Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1931, Page 92

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY M, 1931 Sunday Morning Among the Cross-Words . Places of action. . A thin, brittle rock. . Distribuiors. . Being one of nine equal parts. . Soak. . Before. . A lifetime. . A bristle. . Agitate. . English royal line which reigned from 1485 to 1603. . Affirm. ACROSS. . A small satchel. , The dry powder of cacao seeds. . Land that has been tilled; Sp. . A prophetic dec- laration. A fastening place. . Pertaining to a number of people. Flow. A headland of Northern Spain. Esteem. . The sacred litera- . A very small bird. ture of the Hin- A city on the dus. Danube. . Associate. A division of .Companion: Italy. colloa. Bind. . Once more. Toward the sea. . A high priest. Decay. . A town in Poland. Particle . The name of a A malt beverage. large German To trav:l, as an liner. ox wagon. . Wing-shaped. A town in North- . Hinder. east France. . A large mountain Place. in the State of Small mountain Washington. lak~> . Calculated. A fish with a . Dwarfs. spear-lite snout. . An ancient coun- The silkworm. try in Northern Oscil'ate. Rome. Nimble. . Serve. The THBook of . Weird. Psalms. . Transmits. Assisted . Briny. Repented. Border. DOWN Stain. 2 Classes of birds. IR - Amphibian of the > frog family. g ms: Silver, chemical iy . A member of one symbo!. of varicus Euro- . Separately. . Medicinal seeds. pean people. . Natural. . Man's rickname. . A list. Think. Large fibers. . Native metal. Italian for God. . A magician, in Prohibits. French. Pertaining to-the 10. Terrestinl lizards nose. of the Cld World. Pronoun. 11. Space. Jelly: var. 12. Equip. Slide. 13. One who wanes. Printers’ marks 14. A gulf in the for “let it stand.” Caribbean sea. Through. 15. Small tree of the N - [ — struc- twisted 3 3333 282 22882 P BBZUEE SASS £ pr % mymuew Huys pe ¥z % Notes ‘Ol'eekl, goes straight to nature. To this he ~ owes his originality both of conception and of . treatment.” In producing this work Mr. Elliott was con- stantly in touch with the secretary of the ‘ Smithsonian—first Mr. Langley and then Dr. . Walcott. “Jack formed the happiest relations,” says Mrs. Elliott, “with all the Smithsonian men with whom he was brought in contact— dearest of all, William Henry Holmes, the artist.” The painting was several years in process of execution It was exhibited in Mr. Elliott’s studio in Rome for over two weeks when com- pleted. Among the visitors were Queen Mar- gherita and King Victor Emanuele. Reproduc- tions of the Diana appeared in the art journals o%the time in Italy, France, England and Spain. Few works, it would seem, have attracted more widespread attention. It was installed in the “National Museum in the Winter of 1910, being ‘formally unveiled on the 17th of March, nine years after the completion of Mr. Elliott’s *Triumph of Time” for the Boston Public Library. Mention is also made of a series of drawings “in pastel by Mr. Elliott to illustrate Mrs. Larz Anderson’s book of fairy tales, “The Great Sea Horse,” and of a series of portrait drawings of great aviators, members of the Lafayette Esca- drille, which are also now in the possession of the National Gallery. J‘HE portrait of Baron Beatty was painted in a studio in London, rented for the purpose, No. 3A, Claireville Grove, reached by a shady side lane opening from Kensington road. As there is none too much sunlight in London in Winter, it mattered little whether the windows faced north or south. The light here was per- fectly satisfactory. Lord Beatty was prompt in keeping his appointments. After once seeing , she says, she had no doubt as to the type painting that, if successful, would best pre- sent him. “I saw no room for synthesis or idealism in treatment. This was no time for eccentricity. Tradition being the mainspring of his life, it must be the starting point of his portrait; but this once accepted, the treatment might be free as thought. It must be some- thing seized, not thoughtfully accumulated and built up. * * * Of course, there was to be no action, so called, the only movement being in the permeating vitality of the whole, a stream, & unity of expression never crossed or contra- dicted by any accident, or misplacement of @etail, conception not likely to be realized, given the minimum of opportunity.” A little Cockney actor was hired to wear the @loak and hold the sword, posing in Lord Beatty's place to save time and strain on the part of the artist. Two months of uninter- pupted work told the story. The original draw- in' this instance was carried off by the ject. W‘hmmflntln.llpropmtylt should belong to the chairman of theé tee which Had ‘giver the thé's hmed quickly mxmm A oak family. . Mohammedan commander. . A gambling game. . The cholcest part. . Neat. . Greek goddess of dawn. . Chance. . A town in East- ern Greece. . Capital city in Mesopotamia. . A variety of cab- bage. . Circumscribe. . Biblical name. . Nothing . Siamese raoe. . A color. . Protuberances. . Kettledrums. . A daughter of King Lear. . Adored. . Monarch. . Commis:iioned. . Harvesters. . Apparent. . A Philistine lady w h o betrayed Samson. . Homeless wander- ers. 59. A land ineasure. 61. Small wild plums, 67. Attack. 68. Touch lightly. 69. Heroine in a ‘Wagnerian opera. 73. Capital of Loco- nia, Greece. 76. A canton in Western Switzer- land. 79. A republic in South America. 80. Anecdotes. 81. A gulf in the Bal- 83. 85. 2 90. Greek goddess of moon. 91. viser. 92. ‘Ever; poetic. 93. A style of art. 94. Hulled oats or wheat. 96. Musical drama. 97. 3 99. 101. Extreme edge. 102. Small tablets. 100. 104. Mother of Helen of Art and Artists A’I’ the Arts Club, opening today and contin- uing for two weeks, will be exhibitions of paintings by W. Lester Stevens of Princeton, N. J., and Miss Love Porter of New York. » Mr. Stevens is an instructor at Princeton during the Winter, but in the Summer has a studio at Rockport, Mass. He is a pupil of Parker S. Perkins of the Boston Museum School, a member of the New York Water Color Club, the North Shore Arts Association and other professional organizations. In 1921 he received the fourth Clark prize at the Corcoran Gallery’s biennial exhibition. He has since received the Gedney Bunce prize at the Connecticut Acade- my of PFine Arts; the landscape prize, Spring- field, Mass.; the second Altman prize, National Academy of Design; the William A. Delano purchase prize, American Water Color Society, and the Mansfield prize, New Haven Paint and Clay Club. His work is chiefly in the field of landscape, though he has done many interest- ing and very worthwhile Rockport and Glouces- ter themes—boats, wharves and the like. His works show extremely fine relation of values. He is a strong painter. When an exceedingly young man without special recognition the late Frank Duveneck saw in his work exceptional promise, and though at that time elderly and of great distinction himself, spared no pains in bringing Mr. Stevens’ work to the attention of those who he felt might be interested and help- ful. Miss Love Porter has studied under Mr. Stev- ens and also Henry B. Snell. She is a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Pen and Brush Club, the Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Association, the Rockport Art Association, etc. In 1929 she received a silver medal in a regional exhibition in Portugal. A PAINTING by Alphonse Jongers of the late Henry W. Ranger has been temporarily lent to the National Gallery of Art by the National Academy of Design. It was Jongers, it will be remembered, who painted the very excellent portrait of William T. Evans, which the National Gallery owns. Mr. Evans and Mr. Ranger were close friends. It was doubtless partly through Mr. Ranger’s influence that the Evans collection was made a national gift. It is through Mr. Ranger’s be- quest that this collection is continuocusly en- riched and enlarged, for when Mr. Ranger died he left his entire estate in the hands of the National Academy of Design as trustees, with instructions that the income therefrom was to be used for the purchase of works by American artists to be given to public institutions, the National Gallery of Art at Washington having an option on each purchase before being other- wise permanently placed. souid Bave 18, 16 perbisabnt boleGHion & fur. ‘have in its "Hds lately i ora } 108. Woody plant. 109. Fine metallic thread. 106. A thick native war club. 115. Friend in PFrench, 117. A religieuse. 119. A Greek letter, 110. Fowl. 111. Braziliau coins. 112. Traps. — — Continued From Twenty-First Page landscape painter, and several of his most choice canvases are included in the Evans col- lection, s A WATER color by Elizabeth Muhlhofer is being exhibited on an easel in one of the smaller galleries at the National Gallery of Art. This painting Mr. Holmes, who is himself a distinguished water colorist and a most brilliant technician, considers an unusual achievement. It is exceptionally large for a water color and very beautifully rendered. At a recent exhibition held in the Corcoran Gallery of Art under the auspices of the Society of Washington Artists Miss Muhlhofer was awarded the Popular Prize of $100 for one of her flower paintings shown therein—like this, an elaborate composition. The use to which she put her prize money was the purchase of a painting by her colleague, A. H. O. Rolle, a charming picture of a boat on the sandy shore at Ocean City, which she presented to the so- ciety and the society, in turn, presented to the Home for Incurables, where it is now hung and giving great delight. Few incidents of a more charming character have occurred in local art circles, for Mr. Rolle in selling the work made generous concession from his original and usual price. TWO especially notable exhibitions are scheduled for the Corcoran Gallery this season. One, opening the last of this month or the first of February, will consist of 78 paint- ings by members of the Royal Society of British Artists, of which Philip de Laszlo is now president. Mr. De Laszlo will be in Washing- ton to superintend the hanging of this exhibi- tion and to attend the formal opening. The collection is being circulated in this country among art museums by the American Feder- ation of Arts. In April the Corcoran Gallery will show the exhibition of Mexican Art brought to this coun- try through the instrumentality of Senator Morrow while Ambassador to Mexico, and un- der a generous grant made by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This exhibition had its first showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and has since been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is now at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. Com- paratively few exhibitions in recent years have attracted as wide and favorable attention. INordanottnconflictwlththoMba- tween Gilbert Chesterton and Cosmo Ham- ilton to be held here undef the auspices of the Community Institute, the Washington Society of the Fine Arts has postponed the lecture by A. Kinglsey Porter on “The Sculpture of the Irish Crosses,” which was to have been given on January 14, to the evening of January 28. OWARD Demtolrlne H“m*unfimhu-;mmonmm Jimu.ry 15"at 8:30 o'¢loc! lt the “African Art,”'by Dr. Alain Letoy Lock, fessor of philosophy at Howard University. It was through Dr. Locke that a collection of African sculpture in wood was purchased from a Belgian collector some years ago and brought to this country. The exhibition of this collec~ tion has not only attracted wide attention, but has undoubtedly had an influence on con- temporary art. THE United State National Museum, section of photography, is showing during the month of January a collection of 60 pictorial photo= graphs by Ansel Easton Adams of San Fran- cisco, Calif. Mr. Adams is a member of the Sierra Club, and his collection of photographs made while on the climbing expeditions of the club is of unusual interest and note. He has also made a specialty of photographs of skiing. Danger of Gas Poisoning. TH!.' Bureau of Mines, profiting from the ex- perience of educational leaders who have accomplished much through the use of visual education, has turned to a movie film to em- phasize the dangers of carbon monoxide poison= ing in the everyday activities of Winter life. In spite of the constant warnings year after year, hundreds of people die in their own homes every year from the gas, in accidents which could have been prevented with a little care. The first scene, and the one which is a true representation of many such cases, pictures a man warming up his car in the garage after failing to fasten the doors open. A gust of wind closes the door, and in a few moments, with the air rapidly and unwarningly becoming highly poisonous, the autoist collapses. His family, waiting outside, becomes worried at his failure to appear and investigates in time to save him. Unfortunately the families are not always waiting, and when the victim is found it is too late. Leaking gas lines, improper combustion of coal and other such sources of the gas present a constant menace in the home. The gas, being both colorless and odorless, creeps into the air until it has reached deadly percentages without its presence being Fortunately symptoms of the presence of the gas are given, and, properly introduced, the housewife can eliminate the danger before it is too late. Sudden headache and nausea, accompanied by drowsiness and a general feeling of being upset, nrelndluflomthltthemhmt. if there are no other known | umazotthe ohe