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16 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 6, 1932 Sunday Morning Among the Cross-Words maid. 87. Spherical cells of bacteria. 90. Chances. 92. Genus consisting proboscis ACROSS. .Russian food delicacy. _Slights, as work; colloq. .Heavy hammers, of the Make evident. monkey. _Inlaid stone or 94. Grown-up. glass work. 95. River in Bolivia; . Flatly. obs. . Piled in stacks, 97. A kind of Rhine as hay. wine. . Precious fur, 101. Not any one. . Thoroughfares. 102. A minor chapel .Make an edging. in Greece. . Low, marshy 104, Snowshozs. ground. 106. Shortly. . Enormous. 107. Brown. . Feline, 108. French Benedic- 2.0n> of the Great tine and Latin Lakes. poet. _Farthenware pot. 109. Take the covering . Pass away. from. . Performed. 111, Undeveloped . Sign, indication. shoot. . Venture. 112. Needle-shaped . Human breast. spine. . Ancient Greek 114. Pinnacle of rock. warrior. 116. Comport. .Kingdom in S. E. 118. Joined by a mor- Asia, tise. . Employers. 119. Native of Spanish . Zeal. America of Euro- . Nostrils. + pean parentage, . Mountain 120. Linger. nymphs. 121. Plateau in East . Inventor of pres- France. ent musical nota- 122. The name of first tion. two books in the . Warning signals Apocrypha. for a guard. 123. Penetrates, . Military officer. DOWN. . Decline. . Surely. . Wedge-shaped. .Inclosure for live . Thirds. birds. . Furnished with a . Suffer. point, as a pen. .Dark fluid, . Transgressors. . Playing cards. . Accept, suppose. . Sequoia. . Philistine . Odor. temptress. . A peninsula of E. . Relating to a Asia. center. . Doctrine. . Came together. . Mutilated. . Glandular inflam- . Meals made of mation. maize and beans; . Accept again. obs. . Conceptions. .Plot of a motion . Minute simple picture. eyes. . Strips of wood. . Measure of ca- . River embank- pacity. ment. . French nurse- . At all. 16. Liar. 17. Vegetable sugar. 18. Wife of Edward I of England. 19. Orderly combina- tions. 28. Calendar. 30. Leaves, as of grass. 33. Jewish priestly vestment. 36, Panniers. 38. Philippine food plant. 40. Moves a little. 42. Ankle bone. 43. Peaceabl . 44 Brighter and calmer. 46, Appropriate. 48. Items of business. 49. Reddened. 50. A gardener’s tool. 52. Kestrel; var. 54. Melody. 57, Seaport of Prus- sia. 59. Keenness of in- tellect. 60. Celebrated games in a vale of an- cient Argolis. 61. African poisonous fiy. 64. Errors in print- ing. 67. Opera glass, 68. Draw forth by inducement. 69. Fruit. 71. Character in Dickens’ “Oliver Twist.” 74. American pioneer railroad builder. 76. Relating to the art of making earth- enware. 79. Untidy person. 81. Heron-like wad- ing bird. 82. Quantities of medicine. 84. Repetition. 87. Choral composi- tion, 88. First barbarian ruler of Italy. 89. Shrewd. 91. Noisy sleepers. 93. Liable to perish. 96. Truly, in fact. 98. Like a globular SR e L S N Wl -~ L & protuberance. belfry tower. 99. Window, as in a 100. Those who finish. 102. Feminine name. 103. Decree of the and dictator, Sublime Porte. 104. Roman,_ general 105. Bone joints. 108. Small cake. 110. Common laborer. 113. Murmuring note. 115. Beetle. 117, Success. Notes of Art and Artists — — Continued From Fourteenth Page Up to that time he had had no lessons. Find- ing that he had certain abilify, he sketched continuously, and upon his release took oppor- tunity to associate with artists and to de- velop his talent. He did not begin to etch until the following year, when in a Tokio book shop he found a book on modern graphic art by H W. Singer. From this and from Pennell's book on etching he learned, he says, all that he knew of the art. To learn to print took him more than a year, making daily trials. Later, in China, he took up work in color, assisted by a Chinese expert. It is not strange, therefore, that Mr. Luth- mann's work is Oriental in flavor and quite different in manner of rendering from that of other artists. Most of the subjects included in this exhibition are Chinese or Japanese. His plates arc small but somewhat broadly rendered, and yet with great accuracy of de- tail. In every instance they have, what is more, decorative effect. Lacking the lightness of touch of the Occidental artist, he shows in the matter of simplification his contacts with Oriental art. His color prints are singularly attractive, suggesting somewhat the best of the Japanese wood-block prints and yet quite different in many ways. Following foreign custom, Mr. Luthmann’s prints are priced absurdly low, ranging from $3 to $15, the majority $4, $5 and $8. THIS afternoon the Sears, Roebuck & Co. gal- leries, Mrs. George Oakley Totten (Vicken von Post) will hold a private view of her illus- trations, portraits and works in sculpture, which form an important group. Mrs. Totten has lately received a commission for six large decorative panels in marble for the United States Post Office at Waterbury, Conn., designed by her husband, George Oak- ley Totten, jr., of this city, president of the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. These panels, which will set forth the development of mail carrying, will each be 4x71, feet in dimensions and will be in relief. Mrs. Totien is one of the few women sculp- tors to b2 commissioned by the Government to produce work for the decoration of a public building. Up to the present time she is best known for her unique and charming sculptural groups illustrating Swedish folk and fairy tales which have been rendered in porcelain and other materials—works which have a charm of their own. Mrs. Totten has produced in this country since her marriage to Maj. Totten an interesting series of little groups illustrating Mother Goose tales which have been cast in a kind of papier-mache and skillfully colored, works particularly appropriate for children’s niurseries and kindergardens. She is now ex- perimenting in a similar series to be produced in metal and painted, under the belief that they will be more durable and also less weighty. In this exhibition she appears for the first time as an illustrator, the illustrations which she shows having been made to accompany tales of her own writing NOTHER extremely interesting section of this same exhibition is a collection of craft work by a group of distinguished Delaware Valley artist craftsmen, all of whom have had numerous commissions but exhibited little. This includes ornamental wrought iron, garden fur- niture, carved and decorated screens, chests and grilles, wall hangings, panels and work in stained glass from the Gothic Shop conducted by Mrs. Morgan Colt, by Inez and James Mc- Comb, Charles Childs, Henry Mercer, Valen- tine d'Ogris and Ethel Wallace. These artist- craftsmen live at New Hope, where Redfield, Garber, Mrs. Robert Spencer and other well known painters have long lived. Included in the collection is a superb painted and carved Gothic chest, a Spanish door, painted and carved, with wrought iron decora- tion over velvet, and a carved oak Gothic screen, all three essentially museum pieces, produced by the late Morgan Colt. Inez and James McComb produce decorative panels, screens, etc., through the medium of a metal leaf inlay, working sometimes in Oriental manner, again at _ times after the manner of the primitive Italian painters. The textile wall hangings are by Ethel Wal- lace and are painted, or rather printed, velvets, done by a process of her own competently mastered. Charles Child's contributions are screens, murals, drawings, water colors and oil paint- ings, decorative in intent, Oriental in feeling, influenced, undoubtedly, by the great masters of Chinese painting. Henry Mercer, the well known potter, shows reproductions and adaptations in cast cement of early Italian, Spanish and Byzantine pieces for gardens and outdoor placement, such as sun dials, well heads, wall fountains and figurines—quite as much at home in American gardens as in those of the Old World. Finally Valentine d'Ogris shows stained glass for churches, public buildings and private homes. This group and their contributions alone would make an exhibition noteworthy. VERY unusual exhibition of rugs and tex- tile wall hangings is to be seen at the present time at Nejib Hekimian’s Gallery, on Connecticut avenue. This includes a splendid group of tapestry rugs woven at Aubusson and in the leading factories of other countries. These rugs, which as almost every one knows, are like coarse tapestries, obviously without pile, are particularly suitable for rooms of Colonial design and were favorites during the Colonial period. Two splendid examples of Aubusson rugs are to be seen at Mount Ver- non; therefore, the exhibition of these rugs at this time is peculiarly suitable. It is, fur- thermore, a rare occasion to have so many such fine specimens of this kind of rug shown at one place and at one time. This display is on the third floor of the Hekimian Gallery. On the second floor an almost equally notable group of Oriental rugs is on view, among which is a Persian ga~Zen rug of the seventeenth cen- tury, if not earlier, and a Persian banquet rug of approximately the same period—both rare specimens. This exhibition is free to the public, and those who are especially interested either as students or art lovers are made most welcome. On the evening of March 10 a lecture will be given in these galleries on modern rugs and their degeneration. This, too, will be without fee. T the Crillon Galleries, Philadelphia, at the present time Alice Riddle Kindler, wife of Hans Kindler, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, is holding an exhibition of her paintings, Mrs. Kindler, when a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, won the Cresson traveling scholarship and spent a number of years abroad. Her present exhibition shows chiefly paintings made at Senlis, near Paris, where she has had for some years, off and on, a home. One of her works, entitled “Dried Flowers,” has been lent to this exhibition by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from its permanent collection. T Venable’s Gallery, 1309 H street, pastels by Grace McKinstry and miniatures by Margaret Stottlemeyer are now on exhibition. Miss McKinstry is well known for her portrait work in oils and both she and Miss Stottle- meyer have exhibited frequently with the So- clety of Washington Artists and other organi- zations. Psyllium Seed Triple Cleaned —LIGHT— Great Price Reduction 11b.,45¢ 51bs., $1.95 The natural seed laxative which combines in a harmless way the advantages of bran, agar and mineral oil. The Vita Health Food Co. 1228 H St. N.W. 3121 14th St. N.W. Call. Col. 2980 for Delivery The Most Popular Book of Non-Fiction throughout the United States b d 'IJ ' ; James Truslow Adams An Atlantic Monthly Press Book $3.¢5 at all Booksellers Bowon LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY Pusithen

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