The Nome daily nugget., 1915-05-01
BY JAMES o'DoNNELL BENNETT


 THE EASTERN GERMAN ARMY One sunny morning in January Gen. Von Hindenberg rode down from the castle to the studio of Karl ZiepIer to see some of the young professors DOT traits of eminent men and women o1 Polish Germany-provincia governors merchants, lawyers and actresses.
 The studio is on the top floor of the Emperor Frederick museum, only one square from the house in which 1h. field marshal was born. It happened that on this morning easels occupying the center of the room held life size portraits In oil of von Waldo, d former governor of the province of posen; of the new archbishop of Posen, LikowslI and of rich Jew of Posen who re- gently dealt handsomely by the gov ernment in the matter of large army contracts for oyercoats, refusing. in deed, to make figure that would give him ny profit on the goods
 Divergent Typos Are Shown.
 More divergent types than the 1.-the courtley von Waldo, the comfortable looking ecciesiastic and the rubicund Jew 1t would have been difficult to assemble. and the faces. which gazed al the observer with that astonishine A,iI Ziesler gets into all his portraits, in stantly arrested the field marshals at tention. For many seconds he stood before them in silence, answering the six eyes In the pictures with his own searching glances. lie relished the pictures and his lips shaped one Of his grim, yelled smiles as he said, 'N ou deal in constrasts. Herr Professor"
 Nothing in the studio escaped him but his comments. uttered with great deliberation, nevertheless were terse, and the painter said they invariably were good, sound criticism. Several unfinished studies of himself lay about the room One which Prof. Ziegler had thought not good he had placed in a corner on an easel which was more than half concealed by a picture that stood on another easel The general commented favorably on some of the sketches which were in conspicuous places.
 Disapproves Own Portrait
 But that" he said. lis not good" and the Tannenberg eye searched out the corner where the discarded sketch stood. None in the room except the painter and the soldier had noticed that there was sketch of Hindenberg in that corner.
 A woman who is a good critic of pictures as well as of human nature, and who had heard the general talk on more than one occasion. said: All the comments are candid and simple, but much more acute than the com ments of most of tho people who try to speak the language of the studio when they look at pictures. Every word he speaks stands for something Il don't know how you say it in English. Would it be like this--everY word of his is a monument"
 thought it would be difficult to improve on that and so l said that decidedly would be that way in Eng fish
 But, after all" she continued T think that sometimes it is as much his eyes as his words that hold you. Il have studied him in several moods and sometimes the eyes for many minutes were like the eyes of an old person thinking of things far away--so far away And then suddenly they would flash fire and the glance would SC m to go through you"
 thought of what Carlyle said of the great Frederick when he described the brow "by no means of Olympian height" and the head that had superla- tive gray eyes in it." and 1 asked her whether she did not think the phrase fitted the Hindenburg eyes. "Yes, that is it." she said, "superia- tive gray eyes. Karl zlegler is obsessed by his work on the generals portrait, and, eating and some say sleeping-he is thinking about it. At dinner he is abstracted and eats without seeing his food. Sud denly he jumps up from the table strikes an attitude before his wife, and says: T think I paint him so- hands thrust into coat pockets. feet so, head little this way. What think you?"
 Studied Pose of Hands.
 After lively discussion the painter resumes an impersonal attack upon