The evening world., 1911-04-19
UP AND DOWN
- PICTURE LANE
BY Henry TyrreU.

on paper. That 10 what they
. ' done IN the current City Beauti-
fu" sxhib!, at the National ArtA Club.
No. iS Bas, Nineteenth street. Tho
new Now York' framed up by Mr..
Lambs City Plan committee 10 . dream
Of . place that Father Kn!ckerbocker
would set lost in before he had gone
halt . block. The Champs Elysees and
been brought over here. cut UP into
o~ouvsn.snt lengths and spresd out Like
b spoxss OF . wheel from such hubs
- CITY Hall PARK. Madison Square and
the start and nn!sh posts Of the Great
White Way. On account OF the long
ana narrow shape o: Manhattan Island
home OF these sa~n-spread.ng bou.evards
run Into tho river before they get very
-. Never mind-STdses over the Hud-
sSn and tunnels under the bay Will AZ
lat all right. and extend the beautiful
system right over into Jersey and Staten
Iaand.
IAsht up the pipe again'
Meanwhile the real changes In steel
and stone-not on paper or In your
m!nd-are going on grandly before our
eyes. The big show downtown Is the
gigantic living skeleton OF the new
Municipal Building. shooting shyward at
the rate OF about a story a day, and
a.ready within speaking distance OF the
World dome. At the other end OF the
town-away UP at Audubon Park, or
West One Hundred and Flfty-siNth
street. on the high bluff overlooking
the Hudson. where the Revolutionary
battle OF Fort Washington was fought
one o. the handsomest groups OF aca-
dsm.c buildings In Greater New YORK
now stand complete. with the dedlca-
ton Jas: sunday OF the spanish Roman
Catholic Church OF Our Lady OF Hope.
This church, the museum OF the HIS
panic Society OF America, and the new
homes OF the American Numismatlc So
c,ety and the American Geographical
Society, are the four structures no"
oocupylrg the square block from one
Hundred and Flfty-fifth to One Hun
ared and Flsty-slxth street. Broadway
TO Riverside Drive. Tho ground. given
by Archer NJ. Huntington Is easily
worth l,5OO. coo. The four bulld!ngs-ad-
nlrable examples OF the Roman renaIs-
ssnce type OF architecture-cost as nlHch
more, and the value Of their contents ID
beyond calculation,
Tho entire group was designed ny
Charles 7. Huntington tno relation 10
Archer NJ. a Paris BeauX A.is BFauu-
ate who lately won the second prize Tor
A design for the Hudson-Fulton me-
mortal water gate, to he erected al
one Hundred and Tenth street and lidd-
son River.
40" DAvIDSON'S scu'p,nrlnos and
s~nakentine drawings from the
nude make an exhilarating show
NJ Glaenzer's, No. 705 Fifth avenue, OPP
poslta the ST. Regis, but IT Is just as
we'll to fortify ones self with a gooo
breakfast before going up against thlS
lyracal-plastic impression!st, HIS hgnfes
and portrait husts have a lot TO say
but n mostly tell hard luck stories
of one lrnd or another. som" OF the
classic hgurines would be charming
only they have been pgrpoSely mutIiateH
and cnarred 20 look as II aug up iroHl
l~eva.buried H~erculancum' or fes'utu
from the ruins OF the Messlna earth
Quake. Here Ia a "Nlctory,' Tor IN
stance. with both arms gone ana heT
neck broken. What must the loser
have looked Ike
But Il Is when we get TO tho PORTRAITS
a people We know that no. Davidson
h.comes intensely interesting, First he
shows us what really beautiful Things
ne Dan do when he wishes 90 rs IN the
Emilie Grigsby and the pona'el'o-lH
lead OF n boy, young Morley kenner''y'
Then he breaks loose and has run WIN
his artist friends, and, incidentally sets
even with an art Grille or " in truly
Maohia vpllIan fashion.
le makes Charles Fitz'ieraIa zoos
ike a professional tea-taster VINO mas
lust swallowed an unusually butter dose'
HI. Alfred Stlcglltz Is almost human
but is INDUCING IN a quiet chuckle. as
II saying TO himself, rive sprung Pr
oasso on them" John Marin appears
h have drawn n dire bad hand In the
poksr game OF life. There are two masks
az George B. Luks-all We can say Is II
o. Of them looks like him, the other