The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1903, Page 49

e i s I P E BN el 58 YOUTH TO THE FORE AT ROYAL ACA SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1903. ORIGINALITY IS DISPLAYED Contributors This Year Exploit Entirely New ldeas. GNDON exhibition of June 21.—The annual sum- the works of mer presents many works o gréat merit. A number of them are by young = artists who hcve passed the “Royal” nd are under the public eye for the first time. In many ir subjects and " style of han from the Academy ni show a bold departure trend of the Royal t for some years past. Among ‘the pictures deserving all the honor that can be accorded them are the works -of three artists lately deceased— Mr. Wells, Walter Osborne and Ridley Corbet—which under the peculiar circum. stances attract more than usual notice. While, on the whole, must be ac- knowledged that the strong element at this ycar's academy is its landscape work, of which the number of specimens is large end the general excellence remarkable, the average visitor as well as the con- noisseur cannot help being . pieasingly struck with the quaintness and variety of the portraiture and the vigor and in- terest of the subject pictures, of which there are many and some by new aspir- ants for pingistic fame. Without any prejudice to the merito- rious claims of very many other pictures which adorn the walls, there are six pic- tures of striking merit in subject, draughtsmanship and coloring which at- (2 N4 ¥V )‘«/‘T/I%/’M . ) Z = Zf il . A I i wfll" | Pictures of Three Artists Lately Deceased Attract Much Attention at the Burlington House Summer Display. tract much not receive notice and study. These may so much attention from the art criticism writers, but they catch and hold the crowd in rivalry with works of artists of reputations. These are Auction, clever draw Hay which is ve! to natur Daughter, Michaelmas,” Cart,” by older names and established Alfred J. Manning’s “‘Sale by which is full of ing of man and beast; *“The Stanhope A. Forbes, ry pleasing in its close truth “Mrs. C. C. Greenwood and by Frank O. Salisbury, nice- -— el ly posed and well executed in every de- and grouping of the figures. Margaret tail; “Life's Frailty,” by T. Lebaert, a of Scotland, Dauphine of France, one very meritorious plece of drawing and day discovered Alain Chartier, the poet, coloring; “The Flower of Wifely Pa- asleep. In the presence of her attend- tience,” by George W. Joy, which seems ants she bent over and kissed his lips, to carry a covert appeal that reaches the sympathies of the beholders, judging from the crowd that lingers be- fore it; and E. Blair Lelghton's “Alain Chartier,” a happy selection of subject, well marked out in every detail of draw- ing and coloring. The story of the pic- ture is splendidly carried out in posturing saying, “Parcequ’elles avaient dit de si belles choses” (Because they have ut- tered so many pretty things). Another picture of much merit is Mr. Francis Barraud’s “The Presidént and Council Regret.” It shows an artist with the notice of rejection before him, con- templating the rejected picture, on which . WILL FOUND IDEAL COLONY Swiss - Italian Vegeta- rians Establish a Community. — s ENEVA, Switzerland, June 27.— G About 100 persons, thirty of them women, have settled at Ascona, on the Swiss-Italian frontler, in- tending to found a community modeled upon ‘Sir Thomas More's Utopia. The members are to have individual liberty of action and of thought, but are pledged to live in the most frugal way. The colonists are vegetarians, their dress is to be of the simplest character, and no hats or caps are to be worn. All belong to the educated classes. The laws, they say, are those of nature, and they acknowledge no others. Their sole amusement is music, by preference that of Wagner, whom they call nature's musiclan. The founder of the colony is a Belgian, but among the members are Swiss, Ital- ians, French, Germans, Russians and one South American. A committee is trying to invent a lan- guage which will be spoken. They are trying to buy land enough to devote themselves to agriculture for their own support. @i his highest hopes had been based. It was rather a bold venture, a plece of au- dacious sarcasm, to submit such a work, but the president and council seem to have been struck by the humor of it and gave it a place, much to the credit of their broad-minded judgment. — REPRODUCTIONS OF FIVE OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER PAINT- - ot AL (IR o — L 7, 2 % ZLATE INGS WHICH HAVE PLEASED THE CRITICS AND TO VIEW WHICH ARTISTIC LONDON IS THRONGING BURLINGTON HOUSE HALLS. L — POLITICIANS ARE DIVIDED —_——— Chamberlain-Balfour Harmony Speeches Make Stir. L Chamberlain’s and Premier Bal- four’s speeches at the Constitution- al Club the subject of leading articles, which follow party lines. The most no- ticeable feature of the occasion is ac- knowledged to have been the announced harmony between the two Cabinet Minis- ters on the question which many expect will prove the rock on which the Unionist party will remain divided. The Colonial Secretary’s careful state- ment that Mr. Balfour’s leadership is es- sential to union and the success of the Unionist. party, followed later by the statement that a system of preferential tariffs is the only system by which the empire can be kept together, is taken to mean that there can no longer remain any doubt that the Premier and the Colonial Secretary have agreed on the future pol- icy. The opposition papers rejoice, assert- ing that the difference which is known to exist inside the Cabinet ranks, coupled with the opposition of the working people in the country, must bring defeat to the ad- vocates of Mr. Chamberlain’s policy when a general election takes place. e it WILL HAVE GOOD TIME WHILE HER MONEY LASTS Countess Fabricotti Says She Will Soon Starve if No Rich Hus- band Shows Up. LONDON, June 27.—Countess Fabri- cottl says she means to spend the little money she has left to enjoy this year, and afterward starve, if no desirable husband comes along. She makes no secret of her poverty, but talks freely to her friends of the depleted state of her exchequer. As she is young and beautiful, she has every- body’'s sympathy. The Countess spent several weeks in the United States last winter and spring, when rumor had her betrothed at differ- ent times to August Belmont and William C. Whitney. She was made much of in exclusive society in New York City, and was a member of Mr. Whitney's large house party in Alken, S. C., in March. She is a woman of 35 years, with great personal charms, the effect of which is heightened by her superb gowns and jew- els. Her maiden name was Anna Kings- ley. Her father was Irish, her mother French. She was educated in Germany and married an Italian nobleman, from whom she got a foreign divor~e. Divorce is not recognized in Italy, but Count Fab- ricotti crossed the border to Switzerland. —_——————— To Remedy Race Suicide. PARIS, June 27.—Senator Plot will in- troduce a bill which, he hopes, will put a stop to’ French inclinations to race sui- cide. It follows in part: Every married woman must have at least one child. If she has two children she gets a red rib- bon, to be worn conspicuously. The third child will entitle her to the cross of a chevalier. The fourth will make her an officer, the fifth a commander and if she has more than five she will have a grand cross. ONDON, June 27.—All the morning papers make Colonial Secretary LEE DEFENDS MILLIONAIRE Says Carnegie Aims to Preserve Shakes- peare Relics. —— ONDON, June 27.—Sidney Les, the L author, in behalf of the trustees of Shakespeare’s birthplace, has. writ- ten a lengthy letter, which will ap- pear in the newspapers Monday, explain- ing their action in accepting Andrew Car- negie’s offer of a library for Stratford- on-Avon. He declares the accusations that the trustees are destroying the his- toric spot where Shakespeare was born are untrue, adding: “Through the generous aid of Mr. Car- negie they are doing precisely the oppo- site. They are permanently preserving all the structural work which has been proved on accurate examination to pos- sess any kind of archaeclogical interest. Modernizing has of past years progressed very far and of late but for Mr. Carnme- gle’s interposition threatened a conspicu- ous advance.” The rumors that Mr. Carnegie proposed to erect an “ostentatious building of pals- tial splendor” is not true. Mr. Carnegie has left everything in the hands of a Stratford corporation and has expressed the wish that his name be not bestowed on the building. Mr. Lee quotes a letter showing that Marie Corelli, who is the chief critic of the trustees and Mr. Carnegie, had her- self negotiated for the property in ques- tion for the purpose of erecting a library. The negotiations failed, owing to the price being higher than Miss Corelli wished to pay. —_———— QUEEN ALEXANDRA MAY BECOME WHOLLY DEAY Ailment of King Edward’s Consert Does Not Improve With Treatment. LONDON, June 27.—Queen Alexandra's increasing deafness is causing much anx- fety to: the royal physicians. She is threatened with compiete deafness, for the ailment is not proving amenable to treatment. ——————— Wilhelmina a Camera Fiend. THE HAGUE, June 27.—Queen Wilhel- mina and her mother, Dowager Queen Emma, during Prince Henry's alsence in Austria will spend some time at the Cha- teau de Soestdyk. There the youns Queen will be able to give herself up to her pet amusement, photography. She goes about on foot with her camera, usually accom- panied by a guard, with all necessary ap- ances, and stops a passing peasant, »r group of children coming from She ers money for the trouble she gives them, but the adults usually refuse it, considering the honor of bemg taken by the little Queen sufficient. But the children accept the money joytully. school to take snapshots of them. always off Swedes Will Be Taxed by Weight. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 27.—The men of Sweden are to be taxed by weight. Every man tipping the scales at 125 pounds will pay a certain gum annually and those who weigh 130 will pay deuble that sum.