Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1937, Page 3

-BODY BLOW GIVEN ART OF INTERVIEW Two Young Film Stars Put| » New Furrows in Brow of Correspondent. By DALE HARRISON, Associated Press Staff Writer NEW YORK, October 23 —It is be- ing bruited around town that the art of the interview, once looked upon in this business as highly significant, is ne with the wind, but we shall see what we shall see, In yesteryear the procedure was to beard some personage in‘his den and - lead him artfully to commit him- self on the sub- Jjects of the day, after which the correspondent & would retire to his typewriter and, in beautifully turned phrases, give the results to the waiting world. But today we have the movie cocktail party in- terview, at which some rich em- ployer plays host to the ladies and gentlemen of the press with the idea of having said L. and G. meet famous personages in the employ of same, and write glowingly thereof. Mr, Tyrone Power and Miss Alice Faye. two of the younger geniuses of ~the silver screen, sat with your corre- spondent & few hours ago and were in- terviewed to the music of clinking ice cubes in fancy tumblers. Your cor- respondent, alive to his responsibility to the American public, tried with all might to keep his mind on the con- versation, with the following results, if such they may be called: “Miss Faye and Mr. Power, please sit here,” he began, “we are just a news- paperman and will not fawn upon you as the other guests are doing. This will be a great relief to you because we know you are simple folk at heart to whom fawning is distasteful.” Miss Faye Tells All Miss Faye said: “When I have finished my career in pictures I intend to be a newspaper writer.” “The American public,” said your correspondent warmly, “awaits your literary contributions with uncon- cealed impatience.” Mr. Power spoke: Tyrone Power. “I want to do something big—really big—in pictures.” “I am sure the film magnates will £ s L note your work to 4 date and give you & chance to do something ‘big,” said the cor- respondent. “I have always wanted to write, interjected Miss Faye, fascinating- ly beautiful in foxes and orchids. “Did you see me in 2" be- Ygan Mr. Power, obviously anxious not to be side- {racked by Miss Faye's literary ambition. “Yes, indeed,” broke in the cor- respondent. “I have seen you in everything.” This was a falsehood, but the correspondent was not in a mood, unfortunately, to go into this no doubt fascinating phase of the progress of the cinema. “Do you have time to do much reading, Mr. Power?” Tyrone is Amueed. “I manage to do some,” the hand- some youth responded. “For instance, I was highly amused recently in read- | ing in one of the magazines a story | called ‘The Life Story of Tyrone Power.” * “It was quite an article,” Mr. Power went on. “I am still chuckling over | it. Just imagine! The ‘life story’ of a fellow who is only 23 years old!” He laughed merrily. “The famous ‘Billy the Kid’ had a "-dozen life stories written about him,” the correspondent recalled, “and he was a mere 21 years old when he | died.” The correspondent is really | very catty at heart. At this point Mr. Power noted that the interviewer was resplendent with & flower in his lapel, and said he would | like one. “Allow me,” said the correspondent, plucking one from a vase that was| directly in front of Mr. Power, “with | the compliments of our host.” | The young man took the bloom in | , his fingers and held it eontemplatively. Young Lady Gushes. At ¢hat moment a young lady who had arrived at the table without hav- | ing been invited—as this is apparently | s free-and-easy country—began to | d. | Alice Fave. h. “Let me do it, Tyrone,” she cooe As she carefully placed the blossom | in his buttonhole, she said: “This is the happiest moment of my life.”| (This positively is a verbatim quote.) " Mr. Power then felt an urge to emoke. He took a cigarette from the | case of the young lady and held it| expectantly in his fingers. The young | > lady got the idea, found a match, | struck it, and the Power cigarette glowed in grateful acknowledgement. Miss Faye, who is mighty pretty, said: “I feel that I should be given stronger roles—roles in which I can really act.” “Something really big. Is that it, | Miss Faye?” asked the correspondent, who was beginning to catch on. “That's it; something really big,” @ ghe smiled. (One sort of goes limp under the Faye smile.) “Of course, I ehall sing as heretofore, but my big ambition is to really act.” | “And be & newspaper writer,” added | the correspondent. “And be a newspaper writer,” echoed Alice hastily. D. C. HEALTH PROJECTS . IN SCHOOLS ANNOUNCED The District Tuberculosis Associa- tion will carry on three health projects 1n the District schools during the com- ing year, Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, man- aging director of the association, an- . pouncéd yesterday. ‘The three projects involve the tu- berculin tests for senior high school students, a health education institute for administrators and teachers and an essay prize contest for sixth grade pupils during November on “Why I Buy Christmas Seals.” All three have « been sanctioned by the Board of Edu- eation. Funds for the tuberculin tests and for X-ray photographs of the pupils’ chests will come from the money de- rived from sale of Christmas seals, | Myers of New York University thav,; | di European art. THE SUNDAY .STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Presenting Four Mqre Old Masters For the third week of its art appreciation program, The Star presents the paintings pictured above. Left to right, top, are Breughel’s “Peasant Wedding” and Massys’ “Banker and His Wife” and, below, Holbein's “Anne of Cleves” and Durer’s “View of Tren Provide Art in Star Cam paign OUR great painders of- the early | and Breughel—are introduced | appreciation campaign as the m | offered by The Star and the National | Washington area. shown in the first set that opened the | | art project. From there, the color| reproductions reverted to the Italian | | Renaissance and the birth of the| “goiden age” of painting in Florence, It Now, the third set takes up the | work of four other old masters who Jabored in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in the early part of the | 16th century and carried the spirit | of the Renaissance into Northern Europe. Throughout the campaign all sets of pictures offered in previous weeks will remain available to those Who wish to obtain them, either by mail or at'the art booth on the first floor of The Star Building. The pictures, printed by a new multi-color prousfl.{ are released in sets of four each | week, at prices within the reach of every one. Organizations Hail Campaign. Not only has the campaign pene- | trated every walk of life in this terri- | tory but it has reached all so-called organized life—the churches, public, private and parochial schools.v art schools, colleges and universities, clubs, commercial establishments and parent-teacher associations. The reproductions and the lessons in art appreciation by Dr. Bernard | | | accompany each set have evoked | | American art as it is today was¥~ widespread cdmmendation for their | educational and cultural value, de- | velopment of art spprecintmn_ and: stimulus to the movement designed | to direct leisure time of the public at | large into these fields. Brief sketches of the paintings of- fered during the third week of the | ampaign follow: g 5 “Al;mz of Cleves” by Hans Holbein— this portrait so intrigued Henry VIII of England that he decided to make | the girl his fourth wife. Bub he was intensely disappointed when he saw her and soon after the céremony had the marriage annulled. When she was informed of the King's displeasure she swooned, for she expected to be executed as others of Henry's wives had been. However, Anne managed to escape with her head and was even pensioned, but Hans Holbein, the pop- ular portraitist of Henry VIII's court, who had perpetrated the deception, was sharply rebuked. Holbein, most skillful of portrait painters, Was also an excellent decorator and raughtsman, painter of frescoes and architect, jewerly designer and book illustrator, besides being & ‘modeler and miniaturist. He ranks with Durer as the greatest of German painters. Water Color by Durer. “View of Trent"” by Albrecht Durer— this watercolor is typical of Durer’s mastery of that difficult and exacting medium. Durer is Germany'’s greatest painter, the first of his race to realize| he was living in a new age. When he visited Italy he was amazed and impressed by the great accomplish- ments of such masters as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Titian. Through the influence of Durer, the art of | Northern Europe, within his own life- time, was lifted out of the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. Like Leonardo da Vinci he was a man of universal genius, a goldsmith, an art critic, a writer and a supreme artist. He was undoubtedly the greatest master of the woodcut. So famous and so pop- {ular did Durer's engravings become that he had to travel again to distant Italy to complain of widespread pla- giarism. His sketches of buildings, landscapes, even of an animal or a flower, are among the most priceless treasures in the whole history of art. “The Banker and His Wife,” by Quentin Massys—in this picture the artist illustrates the tradition in Flem- ish painting known as “the micro- TERMITES ‘We number among our customers many outstanding _organizations — including Pan_ American Union—War Dept.— 8. 8. Kresge Co.—Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.—Gulf Refining Co.—FPruden- tial Life Ins, Co—Pennsylvania Rail Rond—City of Philadeiphia—and many others. Our Ground Treatment doesn’t decay or evaporate in the ground. It lasts. Free Inspection. Guaranteed Treatment. TERMITE CONTROL CO.. A Washington-Owned Company W. O. Pruitt. Mgr. Works of Holbein, Durer, Massys and Breughel Are Offered as Third Set of Reproductions in Program. 16th century—Holbein, Durer, Massys today to followers of The Star’s art ovement enters its third week. Presentation of their work as the third set in 48 famous paintings Committee for Art Appreciation gives | new impetus to a movement that has met with success on every hand in the scopic point of view.” Detail and more detail, each one rendered per- fectly, distinguishes his style. Care- fully and faithfully, Massys painted each feature of the two faces and lavished no less care upon the tiniest visible object in the room. In his early years, he was a blacksmith and ironworker; then, falling in love with an artist’s daughter, he turned to paint- ing and became one of the masters of all time Two monarchs, King Philip II and Queen Elizabeth, bid against each other for “The Entombment,” but the people of Antwerp refused to let it go. Bidding reached 40,000 florins ($50,000) -for this picture Massys had sold for 300 florins. “The Peasant Wedding.™ “The Peasant Wedding,” by Pieter Breughel, the Elder—this is a crowded canvas that is full of rustic merri- ment. Before the time of Breughel, the subjects of art were limited to | religious, historical or mythological subjects, and portraiture of the great or wealthy. Breughel was one of the first to concern himself almost entirely with humble folk. He lived with them, observed them, knew them. For 400 years after his death he was for- gotten, but recently a Breughel vogue has retrieved him from almost com- plete oblivion and he is rapidly be- coming one of the most popular of the old masters. These four pictures follow the sece ond set, which includes Da Vinci's immortal “Mona Lisa,” probably the most famous painting in the world: the great Michelangelo's “Creation of Adam,” Titian's “Duke of Ferrara” | and Raphael's “Madonna Tempi.” ‘While the second set was enjoying a record sale last week, the first set continued to win favor with those who entered the campaign during the | second week. The first group includes Winslow Homer's “Bahama Tornado,” Thomas Eakins’ “Lady With a Set- ter,” Mary Cassatt’s “Mother and Child” and Thomas Benton's “Lasso- ing Horses.” These works are by modern Americans. Benton is the only living artist among them. PLANE TOUR'SUPPORTS TREATIES RATIFICATION “Flying Caravan” of People's Mandate to Visit Nations Pres- . ent at Conference. The “flying caravan” of the People’s Mandate will leave Saturday morning on an airplane tour of the Latin American republics supporting the ratification of the Buenos Aires peace treaties. Members of the flying group will be received by Secretary of State Hull at 3:30 pm. Friday in the diplomatic room at the State Department and the following morning will fly to Hyde Park where they will be received by President Roosevelt. Mrs. Burton W. Musser of Salt Lake City, Utah, who was the only woman member of the American delegation ‘to the Buenos Aires conference, is leader of the caravan. L In the capital of every country to be visited the group will be received by the President and Secretary of State, with whom the status of rati- fication will be discussed. ———— Builds Own House. With no previous building experi- ence and without help, Edward Mas- ters of Axminster, England, has com- pleted a six-room house in two years, casting concrete blotks, hewing stone, cutting timber, installing the electric generator and making the furniture from his own trees. Natl. Press Blds. Natl 2711 )!y& Grant said. “Ask Our Cuastomers” - Four Masters of 16th Century| t.” They are classics of Northern CRASHFATAL 010 IS PROBED IN I0WA 19 Injured in Bus-Train Ac- cident, but Only Four Seri- ously Hurt. By the Associated Press. MASON CITY, Iowa, October 23.—| | A sorrowing group of Renwick, Towa, night while investigators worked over | the wreckage of a wooden high schogl bus which carried 10 persons to their | deaths beneath the Rock Island's| streamlined rocket train. | The bus, carrying 26 students, 2 teachers and a driver from the little | Humboldt County town of Renwick, was struck yesterday at a private crossing inside the yards of the Mason City Brick & Tile Co., where the stu- dents had been visiting. They were on a tour of Mason City industries, All 19 of the students who escaped death were injured, although only 4 of them were considered in a serious condition. THL | Among the dead were the bus driver, both teachers and seven students, two | of them girls. | Cerro Gordo County Coroner J. E. McDonald today picked a three-man jury and scheduled an inquest for | Monday. A delegation of railroad officials from Des Moines, Chicagc and Kansas City began a formal investigation this | morning. Two Interstate Commerce | | Commission investigators also visited | the scene and planned to confer with railroad officials in Des Moines to- | morrow. \CHILDREN’S PLAYS SERIES IS STARTED Junior League Sponsors Dramas for Young People of Moder- ate Means. In an effort to bring good stage entertainment to children of moderate means, the Junior League of Washing- ton is sponsoring for the second year | a series of children’s plays, the first |of which was held at the Roosevelt High School yesterday. Despite the rainy weather, a “good house” turned out to see “The Reward of the Sun God,” a play based on the Hopi Indian legend. On November 6, according to Mrs. Reginald Mead of the Junior League, children can see “The Princess and the Swineherd,” from the story by Hans Christian Anderson, and on November 13, “The Bumble Bee Prince,” an opera by Alexander Pushkin and Rimsky-Korsakoff. These first three productions, Mrs. Mead said, are put on by New York actors. The fourth and final play will be the “Taming of the Shrew,” presented by a group of Washington school chil- dren, under the direction of Miss Helen Burton. Mrs. Mead pointed out that many individuals and donors are giving money to provide tickets for children at Children’s Hospital, Barney Neigh- borhood House and Frieéndship House. These children are called for by bus. All the plays will be at Roosevelt, Mrs. Mead said, because of the large auditorium and the parking facilities available. WATCH REPAIRS MONEY BACK GUARANTEE PRICES SURPRISINGLY LOW Nationally known jewelry on easy terms. No interest or carrying charges. 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Weigal, 40-year-old World War veteran, who had worked for the last two weeks as a laborer on a farm near here, was instantly killed tonight when struck by a hit-and-run automobile while walking along Montgomery road. ‘Weigal had attended the races and was returning to his place of” em- ployment on the estate of Mrs. Mar:on Parker and Mrs. Charles Martin, widowed sisters who served overseas as nurses during the war, when he was run down in front of Laurel Cem- etery. i Arthur Brown, former Prince Georges County policeman, who lives nearby, said he heard a crash on the road and ran from his house and found Weigal's'body laying near the cemetery's entrance. The tail light of a fleeing car was seen some distance away. $500 in Bonds Found. While Weigal worked for $5 a week and his board clearing underbrush from the 100-acre estate of Mrs. Park- er and Mrs. Martin, a search of his effects disclosed last night that he had $500 in service bonds and a “fair sum” on deposit in the Mercantile Savings Bank in Baltimore. It was disclosed by Mrs. that Herman Bode, the malnourished wanderer who died last month in Gallinger Hospital at Washington and | later was found to have an estate of $35,000, also was employed at her | place at the time he died. Mrs. Parker, a granddaughter State Supreme Court, said Bode, like Weigal, worked for $5 a week and his board while assisting & gang of laborers in cleaning up their prop- erty. Father of One Child. Weigal, who joined the Army at Little Falls, N. Y., was married and had one child, but his employers said they had no knowledge of their whereabouts. A sister, Mrs. Edward Koppe, lives at Dolgeville, N. Y. Weigal was a member of the Odd Fel- lows’ Lodge at Knoxville, N. Y., ac- cording to papers found among his effects. At one time he was unde: | parents bore their dead homeward to- | the care of physicians at the Veterans' | Parker | of | the late Judge Mann of the Florida | Mrs | is shown leaving the Second | marriage. Mrs. Donner Roosevelt Weds Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, diverced wife of Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, was married yesterday in Philadelphia to Curtin Winsor of Ardmore, Pa. ceremony. The bride's father, William H. Donner, gave her in She was unattended. After the ceremony, the wed- ding party attended a small reception at a hotel. The Winsors will live at Brentwood, Rosemont, Pa. The couple Presbyterian Church after the —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. MRS. ROOSEVELT TO Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. Weigal's body was removed to the | W. C. White Co. funeral home in | Laurel, and a coroner’s jury was sworn in over the body by Justice of the Peace Vawter. An inquest was| called for 9 pm. Monday at the| CAPITAL MAN SET FREE ON BOND IN MEXICO Mark Anthony Steele Held Alleged Infraction of Labor Immigration Law. in SPEAK NOVEMBER 3 Will Address Southern Women's Educational Alliance Board at Session Here. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak before the twenty-third annual |session of the National Board of | Trustees of the Southern Woman's Education Alliance, meeting Novem- | ber 1-3 at the Mayflower Hotel to dis- cuss problems in rural youth guidance and rural occupation, it was an- nounced yesterday. The Rural Youth Guidance In- Mark Anthony Steele, vice president of the Union Circulation Co. of New York, and giving Washington as his home address, City yesterday under bond of 400 pesos, the Associated Press reported, while attorneys sought to straighten out al- leged infractions of the Mexican labor immigration law. According to the Associated Press, | Steele went to Mexico with a crew of six women and one other man to solicit magazine subscriptions for his company. At Monterey, they were Joined by Josefina Heyser, who accom- panied them to Mexico City. Discharged in Mexico City, the Hey- ser girl filed indemnification agtion under the Mexican labor laws. In the subsequent inquiry of Steele’s party, it was charged that one of his party had entered Mexico illegally and that the solicitation activities were being con- ducted without a proper permit. D. C. MAN RE-ELECTED LOUISVILLE, Ky., October 23 (#). —The Phi Beta Gamma Legal Fra-| ternity, in convention here, today re- elected Fred O. Roth, Washington, chief justice.. Paul Clement, Minneap- olis, was chosen chief justice; W. Lor- raine Mix, Loulsville, clerk: A. Norwood Funk, Baltimore, baili: Russell Moore, St. Paul, chancellor, and James J. Ross, Louisville, marshal. was freed in Mexico| stitute, sponsored by the alliance, will meet as a special unit along with the | board session. Mrs. Roosevelt is to speak at a spe- cial closing session November 3 in | honor of Washingtonians interested in | organizing a local branch of | alliance and rural leaders co-operating | in the guidance institute. | Attendance to the sessions is by in- | | vitation and will be restricted to 40 | or 50 consultants, it was said. Among the agencies co-operating in the institute are the Departments of Education of North Carolina, Ken- tucky and Virginia and the rural de- partmefit of the National Education Association. Consultants will include Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the Home Economics Bureau, Agriculture Department; Walter Burr of the United States | Employment Service; Dr. Bruce L. Melvin, principal supervisor of the ‘Works Progress Administration rural research; Dr. T. B. Manny of the University of Maryland, Dr. Howard A. Dawson, director of rural educa- | tion, Natidnal Education Association; Eugene Merritt of the Agricultural Extension Service, and Howard W. Eom,v and John A. 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