Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1925, Page 48

D. €, NOVEMBER 22, 1925—PART 2 Persian Pottery Now on Exhibition at the Freer Gallery. Etching and Lithographs of Whistler —An Exhibition of the Works of Leading Americans of Past Centuries. Really Interesting Work Written About Lives of Women Bear- ing Famous Names—Mitchell’s "Winged Defense™—"The Little Karoo™ Volume of Fine Short Stories. BY LEILA MECHLIN ner in which these little framed pic- | politan Museum. New York, and the " B i i SILBERT ) 2 passage of Juriaan and his sick wife ready ki Lad tures of an intimate sort are hung— | Pennsylvania Museum in Philadel- 3 g o e : Deltje, to the hospital in the distant nd only five or seven on a wall, but so [ phia. . i i | By Gamaliel Bradfc grouped in the matter of spacing that e Souls, they present in themselves decorative o 3 trated. New York per SR R \ f X e e oo N SMALL bition of French r 2 [ 2 inge e re pottery which are ex leffect. There is nothing more difficult | A~ SMALL exhibition e | Brothers. theft of his wife from the hospital | when Wolf, trying { color etchings or aquatints in 4 G At AVE for the peculiar distinction|bed, and then the palnful, but happy, | dog—well, vou read ceedingly fine—so fine, indeed, | 1, gipryy than a group of such little of Dolly Madison and Theodosia | return to the veld. The end? It is not [ want to hive vour | ves, we alread 1 town. And the walting days at the s why this kno thor of “Damaged Souls,” etc. S | hospital. Then, one night, the nest in we appreach thi HE Freer Gallery of Art has lately placed on exhibition a number of pieces of early Per- that nowhere eise in this country is such a group to be found. And here again is material which will induce pictures, nothing which presents a color is now to be seen in the Smith 4 4 L% more monotonous, dreary appearance | ioniun Institution, set forth under the 1 ¥oh e Burr, these ure the undistin-|ramed. So much is not named in these | heroism and ¢ as w rule, but here the impression 15|, qpices of the department of graphic 4 3 & . 2 guished wives of certain Ameri- | stories of life in the Little Karoo, vet | gantly assunic be students of this branch of art Lo come | quite different. Immediately upon en- | 3r1g"of the National Museum. These : . cans of renown—Abraham Lin-[each of them Is saturated with the |alone. But befe to this city from afur to study and 10 | tering the room the visitor's atten- [Lrs of M€ III A B SR e OO coln among them, and Jefferson Davis | airs and incidents of that life. And | point in the life of \Woit see. Al of the new pieces take the | tjon is engaged, curlously awakened. | Sigerably from the color etching that | and Benedict Arnold. Here is the [each of them sinks down into the read- | many a happy hour oy Lo O T e inons ey | the desire ‘to look and to linger en-|haq been done in this country and | study of a group of women of plane-|er's heart, where pity and sympathy [and the understanding produced for use. Lven those who|gendered. And well are those who do | inie 6L CHRE R 1%, BRel b o { tary existence, borrowing from their the universal loneliness of man |lovability of decorated them probably | o idea | ook and linger rewarded, for ‘here | jleooinisin color than do the works ’hu«l.&nda such light as they them-| re: in a feeling of brotherWbod. | Mayhe vou'll no that they were making works of art, | 4re some of the most choice and suc: of our own etchers. The method here s were unable to emit It is a | Beautiful stories of life that the writer |[it. I didn't =1 cerfainly the thought that they stul of Whistler's etchings and |y, My el THE0 S Ui M Sutline study whose pointed immediate effebt | knows us well as she knows hap own were : pr |“:. Juse nv"x lw:ln”:‘w 1;1;,.._.;,_.[.;,‘ 1,4.,“}0“ and :“4"*" and to print in color lald on somewhat the reader instinctively expands to in-| heart. Simple, austere, sincere pic must have been rom their minds. | themes, figures and character studies, 5 wood-bloc! e the host of unfortunate women | tures S RECTIE The under sides of these bowls have | all done with that amazing compe. | “ften the manner of the wood-block | }; o o e i har ek BOOKS RECEIVED e D N .t otia)| 2hcy which cases the sefi dtive B |irioim i e e, AAlRoRPhalvench 4 o more or less distinguished husbands. | PARADE. By Emily Post face not altogether unlike that of &|informed onlooker the keenest delight. | o hars seem to choose more elaborate | | > ' Such expansion is, however, no part “Itiquette.” New York flower pot made oi fine clay. The color | What an original genius he was, wht | \pemes and to use much larger plates. | | of the author's plan. Rather does it Wagnalls Company. varies, and on the inside of the bowl | amazing sensibility, what keenness of | 4™ &1 12 W FRIER FEEAE b S0 . S 4 F2 LR RO S Sk there is a decoration and a glaze vision and command of his medium. |}, ve gevoted themselves to reproduc- : one instan e the decoration has i how well he knew what to leave out | oG, = Co R fP T orc "R ther than Indeed, so vivid 18 this work that one | . e © generations help . painted in bluck and consists of and what to put in ; producing original themes. In this| |: il (8 BN B deserts the customary reading post|Competently to sustain the pageant| —{mied Sta ure and a conve The lithographs in several instances | oojjaction, for instance, there is an . 325 Shd walks back into the time and eir. | (hat appears to constitute the sub. e on from chirogruphy in all probability, fare typical of the time in which | co ettt SO0 JUEEIRe TREIT R S A e D e these studies, | Stance of that society. The story be. | SEEING SOU the patteri: appearing, a8 it were, in | Whistler lived, subtle interpretations | Sx¢ it "CRTQCERHON, o0 & B S O active participant in the | EINS off somewhere, in a small town, Rates, Cith silhouette, the original color of the | of character. And how capable he was | o, MTOFT GEE Be P8 Pre: BRTELDC . i B it 4wt of the itan. |1 S0 slight & matter as the dreams of ihe e carthenware serving as background. | of expressing composure, stillness, si- [ (0nty OO o AR, BTN PO EE 4 5, . e a voung girl about the world of pleas for P HiReE n this case is a greenish | lence, those t s whichias airule ] S0 s sae d i aan i method of il B e tae afect ure and beauty 3 some great ington white te of this howl ix the fonly words can tell, ‘Among the litho- | SEUNG (& SV TSR PG QST e - ; e e sala his biogra. | €i1Y beyond her reach ien comes | y-A1s twelfth or eenth century sraphs is one of a woman reclining on | gy fa U SO TG YRy toneful, 1 i ) g ek ¢hance. So she re A aNe Another bowl of the same @ couch: complete relaxation IS In | jaave the observer rather cold. e e i e lover and marries the city man [, shows two figures. The detall every line. There is another of a man | V7 008 PORCHEE (0 Fh e, v 0 i manner:| who seems to be the road of her re relief and gilded. The decoratiou con- | seated in an armchair, absolutely at i [Erdla iy ok o lne |leases ¥ he heroine of this story sists of pain rest. By the tilt of a hat or the turn 3 ke oy < 176 himaeit. adi of bio. |1 thal same country girl metamor and biuck i e | of an elbow he gives us to understand [ "THE collection of pictorial photo H Eannic otk ool 110 | phosed. by a4 kind of “Black Oxel Freder itself is whit what some one l*]"‘l"mh ]‘;"fl' sort ot graphs which Clara 15, Sipprell "M""‘;'m,\" ok vaE R oria et ;\ jnto )u.A\l\b—!‘va‘ bea n\'! o sPhicre e Ahvee a person he or she is. This is more b - G ot Drak 5 Ll b G Son 7| perpetual vouth widow, out-shin- | CONCERNING TH small size bowls of t than cleverness, it is the acme of ge- |15 showing at the Arts Club at pr 5 ; ks f”’m Gt in e z 1| g the daughters o nds and THINGS. BE; one, deep and coni ving tour | nius. Here we have Whistler at his |ent is distinctly out of the ordinary. | § ¥ '-‘I_x‘y“‘ Who. have suffered and strag.|100king like an elder sister to the K. B, E., D, Araiesiasn o chief unit of [ best, not the eccentric, but the great |The portraits are unconventional and St el @esign. These goi s their artist full of the subtle personality of the s e b ful backward-turning horns, e sitters. The landscapes are of a quiet, e e with only a spark of such ambition. Brot their four feet together and ave k HIZ Nationa! Gallery of Art, or|gentle sort, vet possess lyric quality 3 i | can tell you. "‘The author paints with | ppomine b brought into a quarter sexment of t Most unusual ot all, however, per L Ea 2 2 : sure hand here the picture of 4 woman e bowl. The color is Lrownish vel haps are her stilllife studies, her sun. %, 2 . in bond to the perpetuation of her tare STaieh tional Museum given over to the dis- t bowls and jurs of water, sMowing % L 5 o> y hful appearance. Ol 0 d JUBERERS 0f Then, one day, onderful man ap- | THE 50Tn, Erow pears—a man out of the East with a C " of New York thetic and vivid seizure of the matter Pl ;| krandshildren of her friends. A dog's ted wit : life, though, as any aging woman, . B rather that portion of the Na- brown in the depressions e de ration is engraved in white slip coat- | play of the National Gallery collec- | decorative tracery of stems and leaves ing V;n-!m' ze. The o 1.“, two howls | tjons, will be closed to the public from (h'\'(‘;i" o hand g hat's the ec e oo ey - e decorated, respeciively, by figures A G : hatever may be handicaps of pho- Pt . ooking exactly like that of s The lon is a | the 23th of this month until the 5th | o IS EE T st riction \I|Il§\nflx‘:d{ ol ¥ log < Lawrence, the Englishman who, fasc g L most of December in order to take down the | a¢ Jeast may be accounted a blessing— | ol chieie R o i the war. did such g tere: dy. head turned | paintings which are now on the walls { without the element of beauty pi : ; i Foro e ice in rounding up the Arab tr abruptly to the t over the back. | and install the special loan exhibition | torial photography would cease to e: e irning them over to the use of ( SIMPLIFYING tongue extended. This shows a thin [ of early American portraits, minia- [ist. The painter, through cleverness i s ey nby in Palestine. The young Law ing a Hand transparent glaze, reddish with green | tures and silver which has been as- | of technique. may hope to secure a TPEaE 1t toikh He oo about whom Lowell Thomas Baby I glaze, and the decoration is engraved | sembled by the Washington loan ex-| plause, but the pictorial photographer | ki Hifias dsif Ghilirca dnto | bas written so fascinating an account in white slip and pair ulive brown | hi committee and is to'be shown | knows that he or she has no such TR AcE Whoka e These twt h 2 NGO et Car 1| therein under the auspices of the |staff to lean upon, and therefore S . strange mis Bk Pasin is a sgreenish yellow nd | Smithsoniun Institution from Decem- | cannot afford to disregard subjective it i 3 the elements D Misir painted atibe ber & to January intere: This is well b I herence to, t iftin Bl which gives a blue. ow- This exhibition will comprise the Upstairs at the Arts Club there is w York rHE TROUBLE green effect—very o hese | works of the leading American paint- | now being shown a collection of water The biasraph intent, one B e 1t and definite |ers of the eighteenth and early n.ne- [ colors done in Honolulu by Mrs. Anna SEd 2 g the gogic vent = an e show designs perfectly adapted to | teenth ry. the majority oi which | W. Marvell, a club member who lives ieee. e e . : mess de icultu space and requirements. T is a|are in private ownership and many of | in California, the wife of Admiral Mar- other of 1 flance of t W slight blending of color throush the |which have not heretofore been shown. | vell. It is a large collection and the ; : ; S HE B ancs ol teuth 2o fait Aot vation of personal YOUTH'S medium of the glaze. in some in-|The oll paintings have chiefly been |pictures were mostly painted last A ISb B T bty dealing the ending of such a stc Hur stances havir 1 as the collected here in Washington. The mmer, it is understood. They rep- . s : T ran defeat on the one hand erson : v feed, he points to one and an 4 fan s fired upside dowr minfatures, however, and the silver |resent a wide range of themes, and | BaSas e 025 2 Bt T A fe andian the contentment AT n & ¢ oy S| CHANNING COMES cision in the treaim ¥ 1. | have come from Bostol New York. | whatever may be their shortcomings, w E PIE C) = o ~ > o~ - - s into sed state of . One of the finest of the Philadelphia. Baltimore and other | they do. indeed, give a vivid idea THE PIE CRUST TABLE,” A PHOTOGRAPH BY CLARA E. SIPPRELL. dut Ha vitien 2t ol ecoanui eption and pursuit Charles Al large bowl, ovoida shape an | cities. The exhibition of silver will be | the brilliant eoloving, of the unfor 3 Charles as ex s M siee hanliingiof the nugem of the eighih ury b one of the finest ani most compre- | zetful loveliness of the Hawaiian Is-| He s golng in a fortnight, however, | sey, executive secretary, American | o 8, 5 e h0e along Rhages zed with cream hensive that has ever been held, vie-liands, thelr sky and water. their|to Los Angeles, to paint a large por-| Academy in Rome, k avenue, | L, Uity velopment of this s enamel, decorated with bre trait for which he has received a com-| New York City St ishness Hne and dots. Th mission. b could not bear t \ T catlicet Inatanaes * xox % TUE Washington Study is present- | miles to avoid 1 D 1 that [THE PYRAMID OF LEAD. gold luster N ; A 3 . 'THE Corcoran Gallery of Art is ing a series of morning lectures [ got into portrait t Farm Ky Newionk: D much conventionalized “ temporarily closed, owing to the | on art in Washington. begi + ves.| Was Aaron Burr, one of f ton and Company seated. holding u musical instrument d,,pluppzfl.m and replacement of its| " 2t 1" e ’”v""l“'" "’“""“““3"' vicious, dangerous, disreputable f J_ET the mystery here take somewhat similar to a lute, though permanent collection occasioned by | t¢rday with a lecture on the Freer|yres in American history. Yet itself. It is much like all the mys. held like a banjo or guitar, an instru the centennlal exhibition of the Na-|Gallery by Miss Grace D. Guest and | people loved Aaron Buir, especi stuff—a_hidden ment with two strinzs and two Keys tional Academy of Design. Six thou-|including lectures on the Phillips | MOSt women, and o did I. I couldn't This piece is decorated both inside sand persons, by the way, visited the | Memorial Gallery by Mr. Phillips next | help it. And even while T portrayed |of such strange circumstance as and out. and though found in pieces, Corcoran Gallery last Sunday after-| Saturday. the Corcoran Gallery, the | his Weaknesses as vividly I knew | defy detection at the hands of the f: is complete und shows little or no noon. the last day that this notable | National Gallery and one other sub.|how. I was apologizing - them | miliar crime trailers. Instead, jus trace of restoration; an extraordinari- exhibition was on view. Over 4.000| ject on successive Saturdays. This |2galnst my will.” Here you get some. | 20 along with Prosper Fair and his| THE JESUIT RELATION ly_fine example g Ny catalogs were sold during the period course offers an opportunity to visit | thing of 't t i the | sedute silver-gray donkey, Pa ALLIED DOCUMEN" There is also in the collection an of the exhibition. In all probubilitv| the chief gallerfes in Washington and | biographer himse ot and the brisk little terrier, f Arab plate of the tenth or tw h : o ¢ _ the gallery will reopen on December | to hear of the collections from those | Whose main ¢ honesty ! them vou will camp in t century wssy greenish white, with 3 : S 1. Shortly thereafter several special | retponsible for them, with special ay what he t oam through the fields mother of pearl iridescence and blue- NIk I et on Hewe ComEEEon BartEl LAt Trat et y ) 1 every minute in the mo green aubergine underglize S } i k a s 3 ial talk about that rabbit 1 . f that forage in the Frank Howard rglaze. The howl These es were all found in A . Mesopotamia. and are in a marvelous ? 3 i 3 HE American Academy in Rome | > P 5 b ] mefofliie o o i (e HEhei onll . Yook X state of preservation. The following T announces its annual competition The Public Library derstandi E nt. s 11 three uthwards. 1 ’“‘1'( ‘,}“]“\ note from the handbook of the Minne. for fellowships in architecture, paint- besides, he is as i k, Pa says Prosper Fair Bosto apolis Institute of Arts lends interest : B : best of our novelists to the donkey, “for 1 have an instinct to these remarkable specimens: ing, sculpture, landscape architecture, i E that 1o the South lies adventure, and adventure is what we seek. Ten days | SCIENCE The following recent accessions at Mohammedan, Turkey and even, in certain aspects, the art of Spain, Portugal and south- Although the development no means uniform the products which is un- art was by or along the same line: are all related mistakable nianifestation of the Mohammeds in 638 A.D., and almost Since the Koran for representation of any Mohammedan artists developed the so- called arabesque style, ometric and floral motives itation, however, was not ob: the Persians, who living creature, with beautiful Justered ware of Persia is that found ruins of the < prosperous city was de- 1 during the Mongol in ¥ be assumed that most s found in the tumuli Rhages date from the early yes The earliest of the fragme: ONE OF THE PORTRAITS EXHIBITED BY CLARA E. SIPPRELL AT ARTS CLUB. tered pottery with pol ing Jw $1, during this period.” ‘ e and in the character | mountains and hills with enveloping blue haze, their marvelous profusion [ allowance of $750 a year for traveling of flowers and luxurious vegetation. | expenses. * % ¥ % ships, residence and studio (or study) are provided free of charge at the JEBEN F. COMINS, the well known |academy. portrait painter, has lately re-| Entries will be received until March. open his studio_here after spending|For circulars of information and ap- the Summer in New England as usual. ' plication blanks address Roscoe Guern- ing both in the exhibits with hibition of American silver held in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1906. In assembling WO of the four rooms in the Freer which for some time were to paintings ziven over committee has ation of collectors through- rily, now are occupied by a display of chings and lithographs by Whistler. would he well if the v note the charming and skillful man- the co-oper itor would seum of Fine Arts, Bosto studies. titions studies, or_women. In painting and sculpture there is no formal competition involv- the execution seribed these fellowship direct selection a vestigation of the arti qualification 1o be will be awarded by thorough in personal dates. submit examples of their work and such other evidence as will assist the v in making the awards. r the fellowship in sculpture the stipend is provided by the Rinehart fund of the Peabody Institute of Bal- The fellowship sical competition will be the Horatio Parker fellowship. For each fellowship in the fine arts the stipend is $1,250 a year for three some additional and model hire; in classical studies there is ship for one year, with a stipend of hip paying $1,250 a vear for two years. All fellows have opportunity for extensive travel, and fellows in musical composition, who travel about six months of the year in visiting the leading musical ters of Eurdpe, receive an additional timore, Md. vears, ances 50, and a fello In the case of wll “The art of the nearer Orient is the o ’ B musical composition and classical | the Public Library may be found in : % g 3 : In the fine arts the compe- 3 are open to not over 30 years of age who are cit- izens of the United States; in classical to unmarried citizens, the Industrial Division. Business and Commerce. AMerican Academy of Political and Soclal Science, Philadelphia. Science in Modern Industry. TIB- Am37sc. s Bauer, John. Effective Regulation of Public Utilities. HL-B32Se. Butler Brothers. 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Much as some prophet in the ages past spread out the future of each of these tenta- tive steps forward, so now men of vis ion are recasting the life of man un- der the new dominion of the air. This book is, in part, such an outlook into the future. The unprofessional man, the plain citizen, will read this chap: ter on the “Aeronautical Era” with something of the wonder that stirred arlier peoples over visions of undis- covered worlds. Again, another chapter of “Winged Defense” deals with “Civil and Com- mercial Aviation,” “Transportation is the essence of civilization,” the author. In historic retrospect he gives concrete evidence of the truth of this assertion, depicting the growth of transportation on sea und land, with its coincidence of increasing civiliza- tion expressed in the opening up of re- mote regions, in the rise of cities, in the increased facilities of communication. Here he opens up the heavens to the future use of mankind as a swifter and easier and more uninterrupted means of transacting many kinds of business between points of wide sep- aration. There is a_deat of professional and technical matter even here, but the main fact stands out clear and bold, convincing and exciting, under the nervous style of this tremendously earnest and completely convinced man of the air. Facts of clear statement nd good support pertaining to the use of the air in civic and commercial life are the immediate points of ap- peal to the general reader in ““Winged Defense.” - * k k% THE LITTLE KAROO. By Pauline Smith. New York: George H. Doran Company. I~ an introduction to this hook of short storles, Arnold Bennett tells something of Pauline Smith, its au- thor. She was born in the Little Ka 100, 2 region of the world in Cape Col- ony. “It stretches east and west, high above the sea level, immediately south of the Zwartberg Mountains. The main thing about the Little Karoo is the distances which separate its ham- lets one from another; these distances are magnified by the primitive means of transport.” And this, save for words of appreciation for the storles in this book, is the main point in Mr. Bennett's foreword. From this, one is reminded of the deep loneliness that the isolation of the South African veld fmposes upon its settlers. And this Toneliness, brooking over these people throughout their lives, is the tangible, seizable spirit of these short stories. Two old people in the bond of a long wedlock, living in their mud house away from neighbors, seeing only the rare traveler across the veld, shut in deeper and deeper together alone, are finally confronted with the terrifying ave we wandered the byways, but nothing has occurred. We have encountered no ladies in distress, nor have we found villains engaged in villainy, conspirators occupied with conspiracy A quiet tour, Patience mine, but deep down within me, quad. ruped, I feel stirring an instinct. a pre mition of adventure. 1 have had many premonitions in my life, Pati ence most of them wrong—but never one quite so intense or convincing us this of which 1 am now conscious The instinet is all right. So you go along with Prosper Fair and his dog Plutus. (Patience was, through nc fault of his own, elimlnated from the adventure. Plutus was, too, in intent, but he refused to stay eliminated) With them you will come face to face with the mystery of the leaden pyra mid. And a reater piece of detection vou will not meet in many a day than the one in which you will engage here with Prosper Fair. And a more j ous vagabond of a detective than Prosper Fair—gentleman and lover vou simply will not meet again at all. * %k * THE CHEERFUL FRAUD. By K. R. G. Browne. New York: G. P. Put nam'’s Sons A FARCICAL to-do. brimming with laughter, whose basis is the laggard way of a voung Englishman back from America to meet the obliza tions of a titled inheritance. And the nearer that Mike Fairlie—now Sir Michael Fairlie—approached this wind. fall of title and fortune the more lag. zard grew his spirit in its response to these material blessings. By this time a travel-worn and somewhat rough looking vouth. So the old man in dis tress over the pesky behavior of his brand-new car did not hesitate to call upon this foot traveler for aid. Now if there was one thing in the world that Mike knew, inside and out, better than another it was 2 motor, no mat ter to what ill-begotten and fractious breed it belonged. And Mike fell to upon that car, reducing it immediate. 1y to a Christian sobriety of behavior. And the old man, all gratitude, offered Sir Michael Fairlie a_job. Mike threw the “Sir” over his shoulder and took it at once. This is just the beginning of things—not many miles from King's ) Fortune, the anclent seat of the Fair- lie house—in which Mike plaved the steady role of servant to this new rich family. A pretender to the Fair. lie title appeared, a prime imperson tor of the real thing in nobility, too. A huge theft excited the deluded house- hold that was harboring both Michaels at once. Happenings fell over one another to arrive in time to keep ex- citement at the proper pitch. Mike was enjoving himself tremendously and, beside that, he was developing a true romance—under difficulties it is true, but making progress neverthe- less. The whole involved situation sweeps along in a clean west wind of robust incidents and in a gale of spontaneous fun and laughter. * kX X WOLF. By Albert Payson Terhune, author of “The Heart of a Dog,"” etc. New York: George H. Doran Company. TERHUNE dog story is always an event. In the first place, the au- thor takes a surpassing theme. Then he applies to it the method of realism that nothing created repays in fuller measure than does a dog. The dogs are all about Mr. Terhune, living out in his company their days and years. Qut of this companionship readers WORLD By Alfred N S, Se. D., York: The Ma LINCOLN AND HIS G rated with SPIRITUAL GRAVITY COSMIST; The and Philosophy. Moore, .. T meteorology Geol University, president 2 graphic Society and vice | Washington 1905 to 1910 of United Pasadena Press A BOOK OF HORS Lucy G. Aller ton: Little, B NORWOOD By Robert E. Pinkerton Author of “The Test of Donald Norton” New York Evening Post— “The characters are well drawn nd true to life. Especially good is the Spider—cold, cunning and cruel—a legless fiend who overcomes his physical defect in a marvelous yet believable way. Good, too, is the actor masquer- ading as a missionary. 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