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Calendar of Exhibitions

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seren-
teenth street and NcO York dpeline.
Permanent collection. washington
and His Official Family" special Btcen-
tenriaL erHibit on March to Nooe1n-
ber Paintings by S. Bartts Baker,
March 1 to AprI 3. Special exhibition
OF Water ColorS, Etch5ngS and Drnu-
inas bu Clifford Beul, March IA to
April ).
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, I60o
THerty-jt-st street. Permanent cottec-
tion 70 tn raccRt acquisition and group
Of pciRt.rgS by Washington artists.
Spscat era bition OF paintings hg
Robert Spencer, april and May. Paint
mos bg Helen SelreH johnson, April
to 80.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth
aud B Constitution apeRne) streets
northwest BiccntcrniGl Exhibition,
March 26 to Ncpefnber.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Tenth
and B streets southwest. Etchtngs 6y
Eugene Higgins Of Ne9 York, March ~
to April "a.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. T,oelfth
and streets southwest. Permanent
collection.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Print DiUi-
Sioa, First street bettccen East Capitol
ard 5 streets southeast. Permanent
collect on.
ARTS Club OF WASHINGTON, 20f7
street northwest. Water Coiors OF birds
by r Bruce Horsfdit; OIL Paintings by
Helen Tcgasend March 27 to April TO-
TEXTILE MUSEUM, 1880 s street north
nest Rugs, tapestries and other ter
tiles OF the Near and Far East. Open
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2
to O'Clock Admission By card obtain
able at the Office OF G.. Fl. Myers, 730
Fifteenth street northwest.
GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY,
Connecticut dreruc and De Sales street.
An erIsibitioR Of Bicentennidi Portraits
OF Washington and other historic per
S0nages.
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO, 1106 Con-
nect;cut dpenue. Special exhibition OF
Contemporary American Oil Paintings.
Etchings by Philip Gidders OF Neto
York. Autographs By Joseph PenneH,
April to 50.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY OF
ART, Sirth street and HolGdrd place.
Erfiibit on OF Paintings of the Sea and
Water Fronts, circulated By the College
Art Association, March II to April 4.
VENABLES. 1899 H street. PaStels bg
Grace McKinstry; Miniatures By Mar
gdret Stottlem eyer.
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the Corcoran Gallerys catalogue, an original
portrait in crayon with an engraved plate and
IL Impressions would be delivered to the sub
scriber" for the moderate price Of $25 for
gentlemen and $35 for ladies. The portrait
without engraving might be had fer S. OBJ
viously, women more difhcult to portray
than gentlemen It has always been So The
Library of Congress also owns an original bill
from st. Mernin to MRS. President for
. likeness i'm chalk and plate engraved and II
impuessiens-$25.8a, SO other impressions, $3.50
total, $2950 Here we have the forerunner
Of the Photographic portrait But how much
more interesting and personal these are; hew
cleverly the artist recognized individuaities and
set them forth!
And what distinguished assembage of Ia
dies and gentlemen have here Among the
many men whose portraits St. Menin en-
graved four Presidents Of the United
States-W Washington, Jefferson, Madison and
William Henry Harrison. Here are Stephen
Decatur and Gen. Van Ness, DR.. Thornton,
George Washington Parke Custis. st. Memin
himself, Aaron Burr and his lovely daughter
Theodosia Gov. Winthrop Sargent and his
pretty wife.
As but few Of these portraits were made for
public use st. Memin- placed no names on
the plates, but wrote them with his own hand
underneath the portraits owned by the Cor
coran Gallery of Art. OF every plate engraved
he kept two copies, making two complete col
lections, beth of which, strangely enough, even-
tually came to this country-one to the Cor
coran Gallery Of Art. The Corcoran Gallery
owns also one or two examples of the portraits
in crayon On pink paper. It would be glad
to increase the number Of these, and 1t is
hoped that those who own original st. Menu
ins will see to it that they eventually go to
art museums or other public collections where
they will be property cared for and exhibited.
IN O recent article in the Harvard Bulletin
] entitled, In Search of Beauty" z. Chpston
Sturgis has written most appreciatiyeiy of the
development Of Washington as follows
ut Is fortunate for this country that sound
advice from competent artists has controlled
the development of Washington We have the
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backbone of the great design of B'Enfant, the
Capitol the White House and the great ave-
nuesE We have the happy accident of the
Washington Monument one of the most beail-
tifui things in Washington. We have recev-
cred the superb idea of the Mall placed the
Lincoln Monument at the end, and are now
terminating this composition with the superb
bridge over the Potomac and the fine water
gate and boulevard to Rock Creek Park. The
new buildings along the Mall are going up in
harmony with the classic dignity of the Older
work. The monstrosities executed in the 80s
and 70s, like State and Navy, are to be stripped
of their tavdry pseudo Roman ceat of many
orders and clothed in q dignified way to match
the Treasury. We may well be thankful IN
;hese days of architectural unrest and de-
bauehery that our architects who respan-
sible for guiding the development of Washing
ton have remained quiet and sober. No one
walk from the Monument to the Lincoln
Memorial without being impressed by its beau
ty. will that dream of beauty be dispelled
when one passes around it and goes down
the great flight of steps which is the Water
Gate. Neither in Paris in Berlin VILE
the newer architecture has found its true-t
expression will you find anything comparable
to this. Even London, the center of conserva-
tive England, is forgetting it's honorable archi-
tectural tradition and doing work which is
ugly and wholly unworthy of its past
In view of the exhibition of Washington
plans at the National Museum and the pro-
posed conference on the further development
of Washington to be held here the latter part
of April, this quotation seems peculiarly timely.
THE double exhibition at the Arts Club, of
paintings by Helen Townsend and water
colors by R. Bruce Horsfall, which opened
March 27 to remain until April g. should prove
of mere than. ordinary interest to Washing
tenians, as bath exhibitors local artists.
Miss Townsend, who studied at the Fontaine
bieau School Of Fine Arts In France and un-
der Despujols, Strauss and Ballande, Is now
am instructor in art at the NIaefariand Junior
High School in this city. She Is q member Of
the Society of Washington Artists and of the
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this time when attention Is being
focused. through the celebration
4 of the Washington Bicentennial,
on the early days of our Republic
and those who were prominent fig
ures at that time. is the collection Of nearly
SOC portraits engraved by st. Memin which
the Corcoran Gallery of Art has long owned
and recently has made accessible to all through
exhibition. Heretofore these little portraits
have been in album which those especially
interested might consult IN the library OF tne
gallery, but now they spread out In cases
in the small southeast gallery on the first
floor. and an excellent little catalogue, with in
formative introduction, has been prepared and
printed.
- Charles Balthazar Julian Fevret de Saint
Memin was born in Paris in ITO OF noble
family He was an officer of the French GUARDS
attached to the Court of Louis XVI, an anna
teur artist with an aptitude for mechanics
At the time of the Revolution he and his fam
lily fed to America, purposing to establish
themselves IN Santo Domingo, where his mother
possessed large estates. But about then
revolt took place in that province and, happily
for US. he remained here for some years Be
ing extremely impoverished, penniless in a
strange land, he turned to art for a livelihood
and being familiar with the new method Of
pertraiture which had recently come into vogue
in France, employed it to advantage here.
Some time before St Memn left France,
Giles Louis Chretien invented the physiogno-
trace. by means of which instrument he could
accurately trace a life-sze portrait which he
then engraved st. Memin knew nothing
about engraving, but with the help Of an en-
cyclopedis mastered the art to q sufficient de-
gree to produce these charming little portraits.
Having obtained the outline of his portrait he
reduced it with pantograph, another mechan-
ical instrument. to small oval about two
inches in diameter. The shadows on the cop
per plate were made with little tool Of his
own invention-thus mechanical skill and art
met to contrive excellent result.
For two years fellow exile, NJ Walnut was
associated with St. Memin in his portrait
making, and during that time the heads en-
graved bore the names Of both. Then Walnut
returned to France and st. Memin's name
alone IS found on subsequent prints
St Memin worked first in New York, then
in Philadelphia, in Baltimc.e, Washington,
Richmond Norfolk and ChaI lestol. In 1910
he is said TO have returned to France for two
years. Then for three years he was in this
country but on the downfall of Napoleon he
returned to France to re- lain permanently,
and in 1877 Louis XVIII appointed him cura-
tor of the Museum of Dijofi, France, which
position he filed until his death in 1882 at
the age of az years
In something like Il years he produced in
this country over SOC portraits These were
sold at an extremely moderate price Accord
ing to original advertisements now in the col
lection of the Library of Congress, reprinted In
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F outstanding interest, especially Mt
this time, when attention Is being
focused, through the celebration
of the Washington Bicentennial,
on the early days Of our Republic
and those who were prominent fig
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The Washington times., 1932-02-04

: III
The Washington times., 1932-02-04
TAX HEIDI
A NECESSITY

The new tax increase must con-
tain excise or sales taxes to make
up from one-half to two-thirds of
the amount needed in the budget.
balancing campaign. Representa-.
tive Crisp CD of Georgia, acting
chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee, estimated
today.
With the committee tentatively
planning to raise about 5000, ,O0O,-
900 in additional taxes, the ex-
cess levieS would range from
$3.50, 900, 900 to $500, 200, 900.
Shrinkage in incomes has
forced the committee to change
its plans in making up new tax
levies. Despite proposed radical
increases in the tax on big in
comes, the taxes raised will fall
far short of meeting the govern.
ment's needs.
Congress will do it's share to
meet the situation by drastic.
economy, Crisp said.
The Washington times., 1932-02-04
BRITISH DIVERS
! FIND SUNKEN
SUBMARINE

PORTLAND, EVO NSHIRE,
England, Feb. 4 0N.S0.-Naval
officials were to decide today
whether they would Immediately
raise the steel hulk of the British
submarine M2, discovered 5.8
miles off Portland Bill eight and
q half days after it took so men
to death.
With added tragedy. the M-2
wa found within a quarter of
mile of the area searched by
divers a few hours after the ship
was lost. 1t lay under 100 feet
Of water among many old wrecks.
Divers had not determined the
cause of the tragedy, but 1T
was likely the submarine may
have struck one of the wrecks.
A sea calm for the first time
since the submarine disappeared
made its discovery possible.
Lighters have been ordered out,
but officials mag postpone for
some time the actual raising Of
the sunken tomb.
The dead included seven Off
GERS and So members of the crew.
The Washington times., 1932-02-04
PONSELLE
STIRS ACCLAIM

Perhaps the most interesting of
the series of Mayflower musicales
and the last-was that given
yesterday by Rosa Ponselle,
American prima donna, and
Mario Basiola, Metropolitan
Opera baritone.
Miss Ponselle, as always, was
lovely, reaching the pinnacle Of
her performance in 20 Divina
Afrodite," from Romani's opera,
"Fedra."
Mr.. BaSilio possesses a rich,
vibrant baritone. His greatest
achievement was the prologue
from "Pagliacci."
The Washington times., 1932-02-04
She's Fond of Jail, So
Court DisappOints
Her

Because jail was no punish
ment to her, Judge j. Chew
Sheriff, of the Hyattsville sPo-
lice Court, dismissed a charge
of being drunk and disorderly
brought against Alice Dent,
colored, Of Hyattsville.
Judge Sheriff recalled that
the last time Alice had come be-
fore him she said she would
just as leave be in the Upper
Marlboro jail as anywhere
else"
He warned her, however. to
avoid being brought into court
again.
The Washington times., 1932-02-04
DR.. Mckinley Speaks Drama Tournament
To RncteriOLO0is Entry Date Advanced
international Photo

Five additional days will be ex-
tended to drama clubs and
groups in the District of Colum-
bia and in nearby Maryland and
Virginia, for entrance in the 1882
one-act play tournament spon-
sored by the Community Center
Department, with the cooperation
of the Drama Guild Of Washing
ton. Entries were to have closed
Friday. The dates of the tourna-
ment are February 27 to March
Is,
The Washington times., 1932-02-04

DR.. Earl B. Mckinley, dean OF
George Washington University
Medical School, will speak at the
meeting of the washington
Branch of the Society of Amer
ican Psychologists at 8 p. m,
next Tuesday, on "The Etiology
of Leprosy.' Other speakers will
include DR.. Edward Francis, Ma
tional Institute of Health, and DR..
w. C. Frazier, Bureau of Dairy
Industry.
The Washington times., 1932-02-04
DiUOrce Demanded
BU Mother of -Four

Charging desertion, Maie B.
McInnis, of Silver Spring, has
filed suit in the Circuit Court at
Rockville, fo an absolute divorce
from James L. McInnis, of Latta,
S. C. The McInnises were mar
ried at Columbia, S. c.. October
%, 1918 and have four children.
The Washington times., 1932-02-04
-Four Corners Ladies
Plan Benefit Supper

The recently organized Ladies'
Aid Of the Four Corners Meth
cdiSt Episcopal Church will give
its first money-raising affair when
it will sponsor an oyster supper
in the Masonic Temple at. Sill
yer Spring on Tuesday, Febru-
ary 8.
The Washington times., 1932-02-04

Your rental worries . . room, house
or apartment can be solved today
through the Rental Columns Of the
Classified Section,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

The sixth annual report of the Pearl Street Community-N -Neighbor- hood house for the year ending June 5, 1891 was released this morning and shows encouraging activity and growth of 1891 sur passing that of the previous year.
 The work of this community center is an organized effort to meet a need revealed by National Urban league survey in 1924. It aims to promote the social and moral welfare of the colored people of Waterbury, and the people of Pearl Street community. This in- cludes enlarging economic oppor- tunity, improving living conditions, and making available to the com munity constructive, character. building activities which help to prepare them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship.
 The recreational program featur- ed basketball, bowling, volleyball, roller skating. touch football, wrestling, tumbling, tennis, indoor baseball, baseball, dancing, horse- shoe pitching, Miniature golf, checkers and showers.
 Nineteen groups of educational clubs for adults, seniors, intermedi- ates, and juniors met during the year under their own leaders. Mus ic, dramatics, literary study, de- batting, and handicraft were lead ing interests. Seven were musical Give choral-two orchestraD. five had a literary project. two drama tic, two handicraft, and three so-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

specify any particular bank to the young women. She spoke of banks in general, they admitted.
 Mrs Keefe was questioned by Judge Meyer as to her card read ing practise. He described her so- called psychic powers as "guesses. The court asked her is she realized the seriousness of her remarks in talking about banks and if she realized what would happen if she were convicted. "I would be in trouble, I think" she answered. She was positively assured that she would be.
 Fortune telling whether it con- cerns money or soul mates, oil wells, bonds or future presidential possibilities is prohibited by statute And Connecticut sure has severe punitive measures for anyone start ing something or anything about its banking institutions. Mrs Keefe has the personal satisfaction of knowing that one of her guesses or predictions came true, but she was very plainly warned and other for tune tellers are asked by the court to please take notice that deroga- tory statements about banks Is something more serious than d parlor game.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14

of time" between the grand jury proceedings and the Billings trial. The report asserts that Oxman's S testimony was introduced after en- larged photographs of the Eilers
 building during the parade had
 shown Mooney and his wife to
 have been there. The Eilers build ing is three-quarters of mile from Steuart and Market streets where the explosion took place at 2:O6 D.
 m. Had 1t been possible for Mooney to have reached there at all he would have had to travel rapidly. Oxman swore he saw him arrive in
 a taxicab. The report cites varia- ton in testimony.
 we are unable to believe" the report says, that such changes in the testimony of witnesses of such character could have been mere ly fortuitous, and we cannot ab-
 solve the prosecuting officials from
 lia bility therefor"
 Of Louis Rominger, 8 witness in the Billings case, the report says that he at first refused to identify the defendant and adds that As-
 sistant District Attorney Brennan
 must have known Rominger had
 never seen Billings before.
 The report contains the state-
 ment that the prosecution had &C., tual knowledge of Estelle Smith s
 untrustworthiness" and that there are "concrete indications the prose- cution knew of their (the Edaus)
 unreliability before they were used
 as witnesses" Asserting that Flick
 ert knew the Edaus' stories were
 false. the report says:
 'It is submitted that the action of the district attorney in allow
 ing the Edaus to testify. after such
 a showing of their Responsibility,
 is inconsistent with his duty to re-
 frain from offering testimony of
 whose falsity he was aware"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
Better Get Out
 of Waterbury
(Continued from Page 1.)

Judge T. V. Meyer. who heard the evidence of the case. warned Mrs Keefe that if she wished to avoid trouble and perhaps severe punishment she would leave all mentionings of any banks out of her future psychic interpretations. The admonition applies to all so- called fotune tellers, palmists. phrenologists. clairvoyants and other readers of the future," who. of late. have been making a rather profitable living at the expense of gullible persons.
 Fortune telling carries with it a fine of not less than $25 or more than $1O0. Disseminating false, wilful or malicious reports about banking institutions carries with 1t fine of $500 and costs or year in prison or both. Mrs Keefe's case was continued for sixty days, leniency being extended on the strength of the defendants state- ment that she had engaged in the practise of reading cards to sup port herself and family. As a matter of fact she denied discuss ing with the witnesses money problems. "They came about some love aralfS, Sne remafKeC, referring to the states witnesses.
 The arrest of Mrs Keefe yester- day afternoon by Lieutenant Will liam Pollard and Detective William Foley was the result of some pri- vate investigation work. It had reached the ears of the police and banking officials that Mrs Keefc had been engaged in making pre- o1 rI lao ip difficulties. Two young women were sent to Mrs Keefe's home on the evening of January 11th and had their fortunes read. They tes- tified that after asking q number of personal questions they express ed an apprehensiveness about some money they deposited in local banks. Mrs Keefe is alleged to have remarked on the solvency of some banks and voiced lack of confidence in others. She did not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
Complete Disaster
 Facing Chicago
(C"ntinued from Page 1.)

"rhe Chicago fire was not as bad in many ways as this situation, with 500,000 persons on charity lists. The legislature holds the key to the problem"
 The legislature, by voting down the Kelly bill for revamping the city's tax machinery Wednesday, prolonged the anxiety.
 Fourteen relief stations, which have been caring for 35,000 desti- tute families. must close unless tax funds are made available. Ryerson said. The relief fund of $10,500,- 900 that the city raised among its citizens will not keep them open much longer,
 Suffering among the 5000. school children threatens to become more acute immediately. Many of them have been given free lunches at school. In many cases, that was their biggest meal of the day.
 The advisory committee on school lunches announces that it's funds are depleted. There may be drastic cuts in the luncheon menus or they may have to be abolished in some schools.
 Normal college students meet in mass meeting this week to pro- test against the board of educa- tion's tentative decision to close down the institution for one year. Students who have attended from one to three years would be thrown on the streets to augment the army of jobless.
 Patients in the Municipal Tuber- culosis Sanitarium. aged and feeble in homes and institutions, mothers on the pension list, all of them helpless to help themselves. face the gloomy prospect of being de- prived of enough food to keep them alive. Those too i'll to real ize what Chicago is up against are perhaps the lucky ones.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
Providence, R. I.-John Hemp hill, defeated candidate for gover- nor of Pennsylvania
 Al Smith fin ROSfOn

hill, defeated candidate for gover- nor of Pennsylvania.
 Al Smith in Boston.
 New York, Jan 14.-UP)-For- mer Governor Alfred E. Smith left for Boston to-day on a political trip which may reveal whether or not he will be presidential candidate. Ne is to be the chief speaker at the Boston dinner in connection with John J. Raskob's national drive for party funds to carry on the coming presidential campaign.
 Although the former governor would not commit himself before he left New York the feeling is growing in democratic circles that he would not object if his admir- CTS want to enter his name in the Massac chusetts primary.
 Massa chusetts Is one of the two northern states he carried in 1928 and political observers still think he Is stronger there. than in any other eastern staets.
 Tomorrow Smith is to confer with Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts and Frank Donahue, democratic state chairman. Poli- tical consequences of that confer- enco are already the subject of wide speculation.
 The state plan of establishing public opinion on the liquor ques- tion and of suppressing or regu- lating the liquor traffic is urged by Smith in an article in the cur rent Liberty.
 Smiths appeal was to take the prohibition question entirely out of the politicians hands.
 Let the American people he heard. They are the ones affect cd" he wrote.
 Smith would first have popu- lar referendum on the right of states to suppress or regulate the manufacture. sale, possession and transportation of liquor. Later, the states would pass upon an amendment to the 18th amend ment which would stipulate that its provisions did not apply to states with liquor regulatory laws.
 In the former governors party were Mrs Smith. Mir and Mrs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-14
Victory Dinners In
 Over Thirty States
(Continued From Page D

Daniel J. Mooney and John J. Curtin, racing commissioner. They were to arrive in Boston at 3:30 D. m.
 House for Roosevelt. New Haven, Conn, Jan 14.-- (UP)-Colonel Edward M. House regards Newton D. Baker as a man of stainless character and un- usual ability" but believes Cover nor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York is more available presi- dential candidate, according to an interview published in the Yale Daily News to-day.
 "No one could have greater ad- miration for him (Baker> than 1 have" President Wilson's wartime advisor was quoted as saying. "He is a man of stainless character and unusual ability. In addition he has unflinching courage. He stands for pretty much all that I stand for in national and interna- tional affairs, but I do not re- gard him as available a candidate for our party as Governor Roose- welt"
 The news interviewer said House described himself as "never more of low tariff man than now"