The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-18

color photography. During ten trips to Norway in the past twelve years,
 MT. Barney has spent altogether 1 tWenty-Seven months there. Based upon his long acquaintance with the country is this new color picture made during a voyage to Norway in June and July 1888. Previously MT. Barney had made many experi- mentS over there in moving pictures in black and white. The present pie ture includes landscape composition of the coastline from Oslo to Ham, merfeSt with a short interim of views within the Northfjord. MT. Barney is not professional trav- elogue lecturer. This picture is one done from the point of view of an artist and journalist, It makes a complete evening entertainment which might be called color sym phony rather than an educational exhibition.
 MT. Barney has received 8 letter from Henry Seidel Canby of Arts and Letters which we are permitted to quote: T was both impressed and delighted with your pictures of Nor- way. The stills were excellent, some of them the best composed and most romantic ill good sense that have ever seen. But the moving pic- lures were even better and think the series depcting the Midnight Sun in its gorgeous cloud arrange ments the handsomeSt things of the kind have ever seen. hope great many people will have the pleasure of seeing them. They certainly make | an excellent evenings entertainment and like your running comment in place of the usual professional pat ter"
 Portrait Artist
 MT. Barney is a portrait artist of some note and distinction. His studios in Litchfield, Conn. were for- merly in New York City where he made portraits of many notables of business and the arts. Among those, who have been unusually pleased by MT. Barney's portraits are the fol- lowing: Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten, Sir Mathew Wilson, Augustus John, Ruth Draper, Henry Seidel Canby, Lady Diana Manners, Emily Price Post, Irwin Cobb. MT. Barney has also recently pulp nshed a book of poems entitled "Sardonyx." This has been recom- mended by the following: London Times" Boston Transcript" Poe try" Chicago and John Hall Wheel ock, Editor of "ScribnerS."
 In addition to the moving pictures and an address by Count Louis Spare, Nora Fairchild, well known singer, will sing group of Scan- dinavian songs, accomplished at the piano by her husband, George Nor gan of the Taft School, Watertown.
 Count To Speak
 Count Louis &Sparre, brother-in- law of the famous field marshall, Baron Mannerheim, will also speak Wednesday evening. He was born on August 3, 1863 and studied at Acad- emy Julian in Paris from 1886 to 1896.
 The Finnish people and their ar- tiStic achievements and poetry kindled strong interest in Spare and this led him to settle in Finland and to his subsequent marriage in 1893 to Eva Mannerheim, the sister of the Finnish Field Marshal, Baron Mannerheim.
 Count Spares keen understand ing and appreciation of the Finnish national character persuaded him to undertake the work as illustrator of several of the Finnish classics such | as Elgskyttarne (The Moose Hun ters.) Among other of the important | and lasting contributions made by | Count Spare to Finland Is his im- portant work in saving the artistic ! ally and historically important town of Borga.
 In 1905 Count Spare moved to Helsingfors where he continued his work as portrait painter and artist and in 1909 he transferred his res- idence to Sweden where he since has been prominent, not only as a pain ter but also in the group activities of etchers and painters. His paint ings are hung In most museums in Sweden and Finland and in this country he is represented in the Brooklyn Museum and with many portraits in private collections.
 He Is great lover of sports and He was c member Of the Swedish fencing team in the Olym- pic games at Stockholm in 1912,
 Count Spare has visited the United States previously in 1928 and ie32.
 Count Spare is available for speaking engagements in the New York area and Southern New Eng and. His addresses will be made in English. He is also prepared to make hort speeches ln Swedish. T