Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1935, Page 32

D—6 DANCING LEADERS | MEET TOMORROW Community Center Session Called for Discussion of Tap Work. The dance leaders of the Com- munity Center Department will meet | tomorrow at 11 am. for discussion | .and demonstration of tap dancing| for children and adults, to be di- _rected by Miss Ivy Randall and Miss | Marjorie Schuster, in the studio of the former, 1772 Columbia road. A public rehearsal by the Com- munity Center Civic Symphony Or- chestra, conducted by Bailey F. Alart, will be held in Central High School Tuesday night. and at 8:30 p.m. the Midwinter dance concert by Marian Chace and her dance group at Roose- velt. { Gilbert and Sullivan's “Trial by | .Jury” and Mascagni’s opera in one “act, “Cavalleria Rusticana,” will be| isung by the Estelle Wentworth OpersJ “Group at Roosevelt, January 29 at! .8:30 pm. The Eckington Players will | present an abbreviated version of hakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” sat Langley Junior High School Janu- sary 30 at 8 pm. % The 1935 one-act play tournament “will be held at Roosevelt for the two Jweeks beginning February 5, with the “finals on February 16. The period for registration ends Monday morn- “ing at 9 o'clock. when all applications “must be in the office of the Tourna- ‘ment Committee in Franklin Admin- istration Building. There will be a city-wide produc- “tion of “The Rivals” at Roosevelt Feb- “ruary 26, with a final rehearsal Feb- ruary 25. Beginning “munity centers schedule. tomorrow, the will resume com- their Jr. 0. U. A. M. ‘The first annual visitation of the 21935 series of the State Council will :be held January 11, at Star Spangled Banner Council, at 808 I street, at 8:30 pm. State Councilor E. B. Pitts and his officers il be in- troduced by the State marshal, O. C. Harlow. Liberty Bell Council convened. with Councilor M. S. Esberger presiding. The Reunion Committee reported on the banquet to be held in the latter part of the month. The new officers of this council are as follows: Coun- cilor, H. R. Mousseaw: vice councilor, A. R. Mousseaw; junior past councilor, 1M. Esberger: recording secretary, A. C. Witherite; assistant recording secretary, W. H. Deavers: financial secretary. R. A. McCulloch; treasurer, ‘W. H. McClung; conductor, J. M. Duhig: warden, W. H. Hill; inside sentinel, W. J. Halloway; outside gentinel, W. W. Jones; chaplain, L. E. West; trustees, W. E. Schovr, Wil- Jiam Martin and M. Esberger, = Washington Council met, with i Councilor R. E. Pote presiding. Elec- tion of officers was as follows:_Coun- cilor, Lewis Mackall; vice councilor, Harry Tote; junior past councilor, R. R. Pote; chaplain, F. W. Stark; conductor, W, E. Clark; warden, R. C. Bovel; inside sentinel, J. T. Norvell; outside sentinel, W. W. Burrous; trustee for 18 months, T. E. Souder; —recording secretary, R. T. Algate; as-: ~sistant recording secretary, E. V. McKinney: financial secretary, A. A. Jasper; treasurer, E. J. Levis. ‘The Boosters’ Club met after the gession _of Washington Council, with Chief Booster E. B. Pitts presiding. The election and installation of. offi- | “cers was: Chief booster, E. B. Pitts; assistant chief booster, Charles H. “Hild; escritorie, A. C. Witherite; col- +lector of funds, R. T. Algate; dispenser *of funds, G. R. Anderson; board of 4governors, F. C. Mangum, G. T. =Barksdale, G. F. Scott, G. L. Tait and <A G. Pahlow. The next regular meet- #ing will be held January 9 in John L. Barnett Council. B. P. 0. ELKS A class of more than 15 candidates ;will be initiated into Washington sLodge of Elks next Wednesday. Ex- alted Ruler Dr. John T. Ready, as- ‘sisted by Esteemed Leading Knight “James J. Murray and Esteemed Loyal { ‘Knight J. Forrest Reilly, will confer ‘the degree. The candidates will be iinstructed in the secret work by “Lemuel Robey, now serving his six- teenth year as esquire. An enter- tainment for the new members will ibe given in the rathskeller after the Imeeting. Thomas O'Brien, a member more ithan 37 years, was greeted by a group +of old-timers at his home, 5403 Ninth ;street, last Sunday, upen the occasion “of his fiftieth wedding anniversary. Plans are being made for past ex- alted rulers’ night and also a ladies Inight in February. JOB’S DAUGHTERS A program under the direction of ‘Miss Ruth Ivers was given last night ;at Bethel, No. 1. : Honored Queen Dorothy Brauner ‘ppointed the following committees: iWays and Means—Catherine Norris, “chairman; Kathryn Abbott, Grace sAnderson, May Canfield, Lois Lain- thart, Katherine Blankinship, Jeanne Punham, Norma Murphy, Emma Horstmann, Agnes Gourlay, Betty Jane ‘Reynolds, Dorothy Linz, Harriet Schmidt and Mary Ellen Bailey. Good ‘Cheer—Dorothy ~ Linz, chairman; Betty White, Dorothy Hartley and ‘Marjorie Stein. Publicity—Harriet “&Schmidt, chairman; Marjorie Ben- nett, Helen Davis, Almeda Harvey, RLorraine Beale, Valette Schmidt, Mar- Jorie Lee Hoskins and Louise Whit- Jey. Entertainment — Mary Ellen “Bailey, chairman; Mildred Johnson, -g;l[argareb Souder, Eleanor Murray, arjorie Murray, Dorothy Newkirk, ZAlice Lee Keller, Mary Mullican and Mildred Lustick. SPOHICK VESTRYMEN ELECTED FOR YEAR pecial Dispatch to The Star. POHICK, Va., Jantary 5—The fol- Jowing were elected vestrymen at the ®nnual meeting of Pohick Church: . E. Russel White of Springfield, Dr. Awilliam P. Caton of Woodlawn, Dr. C. iLee Starkweather of Occoquan, Her- ‘bert H. Haar of ‘Lorton, T. Bentley Mason of Mount Enterprise Farm, Stuart Lambert of Colchester, H. S. Claggett of Lorton, Herbert Allen of Newington, Cary Hill of Pohick, Ben- jamin F. Nevitt-of Ox Road and Albert AWV. Smith of Newington. _ A meeting for the organization of Rhe vestfy is scheduled for Tuesday night in the vestry house, while the date set for the congregational meet- ng and collation at the parish hall 4s January 10, at which time reports ‘of all organizations withih the church will be presented. 3 H THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Notes of Art and Artists COMMENT ON CURRENT EXHIBITIONS. HE opening exhibition of the year is of etchings and dry points by Charles W. Dahl- green of Chicago. It opened January 2 in the Smithsonian Building, under the auspices of the division of graphic arts, United States National Museum, and will continue throughout the month. There are in this exhibition 50 prints, the majority of which are of landscapes, but there are a few archi- tectural subjects constituting notable exceptions. Invariably this etcher’s compositions are good. He makes excellent choice of subjects, his works have pictorial charm and his manner is very diversified. Sometimes Mr. Dahlgreen uses pure etching, some- times entirely dry point, sometimes aquatint, an doften two or three of these media in combination. In fact, he is quite likely to use aquatint for his skies, and he handles this very difficuit medium with the utmost skill. But, after all, save in the matter of facility, it matters less how an artist obtains his effects than the quality of those effects. Mr. Dahl- green’s results are essentially pleas- ing and some, indeed, are well out of the ordinary—delightful. Take, for example, his print, “Morning Shadows,” a woodland road in Win- | ter, crossed by the pale linear shadows of the bordering, leafless trees and twigs, like lacework of Nature's weaving. Or “Vista,” a country road | leading through a fragment of woods to open rolling country, in which each element in the composition is in precisely correct relation to all the others. Evidently Mr. Dahlgreen is a lover of trees, and, above all, his interpretations of pines are charac- | terful and significant. To draw a | tree and make it seem to live is a difficult achievement, but one which this etcher has done repeatedly to his credit. “Edge of the Pines” and “Towering Pines” are excellent ex- amples. Especially pleasing also are | Mr. Dahlgreen’s Winter pictures— snow and evergreens in sharp con- trast—snow and gray skies shown | in delicate tonal relationships. It | is a gentle and, one might venture, a typically American country that Mr. Dahlgreen depicts, completely without affectation or sentimentality— | a country which, with all its charm, 9 out of 10 persons merely take for | granted. Mr. Dahlgreen makes in his etchings its reticent charm mani- fest to all. | Among the architectural subjects which Mr. Dahlgreen has etched is a Chicago skyscraper, “The Tower,” | with its dominant vertical lines and | its repetition of window openings, | a pattern against the sky, as well as | a dominant feature of the city pic- | ture. This is skillfully etched, but two other examples are given in aquatint, one of which, entitled “Note in Pattern,” was not only included | in the Century of Progress Exhibi- | tion, but chosen as one of the 50 best to be sent on circuit. It is one | of the buildings in the exposition, | very modernistic in design and no | less modernistically treated by the | etcher, but amazingly clever. There | is one quality which in some instances J‘ Mr. Dahlgreen's prints lack, and that is atmosphere, but they do not in- frequently convey the illusion of light, as, for example, in the print already mentioned. “Morning Shadows,” and. conspicuously, in “Evening on the Marshes.” Furthermore, his prints | suggest color, which his collengue.} Charles Woodbury, says is only, or | almost only, true of the works of | pointer-etchers—those who are in the habit of seeing color and transcrib- ing it | Charles W. Dahlgreen has won prizes galore by both his paintings | and etchings. Born in Chicago in 1864, he early gave indication of ar- | tistic ability and was sent to Dussel- dorf for specialized study. Upon his | return to America, however, he went | into business and it was not until | 1904 that he actually took up art as a | career, Then came several years of study under competent masters in | Chicago and New York. In 1910 he exhibited in the Pris Salon. Two years l before, while still studying at the Al’t" Institute of Chicago, he took up etch- | ing and his works in this medium are now in leading public and private col- lections in this country and Europe. Mr. Dahlgreen is one of those who has consistently kept his prices low, and it is interesting for the collector to note that no print in this exhibition is priced above $20 and thet some are as low as $6 or $8. After all, one does not have to be a Croesus to collect prints. 'R IN THE section of photography, Arts and Industries Building, United States National Museum, may now be seen an exhibition of pictorial photo- graphs by Sigrid A. Larson of this city, which is very engaging. Mr. Larson has been experimenting with photog- raphy for some years, diligently study- ing its scientific and artistic poten- tialities, evidently with good result, but this is his first one-man exhibi- tion. It is admirable in every respect. His subjects are well chosen,"his ef- fects most artistic. In the hands of an artist the camera may become a sympathetic and satisfactory medium for artistic expression. Thus Larson has used it not merely recording facts, but elusive effects and emotions. Most pleasing are his effects of sunset and after-glow, full of luminosity and the feeling of momentary passing. One or two of these were made in the vicinity of this city, but the majority are in combination with Florida landscape. In not a few of his prints this pictorial photographer shows genuine feeling for design, as in “Montauk Light” and a study of banana plants silhouetted against a bright sky. idis architectural renderings are also very good, espe- cially “The Great White Way,” in which he shows excellent chiaroscuro and most skillful disposition of figures. In straight photography, but at its best, are his transcriptions of “A Gar- den Altar,” “Washington Arch-Dusk,” “Curves and Shadows.” A novel note is found, furthermore, in his photo- graph of ducks swimming, as photo- graphed from above, and a group of shells, also taken looking down, and a gull, the last enveloped in atmos- phere. Here is variety in subject mat- ter and treatment, but throughout an insistent note of sincerity and artis- tic perception. These prints, 36 in number, will remain on view through- out January. * k X X THROUGH the Catherine Walden Myer fund, bequeathed some years ago to the National Gallery of Art for the acquisition of paintings, two more miniatures have lately been purchased for the national collection. These are by Charles Fraser—a por- trait of Judge Thomas Waties—and by Benjamin Trott, scarcely less noted, a portrait of Jane Stone. Both are now on view in the National Gallery in the case wherein earlier pur- chases—a Malbone, a Ramage and a Robertson—are and have been for some time on display., They are most valuable acquisitions. The Fraser por- trait of Judge Waties of Charleston is especially s0. This miniature was included in the great Fyaser exhibition held in Charleston last season and P “THE OLD SYCAMORE." AN ETCHING BY CHARLES W. DAHL. | JANUARY 6, . —By LEILA MECHLIN GREEN. AN EXHIBITION OF THE ARTIST'S WORK IS NOW BEING HELD AT THE SMITHSONIAN, later here in the National Gallery. It is unquestionably one of Fraser's best. In fact, so extraordinary is its quality that it may truly be said to compare with the great portrait of an old man by Raeburn which is included in the Ralph Cross Johnson National Gallery collection. in color, but above all strong in char- acterization and full of vitality. In it the painter has immortalized his friend and colleague whom he painted | not as a commission, but in token of good will and regard. Thus also was Raeburn’s portrait painted of his col- league, Archibald Skirving, himself a painter. . The miniature by Trott of Jane Stone is likewise fine, if perhaps less extraordinary. Presumably a young matron or maid, she is depicted in a simple, long-necked. white silk or satin gown of the style of the Direc- toire. Her hair is curly and a light brown; the background is a light, blue- gray. It is a marvelous piece of | portraiture, very directly painted, fine | Transparent color has beeny Calif. used, the ivory showing through. The technique is fine, rather stereotyped as compared to sor. Malbone. accomplished masters are rare and valuable possessions. director of the National Gallery of Art, who is one of the leading author- ities on miniatures in this country, there is no reason why, eventually, a | notable collection should not be built up here. * k% % N THE Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I street, there will open this afternoon with a tea and reception, at which Miss Bertha Noyes and Mrs. Ralph A. Graves will be hostesses, The Baroness Wenner, DAILY SHORT STORY- DISILL USION Had Their Lo.v: Endured the Year of Waiting, or Had George Found Some One Else? BY LILYAN EMMLING. YEAR ago to- day Sylvia Nolan and George Hughes had promised to meet again in this fa- vorite little res- taurant of theirs. Sylvia, attired in traveling clothes, arrived first. Des- pite her general look of fatigue, there was a gleam of happy expect- ancy in her eyes. Glancing about eagerly, she dis- covered an old school ctum alone at a secluded table. “Hello, Marsha!” | Sylvia cried gayly. “Sylvia, dar- ling!” Marsha Saunders greeted. “How delightful to see you again— prettier than ever, too! Do sit down and make yourself comfy. Why, I haven't seen you since we left school. I'm waiting for the boy friend to pick me up for the theater.” “How nice! I'vean appointment, too —a year ago we rreed to meet here and I'm simply tNrilled! You see, we planned to be married then, but dad —cross old bear—didapproved. Well, finally he agreed if we still loved each other after a year’s separation he'd consent to our marriage. He wanted us to be sure of ourselves.” Marsha interrupted excitedly: “So the happy ending is just around the corner! Little wonder you look so overjoyed.” Sylvia’s eyes sparkled. “I love him more than ever. touring Europe all year. We've just arrived home. The old dear grumbled when I immediately dashed off like & mad woman to keep this appointment, but my young man is a stickler for promptness and he'd never forgive my being late for this occasion.” Somewhere a clock struck the hour. A thrill of anticipation shot through Sylvia. “He’ll be here any minuté now,” she observed tensely. Fifteen minutes elapsed, interspers- ed with light chatter. \ Mentally, Sylvia made loyal excuses for his tardiness, upbroading herself for her own frantic haste. While relating an amusing incident that had occurred in London, Sylvia's breath suddenly caught, her voice stopped. But Marsha scarcely noticed. She, 00, had eyes only for the young man approaching their table. How splendid he looked! For a wild mo- ment a silly longing possessed Sylvia to rush to him, to reassure him of her love, to tell him how she’d missed him. She hoped Marsha would be tactful and dash off for a minute with some trivial excuse. Another second and he'd be here, adoring her with his eyes a8 of yore. “Dearest!” George cried, but it was Marsha's hands he clasped, Marsha's eyes that met his caressing glance. Stunned, Sylvia scarcely heard Marsha's casual introduction. George smiled at her as one smiles at a new acquaintance and all the while Sylvia’s poor heart was doing queer things. “By the way, Marsha,” George said lightly, “your mother left word at the office for you to phone.” Marsha arose. “Thanks, darling. Be a sweet boy and entertain Sylvia until her young man shows up. Ill be right back.” At last they werd alone. Sylvia looked up at him wistfully, There “I LOVE HIM MORE THAN EVER. Dad and I have been | was some mistake. Her George woul make everything right—now. “You're lovelier than ever, Sylvia,” George began somewhat sheep- ishly. ‘‘Cut George. that. Explana- but the manner | that of Fraser or his great predeces- | These portraits-in-little by really ! With the in-| come from the Myer fund and the| knowledge of Ruel P. Tolman, acting | | | | | | cording to the announcement issued by the club, is internationally known as a painter of portraits. Born in Manchester, England, she received her early training under Walter Crane in the Manchester Schoo! of Art. She then studied in Vienna under Hein- rich von Angelic, later in Munich and Paris. In 1922 she came to this coun- try, of which she has now become a citizen. Her works will be shown in the gallery. FR * ok ok ANCES GEARHART, whose block prints in color will be exhibited in the drawing room of the Arts Club, | is one of the few who has employed wood block as an original medium, following the Japanese, if at all, at a very great distance, and finding for herself purely personal expression. She has in this medium interpreted California landscape and flora with exceptional veracity and charm. She is one of three talented sisters. May Gearhart is supervisor of art in the public schools of Los Angeles County, and occasionally makes a wood block; | Edna Gearhart is a teacher of the history of art in one of the Los An- geles high schools. They live in a small house in the old quarter of Pasadena and have adjacent to their home a studio which has become a meeting place for the West Coast print makers and other artists. Be- tween the house and the studio is a small, fascinating garden in which Frances Gearhart grows many sorts of rare plants and flowers, being an ardent horticulturist. All three sis- ters have cultural tastes in common, but great independence of viewpoint and action. They are all eager for adventure and are “good sports.” Frances Gearhart cuts her blocks with great accuracy and invariably does her own printing. Each print is, therefore, an original, and often from the same blocks very different im- pressions are made. She uses rather delicate colors in gentle gradations and without obvious lines or insist- ence on black. Her prints are also individualized by being three rather than two dimensional. They have depth' and atmosphere. In composi- tion they are simple, but they do not by any means deliver their message at a glance; rather do they hold it in reserve for those who linger. These prints are good to live with, which, after all, Is the acid test. * k¥ X ON TUESDAY evening, January 8, the honor guest at the Art Club’s dinner will be the Baroness Violet B. Wenner, whose portraits will be on view in the club gallery. Following the dinner the baroness will give a talk on “Modern Tendencies in Art.” * * o HE Arts Club announces the ap- pointment of Harold Allen Long ex- | as chairman of its 1935 Bal Boheme hibitions of portraits by the Bar- | Committee, and the subject this year oness Violet Beatrice Wenner and of | to be block prints in color by Frances H.| Boheme will be held at the Willard Gearhart, the latter of Pasadena,| Hotel as usual, the evening of Feb- ac- | “In the Orient.” The Bal ruary 4. The theme. both in decora- tion and pageant, will be taken from “East of Suez and West of the Golden Gate,” which will allow for sumptu- ous and colorful treatment. prove a notable and very picturesque occasion. * X % % EVERETT V. MEEKS, fellow of the American Institute of Architects, dean of the School of Fine Arts of Yale University, professor of architec- ture and director of the Yale Art Gal- lery, will be the speaker at the Wash- ington Society of Fine Arts’ January q | meeting, Wednesday evening, Janu- ary 9. in Barker Hall. His subject will be “The Romantic Revival in the Mid- Nineteenth Century—Victorianism in Architecture and the Decorative Arts.” It will be illustrated by stereopticon slides. * * x % TALK on “Pictures” given by Gertrude Stein in the Phillips tions are in order, Memorial Gallery before a compara- if you don't mind.” tively small invited audience, will not He twisted un-|Soon be forgotten by those fortunate easily, then looked A €DOUgh to hear it. At the outset Miss at her. his mouth | Stein announced she would not talk stubborn. to do it* “I had ©On modern art, of which she is and he | has been for years a leading expon- blurted. “And wed €nt. but rather upon her own personal mustn’t let Marsha | attitude toward pictures. know about—us. You see, when father’s busi- ness began to fail, he tried desperate- 3 The talk was written and read in a pleasant, dear, | informal manner with attractive in- flections and emphasis skillfully placed. It is much pleasanter and more satisfactory to hear Miss Stein 1y to form a part- | than to read her. Using the vernac- nership with sha’'s father, somehow clinch it. |the only salvation for our firm. Saunders seemed almost willing, | still he hesitated. Finally I realized if I married his daughter, the deal | would go through and dad would b |saved. So—we're engaged. I'm glad —for good old dad's sake and—Mar- sha's & dandy girl.” He ended his speech on a persuasive—almost a pleading—note. - “Yes"—faintly—“Marsha's wonder- ful. Even in school she used to get the things I wanted.” He was looking at her imploringly, his eyes pleading for her to under- stand the love his honor would not let him express. “Everything’s—fine—" Sylvia as- sured him dully. -Marsha returned, indignant, a half- smoked cigarette between her fingers. “Mother wasn't even home, George! Sure she asked me to telephone?” “Why—er—positive!” he retorted stoutly. “But let’s hurry or we'll miss the first act, sweetheart!” “Do run along,” Sylvia entreated with-a wan smile. “I'll wait for my —my friend.” A" week later Marsha telephoned Sylvia with the news that the partner- ship between George’s father and hers had finally been consummated. She inquired sweetly as to the progress of Sylvia’s romance. “Why——" Sylvia faltered, then pre- varicated glibly: “Why, he’s more de- voted than ever, but guess I'm fickle. My feelings toward him have changed. He—he's different, somehow. Besides I can't help thinking of that fascinat- ing Englishman I met abroad. My dear, he was so—attentive and too— divine—" Sylvia couldn't go on. She flew from the phone to the haven of her room, choking with sobs. One can't be blithe when dreams have taken wings. Marsha, the sharp click of the phone still resounding in her ears, gave vent to her thought: “That settles it and it is just as I'd thought. Sylvia’s unhappy and George isn't himself, either. Those foolish kids almost put something over on me. ‘We'll-I'll simply break the engage- ment and step out of the picture. George was—rather a bore at times, anyway—" she laughed reminiscent- ly. “Marsha, old girl, looks like you're the one this time who's scheduled for a European jaunt—" (Copy! 1935.) Tomorrow: “Chief Mourner,” by l.-"lun,ulhnflnrule' employed an escaping criminal mmm-fiu«mmfl Mar- | ular which she, herself, has invented, but | Very simple word-forms with constant couldn't | Tepetition, she was able to put forth It was|©d wuths in such completely new dress that they seemed new in them- but | Selves, and presumably carried con- | viction. The gist of what she said | ment to Athens. 1 | was that paintings were in themselves e | €ntities, and that when through re- semblance to something else they ceased so to be, their value was gone. Any painting in oils on a flat sur- face, she said, interested her from childhood, continuously. When, how- ever, a Cazin wheat fleld was so real that it could scarcely be distinguished from the field itself, it began to “bother” her and she lost interest. Apparently as years passed the less a painting had the appearance of things seen, the more it appealed to her, until “finally came Matisse and Picasso.” Obviously, what Miss Stein said was true. The charm of a paint- ing is the way it is done, the fact that it is a work of art. That which is merely imitative cannot hold one's interest—it has no message. But why, to make this understood, is it neces- sary to go back to primitive forms of expression—to crudities, to exag- gerations—unless, to be sure, we have become blinded and deafened by our own conceit. It may be. In any event Gertrude Stein was very worth hear- ing. In the gallery, in which she spoke, were some superb paintings by those as strong and as independently mind- ed as herself—Courbet, Daumier, Eakins and El Greco. It was good to hear her in this company. * X X % JURING the past week Marguerite Munn has been holding in her studio at 1653 Pennsylvania avenue an exhibition of paintings by her child pupils, boys and girls from 9 to 12 years of age. These were all imagina- :ive pictures produced by the children under sufficient but not too much tutelage. One little fellow who had an interest in mermaids did a deep- sea subject, & cross section, as it were, of a Beebe adventure, in which the undersea life was made visible to the observer who also was enabled to note fishermen in a boat on the surface and the overtopping sky. It was a very clever bit of illustration. Also there were illustrations to fairy tales, of things dreamed but not experienced. The purpose of this teaching is to develop the power of imagination and to encourage natural, fearless expres- sion. Later, as the pupil matures, crudities disappear and desire for greater competence is engendered. Certainly these children must have a very happy time while learning this new form of expression. * k X X A'mo(oflp-lnunnby Beulah Weaver of Washington have been during this holidsy e e A i ' i it b s B L i . i IS b It should | taken from Raphael's paintings in the 1935—PART TWO. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. The Post Office Department has made no formal announcement of its stamp program for 1935, and collectors are more or less in the dark with re- gard to what to expect. Only one issue—a commemorative for the tercentenary of the founding of Connecticut, to be released in Sep- | tember or October—is definitely sched- | uled. Postmaster General James A. Far- | ley, however, is reported to favor a | joint Boy Scout-Girl Scout stamp, to go on sale in July or August. He also is supposed to be considering a Me- | morial day stamp, requested by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic; a reissue of the | Mother’s day stamp of last year in a 1 silver gray color; & stamp in homage | | to the U. S. S. Constitution, Old Iron- sides, and a series of pictorials show- ing the natural and architectural | beauties of the Nation's Capital, | originally suggested by William | Shrader and subsequently indorsed by | a long list of eminent citizens as well | as by many philatelic publications and \ societies. | The proposed presidential series, | first forecast two years ago, seemingly | has been abandoned and Mr. Farley | has let it be known that there will | be no more special souvenir sheets of | stamps in compliment to philatelic | exhibitions. Meanwhile, Robert E. Fellers, su- perintendent, division of stamps, has announced that philatelic agency sales for 1934 were $910.781.10, as compared with $500.21246 in 1933. Eight new clerks, he said in his state- | ment. have been added to the office staff in a determined effort to bring the work up to date by February 1. | i | If John Adams were to be granted philatelic honors, October 30 next | would be an appropriate occasion— | the bicentennial of his birth. Mark Twain, incidentally, was born | November 30, 1835, and there are | many collectors who would like to see | his portrait on a stamp. [ The Byrd stamp will show a profit of approximately $30,000 to the expe- dition it was intended to aid—a gener- | ous contribution from the science of | philately to the science of Antarctic exploration. } The new Philippine stamps will go | on first day sale at the Philippine | Trade Commission office, Barr Build- | ing, about February 15. They will be available at Manila on the same day. Publicity is working miracles in the wholesale stamp market. So many | new collectors have been enlisted in | the hobby that dealers no longer can | find supplies to meet their demands“ Good “mission mixtures” simply are not to be had at any price. The greatest boom philately ever has | known is strongly indicated. | Austria soon will have stamps show- ing the new coat of arms recently adopted by the national guverm’nen!.i The Vatican State, on the authority | of the Holy Father. is to have four stamps to commemorate the recent Juridical Congress. Designs will be Stanza della Segnatura. | The fine new pictorials of Sweden, | issued in connection with the celebra- | tion of the fiftieth centenary of the | founding of the National Parliament, | will be available for distribution next week. There are six values—3, 10, 15, 25, 35 and 60 ore. | Austria's new architects series is officially described as follows: 12g. lack violet, Anton Pilgram: 24g. light vidlet, Pischer von Erlach: 30g. red, Jakob Prandtauer; 40g, light brown, A. von Siccardsburg and E. von der Null: 60g, ultramarine, Hein- rich von Ferstel, and 64g, gray green, Otto Wagner. ‘ The new pictorials of Cyprus in- clude: 1!;p, rose red: 2!:p, violet blue; 4'p. carmine and black; 6p. biue and black: 9p, violet and olive brown: 18p. olive green and black, and 45p, black and emerald. | Greece brought out thre2 health stamps for use during the Christmas season. The design shows an alle- gorical statue, and the values are 10, 20 and 50 lepta. Poland has another stamp portray- | ing Marshal Pilsudski—25g, violet blue. Spanish Morocco announces two new pictorials. The denominations are 5c, red violet, and 15c, yellow. Stamps of a total value of 20,000.000 drachmas recently were printed in Poland on order from the postal authorities of Greece. A special de- tail of detectives escorted the ship-| A cachet in tribute to Benjamin Franklin, January 17, has been pre- pared by the Sons of the American Revolution, 316 Stephen Girard Build- ing, Philadelphia, Pa. According to H. George Boyle, Zero is the name of a post office in Mon- tana and Million that of a station in Kentucky. Other numerical curi- osities among town names are: Six, W. Va.; Eight, W. Va.: Sixteen, Mont.; Seventeen, Ohio; Twenty-six, Ky. Forty-four, Ark.; Fifty-six, Ark Seventy-six, Ky.; Seventy-six, Mo.; Eighty-four, Pa.; Ninety-six, S. C., and Hundred, Ky. Additional 13-star flag cancella- tion offices are: Fairfax, Knights Landing and Three Rivers, Calif.; Rising Sun, Md.; Ardsley on Hudson, N. Y.; West Fairview, Pa., and Mule- shoe, Tex. P. W. Harpur, recently elected president of the London Stamp Club, is by profession an_identification offi- cer of the London Police Department. For collectors who appreciate an element of mystery with their stamps Eden Phillpotts has written “Mr. Dig- weed and Mr. Lumb,” a story which meets both requirements. One of the principal characters is a horticul- turist; the other a philatelist special- izing in early airmail issues. How the former becomes the latter is the season in the Woman’s City Club on Jackson place, adding interest to the reception rooms and appearing to ex- cellent advantage. Two of these paint- ings, one of a road covered with snow and lined with telegraph poles, the other of rolling country, dotted by villages, have a naive simplicity and grave sincerity which lifts them well above the usual and sets them apart, as the Italian primitive are by these same qualities set apart. The next exhibitor at the City Club will be Miss Munn. * ok ok x NEXT Saturday the Society of Washington Artists will open its annual exhibition in the Cor- coran Gallery of Art. From January 12 to February 3 the Art League of Washington will hold its ninth quar- terly Washington Art Show, and from January 6 to 19 etchings by Minnie O. Briggs will be exhibited by the League of American Pen Women in their club’room in the Burlington, 1130 Vermont avenue. |the American Philatelic Society, nized tower of strength in national philately, he is one of the men who customarily is constructively active at convention time, and his Washington friends sincer=ly hope that he will be able to make the trip from his home in California to the Capital next August. Michael L. Eidsness, jr., writing in Stamps Magazine for January 5, says: “I want to make another plea for co-operation. Wherever I go, I hear about rivalries and cantroversies. And I cannot help feeling that these differences are a liability, rather than any kind of asset, to collecting. But, of course, I know that the Creator made people with individual minds, not all alike, and it therefore is natural that there should be occa- sional clas..:s of opinion. So, I am not complaining when I urge the ad- | visibility of a ‘get together’ campaign. “Not long ago I attended a club | meeting where for 20 minutes a mem- ber discussed a certain series of for- eign stamps. I supposed he would be followed by other philatelists who knew something about those issues and could contribute toward a help- | ful consideration of them. To my surprise, what happened was a DAVID H. DAVENPORT, An active participant in the pre- liminary work for the American | Philatelic Society Convention and Ex- | affairs better, hibition next August, was a member of the Washington delegation to the 1934 meeting at Atlantic City. A native of the Capital, he has been interested in stamps since childhood and has communicated his enthusiasm to his wife, his son and his daughter— a stamp-minded family. His affiliations include the Washington Philatelic Sociel Exchange Union and the Collectors’ Club, but he also maintains a regular correspondence with independent prac- titioners of the hobby throughout the United States. ~ —Star Staff Photo. main theme of the tale, and Mr. Phillpotts proves his knowledge of the psychology of stamp enthusiasts by causing the denouement to turn on a single basic fact—namely. that a col- lector hates to part with his collec- tion. The publisher of the book is the Macmillan Co. Those who wish to be included in the Blue Book of Philately should communicate immediately with Harry L. Lindquist, 100 Sixth avenue, New York City. Through the sale of Christmas seals approximately $75,000,000 has been raised since 1907 for the cam- paign against tuberculosis. Citizens of Germany are restricted by A limit of $4 a month has been estab- lished on specimens sent abroad. Ford Frick, new president of the National League, is an enthusiastic stamp collector. B. E. McFarland is the author of | an interesting article on the “30 Juni | 1930" (Scott's 382 and 383) stamps of Germany. published in Weekly Phi- latelic Gossip for December 22. The Sixth Australlan Philatelic Ex- | hibition, Melbourne, in November, brought together the greatest stamp display ever seen King George was a patron, King Carol at the opening ceremonies. One of the American exhibitors was A. F. Lichtenstein of New York, whose entry—a 2d post office Mauritius in- sured for $25,000—was considered the | piece de resistance of the show, Gerhard Zilcker, 8 German scien- tist, has been authorized+to attempt to shoot a postal rocket across the Eng- lish Channel from Dover to Calais. Four veteran philatelists "have died in the past few weeks—Joel H. Du| Bose. Atlanta; William L. Doepke, Cincinnati; Arno E. Kiessling, Pitts- burgh, and W. C. Estes, Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bryce of Svd- ney. Australia, well known in Wash- ington scientific circles, have started on another tour of the world. Their itinerary includes Hongkong, Indo China, the Miao country on the Bur- mese frontier, Siam. Singapore, Spain, Germany. Russia, England. the West Indies, Central America, New York, Washington and home via San Fran- cisco. Each stop. as usual, will be a philatelic opportunity, but it may be doubted if Mr. Bryce ever will find | anywhere specimens more interesting or valuable than those he already has. His “Sydney.views” are especially no- | | table. L. A. Roy, executive secretary, | Phelps Stokes Foundation. New York, is en route to Liberia for a years study of educational problems there. He will employ the opportunity to add to his stamp collection and has been asked to aid in the organization work of the International Philatelic | Exchange Union. A. H. Wilhelm, former president of is recovering from the effects of an acci- dent in which he sustained a broken hip, elbow and shoulder. A .recog- make an appointment...I just 1 was shopping and so 1 didn’t worry for days about what sort of picture T'd take. Perhaps that is why my picture was so good.” i v\f-‘““ef TV B 1 didn’t have to walked in one day while e S 3 11x14 SIZE the International Philatelic | law from exporting mint stamps. | in the Antipodes. | lengthy and acrimonious war of words | about special souvenir sheets of United States stamps—a battle not sched- uled on the program. In the end, the crowd dispersed with the more or | less conscious feeling that the eve- ning had been wasted. “Now, it is easy to decide that the | fault in such cases is one of leader- ship. The chairman of the meet- | ing, perhaps, should have guided and the Entertain- ment Committee should have planned | more wisely. But the basic difficuity is a lack of a matured philosophy among philatelists. " “Of cowse, I hasten to confess that I know that conditions could be worse. Admitting that. I insist that conditions could and should be better. “And my practical suggestion for reform is this: Let us agree that co- operation is desirable and let us de- liberately strive toward that end. Let us adopt a rule to the effect that controversial matters must wait until more congenial subjects have been dealt with. Most collectors, I believe, are peaceable people—let them unite to put a stop to ‘rows’ and ‘scraps.’ Eternal vigilance, George Washington said, is the price of freedom. It also is the price of orderly progress.” | Prank Clark Cosby, Brookline, Mass., a brother of Col. Spencer Cosby, died November 17. He had been a collector for more than 50 years and was con- sidered an authority on British colo= nies, particularly St. Vincent. | New members of the Bureau Issues Association include H. A. Robinette, who is writing a Washington page for the American Philatelist, and Homer F. Johnson. “An unofficial report.” says G. A. Henhoeffer in the Philadelphia In- | quirer, “is that President Roosevelt will exhibit part of his famous stamp collection at the American Philatelic Society Convention, to be held in the | Capital next August. The President | himself may select from his myriad of albums stamps he feels the specta= tors will enjoy most. | “Mr. Roosevelt constantly has shown | & disposition to be reserved with his | stamp treasures. Seldom have they | been out of hiding and only a few in- timates have really seen them all. The President's display would make the A. P. S. Convention exhi~ bition a stellar event and turn the National Museum, where it will be |of Rumania gave three prizes and |staged, into a mecca for philatelists.” | Pleld Marshal Lord Milne presided ‘The Washington Stamp Club of the Air will have a broadcast meeting from Station WOL Tuesday evening at 6:45. The Collectors’ Club, Branch 8, So- ciety of Philatelic Americans, will meet at the Thomson School, Twelfth street, Tuesday evening at 8. Visitors welcome, The Washington Philatelic Society | will meet at the Hotel Cariton. Six- teenth street, Wednesday evening at 8. Dr. Ellis Haworth will discuss the stamps of Lithuania. The public is | invited. | F C.. 10c: Yosemite Impf. from Omaha. Full_sheets. Wash. Service. Box 611, City. TRADE YOUR DUPLICATES. New method. Write for_details. Hollvwood Packet Ex- . 1310P North Vermont. Hollywood, fornia. HORACE PAINE. Westport. Connecticut. Stan.ps—Coins—Autographs Bought and Sold Hobby Shop 716 17th St. N.W. DIst. 1272 | An_exception: | Packet includ £2.00 offer to reduce stock. Byrd Perf. from Wash. 81 Paramount "Stamp _C _ St.,Brooklys ORI STAMPS—China. Norway Siam Almost complete. Numerous odd lots- Sell any part. Barsain prices. Address Box dit-Z. Staf office . ~ STAMP ALBUMS Stock Books. Catalogues. New Sets. Single Stamps. 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