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Evening star., 1936-10-10

Of late. On September i6 and con-
tinuing until October II. the Federal
art project operating under the Works
Progress Administration rendered a
visual report covering years activity
by way Of an exhibition set forth in
the Museum of Modern Art under the
title New Horizons in American Art"
On october the painting and sculp-
ture section of the Procurement Di-
vision of the Treasury Department
practically took over, by invitation,
the Whitney Museum of American
Art and set forth therein a compre-
henSive display Of work-chiefy mural
paintings and sculpture. commissioned
for the decoration Of Federal build
ings. The latter differs from the for
mer. inasmuch as it is only in small
part relief measure, while the former
is almost entirely so. Also the latter
is more restricted, the former con-
cerning itself with educational means,
the purveying of art to the public,
freely to be sure, as well as its pro-
duction. Both are alike, however, in
cO 1dL do lliC WOl No Rl ole OIL
purposed for permanent placement in
public buildings frequented by the
people.
The exhibition now closing in the
Museum of Modern Art comprised
some 400 exhibits, selected for ar
tistic merit" from among thousands
available. the limitation being. it was
said, of space rather than worth.
While more extensive, the character
of this exhibition was similar to that
held in the Phillips Memorial GAL
lery in this city last June. A cata-
logue illustrated by reproductions Of
about 100 of the exhibits and con-
tanning an introduction by Holger
Cahill, director of the project. setting
forth the social significance of this
work. and a foreword by Alfred Barr,
director of the museum. in apprecia-
ton, was published. In connection
with the exhibition in the Whitney
Museum the Government is issuing
a book-the first volume Of the art
in Federal Buildings" series COM
piled and edited here by Forbes Wat
son. This publication will, according
to announcement, contain reproduc-
tions of sketches by every artist on
the projects whose works were ap-
proved between october, 1884, and
July l, 1886. The exhibition. which
has but just opened in the Whitney
Museum. is to be brought to Wash
ington and shown in the Corcoran
Gallery Of Art during the latter half
of November.
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leadership that springs from the ranks
of boys and girls. A. good thing to
have in school, it leads to attainment
in the outside world.
To get this leadership the entire
student body will be called upon. as
time goes on, to take an active interest
in health and physical training.
In order to do that, physical ex-
aminations are in order, so that no
boy or girl may take part in athletics
to the detriment of health. First,
they must stand physical test-to
see just where they line up IN the
athletic program. Next they must
have written permission from parents
or guardians before engaging IN
athletics.
Boys and girls with good stout
hearts and heavy lungs will get clean
bills of health-so that they may
enter the more rugged sports arena.
Boys and girls who are not endowed
by nature with rugged physical stam-
ina must, perforce, take to the gentler
forms of sport, leaving aside foot ball
and base ball and track for such
games as tennis and bowling and
minor activities-hand ball, squash,
table tennis; though these, too, take
. certain amount of steam out OF the
average human. If played strenuously.
WITH everybody in the games. the
~ whole school system participating
In some sort of health-building ex-
ercises, the man who Is now IN
charge Of this work sees where the
inter-school athletics viii be greatly
improved. This for the reason that,
by process Of selection. good athletes
will naturally come to the top. Ana
that Is as Il should be. That Is where
the crack teams Of the future VIII
come from-ths ranks. In cu1tivat ting
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The Landscape Club Makes
ColOrtul Shouting.

lads and lassies who can get cut on
the playing field and bring honor to
their alma mater. These are what
will be known as "the cream of the
crop"-and to be the cream of the
crop they'll have to be good; perhaps
better than the average star athletes
of today, since competition will un-
doubtedly be keener.
That is part Of the idea, the full
plan being to use this educational pro-
gram in physical well-being to give
new standard of health and morale.
1t means, to be perfectly blunt about
it, the building of good citizenship
for in the plan to enlist all boys and
girls in competitive sport there is the
latent idea of making them good
sportsmen and sportswomen - good
losers and good-natured winners.
In any well-worked-out plan OF Sec
ondary education there are said to be
certain objectives known as the seven
cardinal principles.
These are: Health, command Of the
fundamental processes, worthy home
membership, vocation, citizenship.
worthy use Of leisure and ethical
character.
Now the advocates Of health and
physical training, or physical educa-
ton, point with pride to the fact that
the program now being set up in the
washington schools will take good
care of three out Of the seven cardinal
principles.
The triumvirate, among the card
inal principles, directly effected by .
good program Of health and physical
education are health itself, citizenship,
and worthy use of leisure.
It stands to reason that boys and
girls engaged in good, wholesome sports
will be, by the very nature OF their
exercise, healthy human beings.
In learning 10 curb their tempers,
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initiated, artistically so successful that
one ardently covets possession.


Mr.. Chamberlain for years has been
student of architecture. He has
made special study of brickwork. he
knows the materials Of which build
ings are reared, as we'll as the funda-
mentals Of design. He has Travelled
much and lived for years abroad,
stepped in the beauty of the architec-
tural monuments of the past in Spain,
France. Italy and England. He is a
consummate craftsman. But all this
man might possess and still be in
capable of rendering with an etching
needle such masterpieces of art as are
the prints of Mr.. Chamberlain now on
exhibition in the Arts Club. His line
is sufficiently firm. but very delicate
and sensitive. Not only does he re-
construct for us the great buildings OF
the past, but he gives them to us
bathed in sunlight, accented by
shadow, enwrapt in an atmosphere all
their own.
Many of his compositions are most
elaborate, but they are never con-
fused-detan, of which there is great
plenty. never so absorbs his attention
that it subordinates effect. His light
effects are peculiarly pleasing, trium.
phant. in such prints as Salamanca
Cathedral" THE Sunlit Tower, Col
mar; Sienna" But in other plates
he has combined stark light with deep
est shadow in a way never to be for
gotten, as, for example, in "Dentelles
Gothiques" and "Quimper," also Yer
neuil"
Some of his street scenes are espe-
cially notable, combining the passing
show" with the immemorial buildings,
endowed, it would seem, with end
less life and consequent indifference.
His placement of figures, of carts and
horses and street signs seems emf
nently appropriate, but in reality is
immensely clever. Everything is in
the right place and as it should be
but it must not be forgotten that the
artist either knew this or put it
there. Such things do not just hap
pen.
hllu WildG ID pei maps Aiooe doVoiAoii-
ing is that, in this exhibition, Mr..
Chamberlain shows himself as adept in
etching landscape as architectural
themes. 1.-THE Saplings," No. in the
catalogue, is charming composition,
handled with great delicacy and a
sense of space. THE Country Road, P"
which one finds on an adjacent wall, is
equally enchanting, and includes a
very fine rendition of an elm tree with
"feathered" trunk.
But what can one say of his Bur
gundy Hillside" which embraces a
castle set on a height surrounded by
town buildings and with vista which
includes the lovely sloping hillside
which the etcher has made his theme.
This is a print unique in composition
as well as in skill of rendition. Most
accomplished, too, is small print
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the ranks Mr.. Bayh hopes to do some
thing for 1.-The forgotten youngsters"
Since there are no great facilities
at hand for the training Of such huge
numbers now enrolled in the WASH
ington school system, temporary means
must be adopted to attain an ideal.
There are not, for instance, enough
foot ball fields to go around. So the
new form of foot ball will 60 into
play. This is called touch foot ball" !"
players touch each other instead Of
tackling. They are taught the funda-
mental points of the game-punting,
passing, carrying the ball. All for
their general education in the sport.
All to give them sport skill.
Almost everybody Is able to play
"touch foot ball." where only q few
may play the actual rough and tumble
pame-and those who play touch foot
ball run no danger whatsoever Of
getting hurt.
Under this plan, emphasis will not
be placed on the development Of var
sity timber for foot ball teams so much
as getting all hands interested in the
sport. Out of that grand tribe, run
ming, kicking and passing the old
globule. will come some few destined
to get out on the actual field and die,
If needs be. for their dear old alma
mater.
That business Of dying for dear old
alma mater, incidentally, Is a relic
of the old, barbaric days-and those
days, in the words OF a prophet. are
gone forever. At least they will be
gone If the new plan of health and
physical education comes to the fore
front in Washington schools-elemen-
tary and high.
THIS system Is really just getting Its
: start. It comes highly recommended.
With the whole school system - tt
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entitled THE Battered Boat" which
concerns itself chiefly with the wall
of a tenement with assortment OF
windows, drying wash clothes, etc.
Such a subject has no inherent lowell
ness; in fact, 1t is essentially common
place, but it is so beautifully rendered
that it attains to beauty and of very
tangible sort. This Is what the mod
ernists do not seem to understand
that beauty may be created by the
artist and with no sacrifice Of strength
nor loss of veracity-but that beauty
In some form is essential to art-as
essential as is the soul to man.
There is an analogy between the
ing one-which helps toward appre-
citation. Colors are said to represent
sound, but line also may make what
may be called oral appeal. Certainly
some of these etchings by Chamber
lain have the same esthetic quality
that one finds in a violin obbligato or
in the music of string quartet-they
literally sing-the ensemble is perfect.
Perhaps this is mere fancy. but no one
will deny that an understanding OF
one art leads to better understand
ing of another. the key which admits
to one kingdom will be found to fit
other locks.
Both the Mulhaupt paintings and
the Chamberlain etchings will be on
view in the Arts Club until october 16
The club extends the privilege of its
exhibitions to non-members, within
reasonable limits.
Kenneth StubbS Exhibits in
the Public Library.
pAINTINGS and drawings by Ken
meth Stubbs constitute a special
exhibition in the Public Library this
month. Mr.. Stubbs belongs to the
younger group of local artists. He was
born in Georgia in 1907, studied at
the Corcoran School Of Art and under
E. Ambrose Webster at Provincetown,
Mass. He was awarded first prize,
Antique Glass, Corcoran School, IN
1927, and first prize in the Portrait
Glass three years later. He is now as
sistant instructor in life and antique
drawing. He is also a member OF the
Society of Washington Artists.
OF his IS exhibits at the Library,
are Oil paintings, 18 are water colors
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misunderstanding on the part of land
scape artists, or architects, or city
planners, who now see all their origi-
nal work being revised. Top soil is
being removed from the recreation
ground so it can be brought down to
proper level.
What pertains to the senior high
schools goes, too. for the Junior high
schools-and for most of the ele-
mentary schools. In order to bring
where everybody will have chance
to enter some sort of competitive
game, there. must be facilities-and
this means more land.
More land around the school houses
means more money, and that is some
thing to take up at later session Of
Congress-with the cooperation Of
the taxpayers.
More supplies and equipment mean
about the same thing, but the man
who dreams this dream Is patient,
kindly man, and he is not given to
jumping hurdles before he comes to
them. So, Mr.. Bayh bides his time
and figures out that all Washington
will get behind the movement, once
washington understands what Is
going on.
before any of these two great OBJ
~ jectives can be taken the patient
Mr.. Bayh hopes to develop leader
ship-and this is already being done.
Two kinds Of leadership. Adult lead
ership, already in vogue, and pupil
leadership, on the way.
leadership Is a mighty fine thing
to have. Leadership ID what they
want and need In the Washington
school system-especially the kind q
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broad base, the purpose is TO enlist
every healthy boy and girl in the army
of athletes. This will be done by
creating interest in all sports-not just
few sports. There are sports and
sports. Some sports are dropped i'm
mediately after the pupils graduate
except in rare instances. Only few
Red" Oranges come out Of the high
schools. Only a few, comparatively,
enter the ranks of professional base
ball.
Since there are sports known as
carry over" sports, and carry on"
sports-those that can be taken out
into after -life-these will be featured,
along with foot ball and base ball and
track.
The "carry over" sports give more
Joy to graduates than any other-even
If the graduates take only to pool and
billiards in after-lfe-or tennis, shuf-
ne board, bowling. They are sports
none the less.
All sports considered, instead Of just
few, the Washington schools are
about to become sports-conscious-
under the new set-up. II the plan
works out, as all who study 1t believe
will happen. intramural athletics may
soon be on the boom market. Intra-
mural, or within the walls, athletics
are where the fun flies. It is Mr..
Bayh's hope and ambition to have
the boys and girls organize leagues
big league and little learues-to en-.
gage in competitive games. There are
already such leagues, of course, but
the object is to get more of them
mishtier leagues-so that the Giants
can play the Athletics. Reds VS.. Blues,
the Greens pitted against the Ermine.
OUT Of these super-intramural
teams Will naturally come the
or1t.clA1S VArtty RoupG-the real
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and are drawings. Apparently the
artist has been strongly influenced by
the dominant '.isms" Of the day, for
they find definite and unmistakable
reflection in his work. He is at times
cubistic, at times abstract, and again
occasionally merely crude and vague.
In the matter Of color. probably the
most pleasing Of his paintings Is an
oil of sunflowers in q vase, which
shows a harmonious arrangement Of
blue and orange. His webster
House." No. and No. 2, in the same
medium are puzzle pictures, which
are inexplicable to the average visi-
tor, but rather amusing as travesties
on the abstract In art.
Among the water colors are two
with a distinct flavor of humor
These are The Call to Arms" and
"Suzannah and the Elders" both Of
which are groups of casts as seen
after hours" in one of the Corcoran
school rooms, and imbued with life.
But for the most part Mr.. Stubbs'
water colors and drawings are Of
rather dreary subjects. such as freight
yards, telegraph poles-"Crosses," J"
"Provincetown Shacks" and Gully"
in which he himself seems to have
discovered nothing of particular in
terest, or beauty, Of light or form or
composition.
More striking than tine rest Is
Pigeons in Flight"-a picture pre-
sumably painted in Lafayette Square
pigeons in a flock encircling the
heads of persons on bench, in which
he gives an excellent sense of motion
in flock formation. Mr.. Stubbs fol-
lows closely the modern mode that
substitutes vagueness for precision,
suggestion for assurance, which may
eventually lead him and us into q
completely new and very engaging
field, but has not done so as yet.
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in previous exhibitions-but that by
no means lessons their merit. Row.
land Lyon, for instance, is represented
by the still-life painting for which he
received a prize in recent Society of
Washington Artists exhibition, as
well as by a painting of a long. mar
row wharf projecting into the water.
as seen from a high view. Both of
these are gooS in color and very direct
in treatment.
There is an interesting contrast be-
tween the style of most of these paint
ers and that Of their fellow member
and exhibitor, Roy Clark. Whereas
the majority are naturalistic and ira
ditional, Mr.. Clark is modern and au-
tographic. using forms in q measure
as symbols. simplifying, co-ordinating.
The effect he attains in the two land
scapes by which he Is represented in
this exhibition is very impressive-it
savors not a little of the universal,
of fundamentals: the painters mes
sage is rendered directly and as in
the poster at a single blow-but un-
like the poster. there is underlying
significance.
There are just three water colors in
this collection-one of these is by Mr..
Clark, another Is by comparatively
new member, A. Wilson. Mr.. Wilson
has made an especial study of the
works of water colorists of the old
English school. the tradition of which
he follows closely. Mr.. Clark paints
in water color without subtlety and
with bold decision-so again the con-
trast is marked.
Among others we'll represented in
this exhibition are John C. Claghorn,
John U. Perkins, A. j. Ted Meurer,
]. H. Turner. L. o. Norris, w. B. Dye
and Robert Motley. A. H. o. Role,
a former president, makes interesting
contribution through the medium of
a nocturne. a group of houses and
boats seen by moonlight.
Washington Artists Exhibit
in Virginia.
AN EXHIBITION of paintings by
large group of Washington
artists was held at the Mary Baldwin
Seminary-now a Junior college-in
Staunton, Va, this past week. Among
the landscape painters represented
were Mr.. Jameson, DR.. Motley, Mr..
Role, Mr.. Butler and Mr.. Moore, and
among the woman pointers, the list
of whom is longer, were Mrs. Chase,
Mrs. Leisenring, Mrs. Kimberly, Mrs.
Abbot, Gertrude Brown. Emily Steuart,
Eloise Clark, Dorothy Barnes, Cathe-
rine c. Critcher, Marguerite Mum,
Margarete Lent, Helen Collision,
Gladys Nelson Smith, Nell Patterson,
Lucia Hollerith. Cornelia Yudisky and
Clara R. Saunders. by whom the group
was organized and on very short no
tice. 1t is reported to be well bal
anced and very creditable showing
demonstrating very tangibly the re-
sources of local studios.
Government Art Is ShotDn
in NeD York.
THE art sponsored by the present
administration and produced
under governmental supervision has
been much to the front in New York
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A Journey in Spain-Water
ColorS bv Edith HOyt.

With attention focused upon the
w tragic happenings in Spain. the
exhibition of water colors, made by
Miss Edith Hoyt in that Inflated
country during the past year, which
opened in the Corcoran Gallery Of
Art today, will be found especially
timely. This collection, furthermore.
comes here with the Endorsement of
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ments and hangs in their museum in
Quebec; the Art Association, Little
Rock. Ark, has her "Gaspe Coast"
This exhibition is set forth in the
southeast corner gallery on the first
floor Of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
1t will continue throughout the month
and will be followed by more COM
prehensive display in the Feragil GAL
ieries, New York.
The Landscape Club Makes
Colortul Shouting.
THE Landscape Club of Washington
makes a bright and colorful show
ing in its first exhibition of the sea-
son, which opened in the Mount
Pleasant branch of the Public Library
this week, to continue until Novem-
Der 16.
The first impression upon entering
this little gallery is of light and color.
Inasmuch as many of the exhibits
are midsummer paintings. when
greens and blues predominant, this
is the more remarkable.
To a painting by Omar H CARING
ton the place of honor opposite the
entrance has been given. This is a
large canvas and a very decorative
one. 1t Is painted in rather a high
key and in an unusual manner
enough is told and yet much is left
to the imagination Mr.. Darlington,
it will be remembered, spent two
months last Summer at Oyster Bay,
painting, and in residence at the Tif-
fany Foundation. On either side Of
this hang two Summer pictures by
Garnet Jex, freshly painted, strong in
color, very picturesque.
r. Bruce Horsfall, president of the
Landscape Club. is represented by
several small canvases-chief1y of
mountainous landscapes-very sensi-
lively realized and rendered.
From Minor S. Jameson has come
an excellent Winter picture-a bit of
woodland mantled by snow through
which small stream finds a winding
way. This is primarily q study in
browns and grays. but the tones are
especially we'll adjusted and the draw
ing is fine. Other Winter pictures Of
note come from James Hambleton
and Benson B. Moore.
Not all the pictures in this exhibi-
ton are new-several have been seen
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Out Of these super-intramural
teams viii naturally come the
drst.clAs varxity groups-the real
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SIC BEAUTY is SHOWN IN OPENING ART DISPLAYS


Public Library Includes Striking Work Stbb
Water Coors From Spain Bring GGmpses of Land Now Devastated by War;
Showing by Landscape Cub-Oher Art News
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dag0zine Section

As last hope drew my precious
watch from my pocket.
Il give you this too" l proffered.
Very good and very costly"
1t worked! His eyes lighted up: he
stretched out his hand and took it.
"All right" he grunted. This
watch and one cdrabdo."
Instantly the tension was relieved.
One by one the menacing spear points
turned upward again, signifying that
all was once more well. We all sat
down on the ground and smoked.
Finally my courage came back. and l
actually asked the tribesmen to help
us transport the plants back to the
village. To my astonishment they
readily agreed to do SO for a few boxes
of matches and a little money
Nevertheless, felt strangely trou-
bled about the disappearance of DOG
Teeth Around Her Arm"
1t was late that day. on our home
ward journey. that we heard the
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Beauty from He'll
Cony;r.,ad from nou>
Continued from pose ten

ominous notes of the ganas0s. Like the
native drums of Africa, these brass
gongs are the jungle telegraph of the
Luzon tribes.
Vaguely dreading the answer, I
finally asked,
What are the gangs0s saying?"
Someone in Bontoc is getting SICK"
answered the young warrior beside
me. "Yes, someone is getting very
sick. Pretty soon die"
He was smiling enigmatically, and
somewhat maliciously. it seemed to
me; but l questioned him no further.
That night we arrived safely, with
our orchids, in Bontoc. The next
morning l was told that Dog Teeth
Around Her Arm" was i'll. Four days
later she died.
Death of natural causes" read the
provincial doctors report. Perhaps.
But remember too we'll the fateful
clang of those gangsas. and the pecu-
liar smile of that young warrior.