Evening star., 1935-09-22
About Well-KnOWn Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Carnegie Centenary Celebrated Here and
Abroad-Mrs. Wolfe Super Democratic
Political Mentor.

velopment of the animal style which
began as early as 1000 BIC.
1t appears that an American was
the purchaser of Rembrandt's por-
trait of his father, formerly the prop
erty of Prince Lychinsky, which was
lately sold at auction at Cannes,
France The price was $4,000, and
speculation is rife as to whether Mr..
Andrew w. Mellon was not the lucky
buyer. The painting is l8 by 1917
inches and is done on wood. That 1t
is authentic Is vouched for by five
European experts, who traced it back
as far as 1903, when it was sold in
Amsterdam.
There Is Just now a fine and choice
showing of colored wood cuts by Gus
tave Baumann and others at the LII
brary of Congress. One does not
think of wood cuts otherwise than In
the black and white, and to those
who know but little about the ancient
art these colored ones are revelation.
One particularly lovely-a Baumann
is "Autumnal Glory" The sky of a
deep purplish pink. dark purple noun
tainS with a depth of shadows makes
glorious background for the bril-
liant autumnal foliage of the trees.
In contrast, San Domingo Pueblo"
by the same artist, has sky Of an
indescribable blue, a suggestion of blue
hills or mountains, with the Spanish
adobe houses and the brightly clad
figures in the foreground. Old print
books in colorS share the cases with
the wood cuts. One is a series of
colored views of the Island OF st.
Helena, printed in London in 1921,
the year of Napoleon's death. Living
without affection or adulation during
the last bitter years of his life, there
were few evidences that he was re-
membereo by the outside world. On
one occasion he was heard to say that
his last hours were comforted by lies
pruneaux de Madame Holland" and
he left her a snuff box in his will.
Madame Holland was Lady Holland
of Holland House, London, who was
one of the salonieres of the eighteenth
century and who regularly sent Ma
poleon at st. Helena plums and pa
pers, and who always referred to him
as Poor dear Mani"
Mrs. Wolfe is all a-twitter over the
number of letters which she has re-
ceived from mems clubs throughout
the West and Middle West asking her
for information about the reporter
plan" and the way she has organized
the entire country into eight districts
with a woman regional advisor over
each. The meetings are a kind of
open forum or town hall, in which all
take part.
When Mrs James H. Wolfe of Utah,
chairman of the Womens Division Of
the Democratic National Committee,
turns those 10000 New Deal women
loose on the country this Fall, there
will be hot time in the old town,
for they are booted and spurred for
action, after an intensive training
which began in the Spring. They are
to be the Badekers of the advance
guard of the 1886 Democratic presi-
Dental campaign. They are armed
to the teeth with information about
what the New Deal has done for the
country and how it has raised the
morale of a respondent world.
The Democratic donkey is usually
without harness of any kind-free and
untethered, but the two small ones
on Mrs. Wolfe's desk are saddled and
bridled and ready for action. Even
their neither heels have an aggressive
appearance. There are no elegant nor
expensive furnishings In her private
cffice, for the director of the women's
division has cleared the decks for ac-
ton and the Offices throughout the
suite are plain Jeffersonian in SIM
plicity as BELTS the work rooms of the
successors of the sage Of Monticello.
There is a slogan at the Democratic
women'S headquarters in the Press
Building, to the effect, Campaigns
Are Won Between Elections; judging
from the activities of the women Of
the two old parties there is no diSput-