Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-02
T,uo d. C.. Scholars Honored
By Cuggenheim Foundation
DR.. LO,UeH Ragats, Pro-
lessor at G.. ". u. Wins
Fellowship Again.
DR.. Frank Tannenbaun,.
Economist, Also Is
Scholarship Winner.

SChOLGrShIp " inner.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 2.-Six artists,
nine authors, two composers of music,
two workers in the arts of the thea
ter and 81 scholars studying in as
many different fields of knowledge
were announced today as winners of
the tenth annual fellowship awards
of the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation.
The fellowships, normally $4,000,
are adjusted to meet the needs of the
individual fellows Periods for which
the fellowships are granted vary with
the necessities of the work The re-
cipients this year will work in four
continents and in the islands of the
East and West Indies.
Total Grants S1.2OO,O0O.
Trustees of the foundation said to-
days awards bring the total grants
OF the foundation to more than
81 100000 and the total number OF
fellowships to SIT Another series OF
grants to Latin American scholars
will be made next June.
Former United States Senator and
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim established
the foundation in 1925 as memorial
to a son. Heretofore the fellowships
have been granted only for work
abroad, but this year provision is
made to permit some fellows to work
in the United States.
The theatrical fellowships were
awarded to-
Miss Angina Enters of New York, a
dancer. who will go to Greece to study
the ancient Greek art forms.
Charles Norris Houghton, (. aduate
OF Princeton University, who has done
work in New York and Baltimore.
Awards in Literary Field.
Fellowships were awarded the fol-
lowing persons to assist them to carry
on their literary work:
Conrad Aiken, poet and novelist.
Miss Kay Boyle, poet and novelist.
Albert Halper, novelist and short
story writer.
Alexander Laing of Hanover, N. H.,
poet and novelist.
George Milburn of Oklahoma,
novelist.
Lsldor Schneider. poet and novelist.
FelloWshlpS granted Leonard Ehr-
Itch and Younghill Kang. a Korean,
for literary work last year were re-
newed.
Tom iippett, writer on economic
subjects, to prepare volume dealing
with certain aspects of the coal in
dustry in the United States.
All Of the authors except Enrich
and Tippett will carry on their work
abroad
The two composers are:
William Grant Still, who will work
in this country.
Prof. Douglas Moore of Columbia
University.
Artists Recognized.
The artists receiving awards are:
Peggy Bacon, Satiris: in the
graphic arts.
Frank Mechau of Denver, Colo, a
painter of Western scenes.
Francis Criss. who ill study fresco
painting in Italy.
Rosetta Hartman of Woodstock, N.
y, who will study the photographers
craft in Paris.
Maurice Glickman. sculptor.
Howard Cook of Springfield. Mass,
has been granted second fellowship
to enable him to carry on studies. He
now is in Springfield doing mural
painting under P w. 4. auspices.
The scholars are:
DR.. Michael Heidelberger. associate
professor of biological chemistry at
Columbia University, for research at
the University of UpSala. Sweden, on
the molecular weight of thyroglobuhn,
the hormone of the thyroid gland.
Arthur Loveridge, now in the Kenya
on a fellowship. was granted con-
tinuation of the fellowship to con-
tinue his studies in East Africa. He
formerly was curator of reptiles and
amphibians in the museum of COM
parative zoology at Harvard University
DR.. Grace Lee Mute, assistant pro-
fessor of history at Hamline Univer-
sity, St. Paul. Mimi, for research
abroad for biographical material. Miss
Mute is the only woman scholar to re-
ceive a fellowship. although four were
awarded to woman artists.
DR.. Fulmer Mood, renewal of a
fellowship to continue his research
into early American colonization.
G. w. U. Professor Named.
DR.. Lowell j. Ragatz, associate pro-
fessor of history at George Washing
ton University in Washington, D. c.,
a renewal of a fellowship to continue
his studies into the social and eco
nomic studies of the French Antilles
during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries.
William Henry Chamberlin, re-
newal of his fellowship. Chamberlin, a
newspaper man, is writing a history of
the Russian revolution from 1917 to
1921.
DR.. Frank Tannenbaum of Washing
ton, D. c.. renewed scholarship, to
continue his studies of the agrarian
problems of Peru and Argentina
DR.. Douglas Bush, professor of Eng
lish at the University of Minnesota,
for work on a critical study of English
poetry.
Sterling Dow of Harvard University,