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THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D.«C, MARCH 4, 1923—PART 5 Jackie Coogan, Self-Made Millionaire Of Eight Years, a Regular American Kid "™ Though He's the Pet of a Nation and Its Most Highly Paid Child Actor, He Is Unspoiled at Home—Has Normal Desire to Play in Mud, Shoot Marbles and Build Houses—A Voice Which Would Be Useful If He Were on the Legitimate Stage—Lacks the Self-Consciousness of Most Boys of His Age for He Is Perfectly at Home With Anybody. BY LESTER LEAR. AN a self-made young man who has the probabllity of earning a million and & half dollars during the year main- tain his equilibrium and presence of mind in the face of such phenomenal succe: Can this same self-made young man. it he is but eight vears of age, re- main the same lovable and unspoiled | boy he might be were he not so rich? In other words, could any youngster | of eight years, after being petted by a nation and booked to be a mil- lionaire, as Jackie Coogan is, be a real American kid, with the same desire to play in the mud, shoot mar- bles and build houses out of chairs that other boys of elght years have? Jackie Coogan is the llving proof that such a thing is possible. When we called to see Jackie in his suite in the Biltmore during his recent visit to New York he was hi- lariously and engrossingly interested in u game of marbles with one of < numerous grown man-friends. ; here. Jackie. Here are two men who w to see you. One wants to draw some pictures of yvou the other wants to talk to you.” nounced Jackie's father. With b0k of regret at the mar- bles on the floor. Jackie immediately abandoned the game and presented himsdf for an introduction. It wouldn't have required the services of an expert in child psychology see that Jackie would much rather play marbles than be drawn. But Jackie gave no indication. He is too well mannered for that. th to | The thing that mort interests us. | when we see a celebrity for the first time after cecing his piclure time after time is—does he look picture? celebrities do and some Juckie, if anything, is re: r than we were led to believe his pictures. Slim with colored hair. his ¥ osmi by sandy big brown eves seem Bigger and browner | are. And when he’ smile is going tha smile: earn a mi him The is can't really that and ey this thing that impressed us most kie's voice. What a pity be portrayed on the screen with his smile. His grammar his enunciation clear and nd his voice the same lov- child voice that any young- ars might have cet able litti ster of eight ¥ H mean entl paratory to being sketched. then wiggled onto the arm of the divan In order to watch the artist. < it hard to do that?” he asked. A few minutes later the artist said he picture that Jackie ed during the filming of “The Jackie had seen an artist at and wanted to dabble with the paint himself. The result had been pre- perved as a keepsake, and it was this that the artist referred to. “I never painted anything.’” swered with the guilelessness ildhood AVING his picture made is an old to Jackie. visit his voung life. story little so our had seen pan woris Jackie of c Who but an eight-year-old, teing a | nk of accomplish- would th re- to any famous acior, nounc claim like his| and | a half dollars for | it Ovedi- | he climbed onto the divan pre- | had | “COOGAN. SENIOR. PROCEEDED “I don't see how I can wait nounced with another sorrowful little sigh. A messenger arrived then with a long package which Mrs. Coogan ac- cepted. “Oh, they’re not for me,” she an- nounced after reading the label on the box. “For me?” an excited little voice asked as Jackie again jumped from the divan. “Yes, flowers, “Oh.,” It was only an exclamation, but it spoke volumes about Jackie and volumes we were most intergsted in hearing. What normal American kid of eight years could be expected to go Into ecstasies over a box of flowers? Jackle returned to the divan. * kR k ACKIE was trying his best to give his undivided attention to the work of posing for the artist, but his TO DEMONSTRATE THE PROPER WAY TO KILL WOODEN SOLDIERS WITH TOY GUNS.” On one end of the divan were piled | various articles of base ball equip- ment. three gloves, a mask and a chest-protector. Jackie's tutor in formed us that there had been quite an argument a short time before when the young star had been com- | pelle to remove his base ball uniform | and don a little play suit. The base | ball uniform is one of his proudest | possessions, as are the other items of | base ball equipment. | to these is his dog. | As his mind jumped to the subject { paramount in the mind of any norma eight-year-old youngster, he suddenly asked: “Has Moody come back yet, daddy?” she hasn't come back vet.” *“Oh dear, I wish she'd come,” and a plaintive sigh was audible. Soon after, Moody came in and her arrival was the signal for a | quick leap from the divan and two | soft little arms went about her neck. “Oh, Moody, I'm so glad you came,” | he exclaimed. ! And then came the | Moody had brought three revelation. toys for Jackie, but they were not to be dis- | | played until the artist had completed | the sketching. “Oh, Moody, won't you just let me take one tiny little peek?” he pleaded. “No. you must wait until the artist is through with you.” “But, Moody. can’t you just tell me what they are. then? Mooly was adamant. howey Ranking close | mind constantly reverted to three mysterious packages his mother had brought. Frequently he would anxiously ask if the artist were “through yet.” Frequently he would break the monotony by childishly demonstrating his ability to sing. And he can, too. Even the most distracting of things must end and the artist finally an- | nounced that work. Then it was that Jackie tos a new lease on life, rolled his eyes | and smacked his lips in keen antici- | pation. | But there was one more item of | duty to be performed before the toys could be presented. Jackie was recov- | ering from a severe cold and a cough | still lingered. It was time for his | medicine. | “Have you had your medicine vet" his father asked. No, daddy, dear.” The medicine was taken and the re- { | |electrical toy that answered ques- | tions, and last, but not least, a small gun with a supply of rubber vacuum- tipped darts, together with an array of soldiers which were supposed tq be -targets for the darts. And now Jack Coogan, sr.. enters into the story. Our personal obser- | vation is that Jackie has his father's |eves and hair. Coogan senior was born in Syracuse. N. Y., but much of his Jife has been spent in other cities, those | he had completed his| ward was nest on the program. The| toys proved to be a picture puzzle, an | and on the vaudeville stage. For a time he operated a garage in Brook- Iyn at Schermerhorn and Court streets, in the days when garages were about as common as airplane hangars are now. His days in Brook- lyn when he “palled around” with newspaper men in a neighborhood bowling alley form a warm spot in his memories of life before he became the parent of a young millionaire. His position most beloved child hasn’'t changed Coogan, senior. To use an apt ex- pression in slang, he isn’t at all “up- stage,” nor has he forgotten the days when ten or fifteen dollars constituted a week's salary. Going back still farther, we doubt if Coogan, senlor, has forgotten the days when he him- self was eight years old. The toy that most interested Jackle (and Coogan, senior, too) was the gun."The soldiers were arrayed at one end of the room and Coogan, sen- {jor, proceeded to demonstrate the proper way to “kill” wooden soldiers |with toy guns. One rubber-tipped {dart 1anded on the wall, another bare- {1y missed a window, but none hit the |soldiers. During the exhibition | Jackie was fairly itching to get his hands on the gun. ‘Please, daddy, dear. may T shoot the gun?’ Jackie inquired of his fond | parent. Perhaps Coogan, senior, wanted to demonstrate to us that it really was | no easy matter to hit the soldiers and that in comparison with his son he himself was quite a marksman. At any rate, he turned the gun over to | Jackie, who flopped to the floor, took careful aim and knocked over a_sol- dier the first time * * * % is no genius. He is an ordinary American youngster whose ability has been properly handled and developed rom early childhood. just as any other normal youngster could be de- veloped under proper conditions. And his development has left him a per- fectly normal boy who likes to play in the mud, romp with his dog. cavort in his little base ball uniform and generally cause consternation by completely covering his clean clothes with dirt. Nor have his development and success “spoiled” him, for he is unusually well mannered and obe- dient for a boy of eight vears. He is not self-conscious as most | eight-year-old boys are. His expe- “stranger” from his vocabulary. He is perfectly at home with anybody; as much as any other boy would be with his own parents. He doesn’t try to “show oft” before strangers, how- ever. In brief, he is just as cute, just as lovable and just as clever in real life as he is upon the screen. Jackie's parents are careful to see that the little movie star has twelve hours' sleep each night. At § in the morning he gets out of bed and plays until 9, when he eats. From 10:30 until 4:30 he is at the studio with his tutor, and these hours are spent in aiternately working and studying. From 4:30 until 6:30 he plays. After eating, he plays until § o'clock. when Ihe is tucked in bed for the night. | Such is the daily routine of this self- made little millionaire of eight vears. r. Dooley On The Intellectual Life BY FINLEY PETER DUNNE. ir,” said Mr. Doo- t must be a grand s to be a colledge profissor.” to do” said Mr. deal to say.” said i v, “lvry day th' minyit T pick up me pa-aper. afther I've read th' eriminal an’ other pollytical news, Ih spoortin’ news, th' rale-estate ad- vertisemints, th' inv tation fr'm th’ Jiured foreign gent to meet an erican lady iv some means, th’ cpoortin’ news over again, thin th' iditoryals. T hasten to find out what th' colledge pro-fissor has to say. T wish th' iditor wud put it in th’ <ame column iv the pa-aper ivry day. “hin he wudden't have to collect anny other funny column. ‘Humorou: rro-fissor Windhaul Harvard Jnakes a savidge attack on Abrgham 1 eat neoln.’ -As it is. T sometimes have to hunt inrough th' pa-aper frm th' New scy murder on page wan to th' ligious notes on page two hun- Aherd an’ four befure I come acrost we fav-rite funny sayin's kv funny tellows. 've been collictin’ these wurruds wisdom f'r a long time, Hinnissy, 4’ I'm now prepared to deliver ve a o iple colledge lecture on all sub- ‘s fr'm th' creation iv th’ wurruld: ‘Young gintlemen: I will begin be * that 1 have me doubts about arvous stories consarnin’ th' ere- jv th' wurruld. In th' first Do T dismiss with a loud laugh th’ u.‘-Ey' that it was created in six days. | ctd: make such a poor wurruld as 1hid in two days with a scroll-saw. “Akelly preposterous is th' idee {hof 3t wasn't*made at all, but grew t nawthin’. - Me idee is that jic th atig 15 ruld is a chunk iv th’ sun that g i «$ @hipped off be a collisyon with th' moon, cooled down, an’ advertised roomers. -“As to its age, 1 differ with th’ Bivle. Me own opinyon iv th’ arth is that it is about twinty-eight years old. That is as far as I go back. * ok % % un 3 €6 ¢QPEAKIN' iv th’ Bible, 1t is an inthrestin’ worruk, but th’ En- glish is poor. I advise all iv ye not 10 injure ye'er style be readin’ th’ prisint editions, but if ve want rale good English ve will read th' Bible ahranslated into Hoosier di'lect be | Iro. r Lumsum Jiggs iv th’ Uni- arsity, v Barry's Coralr, wan iv our Hen- | “TH' AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE gr-reatest lithrachoors, whose loss to th' sedy-wather business was a glor- yous gain to relligion an’ letthers. “‘If ye want to make a comparison to show ye how lithrachoor has im- proved, compare th’ wurruks iv Ho- mer an’ Jiggs. ‘Homer nodded. to me, but he nodded. nodded? “‘Niver. He hasn't time. He is on his four thousandth book now, an’ has larned to wurruk a second typewriter with hts feet. Read Jiggs an’ f'rget about Homer. 8 *“*‘As f'r Shakespeare. e is a dead wan. Th' opinyon I have iy Shake- speare is so low that I will not ex- press It hefore ladies. I ain't sayin’ that his wurruks have not been pop'lar among th' vulgar. An' he might have amounted to something if he had been jjacated, but his lan- He niver noddea But has Jiggs lguauge is base, an' he had no im- agination. ““Th’ gr-reatest potes th’ wurruld has projooced are Ranson Stiggs.an’ J. B. Mulcoon iv Utice. Th' Utica school iv pothy has all others badly stung. J. B. Mulcoon has discovered move rhymes f'r dear thin Al Tinny- iver heard iv. Mc opinyon iv pollvticks. if ve shud ask me fr it, is that we might 40 ALL GETTIN' TO BE INDIANS AGAIN.” as well give up th’ experimint. A govermint founded be an ol' farmer llke George Wash'n'ton an' a job printer like Bin Franklin was bound to go down in roon. It has abandon- ed all their ideels—which was a good thing—an’ made worse wans. “‘Look at Lincoln. There's a fel- low ivrybody is always crackin’ up. But what did he amount to? What did he do but carry on a war, free th’ slaves an’' run this mis-rable coun- But who asked him to free {th’ slaves? I didn't. ‘ | “:An’ who ar-re th" mob that difect this counthry? A Igt iv coarse, rough ipeople, who ar-re sawin’ up lumber an’ picklin’ pork, an’ who niver had a thought iv th' higher life that makes men aspire to betther things an’ indijestion. ““They gr-re ye'er fathers an’ mine, young gintlemen. Can I say worse thin that? An' to think iv th' likes iv thim runnin’ this govermint! “‘By Jove, if I had raymimbered when it was {liction day I'd have larned fr'm me milkman how to vote an’ gone down to th’ polls an’ dhriven thim fr'm power. “‘Well. there's wan consolation about it «ll: th’ counthry won't last long. T noticed th' other day it had begun, to.craok, Whin it.sinks ye'ers l | thruly will be near th' edge, ready to jump off. ok 66 6 A NNYHOW. it don't much. Th' American mather people Walkin® down today. T observed | twinty-two people who looked to me | like Indyans. Next week 1 intend to verify me conclusyons be buyin' a picture iv an Indyan. ““But I'm intirely convinced that in three or four year at laste we'll all be livin' in wickey-ups an’' scalpin’ each other.’ “I like it, Hinnissy. What T like most about it is that a colledge pro- fissor niver speaks fr'm impulse. He thinks ivrything out thurly befure announcin’ his opinyon. “Th’ theery iv me larned frind that very soon ye'd seen me r-rushin’ down Archey road with a tommy- hawk in me hend, thryin' to thrade off a pony f'r a wife an’ a wife f'r a bottle iv wood alcohol. didn't leap out iv his gr-reat brain in a scanfla- lous hurry. He pondered it long an’ carefully. Th' idee sthruck him at breakfast while he was eatin’ hie prunes an’ did not machure till he was half through with th' ham an’ eggs. “So with Pro-fissor Windhaul. didn’t land on Lincola till he was sure iv his ground. He first made inquiries an’ found out that there was such a man. “Thin he looked f'r his name among th' gradjates iv Harvard. Thin he bumped him. “It's a good thing Lincoln wasdead befure he was assaulted. He niver wud have survived th’ attack. “It’s a fine thing f'r th’ young men who set at th’ feet iv these lhrned ducks. A little boy is chased away fr'm home an' enthers wan iv these here siminaries. He was licked vis- He the chin. but tomorroh he will be cheerin’ wildly while Pro-fissor Bumps tells him universal suffrage was a bad break. “If he has a weak chest an’ can't play fut ball, he goes on imbibin’ wisdom ontil he arrives at th’ dew pint, whin his alma mathery hurls him at th’ onforchnit wurruld. He knows fifty thousan’ things, but th® on’y wan {v thim that he cud prove is that Bill Roper was a gr-great fut ball coach. * % X % SPHIN begins his rale colledge career. Th’ post-gradjate coorse is th' best in (0 wurruld. Th' en- thrance fce is all he has. Th' wur- ruld takes it Away, fr'za him $h' minyib | father of America’s! UR own observation is that Jackie j riences have removed the very word | ar-re all gettin’ to be Indyvans again. | terdah f'r neglectin’ to scrub below | rt World’s Center of Gravity Now Tends to Shift Westward BY STERLING HEILIG. 5 PARIS, February 19. OMER SAINT-GAUDENS is the son of—just Saint-Gauden: Of his father, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the grand old American sculptor, we say, sim- ply, Saint-Gaudens, as we say Long- fellow, Whistler, Edison. Seldom do the sons of great men attain per- sonal distinction. Homer Salnt-Gau- dens, still a comparatively young man, has.worked up to be art di- rector of Carnegle Institute. Backed up by all the weight of Carnegle at home and abroad, he has been two months in Europe on a notable mission—of preparing what was, vesterday, “the greatest art show in_ America,” and what has, since, passed even beyond that fine description—notably! Like this: The twenty-first inter- national art exhibition of Carnegie Institute, which opened last April in Pittsburgh_and has since been tour- ing (In its European section) Roch- ester, Toledo, Omahs, Cleveland and St. Louls, was, already, “the only an- nual art show in America Where artists, critics, museum directors and the public*“could brush up on and review what is being done, currently, in Europe.” Now, by the number and cminence of foreign cclebrities which it will hang beside cur best Ameri- cans, the twenty-second Carnegie in- | ternational actually shifting the center of gravity of the art world | westward By f{ts tours of Amer n cities (which continue annually), Carnegle permits your home town to ;mrt‘ rivalry with the Paris Salon! i 1 suw Momer Saint-Gaudens yes- | terday in Paris “How many pictures are you taking | back?” I asked. “We hear of an extraordinary new jury system, which permits France, for example, to pick out her own best painters and send them over to us. to compete Wwith {the world. 1x it cqually true of Eng- ‘land pain, and so on?” i “We are taking about 140 European painters,” he answered, “and. in doing s0, we started the & to which you refer and which | | enlarge next yvear—of let ting the artists of each country them |selves choose their best men. For| {France; England and the CUnited States it is established. In each Carnegie makes a committee of seven representatite men. To these- we | give lists of painters of thelr land whom we think decent—large lists.¢ 4nd then we leave the cholce entirely to those national committees. “‘We have room. we say to them, | ‘for forty invited paintings from France, forty from England, eighty | from the United States, and =o on.| You take this list of the painters of your country and pick as you| please from it, according to your knowledge and judgment. You hand us back the list which you will thus make of your important painters as you see them—and the director of Carnegie will act as your executive and ask these painters for pictures.’ “It is a thing that has not beea done anywhere,” said the art director | of Carnegie. “because these national | committees are not advisory, but| have absolute power. The ony con- trol we e in their picking of painters s the original control we Bad in choosing them, the natfonal committees.” Even here. of course, Carnegie is back iwe shi | i i ! HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS, DIREC- TOR OF FINE ARTS AT CAR- NEGIE INSTITUTE, PITTS- BURGH, WHO- VISITED PRAC- TICALLY ALL THE IMPOR- TANT ARTISTS OF EUROPE, IN THE INTEREST OF TWENTY- SECOND INTERNATIONAL EX- HIBITIOM i | circumseribed in such committee choosing by noblesso oblige, for one | thing, to give each school a chance, iand by its very object—to attain the best forty invited pictures possible in France, this season (plus the un- invited who break past the jury of oot el it Bl S he thries to apply his celledge pro- fiesor's idee that undher th’' doctrine iv probabilities two pair ought to beat three iv & kind. “He hasn't on'y wan new pro-fiasor, but twinty millyon, old an’ young, rich {an’ poor, men an' women, especyally women. He can't shirk his lessons. He has to be up in th’ mornin’ bright an’ arly larnin’ an’ passin’ examina- tions. , “He's . gn'y told annything wanst. If he don't raymimber it th’ next time he is asked, some pro-fissor gives him a thump on th' head. “Any time he don’t like his dear ol' alma mather he can quit. Th’ wur- ruld ainjt advertisin’ f'r anny stu- {dents. “TM lists are always full. Th' coorse lasts fr'm wan ‘to sixty vears, an’ it gets harder to'rd th’ commince- mint day. a good-scholar, an’ behaves himsit, an’ listens to th' pro-fissors, an’ wurruks hard, he can gradjate with honors. ‘In anny case, he is al- lowed to ‘Write out his own diploma. He knows best what he Is entitled to.” “If weihad a boy wud ve sind him to colledge?” asked Mr. Hennessy. “Well,” said Mr, Dooley, at th’ age | whin a boy iz fit to be in colledge 1 wudden't. have him around th' hous l (Oopyright, 1928) Homer Saint-Gaudens, Carnegie Director, Developirig Plan by Which Foriegn Nations Have Control of Their Own Showings in In- ternational Exhibition on This Side of Atlantic. Artists of Each Count ry Themselves Choose Their Best Men—In Addition to Invited Paint- ings, All Have Privilege of “Winning Way.” PORTRAIT OF AUGUSTUS E. JOHN, CELEBRATED ENGLISH ART- IST, BY AMBROSE- McEVOY. JURY OF THE CARNEGIE IN TERNATIONAL EXHIBITION admission by their merit, rather than |just that much. without at all re-|tainly merit mixed with reputation). So, far England, France and America, and ultimately all. The committee must. in the nature of things, be composed of representative men in their art ard country. Here is the French committee: Henrl Martin and Ernest Laurent (from the “Old” Salon des Artistes Francals) Le Sidaner, Henry Lerolle and Lucien Simon (of the Nationale) and Georges Desvallieres and Maurice Denis (of the Salon d’Automne). “These French masters, anxious to send over the best possible French section,” said Saint Gaudens, “have tried to take in all the varlous groups, without being too radical, either old or new. Carnegie Institute tries to give the news: and just as a newspaper screens a little (does not give all the details of a man being hanged, so we are not going So far as cubists or the like—although they are news, too, ‘but too radical for this paper'! We go pretty well into new stuff in the Salon d’Automne —we have Marquet, Flandria, Signac! And the same is true of all the nations.” It is interesting to learn what French painters have been chosen by their own eminent men to head the list of fifty or sixty likeliest. from | whom to obtain the forty best invited pictures. There will certainly be pictures by Albert Besnard, J. E. Blanche, Bern- ard Boutet de Monval, tot, Jules Flandrin, J. L. Forain, Charles Guerin. Henri Lebasquo, A. Marquet, Rene Menard, R. X. Prinet. | K. X. Roussel, Signac and the seven of the French committee, in addition to & number of others. But the seven (who, inviting, are invited) go into the big show “hors concours”—that is “beyond competition,” and conse- quently not eligible to prizes. Also, this “number of others” do not in- clude the American painters of Paris. who are somewhat like Mahomet's coffin, suspended between earth and sky. Here, indeed. are elements to take the French bun. We hear talk of men in authority who actually bend backward to avoid any appearance of reaching out to favorites, however| meritorious. In this sense this year Carnegie is risking curvature of the spine— 1. To preserve the open door while allowing national art in_each land largely to deterMine best choice and get the pictures, because there are high masters who do not care to submit for acceptance; and, 2. To content the American painters of Paris. It would be unjust to claim that these boys have at times a kicker or two among them. Rather, in isolated cases, the Carnegie objective has been misapprehended. It is not pri- marily to encourage American paint- ers of Paris. but to take back an- nually a vital European art show regularly limited to about 150 can- vases, the pick of Europe. Now, you cannot have the without picking. For the French pick Carnegie has asked French masters to do it—but with an addition to safe- guard the good old “winning of his way” before a jury of admission. For this part all French painters, known or unknown, may offer—“but,” insists Saint Gaudens, “there is no invitation to submit, which used to worry peopls From among such ofters, few or many, the French com- mittee will vote in fifteen, in its Charles Cot- | pick | MR. JOHN WILL SERVE ON THE STITUTE’S - TWENTY-SECOND IN. | ducing the chance of ambitious young French comers, who would offer any- how! The absentees, one would think, are rather good men of the second class, who will be sulking in their tents For the American pick of Paris there is a special American committee of Paris, to act, in the same way, both as picker and as jury of admission. They are Walter Gay, Alexander Harrison, Carl Friesseke and Florence Este. Who could improve on these hames?—artists of long settled repu- | tation, beyond all suspicion of whim | or private interest. To these Carnegie gave names of twenty-five American painters of Paris, with the request to pick fifteen |of them for invitation. Then Carl | Frieseke put up a notice at the Amer ican Art Club; Homer Saint-Gaudens | published it in the Paris edition of | the New York Herald, and Guillaum Lerolle, forelgn representative of Carnegie, sent blank forms to all known American painters and art students of Parls. Their number is not great. Some twenty-five have offered pictures. Of these, ten may be accepted by the American committee of Parls—a good sporting chance—would it not seem so? How painstaking the committee is in its work may be judged by the ‘fl.ct that none of the ten had been voted in at this writing. and that three of the invited ones are still left blank: The known American exhibitors of | Paris are Richard Miller, H. O. Tanner, | Elizabeth Nourse, Thorndike, Eugene | Vail, McLure Hamiiton, Bernard Har- | ¥ison, Edmund Scott, Alexander Har- | rison, Walter -Gay, Carl Frieseke and Florence Este—the last three belng And, ah, ves,” broks in Saint Gau- dens, “on the prize jury sit one Frenchman, one Englishman and two Americans. The French delegate is Georges Desvallieres, who is of ‘the Salon @'Automre. The English dele- gate is Augustus John, about the big- gest painter ir England today, and also of a rather new school. We did not choose these men-—they were elected by tho national committees. It can't be said that the new people are not having a fair chance.” “Won't it risk loosening the con- servative brakes?’ “No,” he replied. “because both Desvallieres and John are very wise men and do not claim the whole uni- verse ‘for the new." The home American committee, which will invite and admit about eighty American painters in America, has just been cabled to Paris. The artists are George Bellows, Jonas Lie, Edward Redfield, Eugene Speicher, Edmund Tarbell, Horatio Walker and Irving Wiles—all menof welght, habitual prize winners, now H. C. The - Epglish committee is equally lat work. The members are George Clausen (elderly school). Sir William Orpon (neither old nor new), Augus- tus John (new school). Mrs. Laura Knight (last year's delegate, rather new), William Nicholson (elderly, ec- lectic), Maurice Griefenhagon (direc- tor of Albert Memorial Museum, ra- ther new) and Algernon Talmage (voung man of conservative tastes). Saint Gaudens returned, emphati- cally, to the utterly novel character of these national committees. “Carnegle’s only comtrol of the show has been the picking of these committees at the start,” he insists. “And in this, even, by the nature of things, the dircction of Carnegie w: capacity of jury of admission. Pre- viously it has invited forty, whic of course, reduces.yolunteer offers limited to ecminent men in each achool, The idea is to make the emi- nent painters of each land respon- sible for the pictures of their land sent to the show.” Never before has it been done, he insists. Never has there been an in- ternational jury system so large and liberal as this one, And we, readers, don't we feel a de- cent American pride, exulting at the way this Machiavellian largeness is bound to draw to America each year. what more and more resembles each year the wbrld's most magnificent ary show? When the eminent artists of Italy, Spain. Belgium, Holland and all the rest collect by force, 5o to speak, the national section that satisfles their patriotism, then will be accomplished the words of the prophet: | “T will lay thy foundations with |=apphires, and I will make thy win |dows of agates, and thy gates of car buncles and all thy borders of pleas- ant stones! “This year 1 went around those other lands,” said Homer Saint Gau- dens, “the first time any of us had |done it. I personally went to Italy and Spain. Lerolle and I went to Bel- gium and Holland together, and 1 went to Sweden while he went to Nor- way and Denmark. “In each country, we took the best #dvice, and got into touch with {eminent men where wercould for the ‘fnrmalnm of national committees I next Actually, we had not the data to do it this vear. “As Wwe are having from TItal palnters like Beppo Ciardi. Emme Ciardi, Ettore Tito, G A. Sartorin. Antonio Mancini and Gaudenzi. Near- 1y ail of them had to borrow their pictures. which were in last vear's Veunetian international, which i |posed to be as good a urope can get up. “The same borrowing from pur- chasers was done by Spanish paint- ers, in their haste to give their best We have men like Valentin de Zubi- aurre, Ramon de Zubiaurre, Chi- charro, Benodito. J. Pinazo and Mar- tinez-Cubelle “The northern countries have given a lot of their most important last vear's painiings (this year's paint- |ings would, in no case. have been | ready, without warning), and here |again they borrowed them, in some |cases with not a little trouble, like | Liljefors, reputed the most eminent |painter in Sweden today. From |Sweden we have Mme. Anna Boberg G A estad, G. Kallstenius and others of their excellent men, who are bemg gotte tugether.” Of the Norwegians, they Christian Krough. Folkestad l.\ Harriet Backer. Among | Danes Svend Hammershoi, Car! | Holsoe, Prof. Julius Paulson and |Prof. L. Tuson. Among the Dutch lare M. A. Bauer. H Breitner | Haverman, Willy Sluiter and Florio ! Verster. And the Belgians are cer- sending R. Baseleer, Auto Carte, Emil Clavs. A. Delaunois, 1. \F ederic and Laermans. | “Many more will come’ says Homer Saint Gaudens. “Eminent men in all these countries are hastily gathering a national showing." They have the more object to do this, because they understand. Already this year Carnegie will in- augurate a difterently arranged in-' ternational show—not all mixed up in a European section, but with painters of each country hanging all’ together in their own roem or rooms or alcove made by screen partitions. It is the beginning of the great thing. | On the American side. Carnegie has Jjoined up with the American Feder- ation of Arts—the best organization in our country of teachers, museum directors, critics, art patrons, etc. {and backed by the Metropolitan | Museum of New York. That s to | say, Mr. Robert De Forest, president | of the Metropolitan, is also president | of the American Federatien of Arts. “The American federation has its spring meeting in St. Louis. v 18 mext,” sald Homer Saint- | Gaudens, “and we are making plans |to ask the eastern delegates to stop |over in Pittsburgh during our exhi- bition.” The nation-wide interest of the great show began two vears ago. | with the touring of its European sec- tion among a few very wide-awake ‘Amcricln cities, | Now, with such touring become i settled policy, the alliance with the Amerlcan federation is bound to have far-reaching results. When, year by ear, it becomes obvious that every European country strains to make a grander national showing than its | neighbors in an American interna- tion that tours American cities, then will come to pass the modern proph- ecy: “American cities rival Parls salon'" vear. t s, sup- show as | have and the The Kiang of Tibet. HE opening up of mysterious Tibet as a result of various ex- peditions by the British and others has awakened the interest of natu- ralists in the Tibetan animals, a num- ber of which are peculiar to thar lofty region. Among these, one of the most remarkable is the kiang, an animal intermediate between the wild horse and the wild ass. It is de- scribed as standing about thirteen hands high at the shoulder, its color a bright red bay, the muzzle, under- parts and legs dazzling white. 1t is confined to the ocentral desert of Tibet, where in the winter it develops a coat as thick and rough as a door- mat. A New River. THERE has been discovered in the Mont Blanc region a great subterranean river with a volume of about 50,000 gallons per minute. It runs from the base of the mountains under the Saleve and Jura Alps. This river, which has been named “Eaux- Belles,” sends out many branches, which have formed little lakes and wells of pure and extremely cold water in the northeast departments of France and in some southern can- tons of Switzerland. It is said that the waters of the “Eaux-Belles,” at a depth of from 75 to 150 feet, have carved out under the mountain wonderful caverns and grottos, full of stalactites and stalgg- mites. Some of the caverns near Geneva are 90 feet high and 150 broad. |