The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-20
BETTER ART IN PARIS SALON
 THIS YEAR
Many Good American Pic lures Exhibited Show De-
 parture From Cubist Idea.
BY ALICE IlANGELIER. News Service Staff Co respondent.


 International News Service Staff Cor
 respondent.
 Paris, Nov. 20.-American exhibits at the Paris Autumn Salon are more numerous and perhaps more interest ing than those of former years. There seems to be a definite departure from the cubist and dada" traditions. The pictures are not puzzles this year. Landscapes and portraits have not been neglected, but nudes hold an im- portant place.
 MT. Robert Hostater, of Marysville, California, shows a striking nude called The Woman with the Blue Stockings" remarkable for its strength and fnely-Shaped head. An other. by Robert Johnson, a mother and child, is attracting a good deal of favorable comment. "The Sleeping Woman" a nude by Arthur Franck of Philadelphia, gives an unusual idea of sleeping, but the body is thick and heavy, as in another of his studies D ''The Woman with the Lemons" but one wonders what the lemons have to do with her.
 Water CoIors Shown.
 Will Hollingsworth, of Louisville, Ky, has a lovely series of water col ors much in the style of Whistler. J. Barry Greene, of New York and Eleanor Hay also exhibit some at tractive little essays in coloring.
 American landscapists include Ken meth Adams, from Topeka, Kansas with a view of Cassis and Bion Bar nett, of Jacksonville, with a Corsi- can scene. Elizabeth Dercum, of Philadelphia, has been painting the lovely River Loing and exhibits a view of picturesque Moret. Otis Dud- ley, of New York has some charm ing Brittany scenes.
 American artists are also to the fore in the still life and flower sec tionS with Bailey Foster, James But Ter and P. H. Bruce.
 ture section, but the bust of Mime S@, by Jo Davidson. the we'll known New York sculptor, is worth noticing. Cecil de BlaQuiere Howard, from Niagara. has five delightful -bronzes scattered here and there throughout the rooms.
 La Verge a rOffrande," the offer ing Virgin, an immense statue twen- ty feet in height dominates the great staircase It is the work of Emile Bourde1le, at the same time mystic and p<gan. The Virgin, of beautiful face, is offering her child to humanity as a promise of consolation. When finished in the stone, the monument will dominate great hilltop in AL sace.
 At the foot of the same stairway is a superb and expressive white bear, by Pompon, in glstening white stone This sculptor has sent a perfect men, agerie- of beasts, large and small.
 Many French Exhibits
 French artists have the bulk of ex- hibits, but Russian, Japanese and English are numerous The cele- brated Van Dongen. Dutchman. has an interesting Neptune" very decora- tive and colorful. With his many bead necklaces and earrings, his naked body and rose co1ored face one thinks of Hercules Of the Quat'z Arts.
 The canvas called "The Crystal 1oubtedly draws the largest crowd of Palace at Antwerp" by Favory un- curious onlookers- In a dimIy-lieht- ed cabaret the artist shows many half | clothed women playing with sailors 1 md soldiers in debauching scenes It | s full of movement and the vivid col 'rs Of Renoi-, but 1t is not as delight