Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1937, Page 8

A—8 #¥» NEGLECT OF ARTS ATFAIR RESENTED Leon Kroll of National Acad- emy Calls New York Slight Outrageous. Failure to provide for adequate rep- resentation of the fine arts in plans for the 1939 world fair in New York is an ‘“outrageous slight” on the artists of this country, Leon Kroll, member of the National Academy of Art, today told the American Federation of Art Convention at the Wardman Park Hotel. Kroll, who recently took first prize at the Carnegie Institute exhibit in Pittsburgh and is nearing completion of his murals in the Justice Depa.rt- fhent, sald the New York omission | “‘would present America to the world Just as a great part of the rest of the | world expects, and some of it hopes it will be presented, confirming their idea of us that nothing is of any value here unless it brings profit to big business. The blunt truth is that the fair is planned by busines men to sell more radios, automobiles, imita- tion pearl bath room arrangements, | lighting fixtures and other articles | under the guise of a high-sounding | title called “The World of Tomorrow.’ “When protests were made by art institutions * * * pussyfooting re- plies came from the fair administra- tion authorities, evading the issue and promising no adequate consideration for the fine arts—using the excuse that art is so well represented at New York galleries and by New York deal- ers, that there is no necessity for ac- centing it. Just as though practically all the commercial objects, such as automobiles, electrical equipment, etc., which will be accented all over the fair, cannot be seen on any main street. Unfair to Country. “It is unfair to the country to have these commercially-minded people pose as prophets. It is unfair to use the money of the national, State and municipal governments only for their purposes. We are misled—and those in charge also are in error—in claim- ing that the whole fair will be a work of art.” Kroll compared the New York Fair plans to those for the fair scheduled to open in Paris in a few weeks, where two magnificent buildings will house the best in contemporary French art. “The French do not fear accenting art—to their great advantage,” he said. Discussing trends in modern art, Kroll told the convention that the abstract ideas in art today should not be overemphasized and that tradi- tional art should be taken into con- sideration in painting. The best qualities of both should be combined If mature art is to be realized, he said. Miss Hallie Flannagan, director of | the Federal Theater project, told the convention that theater and govern- ment were gradually becoming ac- customed to a “shotgun marriage” and that the project “must wake up and Erow up to an age of social cone sciousness when government has the responsiblility of aiding the peaple esthetically.” Pan-American art was to be dis- cussed before the convention this afternoon in an effort to clarify the ties existing between the North and South American continents through art With Ricardo J. Alfaro, former President of Panama, presiding, the delegates were to hear Roland J. Mc- Kinney, director of the Baltimore Mu- seum of Art; Hector Diaz Leguizamon, secretary of the Argentine Embassy; €oncha Romero James, chief of the Division of Intellectual Co-operation, | Pan-American Union, and Alma Reed, Delphic Studios, New York. Other speakers at the morning ses- sion were Miss Ruth Reeves, textile designer, who took up industrial tex- tile designing. and Miss Evelyn Ger- stein, film critic and lecturer, whose topic was “The Cinema.” Humorous “Chalk Talk.” “chalk talk” by Clifford K. Berryman, cartoonist for The Star, In which he sketched celebrities in the Capital, and a discussion of tex- tiles by M. D. C. Crawford of Fair- child Publications, were features of a semi-social gathering last night at the residence of George Hewitt Myers, 2310 S street, at whose home is the Textile Museum of the District. The Committee on Nominations ‘was to present its slate of officers this afternoon. No stand on the advocacy of the proposed Jefferson Memorial was taken by the convention after a report of the Resolutions Committee. Offi- cials declared it was not within the province of the organization to favor or oppose such matters, but merely to promote discussion pro and con with an eye to keeping the subject alive. A visit to Washington Cathedral oc- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Young Washington Operating this movie machine made by the students of the second grade of the East Silver Spring School is Helen Hewitt, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hewitt, 816 Gist avenue. Tomorrow: Donald White, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. White, at the Takoma Park Elementary Schaol —Star Staff Photo. DU PONT LEDGERS PUT IN'RECORDS Green Tin Box Details Mil- lions in Security Hold- ings. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 12.—Pierre S. du Pont's ledgers for 1929 and 1930—a tin | box containing the records of many millions of dollars in securities hold- | ings—were entered in evidence today in the income tax case against du Pont and his one-time secretary, John J. Rasbok, later his close business asso- clate. The Government seeks to collect | $617,316 from du Pont and $1,026,340 | from Raskob in alleged deficiency | taxes on their 1929 income. The ledgers were introduced by Ma- son B. Leming, chief Government counsel. In the midst of examining Ralph T Ellis, office assistant to du nt in Wilmington, about separate items in the 1929 and 1930 ledgers, Leming said to Richard L. Disney of | the United States Board of Tax Ap- Ppeals who is hearing the tax case: “I offer the entire 1929 and 1930 ledgers into evidence, to show the ‘ear- Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. Corner of 12th and “L* suto Pparking .for patrons “green gate “L" Streei side of council House, ‘opposite Thomson Pube lic School Psychometry Delineations Daily Hours: 11 A.M. to 9 P.M. Grace Gray De Long. Reader MOTH-PROOF STORAGE phome TonL 600 MERCHANTS TRANSFER-STORAGE CO. 920-922 & STREET N.W. at marking’ of stocks between Mr. du Pont and Mr. Raskob.” It is the Government's contention that the stocks sold back and forth | after the 1929 Wall Street crash— | which allowed the two industrialists | f to deduct a total of more than $7,000,- | 000 from their income for the year— | were not bona fide sales and were ac- companied by a repurchasing agree- ment. The stocks, the Government contends, were “ear-marked” in each other's accounts so the same blocks could be repurchased. James S. Y. Ivins, chief counsel for | du Pont, entered no objection to plac- ing the entire ledger into the record. | Du Pont's ledger—unlike that of | Raskob which was the usual paper- bound volume—was & system of card | entries in a green tin box, about 10 inches long, 8 inches deep and 6 “ inches high. | The whole ledger, tin box and cards were placed in the custody of the tax board. A fire engine driver was arrested | in London for driving his engine against the red lights and couxdinz with a car. cupied delegates in the latter part of the afternoon, followed by tea in the bishop's garden as guests of the All Hallows’ Guild. Members of the federation will be &uests of Robert Woods Bliss, first vice president, and Mrs. Bliss at their home, Dumbarton Oaks, this aftee- noon. A reception consisting of a musicale and private view of exhibits will occupy the federation this .eve- 1mng at the Phillips Memorial Gal- ery. DUCE, HITLER MAY MEET Vienna Hears Dictators Will Con- fer in Bavaria. VIENNA, May 12 (#).—Persistent al- though officially unconfirmed reports today said Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy and Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler would meet Monday at Hitler's Berchtesgacen home in Bavaria. The reports declared that Col. Gen. 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The Senate Judiciary Committee to- day heard arguments by Senator Mc- Adoo, Democrat, of California in sup- port of his proposed amendment to President Roosevelt's court reornm-l zation bill, and then adjourned until Monday. On Tuesday the committee will vote on the bill and all pending amendments and substitutes. The McAdoo amendments would fix membership of the Supreme Court at 15, regardless of age. It would pro- vide that 10 should constitute a quorum. McAdoo also has proposed a constitutional amendment providing that the membership of the court, as regards numbers, may be changed only once every 25 years by act of Congress. The California Senator pointed out that the population of the United States now is 130,000,000, whereas it was only 38,000.00 when the act fixing the number of Supreme Court justices | at nine was passed. He argued that a Supreme Court of nine was not able to take care of all the business that should come before it. 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