Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1935, Page 68

F—12 In Art Field (Continued_From Fourth _Page) roth is one of the strangest and best of our contemporary lithog- | raphers and so recognized by con- noisseurs in this country and abroad. His subjects are invariably contem- porary scenes and life. He has made an interesting and excellent series of | scenes in Maine—harbors, rocky | coasts, natives in their various oc- cupations. He has not limited him- self to this field and he seems at no loss to find subjects wherever he is, and no matter how commonplace it may be, he imbues it with a certain dignity and beauty. If one is lnokmg‘ for a tvoically American strain in| contemporary art here it is, and of such quality that it may be recognized with pride. 'AT THE Southeastern Branch Li- <X prary, Seventh and D streets southeast, there is to be seen this whole month a collection of 21 paint- ings by Garnet Jex which are finding much favor, and with good reason.| These are for the most part land- scapes painted chiefly in Midsum- mer—green foilage, blue skies, warm sunlight—interpreted with sincerity, charm and evident pleasurable emo- tion. Some years ago an eminent art critic suggested that when an| artist painted a landscape it was as| though he said to the beholder, | “Come and see what I see, a newly discovered beauty and loveliness.” But | of late this has all been changed and | the summons has been to view | dreary ugliness in all its stark reality. | And to what purpose? None, what- ever. Therefore it is especially agree- able to see such landscapes as these by Mr. Jex. painted with enthusiasm and a sense of natural beauty. Ham- | {lton Mabie once characterized art as “the open window in the workshop.” | and certainly half the pleasure that persons derive from looking at pic- | tures is reminiscent of things seen and but half remembered. The other serv- ice rendered. and perhaps the greater, | is the opening of our eyes to that which we have not seen heretofore. | Mr. Jex's paintings, done in a way| quite his own, have both qualities, are pleasurable and at the same time interpretative, widening experience. Collectively, they make an excellent showing in this Southeastern Library. 'I‘HE Northeastern Branch Library, Seventh and Maryland avenue northeast, will show from April 13 for 2 month the portraits by Mary Lewis Hall, which are now on view in the | Arts Club. And at about the same time the Landscape Club of Washing- | ton will put on its regular Spring ex- hibition in the Mount Pleasant Branch | Library, Sixteenth and Lamont streets. The Landscape Club has had a trav- eling exhibition on the road this Win- | ter. This is at the present time con-| cluding its circuit in Staunton, Va. | 'OM BROWN., formerly of this city and a member of the Landscape Club. is holding an exhibition of his paintings. 29 in all, in the Williams- | burg Inn, Williamsburg, Va, This| follows a larger exhibition held in| the rooms of the Williamsburg-James- town-Yorktown Association March 14| to 16, under the auspices of an or-| ganization connected with Bruton| Parish Church. A fee of 25 cents| was charged for a charity and the artendance exceeded 400. Of the 45 paintings included in this show, 16 were of Wiliamsburg, painted during Mr. Brown's year and a half residence there. The exhibition at the inn has been planned to coincide with; “Garden week.” A Richmond writer reviewing this exhibition, said that it was like stepping from the Spring outside to the Spring inside—a very pretty and tangible compliment. “Wired Radio” Future. AN “wired radio,” budding aspirant in the entertainment field, compete successfully with the $100,000,000 industry that is *“space radio,” with the latter’s 15 years' head start? That is the question being pondered by those closely identified with radio broadcasting, because of the recent disclosure that the wired radio people, who have been experimenting for nearly a dozen years, are preparing to crash into the national entertain- ment field and vie with the estab- lished industry for public acceptance. First, it should be explained, wired radio is a means of transmitting en- tertainment over electric power or telephone lines into the home, whereas “space radio” uses the ether as the | transmitting medium. Already, it is learned, Wired Radio, Inc., a subsidiary of the North Amer- jcan Co., giant public utility holding company with electric power subsidia- | ries throughout the East and Middle West, has installed an experimental | service. using the power lines in a| Cleveland suburb. This is designed to | be the forerunner of a Nation-wide | service, presumably competitive with | the chains. Listeners would have | their choice of three or four different | types of programs, picked up on sets | rented from their local power com- panies. In the case of space radio, the list- | ener pays no direct charge for service, other than the purchase in the first Instance of his radio receiver. He has the choice of the programs of any | station his set can pick up, and he can listen or not as he chooses. Conversations, pro and con, with Jeading lights in both wired and space radio, yield rather convincing argu- | ments on both sides. Yet, when it is all simmered down, it appears that wired radio will have a tortuous road | to travel to achieve popular accep- | tance. The underlying reason seems | to be that it is getting started too late, | and that space radio now is so firmly | Intrenched that it would take some- | think so spectacular and something | surpassing it to such an extent that | the public could not resist it. That | does not appear to be in the offing, | for, from what we gathter, wired radio has in mind a repetition simply of what now goes on the air, with the mechanical process the only differing factor. The wired radio folks harbor the view that the public will be glad to | get away from commercialism, from jazz and from other forms of enter- tainment that they contend form the Jiggest portion of the space radio Jmenu. They argue that the listener would be glad to pay a monthly rent- al, ranging from perhaps $1.50 to $7 per month, for a set which would give them a choice of at least three sustaining programs running 17 hours a day, withone channel offering dance music, a second classical pro- grams, and a third educational periods and request programs. By the simple | expedient of flipping a switch they | eould tune one program or the other. | But the space people come back | with the assertion that, after all, the program is the thing. and that pro- grams offered by the national net- works and by independent stations are those the listeners themselves have selected through expressing their | preferences in fan mail and in other ways. Moreover, say the broadcasters, | 22,000,000 radio families can't be wrong, because that is the number | of homes already having radio sets. This amounts to 70 per cent of thel homes of the Nation. ‘ < Windjammers Still Sail. } NEW BEDFORD, Mass, April 6 —Discarded and disowned by more prosperous lanes of commerce, a few old windjammers sailing on borrowed time, like Jld sailors who refuse to die, still ply the Atlantic as Cape Verde Island packets. Time was when the word “packet” denoted a swift, well-founded vessel, manned by crew, apply to the ill assorted craft now |no longer drew boys away from in- maintaining haphazard communica- | 1and farms, whaling skippers began to tion between New Bedford and the |fill in their crews with Cape Verde | | islands off the African Coast. | smart officers and able hut that definition does not These poor craft stagger 3,000 miles THE SUNDAY across the Atlantic with sorry freights. They also serve as transportation for residents of southern New England of Portuguese and African blood who hailed from that group of barren is- lands. New Bedford's interest in the Cape Verdes, and the islands’ interest in New Bedford, dates back to the days' when this port was the world’s whal- ing capital. ‘When pamphlets describing the per- haps questionable romance of whaling and Azore islanders. Freight for the islands usually consists of used lum- STAR, WASHINGTON, !ber. used household goods and old tanks, Lumber is scarce on the islands, as is water during the dry season, which accounts for the market for tanks. ‘The present pride of the packet trade is the Corono, once, as a con- tender for the honor of defending the America’s cup, a carefully groomed yacht. But she is now a seedy-look- ing craft. ‘War Flagship in Use. H. M. 8. Iron Duke, Lord Jellicoe's flagship at the battle of Jutland, has been recommissioned for service as a gunnery firing ship. D. C, APRIL Fleet Will Parade. 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