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Evening star., 1944-04-16
Girls Can Make Ozvn
Spring Hats From
Simple Materials
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Peggy Chrisman, Is,
Coolidge High school.

In the spring young gi1ls fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of-hats.
You can't go shopping at this time
of year without seeing all kinds of
fluff, wells and flowers that are
known by the name of hats" Every
girl wants several kinds of pretty
hats, but often they cost too much
to have more than one or two. To
solve that problem. here are a few
ways to make your own spring head
gear, and without much of a strain
on the budget, either.
Look around the house and find
an old hat that looks the worse for
wear. Cut off the brim so the bare
crown remains. Buy bunch of
flowers that you see in all the stores
and a veil of matching or con-
trasting color. Arrange them to suit
your liking, tack them on with
matching thread and there you have
as pretty a hat as you could find in
a store.
If you want to go further in being
thrifty, save the brim you cut off
and trim it in the shape of the new
half-hats. Sew flowers on the ends,
cover two hatpins with the same
material as the brim, and you have
another piece of frivolity to lift your
spirits when spring fever hits you.
Not hat, but an accessory to go
with your new cotton dresses, is the
bandeau, Buy third of yard of
colored velvet ribbon and half a
yard Of matching thinner ribbon
Cut the thin ribbon in two and sew
1t to the ends of the wider ribbon
Sew bright daisies or other imitation
flowers to one or both ends of the
velvet band and wear it with your
prettiest spring clothes. When real
flowers come in bloom, you can sub
stitute them for the imitation posies
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Federation Anniversary Dinner
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die"

The Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations dinner next Saturday COM
memorating its 34th anniversary
will highlight this weeks civic ac-
tivities. Twelve citizens associa-
tions also will meet.
James w. Lauderdale, recently
nominated to be peoples counsel by
President Roosevelt, will address the
Brookland citizens meeting.
Election of officers will be held by
the 'Dahlgren Terrace citizens meet
ing while movie, Target for To-
night" will be shown to the Friend
ship association after a member of
the American Theater Wing speaks
on Approach to the Wounded"
A list of scheduled meetings fol-
lows:
Monday.
Masonic Hall, Twelfth
and Monroe streets NE, 8 pm.
Interfederation commemorative
ming Star Building, Board of Trade
rooms, 8 pm.
Shepherd Park-Shepherd Park
School, Fourteenth and Kalmia
road NV, 8 pm.
Tuesday.
Cathedral Heights Cleveland Park
Newark Apartments, Newark
street and Wisconsin avenue NV.
l5 pm.
Dahlgren Terrace-Crosby Noyes
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Paul Pupil Tells How
Section Won Banner
In Red Cross Drive
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION.
By Judith Solomon, Is


Paul Junior High, like all the
other schools in Washington, had a
Red Cross drive through March 81.
I'd like to tell you about one section
In particular that worked very hard.
That section is 8B5. When the drive
started we were told that the first
section to get 100 per cent sub
scription would be awarded a Red
Gross flag; the second section would
be able to 60 to the Red Cross dance
free and the section contributing
the most money would be awarded
the Red Cross banner. We knew
right away that we wanted to OBJ
tain the largest amount of money.
The first day we gave all that we
could and found, to our surprise,
that we had $38. Our teacher told
us that II we could raise 500 by the
next day she would not give us any
homework for the rest of the week.
That day we collected $50, and since
we were so close to the amount she
had set, and we had worked so hard.
we had no homework.
To help raise the other $40 we had
cake sale. Children volunteered
to bake cakes, brought them to
school and sold them to our own Sec
ton, as well as to other classes, at
10 cents slice. At the end OF the
week we had collected IS from this
source.
Then we decided to show our skill
IN handicrafts and auction our work
of to members Of the class. For
some articles as high at So was bid.
We made book ends, whatnots
curios, models, flowers, powder
pun and woolen lapel pins, pictures,
embroidered towels and many
other novelties. This brought us
another $40. -..~. ...
On the 30th we decided to have
an amateur show, and in exactly As
minutes during one Of our class
periods we had the program ar
ranged. Two periods later we gave
our first show, and in the afternoon
We gave another.
The next day was the last of the
drive. There was to be Red Gross
assembly announcing the winner of
the banner. All day, until the as
sembly period, we kept our fingers
crossed and hoped We had not
worked in vain.
Well, we were rewarded-and we
won the banner with $17604.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
@be 9nr>iol' &tao
CooHdge's Drum Majorette
/ T1VirLs Baton Hour Dailv
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION.
By Ruth Davis, Is,

Coolidge High Scnool.
whenever you have gone to q
parade and are describing 1t to your
friends, you mention the drum ma
jorette as one Of the features. And
Coolidge High School has q drum
|majorette Of its own--June Willard,
II, formerly Of Gary, Ind.
June made her start as a drum
|majorette when she was only 10.
After taking lessons for two years
she became drum majorette of her
school band. Since then she has
progressed far, leading two War
Bond tours, one with James Cagney
and the other with Dorothy Lamour.
She has also led numerous holi-
day parades. She exhibited her skill
as baton twirler in Griffith Stadi-
um between the halves Of the Cool
idge- e-Roosevelt football game. And
she made such a good showing then
that she was asked to become drum
|majorette Of the Maritime Commits
|sion Band.
June practices with her baton an
hour each day. At present she has
mo other hobbies except, perhaps,
listening to her collection of phono-
|graph records. Her ambition is to
keep right on being a drum major
lette
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Guide to New Books
For Boys and Girls

Pilots, Man Your Planes! by Frank
w. Mason, illustrated by Frank
Beaudouin nippincott) - Exciting
adventures with the Army Air
Forces in the Pacific and Mediter-
ranean. In other words, the author
does for the air forces what his
"Q-Boat" did for the men of the
convoy fleet. And does it we'll
Two Children and Their Jungle
Zoo, by Rose Brown, illustrated by
Ann Eshner Iippincott-A sum-
mer spent in a colorful village in
the Amazon Valley gives two young
sters chance to study the jungle
and its animals, and to collect a ZOO
of their own.
NONFICTION.
The Boys of Old Russia, by Helen
Acker, Illustrated by Zhenya Gay
(NelsonD-Stories of the boyhoods
of three famous Russians-Leo Tol-
stoy, Maxim Gorky and Feodor
Chaliapine. Fine for the 1O-14
group.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Girls Song Makes
Hit at Assembly
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Marie Bafiste. B,
y 1FA Ut 70 A|UFEOFI XV
Mckinley High School.

Mthulicy LlBu SCHOOL.
Christine De Armon, McKinley
High School fourth semester stu
dent, is the composer of a song
Don't Say Good-by" is.its title and
1t was sung at recent assembly
by Techs swoon-crooner, Don Lila
Christine came to Mckinley last
October. She was born in Okla.
homa and has lived in Kentucky
Arkansas and Texas. She got thu
idea for her song while visiting 6
friend in Oklahoma. AS she pre-.
pared to leave, the friend said sh,
never liked to say good-by.
Don't Say Good-by" is Chris
first published song, but she ha!
written many others, just for tn,
fun of it. She plays the piano ane
sings with the girls glee club. Ant
when she completes her education
she wants to write music profes
sionally.
Chris lives at 1889 Brentwood
road NE.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Safety Chalk Talks
By Dick Mansfield

Inspector Dick Mansfield, director
of The Stars school safety program
and former chief of detectives, is
giving a series of chalk talks on
safety to pupils of elementary and
junior high schools. The talks are
presented under sponsorship Of The
Junior Star, in cooperation with
school authorities of the District
and nearby Maryland and Virginia.
This weeks schedule:
Monday, 11:15 am, Madison
School; Tuesday, Ills am, Pierce
School; Wednesday, 10 am, Mount
Rainier School; 2:l5 pm, Benning
School; Thursday, 11:l5 am, Pea
body School; Friday. 2:15 pm,
Evening star., 1944-04-16
7 he Art Word
Landscape Club Exhibition at Corcoran
To Continue Throughout This Month

although finding his subjects, most
frequently, among the lower classes,
he does not stress vulgarity nor con-
fuse it with comedy. No wonder
Ben Messick's prints and drawings
have found favor, especially in his
home State, for they are distinctly
of and for the people.
At the Arts Club.
Omar Raymond Darlington, pres
ident of the Washington Water
Color Club, vice president of the
Landscape Club of Washington,
member of the Society Of Etchers of
this city and other well-known art
organizations, is holding his first
one-man exhibition in the Arts Club,
opening a fortnight ago and con-
tinuing until the 22d of this month.
Comprised in the showing are ii
paintings, seven in oils and an equal
number in water colors. In subject
matter, treatment and style there is
great similarity, but in his handling
of water colors Mr.. Darlington
seems to have attained greater ia
cility and ease than in that of oils.
Almost without exception the sub
jects that Mr.. Darlington has es-
sayed are dramatized by inherent
ugliness and unusual lighting. The
houses that he has chosen to paint
are those erected in suburban towns
during the worst era of architecture
in America, some deserted, others
falling into ruins, some still COM
placently surviving wind, weather
and ridicule. To heighten the effect
of tragedy he shows them in partial
darkness of storm or Of night
which, while admirably done, makes
them the more fearsome. There
are, OF course, exceptions.
Omar Raymond Darlington is a
native of Eastern Maryland and a
former student OF the Corcoran
School of Art. He also studied at
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts and for a season or more at
the Tiffany Foundation, Oyster Bay
Long Island, Of which at that time
Hobart Nichols was director. While
at the Pennsylvania Academy's
Chester Spring School he won q
prize for the best painting of the
current season, and he has not
failed to receive similar awards in
exhibitions here.
When Mr.. Darlington returned
from his summer at the Tiffany
Foundation his work was seen to
have quality which it now lacks
Not only his color was pleasing but
tone values good, and his works then
produced were memorable for ele-
mental beauty both in theme and
treatment. But these are tragic
Evening star., 1944-04-16

In the ancient city of Nineveh
there was a statue of the god Mar
duk This statue was brought to
the Assyrian capital from Babylon
The Assyrians said that Marduk
was not so great as Ashur, but they
held him in respect. His name was
added to their list of gods, and they
also gave honor to some of the
lesser gods and goddesses of Baby
Ion. Nineveh was, by this time, a
center of trade in Assyria. Hun
dreds of boats passed up and down
the Tigris River, carrying goods
back and forth.
The priests of Nineveh held high
rank. Even the mighty King
went to them for advice before set
ting out on new war. An oracle
told the King what was best to do
This was supposed to give the words
of a god, but priest always did
the speaking.
When an ASsyrian fell i'll, efforts
to cure him were made with charms
and magic words. Seven was sup
posed to be magic number, and
there were tablets with seven diff
ferent words, each one written sew
en- times. BY reading these words
over and over, the sick person be-
lleved that he could drive his ILL
ness away.
Money was used in the trade car
rled on by AssyrianS Some of the
small pieces were lead, but the more
valuable money was copper, silver
and gold.
High walls were built around
Nineveh, and inside the city were
palaces of the kings or emperors. A
palace of an Assyrian King was a
sight to see, whether from the out
side or the inside. The inner walls
were covered with paintings of
kings, gods and goddesses. There
also were gigantic statues standing
in Railways, and among these were
some with the heads of men and
the bodies of bulls
AS I have said in past stories, the
city of Babylon was captured by
Assyria. and was made part of
the empire. The Babylonians, how
ever, were far from happy under
the rule of the conquerors. In the
course Of time, they rose in revolt.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Drascines and Lithosraths
By Ben Messick.

Ben Messick, who, under the
auspices of the Division of Graphic
Arts Of the National Museum, is
exhibiting. this month, drawings
and Autographs in the Smithsonian
Institution, is completely a product
of the West. He was born in Mis-
souri, in 1901, and studied art in Los
Angeles, in which city he now
resides.
He has painted murals for several
high schools in California, but it is
as photographer and skillful
draughtsman that he has attained
distinction. Primarily his work is
illustrative.
He draws what he sees, going
among people of all classes, and
finding them interesting. Occasion
ally they move him to mirth, now
and then there is a sadness, but
those whom he portrays are in
variably human. For example take
Feeding the Swan" scene in q
public park showing how little il
tdhCo W clllCl Cdlll lIlc uldSStS OI
holiday bent, and, in contrast, his
drawing of Blind Musician ano
Family" tragic in fact but not un.
happy in spirit. Another excellent
work Is 'Pitchman"-an amusing
group-hthographed, while likewise
memorable will be found Bach Goe.
to Town" "a drawing in which
couples whirl around in a dance hal
in bedizzying fashion.
With these Autographs and litho.
graphic drawings are shown a few
subjects in line, very simple ane
extremely significant, as, for in.
stance. a portrait of a lady, no Longer
young, with a heavy double chin
but characterful. Among the litho
graphs Is child portrait, Jeanne,
which Is very appealing. Certainl!
IN the scope Of subject matter, Mr.
Messick Is not restricted-all, ap
parently, is grist that comes to hi
mill. That he draws with both cas-,
and pleasure Is obvious.
IL may also be remarked that
Evening star., 1944-04-16
times, with which perhaps the
drama he now sets forth is closer
{ kin than the static beauty of other
days. Thus man reacts to war,
while nature goes on unperturbed.
Dra,pines of Washingfon
Bv Helen Catch Dursfon.

1t is not often that one has op-
|portunity to see the same exhibition
twice in the same season, but such
opportunity, afforded by a second
showing of Helen Catch Durston's S
drawings of Washington, made for
The Star, is welcome indeed. The
first showing, it will be recalled,
was in the Corcoran Gallery of Art
quite recently. Now the collection
is on view in the reception and
dining rooms of the Arts Club. (Mr.
Carrington's paintings occupy the
gallery)
Renewal Of acquaintance with
these charming and accomplished
drawings strengthens admiration;
they are so true in both fact and
spirit; so interpretative of the
Washington that Washingtonians
know and love, not the city of guide
book fame, but the city once set in
a wilderness but grown up in a
forest, with tree-lined avenues pat
terning the buildings that they
screen with magic leaf shadows, for
getful of incongruities in architec-
tural design.
Mrs. Durston has light but firm
touch and although her drawings
carry only enough detail to tell
their story they are indeed "por-
traits of place" 1t is pleasant to
see SO many together at one time
and to realize how much beauty
they conserve.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
By Florence s. Berrvman.

William Calfee's graphic menag-
erie is always a delight to gallery
visitors. His most recen. brush
drawings are now on exhibition at
the central Public Library, to re-
main until the end of the month.
There are IA of them, done in the
natural color of the animals and
birds, which is brown in most in
stances. They appear to have been
dashed off" in a summary manner;
but their lifelikeness gives evidence
of the artists sound knowledge OF
anatomy and his shrewd observa-
ton.
Every one will recognize the char
acteristics of the various subjects
Mr.. Calfee has caught the slim, ele-
gent bone construction of thorough
bred horses, the comic expression
of eravity on the monkeys face, the
Ipigeon-toed lethargy of toads, the
alertness of the falcon, whose eyes
are as sharp as his beak. Bactriar
camels, a pair of giraffes, sleeping
polar bear and number of un-
familiar birds, troupails and others
turn the library's second-tioor gal
lery into a little ZOO. There are also
few imaginative drawings.
The artists interest in animal.
may have been inspired by his faith.
er. In an photographed article
he wrote several years ago for the
Magazine Of Art, Mr.. Calfee sale
his father was skillful craftsman
and that he still has several speci,
mems of little animals his fathel
carved from cigar boxes. Each o
these, he says, seized the charactel
of the particular animal in sim
pie, understanding manner" Thi
appraisal applies perfectly to Viii
liam Calfees ink and wash draw
lngs.
Now a Washington artist of SOM
years residence, he had a Thorough
education in art, at the Beaux Arts
Paris, and under Carl Miles, notet
Swedish sculptor at Cranbrool
Academy, Michigan. Mr.. Calfee i
both painter and a sculptor. HI
has executed several murals TO
Federal buildings, under auspices o
the section Of fine arts. He has ais
had experience In teaching art, a
the Phillips Gallery School, tn
King-Smith School and Hood Col
lege, Frederick, Md.
From GnadaIcanai.'
A joint exhibition by Sergt How
ard Brodie and Sergt. John Bush
lemi, staff members OF Yank. tn
Army weekly, was opened recentl
Evening star., 1944-04-16
By Leila Mechiin.

The Landscape Club of Washing.
ton opened its annual exhibition ir
the Corcoran Gallery of Art on the
afternoon of April 8 to continue
until and including April 80. after
which the IA paintings and foui
works in black and white of which
it is composed will be shown, May
2 to 20, in the Alexandria Library.
Three medals and two honorable
mentions were awarded by one
man jury, Kenneth Stubbs, instruc-
tor in the Corcorann School of Art
They were as follows: Medal for
painting in oils, to Wind and
Moon" by Omar r. Darlington;
medal for painting in watercolors, to
I'm Central Park" by Henry Olson;
medal for work in black and white
to I'm Montrose Park" lithograph
by Andrea Pietro zerega; honorable
mention for painting in oils, to big
Top" by Rowland Lyon, and honor
able mention to work in water colors,
to East From Monhegan," by Paul
Arlt.
The officers of the club are: Henry
Olsen, president; o. r. Darlington
vice president, and Lee Atkyns, Sec
etary-treasurer. Organized in 1918
'to promote outdoor painting and
Its exhibitions" this club has beer
largely composed of men who turned
to art as recreation and gave to i,
holiday time. u
The works produced were, how.
ever, for the most part up to pro.
fessional standards and fully fr7dica.
tive of the spirit of enthusiasm by
which the painters were nlotivated
Back of the paintings was obviously
q love of nature and desire to share
discovery-that of beauty. It is this
keenness of vision and sincerity ir
high purpose which has brough,
forth the greatest art of all time
and without which 1t is indeed
impovished. ID
Some Of the paintings in the cur
rent exhibition have beauty and
show skill in rendition-notably
February Afternoon" by Winfield
Scott Clime-but the majority have
little to say that is worth saying
and say it badly. There is such q
thing as sheer beauty in paint on
canvas, but that is only when 1t is
put on with consummite skill and
with justifiable purpose. The great
masters used art to conceal art and
went to endless pains to attain tech
nincal facility which alone insures
freedom of expression. There is nc
excuse for bad painting even though
by such is reflected the present
trend Of the time. Never was the
world in greater need of beauty
than today, never had artists greater
opportunity. The world asks fol
bread and is given stones. Great
Is the pityl
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Back to the West
By Jack Dongherty, IL.

Powell Junior High School.
7 want to go back to the West agair
Under the Western sky
Where the moon is much brighter,
The clouds are much whittier
And the cactus plants reach high.
I want to go back to the West agair
Under that prairie sky;
I want to go back to the west again
And live there till I die.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
A merican Paintings
In the PHILLIPS Collection.

Beginning last Sunday and con-
tinuing to May 30, all of the gal
leries in the Phillips Memorial Gal
lery will be given over to the display
of American paintings - old and
new-comprised in the Phillips COL
lection.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Frank KIeinhoIz
At the Whyte Gallery.

Introduced by John O'Connor
jr., acting director of the depart.
ment of fine arts of the Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh, Frank Klein.
holz Is holding an exhibition of his
paintings in the Whyte Gallery al
this time and until April 20. Ac.
cording to Mr.. O'Connor, Kleiniolz
is "a new figure in American art
and well worth consideration.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Seasons
. PRIZE CONTRIBUTION,
Bv Marv Moran. rs.

nAAL
By Mary Moran, is,
st. PauPs Academy.
Summer is a dancer;
With swaying partner trees,
And meadow lark as orchestra,
She'll dance among the leaves.
Autumn Is an Indian
With war paint on his brush;
Sneaking up on summer,
He paints her with a blush.
Gay spring is a gypsy;
She sings without a care
A vagabond of beauty
With pansies in her hair.
Winter is fairy,
A friendly pixie gay,
Magic wand of beauty,
A cheerful icy day!
Mother-Johnny, why are you
the baby?
Johnny-We're playing automo-
bile, and he's the horn.
-Susanne Duhey.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
augustus Vincent Tack
Exhibition POSTPONED,

Owing to the illness Of Augustus
Vincent Tack, the exhibition of his
paintings which was to have opened
in the George Washington Univer-
sity library last evening has been
indefinitely postponed.
Evening star., 1944-04-16
William Calfee's Well.Known Menaserie
On Exhibition at the Public Library

at the Library of Congress, first
floor, north section of the west side
exhibit hall. 1r addition to pro-
viding vivid glimpse of Guadal-
canals fighters and scenery, it also
enables visitors to compare hand
made" art with that of the ma
chine.
Sergt. Brodie shows more than &c
black crayon sketches, while Sergt
Bushemi is represented with an
equal number of photographs
Both artists had approximately the
same subject matter: Portraits OF
American servicemen, scenes of jun
gle action, natives bringing in
wounded fighters, plane raids over
the Solomons, etc.
In the writer's opinion, Sergt
Brodie's work Is the more appeal
ing. Excellent as are Sergt. Bush
ennis photographs, the fine, clean
sure drawings by Sergt Brodie have
quality the camera misses. Tc
mention one instance of superiority
the craftsman has eliminated all ir.
relevant details from his drawings
but the photographer unavoidably
included every leaf and twig in the
background of his jungle records
which makes them better document.
| than works of art
Evening star., 1944-04-16
Chicago Photographers
Work.

The April exhibition at the sec
ton of photography, Arts and In
dustries Building, Smithsonian In
stitution, comprises go photographs
by Edward c. Crossett of Chicago.
He Is railroad executive who has
adopted this medium as a hobby.
His best work, perhaps" comprises
portraits, chiefly of women. There
are also a number of landscapes,
made in this country as we'll as in
Europe several years ago.
Special Exhibition at
Department Of Commerce.
Employees of the Coast and Geo.
detic Survey put on a very creditable
art exhibition in the lobby of the
Department of Commerce recently
1t was to have closed on April 8 but
was extended until the 18th.
There were approximately $50
works on view, including oil paint
ings, water colors, graphic arts
photographs and needlework. Work
Of professional caliber made up a
good proportion of the exhibition
At the other extreme were obviousrJ
amateur or primitive" works, done
iperhaps for recreation.