Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1923, Page 7

\ ' ing. potteries, FREER ART OPEN TO PUBLI HAY S Invited Guests Have Earlier Views of Gift Collection Starting Wednesday. Art students and visitors who de- sire to make an intensive study of the magnlificent collections in the Freer Gallery of Art, which is to be opened to the general public May While the gallery will be opened Wednesday to invited guests, this “in-’ vitatlon week” to extend through May 8. the public will not get its turn at the gallery until May 9. The gallery. which is located to the west of the main Smithsonian build- ing in the Mall, will be open each day of the week, including Sunday, from S am. to 4:30 p.m. For the convenience of those who desire to pursue work among the ob- jects of the collection, which were brought together by thie late Charles lang Freer of Detroit, and presented to the United States government, ad- equate provision already has been made and will be further developed in the near future Provision .for Students. Only a limited proportion of the to- tal number of objects in the hundreds Which compot the collections will be Placed on view at any one time in the galleries, but all will be - for the use of students daily. ApDlications for permission to copy ebjects in the galleries, or to see ob- Jects not on _exhibition, e at the administration office sit- in the eastern end of the build- ng and reached by the east stairway downward from the entrance lobby. "The office of the superintendent may be reached through the door to the left of the main south entrance from B strect . Portable stools for use in the gal- Jevies may be had by pplying to a wustodian, and a wheel chair may be ared on_application, to the per. so thoughtful have been offi- cials of the needs of those who may visit the collections. Umbrellas, canes, packages of all kinds, cameras and Taggage must be checked at the en- trance Product of 85 Years' Work. The collections installed in reor Gallers of Ari were brought logether by Charles Lang Freer of Detroit, Mich. According to a pam- phlet. which will be distributed by the gallery, they represent the results of Mr. Freer's personal study and ac usitlon over a period of about thirty five years. the earl of his pur- <hases incorporated in the collections dating from the later eighties. It was not until after 1900, however, at the age of forty-six he retired from an active business life, that Mr. Freer was able to devete the greater part of his collections and of the ideals which lay behind them. From 1900 until the time of his death in Sep- tember, 1919, he gradually eliminated from his consideration all other ac- tivities which might absorb his time and strength, in order that he might work with Increasing concentration on the endeavor to establish the be- ginnings of what he believed to be a most_valuable fleld of research. Mr. Freer was convinced that the more nearly a cultural object of any civilization expresses the underlying principles of artistic production in soundness of thought and workman- ship, the more nearly it takes | place with other objects of equal Yigh quality produced by any other civilization: and with that in view, he was in such exp ons of western and east- ern cuitures as seemed to him to em- hady at their best those characteris- tics which he believed to be inherent in all works of art From Weat and East. From the west he acquired prin- eipally American paintings, by men who “were inheritors of European traditions, in whose work he found qualitics and tendencies sympathetic h earlier painters in China and Japan. Most important in the west- ern field, as represented in these col- lections, ix a section devoted to the work of James McNeill Whistler, in cluding oil paint water pastels, etchings, lithographs, jngs, drawines and also the Peacock will have every opportunity to do s J Room. which has been removed from | the house in ndon where it wa decorgted by Whistler for R_R. Ley- land. In the American field there are also paintings by Thomas W. Dewing. Ab- bott H. Thayer and Dwight W. Tryon and examples of the work of George T Forest Brush. Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Gari Melchers, Wil lard Metcalf, John Francis Murph) Clarles A. Platt, Albert P. Ry John Singer Sargent and John Twachtman, From the east he gathered paint- sculptures in stone, in wood and in lacquer, bronzes, jade: and objects of various other mate riale. The Chinese field is represent- ed by the largest number of objects vering the longest period of time. Some of these specimens were pro- as the Chou dynasty and some of them ware made as recently as the Ch'ing dynasty (A.D. 1644-1912). The Chi- nese paintings number over 1,200, in- «luding pane serolls” and albums: and the Japanese paintings, about 500, including also screens. The pot- teries from the Far East—China, Japan and Korea—number about 1.500; the stone and wood sculpture, 273, and the bronz including sev- erai specimens from Siam, about 900. Trom the nearer east, Mr. Freer purchased minlature paintings and {llustrated hooks of Persian_origin, Persia and West Asian potteries, wany of them of Rakka type, and a few specimens of bronze and silver. Mohammedan art is further exem- plified by a number of East Indian paintings. Dynastic Egypt is more slightly represented by a collection of smail pieces and fragments of glass and pottery and by a few objects in metal, wood and ston The most significant Byzantine ob- jects appearing in the Freer collec- tion are the Greek biblical manu- &cripts, are Deuteronomy and Joshua, The more important of these, now known as the Washington manu- ~cripts. are Deutronomy and Jushua, the Psalms and the four Gospels, ali of which date from the fifth century, and a fragmentary manuscript of the tles of Paul, which date from the xth century. Buflding Also Presented. ‘The building in which the collec- tions are now installed was given also by Mr. Freer, who requested that it be used exclusively for his collec- tions. That request, however, does not preclude the possibility of in- creasing the collections either by ifts from specified people or by pur- chage with {unds bequeathed for the Purpose. Charles A. Platt of New York was the architect chosen by Mr. Freer to take full charge of the design and construction of the building. It is in the style of the Florentine Rennals- sance, and provides one main exhibi- tion floor of eighteen top-lighted gal- leries and the Peacock room, sur- rounding an open court or garden. The floor below the galleries is util- ized for storage and study rooms, a lceture hall and offices. During the administration of Presi- dcnt Roosevelt these collections were presented by Mr. Freer to the na- tion, with the understanding that they would be placed under the di- recticn ¢f the Smitheonian Institu- tion, and on May 5, 1906, the formal deed of gift to the Smithsonlan was expouted. Under the terms of this deed Mr. Freer retained the right to make additional purchases, although it was understood that an object re_incorporated in the collections hoyld not be removed from them, d that after Mr. Freer's death none should he loaned for exhibition. In accepting this gift the govern- mant agrecd 1o care for and main- iaiy the building und collectious at should be | door- | the | when | of his time to the development | t upon bringing together | Sl ! | Freer Gillery of Art. | the public expense, although, in ad- dition to these provisions, Mr. Freer created an endowment, the income | from which was to be used for cer- | tain specified activities and develop- ments which he wished to have car- ried on after his death independently, if_need be, of congressional appro- priation: It was, furthermore, his expressed desire that his gift should become a unit of th:e National Gallery of Art. which he hopol would be erected in Washington in the near future, and ! to which he felt confident additional units would be given by other col- lectors who might think. as he did, that such a foundation at Washing- ton, under the control and direction of the government, would mean the development of an important center for cultural research in both art and sclence. John Ellerton Lodge, son of Sen- ator Henry Cabot Lodge. is curator of the Freer Gallery. Carl W. Bishop 18 associite curator, Grace Dunham est, assistant curator; Katherine ash ' Rhoades, associate, and John Bindy, superintendent —_——e CONCERT BY STUDENTS. | ! Program Presented Under Aus- vices of Mu Phi Epsilon. | The Mu Phi Epsilon Musical Sorori- | ty presented an interesting concert | at the Washington College of Music | Friday night. The program was given | by members of the Rho Beta c of the sorority and thelr guests. The program included: “Poet's| Love” (Schumann), sung by Loulie { B. Meline, accompanied on the piano sky's Crowley ‘Andante Cantabile,” by Helen | violinis two group: of | Summers,” including | aro’ Mic Bene, nd of the - By the Waters of Min- Theology” and_“Do Not piano solos, Rachmani- “Polichinelle” by Kathryn Daw- . and Liszt's “Rhapsodie Number 11"'by Lois Stuntz; a second group of | Y Miss Mellne, Recompanied on the violin by Helen Crowley and on the cello by Jean Manganaro, in- cluding “Berccuse,” “Tes Yeux" and “In Blossom Time"”: trio of violin. { Frieda Irwin. piano, Ouida McCafferty., | and 'cello, Hazel Benton, in Victor Herbert’s '“Serenade”; and another group of songs, ‘. Morning in Spring,” and “Will o' the Wisp,” sung by Elizabeth Briggs. — AUTO RECEIVER NAMED. INDIANAPOLIS, April 18.—William P. Herod, of this city, was appointed 1eceiver for the Lexington Motors Company, of Connersville, Ind.. in United States district court here this afternoon. The petition for appoint- | ment of a receiver was filed by the Jacques Manufacturing Company. Al peneral denial of the allegations made in_the suit entered by the Lex- ington Company earlier in the day. Co-receivers for the Ansted Engi- neering Company, an allied corpora- tlon, also of Connersville, were ap- yointed in the Fayette County cir- duit court Thursday, on petition of several creditors. AlUlEngland Aroused | by Indifferene to Feminine Charm. 'Rumor of Vow to| Remain Bachelor Gains Credence. BY ARTHUR DRAPER. By Cable to ’l'!‘l:&o"s’lrl‘;hlxtldlw’;,: York Tribune. LONDON, April 28.—Now that the| Duke of York is married, people of | all classes in England are beginning | to voice more and more insistently their queries: 'When will marry ™" “And whom will he marry®” i Those who would he in the best position to know the answer to these questions, if there were lnswers(nos- sible at this time, say that the prince is not as yet even considering the matter, in spite of the fact that both | in court and governmental circles, it is common knowledge that much pressure is being brought to bear on the heir to the throne to select his bride. the Prince of Wales | Bridesmalds Marry. The public at large, in addition to feeling a natural desire for unbroken succession to the British throne, are influenced by the power of sugges- tion. There Is the fact that within fifteen months both Princess Mary and the Duke of York have been mar- ried. Then also four out of eight of the bridesmaids who attended Princess Mary, all of whom figure prominently in court circles, are either married or engaged—all of which has impressed the public mind. As vyet, e desire for the prince's marriage has been voiced only by dis- creet little paragraphs in newspapers —as was the case following Princess Mary's wedding—but it'is interesting to note that the tone of these para- graphs is gradually growing more in- sistent. It cannot be doubted that Wales has lost some of his popularity during the past year. Perhaps this is at- tributable 'as much to his frequent habit of riding in the stéeplechasés without regard to possible conse- quences, as$ to anything else. The announcement of his engage- ment, preferably to the daughter of some old family of the English no- bility, would doubtless restore him te his old popularity, and would prob- ably even increase it. During his re- cent tour of Canada, it' was reported iPrince, of Wales Poularity | Wanes by Refusal to Marry representative groups of | THE SUNDAY STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 29, 1923=PART 1. Open court wur top-lighte ded by eighteen malleries. COLOR LINE ON ALBANIA DRAWN IN DINING ROOM | — | Orchid-Laden Colored Songsters' With Gem-Decked Escorts Are ' on Trip to Fields Abroad. i NEW YORK. April n invisi- ble color line was drawn across the dining room of the Cunard liner Al- bania before she sailed for England today. On the line sat 141 white passengers, on the other, thir- ty-four members of a troupe of col- ored plantation songsters bound for London to stage their musical revue. The fog of discord descended on the Albania about the time set for de- parture, when the colored women, laden with orchids, with their male escorts staggering under diamond ornaments, topped the gangway. | The 141 whites formed a line at) the purser's window and 141 protests were filed. accompanied by threats to cancel passages. H The color line was the captain’s so- lution one side of PRINCE OF WALES, that he had been especially attracted | to Lady Rachel Cavendish, fourth | daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, who was then governor general of Canada. > Lady Rachael Engaged. Many knowing persons maintained since then that Lady Rachel would some day be Queen of England. This illusion was shattered, however, by the announcement this week of her engagem¥nt to Capt. James Stuart, third son of the Earl of Moray, a young man who is equerry In waiting to the Duke of York and bears a dis- tinguished war record. Lady Mary Cambridge, another of Princess Marg’s bridesmaids, who had also been considered as a possible flancee of the# Prince of Wales, re- cently announced her emgagement to Lord Worcester. Other bridesmaids who have married are the Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mnow uchess of York, and Lady Doris Gordon Len- nox, who married Clarke George Vyner. The:rumors, which have been con- necting the names' of daughters of royal families on_the continent with the Prince of Wales, now seem to have died down, ‘but, on thp other hand, rumors are gaining in credence to the effect that the heir to the British throne has flatly declared he intends, definitely and permanently, to remain a bachelor. Whether he will Le able.to hold out against the im- portunities of the court and of the politicians—not publicly mentioned— for thenext couple of years, should show the force of his determination to remain ¥n the state of single biess- cdgess. |drenched but determined. committee- Washington’s New Art Gdllery to Be Opened on May 9 few of the portico looking into the court. Shad Bake Shuffle Heralds Real Spring, Says Dopey Dan By W. H. CLAGETT. | rangements iJohn R. Dear Folks: If there be them | jhae thicken-hearted among. ye, peeved by | hin the cantankerous behavior of the | the b O a‘“’d "“kf & d“'fll"h"; = = 2 | throughou e afternoon, . declare weather, who have given up all hope | (jat the entertainment program was of gentle spring ever bein’ with us|nearin’ finality; Charles W. Pimper again, just perish the thought, for |alSo said somethin’ about tickets: = Odell Smith added more about- the despite the downpour the first boney- | Jiogram. which I didn't Keteh: George fidy harbinger of the glorious period Miller yodelled a few sweet nothin’s got busy vesterday, when the enter- |about the shad itself; J. T. Bardroft tainment committee of the Washin {a bit about paddlewheels, and ihe - | session convened when Charlie Wat- ton Board of Trade betook itself 10| ers appeared! High Island, a secluded spot on the | Enought was dropped, however, to upper Potomac, and there eomph-u.l"‘"""‘ me to warn all, that if ever = you have took in one of these famous details for the mammoth shad pake outin's of the Washington Board of to be held by the ancient an’ hon-| Trade, and know what ‘a general il izati ang-up time is usually , that rable organization on May 19th, this | (i one vear when every blessed anno domini! | party who can beg, borrow or steel ‘Twas a lion-hearted little group|one of the very hard-to-get paste- of forty, headed by Edward F. Colla- | bogrds wants to show up, and show day, who braved the elements, that| P ° “"‘"‘;'m DA the city's time-honored fish-feast| . . ¢ o Sl IR would not lack proper arrangements, growIs jo sueneds - o S and while at firat 1t took & 100 per|meetin’ all hands drifted back to en- cent optimist to truthfully say he |30 the inocent amusements of a was tickled because he attended, be- | T4INY afternoon, but I beat it home, fore the aftrenoon was over not a|2CCOMPanied by mone other than my delegate in. the outfit. would mave|old friend Jimmie Locraft! You cancelled his engagement! know Jimmie? No! Why, Jimmie is Chock-o'-block with the spirit that | p; g is hourly makin’ our business barons | Bl i® lecraft's boy, and Billie Lo- craft was the old bureau of engravin’ the minutemen o etermined. comes: (h¢|and printin’ fisherman who made former Superintendent of Police Rich- ard Sylvester feel foolish, after Ted- dy Roosevelt had crowned him king iof small-mouthed bass . ketchers. by straightway goln’ out 'and hookin’ a six-and-a-half-pound specimen. which to this day Is to be seen in the Na- tional Museum! Go see it! Besides Representative Joseph J. Manlove of Missourl, myself and a couple of other newspaper birds, the party was composed entirely of mem- bers of the board, and were, outside of them heretofore mentioned: Her- man F. Carl, Clarence F. Donohoe, John T. Meany, Raymond M. Peak, Carl J. Quentell, Frank R. Struck. R. W. Wafle, Max Walten, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, Stephen 1. Kramer, Fred J. ‘White, Harry,C. Grove, Harry Tay- lor, George Chéery, George H. Mac- Donald, Arthur Carr, F. E. Cunning- ham, W. P. Cox, E. C. Brandeburg. R. K. Ferguson, George C. Shinn, Ri sell Shelk, A. T. M. Zeno and F. Lec Combs. DOPEY DAN. 1 thank you. COTTON IN SH. BREAK. —There was NEW YORK, Aprfl 2 a very sharp ‘break in the cotton market this morning as a result of ment committee of the Board of [ heavy liquidation of realizing and Trade, ‘gathered the attendin’ wet | scattered selling. Stop orders were representatives, and I mean wet in|uncovered on ‘the decline which ex- the sense of soaked. with rain, and | tended to 28.13 for May and 24.30 for called for reports of them chairmen | October, and last prices were within Who are preparin’ the: big blowout! | a point or two of the lowest, with the In rapld order. Charles W. Morris|'market olosing easy at net losses of allowed that alltransportation: ar-{ 48 to 72 points. had been completed; Casper told them present if they wanted tickets to sce T. Brooke Amiss, jr., who, by men didn't waste one picayune tear | drop over weather conditions. ‘but quickly checkin’ ball, . bats, tennis racquets, etc., immediately proceeded to dope out a series of indoor sports for the entertainment of their party, and " if you'll believe me to be -the skipper, it wav some kind of a series! Game of Fork Up. . One game in particular appealed greatly to my fancy! Dom't know the name of it, but it worked some- thin’ like this: E. J. Murphy, who set at:the head of the table, would wait until all the rest of the outfit were supplied with little numbered vards and then proceed to call out numerals, in rapid succession! I never quite got the answer to the pastime, but Inspector .Cliff Grant, who set to my left, told me on the quiet, that if ;I had-five- numbers corresponding to the five called by Mister Murphy I wouldn't have to fork up for the bilg shad bake in May! Five was always unlucky to me, folks, so I reckon TII dig! O’ course,” the above- described amusement didn't occupy all the time of the convention. for durin' a lull George Plitt, actin’ for. Francis R. Weller, chairman of the entertain : Jromfifie AVENUE o« NINTH- 895 g 1925 "ANNIVERSARY PARGAINS AN Tomorrowwe celebrate 30 years of quality by staging the most notewonthy sale, from the viewpoint of values, that it has ever been our privilege to offer. The few items that follow are indicative of what our patrons may expect in every departmznt of the store dur- ing the very limited period of our 30th Amaiversary Sale. 394 Men’s Spring Suits $20.50 173 were $35.00 153 were $37.50 68 were $40.00 Hand-tailored models for men and young men. 2 and 3 button sack coats, sport backs and Norfolks, some with extra knickers. Blue serges, plaids, checks, stripes, oxfords, tweeds, in sizes from 34 to 50; regulars, longs, stouts, shorts. 439 Men’s Spring Suits . $33-50 148 were $40.00 174 were $45.00 117 were $50.00 Practically every “pattern and style of suit for men and young men is included in this group. Sport suits with extra knickers, 2 and 3 button sack coats and Norfolks, in sizes from 34 to 50; regulars, longs, stouts, shorts, long stouts and short stouts. | 900 Palm Beach Suits $1275 Reduced from $15 3,600 Fruit-of-the-Loom Shirts $1.55 Reduced from $2 and $2.50 500 Pairs Banister Oxfords $9.75 Reduced from $12 - 1,500 Men’s Straw Hats $1.95 \, $2.50 and $3 values 100 English Topcoats $50 Mostly $65 values 500 English Kit Bags $24.75 Easily worth $35 The Avenue at Ninth