Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1921, Page 20

— o0 " Washington Is to Have ~a New Gallery of Art Mrs D. C. Phillips and Son Announce In- tention of Establishing Phillips Memo- ‘Washington is to have a new art| gallery of a unique and impressive character. Mrs. D. C. Phillips and her son, Duncan Phillips, the well known nounced their intention of establish- ing here at some future time the Phillips Memorial Art Gallery, a pub- lic institution privately endowed for the advancement of art and the bene- fit of the nation. The general character of the gal- lery. as now conceived, is unusual Frank Jewett Mather has spoken of it as “an art gallery for delight”’ The building. as proposed, and for which a site has not as yet posit been selected, will be of a domes rathe: than a formal type of ar The surrounding grounds w a out as are villa gardens of Italy with terraces and appropriate adornments in keeping with the general archi- tectural plan. In this building the permanent col- lections will be exhibited units There will be rooms containing the best obtainable works by selected art- ists considered worthy of this special honor, rooms that will be memorials to the genius of the artists which their admirers will make pil- grimages. Other rooms will have edu- cational intent tracing the origin and growth of certain esthetic tenden- cies from early perfods in the history of art, and there will be groups of works by artists of similar tempera. ment and of relatedsaims which will have special appeal for _kindred spirits and will help to clarify for all students of art certain significant impulse aspects of the creative throughout the ages. Furthermore, the backgrounds will be carefully planned and executed, with the object of enhancing the effect of the paintings and of emphasizing their essential character. In other words, the pictures in_ this = gallery will be exhibited as in 2 home and vis- itors will be tempted to linger in its livable rooms. The chief purpose will be to reveal the richness of the art created in our own United States, and to stimulate our native artists, offering them en- couragement and inspiration. It is the conviction of the founders of this' gallery that if a renaissance of art is 1o come in our time it must come not from the very devoted few, but from the awakened interest and enlighten- ed patronage of the many. Their ob- Jject is, furthermore, bringing art to the people in the most attractive way without lowering the standard that art will become related to the lives of the people for their inspiration. As part of the scheme this building will contain a small auditorium for plays, concerts and lectures, and a comprehensive art library, as well as galleries for exhibitions. The plan is one which will require years to be put into execution and will, doubtless, be subject to many modifications and alterations. But, as a_distinguished critic has said, ‘the Phillips Memorial starts passing rich.” Mr. Phillips has for some years been a discriminating_collector of modern paintings in the broader sense. He is interested not, as are many collectors, in technique or mere rarity, but in beauty as manifested in art through rial Gallery—The Plans to Date. Other Notes of Art and Artists. | this country or abroad, preferring to art writer and connoisseur, have an-| emphasize his own conviction of the { here, and a little Puvis de Chavannes, | Fantin and tof | rangement in White.” Every painting {in this collection, recently exhibited in York, is, indeed,” a master- piece. ) ican Federation of Arts, and set forth | Ereatest plates various forms of individual expres- sion. He does not limit his collecting to works by Americans or works by painters of the present day either in essential harmony of all good paint- ing. In an exhibition recently held at the Century Club, New York, of paintings selected from the Phillips collection were a magnificent David Cox land- scape and a no, less beautiful land- scape by George Inness. There were, in fact, three Innesses. There was Matthys Maris. ““The Queen’s Entry Seen Jast year in the Corcoran Gallery “The Wine Pres There were three Latours. two Cland Monets and an Alfred ley, with which were shown two works by Twachtman, five paintings by J. Alden Weir, a Childe Ha am and two Ernest lLawson the same subtle and exqu spirit. With these were placed Gark Melchers' boldly realistic figure paint- ng, “The Smithy,” and Rene Menard's classical ‘Pointe Fanco- landscape, ? des Whistler's famous por- trait of Lillian Woakes and his “Ar- In addition to the main function of | exhibitions the new Phillips Memo- rial Gallery will conduct related lit- erary activities, issuing twice a year ;| “THE WINE PRES stage, as well as original poems and |! prose compositions chosen through , & s Rubens' competition. And later there will be, There are examples of monographs on some cotemporary | ¢tchings of landscape an artists. Thus, it is said, the work of | Peasant scefies by Van Ostad critical interpretation "will accom- | The Sedihdn o °f EReitat of exuit on. admirably represented. Notes of Art and Artists. The whole is a comprehensive and imposing scheme, a gift of extraor- dinary munificence. ! There is now on view at the Public | ¢d Library a delightful exhibition of twenty-four facsimiles of Dutch etchings of the seventeenth century. | loaned by the Metropolitan Museum ! ti of Art, New York, through the Amer- | teri with Ships iman, resp in sunken ma The way 1 of collectio in wh modern under the auspices of the Washing- | tcenth century etc ton Society of the Fine Arts. | lands. A distinguished etcher recently said, when asked how one could know a good etching, that the only way was to familiarize one’s self with the works of the master etchers. This |landscape had exhibition offers such opportunity. one had tried to no { “Sea Piece With Ships” ts ot Catherin an, etchin !covered and developed hy the rs of the N render ispace- or texture in etching; realistic i been n | sea and ships were unkn Herein are to be found Rembrandt's normal life of humble “Christ Healing the |nored. Sick.” “The Three Crosses.” “Christ | Presented to the People,” ‘The Three 'the passing of Trees.” “Landscape with Cottage and :tion no real Hay arn™ Field.” as well as “Ephraim Bonu Etching was in its infancy when Rem- techn and “The Goldweigher's been made in this art. Fadsimilies such as here sho !little more than curre THE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 2, 192I—PART Y. d each ha whole, pictorial was Some “of the etchings w made prior to 1630, the rest betw: 11630 and 1700. Before that fime light, de, wn and n was It is intereEting to know that Rembrandt's gene advance t novels brandt employed it as a medium of ican only with the greatest difficy expression. So great was his facility, ' be distinguished from the origin however, and so perfect his compre- Almost ev: c fford one All the prints are uniformly mount- s a idescriptive label which greatly adds to its educational value i shows n- | no air, the th i nee | | | alty | al! or CHAVANNES, SIXTH GRADE SCHOOL PUPILS COLLECT 117,850 BAGWORMS Portable Building, Northeast Washington, Takes First Honors in Biggest Drive on Pests Ever Conducte:d, ‘With the grand total of 117,850 bag- worms to their credit, the sixth grades of the public schools have closed the biggest collection drive on these pests ever conducted. ‘The portable school at 18th and Mon- roe streets northeast carries off first place honors with 17,618. Second place goes to the Tenley School, with 13,412. Some of the individual leaders in this school were Leon Pound, 2,550; William Kirby, 1,545; Bradley Burrows, 1,036. Other school scores are: Langdon, 4,445; John Eaton, 4,128; Wheatley, 2,333; Adams, 2,630, Tree Study in January. With the reopening of the schools January 3, the final weeks of the na- tional tree voting campaign being con- ducted by the American Forestry Asso- ciation and The Evening Star will be marked with the study of the pine tree, which is so famous around the holilay season. There is a state named for th_ls tree, and one of the first coins minted in this country had a pine tree on it, The nature study department of the public schools in its educational campaign wants to know if the pines are strictly evergreen; how they ac- quired the habit of Keeping thefr leaves during the winter; how to know the white pine at a distance; Wwhat valuable things are made from the white pine and the Georgia pine; how_turpentine is made; how to tell the difference between resin and rosin. The teachers will begin their rounds on the pine with the opening of schools. Work of Eighth Grades. Exhibits at the big show are being made ready for the Wilson Normai School on January 18. The superin- tendent of schools, Dr. F. W. Ballou. has approved of the exhibition of the work done by the eighth grades dur- ing their study of the trees submit- ted as candidates. This will be open to the public and the children of the grades mentioned from the afternoon of January 18 to the evening of Jan- uary.21. Mounting paper will be left at the office of each supervisor for each eighth grade under his supervision. Upon this the teachers are asked to have mounted such things as will illustrate the special study of one tree. The work that has already been done is what is asked for—miniature ar- ticles of furniture, pictures, sprays of the trees studied, compositions, maps of the trees in the locality of the school, the largest trees, etc. As there is a limited amount of paper, it is suggested that the teachers de- cide upon what is to be exhibited, brc not to have them mounted until the nature study teacher’s visit be- tween January 3-13. These charts should be at the Normal School no later than 10:30 a.m. January 17. ~o | England to Give Work to Jobless; a publication devoted to art in its ¥ THE PHILLIPS MEMORIA . most inclusive sense, which will at | B F 0 - it e et e suny e e Biriof. Negps rom verseas o e NGO fALC L Iimaitatione, Tiatinotioihia s ave s ar ia| Colietr i lies really no rea- for next May, will comprise a series | €dualed the work that lhe produced. |son why, thercfore, Rembrandt shoald ; or nex! Y. pREses % | An expert in this medium recently [not be in as many homes as Shake- ok T D, om AT ClatS T oPre | venturea (therop Mot atbraali vaor | s ars. Z it Amoclaledipiem oment. (aarge numbers of the em- ,-e;ne:‘i".grmfio(l-,z;llec_}_!'?‘n. ;’il]llhh:‘“!‘:;‘ been discovered before Rembrandt it | * ok ok ok | LONDON, January 1.—In aadition pk:iyes recently formed a syndicate rate illustrations. s = v e i - . and presen a; z lowed in December, in all probability,] WoUuld have been discovered by him At the Library of Conress has been (0 Other plans of relief for the vast| g% Presented i?\emle!\"‘:inltah::tean:?l, by a summary of the years' art, in. p]‘;::‘[.'« 0!‘ }'zlr_‘”lu?'\ l:‘ls most. s shown lately collection of color |army of unemployed workers, the|refused to receive the petitions, and cluding literature, music and " the|Pplates, a portrait of *Luc prints made primarily as book illus- | cabinet proposes that the govern.|indicatd that members of the syndi. cate would be discharged. lons or magazine insets by a well imen's own .industrial establishments known firm of color printers, repro- | ductions of paintings by cotem- |shall be placed on short time to pro- Huge Grain Exports. . Doy rtints and old masters Some |vide employment for the greatest Bltirm\'oshAmBs, Argentina.—Ten were “exceptionally fine, but the ma- million eight hundred thousand tons jority showed a wide gap between | POssible number of work people. This| 7illion elght hundred thousand tons hat currently iuse and | will avold further reduction of the|1792500,000 pesos, Were exported the b v produce b- | from Argentina during 1920, La Yoday. Within the last few years colop| ECTOTIment ooiablishments_ and ab- 05, CTELIAS QUUEE, 1930 e £ has made tremendous strides | a0y in 1919 totaled 6,770,000 tons. in this country, so that today work is | Peen dismissed. > produced h fully on a par with The government is asking employ- Miss Mary MacArthur Dead. the best work that before the war €rs of labor throughout the country | yonpon “aiss Mary Macarthur, was only produced in Germany. So|to take similar action, and is appeal-| cocrotary of the Beitish worehul e o0t s some of the facsimille!ing to the trades unions to co-operate | Trades (nion Leagus. and vice presi work turned out by our color printers |in order to tide over the trade de-|gent of the International Women's nowadays. that it s difficult to dis- pression, Congress, died at her home in Golders tinguish from the original the repro- duction. The spepial exhibition of paintings Prints of this order are ob- » 1o $20, and should do much, not Green. Miss MacArthur, who was born August 13, 1880, was married in 1911 to William C. Anderson, a mem- ber of parliament. He died in 1919 Want Spanish Ports Cleared, MADRID.—A delegation of promi- ces ranging from 50 i to familiarize people with' the inent ship brokers appealed to the|p2e% Qf PLRACTene, Tie died in 1919 best that is produced in the way of | minister of finance today regarding| ot " Mios MacATthur Was a taere: paintings which Ween produced | the long delays In clearance, which | par of the British delegation which by the master painters, but to make recently have increased owing to|attended the Washington labor con- f possible for.e v one to have ex-|the strictness of application of the!ference in November, 1919. In 1918 amples of the most delightful work | regylations of the various ports. The |she was nominated for parliament, Ay v Mamen: - finance -minister promised to do|but was defeated. everything in his power to facilitate customs operations. ——— It is said that the Chinese wash by i sehofield, 5 :L;}n\<...!)1f;‘1\721b7\"r?,"x-1;x Bll)‘r‘l“f’éfi'l”uracl?y fine silk in very pure water, and as 9. It is an ‘extraordinarily fine and Threaten Strike in Banks. ordinary well water is unsuitable, it interesting collection of work by one| MADRID.—Complications in the |is purified by putting a quantity of of the foremost American painters of ! financial situation of Spain are |fresh water snails into it for a day. today, and thoBe who have not al-|threatened by the bank employes, |These prey on the organic matter jready scen it should not lose the op- | who are contemplating a general | it contains, and, therefore, act as ortunity {ECHLI trik hich may be called at any filters. 14T0DIEFROMAUTD FETID AIR MENAGE INIURIESINN. Y. IN 1920 National Highway Protective As- sociation Deplores Lack of Laws in That State. SW YORK. January 1.—Automo- biles killed 1470 persons in New York state last year, and of these fatalities 746 were in New York city, the National Highways Protective As- sociation announced here today, com- paring these figures with 1.017 au- tomobile fatalities in the state in 1913, since when “practically no con- crete law to curb reckless driving has been enacted in the state.” Neighboring states enacting such regulations have reduced automobile fatalities 17 per cent, the society noted. This was particularly true in Connecticut, which at the Ma: chusetts border. line on the main road from Springfield has erected an inspector's house and a large sign of warnings and rules for autoists, the association added Formerly. the report stated, the pleasure car caused most of the deaths, but the commerical truck. “which has done so much damage {to improved highwavs, will soon pass the passenger vehicle as a death- dealing menace unless drastic laws are enacted.” SCOUTS REPORTED WRECK OF BIGGEST MAIL PLANE | Balboa Still at Roanoke Island, N. C.; Machine Off Florida Coast Thought Navy's. JACKSONVILLE, Florida, January 1. —Reports received here from Mel- bourne Beach via Miami to the effect that a giant seaplane believed to have been the Balboa, largest passenger and mail airplane in the country, had been sighted adrift in the gulf stream with no trace of passengers or crew were scouted today by W. H. Cushing, port pilot of the Aero-Marine West! Indies Alr Ways Corporation. owners of the plane. 3 Mr. Cushing stated, accosding to the report, that the Balboa had not yet left Manteo, Roanoke Island, N. C. where it was forced to land en route from New York to Miami, when gaso- line spilled on one of the wings be- came ignited after one of the pas- sengers had thrown a i overboard. The wrecked plane is believed to be one of two abandoned by the naval air flotilla of nine seaplanes which left Washington early in the week for Key West. According to Mr. Cush- ing he was informed by an engineer: in the corps of mechanics accompany- ing the naval air fleet, which left Miami yesterday, that one of the planes was forced to land in rough Sea just off the coast of Stewart, Fla. The bottom of the plane was torn away by waves according td Mr. Cushing’s version of the story, and a second plane descended to rescue the occupants of the first. The attempt was unsuccessul, the second plane meeting a fate similar to that of its sigter ship. A third plane was dis- patched to the aid of the disabled crafts and men of both wrecked planes were rescued. The air flotilla ;nflln command of Captain Albert C. eed. —_— Potatoes were used as food in America long before the advent of the Europeans. They are supposed to have been brought from Chile to ' Mexico. Every A'xfticle in Our Immense Stocks Included to Make This Annual Event---The Greatest Ever! | to5. to 6. First Floor Boys’ Shoes Heavy Service Tan Shoes, sizes 21 to 5..$4.85 Heavy 10-inch Storm Shoes, sizes 214 Tan School Shoeg, ball straps, sizes 214 —-— TR AR TR il j gether, Dr. Copeland sees a danger not i t ghted match ! rages and 10 CIVLIZATION New York Health Officer Sees Danger in Overcrowd- ed Homes. NEW YORK, January 1.—New York city during 1920 intensified its dis- comforting practice of sheltering sev- eral people where only one had lived before, and overcrowding increased with each passing month. But the city thrived under these conditions, the mortality rate being the lowest in the history of health department rec- ords. A survey of the housing situation showed that of 133,000 babies born in the metropolis last year, 100,000 were born in crowded tenements. Health Commissioner Copeland estimated that the population would increase another million in ten years, and that 800,000 of these people would be compelled to {“shoehorn™ themselves into tenements. Huddled in Fetid Al In the fetid atmosphere of these crowded structures, where the poor and the foreign born are huddled to- only to the health of the country, but to its civilization. Spread of Ameri- canization is repelled under such a condition, he maintained, and there is also the potential danger of multiply- ing the spread of infectious diseases. Between March and December, 1920, the two months of health department survey overcrowding increased from 19 t0 26 per cent throughout the greater city. The percentage doubled in the Bronx and grew from 27 to 39 per cent In Manhattan, the other boroughs show- ing only slight changes. 60,459 Bulldings Inspected. . In the survey a total of 60,489 build- ings were inspected. The number of lodgers renting rooms from those oc- CUDYINg apartments, tenement quarters and other dwellings increased from 31,- 616 to 69,989 during the eight months between surveys. There were few vacant apartments, the survey revealed. The number was 59 in Manhattan, 193 in the Bronx and 196 in Brooklyn. "“Uninhabitable condi- tions™ existed in many of these. In others the rentals ranged from $720 to $6.000 a year, “beyond the reach of the ordinary citizen,” Dr. Copeland sald. Many dwellings, he noted, were demol- ished to “make way for theaters, Ba- warehouses.” —_— ARGENTILE STYLES LEAD. Women of That Country Fashion- able and Buy Only Best. LLONDON, January 1.—*Britain is get- ting a firm footing in the rich mar- kets of South America,” said Sir Woodman Burbridge, managing di- rector of a famous department store in London. on h's return recently from Argentina. “American business is making big strides there also, but there is plenty of room for both the United States and Great Britain in th's wealthy market. “Argentine women are now leaders in the world of fashion and are bet- ter dressed than the women of the United States, France or Britain, They are buying nothing but the best cloth. —_— Thatched roofs in Holland are ex- ceedingly durable and some. of the oldest buildings still have the orig- inal roof in place doing good For Your Convenience---Here Are Some of the Outstanding Bargains! Buékskin, .....$5.50 . First-Floor - Men’s Lined Gloves For Street and Auto : : cks) tan dogskin and capes, a‘few ° mocha and black, all at the one price, $3.38. ; Boys’ Gauntlets . Tan Scout Shoes, “The Gold Medal Kind,” sizes 2% t06...............$445 Men’s Shoes: Black and Tan High Shoes, sold up to $14.00; sizes9io 11. Now.........$7.24 Army and Cadet Shoes, Herman’s make, in tan and dark brown ; all sizes; were $8.00. Now...........ccou.nen....$6.00 Men’s Felt Bedroom Slippers, Blue and Maroon. Now... .$1.35 All Men’s Neckwear Divided into five lots— $L.15 $150 $L85 95¢ $2.25 Automobile Gauntlets Every pair of BLACK GAUNTLETS, that sold up to $13.50, including both lined and unlined, now $5.63. Men’s Reefers Were $2.50. Now $1.95. Were $9.00. Now $4.95. All 25¢c LAUNDERED COLLARS, 19¢ each, or $2.25 dozen. 25 dozen MEN’S WHITE HANDKER- CHIEFS, 10c each. MEYER’S SHOPS ton. gray. gray. Now 95¢ the pair. Men’s Hats Men’s Golf Caps Men’s Shirts Men’s Underwear Shirts and Drawers Were $1.75, Now 90c. Choice of any in stock, $1.85. r Good warm onés, including the ones with fringe and the imitation fur backs. 3 Every hat in our stock. All-that sold up to $7.50, now $3.35. Those that sold up to $20.00, now $6.85. Any Madras or Percale Shirt, with or without collars, $2.15, or 3 for $6.00. Any Silk or Silk and Linen Shirts, $5.25, or 3 for $15.00. Ribbed white or ecru, medium weight cot- Were $3.25 to $4.00, Now $1.65. Were $6.00, Now $3.3 TR i All weights of wool and cotton, in silver Extra grade of nearly all wool, in silver e il First Floor Men’s Union Suits at Less Than Wholesale Prices Were $3.00, Now $1.65. Ribbed medium weight cotton, in white, ecru or silver gray. READY-TO-WEAR-AWAY MEN’S FOR $29.75. WE ARE STILL SELLING ANY OF OUR WONDERFUL HAND-TAILORED SUITS Now Third Floor MISSES’ TAN or BLACK LACED SHOES, sizes 1114 to 2; were $5.50. Now $3.95. CHILDREN’S BLACK PATENT LEATH- ER SHOES:; sizes 814 to 2; buttoned or laced. Were $5.00, Now $3.35. " ' Light weight wool and cotton in silver gray. Medium weight wool and cotton in silver gray. Light weight Sea Island cotton in white. Were $7.50 to $12.50, Now $5.65. All weights of fine wool, wool and cotton, 'wool ard silk. \ | Second Floor MEN’S HOUSE COATS or SMOKING JACKETS, were $13.50, now $9.75; were $19.50, now $13.75. Any MAN’S or BOY’S SWEATER in the house, now $7.85. i i MEN’S WARM BATHROBES, reduced to $8.45. MEN’S GUARANTEED ‘WATERPROOF RAINCOATS. Tan, gray and green. All made by Rosenwald & Weil. Formerly sold for $12.50 to $18, now $8.95. MEN’S SILK LOUNGING ROBES. Beau- tiful brocaded silk, now $29,85. T A “The Store With - * a Smile” MEN’S OVERCOATS, including the fa- ng_)ns Burberry’s English Coats are still 1-3 off. BELBER’S HANDBAGS and SUIT CASES are marked less than cost. Here’s your chance to buy a quality luggage at bargain prices. MEN’S GOLF SUITS. Your choice of any in the house, $23.50. Third Floor Women’s High Shoes * That we sold from $10.00 to $15.00, Now $4.65 Consisting of tan with buck top, field mouse, patent leather, patent leather with buck top, tan and black kidskin; all sizes 214 to 8, but some of the lots are not in all sizes. WOMEN’S PATENT LEATHER PUMPS, French heels, sizes 5 to 8 only. Now $4.65. WOMEN’S PATENT LEATHER OX- FORDS, with Baby French heels; sizes 4 to 7 only. Now $4.65. WOMEN’S BLACK KIDSKIN PUMPS, * with military heels; sizes 315 to 8. Now $4.65. Same in tan, sizes 214 to 815. Now $4.65. TWEEDIE'S BOOT TOPS, Black Satin and Cloth; were $4.00. Now $2.85. WOMEN'S SATIN MULES, only about 30 pairs; were $5.00, now $2.85. - HOMEN'S SUITS for strect, sport or veling, including all tweeds jersey gvzn;lisz;swa'e sold from $40.00 to $75.00, now WOMEN’S SILK HOSIERY, pure thread - silk, with lisle tops and feet, in black and cor- dovan, 95¢ pair. A few pairs of fine LISLE HOSE included in this lot. WOOLEN HOSIERY, were $2.50 to $4.50, special at $1.89. WOMEN’S TAILORED and ‘SPORT WAISTS, striped and plain colors, now $2.45. WOMEN’S TAILORED HATS, various odds and ends of Fall and Winter hats; were sold as high as $12.50, to close out, 95¢ each. 1331 F Street | » !