Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-05
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Russ Art

| trade within Russia has brought from their
hiding places large number of paintings,
some attributed to famous artists. Among
! these are works by William Hogarth, Jean
Baptiste Greuze, Christian Dietrich, Rosa
dt TivoH and others, the Italian and Dutck
| predominating.
The prices these works are bringing are
ridiculously small, if they are genuine. A
| portrait of a woman attributed to Greuze
was sold to a foreign buyer for $3.50. 1t
| was originally owned by the Countess Sollo-
hub, who was stripped of her wealth and
! estate in the Povroskaya district and Inn
prisoned by the Bolsheviki She sold it for
a small sum to buy food
Paintings by well-known Russian artists
| in, some cases sell for the price Of pair
of Shoes Shikin landscape, placed in a
secondhand store by it's owner, brought
| four dollars.
| The New York Metropolitan Museum Of
Art has been offered within recent months a
number of paintings alleged formerly to
have been art treasures held in Russia, The
Associated Press reported yesterday. OFF,
Gals connected with the museums depart
| ment Of painting said that paintings offered
SO far had been inferior works of obscure
artists and none had been purchased.
The pictures were offered not through
art firms of standing, but through individuals J
in this city and elsewhere who had remarks
able tales to tell of how the masterpieces"
had come into their possession.
Art connoisseurs, however, were hopeful
that, with free trade no longer banned in
Russia, more genuine masterpieces and few
er fakes would make their appearance ON
this side of the Atlantic.
Genuine works of art Lave bobbed up
from time to time in various parts of the
world since the Russian revolution, when
their owners, once members of the nobility,
were forced by poverty to sell them. For the
most part, though, the aristocrats were
forced to flee so hastily that about the only
valuables they could carry with them were
precious stones.
Most of the art treasures freed to the nom
Soviet world, however, were carried out OF
the country by professional smugglers. Ac-
cording to A. ]. Sack, director of the Rus
sian Information bureau, representing forces
opposed to the Bolshevfki, looting of art
galleries in the past was confined chiefly to
private collections, but advices which he had
| received recently indicated that public mu-
seums were not being closely guarded.
Newspapers just received from Hardin re-
count discovery in PEASANTS hut in north
ern Russia of famous Rubens, once hung
in the Hermitage, tho Petrograd Louvre. 1t
was badly mutilated, having been used by
it's new owner for cleaning knives.
Air Gun Hero
Six-year-old Billy Myers, of Dormont, awoke
to look over his Christmas presents, heard
gun battle outside the house. caused by the
attempt of policemen to arrest two bandits,
picked up Christmas air gun and started
D.
One policeman lay dead in the street and
another was wounded, and so Billy's gun,
thrust from second story window of his
home, was the only one in action and he fired
BIB shot after shot at the fugitives. One of
the bandits seeing the lad working what APP
peared to be a rifle, fired two shots in that
direction, but the lad was untouched.
Whether little Billys shots struck the
burglars had not been ascertained, as the
men have not been captured, but Billy is sure
that he hit the men, because he saw them
stumble, turn around and shoot toward the
house
Billy was still shooting when his mother
dragged him away from the window,
Paris Landlords
Paris landlords say they are the most
abused persons in the world. They agreed
to this unanimously at mass meeting held
recently. They reported they are unable 70
collect rents from more than 10000 tenants
or to evict these improbable occupants.
All this is the fault of recent legislation.
say the landlords, giving tenants who were
immune from payment Of rent during the
war the right to find other quarters before
vacating. The landlords say that when they
try to sell their properties no bids are forth
coming because of the existing situation.
Presidents Greeting
President Harding in holiday greeting to
Martin L. Miller, II, oldest employee of the
that experience has taught him that there
is "even more happiness in some of our
humber pursuits than there is in assuming
responsibility in high places.
The greeting, received by Mr. Miller was
In response to one he had sent the president
few days ago.
Miller, a compositor, was one Of the em-
ployes Of the Star when Mr. Harding first
became connected with it in 1884.
Want Rajah
Money is being collected in the South In.
dian State of Pudukota to send delegation
to the rajah in London to beg Linn to return
to his subjects with his BABY son, recently
born in England. The rajah married Miss
Frink, Australian girl, several years ago,
and since then has chiefly lived abroad. At
first the white rance was popular favorite,
but bitter feeling is developing against
her, she being blamed for keeping him away
from his country.
Jap Scandal
Conflicting reports as to the illness of Em-
peror Yoshohito, of Japan, have reached of
fetal quarters at Toxic, but the most sensa-
tional is to the effect that the mikado re-
Gently attempted to commit suicide. He is
said to have been respondent over the fact
that the court physicians had declared he
would never regain his health.
Tobacco Figures
The department of agriculture has issued
special report on tobacco production in the
United States TO, the year 1921, which shows
that Georgia produced 100000 pounds, of a.
total value of S1974.000. The Georgia to-