Evening star., 1937-08-14
Br NC. r.

As these authors see it. The frsr
session of The Seventy-fi fifth Congress
will be noted in history for the end
OF the harmonious Roosevelt honey
moon"
And they continue that the Fresi-
dent, like other Presidents, has At
tempted to smooth over his difficulties
liaison officer 10 the legislator whose
job is TO keep him posted as TO what
troubles he may expect. The current
holder Of this job. say Messrs. Pearson
and Allen. is Charles West, former
Representa- tive from Ohio. MI. West
Is on the pay roll of the Interior De
parJment for $4,000 of the taxpayers
money each year. but actually spends
all his time ShuntinR back and forth
between the White House and Capitol
Hill like an over worked switch engine"
In general Messrs. Pearson and
Allen do not consider that MI West
il q great help. They say that he is q
nice fellow Mr.. West IS a very per-
conta iOus grin: he is a brilla ut public
spea ker he has taught in FIVE different
colleges and universities; was once 8
pieaC Cher, Is good swimmer, is fond
of ba nanas and ICE cream, can speak k
three foreign languages and makes a
speciality Of SAYING yes IN all three.
But as master mind ca pa Die OF
keeping oil IInWieldv Democratic Con-
gress behind the New Desl-Well, ths [
is different"
They DO not blame Mr. West, how
ever. Their conclusion IS that it Is
the President s job 10 deal with the
legislators, and NOBODY eises. If
some one undertakes IL while being
underSecretary OF the Depa rtment of
the Interior or of any other depa rt
menD and makes a failure Of II, 1t is
:till the President S job.
OJher men set 10 the 50 me task in
past admInlStratio Messrs Pearson
and Allen remind US have been G.
dscOm Siemp and Everett Saunders
VINO served Tor President Coolidge
and Walter M Newton, who served
tor President Hoover.
[ "RoNEI. IN its current issue HS-
plains how II procureS The very
good CCfDr reproductions OF paintings
anO art objects. which are one OF its
regular features The expia ma ton is
no obi il
manv inquiries have been made for
individual replies 10 be written. 1t
makes quite a little story.
Not wanting 10 give our rea derS
copies of the TOO familiar paintings
that have been reproduced in pro-
fusion, We toured European galleries
seeking equally fine but less generally
known works 10 reproduce in color
having CoroneT's own color photoe-
apner. Don Wallace. lake along spe-
cial apparatus for the task" And
then follows q description of some of
this apparatus.
Eleven specia liv constructed trunks
dnC cases were required for all the
necessary equipment. plus SIX cases of
glass plates f20 10 a case. and very
ira9iIe', which the French line
handled. as gracious acCommooa ton
IN the personal care of various officers
For each OgraphiC reproduction
IN color four OF these glass plates re
use0. as the painting or art ooiecl
must be pnotOgra phed four times
once Tor each Of the three primary
COIOrS red. yellow and blue. and once
for the black and white Each shot
is mace through color fliler which
eliminates all color except the one
desired for That pa arucuiar plate q Ia $
must be used rather than film, Viii, +
NAV expand or contract unevenlv sc
that the four coiorS Will not register
accurately when SuperimpoSed II
prlnNng'
So that is what YOU get when vol
pick up Coronet and leaf csreleSslN
through its pages. remarklng. The,
have pretty nice pictures IN this don
thew"
But II is not all mat is involved
clthVi. hC Io-O1Sl blOll vi bll Sdi
lerleS has been needed TOO. and of this
the editors say. In one day Mr. Wal
lace removed over q million dollars
worth of miniatures from their Gus
tomarv ca blnels IN the Victoria AND
Albert Museum in London, while al
the National Gallery in London snC
the kunSt hiSl oriScheS Museum in
Vienna paintings which hadn't beer
'tmoVed from the walls in years. much
less from their frames, were taken
National GalIerys own photoera pheI
had been Vainly trying for seven years
10 get The ROkeby Venus June Coro-
net, down off the wall! Small wonder
that curators watched snXiOuslv and
qua ardS we're posted outside the room
IN which he worked In the Louvre
in fact. they even locked him in witt
some of the more fabulouSly precious
objects he photographed Most OF tht
miniatures and some of the Oldest
paintings had 10 be photOera phe d
through glass. -.
oHt iHOD vi NOik iOI Tue eultO1
three months work abroad and one nj
home for Mr.. Wallace. lie behind these
pictures. TO say nothing of the weeks
of work required to make the engrav-
lngs. once The color photo3ra phs
themselves had been obtained"
IN REVIEWING last week the new
anthology OF poetry by contempt
rsry men poets. the reviewer men.
toned the work bv the Washington
poet. John Lee Higgins. which wa:
included in that volume. This cauSec
correspondent in Florida TO Sent
in clipping from the Mia mi News
Wnele. last month, Mr. Higgins wa
| made the subject of feature article
SAYS this article, John Lee HiR
gins loves the earth with it's fra gil,
beauty and its reVerbera ting music
Loves it as a transient who regretfull,
fingers his round-trip ticket. Then
in changful mood, he straps thi
She faces the fact that she never will
know even the love which alone ha!
u 10 HI