Evening star., 1935-08-18
About Well-knOWn Folk
In Books, Art, Politic
Marginal Notes of Washington and Monroe
on Old Book in Harvard Library.
A Titan in Detroit?

big game hunter. He Is one Of the
most delightful talkers-he talks in
stead of instructs in his lectures-the
society offers as he can make even
the Arctic and Antarctic regions glow
with animation. 1t Is hoped that
when he returns from the present
contemplated trip to the Antarctic he
will, among other things, show just
few views of that wonderful old castle
in Switzerland he has been living in
this Summer while resting up a bit
and getting ready for his venture over
the South Pole.
Schloss Lensburg, one of the his
toric castles of Europe in which men
have lived for thousands years is
perched high on a butte which rises
up out Of the green hills and is
reached by tortuous winding road
which passes through tunnels formed
by the dense foliage of trees. One
crosses a drawbridge to enter the
court yard with its green maple and
chestnut trees and gorgeously hued
geraniums relieving the somberness
of the gray battlemented walls.
Mr.. Ellsworth will have no diff
Guilty in telling when its time to start
to the South Pole, as there are 72
clocks in the castle and most Of them
are running. This was hobby Of
his father, Mr.. Ellsworth, sr, who COL
lected the clocks in different parts Of
the world. Some Of them are said to
be very rare and lovely as works of
art, as well as mechanism.
Another hobby of Mr. Ellsworth, ST.,
was never to allow the ashes removed
from the great Gothic fireplace where
cedar wood is still burned and where
there is now an accumulation of %
years. He lived in the Schloss for II
years. his son inheriting it something
like five years ago, during which time
he has respected the wishes of his
father, until now there is great pile
Of burnt cedar, the odor Of which per-
meates the great hall.
1t Is reported that Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellsworth are now on their way to Rio
de Janeiro in the Graf Zeppelin. Mr..
Ellsworth expects to 90 later to Mon
tevideo, where his ship, the Wyatt
Erp, is outfltting and sail from there
October 20 for the Antarctic regions.
There is a rumor that detectives
0ily int ,v,D Do
troit which they think is genuine
Titan, which disappeared from
Vienna during the Austrian revolu-
ton after the World War.
If it is Titan it can probably be
verified by an apparatus called
"pinascope," that is used for the ex-
animation of paintings for three pur-
poses. the detection of mistaken at
tribution of their creation, the study
of the technique of the masters and
the determination of the best means of
preserving the picture.
This apparatus, or process, perhaps
more properly termed, was the dis
covery Of DR.. Fernando Perez, who
has many friends in Washington,
where he was most popular diplomat
at one time. He died recently in
Paris, where he was the Argentine
Ambassador.
1t appears that DR.. Perez, found
and quote: THAT the brush work
and method of paint application
peculiar to an artist can be unmistak-
ably shown by means Of a greatly en-
larged photograph taken Under a
strong beam of light falling obliquely
across the canvas" After taking and
experimenting with many thousands
of such photograph, DR.. Perez, was
convinced that the Identification of