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see heads and figures OF primitive
people done with the simplicity of
primitive works, but with trained skill
and great knowledge. The sculptor in
this instance has done no careless
work bringing to bear upon her tax
years of study; leaving no stone un-
turned to achieve the highest and b9st
result, she has produced works of art
of such merit that they should prove
timeless. They are modern in the best
sense; they are also in tie great ira
dition. That any one sculptor could
have produced so many works in so
short time and under such conditions
and upheld them to so high standard
seems miraculous
1t has been said that majority OF
the works now on exhibition are small
size models-'reduction of the life
size figures in the Field Museum, Chi
cago. and in most instances such is
the case, but not invariably. Some Of
these small bronZes are the originals
from which, in her Paris studio. Miss
Hoffman modelled the full-size works.
Perhaps for this reason they have ex-
ceptional spontaneity OF expression.
Certainly her little figures are never
of the puppet type; anatomically and
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is the way it is done-the way the
paint is put on canvas, textures Gre
ated thereby, color manifested in all
its inherent loveliness as well as in
harmonious combination. Also that
spontaneity of brush stroke gives en-
livening quality. And why should not
work of art be pleasure giving
good to look upon-agreeable to live
with? 1t should, and those which
have endured the test of time are
Mr.. Schlereth is probably at his
best in this exhibition in the canvases
that he has painted primarily for
pleasure. or as studies such as the "Old
Couple" in church, Country Woman
in Old Bavarian Costume" and "The
Toelzerin." peasant in costume,
which received a medal award in the
Society of Washington Artists 1884
annual exhibition. But this is not
to say that he has not been successful
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By Leila Mechlin.

~ ICHARD LAHEY'S exhlpltlon
In the Corcoran Gallery OF Art
has been attracting mucn az
L Y tention, He is a newcomer
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BULLETIN OF EXHIBITIONS

Corcoran Gallery of Art-Per-
manent collections. Special ex-
hibitions of illustrations by
Thornton Oakley and of paintings
and etchings by Richard Lahey.
The Forty-fifth Annual Exhibi-
ton, Society of Washington Art
lists. Exhibition of bookbinding of
today.
National Geographic Society,"
Exhibition of sculpture. THE
Races of Mankind" by Malvina
Hoffman.
National Gallery of Art. Ma
tional Museum-Gellatly, john
son and Evans collections, and
Herbert Ward, African sculptures.
Smithsonian Building - Etch-
ings, block prints and Autographs
by Franz Geritz of Los Angeles.
National Museum. Arts and In
dustries NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pic
torial photographs by Louis Fleck-
enstein of California.
Freer Gallery of Art-Chinese
paintings, Oriental art objects;
paintings, drawings, etchings by
Whistler and paintings by other
American artists.
Phillips Memorial Gallery
Permanent collection Of paintings
by old and modern masters.
Studio House, 1914 Twenty-first
street northwest-Exhibition Of
paintings by modernists lent by
Museum of Modern Art, New
York.
Junior League. Massachusetts,
avenue and Twentieth street-Ex-
| hibtion of sculpture by modernists
lent by the Museum Of Modern
Art, New York.
D. C. League Of American Pen
Women-Exhibition paintings by
Helen F. Collision.
Textile Museum Of the District
of Columbia-Rare and beautiful
textiles, rugs and embroideries,
chiefly of the East.
Arts Club of Westinghouse
hibitions of paintings by Hans
Schlereth and Alan Page Flsvelle.
Library Of Congress-Recent
accessions: Pencil Autographs and
original illustrations by Stanley
Reinhart, w. A. Rogers and
others.
Public Library, main building
Exhibition of water colors by
Charles Val Clear.
International House, Y. w. c.
A., GA E street northwest-Ex-
hibition Of paintings by members
of the Landscape Club and the
Twenty Women Painters.
Art gallery, Howard Univer-
sity-Exhibition Of Genre paint
ings, fifteenth to twentieth CEN
tury.
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ART CURRENTS REVEALED IN WORK BY CORCORAN HEAD
VERSATILITY MARKS EXHIBIT1
Mr. Lahey Shows Oil Paintings Water Coors Drawings and
Etchings Giving Evidence of Broad Taste-Bookbind~
;no Methods Observation-Disclosures Art World Events

school. His pupil. Hans Schlereth,
follows him closely, but not slavishly.
He paints what he sees and en-
deavors to create the, illusion of re-
atty His portraits and figure paint
ings are not distorted or exaggerated.
They are expressive Of personality.
The artist does not call attention.to
his own achievement or inherent clev-
erness either by pyrotechnics of tech
nique or by ovate slovenness. Like his
betters in the past, he apparently
does his best-and uses his art to
obscure his artistry. Mr.. Schlereth
seems to know that two-thirds, If not
more, of the charm Of painting,
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hand, Is Partisan trained and shows It,
while in the works of Gerhard Gerlack
and his wife, Kathryn Gerlach, strong
evidence of the influence of their
master, Wiemler of Leipzig, is seen.
This lends variety and interest.
In addition to the binders already
named, two BoStonians, Margaret
Danforth and Mary Crease Sears, and
a Californian, Hazel Dreis. are repre-
sented. Miss Danforth Is a pupil Of
Miss Sears and now head of the Sears
School of Bookbinding, of Boston.
Miss Sears studied art in the Boston
Museum School and then bookbinding
under Jules Domont in Paris. She has
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in portraiture. Far from it. His
portrait of Dr. william Mather Lewis,
president of Lafayette College, formerly
of George Washington University. is
not only an excellent likeness but
very vital piece of Characterization, as
is also his seated portrait of his
teacher. Prof. Carl Marr, president
Of the Academy of Fine Arts. Munich.
The portrait of the Secretary Of Com
merce. Frank c. Roper, is frank
and straightforward painting far
superior to the usual official produc-
ton. Outstanding are his portraits of
Mrs. Lewis Clephane and of Mrs. G.
w. Harris.
Lending variety and interest as we'll
as color to the exhibition as a whole
are a study of young woman in
Green Smock'-a gay garden scene,
a group on lawn at tea table,
a painting of bright yellow and orange
colored flowers-and a picture of a
little cQlored boy with a half peeled
and half-eaten banana in his hand.
Hans Schlereth does not always score
success-some of his canvases are
much better than others-but who
does? At his best, he is very good.
To see such works and to have them
produced among us is privilege and
an honor. Mr.. Schlereth is admirably
represented in the Society of Washing
ton Artists current exhibition in the
Corcoran Gallery by an unusual
genre painting entitled "A Severe
Critic" which likewise witnesses to
his command of medium and artistic
viewpoint.
A Lam PAGE FLAvELLE has lately
returned from a years study
abroad. made possible by winning the
Hiram Gee Fellowship awarded by
Syracuse University, and quite a
number of the paintings shown in
hiS current eyhihitjon were made dur
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ing his travels For instance. he shows
two views of Chartres. one Of Rue
Saint Jacques, and ope of Faubourg
Saint Jacques. But surely if these
famous places were no more attractive
than he presents them, would they
year in year out without number at
tract and recall visitors? 1t seems
doubtful. With every desire to give
young modernists their due, TO meet
them more than half way, to encourage
them in their zeal for new and real
discoveries 1t is hard to be receptive,
hopeful and sympathetic when ones
esthetic sense is outraged and ones
most treasured convictions in matters
of taste apparently are completely set
aside And after all. one asks ones self
why should eyes be painted like burnt
out button holes, or cathedrals, world
famous for their structural beauty.
like novels destroyed by earthquakes?
Must modernism go to such lengths
to establish freedom Of expression?
1t is very perplexing. and all the more
SO when practiced by the young, who,
while gifted. seem not to have served
their apprenticeship or attained their
majority. Mr.. Flavel,e has won more
than one award, but his work seems to
lack competence. Sincerity and SIM
plicity are good qualities, but they are
not sufficient to attain great end.
Mannerisms may cloak genius, but
they do not disguise either ignorance
or weakness. To express ones self
adequately command Of medium is
essential These are fundamentals
which are too often overlooked.
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Court Leet and all things which to
Court Baron do belong; and to
have and keep view of Frank Pledge
belonging" The system of granting
such rights to colonial lords ended
in 1888.
Following the listing of manors. the
book lists the descendants Of the
manorial families, bringing them
down to the present time. Photographs
of SOM. of the old halls are included,
and arms of the various families, as
we'll as copies of certain grants.
Mrs. Parran has been at work on
the book since she served on the COM
mission which organized the Maryland
Tercentenary Celebration in 1884. At
that time, she relates, she had sort
of double inspiration. 1t was for a
book and a garden. The book is the
present work. The garden is the one
which the Southern Maryland Colonial
Danes have planted on the Island of
st. Clements, the place of the land
ing of the Ark and the Dove. Its
trees and shrubbery have been
gathered entirely from the gardens
of manors throughout the State, save
that its lockwood came from Mount
Vernon.
When this undertaking had been
attended to, and the garden duly
dedicated as part of the tercentenary
celebration, Mrs. Parran turned her
attention to compiling her book. She
relates that she ran into considerable
difficulties in the mechanics of print
ing, fo.. many registrants sent her
elaborate drawings of family trees
which had to be photostated down to
a page, or, at most, two pages. AS
most OF these documents were already
in extremely fine handwriting, they
presented q distinct problem in prac-
tical book-making.
FURTHER, Mrs. Parran tells, she
received some charts Of lineage in
which ink lines were drawn at an
angle. AS this was not permitted.
she had to see about getting such
documents redone. It was hard.
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Mrs. Alice N. Parran's Work
Ab0undS in Dramatic
AneCdote.
By NJ. G.. r.

A N UNUSUAL book that is
n likely to be of special interest
~ to Washingtonians is the re-
4 \ Gently published Register Of
Mayyland's Heraldic Families" by
Mrs. Alice Norris Parran. Mrs. Par
ran is her own publisher. Her book
is being sponsored by the. Southern
Maryland Society of Colonial Danes,
of which she Is founder and presi-
dent. Some 10 Washington families
are represented in the work.
Outwardly the book is handsome
thing, bound in black and gold and
decorated with the Maryland State
seal. Inwardly, although at first
glance it would seem to be mainly
listing of lineages, it abounds with
anecdotes of historical persons and
families, some of which make de-
lightful reading. In including this
type of material in her book, Mrs.
Parran has made a departure from
the ordinary fashion of family reg
listers. Without lessening its value
as a record, she has added to it the
merit of being readable history and
collection of stories and legends OF
Colonial times which heretofore have
not been gathered together or, for that
matter, even published at all.
Material for the work was sub.
mitted to Mrs. Parran by such in
dividuals as wished to have their
families entered. She, however,
checked the accuracy of all data, a
task which involved a vast amount
of painstaking effort. Records were
sent her from Halifax to Mexico and
from California to the Eastern Shore.
Maryland's original families have
spread out widely over the land, in
the three hundred years since the
founding Of the colony.
The book proceeds by naming the
various manors which existed under
the law Of England in what are now
the different counties of Maryland.
A manor. as the work makes plain,
might have been one of three kinds
the Lord Proprietary grant, the special
grant and the statutory manor.
THE first type, the Lord Proprietary
grant manors, were those erected
in the name and for the use of the
Lord, Proprietor" The special grant
manors were those erected by the
special orders Of the proprietor, for
the benefit of his relations, with par
ticular conditions and privileges"
The statutory manors were those
which began as plantations and as
sumed the name Of manor after "all
conditions Of plantation had been
fulfilled"
The difference between plantation
and manor lay chiefly in the rights
which appertained 70 the manorial
lord. He was not merely the owner
of his property, but exercised In the
new world the state Of an English
court baron, being usually empowered
to have and hold Court Baron and
Evening star., 1936-01-19

THE works in sculpture by Malvina
Hoffman, now on view in the Hall
of Explorers, the National Geographic
Societys administration building, are
not only interesting in the extreme.
but profoundly significant Here we
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25
Nurses to Hold 10Th
National Convention

This course was developed under
the Social Security Act.
Several state nursing associa-
tions have been organized during
the year, and approximately 100
nurses have been placed in posi-
tons.
There are 5000 Negro graduate
nurses in this country and the ma
tional Association of Colored
Graduate Nurses came into being
to serve their needs. The Asso-
citation has maintained headquar-
ters at so West 50th street, New
York City, for the past two years.
In addition to contributions
from nurses, the MACON has been
the recipient of substantial finan-
cial gifts from the National Health
Circle for Colored people, the
julius Rosenwald Fund, Mrs.
Chester G. Bolton and Mrs Leo
nard Elmhirst. The Association is
making a public appeal for contri-
buttons in order that it may con-
tinue to render a much needed
service to our people as a group,
and to the nation at large.
Estelle Riddle is president of the
MACON.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25

Chicago -(ANP)-In his typical
ly brusque and vigorous style, Hon.
Oscar DePriest, former Republi-
can member of the United States
House of Representatives, this
week girded himself for the pre-
liminaries to the November cleo
ton and fired the opening volley
in his fight to regain the baton OF
power and political prestige now
held by Congressman Arthur w.
Mitchell, as representative from
the First Congressional District Of
Illinois.
The venerable DePriest, veteran
of many battles in the past, and
noted as a political strategist lis
the Republican nominee for Con-
gress from the First District and
as such will oppose Rep. Mitchell
at the November election, DePriest
basing his campaign on his opposi-
ton to the New Deal program, his
fight against Lily-Whiteism in the
South, his espousal of the rights
of his people and his determination
to fight for passage of an anti
lynching bill.
Mr.. DePriest's statement Of prin-
ciples-his Platform which he de-
clares will return him the win
ner in November-is as follows:
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25
"a STATES REPRESENTED IN
ATLANTA U. SUMMER SCHOOL

uate credit in eleven departments.
Greatest graduate enrolment is
Greatest graduate enrolment is
in the department of education, in
which there are 124. Thirty-one are
registered as major students in
English, 20 in history, IL in
French, 10 in sociology, and 8 in
home economics. Seven are enroll
ed as majors in chemistry, in
mathematics, 4 in Latin, and one
each in economics and social
work.
One graduate student from Mich
igan, Dorsey Earl Walker, of De-
troit, is registered in the Atlanta
University Summer School. Mr..
Walker is completing his work for
his degree of Master of Arts in the
department of history.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25
BELIEVES HIS PLATFORM
WILL BRING HIM VICTORY
Former Congressman Girds Himself Fo
Fight To Regain Seat
In Congress

full justice may be done each and
every person.
81 shall fight vigorously for the
passage of an anti-lynching bill.
II am against the interference
with the powers of the Federal
District Courts, United States Cir
cult Courts or the Supreme Court
of our land.
81 am in favor of Congress pass
ing a law to enforce the 14th and
18th amendments of the Constitu-
ton.
II shall continue my fight for the
rights and privileges of all people
irrespective of race, color or reli-
gion.
II shall fight to abolish the sys-
tenn of photographing in connec-
ton with applications for Civil
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25

DALLAS-(ANP)-The marital
difficulties Of the Rev. r. It. An
drews, pastor of the fashionable
st. Johns Baptist church of Dali
las, and his wife, Mrs. Augusta
Andrews, society matron and news
paper woman, which created
mild sensation in this city about
Is months ago when the well
known couple became estranged
and subsequently divorced, flared
up again last week when it be-
came known that the church, with
the reputed knowledge and con-
sent of the pastor, voted to have
Mrs. Andrews evicted from the par
sonage where she and the couples
children have resided since the
Rev. Mr.. Andrews abandoned the
house and instituted divorce pro-
ceedings.
They were divorced last Febru-
airy. Since that time the minister
has been living at the YMCA on
Flora Street, Mrs. Andrews remain
ed in the parsonage with the chill
dren until eviction proceedings
started.
The Rev. Mr.. Andrews could not
be reached in Dallas this week for
a statement of his side of the mat
ter. He was asked for a personal
statement or a statement from the
church by a reporter who stated
the papers were to publish an ar
ticle and desired to give fair re-
ports to both the minister and Mrs
Andrews. He has declined to ac-
knowledge communications.
Rev. and Mrs. Andrews had beer
married more than twenty years
when their marriage went on the
rocks. They have two married
daughters, one grown son, one sor
, in college and one daughter at
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25

New York-(ANP)-The 29th
annual meeting of the National AS
sociation of Colored Graduate
Nurses will be held at the YWCA
in New York City, Aug. 1Sth-21st,
inclusive. An interesting and con-
structive program has been ar
ranged by Miss Margaret Creth,
Chairman of Program Committee.
The program for the student sec
ton gives promise of the best
meeting since the organization OF
the student section two years ago.
All student delegates will be the
guests of the Lincoln School for
Nurses and will be housed in the
beautiful nurses home.
Since the last convention in New
Orleans last August, the NACGN
has held four regional confer
ences. The first was for the nurses
of the Southern region and was
held at Tuskegee in January; the
second, for the Southeast region,
was held in Durham the latter
part of January the third, for
nurses of the Northern and Eas-
tern region was in Washington in
February; and the fourth, in Chi
cago in April, for nurses of the
middle West. The national presi-
dent and the executive secretary
attended each of the regional
meetings. The meetings were large
ly attended and were significantly
effective in meeting some Of the
local problems of the nurses.
Mrs. Mabel X. Stauper, executive
secretary, has carried the work at
headquarters and made some i'm
portant field trips in the interest
of the group.
An outstanding accomplishment
of the year was the developing and
execution of plans to assist the
United States Public Health Ser
vice in establishing a public health
nursing course at the Medical Col
lege of Virginia, where Is Negro
nurses are being trained for posi-
lions in the public health field
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25
DePriest Will Campaign To Regain Seat

Service, and in it's place adopt the
use of finger printing system.
Il am unalterably opposed to the
New Deals program of placing the
Government in competition with
private industry and business.
81 stand for high tariffs that will
adequately protect American
markets and American labor.
81 am for a balanced budget and
sound dollar.
II stand upon the tradition of
the Republican party and its plat
form as adopted at the 1886 Cleve-
land convention. l urge the cleo
ton of ALI. NJ. Landon for Presi-
dent, and Frank Knox r
vice-president. They are honest
and capable. By their election,
confidence in representative gov
eminent will be re-established, en-
forced, and maintained
81 am for the election of G. Way
/ land Brooks for Governor and en-
tire state ticket. l am for the en-
tire county ticket headed by Harry
S. Ditchburne for States Attor-
ney."
! Oscar DePriest
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25
P. O. DEPARTMENT WOULD
OVERRIDE THE u. S. COURT
Aged Postal Employee Found Not Guilty
Of Theft; Is Retired Without Pension,
Although Eligible

NEW YORK-A second protest to Postmaster General
A Farley upon the treatment of Marine w Webb former
employee in the postal service today by the Ma
ona Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo
pie.
Webb served thrty-seven years in the post office de-
partment and few months before he eligible to
tire on pension he accused of stealing money
der from the mail He tried in the United States
district court at Little Rock Ark. and found not guilty
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25

Atlanta, Observation-Disclosures $50
students enrolled in the Atlanta
University Summer School are
graduates or former students at
So colleges, normal schools or 9TH
er institutions offering work be-
yond the high school, according to
a study made by John p. Whit
taker, director of the summer ses-
sion.
The study reveals many inter-
esting facts about the summer
school student body. The group
have come from "a states, the Dis
trict of Columbia, and West Africa
Fifty-three per cent of them are
college graduates, 80 percent have
completed from one to three years
in college, and per cent are high
school graduates. The great ma
jority are engaged in school work,
34S as teachers, 100 as students,
107 as principals, 80 as supervi-
sors, as medical advisers, and >
as college deans.
of the $50 men and women who
are enrolled for college and gra-
duate work, 225-104 men and 12l
women-are seeking credit for the
masters degree; 237 are working
for credit toward the bachelors
degree. Sixty-nine are working for
self-improvement without regard
for credit; 43 want a renewal OF
their state certificate; 25 normal
certificate, and 26 credit for a
junior college certificate.
Students are working for grad
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-25
Supreme Chancellor
To Install K. Of p.
L O d G e S

Hon. S. A. T. Watkins, Supreme
Chancellor of the Knights OF
Pythias will spend a busy day in
this city Friday, July oath, as the
guest of the Executive Board of
the Grand Lodge and Grand
Court of the Knights of Pythias
and Court of Calanthe.
The Auditing Committee, con-
sisting of DR.. F.. E. Dawson, Chair
man, r. B. Anderson and V. A.
Bristol will begin their work with
books and records of the financial
officers of the Grand Lodge and
Grand Court at 8 a. m. at the Of
fees of Dr. Dawson, 2317 st. Aubin
avenue.
AT ~ Noon a luncheon in honor
of the Supreme Chancellor will be
held at Ebenezer A. NJ. e. Church,
cor. Willis and Brush streets, at
which time all Grand Lodge Of
ficers; Chancellor Commanders;
Grand Court officers and Worthy
Councillor; also several special
invited guest of the City will be
present to greet the Supreme
Chancellor, Attorney S. A. T. Wat
kins.
The public installation will be
held at Ebenezer A. M. e. Church
at p. m. at which time all the To-
cal Lodges and Courts will be in
stalled by the Supreme Chancel-
lor, following his address. Since
this will be the first time in the
history of the Order in this State
such ceremonies have been given
from all indication a large crowd
will be present.
All who are present will be Civ
en- a financial statement of the
Order in this State ending June
30, 1886, that all may know the
true facts Of the Order, for this
institution is holding together
practical Fraternity and Modern
Business; that has gained and il