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Evening star., 1948-02-15
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Fidelity-Wednesday, reception to
Associate Grand Patron John Mich
OILS.
Washington Centennial-Monday,
rehearsal for officers. Wednesday,
Home Board with Mrs. Isabelle
Brewton. Friday, initiation.
st. John's-Monday, thirty-fourth
anniversary.
Lebanon-Tuesday, Home Board
with Mrs. Beulah McNeill.
Esther-Tuesday, S pm, rehears-
al. Thursday, initiation.
Bethany Thursday, Sunshine
Committee with Mrs. Estelle Catlin.
Friday, initiation.
Joseph H. Milans-Thursday, hon
oring George Washington's birth
day Evening Bridge Club with Mrs.
Kate Buckingham.
Brookland - Wednesday, Home
Board and Endowment Committee,
1870 pm, with Campbell-Loeffler
Sewing Club, Masonic and Eastern
Star Home Friday, Ways and
Means card party with Mrs. Alma
Marshal. Saturday, past matrons
banquet and installation of officers,
$50 pm. Dodge Hotel
Gavel-Tuesday, initiation and
birthday celebration. Thursday,
Home Board with Gertrude Furman
Naomi - Monday, Endowment
Committee with Miss Virginia Ham,
merly. Saturday, etyle show with
Mrs. Grace Bliss
Loyalty Wednesday, George
Washington program.
Martha-Tuesday, Home Board
with Mrs. Ida Cheves. Friday,
reception for Grand Conductress
Ray K. Wonderly.
Congress-Monday, balloting.
Mizpah-Tuesday, mems night.
Areme - Wednesday, honoring
birthdays, moving pictures, bring
your friends. Friday, Ways and
Means card party with Mrs. Ellen
Beavers.
Federal - Tuesday, Friendship
Club with Mrs. Matte Maloney.
Wednesday, Home Board with Mrs.
Kate Hedrick.
Acacia-Tuesday, Valentine party.
Ruth-Monday, birthdays honored
and Stansbury Masonic Lodge en-
tertained.
LaFayette-Friday, 7:30 pm, re-
hearsal for officers.
East Gate-Monday, Home Board
with Mrs. Lola Heise.
Tuesday-Rehearsal for officers
7:30 pm.
Local Ben Hur News
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Local Ben Hur News

Meetings this week:
Potomac Court-Monday evening,
Pythian Temple.
Mckinley Court-Tuesday eve
ming, Pythian Temple
Congressional Court-Wednesday
evening, home of Elmer johnson.
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Public Library
Rulaxraina & Eif{n1d
Assistant, Sociology Division.

With the advent of June many =
girl is making plans for that great
est day in her life-her wedding.
The books here recommended will
be of great help in making any girl
bride in the best and most beau
titul tradition.
Marguerite Bentley's book, We'd
ding Etiquette is the true answer
to a maidens prayer, for in one
volume it tells the bride everything
she needs to know about planning
her wedding and enjoying 1t. Any
kind OF service, be 1t formal, mill
tary. garden, or the simplest home
ceremony, is covered in detail.
If actual pictures of suggested
bridal gowns. budget suggestions or
unusual ideas for wedding parties
are needed, consult Edyth Thor
ton McLeod's, THE Brides Book" )"
1t will be a tremendous help In
making any girl the bride of her
dreams,
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and his wife, Mary Lee CFitzhugh>
Gusts. Mr.. Custis was of distin-
guished ancestry, being the young
est of the four children of Mrs.
Washington's son, John Parke
Gusts.
The builder of Arlington House
came by the property through the
death OF his father, John Parke
Custis, before mentioned, who had
purchased 1t on December Is, 1778,
from Gerard Alexander. For the
1.100 acres secured by him, and
which the tract then contained. he
paid 1,1o0 pounds in Virginia cur
rency.
The old mansion, after lapse of
more than a century and a quarter,
seems to be in a substantial condi-
ton and is about as near the orig
inal as any building Of its age could
be. 1t was designed after the Tenn
pie of Theseus, at Athens, with walls
of brick, succeed, the bricks used
having been made on what is now
the Fort Myer property. The tall,
massive columns which may be seen
at a great distance are of a most
perfect Greek type of architecture,
Prior to the Civil War. 1t was by
many considered the finest specl-
men of a residence in the Southern
States, and today only the White
House and Mount Vernon can be
said to be better known.
Open to the Public
Mr.. Gusts was one OF the, most
popular men in and around Wash
ington and his handsome estate was
always open to picnic parties from
the Capital City up to the time OF
his death. He even provided tables
and benches for those wishing to
avail themselves of his hospitality,
the only restriction being against
the bringing upon the grounds. OF
intoxicating liquors. ~ He was a
ready speaker. and was frequently
invited to speak at public meetings
and to deliver the grafton on patri-
otic holidays. In addition to this,
he painted many scenes of the Rev
olutionary War, wrote number of
historic plays. and, above all, loved
to speak In reverent terms Of the
Father of His Country, of whose i'm
mediate family he was the last
survivor.
Although the history OF Arlington
Is replete with it's gay and sad
events, no doubt the most interesting
thing to take place here during the
life of Mr. Custis was the marriage
Of his only child and daughter, Mary
Ann Randolph Custis, to 1t. Robert
E. Lee, the ceremony being per-
formed by the Rev. Reuel Keith In
the drawing room of the mansion
on Thursday, June 80, 1881.
However, little Of this important
event seems to be recorded. The
National Intelligencer for July g.
1881, gives simply the following note
MARRIAGE
at arlington House, by the
Reu. DR.. Keith, 1t. Robert Lee
of the United States Corps OF En-
gineerS to Miss Mary A. r. Gus
tbs, only daughter OF G. w. P.
Custis, Esq"
Elsewhere we are told there were
in attendance at the wedding six
bridesmaids. one of whom WAS Brit
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Three Centuries

Watkins Gallery, American Uni
versity. opened last week end a
comprehensive Photographic history
of American architecture entitled
Houses. U. S. A.. 1607-l946." pre-
pared by Life Magazine. 1t will
remain only through tomorrow.
Enlarged photographs mounted
on Al ALUMINIUM panels illustrate
American architecture by single
dwellings from its earliest begin
nings to now. Each of the seven
general divisions of the show is in
troduced by a short explanatory
paragraph, taken together they
constitute a brief history of the
subject.
The opening section includes maps
and drawings of the importation OF
17th century European building
forms and their adaptation tc
changes in climate, materials, etc.
in the New World. Eighteenth CEN
tury houses demonstrate the Colonia,
style developing in various parts o1
the country. Transition from Colo.
nies to Republic is represented ir
the works of four leading architects
McIntire. Bulfinch, Jefferson anc
Latrobe. Other 10Th century anc
Goth century styles are traced, after
which the exhibition emphasizes the
work Of Richardson, Sullivan ane
! Wright, forerunners of the mos
creative contemporary architecture
Houses of the past decade occupy
the last panels.
This show was organized by Life
for the Inter er-American Office Of
the National Gallery of Art, which
will circulate throughout Latir
America sets with Portuguese ant
Spanish texts.
An exhibition of work by student.
and associates of the department o.
painting and sculpture of American
| University opened Simultaneous.
with Houses"
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Emotion and Construction

Since the Corcoran Gallery of Art
disclaimed any intention of putting
UP for comparison the four one-man
exhibitions which opened May 8, and
since each is an end in itself and
comprises sufficient number of
works to give a good idea of the
artists achievement. it seems to me
that each is worthy of a separate
appraisal and offers an opportunity
10 learn something of the artist S
own objectives. Having given an
introduction to the quartet in these
columns the day the shows opened
I propose to devote space each week
TO an examination of one of these
collections of paintings.
Having seen and liked the work OF
Margaret Gates during decade or
more. in group shows and several
solo exhibitions, l was surprised to
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Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings and sculpture by great
masters.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National COL
lection of Fine Arts Constitution
avenue and Tenth street--Amer-
,ean ,san paintings from pFvste as colee- ioans
Pen Women's Biennial Exhibition,
through today
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
of Graphic Arts, independence ave-
nue. and Tenth street-Prints by
Rudi Lesser, through June 20.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street d and Jef1eTson d priVeGrl
ings and etchings by whistler and
other American artists; changing
exhibits.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street between New York
avenue and E street-American
4. Clark collection. New exhibi.
tions of water colors by artists of
Washington and vicinity. Amer
lean drawings, through September.
Four 3ne-man % exhi6itions' sI,tan Gates Gates,
September IL.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
ings and prints: Washington, Bal
timore Artists Annual ,through
May. Paintings by Marjorie
Phillips, through June 15.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Cap
itol and First streets--Division OF
Prints. Sixth Annual Print Exhibi-
ton, through August 10.
ARTS CLUB, 2017 ! street NV
Exhibition by Burtis Baker and
UNITED NATIONS CLUB. 1901 Nine
teenth street N.W.-PaintineS
WATKINS GALLERY. American Uni
versity campus-Student exhibit
ton Houses, U. S. A" through
tomorrow.
PUBLIC LIBRARY-Eighth and K
streets N.W.-children' work,
through tomorrow.
DUMBARTON OAKS COLLECTION.
1903 Thlrty-second street NV
Byzantine art. Closed Mondays:
Open daily, 8 am. to 4 pm; Sun
days, 2 to 5 pm.
PAN AMERICAN UNION. Constitution
N.W.-Paintings Of Lasar segall
through tomorrow.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Sixth street
and Howard place N.W.-East In
dian Art. through tomorrow.
WHYTE GALLERY, 151s Connecti-
cut avenue N.W-Exhibition i'm
pressionS Of Washington. through
tomorrow.
ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, 1908 X
street N.W-New exhibition.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY, 1877
Randolph place NW-Paintings by
Benjamin Abramowitz, through
tomorrow.
STUDIO GROUP, 4 Hillyer court
Oils, water colors. ceramics. sculp-
ture. Sundays only, to T pm
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tania Peter, cousin. who later
married Capt. Beverly Kennon
U. S. NJ, and who lived in Tudor
place, in Georgetown. 1t was this
naval officer who lost his life or
February %, 1874, while on the triaI
trip of the Princeton, on the Poto-
mac, when a gun exploded, killing
besides Commodore Kennon. Secre-
tary Abel P. Upshur of the. Navy
David Gardner. former State Sena-
tor of New York. and several others
They were buried from the east
room of the White House.
In Borrowed Pluma9e
In connection with the marriage
of Gen. Lee. an amusing story is
told, as follows:
I'm the early evening preceding
the hour fixed for the ceremony,
heavy thunderstorm came up. rather
unfortunately for the Rev. Mr.
Meade. who was yet on the road
and who reached the house thor
oughly drenched. 1t was impossible
for him to conduct the ceremony
without some change of raiment
and they were obliged to supply him
with a suit of clothes belonging to
Mr.. Custis, father of the bride. Un-
luckily for the fit of these garments
Mr.. Custis was short and stout, the
clergyman tall and thin, and he
presented ludicrous appearance to
those who saw him in his borrowed
plumage. However, the ample folds
of the surplice covered all the de-
fects, and the guests were unaware
Of the awkward predicament OF the
dignified divine"
1t may be that Mr.. Meade as
sisted at the marriage, otherwise the
name Meade in this story is an
error. since the participating clergy
mans name was Keith.
When the Civil War came on and
Gen. Lee took sides with the South,
Mrs. Lee was left behind in charge
Of Arlington and, realizing that her
estate would in all probability be
debatable territory between the con-
tending forces, she made hasty prep
arations to leave there by removing
many of the precious relics of the
Washington family farther to the
south, she herself going to Ravens
worth, the home of relatives. near
Fairfax Court House.
! First Soldier Burial
The first burial of soldier In
Arlington was that OF L. Reinhardt
Confederate soldier of the 23o
North Carolina Regiment, which
took place on May 13, 1864, and the
following day II Union soldiers were
inferred in the presence of Presi-
dent Lincoln. The Confederate SOL
dier, Reinhardt, was a prisoner OF
war and had died in the military
hospital nearby,
This estate was a part of the grant
or patent from Sir William Berkeley
Governor Of Virginia, to Robert
Howser, dated october 81. 1869, un-
der which John and Gerard Alex
ander asserted title as late as l735
Gerard Alexander by his will. Au-
gust 8, 1760, devised the same to his
son Gerard, and said Gerard and
mis- wife Jane conveyed the same
to John Parke Custis, as stated.
| John Parke Gusts died intestate
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get a somewhat different impression
(but just as favorable) from the
present display, because 1t does not
represent any radical departure
from what has gone before. The
paintings now at Corcoran, repre-
senting her work during the last
three years, seem to me romantic,
poetic and feminine. Two paintings
depict the hush of dusk, when the
street lamps have just been lit. Sew
eral country landscapes and glimpses
of farm houses have the solitude,
gentle melancholy and subtle colors
of cloudy or snowy DAYS. Our
Road in Snow" (which belongs to
the Phillips Gallery is the very
essence of November.
Mrs. Gates displays indignation In
one of her latest paintings, entitled
Where Every Prospect PleaseS," :"
transcribing a lovely grove of dog
wood and redbud trees in bloom,
serving as backdrop to dump
heap. This is feminine reaction
to a common and deplorable sit
uatlon.
In her paintings of this year, there
is a more obvious feeling for pat
tern. She manages to achieve an
atmosphere of quietude and repose
in several paintings, in which ver-
ticals are dominant; the rectangu-
lar beehives in an apiary dncluding
also some ingratiating flower paint
ing); the monuments in a cemetery,
contrasted with the fame of scarlet
sage, and the aquarium in win
dow, making picture within a
picture-Something new in still life.
The Dead Bluebird" is tender
little morceau.
Mrs. Gates primary aim, accord
ing to her own statement, is not to
transfer to canvas a little piece of
nature. but to create a new object
with an independent existence -
picture" She says that her own
paintings usually have subject"
which is for her merely a starting
point-a theme on which to COM
pose. MY paintings are not literal
transcriptions of particular place
or thing. and I seldom work directly
from the subject" she said, but
added that observation and study
precede each painting, and she
sketches constantly from nature.
1T pleases me- she continued, "if
what I have felt about subject is
understood by an observer, but the
expression of an emotion is only one
element of picture and not neces-
sarily a durable one. 1t is the
abstract construction. the attempt
to bring into harmonious whole
the form. color. lines, texture, which
the subject suggests, that interests
me most. I would rather have a
picture looked at, as an end in it
self entirely apart from what may
have inspired it, and judged by how
well its elements have been related
to each other and to the space in
which they exist"
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Denmark, whence he came to the
United States.
Some of the scenes of his unsettled
IS years are reflected in the present
exhibition of % prints. many OF
which are unique impressions, as
most of the plates are lost. There
are glimpses of German countryside
Copenhagen. Ostende Harbor. Paris,
Versailles, Goteburg. Visby Island
Of Gotland) and. finally, Flushing
N. Y, something of an anticlimaX
However, they are not views of pic
turesque old architecture or famous
places, but are bleak and somber
street scenes, with dark, substantial
old houses, cafes, etc, etched with
considerable detail, brooding over
streets along which incidental fig
ures pass, introduced mostly in out
line. This gives the people in the
prints an ephemeral quality, while
the architectural background ap-
pears permanent.
He shows number of harbor
scenes and fishermen which are
neutral" (neither sad nor cheerfuD
in atmosphere, and has particular
ly good industrial Harbor." Be-
sides the street and harbor scenes,
he also shows a few figure subjects,
inferior to the former.
MIR. Lesser is represented in Berlin
and Dresden museum collections,
also the New York Public Library,
and the Library of Congress. He
was recently awarded first prize by
the Society of American Etchers
for the best etching exhibited by a
nopmember of that organization.
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News About Stamps.
Ry lanes Waldo Fowcett

Government envelopes. A CORE
spondent in your April 8 issue men
tions a 'surcharged lh-cent albino'
mated with a normal envelope bear
ing the same overprint.
THE process in this case is one
of three stages: Cd The stamps are
first printed on the full-size, sheet
of fiat paper in groups. t2) The
printed sheets are forwarded to ma
chimes, where they are cut to shape,
folded and gummed. 80 The final
operation. in this case, is the print
ing of the surcharge, I "a on each
separate envelope
Your albino came about in this
way: at the first operation two
sheets stuck together and passed
through the press unnoticed. At the
second operation the two sheets be-
came separated and both-the print
ed and the albino sheets-passed
into the second stage, the forming
into envelopes. Again the blank
(albino) envelope was not noticed.
When the albino reached the third
Istage-the surcharging-it again es-
capped notice and found its way into
the regular run of 'normals,' even
tually reaching the public.
Il have purposely avoided techni-
cal terms of machines and opera
tions in order that this explanation
might be simple and clear"
Best selling foreign stamps in
Washington, according to D. Uyeno.
1905 Pennsylvania avenue NV, in
clude: Id and 21ad Channel Island
stamps of Great Britain, 10m Cot
ton Congress stamp of Egypt and 6f
plus 4f Louis Braille stamp of
France The last of these is COM
panion issue to the stamp which the
Argentine Republic issued in 1899 in
tribute to the inventor of raised type
for the blind.
Charles Hahn, stamp editor of the
Chicago SUM- Times, has published
a booklet entitled Helpful Hints for
Stamp Collectors" Copies available
at cents each, postpaid.
A special cachet has been pre-
pared by United Air Lines for first
day cover collectors to mark inaugu-
ration of main liner service June l
from Baltimore. The cachet depicts
Fort McHenry, birthplace of the
Star Spangled Banner. Covers
should be stamped and self-ad-
dressed with blank space approxi-
nfately 21s by 2la inches at the left
of the address to allow for affixing
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According to the Associated Press,
UNITED States lc stamps were sold
on a rationed basis at the elizabeth
IN. j. post Office last week after
word got around about some quick
400 per cent returns on each penny
purchase. Burdened with some 50,-
600 copies OF the 1916 issue stamps
ordered by a special purchaser
many years ago, but never caiieo
for. Postmaster John P. Leonard
nut them on sale finally when he
found they would fit newly IN
stalled vending machine. Some one
with a Scott catalogue discovered
that the 1916 George Washington
profile was worth &c each to col
lectors. and that set OF the stam-
pede. Purchasers jammed the post
Office building and asked for lots
of several, hundreds. Business, Mr.
Leonard concluded, was too GOOD,
and he ordered a rationlng system
set up of 10 stamps to a customer.
CIR. Chickering designed the -Four
Chaplains stamp, and the engraving
was done by Matthew D. Fenton
and Edward H. Helmuth. The WIS
consin statehood commemorative was
designed by Victor s. McCloskey, IT,,
with the engraving in the hands OF
Richard M. Bower and Charles A.
Smith.
A limited number of Navy Antarc-
tic Expedition covers, bearing the
U. S. S. Constitution stamp ana
postmariyed U. S. S. Edisto, AG-S9,
December 2, 1947, soon are expected
to appear in the market. The en-
velopes carry an attractive printed
cachet in green-blue representing
the map of the South Polar zone
and penguin.
August Dietz, ST., writes from
Richmond: Possibly I failed to
make the explanation clear-or did
not go far enough-in my recent
communication concerning alblno
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Phillips Memorial Gallery, include
landscapes, still life and figures, as
well as few portraits, which came
here from a three week showing in
New York City, her fifth solo exhi-
bition there The majority of them
were painted during the past three
years.
Mrs. Phillips is one of the fortu-
nate artists who know what they
want to do and are not diverted by
cross currents. The paintings on
view continue along the path she
has made familiar to Washington
art lovers for a quarter century, and
like her earlier work have the happy
faculty of commanding the respect
of other artists and also public
liking. The appraisal OF the show by
Duncan Phillips in the foreword to
the catalogue is so sympathetic and
'penetra ting that every visitor to the
gallery who reads it will have a
deeper appreciation of the paintings.
Nearly half depict flower and still
life arrangements with such ex-
.quisite color schemes that they will
probably be the items in the collec-
ton most admired by many visitors.
Her large colorful Carnations, )"
Morning Glory" Cn WedgWood
pitcher, roses and copper luster, the
superb "Poppies" and several others
depict particularly happy combina-
tions of blossoms, containers and
backgrounds. Among the landscapes
are a few of the far-reaching pano-
ramas over gently rolling country,
which she favors and has made
familiar.
A figure composition, Emerging
From an Air Raid" a preliminary
study of which was exhibited in
Washington during the war;, is
something of departure. She has
expressed the tension of the time
with diagonal lines, has fitted the
group well into the limited space
and has epitomized the reactions of
different ages and types under a
single stress.
NILS. FllllllpS llbClS llu llltl odUS-
.tion to Washington. But newcomers
will be interested to learn that she
IL native of Indiana. niece of
noted Painters Clifford and Reynolds
Real, the former of whom was one
OF her instructors. She also studied
under Kenneth Hayes Miller and
Poardman Robinson.
She is associate director of the
Phillips Memorial Gallery. yet man.
ages TO find time to paint. to the
extent of being able to send work
regularly to important ANIMALS. not
only here. but elsewhere Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh; the PennSyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts and
the Art Institute of Chicago. She
was also represented in the compre-
henSive exhibition of American
paintings shown at the Tate Gallery,
London, In 1916. Those who saw
the La Tausca exhibition at United
Nations Club in February will re-
call her landscape with trees which
is now touring the country in that
group. Since 1941, she has had solo
exhibitions in California, New Eng
land and here.