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The Washington times., 1936-12-03
OLD RESIDENTS
HONOR WOMEN

A 71-year.old precedent was
broken last night.
The Association of Oldest In
habitants voted to permit women
to attend the annual banquet
Therefore, Paul E. Lesh and Com
missioner Melvin C. Hazen, prin
cipal speakers at the affair in the
Raleigh Hotel. Monday, will face
a mixed audience.
This radical action was taken
at melting Of the organization
in old Union Engine House last
night. Officers were elected at
the meeting as follows:
Theodore w. Noyes, president;
John Clagett Proctor, vice pres.
ident; j. Eliot Wright, recording
secretary; James F. Duhamel, cor.
responding secretary; John R. Ma.
honey, financial secretary; Frank
w. Bowling, marshal, and John
Clagett Proctor, chronicler.
The Washington times., 1936-12-03
DR.. TOWNSEND
INDICTED
Continued from Page y

room before his inquisitors could
recover from their surprise.
Immediately the matter was re-
ported to the House and it was
voted to certify him for Grand
Jury action. Within a few days
the certification was transmitted
to United States Attorney Leslie
C. Garnett over the signature of
the late Speaker Joseph E. Byrne.
It was one of the Speakers last
official acts.
Delay in presenting the Town
send case to the Grand Jury has
not been explained. It has been
reported, however, that the local
prosecutor followed instructions
from "higher-ups" to withhold the
matter until after the presidential
campaign. DR.. Townsend was re-
ported to have an enormous politi.
cal following in his campaign for
5000 monthly pensions for persons
over so years of age, and political
wiseacres are said to have feared
to make a test of his strength. His
pension plan required that the
pensioners spend their 5000 during
the month it was received.
The first count of the Townsend
Indictment charges that he "un-
lawfully, knowingly, and wilfully
and without leave of the commit
tee did depart and absent himself
from the presence of the said COM
mittee." The second count charges
that he failed to give testimony
before the committee.
Two counts are also contained
In the indictment against Wunder.
Both are based on separate sub
poenas that he failed to heed.
Kiefer is held under only one
count, alleging failure to respond
to summons.
The Washington times., 1936-12-03

in the ballroom of the Shoreham
Hotel.
The joint recital will be given
for the benefit of the House of
Mercy. Tickets are on sale at
Mrs. Dorsey's Concert Bureau; the
Shoreham Hotel, and Mrs. Henry
c. Morris, 2727 Thirty-fourth Pl.
N. w.
Mr.. Thomas, since winning the
signal radio honor, has sung bari
tone roles in opera under the di-
rection of Schelking, SevitSky,
Amato, Elkan and Kasschau. On
November /, he was heard in the
metropolitan Opera Addition of
the Air" on which occasion Viii
fred Pelletier, the well-known con-
ductor of these additions and staff
conductor of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, said, II think
Thomas L. Thomas is a fine artist
and I believe with time will be a
splendid new star among the
younger artists"
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend was
so impressed with Mr.. Thomas
voice that she has engaged him
to appear in the Monday Morning
Musicale series during the season
of 1878, and she heartily in
dorses him at this time.
Alix Young Maruchess, who has
espouSed the cause of the neglect
ed viola d'amore, will give a con-
cert tonight on her chosen instru-
ment at $50 o'clock at the Textile
Museum, 1880 S St. N. w.
Nine. Maruchess has made ap.
pearances with the Friends Of
Music in the Library of Congress
and the Coolidge Festival. She
has travelled in gypsy fashion the
country in an auto trailer several
times, often giving impromptu
concerts even in tourist camps.
The program follows: "Komm
Suesser Tod" (Bach), Concerto
in B Minor" (HandeD. "Medita-
tion Hebraique" (Bloch), "Arullo
del Burrito," La Maja y ell Ruise-
nor" (GrenadoS), Irish Dance"
Cyril Scott. This group will be
presented on the viola. The fol
lowing group will be played on
the viola d'amore: Suite" CMarc) =,
La Romanesca" (Sixteenth Cen
tury dance, LES Tendres
PlainteS" (Rameau), Scherzando"
(Hammer, "Polonaise," Tam
bourin" (Gossec). Dorothy Paul
will be at the piano.
The first of a series of eight
programs of chamber music pre-
sented under the Gertrude Clarke
Whittall Foundation was given
last night in the Chamber Music
Auditorium of the Library of Con-
gresS by the Stradivarius Quartet
and Beryl Rubinstein, pianist.
The audience, which filled every
seat of the small auditorium, was
highly appreciative of the efforts
of the Quartet which used the set
of Stradivarius instruments that
were given the Division of Music
last spring by Mrs. Whittall.
The program opened with
transcription for string quartet by
Alfred Pochon. of "PaSsacaglia in
c Minor" (Bach). which proved ~
be an attractive quartet arrange
ment with plenty of motion for
all the instruments. The bass figu-
ration usually present in a passa-
caglia was not so evident with the
V1oloncello given more melodic
lines. The work was not quite up
to the traditional quartet form.
The beauty of tone of the
StradivariuS violoncello was ad-
mirably displayed by Ivan d'Ar-
chambeau, violoncellist of the
quartet, when he played Bee
thoven's SONATA in D, opus 1O2.
No. q" with Beryl Rubinstein at
the piano. Both of the Allegro
movements contained fast dis.
play passages and the Adagio was
devoted to charming melody.
Although d'Archambeau did not
The Washington times., 1936-12-03
WARRANT JAM
HOLDS GRIEF
FOR POLICE

Improvements in the methods OF
handling the thousands OF war
rants issued each year against
motorists for minor traffic intrac-
tionS were discussed at length yes
terday at a conference of officials
IN the Police Court chambers OF
Presiding Judge John P. Mcmahon.
At the conclusion of the session,
which was attended by Major Er-
nest w. Brown. superintendent OF
police, Corporation Counsel Elwood
Seal and Judge Isaac R. Hit,
n Judge Mcmahon said the subject
had been gone into rather infor-
mally" and that no important con-
clusion had been reached. Another
similar meeting will be held at an
early date.
Warrants a Problem
The problem Of serving these
warrants has long been a pressing
one, but this years accumulation
far exceeds that of any previous
year.
To formulate some workable
plan by which traffic violators
can be hailed into court within a
reasonable length of time is the
objective of these meetings, Judge
Mcmahon said.
Under the present system,
motorists are inclined to ignore
tickets placed on their illegally
parked cars until the end of the
year.
Adds to Congestion
This, it has been pointed out,
makes for a congestion Of the
entire court and traffic bureau
machinery which the officials feel
is not altogether necessary.
It has long been the custom of
the Police Court staff of the Cor
poration Counsel's office to refuse
issuance of a warrant if the COM
planning policeman fails to make
application for it within IS days.
There is no set regulation cover
ing this, according to Assistant
Corporation Counsel Glenn Sim
mon.
This fall, nearly every attache
in Police Court was pressed into
service writing out warrants for
which applications had been made
as far back as January. These
warrants were sent by the hun
dreds to the Traffic Bureau, jam
ming that department as thorough
ly as it had the Police Court.
Motorists at Fault
Another apparent discrepancy
which the officials are trying to
iron out, arises when hundreds of
motorists named in the warrants
moved, leaving no record Of their
new address.
This resulted not only in the
inability of police to serve the war
rants, but also in the filing of
thousands of additional charges of
failure to change address against
these delinquents.
The applications for 1887 tags
which have not already been
mailed will not be mailed until
the warrants against the owners
of those cars have been satisfied
by the posting of collateral at the
bureau, it was explained today.
Police Too Gentle
Laxity of police in serving the
warrants when they are finally
placed in their hands; inefficiency
of the various clerical staffS
charged with the issuing of them,
and the tendency of the general
public to ignore original tickets
have from time to time been
blamed for the mess in which the
Traffic Bureau annually finds it.
self.
The cooperation of the police,
judges and Corporation Counsel's
office, as evidenced by this most
recent attempt to remedy a state
of affairs which seems to be no
body's problem, forecasts, accord
ing to Judge Mcmahon, greatly
relieved conditions by the time the
Districts next warrant season"
rolls around.
The Washington times., 1936-12-03
BY CARL L. DENIES

Thomas L. Thomas, young
American baritone who won the
national $1,000 Atwater Kent
Radio Addition prize in 1882, will
appear in joint recital with DR..
Kurt Hetzel, Washington pianist
and conductor. Wednesday after
noon, December 9 at $3.50 o'clock
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Miss Stamp to Sneak

COLLEGE PARK, Md, Dec. 8.
Miss Adele Stamp, dean of women
at the University of Maryland, will
deliver the principal address at
the monthly meeting of the Rock.
vile Women'S Club in Rockville
this afternoon. Her topic will be
Adult Education
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The World of Music

Theme From First Movement Symphony No. 40 by Mozart
"A suggestion for using prescribing theme
appreciation rdUe their pupils clip and
paste filing card NTH
file them alphabetical order
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

OA44AC VIC OV40s yOA u4dy 4AdVC
remembered, Mr.. MaSefield pic
lures the banished poet as IAN
old, bleak, broken-hearted man,
dressed in wool trousers and a
sheepskin coat, living in dire pow
erty on biscuit, salt mullet and the
country vinegar"
He is sorry sight, but his story
is sorrier. It has to do with the
perfidity of Julia, the Caesars
granddaughter, who turned from
choral odes to politics and so to
the chain Of circumstances lead
ing to Ovid's disgrace and exile
at Pontus.
Mr.. Masefield sharpens the
drama with a happy brevity and
cuts short the narrative on Pin.
clan Hill, a place Ovid loved but
was never to see again.
Masefield's next thought Is Of
Australia" a shorter poem per-
Sonal enough to be a page torn
from his own diary. In "The
Will" he writes of the power of
the mind and utters an optimistic
hope for it's increase. His ''WeSt-
minister Hall" we'll justifies the
position he holds in England. And
in Joseph Hodges, or The Corn, "
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

he links the destiny Of man to
"the all-living sun and the all
giving earth." Lighter moods
divert his attention in THE Wild
Geese" gay bit of doggerel, and
he continues writing of "Hope"
and "The Queen" and Of a Feb
ruary Morning" in which beauty
replaced the winter darkness.
There is a longer narrative
poem called Nets" in which he
reveals the whimsical side of his
humor. And a still longer, more
serious effort, "The Long Drive, "
in which he offers some of his
most exquisite writing.
Dick Wilmington reappears
with his cat in "The Boy from
Pauntley" and brings the collec-
tion up to the close where MaSe-
field makes the sober request
print not my life nor my letters,
put them by. When I am dead
let memory Of me die" We can
not suppose he meant us to take
that very earnestly but it makes
an effective sentiment.
"A Letter from Pontus," and
other verse, by John MaSefield.
Published by Macmillan.
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are rare, although it must be said
that the realistic pieces in most
instance demonstrate great imagi'
ration and vision.
Street scenes of New York,
Illinois wheat fields, winter in the
country, wharf scenes - all these
and many more are among the
from all sections of the country.
themes tackled by these artists
Water colors play a prominent
role in this exhibition. They are
as matter of fact, beautifully
handled. There is smoothneSs and
carefulness in the use of this medi-
UNI among the Federal Art Project
artists that is very frequently lack"
ing among other groups.
That SplotchineSS n d seeming
disregard for what picture might
look like at close range are fortu-
nately lacking in this showing Of
water colors.
The artists represented in the
exhibition hail from the District
of Columbia (Bernice Cross and
j. Rayford), Massachusetts,, New
York, Colorado, Illinois, Louis.
lana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania.
Wisconsin, California, Ohio, New
Jersey and Iowa.
In addition to the paintings,
there is a large representation in
graphic arts, which demonstrates
healthy and varied activity in
this field.
The exhibition of children'S
work is also extremely interesting.
The work Of children who have
been given. art instruction by
Works Progress Administration
artists in the various community
centers, settlement houses and the
like throughout the country iS
shown in the exhibition.
District Children
Only children of washington
and New York are represented.
A group of Washington children
of the Friendship House is repre-
sented with a design for a mural
which rally is a credit not only
to the children themselves, to
whom much credit is due, but
also to the teachers who aided
them. 49,.
The mural is a circus oesign.
picturing all manner of circus ami.
mails and entertainers in a flood
of brilliant color. A group Of Sev.
eral children between the ages or
9 and 13 worked on the design
under the direction of Miss Ber-
nice Cross, which is also repre-
sented elsewhere in the exhibition.
The children who worked on
the mural are Morton and Wilbur
Bandler, Ralph. Alphonse, Louis
and Mike Basils, Alfred Byron
Jack McClelland, Ralph White
and Bruce McBade. ~
The exhibition, which will ro.
main on view through July 5, is
open on week days from 10 a. m.
to S p. m. and on Sundays from
After July S. the Phillips Me.
mortal Gallery will be closed until
October, when 1t will reopen with
its regular collections.
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sketches by this artist, all Of which
have been signed by the subjects.
These portrait sketches have
travelled all over the world. In
Tokyo, Japan, former Premier Kei-
suke Ikada very graciously signed
his portrait, not only in English,
but also in his native tongue.
The artists portrait of the gov
ernor of Hawaii Travelled to Homo
lulu where it was Immediately
signed and returned by Governor
PoindeXter.
Portrait Sketches
President Roosevelt, in signing
the sketch of himself, requested
one "for his children" which was
furnished. Jean Harlow, the screen
star, considered Mr.. Herrin's por-
trait sketch of the President such
a splendid likeness that she also
requested a duplicate. The star
has manifested deep interest in
Mr.. Herrin's career, and has in her
possession several of his sketches.
One of Mr.. Herrin'S favorite
pastels, incidentally. is Of Miss
Harlow in which he brings out her
delicate beauty, coloring, and en-.
lightment on her true character.
Probably the most outstanding
young woman of her race, Anna
May Wong, was another represent
ing the screen, as well as the
Orient, to affix her signature to
Mr.. Herrin's portrait of her, both
in Chinese and English, with a
gracious inscription commenting
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

Therefore. it was bound to hap
pen that Mr.. Pendlebury should
get into trouble when he over
stepped the bounds.
And, get in trouble he did when
he spoke to Venus in front Of the
Duke Of wellington statue. It
was a strange thing for Mr.. Pen
dlebury to do. But, on the other
hand 1t was much stranger for
Venus to be there so Mr.. Pendle-
bury could speak to her.
According to Mr.. James Laver
this meeting was but the begin
ming Of a number Of humorous
and startling incidents that hap
pened in London when the gods
from Mt. Olympus decided to come
down and see what the earth was
like.
Mr.. Laver tells all about it in
his latest Panic Among Puri-
tanS."
Jupiter led his galaxy Of tenn
peramental stars. OF course, his
appearance proved exceedingly
upsetting to several young ladies
due to the fact that he appeared
first as a swan, then as a white
bull and several times in human
form.
Along with the gods and god
desses, the fauns, dryads and
nymphs appeared to entertain the
people in the country while their
masters and mistresses paraded
around the city's streets.
Julian, the poet, and his Sylvia
benefited right handsomely from
the return. Julian learned Just
what it means to be q poet and
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

Journalist, handy knowledge OF
the medical and teaching profes-
Sions, and the ability to turn out
a frank and enjoyable story.
Perhaps we ought to make that
plural, for there are several stories
in "Village Chronicle. There is,
for instance, the story OF George
Adams, proprietor of the local
printShop and newspaper, who
looks unhappily ahead to a fu-
ture darkened by the threat Of
cancer.
There is the story of Billy Bur
ton, son of the dean. who faces a
jail sentence for driving while
drunk and colliding with the car
driven by George Adams.
"Village Chronicle" the story OF
a town, by James McConnaughey.
Published by Farrar and Rinehart.
The Washington times., 1936-06-20
. Who Owns
Anerica?

''Who Owns American" is a vol
ume containing series of articles
written by 19 men. It was edited
by Herbert Agar and Allen Tate.
According to the introduction
by Mr.. Agar it is directed to give
a picture of what the country is
facing at this time and point to a
road away from Fascism and Com
munism.
The authors who contributed in
clude David Cushman Coyle, Lyle
H. Lanier, John C. Rave, Frank
Lawrence Owsley, Richard B. Ran
som, John Donald Wade and Hill
aire Belloc.
who Owns American" pub
iShed by Houghton 6 Mifin.
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

Village chronicle, announcer Sc
lection of "The DISCOVERIES" is an
excellent argument in favor of the
Farrar and Rinehart policy. 1t
was chosen, not on its authors
past merits, but on its own.
And you would do far better to
take one engrossing book such as
this on your vacation travels than
to waver undecidedly before the
latest contributions Of well-eStab-
lished but less able authors.
James McConnaughey, who did
the job, laughingly admits that
he came out of Yale with the low
est final examination and term
grades in Latin ever given in that
institution" Fortunately, he didn't
need Latin to write his Village
Chronicle"
He had everything it took. The
shrewd all-seeing eye Of the born
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

on the sketch. zone of Mr.. Her
rims pastelS is of Miss WongD
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Ameri-
cas- Minister to Denmark, received
from the artist a portrait sketch
which she signed in Copenhagen
and returned to Mr.. Herrin.
His portrait of the late Senator
Duncan U. Fletcher (Fla.) was
such true likeness that in COM
menting on it the Senator stated !:
"It is admirably done. I have
never seen anything of the kind so
good" And Irwin s. Cobb, Amer
ica's outstanding humoristactor,
upon signing his portrait by Mr..
Herrin, wrote: Congratulations. ]
could use it to shave by
In addition to his work, this
artist, who is 35 years old, tall,
slender, and athletic, devotes his
life to his charming young wife,
often his model. and to his seven
year-old daughter.
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

The exhibition is comprised Of
work done by workers on the Fed
eral Art Project throughout the
country and is described as truly
representative of all those engaged
in the art program.
Approximately 100 works are on
view in the Phillips Gallery exhi-
bition - designs for murals, oils,
water colors and prints. And for
the most part, they are well done.
The exhibition can also be said
to be representative of the trend in
modern art. Drawing, as it does,
from young as well as old artists,
the Federal Art Project takes in a
wide territory in art expression,
and in the exhibition can be seen
very modern realism as well
as conventional expression Of con-
ventional themes.
Water COlOrs
There are imaginative subjects,
although these are in the minority.
That is to say, the flights of fancy
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

Mr.. Herrin has been an artist,
all his life-that is, since he was
old enough to hold crayon or a
pencil in his hand-but it was
only about five years ago that he
started his career as a pastellist.
His pastels have attracted wide
interest wherever exhibited, due
to their realism and definite por-
trayal- of character nuances. His
masterful and vivid handling Of
colors at once distinguishes his
work ais his own individual and
unusual style.
The artist is formulating plans
now for depicting in all their ma
tive colors, beautiful senoritaS
from Cuba and Central and
South America, which will, in
itself, comprise group worthy OF
display in some one Of the beauti-
full galleries of art in those color
full lands.
He is working on a canvas now
which will depict an Egyptian girl
in natural surroundings, without
emitting, Of course, the sacred
lotus Of the Nile, and all Of the
mystery of that enchanting land.
Lighting Effects
His paintings of nudes are
known for their unusual poses,
which by varied lighting effects,
produce startling results.
Mr., Herrin has no preference
between the blond and brunette
type in models. except in portray
ing some particular or individu-
allied subject, which definitely
lends itself to the idea in mind.
His nude paintings in either
type of feminine pulchritude,
blond or brunette, are outstand-
ing for their unique backgrounds
which contrast so Strikingly with
the subjects he uses.
His preference is the slim,
"stream-lined" modern girl who
ombine es sophistication with
marked feminine appeal. He be.
1ieves they lend charm to any set,
ting, but he emphasizes sophiSti,
cation in selecting his models.
His nude studies have definite
warmth and appeal, which be.
speaks the success he has expe
rienced in this particular type OF
painting.
Mr.. Herrin has done pastels OF
International celebrities from all
parts of the world. But portraits
and nudes are not his only works
His past1eS also included animals
and flowers. And he has done some
particularly striking paintings OF
orchids and roses.
The artist possesses a remark
able collection of black and white
portraits. It was ex-President Cal
win Coolidge who inspired him to
begin such a splendid collection
because of Mr.. Coolidge's stimu
1ating words about the penciled
portrait done Of himself.
All walks Of life are represented
IN this unusual group Of portrait
The Washington times., 1936-06-20
Current
Art

Phillips Memorial Gallery
Exhibition of WPA oils. water
COlOra and designs for murais.
Library of Congress
Exhibition of drawings by Ed
ward Penfield and of wOOdCuts.
sketches, oils, water cOlOrs, pas-
tels and drawings by Alice Bar
Der stephens.
Arts Club
Summer exhibition OF members
work.
Public Library
Exhibition of photographs by
George w. Harris.
Yard School of Art
Exhibition of students work.
National Museum
WPA exhibit of chiIdren's work
and graphic arts,
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Sylvia just what it means to be
in love.
In the end the gods called their
council and all vote to go back
where they came from except
Mars.
It would have been extremely
bad for Mr.. Pendlebury's vanity If
he had ever learned that he was
the big reason that Venus decided
that tbs earth was a pretty slow
place after all.
panic Among Puritans," by
James Laver, published by Farrar
and Rinehart.
The Washington times., 1936-06-20
The Best
Sellers
FICTION

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Stories of Three Decades
Thomas Mann knopf
The Last Puritan
George Santayana Scr1bner
sparkenbroke
Charles Morgan Macmillan
The Doctor
Mary Roberts RinehGrt FaFraR
Jamaica Inn
Daphne du MaurieF Doubleday
Education Before Verdun
Arnold Zweig Viking
NoNFICTIoN
Wake Up and Live
DOrOthea Brande simon
Inside Europe
John Gunther Harper
American Language
H. L. Mencken knOpf
Around the World in Eleven
Years
Patience. Richard and John
Able StOKeS
Oscar Wilde Discovers
America
LLOYD Lewis q Henry Justin
Smith haEcOurS
The Washington times., 1936-06-20
Unusual Exhibition Truly
Represents Trend in
Modern Art

One of the unusual exhibitions of to be shown
in Washington view at the Phillips Memorial Gallery
1900 Twentyfrs St. NJ w.
It exhibition of paintings and graphic art made by
artists receiving Government salaries Government project
for ALLEGATION Government agencies and the show being
held in private gallery.
The Washington times., 1936-06-20
Only Mars Votes Against
Return to Olympus

Charles Pendebury admitted without quam that he was
perhaus one of London ptop about town. Of course
there was nothing brah about Mr. Pendeby and he certainly