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mystery by relating stories told about
that smile.
The accounts vary, he explained,
but one widely accepted version is
that the smile is merely the imperfect
effort of Da Vinci to create a certain
expression on the lady'S face. That
the effort was not satisfactory to Da
Vinci is attested by the fact that he
labored over the portrait for several
years, and, Mr.. Lahey said, he was
not satisfied with the result to his
dying day.
Other stories are to the effect the
smile represents an attempt to hide a
malformation of the models teeth,
and that it is forced smile, the
result of an effort by the woman to
look happy while suffering pain.
Mr.. Lahey paid tribute to Da Vinci
as one of the great intellects' of the
golden renaissance era-bringing out
that in addition to being an artist,
he was an inventor of flying machines,
poison gas and military tanks, city
manager, an architect and an en-
gneer.
Adding that Da Vinci also was the
public works administrator Of Milan,
Mr.. Chinn remarked that he must
have been the Secretary Ickes of his
time"
Raphael, Michelangelo Compared.
Mr.. Lahey, in response to questions,
compared the works of Raphael and
Michelangelo. emphasizing that the
former, being essentially happy
man." painted peaceful, tender sub
jects, many of them fine Madonnas,
while Michelangelo, sullen indi-
vidual with many enemies, poured
forth the troubles of his soul onto
canvas.
One of Raphael's finest works-the
Alba Madonna-Mr Lahey said, will
hang in the National Gallery of Art
under construction on the Mall
through the beneficence of the late
Andrew Mellon.
Raphael was youthful prodigy"
he said, his fine works being produced
in a lifetime that was cut short at
81 years.
Titan, he said, is remembered best
for the wonderful coloring of his
works. While he did some religious
paintings, they do not seem TO have
the spiritual quality of those by Ra-
phael and Michelangelo, he explained.
Unlike Raphael, Titan lived to be 80
years old and then died not from old
age, but the plague.
Plans for the third broadcast will
be announced later.
Will Present Myers Lessons.
Miss Grace B. Etheredge, art teach
er at Sidwell Friends School, advised
The Star she will introduce the pic
ture sets to her students each week
as they are issued and will present
also the art appreciation lessons by
DR.. Bernard Myers of New York Uni
versity.
Your program is splendid" Miss
Etheredge declared, "and I wish to
compliment The Star upon offering
it in Washington. We will use it in
the school and feel sure it will en-
courage the students to greater in
terest in art and development Of a
greater appreciation"
Mrs. Karl Fenning, president of the
Twentieth Century Club, and Mrs.
Harold N. Fowler, chairman of the art
section, also Endorsed the art cam
paign heartily.
Il think 1T is an excellent thing,
and we need more of it," Mrs. Fen
ming said. 'The famous paintings
and the lessons will be of interest to
both our art and civic education sec
tions in the Twentieth Century Club.
Our members are interested in art
themselves and in bringing it before
the young people of the city"
Mrs. Fenning said she felt many
women's clubs that do not have an
art section might get a great deal