The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-30

Buenos Aires, Aug. 2s-(by maiD.
Down here in the Argentine they
remember the Sabbath day and keep
it wholly for pleasure. In the early
morning it is true the women go to
mass but the masses go to make
merry in the public places. 1t is
smart to drive or motor every fine
Sunday morning at Palermo, the big
city park of Buenos Aires. Then home
for an elaborate luncheon of many
courses which is called breakfast here
In the afternoon to dash Off to the
races or a boxing match is the racy
or striking thing to do topped off with
a cup of tea and a dance or two at the
Plaza. After late and lengthy dln-
ner there is always grand opera or the
theater. So endeth the day OF rest
No wonder some of the papers are
too exhausted to get out a Monday
edition and the art museum hasn't the
strength to open its doors. When you
do pry your way into the museum on
Tuesday, however, you feel there IS
not much loss to art by its Monday
closing.
At present there is a modernist eX-
hibition of the works of Tito Cittadlnl
in an annex of the museum New
York, 1 am sure, would go quite mad
about Tito. Most anyone would nave
to to appreciate him.
One tasty little bit of his conserva-
lively dubbed "A Study seems a hec-
tic and sanguinary portrayal or an IN
famed tonsil. Several small can
vases, however. of sea and rocks IN
lance. strangely like what they are IN
tended for.
Art may be long but Buenos Aires
isn't exactly long on art. mat is ART
as confined to painting.
Alphabetically Buenos Aires ranks
well and as to it's monuments ana
groups of statuary, they put those
sculped monstrositieS in most OF our
North American cities, especially New
York, to shame. To be sure, like
everything else in Buenos aires
whether it be to eat, to drink or to
wear the sculptured art is imported,
but even so good taste has been shown
in it's selection.
The numerous imposing and beauti-
full monuments commemorative of his
torical events and Argentine heroes
and the many rarely lovely marble
nudes in the parks. unspoiled by the
bath towel draperies of our SNUG
North American ultra-squeamishnes
will undoubtedly do much to stimuf$te
the native art to higher level in the
coming generation.
The Aveneda de Mayo, so startlingly
like a Partisan boulevard, is thanked
at one end by the beautiful and stately
capitol and at the other by the preSi-
Dental palace. An atrocious coat of
old rose paint has earned for this lat
ter edifice the name of Rose Palace.
It's more fitting sobriquet would be
the pink Palace for Pale Presidents"
Just adjacent, the cathedral in the i'm
pressive style of an old Greek. tenn
pie, is also hopelessly ruined by coat
of dreadnaught grey. Just why this
laundering after the paint pots is be-
yond me.
At the shrine of musical art the
elegant Colon theater, where grand
opera is adequately and artistically
presented, all Buenos Aires nightly
does devotion.
Here the Argentine woman comes
into her own and in exquisite evening
attire she sits for the nonce in
regal equality with her lord and hus-
band. Not only to the strains of Leon
cavallo, Puccini and Strauss does the
pulse of the Argentine respond. He
sways as rapturously to the syncopa-
ton of North American ragtime as it