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bition in Washington.
Tahiti is the most recent scene
of Mrs. Handley's travels and
esthetic adventures. Most of her
work has been done in distant places
that intrigue the imaginations and
excite the wanderlust of nearly all
of us, but actually remain for us
merely place-names on maps:
Afghanistan, the Khyber Pass. In
dia, China, Japan, Bali, Oceania
and many others.
The artist was born in Blooming
ton, ILL.,; was sent to Florence. Italy,
to school, and returning home,
studied sculpture under Albin Po-
lasek at the Art Institute of Chi
cago. Later she studied in New
York under Howard Giles and in
Taos, N. Mex, with Nicolai Fechin.
The New Mexican Indians proved
to be fascinating subjects to an
artist who combined competent
draughtsmanship with an ethnolo-
gist's appreciation of racial origins.
OAAS Va oNSASA CACCAlS1NCly Ullc
East in 1928, then returned to New
York for four years, during which
she executed many mural paintings
Of oriental subjects. She developed
a personal adaptation of such
themes for the decoration of private
homes.
Afghanistan Visit.
She realized many-years' ambi-
ton to visit Afghanistan in 1884,
after she had completed a sojourn
in India on commission to study
costumes for stage sets and mural
paintings. Until recent years.
Afghanistan was CLOSED country"
and Mrs. Handley is said have
been the first artist to v it for
the sole purpose of dr. .lg racial
types. She had first freak down
the natives resis' e to posing.
for Mohammeda .re violently op-
posed to draw. IS of the human
face, as many of them believe the
soul is thereby extracted from the
body and put on paper, never to
return. Mrs. Handley found that
idea arresting, for, she said, in
drawing or painting portraits, put.
ting the subjects soul on paper is
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Paintings by Orren Loudon

A preview of an exhibition Of
paintings by Orren Loudon will be
held at Wesley Hall, 17O3 K street
NV, this evening from 8 to 10. This
exhibition, which will continue until
February S, is the first of a series
to held here under the direction of
Theodore Kane, formerly of the
Georgetown Galleries, which have
now been discontinued. The paint
ings will be hung in the dining room,
library and halls, and may be viewed
daily FROM II am. to 6 pm. except
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velle de Peintres and Sculpteurs.
Among his fellow secessionists were
Aman-Jean, Brangwyn, Zuloaga,
Cottet, Gay, Meunfer, Sidaner and
Henri Martin. The year after his
death, which occurred in 1884, the
Societe Rationale des Beaux Arts
honored him with a retrospective
exhibition in which some of the
paintings now on view in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art were included.
Paintings of Skiing
Water Colors by Dwight c.
Shepler Are ShoaOn at Arts
Club.
There could scarcely have been
better time to see the water colors
of Dwight c. Shepler than the first
of this week. directly after the open
ing of his exhibition in the Arts
Club of Washington, when the
ground was blanketed by snow, mas
much as many of his paintings are
snow scenes in Switzerland and IN
this country, the veracity OF which
Nature herself understood to attest
upon this occasion. Shepler, as was
noted in these columns last week,
is an outstanding skier and skater,
but apparently he is as good at
painting as at sport. His winter
scenes-especially those in Switzer-
land, where the picture is all white
and blue-snow and sky-with an
accent here and there furnished by
an intrepid skier, are as brilliant
technical performances in the medi-
um of water colors as one may ever
see, and the way he has avoided
misadventures is truly remarkable.
Not only has he Transcribed snow
as snow, cold, sometimes glistening,
sometimes as powder, with purity
of shadow, but also he has recre-
ated atmosphere, and the same time
given expression to weight and space,
the mountain forms towering in
their garments of unsullied white
against the sky, and the vast dis
tance encompassed by vision. OBJ
viously, he knows this subject COM
pletely and hence is able to give
it adequate expression.
Comparable is his rendition of two
boats with sails set, lying at a
wharf at Beaufort, S. c., again all
white and blue, with spacious boun-
diaries. Excellent, indeed, are his
paintings of skiing in this country
and Canada-notably "Ski- Runners
on Mount Baker," Washington State,
and Iron Mountain Ski Rum" New
England, also Running the Wild
cat" New England. But in all of
these there is brown as well as
white and blue, the nearby noun
tains, down which the trails take
their way, being covered with for
ests, leafless and the color of the
bare trunks and branches Of the
trees Of which they are made. The
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Special Corcoron Exhibitions
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other organizations.
Special Corcoron Exhibitions
Works of William Glackens
and Hobart Nichols to Be
ShoUn.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art an
nounces that it has consummated
arrangements to set forth in the
gallery from January 20 to February
18, the Memorial Exhibition of
paintings and drawings by William
Glackens. assembled by the Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York,
which is being circulated by the
American Federation of Arts. Glack-
ems. born in March, 1870, died in
May, 1888.
The exhibition Of water colors,
etchings and Autographs by Anne
Goldthwaite, which opened Decem-
ber 16, closed this past week and
has been replaced by an exhibition
of water colors, drawings and dry
points by Hobart Nichols, president
of the National Academy, New York,
which opened yesterday and will
continue through February 8. This
exhibition was especially planned to
coincide with the date of the dinner
to be given Con January 24) at the
Mayflower by the Washington So
ciety of Fine Arts in honor of the
academy.
It is gratifying to note that sew
eral prints were sold from the ex-
hibition of work by Miss Goldthwaite
while in progress in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art and that, up to last
Monday, no less than 10 works of
sculpture in wood had been pur-
chased from the collection by Car
roll Barnes on view there. Incl
dentally, one Of the works purchased
was the white-breasted Swallow
tail Kite" enormously referred to in
these columns last week as duck.
That of monkey and his offspring
entitled Paternity" was, it is under
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Notable Prints Acquired

The Library of Congress-, under
the auspices of its division of fine
arts, has just placed on exhibition
for an indefinite period two groups
of prints recently acquired. One of
these consists of works by contempo-
rary American printmakers and in
cludes 103 etchirgs. Is wood block
prints and q Autographs, while the
other is of works by foreign artists
of today-22 of whom are British,
10 Canadian, 2 Hungarian and /
each Spanish, French and Japanese.
1t is gratifying also to know that
the notable loan of fine prints by
the foremost printmakers of all time,
lent by Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Woods
Bliss, from the Dumbarton Oaks
collection, has been continued.
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such value, leaving the country
During the time these precious works
re in the Museum of Modern Art
they will be guarded night and day
but the public will be admitted to
see them from 10 o'clock in the
morning to 10 o'clock at night.
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Junior League Gallery

The Junior League of Washington
opens today in its gallery at 2O0l
Massachusetts, avenue NV. q me-
mortal exhibition of water colors
and oil paintings by Robert Halo
well, which will continue through
January q. Hallowell, who was
born in 1886 in Denver, Colo, and
died quite recently, was a very in
dividualist painter, following the
dictates of his own fancy and hold
ing himself free from such influ-
ence as might be exerted by mod
ern trends. But he had a circle of
very sincere and ardent admirers.
Inasmuch as he has exhibited here,
both in the Phillips Memorial GAL
lery and the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, his accomplishment is not un-
known to Washington lovers of art.
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Etchings by PIott Hubbard
Connecticut Artists Work in
LObbu of National Museum.

Connecticut Artists Work in
Lobby OF National Museum.
In the lobby of the National Mu-
scum, at Tenth street and Constitu-
ton avenue, the fourth of the
seasons series of print exhibitions
is now set forth. This consists of
etchings by Platt Hubbard, the ma
jority of which are primarily of
trees. Mr.. Hubbard, who now lives
at Old Lyme, Conn, was born in
Columbus, Ohio, in 1889, studied
first at the Columbus Art School,
then in New York, under Henri, and
later in Paris, where, from 1911 to
1882, he had a studio. His instruc-
tors were painters and it is by
his paintings that he is probably
best known. Perhaps it is for this
reason that his prints seem to have
exceptional breath in treatment,
and convey color values, as we'll as
those of light and shade. But also
he must be a most excellent drafts
man, for the trees he has so skill
fully etched are almost without ex-
ception denuded of foliage and
stand out stark and clear in branch
and twig. When a most eminent
portrait painter was once asked
why she did not sometimes paint
landscapes her immediate reply was,
II cannot draw well enough to do
a tree" To do so and make it
living, with roots beneath ground
and sap-fed growth above is a feat
indeed, but one which Mr.. Hubbard
seems to have achieved in his etch-
ings.
In his collection now on view are
prints of giant oaks, spreading
naples, white birches, pointed
cedars and tall elms, all easily
identified-combined in most in
stances with simple, pleasing land
scape-salt marshes, turning road,
a flowing river, fields and rolling
pastureland. But it is the trees
which play the principal role-and
rightly.
Mr.. Hubbard is at his best in his
smaller plates which are rendered
with becoming delicacy; although
in his larger ones he shows perhaps
greater strength and vigor. In these,
however, his blacks seem some
times a little too dense and his
line trifle heavy, which short
comings-if such they are-it must
be confessed, increase effectiveness
when seen at distance.
Mr.. Hubbard is secretary of the
Lyme Art Association and has ex-
hibited with the Society of Ameri-
can Etchers, In the Chicago Art
Institute and In shows sponsored
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French Rugs

A unique exhibition of rugs de-
signed by French artists and exc
cuted by skilled artisans in the ia
nous Myrbor workshops of Paris,
opened in the Whyte Gallery on
January 7, to continue throughout
the month. These, 13 in number.
are hand-tufted and were executed
through the initiative of Nine.
Cuttoli, wife Of a French Senator
for A1giers.
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on Sundays, when the hours will be
IL noon to 7 pm. Mr.. Loudon studied
here at the Corcoran School of Art
then in New York under ThomS
Benton, John Steuart Curry and t
late Kimon Nicolaides. He exhihi
here in the Georgetown GalD 5
last winter.
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Sketches by Mrs. ZimmeIe
Works on VieD at Arts Club
CODer Wide Field.

IOOCI " tuC + tCtu.
In the reception room, dining
room and hall of the Arts Club there
is now on view a collection of travel
sketches by Mrs. S. Zimmele of this
city. These cover a wide field sub
jectively, figures, landscapes, street
scenes, ETC., and are mostly in col
ored crayons, very skillfully done
and excellent as memorabilia. Only
two oil paintings are included, both
landscapes, and recent works, occu-
pying places of honor over the man
tells in the two rooms. Mrs. Zimmele
painted, some years ago, an engaging
picture of one of the last of the
horse-drawn carriages, to be had by
hire, as are our taxicabs today,
standing in front of the Arts Club.
Also in her paintings she has pre-
served for us picturesque scenes at
our old markets and other places in
Washington which have been swept
away by the march of time. At a
studio tea at her home on January
20, to which Mrs. Zimmele has just
issued invitations, these and certain
more recent works will be informally
eYhihitad
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Memorial Exhibit of Vail Era
Works Produced in Time
Between Old School and
New Won Recognition
Timely Winter Scenes Have
Impressive Place in Group
Of Local Water COlors
Bv Leila Mechlin.

The Memorial exhibition OF paintings by Eugene Vail which opened
in the Cocoran Gallery of
the gallery
rush upon one
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Tahitian Drawings Shown
Here by Mrs. Handley
Exhibition at Public Library
Attracts by Excellent Work
And Study of Ethnology
Bv Florence g. Rerrvnnn

To majority Of the present generation of perhaps
means Gaugn and Noa No exotic flowers blooming
skinned in vvdy sarongs
many other artists have been inspired by Tahiti
MerW1n Handey American whose drawings Tahtian
exhibited throughout this month the Public Library build
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Gus works in portraiture, landscape
and still-life paintings, as well as
sculpture. For the work in painting
or sculpture declared best by an out
of-town jury of artists a prize Of
$3.50 will be given by The Star, and
for that so voted by visitors the So
ciety will give popular prize" Of
$100. Those desiring to submit
work for this exhibition can obtain
entry blanks from the secretary,
Mrs. Samuel A. Kimberly, Pip o
street NV
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by the Newport Art Association, the
Art Alliance of Philadelphia and
other organizations.
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that they can with difficulty be dis
tinguished from them, which brings
to mind a remark made by Joseph
Pennell when shown some equally
fine reproductions of etchings, and
asked if he did not think them
wonderfully good. "Yes," he said,
"wickedly so," referring of course
to the possibility of deception. How
ever, Mr.. Shepler's signature to these
prints, now on view with his paint
ings, attest his approval. The ex-
hibition will continue until the 26th
of the month and is open to the
public.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
CLAY ST. BROOK
 MOTION IS LOST
Selectmen Vote Down Re- pair Appropriation; Town
 Reports Not Ready
l-hOMASTON
 Correspondent: Mrs. Frank H
 Mattoon. l7 Judson St.-Tel. l9i

The motion seeking an apprcp. ia ton to fill in and wall a certain sec tion of the Clay street brock, met with defeat when presented last night by the board of selectman at the adjourned town meeting. About 100 were in attendance at the meeting at which voting was by word of mouth. Although a number signified their approval of the motion with the customary "aye", offered in a mild manner, the emphatic mos" which boomed out, caused the moderator to declare the motion lost.
 Seiectman E. R. Kaiser, question ing the vote sought to have a re- vote taken by ballot or by rising but the moderator, Rowland Cuth- bert ruled against such action. stat ing that the matter, already voted on, was closed.
 The selectman asked for $14,000 to fill in and wall the brook from the town property at the high school to the Land Improvement Co line on Clay street. The pur- pose, as explained at the meeting, was to benefit the local Land Im- provement Company who planned building project, and to protect the high school gym The aforemen- tioned company. desirous of the im- pavement, had offered 10 pay S750 as its portion of the cost.
 The matter, strenuously opposed at the annual town meeting earlier in the month. continued to be un- popular with many at last nights gathering. The defeat of the mo- tion was not unexpected.
 Another matter brought before last nights meeting was the elec- tion cf Daniel Gearin for fire com missioner for a period of one year. Mir. Gearin received 35 votes, all written in, at the recent town elec- tion ard Joseph Howard received 2.
 On election day it was not def1- nitely known but it has since been learned that a vacancy existed on the Democratic ticket in the office of fire commissioner due to the fact that William Aschof the previous commissioner, had some time ago been made voter in New York state, where he now resides.
 Another matter acted on last night was acceptance of the annual town reports which were distributed At the meeting
 Rowland Cuthbert was moderator, and J. Howard Roberts, clerk.
 A high light of the meeting was the defeated motion of Daniel Gearin to adjourn.
 Because of the fact that the an- nual town reports, promised for last night, had not arrived when the evenings business had ended MT. Gearin moved that the meeting ad- journ until next Monday evening for the purpose of accepting the re- ! port at that time. MT. Gearin's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
Delegation Of 50 To Represent City
 At West Hartford
State President Expected Prominent Speak CTS to Address Gathering

Reelection of Patrick J. Wallace of Waterbury as president of the Catholic Youth Organizations of Connecticut is expected at the groups third annual conference, to be held tomorrow at St. Joseph's college, West Hartford. A group of close to 50 officers and members of the local C.Y.O. units will attend.
 Prominent speakers will be heard at morning and afternoon sessions of the conference. Among them will be Frank J. Sl1eed, noted author and publisher; Dr. Heinrich Rom men and Miss Mary P. Holleran, professors at St. Joseph's College; Sabina Connolly, of New Haven; and Rev. Vincent Mooney, CSC. of Washington, D. c.
 MT. Sheed, who has had many years of experience on the lecture platform, is a speaker of unusual merit. An Australian of Irish descent, he was graduated from Sydney University with first class honorS in Latin, French and Eng fish, being awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws.
 On coming to England, however, he decided not to practice law but instead founded a Cathclic publish ing house which aims at presenting Catholicism positively and at being a medium of expression for the whole Catholic world. In 1926 with his wife, Maisie Ward, he estab- lisfed the London house of Sheed and Ward, and the American office was opened in 1883.
 In addition to his writing and publishing activities, MT. Sheed is master of the Westminster Catholic Evidence Guild, whose purpose is to teach Catholic doctrine and ex- plain the Catholic point of view on the street corners. MT. Sheed is in charge of training the Guild speak CTS in London and has addressed in all well over 5000 street corner and indoor meetings in England and Amefica in the last Is years.
 Rev. Vincent Mooney, csc, di- rector of the Catholic Youth Bureau of the N. c. Y. c. will speak at the morning session and have a con- ference in the afternoon with the Newman Club, Catholic College and the Diocesan Leaders Council rep
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

motion was seconded and immedi- ately practically all in attendance started to file out. The moderator, to the tramp of feet and hustle of moving persons, sang out All in favor say aye" A few up front quietly answered Aye. All oppos- ed say no,y roared the moderator. No" shouts a number of the de- parting ones who really hadn't talk en the meeting seriously at any time 'The nos have it." said Mod- crater Cuthbert with grin on his face from ear to ear, and thus the matter stood. Some stayed and be- fore long the belated town reports arrived from the printer. ~ Those in attendance gave them the once over and a motion was made and adopted that they be &C., cepted. Following which a regular motion made, seconded and favor ably acted on permitted adjourn ment.
 Needless to say there will be no reason for further meeting next Monday night since all business slated was acted on at last nights meeting.
 Mrs. Winfield E. Wight was high prize winner and Mrs. Walter French, second high at the card party yesterday afternoon of the Litchfield County Women's Repub- lican Club at the Playhouse at Litchfield. Others from here who played were: Mrs. Frank T. Johnson Mrs. Thomas Byers, Mrs. Howard Wolf, Mrs. Thomas Baxter, Mrs, John Gross and Mrs James Duff.
 Mrs. Augustus Matz is chairman of the card party and social which will follow the meeting Tuesday night of McGivney Circle, Daugh- ters of Isabella. Playing will start at 8:30 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
CAMP FAVORS
 TRADE SCHOOL 200 Youths Here Await Chance to Obtain Trade
 Experience

The need of a state trade school in Waterbury was stressed by Orton P Camp, emergency training com- mitteeman, at a meeting of the Wa terbury Lions club yesterday.
 MT. Camp spoke for the most part on the defense training program now going on at Leavenworth high school, but mentioned that many welI-informed men believe a state trade school should be set up here.
 About 30 youths are now taking the course at Leavenworth. MT. Camp said, but there are 200 on the waiting list. The speaker ex- plained how the youths are chosen by mechanical aptitude tests and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

resentatives.
 pr. Heinrich Romen will, lead the Round Table discussion on Does Christianity Pay?" Miss Mary Holleran is the leader for "Has Youth a Future?'" Dr. Sabina Connelly's group will lead with How Youth Can Follow the Saints Lives"
 l The Conference which opens with mass at 9:30 o'clock, is open to all Catholic leaders and potential lead- CTS in the Diocese.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
C.Y.O. In State Conference Tomorrow

how they are absorbed into indus tries when they finish their course
 Other business included a report by Harold Ashley on plans for the annual Halloween frolic to be held Oct. 26 at the Shrine club. Rob- ert Lagerquist and Louis WenzeI are in charge of the program.
 Merwin s. Bronson reported that the weekly bingo games for the ben eft of the children's health farm will be resumed at Temple hall Mon- day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
announcement. Ess, EIi9' Sincerely,
 Dennis J. Shea, Brooklyn"

announcement. Ess, Eli2' Sincerely, Dennis J. Shea, Brooklyn"
 Dear Walter: Newton Newkirk did the rube column on the Boston Post years ago. He ran regular weekdays, expanded his Sunday feature and printed it with illus trations. Very funny. Tn my mod est way I conducted 'Hollisterville on the Berkshire Courier. These various columns, as you say, were make believe, but highly amusing For great many years Henry S Man'ey was the Sandisfield cores pondent of The Berkshire County Eagle. His letters really attained national fame. They were written in a free-hand, breezy style, bucolic entertaining, amusing. He would give his opinions quite freely con- corning anything he wrote. Shot Herman Sears has bought cash register. We are getting more like little old New York every day. Like yourself he was factual
 IS. H., Pittsfield1 Mass"
 Ye ed never did intend to belittle the small towns. or their editors at all. One day ye ed simply got weary of jotting down items in the smart-aleck way, and borrowed the style of the folks out wonder. F P. A. used to play around with Gotham Glean4ngs' in the old N York World, Frank Sullivan did a "Bugle" in that Sunday paper, too Many years ago "Veritas" was "Our Bustleton Correspondent" for the Philadelphia North American and there are other big city chaps hav- ing lark playing yokel like ye ed Perhaps everybody,s feelings will be snoothed out by relating how ye ed reported that New York is the diamond stickpin on the shirt front of America 7 to which a coup- try jake ha-ha'd: Walter means that New York is the grease-spot on Americas vest!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
This Great Event Ends Tomorrow Buy Now! Save!

Buy Now for Christmas and in this 26h Anniversar Prices going sky high all merchandise but we for it. and offer Thrilling Values. Easy Credit Terms 2 down delivers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
NEW CLASSES START
 AT CENTRAL Y.M.C.A.

New classes in metallurgy and iE short story writing opened at the Central YAlCA last night. John C.. Bradley is the instructor of metal lurgy. Roger Garis is in charge of the short story writing group. En- rollment in these classes will be held open until next Thursday. The class in foremanship scheduled to open last night has been postponed until Thursday, November '.