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Evening star., 1950-04-23
Bridge PIoyers
By Morqoret |. Fisher

The Southeastern Regionals
concluded last Sunday in Miami
brought top honors to another
Wasfingtonian. Mrs. Brecken-
ridge Long. Paired with Mrs
Kenneth Lewis of Palm Beach
Mrs. Long distinguished herself
by finishing in a tie with Phila-
delphia's aces, Mrs. Marie Basher
and Mrs. Olive Peterson, to share
the women's pair title.
Other localities who annexed
"red points" by finishing in honor
positions in the week-long series
were Mrs. Gregg CuStis and Mrs
George Kathan, who topped theil
section of the Fort Lauderdale
pair event. ending sixth overall in
the 68-pair field. Sixth place
awards also spiked Kathleen Nc.
Nuts master point collection
Partnered by Clarence Myers OF
Miami. Miss McNutt finished with
honors among the 96 duos in the
mixed pair contest.
Important dates for Washington
Bridge Leaguers to remember
May 10. annual meeting and elec-
ton of officers. June 8, 10, II
fifth annual Potomac Valley
championships at the Shoreham
Hotel. Also, the WBL open-pai,
club championship, carrying q
local master point rating. is ten
tatively scheduled for May "a
and 81.
Major local event of a week
that boasted six master point con-
tests was the Washington Bridge
League match last Wednesday.
Evening star., 1950-04-23

The show will be on view through
May 5. by which time one paint
ing will have been selected for
acquisition.
Most visitors will probably enjoy
selecting one or more works that
appeal to them. This pastime is
purely recreational. The univer-
sity's committee of selection has
not asked for opinions from the
public. But my interest in the dis
play was increased by endeavor-
ing to decide which works I felt
would have enduring interest for
me.
These include two contemporary
romantic paintings. Raymond
Breinin's haunting little "Sea-
side" and Hobson Pittman's
charming Interpretation of the
Victorian era, "The Convalescent";; |;
Yves Tanguy's surrealistic "Feu
Couleur," truly a magic case
ment";; George Picken's sirnpli-
Evening star., 1950-04-23

l12i4 P street NV. After leaving
the Census Bureau, Gen. Francis
A. Walker became president Of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
nology.
I Robert p. Porter was the super
intendent OF the llth census, and
established his bureau first at
Third and G streets NV. until
the completion Of the Interocean
Building. the tall structure . door
or two south Of the Washington
Loan & Trust Building. This
architect Of this building vas j L.
Smithmeyer and II was completed
in the early part Of 1890.
The employees OF the census of
1900 and 1910. as stated. were
housed in the Emery Building st
Second and r streets NV, Will
liam r. Merriam being director Of
the former and Z. Dana Durand
director of the latter. This build
ing was probably the best one for
the purpose ever used By the
Census Bureau.
Sam L. Rogers was director oi
the l4th census in 1920, and Will
liam NJ. Steuart, the assistant
director. later became director OF
the 18th census.
The present home Of the bureau
was erected in 1910 and Is located
between Second and Third streets
and Virginia avenue and D street
S.W. Roy Teel is the director.
Temporary war buildings at Sixth
street and Missouri avenue. In the
Mall, were used for the census OF
1 mon
Evening star., 1950-04-23

THE ENCHAFED FLOOD: Three
Critical Essays on the Romantic
Spirit
BY w. H. Auden. Random
House, NeD York $2.50.J
This book is composed OF lee
lures delivered by Mr.. Auden at
the University Of Virginia. The
principal works are Coleridge's
The Ancient Mariner" Carroll's
THE Hunting of the Shark" Ger
aid Manley Hopkins The Wreck
of the Deutschland" Jules Vernes
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea" and poems by Baudelaire
and Rimbaud and novels by Her.
man Melville. The idea Is to trace
each authors conception of God,
society and individual in his treat
ment of single theme-the sea.
1t is bright, amusing, intellectual
exercise. learned and witty but
overpreciouS. e. T.
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Corner
Coins
BY Ted Hammer
'NU ''N"''''S'
librorien. the Amsrieon NVmlsmo'is
Auoeio,ion

librorian, the Amsrieon Nvrlsmo'is
A,soeiotion
Leading speciality Of coin coll
lectors is that Of the old large
cents, minted from 1893 through
1887, with the exception Of 1918.
Other specialties. such as COM
memoratives. tokens, paper money
and Colonials, go through cycles
during which they are highly pop
ular for a few years.
But the interest in large cents
has not Jagged since the ls50s.
No one has explained the reason
for this. Numismatic Librarians
verify the fact. however, stating
that the demand for books on
large cents goes on year after
year.
There perhaps are several rea-
sons for the popularity OF the
large cents. One is that despite
the fact they have not been made
since 1887. they are relatively in
expensive for most years. This is
because so many were made every
year. Another reason for their
popularity is that they were issued
yearly except in 1918 when a FIRE
at the mint made 1t necessary to
halt all work.
One more reason Is the number
OF varieties available. Many COL
lectors go in for this speciality in
which coins even Of the same year
often differ in some smail or i'm
portant detail. There are several
varieties OF the 1893 cent, first
year Of issue. for example. Dif-
ferences include cents with and
without period in the date. with
and without liberty cap on q
pole. and so on.
Some so different varieties are
known Of the 1894 cent, the sec
ond year Of issue. In later years.
sizes Of dates varied. words were
misspelled, stems were omitted
from wreaths, and In one year
Miss Liberty was said TO have
"booby head"
Evening star., 1950-04-23
News Of Art and Artists
Miss MechIin's Aid
To Society Recalled
At Presentation
Of Sculpture
By Florence S. Berrymon

Leila Mechlin, art critic Of The
Evening and Sunday Star for
forty-five years, was commemo-
rated last Sunday afternoon at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art when a
group Of friends and members of
The Washington Society of the
Fine Arts presented to the Gallery
in her name. a wood sculpture,
Peasant Mother" by Heinz War
neke. Albert w. Atwood, president
of the Society, made the presenta-
ton speech, and the work was ac-
cepted by Hermann w. williams,
jr.. director Of the Gallery.
Miss Mechlin was the founder
and for many years secretary of
The Washington Society of the
Fine Arts. organized in 1905.
Never a large organization, it
averaged about 200 members an
nually through its considerable
life. But 1t played an important
role in Washington's cultural af-
fairs. and was the parent body of
the great national organization,
The American Federation of Arts.
After giving a brief biography
Of Miss Mechlin and paying trib-
ute to her intellectual leadership
and fortnight character, Mr.. At
wood said:
She had great ability as an Or
eanizer and administrator, was
dedicated to art as an integral
part of our national life. While
her flaming spirit inspired it, The
Washington Society of the Fine
Arts did useful work"
Mr.. Warneke's teakwood sculp-
ture depicts a sturdy young wom-
an seated on the ground, nursing
her infant son. Her posture is one
of attentive protection. tt is a
strong and simplified composition
of curves. The artist is instructor
In sculpture at the Corcoran
School of Art. The work was Sc
lected by a committee composed
of Mr.. Atwood. Macgill James, as
sistant director of the National
Gallery of Art, Mrs. Edward B.
Meigs and Miss Emily Millard.
With its presentation, the society's
long and useful life was brought
to a conclusion.
Evening star., 1950-04-23

Pastel portrait OF Nellie Cas-
tbs, Stepdaughter of George
Washington, made about 1902
by James Sharples, recently
presented to WoodlaWn Fou1-
dation by Mrs. Atlsa Mellon
Bruce.
fed, well-designed landscape,
Road to Lee; Henry Varnum
Poor's breezy woodscape, white
Cloud; Milton Avery's Amen.
ores" in which he handled his
large fiat color areas more
satisfactorily than in some of his
works; Sidney Laufman's arrest
ing modern still life, Blue and
Green jug" There is also one
notably decorative early 18th CEN
tury painting by Susan Shaw
"Wistarberg Bowl of Fruit"
Bernice Cross's Lotest
Bernice Cross creates unusual
still life compositions, demon
strating a fair for pattern and
original treatment of forms, ano
combining sombre colors in effec-
tive schemes. Several such paint
ings give distinction to her one.
artist show at the Whyte Gallery
through May S, composed of re.
cent works shown for the first
time (anywhere).
THE Mirror" is perhaps the
best of the new still life paintings
in arrangement and textures as
we'll as the olive-brown, green
black and white celors. Oriental
Wind Music" is fresher in color
suggesting the tinkle of the glass
pendants.
Miss Cross's heads and figures
seem less successful to me. al.
though some people find them
"wistful," Enchanting" and other
complimentary terms. But the
title of one of them, "Wooder
Head" impressed me as appro-
pirate to most of them.
Her painting Shore" with it,
feline cat, suspicious birds, litera
dipper and other WITNESSES, harks
back to the. delightful, authen.
tically naive works she painted
during the thirties, and which sht
has more or less abandoned ir
favor of the figures and head,
with their hypnotic stares.
Born in Iowa. Miss Gross ha.
been a Washington resident fol
nearly two decades. She studied
at the Corcoran School, at the
Evening star., 1950-04-23
AAUW Water CoIors

Water colors by Alice L. Wood
will be shown at the rooms of the
Washington branch of the AAUW,
174o K street NV, Friday and
Saturday from 10 to 4, sponsored
by the Arts Group. Miss Wood
was formerly on the faculty of
Western High School, but in 1910
moved to North Carolina. She
has spent the last four winters in
Washington. but maintains a sum-
mer home in Carolina. She studied
water color painting in Blowing
Rock.
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Chess
By Donald H. Mueridee

J' y. WlHlamS U U "a u N-oE
This cross-score shows the COM
plete results in the 1850 cham
pionship tourney of the Federal
Chess Club. which terminated last
week in the decisive victory of Ed
mund Nash. He won his final
game from George S. Thomas
whom he outplayed on the white
side of Ruy Lopez, and so fin
ished unbeaten with four wins and
two draws. William j. Nucker was
thereby left alone in second po-
sition, Thomas and Collins hav-
ing sunk to bracket below him.
1t is the fourth time that Mr..
Nash has held this title. the last
occasion having been in 1946.
Another In the great series of
Mar del Plata tournaments has
been completed in Argentina.
Three members of the Yugoslav
team in their late match with the
United States participated, and
one of them.' Svetozar Gligorich,
carried off first prize with the
score II Us u and the loss of only
one game, to Julio Balbochan.
Two Argentinians, Carlos Gut
mard and Hector Rossetto, split
the next two prizes half point
behind Gligorich. Another Ar
gentinian, Balbochan. shared
fourth and fifth with another
Yugoslav, Vasya Pirc. at 101a-6L2
each. In the next two places were
Erich Eliskases. who came again
from Brazil but failed to repeat
his triumph Of last year, and Her.
man Pink, who has at last re-
turned to Argentina from his long
stay In New York. with 1877.
Two tournaments of great in
terest are now in progress. AT
Budapest seven Russians and
three non-Russians are playing to
determine who shall challenge
Mikhail Botvinnik for the cham
pionship of the world. The seven
are Boleslavsky. Bronstein, Flohr,
KereS, Kotov, Lilienthal and Smy-
SLOW; the three are Najdorf of Ar
gentina, Stahlberg of Sweden and
Szabo of Hungary. After flour
rounds Bronstein and Najdorf had
I2h-1l2; Boleslavsky and Keres
had 2-1, with an adjourned game
between them to play off.
At Southsea, England, a large
field is contesting a Swiss system;
after six rounds Arthur Bisguier OF
the Manhattan Chess Club was
tied for the lead with the veteran
DR.. Tartakover and a 15-year-old
Londoner, Jonathan Penrose.
In the third round of the Dis
trict championship only two play
erS maintained a perfect score
Nash, who eliminated M. L. Seid-
Gilman, and Thomas, who elm
mated Sam Schwartz after the
latter had overstepped the time
limit. M. c. Stark made 212 by
winning an adjourned end game
from H. E. Cimermanis, and o.
Shapiro came level with him by
demolishing H. w. Steinbach. H.
Berliner and N. Robins fell below
them by drawing a hard-fought
game, in which Robins was a
pawn ahead, but could not win
the ending. Both of the Paragon
Club entries won in this round, c.
Gardner from r. j. Torcaso and
F. Miller from G. O'Rourke. Will
liam F. Gray won a neatly ham
died attack from j. r. Rice, which
forms our second entry for the
Hughes prize:
White-GRAY Rlack-RIer
Evening star., 1950-04-23

Rating point games also drew
attendance last week. Lynn Car
rier-John r. Griffith and the j.
Fred Stavers were tops In the
Arlington Farms Duplicate Club
Mitchell on April IA. Mrs. George
Kathan and Mrs. H. r. Young
were Howell winners at the
Stephan Studio matinee on
April 10.
Evening star., 1950-04-23

wilmington Academy OF Fine Arts,
and under c. Law Watkins at
Studio House. The children's ward
in the Sanatorium at Glenn Dale
and Children's Hospital here. have
murals by her.
D. G. ond Baltimore
The Phillips Gallery's annual
Paintings by Artists of Washing
ton and Baltimore and Vicinity"
opened last Sunday to remain
through May 16. It comprises 80
paintings by % artists, few hav-
ing two works each.
Many of the exhibits are famil-
lar, being loans from the Phillips
Gallery's collection and from the
Watkins Memorial. Some of the
paintings date from the early
1930s. offering interesting COM
parsons.
William Calfee's mysterious.
beautifully painted DEPRESSION"
0944 and Autumn Leaves" are
both closer to popular understand
ing than his latest works. gen.
orally speaking. Herman Maril's
Cleaners" d935) and Recon-
struction" Qast year, demonstrate
his progress along his chosen path
of interpreting today's structures
and industry in clean. spare forms
stripped to their essentials and
nicely integrated.
Marjorie Phillips beautiful
White Tulips" and Alice Ache
sons Convent Garden" are the
most traditional paintings on view.
Jack Perlmutter's flowers against
brick wall with a glimpse of dis
tant buildings, has a sharp. sunny
clarity. Robert Gates Winter
Sun" 194O I think is one of the
best of his recent works. Lucille
Evans continues reminiscent of
Odilon Redon.
Much of the exhibition is as
familiar as an old refrain, worth
hearing again.
First Solo
The central Public Library's
April exhibition comprises water
colors and drawings by Dorothy
Miller Ffatt, her first exhibition
anywhere, Nearly 80 works on dis
play, are uneven in quality, but
bear witness to the young artist S
experimental interest in various
approaches.
The show has expressionistic
figure paintings such as Torch
Singer" appropriately sultry; some
spare but telling pen sketches of
animals, several nude studies, a
number of splashy distractions, a
few impressionistic urban and
rural scenes, and group OF
charming, unpretentious gouaches
and water colors of children, which
impressed me as her best work.
The figures are truly childlike in
appearance and gestures. There
is also little portrait of Suzanne
Bloch in 18th century costume at
the Folger Library in program
on old musical instruments which
will be recalled with pleasure by
those who had the privilege of
hearing it. Incidentally, the Folger
is celebrating this afternoon, the
386th birthday of Shakespeare.
Mrs. Fratt is graduate of
Mount Vernon Junior College
where she majored in art. She
also studied at the Corcoran
School of Art, at the Phillips
School under c. Law Watkins and
with Karl Knaths. She is now
teaching art at Mount Vernon
Seminary.
AAUW Voter CoIors
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Librory Openings

Tomorrow is red letter day at
the Library of Congress, which
will open with an invitation recep-
ton, an exhibition in honor of its
one hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary, and will also open the an
nual Pennell show of contempo-
rary American prints. Both will
remain for some months, and will
be reviewed here later. in detail.
0Itt to Woodlown
Virginia's newest shrine, Wood
lawn. one-time home of Nellie
Custis Lewis, has just received a
gift esthetically charming. his
torically important and uniquely
appropriate. from Mrs. Ailsa Mel
Ion Bruce daughter of the late
Andrew Mellon, founder of the
National Gallery of Art). 1t is a
pastel portrait of Nellie, STEP
daughter of George Washington,
painted about 1902 by James
Sharples. The portrait is now on
view at the National Gallery. but
will soon be hung at Woodlawn.
three miles from Mount Vernon
on No. l highway.
Shown publicly only twice be-
fore, the pastel was diScov-
cred in Chevy Chase nearly twenty
years ago by Mrs. McCook Knox
of Georgetown. author of def1ni-
tive book on the Sharpleses. The
previous public showings were in
1889 at the Metropolitan Opera
House. New York. on the occasion
of the centennial celebration of
the inauguration of Washington,
and in 1882, when Mrs. Knox per-
suaded the owners to display it in
the Corcoran Gallery's George
Washington bicentennial exhibi-
ton.
This charming profile portrait
Of the young woman, with life
like flesh tints against deep blue
background, is a welcome addition
to the growing collection of rare
antiques being assembled to re-
furnish historic Woodlawn, under
direction of J. w. Rixey Smith,
president of the Foundation. now
engaged in a Embarrassing cam
paign with the goal set at $82, 900.
to free this famous Landmark from
debt and thus secure it for poster
ity.
Evening star., 1950-04-23
Objective and Otherwise

The Watkins Gallery OF Ameri-
can University opened last Sunday
It's annual exhibition of paintings
from which one will be purchased
to augment its art collection
There is no attempt in this show
to provide a comprehensive re-
view of contemporary painting
nor even a cross section. The
works assembled represent a va
riety of approaches. The Gallery
disclaims any preoccupation with
particular schools, movements, in
fluences or names.
Nevertheless. the current show
of "a paintings includes works
by several artists of international
and quite a number with ma
tional regulations. There are
three Washington area painters
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-03-24

the supreme legislative authority of the
Union. If adopted by this Convention, the
resolution will have been approved by the
same body which has the power to amend
the Constitution and by the same proce-
dure. There is nothing in the Constitu-
ton which prohibits this action by Con-
vention to meet such an emergency as con-
fronts the Union at this time.
"This assessment being authorized is
not retroactive. 1t may be levied only be.
tween this and the next Convention.
'The provisions of Section ID, Is and
16 of Article XVI of the Constitution, gov
erning assessments in excess of 81, apply
only in the absence of action by the Con-
vention authorizing additional emergency
strike assessments. The limitations in
those sections will continue to govern
assessments except as provided by this
resolution.
'In other words, the Executive Board
can levy more than 81 only in keeping
with the provisions of this resolution. This
assessment, when levied, is as binding as
though written in the Constitution, and
any worker not paying this assessment is
delinquent just as though he failed to pay
any other assessment provided for in the
Constitution"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-03-24

fects all citizens wherever they may live. This
is so because Mr.. Taft is the undisputed leader
Of this program, especially on the domestic
field, in the US. Senate.
This alone would be of national concern.
But there is more to it, as Mr.. Alsop so clear
ly points out
The fight in Ohio may very well decide the
outcome of the 1852 Presidential election cam
pagn For if Mr. Taft is successful in his fight
to retain his seat in the Senate he will be the
dominant candidate for the Republican presi-
dental nomination two years hence. No one,
especially in the camp of organized labor -
in or out of Ohio - should underestimate this
salient fact,
TT is FREQUENTLY pointed out and we
Il readily admit - that Mr.. Taft is an liable"
Senator; that he, Is very hard worker. Un-
fortunately for u.s. the masses of common folks
all over the country, Mr.. Tafts vaunted "abli-
ty" and "hard work" is utilized to further pro-
grams and policies that are inimical to our
interests. Mr.. Taft is continually advocating
and fighting for the old line Republican pro-
gram that is reminiscent of forty or fifty years
ago.
Mr. Taft wants to reinsttute the Republican
program of the roaring twenties" that lead
our country--under the outstanding expon-
ent of this philosophy Herbert Hoover-into
the greatest economic disaster in all history.
Mr.. Taft despses the labor movement and
has no faith in true collective bargaining. The
dominant role that he played in the enactment
of the notorious law that bears his name, the
Taft-Hartley Act is certainly ample proof of
this. Mr. Taft wants the power of the us.
Government to be at the beck -and-call of in
dustrialists, through mandatory court injunc-
tions, to be used against unions if and when
such unions should ever threaten the overflow
ing Golfers of Big Business
Mr.. Taft played the stellar role in wrecking
OPA and the entire price-control mechanism
of the government right after the war. In this
connection, who does not recall the promises
of Mr.. Taft, the promises of the u S. Chamber
of Commerce and the Manufacturers Associa-
tion and all other Segments of Big Business
that the elimination of OPA and price control
would mean a reduction in prices" They said
that this would be accomplished by the "natur-
al functioning of our economic system - by
the inevitable law of supply and demand"
TT is ALMOST FOUR YEARS now since OPA
was wiped out What about prices? Have
they come down "in accordance with are natur-
al functioning OF our system?" The hell they
did Maybe here and there in recent months
few insignificant drops have been noted, but
by and large prices are at least 500 over what
they were when Mr. Taft killed OPA.
AT the same time corporation profits have
zoomed TO fantastic heights Yes under the
much abused Truman Administration-abus
and reviled especially by Taft and his Repub-
lican cohorts in the Congress-Big Business
has been able to shatter all previous records
in the field of profits and dividends.