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Evening star., 1939-01-29

usual. Because of lack Of space 1t
will be reviewed later rather than
at this time. The prize awards were
announced in the news columns of
The Star last Tuesday.
Cikousky Holds a One-Man
Exhibition in WHITE Gallery.
The Whyte Gallery at 17O7 H street
Is putting on at this time its third
exhibition of the season consisting
Of paintings in oil and water color
and pastels by Nicolai Cikovsky,
who is now reckoned among the art
lists Of Washington, a member of the
local Artists Union and of the jury
named by the Art Committee Of the
New York Worlds Fair to select
works from this region to be shown
in its Nation wide exhibition of con-
temporary American art. He Is
both painter and printmaker. In
the Corcoran Gallery of Art a spe-
cial exhibition of his prints has
been shown; in the new Interior De-
partment are mural paintings which
he has produced under commission
from the section. of painting and
sculpture of the Treasury Depart
ment.
Born in Pinsk, Poland, in 1894, he
studied first abroad, then came to
this country and 10 years after
arriving here became a naturalized
American citizen. Doubtless he
passed through many hardships, but
also he has met with cordial well
come and award. His work has
found its way into our leading ex-
hibitions and has been purchased
by some of the more important art
museums. He has served as guest
instructor in the Saint Paul Insti-
tute, st. Paul, Mimi, and In the
Cincinnati Academy Of Fine Arts,
where Duveneck once reigned' SUI
preme. He must have an engaging
personality and the gift Of making
and holding friends. Also it is
said that he is especially sympa-
thetic toward those who are down
and out" for which reason such un-
fortunates have often been repre-
sented in his paintings and prints.
1t is helpful often to know some
thing of the artist when judging
his art, but after all the two are
separate entities-an artists work
is always tinged with personality
but it may represent aspiration
rather than realization. To the
present reviewer this seems to be
the. case with the paintings and
prints of Mr.. Cikovsky. AS his
paintings in oil and pastel are now
in the Whyte Gallery and as the
water colors are seen on the walls
Of the little stairway by way of
which the visitor enters, there Is
pleasing effect. Of color and indica-
ton Of artistic feeling beneath the
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applicable. His drawing frequently
Is very bad, as are his compositions.
He would seem furthermore to have
little taste so that what he puts be-
fore the public in his pictures is
distinctly unprepossessing-some-
times offensive.
His painting entitled chesapeake
Bay" gives pig sty in the fore
ground and mere CLINT Of water
against the horizon. His Checker
Players" is forceful presentation
OF three uncouth men, two nude to
their waists, which adds nothing to
experience except repulsion and an
unpleasant memory. The women he
has painted are cleverly rendered
and furnish material for engaging
color schemes, but they leer and
disgust. Best of all in matter of
composition is INTERIOR" pie
crust table stood against an open
sunny window, but as in this pic
ture he has skillfully rendered the
illusion Of light, it is the more re-
markable that in his landscapes this
quality is completely absent. His
painting entitled Bread and Lem
ons" Is interesting in color and in
treatment somewhat reminiscent of
Braque; also his larger canvas,
Guinea Hen" is handsomely rem
dered but amazingly careless in ar
rangement. Spring Flowers" Is
colorful and decorative, and in his
water colors, somewhat suggestive
of Marin, he has fresh color and
gives evidence of quick vision. Was
there ever such an enigma-of one
who, possessing such great potenti-
aities, withheld so much that lay
in his power to give? This exhibi-
ton will continue until February Is,
when 1t will be followed by one of
works by contemporary Scottish
painters.
Paintings by Edouard Vuillard,
Very French In Feeling, on Vie,o
In the Phillips Memorial Gallery.
In the Phillips Memorial Gallery
there opened this past week, to con-
tinue until February %, a special
exhibition of paintings by Edouard
WILLARD of Paris. All but two of
the 10 canvases are hung in the
drawing room, which affords them
appropriate and effective setting.
In the little library adjacent and in
the old dining room across the hall
are shown paintings by the artists
friend and colleague, Pierre Bon
nard, all of which were drawn from
the Phillips collection, while on the
stairs and in the lower print room
are Autographs by both painters.
1t was some years ago that Mr..
Phillips acquired, for the Phillips
Memorial Gallery, two cancases by
Vuillard, '@The Newspaper" and In
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institute has purchased for its per-
manent collection. Others have
been derived from various sources
private collections. art museums
and art dealers. The thought is to
give to art lovers in Washington
survey of what Is done today in
painting in Paris studios.
Informal and informative lectures
will, it is announced, be given on
Tuesdays at II o'clock and on Fri
days at 80 In the afternoon.
Prints once Chosen by
Washington HaUe Been
Acquired for Mount Vernon.
With further reference to the ex-
hibition Of engravings once collected
by George Washington, which
opened last week, under the auspices
Of the Mount Vernon Ladies Asso-
citation, In the old west quarters at
Mount Vernon, where 1t may be Wis
sited until March l, mention should
be made, and note taken, of the
fact that the 80 prints gotten to-
gether by Mr.. r. T. H. Halsey of
New york have been acquired as a
permanent possession and hence
forth will always be kept at Mount
Vernon. The purchase was made
some time ago, but the grateful
acknowledgment of Mr.. Halsey's
aid and generosity made light of the
change Of ownership. Mr.. Halsey,
who is leading authority on that
which dates back to the early days
of our country, collected these prints
no doubt with the hope and inten-
ton that they should eventually go
to Mount Vernon, not only because
Of historical value, but as evidence
ing Washington's discriminating
taste in the matter of choice. This
exhibition is arousing widespread
interest and proving a great success.
The setting given it and the gen.
eral arrangement of the prints are
very excellent.
Kari Knathe Again to
Teach Here IN February in the
Phillips Gallery Studios.
The Phillips Memorial Gallery an
nounces that Karl Knathe will be
guest instructor in the art classes
conducted in the gallery studios dur
ing February. This Is the second
visit Mr.. Knathe has paid Washing
ton under these auspices.
Sculpture by Louet-Lorski
To be Exhibited in the
Corcornn Gallery of Art.
In the Corcoran Gallery OF Art
special exhibition of sculpture
by Boris Lovet-Lorski will open
February 2, and continue to Feb
ruary 81. Mr.. Lovet-Lorski Is a
Russian by birth, who studied
abroad and now divides his year be-
tween Paris and New York. He
has made portrait busts Of the royal
families Of Italy and Greece and
of members of the American EN-
bassy in Rome; he has done monu-
mental work as we'll and has pub
lished two volumes of Autographs
besides which he is represented by
sculpture and prints in the leading
public collections of Europe. His
collection here will be shown in the
sculpture gallery on the first floor
of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The
showing may be anticipated with
interest and pleasure.
Catharine Melton's Work in
Current Exhibition.
The painting of japanese lanterns
on blue velvet cloth In the current
exhibition at the Penwomen's League,
mentioned in last Sundays review,
is the work Of Miss Catharine P.
Melton. It is regretted that this
painting was mistakingly attributed
to another artist.
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Scene"-the last particularly happy
in transcription of light.

Scene'-the last particularly happy
in transcription of light.
Roy Clark is a little inclined to
use a formula for the transcription
of landscapes, but it Is good
formula and used effectively-espe-
cially in.his canvas in this exhibition
entitled "Old Toll House"-an out
standing work, as are Cornelia r.
Uditsky's BLEAK House" and Mary
Louise Cline's Summer Afternoon"
a picture of rain in the hill country
set forth with exceptional vividness.
In the same category is Omar r.
Carringtons Coke, Pig and Rock,
Colorado"-an industrial subject
very boldly presented and at the
same time effective. On the other
hand Edgar Nye's Abandoned
House" is strong but grim-a picture
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good and very picturesque; Minor
S. Jamesons Summer Vista" is ex-
cellerft in pattern if little monot-
onous in color. There are several
very admirable snow pictures-one,
Snow, Eastern Branch" by A. H. o.
Role; another by A. j. Schram en-
titled "Old Road in Winter;
third by Helen F. Collision, Snow
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Evening star., 1939-02-05

the black cat gets the credit for the
whole affair
Every country has its own special
Cat superStltlons In Greece black cats
are considered unlucky. In Sicily white
or partly-whlte cats are believed to
bring good luck. In SPAN and in the
highlands of Scotland tortolse-shel
cats are lucky. In Wales all cats are
lucky, and have been for a thousand
years: in the tenth century cats were
SO prlzed IN Wales that the laws of the
country prohibited the mutllatlon of
cats, and established a legal value for
cats of every age People OF many
countries believe that a cats skin
wrapped around the aching JOINT will
cure rheumatism.
The idea that cats have nine lives
is simply an excuse for cruelty and
neglect.
The notion that cats always fall on
their feet is absurd The notion that
cats always do anything is absurd.
1t Is true that cats are particularly
we'll adapted for Jumping; and the
only difference between jump and a
fall is the difference IN intent. When a
cat is pitched INTO the air from any
position, 1t is nearly always able to
turn and land on its hcavily-padded,
shock absorbing feet The average
cat can survive a jump or a fall that
would surely kill a dog But not all
cats every time Accidents do happen.
Ask your local a ASPCA.
The notion that cats become at
tached to places and not to people.
and so cannot be taken along when
the family moves to a new home. may
have had some basis III fact when cats
were kept entirely as scavengers. Cats.
after all, are exceedingly practical:
no cat IN her right mind would swap
an old barn. well stocked with nice,
for new barn where she might not
be able to make living But cats
nowadays are not expected to live on
mice and rats. And cats who have any
good reason for II do grow attached
to people.
Evening star., 1939-02-05

able pen points - obviously machine
made, on sale in Birmingham. These
were hardened stiff. too and expen-
sivc. But Mason was gifted with
imagination. He got in touch with the
man who made them, one James
Perry, and demonstrated how they
could be made better and cheaper.
Before the year was out Mason and
Perry we're manufacturing barrel pens
- the point and barrel combined in
one piece - and the following year
they were making slip pens Within
two years they discovered that hole
between the points and couple of
lateral Sits on either side of the center
slit was the secret of increased flexlbil-
ity. The steel pen had, at long last,
arrived
Today, made of the finest steel,
with expert craftsmanship, pen points
are literally a dime dozen. They
Evening star., 1939-02-05

We opened the door and showed
Ma that there wasn't any cat behind
the mirror. But Ma knew better. That
cat was hiding and might pounce out
any minute
Ma slept near the closet door, to be
prepared, apparently. in case the
enemy slipped in. She spent hours
crouchlng. motionless, intent, just
beside the door.
Then the dogs upstairs had fight
Ma stared at the ceiling and puffed
out ali her fur. She got up slowly, de-
liberately, and walked stiff-legged
into the dressing room.
Sure enough, her enemy was there,
furious. bumped. glaring at her. The
dogfght upstairs wasn't patch on
our cat fight
The feud still goes on. but Mas
attitude toward the cat in the glass
seems to be changing. She appears to
be puzzled now as we'll as angry. The
cat in the glass probably will be
cats superstition by the time Mas
next kittens are born.
Evening star., 1939-02-05

as a cross between hon and horse.
A bob-tailed cat IS a bob-tailed cat,
and nothing more.
For years | had heard that cats
were unable to see themselves in
mirrors. The statement didn't seem
unreasonable, so accepted it as fact.
But I've found out that it is Just
another superstition.
The dressing room of our present
apartment contains a full-length
mirror. When we moved in Ma started
her usual cats tour of inspection and
seemed pleased with her new home -
until she reached the dressing room.
Then we heard a terrific growl, and
there was Ma, with her tail as big as a
feather duster and her eyes like
saucers, threatening the strange cat
She growled, she Kissed. she spat. and
finally she flung herself straight at
the glass.
Plainly Ma thought of herself as a
pretty kitten. and that tough, fat.
battle-scarred old cat in the glass was
no friend of hers.
Evening star., 1939-02-05
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

have scribbled their way through the
pages of history in every language
known to civilized man. They have
borne witness to good and to evil, to
war and to peace, to science and dis
covery; they have kept the books OF
the worlds business and have made
records for all time of mans eternal
struggle for life. liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness. In 1887 the United
States alone made 218,6O7 ,696 pen
points, both steel and brass. represent
ing money value of 81, ,16l ,346 and
giving shape and form to millions
upon millions of words and figures in
every conceivable walk of life.
But the day of the steel pen points
greatest glory is fading. The fountain
pen that developed from it has an
nexed its prestige 1t continues, never
theless, to do its work, quietly, reliably,
unhonored. Certainly there are small
but secure places in Humanity's Hall
of Fame for each of the littleknoWn
men who helped make it fullfiedged
boon to civilization.
THEODORE kAoHAh
Evening star., 1939-02-05
CAT TALES
Continued from poge nine
THEODORE kAGHAk

N poge nine
When Ma came to us out of the
woods, too starved to hunt for herself
and the four scrawny kittens she'd
had in the hollow tree, we didn't know
whether she was going to live with us
until the kittens were weaned and
then leave home. or whether she was
going to be our cat. We made no
effort to restrain her; but when the
moving van arrived to take us back
to the city Ma and the kittens were
lined up on the front porch, waiting to
be taken along.
Ma lives IN a small apartment now,
and if she misses the woods and the
graveyard with its uncountable rabbit
families and the old gray barn with its
nice, she certainly doesn't show it in
any way.
One of the most destructive super
stltions about cats is the old but ever
recurrent story that a cat can. and
sometimes does, suck baby's breath
A cat cannot suck anybOdy's breath
but its own. There may have been
cases where a cat, in its desire for
warmth. curled up too close to d
baby's face and suffocated the child
IN its fur But even that is unlikely.
The breath sucking story is simply an
old wives tale
Most of the superstitions about
cats originated in the Middle Ages.
But not all of them. Cats just natur-
ally lend themselves to theorizlng
One of the newest beliefs - and it has
considerable scientific backing - is
that cats are color blind.
wonder how the scientists who
arrived at that conclusion would ex-
plain Benny Benny is one of Mas
kittens. He lives with a dog. When
Tyke, the dog goes out in cold weather
he wears a sweater; he has two sweat
ers. one red and one green. otherwise
identical When Tyke sports the red
sweater, Benny won't 60 near him.
When Tyke wears his green sweater
Benny plays with him as though
nothing out of the ordinary had
happened. A red ball which had been
gwen to Benny and Tyke had to be
discarded because the cat was afraid
Of it; yet black ball of the same size
is Benny's favorite toy.
While we're on the subject Of cats
and dogs, you don't really believe
that the gingham dog and the calico
cat let each other up" do you? l can't
imagine that it could be necessary to
break up that myth in this year of
Our Lord 1899: but if anyone wants
proof of deep and enduring cat and
dog friendships it will be furnished
on request.
Another superstition which seems to
be peculiarly American pops up about
once year in the newspapers; that IS
the story of the cat -and-rabbit cross.
Every time a tailless cat is born in a
neighborhood where Manx cats are
unknown someone declares that the
kittens father was a rabbit. The
kittens tail is a mere tuft OF fur: its
hind legs are too long; IT hops like
rabbit; it nibbles grass - that proves
it's part rabbit, doesn't it? Actually
it proves nothing whatever except
that the kitten is throwback to some
remote tailless ancestor. Manx cats
are taillcss breed. Many Aslatlc
cats have short. gnarled or twisted
tails, or no tails at all A cross between
a cat and rabbit is utterly impossible,
bioiogically impossible, as impossible
Evening star., 1939-02-05
&iUMANITY'S HALL OF FAME
IT, They conquered ink with steel

Many OF the familiar and indiS-
be!tSabte b0OnS OF mankind are g,ftS
OF men and uOmen WhO hare been
al bm forgotten Here is another OF
an important series 0t articles that
ten about these nnsuug heroes.
AVE you ever written with
quill pen? Try it sometime -
u If you can find one and
Du' II realize that the invention of the
eel pen point was one of the most
elcome helps in the progress of West
IN culture since the beginning of
tlnting. Writing, which had been
hessy ordeal. was made easy and a
ha jor obstacle to oliteracy " as removed
Today the goosc-qulll pen lives in
honorable retirement as symbol. but
pr twelve hundred years it was in
ctive duty as the unrivaled sovereign
writing implements. Its use was
rst remarked upon by an anonymous
|riter of the fifth century, who told
|oW the unlcttered Theodore. King
f the Ostrogoths. signed his edicts by
racing. with a quill. the letters cut
|ut for him on gold tablet.
But the quill pen was always 4
lumsy instrument and 1t was in
vltablc that the Industrial Revolu-
bon of the latter eighteenth century
nould bring its eclipse. The quill pen
e down quickly, and ink slowly
estroyed it. Even then penknlfe
ad to be used constantly to make it
ork at all. Something better had
be found.
At first attempts were made to
hpfove the quill. The early nine
zenith century brought with 1t various
cas- - putting a piece OF diamond
the point of the quill; making the
b, or pointed part, of horn or
prtoIse shell, gliding it; covering it
ith thin sheet gold; and cutting
Fparatc nbs for insertion IN d pcrma-
ent holder. The ideas were good and
he quill was improved. but steel was
uictly and lnexor ably on its way.
The steel pen point was first heard
IN 100 when the English historian
Roger North. on Il visit to France.
|rote a letter to his sister with steel
Ken. which. he said, wasn't as good as
he original he had seen there Who
made the original. nobody knows, nor
id the writer describe even the one he
sed
1t was not until 1880 that the name
stccl-pcn maker was recorded.
n that year Samuel Harrison, of
birmingham, England, made a pen
pr Dr. Joseph Prlestly, clergyman,
hemlst and physicist. The result was
INVITING but monentous. Mr. Harm
Dn never made another
But IN 1903 steel pens were again
ard from. In London they were
ring made and sold III the form OF
ing tubes by man named Wise.
he edges of the tube met to form
it, and the SIDES were cut away. as IN
quill But MIR W,ses pens cost five
billings and they weren't much good.
hey were hard. stiff, impractical.
Then, III 1928, Josiah Mason. a
prmer associate of Samuel Harrison,
Aw some steel slip" pens - dctach-
Evening star., 1939-01-21
First Gamb|ingFi Fine
Assessed in Drive
In Prince Georges
'SmoII-Time' Operator
Enters Guilty Plea
In Court

First fine in the campaign against
gambling. started in Prince Georges
County, Md. three weeks ago. was
assessed yesterday in Police Court
at Upper Marlboro against small
time operator.
Judge George B. Merrick fined
Morris Spikloser. of the 900 block of
K street NV, $3.50 on his plea of
guilty to a charge of setting up and
maintaining a gaming table.
Spikloser was arrested January I
in raid by Sergt. Elon Turner and
Pvt. Edwin Cissel of the Prince
Georges County police on the Home-
stretch Inn on the Marlboro pike,
just across the District line Soon
after this raid, it was announced
that cleanup campaign, with no
favors to be shown, was getting
under way. The next day the op-
orator of coin device was arrested.
Since that time police have taken
no action against gambling places
in the county, and some officials
recalled the cleanup scare of four
years ago when a new Board of
County Commissioners ordered police
to start drive. No arrests were
made.
William A. Carson, chairman of
the board, indicated today that the
board might take some further ac-
ton at its meeting Tuesday. Mr..
Carson first brought the gambling
situation to the attention of the
board. The further action" by the
board is expected to be a more
definite order.