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FAMOUS PAINTER OF WURALS DES Simmons’ Arduous Labors in Library of Congress Told in Book. Edward Simmons, _internationally famous mural artist, who spent much time in Washington adorning the walls of the Library of Congress, in Bal- timore yesterday at the residence of his son, George B. Simmons. Mr. Simmons ‘was 79 years old. ‘The artist was the nephew of Ralph ‘Waldo Emerson and himself took to writing in later vears. His autobiog- raphy, “From Seven to Seventy,” re- counts a number of amusing experi- ences while decorating the wi of the Library here. At one time, Mr. Simmons wrote, he ‘was feeling very proud over having fin- ished his painting of the Nine Muses on panels in the Library. Hanna Fails to See. “Just then,” Mr. Simmons contin- % l; rfiy’, he gave a glance up and down, and then out, erying: re’s mothing here!” notice does politics | arts.” ‘Mr. S8immons wrote also of the hard- ship of working just under the ceiling of the Library during & very hot Wash- ington St ummer. “There were 36 pendentives,” he con- tinued, “in the domes of the ceiling, | which' I decorated with little figures, | using no models, but painting directly | upon the walls, composing as I went | I shall never forget this ex-| what this means. I was under contract to finish it at a certain time, and here I was working in these little sealed domes [which never were and never could be ventilated), while the thermometer was o high that 80 people died one day from sunstroke. It was mephitic. I was so terrified that I almost lived on milk and limewater.” Kept Good Health. Mr. Simmons said the reason he was not overcomc was because he had kept himself in good physical trim, a habit which he develo] early in life and which enabled him to retain his health long after many of his contemporaries had died. Mr, Simmons lived as a boy in the . MTHE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, “0ld Manse,” in Concord, Mass., once inhabited by Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote some of his best-known works there, He was born in Concord on October 27, 1852. He attended Har- vard, and on his graduation, in 1874, went to Paris to study art. Other famous murals by Mr. Sim- House, in Boston, appeallate cour of New York City and the Waldorf- Asteria Hotel in New York. He was a member of the National In- stitute of Arts and Letters and the Players’ Club of New York. In addition_to his son George, who lives at 113 Witherspoon road, Baltl- more, Mr. Simmons is survived by two other sons. One of them, Will Sim- | mons, is a distinguished etcher. GRANT TO BE SPEAKER Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, will be the principal speaker at a din- ner commemorating the seventeth an- niversary of the delivery of Lincoln's Gettysburg address, to be given tomor- Tow evening in the Burlington Hotel by the Daughters of Civil War Veterans, the Sons of Civil War Veterans and :Jhe Auxiliary of the latter organiza- ion. The dinner is annually sponsored by the three societies. John Reynolds will read the Gettysburg Address. Rev. L. M. Zimmerman, retired Lutheran min- sa; Vhich e h 3 which he has woven his verse. t tions of land in Virginia and thus made ‘The kindliest is that they left because | tions of land 1o VUV FUE LAEMICT for, membership in Washington's cab- weak, |inet.” Lindsay added that “if you are a Jeffersonian you read the newspapers representing the free press; go to the talking moving pictures, and buy won- derful jewelry in the 10-cent stores. If you ;re .'nl;hmwmhl% ty.:ruz g0 -le ith a|the bank.” en he said that ol Cw"a.:ly“",om ginians” are not necessarily Virginiag- persons,” but are a sort of legend of American heroes “who will sweep its sameness, its tawdriness, its com- across the coming years '&q;ue Amer- D. €. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931 1200 WALK OUT ON LINDSAY, POET, As groups of his audience left Lind- sm! and once as he was nearing the climax in the chanting of one of DISCUSSING VIRGINIA’S HEROES |5 oems he interrupted himselt to Those Who Remain Give Lecturer Ovation After Talk on Washington’s Cabinet. ‘Two hundred persons walked out on Vachel Lindsay, the poet, during his chanting lecture-recital under Commu- nity Institute auspices last Central High School, and Washington's | him, in shadow.” literat today have two explanations for t all. 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