Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1935, Page 14

20 ARTISTS GIVEN PRIZES INCONTEST 1,700 Paintings, Drawings, %+ Etchings, Sculptures ¢ Competed. Twenty local artists received prizes 4n the Greater Washington Inde- Pendent Art Exhibition competition, 1t was announced last night. A total of 1,700 oil and water color paintings, drawings, etchings and sculptures, entered by men, women and children resident in the Capital, were judged by Ernest Lawson, aided by a com- mittee headed by Duncan Phillips. Robert Franklin Gates was given the Andrew W. Mellon award of $100 for his painting, “Chickens,” a barn- yard scene; Roy Clark a patron’s award of $50 for his “Church on the Hill” and Catherine Hammond a second patron’s award of $25 for her *Pyrenees.” “Self-Portrait” Wins $50. Karl Glockner’s “Self Portrait” was chosen for the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs award of $50. Other prize winners were: Sculp- ture, Carl D. Mose, Mrs. Christian Heurich award. $50, for portrait bust, “Eric,” and Eleanor Corby, second prize, $25. for bronze, “Head of Negre oil paintings, Bernice F. Cross, Washington Post award, $100, | for “Struthers Corner”; Eben F.| Comins, patron’s award, $50, “The Fireworks,” and Reeves Euler, pa- tron's award, $25, “Decoys”’; and lithographs, drawings and etchings, Prentiss Taylor, first prize, $25, “Ex- perience Meeting”; Weston Morley Geety, second prize, $15, “Power House.” Nine Purchase Awards, Also, nine purchase awards of $100 | each, as follows: Sarah Baker, Julius | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, APRIL 14, 1935—PART ONE. Here are three sculptured heads in Reuben Nakian's the right of President Roosevelt is Secretary Ickes and on BY HALL OF FAME | {Mr. and Mrs. Richberg Are | By the Associated Press. Garfinckel & Co. award, “Flowers”; Benson B. Moore, Hecht Co. award, “Ducks in Winter: Rock Creek”; | Beulah Weaver, Fran| Jelleff, Inc.. | Award, “Barber Shop™”; Alexis Hany,i S. Kann Sons Co. award, “Old In-| dian Beggar”: Alan Page Flavelie. | Lansburgh & Bro. award, -Blomet, Paris”: Edgar Nye, Moses & Sons award, Barah Jane Blakeslee, Palais Royal award. “The Farm House"; Rowland Lyon, W. & J. Sloane award, “Freight Cars,” and Catharine P. Melton, Woodward & Lothrop award, “The Black Fan.” The pictures will be exhibited at “Rue W. B. the indicated stores beginning tomor- | Tow. | Further details of the contest and show may be found in art notes by | «Leila Mechlin, page 4, part 4 of The Star today. 160 FIGHTING SHIPS IN JUBILEE REVIE | Tugwell and Edward F. McGrady. Flags of 12 Admirals to Be Flown - in Britain's Biggest Peace- Time Demonstration. Br the Associated Press LONDON, April 13.—More than 160 fighting craft will take part in the Royal Jubilee Naval Review off Spit- head July 16. The flags of 12 admirals will be flown and the assembly will constitute the biggest peace-time demonstration of naval strength since the “test mo- hilization” in the same waters in “July, 1914. * The home and Mediterranean fleets, in full strength, will be present with the greater part of the commis- sioned reserve fleet. This means the entire capital ship fleet and practi- cally all the “A class” cruisers will be in line, probably in formation of three parallel lines with auxiliary vessels and small craft. Each line will be several miles long. ,A spectacle rare even in British sea annals will be presented when this modern armada weighs anchor. upon “the King's instruction, to proceed sea- ward for tactical exercises. | | “Vermont”; icnran Galley of Art yesterday after- Among Those at Opening of Art Exhibit. hearing disclose Reuben Nakian's “hall of fame" of | Years | the New Deal was opened at the Cor- | noon without ceremony before an as- | semblage of invited guests. Among the interested visitors were | s $19,587.615 which Mr. and Mrs. Richberg, who seemed | A, W. Mellon Educational and Chari- to enjoy the exhibition. They chatted ‘ table Trust, More for some time with Nakian. Meet Popular Approval. i The striking portraits in plaster of | President Roosevelt and eight other | Year. | 1930 1931 1932 | 1933 193¢ | New Dealers appeared to meet with | popular approval of the visitors. RUESTS PLEASED | Mellon Gifts, $23,612,03 Educational and Charity Donations * PITTSBURGH, April 13.—Records | from the A. W. Mellon income tax that lists his public gifts for educational and charitable purposes for the five ending in 1934 at $23.612,031.32. Associates say this does not include his private gifts which they estimate run into many thousands of dollars. $19,587,615 Largest. | The largest item on the list of gifts Mellon Trust, $810,000 3,241,250 . 6,070,000 None . 9,465,965 exhibition of plaster portraits of administration leaders at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. the left is Gen. Hugh Johnson. In New Deal’s Hall of Fame at Corcoran On ] Cover Five Years. 1 of it was involved in oil paintings for a projected national art gallery. The Government. in the tax case, has challenged the contention that these art gifts are bona fide tax- exempt gifts. In the five years, Mellon has claimed exemptions on $2.218.928.97 on the donations—about all that could be cliimed because the law limits | such deductions to 15 per cent of a | person’s income. | Mellon Books' List. | The list, as shown by the Mellon than $19,00,000 ' books: the financier has gone to the | Others. | $693.266.84 580,078.29 1,308,941.94 701.578.74 740,550.51 Tax Deductions Taken. $1,497,255.19 | 340.079.37 | 208,396.05 173,198.36 X Others whose likenesses are on dis- play are Gen. Hugh Johnson, whose Total ... .$19.587.61 5 $4,024,416.32 |'head is shown in two studies; Secre- | taries Ickes, Hull and Wallace, Harry | Hopkins, Donald Richberg, Rexford | 1 | $2216928.97 | X—Preliminary tax filed only, none included. The sculpture is on display in the | central gallery of the second-floor atrium. In galleries nearby are hun- dreds of pictures included in the cur- rent Biennial Exhibition of Con- | temporary American Oil Paintings, | which opened recently. ‘ Modeled Last Summer. | sculptor Nakian, a native of New York, modeled his subjects in clay last Summer, when he spent hours in the offices of administration offi- cials in order to see them at work. He ‘was assigned studio space in the Department of Commerce Building. The “hall of fame” will remain at the Corcoran Gallery through April 28 and then will be sent to New York City for exhibition there. The biennial exhibition of paint- ings will continue through May §. DEER TAKE AIR FIELD Plane Has to Scare Them Away | to Find Landing Place. ! | SPOKANE, Wash,, April 13 (#).— | Deer and elk herds have taken over the Moose Creek, Idaho, landing fleld, Pilot Roy Schrek reported today. The animals showed little fear of ' his plane, Schrek declared, and he had to swoop at them to get landing space. Paul Blum and his son, Donald. pas- MAN GIVEN 35 YEARS FOR ATTACKING GIRL Alabaman, 22, Will Appeal Sen- ' tence—Crime Punishahle by Death in Some Cases. ‘ By the Associated Press. | FLORENCE, Ala., April 13.—Mau- | Jice C. Weatherly, 22, was convicted | today of attacking a young womal Tiear here March 26, and was sen- | tenced to 35 years in the State peni- | tentiary. | Weatherly was sentenced immedi- ately by Circuit Judge C. P. Almon, | who presided over the trial. His at- | torneys gave notice of appeal, but said he would start serving the sen- tence pending the hearing yon his appeal. ‘The jury was out three hours before arriving at a verdict. The crime is | punishable by death under Alabama Jaws, with the penalty at the discre- tion of the jury. « THE NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY CLOSES APRIL 23 , To order a telephone, extra listings or ad- vertising in the yellow ' pages just call MEtropolitan 9900 sengers in the plane, verified the story. 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