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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05
Grassy Creek News

The following students have re-
turned to college after having
spent the holidays at their re-
spective homes here: Misses Ar
lene Coward, Brevard; Undine
Nye, w. c. U. N. c., Greensboro;
, Helen Sexton, Bluefield Business
College, Bluefield, w. Va; Ralph
Spencer and Bertis Parsons,
Lees McRae, Banner Elk; Stan
ley Walker, Joseph Thompson
and Howard Sexton, University
of N. c., Chapel Hill; J. c. Pierce.
Russell Handy, N. c. State, Re-
leigh; Charlie Pierce. Green
brier Military School, LeWisburg
West Virginia.
Misses George and Altalene
Blevins, Martinsville, Va, Bryan
Blevins, Street, Md, were guests
of their mother, Mrs Mint Blew
ms, Christmas.
Dale Kirk Spencer, Whining
ton, N. c., spent the holidays with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w
Spencer.
Mrs. Ella Dunn has returned
to her home, Bland, Va, having
been called there by the illness
and death of her sister, Mrs. c.
A. Wagg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence John
son and sons, Mt. Airy, and Mr.
and Mrs. Olaf Milgram, Wythe-
vile, Va, were gusts of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. L. Anderson last week.
Miss Edith Halsey, Mouth OF
Wilson, was the guest of Miss
Helen Sexton last Friday and
Saturday.
! Mrs. J. w. Pugh and daugh-
ter, Miss Myrtle, visited in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Thomas
Grant, Va, Christmas day.
Prof. and Mrs VanHoy and
family spent the holidays at their
farm at Piney Creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hobson Hash and
family, Fox, Va, were guests
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J
A. Greybeal Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hercules Spencer
and sons have returned to their
home, Anawalt, w. Va, after q
few days visit here.
Prof. and Mrs. F. c. Nye and
daughter, Undine, Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Huddler and sons and
Stanley Walker were dinner
guests in the home of Mrs. Clyde
Cox Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Spenc-
er and family have returned from
a visit with Mrs. Spencer's sister
at Rural Retreat, Va.
Joe Barker spent the holidays
in Washington, D. c.
Miss Edith Pierce, Chestnut
Hill, was a guest in the home OF
her aunt, Mrs. Paul Blevins, last
week.
H. T. Halsey and Virgil Cox
Jr., Mouth of Wilson, were visit.
orS in our community last Fri.
day afternoon.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05
Overhauling OF Criminal
Laws In State, Proposed
Enactment OF Strict Anti
Lynch Bill, Along With Sew
eral Changes Suggested.

Raleigh, Jan. "A thorough
overhauling of North Cardinals
criminal statutes and enactment
OF a strict anti-lynch bill may
be recommended to the legisla-
ture by the attorney generals Of
flee, it was learned the past
week.
Attorney Gen. Harry McMul-
Ian disclosed that his staff had
drafted an 18-point program for
legislative consideration. The
program had been mailed to all
of the states solicitors for addi-
tional recommendations and pos
Sible revisions.
Change In Law
One of McMullan's suggetions
would repeal a mandatory death
sentence provision for persons
found guilty of rape. A substi-
tutes, he recommended: First
that the trial jury be allowed to
decide in each case whether rape
should be punishable by capital
punishment or by life imprison,
ment; or, second, that the crime
should be punishable by life i'm.
prisonment or some lesser SEN
tence.
At present, rape carries man
datory death sentence only ir
North Carolina and Arkansas, the
attorney general said.
Other Recommendations
Other major recommendation:
would provide for life imprison
ment for hardened criminal of
tenders, by enactment of
measure similar to the New Yorl
BaumeS law; provide fer the Ii
censing of fire; amend the EN-
bezzlement law which, through
an oversight, does not apply t.
bank receivers, and allow law en-
forcement officers in "hot pur
suit" of a criminal to cross state
lines.
The anti-lynch law suggested
by Mcmillan would set up ma
chinery for prosecuting member
of a lunch. mob, and would pro
vide that they could be charged
with murder. The measure alsC
would allow compensation to the
families of persons who are Ign
ched.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05
Todd School And
Community News

Especial to The POSD
Todd, Jan. 2.-School reopen
ed at Todd on December 81, after
a six days Christmas vacation.
The honor rolls for the month
of December are as follows:
Scholastic Homer Roll
L. D. Graham, Kathleen Raglan,
j. D. Miller, Carrie Lookabill,
Lucille Miller, Violet Graham,
Paris Raglan, Roy Lewis.
Citizenship Honor Roll
Kathleen Raglan, Pansy Tug
man, jewel Graham, Violet Ora
ham and Paris Raglan.
Perfect Attendance
Madeline BledSoe, Pebble Dun
can, Sue Green, Mary June Mill
er, Bula Moretz, Annie Norris,
Celia Raglan, Virginia Vannoy,
L. D. Graham, Peter Greer, R. l..
Grogan, James Lookabill, John
Trivette, Coy Mikeal, George
Trivette, Kathleen Raglan, Car
RE Lookabill, Jr. Mikeal, Dorothy
Moretz, Paris Raglan, Harget
Houck and Roy Lewis.
Play Nathan's Creek
On December 20 the Elkland
basketball teams defeated Fleet
wood teams in a double-header at
Fleetwood.
During this game Mary Joe
Bledsoe scored Is of the q
points for the girls.
Todd will play Nathan's Creek
at Todd on January 6, and Fleet
wood at Todd on January 10.
Miss Pansy Tugman, daughter
of Mr., and Mrs. Charles Tugman,
one of Elkland high schools most
brilliant students, was married
December %, to Walter Looka-
bill of Boone. They will make
their home with the brides
grandmother, Mrs. Naomi Tug
man.
Mr.. c. M. Blackburn, who has
been critically i'll for some weeks
as a result of a stroke of paraly-
sis, is slightly better, but his con-
dition is still grave.
Mr.. Tom Ray, of Pennsylvania,
and Mr.. Marvin Blackburn, of
Elizabethton, Tennessee, were
guests of Mr.. Ed Blackburn dur
ing the Christmas holidays.
Miss Wanda Mae Howell, pop
ular E. H. S. alumna of the class
of 1888, is visiting her grand
father, Mr.. D. c. Howell. Miss
Howell, after completing a beau
ty course at the HenShaW Beauty
School in North Wilkesboro, ac-
cepted a position in WytheVille,
Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wiley Heck, of
Nottingham, Pennsylvania, have
been visiting Mrs. Heck's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. julie Miller.
Miss Gertrude Graham, attrac-
tive daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Claud Graham, was married De-
cember "a, to Mr.. Vernon How
ard, of Alexandria, Virginia.
A baby daughter was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Edwards, of
Laurel Knob, on December 26.
Mrs. Clyde Houck, who has
been seriously i'll with an alb
scessed throat, is recovering
slowly.
Buster Howell, Bert Winkler,
and Hoyle Howell, who are en-
rolled in c. c. Camps, spent the
Christmas holidays at their homes
on Mill Creek.
Rev. Hobson Houck, of Dan
bury, visited his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Houck, during the holt
days.
Mr.. Whit Houck, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Houck, was married De-
cember 81 to Miss Lena Abel, Of
Tennessee.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05

Raleigh, Jan. 2.-When the
wears balance is struck by the
State Unemployment Compensa-
tion Commission, it will be found
that close to $8,2OO,OOO has been
paid in benefits to unemployed
workers, that about $19,35O,OOO
has been collected in employer
contributions and interest, and
the fund will have balance of
aebout ST., 10000.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05

Insurance Plan
Covers Millions
j O b S Insurance Provided
Workers Throughout Ma
ton. Figures Given.

Raleigh, Jan. 1.-Of the 48
states and three Federal units,
District of Columbia, Alaska and
Hawaii, 20 are already paying
unemployment benefits; two,
New Mexico and Oklahoma, start
in December; Is start in January
and two others, Illinois and Mon
tana, start paying benefits in July
of next year, recent survey
shows.
The units which start payments
in January, 1899, are Alaska, Col
orado, Delaware, Florida, GeOr-
gia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky,
Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio,
South Dakota. Washington and
and Wyoming. In these 18 states
and the two starting in Decem-
Der, about 100000 workers have
acquired credits toward benefits
and will become potential claim
ants for benefits, if they become
unemployed. About $4,000 en-
ployers in these 20 states are
covered by unemployment COM
pensation laws. The 20 states
had an accumulation of about
1921 100000 for the benefit pay
ments in the trust fund October
81.
In the 20 states in which bene-
fits are already being paid, more
than $340,000,000 had been dis
tributed in the ten months
through October 81. Approx
maely 100000 of the 100000
workers estimated to- be covered
by unemployment compensation
laws in, these states have drawn
benefits for varying periods for
either total or partial unemploy-
ment. Nearly 100000 individu-
ais are at present receiving bene-
! fits averaging about $11 for total
and S. for partial unemployment.
More than 27,500,00O wage
earnerS employed by $4,000 en-
ployerS in the United States and
its three Federal units come I'M
der the Federal-State unemploy-
ment compensation program. In
duStrial and commercial employ
ment primarily are covered, but
the plan eXempts domestic and
agricultural work, self employ
ment, government work, work
for non-profit educational or
charitable organizations and a
few others. Several of these eX-
empt classifcations, if not all,
may be included under theSFed-
eral and the nunder State acts
later, as recommended by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
In North Carolina close to ST.
900 employing units, operating
| nearly 5000 establishments and
employing about 100000 workers,
are under the Unemployment
Compensation Law. Benefit pay
ments to totally and partially un-
employed workers in North Caro-
lima reached and passed the So
100000 mark on December Is.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05

what you have to sell or what
you want to buy in The Skyland
Post which is read in more than
80 per cent of the homes in Ashe.
Resolve to make business better
in 1888 by advertising.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05
MISS HUDDLER AND
MR.. MARSH ARE WE'D

A wedding of much interest
which took place Christmas eve
was that of Miss Elsie Huddler of
Crumpler and Mr. Grover Marsh
Of Jefferson. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. w. E. Denny
pastor Of the groom.
Mrs. Marsh who is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. R. P. Huddler of
Crumpler is a graduate of Ma
than's Greek high school.
Mr.. Marsh who is also a gradu-
ate of Nathan's Creek high school
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05
Gov. Murphy Gets
Appointment A s
Attorney General
President Picks Strong New
Dealer To Fill Homer Cum
mings' Place.

Washington, Jan. 1.-Former
Frank Murphy, of Michigan,
staunch new deal supporter, de-
feated for reelection last No
vember, will be sworn in at noon
tomorrow as attorney general.
Word that President Roosevelt
had chosen him to- succeed HON.
er S. Cummings, who is retiring
to practice law, came from the
White House late today.
The appointment, which is sub
Ject to senate approval, is ex-
pected to provoke a storm of con-
troversy there but several senat-
ors of both major parties have
predicted it would be confirmed
ultimately.
Questions Promised
Some senate members have
said they would question Murphy
closely about his handling of sit
down strikes in the automobile
industry in 1887. A house COM
mittee investigating un-American
activities recently received testi-
mony-which President Roose-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05
AsHE COUNTY

IS the aforementioned section of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
above sea level. Twenty-Five miles
OF the PARKWAY run through
the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05

Mr.. Robert c. Raglan, of Akron,
Ohio, spent Christmas holidays
visiting friends and relations in
Ashe and Watauga counties.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05

Miss Dorthea Osborne and Miss
Ruby Osborne, of North Wilkes
boro, are spending two weeks at
Green Valley, N. c., with rela-
tives and friends.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05

welt later criticized as one-sided
that the former governor pre-
vented enforcement of a court
order for the eviction of sit-down
strikers.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-01-05

A land utilization project, en-
bracing an area of more than
100000 acres in CaSwell county,
has ben undertaken by the Soil
Conservation Service as a part
Of its nationwide submarginal
land program.
Evening star., 1939-11-19

from a considerable distance. This
would account for the carrying
quality of many of them. Gunn-
laugur Scheving paints even his
self-portrait over life size.
There are a few glimpses of Ice
lands history and mythology tran
scribed in these paintings. Jon
Stefansson's "Almannagja" portrays
the gorge in which Iceland's Parlia-
ment met for nine centuries, a beau
tiful place, with a sweep of blue
mountains in the distance and a
rushing torrent. A painting by
Sveinn Thorarinsson depicts a re-
markable rock formation. shaped
like giant horseshoe, explained by
Icelandic mythology as the hoof-
print of the god Odins horse when
he stamped his foot on the earth.
He must have been a steed worthy
of Paul Bunyan.
Of the comparatively few figure
paintings in this exhibition, Gunn-
laugur Blondal's portrait of lady
is the most striking. Clad in light
red evening gown and illuminated
by harsh light which gives her
face chalky, masklike appearance,
she is perhaps the most "interna-
tional' work in the show. One is
not surprised to learn the artist lives
in Paris. where not few OF Ice
lands painters have studied.
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other buildings. 1t will doubtless re-
mind travellers of Cobb on the Irish
coast, regular port of call for
transatlantic steamers The other
painting of Reykjavik, by Icelands
leading woman painter, Kristini
Jonsdottir must represent the edge
of the city. for it shows only a few
houses of suburban type, scanned
earth stretching away to snowy
mountains in the distance.
The grand, menacing Thunder
Clouds" painted by Asgrimur
Jonsson, will probably impress some
observers as precisely the way they
would imagine Iceland appears if
they stopped to think about it. A
barren highway winds into noun
famous landscape of overpowering
solitude beneath the stormy sky.
Impression of Space.
In fact, the exhibition as whole
gives one the impression of vast
space, magnificent distances"
brooding loneliness. Iceland is OBJ
viously no place for gregarious peo-
pie. The paintings are rather larger
than the average, and are executed
in broad masses of color, with little
detail. One pictures the artist as
standing up at their canvases,
welding their brushes or palette
knives at arms length, and retreat
ing frequently to view their works
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an Illuminated missal in her hand
marvelously delineated. But in this
showing all are so good that it is
almost wrong to discriminate. No
mention has as yet been made Of
exceedingly we'll painted portraits by
Mabel H. WEIGH. Margaret Foote
Hawley, who by the way once lived
in Washington and is to be ranked
with the best-Rosina Cox Board
man, Eda Nemoede Casteron, Cor
nelia Hildebrandt, Grace Murray
and Malthe HaSselriis.
Miniature painting is very diff
cult and superior art which dates
back to the time when painting lin
little" was used for the decoration of
the precious pages Of hand-printed
books. Since the time of Holbein 1t
has been chiefly devoted to por-
traiture and to it some of the great
est painters have at times turned
Here in America We have had some
excellent miniature painters, such
as Malbone, Fraser, Peale and Sully
to name only a few. 1t is stimulating
as we'll as gratifying to find that
here in our own day so many are
continuing the good tradition.
This exhibition will continue until
December l. and with other special
exhibitions now in progress will be
open to the public on next Tuesday
evening, the 21st. from 7:30 to IL
o'clock. as we'll as during daytime
| hours as usual.
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Visiting Masterpieces on
View at Phillips Memorial
Gallery

In addition to a small exhibition
of works by contemporary artists
which was opened last Wednesday
to continue to December 3, the
Phillips Memorial Gallery is showing
at present a number Of paintings
by masters Of the past lent for a
brief period. Among these distin-
guished visitors is a painting by
Hogarth of a group of musicians and
a three e-quarter-length portrait of
man by Goya. The Hogarth is a
moderate-s sized canvas, broader than
it is high, but shows the heads and
shoulders of five men and boy, all,
it may be taken for granted, excel
lent portraits. One man, facing the
observer, in the forefront of the
canvas, holds a music book open in
his hands. Over his shoulder leans
another. reading from the book,
hands. upraised leading, and at the
same time mouth open singing; to
his right is another singer, while
behind is man playing on wind
instrument, and in the corner, to
the left, is the boy with book of his
own sharing in the music making.
All are keenly intent; the eyes OF
the musicians being on the notes,
the ears listening. to assure perfec-
ton of sound. This picture was un-
doubtedly painted when there were
in London many such groups of mu-
sicians, who found greatest delight
in blending the several parts into
a sweet, harmonious whole. That
this type of art, and form of amuse-
ment, is not more in vogue today Is
to be regretted. The canvas as a
whole seems to be somewhat thinly
painted with smoothness of surface
and in tones of gray and gold. 1t is
not like the portraits of ladies in
stiff bodices by Hogarth in the Clark
Collection at the Corcoran Gallery
or in the Ralph Cross johnson Col
lection, the National Museum, but
for that very reason the more in
teresting.
Evening star., 1939-11-19

| ment, and quite a number OF tourists
Travelled to Reykjavik, the nations
capital and the scene of the cele-
brations.
But undoubtedly hundred times
as many Americans became aware
of Iceland last summer at the New
York Worlds Fair, where this north
ern nation had pavilion near that
OF our Federal Government. Among
the many interesting exhibits were
paintings by Icelandic artists from
which the American Federation of
Arts selected a travelling show of
80 canvases, the first group from
Iceland to be circulated in the
United States. Its inaugural ap-
pearance is here in Washington, at
Howard University's Gallery Of Art,
to remain until Saturday.
These paintings from Iceland
have national character. Although
the artists represented include ira
ditionalists and modernists as well as
those "in between" the group is de-
| cidedly homogeneous in appearance,
partly because of subjects and partly
because of handling, which is in
clined to be broad Cold blues and
green's predominant in the color
schemes, as one would expect of ar
lists transcribing a northern coun-
try. bleak and rugged, with few
trees and magnificent scenery. One
discovers that Iceland's civilization
is Northern European, that her peo-
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Bulletin of Current Exhibitions
CORCOR

coRCoRAN GALLERY ART. Seventeenth
buildings
graphs by John Sloan until Miniatures BY members Of
the American Society Of Miniature Painters until December Draw
THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2o17 street Nw-Ex-
hbon paintings Marguerite Pearson of Boston and prints
NATIONAL MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY BUILDING, Con-
situion at Tenth Naturalization aquatnts
Contest November to % inclusive
NATIONAL MUSEUM. ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING,
Ninth street and Independence SWS photographs
members Of the Paramount Camera Club Paramount Studios Holly
GALLERY ART, the Mall al Twelfth street sw-
Permanent collections paintings drawings and prints
BY James MeNs Whistler the Peacock Room and paintings by
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS- DIVISION OF FINE ARrs-Prints
by Whistler and related pnmake the Oaks
@ prints by Whistler and rsnns
South" photographs by Benjamin
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1900 Twenty-hrs
paintings artists visiting
ings by great masters
Near and Far East Mondays and Fridays
Myers, Fifteenth NV.
PUBLIC LIBRARY Eighth and streets NW-Water colors
by Suzanne Mulett, November to 80
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FINE ARTS GALLERY
exhibition October to November 90
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GA1LERY-Exhbuon
80 pieces pottery by w. p A. workers, November to 25
THE wHYTE GALLERY l7o7 street NwAbsract paintings
GEORGETOWN GALLERIES, Twenty NV
Water coos by Fredeque Alan Counsel to December l.
george washington
very 2l street NWWater coors by Carl Nyqus November
to Is.
D. c. BRANCH. LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN, Graf
colors Alma M Wnnngham November 30
w.P GALLERIES, s1e Independence sw-Aloca-
ton Gallery oil paintings by artists Of the Art Section OF the Com
Projects Chidrens
Gallery, vacation exhibition.
CHALET NoNPARErI 7los Old GEORGETOWN noad Bethesda
studies BY Helen Fowler also native Mex
ican glass and pottery to December II.
HOTEL Pennsylvania avenue at Twelfth street NV
Exhibition oil paintings of France by A. g. Warshawsky
THE LITTLE GALLERY s2o4 street Nw.Psinting tt and
November 10 to December 2.
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what 1t implies, it is rather remark
able that Mr.. Sloan has been willing
to give himself so much to the
transcription of that which is not
merely ugly. but often vulgar and
coarse inherently, scenes upon which
one would not pleasurably care to
dwell. Occasionally one finds in a
drawing or lithograph CLINT of
humor. but rarely beneath the sur
face is that touch of human SYM
pathy which makes mankind akin.
He prayeh best Who lopeth best
All things, both great ana small.
For the dear God ,oho lopeth US,
He made and lopeth all.
Perhaps this is the reason
drought to mind by ''The Ancient
Mariner'O that of all the 80 draw
ings and 10 Autographs included in
the exhibition at the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art-none of which is with
out interest to the student-the one
which is actually most outstanding
is that of the beloved friend and
master, Robert Henri In this is
not only good drawing and fine
spirit, but the underlying quality
of enduring worth. For Henri
Sloan has always had both admira-
ton and deep affection. No wonder,
then, that into this drawing went
the best of his art
The exhibition of oil paintings by
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DV nlTnSel1, not as q lie history,
although it amounts to that in the
end, his life being reflected in his
art, but as an exposition of his point
of view of art and of life, set forth
especially for the benefit of students.
The Eilshemius book was written by
William Setback and is wholly biog-
raphy. with facts cleaned from the
painter and those who have had
contact with him, as we'll as through
exhaustive research. 1t is called,
And He Sat Among the Ashes" and
Is as sad and dramatic a story as
was ever told. The purpose of the
publication of these volumes, the
first of series on living American
artists, is to create a parallel litera-
ture of living American art.
Undoubtedly, knowledge of the
artist and his point of view enhances
interest in and appreciation of his
art, but in the final analysis it can
neither add to nor take from it those
qualities of merit or those deflci-
encies of execution which give or
forbid it greatness. Art as art must
invariably stand on its own feet.
There is perhaps no more inter-
esting or outstanding figure in the
world of American art today than
John Sloan, and yet he claims that
there has been nothing eventful in
his life-juSt ups and downs" and
the main thing about it," his work
The son of an artist without finan-
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Washington Artist, Edith
Hoyt, Exhibits in New York

Edith Hoyt of this city, member
of the Society of Washington Artists
and the Washington Water Color
Club, is holding an exhibition of
recent paintings in the Ferargil Gal
leries, New York, from November 13
to 26. Last year she painted along
the Dalmatian coast and in Italy, in
the Dolomftes, at Innsbruck, in Ger
many and in Holland. This past sum-
mer she spent in the Canadian
Rockies-Jasper Park and up to the
Columbia ice fields where, at an
altitude of $500 feet, she painted
the glaciers. Miss Hoyt's painting
has gained in strength recently and
among the pictures she is now ex-
hibiting are some very mature and
impressive works.