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Santha Rama Rau Bids Us Walk Books In R eview Softly and Not Carry a Stick I EAST OF HOME By Santha Rama Rau. (Harper & Bros.; $3.) Harnett Kane's Bridge Players | New Novel Wins Praise Reviewed by Mary McGrory By Margaret L. Fisher Next Thursday at 2 p.m. the a .6202 As the Finest Work of His Gifted Pen In the United Nations, Santha shouts and tears. She is particu- percentage. Dr. W. S. 20th annual District of Columbia Benedict is Rama Rau’s home country, India, larly good in showing the cool, second with .6124, and PATHWAY TO THE STARS. championships open at the Shore- Charles has been striving to play the self-contained relationship be- Lovenberg, .6049, third. By Harnett T. Kane. Doubleday; $3.) ham Hotel. Hundreds of aspi- In “B” mediator in the dispute between tween a mother and daughter, group (15-59 master rants will contend for six major points) Dr. C. C. Reviewed Carter Brooke Jones East and West. In this decep- which blossoms briefly into joyous McDonnell is by titles in play. The usual influx the leader with a tively sunny and feminine book, solicitude on the part *61 the .6213, place and McDonogh is a big name in New Orleans. Thirty-five of the of visitors will further intensify show Miss Rama Rau modestly under- mother. In all, a masterly, if oc- position being held by Dr. public schools bear the name, with only numbers for individual de- competition, challenging the local E. M. .6101 takes the same role and in doing casionally overweight, dissection of Short, and Mrs. signations. Every May, on the first Friday, thousands of children ranks to repeat their record chain Walter so politely but firmly tells us that the tremendous trifles which rend O’Loughlin, .5830. Top gather at a statue of John McDonogh and heap flowers in his of victories won in last year’6 se- three in class “C” we do not know what the Orient families apart. (14 points or memory. ries. less) is all about. are C. E. Thompson, .5858. But who was John McDonogh? Mr. Kane’s new novel is based on Eleven Washington-area play- and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Miss Rama Rau, daughter of Sir NOBLE ESSENCES Salvatorel tne me tms strange, misunder- ers appear in the defending line- who are tied at .5774. white Benegal Rama Rau, one of India’s stood philanthropist. Americans. The chief char- By Sir Osbert Sitwell. (Atlantic- up. First are Mrs. Breckenridge leading statesmen and former Am- When John McDonogh died 100 acter, a man entering middle age, Little, Brown; $4.50.) Long and Mrs. H. R. Young, dis- Last Monday Federal Bridge leaves his wife after 18 years of bassador to the United States, has years ago, he In this fifth volume of his auto- taff titlists and holders of the League’s team series yielded to to take with a mad- always moved freely between the Co-1 was accounted marriage up biography Sir Osbert turns to lumbia trophy. Mrs. Freda Bent- j open pair play for the October who has been a two worlds, having been educated the largest land cap girl, pick- sketches of his friends as a means ley and Lew Levenson will defend master point quota. In N-S posi- and with men. in England and at Wellesley. What owner in the pocket promiscuous of adding to the detail in his por- the mixed pair title. tion, winners were Kathleen Mc- He tries to redeem but it is this swing around the Far East United States. her, trait of his era and himself. The Friday afternoon, Lewis G. Nutt and Thomas R. Sullivent, the a of whether she will did for her was to re-awaken her He left most of question remarkable group he presents in- Tubbs, twice winner in the ’49 se- latter of El Paso, Tex. Co-victors him down to her level. Un- pride in her Asiatic heritage. his fortune to drag cludes Arnold Bennett and Ronald ries, will pair with Dr. A. J. Stein- j were Michael Michaels-David it is hard to believe As a travelogue, “East of Home” establish schools fortunately, Woodcut by Stanley Rice from the jacket design of Jesse Firbank, novelists; Wilfred Owen berg in an effort to retain the Murray, while Mrs. J. G. Fletcher in any of the characters; they is delightful. Miss Rama Rau’s and W. H. President’s and the men’s for the children I Stuart’s “Clearing in the Sky.” Davies, poets; Richard Cup Mark Lake and Ralph Grant-Eric seem prose along, she is sensitive contrived to bring out cer- ripples Sickert and Rex Whistler, artists, title. Mr. Tubbs again defends on held of New Orleans % Morgan runnerup spots. tain facets of life. The story is a to personalities and humor. Her in the event and of his home- and Sir Edmund Gosse, last of Saturday open pair Another master point for Mr, moral allegory told in terms of a traveling companions were first- the Victorian critics. As Sir Os- with Mrs. R. H. Skinner. A year o w B a 11 i- Sullivent virtue of the t n, Jesse Stuart's Stories of rate: An American named Faubion by topping realism that never is persuasive. Kentucky bert recalls ex- ago they retrieved the Woodward more. That was these “people of E-W field at the Chess Club who was director of civil- It lacks the disturbing impact of Bowers, ceptional talent, wit or genius" Cup, lost to out-of-towners for in a day when Mountaineers Are Effective Studies ian monthly on October 26, paired “Last of the Conquerors,” when censorship in Tokyo: a lively more his eight successive years. there were few they than justify sub- with Laura Hunter. Mr. Smith was writing about what CLEARING IN THE SKY such funny tales as “The Cham- American newspaperwoman, Clare “A Book of Hope of winning the Eynon schools title; Characters.” Fans had two to except and for a a opportunities K»n«. he knew and felt. But the author By Jesse Stuart. (McGraw-Hill; pion” and "To Market, to Market." Harris, while, courtly —BELMONT FARIES. Bowl which bears the name of for children of try for master points on Saturday. is still under 25. There is little $3.50.) Mr. Stuart manages in “Fight young Englishman. What gives many a bridge “great” and is the the wealthy. His will provided Matinee awards at the Stephan doubt that he again will use his Number Twenty-five” to describe this account of their higb-nearted, oldest of local bridge trophies, will that there was to be no dis- In this collection of Jesse i Walter P. Studio fell to Mrs. R. H. Skinner- gifts effectively in a future book. several staged, wagered-over bat- haphazard journeyings its pith Chrysler's spur team-of-four contestants on crimination among the children Stuart’s authentic stories of Ken-: Richard Freeman and Ray Fetz- tles between a wildcat and prized and moment, though, are the com- Sunday. The all-local quartette by reason of race, creed or color. tucky mountaineers there. are J Life ner-Ed Majeroni, seconds going dogs without being unduly grue- ments of the everyday people of Story of David Murray, William Pois- Today the McDonogh Farm many moods, varying from the Typical to Mrs. Florence Millspaugh-Man- A Book some. He can be grim, as in the Orient, who spoke their bitter sant, Maj. R. H. Skinner and School near Baltimore perpetu- Prayer humorous and whimsical to the | fred SoBernheim and the Walter “When Mountain Men Make hearts to a young woman whose of Success James G. Stone will defend their ates his memory there, but in dramatic. You feel that the Saga O’Loughlins. That night Mrs. Lilia Peace.” Sometimes there is country had been able to throw LIFE OF AN AMERICAN claim to this prized trophy. the whole educa- That One author always is sympathetic to pathos. Cook-D. R. New Orleans Every See WORKMAN. Concurrent with the team Anderson and Jean these “Old Gore.” The ingenuity off peaceably the yoke of foreign play, tional system acknowledges its people he knows so well, Darling-Mrs. W. Hamilton were of a big-time moonshiner is rule. Walter F. the Metropolitan pair match will Can Understand even when he is exposing their pitted By Chrysler. (Dodd, debt to him. j attract scores of newer bridge re- winneft at the Walsh Club, foibles. A few of the pleasantly against the cleverness Tokyo to Bali. Mead & Co.; $3. the Era. * THE OXFORD AMERICAN stories, like People of of a revenue agent in “Evidence Reviewed Sam Eastman cruits, entry being limited to play- PRAYER BOOK COMMENTARY. the title piece, are simple vignettes, It was a kind of political 5 by Bridge Calendar Mr. proceeding from a Is High Proof.” These stories ers holding less than 50 master Kane, touching a character at a signifi- are, cultural tour which in Walter Chrysler’s rise from a TONIGHT—Cavendish Club. 1621 K; du- a number Hamilton in their began points. Trophy for this event fc plicate game for members only, 8. F. facflual base and using By Massey Shepherd, cant moment. way, as effective as Mr. machine to a Others are de- Tokyo and ended many months shop apprentice The Star held for Arthur Walker Club. 1511 North Quincy, other actual characters of the Jr. (Oxford Stuart’s novels and poems of the Evening Cup, Arlington; rating 8. of University Press; veloped; some, indeed, are models later in Bali.

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