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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-31

The council on motion of Works
Commissioner Bergersen voted To
grant the petition of James II.
welker and others for paving OF
No. 2pth st. from Proctor 10 Ste
yens st.. with zsphaltic concrete.
A hearing on creating this nee
essary Improvement district was
set by resolution for Nov. 10. The
corporation eounsel's office ruled
that property Of the school district
Mason school grounds) could be
considered in figuring valuation Of
the district. There had been n
question about the legality OF the
district where private property
valuation was less than the esti-
mated cost OF the improvement.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-31
San Francisco Fair Closes
Gates; May Open Next Year

position. instead Of clamoring
for their money--at last reports
they still had s4.606.si4 coming
To them=were cooperating with .
group which seeks TO reopen for
four-month run next year.
The creditors were reported
willing To toss into the kitty the
100000 the exposition has on
hand TO pay them. Together with
the 100000 pledged or tenta-
lively promised. there thus might
be sufficient funds 10 assure an
extension. Approximately $780,
900 il needed TO put the show ION
Ice" over the winter.
The closing day crowd totsied
147,2i7 which brought total at
tendance for the run to 10,495,7 TAT.
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MORE EASTER Lilies
BLOOMING IN TACOMA

Two more Tacomans have Easter
lilies In bloom. Two blossoms
broke out Sunday on the plants Of
Mrs. Mabel Cram OF the Fern Hill
Drug store at $40 Park ave, and
Mrs. Nellie Reick, 21zs Fswcett
ave, reported two blooms.
Mrs. Cram said she had now de-
cided to bring her plant into the
house.
Both women said they had got
ten the lilies last Easter and they
are blooming for the first time
since then. Mrs. Reick's had IL
blooms ON 1t when she got 1t at
Easter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-31
TRUSTY TAKES
FRENCH LEAVE

nnn essn sIan't M - ~
lsii - ~ left,
rollee wsrs ioektsg ~ uln0
Mesday. Thsy flxuss that 4 teey
find hlm ~ may issfn 10 Iihe ~
jsil. slnes h<u have - mitch 1870
time 20 nst sisea 10 u.
Nmli. they dlseovsfe1. \ ~ -
~ tsustsd - tfusty. ~ -
gtvsn comparative frsedem q
movement " sywelaI lenisney. -
wss 70 have seryed out : e3-1av
drunh.drivins seniencs n - mnpo
dsys hui Emil walked NJ n1n-
day morning after telling snetbee
ssusty. r think IN - down ~
stfeet.1
Last Tuesday evening. pslboo
Sergeant y. n. Ellls spettsd 4 60
containing oison and : compnntoa.
william Lsfferty. II. driving aag
without lights. he flasse1 1oyn
the car and put both under axvest,
charging oison, -. With 1ganh
driving.
In police court tn nSxt ~
Dixon drew . $3.50 and coefe ma
His drivers iiesnse w. slspende1
for . year. Olson didn't hsve ~
cash. 70 b. went 10 jail. Ne hsl
served four days and would have
had about month more - :
psroIed "trusty' II he hadn't oono
down the street.
But now the Idaho In0korfee
faces longsr stretch. not u men~
ton the trouble he may Eet int
- Z fugitive from jail.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-31
Man Accused as
SLAYER of Woman

VANCOUVER, b. q. - A coro-
ner's jury late Saturday named
Andrew Peterson, 80, a. the
butcher-knife slayer Of 35-year-old
Mrs. Catherine Reid. mother Of
two small children.
The woman died in the arms OF
her two little girls five minutes
after being stabbed In the heart
by Peterson last week.
A lodger at the Reid home, Adolf
Olkowski, told through an inter-
prefer at the inquest Of watching
Pederson kill Mrs. Reid.
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Woman Released
Following Crash

Held overnight in the city jail
on a drunkenness charge and for
investigation of an automobile ac-
cident, Mrs. Virginia Hicks. 30,
s13 SO. Washington St, posted bail
for her release Monday morning.
The woman was arrested late
Sunday afternoon by Officers Adair
and Schultz, who charged she was
driving a car that struck a parked
coupe belonging to o. Erickson,
3515 East G st. The Erickson ma
chine was parked at 3709 SO. 7th
Ut. at the time, officers said.
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DIVORCE ACTIONS

Divorce actions were filed In
Pierce county superior court Mon
day by Ruth against A. G. Lund-
quist, grounds lncompatibility;
Linnie Bell against Kenneth Sauer,
cruelty and abandonment, and
Richard j. against Lois Neudorfer,
incompatibility. A final decree
was granted to Margaret from
Floyd Graves.
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POSTS BOND OF $500
ON LARCENY BY CHECK

&. b. White, b0.yssr-oId man
agsr " the White Finance Co.. was
booked at ths county jail Sunday
on . charge Of larceny by check.
involving . $500 check given "
Rhodes Brothers department store.
lie was released on $500 bond by
Justice Clarence y. Layton. White
lives 1T 1884 No. Cove st.
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Capt. p. A. ebert
Dies in Seattle

SEATTLE - Capt. Peter \.
obsrt. %. veteran Aissks master
mariner and pilot. died today, Ne
had been with the Alaska steam
ship Co. since 1919 and at thu time
Of his death waS pilot a the 3. y.
Mount Mckinley. Captain obert
previously was . master and pilot
for the Admiral line,
lie was born In nuIlsfo. ~. r.,
Aug. 20. fs7s. Ne y survived by
HE widow hsra
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friends sffcettonateis refer "a
him. A. cabinet mini.fcr he
Issed tough problems. I'm
merScsi himself In them. mas
tered them.
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Driving himself. he slso drove
these who worked with him But
he managed also to get their sf-
fiction and aeyution In other
words. a natural leader 81 msu.
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Forecast for Washington: In
creasing cloudiness Monday night
and Tuesday with light rain on
coast Tuesday. little change In
temperature; decreasing easterly
wind off the coast; light northerly
in the Sound and straits.
Rainfall for the ~ hours ending
at a m. Monday. none. since
Oct. /. 2:4s inches, deficiency Of
II inch; since Jan. /, 20.2s inches,
a deficiency of I'll inches.
Wind at S a. m. Monday. south
2 m. p. h.; dense fog; barometer
at 1928 and falling slowly.
Sun rises at $751; a. m. Tuesday
and sets at ass p. m.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-31
Paving or Res,ufacing of
Broadway Not Yet Decided

Nearly a of Broadway retail store managers and
property called Mayor Kaufman Monday
what steps would be necessary TO bring about paving
of Broadway with cement concrete
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one which win not hold REGULAR
services. The congregation, how
ever, Il invited to Annis Wright
seminary. where IT. pastor, nov.
Arthur Bell. win conduct ssrvteoo
1t 7 4. m.
A partial list u churches o.
serving All Saints day follows:
st. Andrews, SIG No. oakss sk5
Rev. w. B. TurrilI, rector. oerv>
ices. 7;30 and ii q. m.
Holy Communion, 50. 18th and
I sts.; Rev. Charles T. Mentxers
rector. Services. 8 p. m.
Christ, No. ID and X it,; sefv~
Ices. 1880 =. m. Bishop 3. Arthur
Huston, ceIsbrant
Catholic Churchen
st. Patrick's. RI. Rev. nser. W.
]. Noonan. pastor. Masses, 9 7, .
and 3 .. m.
Visitation tHouth Tacoma), Rev.
Domlnick Hack. pastor. Aasses.
$40. s:15 and 1880 .. n.
ST. Leo's. Rev. A. ]. Krebsbach,
3. j., pastor. Masses, .. 7:So. o:1Qs
$50 and II Z. m. and 1919 p. n
st. Rita'r, Raw. A. bruno. pee-
tor. Masses, 7;30 and 10:3o :. n
st. AIMS, Rev. Maurico Calvin,
pastor. Masses, $40 and 8 ;. n.
st. Joseph's. Rev. Joseph Hsyoe-
tax, pastor. Aasses. 7:1b and :
Z. m.
Holy Rosary. Rey. Anthony
Hack, pastor Mssses, $3.50 -
and laos = =
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Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

CORCORAN GALLERY ART, Seventeenth street New
York NWWater coors and odthwae
January 81
THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 2o17 street Nw-on
paintings by Adro T. Hbbard Etchngs by
January5
NATIONAL MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY BUILDING Con-
roth, December to 81.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING,
Ninth street and Independence photographs by
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1900 Twenty-hrst
NWChristmas sale exhibition works by artists Washington
and vicinity December Retrospective Georges
Braque, December 6 to January g.
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and X NW-Ilumnations
and drawings by Marian Lane, December 10 81.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY-Paintings by Eben
F. Comns December / to 81.
paintings by Studio House"
ton sculpture by American artists to December 80.
GEORGETOWN GALLERIES, street NV
Water coors and works other media
Keneay Byrne and John December January
CITY CLUB 726 jackson place NW-Paintinps nv
A. H. o. Role December
FREER GALLERY OF at Twelfth street SW-
ermane' collections Oriental art paintings drawings prints
by James McNein Whistler, bv
American artists.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, DIVISION OF FINE ARTs-Prins
o whistler and related prnmakers from the
Additional Whistler
the Pennel Fund Exhibition Early Deep
sou1h photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
MUSEUM 1880 street NW-Wll be closed during
the holidays from December 81 through January 2.
A. GALLERIES. Independence avenue SW-Alocation
Gallery oil paintings by artists the Community
Project of the Projects Administration Childrens
lery, work of Danish children.
CHALET NoNPAREn, Old Georgetown road Bethesda
and paintings by Beverley Bryant ard John
William Sanford, r, to January IA.
THE LITTLE GALLERY, 1904 O street Nw-pain;nos ond
drawings from The Inner Life by Frances G. Wckes from
November 10 through December.
Fridays at 3:45 pm. - sunny ~
Evening star., 1939-12-24

appreciation and widening the mar
ket for such work they would seem
to fail completely. A work-in-l little
must be examined at close range,
and while it may be big in signif1-
canoe it must have what, for lack
OF a better name, may be called
precious qualities, must be wrought
with love as well as skill and SYM
pathy. There are none of these
qualities in these small works,
hence while they may amuse for
the instant they must pail upon
acquaintance. The idea Is q good
one, but it can only win converts
If applied wisely. Recall, for in
stance, how beautiful and satisfy
ing are some of the little reductions
purchasable in Italy of the MASTER
pieces Of sculpture in the Naples
Museum, or, for that matter, how
pleasing to the eye and inviting to
Evening star., 1939-12-24
sides in late afternoon when it is
warm and caressing.

sides in late afternoon when it is
warm and caressing.
The Impressionists are supposed
to have thrown open the shutters
and let in the light on modern
painting by reversing the order of
the spectroscope (Which decomposes
light into its component elements
of color and so banished the day
OF dull, lifeless pictures, but the
fact is that the same can be &C
complished through other methods
direct painting, as, for instance,
practiced by Rembrandt, Vermeer
and, in this later day, by Sorolla
and others in this country. 1t is
the direct method which Mr.. Hib-
bard follows, as did Gardner Sy-
mons, who also excelled in the paint
ing of winter pictures, and his values
are so perfectly adjusted that the
effect itself is brilliant in the ex-
treme.
An especially good example is his
painting included in this exhibition
which is entitled Falls in Winter
but there are numerous others.
Those who have wintered in New
England. or, as children, read the
Franconian stories by Abbott, will
find much that is delightful and
appealing in these paintings by
Aldro Hibbard, for they express
very satisfactorily the spirit of that
section of our country, it's combina-
ton of bigness and ittleness, its
rolling uplands, its woods and
streams, its pleasant broad valleys
and, above all, its country villages
built up about white steepled
church.
One of the largest and most i'm
portant of the canvases shown is
of sugaring in Vermont-a wooden
house among the trees, a team of
oxen hitched to a sled for hauling,
to the left, snow on the ground, and
a few of the sugar. makers in evil
dence-a very pleasant scene. Very
engaging also are canvases entitled
South Windham," little town in
big setting, with a road flowing
like stream through its midst, and
Town of Weston" with its little
church and the mountain behind
sheltering, as it were, the homes
of the few inhabitants. Dorset
Mountain" and 'Dogtown Com
MONS" the latter familiar to all who
have summered on Cape Ann, are
exceptions to the rule, inasmuch as
neither is a winter picture, and in
both instances give evidence of the
painters ability to render very truly
and impressively our American land
scape. wherever and whatever it
may be. There is, in fact, in these
canvases a quiet dignity which is
very reassuring.
Why should we not have more
landscapes of this type today? What
could be more enjoyable or strength
ening? Nature by her extraordinary
indifference to the doings of man
is restful, and by her power of
recovery lends to life the stability
so craved. The late Hamilton Mabie
once defined art as the open win
Evening star., 1939-12-24

and trends, almost as clearly as
one can see In the creations Of a
painter. H. ]. Phillips (who is also
an associate of the Royal Photo
graphic Society likes variety. His
seven photographs are ali different
a row Of girls in deck chairs (appar-
emily caught from the funnel of q
steamship; tugboats marshaling a
liner from its dock, which he calls
Titan and Pigmies";; a beautiful
portrait of a nun; a quaint old
house, brick and half timber, like
those one sees in ancient Shrews-
bury, England. Mr.. Phillips obvi-
ously roams around New York cap
turing pleasant sights, not the least
pleasant being one of an artists
market, a "foire aux croutes" such
as Greenwich Village artists hold
semi-annually. Last June, for in
stance, fully half Of the artists in
volved sold their work to casual
passers-by for a total of $2,832 10,
SO the photographer was not de-
parting from realism in showing a
pdtroIl purchasing q painting.
Portrait Studies.
John Hutchins, in the present ex-
hibition. is primarily interested in
personality. All his prints are por-
trait studies-an Apache woman
with face as wrinkled as an old
apple; beautiful girl in an antique
lace mantilla, a studious middle
aged num- and men dressed in differ.
ent costumes (Which are not sue
cessful, as their facial expressions
do not harmonic with the charac.
tiers intended. Maximilian Tech
shows micro-photographs of a dog
flea enlarged to dog-size; one Is
again reminded what fearsome ap-
partitions insects are. Robert Cole.
man likes ships and wharves. A
photographer named Cremer devotes
his time to beautiful bodies and
symmetrical limbs.
Perhaps the most surprising fea-
ture of this show by New York pic.
torial photographers is the scarcity
of views of the metropolis itself,
which seems to many people-in-
cluding the writer-one of the most
thrilling spectacles in the United
States.
Evening star., 1939-12-24

of Art, shows a Reclining Nude"
in plaster, classical in suggestion,
but modelled as for transcript on
colossal scale in stone, and to be
seen at great distance. Slobodkin
exhibits a or 8-inch reduction in
plaster of his equally admired and
hated figure of Lincoln, rail-spltter,
elected from the New York Worlds
Fair and to be placed permanently
here in the Department of the In
terror Building. Zorach's contribu-
ton is a figure in wood of a Child
Drinking" which, while modernistic
in treatment, is, like almost every
thing from his hand, essentially
plastic and arresting.
Rejecting the tendencies of the
time in contemporary sculpture
these "works-in little" are of inter-
est to the student of art, but for
their avoWed purpose of increasing
Evening star., 1939-12-24


part, these were produced in Europe
from the 18th century to the 17th,
when the flame of religious fervor
burned most brightly and the art
OF painting reached, it is thought,
Its greatest height. These were done,
as rule, not only to acquaint the
llllterate with the story of the
Nativity, but to do homage to the
Christ Child and His holy mother,
and it Is interesting to know how
widespread was the practice, coming
from the East through Illuminated
manuscripts like a gentle song,
bursting into countless glories in
Italy, to be taken up in the North
countries, until it became such a
universal chant of praise as never
the world had known before.
All this great and glorious phe-
nomenon is completely illustrated
in the Mellon and Kress collections,
which are to be included in our
National Gallery of Art, now rapidly
taking visible form with the ex-
pectation of being opened late in
1910. The Mellon collection has
especially wide range, including
paintings by artists of Italy, Ger
many, Holland, Flanders, France and
other countries; whereas the Kress
collection. numerically larger, is
chiefly devoted to the works of
Italian painters. In the Mellon COL
lection are some of the most famous
Madonnas in the history of art:
such, for instance. as Raphaels
Madonna and Child" known as
the "Niccolini" or "CoWper Ma
DONNA and Madonna of the House
of Alba" the latter painted while
he was working on his murals in
the Vatican; the "Corsini Madonna, "
by Botticelli. as well as his "Adora-
ton of the Magi''; Masaccio's S
Virgin and Child" Fra Angelico's S
Madonna and Child" Antonello da
Messina's Madonna and Child" and
Virgin and Child With Two Angels
by Hans Memling, to name only a
few-and not including the mar
velous little Nativity" by Petrus
Chrlstus which. once seen, could
never be forgotten.
Masterpieces Grouped.
The Kress collection. is outstand-
Ing in its wealth in canvases de-
Evening star., 1939-12-24

other institutions awarding scholar
ships for art study are doing the
same. Last week Mr.. Stokowski an
nounced that next summer he would
tour the nations to our south vito
an orchestra comprising musicians
drafted from every State in the
Union, and now announcement
comes from Thomas j. Watson,
president of the International BUSH
ness Machines Corp, that collec-
ton of paintings chosen from the
two exhibitions held during the past
summer at the New York Worlds
Fair and in the Golden Gate EXPOSE
ton, San Francisco, is to be circu-
lated in the near future in Latin
America. This will, like Mr.. Stokow-
skis Orchestra, be Nation-wid in
its representation, two works from
artists in each of the 48 States being
included. 1t is earnestly to be hoped
that the selection will be as care
fully made, but if the choice is re-
stricted to works shown in the con-
temporary exhibitions at the two
great fairs the chances are against
it.
Musicians still recognize the ne
cessity for skill in execution and are
willing to submit to grilling disci-
pline to obtain it, whereas painters
and sculptors to great extent seem
to feel that knowledge cramps ones
style and the less tutored one is the
better. This is not strange when
today so high a premium is placed
on incoherent works In these media
by those who are able to fix values
and create demand. Inferior works
for home consumption are bad
enough, but If sent to Latin Amer.
lea as evidence of our culture will
not only negative the good they are
supposed to do but help to spread
the devastating contagion. Good in
tentions, i'll directed, sometimes
prove boomerang. In this matter
of manifesting our culture to our
neighbors we should first take ac-
count of stock.
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voted to the alteration of the Virgin
and Child painted in Italy when
the Renaissance was dawning and
during its effulgence. But it also
contains very famous and much
discussed painting of the Alteration
of the Shepherds" attributed to
Giorgione, which, through the cour-
tesy of the National Gallery of Art,
is reproduced on this page today.
This is, indeed, a most lovely con-
ception rendered with the utmost
artistic skill. The Virgin and st.
Joseph are seen kneeling, at the
mouth of the cavelike stable; to
the right, in alteration of the Infant,
lying on the ground, to whom two
shepherds with heads bare bow in
reverence. The oxen peer out of
the darkness of the stable; cherubs
float in the upper air, and, to the
left, notably extending in perfect
perspective, is an exquisite italian
landscape. The foliage of the trees
and of plants and vines in the FORE
ground is painted with meticulous
care. later initiated by the Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood of England.
It is, all in ALL a most charming
composition, and utterly unlike, in
its setting. any other which, in
point of time, preceded it in execu-
ton.
There are very few known works
by Giorgione, who was a pupil of
pn11iy,i fo11 ~
teacher of Titan, and this is one
about which scholars do not agree
Mr.. Phillips, in his engaging work
on Giorgione, expresses the convic-
tion that 1t was composed by the
master but executed by another
probably an unknown pupil of
Belllnls. Some critics insist that it
Is the work of Titan, but it is GER
tainly not in his style. However
this merely increases the interest
In the painting rather than takes
from it, and goes to show that in
Venice, in the late 18th and early
18th centuries, there were more
painters capable of producing so
supreme a work of art than are now
known. Also, that in all probability
they worked together, not in one
studio alone but in several, produc-
ing not infrequently collaborative
canvases.
Common Interest.
What an interesting time they
must have had, talking things over
with common interest and ideal
that of highest accomplishment
Here. for instance, Joseph might
we'll have been painted by or bor-
roWed from Titan, the Virgin from
Raphael, the landscape from CHR
landajo-but the whole has perfect
unity and utmost charm. Is it, one
wonders, composite work or that
of the great but little-known master?
In either case it beautifully reflects
the spirit of reverence. together with
q love of sheer beauty, on the part
Of the painter.
This painting has been in many
famous collections. Fi.rat that OF
Giovanni Grimani of Venice, then
In that of King James II of Eng