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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-11

Unhappy
Dear Miss Grey: In all your re-
cent articles I have not seen any
situation TO compare with ours.
Our family consists Of a mother,
father. older sister and myself.
Ny mother 10 the reason for this
letter.
10 Be brief. she IL q nagger Of
the worst kind. Our home Ii .
living Hades.
Ny father drinks . lot but l
must admit / don't blame him.
Ny mothers nagging tongue
would drive any man to drink.
No matter how good humored any
Of ~ happens 10 Be when we
get up IN the morning. she Is
sure to make some cutting remark
TO take m the JOY out of life.
It makes her miserable to zee
anyone else happy.
She often complains because
We don't act ~ children should
ana confide In her. but as sure
a Ne do confide. she tears our
stories to pieces and makes fun
Of ~. Naturally. we don't have
any desire to be confidential with
her.
NY main problem lies in the
fact that am unable to get
work. For months ! have been
trying TO get . Job and my mother
accuses me Of laxiness. She de-
clares I am not trying to get
work and Il drives me frantic.
She d . bundle Of seif-pity ana
cries and declares we win all be
glad when she Is dead.
realize a child owes lot to
4 parent but II seems to me that
I parent owes . child some con-
alteration, too.
In our home our mother has
made nervous wrecks Of US.
DESPERATE.
Crowds
Dear Miss Grey: Just who are
these smart alecs who seem TO
think . woman has no right on
! bus during the rush hours.
A woman who pays her bus fare
has just ~ much right on tne
bus n anyone else.
According to some narrow
minded nit wits. q woman has
no right to live and breathe. Well
1 am . woman and shall continue
q ret On the busses whenever 1
wish 10. ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-11
BY CYNTHIA GREY

Nvorce
Dear Miss Grey: I would like
70 advise the woman who 20
favors divorce, to read her Bible
Isl. Mark 1910. IL. IL.
n . woman shall put away
from her husband and be married
- another. she committeth adult
~. READER
an not going to argue this
matter with you. It Is all a mat
Ter Of opinion. However. 1t has
always amused me at the way
some people handle the word
aduItery-yet these same persons
don't take into consideration that
breaking one commandment Is no
worse than breaking another.
The person who lies or steals
~ covets his neighbor's wife Is
~ bad ~ the person who commits
adultery.
There are ten commandments.
10 break one Is just as bad as
breaking another and the adulter-
er 10 no worse than the thief or
the liar.
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LyIlueWOOQ f1dll, n StdCcly InaQSlOL'
In spacious and beautifully land
scaped grounds at Elkins Park, near
Philadelphia. Here certain rooms
have been set aside and remodeled
for their display; others built from
the ground up" for similar purpose.
There is a range of galleries Tin
which one finds the greatest treas
ures) entered from the half-story
landing of the main stairs leading
up from the large, square front hall,
but certain paintings have escaped
these bounds and overflowed into
the stair gallery as well as into
some of the rooms on the first floor,
where they find intimate and appro-
pirate setting.
This last is measurably true of the
entire collection, for in the stately
galleries there is furniture of suitable
design and period, rich rugs, rare
porcelains and bronzes, creating an
atmosphere congenial to the master
pieces of paintings on the walls and
admirably offsetting them. Incl
dentally. the wall covering is rich
red velvet against which the deep
toned paintings, mellowed by time,
appear to the best advantage.
The first impression of the visitor
on entering the main gallery from
the stair hall is created by the two
magnificent canvases by Ell Greco
which hang on either side of a
wide DOORWAY at the rear end To
the right is THE Virgin With
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by Reynolds. included, as every one
knows, In the Wallace collection,
London. Gainsborough is also repre-
sented at his most characteristic
period by such enchanting portraits
as those Of Mrs. Graham, Mrs.
Methuen and the Earl of Darnley,
all of which were acquired from the
families of the sitters.
The Rembrandts, in which this
collection is so surprisingly rich, are
hung in the second gallery of the
series. Here ''The Mill" which DR..
Bode is said to have declared to be
the greatest picture ever painted by
any artist, is the center of interest.
It Is, in truth, a marvellous mani
festation Of this Dutch painters
power to illuminate his canvaSes
with the light which never fails and
so to dramatize a simple scene that
it becomes in itself an epic. Genius
of this order cannot be explained.
But that such q painting as this IS
greater than others by this same
master in which men and women
serve as theme Is questionable. Take
for example the two portraits here
which came from the YouSsoupo6
Collection-"Gentle With Tall
Hat and Gloves" and Lady With
Ostrich Fan" both Of which are
amazing Characterization of vital
personalities-spiritual as well as
physical delineationS or interpreta-
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Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

Corcoran Gallery Of
tre works by old and modern masters
bronzes and prints Water colors and ehing Alfred
auspices M Corp prints
Pnmak assembled National Committee Engraving through
Paintings
crime c. Critcher through December S.
Arts Club of Washington by
Budette and Autographs by Alison Clark to December
Phillips Memorial Gallery 1900 Twentyrst street NWPant
ing by old and modern masters sculpture prints selected from
Library Eighth K streets NW-Water coors by
Susan B. Chase, through November
Joseph Penne etchngs and other works by print
Makers original Illustrations photographs early American ahi
Gallery At Twelfth street sw-oriental
PAINTINGS sculpture bronze pottery etc. Whistler paintings and
Textile Museum 1880 street NWRugs tapestries and other
textiles the Near Far East Mondays Wednesdays
Hewitt Myers, $50 Fifteenth street NV
National Museum Natural History Building Tenth
Constitution NW-The National Collection Of Fine
paintings metropolitan
State Art Contest (exhon) foyer Engs and Autographs by
Chlde Hassam lobby, through November
National Museum Arts Industries Building south side Of
the Mall Eighth street sWPhoogaphs by Rucka through
November.
Gallery, independence sw-ons and
water coors by nve members Of the local Arts Unit
Childrens Gallery s16 Independence sW-Work done
by American children in the Philippine Islands %
as presented by English pot potters rs - ...... -.
Aquatone wood block prints by William E. Hentschel
Howard University Art Gallery 2s Sixth street NWResous
" e & ss g. @ ons s co Allan m
Squire, through November 23.
Of oa h. sns G y ss o ons street
Womens City Club 7S jackson place NW-Painins by Grace
t hr1Hsa sas y Nvwo. BY Richmond artist.
through December
Christian s n7:s :s.sss and
p BY only issued written application
G:ssc sssas. STATING y as snd . hs drawing BY Caroline
Van H. Bean, daily from 10 an to pm- 70 November o.
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tions. There is enormous vitality
likewise in the three little heads by
Rembrandt found here, done in all
probability as studies for portraits
or subject pictures with masterful
strength and directness. Finally in
this group, which is fairly breath
taking, is The Descent From the
Cross" one Of the noblest, most ten
der and at the same time dramatic
religious pictures ever painted. No
one can doubt, on the part of the
painter, both tervor and reverence
to say nothing of essential skill. This
miller's son, with all his human
frailties, stands revealed as one of
the greatest of the great.
Vermeer Masterpiece.
In this same gallery, with the IA
Rembrandts, is another world mas-
terpiece, little canvas worth in
finitely more than the traditional
kings ransom-"Woman Weighing
Gold" by Vermeer of Delft, of
whose known works only about 40
eXist-of which, incidentally, about
one-half are now in this country.
Like Rembrandt, Vermeer found en-
chantment in effects of light and
shade, but for the most part his
pitch was higher. his scale more
limited. This, as other of his can
vases, is flooded with light, ex-
quisite in tone and in color. None
in his day painted as he did, and
yet there is in his work no sense
of striving for effect, but instead
complete naturalness. Here is q
gem.
Landscapes by Ruisdael and Hob
bema, together with two portraits
by Franz Halls, round out the show
ing in this gallery and fill the visi-
tors cup of delight to overflowing,
but there are still treasures beyond
The third room to which the
visitor now passes is one of those
built from the ground up"-in
this instance to house single mas
terpiece-one which to some may
seem greatest of all. It is THE Feast
of the Gods" by Giovanni Bellini,
teacher of Titan and Giorgione,
which was painted in 1914 for Duke
Alfonso of Ferrara and is described
by Vasari in his Lives of the Most
Eminent Painters" The canvas Is
approximately 51a feet high by q
fraction over 6 feet long and occu-
pies the whole of one wall-in fact,
is the only painting in this room,
the walls of which are Of oyster
white, dull finished stone. Oppo-
site hangs, as foil in color, q tapes
try, light tones predominating.
There is an old and beautiful rug
on the floor as well as color in the
cove of the ceiling. The room Is
square, with cutoff corners, set in
which are wall cupboards, lighted
from an unseen source within, and
containing rare and extremely beau
tiful objects in crystal, carved, and
also jewels, beautifully and In some
instances fantastically, set by none
other, perhaps than Cellini or those
OF his workshop.
The painting is worthy Of thl
tribute paid it-perfect In every de.
tail, rich In color. magniflcently
composed and rendered. In feeling
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cannot have signined to him a. to
most etchers, and yet he was . mas
ter craftsman, as evidenced in his
etching, "Oaks in Spring." included
in the current exhibition. But even
so his line here is not that Of his
confreres, sweeping, rhythmical,
continuous. To the contrary, 1t Is
jagged and broken and its purpose
is obviously to supply substance
across which light and shadows may
play. This whole print scintillates
light, the pale light of spring, with
the delicacy Of which is contrasted
the strong, noble frame Of the oak
in the foreground, which, with its
branches outspread, occupies the
whole of the composition.
This same power magically to in
terpret light through the use of
pale shadows is what lifts other
etchings in this collection to very
high plane, investing commonplace
subjects with an almost unbeliev-
able spirit Of romance. And not
only do we find this exceptional
quality in the Hassam prints, but
also that vibration which is a part
of the natural world but rarely
transferred to canvas or paper. To
the average observer Mr.. Hassams
prints. especially his etchings, may
well seem to be made up Of a multi
plicity of little. broken lines, in hap
hazard arrangement - but one
should not be deceived, every one
Of these is knowingly placed and
serves a specific purpose. This is
art, the mysteries Of which are be-
yond comprehension.
The fact is that Childe Hassam
had great gift. Whatever he did
the slightest drawing or the most
studied painting-made manifest
his artistic endowment. He was
over so when he took up etching,
but in a brief time he was recog-
niZed as a leader in this field, and
he, with Joseph Pennell. is credited
with having done much to induce
the present renaissance of the art
of lthography in this country.
Twenty years ago Hassams paint
ings brought upward Of $4,000 and
were sought not only by private col
lectors but art museums, in the
majority of which, throughout the
country. he is represented. Such
prices for American contemporary
paintings are no more. but the in
trinSic value of such works has not
been lowered. The same is true of
the prints, although the decrease
in market value has been less in
this field than that of painting. BY
will, Mr.. HaSsam left all the paint
ings in his studio at the time OF
his death to trustees to be sold,
and the proceeds therefrom invested
as a fund for the benefit of artists
in need. This fund Is administered
by the National Academy of Arts
and Letters, Of which Mr.. Hassam
was a member. Now, five years after
her husbands death. Mrs. Hassam
is disbursing, through gift. unsold
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S01C0 OCAA48 aNSOAA4CC0 AOA ~ Oil
aquatint, Snow Fall, Pierce's Mill"
by Bess Cradle, an engaging little
view Of the picturesque subject.
Not more than 20 per cent Of the
exhibitors are professional artists as
yet, so it is perhaps not fair to have
expected too much of the exhibition.
As the Corcoran Schools training is
generally along traditional lines, the
tone Of the show as q whole Is con-
servative, and the subject-matter
pleasing, but the execution lacks
any marked distinction.
The largest proportion Of good
work Is in the graphic arts. Mar
guerite Kumm shows several of the
satirical little prints for which she
Is well known. One Of them, a
linoleum block print, Rare Stamp"
was invited to the exhibition of
American Graphic Arts in Venice,
assembled by John Taylor Arms.
Gustav Trois' nicely etched George
Washington House" (seen through
the door Of barn) and September
Afternoon" are among the better
items, as is also Andrea Zerega's
lithograph, Low Tide" Holbrook
Muller achieves a strong suggestion
Of wind in his Ithograph, Windy
Lee" by means of line directions.
Quite q number of the oils are
flower studies. Suzanne Mullett has
come close to modelling her NUNS"
in heavy yellow pigment, producing
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is its outstanding characteristic. Tho
fresh, bright colors appear to have
been applied with an air brush in
large, simple areas with a poster
like flatness. Animals, fish and
birds are the chief subject matter.
and are stylistically represented,
without losing their unique char
acter. Fish" prints are particularly
effective, with such elements as
undersea growths, bubbles, waves,
ETC., utilized in an abstract manner.
Two prints on the motif of Negress
with burden on her head Gas the
native women carry things in the
tropics, offer the greatest variety
of treatment, with tropical foliage.
fruit and vivid colors. The most
imaginative print is the symbolic
Morning and Evening"" which re-
states traditional conceptions Of the
subject as man and woman, angles
and curves, denoting dynamic and
static characteristics. This exhi.
bition will remain until November
"a.
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is one Of DR.. r. Walton Moore,
counselor of the Department Of
State, lent by the sitter's family.
Miss Critcher, daughter of the late
Judge Critcher of Alexandria, was
at one time a student of the
Corcoran School of Art and later
for some years an instructor therein.
She is member of the Washington
Society of Artists and of the Taos
Society of Artists and has con-
tributed to the leading exhibitions
here and elsewhere.
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sts. Inez and Tecla";; to the left
"St. Martin and the Beggar," both
of which were painted in 15e7-s9
for the Chapel of San Jose, Toledo,
Spain, where they remained until
1906, when sold to a Paris dealer
from whom Mr.. P. A. B. Widener,
the father of the present owner,
acquired them. They are known the
world over and show Ell Greco at his
best, when the Italian influence had
worn off and his own individuality
exerted itself.
Periods Represented.
Strangely enough, in. this same
gallery are to be seen paintings by
Flemish and Dutch artists of the
18th and two succeeding centuries
as we'll as of the English school OF
the 18th century. Mr.. Joseph
Widener believes, it is said, that art
is timeless and all works of superla-
tive merit may well be hung side
by side within the same four walls,
the validity of which conviction is
demonstrated here.
The center of the right wall IN
this gallery is given to the altar
piece-"St. Anne" enthroned with
SITS. Nicholas and Anthony in side
panels, painted by Gerard David
in Bruges in the very early part OF
the 18th century, very characteristic
of the Flemish School of that period
rich in color, fine in workmanship
but unusually large. On either side
of this hang paintings by Cuyp
Q62O-9D, painter of Dordrecht, both
of which are of equestrians seen as
In the midst of broad. well painted
landscapes. In one, these figures
q man and a woman, are so close
in the immediate foreground that
they appear to be riding out OF the
picture: in the other, the same OF
another couple Is seen in smaller
scale as a unit in the greater COM
position.
Facing these great canvases from
the Netherlands, on the left-hano
wall are the later-day English paint
ings. John Hoppners painting Of
his three children. two Of whom have
been bathing in an outdoor pool
which remained in the Hoppne'
family until 1893, is in the center
flanked by two extraordinarily fine
Turners-one painted in Venice ir
1884, the other the following veal
at home, on the Tyne, but with grea'
difference in manner and style, the
former being detailed somewhat
after the way of Canaletto, the
latter impressionistic, luminous, at
mospheric, in way quite his own
There is third painting by Turnel
In this collection, hung in the stair
hall gallery, which again show
variance in mode of expression.
Portrait Exhibit.
Beyond the Turner'S are three
uuarter-length portraits by Romne!
and Reynolds, one of Mrs. Blair, thu
pther of Lady Cornwall, both wear
Ing picture hats and beautiful.
placed on their respective canvases
Sufficiently personal but also decora
tive. There are small portraits b
both of these painters here, con
spicuous among which is the smal
version of the famous Nelly OBrier
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with evident fluency, commanding
her medium. Also her compositions
are good. In study of water lilies,
seen with decorative accessories, she
Is at her best, but throughout the
collection she upholds a reasonably
high standard. One of the best of
her landscapes is "Yuccas" in a
California setting-a little canvas,
but very intimate and at the same
time spacious in suggestion. Car
mel Beach" and "Cohasset Birches"
both have much to commend them.
In fact, the thought which fingers
after seeing this exhibition is of
the pleasure the artist found in her
work and the enthusiasm with
which she has brought to the at
tention of others that which to her
seemed most charming. This is
the urge which should underlie all
painting, and did until this present
day, If we can believe our eyes.
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One-Mon Show at Museum

Childe Hassdm Are Exhibited.
The November print exhibition in
the National Museum, set forth
under the auspices of the Division of
Graphic Arts, is one-man show,
consisting of etchings and htho-
graphs by Childe Hassam, lately
given to the museums print collec-
ton by his widow. In all probability
Childe Hassam is generally better
known as painter than an etcher.
but in any chronicle of printmaking
in the United States he is and al
ways will be given high place.
Hassam, whose dates were 1859 to
1885, was the leading exponent of
the French school of impression in
this country. He closely followed
the lead of Monet in his painting,
using the pointilliste's method of
placing his pigment on canvas in
little dots of pure color, which, ap-
piled in precisely the right amount
and juxtaposition. recompose the
effect Of light. Like Monet he en-
ployed color to express form. and
his palette was set in a high key,
with the result that in many in
stances his paintings had dazzling
brightness and were colorful In the
extreme. Especially memorable are
those painted in the comparatively
early years of his career, at Glou-
cester and at the Isle of Shoals
No less engaging. however, are some
of his woodland themes rendered
more conServatively, and his sober
but very charming pictures of farm
houses on Long Island. in New Eng
land and elsewhere, by which for
some years before his death he was
most frequently represented in cur
rent exhibitions
Mr.. Hassam was also a painter
of figures both out and indoors. In
his pictures of the sea and shore
he often introduced exquisite little
nudes, which, also, by the way, may
be discovered in some of his paint
ings of woodlands. Those figures
done indoors were much more pro-
sale, being painted, it would seem,
not for intrinsic interest, but as still
life. to manifest the play of light
and give excuse for the interpreta-
ton Of atmosphere in a living
room.
1t is quite essential to know q bit
about Mr.. Hassam's paintings fully
to comprehend in their full sig
nificance his prints. They are essen
tally the work of a painter-etche
and in this instance one who in
variably put color first and saw in
everything the illusion of light. Line
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Critcher Works Shown

A one-man exhibition Of paintings
In oil by Catherine C.. Critcher
opened yesterday afternoon in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art to continue
through December 5. This COM
prises about Is Sizable canvases,
mostly Of figures, but not all, the
majority Of which have not hereto
fore been publicly shown. Quite a
number are of fisherfolk of Nova
Scotia, painted by Miss Critcher
during her sojourn there last sum-
mer. Notable among the portraits
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Naturally, views Of New York City
are numerous, but they have much
variety and no little Imagination
in their selection. There is O par.
ticularly good angle of Lee Lawrie's
heroic sculpture Atlas" in Radio
City, and some excellent aspects
of the late Worlds Fair, as well as
the familiar skyscrapers and lovely
scenes in Central Park particularly
Shadows on the Snow'O.
DR.. Ruzicka has obviously Travelled
extensively with his camera, for
the exhibition contains familiar
sights in Rome, Florence and Venice.
also Prague, Czechoslovakia, which
will awaken nostalgia memories In
many an American tourist.
Views Of trees silhouetted against
the sky, in effective patterns, as
well as industrial scenes, demonstrate
the photographers interest in abb
stract designs.
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Alumni Sales Exhibition
Presents COrcOran Work
In Variety Of Themes q.
New York Scenes Dominate ,
Display of Photographs
At National Museum
By Florence S. Berryn an.

The third annual Corcoran Alumni Sales Exhibition the
to remain until December 1t includes
Students the Cocoan School Of Art
with 1872 works various media the artists
exhibits
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a naturalistic appearance in con-
trast to her broad handling of water
color in Lake Louise" and "Popo
and Pueblo" which has very good
sky. Marguerite Riley's attractive
Flowers and Leaves" has a primary
color scheme. Frank o. Rohland'S
Primrose" is well handled in a more
difficult scheme of magenta, gray,
green and earth-red.
The student-artists display variety
in choice of subject-matter, as one
would expect from so large a num-
ber, and have painted and drawn
many familiar local subjects.
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The Art WodRevews of Current Exhibitions and News of Artists
World Art Masterpieces
Included Among Works
OF Widener Gift Here
Momentous Acquisition for
National Gallery Attracting
Attention of Many Experts
By Leila MechIin.

The recent that the Wdener Collection win here
National Gallery of Art has been rightly styled moento
Of leading critics said lodged
private hands and literally brims
included therein of the masterpieces
present splendid housed the Widener home
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Bethesda Exhibition
Cincinnati Artist Sh0,Ds Aqua.

CIHclHHQtl ATLlSL SHOUS aqua.
tones in Chalet Nonpdreil.
Aquatones by William E. Hent-
schel of Cincinnati, circulated by
the American Federation Of Arts,
are now on view at the Chalet Nom
pareil Art Gallery, Bethesda, tho
first showing near Washington Of
this collection. Decorative quality
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Photographic Display
Scenes and Designs by DR.. Ru-

scenes ana Designs 0y DR.. Ru-
zickd Are Exhibited at Museum.
DR.. D. ]. Ruzicka of Jackson
Heights, Long Island, is showing
between 40 and so pictorial photo
graphs at the Arts and Industries
Building, q. S. National Museum.