Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1933, Page 11

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO D, . C, FEBRUARY 5. 1933—PART ON % Washington Artists’ Exhibit Opens DISPLAY OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE TO CONTINUE THROUGH FEBRUARY. U. S.VICTIMS BARED IN ESTATE RACKET! State Departmefit Awaiting Werd of Deportation Or- dered at London. “e S'at: Department has not yet received a revort frcm the London con- 52~ general on the deportation order 21'ch the British government has is- £°2d egainst Oscar M. Hartzell, who is >d to have been engaged in the pro-ezution of claims to the mythical! €s‘a‘e f 8ir Francis Drake, | Cf all the bogus fortune rackets in | C:c-t Britaln which have been used | 15 Cune Americzns, the Drake fraud has ! the cn2 roncernirg whish the State m-nt hes recelved most com- ulous persons in all parts of the £t-tes hcve pald money to over a leng perizd of yi in; p2 of estab’ishing n claim to this 3 Many of them refuse to accept | statements of the British embcssy and the State Department that no such estate is in chancery in Great Britain. Furthermore, there are no estates of any considerable size awaiting settle- m‘:‘nt, according to British court offi- cials, Sharpers who have been hoodwinkin, vistime in this country have caution great secrecy in all communications and moest of the persons who ask for in- formaticn from the State Department refuse to disclore the nemes of agents they have employed. Frequently the letter writers pretend they are making irquiries on behalf of some other per- B9 &n. M:mbers of Congre's still recelve many inquiries about the Drake estate. which are referred to the State De- partment, but the fraud is apparently nct working as well as it did & few years ago. By recent action of the Post Office Department agents of the so-called Drake estate are prevented Irom using the malls. The Blake estate, the Jennens estate, the Townley e:tate, the Horne estate and the Bradford estate are other myth- ical fortunes alleged to be in chancery which unscrupulous agents have used in the pest in extcrting money from Am:ricans. DEPORTATION IS ORDERED. Former Iowan in England 10 Years “Seeking Drake Estate.” LONDON, February 4 (#).—The Brit- ish government has informed the American consulate that a deportation order has been issued against Oscar M. Hartzell, described by British offi- cials as “an_undesirable alien,” who has been in England 10 years, saying h's purpose, was to prosecute claims to the estate of Sir Francis Drake. It was said that Hartzell would be deported immediately. Hartzell first came to London from Jowa, it was stated, to check personally on the activities of an agent to whom he had contributed funds, and asserting Le was involved in a search for the “Drake millions.” He remained in Lon- dor and had representatives in_the United States, particularly in the Mid- dle West. Hartzell mostly used cables for main- taining contacts with the United States, it was said, and Iowa, South Dakota and Texas were listed as the localities of greatest activity. . DRESS AND SUIT APPEALS SWAMPS SOCIAL SERVICES Sewing Department of Salvation Army Must Be Enlarged to Meet Demands. ‘The newly established sewing de- partment at the Social Service branch of the Salvation Army must be greatly enlarged before demands for clothing for Washington's needy children can be met adequately, Brig. John G. McGee, director, declared yesterday at a meet- ing of his staff at 112 Constitution avenue. Since establishment of the new de- partment, Brig. McGee said the eight distributing centers of the Social Serv- jce branch throughout the city have been swamped with requests for dresses and suits for boys and girls W school age. Increased contributions of women's ‘;cues and other garments which can remade into clothing for children will result in rapid expansion of the new department, Brig. McGee said. ‘The new department alds the needy in a dual capacity, Brig. McGee sald, pointing out that unemployed womeh are given jobs remodeling the cast-off garments. BILL TO MOVE STATUES AT CAPITOL NEAR ACTION Representative Luce Files Report Citing Architect’s Advice to Library Committee. Eatly action in the House is promised on & concurrent resolution introduced by Representative Luce of u- setts, providing for removal of some of the statues from Statuary Hall because of unfavorable structural conditions. Acting for the Committe¢ on Library, Representative Luce has filed a report explaining the situation. It says, in part: “The architect of the Capitol in- formed the Joint Committee on the Library that a competent engineer, who has examined Butuna Hall, says it is in a dangerous condition by resson of the weight of the statues in tion there. This has come about, n part, by reason of the fact that wi the chamber was rebuilt after burned by the British in the War of 1812, its shape was so altered that the walls do not bear squarely on the original foundatian. To rebuild these foundations would be a costly undertak- ing. He advises us not only that fo more statues be placed in the hall, but also that some of those now there be removed. “In view of the menace to our own safety and to that of the public there seems to be nothing for us but to fol- Jow this advice.” A hole, 9 fest wide, Which ed fn a lawn in Tividale, has been found to be part of the shatt, 200 feet deep, of & mine closed 80 years ago. 2,240 Pounds TERMINAL % 3rd & K Sts. NW. Na. 0090 g Left, “North Carolina,” a statue by Clara Hill, and, right, 8 painting by Asadis Hermann called “Norma,” two of the exhibits of the Society of Washington through the month. BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE Bociety of Was] on Artists now is holding its forty-second annual exhibition in the Cor- coran Gallery of Art. It opened today, and will continue through- out the month of February. One is thus reminded that for more than two double deccdes this society, made up of the practicing artists of ‘Washington, has not only been produc- ing here in our midst but endeavoring to advance the interests of art and its development in the National Captal. Looking back over the years, thase who have followed the fortunes of this local association recall the enthusiasm which has been brought to bear upon these annual showings, and also from first to last their excellent character. At one time they were held in the assembly hall of the Cosmos Club, then for a season or two in an improvised lery at Woodward & Lothrop’s; for short time the soclety had a gallery of its own on Connecticut avenue, but from the time the Corcoran Gallery's new bullding was erected cn its present site, with but one éxception, the societ. has exhibited under its hospitable roof. For a good many years these exhibitions were held in what was known as the hemicycle, originally intended for and later converted into a lecture hall, and 1t was undoubtedly through the excel- lence of the society’s exhibitions and the vision of its officers and drectors that the potentialities of & mwre com- prehensive display of contemporary paintings were brought to mind and the Corcoran Gallery's biennial exhibi- tions instituted. For some seasons these exhibitions have occupied two galleries—those of the right and left of the main stair- case. This year the Corcoran Gallery's gen-mnem collection having increased, ut one gallery was available. This is well filled—perhaps too well filled—for thc paintings, 92 in number, are of necessity hung frame to frame and in & double row. Year's Work Shown. A yearly exhibition set forth by a group or association, as in this instance, of professional artists should invariably be regarded as an annual report, the purpose of which is to uaint the public and each other with current activities—progress presumably, though not impossibly retrogression. As such, the present display gives indication of Per wide diversity, both in viewpoint and method. Perhaps never before has there been a time when artists were so far from single-minded in methods of pursuit and ideals. Also it is safe to venture that never has there been a time when criticism was more lenient, opportunity for display so generously accorded. Among the figure paintings in this current exhibition are three certainly outstanding—Hattie E. Burdette's por- trait of Clifford K. Berryman, to which a position of special honor has been given; Mathilde M. Leisenring’s portrait, head only, of Will Barnes, an por- trait of a little girl in white by Camelia ‘Whitehurst, entitled “Summer,” exe- Lansh 7th, 8th a cuted with & lightness of touch and obvious artistic feeling. Another excel- lent figure study is a painting, “Old Woman of Capri,” by Duane Crawford— & simple, straightforward piece of work, painter-like and characterful. There are two studles of colored per- sons one by Eva Qarrison, entitled “Old Colored Maid,” the other “Jane,” by May Chisweil Marshall, the former receiving at the ‘hands of the jury of award en honorable menticn, the latter somewhat more simply hendled and decoratively interesting s a composi- tion. -> ‘Takes Ambitious Subject. Bjorn Egeli shows a large canvas of | & s girl and dog, “Polo Girl,” a young woman in white riding costume, with her hand resting_caressingly on the head of & white Russian wolfhound— an ambitious subject for the interpre- tation of which perhaps the painter was not fully competent, but, after all, fall- ing only a little short of success. Sewell Jol shows a portrait of her mother, conscientiously and sym- pathetically rendered; Margaret Moffatt Yard a portrait study, well considered, of a young girl, “Elizabeth.” From Bertha Noyes has come a study of a young woman in white, not in her ac- | b customed style. On the same wall on which hang Miss Burdette's portrait of Mr. Berryman and Mrs. Lelsenring’s portrait of Mr. Barnes is an interesting painting by Dorsey Doniphan entitled “Rebuilding a Nation's Capital,” in which he shows the old Post Office Building in the midst of new bullding operations, and with a picturesqueness that is somewhat sur- prising. Here, too, are interesting landscape studles, one by John H. Perkins, the “Coast of California at Laguna”; the other ‘Tom Brown, of & “New Eng- land Village,”-the latter with a charm all its own. Here is an excellent Winter picture, “The Snowstorm,” by Grace Merrill Ruckman, sincere and well seen; a glimpse of city roofs under a “First Snow,” by Ole Nordgreen; a delightful little landscape, “Sunlight and Shadow,” sensitively interpreted, by Benson B. Moore; an exceedingly well painted still life, fruit, flowers and a ‘“Japallese Print,” bof Lona Miller Keplinger, the last in aaormimflyw:pqlnt b “The Head the Harbor,” by J. C. Claghorn, and a Western mountain theme, “Halletts Peak,” by Alice L. L. Tgusan. Much may be sald in praise of Ger- trude Murrell's “Calla Lilies,” of E. Col- born’s “Petunias” and of Esther Lyne's “Decoration.” But where is the charm in & red-checked tablecloth or in some of the other commonplace subjects here drably set forth. BtnTIy enough, Bennett Durand has found beauty in & tin roof and, what is more, made it manifest. But it is in this, as in every such instance, not the thing itself but the artist's vision which lifts the sub- ject out of the commonplace. 8. Peter Wagner exhibits this year, and at this time & work in a new vein, a picture of blossoming fruit trees bor- dering & mountain road, very boldly rendered. Most charming is Robert E. urgh’s nd E Sts. Our Opticai Department —is just what you would expect in the most mddern equipment for examining eyes; the newest styles and designs of frai and eyeglass mountings the utmost in a GUARANTEED OPTICAL SERVICE, in charge of our Registered Optometrist. . Complete GLASSES $ 6.45 Including Lenses, Frame and Eye Examination A handsome, modern engraved, white gold filled frame, with finest white lenses GROUND TO YOUR INDIVIDUAL REQUIR EMENT, in any single vision, no matter HOW COMPLICATED YOUR EYES MAY BE. USE YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT Private Examination Rooms, Optical Section—Street Floor' Artists which opens today at the Corcoran Art Gallery and will continue Motley’s painting entitled “Pennsylvania Hills,” recalling the work of the late Willard Metcalf, and Metcalf at his best. Lucis B. Hollerith shows a sketch of “Mulln Kirsche, Saltgburg, Austria,” made during last Midsummer's holiday. Minor 8. Jameson is well rcpresented by a picture of “Winter Afternoon, Pownal, Vermont.” From Lillian Moore | Abbott has come a charming painting of flowers, an cld-fashioned mixed bou- quet which she entitles “My Anni- versary.” in this exhibition one of dancers, “Swo- boda and Yuriev.f" by Louise Rochon is particularly spiritei and en- 4s are also Margaret 8. Zim- ‘Trash Ca d Gladys Nelson composition, Street Scene.” Munroe sends to this exhibi- colorful study of “The Rag & complex composition. Ellen Day Hale is at her best in a still-life, | “The_ Window,” flowers painted against the light with exquisite feeling and effect. On one of the long walls a place of honor has been given to Alex Many's decorative painting, “Morning in Aca- pulca,” a twisted tree silhouetted against a sea of blue—sky or water, it makes little difference, above which ngs painting of two ) nd Johnnie,” to which the still-life prize was given. Why cats should be considered in this par- ticular category it is a little difficult to understand; certainly these cats are not dead nor any too “still.” ‘Wins Portrait Prize. The prize for the best portrait or fig- ure painting was with equal incompre- hensibility awarded to a composition by Edgar_Nye, “Adoration,” a Madonna and Christ Child, surrounded by an adoring group of dismal people in a dismal” setting, crudely rendered. ‘The landscape prize was awarded to Roy Clark for a ting entitled “Foo ‘what modern! jury, consisting of Camelia Whitehurst, Tom Brown, Ruth Porter Ward, May Ashton, Eben Comins and Louise Kid- c manner. Among the subject paintings shown | of the Mountain,” rendered in s some- | Yet the | CANADA'S EMPIRE TRADE INCREASING Lumber and -Auto Industries Benefit Under Imperial Economic Pact. Special Dispatch to The Eter. February 4— the Federal Bureau Exports of vehicles to countries - in the empire in the first half of 1932 amounted to $1,023,090 and in the sec- ond half to $3,466,189. Great Britain poriing Canedian machines, ircreasing its nurchases fron 184.471 in th~ firrd half to $948,734 in the l-st ha!f ot| 1932. Liports of vehicles to South Africa| increased in this pcricd fiom $217,293 | to $688.689, -e to Aurt:e'is ro-e from $132,825 to $859,747 and those to New Zealand from $31,208 to $207,142. In the automobile industry, the em- ployment index stood at 579 in Janu- ary, red with 56.9 in January, 1%%% the eginaiag of taat sonth, 20452 g o month, persons were repoted empioyed i fog- ging operations, as with 12,- 388 in December and 18,772 in Janu- ary, 1932, with the employment index | registering a rise from 68.7 in January, 1932, to 74.5 last January. Exporis of planks and boards also show en increass to the empire, a!-| though shipmenis to foreign countries | have decreased. In the first half of 1932, Canada exported 130,960 m. feet of planks and boards to empire coun- tries and 152,041 m. feet in the second (Copyright, 1933.) der Sparrow, might well have been con- sidered “‘conservative. ‘The sculptors make a larger showing than usual In this exhibition. In this class the prize was voted to Kathleen Wheeler for a virile portrait bust of Clarence Darrow, and honorable men- tion to Ralph H. Humes for an excel- lent “Wounded Crow.” Kathleen Wheeler shows in addition two excel- lent groups, horses and riders, “Neck and Neck,” and “Out West,” the latter particularly pleasing, also a fountain re. From Clara Hill has come & well modeled figure of a North Carolina farmer, a strong characterization, and | two or three charming small child por- | traits in relief. Joe Qoettie shows | sculpture in wood of a very modernistic sort, and also a little portrait head quite according to tradition. Among others represented in this Sparrow, Mary C. Morrison, Norman J. ortimer, Gladys H. /Theis, Margot was the principal empire couatry im- |- group are E. G. Nourse, Louise Kidder | Minute Mysteries Sojution to CLASS DAY. Fordney knew Hoxman was & fraud because at the North Pole there is no west. There is no direction but SEOUTH. It does not take an Arctic ex- | plorer to realize this. (See Page 3.) IGNORANCE IS BOLD AND KNOWLEDGE RESERVED— Thucydides. HUEY LONG’S ABSENCE HALTS BALLOT PROBE Senate Committee Recesses Until Tomorrow, When Overton Counsel Is to Attend. By the Associated Press, NEW ORLEANS, February 4.—Pub- lic hearings before a special Senate committee invectigating charges of fraud in the election of Representa- tive John Overton to the United States Senate were interrupted here today when Senator Huey P. Long, Overton's counsel, sent word he would be unable to attend the day's session. Chairman Howell (Republican, Ne- braska), presiding at the hearing, called & recess until Monday morning. Long gave no- reason for asking the continuance, but late in the afternoon issued a statement in which he said he was “called into conference on some financial matters of state and the members of the Investigating Commit- tee thought I was needed more there than at the hearing.” “The na‘ure of ell this the public will soon uncerstand. T expect to re- sume the hearing Moncay,” Long added. Just before the motion to recess was presented, Gen. S8amuel T. Ansell, Sen- ate Committee counsel, had called to the stand Allen Ellendes, speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives and co-manager of the Overton cam- paign which resulted in defeat of Sen- ator Edwin S. Broussard. Harvey Pejtler, State Benator and the other Overton manager, was {ruent also, but no tes- timony was taken today. 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