Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-30
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| confessional in the Catholic Church. What
| they are saying, whether they are asking
for aims, confessing. or, what l have
never been able to make out. No one Is
permitted to go into the woman's mosque
On religious fete days women are allowed
into other mosques, but ordinarily they
are barred.
1.-The courtyard is the most beautiful l
| have ever seen. Right in the center is
| tremendous plane tree, the branches of
which when in full leaf have to be sup
ported by big props. They extend about
J seventy-five feet in each direction. Inc
courtyard is filled with pigeons, and all
| the birds descend like a shower. No one
ever hurts pigeon in that country. You
simply shove them out Of your way. Just
| like the dogs in the cities Of the east-one
must drive around dog rather than
make him get up and move out of the
way. They are the scaveDgers and must
not be disturbed.
! Several years ago all of the dogs in
Constantinople We're transported to
small island in the Sea of Marmora and
left there to die. The carrion was pur-
| chased by an enterprising Frenchman.
who marketed it as fertilizer in France.
When in Constantinople l saw photo
graph of the last dog left on the island.
The race of dogs. however, remains in
Brusa just as it always has for hun
i dreds and hundreds of years.
/ Very few non Mohammedans have
ever succeeded in getting to the center OF
! the Mohammedan church. which is at
Mecca. Many men are clever enough to
learn the languages. Arabic and its doz-
J ems of dialects, but where they are caught
/ is in the religious ceremony. They do not
know what to do when they get into the
mosque and then the knife is put into
them. 1t is matter of record that many
men under disguise have attempted to
reach Mecca. but few have returned-in
fact, only one man, Sir Richard Burton.
Everything in religion in the near east
! is song, thing Of joy and happiness.
In our church it is not that way; our
church is a solemn occasion. When you
| see those fellows at worship you feel that
] they are happy. They go to the mosques
many times for DEVOTION and they enter
with smiling faces and to all appearances
with great pleasure. When the mleZZinS
call the Turk will get down from his
| camel spread his little mat and kneel
/ on it, always facing the east and bow
his head to the ground. and no one takes
| any more notice Of him than if he lighted
| a cigarette.
| IF there is water near he will wash his
| feet and hands; if not, he goes through
! the motions of cleansing. If sand Is
convenient he uses sand. In every mosque
there is always running water either In
| the form Of fountain or larger basin.
In some mosques YOU will see fifty men
\ sitting at the edge of a circular basin
washing their feet in the water before
going in to prayer. all laughing, none
| sanctimonious."
| After abiding to the lovely color effects
that he found in the cities and countries
of the near east, Mr.. Guerin spoke of the
hat ic vivVpv To-
at the present time as director OF color
and decoration OF the Panama Pacific ex-
/ position of 1915. -.--r.
II making an experiment in color
directorship in this exposition that has
not been tried BEFORE declared Mr..
Guerin. In a sense It selike the musical
director with his baton and his different
men playing their different instruments.
myself am not painting anything. II
prefer this because | think / can guide
the other men better by, doing nothing
myself. The object is to give the men
certain black-and-white values. certain
scales of figures. certain horizon lines to
/ be adhered to-, and certain colors to be
| painted with For instance. II. man is
J using vermilfiOn he cannot use any other
kinds or red. s-.ss
Here is one little bit Of Color said
Mr.. Guerin. picking up, a bit of staff.
| tinted a dull gray. No man is permitted
| to paint higher in tone than this color,
| which Is long way from white, as you
will see when i have placed it against
| this dead white bit of note paper. In
making the paintings which decorate The
| Near East adhered rigidly TO a. scale of
| tone, which l set for myself If 1 set a
| certain high pitch In some places-we
! will say like the high light in this Near
| East painting-I never go the gamut
in the black and-white values again.
/ !. i
This in itself will have a strong
| tendency to keep all the exposition deco
| ration in tone. The general tone of the
buildings Of the Panama-Pacfic EXPOSE
| same as the interior Of the Pennsylvania
railroad station in New York, and also
1 the Forum and the Parthenon, at Rome. |
Decoration is my chief interest at
the present time. If L could handle
| landscape and make a decoration of It.
| then / would do it; if were obliged to
| handle it INTELLECTUALLY, then I'll
| wouldn't touch IT. Unless man keeps
to his own genre he never sustains his
| own reputation. For instance, take a
man like Brangwyn. Suppose somebody
| were to come to him and say, Now,
| won't you make a lot of pen drawings
| and make them look like Joe Pennell?'
Why. Brangwyn would say right away,
Don't you think you had better get
some one else? He wouldn't want to
put his own efforts into his own
medium