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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
DE PAUW SCHOLARSHIPS
WON BY 10 PUPILS
Awards Pay $500 Toward Freshman
Enrolment.

~ thttcd Press
GREENCASTLE, Ind, MAY 21-
Scholarship awards to the 10 rank
ing candidates who competed in the
Presidents scholarship contest were
announced today by Dean G.. Her
pert Smith of the De Paw faculty.
Each scholarship pays 5000 to-
ward the freshman year enrolment
IN the College of Liberal Arts.
winners included Nancy Arm
strong, Princeton; Donald Booty
Greencastle; Walter Carroll. Log
ansport; David McCord, Indianap-
Oils; Alma Jean Winfrey, Danville;
Jane Spencer, Indianapolis; Robert
Best, Paris, Ill; Jean Light, Deca-
tur, ILL.,; Robert Weismiller. Chicago.
Five alternates include Marie
Carter, Glen Ellyn, ILL.,; Frances
Gavin, haywood, ILL.,; Crowell
Knight, Crown Point; Morris Rit-
chic, Lebanon, and Robert Pence.
Hammond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
Shaving Suspect Arrested

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 2I.-
The arrest in Vancouver, Wash. Of
Richard Kretchmer, 10, as a suspect
in the Staying here year ago OF
Edmund E. Prentice. so, wealthy
finance company executive, was an
nounced today by Sheriff Roy H.
Wolfe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
FOUR WOMEN NAMED
TO WELFARE BOARD
Appointed as Investigators in
Morgan County.

Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May I'll
-Four young women, all university
graduates, are to serve as investi-
gators for the Morgan County We'll
fare Board, according to appoint
ments announced by Mrs. Floyd
Southern, director.
Those named for the field work
are Miss Kathryn G.. Atkinson, ABut-
Ter University graduate, now at
tending Indiana University, and
Misses Sallie Price Buchanan, Jean
Fischbach and Geneva Van Da~
ment, all former I. u. students.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21

Photos by Acme.
Three Indiana artists are rep
resented in the First National EX-
hibition of American Art now on
view at Rockefeller Center, New
York City. The show has drawn
entries from 48 states and Amer
lean possessions.
Above is Maine Landscape" by
Edmund Schildknecht, nldianapo-
lis, and below "Old Man Hunter"
by Ruthven Byrum, Anderson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
FAY WEBB Is GRANTED
DIVORCE FROM VALLEE
Three Years of Legal Bickering
End in Los Angeles Court.

AHhec H ears OF Legal B1ckering
End in Los Angeles Court.
By United Press
LOS ANGELES, May 21.-Three
years of legal pickering between
Rudy Vallee and his erstwhile
dream girl" dark-eyed Fay Webb,
had ended today after the former
screen actress obtained an uncon-
tested divorce decree.
The crooner's alleged abuse made
her life a nightmare, Miss Webb
testified at the Commute session
yesterday in Superior Judge Arthur
Crum's court.
Judge Crum approved a property
settlement in conjunction with the
divorce, giving Miss Webb a 500 a
week until she dies or remarries.
The crooner recently also settled a
lump sum on her. The amount was
not disclosed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
Civic Group Plans Party

The Riverside Civic Association
is to hold bridge and bunco party
at 8 tomorrow night in the South
Grove clubhouse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21

night despite the loss of wheel
on the takeoff.
Learning that the wheel had been
lost, Jordan signaled the ground
crew of his plight and asked that
the emergency equipment be made
ready for an attempted landing.
Easing out of the darkness into
the fioodlights of the field, Jor-
dan set the ship down to a two
point landing and his passengers,
Emery Nemeth, Paul Hykes and
Benjamin Hersch, Studebaker Corp.
engineers, were unshaken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
CITY OF BEECH GROVE
SUED IN AUTO CRASH
$500 Asked by Victim of Traffic
Accident.

1tmeS Special
GREENFIELD, Ind, May I'll
The city of Beech Grove, Indian
apolis suburb, and William Hert,
municipal employee, are named de-
PENDANTS in a $500 damage suit
filed in Hancock Circuit Court.
The plaintiff, Ralph DeBoor,
charges that an auto driven by Mr..
Hert and owned by the city collided
with his car at Beech Grove in
tersection, resulting in his injury
The case was brought here from
Marion County on change of venue
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-21
LANDS PLANE SAFELY
WITH WHEEL MISSING
South Bend Pilot Saves Passengers
From Shakeup.

BY CHtteG PFCSS
SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 21.-
Carl Jordan safely landed his air
plane carrying three passengers last
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
Bv CARL L. DENIES

Last year, when the Warner
Brothers produced that mar
velous dream fantasy of Shake
speare's Midsummer Nights
Dream" a noted exponent of
the Russian ballet was called
upon to produce the ballets
with which the movie abounds.
Bronislava Nijinska, in conceiv-
ing the fairy-like ballet work,
called in a protege of Anna Paw
Iowa, Mini Theilade, to appear as
the chief ballerina. Vaslav Min
sky, who became one of the most
noted ballet dancers to leave Rus
STA before the revolution, is a
brother of BroniSlava Nijinska.
The names of Pavlowa, NijinSky
and Diaghileff, to mention only
few, have flashed before the
eyes of the present and past gen.
Grafton as standing for the high
est in artistic merit in the field
of the ballet that it is interesting
to seek further what is back of
the famous Russian School of the
Ballet.
It may seem strange that other
European countries with many
more centuries of effort in the
various arts should bow to Russia,
which took up the ballet seriously
only about the middle Of the
Eighteenth Century.
Famous School
At about the time that the
American colonies were beginning
to be conscious of the expressing
hand of a mother country, Queen
Elizabeth of Russia, in travelling
through Europe, became interested
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
A New Book
For Boys

"What'll I give my son to read
during the summer" one of our
readers demands. And we answer,
you might give him Lawrence, the
Arabian Knight"
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is
practically too much for the juve-
nile mind to handle. But since
everybody is talking about Law
Sence your boy may just as we'll
start talking about him, too.
Harry living Shumway's story
of Lawrence will need no intro
duction to parents who remember
the work he did in albert, the
Soldier-King." But if you are un-
familiar with his style a glance at
the first pages will erase your
doubts and possibly stir up enough
enthusiasm to cause you to finish
the book by reading aloud to the
youngsters in your family.
It covers the saga of Lawrence
from his early boyhood to his re-
cent death and tempers it's historic
revelations with a kindly interest
In the young and inquiring mind.
Lawrence, the Arabian Knight"
q book for boys by Harry Irving
Shumway. Published by Page.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27

names tower far above the others.
Our discussion will be limited
to these men and their influence.
The full bloom of the Russian
Imperial Ballet probably reached
it's height of perfection just pre-
viouS to the time of the World
War.
A most amazing selection of
artists was available including:
Matilda Kshesinskaya, Varvara
Nikitina, Anna JohannSen, Ku-
lichevskaya, Julia Sedova, Ia
mara Karsavina, Vii, A. Vaga-
nova, Lydia Kyasht, Lubov Ego
roVa, Gerdt, Bekefi, Obukoff,
Theodor Kozloff, Fokine, Min
ska, Tihomiroff, Mordkin, Volt
nine, Novikoff and Smoltzoff.
This list is far from complete,
but is representative of the great
est assembly of ballet artists in
any one organization.
Continued Next Saturday,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
What Is the Background of Russian
School of the Ballet?

ARE reproduced from his extensive
collection. Even Nicolas Legat,
who drew the original caricatures,
in leaving Russia at the time of the
revolution was unable to retain a
set of these interesting prints, and
now has III his possession only a
portion of the set.
For First Time
Nicolas Legat now conducts a
ballet school in London and he
has assembled from his former as
SociateS and friends the carica-
lures of which one hundred sets
were printed. Thus it is that most
of these caricatureS will be repro
duced publicly on this page for
the first time. Frequent incidents
from Legat's recent book, 1.-THE
Story of lie Russian School," will
be used in this series.
In developing the Imperial Bal
let, ballet masters from European
countries were invited from time
to time 10 teach their particular
school of dancing. The Emperor
Nicholas I invited a Swede, Ivan
Legat, inGo the Imperial Ballet.
Ivan was the grandfather of the
author of the above-named book
and one of the greatest living bal
let masters.
Shortly after the introduction
of Legat, another Swede, Chris
tan Johannsen, journeyed to
Russia and became a member of
the Imperial Ballet. Further i'm
portations were received such as,
Marius Petipa from France, and
Enrico cchetti from italy.
Upon the work of the Legats,
Johannsen, Petipa and Cecchetti
was founded the modern fame
and glory of the Russian Imperial
Ballet.
While there were many lesser
dancers and ballet masters, these
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
Din the tYpes of DANCING Sac saw

Pin the types Of dancing she saw
in the several countries.
Persuading then-famouS bal
let master to return with her to
Russia, she founded a ballet
school. The first pupils were the
children of servants and young
servant girls, who were at that
time in slavery. Succeeding mon
archs added to the group of enter
tainerS until 100 years later there
was the famous Imperial Theater
School.
This school was divided into
three groups: Dramatic, music and
ballet.
In the earlier days, pupils were
frequently chosen to study, for
instance, dramatics that were bet
ter fitted for music or the ballet.
or vice versa. There were devel-
oped generations Of performers in
the same family in all the
branches of the theatrical arts.
Of great local interest is the
name of Bekefi, which, like the
family name of Nijinska, is famous
for several generations in the Rus
sian ballet. The caricature shown
above of Alfred Bekefi was drawn
by Nicolas Legat, the most noted
ballet master of the Russian I'm
perial Ballet at the time of the
revolution.
Alfred Bekefi, a member of the
Imperial Ballet, was the uncle OF
Theodore Bekefi. The likeness OF
the latter appears on the upper
right corner of this page. Thee
dore Bekefi and Vaslav NijinSky
were classmates IN the Imperial
Ballet School, graduating in 1909.
The material which is hereby
presented is drawn largely from
the memoirs Of Theodore Bekefi,
who now conducts a ballet school
in Washington. The caricatures
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
Current
Art
Phillips Memorial Gallery

Phillips Memorial Gallery
Exhibition of WPA oils, water
colOrs and designs for murals.
Library of Congress
Exhibition of drawings by Ed
ward Penfield and of wOOdcuts,
sketches, oils, water cOlOrs, pas
tells and drawings by Alice Bar
Der Stevens
Arts Club
summer exhibition of members
work.
Public Library
Exhibition of photographs by
George w. Harris.
Yard School of Art
Exhibition of studenst' work.
National Museum
WPA exhibit of Children's work
and graphic arts, closing Tuesday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27

SGreeJS NOrLnWeSL.
All of the photographs are por-
traits, made in the early part OF
this century, of men and women
who figured in history.
Bearded men and Victorian
ladies, heroes, legislators, states
men, poets-there are men and
women frc n the cream of the ma
ton at the turn of the century.
The photographs are I'll beauti-
full portraits, and the subjects
themselves are extremely inter
eSting.
There are Admiral George
Dewey of Manila Bay fame;
"Uncle" Joe Cannon, who ruled
the House with an iron hand; An
drew Carnegie, the Scotch lad who
became one of the country's lead
ing ohilanthropiSts; Victor Herbert,
whose melodies have lived; Edwin
Markham, the great poet; Samuel
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
Fairy Story

Even grownups like to look at
the illustrations in "Old john" a
charming example of Irish folk
lore, written by Marin Cregan and
illustrated by Helen SeWell.
1t reVolves around a benevolent
old shoemaker whose family circle
stretches to include stray cat in
addition to a blue terrier, a white
goat and an industrious red hen.
"Old john" a fairy story for
children. Published by Macmillan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
Mystery Story

Douglas M. Hoffecker has writ
ten one of the best of the recent
mysteries in his 1.-The Wall Street
Murders"
Starting right off with three
nice murders surrounded with all
the battling circumstances a good
imagination can stand, the tale
Jumps ahead in quick even tempo.
"The Wall Street Murders" by
Douglas M. Hoffecker, published
by Fortunys.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27

Gompers, who made labor history,
and numerous others.
All together, there are % por.
traits, in very unusual and very
interesting exhibition.
The show closes at the end OF
the month.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
LOCAL BALLET DIRECTOR AND RUSSIAN DANCE SCHOOL LINK

FIRST series the Russian ballet Carl Denies music
The Times the link Theodore Bkef upper
% Washington choeogape and the great Russian school, The
middle Alfred Bek Theodore uncle Alfred
member of the Imperial Ballet the drawing Of him made
of that At left Vaslav Njnky,
artist cassmate of Theodore Bek Lower bottom photo
Bronslava Ninsk the
motion picture Midsummer Nights Dream Lower right
Mini Thlade, chief baerina Of the shakesperean film
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
Photographs of Notab1es
In Library Exhibit

Photographs made by of the best known photographers
in Washington, George w. Harris view in q
special exhibition at the Public Library, Eighth and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-27
The Best
Sellers

FICTION
San Felice
Vincent Sheean Doubleday
The Doctor
Mary Roberts Rinehart Farrar
Sparkenbroke
Charles Morgan Macmillan
Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier Doubleday
Days of Wrath
Andre Malraux Random House
Stories of Three Decades
Thomas Mann KnOpf
NONFICTI0N
Wake Up and Live
DOrOthea Brande Simon
American Language
H. L. Mencken KnOpf
Inside Europe
John Gunther Harper
My Great, Wide Beautiful
World
Juanita Harrison Macmillan
Around the World in Eleven
Years
Patience, Richard and John Able
Stokes
Evening star., 1936-01-12

of the Lincoln Memorial assured, the
main feature of the Mcmillan COM
mission design was safe.
Federal public buildings were pro-
posed by the commission in the i'm
mediate vicinity OF the executive
head around Lafayette Square. North
of B street-now Constitution ave-
nue-and south of Pennsylvania ave
nue., the triangle was allotted to other
public buildings, those of the Dis
trict, including an armory, court
and market. and this scheme care
fully maintained the vista of the
washington Monument, down Louisi-
ana avenue.
THE commisson assigned the site
now occupied by the Archives
Building to the Municipal Building,
but the area was not large enough. SAYS
Mr.. Partridge, and the building mas
now been centered at John Marshall
place. But funds for the home OF the
city's government are not yet forth
coming.
AS Mr.. Partridge sees it, the main
departure from the Mcmillan plan,
perhaps one of scale, has been the
erection of a huge Fedora! group in
the Triangle, originally set aside for
individual District buildings, with the
consequent loss of the Louisiana
avenue vista. He considers this prob
ably justifiable, due to the fact that
the land available adjacent to La
fayette Square was woefu!ly insufhci-
ent for expanding Federal activities.
Treasury Annex No. was the first
of the proposed Federal buildings ad-
Joining Lafayette Square. The House
and Senate Once Buildings. too, are
constructed in accordance with the
plan of 1901.
The gardens at the base of the
washington MonurIent. as projected
"a years ago, Mr.. Partridge explains.
were composed of 6. series of raised
terraces. surrounding sunken garden.
The Monument was provided IN this
design with a wide terraced base.
reached by broad fight Of steps,
leading from the gardens to the upper
level. where the Mall abruptly ended
In 1888. Congress appropriated
funds for the study Of further plans
for this area and a commission oi
eminent engineers declared that the
unbalanced amount Of cut and I'll
Evening star., 1936-01-12

U) The late Senator James Mcmillan, whose his
tory has given the plan for the development of WASH
inston ~ The Mall and Monument gardens projected
in the plan of 1901 (3) Frederick Law Olmsted, lone
survivor of that gallant band associated with the commits
sion of 1901 ( An air of the Mall taken during the
early stages of the present roadbuildng and land
scaping pan 5) Dr. Charles Moore, former secretary
Senator Mcmillan and chairman of the National
Commission of Fine Arts. (6) Charles Follen McKim,
designer of the central composition of Washington from
the Capitol the Potomac
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Plan Devised Century and Based Upon LEnant
Principles Translated Acuay Despite Many Difficulties and Few Defeats
Six Members of Body Survive See Work Nearing End

municipal housekeeping, as DR.. Moore
puts it, before he could talk intelll-
gently of identification. Being
railroad man himself, he took lively
interest in that subject here and got
the carriers to stop switching in the
open streets, near Key Bridge.
Out of this intimacy with affairs
of the city grew his love of the Ma
tion's Capital. which in turn bios
somed into the Mcmillan plan.
Mr.. Partridge declares that the
chief aim of the commission was to
restore, as far as conditions per-
mitted, the L'Enfant plan and to re-
establish the principles on which he
worked. The Washington Monument
site had been moved south and west
of L'Enfant's designated spot. The
Mall-or public walk as LEnfant
termed it-had been left open as a
park, but sections of the land had
been decided by Congress to the De-
partment of Agriculture and the
Smithsonian Institution.
The consulting architect of the
Planning Commission contends that
fortunately, perhaps, this led to the
preservation Of this open space, for
there had arisen strong opposition to
its treatment as single park. on
the ground that it divided Washing
ton into two parts. Even in recent
days, it was considered dangerous to
cross the area at night.
THE only building worthy of con-
sideration was the old Smith
sonian Institution and that had been
placed SO far south of the axis that
it offered no serious impediment to
the start of the ''tapis vert" OF the
1901 Mall plan. On either side of
the central avenue of L'Enfant were
allotted sites for the residences of the
Ambassadors, replaced in the 1901
plan by sites for museums and gal
leries of art.
In accordance with this plan Of
1901, the new Natural History Mu-
scum, the George Washington Memo
rial Building, the Freer Gallery have
been placed and some think that Mr..
MELONS gift Of a gallery of art will
be located on the north side of the
Mall at Fourteenth street and Con-
stitution avenue, opposite the De-
parment Of Agriculture.
The Mcmillan Commission found,
on beginning its task, that a large
amount of land had been added west
of the Washington Monument,
through dredging the channels and
the filling of the Potomac Flats.
Plans had been made for subdividing
this new area into building lots. The
commission conceived the idea Of ex-
tending the axis from the Capitol to
the Washington Monument and as
near the water as possible, where
there would be constructed a me-
mortal to the Gettysburg address.
East of this was to be small statue
of Lincoln, facing the Capitol.
Mr.. Partridge declares that one OF
the outstanding victories Of the Com
mission of Fine Arts and DR.. Charles
Moore was over the enemies OF this
site. With the Mall and the location
Evening star., 1936-01-12

the public mind for long time, and
every one said it had to be done, says
the Fine Arts Commission chairman.
w. v. Cox, a public-spirited citizen.
who was president Of the Second Ma
tional Bank, conceived the idea of the
Fort Drive-connecting the old Civil
War forts hereabouts with an appro-
pirate highway-a project that still
remains to be fulfilled completely, al
though much has been accomplished
through purchases of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis-
sion.
THE Presidents have always been
interested in these developments,
declares DR.. Moore, since the time Of
Theodore Roosevelt, in whose admins
tration the plan of 1901 was published.
Harding saved the plans for the
Arlington Memorial Bridge Coolidge
and Hoover and their Secretary of the
Treasury, Andrew w. Mellon, began
the Triangle development. now being
carried to fruition under President
Roosevelt.
"The force behind the plan today
is the force Of public sentiment" as
serts DR.. Moore, "and the people have
begun to feel that Washington is on
its way to being one Of the most beau
tiful cities in all the world"
DR.. Moore recalls that Viscount
Bryce, Ambassador Of Great Britain,
speaking before the Committee of One
Hundred on the Federal City, declared
that washington possesses a topog-
raphy sublime, with its hills and
rivers and forested areas. Against this
he conjured up the picture of the fiat
country in which the capitals of Eng
land and France are located.
I'VE must think of the District OF
Columbia in the very finest terms
not fanciful, but logical" says DR..
Moore.
And out Of the gathering mists Of
history came to him the words Of Sen
ator Mcmillan: Remember, Wash
ington is the Capital of the United
States and nothing is to good for it.
When you have q problem to solve
here, get the very ablest men to solve
it: then see that their advice is car
ried out" And. added the chairman
of the Fine Arts Commission, that is
the principle on which he built his
personal business success"
DR.. Moore Is candid In asserting that