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Evening star., 1939-02-12

Among the most charming of these
are alpine Firs-Rainier 'Montery
Veterans,' and Sierra Snow the
last of which was 10 years ago in
cluded in Fine Prints of the Year"
Less successful are Mr.. Doolittle's
etchings, such as those Of the Cali
fornia missions In these his lines
are less sensitive. at times too heavy.
and his distribution of light and
shade less good. There is an almost
inviolable stability at the
center. flexibility at the circum-
ference"-which the great print
makers of all time have held in
mind, but which in his etchings
Mr.. Doolittle seems at times to dis
regard. Also his trees in the FORE
ground appear to be curiously un-
rooted. These, however, are not
grave faults as compared to the
more numerous virtues. In fact,
any adverse criticism of work COL
lectively as good as this of Mr.. Doo-
Titles seems out of place-especially
when we remember that it is to the
printmakers that we must look
today, rather than the painters, to
keep the torch Of art alight.
1t may interest others, as it has
the writer, to learn that in the field
OF natural color photography Mr..
Doolittle has acquired unusual pro-
flciency, his experiments with polar
lied light resulting in color effects
of rare beauty. His adventures in
this field have been comparatively
recent, whereas mis- etching has
been carried on for IS years. He is
now vice president of the Print
Makers of California. and a member
of the Chicago Society of Etchers,
the Society of American Etchers
and other organizations. The Bib
hotheque Rationale of Paris owns
a collection Of his prints and he is
represented in the leadig collections
In this country.
Allen Eaton Will Lecture on
Rural American HandicrattS.
A couple of years ago there was
held here in the patio of the De-
partment of Agriculture a most
beautiful and memorable exhibition
of the handicrafts of our own rural
people which evidenced to a surpris-
ing degree native taste and talent.
Included therein were weavings, en-
orolderles, pottery, wood carving,
musical instruments and other ar
Evening star., 1939-02-12

will be purchase prize for paint
ing priced at not more than 500,
voted as individually desired, and
the second will be awarded to the
painting declared by vote as most
meritorious. the latter without re-
strictions. Originally it was planned
/ to have these contests concluded
week from today. when the exhibit
/ ton closes, but the time was moved
forward in order to give the public
opportunity during the coming week
to view the works winning the
awards. These prizes. together with
The Evening Star prize of $100 and
the society's several medals of merit,
will be presented at a dinner to be
given in the Arts Club next Friday
evening the president of the society,
Charles Bittinger, presiding.
Exhibition of Pueblo Indian
Arts and Crafts.
The little gallery in the Chalet
Nonparil' on the Old Georgetown
road. Bethesda, after being empty
for few weeks, is now filled to over
flowing with a unique and delightful
exhibition Of Pueblo Indian art. lent
by the American Federation of Arts.
This consists of facsimiles in color
of water colors by Pueblo Indians
and examples of weaving, pottery,
beadwork, ETC., assembled for and
shown in the most recent Paris
Exposition.
Work by Art Students and
Children on VieU in interior
Department Gallery.
In the art gallery on the seventh
floor of the new Interior Depart
ment Building the Office of Educa-
! ton is showing paintings and draw
ings by students of the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of the Fine Arts,
paintings by students in the art
department of Mills College, Calf,
and paintings, few pieces of sculp-
ture and some decorated textiles by
underprivileged children in the set
Elements and charitable institutions
of New York City.
The first two groups share the
center gallery, the last occupies the
long gallery to the right, on entrance.
For a great many years the Penn
sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, has been one of our
leading professional schools, and
on it's fellowship list are some of the
most illustrious artists that Amer
lea has produced, but if the pres
ent showing is at all representative,
this institution must indeed have
fallen from its high estate. There
is little or nothing to commend in
the entire display. The drawing is
fairly correct and the color not bad,
but there is little structural strength,
or assurance in handling of medium
in short, the work is careless and
fumbling, without vigor or intelli-
gent understanding. Mills College
! makes q much better showing, al
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Work by High Ranking Artists Exhibitions
SLOAN PRINTS AT ARTS CLUB
National Museum and Other Centers Have Excellent Showngs;
Graft Work From New Hampshire in Special Exhibit;
Landscape Club Elects Officers

IN brush stroke and freshness in
manner of attack as well as unity of
tone.
To many of the modernists John
Sloan today must seem quite out
dated, but one does not have to have
the gamblers instinct to venture the
prophecy that long after the in
comprehensibles are dead, John
Sloan will continue to live. Apropos,
at the present time and for some
years now, Mr.. Sloan has deserted
New York, with all its hustle, for
Santa Fe, N. Mex, with its nearby
deserts and towering mountains. In
the development of the art of the
Indians and the resurrection of their
crafts he has been deeply inter-
ested and very helpful Thus turns
the wheel of time-but while fash
ions and even men come and go
good art lives-and at it's best the
art of John Sloan is very good in
deed.
Paintings and Drawings by
ooot y. A6OtLt OU VteU III
The National Museum.
An exhibition of paintings and
drawings by Joel j. Levitt may be
seen all this month in the foyer of
the United States National Museum,
set forth under the auspices of the
National Collection of Fine Arts.
The artist, who was born in Kiev,
Russia. in 1875, and died in New
York in 1887, is comparatively little
known in this city. He came to
America in 1914, after having grad
uated from the Odessa Art School
and studied under Prof. Lila Repin
at the Imperial Art Academy of st.
Petersburg, and very soon estab-
lished himself as painter of serious
conviction and capability. In time
he became member of the
Salamagundi Club of New York, the
Society of Independent Artists and
the North Shore Art Association,
with all of which he exhibited, as
we'll as in the National Academy of
Design, the Brooklyn Museum and
elsewhere. For a painting shown in
Evening star., 1939-02-12

, ing all of which are rendered with
reticence and feeling.
Stranely enough. in his figure
paintings Mr.. Levitt's brushwork
seems to obscure his good drafts
manship, as though his desire to
express spiritual quality forbade
definition, and yet he was an ex-
ceptionally good craftsman, as seen
in his excellent portrait drawing of
Mr.. David Pinski, lent for this ex-
hibition, and in his numerous pen
and-ink drawings of f1gures-espe-
cially old men, patriarchial in ap-
pearance, in the black-and-w white
section of the works on display.
Some of these drawings evidence
knowledge and profound admiration
of the works of Rembrandt, which
this painter of our own day must
have attained through intimacy with
this greatest Of masters works
also his delight in the feat of tram
scription. Because of all this one
comes away from the Levitt exhi-
bition with genuine respect for the
artist and perhaps a little better
understanding, not only of what art
meant to him, but to all those who
practice it as a profession, as did
he, simply, sincerely and with great
devotion.
Fine Prints by Harold L.
Doohttle, Artist and
Engineer.
The February print exhibition in
the Smithsonian Building, under the
auspices of the Graphic Arts Divi-
sion of the United States National
Museum, consists of aquantints, dry
points and etchings by Harold L.
Doolittle of Pasadena, Calf, an
engineer by profession who has
turned to printmaking as hobby,
and, untutored, attained to excep-
tional distinction in the art.
When % years of age Mr.. Doolittle
graduated from Cornell University
as mechanical engineer. About
three years later he entered the en-
ploy of the Southern California
Edison Co., of which he is now chief
Evening star., 1939-02-12

preston OF the Oriental woman's
serenity.
Sho1Un in Ne1U York.
Carl Schmitz's bronze Dancer in
the present show was also exhibited
lif memory does not deceive) in the
great Dance International Exposi-
ton in New York City the end OF
1887. Less motion is expressed in
this modern figure than in the two
Evening star., 1939-02-12

ticles of utility and beauty made by
simple country people in cabins and
farm homes remote from cities, not
in one locality but throughout our
land. This exhibition was assembled
and set forth by Allen Eaton of the
Department OF Surveys of the Rus
sell Sage Foundation, New York,
ment of Agriculture, and was the re-
suit of surveys made by him in
many remote sections. On this
theme. Rural American Handi-
crafts Mr. Eaton is to give lee
ture, illustrated with actual ex-
amples as we'll as by stereopticon
slides, in the lecture hall of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, on Wednesday evening. Feb
ruary IS, under the auspices OF
the Washington Society Of the Fine
Arts.
Craft Work From New
Hampshire In Special
Exhibition.
In this connection mention may
we'll be made of a permanent but
changing exhibition of handicrafts
from all parts of the United States
to be seen at 1916 K street NV. in
the Cabin Handicrafters," con-
Quoted by Louise Hall Hollis, who
has also shop in the mountains OF
roro1ino ond ic uypn
formed concerning the output OF the
best crafters throughout the coun-
try. The current, special exhibition,
comes from New Hampshire and in
cludes excellent work in pewter and
copper as we'll as carvings in wood.
Among the last is a yoke of oxen
drawing a cart filled with logs. To
find artistic expression through the
use of ones hands co-ordinated with
ones brain is delightful as well as
profitable. Here is art of a very
substantial sort and we should make
much of it.
Popular Prizes to Be Announced
By Society of Washington
Artists.
The Society of Washington Artists
will announce this afternoon at s
O'Clock to those in attendance at its
48th annual exhibition in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art the winners in
the two popular voting competitions
held in connection with this exhi-
bition this year. The first OF these
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Football! Fans Vote
For AN-Star Team
Begins Saturday
Former College Players
Chosen to Face Pro
Gionts August 30
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, July 3.-Football fans
throughout the country Saturday
will begin selection of the college
all-star squad for the annual game
with the National Pro League cham
pions in Soldier Field the night of
August 30.
Only college seniors of last sea-
son are eligible for participation in
the game, proceeds of which go to
charity Their opponent this year
will be the New York Giants.
The Chicago Tribune, sponsor of
the contest, will be affiliated with
326 other newspapers and radio sta
tons in all section in selection of
the collegians in the tWo-week poll.
Following its completion another
poll will be started to select a head
coach and four assistants to handle
the all-star squad. The coaching
staff Will be composed of two Mid
west coaches one from the Big
Ten and one outside-and one from
the East, South and Far West.
The head coach will be the mentor
receiving the largest number of
votes.
The all-stars are scheduled to
report August IL at Northwestern
University in nearby Evanston for
training.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Bruins, Hit by Injuries,
Lack Smoothness Of '38

The Cubs, who won in photo
finish last year, SO far have shown
few signs of repeating. The smooth
ness and the spirit which marked
their play in the closing weeks of
last season have not been in evi-
dence. Injuries, especially to Dick
Bartell and Bill Lee, have held them
back. They have been a first-divi-
sion ball club, but just that-and
no more.
The Dodgers have been in-and-
cutters, good at home, erratic on the
road. The Pirates. differing only
Slightly from the Pirates who were
on the way to the pennant last year
when they folded SO badly. have
reached point where the old will
town has been worn pretty thin
and will have to pick up sharply if
they are to make a real run for it
through the last half. The Bees had
their first division chances badly
dented by early season injuries and
now are trying to make a comeback.
The Phillies, in the matter of con-
sistency if nothing else, rank with
the Yankees and the Reds. They
were picked to finish last and as they
get up to the halfway mark they
are such solid last there doesn't
seem to be much hope of any other
club displacing them.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
% Given Best Chance Of Three United States Contendes British Open
Straight Off the Tee

ders, while the ether match will
find George Keene and Y. Kinoshita
clashing with E. J. Grill ard George
Molloy.
At Kenwood Walter S. Furlow won
the match play against par tourney,
scoring 88-l8-70.
AnacOstia Tourney Final.
The final in the spring tourney at
Anacostia will be played next Sum
day with Jim Gipe meeting Calvin
Loving, last years winner. They'll
play for the Walter Hagen Trophy.
At Army Navy Comdr. w. S.
Pennoyer tied for first in one blind
bogey tourney and won second place
in another. An exhibition match
next Sunday will pair Allan Burton,
service club pro, and Comdr. w. S.
Popham, against Witty Cox and
Earl McAleer of Congressional, at
Army Navy at pm.
That gal is in again. Wonder
what Betty Meckley will do with
all her trophies when she stops
Winning-if she ever does? The
former District womens champ
pared with Buddy Sharkey at In
dian Spring to win the gross award
IN a mixed foursome tourney. They
shot Is. Mrs. J. R. De Farges and
w. A. Covert won the net prize with
Tied for second net
were Mrs. K. S. Giles and Earl Clary,
and Mrs. H, w. Sharpe and L. E.
Ritter. Bob Albertus scored 75-5
10 to take the lead in the Cover
nors Cup tourney. Ralph Bogart
had 74-2-72.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Hader Faces Capital S
Newest Mat Villain
In Thursday Bout
Announces He'll Throw
Singh and His 'Cobro'
In Scheduled Time

Jack Hader, a ferocious growler
in his own right, will face Washing
tons newest mat menace in Thurs
days feature at Turner Arena. en-
gaging Nanjo Singh and his we'll
known cobra hold.
Promoter Joe Turner announced
the match yesterday after going
into a long trance. Turner, how
ever, declared he was merely trying
to conjure up the spirits to deter
mine if Hader stands a chance
against the bronzed Hindu, and the
spirits gave him the green light.
Hader fatty announces he will
throw Nanjo and his cobra in time
to catch the 1852 trolley to George
town. Hader holds that Laverne
Baxter could have thrown Singh
last week if he hadn't stopped to
chat with a ringsider.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Tennis,

TODAY.
Tennis.
District mems tournament, Co.
lumbia Country Club, 100000.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
Washington at New York, dou-
ble-header, 1890.
Tennis.
District mems tournament, Co.
lumbia Country Club, 1000 90.
WEDNESDAY.
Washington at New York, 2.
Tennis.
District mems tournament, Co.
lumbla Country Club, 3:00-6:00.
THURSDAY.
Tennis.
District mems tournament, Co.
lumbia Country Club, 100000.
"ICStlluR.
Jack Hader VS.. Manic Singh,
feature bout, Turner's Arena,
$50.
FRIDAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Philadelphia, 3.
Tennis.
District mems tournament, Co.
lumbia Country Club, 100000.
SATURDAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Philadelphia,
double-header, 1:30.
Tennis.
District mems tournament, Co.
lumbia Country Club. 3:00-6:O0.
Army Navy Leech Cup matches,
Army Navy Club, 2:30.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
The
SPORTLIGHT
Races at Halfway Post
Bear Out Ball Critics
By GRANTLAND RICE,

NEW YORK, July 3-The major
league clubs reach the halfway post
tomorrow as they roar into the
double-hea that mark the holi-
day. Part of April and all of May
and June stretch behind them. July,
August, September-and the last
gueling run to the wire-loom ahead.
There is an old belief in baseball
that the team that is leading each
league on July 4 will win the pen
nant. 1t doesn't always work out
that way, of course. If it did they
could all knock off and 60 home on
that date every year. One of the
great appeals the game holds is its
uncertainty. And one of the great
est thrills it offers is that of a team
rushing out of nowhere to grab the
main prize as the leaves are turning
in September.
But let's take a look at them and
what they have done through the
first half-how they have held to
form-or upset it. How they have
crossed the experts one way or
another
Evening star., 1939-07-03
0utboards Renewing
Attack on Records
In Hampton Meet
Three World Marks Set
By Ranking Pilots in
Richmond Regatta
By the Associated Press.

HAMPTON, Va. July 3.-The Ma
tons ranking outboard pilots. who
shattered three world records on the
James River course at Richmond in
mile time tests Sunday, moved here
today for another assault on speed
marks in the annual Hampton
Yacht Club Regatta.
Marks hung up yesterday before
crowd of 5000 persons were: Gar
Wood, jr., Algonac. Mich, class C
amateur. 60560 miles per hour;
Harry Birdsall. jr., Mount Vernoon,
N. Y, class F professional, 63.272
miles per hour, and Charley Mack,
Rutherford, N j.. class F runabout
56.740 miles per hour.
Young Wood, son of the famous
speedboat racer, topped his own
mark set at Brownsville. Tex, earlier
this year by nearly two miles per
hour. Birdsall also broke his own
record of 62.776 established here last
year. The old class F runabout
mark of 53412 was set by A. D. Gill
bert in Stockton, Calf, five years
ago.
Jimmy Mullen of Richmond
missed a class B amateur record by
tenth of mile
The pilots will race at West Point
on Tuesday.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Cards and Gionts Most
Surprising N. L. Clubs

The National League is jumbled-
as usual. The Reds, generally picked
to win the pennant, got off in front
rather quickly and have been there
most of the time. Behind them
there has been a great jostling and
tussling
The two most surprising clubs in
the league have been the Cardinals
and the Giants.
The Cardinals wound up in sixth
place last year and there was a
tendency on the part Of the forecast
ers to leave them there. since the old
Gas House Gang has been dispersed
and there we're lot of new ball
players going to work for Ray Blades,
a new manager. But the Cardinals
refused to accept the spot assigned
to them. They broke fast from the
gate, have been in the thick of the
race so far and threaten to stay
there all the way to the wire
The Giants were difficult to figure.
The experts said they could finish
firSt-or sixth. That's exactly the
way they have played, bobbing up
and down, falling into the second
division one day, crowding the lead
ers the next. Their lack of con-
sistency has lessened the confidence
of some of their supporters, but at
the same time it has kept others
from despair 1t looked for a while
as though the Giants would be
dragged down by glaring weak
ness at third base. Since that has
been corrected, they have risen
again. The halfway mark finds them
within shooting distance of the lead
and with their hopes of a pennant
suddenly bright again.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Momokos, Rugged Blair
Rinq Foes Next Week

frankie Blair and Steve Mamakos
will supply the feature fisticuffing
next Monday night at the ball park,
meeting in a 10-round bout.
Blair, a seasoned and capable
ringman, recently stopped Glenn
Lee on technical knockout at New
York, opening a cash over the erst-
while Nebraska Wildcats eye that
made it impossible for him to con-
tlnue. He is a rough and tough
fighter with style similar to
Mamakos' and should give the Dis
trict boy busy evening.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
S22,800 Meet Starts
Harness Racing in
Eastern Sector
Nate Hanover, Optimist
Among Horses in 4-Doy
Affair at Goshen
BY the Associated Press.

~
GOSHEN, N. Y, July ga four
day meeting at which $22 800 in
purses will be distributed at Historic
half-mile track opens the Eastern
part of the Grand Circuit harness
racing season today.
Although the richest purses
$4,000 for the Historic Stake for s.
year-old trotters and the two $4,000
Village Farm stakes for PAGERS
won't be raced for until Wednesday
and Thursday, the meeting starts
with plenty Of action.
Nate Hanover in Field.
Nate Hanover, speedy double
gated gelding owned by I. w. Glea-
son OF Williamsport, Pa. is one of
five expected to start in the opening
81 900 race. He was entered for it
before he trotted a 2:0212 mile to
win a heat in the $4,000 Merchants
and Manufacturer Stake at Toledo
last week. With Vic Fleming
handling the reins, he's expected to
start as co-favorite with E. Roland
Hartman Watson Hanover. Nate
Hanover also is eligible to pace
against bunch of 200 sidewheelers
later in the meeting.
Two other principal racers today
have drawn big fields, with Paul
BoWser's Boston entry, Queens Mac,
expected to fight it out with Opti-
mist, owned and driven by Townsend
Ackerman of Johannesburg, N. Y.
in one event and E. J. Bakers Dita,
stablemate of the famous Grey
hound, favored in the other.
Harrimans in Handicap Race.
-Four members of the Hartman
family, sponsors of the meeting.
will clash in special handicap for
amateur drivers Mrs. E. r. Harri-
man, driving Prohibitor, will start
l40 feet behind the wire.
Most of the leading Hambletonian
eligibles are expected to race in the
Historic Stake Wednesday. It's an
annual tune-up for the $4,000 race
at Good Time Park, Goshen's mile
track, in August.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Oxon Hills, Democrats
County Loop Victors

Oxon Hill has another game on
the right side of the ledger in the
Prince Georges County League
today, but only after a grueling 10
inning struggle with Maryland Aces
which saw the Hill nine triumph
by 5-4 margin. The Aces outhit
their opponents, but McFadden was
tight in the pinches.
In another league encounter
Southern Maryland Democrats ran
roughshod over Fort Dupont. win
ming by 10-1 margin. The hit
ting of j. Hoyt. who connected for
a triple, and Kasulke featured the
game.
Evening star., 1939-07-03
Reds Buy Hurting Vet

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 3 tP.-
Henry johnson, Birmingham Barons'
rlghthander, has been sold to the
Cincinnati Reds for an unannounced
amount of cash and a player yet
to be named. johnson, who has
won 9 and lost 3 games, formerly
pitched for New York and Boston in
the American League.