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Newly Acquired French Paintings
On View at the National Gallery

On the wall are casts of small works
in sculpture, there is much detail
and crossing of lines, which, con-
sidered collectively, form an all
over pattern quite out of the ordi-
nary. This, too, is Widener gift.
| COrot
More typical, however, of Corot's
manner and style are a couple of
characteristic French Landscapes
which hang on the same wall as the
Renoir. These were undoubtedly
painted in the region of his home
one of a roadway between woods
and open country, horseman about
to disappear around a curve-the
other purely rural, men working in
the fields, a gentle landscape such
as Corot best loved.
In this gallery, also to be seen
at present, are Corot's Ell
Gatherers' and a woodland
Stream" by his lifelong friend
Courbet and rather similar in style,
both OF which have come to the
National Gallery through the
generosity of Mr.. and Mrs. Frelinp-
huysen of New York.
Degas s .''.'',','-- Il. 4 80 -.
Offsetting the Renoir Dancer" is
from the Widener Collection, a
! painting of ballet girls by Degas, a
comparatively small canvas but ex-
cellent and most acceptable. Also by
Degas a most engaging picture of
horse racing. All of these paintings
have been well chosen and show not
only the skill of the artists but the
taste and discrimination of the COL
lectors. To this the little canvases
in the group testify as eloquently
as do the larger and more imposing
, ones.
, Chavannes
Two very important works in this
group have not yet been mentioned
although to them has been given
the entire east wall. They are hand
some and elaborate panels by Puvis
de Chavannes presumably, the orig
lnal studies for murals now in the
Picardy Museum If spared the raw
ages OF warfare. They were both
shown in the Paris Salon of 1853, at
which time they aroused much dis
cussion. One Is entitled Work" the
other "Rest'-both comprise many
flgures-the majority nude-and
have landscape setting. They are
well composed, picturesque and ex-
qulsltely painted. They were not,
however, of their own day nor are
they OF ours-too classical for the
one, too allegorical for the other.
When shown in the salon, Arthur
Stevens, the well-known French
, critic, condemned them harshly as
Initiative of works in the past. but
even so, he could not refrain from
commencing his simplicity and sim
cerlty. "Purvis' pictures are he
said, great in manner and beauti-
ful to the eye. fancy he works only
for his own satisfaction and 1 COM
mend him for it,
But Puvis seems to have won the
satisfaction and admiration of many
as the years went on His ste.
Genevieve" series in the Pantheon,
Paris, is world renown,> as are also
the murals that he did for his be-
loved Picardy and the old town
OF Amiens. For the Public Library,
Boston, he did a series of decorative
panels which caused great discussion
at first but have gained in popularity
as the years have passed. Certainly,
upon mural painting in America, he
exerted unconsciously a strong in
fiuence in the last years of the 10th
century. 1t is interesting to COM
pare the Work" and Rest" panels
with Belinni'S great naintinQ "The
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what reminiscent of the Munich
school. Also the two paintings by
Bellows give most recently by Mr..
Dale. There was a very close con-
nection in the late COS between the
schools of France and our own coun-
try--a time Of doubt and lost ideals,
of high achievement and yet COM
paratively little stability, but after
all, q time when many works such
as these, Of great merit and charm,
were produced.
Finally q word concerning the
beauty OF the gallery in itself, the
garden courts filed with fern and
foliage plants Offset by blossomins
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OF all the mines around Washing
ton. think the one near Great
Falls Is the most interesting. There
are the old shafts, the tiny mining
cars, ore crushers and dump. In the
dump there are quartz. pyrite and
gold in quartz specimens
I have an aragon bulb which I
use in studying f1uoresence. Ger
tain minerals react to the rays of
light emitted by the bulb, and sur
prising color changes take place; a
green specimen will turn purple, a
black one yellow. or a white one
green or yellow.
I deliver papers to earn money to
buy more specimens and books on
minerals
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Bv Leila MechHn

At no time since its opening, in
March, 1941, has the National Gal
lery of Art presented a more beauti-
full appearance or been quite as rich
In artistic treasures as now. This
Is partly due to the return and re-
placement of certain notable works.
removed as a precautionary meas
ure against enemy bombing, to a
place OF greater safety, and partly
because some notable additions to
the permanent collection are now
on view for the first time. Among
the latter is a group of French
paintings of the 18th century. from
the Widener collection, of unusual
character and interest.
These are to be found in gallery
76, the last in the north range of
the east wing largely given over to
the works of French artists. Here,
on the north wall, now hangs
Manet's dramatic painting, The
Dead Toreador young man of
fine appearance and physique, prone
on the ground, life extinct, spiritless
and yet spirited-the clash between
life and death. This Is an amazing
study in perspective, unerringly
drawn and vigorously painted, dat
ing, presumably, from Manet's visit
to Spain and while under the in
f1uence of the Spanish school, then
30 powerful.
Renoir
In different mood, and in great
contrast, is the painting of The
Dancer"-a very young ballet girl
by Renoir, which hangs, directly op-
posite, on the south wall of this
same gallery. No one with sensitive
perception could see this lovely
painting without realizing the
painters delight in beauty and his
ability to interpret it truly Painted
in high key, this picture is charm
ing in color and treatment of textile
surfaces. The little dancers dress
Is Of white tulle, the skirt full, the
material sheer. There are touches
OF light blue here and there, a bow
Al llcl IidlI, u Ult VI IlDUOu OIl ucI
Gown. On her feet are light pink
satin slippers, around her throat
and on her left wrist bands of mar
row black velvet, giving just the
requisite touch for accent. The
background Is light in color and
atmospheric, the whole a delicate
harmony Of rare and satisfying
loveliness-most enchanting. Not
always was Renoir so reticent, SC
utterly superintendent master as
he was
Manef
Turning back to the Manet one
finds, hanging to the left, a small
and very unusual painting by Corot
q picture of the interior of his
studio with young woman seated
before an easle, on which is a typi-
cal landscape by the great painter.
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Work of Navaf officer
At Public Library

1t. Lewis Rubinstein, U. s. NJ, now
on duty in Washington, is an artist
in civilian life and finds time tc
paint despite his present service
Fourteen Of his watercolors now al
the central Public Library, will be
on exhibition to February 4. Al
least half of them depict scenes ir
Washington and vicinity. These
pictures are fairly large, done mostly
in transparent wash, and are con-
servative, although simplified ano
broadly handled. They make q
pleasing display.
In painting Meridian HILL" in
cluding a glimpse OF the towers OF
Henderson Castle on Sixteenth
street, 1t. Rubinstein produced q
Gothic English scene reminis-
cent of famous Penshurst place
in Kent. CAT least, one hopes II
still is there) Georgetown Canal
Is admirable. with more interest
near-abstract: the rocks have the
angularity and solidity Of sky
scrapers. Potomac Sky" on the
other hand, does not quite come
off, nor do paintings of a boy ano
two other subjects.
The artist has done some con-
yincing water colors of boats anc
the river. His water Is really wei
and shimmering, as one sees ir
Indian Summer" a vista through
golden trees of rowboats moored al
a wharf: and a closeup Of a boat
and dock Virginia Estelle" HI
shows only one subject connected
with his present life: Watch" or
ship.
1t. Rubinstein was born in Buf.
falo, N. Y, studied at Harvard
went to Italy and France on q fel.
lowship. He worked at the Fogf
Museum. Harvard. He later taught
painting at the Boston Museum
OF Fine Arts. at Vassar College ane
at the University of Buffalo. H,
has exhibited at the Whitney Mu.
scum of American Art and tn,
Museum of Modern Art, New Yorl
City; the Addison Gallery, Andover
Mass; the Albright Art Gallery
Buffalo, and elsewhere.
Good Neiehbors
Water colors OF Latin America, BY
Carl Folke Sahlin, art director Of
the Pan American League O,
Miami, compose the January ex.
hibition in the foyer of the Natu-
raj History Building, National Mu.
scum, to remain through next Sun.
day. 1t is one of the largest show.
put up in some months; it in.
cludes 1875 mounts, many of which
have several sketches, in ink a.
well as water color.
Mr.. Sahlin's work is illustrative
in character, dealing largely with
the natives he observed during 6
number of trips to Latin America
He painted them in their colorfu
costumes, against representative
backgrounds of jungle or tropica
cities. From the dates on some o.
the sketches one judges these trip.
have all been made sslce 1910. L
this Is correct, the artist has GOV.
cred an amazing amount of terri.
tory: The West Indies, Brazil, W
the Amazon. down to Buenos Aires
north along the Andes to Bolivia
Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, tt
several countries in Central Americs
and home via Mexico. His worl
shows definite improvement dur.
ing the four years; some of tn,
sketches made in 1941, are far be.
hind the larger, more confident wa.
ter colors of last year.
Explanatory labels, written by tn,
artist and attached to the pictures
give information about the people
customs and other features.
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The Noisy Clock
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Dorothy Ferebee, Is.

Banneker Junior High School.
The clock on my wall
Is really quite old;
It's now about time
1t should be sold.
It makes a loud noise
All day and all night,
And sometimes it gives
Me an awful fright.
Its rip-tip-tip-tip
Is annoying at times,
And oh, how I wish
For a new clock-with chimes,
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Advice to Future
Parents on How to
Manage Children
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By TheIma Levine, II,
Powell Junior Hish School.

Powell Junior High School.
OF all the people in this world, I
pity the children most. They're the
ones who have to do what every
body tells them, or else they're
"brats." Even in fun, they have to
do what their elders think they
should like. I know that if I were
a 4-year-old these are the things I'd
like to do of my own free will:
I'd like to take out my tricycle. and
ride as fast as the wheels will 60
and when I fall, I don't want my
parents feeling sorry for me.
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Edward Hebs again
Poes to make axe the Park Police Force the
House District Committee Representative John L. Me,9an am
M sentative Heber has for come time urged this
While similar proposals periodically for number
years sa special attention was directed to the
in Potomac park ~ VI ''0's '0'e'iA'en' Clerk
Several studies Of the have
a5 % % s ats I'm the ms
by hs was % p O the Booknss
p . puD Buildings and Public Parks should be
widely the city energy to attempt
Of At The
pG hat xa of different authorities and
The Brookns further park police
ana paid smaller salaries than for the metro
and might retired under ths
of 1929 further that policing the Capitol
mar s eo rs p9 made
the 'ss n pose oS the s the
change n the %s S the ns m Question: nss
the Sri ns report Of lsss it was that the
in outside the District be transferred metropolitan police
commenting seup erenhasen report stated
The statutes provide vide for obsolete
Of the District Commissioners Besides the metropolitan
logical Park wahmen and several of building guards with
cThs Metropolitan Police and set up
Joint police lice board the Corporation the
washington This continued until complete
This further included
the United States Park Police
Police force"
Discussing this question Monday 49, said
editoriaIy Park police
District and the METROPOLITAN Police
p ss sa h i ss9sf
a1G pS their the % d
one consideration which the
that the District taxpayer about
police protection Of national parks within the District park
police under the exclusive director of the
National Park Service Already paying the policing
the District the
economies lie unified
inside well outside
It is understood
zens in favor of the change. = = -
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Too Original

In one of the civics classes the
other day, they were discussing the
original package" of certain mer-
chandise. The class had finished
debating about the carton being the
original package for cigarettes, and
the teacher asked. Now, what is
the original package for butter?'
A bright young lady replied, THE
cow
Dunbar News Reel
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PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Robert Hermann, II,

OF all hobbies, think mineral collecting
been collecting
about ITS specimens from Sates
PHILIPPINES
in this traded
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What are you doing-fishing?"
mo, I'm drowning worms!"
Paul PRIV
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Trouble

Trouble
Teacher-And what makes you so
late to class?
STUDENT had trouble getting
my bicycle in my locker.
Woodrow Wilson He.con
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Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
National Representation Information;
Metropolitan and Park Police Merger
BY JESSE C. sUTER.

Growing citizen pending proposed
indicated by
they help explanation effect Of the
aq of M hs has r ats asG % @ m r
provide broadly for what he calls complete suffrage
OF na as for %e Congress and
9n ss & Of local officers nsr Of The the District The Congress always
@ % elective for 70
the latter was only partially elective and
mmba privilege through national election Of ecng
aures through
would add following: WHICH
have provide that there h. be
by the people Of the District constituting the
ne All n % .
ject to amendment repeal"
people have introduced They
IN d M M and
For instance the
1922 contained ls words while the pending which
ernment contains only
IT developed that such detailed
be questions for subsequent legislation rather than being
everything which legislation simply plain
language power
which now lacks and under which solve this
and ratified by e Of % the aote a I nd the
duty responsibility of determining
which will be given
Capital - -
Under the final sentence of
under shall be subject amendment repeal
Tor Congress to mistake
might reveal.
In the
for national members often
question whether the
under the amendment would exhaust
recapure for suspension modification
granted should unsatisfactory
united States
ference OF opinion The brief concluding
amendment definitely dposes of the
way continuing
ct OF Columbia such voting
ment as Congress in its judgment provide.
Impartial critics who have
amendment and imagined implications
the form can raise anv
70 Hs being MADE a of the
AS has been stated repeatedly power
congress under the
the existing power OF the Congress
however
participation through their elected
OF the District Columbia
the r - "N p~0pe VI
one OF the perennial troublesome
nscal
Columbia
an needed
these Will nd when the nonle
Vons rights in the Congress
and Vice President e ~ ' ~ ri''oeA'
question
can ne this column time
lh pnase OF the problem will be discussed
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since 1882. In 1913 he was prin-
cipal of the Stovring Folk High
School which, however was taken
over by the Germans that year.
In March 1913, Mr.. Staermose was
elected to the Rigsdag.
Due to his activities as an ur-
foreground worker on behalf of
Free Danes opposing the Nazis,
he found it advisable to leave the
country some time ago, and since
then he has lectured in England.
Danish Americans in all parts
of the United States are await
ing the arrival of Mr.. Staermose
who has much to tell about what
is being done by the underground
to help free Denmark.
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trouble and fights, the Germans
seem very reluctant to make this
decision. The troubles generally
start by Danish children beating
up the German children, and the
adults then join in the fray.
Many refugees who have al
ready arrived in Aarhus have
died because of the exhausting
conditions of their flight. Ger
man children have by force been
placed in hospitals. At first the
mayor refused to grant permits
sion, but the Germans then threat
ened to evacuate all the Danish
patients. 5000 Aarhus school chill
dren are now without classrooms,
the schools being requisitioned as
lodgings.
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Bullets Almost Hit
Princess of Denmark

Crown Princess Ingrid of Den
mark narrowly escaped death in
Copenhagen when she was caught
between an exchange of machine
gun and pistol bullets by Danish
Nazis and patriots, the Free Dan
ish Press Service reported today.
The incident was said to have
wheeled her youngest child, Prin-
cess Benedikte, in a carriage along
the Amaliengade leading to the
Royal Palace.
Six persons were reported killed.
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Citotion For Denmark

In an editorial the New York
Times says:
The Danes could hardly have ex
pected to find themselves the sub
ject of a special communique from
Allied Supreme Headquarters. Yet
General Eisenhower has singled
out for special praise their sue
cessful efforts to hamstring the
German war effort.
Denmark is the passageway for
German troops returning to re-
inforce the Reich from Norway
and Finland But it appears that
not one train from Denmark has
arrived on time. Many have not
arrived at all. BY repeated at
lacks on rail lines, junction points,
turntables, electric equipment,
water towers, stations, factories
and the like, Danish saboteurs
have crippled enemy troop move
ments to such an extent that the
delay is now felt on the battle
fronts. The Germans are reaping
what they sowed. The Danes were
quiet and unwarilSe people.
Though they were incontestably
"Nordics," and wholly innocent by
ISLANDERS, the NaziS trod them
down like worms. Now the Danish
worm has turned. Through its
seething underground the whole
nation is in revolt.
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Danes Free Patriots
As Bombs Fall.

Seventy-five armed patriots en-
tered the nearby booksellers
House" during the confusion of
the British Mosquito bombing of
Gestapo headquarters in Copen-
hagen March 81 and released ten
top Danish police officials, Danish
informan said.
The officials had been prisoners
of the Germans since September,
1914.
Thirty other Danish patriots
were freed from the Shell House,
Gestapo headquarters, but at least
ten held there were killed.
The Danish press said 10 Danes
and 500 Germans were killed in
the bombing.
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News from Denmark
Nazi Reprisals Increased In Denmark

Not since the dark has history recorded farng
methods as applied by the desperate Nazs The fol-
lowing instances samples of what happens Denmark
During February large scale rprsas took place against
the cultural and commercial of Danish
land we'll against Odense Fyn Svenska Dagbadet
reports that Aarhus exposed action similar
to that against Odense the night before Shortly mid
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night the NaZls placed phosphor
bombs (incendiary bombs still US
ed by the Germans) on several
buildings and violent fires started.
So far only German reports are
available and they say three peo-
pie were killed, but it is feared
many more persisted in the flames.
Property valued at tens of mil
lions of Kroner was destroyed,
and flags in Aarhus We're at half
mast. There was a violent ex-
plosion in the new town hall, and
the Aarhus theater was very bad
ly damaged.
The large theatre al Randers
was completely destroyed. On the
same day the big trade union hall
in Sillseborg containing a theatre
was completely destroyed. On the
same night a series of bomb eX-
plosions took place in the town of
Grensaa, which, according to
"Svenska Dagbladet," damaged or
destroyed a number of buildings
and shops. That night the terror
recommended in Aarhus where
violent explosions caused more de-
struction of shops, and likewise in
Randers where factory and
apartment houses were blown up
There are rumors that the Ger
mans intend to blow up the Roy
al Theatre in Copenhagen and the
National Museum with its great
collections of prehistoric objects,
as we'll as a number of other pub
lie buildings.
Meanwhile, as a specific repris-
al against the galway sabotage,
Germans placed explosives in the
first passenger car of the AL
borg express. 1t was crowded
with passengers and many were
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Amongst Scandinauians
Here and There

The gold statue, popularity call
ed Oscar is awarded each year
by the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences for best per-
formances, and the Swedish star
received the award for her superb
acting in the picture "Gaslight,'
in W ic h she co-starred with
Charles Boyer.
Peter Freuchen, famous DANISH
Greenland explorer, the man vita
the enormous b e I'd, is in the
United States, where he will tell
audiences of the Danish struggle
to make it hot for the Nazi OPP
pressorS.
The Lutheran Church Commits
sion to Europe, headed by DR.. p.
o. Bersell president of the Au-
gustana Synod, was received by
Archbishop Erling Eden. In an
interview DR.. Bersell emphasized
that SWedes and Americans would
have to take the lead in the post
war reconstruction activities of
the Lutheran Church Archbishop
Eden stated that he would like
to come to the United States in
1913 to take part in the observance
of the centenary of the Augustana
Synod.
Gift packages to Sweden are
now only a memory, but a very
pleasant one. Although new or
ders have not been received for
the last year and a half, it was
only the other day that the Swed-
ish Government Cargo Clearance
Committee, $50 Fifth Avenue,
New York. publicly announced
that the last thousand packages.
ordered in 1913. had safely reached
their destinations in Sweden in
January.
This closes that chapter of the
committees work About 200,0
1 packag es, each weighing from ;
/ to 9 pounds and containing coffee,
tea, cocoa and OF h e 7 welcome
items, have since the fall of 1871
been purchased and packed under
the committees supervision and
then shipped on S a f e Conduct
steamers as gifts from us to our
relatives and friends over there.
MesSrs. F. O. Fernstrom, head
of the Fernstrom Paper Mills in
Pomona. and C NJ Friden, head
of the Friden Calculating Machine
Co in San Leandro. Calf, have
made possible a professorship in
the Scandinavian languages and
literature at the University of
California at Berkeley.
Lieutenant Stig Wallerstedt, son
of Sweden's Consul General in San
Francisco is in charge Of a L. S.
minesweeper.
The young lieutenant received
his education in Sweden, and upon
entry of the United States into
the war he offered his services
without DELAY.
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Refugee Problems
In Denmark

Although the number of Ger
man refugees in Denmark is rising
rapidly, the Nazi authorities have
not yet decided whether they
should be billeted in Danish
homes. Aware that such action
will only result in continuous
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Danes Blockade
Nozi Escape Ships

The Free Danish Press Service
said March 20 that Danish pa
triots had blasted the bridge con-
Meeting Copenhagen with Amager
Island, blockading a great num-
her" of Danish ships requisitioned
b the Germans to be sent to
Baltic ports for evacuation of
Nazi civilians and soldiers.
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Danish Underground
Worker On Lecture
Tour In U. S. A.

A lecture tour of unusual inter
est to Scandinavian Americans is
now being planned by committee
of Danish Americans in New York.
The lecturer is Mr.. Robert Stear-
more, 3S year old member of the
Danish Rigsdag (Congress), who
has been a teacher in Denmark