Evening star., 1935-09-22
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.


a Carnegie Libraries in many of the
States are planning to observe in some
appropriate manner the centenary of
the birth of Andrew Carnegie on the
25th of November.
Dunfermline, Scotland, his native
village, Is plarning to celebrate the
centenary in the way they think their
Scotch American townSman would
like best. During his life Mr.. Carnegie
gave the town S4,500,000 and left it
a yearly allowance of 1925 900. What
the people of Dunferml,ne would like
best is either a window Or a carlton
of bells in the lovely old eleventh
century abbey. Knowing, however, Mr.
Carnegie's very practical ideas about
the distribution of his wealth, they
are wondering if the memorial should
take an entirely artistic turn.
Mr.. Carnegie was a great interna-
tionaliSt and his absolute disbelief
in the necessity of war was illus
-trated by the beautiful Peace Palace
at The Hague, which was one of his
muniflcent gifts to the cause.
The International Exhibition of
Paintings at the Carnegie Institute in
Pittsburgh, Pa, which will be held
from October IT through December 8,
is of particular moment this year as it
will celebrate the Tooth anniversary
of Mr.. Carnegie's birth. He was
the founder of the institute and
the donor of the handsome building
in which the international exhibitions
have been held yearly since 1896, with
the exception of the five years during
the World War.
This year, Il nations, including
several of the South American States
\, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics, will send paintings, making
approximately $50 paintings on ex-
hibition.
The exhibition is intended to in
clude all aspects of preSent-day art,
and as the assistant director, Mr.. John
OConnor, says, will offer to the pub
lie a fairly accurate report of what Is
going on in the art of Western civili-
Zation. All artists who have been in
vited to send to the exhibit are rep
resentative of recognized groups in
their own lands.
Six artists, three from foreign coWl-
tries and three from the United States,
will meet in Pittsburgh, beginning
. Wednesday next, to decide upon the
prizes, the first of which is $1,000, the
second, $500; third, $500; first honor
able mention, S400; second honorable
mention, $500: third honorable men
ton, 5000, and fourth honorable men
ton. Sl00. The first prize in the
Carnegie international is held by art
lists to be the most coveted award In
the world. In more recent years it has
been won by such well-known artists
as Augustus John, Henri Matisse,
Felice Care, Duuoyer de Segonzac and
others.
The Cleveland, Ohio, Museum of
Art and the Toledo Museum are to
have all the foreign paintings on eX-
hibition. In Cleveland they will be
shown from January to February IA,
and at Toledo from March II to April
18. This will give Midwestern artists
. an opportunity to study the exhibit
nearer home.
That the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics evidently does not believe
that life for its people holds nothing
more than the hammer and the sickle
is demonstrated in the recent ref1n-
ishing and conditioning of "a of the
beautiful galleries of the Hermitage
at Leningrad, taken over from the old
Winter Palace of the cZars. These
galleries are now filled with the most
magnificent collection of art from
Persia and its affiliated cultures that
the world has ever seen. 1t is said
that more than 1000 objects have
been arranged in more than a mile
and a half of galleries.
There is a small but rare collec-
ton of Persian art and manuscripts
in the Frere Gallery of Art here. Some
exquisite pieces of enameling and
painted pottery which show the de-