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New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
1.-The London Times
On The Royal academy

The art critic of "Thc London Times"
comments as follows on the portraits
and sculpture in the Royal Academy:
No kind of painting is so much
dominated by commerce as portraits.
The portrait painter, more than any
other, has to produce what will please.
His customers do to some extent know
what they want; they want good
likeness which usually means pho
toeraphic likeness q little faetered,
making the men look moro interesting.
the women more charming. than they
appear to candid friend and the
painter must comply with this demand
if he is to succeed. The most success
full do so easily, because naturally.
Ihey share the tastes of the public;
tney nave few pleasant formulas which
they can adapt to any sitter, combin-.
Ing likeness easily recognizable with
interest or charm. They can make
the man look like a celebrity. or the
woman like an enchantress. even when
the material they have TO deal with
Is most unpromising; but of course
the result Is not a work of art, it does
not express the profound individual in
terest Of one human being in another.
The fashionable portrait is like
character in book-stall novel-you
know the type, which is imposed rather
than discovered, and, if you like it, it
ls because you like the expected.
In the portraits Of the Academy one
seldom sees anything unexpected,
though sometimes the artist has diff
hcuity IN fitting the type to the in
dlvldual, which is at least amusing.
There is, for instance, the portrait bv
Mr- Glyn Philpot of the present Lord
Chancellor in all his robes, painted
Tor the Honorable Society Of Gray's
Inn 'lSD. 1t is ceremonial portrait.
but the sitter does not lend himself
readily to ceremony. He looks an if he
were trying to get used to those robes
80 skilfuily painted and to all that
fney imply. It is one Of the most
amusing portraits in the exhibition
Sir William Orpen, in his portrait Of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

week. He will sing "In the Great Some
where" and "Killarney" "In the Great
Somewhere" is new composition bv
n. I. Bureigh. Mr. Hollinshcad will
sing it in public for the first time. and
John Mccormack has included it in his
repertoire for the coming season. Ethel
Best will sing new song by Sam Lewis
and Joseph Young, with music by Walter
Donaldson, "Upstairs and Down." a an
introduction to film feature of the
same name. Ralph H. Brigham and
Herbert Sisson will alternate in the
first movement Of Guilmant's "Third
Sonata" The orchestra, under the
direction of Carl Edouarde and Alois
Reiser, will play excerpts from Thonas's
"Mignon" as an overture.
The first of the "Ridgewood Recitals. !"
the name chosen for the series of con-
certs or recitals to be given next season
in the new high school chapel, under
the direction of E. B. Lilly, will be held
on Monday evening, October 20, and
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Mr.. Michael Wemyss of the Horse
1uards (22), is in no such difficulty.
1t is all easily, and, so far as it goes.
perfectly done. Sir William never al
lows popularity to make him paint
hastily or f1imsily. He does his best in
every portrait, and he has his own.
not very profound. sense of character
HIS people all seem to belong to
pleasant, successful world, little
skeptlcal of itself and of the universe.
Mr.. Ewes, on the other hand, has pro
duced an unexpected likeness of Mr..
Justice Darling GS), not at all the Mr..
Justice Darling of the newspapers. but
much more serious. 1t is solidly
painted portrait, even little heavy in
its handling, but one of the best in the
exhibition.
Sir John Lavery also is at his best
IN ms portrait of the Marques of
Londonderry Co., he always paints
men better than women. One does
not look to him for subtlety or preci-
sion Of execution, but here there is
something more than formula. The
individual is firmly grasped; we feel
that We have real person before us.
seen rather summarily and a little
over-emphasized, but still really seen
and vividly presented. Mr.. J. J. Shan
non gives us one of his ordinary, f1;msv
portraits in his Mrs. GEORGE Dance
(132). He is the modern Romncy. but
without Romney's occasional passion
and constant remembrance of finer
art than his own. In his picture of
Miss Marie Lohr as Lady Babbie in
The Little Minister" (224) there is
real accomplishment, even a kind of
inspiration, but at the mercy of com
monplacc sentiment. Everything. even
the heather, is of the stage; and the |
stage is fatal to a picture, unless it is
treated cynically. Needless to saw. Mr.
Shannon does not treat it cynicallv.
Mr.. Charles Shannon has two NOR
traits of ladies; the one called n
Lady in Black" (54) recalling Ros-
settl IN It's intensity. But here the in
tenslty does seem to be natural to
the sitter and not imposed on her by
the artist. 1t is a pity that he has les
sencd the effect by a mirror with its
unnecessary reflection. The mirror is !
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
"A George Wasliingtons
I'm the American Armv

Two Woodrow Wilson's are in France
at the present time-one very big man
and the other unknown to fame. One
is President of the United States. the
other private in the army of Uncle
Sam. The doings of the first are scat
tered broadcast in the newspapers OF
the world, the other appears on a small
white card in the central records Office
of the American Expeditionary Forces
at Bourges as:
Wilson. Woodrow, Priv, A. S, No
2559201; trsfd. B. II. 81; 12-14-1a.
The numerals mean that Private
Woodrow Wilson was transferred to
Base Hospital No. 81 on December 81.
and in all probability he is still there
performing the little duties falling 10
the lot OF a soldier in the ranks.
Other celebrities are IA George Wash
ingtons, 70 Robert T. Lees, Ulysses
S. Grants and 2 Abraham Lincolns
There are also II Caesars and Bis
marcks.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
NEWS AND NOTES OF THE ART WORLD
though they are shy of high h.,
names. 0"

though they are shy of high brow,
names.
'"They like the folk music n.r.,.
larly because it has story ara
fleets the spirit of the people thev ~ ~
fought whit would interest vou -
see how enthralled they will hecom. y. "
listening to those tunes and - =,
Southern negro songs, of which thas s
never tire.
I'VE were up in Alsace and I.orr.,.
and all along the front from Sent.,
Der 13 till March. and had verv :.
narkable time. We sometimes
three concerts a day before the A.
gonne fight, but eventually found th,t
one every night was as much SO -.
could do and keep we'll.
Travelling conditions were NOT r
good, but one got about USUALLY hv ~.
grace of the Lord and a motor trr..
Once we had a camionette of .our or,,,
for two weeks, but it was finally =.
near ulSSoiutlon that we were warned
To desist or take the fatal conso.
quences.
Then we had 'fliNver.' which ws.
'commandeered' or 'salvaged' bv ii.
army-and finally we travelled, usua,,v
by ambulance and truck, till after III.
armistice was signed Then the Ian.
gushing limousine made its appear.
ance and we went around in very nam
pered fashion.
Our headquarters were at Nancy
Toul and little towns further north
Luxembourg and good old Metz were
invaded and Belgium along the edges
"a try to tell you something of our
impression of things up in the north
when we were just four kilometre.
back Of the French lines and tha
Boches came over every clear night
But so much has been said and written
by gifted folk who have been in tho
thick of it so much longer that our
small contribution to the entertain
ment of the immortal doughboy seems
a very slight thing.
But it was most inspiring and still
is delight"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

every type, tanks, airplanes and OBJ
servation balloons, burning ruins, shat
tered trees, observation post, rider
less horses, and all the turmoil
of the battlefield. Captain Weirter is
an officer in the London Scottish and
had served in the army before the war.
A feature of special interest, kind
of exhibition Within an exhibition, will
be provided by some eighty small
paintings of horse subjects, executed
by A. J. Munnings, who was attached
to the Canadian Cavalry Division, and
A. Talmage, who spent some months
with the Veterinary Corps.
Munnings and Talmage are said to
be the best horse painters in England
They are good sportsmen and fine
horsemen, although Munnings has only
one eye and Talmage has lost the use
of his left arm. In each case the in
trinity is due to an accident in the
hunting field, but in neither case does
it interfere with the exercise of their
profession.
Among the art objects in the cxhibi-
tlon nothing excited more curiosity
and comment in London last winter
than bronze relief by Captain Der
went Wood, A. R. A., representing
Canadian sergeant crucihed to g. barn
door and surrounded by group Of
jeering Huns. The fame of this group
has spread to Germany, where official
dom denied that this infamous outrage
ever took place.
The Canadian war records are how
ever, in possession of convincing
evidence in the shape of sworn
statements by Corporal Metcalfe, V. G.,
M. NJ, an American, who served with
rare distinction in the Canadian ranks,
Private l.. Vivian, Of the Sd Middlesex
and others who have seen the Cam
adian soldier crucified to a barn door
with bayonets. But as it proved i'm
possible to establish TIE identity of
the victim, and as the different sworn
statements varied in some minor de-
tails, the Canadian war records, anx-
ious to be just and fair even to an un-
scrupulous enemy. have decided to
withdraw the relief from the forth
coming exhibition. Any one particu-
larly interested in the bronze as
work Of art may have a private view
Of it by special request at the gal
leries
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Canadian Exhibition
VIII Open Nert Tuesday

The Canadian War Memorials Exhi-
bition, which will open at the Ander-
son Galleries on June 10, deals with
every phase of Canadas share in the
war and with every branch of the serv-
The whole consignment represents
only about one-third of the paintings
which eventually will be housed in a
special Memorial Gallery in Ottawa.
There will be more than sixty cam
vases, ranging from l2 feet to 40 feet
dreds of smaller paintings smaller, yet
large when compared with the average
exhibition picture. When the collcc-
tion is completed it will comprise acres
of painted canvas. Many of the artists
employed were urged by patriotism
and enthusiasm to accept Merely nom
inal pay to cover the expenses Of ma
terial and studio rent. The, portion
now in New York has been valued at
over half million dollars.
The paintings differ from the gem
eral run of war pictures, in so far as
they are for the most part the work
OF soldier artists who have set down
their personal experience. Wyndham
Lewis was for three years lieutenant
in the field artillery. w. Roberts
served for three and half years as a
gunner until his services were com
mandeered for record work j. NJ.
Turnbuil was one OF the most daring
air fighters in the British army. w.
c. r. Nevinson served as a motor
driver in the early stage of the war.
Indeed, most of the artists represented
have seen actual service, and have
therefore reproduced actual expert
ences on their canvases.
Captain Louis Weirter's grand pano-
rama of the Battle of Courcelette is
probably among the first important
battle pictures painted by an eyewit-
ness who had actually taken part in
the fighting and was thus able to put
his personal experience onto canvas.
The picture may be described as an
epitome OF modern warfare. 1t is a
panorama showing the attacking lines
OF infantry guns, bursting shells of !
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denly the influence of Mestrovic, but,
though it catches the eye amid much
dulness, it is but a clever echo Mr.. P
&c kerckhove's portrait of MIR. Walter
Winans G,516) is amusing in it's swag-
ger, but the large equestrian statue,
outside, of the King Of the Belgians, by
Mr.. Winans and Mr. A. ]. Leslie O,674).
is more large than simpressive. There
is a strange incongruity between the
circus liveliness Of the horse and the
wooden rigidity of the figure. Mr. Der
went Woods bronze statue Psyche"
I,64S) is accomplished and delicate in
its modelling, and Mr. N. A. Trent's
marble bust, "Une Bretonne" G,57D,
IS really pretty; but English sculpture
has not yet become serious art.
In the architecture room there are
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

scarves are a feature Of the exhibition
One exceedingly skilful piece of work
manship is blue scarf upon which
a perfect butterfly of gigantic size is
designed iii contrasting buff.
The work of students of the Neigh-
borhood Art School Of Greenwich
House will be on exhibition at the
Whitney Studio Club, lat West Fourth
Street, until June 16.
Another exhibition of old English
sporting prints opened last week, this
time at Ehrich's Print Gallery. The
pictures cover various phases of sport
ing life. Six coaching incidents, en-
,graved by J. Harris, after C. C. Hen
derson, are "Stuck Fast" "Knee Deep"
FLOODED" "The Road Versus Rail"
"1n Time for the Coach" "Late for the
Mail" These are only few of MANY
scenes depicting the coaching life of
the period.
"A set OF SIX prints engraved by G..
Hunt, after J. Pollard, show Incidents
OF the Epson races. Then there are
views of the Heaton Park races, the
Doncaster race for the Great St. Leper
Stakes, and the EPSON race for the
Derby of 1886. Steeplechasing is also
we'll represented
Other sports include "The Cricket
Match set of four prints showing
Pheasant Shooting" ""Cock Shooting"
Refreshing" and "Going Home"
set of six Cock Fighting" scenes.
drawn and engraved by N. Fielding, and
Hawking" engraved by T. Norris.
Fencing Match between Mile. do
beaumont and M. do st. George" and
Boxing Match between Richard Hum
phreys and Daniel Mendoza," a very
rare print of Masscn, the tennis plaver.
IN 1853, and number Of prize winning
horses complete the collection.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

ward VII, painted in 1909, is merely
ceremonial picture like hundred
others, robes and little else, but all
very carefully done. Mr.. Clausen has
one portrait 1860, but is better seen
in his landscape and flower piece. Mr..
Fiddes Watt (229) has made Mr.. Bal
four look like an eminent physician.
according to the popular idea of such
people. The man is lost in the pro-
fcsson, which is not even his own.
Mr.. Richard Jacks portrait of a ladv.
called Amber and Blue" (239), is
pleasant enough, but with more pic
turesqueness than character. Alto
gether the portraits at the Academy
make one feel, as usual, that the world
of rank and fashion and celebrity is
not very real one.
AS for the sculpture, there is little
to say about it. Of the few de-
signs for war materials, that by
Miss Margaret Winser Q,49l) is
the best. 1t has nothing of this
war or Of England about it, but
there is some majesty and vigor and
freshness Of execution in the figure.
In Sir w. Goscombe Johns sketch
model for the war memorial at Port
Sunlight G,499) the realistic figures
look as If they were trcspassing pro-
fanely on the architecture; but one
may hope that in tho memorial itself
they will be moro subdued to their
surroundings. Mr.. John Tweed's soldier.
callod "Thc Attack" (1,5S5), Is alive.
yet proud and simple. There Ia no
dull realism, yet 1t Is an English SOL
der In battle. In fact, II Is sculpture
and not an imitation Of a model. Mr..
George Minne's bronze "Head Of
Man" O,b9O Ia also real sculpture.
and 80 is M. Maurice Favre's head Of
Anatole France N,61D, u work that
might almost be set beside Houdin's
"Voltaire," In "Ths Refugses,"a relief
BY Nj. w. Mcmillan l1.6s7). we 800 sud.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Young Violin;st Tells OF
Her Experiences as q
Y. M. C.. Il. Worke,

A letter giving some hint of the
musical tastes and possibilities of the
American army in France was recentlv
received from Miss Edith Rubel. for
merly of the Edith Rubel Trio. Miss
Rupel is at present engaged in Y. NJ.
Z. A. work in France. The letter fol-
lows, in part:
"Another blessed old (verv old)
tribune came into my starved young
life the other day, and you must ex
cuse me II seem TO rave, but I've had
the best time that I'vc had since we
joined the army-sreal.ing from the
standpoint of pure intellectual enjov
ment, of course, which is about the
only important lack in a soldiers life.
There is much in the way of in
splratlon, emotion, sentiment, in the
work we have been trying to do-one's
audiences are simply bursting with
'pep'-but one cannot but regret that
they are so unalterably devoted to such
banallties as The Palms and Raff's
'Cavatina, the poor dears.
They fairly eat 'em up So far I
have escaped perpetrating The Palms.
though l strongly suspect myself of
being the only fiddler in captivity. GER
tainly in the A. f. F., who has been
thus blessed. On lie other hand we
make them listen to Handel, Beetho-
ven, Mozart and Schumann, by the
simple device of not telling them till
afterward who the composers are. And
they like the things tremendously,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Current Exhibitions

Academy Art Shop 53 West Fifty-seventh SeetBatik show
Anderson Gaees-Canadan Memorial beginning June 10
Art Alliance of America Galleries. Fortyseventh StreetFo
egn handicraft exhibition
Dudensng GaeresPaintings Bukn to
June IA. '' ~
Enrich Print Gaery-Exhibiton Of English prints
roler Club AZ East Sixieth
June ="
hennedy q Co.. GLIB Fifth ADMINISTRATION
through juno. f'
Ocn York flag pictures by Chide
Hassam; through june
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

hardly "artstic," but the portrait is
real. His other portrait, Lady in a
Wolverine Cape" (75), is charming
exercise in the manner of Rubens; it
is like pretty copy Of Latin verses
by very good scholar. But Mr.. Shan
non is at least always a good scholar;
the great art of the past does ex-
list for him; he is not vulgarian new
born into q world Of vulgarity.
Sir Arthur Copc's portrait of the
Hon. Oswald Partington (1o0) looks
like a good likeness, and is painted
without any prctence; Mr. George
Henry in his portrait Of Lady Weir I0)
is more rigid and summary than ever.
He seems to impose a formula on his
sitters by word Of command. Sir Ed
ward Poynters portrait Of King Ed
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Random, Impressions
In Current Exhibitions

The exhibition of paintings and water
colors by W. S. Bucklin at the Duden-
sing Galleries is we'll worth a visit.
Mr.. Bucklin, now in his seventies. has
specialized in tree painting. Nature
lovers and woodsmen, looking at his
work, can Immediately recognize the
kind of trees portrayed. His canvases
possess, to a delightful degree, the
quality of sunniness; his tender, virile.
winey foliage Gas the season may be).
even the boles and twigs of his trees.
convey the thought of sun and nutriment
perfectly assimilated; there is charm
Ing individuality all the way through
In his elms, and oaks and birches, his
willows and his evergreens. The little
forest brooks and pools he paints arc
remarkable for their translucence; his
perspective is excellent and his sky Is
always the sky of the chosen season.
"Midsummer," Autumn" "Novem-
Der Woods" Sunset, Late Autumn"
"Willows IN the Meadows" Spring"
and moonlight" arc among tho most
attractive pictures in tho exhibition.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Music Notes

H. R. Humphries, who for thirty
years has been conductor of the Banks
Glee Club, celebrated two Sundays ago
his coming to America by singing at
Trinity Church the solos and anthems
by Sir Arthur Sullivan. Mr.. Hum
phries, who is now seventy-three
years old, on arriving in America
obtained his first engagement as tenor
soloist in Trinity Church. For him to
be singing solos in the came church
half century later is surely an un-
usual attainmAnt
Redferne Holinshead, Canadian tenor,
will appear at the Strand Theatre this
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

some beautiful drawings by Mr.. Baker
of the buildings at Delhi and fine
model for a memorial church by Sir
Edwin Lutyens. We wish that more
models of buildings could be shown.
1t is difficult to discover merit in the
crowded watercolor room, but S44, SAG,
1858, 701 and 763 have it.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Mr.. Lilly has been successful in secur-
ing the appearance on this occasion of
Albert Spaulding, American violinist.
The plan followed by the Boston
Symphony, New York Philharmonic and
other organizations of priority selections
OF seats with privilege of renewal from
year to year, will be adopted for the
Ridgewood recitals. Students NAV sub
scribe for seats through their teachers
at slightly reduced rate. Other artists
who are now being negotiated for are
helnald Werrenrath, Beno Moisewitch.
Florence Hinkle and the Elshuco Trio.
Lieut.. John Philip Sousa has en-
gagged two vocal soloists for the forth
coming transcontnental tour of his
band They are Miss May Stone.
formerly soprano with the Boston
Opera Company and Miss Mary Baker.
a coloratura soprano. A number Of
important instrumental soloists have
also been engaged to add diversity to
the programme. Louis p Fritze,
formerly flute soloist with the Phila
delphia orchestra, will occupy that
position under Lieut.. Sousa's direction.
Frank Simon, cornetist, and H. Benne
Henton, saxaphonist, and Joseph
Green, who has achieved a great deal
OF popularity as a xylophone playor
with one Of the prominent phonograph
companies, will also travel with the
band.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

At recent meeting of the board of
managers Of the Music School Settle
ment resolution was passed asking
Mr. Melzar Chafee to be director of
the school for the coming winter.
Mr.. Chaffee studied in Dresden az
the Royal Conservatory of Music and
IN Berlin under Anton Vitek. concert
master of the Berlin Philharmonic Or
chestra and recently in the same posi-
ton with the Boston Symphony. In
Berlin he continued composition work
and did ensemble playing under the
direction of Anton Hekking, the cele-
brated 'cellist. Later he studied with
CODY Eberhardt and worked with him
as assistant teacher Mr.. Chatfee has
been on the faculty of the Music
School Settlement for nine years, part
OF that time as head of the violin de-
partment. lie is also head of the
violin department at the Union Settle
ment and a member of the faculty. at
Bronx House
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Decorative paintings by Carlton T.
Chapman arc now on view at the
Powell Art Galleries. e88 Sixth Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Being a yachtman, the painter has de-
voted himself largely to marine paint
ing. He is particularly successful in
his suggestion of the movement of
water. Most of the pictures show
various types of vessels, from the ro-
mantle looking crafts of bygone day,
to the trim yachts of the present time.
But just to show that he is not a
single-track artist, Mr.. Chapman has
included in the exhibitor two autumn
landscapes that are a veritable orgy
of glinting sunlight and gorgeously
tinted leaves.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Many charming specimens of Batik
work are on view at the Academy Art
Shop. The work is by Alionka Karacs
and Mr.. Refs, and brilliantly colored
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FIRST WILL ACCEPTED


The will case of the late w. T.
Fitzpatrick was heard by County
Judge Senff last week and the first
viii was accepted for probate. Four
wills were offered, but the judge
ruled that the first was the only one
that was made prior to the time the
late Mr.. Fitzpatrick was adjudged
of unsound mind, and therefore was
the one that should stand. The case
is attracting wide interest as about
$l50,000 is involved. 1t is understood
the case viii be appealed to Circuit