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Evening star., 1945-08-12
Electra Wagg0ner, Noted Sculbress,
Is Talented Newcomer to Washinefon

Washington art circles in recent
months have gained talented new
conner. Electra Waggoner, sculptress,
whose husband, 1t. Col. John Biggs,
is on duty in the War Department.
In May her acceptance of commits
sion for statue of President Tru-
man, destined for the Missouri State
Capitol at Jefferson City, brought
her public notice here and elsewhere
But for some months prior to that
time she had been coming to WASH
ington each week from New York
City, which has been her headquar-
ters for decade.
She is to have a solo exhibition at
the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Octo-
ber and hopes to complete the bust
of the President for that showing,
which will be representative of her
achievement of the past 10 years.
She had one interview with him last
May, during which she made care
full measurements and a sketch bust,
and obtained many photographs ac-
cording to her own specifications.
Despite her youth, Mrs. Biggs has
had considerable experience; she
also has an interesting background.
Her family has been identified with
Texas for several generations, her
great-grandfather Waggoner having
gone there from Tennessee in the
1o50s. He became rancher on the
colossal scale possible in those days,
and his son, w. T. Waggoner, ex-
tended the property until it in
cluded half million acres, located
IN six counties. He also opened some
of the first big oil fields in Texas
and built the Arlington Downs race
track, between Fort Worth and
Dallas. One of Mrs. Biggs' most sue
ces>ful works is portrait relief of
her grandfather, surrounded by SYM
bols of his three greatest interests
oil, thoroughbred cattle and racing
which was first placed in Arlington
Downs, but is now in the Forth
Worth Public Library.
Born in Fort Worth, where her
parents still reside, Electra Wag-
goner finished her general education
at Miss Wright's School, Bryn
Mawr., Pa, and at Columbia Uni
versity. She studied sculpture with
Katherine Breese in New York, Ar
mold Geissbuhler in Boston and M.
Giovanelli in Paris, who instructed
her in marble cutting and the basics
6f foundry work. She also spent a
year at the Sorbonne.
At Paris Salon
In the Paris Salon of 1887 she was
represented with a bust in black
Belgian marble. for which she re-
ceived an honorable mention. This
work, a head of a Negro-Indian
woman, which she calls Enigma ?
will be included in her exhibition at
1.-THE Corcoran Gallery. This win be
Evening star., 1945-08-12
| lust Between
Yourselves
BY Phihb II. Love

Something cold was pressed against
the back Of my neck. My first
thought, awakening from sound
sleep, was that it was the business
end Of a pistol. Naturally, I was
terrified.
In fact, I was, as the saying Is,
scared stiff. So, because I couldn't
have moved II I'd wanted to, I lay
perfectly still. Which, I'm told, is
the wise thing to do when you
awaken to find a burglar in your
bedroom. If you keep your eyes
closed and don't move, the au-
thorities say, the average burglar
will be only too glad to 60 about
his business. It's only when he
knows you're awake and thinks
you're going to cause trouble that
he's likely to harm you.
Suddenly the cold something was
removed. That was a relief, of
course, but before 1 could enjoy it
to the fullest something touched
my shoulder. And in that moment
all I'd heard and read about how
to act in the presence of burglars
was forgotten.
But before I tell you what hap
pened then maybe I'd better get in
few words about my dog Butch.
He is, as I've written here before.
good watchdog. On April 7, when
somebody broke into my garage and
stole the gasoline out of my auto
mobile, he barked. But I thought
he was trying to notify me that the
war was over, and when I turned
on the radio and found that it
wasn't I told him to Shut up!" and
went back to sleep.
l realize, of course, that it sounds
silly to expect a dog to tell you
when the war is over. But, as you
may recall, it was Butch who tipped
me of with his barking on the in
yasions of both Italy and France.
He Is, in fact, more of a reporter
dog than q police dog.
Butch sleeps in the cellar and
there are three doors between his
bed and mine-one at the top of
the cellar stairs, another between
the kitchen and the dining room, the
other to my bedroom. All three are
kept closed at night.
Only three times has Butch taken
the trouble to open those doors and
come into my bedroom. The first
two times were to let me in on
the news of the invasions; the other
time was
Well, that's what started out to
tell you about. When I forgot the
rules of conduct in the presence of
burglars 1 jumped out of bed-and
there, wagging his tail furiously
was Butch!
After I'd calmed down sufficiently
to think. 1 naturally wondered what
had prompted Butch to open three
doors and climb two flights of steps
to awaken me. 1t had to be some
thing OF Importance.
I looked at the electric clock on
the chifforobe. 1t had stopped at
LAO am. went to the bureau
ana got my watch. 1t said 7::30
am. Then I understood why
Butch had come upstairs.
There had been a severe storm
during the night and the electricity
had gone off for a few minutes.
l remembered awakening and find
ing that the lights wouldn't work.
When they went back on I set the
CLOCK and restarted it. At least /
thought I'd restarted it, but OBJ
viously hadn't, for it was stopped
at the same point at which I'd set
1t. And when I didn't get up at
my usual time. 7 am, Butch decided
1t was up to him to see to it that
l wasn't late for work.
don't know what I'd do without
that dog.
Evening star., 1945-08-12
The Art World
One.Man Show by Samuel Baldwin Pratt
Opens Today at the Corcoran Gallery

The latter were taken from a
sumptuous folio book entitled
Cirque de LEtoile Filante," pub
llshed in 1888 in Paris by Ambrose
Vollard. Rouault not only made the
etchlngs and many wood engrav-
ings which illustrate it. but also
wrote the text.
The Phillips Gallery held. five
years ago, large exhibition of orig
lnal paintings by this leading
French expressionist which created
stir, and several of his paintings
are in the gallery's permanent COL
lection. Consequently Rouault's
work is not novelty in Washing
ton. "Ingratiating" is scarcely the
WORD to use in connection with it.
but the present group of II etchings
comes nearer to meriting it than
do most of his paintings.
These etchings resemble water
colors far more closely than thev
appear to be what they are. The
reds, greens, blues and yellow are
pure and concentrated. and sur
rounded by heavy black outlines.
constituting personal technique
Rouault adapted from his work as
stained glass painter in his youth.
These etchings suggest little glass
panels with heavily loaded designs.
They are all simple and large in
conception depicting various per-
formers in THE Shooting Star Cir
GUS: Jugglers, equestrians, dwarfs,
clowns, etc. Most of them are
portraits of specific people: Nine.
Carmencita," Nine. Louison," :"
Master Arthur" and others SINH
larly identified. 1t is intriguing
to note the extent to which Rouault
has indicated individuality.
Close likeness has always been
the aim of traditional portraiture,
in whatever medium. But mod
ernists for the past half century
have been getting away from close
resemblance in favor of personal
interpretations which may be very
remote likenesses. Friends and rela-
tives of the subject should be salts
fed, it seems, if they are able to
recognize an eyelid or some other
small detail. But Rouault has given
some of his Shooting Star" per-
formers more than little in
dividuality.
Evening star., 1945-08-12
Uncle Rays Corner
Buffalo Herds Once R0anped
Wilds Of MARYLAND, Virginia

AS long as big herds of bun aloes
were within reach, there was no
reason for people In. tribe to fear
that they would starve, but at times
the food supply ran low. In such
cases, among the Mandan and other
tribes of the Sioux nation, it was the
custom to start buffalo dance.
The buffalo dance was directed
by the priests, or medicine men,
and its purpose was to make
buffaloes come" Each dancer wore
a buffalo mask or, at the least, q
pair of horns or piece of the hide.
Take Turns.
The dancing was kept UP day and
night, 10 or is men taking part at
a given moment, while the others
rested and waited for their turn.
Music was made with drums and
rattles.
When a man became too tired,
he bent forward and sank to the
ground, falling like buffalo" As
he was going down, one of his
fellow warriors would shoot him
with a blunt arrow. Then others
would drag him out of the ring,
raise their knives, and make believe
they were skinning and cutting up
a buffalo.
Meanwhile. another man took the
place of the one who had grown tired,
and the dance went on. More than
one medicine man boasted that it
never failed to bring success. Since
there were many herds of buffalo
wandering about the plains, and
since the Indians were willing to
dance day after. day for weeks at
stretch, it is little wonder that the
dancing seemed to make buffaloes
come" The glad news of the sight
Of q herd was given by men who
served as watchers, on the highest
ground near the village.
Evening star., 1945-08-12
Win a Cash Prise
flirting, Drauing
For Junior Star

Do you like to write stories,
articles or poems? Or do you like
to draw?
If your answer to either Of those
questions is yes, and if you are not
more than 18 or have not vet fin
ished high school, you are invited
to try for the cash prizes awarded
for the best contributions published
in each issue of The Junior Star.
Five prizes of ST each are offered
every Sunday.
Writers of stories which, in the
opinion of the editor, are Of sufh-
cient merit are awarded cards
identifying them as Junior Star re-
porters.
Here are the contest rules:
!, All contributions must be original.
sren on they Sne must sins DaPeub
Daw,nss wbifs must be II black ink OF
not rolled or folded.
s g. Name: age, address, telephone mum.
be in the upper left-hand corner Of written
contributions and on the back of drawings
4; The, editors choice of winners is
1nal, and he reserves the right to publish
any, contribution in whatever form he
thinks best, regardless Of whether 1t is
awarded a prize. He also may withhold
prizes awarded for contributions found
not to be original!
8. No contributions will be returned
Checks for contributions awarded
prizes today will be mailed this
week. Address your contributions
to-
Junior Star Editor, 727 Star Build
ing. Eleventh Street and Pennsyl-
vania Avenue NV, Washington 4,
d. C.
Evening star., 1945-08-12
Mothers Faults
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Gladys Gray, II,

BroWne junior High School.
My mother isn't perfect,
Because she's human. too,
But she is always near me
With comfort when I'm blue.
She teaches me to cook and sew
She worries when I'm sick;
If go places and don't tell her
She gets excited quick.
My mother isn't perfect,
For she can make mistakes;
But will love her all the more
For all the mistakes she may
make.
Evening star., 1945-08-12
Airlines Vital to Defense

hours in each direction, since he
would still have II days for the
sightseeing end Of his vacation.
On the other hand, the business
executive, the premium traveller" /"
will pay the price of high-speed
travel If he can leave New York
after office hours and be in San
Francisco before breakfast, return
ing the next night the same way.
This will enable him to spend one
complete day on important business
matters with only one days alb
sence from his Office. The same ex-
ecutive will pay the premium fare
If he can leave New York at the
close of days business and be in
London the next morning, leaving
London that night and being back
in New York for full days work
the next morning. But premium
travellers" will not generate enough
business to support $500 commercial
transport aircraft.
We have, therefore, two distinct
types of travelers-the premium
traveller" or the person of wealth;
the business executive, the man who
will pay anything within reason for
speedy travel between two points.
He represents, however, only a
small percentage of the travelling
public. The other group, those who
represent millions of people, think
of time-saving by days, not by hours.
Those people will travel by airplane
If the cost can be brought within
their budget. Much can be accom-
plished to make this possible by
building airplanes designed for low
cost operation-which provide, in
comparison with other means of
transportation, fast travel between
two reasonably separted places. We
can never expect to get the patron
age OF the average traveller, the
volume of business, at 6 cents a
mile irrespective of speed, whether
it is 300, 400 or 500 miles an hour.
and you require the patronage of
the average traveller" if you are
going to fill several thousand pas
senger airplanes.
There are other means which
must be carefully studied by the air
carriers to effect all possible econ
omies. For instance, there are
many ground services now provided
by each carrier which possibly
could be furnished by terminal or
ganization. There could be joint
weather : forecasting organizations,
joint overhaul shops for the major
overhaul of aircraft engines and ac-
cessorles. If there is anything to
the American theory of economy of
line production, there should be
worthwhile economies in Jointly
operated overhaul shops, especially
II we are thinking of several thou
sand airplanes instead of several
hundred.
l cannot agree with those people
who see the air commerce of the fu-
ture satisfied with a few dozen or
a few hundred. 1 believe we are on
the threshold of an air era. I re-
1use to believe that there do not
exist in this Nation men with SUI
nclent vision and imagination to
provide air transportation for the
millions of people who will travel
throughout the world, provided that
traVei can be brought within their
income. The automobile industry
proved that America had that imap-
nation. 1t isn't going to lose it
simply because we have gone into
the air.
Evening star., 1945-08-12
Continued From Page CID

come available. To the extent tha'
costs of such travel can be reduced
the availability Of the through loae
will be increased.
One might reasonably ask, there.
fore, why, If a plane is bound from
New York to Los Angeles with {
load Of through traffic, should it b,
required to operate via Chicago
Kansas City or Dallas, instead O.
flying direct route. There will, O.
course, be problems of navigation
and trafiu control, but they ar,
far from insoluble. 1t is axio.
matte that when an airplane f1iel
other tnan the most direct rout,
over land, the cost of operation l!
increased and the opportunity ol
rate reduction is decreased. Ir
flights over land, air strips neces.
sary for refueling stops incident tt
an economical operation can be pro-
vided. 1t should be the objective o.
those so vitality interested in the de.
velopment of air transportation tt
encourage direct through air-carriel
operations. Let local flights serve
the intermediate communities. Or
over water operations the problem
is different. There are limited 10.
FcalitieS where intermediate airport!
to be utilized for refueling purposes
can be constructed. Operations be.
tween the United States and Europe
for example, may be of two kinds
the direct nonstop expensive service
and the indirect route via Labrador
Greenland or Iceland, at reasonable
rates. Putting it another way, the
longest way round is the cheapest
way home.
Collaboration Is Necessary.
These problems which should re.
ceive the early attention of Gov
ernment, manufacturer and oper-
ator. No one of the three, working
alone, can solve them-but in col.
liberation they can reach the cor.
rect answer.
Meeting the second condition
which I mentioned-the discovery
of new means of effecting economic,
in operation-is primarily the re.
sponsibility Of the air carriers-but
they must have the help of the
manufacturers and the understand.
ing support of the Government.
We all know that there Is a con.
tinuing quest in aviation to get more
and more speed. The attainment o1
that objective should, of course, not
be stifled, but very high speeds are
not always conducive to low cos
of operation. The average traveller
as distinguished from the busines.
executive, compares the travel time
and cost of one means of transpor.
tation with that of other available
means, ground or water. In othel
words, the average individual WHIT
wants to go from New York to Sar
Francisco would go by air at cent.
mile even if it took him "a hour.
to make the trip. He probably
would not go at all if he had to pa,
6 cents mile, even though he coule
make the trip in 10 hours. At tn,
same time, he might not make tn,
trip by train at 3 cents a mile, be
cause he does not have availabl,
the necessary days to make tn.
round trip. If the fare is within tht
budget allowance for such purposes
the individual with a two-week va.
cation would be interested in visit.
ing Europe even if 1t took him 81
Evening star., 1945-08-12
It's Easy to Make
Waterproof Cushion
For Boat or Canoe

No boat or canoe, no matter how
expensive or we'll made, is built for
comfort. A person who goes along
for the ride soon becomes conscious
OF a desire for cushion. Yet an
ordinary cushion is not appropriate
because, at best, it will often get
wet.
To make a really serviceable and
Evening star., 1945-08-12
Uncle Rays Corner

Indians of past times had nc
idea of such a thing as what we
call ballroom dancing" or simply
dancing" Yet the tribesmen did
dance in their own special ways
Study of Indian dancing has
shown that often, if not always. it
was carried on with a special
purpose. The purpose might be to
honor one of the Indian gods or to
bring special blessing to tribe
If rain was needed, dancing might
be performed to bring 1t about.
In Southwestern parts of the
United States, dancing to bring rain
was common. The medicine men of
the tribe would utter prayers while
the dancing was going on.
Buffalo Dance.
In view Of the great Importance
of buffaloes to some tribes, it seems
natural that a buffalo dance
should have been invented.
Before white settlements spread
across North America, there were
wild buffaloes, or bison, in many
areas outside the Western plains
They were found in Virginia and
Maryland, In the Ohio Valley and
around the Great Lakes.
The Western plains, however, were
the chief buffalo country. In
Canada, there were great herds on
the prairies from Manitoba to
British Columbia. In the United
States, the land between the Mis-
sissippi River and the Rocky
Mountains had the beasts In vast
numbers.
Indians Of the plains needed the
flesh of buffaloes for food, and much
of their clothing was made from
the hides.
Used for Tents.
Tents, or "teepees." were COM
posed Of buffalo skins draped over
wooden framework. In addition, the
hides served In making snowshoes
bags, ropes and "bull-boats."
Evening star., 1945-08-12
Tw0 Exhibitions
HtPhilIitS

The Phillips Memorial Gallery
opened last Sunday two exhibitions
in the print rooms, which will re-
main through September-the GAL
lery's annual show of Autographs by
Daumier and color etchings of the
circus by Rouault.
Evening star., 1945-08-12
Word tumble
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Elizabeth Fisher, Is.

HOeFH FcVeT, 1U3
Shaw Junior High School. Indianhead, Nd,
Each Of these six sets of jumbled
letters can be rearranged to spell
a word. See how many of them
you can figure out.
/, Turnaci; 2, zlidar; 3, spposmou;
4, mlneuoli; S, darcs; 6, raty.
The correct answers will be found
elsewhere on this page.
Evening star., 1945-08-12
Some Inexpensive Pastinzes
For Those Dull afternoons
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Helen Emery, II,
leland .Uinior Hirb EchooI

During these summer months when
swimming the to
something
think hobbies interesting up dull after
One Of the incest hobbies think
Evening star., 1945-08-12

The game Of billiards Is believed
to have been introduced into France
during the reign Of Louis XIV.
Evening star., 1945-08-12

EnUy OF all the other kids in the 100 block OF SPRING
street Alexandria are the trophies shon by Co..
and her sister Janice The Nazi flag and other
captured by their father Pc O1en Co.. the Allied dripe
across Germany When Jean displayed the collection aury
School seueral eeks her classmates s0amped NTH
offers to scap, but the to all Dery firm "no
Evening star., 1945-08-12
W0yd tumble Aus,cers

!, Curtain; 2, lizard; 8, opossum;
hnoleum; 8. cards; {. tray.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
THE FARMER DOES IT AGAIN

II there is any farm problem which might stump
the American former completely we, for one won't
undertake to soy whot it might be.
Time and again. especially during the world
emergency, he hos fooed "nsoIuble" problems. He
hos been called upon repeatedly to do things thot,
by all rules Of logic, simply couldn't be DONE Con-
fronted with labor ond nonpower shortages unpor-
oIeIed, he hos been asked to produce as formers
never have produced before. Yet he hos done just
that - settlement that opplies to American farm
everywhere.
Thus. only because formers have done the inn
possible often before, it becomes less astonishing
that the nations wheat growers have refused to be
licked by problems resulting from the biggest crop
and the worst Shortages Of storage and tronsporto
tion facilities in history In one way or another he
is managing to hold to mrocuIousy low levels the
wheat losses that could costly have reached disaster
proportions.
We don't pretend to know how he hos done it
Just os we don't know how he has done the ''impos-
sibe'' so often in the post. But it might be simply
thot the word impossible doesn't appear in the die
tionory the American farmer uses.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
. IN HOLLYWOOD

boy, he was given so cents a
week for music lessons, and that
Chico shopped around until he
found a teacher who gave him
lessons for IS cents a week.
Nevertheless, I have always
been flattered by the attitude
taken by the press in the affairs
of the Marx Brothers. Thus
when I received a request from
that witty and eminent New
York critic and columnist, Irv-
ing Hoffman, for a clew to the
plot of "A Night in Casablanca,"
l had no other choice but to
answer him.
So, without thinking. I sat
down and wrote the following:
In A Night in Casablanca,'
I play a doctor who ministers to
the natives and, as a sideline,
hawks can openers and pea
Jackets to the natives along the
Gold coast of Africa. When I
first meet Chico, he Is working
in a saloon, selling sponges to
bar flies who are unable to car
ry their liquor.
"Harpo is an Arabian caddy
who lives in a small Greciau
urn.
There are many scenes OF
splendor and fierce antagonism,
and Color, an Abyssinian mes
senger boy. runs Riot. Riot, in
case you have never been there,
is small night club on the edge
of town. All this has been okay-
ed by the Hays office, Good
Housekeeping and the survivors
of the Haymarket Riots, and II
the times are ripe, this can be
the opening gun in a new world
wide disaster"