Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1935, Page 5

$82.000,00 AID ASKED FOR ART Museum Equipment and Buildings Urged in Plea to President. A plea for $85000.000 of Federal funds to be used to purchase museum equipment in the fields of art and science and for additional buildings has been laid before President Roose- velt by Paul J. Sachs, president of the American Association of Museums, it was learned today. President Sachs, in his address be- fore the thirtieth annual meeting of the American Association of Museums, let it be known that he had taken up the matter with the President. Under auspices of the American As- gociation of Museums, a Nation-wide survey was made, showing that the present investment in some 200 mu- geum buildings. mostly in cities of more than 100.000 population, ex- ceeds $100000,000. There are also many smaller museum buildings in smaller cities, Mr. Sachs points out, to indicate the lines of desirable ex- tension. 2,000 Museums in Nation. “A new museum has been organized every fortnight for a decade.” Mr. Sachs sfated in his presidential ad- dress. There are more than 2,000 museums, all told, in the Nation. Under the plan. whereby the Gov- ernment would aid with Federal funds, “art museums would have buildings | comparable in size to the public | libraries in their communities,” one | museum in each city or town. i In architecture the buildings | planned would not follow what Mr. | Sachs branded as ‘“the outmoded | Greek temple and Renaissance palace | tradition, but would be functional in | design like some of the museum build- | ings that have appeared recently.” Artists were told a large art market | would be developed in America if the | Federal Government co-operates in | the plan advanced by President Sachs. | This, because museums encourage pur- chases for their temporary shows. Un- | der the plan some 500 historic hov of America would be set up as mi seums. Sachs said American museums are | developing best under an administra- | tive plan which is essentially a part- | nership between a city government | and a local association. the city pro- | viding the building and the association building up collections. As an added fttraction at today's meeting, Joha | Collier, United States commissioner of Indian affairs, talked on “Indian | Arts and Crafts,” presenting the new outlook in this field. New Pigment Experiments, Herbert E. Ives, noted expert. of the International Printing Ink Corp.. New York, told of recent experiments with new pigments for the use of artists, saying: “The present artist's palette consists of an assemblage of pigments, accumulated through centuries. of | miscellaneous hues and purities, hav- ing no correlation with the science of color, as dev eloped through optical | research.” Often, Mr. Ives said. the best artists have been noted for the few colors they used. He cited a theory that indicates the use of three fundamental pigments—a yellow, a blue-green and a purplish crimson. These are ideal colors, the expert said, and “recent | progress in chemistry has made it pos- | sible to produce close approximations | to these colors.” At the twenty-fourth annual meet- ing of the College Art Association, also being held in the Willard, Emer- | son H. Swift of Columbia University | lectured this morning on “The Latins at Hagae Sophia,” paying tribute to the architectural genius of the cathe- dral builders of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. With slides, he il- lustrated the fine art of cathedral building in the Middle Ages. At the annual banquet of the fed- eration last night, 350 guests were Ppresent representing all three societies aforementioned. Prehistoric and primitive art, along with trends in education affect- ing art were the subjects up for dis- | cussion at the banquet. Herbert J. Spinden, curator of the Brooklyn Museum. Slight Seen, in Survey. Henry W. Wriston, president of | Lawrence College, in telling of the | influence art has upon the individual, | deplored the fact that a, survey of | education fostered by the Govern- ment covered 4.500 pages with only 23 of these pages devoted to art. In these 23 pages, he said, only once was spiritual quality mentioned, to | wit: “English is taught in colleges not | for spiritual qualities but as a tool. Emotional qualities are seldom men- tioned in connection with the valuc of subjects placed in college cur- ricula.” The council of 30 members of the | museums group heard °reports this morning. | b DO YOU driving a shabby car, | American picture. | city | sulting PRINCESS KATHERINE. No sooner had Princess Katherine of Greece parked her suit case in the home of friends than she was deluged with phone calls from studio officials in Hollywood, opening all gates. The princess is shown above with Buddy Rogers, film actor, whom she met on a seund stage at R-K-O studios. —Wide World Photo. U. S. First Bonius Marcher Won | Point aml Boarded at Ca pitol BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Congress had a “lodger” in 1810. The Senate that year provided a room in the Capitol for a certain John | | ter quickly asembled a small force of | desert tribesmen and prepared for a land attack on Tripoli—but arrived | just as the United States had agreed | TLeitzendorfer until it could decide what | 10 & peace treaty with the usurper, | to do with one of the most extraor- ; Yussuf. in the claims of,Carmelli, who had to | Man of many aliases, ex-engineer, | seek refuge in tffe desert again. Leit- | ex-dervish, ex- | zendorfer was “taken aboard an Amer-\ dinary figures of his generation. ex-soldier. ex-monk, doctor—and withal under sentence of death in three countries—Leitzen- | | dorfer was Washington's first “bonus marcher.” Also, one would assume, he was & most accomplished liar. It was during the war with Tripoli in 1803 that he first came into the He was then an engineer in Cairo. To the Egyptian came William Eaton, tionary general and then American | consul at Tunis. He let it become | known that he wanted the services of some man familiar with the desert | and with the ways and language of the Bedouin tribes for a mission of extraor- dinary danger. rival he was introduced to Lietzen- dorfer—the ideal man for his purpose. Eaton Planned Coup. Gen. Eaton, apparently without con- either the Government at ‘Washington or the American Fleet in | the Mediterranean. had planned a sen- sational move. 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