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An Unusual Exhibition at the Dunthorne Gallery—Posters iz From the Foreign Studios-——Works of the Modernists, and a Collection of Camera BY LEILA MECHLIN, lflll‘lnluol\h of flle‘ Blllnl.‘id passerby. Certainly the majority woul seem 1o HE exhibition of Coechoslovakian | fuinil this purpose. No one could visit etehings and woodcuts recently | ihis exhibition without wishing to set opened at Gordon Dunthorne’s | u;; o entrain for the places advertised st. T B D vy mo¢ | _Better than all others, the artists of ingly varied and | Great Britain seem to have mastered numerous, are exceedin i of & high standard of technical excel- | the techuique of the poster. Far and | away the best of all the posters shown bjectively movel rof subjecty and peos | In this collection are thase by British ple unfamiliar to all save those who | Artists. In composition, they are simple: are much traveled. The majority of | in color, strong: in effect, artistic. And the artists represented in this showing | 8ll this the ideal poster should be. In are “restdente of Prague, and have some instances the British artists have therefore had the advantage of artistic | Selected architectural themes, in others enviroment, for in many respects Prague | figures and in still others landscapes. is one of the most interesting and pic- | Our subjects here in the United turesque cities in Europe. Its older States are as numerous and as fine, but section, which is still the city’s heart,| we have not as a nation, strangely was built, if we are not mistaken, dur. | enough, proved ourselves adept in the Ing the late sixteenth and early seven- | use of the poster veri acular. Of course teenth centuries, and the style of | there are some excep'ions and some of architecture employed was quite gen- | our wartime posters were good, but erally baroque. It is said that the de- even they were not as good as the signers and builders were artists from 1 British. This year an automobile has Tuscany, and without question the in- | been advertised by a poster of Mount fluence of the Florentine masters is | San Michael, which as a work of art is evident. In some of the churches the | excellent, but the name of the designer example of Santa Maria Nuovells is | does not appear in any of our directories comparatively closely followed, and now | of artists in America. It ds true that and again one observes a note reminis- | the railroads in this country have not, cent of the magnificent chapel of the up to the present time, emphasized the Medici by Michelangelo. But on the | poster to any extent as an advertising whole the baroque in Prague takes on A medium. Perhaps if they did, we the air of free development and attains | should meet the demand with better to & beauty seen aimost nowhere else. art. In recent years the baroque has come | France, Italy and Spaln show good into disfavor, partly because of its ill posters—chiefly scenic subjects—treated use—an over-loading of ornament—but | in & broad simple manner. Germany, in Prague one sees it at its best—elab- | oddly enough, contributes a group of orate ornamentation subordinated to posters in which the pictoral feature is structural strength, decoration which | a photographic reproduction of im- Studies. | | parently in perfect health at the time of the accident. In the Paris Salon | and in various exhibitions in the United States and other countries he received during his lifetime numerous honor. and awards. He is represented in th permanent_collections of the Detroit Art Institute, the St. Louis Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. His Summer home and studio are at Lanes- ville, near Gloucester. He leaves & wil: and a daughter, the latter well known as a writer on art. A somewhat similar accident took the life some years of Mr. Grafly's co league, Karl Bitter, and more latel A.D. T. Hamlin, architect and professo of architecture at Columbia Univers! who were both struck down by passi automobiles. Ernest Haskell, one of our foremost American etchers, was killed in an automobile accident in Maine not long ago. These casualties emphasiz> anew the dangers of modern traffic and the price we pay for haste and so-called modern comveniences * ok o x SPECIAL _exhibition of pictorial photographs by members of th Cleveland Photographic Society is now on view in the Arts and Industries Building of the Smithsonian Institution, This_exhibit is ; timely inas- h as Summer holidays and oppor- for camera use s an artistic medium are at hand. Even the amateur photographer can learn from such an exhibit, for nine-tenths of the success in photography is the employment of the principles of art—the cholce of | subject—the relation of light to shade. | Beyond this the skilled photographer | PORTRAIT OF PEYTON RANDOLPH (“THE S “THE HERMITAG! E.” ANDREW JACKSO? CHARLES H. THOMAS, A MEMBER OF THE CLEVEL HOLDING AN EXHIBITION IN THE ARTS AND INDUSTRI 'S HOME AT NASHVILLE. ELAND OTOGR Teally decorates flowing lines which are rhythmical, but not restless. Some of the beauty of Prague is| | ' pos| natural scenery or monumental fbun‘gfnx. Extreme modernism has little place shown in the etchings and wood block { in this exhibition, and when shown in prints included in the Dunthorne exhi- | the company of the better British art bition. For instance, there is a charm- loses force. Symbolism, which, after all, ing etching by Vondrous of St. Vitus, iis to a great extent what modernism Prague, and there is a very interesting color etching of the in a snowstorm by Strette-Zamponi. ‘There is & superb wood block print of a | order that the ‘woman ascending & flight of stairs out- | on_the instant. There are some | tislly modern and at the same time ra- | tional—at times beautiful. | examples should be on view in every | art school. Lo of-doors, by Dillinger. street scenes in the same medium showing racial types by Silvosky. There are etchings, strong in line and excellent in composition, of stone-cut- ters and washer women, by Lauda, and there are interesting themes found out- side of Czechoslovakia, such as a famous church in Antwerp, the Corte Nuova, Venice, and even our own ay, New York: for the Czecho- slovakians are bv no means untraveled. ‘There is in this exhibition a strong racial note, a note which makes any art the more interesting and which must exist if art is perfectly sincere, for racial characteristics cannot be oblit- erated without loss of individuality. ‘To become more famiilar with the art of other countries is not only broad- ime church seen | | employs, is not comprehensible at a glance. For the ideal poster onc must have realism in the simplest terms in e may be delivered Poster art is essen- The best * k% ox the Yorke Gallery, the concluding exhibition of the season opened May 6. to continue to May 31, and it ‘comprises, 1o a great extent, works by modernists, such. for example, as the Italian, Modigliani; the Spaniard, De La Serva: the Russian, Fotinsky; the Frenchmen, Renior, Villard, Villon, Derain and others. In this unusual | company are found three paintings by Marjorie Phillips of this city, repre- sentative of her best: one or more works | by Negulesco, the Rumanian. who is | now making Washington his home: a painting bv Eben Comins of this city, APHIC S BUILDIN( 3 BY WILLIAM VIRGINIA HOUS | RICHMOND. | these is Archibald J. Motley, jr., to | whom the Harmon Foundation gave its | first award of $400, and May Howard Jackson of this city, who received an award for her sculpture portrait of Dean Kelly Miller of Howard University. A number of Mrs. Jackson's works will be added to the showing in this city as a tribute to her and as an enrichment to the collection. * * % " HE Critcher School will hold its an- | nual exhibition of student work in { its new quarters, 1 Dupont circle, this week, May 16, 17 and 18. Announce- | ment is made by Miss Critcher that Mr | Negulesco, the distinguished Rumanian | modernist, has been edded to the fac- | ulty of the school for next season. i * * % 'HE Abbott School of Fine and Com- mercial Art announces a special i Summer session, an eight-week course. from June 3 to July 27, and a six-weel course from June 24 to July 27. The annual exhibition of the school work will be held at the school during the first weck in June. S ey | A SELECTED' exhibition of works by club members opens at the Arts Club, 2017 I street, this afternoon, when tea will be sorved and the exhibitors | will act as hosts. * K k¥ tion, 2 West Forty-fifth street, | limited number of scholarships have | been offered by the Carncgie Endow- TENN. PHOTO ‘TY. THE CLUB IS SMITHSONIAN, A i i SRAPH BY ‘ who 1s artist as well as craftsman may | g0, for limited as is the camera to| | actuality, it cen yet record views and | | perspectives suffictently abstract to | please the most exacting modernist. In | | this exhibition, which includes 70 prints | “Ionic Columns” and “Geometric Re James H. Young, both | architectural studics compos>d of angles | and_ straight lines, belong to this eiass, | s does also “Curves.” a bromide by | enry Sill, a simple view of a turn in | a brook, with a heavy snow reaching to | the edge of the water. Other prints b Mr. 8ill include “Onward and Upward,” | | & bromoil which has received honorabie | mention in several salons. This is & night view of the new Terminal Tower | in Cleveland, the lighted top seen ! directly above the Soldiers' and Sailors' | | Monument, a clear-cut pyramidal com- | position. | Industrial subjects make interesting | prints by Tzppenden, H. G. Cleveland | {and Henry Mayer, and in contrast to | these are five delightful pastorals by AND MARY COL FIHE institute of International Educa- | ening but tends in the long run to closer and a work in sculpture (by no means international relationships. Therefore, such an exhibition as this which Gor- don Dunthorne has arranged of the g;:hle art of Czechoslov: R 1 N the Transportation Building, corner of H and Seventeenth streets, under | modernistic) by Margaret French Cres- | son. who are interested in the modernist movement will undoubtedly akia is a real | find this collection of genuine interest. flb * k% % | "THE world of art has suffered a severe | loss in the death of Charles Grafly, the distinguished sculptor, who died in | G. 8. Becker and several by George Y. | Tange. Portraits, animal studies, still life and flowers furnish pleasing variety. ! { * ok ok X 'IN the great hall of the National i+ Museum, facing the Tenth street | | entrance, ground floor, will be shown | | this week, opening on the 15th, an| ! exhibition of paintings and sculpture | y Negro artists assembled and set! orth 'under the joint auspices of the | | Harmon Foundatfon and the Commis- | sion on Race Relations of the Federal | | Council of Churches. New York. This ! | exhibition was first_shown at Interna- the auspices of the Bureau of Railroad | philadelphia May 6, as the result of | tional House, New York, January 3 to Economics, there is now set forth an interesting and comprehensive exhibi- tion of rallway posters of various.na- tions. Some of these posters, for in- stance, a special group by members of the Royal Academy, London, have been seen before, but are well worth a sec- ond showing, and the majority are new. The purpose of these posters is to in- duce travel by train, and the custom abroad is to post them at railway sta- tions and other public places where they will attract the eye and lure the SHARVEST,” A PHOTOGRAPH BY G. S. BECKER, MEMBER OF THE CLEVELAND PHOTOGRAHI( | tnjuries received April 19, when he was struck by an automobile. Mr. Grafly |1s the sculptor of the Meade Memorial, in this city, and his portrait busts were among the finest that have been pro- duced. He was an instructor at the | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, | | where he received his first professionai training, and his infiuence through his | teaching, as well as through his work, | | was widespread and beneficent. He was born in Philadelphia in 1862, and | he was in his sixty-seventh year, ap- 15, 1929, and from it the Harmon | Foundation made certain awards. Later | the collection was shown in Indian- | apolis at the John Herron Art Institute |and in Youngstown, Ohio. From here | it will go to the Art Institute of Chicago. A majority of the exhibitors are, it s understood, men and women who have received professional training in art and in some instances have already attained recognition, have held one- man _exhibitions and received asd exe= Among | ! cuted important commissions. | . SOCIETY. | Jenkins, E. H. | Nichols, R. S. Spanish and Portuguese | Sahlender, John. | Burke, T. F. In the City of God. | Leeming, Joseph, “ST..-VITL CONTA AT DU ) IN THE EXHIBITIO! NTHORNE'S. 1 AKER™). LOANED LE TO THE EXHIBITION AT | ment. for International Peace of this city for American men and women for | study in the Institute of Art and Arch- | eology of the University of Paris dur- Ing the 1920 Summer session. Each scholarship will carry a stipend of $400, which will cover traveling, living and (uition expenses for the seven weeks of the Summer session. The courses at | the institute are designed primarily to | meet the needs of (a) university and college students who expect to special- ize in art with & view to becoming | teachers of art, curators of museums, architects, art workers and writers; (b) teachers of art and curators of museums who would like the opportu- I nity of taking advanced instruction, a quiring new points of view and stud: |ing directly the art treasures of Paris nd France, and (c) students or teach- ers of French or of history particularly interested in art. Candidates for the submit credentials howing they are qualified to pursue these courses to advanlage. Further information may be obtained by apply- |ang labor by way of a correspondence | ing to the institute, New York. | *hxw | ‘\’[‘TENTION should again be called 43 to the notal 929—PART REVIEWS OF SPRING BOOKS L’Enfant and His Plans for the Capital City—Freedom of Africa—Atlanta From the Ashes, a Volume of Poems and Mrs. Whiffen’s Story. IDA GILBERT MYERS. L'ENFANT AND WASHINGTON: 1791- 1792. By Katherine S. Kite, Balti- ! more: The Johns Hopkins Press. | LONE man on horseback, rid- ing day by day here and there over virgin tract—wooded hills and valleys, threaded by river and rill, blanketed close by tangling undergrowth and scrub. But the man saw none of these things so clearly as he saw his own dream coming to life, fitting itself part by part into this Jovely stretch of nature. The vision holding him was a great and sumptuous city, built to the measure of future years when a mighty nation would have risen around this capital that he was dreaming into life, That was long ago, 140 years about, and theyman was Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French soldier and engineer, come to America because heé was in love with liberty and impassioned to fght for it. And the city was built after L’Enfant’s plan, Washington, Capital of the United States. And the man be- came legend. Rumor, hearsay and false repor{ built L'Enfant into some: | tainly into a much distorted one. But inow, right now in 1929, under the leadership of knowledge and art, Washington in a new energy (of worthy expansion is recalling the spirit_of L'Enfant for support in his original vision, for enterprise and en- |lightenment_to project his surpassing plan for the city beautiful of the | United States. Naturally, a quickened interest fn L'Enfant himself is general. And here at hand is a book definitely calculated to respond to the new zeal to know this great Frenchman. Such | is the immexiate purpose of “L'Enfant !and Washington.” By way of this | volume Elizabeth Kite offers the cor- | respondence of I’Enfant and Washing- ton from 1789 When L'Enfant applied to Washington fov permission to plan | the Feds | disheart: | understanding and lack of co-operation |around him, withdrew definitely from |the great project. Drawn from docu- |ments in the Library of Congress these letters appear for the first time {in book circulation. To these manu- | seript. sources of information have been added certain already published records iand reports bearing upon the theme. |An_ introduction by J. -J. Jusserand {adds clearly to the value and interest of the whole. This covers the story of {“Maj, L'Enfant and the Federal City. (A foreword by Charles Moore, chair- man National Commission of Fine Arts, offers in substance a vindication |of L'Enfant’s genius, whose proof is the |city of Washington itself. A chronology covers. the years of misunderstanding bearing upon one or another phase of | making a new city, literally from the ground up. Such, sketchily, is t exhibition of por-icontent of this book, whose immediate | and wisdom | eral City, to 1792 when L'Eniant, | ened by the turmoil of mis-| | surpassed if this be possible, by a qual- | !ity and power of imagination that can | hardly be surpassed. Extravagant? No, I am sure not. A fierce arraignment | of a hard-hearted world. Clever? Oh. better than clever—an original and scathing tale, one, too, that has a world | of pity and understanding in it. Clearly | | worth many a reading, not wholly for the story. One gets that immediately. | Rather will the re-readings come for the sake of the man's mastery of his medium, | | WA ! | THE LAST OF FREE AFRICA. By | Gordon MacCreagh, author of “White | Waters and Black.” New York: Ths | Century co. | JT 1is Abyssinia that stands as the | - last remnant of freedom in Africa, ' It is this country that provided the | leisurely explorations of Donald Mac- | Creagh and his wife, the “willful lady, | who would go along and who held up her end of the adventures in as good shape as did the rest—her husband and | the regular assistants to movement in | |that region. A travel book. one of | whose sources of enjoyment is the large | sessed by the travelers. A common | | trouble with these books, to the reader, is the hurry of the adventure, the | obvious desire to cover ground, to round | | the thing into a creditable complete- | ness. The reader, more or less ignorant | of the place and its interests, of any | far place and its attractions, likes to | | loiter, to dig into things, to consult the l map for reassurances, to look around | in every direction. And in this respect | Donald’ MacCreagh is a grand guide. | In other respects also, to be sure. Here | are descriptions of places and tribes, a summary of customs that are set deep |in an anclent past, snapshots at pass ing views of tribe’ and animal, of a strange land stretching away to dim twilight shadows. Along the way this traveler talks about the way in which | these people, a various tribal folk, live— | what they what their work is, how they are related man to man and group | | to group. He tells of the politics— largely a sturdy gesture toward remain- |ing free against the pressure against |this by the highly clvilized world | |around. Laughing and annoying inci- dents belonging to travel everywhere | come out in a good nature that ap- | pears to be of the invulnerable sort | | So fun and humor go along in fine proportion to the serious doings in- | volved 1n seeing the world. Seeing the | world appears to be the ‘prepossession | of this MacCreagh, and so let us hope | that he will dig uo some other remote corner of the world for just such all- |around enjoyment as this journey into | Africa_offers to the speedily growing class of travelers by the book route. | * % % ATLANTA FROM THE ASHES. By Ivan Allen. Atlanta: Ruralist Press IN 1864 the city of Atlanta lay a smoking ruin.” Such is the open- | ¢ traits of distinguished persons asso- |purpose is to re-vitalize the influence .o centence-of this story of rebuilding, | ciated with the Ccmmonwealth of Vir- ginia in Colonial days which is being held under the auspices of the Virginia Historical Society in Virginia House, Jjust outside of Richmond, which opened April 27 and will continue until May Many of the portraits in this col- New York, makes announcement that a | lection are lent by private owners and | added an even larger one. | therefore not accessible under ordinary | etrcumstances. N OF CZE! THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Library and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each | Sunday. Gardening. Dillon, J. L. The Blossom Circle of the | 8. RIS-D5! 1922. 3 The Rock Garden. Year, 1920. | RIS-J418r. 1924. WE-N518s. | Gardens. | Rexford, E. E. A B C of Gardening. 1915, RIS-R326a. Rockwell, F. F. Dahlias. RISE-R59d. Roses. RISE-Sa 14. Poetry. YP- American Poetry Circle Anthology. 9AmM38. YP-BO151 Carnegle Library School _Associatio comp. Our Holidays in Poetry. YP- 9C2160. Clark, T. C., and Gillespie. E. A., comps. Quotable Poems. YP-9C547q Cullen, Countee. The Ballad of the Brown Girl. ' YP-C895b. Dodd, L. W. The Great Enlightenment. YP-D66g. Alfred. Ballads and Poems. YP-N873al. Richards, E. D. jThe Peddler of Dreams. | YP-R30) A. Sonnets, 1889-1927. From Victorian Days. YPismost, Magic. Magic for Everybody. VR-L516m. inger, C. H. Ten Secrets of Modern Magic. VR-S(34t. Thompson, C. J. 8. The Mysteries and Secrets of Magic. BW-T37. Str Travel. Holland, Clive. Things Seen in the Channel Islands. G45C361-HT71. 1927, | LlelL‘eRly . Unhappy Indla. G69- u. Ludwig, Emil. On Mediterranean Shores. G27-L963.E. Mayo, Katherine. Slaves of the Gods. G69-M458s. Rimington, F. C. Motor Rambles ‘Through France. 1925. 39, Warty, 8. G. _Sister India. G89-W26. Wells, Carvath. Let's Do the Mediter- ranean. G27-W468. Wright, Eugene. The Great Horn Spoon G69-W935g. | » Immigration. | Bogardus, E. 8. Immigration and Race Attitudes. JS83-B63i. Garis, R. L. JS83-G 184. Fairchild, H. P. Immigrant Back- grounds. JS83-F 16im. | Lewis, E. R. America, Nation or Con- fusion, JS83-L584. Panunzio, C. M. Immigration Cross- i roads. JS83-P 196i. | Schibsby, Marian. Handbook for Im- migrants to the United States. J883-8ch32. Advertising. The Chicago Tribune. Book of Facts. HKA-C43. Dahl, J. O. Selling Public Hospitality. HKA-D 134s. Dell, John, pseud. Layouts for Adver- tising. ' HKA-D38. Lockwood, R. B. Industrial Advertising Copy. HKA-L811, Vital Penaris Advertising_ Co., Questions. HKA-P372. | Spofforth, Walter. Slogans. HKA-Sp6. Inc. ‘The spell of severe weather in Europe caused the London gas company to break all former records for the highest day's, the highest week’s and the high- est month's outputs, i G39-R464. | Stewart, G. C. Spanish Summer. G40- | St of Maj. L’'Enfant at a critical moment in the expansion of Washington and to renew as well the enthusiastic homage |of Americans to the man for his en- !during service to the architectural | beauty of the Capital of this country. | To ‘this immediate purpose there is L’Enfant {and Washington” is the third book in | a series that is being projected by the institut Francals ~de ' Washington. Lafayette is the subject of one of these. | Houdon’s work in" America another, | De Grasse at Yorktown another. There |are others. These, however, show the {highly useful intent of the Institut | Francais. Nothing less, this, than to smbody from authentic sources—from first-hand sour in the main—the record of France -as a .contributor to |the growth of the United States and {to the quality of that growth as well. | Scholar, scientist, philosopher, states. man, all French, will appear in thess issues. Here, too, will be found the story of pioneer, settler, missioner, | voyageur, who in the beginning set | their enduring stamp upon the States. | Motor up and down the Mississippi or along the Great Lakes where the i music of French place names vies with | the liquid Indian words in a trail of | Prench _exploration, which has bsen remembered and honored by these names—Marquette, Nicollet, Hennepin, | Duluth, the lovely Lac qui Parle in | Minnesota. Oh, and a thousand other | names bespeak the great part played |by Prenchmen in our earlier life, and |in our later days of prosperity and |security, Most interesting, most use- ful, these books that set forth afe ™ | before us the French in America by | way of Institut Prancais de Washing- ton. SEREE N CATE CREATURE. Con O'Leary. New York: Elliot Holt, | Publisher. 1L ret. that set me back opening sentence t set me 3 Hldpxeknown my con-o-leary better that ! movement would have been a plunge forward. Just another one, thought I, | turned out by yet another overwaywise vouth desiring to register as & know- it-all in the wicked woman-world of the day. So, engaging myself, virtuously, with & story of heralded high tone, I missed Con O'Leary for more weeks than I like to remember. For here, friends, is a cyclone of a story, or an earthquake, or any other of the really big performances that nature stages now and then. Its theme is woman— of course. It is that lovely fluff of & thing, pampered and blanketed against the weather, sheltered by & regular lord of a husband. You know the kind. Her name was Boda. Secretly she thought her name was Circe, thought her job was that of Circe herself, lead- ing astray Ulysses, dozens of him, son: of the half-willing original weakling whom Circe for 10 full years kept away from the silly Penelope, spinning and Wi y in a futile And of her | | | THIS DBLI By Catholic that knows exactly what to do with this female non-de- sirable in :h':’ world of dell‘ent folks. H claps her into purgatory, into a pt lm'sa of his own ingenious devising. Boda becomes a mouse, then a hare, | then all manner of things that are vic- tims to a world of seifish unheeding folks—a laborer's wife, a parlormaid, a female fox, a race horse, a pheasant. Then Boda was naked (and this was nothing new—indeed quite reminiscent of her good days). She was a beggar. | of new life and new vision. Standing upon the ground, his own home ground. Mr. Allen tells of the prompt immediacy | with which the building of the new city | was commenced, And this swift action is a tribute to the courage, to the te- nacity of the people roundabout that, under the tragic circumstance of the destruction of Atlanta, they shouid so | | promptly set themselves to making good | for a future absolutely unlike the past | to which they had been born and reared. | In the strict economy of the business ' man, saving of his words as Well as| foreseeing in his actions, Mr. en re- | views the business status of Atlanta | before the Civil War as a point of | | manufacture in the Seuth. . And from | this he moves into the reconstruction period. citing the leaders in that erisis. | men of courage and business outlook, | who proceeded to give the South =a | chance by way of “The Cotton States | Exposition,” for the sake of attracting | attention and capital to this rich region | of the country. Year by year, the story goes on with the growth of industry, the increase and improvement of transpor- | tation, the arrival of capital, of indus- | | trial leaders. of many forms of initiative | | and ingenuity in the field of production. | Indeed, this story proves to be a crisp | | business round-up of Atlanta in every | department of its progress. - Here are lists of manufactures, records of trade, |building improvements, | bent upon the general wellbeing of the | city, the status of education, the growth | of population, the records of taxabl® | property in huge amounts. In & word, | hoere is the stary of a business man on | the subject of the birth and growth | of one of the most enterprising of the | cities of the South. A small book of | | solid substance projected in just about | | the “eficient use of words that this | man and his kind use daily’ in_the | | thing like a mythic figure or c,,_‘;und accommodating sense of time pos- | ¥ organizations | * Jack Duncan. B P Dutton & Co. MRS. ‘WHIFFEN tells her own story —the long story of many vears on the American stage. A long story, but it doesn’t read long, for its spirit is that of gayety and good sense, its recoflec- tions ‘are, throughout, of clearly inter- esting people, the people of the stage, most generally fascinating folks in the world. Everybody, secreily, wants a stage of some sort, So these Who possess one by right of their trade are sub- jects of envy to the rest. Following along here in the trail of plays that come into fashion and go out of it again, along the shining way of famous act male and female, we do not come upon the defined specific promis- ed in the title of this charming book. So, the book read, we sit back to determine just how this’ actress, this woman, did keep off the shelf. Then it is plain as day and besides it is open for all to try, those off the stage as well as the theater tribe itself. Just keep plug- ging at your trade, don't let up long enough for moss to begin to sprout on your mind, keep at it and keep smilin’ through. Well, if Mrs. Whiffen did not te out a regular recipe—so many cups of this, and so many spoonfuls of that, with a pinch of this, that and the other—for kecping off that shelf, she did, by implication, tell how the trick is turned, and she did, moreover, make a_corking story of her own career and that of many another in her line. The pictures of the book are a joy and a decided jllumination. One, in particu- lar, is delightful. It is called “A Young Man Named David Belasco”—page 98. Fine, courageous stuffi—good for any- body’s reading. New York: BOOKS RECEIV THE GIRLS MEN MARRY. By Jane Johns. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. NEW ROADS IN OLD VIRGINIA. By Agnes Rothery. Tllustrated by Alice Acheson. Boston: Houghton Miffin Co. UNDER THE SKIN. By Kathleen MacNeal Clarke. New York: The Macaulay Co. PEAKS OF INVENTION. By Joseph Leeming. 1llustrated. New York: ‘The Century Co. EILLEY ORRUM: Queen of the Com~ stock. By Swift Paine. Indian- apolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. POEMS; And the Spring of Jov. By Mary Webb. With an Introduction by Walter De La Mare. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. THE MIND READER; A Myste: By ‘W. Adolphe Roberts, author of “The Haunting Hand.” New York: The Macaulay Co. THE WOMAN HUNTERS. By Arthur Somers Roche, author of “Come to My House,” etc. New York: The Century Co. WHY DO YOU TALK LIKE THAT? Now to Mention: Why Do You Write That Way? By Richard Burton. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. GOD IN THE MODERN WORLD; A Symposium. = By Dr, A. A. David, Bishop of Liverpool; G. A. Studdert- Kennedy, M. C., M. A.: R. Ellis Rob- erts, Dr. James M. Wilson, F. G. 8.; ‘Viscount Haldane, Dr. Percy Dear- mer, R. G. Collingwood, Rev. J. W. Grensted and Hugh Walpole. New York: E.-P. Dutton & Co.. Inc. PETER® GOOD- FOR NOTHING; A Story -of the' Minnesota Logging Camps. 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No. 13 of “Black’s Blu Books.” By Harmon Black, author of “Outlines of Travel” etc. New York:. Real Book Co. el WO Irish éovemmen! Seeks Old Records Ireland has a wealth of historical documents illustrating its history which for the most part have never been published. Many important rec- ords, indesd, are supposed to exist which so far no scholar has ever seen. The government has, therefore, ap- pointed a manuscripts commission to make exhaustive inquiries on the na- ture, extent and importance of exist- ing collections, to seck out documents in the possession of private ecitizens, and to Investigate foreign libraries which have books and documents re- Liting to ancient Ireland. ‘The commission will advise the gov- THI baok as this one demands such read- | ernment as to which documents merit ings only as one can give when his| publication. The chairman is f. mind is in complete accord with the ( John MacNeill, formerly minister for | writer's mood. = So it would take | education, and recognized as the fore- { months, it does take months, even years, | most of Irish historians. Then she was her own husband, just!to read a book of poems with the ap- | = Immigration Restriction. | to feel out how It was anyway with a Since this is a story, | |1t has to have a fair ending, or the; | public wouldrét stand for it. So Boda | | “comes to" and plans to behave for-| ever after. One has doubts. However. | the point of the matter is that as prime minister of purgatory Con O'Leary isi tremendous—fierce and ferocious, a! savage with club in hand, pitiless as! nature itself it pitiless. But it is hfl'e! that the man is an inspired genius. | Every creature into which this woman |is made to enter., just to see how it feels on her soft skin to have the | bruises of life blacken and scar it, is | that crenture in . actuality. In this | nether place Boda. |in the sinister playfulness of a cat's; paw. _And, somehow, that mouse is not | | only Boda, but it is you, too—probably | | in the measure of your own likeness to Boda. And when the mouse, Boda. tortured to death by the cat,'some tle bit of you seems to t goes through the lo | wife like her. amazing man, whose actual and minute knowledge of each of these creatures that Boda becomes is equaled, even is & mouse, caught ||/ preciation and understanding that it | deserves. However, reading here, one | fecls beauty and power and the per sonal depth of the author’s own ap- proach to her songs. o | KEEPING OFF THE SHELF. By Mrs. ' Thomas Whiffen. Illustrated by Bernard J. Rosenmeyer and Walter | Exhibition of Paintings & Drawinfla by Foreign Sodlccal Artists Yorke Gallery 2000 S Street N.W. May 6th to May 31st I‘ent . 00, WOMRATH'S LIBRARY YOU pay a small rental fee while the book is in your possession. You start and stop when you choose. 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