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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-14
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
By Robbin coons-

HOLLYWOOD Calr Dec. 14-The Great Big Man Who Wasn't There putting he scarecrow's pants.
 putting them all morning and he was due 0 put o the afternoon His name when around he wasn't there again today instead medumsized man named John specazes in disappearing acts
 Making Price disappear is man-szed Job because Price he's and he's equipped with full Fulton however not one to be sumped bv size He knows the answers invisible why credited special effects in pictures Ike Returns in which Price the star Tor the most part not appear the shadow o himself
 For bulk presents problem those invisible drug, he wanders through the starknaked Here his voice does all the work But invisible gets chilly these autumn nights, a crows pants will comfort invisible goose-flesh.
 invisible convncngy requires considerable Price is totally encaSed in form cloth he works against bacdrop of the black scarecrow, in front of it. reaches out to the trousers by handy black tabs When photographed black against black isn't there except outline which is later removed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-14
TURKEYS SHOT FOR BY BIG CROWD AT
 ELKS' BING0 SHOOT

Nearly 200 Elks and their ladies and friends "shot" turkeys last night in bingo play in the ball. room, winding up the evening with two round -the-horn" plays.
 Mrs A. w. Stewart was at least one of the highest if not the high est scorer of the evening. She won one turkey on regular bingo and won two on the last double award round-the-horn play.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-14
W. c. T. U. IS NOT TO
 MEET THIS MONTH

It was announced today that the December meeting of the w. c. T. U. had been postponed and that the group would not meet again until January 15.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-14
Salvation Army Bible Class Meets Tonight

There will be a meeting of the Salvation Army Bible Glass this ev- ening at the residence Of Mrs. r. Haviland in the Juneau Hotel and all intcrartcd are invited to attend The sess.cn will start at 7.3O o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-14
h0RLAnD K TO
 LEAVE, WINTER

The halibut schooner Norland, skipper Tom Sandvik, and crew, will spend the winter at Warm Springs Bay on Baranof Island
 The Norland is expected to leave for it's winter berth in the next day or SO.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-14
TIDES TOMORROW
WILL
 BRING IN SIX

Al NIonsen and Ralph Sav0ry are due in Juneau this afternoon from Fairbanks flying PAA Electra with six passengers for the North land.
 Scheduled to arrive are Stanley Stier. s. N. Moses, Jr., Mrs. J. B. F'rozina, A. Jacobsen. c. w. Larsen ard Mrs. Alice Ahrens.
 Four passengers. Mrs. Leslie Ner- land, J. Frank Henderson, A. Muel- Ter and Patrick Sweeney, flew north from Juneau this morning with pi- lots Bill Knox and Burton Lien.
 -o~-o-
 Today's Jews lodav-- Emplre.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-14
cop Sees Long Hand Of FOR in Proposing Late ConveniionDaies

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Evening star., 1939-05-21

can see Dufy's pen drawings of
things and people without knowing
that he has the utmost technical
dexterity when he wishes to- employ
1t. Duffy Is as whimsical as a Walt
Disney when he wishes to be, only
very French in his whimsicality
rather than American. In this sense
he is still child playing with toys
but the number he chooses is limited.
Chief among these are blue water,
little round puffy clouds, boat
moorings that bob up and down
like animated mushrooms, flags, fat
women, butterflies-and a few other
things quite incongruous. Sometimes
he tosses them all together in
single composition but more often
they appear in homogeneous arrange
ment.
Some Of his most famous canvases
are included in the current exhi-
bition-such as La Marne No.
gem" ""Golfe Juan" and "Baigneause
Sainte-Adresse"- last sent
from New York to take the place of
Portrait de Michel Bignon" with
drawn at the last moment to be
shown in the French pavilion at
the New York Worlds Fair.
OF late Duffy has been painting
narrow panels presenting his theme
as panorama, as in lie Bassin de
Deauville' and "Deauville, Les Re-
gates Here, it is thought, speaks
the Oriental influence. Most pleas
ing and utterly different however
are his water colors, such as La
Tamise a Westminster, "Chinon"
and "SaumGr and especially
"Venise, La Rialto'-Where he uses
very direct and explicit expression
emphasized by a calligraphic use
of black line.
Least pleasing are Dufys repre-
sentations of the figure and particu-
larly the feminine figure, nude, which
take on at times coarseness border
ing on vulgarity. 1t is long reach
from Boticeui to Raoul Duffy and
yet in this exhibition they meet in
La Naissance de Venus" a parody
by Duffy of Boticelli's masterpiece,
Venus Rising From the Sea-"
which, by the way is now in the ex-
hibition at the Worlds Fair in San
Francisco. Dufy's version follows
the original fairly closely, but sub
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Great Diversity of Subjects Shown Federal Architects
Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

THE CORCORAN ART Seventeenth street and New
York avenue NWPemanent collections
to June 7. of the California Water Color Club.
THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON NW-Scupture
-
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, at street sW-
Exhibition of etchings aquatints by White ends
today
UNITED STATES MUSEUM Tenth street and Cons
tuition avenue NW-Eighh annual exhibition by Association of
Federal Architects, through May
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Build
ing the Mall at Eighth photographs by
Marjorie Barrows of Washington, through May
AIRCRAFT BUILDING adjacent Snhsonan-Wa
planes in action by Olivia Bendelari through May.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY 1900 street NV
Landscapes OF Nowhere and Everywhere by Els
abeth Elicot Poe,
THE WHYTE GALLERY street NW-Exhibion of naint
lngs IN OIL and water colors by Raou Duffy June g.
PUBLIC LIBRARY Eighth NW-Water colors bv
Paul Arl through May Mount
Lamont streets NW-Work OF members of mechanical
drawing club of Central High School, May 81.
WOMENs CITY CLUB 1856 place NWPortrat
in conte crayon by Bertha Noyes, through May.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ALLEGATIONS GALLERY W. p A
in Art" through May. $1,000
CHLDRENS GALLERY W. p A. 816 Independence avenue sW
Work by Belgian school children, through May
GALLERY OF MODERN MASTERS, 1867 avenue w
Oils water colors and masters during Nav
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART Exhibition of oil paint
ings by Negro artists lent by the w. A, May 81
THE STUDIO GALLERY, Washington University 213
street NW-Exhbton of recent paintings by university
artists, through May ~
THE LITTLE GALLERY street NWExhibion of nntinos
by w. Galpin, through June
1920 WISCONSIN AVE of paintings of castles
and gardens Of British Irish
Gays 1hursdays and Saturdays to pm, through May
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the walls of the Corcoran Gallery
OF Art were cleared and the per-
manent collection rehung. The
amount of work involved in such
displacement and rehanging can
only be partially estimated when
1t is recalled that no less than nine
galleries in the main building and
two in the west wing were emptied
and rearranged. There is. however,
advantage as we'll as disadvantage
in this, inasmuch as, offsetting the
labor required, is the renewal of in
terest in the permanent collection
after its temporary banishment.
Good paintings, like good music,
grow better upon acquaintance, and
in the Corcoran Gallery of Arts
permanent collection are many such.
Some additions to the collection
have been made since the collec-
ton was taken down to give place
to the transient exhibition These
are the paintings which received
first and second award, the. still
life, Summer Fragrance" bv
Franklin C. Watkins. and Nude"
by Robert Philip both of which
were purchased from the Clark
Fund: the portrait of John Sloan
by Robert Henri. which had pre-
viously been on loan, and an anony-
nous gift of portrait of little
girl, "Yvonne," by Louis Belts, who
was member of the jury of Sc
lection and award.
The last is. an especially repre-
sentative and charming work,
broadly and knowingly painted, rich
in tone, fine in color and delight
fully expressive. 1t is an appeal
ing little face that, under a large,
broad-brimmed hat, looks out of
the canvas, wide-eyed and a bit
shyly, toward the observer. There
are interesting contrasts of light and
shade, clearness of tint and trans
parency of shadow Well posed, but
not posing, the childish figure has
been portrayed with utmost reti-
cence and at the same time spon-
taneity. 1t is painting which any
gallery might we'll be proud to own.
Louis Belts was pupil of Will
liam M. Chase and the Pennsyl-
vania Academy Of the Fine Arts. In
1902 he won the Cresson Travelling
Scholarship and in 1904 was awarded
bronze medal at the st. Louis
Exposition. He has been winning
prizes ever since, and has long been
reckoned among our leading Amer
lean portrait painters. Among his
distinguished sitters have been
George Eastman, Drs. William and
Charles Mayo, Hamlin Garland,
Emerson Hough, Martin E. Ryerson
and Charles E. Hutchinson-to name
only few. Mr.. Belts is, however,
one of the few who is as successful
in his portraits of women as of men,
and, as in this portrait of a very
little lady, recently acquired by the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, he seems
especially skillful in rendering FEM
ininity without loss of vigor or
strength. There is haunting mem
ory, on the part of the writer, of
full-length portrait Of a young
girl, by Mr.. Belts, which hung once
in the place of honor in a National
Academy exhibition. Standing on
a high knoll, with dress tossed by
the breezes, this blithe, youthful fig
ure was represented against q back
ground OF blue sky crossed by float
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these take on the aspect of temples,
with unnecessary emphasis on mon
umental doorways which, even in a
materialistic age which deifies
science, is rather inappropriate. OBJ
viously, laboratory is a place in
which to work and under most IA
vorable conditions its design should
therefore be indicative of, as well as
contributory to, such purpose.
The Housing Authority, under the
Interior Department, also sets forth
a very thought provoking group eX-
hibit which includes models as well
as perspectives and bird's-eye views
of some of the chief housing prof.
ects for which the Government has
made itself responsible. That of the
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stltutes for innocence and grace, ug-
hness and sensuality. In no better
way could 1t be shown that the glory
OF work OF art is in the way it is
done-and the measure of beauty
which 1t makes manifest. To rob a
great work of art Of this element is
not merely a travesty but a crime.
But even Dufys greatest admirers
and they are many-will admit
that he is, when the mood moves
MIN, one of the bad boys" of art.
Perhaps for some this enlivens in
terest in what he will do next, but
oy the majority these pranks are
forgiven him because the world rec
Evening star., 1939-05-21
WATER COLORS OF AIRCRAFT SHOWN
Work of Belgian
Children Has
Beauty

endeavor to see things with mature
vision. Furthermore. according to
information about the study of art
IN Belgian schools. these young peo-
pie are the talented minority who
continue Their studies in art be-
cause of special aptitude of interest.
Art training is a part of free COM
pulsory education for children from
6 to IA years. Older pupils may
complete their education in art with
little expense, in the many gov
ernment-subsidized academies of
fine and decorative arts.
High Points.
Hence 1t is not surprising that this
exhibition contains some beautifully
executed works, such as the Milk
Merchant" pen and ink and wash,
OF a peasant woman with a dog
drawn cart full of milk cans; an
exquisite silvery pencil drawing of
Ancient Homes; effective presen-
tations OF Gothic churches, town
halls, old houses and types and
scenes common in Belgium, but
novel and picturesque to us; peas
ants in smocks and wooden shoes,
chimney cleaner (Wearing a stove
pipe hat, hog markets in city
squares and many others.
The intemperate enthusiasm of
some sponsors of children's art, and
their ridiculous claims of its esthetic
Importance have understandably
prejudiced many persons against it.
But there Is no doubt that in the
infrequent instances where one en-
counters an uninhibited painting
or drawing by a gifted and imag-
NATIVE child, one experiences real
delight. There is at least one in
stance In the show Of Belgian chill
dren, a water color by a little girl
Of IL, entitled '"The Tale of Val
Duchesse." A white chapel in the
midst of a forest at night, Is mys-
teriously surrounded by young men
clad as in the 18th century. Several
women in nuns garments are ges-
ticulating on the chapel porch,
while the moon overhead wears a
broad smile! One may not know
the legend illustrated, but the spell
it held for the little artist is very
obvious.
Another aspect of the exhibition
is the prevalence of cheerful sub
jects. These children, whose parents
had just emerged from the World
War, and who today have an equal
menace on their borders, are evi-
IDENTIFY free from any morbid fore
bodings. They paint carnivals,
kermesses, colorful religious process
sions, in addition to their picturesque
surroundings.
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Magnolia street project, New Or
leans, La, is of all, perhaps, most
pleasing, showing exceptional free
dom in design and less convention
ality of treatment. LoW-cost hous-
ing on large scale is so complicated
a problem, involving local labor con-
ditions and the economic equation, as
well as estheticS, that it cannot be
judged by rule. For instance, in the
present exhibits the landscaping of
these houses appears to be of better
quality, artistically, than the houses
themselves, but it is this which as
sures to the dWellers abundance of
light and air, which are life giving.
To live in house which resembles
piece of rectangular hollow tile
cut off and set on end can hardly
be expected to raise the standard of
living esthetically, but it may afford
necessary sanitation and invoke
cleanliness. Winthrop Ames once
said that play to be successful
must appeal both to the gentleman
theatergoer and his chauffeur. 1t
is some such consensus of approval
as this that should be sought for the
design of our Government housing
projects if they are to be all that is
hoped for them.
The public buildings branch of
the Procurement Division of the
Treasury lays, in this exhibition,
special stress on post offices for the
small town, of which a series of
winning designs is set forth. A few
years ago the designs for little post
Offices we're outstanding for merit
but these are far below that stand
ard, and one wonders why. The
trouble now seems to be too great
heaviness in effect to accord with
the scale of the building, together
with poor adjustment of windows
and door openings to wall space, and
complete lack of style. The impress
sion given is of buildings of a purely
stereotyped order which may be set
down anywhere or everywhere, as
was once the wont, bad practice
that we are supposed to have long
since abandoned.
The Indian Office has nothing
notable to show architecturally, nor
for that matter has the Veterans
Bureau, as compared to work previ-
ously set forth. For both of these
groups this past may have been an
off year.
Individual Work.
AS to the individual work, much
might be said. 1t lends to the show
as whole color and variety, but
would be more effective if segre-
gated-water colors, prints, craft
work, etc. There is group of ex-
cellent water colors by Vernon F..
Duckett of the War Department
which probably do no get half their
due because of poor placement.
These were, for the most part,
painted abroad, have breadth, fresh
ness and certain charm, although
perhaps little timidity shown by
lack of emphasis. R. E. Collins
shows an excellent water color of
all apple woman offering her wares,
Red Pippin," and there are very
creditable studies in this medium
by H. R. Woodward, A. David Bell
and others.
Oil paintings of good quality are
shown by B. Mion, Dorothy Allen
and c. j. Poiesz-the two former,
still life studies, the last a land
scape. Max Lemke received we'll
merited award for two of group of
etchings and Howard A. Page for an
admirable pencil sketch rendered
with feeling as well as accuracy.
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officers quarters, barracks. labora-
tories, schools and low-cost dwell
ings, all of which must be designed
with special reference to location
as we'll as service and may we'll be
counted upon to raise or lower pub
lie taste This Is the work of the
Associated Architects and it is well
to have 1t brought to attention.
Groups Segregated.
According to custom, the work Of
each Office or group is segregated in
this exhibition by assignment to one
or more alcoves, and for that group
showing collectively the highest
quality of architectural merit the
association medal is given. This
prize, awarded by jury comprising
Nathan C. Wyeth, municipal archi-
tect Of the District of Columbia; /;
Thomas Locraft, assistant professor
of architecture, Catholic University,
and Eugen Weisz, vice principal of
the Corcoran School of Art, went
this year to the Construction Di-
vision of the War Department,
Office of the quartermaster general.
Honorable mention was given to the
Navy Department, Bureau of Yards
and Docks. In addition, two prizes
were awarded to individuals whose
official work was judged ontstand-
ing-the first to R. E. Collins of the
Navy Department, and the second
to Vernon F. Duckett of the War
Department. Also there were three
prizes for architectural design, the
first of which went to the Navy De-
partment for the United States
Medical Center, Washington, D. c.;
the second to Jos. Hale Darby
and Howard A. Page, Navy De-
partment, for Study of Naval Med
= ical Center, Washington, D. c."
and third to Henry Abbott, War De-
partment, for Barracks, Fort Jay,
New York" All of these are awards
with which none could quarrel.
Many other awards were made for
individual works done presumably in
leisure time for the sheer JOY of
the doing. These prizes were indeed
dealt out with lavish hand in gen.
erous appreciation,
Unquestionably outstanding among
all the architectural designs shown
Is that chosen for the new Naval
Medical Center with its imposing
tower and brilliant modern treat
ment. Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia,
architect of the Federal Reserve
Commission Building, the Folger
Shakespeare Memorial Library and,
with Albert Kelsey, the Pan-Ameri-
can Union. was in this case con-
sulting architect. Just how much
this contributed to the result it
would be hard to say. but certainly
Mr.. Cret's taste and talent could
not fail to bear fruit In collab-
orative work of this character. Here
Is design essentially modern, but
not in the lease forced or exag-
gerated: true to tradition and hence
related to both the classic and the
Gothic, but of our own time; fine in
line, well-balanced, distinguished in
the best sense of the word, so that
from it the observer receives a calm
impression of absolute rightness.
Command of Medium.
Testifying likewise to command of
medium are the designs for double
company officers quarters accred-
tied to the War Department. These
are simple but suitable, well studied
and esthetically pleasing.
OF the laboratories designed by
architects working under the De-
partment of Agriculture less can be
said In praise. For the most part,
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Among those showing photographs
special mention should be made Of
beautiful rendering of The
American Church, Paris" by Car
roll Greenough, and one of Might
Blooming Cereus," by Rembert Gary
Allen.
A note Of gaiety is given by a group
of pictures in wood veneer by r. w.
Stewart and plaster model Of a
Persian cats head, Omar Khay-
yam" by Carl L. Bush.
1t has been said that architecture
has been less affected by the vagaries
OF modernism than have painting
music, poetry and the drama, be-
cause the first requirement of a
building is that it shall stand up
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Photo BY Federal Art Project.

ditional in character. Those re-
sponsible for the placards in the
gallery explain by saying:
Belgium is a treasure house Of
art and architecture handed down
from the historic past the
youth of the nation is brought up
in the midst of a wealth of artistic
beauty which is an inspiration to
them"
Another explanation may be that
two-thirds or more of the works
shown are by young people from
Is to 20 years of age, hardly to be
called children" in this sophisti-
Gated era. One would expect that
student-artists older than IA would
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Chief Value Is in
AsSOciational
Interest
By Florence s. Berryman.

Devotees of the airplane will en-
JOY an exhibition of water colors on
this subject by Olivia Bendelari, now
on view in the Aircraft Building of
the Smithsonian Institution. The
artist is the first woman to enter
the field of aeronautic painting. Her
water colors depict planes in action
many kinds of planes, bombers,
attack planes, pursuit planes, trans
ports, etc. All are painstakingly de-
lineated, with details so correctly
drawn that it is said each model
can be easily identified.
In preparation for her paintings
| Miss Bendelari makes drawings at
the air field whenever possible, but
frequently must visualize a plane in
action from nothing more than a
scale model few inches in dimen-
slons. She paints portraits" of pri-
vate planes, and has painted such
famous subjects as the planes of
Howard Hughes and Douglas Cor
rigan, in which they made their
best-knoWn flights. She recently
completed mural entitled Civil
Aviation" for Rockefeller Center,
New York City.
Miss Bendelari makes a hobby of
! flying, as one would expect, and is
a student pilot. When she goes up
as a passenger she often sketches
cloud formations for subsequent use
as backgrounds in her paintings.
Little Variety.
Esthetically these paintings are
rather thin, and reveal very little
variety to eyes not attuned to the
differences in planes. Some Of the
artists sky effects are very good,
but since in most of the paintings
there is no landscape to contrast
with them, their appeal is limited.
The best of the paintings, from the
standpoint of pictorial effectiveness,
are "Pan-American Douglas Over
the Andes" China Clipper Over
Hawaii" and "Beechcraft Over Cali
| fornia." German Dive Bombers"
approaches geometrical perfection
in balanced composition, while "U.
S. Army Pursuits Coming Down
Through Hole in the Clouds" has
perhaps the best and subtlest study
of a sky.
But the chief strength of these
paintings lies in their associated in
terest. People who become ecstatic
over the joy of flying will doubtless
find them excellent. Other people,
who wish passionately that the air
plane had never been invented, be-
cause of its present potentialities for
worldwide chaos, will find these wa
ter colors Of no more appeal than
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New York Exhibit
Mr.. Clayton of the Society Of
Washington Artists Sho1US in

Mr.. Clayton of the Society Of
Washington Artists Sho1us in
Manhattan.
Alexander Clayton of this city Is
holding an exhibition of his paint
lngs in the Thicker Galleries, New
York, May Is to 81 His portrait of
himself with his dog is reproduced
on the little catalogue issued for the
occasion. a foreWord to which has
been contributed by Eugen Weisz,
who, as vice principal of the Cor
coran School of Art, has been Mr..
Clayton's teacher. OF him, he re-
marks keen sense of observation
and extraordinary technical COM
petence,' and. in his work, finds
lyrical quality, personality and
style" In March, 1906. Alexander
Clayton was born in Chevy Chase.
He studied first at the Corcoran
School of Art and then. in 1928-29,
in Spain. Last year he received the
prize for the most outstanding work
in the Society of Washington Art
lists annual exhibition of which or
ganization, since 1887, he has been
treasurer.
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but even this does not explain the
very conservative character of this
current exhibition. To walk the
straight and narrow path is, as al
ways, juggler's trick, because it is
so difficult not to step off on one
side or the other, as, for instance.
to be too conservative or too modern.
But how to strike and hold the
happy medium? That is the ques-