The Washington times., 1935-12-10
NOW
Richberg, Reed
Count Hairs
ART BATTLE
By HELEN ESSARY

at Solicitor General Reed yeSter-
day not long before the Solicitor
General began the Governments
case before the Supreme Court.
Laughed very loud and said:
STANLEY. when we came out Of
the NRA fracaS together, we each
had eight hairs on the top of our
heads. I still have my eight.
You've got only four. And where
the other four ought to be, 1 seem
to see in black letters-AAA! And.
Oh! Oh! OH"
Mr.. Reed smiled vaguely and
said nothing.
The Solicitor General cheered
up later, however, and discussed
the formality of the Supreme
Court before which he is now max
ing daily appearances. He remem-
bered a little story about the late
Chief Justice Taft.
1t is the custom for lawyers ap-
pearing before the gentlemen Of
the court to speak in clear but
measured tones. Their garments
must be severe and dark. Morn
ing coats are preferred to sack
coats.
Once an excited young lawyer,
while arguing his first case before
the OlympianS, wore a loud
checked suit and a red tie. Also
he was so nervous that he prac-
tically shouted. After 10 minutes
OF so of listening and looking,
Chief Justice Taft leaned across
the bench to the noisy gentleman
and whispered:
Sir, the Court is not deaf.
Neither is it blind"
A rumor is going about that in
connection with the Modern Art
Exhibit on January debate on
Modern Art" is about to be
staged.
Two artists, one of the old
school of painting and sculpture
and one of the new school. will
discuss the virtues OF the two Art
forms.
This is one battle I shall not
miss. No subject seems to arouse
those who are interested in art
like a comparison of the works Of
Mr.. Cezanne, Mr.. Gaugin and Mr..
Van Gogh with the old masters.
1t will cause placid good people
who seem as harmless as a dew
drop in June to spring from their
corners in club windows and fire
side chairs and rend the air with
cries of insanity" disease" or
"banal," stupid" unimag ma.
tive"
Assistant Secretary of State
R. Walton Moore (theres a Vir.
ginia gentleman who makes every
woman he meets feel like a
Southern belle) tells his sisters
that he only goes to Sunday aft
ernoon tea parties to please
them. Mr.. Moore, once arrived
has such a magnificent time that
the patient sisters stand in the
hall for practically hours. hold
ing brother Walton's hat and
coat in their hands, and waiting
for this reluctant party goer to
start home. Miss Frances Ben
jamin Johnston, whose Carnegie
Institution photographs of his
toric Colonial homes are so beau
tiful, has recently bought a Co
lonial estate of her own in Prin,
cess Anne County on the Broad
water near Norfolk, Virgin a
Miss Johnston was the first
woman to demonstrate the art OF
portraiture with a Photographic
lens. DIR. T. Coleman NevilS
recently president of Georgetown
University, has made Horace
whose two thousandth birthday
anniversary is being celebrated
this year. the hero of delight
full article in this months Geo
graphic Magazine. In Horace
Classic Poet of the Countryside
DR.. Nevils gives the long-deac
Roman a modern and lively in
tereSt.
Most any day now the Socia
Register of Democracy, the new
telephone book, will be delivered
at your door. Old telephone books
people who know about such
things tell me, are transformed
into roofing paper and floor mats
So great is the resistance Of ar
old telephone book that it take!
special shredding machine weigh
ing three tons to cut and grinc
the books into pulp.
Mr.. Jesse Jones, of the R. F. C.
is a mighty hunter of pheasant.
Mr.. Arthur j. Sinnott, now the
editor of the Newark News. who il
dashing back to Washington fol
the Gridiron Dinner on Saturday
recently was given special hon
orary award by Rutgers College fol
his journalistic contribution tt
public welfare.
Mrs. John South, daughter O.