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Evening star., 1936-03-12
HAPPY HOMES SEEN
AS TRANSIENT CURB
Psychiatrist Says Children Run
Away to Escape Mental
Stress.

Or. Esther L. Richards, Johns Hop
kinS University psychiatrist, summed
up the why's" of the juvenile tran
sient problem as frustrated attempts
by the child "to improve an uncom-
Portable situation" in an address yes
terday before 200 members and guests
Of the Travellers Aid Society.
The luncheon meeting, held at the
Y. w. C. A Building, Seventeenth and
K streets, was in celebration Of the
eociety's fifteenth anniversary.
I'VE take it for granted" Dr. Rich
ards said, that little Arthur loves his
next Of kin better than any others
around him. that he invariably prefers
his home to any other dwelling, and
that he honor his father and mother
regardless of whether they deserve
even a bowing recognition"
Yet, she said, the child is subjected
10 an unbearable load Of criticism il
he fails in any Of these superimposed
domestic obligations. 1t is in an escape
from "the uncomfortable situation
thus created" that children take to
the road" In an effort to improve their
lot, she said.
Miss Bertha Mccall Of New York,
ex-secretary of the National Asso-
citation of Travellers Aid and Trans
lent Services, made a brief talk in
which she prophesied a transient
problem growing proportionately with
increased transportation facilities"
Other speakers were Mrs. Margaret
Ford, executive secretary of the Trav-
elers' Aid Society staff, and Mrs. Ber-
nice Manwaring, staff register.
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DRIVE TO Be MADE
FOR HEALTH FUND
Sanford Bates of Social
Agencies Heads Committee
on D. C. Budget.

Sanford Bates, president Of the
Council Of Social Agencies, today
named q committee. with himself as
chairman, to campaign for restora-
ton of the budget estimates IN ap-
propriations for health and welfare
activities in the District,
The committee will seek q hearing
before the Senate subcommittee,
which win consider District appro-
priations next week. The council
voted at its monthly meeting to sup
port the Commissioners in their re-
quest for an additional 100000 for
relief.
The committee is composed Of
Bates, DR.. William Mcclellan, Mrs.
Frederick H. Brooke, Maj. Campbell
C. johnson, Joseph D. kaufman, H.
L. Rust, IT,: Mrs. William Kittle,
Herbert L. Willett, jr., and John Saul.
Attention Of the Senate subcom-
mittee will be called to '-the serious
harm that will be done to the COM
munity through inadequate appropri-
ations, which will make impossible
effective health and welfare services, +"
Bates said.
Willett, as director of the Com
munity Chest, again mentioned the
lack Of funds in the Chest for meeting
abnormal relief needs.
While certain Of our agencies have
been allotted relief funds for normal
needs arising in connection with fam
lily and other cases." he said, there
Is no provision made for taking care
Of the thousands Of families that will
be left without help when present
District relief funds are exhausted.
The Chest would gladly take care of
them were it possible, but our relief
funds are stretched to the utmost
limit in caring for families already
registered and to add any additional
persons to the rolls would simply mean
crowding OF some one equally worthy
and equally in need"
Evening star., 1936-03-12
S0R0PTIMISTS HERE
SELECT q DELEGATES
National Stadium Here Is Favored
and support Is Voted Sym
phony Orchestra

-Four delegates to the Soroptimists'
National Convention in Kansas City
June 1924 were elected, resolution
was passed favoring a proposed ma
tional stadium in the District and sup
port was given the National Symphony
Orchestra at meeting in the Willard
Hotel yesterday Of Washington Sorop-
timists.
Miss Ella Werner was elected presi-
dent Of the convention delegation;
Mrs. Edna Knight Gasch. alternate to
the president; Miss Marjorie Webster,
delegate and Mrs Ethel Knight Pol
lard, alternate to the delegate.
The club secretary was instructed to
write Chairman Norton Of the House
District Committee its approval Of the
stadium idea.
The club voted to become q sustain
Ing member Of the National Symphony.
Evening star., 1936-03-12
OKLAH0MANS GUESTS

Senators and Representatives from
Oklahoma viii be among the guests Of
honor of the Oklahoma State Society
at . st. Patrick's ball In the Hall Of
Nations Of the Washington Hotel at 0
pm. Wednesday. March 10.
Arrangements zor the bail are being
made under direction Of Joe 8. Morris,
assistant postmaster Of the Senate and
former secretary Of State Of Okla
homa, who Is president Of the society.
Senator Elmer Thomas Is honorary
president. Other ofiicers are Ely Reep,
treasurer; Emmaline Samuel, corre-
spending secretary. and A m q n d o
Watts, secretary.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Achievement by Mural Artist Brings Com.
bination of Adequate Reflection From
Elevated Point and Luxurious Ceiling
Effect in Color.

adding the depth of color necessary,
and used. ingeniously enough, where
no rejecting power is necessary-an
Office performed by the lighter gray
blue background.
From the center of the terra Gotta
medallions hang the chandeliers, and
there are 16 of these lights in the for
ward part of the chamber. No lights
hang from the terra Gotta medallions
at the rear of the chamber. 1t Is
interesting that the first row Of lights
contains bulbs of 1900 watts, and
this is graduated until the last row
contains bulbs of $50 watts, SO that
the greatest illumination falls above
the desks Of the justices and, the
chamber is not too strongly lighted
in other parts.
The entire ceiling is outlined by
a narrow border of 20 panels, to
each wall, painted in a paler tint
OF terra Gotta than the medallions,
and decorated with palm leaf motif.
FROM the library Of his Summer
home in Falls Village, Conn, Mr..
Winter said few weeks ago, "You
have to stay on the floor to paint
a ceiling" BY that he meant, Of
course, that the effect of various color
combinations must be observed from
the floor.
At present, Mr.. Winter is working
upon mural decorations for an audi
tcrium in Rochester. We climbed
stepping stones by fiashlight later
to see these murals in his studio at
the top of a very high hill behind
his house. They were impressive
enough-some more than 20 feet
high. Very high scaffoldings stood
against the walls of the studio. The
appearance of the gigantic figure
of Lord Rochester receiving q grant
of land from an Indian 20 feet high
was overwhelming. The walls Of the
studio were lined with similar murals
Evening star., 1936-10-31
ART SEASON DEVELOPS WITH AMBITIOUS WORK SHOWN
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB EXHIBIT
Unusual Attention Attracted by Two Showng of Much Merit
at the Arts Club Yachts and Ful-Rigged Ships
Are Conspicuous as Subjects.

freshing. Apparently whatever has
caught his eye has served as "grist
for the MILL" whether it be land.
scape or house tops, a church or
circus-and in each instance the tram
scription has been made with evident
and almost equal enthusiasm. We
have heard so much of late of "the
American scene" that we have come
to regard it as generic, but the fact
is that such are countless and of
many, many kinds which defy classifi-
cation. 1t is matter of choice
rather than definition. Mr.. Rittase
shows us with equal Zest a Misty
Valley" seen through a cartwheel;
Bruton Parish church framed in Au-
tumn faliage, residence, small-town
or suburban, of The Victorian Vim
tage"; the window of a Colonial
Apothecary Shop" seen from within
and looking out; also 't7ailroad
Yard" at night; river steamboat at
a Dixie Picnic" wharf discharg-
ing its pleasure-seeking passengers,
and merry-go-round at an "Amuse-
ment Park" ground-to say nothing
of a group of landscape impressions
and picture of THE Watermelon
Fleet" a unique subject.
These are all American scenes, but
one may venture the belief that the
artist chose them for presentation
not for this reason but because he
found them pictorially alluring-in
art parlance, ''paintable"-and he has
painted them without the least tinge
of self consciousness. Particularly
colorful and engagingly gay is The
Amusement Park" the grotesque fig
ures of the strangely assorted animals
serving as mounts for riders in the
merry-go-round, apparently painting
to be off and away. But also very
knowing and engaging is the canvas
showing the artists "Neighbors'
Roofs" in Winter, drab and gray.
After all, why should art of so many
sorts ever be labeled and Classified
Evening star., 1936-10-31

Renard's etching, "Art Dealers VIM
dow" is a print to tempt the con-
noisseur. as is also Queer Fish," by
Mabel Dwight.
Many of the prints shown are litho-
graphs and witness to the revival of
interest in and use Of this medium
Nicolai Cikowsky. who is exhibiting at
the Corcoran Gallery of Art-and
whose exhibition, by the way, has been
extended to November 2-is here rep
resented by a lithograph entitled
Chess" while George Biddle, who
lately completed his much discussed
murals in the Justice Department
Building. shows here his nthograph.
done in Charleston, of Cat Fish Row"
There are interesting wood engravings
by Lankes and Ruzicka, both of whom
have won distinction in this particular
field. Agnes TAFT and Wanda Gag
both show cats in windows, the latter
very modernistically. There are foot
ball scenes and cottage interiorS-the
gamut is run with emphasis on the
positive and obvious and with COM
paratively little realization Of beauty
or imaginative appeal. But one can
pick and choose. and it is the picking
and choosing and later testing out, and
if necessary discarding and replacing.
that give zest to the print collecting
game. Never was the public offered so
good an opportunity to try its luck at
SO little cost as in the present in
stance.
On Monday evening. November 2,
Prentiss Taylor. photographer. instruc-
tor at Studio House. and represented
in the American Artists Group, will
give a lecture in Studio House on
''Lithography," using Autographs on
exhibition as illustrations.
National Gallery Lends to
Ne,D Art Museum.
SIXTEEN paintings lent by the Ma
tional Gallery of Art are included
in the inaugural exhibition of the new
Museum of Art, which opened in
Charlotte, N. c., on the evening of
October %. This museum, the first. in
the State of North Carolina to be
erected, and dedicated to art, was the
old Government Mint. built for such
purposes in 1887 and continuously
used for minting gold coin until the
outbreak of the Civil War, during
which it was converted into hospital.
In 1897, gold was discovered in North
Carolina. In the following 25 years
or less. $5,00O00 in gold coins were
minted in Charlotte. But in 1882, the
Federal Government decided to de-
molish the old Mint Building to make
room for an addition to the Post
Office. AS the building was architec-
turally good, and in design suitable
for such use, movement was started
to buy it as it stood and remove it to
another site as an art museum.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

president Of the National Academy of
Design, Jonas Lie. contributed large
canvas of white birches in the snow,
and from Hobart Nichols, vice presi-
dent, has come an imposing canvas
entitled Tragedy" which was shown
last year in the Academy, prize
winner. Benson B. Moore of this
city is represented in the print section
by color etching Of "Pheasants."
Approximately 500 persons attend
ed the dedicatory ceremonies on the
evening of the 22d. So new strong
hold for art and its propagation has
been set up in the South and in a
section where there is at present
marked industrial development. Be-
cause of historical association, the
name Of the mint has been retained
in the title of the institution; the
support of which is guaranteed by the
people of Charlotte.
Seasons Program Announced
By the w. S. F. A.
THE Washington Society of the Fine
Arts has announced four of its
five lectures for the current season.
They will be on Spanish Art" by
Prof. Walter w. S. Cook of New York
University, who was in Spain last
Summer; on Illustration" by Luis
Mora, illustrator, painter and teacher,
who will make illustrative drawings
in colored chalks and crayon before
the audience: on Design in Mural
Painting" with special reference to
mosaics, by Hildreth Meiere, vice
president of the Architectural League
Of New York, whose work in the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences Building
here is we'll known, and on Recent
Discoveries in Greek Art and Their
Significance" by Gisela M. A. Richter,
head of the classical department of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, and author of Sculpture and
Sculptors of Greece" The fifth lee.
turer will be announced shortly.
All of the lectures this year, given
under the auspices of this organi-
cation. will be in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building and
will be illustrated. In addition to this
course Of lectures, the Washington
Society Of the Fine Arts proposed to
give, as usual, a dinner to some artist
or person distinguished in the arts. to
arrange for receptions to certain visit
ing celebrities from abroad and to
sponsor again unique exhibition.
The purpose Of the society Is not only
to foster and encourage art, but to
bring together those who are espe-
cially interested in pleasurable bene-
fit and helpful cooperation. Tickets
to the lectures can be obtained only
through members, but membership is
open to those interested, and a special
invitation to membership is annually
issued to newcomers. Application can
be made to the secretary at 1402
Twenty-flrst street. Albert w. At.
wood Is the president, George F.
Bowerman and Frank c. Baldwin. vice
Evening star., 1936-10-31
"Queer Fish," painting

in any subject we'll rendered, but the
majority of persons who covet the pos
session of a print are attracted by
subject rather than by technical skill.
Undoubtedly the artists of today are
interested in the life which is around
them, but surely life is not on the
whole quite so sordid and unlovely as
many of them present it. OF course.
We know that Rembrandt depicted
homeliness, that Daumier showed up
the weakness of his own generation,
that Goya was not invariably elegant
but these were great masters and
nothing that they did was trivial, shall
low, sordid. They respected their art
Evening star., 1936-10-31

the power to thrill. Many of the mod
ern prints are not only offensive in
quently they leave one cold and dis
pirited. If the people are really to be
brought up to art, it must be through
art not only of good quality, but real
significance-enduring interest.
Some Of the prints issued by the
American Artists Group" and now on
view at Studio House are of this sort.
Take, for example. figures of man
and a woman entitled And Now
Where?" by Rockwell Kent, which has
great dignity and more than a touch
of the universal and elemental. Grant
Evening star., 1936-10-31

vision by an expert printer, but when
the edition mounts to the thousands,
the printing goes into the hands Of
strangers and cannot be done with
such great care. To the average per-
son, the difference, however, will
scarcely be discernible-to the con-
noisseur it means very much. Guam
titative production may be in itself
beneficent, though always fraught
with danger to qualitative values. But
there is distinctly something to be
said on both sides. Strangely enough,
Joseph Pennell, who was essentially
an aristocrat in his attitude toward
art. and insistent upon an ideal Of
perfection, was heartily in favor of
large editions and low prices. In fact,
he left his entire estate to the Library
Of Congress to found Chalcography
Museum, which would build up col
lection of plates by distinguished
artists, from which, after their death,
would be re-issued prints in large edi-
tions at prices within the purchasing
power of the average citizen. OBJ
viously, these would be without the
usual penciled signature of the artist
which usually accompanies those of
the limited edition-but the prints
themselves will be of equal merit. AS
the Pennell estate is not yet settled,
no steps have been taken SO far to put
these provisions into effect. Mean
while, with the work and the consent
of some living American print-makers.
the American Artists Group" is
making the experiment.
The Prints on
Vie1O.
TO TURN to the prints themselves.
now on exhibition and sale. One
finds that for the most part they are
by artists of the new school," but not
invariably SO. Technically they are
excellent; subjectively quite number
are repellent. Those who are inter-
ested in technique may find pleasure
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Beauty and Perfect Light Give Rays for High Court

one Of George Washington taking
his oath of Office that had been
painted as temporary decoration
by Mr.. Winter for use in Washington
during the Washington Centennial.
From paintings on this scale We
examined ceiling designs so minutely
drawn and exquisitely colored that
they were no larger than four postage
stamps would be, placed together.
Something of Mr.. Winters artistic
comparison Of his wall murals and
his design work, as fine and perfect
as engraving.
pERHAPS one of the best known
OF Mr.. Winters murals is that
which adorns the first landing of the
winding staircase in Radio City Music
Hall in New York City. The mural,
entirely visible from the foyer of the
theater, represents an old man on a
hillside. with his youth passing in re-
view before him, almost as if in a
vaporous cloud Of memory. Other
famous murals of Mr.. Winter are in
the Cotton Exchange in New York
City, where he has four panels de-
picting the cotton ports of the world.
In the Bank of Manhattan, in Wall
Street, New York City, six paintings
by Ezra Winter decorate the walls.
These are scenes of old New York,
and they are 40 feet high. Well
known. too, are the panels done by
Mr.. Winter for the Cunard Building.
Other work of this artist can be
seen in the Eastman Theater in
Rochester, the Willard Straight Memo
rial at Cornell University, the Bir-
mingham, Ala, Public Library: the
Rochester, N. Y, Savings Bank, and
in many private residences throughout
the country.
Mr.. Winter studied art in Chicago,
and received, at an early age, the
American Academy Scholarship, en-
titling him to four years study in
Rome. He lived for five years in
Europe, working in France, Germany
and Italy during that time. During
the World War he did important work
for. the United States Government,
designing camoufiage for the Ship
ping Board. His work in the Supreme
Court Building is considered an i'm
portant addition TO the art in the
Capitol Hill group.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

and the Early Republic, native crafts
of North Carolina and work by mem
bers Of the local Camera Club Among
the works lent by the National Gallery
of Art are "Sundown," by George In
ness; The Visit of Nicodemus to
Christ" by John La Fargo; Gentle
woman" by j. Allen Weir; Portrait
of Walter Shirlaw," by Duveneck. and
other canvases equally famous. From
elsewhere have come distinguished
canvases by Abbott H. Thayer, Mary
CaSsatt, Childe Hassam, Emil and
Dimes Carlson, Cecilia Beaux. Seyfert
Schoheld, Benson and others. The
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By Louis Seldins.
0ROM a velvet-cushioned bench

TROM a velvet-cushioned bench in
- the Supreme Court chamber,
that softly -diffused light re-
a eected from a rich and beauti-
full ceiling Is achieved so perfectly
that one is only conscious of its
satisfying quality and charming
effect. That those colors were
mixed by a famous mural artist,
that false ceilings were placed, paint
ed and removed, and that all the
artistry and ingenuity of which archi-
tectural and artistic talent are capable
went into the final decoration of the
ceiling, are the facts behind the scenes.
To complicate matters, the artist was
restricted by a very real practical
problem-that of producing a reflected
light strong enough to make it pos
sible for the justices to read COM
fortably 40 feet below the chandeliers,
without glare or illumination strong
enough to interfere with the artistic
or luxurious atmosphere of the cham
ber.
This task was assigned to Ezra Au-
gustus Winter. famous mural artist
of Michigan and New York. Mr.. Win
ter had recently completed the design
and decoration of the ceiling in the
library of the Supreme Court Build
ing, and his work was so outstanding
in this instance that the practical
problem confronting David Lynn,
architect of the Capitol, in lighting
the Supreme Court chamber was in
trusted to his hands and skill.
A high candlepower was necessary
adequately to light the justices desks.
This meant that colors pale enough
to reflect that amount of light must
be used in the ceiling, while enough
depth of coloring had to be retained
to achieve a luxurious effect in the
ceiling decorations.
MIR. WINTER set to work. False
A'A ceilings were built and hoisted
by scaffolding into position. Once
placed, these were painted various
colors. One set of colors was found
to reflect adequately, but its use de-
tracted from the richness of the CELL
Ing and chamber. Something deeper
had to be achieved. Tones too deep
for rejecting purposes were discarded.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

Ground was given in Eastover, sub
urban development. and the material
was moved. The following year appli-
cation was made to the Civic Works
Administration and approval was
given to the rebuilding as a relief
project. Through this medium, the
new museum of art has come into ex-
istence-a permanent benefit to city
and State. 1t is a charming little art
museum, and beautifully placed. On
the first floor there are foyer, eight
small galleries and one large one. In
the basement there are. in addition
to janitor's quarters, storage rooms,
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despite their rich effect upon the room
from a decorative standpoint.
At length, use of the false ceiling
gave way to another plan, conceived
by Mr.. Winter. Certain areas of the
ceiling were painted in accordance
with well-laid color schemes and their
effects noted. In this way various
areas could be painted differently and
lighting effects as well as artistic
effects compared under the glow of
$500 to 750 watt light bulbs in the
16 chandeliers suspended from the
chamber ceiling. The ceiling itself is
about 40 feet high.
At length, the present color scheme
was found to be completely satisfactory
from a practical as we'll as an artistic
viewpoint. Any one who has entered
the chamber, since sessions were re-
sumed recently, cannot be other than
impressed with the beauty and ef-
fectiveness of Mr.. Winters work.
THE ceiling design is made up of
series of blocks that contain q
central floral motif. That is, there
are IS squares that cover the ceiling
and each of these squares is divided
into four smaller squares. In the CEN
ter of each of these four smaller
squares Is an open blossom, conven-
tional in form and each differing
slightly from the others in the details
of petal arrangement or the flowers
center. The large block made up of
these four small squares is outlined
in band of pale lemon color, the color
of the blossoms themselves, while the
background throwing the blossoms into
relief is painted a soft grayish blue.
At the corners of these large blocks
are small squares containing q CEN
trail design painted in a rich terra
Gotta. 1t is these terra Gotta medal.
lions, incidentally, that are the secret
Of the richness Of the ceilings effect.
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and they used 1t with supreme purpose.
A work of art is not a mere repre-
sentation of things seen-the camera
serves that purpose-but a creation
something spiritual as we'll as mate
rial, and for this reason indefinitely
retains interest and charm. An etch-
ing by Rembrandt even from a worn
plate, tells something of him and has