK He stood the ttfst of bravery abSve the others because he was the senior officer present and the person of prestige In thepariy: Whe n- jobs. Artists, up here, by their by any means an unfavorable one because without Whittaker's account we Should not have the complete picture of the situation there are some things which even Ricken dramas, now under way, Heine deserves more credit than do many of its chief actors. Those who discusSing what to do with.

Germany Guthrie's earthy songs over the air votes, admit it. structions given should' inspire any- Dr. Genthe's Photos Of SJFV Fire Exhibited would expect him to write a unique one-tn-give a little moreu-thnughtJ after-the war sftould-not forget-to4 Two New Exhibits backer's honesty" not permit him to say about himself and time when tossing flowers into a jug. Flowers respond splendidly that. But whether you like the par make it safe for the reputation of Heinrich Heine.

Lieutenant Whittaker, a resident At Legion of Honor la i I ticular brand -of uniqueness offered to- thought and time, as this book shows. by this brash young guitarist who is PI? of Burlingame, has the misfortune to have his excellent story slightly Two New Shows at The author arranged flower perhaps the last of our genuine I1' 1 i overshadowed by RicKenbacker'sl importance and popularity. The OaMand Art Gallery groupS for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of Kent in England, but is badk in vagabonds perhaps, indeed, the Francois Villon of America will depend on whether you like his Two exhibits of unusual interest at the California Palace of the Legion Honor are" "Marines" by Leon Lundmark, "Paintings" by Martin Baer. Lundmark distinguished himself in marine painting, revealing an unusual capacity for. translating that reader will find, however, regardless of which story he reads first, a An exhibition of watercolors by America carrying on her chosen pro- great interest in completing both James Couper Wright will open today at the Oakland Art Gallery.

songs and their subjects. There are a number of good ession. In her book she offers many suggestions for flower arrangements stories. They are epic monuments to American courage, endurance and things about his book. Few of our Wright was chosen "Guest of Honor at the gallery's 1942 watercolor an at weddings or mst in the home.

profeflcionoi writoro hava the nvp tnr tup sra in ail its mnnns with a few flowers she creates nual. This one-man show and an works of art worthy of study. There exhibition by the Print Makers' So Of particlular- interest to. old-time San Francisco, residents are 39 photographs of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906,. taken by the Arnold Genthe.

Firefighting apparatus in action, refugees camping in the parks and vacant lots, street scenes and the wreckage of many important and private buildings and panoramic views of the city during and im-mediately after the fire, are all in the show. Born in Germany in 1869, Arnold Genthe took his Ph.D.' degree in 1894 at the University of Jena, coming shortly afterward to America. He turned from his early' desire to become a. painter and became instead a photographer, soon establishing an international reputation. He is represented in such important rrraseum collections as those of the Metropolitan Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Library' of Congress in Wash Lare also instructions regarding con ciety of California, which also opens.

People Act Queer tainers, etc. today, -will run through April 25. 7 Woody Guthrie Russian Tanks At Seige of Leningrad graphic touch Guthrfe puts into his descriptions. None of them speak his language. It is impossible to agree with the publisher's definition of his dialect as "the national it simply isn't.

But something just as colorful. the full power of that dialect felt in his pathetic account of his mother's madness and his father's failures; in the bloody stories of his gang fights and individual Thorough Pre-Flight Instruction and aspects into color-feelings and forms. In boyhood he lived in his native Sweden, later carried on his wor.k in- different parts of the world and was widely exhibited, and it the close of his life niade his home on the Pacific Coast. The exhibition of paintings bv Martin Baer include nearly fifty of his best-known works from private collections and museums throughout the world. A nativevAmerican.

Baer has ex Set Forth for Would-Be Aviators 1 WHITE MAMMOTHS, by Alexander Reviewed bf JACK BURROUGHS human flotsam he pictures tossed Poliako.v, P. Dutton and Com back and forth by the tides 01 BEFORE YOU FLY, by Pearle fights; in the roaring pictures he paints of Oklahoma and Texas bopm hibited in the United States since- Place to (avigalion) A "flight check" at the end of pany, New York; $2.50. Thurber Robinson, Frederic A. In Front of Mikes MIKES rfON'T BITE. Helen Sioussat; L.

B. Fiscer, New York; $2.50. Joan Crawjord removes her shoes when broadcasting. Claudette Colbert cried after singing over the "mike" for the first time. Edsel Ford couldn't keep his knees from shaking when 'on the air.

These, and scores more of hitherto unrepealed -idiocyncrasies of celebrities and personages when faced with a live microphone are but one of the many facets of this first Middleton, Dr. George M. Raw 1926. He has had two shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in each chapter in the form of a qucs f' Here is an enthusiastic account lins Jr. and -Major Joseph W.

booms and depressions. What he brings to the Okies as we know them is a little more understanding. He is neither as 'crude nor as psuedo-realistic as other writers about these people have been. all maior cities in this- country a tionnaire affords, thestudent the opportunity to check" Up on the THEY SING THEMSELVES And his songs. No adjective is of Russian tank warfate written by a Red Army correspondent, author Phillips; Henry Holt N.Y.

$2.75. well as abiad. Baer spent several adequate to describe the delight it amount of knowledge he absorbs and retains as he goes along. A years in the Far East, painting in Laghouat, a small oasis on the edge of the Sahara, and later at the 'If of the Dont Sur 1 render," who has now been re With the attention of the youth set of questions also follows each Guthrie knows them, he is of them and he tells about them simply, truthfully, without either tar or ington, D.C., and has received many awards both here and abroad. He has illustrated several books, among which are the famous "Old Chinatown," 'rThe Book of the Dance," "Impressions of Old New Orleans" and "Isadora Duncan." His autobiography, "As.

I Remember." contains cojgments on many of the illustrious figures who sat to his lens and is illustrated by over a hundred of his most lm portant pWotographs. unit, under the challenging title: "Try Your Wings!" is to see these songs sing themselves in print. For that is exactly what they' do. Add to songs like "Music Band," the jubilant "Well, I Gotta Brother, Th' Talkin' Blues" add to these his theme: ported killed in action. Mr.

Poliakov tells the story of a group Sof five of the Nation turnirfg skyward as never before, an authentic book on the subject aviation is as food to the hungry. And when such The unit devoted to aerodynamics whitewash. MANY-SIDED STORY Oasis of Colomb-Bechar, Fez and Moroc6o. He has recently returned from a long sojourn in Spain and France. Though most of belongings- were lost during his hur tanks called "White Mammoths by covers such topics as the "anatomy' of a plane the names and tunc volume is -slanted dehberateiy work by Helen Sioussat.

director of the department of radio talks for and understandingly toward the tions of its different parts; the basic the frightened Nazi soldiers who en countered them. If you must have a moral, you can probably find one in "Bound for Glory." But is isn't essentially that ried" exodus from Pans under bom -the Columbia Broadcasting System. boys and girls of pre-flight age it bardment, he was abie to save the Miss Sioussat, a "veteran" of is doubly certain of a grateful re This particular- group of tanks kind of a book, despite some at laws of physics that affect flight; the various forces affecting flight: the control of the airplane. AVIGATION COVERED greater part of his paintings. ceotion.

tempts to insert "messages." It is was known as the KV's, since tney Such a volume is the new and Dutch Artist's Work At S.F. Art Museum the many-sided story of a many radio despite hrr youth, has encompassed in this book an autobiography, a rare selection of prize "boners" on the air, and intimate were named in honor of Marshal This train don't carry no gamblers, Liars, thieves and big-shot ramblers; This train is bound for glory, This trainl and you have a song-fest that sets your toes to tapping. "Bound for Glory" is something else besides the story 06 Woody Guthrie, singer and artist, boomer and chore-boy, rod-rider and for Subjects making up the unit de complete edition of. "Before You Fly." This; pre-flight manual sided vagabond, and it ought to be enjoyed for that Woody Guthrie has simply written a longer song Klementi Voroshilov. They were built In a factory in the Urals and forth the- essentials of aeronautics Helmut Hungerktnd Exhibits in S.F.

Water colors and drawings made in various parts of the world by voted to meterology include: Temperature and Its Measurement, Stability of the Air. Pressure and Its in language that is simple and Paintings by Jan Schreuder, Dutch artist long resident in Ecuador, are on view at the San Francisco Museum of Art through April 30. Schreuder, born in Holland in 1904, were-assiened to the job of help personal glimpses of such international figures as "President Roosevelt, Queen Marie of Rumania, Wendell Willkie, Lord Halifax- and man usual. Some readers will ask, "with his Wiifgs and Their direct. COMPREHENSIVE VOLUME ing to lift the siege on the Lenin- Rainbow Room auditionist: "Where Helmut Hungerland are being shown at the San Francisco Museum front.

Thev were iar iicavic. does this narticular snnff pnrt sir?" tune teller." At least a part of it is settled in Latin-America in 1926, The first three chapters are Elmer Davis, whom she "discovered" for 'Vthan the German tanks, which op- also the story of the "Okies," the Some will call it an epic. J. O. of.

Art through April 18. Hun ge'rland is not. only an artist. Througnout the smooth, work, illustrated by but an art historian; a psychologist Literary Musings Crude in Form WHISPERINGS AND WHIMPER-much- and amusing drawings, are interspersed sound words of ad vice to "would-be devoted to Futures in Sky and set forth the opportunities offered in various fields of aviation. The remainder of the course is divided into seven units which deal with the following subjects: Why Do Men Want Fly? (Flying and Fliers); What Makes a Plane Fly? and an aesthetician.

This exhibition includes a series of sketches, from briefly noted illustrations of life in expresses himself in radio artists, executives and just Measurement, Humidity and Its Measurement, Precipitation and Its Measurement, Air Masses and Frontal Weather and the Pilot Avigation by visible landmarks, by radio and deduced reckoning, popularly known as "dead'" reckoning, make up the main portion of the unit devoted to avigation These and the other units in the volume," if carefully and conscientiously covered, assure the pre-flight student of a thorough preparation for mastery of the basic principles of aviation in its mani ING3, by Jay Rai.z; Poet Pub lisher, New York; $1. many countries to character studies plain guest speakers. It is worth the price alone for its information He has lived in Venezuela, Tant-dad, Guatemala, as well as Ecudor, where he works for the Shell Oil Company. Subjects for his paintings in this exhibition were found in Ol'atemala and the Ecuadorian Sierra. Most often depicted are the natives, although several landscapes' are included.

Three drawings, struck off with shorthand rapidity, indicate th'f keen penetration of his interpretation a keenness which if enriched in hi? richly painted oil! which make up the balance tt the show. posed tnem na Mr. these encounters with great Vigor. The tanks, themselves, are not the only heroes of the book; there are also the men Vho run them and th workers who mad them. Such bookras this enable us to appreciate the spirit behind the heroic resistance of the Russian Army.

The book is well illustrated with official of this nature, and yet it holds a (aerodynamics); How Are Planes of men 4ike--8ertrand Russell. Ihe major part of the show, however, is devoted to delicate and sensitive Though -cast in verse form, these jottings, memoranda on the many forthright manner on the wrongs and "indecencies that we still have with us. He has a special abhorrence for the Hitlers and their jungle ways, and is equally emphatic in his denunciation of all the enemies of men. "As yet, however, general appeal for all who glean. Built? (aircraft structures); How are water colors, accomplished by means Planes Powered? (engines and How Does the Changing entertainment and knowledge from the receiving end of radio.

Which offers a wide field for Miss Soius- things a thoughtful pesson thinks hot poems. They are incomplete. unfinished, merely the Air Affect Flights? (meteorology); What Aids Do Pilots Have? (instru- of a dry brush, which without melodrama convey the quiet sentiments associated fcwith the Neo-Romantic movement he is in too much of a hurry to get erms of But it must be sat's introduction into the literary world, W. T. photographs.

J. M. things said to say them significantly, ments); How Do We Fly From One agreed that Jay Ranz has observed fold phases. JLL.