New Britain herald., 1930-05-08
Algerian Woman Painter Let Own Career
 Wait While Teaching Husband Her Art

young moderns each year has been answered in an astounding man. ner by an Algerian feminist who perhaps, can tell American women more Of real happiness than many of them are lucky enough to find.
 For ten years Niolette Megc. artist. stood behind her husband Michael BaXte, teaching him line color, effects. He became a dis tinguished painter, admired, laud. ed, copied That accomplished she picked up her palette and brushes where she had laid them down on marriage and her own canNasses are now to be seen for the first time in the Delphic Stu- cios in this city
 Perhaps because Niolette Mege IS essentially French, perhaps be- cause she is gifted with more in- sight into life than nose women have, her story has an impressive simplicity to 1t.
 There is time in a life to do many things she explained quiet. lN My husband found his great est happiness in being q painter. SO l taught him and worked with him for ten years. It made ,s both happy and l always knew perfectly well that there would b. time in the future for myself.
 There's No Jealousy
 Jealousy between husband anI "lfe?' she repeated the question. Tt IS not Tn the tradition Of Frenchwomen to be jealous of their husbands. Of course, a hus- hand is part Of oneself and what fruitful results come are shared IT family pride. Little French girls learn this in their cradles. Real happiness can only come to botu together.'
 The unusual angle to NioIetto Mege's attitude towards giving her husbands talent precedonco over her own is that she was fa. nous in her own country as Il feminist who fought hard. long battle against discrimination against women.
 Sixteen years ago the Algerian government discovered that the. prize entrant for the Beaux Art reward, an anonymous competi- hon, was a young woman This had never happened before, The prize was held up. Niolette Mege, winner, stepped 10 the fore and demanded the prize. She had won 1t fairly. l. should be hers, The award committee refused the ap- peal to reconsider its decision against woman. She appealed to the government Six months CT terrific fighting and the govern- men. decided that Niolette Meen had won the prize and no ons could deny lt 10 her.
 But stand for prlncIples vitil the outside world and within ones own home is always 3 different martnrs.' Miss Mege explaine l Convictions are valuable, but within the home only those thing are worth fighting for that make for emotional happiness for every one do not think that fnminis.n has changed the role Of 'wifehoo ). for that will always remain the more elemental and sympathetic relationship"
 Miss Nege's whole life is as TO- mantle as her unusual. successful. marriage. Born in Algiers. where nati:e women still go yelled anI the hot Sahara sands blow in dry and penetrating with fragrance, she inherited a double allegiance She is proud of being French woman. She is passionately fond ot Algeria. AS a child she saw romantic camel trains start their long trek across the desert. She drank in the prismatic sunlight of rose and blue tinted radiance, at nosphere unlike any coloring on the globe, She developed a gen ulne interest sympathy with the native peasants who are z mike l people Of Roman and Egyptian blood, with arts and industries closely linked with the civilization Before Christ
 To |. $. on Scholarship
 The BeauX Art reward that she fought for to get the first time, she won again for a second three period term. The last year Of this scholarship brought her to Amer ica Here she met Michael Baxte then eminent as a concert violin la- and composer but secretly crerishjns an overwhelming de -jre 10 paint, They were married and on their honeymoon in her native Alslers, he connded 10 her his ambition 10 paint There and later in New MeXlco where the wonderful steeped sunlight ap- proXlmates the coloring Of Algiers, she taught him his hearts desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy. ambition to teach
 
 Two years ago their mutual striv- irgs were rewarded with his being chosen one Of the two winners ln the Dudensing National Competi- tion for American Painters and now he is a permanent member CT the Dudensng Galleties.
 Niolette Mege considers her husband q great painter. He m turn, communicates romantic worship Of her in her dual role of teacher and wife.
 Her pictures bring to New York the radianty tinted sunlight and the romantic Arab figures of her own Algiers. They suggest to the onlooker the fragrance of the so.t winds blowing off the fig, date and olive groves along the Sahara.