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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-16

Tho test adopted yesterday -
has $50 questions and normally re-
quires about two hours. Those pass
ing IL are expected to be more
uniformly OF air corps caliber than
men previously chosen on the basis
Of their college work. A minimum
of two years in college had been re-
quired.
Test yourself. Here are typical
questions (none of which are on the
actual examination) illustrating the
six categories OF ability the air corps
wants:
!. VOCABULARY
When a man is asked 10 rein
force a bridge, he Is to
A. Widen it.
B. Strengthen It.
C. Destroy 1t.
ID. Close 1t.
e. Replace 1t.
ASSIMILATION
Military courtesy is basic 10 ef-
fective leadership and the main
tcnance of good discipline. Cour-
tesy implies polite and considerate
behavior toward others, whether
senior or Junior, and whether or not
members OF the military service. In
general, officers of junior rank ha-
bitually give the same precedence
to and show the same consideration
toward their seniors that any courte-
GUS person does to his elders These
courtesies, II shown promptly and
smartly, do much to add firmness
and dignity to the leader"
On the basis of the above para
graph, the best general summary of
the sort OF courtesy that Is expected
from an officer would be the state
,nent that he will show courtesy TO
A. Other members OF the mil
tary service.
B. Everyone with whom he
comes In contact.
G. Officers OF higher rank.
D. Officers of junior rank.
E.. Civilians who are older than
he.
MATHEMATICS
If hangar which Is known TO be
30 feet high casts a 20-foot shadow,
what is the height OF signal tower
which casts a 70-foot shadow at
the same time of day2
A. as 2-3 feet.
b. 140 feet.
G. 210 feet.
D. % 1-3 feet.
Z. los feet.
JUDGMENT
Ten trucks are transporting road
building material across country.
The leader comes TO 50-foot stretch
of ice-covered hill which is so steep
and slippery that his truck will not
pull 1t. The most practical thing to
do IN these circumstances would be
to
A. Tie all the trucks together
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-16
Compensation
Agreements

Compensation Commissioner JO-
seph f. Talbot today approved the
following agreements:
Paul Sikeris, Seymour against
Seymour Manufacturing Company
$3.50 per week beginning Decem-
Der 10; fractured right arm.
Victor +. Lanticr, Torrington,
against American Brass Company,
Torrington, $l8.67 per week for 6
Pa weeks; 80 1-3 per cent loss of
the right fourth finger.
Edward Oczkowski, Seymour,
against II. A. Matthews Manufac-
turing Company. Seymour, Sl7.38
per week beginning October 20;
injured left ankle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-16
M. P.'S COLLEGE TRAINED

Camp Stewart, Ga, (UP)--It may
seem strange to be accosted by mill
tary police with If you please, sir"
instead OF the more familiar. AL
right, pull over, bud" but IT Is not
unusual at this army center where
Lieut.. Col. w. v. Ochs has built
his MP force from men with mini
mum OF one year in college.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-16

as people who cherish clean govern
ment, as people who are opposed TO
under handed, un-American, I'M
Democratic, political tactics, l urge
you TO pull teh third lever or marx
the third circle on the ballot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-16
Many ouths Can Enter
Army Air Corps Dept.
All Those Between 1926 Years OF Age Are Eligible for
Air Corps Training After Passing Physical Exams
BY JOHN NJ. MECKLIN
United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, January Is. = CUP - Want to be an
Army air corps pilot bombarder, navigator or ground
officer? If you're between 10 and 26 years of age your
wife or dependents get along without you and if you
pass physical examination you become eligible
for air corps training provided you can pass new mental
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-16
BY ANY NAME AS SWEET

Brenda Marshall's close friends
call her Ards" her real first name.
Real name OF her husband Will
liam Holden, Is William Beetle.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Guide to Art in Washington

National Gallery Constitution avenue at Sixth street NV
sculpture from Mellon ana
paintings lent by French gov
collections Weekdays ~
PM; Sundays pm Special Sunday program lec-
colored slides OF coecuon comments Oh
special exhibits staff 25 to $50 ocnestra COLL
tbs to 94 Cafeteria open 10 pm
Constitution avenue at Tenth street N w
comprising Evans, GelatH Jonn-
collections miniatures acquired through
Special exhibition Prints by "A Masters 10
weekdays Except Monoays) 70 3''o
pm. Mondays 1870 to 4:30
ard Twelfth street SW
paintings Near East potterles Whste
other paintings etchngs hthotints paintings O
artists Daily Except Mondays am to 43o pm
Of Fine Arts First and East
Capitol eesNaonal print collection cabinet OF American H.
| Indies.
Gallery Seventeenth street and New York avenue
and present. also by 18TH
antique bronzes works Of
sculpture collection old masters and modern
paintings special exhibitions sculpture OF
IL 4O other week days.
| 9 m 430 pm; Sundays, 2 to pm.
Phillips Gallery 1901 Twenty first street NW-Paint-
chiefly French and American schools
prints paintings Paul Kee Weekdays
| am to pm Sundays, to 6 pm
A.. r. Museum Continental Memorial Hall, Seventeenth
portraits miniature to Sep
Monday Friday $50 to Closed Sat
urday and Sunday
Arts Club NW-Pantngs Washington artists
Whyte Gallery NW-Water coors by four Euro
pean artists.
| fFres K
Evening star., 1942-08-09

the art from. Prince Rupert OF
Bavaria, became involved in Eng
lands civil war (because he was
nephew of Charles y and Incl
dentally introduced mezzotinting,
which medium the English soon
made their own. Mezzotinted areas
appear in one etching shown by j..
M. w. Turner, one of his famous
'Liber Studiorum" designs.
The 18th century belonged chiefly
to France in art. Gericault, one OF
the first great painters to employ
lithography, a new medium in his
day, is represented by Napoleon
Passing Mont ST. Bernard" with his
soldiers and horses struggling in the
snow. Nicholas Charlet, another
French photographer, contemporary
with Gericault, also has q print OF
Napoleaon on view. Dalacroix
leader of the French Romanticists
was greatly interested in Oriental
subjects; a typical work is hi.
etching of Jewess of Algiers with
her native servant, both in pic
| turesque costumes.
Other French artists were content
| to forego drama and distant scenes
selecting their subjects from the lift
around them. Among these por-
trayers of everyday life were Charlie.
Emile Jacque, of whose two etching.
shown, "The Return" Is the better
depicting q shepherd sending hi!
flock into a barn: and Millet, whit
etched a shepherdess knitting in th'
fields, while her flock grazes nearby
She is the typical French peasant
whose hands are never idle. Simila
to these men in spirit was the Dutcl
artist josef Israels, whose etchinl
THE Hearth" is shown.
Corot's Souvenir of italy" dis
tant scene beyond tall trees in tn
foreground, has more strength thai
many of his paintings of similar sub
jects. Legros, with a splendid por
trait and group Of beggars
Jacquemart, whose two etchings c
still life demonstrate his mastery ii
rendering textures; Lalanne with
coast scene and Barge with two cat
enlarge the French representation il
this exhibition. The outstandin
French lithograph shown is Gavarni
Thomas Vireloque," vital presenta
ton of ragged one-eyed old begga
in popular legend. 1t is one OF
set about this philosophical vaga
bond who went around commentin
on everything he saw.
The exhibition concludes (chron
ologically) with an exquisite littl
view of F'ulham seen across a rive
by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, on
of England S greatest modern etcher
and two etchings by Whistler, in
cluding the beautiful Eagle Wharf
These prints are shown in cases o
the first floor of the Natural Hlstor
, Building, in the galleries OF the CO.
| lection of fine arts.
Evening star., 1942-08-09

precious stones, should prove sug-
gestive to American designers.
Bronze lamps. in unusual shapes,
would make handsome decorations.
Several swords complete the dis
play; one is a ceremonial kris such
as is handed down from one gener-
alton to another in the Indies. 1t
is said that the drawing Of 1t from
its scabbard by an outsider, is the
greatest faux pas in the Indonesian
social book.
This exhibition, assembled exclu-
sively for the Library of Congress
has been drawn from various
sources, including several private
collections. 1t is gratifying that
excellent specimens of these beauti-
full arts are preserved; they may be
necessary to re-educate the Indone'
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Concert Schedule

Today.
Faust" San Carlo Opera Com
Trio recital. Christine Charnstrom,
pianist Jeno Sevely. violinist: Qeorte
Fair. cellist; Phillips Memorial Gal
Tomorrow.
IN Trovatore," San Carlo Opera
Company, Water Gate, $40 pm.
University trio, Meridian Hill Park,
Army band. Sylvan Theater. Monu-
ment Grounds. pm.
Tuesday.
'Rigoletto," San Carlo Opera Com
pany. Water Gate, $50 pm,
Army Band War coilese; ~ pm.
Wednesday.
Double bill. "Cavalleria Rusti-
cana" and "Pasiiacci' San Carlo
Opera Company, Water Gate. $50
pm.
Thursday.
The Barber Of Seville" San Carlo
Onera Company, Water Gate. $3.50
Ralph Kirkpatrick. harpsichord;
Frances Blaisdell. flute: Lois Wann.
oboe: Elias Carmen. bassoon; Merid-
ian Hill Park. $40 p.m.
Soldiers Home Band. Bandstand,
$3.50 pm.
Friday.
Army Band. East Front Capitol, z
pm.
Saturday.
University trio. Library Of Con-
gress, 3 pm.
Soldiers Home Band. Bandstand.
$50 Pm.
Army Band. war collese. li:3o
Evening star., 1942-08-09
New Chamber Music
Series Announced
For the Library

The Elizabeth Sprague Coonoge
Foundation in the Library OF Con-
gress will sponsor an unusual series
of four chamber music concerts In
the library which will begin Satur-
day and continue on Tuesday, Aug
ust 10, Thursday, August 20, ana
Saturday, August %. The artists
will be the University Trio, consist
ing of Antonio Brosa (violin), G.
warwick Evans tvioloncello) and
Gunnar Johansen (piano), The pro-
grams will be devoted to the trios,
violin sonatas and violoncello So
natas OF Ludwig van Beethoven.
They are listed herewith:
Saturday-"Trio in c Minor, Op. J.
No. 81; Sonata in A Major for
violoncello and Piano, Op. So;
Sonata in c Minor for Violin and
Piano, Op. 80, No. T."
Tuesday, August 18-"Sonata IN
F Major for violoncello and Piano
Oh. S. No. y; Trio In E Flat Major,
on. 10. No. O.; Sonata in A Major
for Violin and Piano. Op. A."
Thursday, August 2o-"Sonata ir
F Major for Violin and Piano, Op
a.: Sonata in G Minor for Violon-
cello and Piano, Op. S, No. q; "Irit
in D Major, Op. 10, No. l."
Saturday, August 22-"Trio In G
Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 96';;
Sonata in D Major for Violoncellt
| and Piano, Op. 1O2, No. q; Tr:s
in B Flat Major, Op. g."
The two Saturday afternoon con
certs. August Is and %, will begir
at 3 pm, with the first half hou
being broadcast over the Nation
wide network of the Columbis
Broadcasting System. The concert
of Tuesday evening, August 18. ant
Thursday evening, August 20, vii
begin at 8:45 pm.
Tickets for the concerts Will b
available on and after Wednesda.
morning at $3.50 am. st the boz
Office of C. c. Cappel in Ballard's
1340 G street NV. A service charg
Of Is cents is placed on each ticket
Evening star., 1942-08-09
"Prinfs by n Masters"
At National Museum.

prints by Twenty-Four Masters,
a group exhibited by the Division
of Graphic Arts of the United States
National Museum, marks depar-
ture from its usual summer policy,
The arrangement of this special ex-
hibition, to remain until August Is,
when it will be followed by anotner,
is more than justified by the
changed status of Washington TINS
year. and by the large influx OF new
corners. many of whom want to be-
come acquainted with the Nations
permanent collections.
These etchings. engravlngs, ltn-
ographs and a mezzotint are offered
simply as miscellaneous master
pieces from the divisions collections.
They represent such old and modern
masters as Rembrandt, Durer, van
Ostade, Salvador Rosa. Turner,
group of 10Th century French, Haden
and Whistler.
Durer is the earliest master
shown, represented with two prints,
an elaborate woodcut Of the Nurem-
berg coat of arms, and an etching
Handkerchief of st. Veronica" AL
though Durer died more than 400
years ago, he is still accounted the
supreme master of line engraving
BY Hans Baldung Grien, said to
have been an assistant to Durer, is
one woodcut, Horses Fighting" ir
which the animals themselves ap-
pear to have been made Of wood
Instead of regarding this print a:
an illustration of horse fight, thu
) observer should study 1t as de-
sign, and note its beautiful balanc
Of shapes and high-lighted areas.
For several centuries, there wa
much demand for portrait prints
which were more akin than painte'
portraits, to our photographs, as TIL
prints could be made in quantity TO
small sums. A representative ex
ample OF portrait engraving is tn
large print of Philip II Of Spain, b
Hieronymus Wierix, done In the lat
18th century. Every detail Is mi
nutely recorded, giving us q goo
Evening star., 1942-08-09

dinated design. This type OF work
was found only In Bali and was con-
fined to ceremonial pieces. 1t was
the policy of the Dutch to protect
and encourage this superb native
cult,,re. which flourished undls-
turbed for centuries (until last
spring..
Subtle Color Schemes.
An interesting characteristic OF
Of these batiiks and ikats Is tne
subtlety of their color schemes.
Most of us expect from the Orient,
vivid oolors and many of them. But
these textiles are generally rlcn
and dark in tone, with comolna-
tions limited to two or three colors
in most instances.
Textiles played dominant role
In the everyday life OF the Income
slams. One large exhibit is painted
"calendar" from Bali, OF cloth COM
nosed of 81 panels zone for each day
Of the month"; which illustrates the
most inauspicious day has a Mucous
crimacing figure. Among otnei
paintings on cloth is one depictine
scene from the Ramayana' II
which q wife plunges into the nf'
to prove her innocence.
Indonesian manuscripts are an
other feature of the display. Ihos
from Java are inscribed on pain
leaves a few inches wide and a 100
long. while those from Celebes ar
written In ink on paper. IN conven
tional book form. They remind tn
observer that in the Orient, writin
is an art, and such penmanshio a
most of us produce, would be re
carded as shameful.
Various types of metalwork ar
also shown. Such items OF glide
silver jewelry as brooches. hair pin
pendants and belt buckles In In
tricate designs of birds, animals an
flowers, some embellished with sem
Evening star., 1942-08-09

idea of the appearance OF the man
who sent the Spanish armada
against Queen Elizabeth's England.
Rembrandt is represented by
three etchings, each a different
aspect of his many sided expression
"a simple portrait head of an old
bearded man, little interior with
figures, Jews in Synagogue" and
the large print Death of the Vir-
gin" This last, said to have been
inspired by the illness OF his wife,
is q sickroom scene, in which real
and supernatural figures mingie
harmoniously.
Other 18th century Dutch prints
| in the exhibition are by Paul Potter,
Berchem and van Ostade, whose
"Old Man With Cane" presents
the very essence of physical old age;
Evening star., 1942-08-09

The Columbia Light Opera Com
pany has need of tenor and bass
voices for Strauss waltz Dream
to be produced in October. Audi
tions will be held under the direc-
tion of Ethyl Manning, from Tuesday
through Friday at 706 Thirteenth
street NV, 6 pm to 10 pm.
Evening star., 1942-08-09

slams at sometime when those re-
gions shall have been wrested from
Japan.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Art
Notes
Arts and Handicrafts
From the East Indies
On View at Library
By Florence S. Bergman.

Dy T1OTeUCe ~. Do'' y'""
The Library of Congress marked
the opening of its new Netherlands
Studies Unit on last wednesday,
with an exhibition of art and
handicrafts from the Netherlands
Fast indies, This display, which
will remain for about two months,
Is arranged in cases on the ground
floor, south wing.
Beautiful textiles from BAH, Java
and Sumatra, hand-drawn and
hand-voven, representing native art
of the highest type, will soon be
lost art, it is feared, now that these
regions are in Japanese hands. In
recent wears, before the conquest.
these East Indies handicrafts were
suffering from competition with
cheap printed limitations from ia
pan
Manv excellent examples on view
1T the Library, illustrate various
tvnes of work. Batiks are the most
familiar to the average Occidental.
1t will be recalled that designs
on these are achieved by COW
erinr with wax before dyeing.
Varied colors and designs char
acterized different regions OF Java.
There are silk batik shawls, head
cloths tied into turbans worn
bv men, and wrap-around skirts;
one large batik cloth was worn
draped around the hips by courtlers
and high Japanese officials at pal
aces of princes in central Java. TWO
stages in making batik are deplcteo
in water colors by Jane Foster, VINO
is on the staff of the new Nether-
lands Studies Unit. and who ar
ranged this display.
Another type OF textile illustrated
at the Library. Is the "1kat, whlcn
surpasses the batik from the tech
nical standpoint. Ikats are made by
tying OF the designs eighty wind
ing fibers, leaves or waxed thread
around portions of the threads) ana
dveing them in the thread before
the strands are woven. One slip IN
this process ruins the entire shawl.
(The word "Ikat" mean ito tie
Ones imagination is staggered at
the painstaking care necessary to tie
and dye countless threads with a
fraction-inch exactitude. The Balm
ese were pre-eminent at this work.
Some of the designs appear to be
extremely complex; one,' for In
stance, with stylized motifs OF liz
ards or crocodiles.
AS though this process were not
suficiently complicated to exhaust
the patience of the most-inspired
craftsman, there is another even
more amazing-the double kat" :"
Whereas the kat has the threads
running only one direction tied and
dyed, the double kat has the design
in both warp and weft dyed before
weaving. When interviewer, the
dyed and undyed parts Of the
threads must form perfectly co-or.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Opera Under
The Stars at
The Water Gate

opera UnOer the otdIo ao oiie
Water Gate, managed by the ma
tionally and internationally famous
Fortune Gallo, will continue its
Washington engagement at the
Water Gate. closing Thursday A
brilliant cast of artists, several OF
whom appeared with the Metropoli-
tan and Chicago Civic Opera forces,
will perform. Mobley Lushanya
Anna Kaskas, Harold Lindi, Sidney
Rayner, Mostyn Thomas, Ivan
Petron and others, who have made
such lasting impressions by their
former performances in Washing
ton, will be heard in the familiar
repertoire of favorite operas to be
given this week.
Gounod's Faust" scheduled for
this evening, will have an ideal
Marguerite in Dorothy Kristen, the
lovely young American soprano
protege Of Grace Moore, who dis
covered her, supervised her training,
and, in cooperation with Gallo,
launched her with the Chicago
Opera last fall. Singing the title
role is Eugene Conley, tenor, who
appeared with the company last
winter and who is also well known
to listeners on the NBC network
and to New York and Boston audi
ences.
Keen interest Is centered on the
final performance of the week, ''The
Barber of Seville" which will be
sung in English Thursday evening
Witty, gay and amusing, the flash
| ing lines of the Beaumarchais COM
edy, set to Rossini's music, will lose
nothing of their point in the every
day English into which they have
been aptly translated. When this
English version was presented in st
Louis 1t proved smashing sue.
| cess.
The cast of The Barber Of Sc
vile" is an all-American one, includ-
ing Grace Panvini as >Rosina, tht
alluring heroine; Felix knight, II
the tenor role Of Count Alnaviva
Eleanor Knapp as Berta, Harold
Kravitt as Don Basilio, rival Of Al
maviva: with the part Of the in.
triguing barber, Figaro, sung by
Carlo Morelli.
Morell, Metropolitan Opera bari.
tone, Is too well known to dwell
upon but it Is interesting TO nott
that he abandoned his work In livi
engineering to study for an operati
career in this country and abroad
Born in Chile, largely educated il
this country, he made his detu
with the Metropolitan Opera in tn
role Of Marcello in La Boheme" il
1885 and has sung many times Will
the Chicago and San Francisc
Opera Companies.
Laszlo Halasz, artistic and r1usica
director OF the st. Louis Opera Com
pany. will conduct The Barber o
Seville" on the final evening of tn
series. It is the Halasz new version
which is used in the English trans
lation of Rossini's comic opera. TIL
ballet will be headed by Lydia Ar
Iowa and Lucien Prldeaux.
Tomorrow evening, Verdi's 81
Trovatore" will be sung with Mines
Lushanya, Kaskas and Belle; Messrs
Rayner, Thomas and Kravitt. Spe
cial dances will be given by tn
ballet.
Tuesday evening, Verdi's "Rigo
letto" will be given, with Nine!
Panvini, Knapp and Clarson; Messr
Conley, Petroff, Kravitt and Koz
akevich, and incidental dances b
the corps de ballet.
Wednesday evening gran
double bill will be presented; Caval
leria Rusticana." Mascagnis one
act opera. with MINES. ferguson an
Knapp; Messrs. Rayner and Vail
Leoncanallo's two-act "Pagliacci
follows with Dorothy Kristen en-
Messrs. Lindi, Thomas and Kosake
Vich.
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but it lacks the spiritual beauty of
Rembrandt's old people.
During the same period, Salvador
Rosa in Italy was etching many
adventurous and NEUROLOGICAL sub
jects; his Jason" fighting a repul-
sive dragon is included in the pres
ent show. A French contemporary
of Rosa, Wallerant Valiant, the first
professional mezzotinter, was re-
sponsible for the only print in that
medium on view, depicting boy
carrying game. This artist learned