The Washington herald., 1922-04-09
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The Soul of Paris" telling of ex-
periences OF his student life. He
explained the idea OF French home
life. which dominates France, so he
believes, more than any other coun-
try in the world. and is the secret
of the French appreciation of the
true values of life. and of their
great gift for art.
To The Herald representative Mr..
Edstrom said later that he had en-
joyed Washington exceedingly, that
although he came for only FIVE
weeks he had stayed nearly ave
months.
1T has been more like my art
student life In Paris" asserted Mr..
Edstrom, than anything have
ever experienced elsewhere. have
enjoyed my studio in the Art Center,
and the little cafes all about Wash
ington, and the spirit Of Mr.. NeliEh.s
work in its idealism."
Mr.. Edstrom added that he had
made several new compositions
which he hoped to exhibit before his
return to Los Angeles. where he is
planning to make his permanent
DIR. Birnle to Lecture.
The next meeting of the Art and
Archaeology League will be a lee
ture. My Journey to Mount Sinai in
Arabia and to Petra in Edom." by
the Rev. DIR. Douglas Putnam Birnie,
on Saturday. April Is, in the Cor
coran Auditorium. DIR. Birnie is one
of the few men who have made the
identical trip from Goshen to Mount
Sinai. following the exact route of
Moses in his wande-ings through
wilderness, as told in the Book of
Exodus. The public is invited to
this lecture.
Mr.. Bella Ormo. the Hungarian-
American artist whose symbolical
war pictures exhibited here earlier
proved such a sensation. is taking
studio here, as he has several
new commissions in Washington.
Mr.. Ormo's recent portraits, now
on exhibition at Veerhofrs. include
Bishop Shahan. rector OF the Cath
olic University: Mgr. Daugherty,
the vice rector: the late Bishop
Conaty, formerly rector there:
Bishop O'Connell of Richmond, and
several others of interest, among
them Miss Margaret Elise Payson.
recent debutante.
Devoted to Orient.
Art and Archaeology for April,
out this week. is an exceptionally
interesting number, devoted espe-
cially to the Orient. the leading ar
ticle being Sacred Cities of Cey-
lon," by Dudley Stuart Corlett, with
nineteen Illustrations: Christian
ity in Japanese Art" by Joseph
Dahlman, S. J.. and Byzantine Tex
tiles" by Roger Gilman and James
Bowler Gilman. An excellent re-
port on the Grant Memorial" is
by Miss Helen Wright. Of Wash
ington.
At the recent meeting Of the
Commission Of Fine Arts, the pre-
liminary design for the First Di-
vision Memorial. as authorized by
Congress, was considered; also a
revised model of the Alfred Noble
Memorial Fountain. designed by
Paul Bartlett. sculptor, and Glenn
Brown, architect, to be erected by
the American Society Of Civil En-
gineers in Rawlins Square, south
of the Interior Department.
A design for the monument to
Luigi Bartolucci-Dundas, at the
Arlington Cemetery. was approved.
The commission also approved
statue of Edmund Burke, by the
late J. Harvard Thomas. sculptor,
of London. The Sulgrave Institu-
tion proposes to give this Burke
statue to the United States, to be
erected here in Washington, at a
location not yet decided upon.
A model for the lamp post pro-
posed for the new Francis Scott
Key Bridge at Georgetown was in
spected