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Few have handled the grease crayon
on stone to better effect. His etch-
ings are elaborate in composition and
very elaborately rendered, but his
compositions are invariably well
handled. Some of these prints have
in the years past been selected as
among the best Of the year-other
plates have been purchased and pub
nshed by such astute organizations
as the Philadelphia Print Society and
the International Print Guild. Five
have been assigned, generously, to
the Association of American Artists.
sales agency which in the interest
of increasing popular appreciation
has fixed a uniform price of IS for
all it lists.
Mr.. Costigan seems to enjoy play
ing with light in his prints as well as
in his paintings, and he does it with
exceptional success. In some mys-
terious way he literally floods his
plates with light, not dazzling or
spotty, but shimmering and wide
spread-this is their popularity and
at the same time their charm. In
the matter of composition he is apt to
scatter his units, but not to the loss
of unity in effect. In short, while
breaking rules and precedents, this
artist has kept the faith and re-
newed it, so that our experience is
widened and our confidence increased.
For those who have vision and the
power of expression nothing, it would
seem, is actually impossible. John
E. Costigan not only has this gift.
but has learned to use 1t.
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the second, a dance di gala, in which
she filings herself with abandon into
the exuberant dance Of a child Of IL,
and finally a valse serios, in which the
dignity and grace Of 1S years make
themselves evident.
Then comes tragedy, the third or
lento movement, written as a funeral
march. In this movement the COM
poser has poured out the grief which
her death brought to him and his
family. The music in this move
ment is beautiful, being of a depth and
pathos which a listener must feel
greatly.
Finally, in the fourth and last
movement, the allegro elvato, con-
fidence that she has gone to an eternal
life breaks out into a magnificent
passage of great exaltation, and the
entire work ends on that exalted
theme.
Shure's accomplishments as a COM
poser have been so steady and for
ward-moving that his success has, per-
haps, not been fully appreciated
To his credit he has more than q
hundred published compositions, in
Guiding an oratorio, Dawn in the
Desert" a magnificent work for
Christmas, in which the Oriental color
is obtained through employment Of
the whole-tone scale and the Oriental
scale; an Easter cantata, THE Atone
ment"; piano suites including Lyric
Washington" and -Four Bird
Sketches; numerous organ suites, in
cluding Through Palestine" ACROSS
the Infinite" and THE Enchanted
ISLE" and large number Of anthems,
solo numbers and others.
And now, for 40 minutes, the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra will pro-
vide the dedication of what he hopes
will prove to be his crowning work, his
memorial to Berkie, the tribute of
heart-broken father, who has come at
last to reconcile himself to her depar-
ture to better life than that earth
could ofier hefa
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Audience Week
Represents Story of Stricken Family and Its Recovery
Through Inspiration of Music Created
Since Day of Her Death.

repeatedly, but the audience was in
sistent, and finally he went to the
stage and bowed, returned. and bowed
again and again. The orchestra also
stood and applauded. 1t was q tribute
rare, indeed, for musician in his
home city.
Back in the box, his wife sat with
her face beaming with smiles and the
tears Of real happiness coursing
frankly down her cheeks.
This reception was all that could be
asked, but still in the composers mind
there fingered doubt. Was the re-
ception just friendly gesture? He
found the answer last Summer, when
the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
played his symphony, and the enthu-
siastic outburst which greeted it in
Constitution Hall was re-enacted
among strangers.
Convinced then that he had been
successful, he began work on his new
symphony, which was to be a memo
rial to Berkie. It is a new form Of
memorial, not the cold lines OF a
marble carving, not the hospital which
some rich man might endow in men,
ory of loved one who had died, not
an art gallery or any of the other
usual forms of memorial.
1t was to be q living thing, into
which he could paint in music the
vibrant life of his daughter, into
which he could pour the hope. the
tragedy, and finally the exultation
which her life had meant to him.
HIS symphony follows the usual
symphonic form. It opens with
an andante affetuoso, written after
the manner of berceuse. In the soft
lullaby. he pictures her appearance
on earth, descending as it were like
a bright star floating down from the
heavens.
The second movement, a scherzo,
Is in three parts, which are played
without interruption, the first a min
uetto, in which in her early childhood
she dances with the grace OF o child
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Shure Composition Is Memorial to Daughter Who
Was Taken by Strange Malady on Threshold
of Brilliant Life.

father and mother who were both
artistic, both being graduates Of Ober-
lin University. Her bent, however,
instead of being toward music, was
along the avenues Of drawing and
painting.
TN THE Fall of 1888 Mary Bertha,
l. or "Berkie," as she was known
affectionately, entered Southern Sem
mary, where her talent was quickly
recognized, and she became attached
to the staff of the school paper. In
her second year, her last there, for
the seminary has only a two-year
course, she was given the task of
illustrating the schools yearbook.
1t was early in the Spring, while
she was hard at her work, that a
mysterious infection, never identified,
although numerous specialists were
eventually called in, broke out in
her ear and began to spread.
Suffering from her malady, she
kept plugging, however, until she had
completed all of the illustrations for
the yearbook, and then she was
forced to go home. Everything that
medical science could do for Berkie
was done, but she gradually grew
worse. and finally the inevitable
occurred.
Her death came as crushing blow
to her parents, for they almost idol
lied her. Seek as they would, they
could find no reason why she should
have been taken. Her whole career
had been before her, and it was
promising career Her character, her
disposition, everything about her
seemed to promise a useful and per-
haps brilliant life to come, and yet
she had been taken in the full bloom
Of her maturity.
For weeks and months both OF her
parents were in a fog, fog per-
meated by bitterness as they struggled
to reach solid ground. They could
find nothing on which to center their
interest. The inspiration which led
to 90 many Of shuss's q 6orfu COM
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Ragusa" and Of "Old Church in
Taxco"
There is interesting contrast to
be found in two rainy-day pictures
in this exhibition-one in a small
city in Bavaria and the other here
in Washington. It must be admitted,
with regret, that Of the two our own
town appears by far the slippier and
wetter. Mrs. Chase's New England
themes are also very pleasing-not-
ably one of typical little story-and-
a-half house by the sea and a row OF
willows with the sea as background.
Among the most pleasing of her Wash
ington subjects Is one of cherry trees
in blossom on the Speedway and
another of water and sky on Sum-
mer day, Down the River" Mrs.
Chase is, it will be recalled, secretary
of the Washington Water Color Club.
ArnoId'S Autographs the
Work of Skilled Technicidn.
At THE Blue Gallery" 2o40 S
street, A. G. Arnold is holding a
one-man show Of Autographs, among
which several show very competent
craftsmanship and Skillful handling
of the photographic crayon. Born in
Brooklyn, N. Y, in 1904, Arnold stud
led at the Art Students League in New
York. under Boardman Robinson and
Kenneth Hayes Miller, Max Weber
and Charles Locke. So brilliant pupil
was he that, directly upon completing
the course, he was appointed instructor
in lithography. For the last six years
he has been director of the Woodstock
School Of Lithography, and during
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positions was dead. and he told me
one day, in a fit of diScouragement,
that he would never write again.
His genius finally began to assert
itself and he picked up work on a
symphony which had already had his
attention, his Washington Circles
symphony" AS he progressed, his in
terest grew, and his wife was always
at his elbow with words of encourage
ment.
He submitted the first completed
section to DR.. Hans Kinder, conduc-
tor of the National Symphony, and
DR.. Kinder was at once intrigued.
promising to play the completed work
If it lived up to the first samples.
Then Shure set to work with all Of
his old fire and rapidly whipped the
work into shape. A first rehearsal
was arranged. and the Orchestra IL
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self broke into applause at It's con-
clusion.
FINALLY came the Sunday after
noon last Spring which was to
make or break Shure. In the hands
of a capacity audience at Constitu-
ton Hall lay his fate. Occupying a
box with his wife, son and a few
friends, his nervousness grew as the
time approached for his symphonys
first public performance. Was he to
be a success? Had he won his way
back?
The storm of applause which broke
as the final note was given answered
his questions. For 10 or Is minutes,
it seemed half hour, the plaudits
OF that large audience carried on un-
dinished. Pointed out by DR..
Kinder. ShuTe finally rose and bowed
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standing. For the most part these
are of growing flowers, few on q
branch, or a single spray, against a
simple background, very sensitively in
terpreted in a manner which would
undoubtedly delight the japanese, who
have exceptional feeling and taste in
such matters regarding flower ar
rangement, indeed, as an art. Miss
Guernsey in her transcriptions Of
flowers suggests their frailty, delicacy.
and short life as something real and
precious. Her grouping, arrangement,
and lighting are excellent and very
artistic.
Costigan'S Autographs and
EtchingS of Rare Quality.
D ARELY has an exhibition of prints
~ attracted more attention or called
forth more admiration than that Of
etchings and Autographs by John E.
Costigan of New York, which opened
in the Smithsonian Institution on the
first of February to continue through
out the month. Mr.. Costigan is best
known as a painter and for his paint
ings shown in the leading exhibitions
has won high awards. He is self
taught, and his method is invariably
quite his own. The subject that he
essays most frequently is that Of
figures in the woods, and his paint
ing is done, in most instances, in
broken color with brown tones pre-
dominating. His etchings and ntho-
graphs are more varied in theme and
manner, and while also out Of the
ordinary, are rather more substantial.
Almost without exception his prints
picture those who live on farms-men,
women and children, bit frozzy
headed and poorly dressed, but not
offensive through homeliness nor rude
in manner. In fact, in some way this
artist seems to surround the people
he pictures with an air of unconcern
and at the same time to give through
them a suggestion of that which is
universal. Never do these people,
taken in the midst of everyday life,
seem to pose or be conscious Of our
own or the artists critical inspec-
ton. Homely people they are to be
sure, doing homely tasks, often with
their animals around them, COWS,
goats, but always free and happy, be-
longing, as it were, to the great out
door world-not city people. There is
not the slightest trace of sentiment
taiity in this subject matter, nothing
exaggerated nor overdrawn, but
neither does it reek of the earth
earthly. 1t is, in fact, the spirit Of
things unseen, so obvious in these
etchings and Autographs, which sets
them apart and gives them distinction.
He makes us see that the sun Of
heaven still shines on the toiler, and
to believe that hence all Is well. In
the present day when the tendency is
to over-emphasize the forlorn and
dreary, this is, indeed, relief.
Mr.. Costigan's Autographs are Pc
culiarly direct in handling, and strong.
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~ more laStlng Lnan granite Will
~ be dedicated Wednesday aft
ernoon at Constitution Hall,
the tribute Of father to a beloved
daughter who died at the age of 20.
The father, r. Deane Shure, will
then present for the first time his
own composition, the "Berkie SYM
phony in D Minor" expressing
through the medium of music his
love for his child, Mary Bertha Shure,
whose life ended Just as an artistic
career Of extraordinary promise was
towering. II will be the feature OF
the National Symphony Orchestra's
afternoon program.
Behind this symphony lies a story
as tragic and at the same time as
heroic as any to be found in the long
history Of music-the story OF bril-
liant young Washington high school
graduate who struggled against
disease which was to prove fatal,
exhausting some OF her waning
strength to complete q task she had
set out to accomplish, and the story
Of father who fought back against
a crushing blow TO regain his equi-
ibrium and bring TO the library Of
music a masterful work.
Twice, in the course of this story,
the National Symphony Orchestra has
played prominent part, and
throughout the period covered by its
details the mother, even more heav-
lily stricken by the tragedy, was a
tower of strength who sustained her
husband and saved to the world of
music a personality which, in the
years to come, will be recognized as
one Of the outstanding American
composers.
The start Of the story goes back
to 1888, when Mary Bertha, only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Shure, was
graduated from Central High School
with honors. During the course Of
/ her term at Central she had displayed
an ilnlsilai artistic ahilitv b0rns Gf q
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fixed entities-and that only the light
shifts and is pliable. Here is art Of a
very high order.
To find places and to secure these
pictures has required long and diligent
search. To the pursuit, however Miss
Johnston has brought endless enthu-
siasm and tireless energy. She has,
as will be seen from the works in this
exhibition, not restricted herself to
well-known examples; quite the con-
trary, has she sought out the remote
and little known. Late this season
she is returning to Charleston to make
series of negatives typical of the
place-but it Is the small houses, the
back streets and alleys that will have
her first attention. And how wise this
is, for it is the supposedly less i'm
portant examples of early American
building which are least apt to be pre-
served. That no time should be lost
in prosecuting this work Is evidenced
by photograph of the facade of
" Burnside Williamsboro, N. c."
charming in design, but unhappily, In
ruin. The beautiful old house in
winch Malbone, the greatest of our
early American miniature painters,
lived and died, in Savannah, has in
recent years fallen so completely into
dlSrepair that it is now being pulled
down to make place for another filling
station. These evidences not only of
the builders art, but the taste of the
owners in the early days of settlement
and national upbuilding are fast dis
appearing and will soon be lost.
Among some of the most interesting
buildings that Miss Johnston has pho
tographed are the fine old court house
with its lovely paneled upper room for
assemblies at Edenton, N. c., and also
the plantation at Hayes" near Eden
ton, once the residence of the royal
governors. and still one of the finest
examples Of Georgian domestic arcii-
lecture in this country.
Miss Johnston's quest has, indeed.
taken her the length and breadth of
flve States, and she has now entered
the sixth-but it Is a quest which
amply rewards. She claims there is
none like it, not even excepting the
quest for first editions, or for rare
prints, or by moonlight on southern
beaches, for turtle eggs. She is doubt
less not only best informed on the
subject but right. The evidence she
presents in her exhibition is convinc-
ing. The exhibition will continue
through February %.
Unusual Photographs of
FLoUerS by Miss Guernsey.
THERE is another and a very en-
gaging exhibition of pictorial pho
tographs to be seen in the National
Museum, Arts and Industries Building
on the South side of the Mall at this
very time. It consists of flowers and
out-of-door subjects by Lillian A.
Guernsey Of the Photographic section
OF the Department Of Agriculture, and
is set forth under the auspices of the
Photographic Division Of the Museum.
Some of these photographs are Of local
gardens-a number of very charming
ones show the garden at Dumbarton
Oaks, the Bliss estate in GEORGETOWN
others were taken at Mount Vernon.
But the unique and most important
feature Of this exhibition is the group
Of flower prints which are quite out
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1217z c street northeast, designer
and builder; to erect one 2-story brick
dwelling, 1920 Alabama avenue south
east; to cost $4,000.
Stuart & Stephens, 1921 F'orty-sixth
street, owners and builders; w. A.
Stuart, architect; TO erect one 2-story
brick and cinder block dwelling, 46l2
Forty-sixth street. to cost $1,000.
Charles and Victorine NJ Wright,
owner; M. v. Engelbach. designer;
M. v. Engelbach ds Co., 426 Delafleld
place, builders; to erect one 2-story
brick and frame dwelling, 1926 First
street southwest, to cost $1,000.
Amory Lawrence, 1880 Reservoir
road. owner: ]. B. Boiling. designer:
r. w. and ]. B. Boiling, builders; to
erect one 2-Story brick addition, re-
pairs and alterations, $3.50 Reservoir
road, to cost $4,000.
Howenstein Realty Corp, 1418 H
street, owners and builders; George T
Santmyers, architect: to erect one
1-story brick dwelling, 6614 Sixth
street, to cost $4,000.
Fifteenth Street Heights Corp,
Southern Building, owners and build
ers; j. Himmelheber, designer; to erect
IA brick garages, 1900-26 D street
northeast, to cost $1,400.
r. H. Sanford, 1918 Military road.
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the mutual mortgage insurance fund
of the Federal Housing AdminiStra-
ton.
3. To provide better service to mort
gagees by expediting the processing.
of cases and the compliance inspec-
tions.
4. To acquaint operative builders
with the minimum requirements for
construction under the Federal Hous-
ing Administration program in order
that they will know what will be ex-
pected of them.
Local minimum construction stand
ards have already become operative in
Jamaica, N. Y, and Newark, N. j.
Insuring offices, where local mini
mum construction standards have
been revised and are expected to be-
come operative by February is, are
located in Brooklyn, White Plains and
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and cinder block dwelling, I'll Ogle-
thorpe street; to cost 1000.
Two Cinder Block Dwellings.
Edward A. Hyde, 58l9 Second place,
owner and builder; Evan j. Conner,
designer; to erect two 11a-story brick
and cinder block dwellings, lilo and
lila Congress street southeast; to cost
$4,000 each.
J. c. Nealon, 5821 Nevada avenue,
owner and builder; Dana B. Johannes,
jr., designer; to erect one 2-story
brick and cinder block dwelling, 1928
Military road; to cost $500.
w. L. Koontz, 1900 Fourteenth
street southeast, owner; L. w. Giles,
architect; Charles A. Lohr, Suitland,
Md, builder; to erect one l-story
brick riding academy, 1107 Good Hope
road southeast; to cost $4,000.
Robert w. Werth, owner; John B.
Nutter, designer: Woodbridge Realty
Co, 2377 Rhode Island avenue north
east, builders; to erect two IL STORY
brick dwellings, 1906 and 1910 Twen-
ty-second street northeast; to cost
44,500 each,
A. S. Beck Shoe Corp, 1915 F street.
owners and builders; L. C. Mayors,
designer; to make alterations, 1915
r street; to cost $3.50.
Albert E. Wright, 4720 Forty-seventh
street, owner and builder; A. w.
Smith, designer; to erect two 2-story
brick dwellings, 4409-13 Window
place: to cost Sc, 500 each.
Paul H. Francis, 119 Rittenhouse
street, owner and designer; Doyle L.
Edmund, Dupont circle. builder: to
erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 1880
Chain Bridge road; to cost $4,000.
John Hancock Mutual Life Insur-
ance Co. Of Boston, Mass, owners;
Martin Bros, 1341 Connecticut ave-
nue., builders: to make repairs and
alterations, Gil Seventh street; to cost
$4,000.
Muhleman Il Keyhoe, 825 Ritten-
house street, owners and builders;
Eimor Cappelmann, designer; to erect
one 2-story brick and cinder block
dwelling, 6628 Thirty-second street;
to cost $4,000.
Pichler- Richmond Construction Co.,
1905 K street, owners and builders;
William Crusemire, designer; to erect
one 112-story brick and einder block
dwelling, 4811 Western avenue; to
cost $4,000.
Pichler- Richmond Construction Co.,
1905 K street, owners and builders;
William Crusemire, designer; to erect
one 2-story brick and concrete block
dwelling, 4827 Davenport street; to
cost 5000.
Cora L. Frere, 321 H street north
east, owner and builder; Joseph G..
Herbert, architect; to erect one 2-story
brick and cinder block dwelling, 5613
First street northeast; to cost $4,000.
G. w. Absher, 1901 Alabama avenue
southeast, owner and builder; Harry
Shane, designer; to erect one 2-story
brick and cinder block dwelling, 3409
Alabama avenue southeast; to cost
$4,000.
l. C. Strohecker, owner; r. e. Cox,
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ways tuhCH O
vital interest in all matters pertain
ing to real estate and the develop
ment of the city. He recalls that
when he entered the business the
population of the District Of CO.
lumbia was approximately 175,000.
He Is regarded as one of the lead
ing authorities on real estate values
His services have been sought as
appraiser of real property and expert
witness in Ell major condemnations
by the Government.
Heiskell organized the first Real
Estate Board in the city of Wash
ington and became its first president,
and was succeeded In that Office by
the late George w. F. Swartzell.
In 1887 he sold the Calvert property.
now known as Riverdale. Md, to a
New York interest and supervised
and directed the subdivision of this
now populouS suburb, and has
handled many large transactions
throughout the last so years, which
have taken place in the development
and growth OF Washington.
Heiskell is native of Maryland
and resides in the old family home,
Kildare, at Oxon Hill, Md, which
comprises about 500 acres. In con-
junction with his real estate busi-
ness in this city, he has always been
actively interested in agriculture di-
recting his farm interests at Oxon
Hill
He is the son of the late DIR. Peter
H. Heiskell, who acquired Kildare In
1850 and moved there from Char
iottesville, Va.
Evening star., 1937-01-16
AUTOMATIC CONTROL
OF HEAT is POPULAR
Many Write Anthracite Indus
tries, Inc, About Results as
More and More Are Used.

1t Is only natural, says a statement
from Anthracite Industries, Inc, that
inquiries coming into that organiza-
tion from consumers seeking informa-
ton on how to obtain better results
from their heating plants predomi-
nantly deal with automatic controls
and thermostats. 1t Is evident that
more and more home owners are
learning that the addition OF ther-
mostat to their heating plant frees
them from many steps and at the
same time insures even heat and
economy.
The questions which are received
by Anthracite Industries. Inc. indi-
cate that many home owners, how
ever. do not know where to obtain
thermostats or. what they cost. AS
a matter OF fact, they have wide
range in price, but there are many
effective makes within the price range
of any home owner or renter. Heat.
ing contractors, as we'll as many re-
tail coal merchants. handle them.
The purpose Of the thermostat Is
to turn drafts on and OF as a given
degree of temperature is obtained.
Most of them operate on q tempera-
ture difference Of two degrees: that
is, If you wish 10 degrees Of heat in
your house, the thermostat keeps the
drafts open until 70 is reaced, then
turns them on and does not reopen
them until the thermometer drops to
SO. AS q result there is no wide
rane of temperature in the house at
any time. and the only job the furnace
tender has is to keep the fires supplied
with fuel.