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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12
Democrats
Ask Adviser
Unit on Arts

Controversy over American
art to be exhibited in Moscow
was cited by Senator Hum
phrey, Democrat of Minnesota,
and Representative Thompson,
Democrat of New Jersey, yes
terday as evidence of the need
for a Federal advisory council
on the arts.
They complained that Presi-
dent Eisenhower made a most
unfortunate" news conference
comment last week on the sub
ject. They especially took issue
with his promise to see that
Government art juries in the
future include some people who
know what America likes.
1T does little good" they
stated, Ito appropriate sums of
money for State Department
and United States Information
Agency programs of cultural
exchange if the advantages of
these programs are to be
thrown away by hasty and
thoughtless comments by high
public officials"
The two Democrats sponsored
the International Cultural Ex-
change and Trade Fair Partici-
patton Act of 1856. They also
introduced bills this year for
creation of a Federal advisory
council on the arts. A House
Education and Labor subcom-
mittee approved Mr.. Thomp-
sons bill last month.
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NEWS OF MUSIC
I. Boch's Popularity
/. Shown by Statistics
BY DAY THORPE
Star Music Critic

.<For several years the mag
sAzine Musical America has
..1Sbulated the works per-
: Termed during the season by
: IS American orchestras. This
. years list has just appeared,
and if it astounds the reader
mot at all it makes for a
half-hour of pleasant reflec-
ton. That is. if you enjoy
tabulations of subjects in
which you are interested.
The magazine divides the
repertoire into three catego-
ries-Foreign (not contem-
! perary), American. and For
eign (modern). 1t uses for
Its figures only the concerts
sef the regular subscription
! $eries. Thus in most cases
the level of quality is higher
than if the pops and chill
dren's concerts had been
, included, although Musical
America points out some or
! chestras, like Kansas City
and Denver. have special
concerts devoted to modern
. or otherwise unusual works.
The three lists are repro
. duced here in full. The most
surprising single statistic is
, that Bach, who wrote no mu-
! sic that does not have to be
especially adapted for a mod
ern symphony orchestra, is
: easily in fourth place, and
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as well as magnificence
raised that price.
And where Thelma Chry-
sler. Foy'S collection of II
ImpressioniSt and other 10TH
century paintings and draw
ings sold at the Parke- Ber-
net Galleries brought 81, 1885,
400, the Walter Chrysler, jr.,
collection of 20 impress
sionist paintings and draw
ings, sold in London early
this month, fetched only
$613,256, nearly 100000 less
than experts had estimated
it would bring.
So to repeat what we have
said in these columns in
earlier years. in connection
with the annual art auction
report: The reason for pur-
chasing a work of art is that
one expects to derive pleasure
from owning it. That is a
profit one can count upon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12
Home Accidents
Kill 8 in Week

Eight persons died in the
District last week as a result
of home accidents. This raised
the total for the year to %
IA more than at the same time
last year, the Red Cross re-
ported.
A total of Isl residents were
treated after home accidents
last week, including II be-
cause of falls, 10 for burns. II
for poisoning, 10 for objects
in the eyes. ears, nose or
throat, and "a for cuts. The
Red Cross said several cases
included children who caught
their arms in washing ma
chine wringers or were burned
by exploding flrecrackers.
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either because of love Of mu-
sic or because of a certain
prestige which association
with music has characters
tically carried, are willing to
keep it alive. But since Or
chestral music has not ere
ated a dynamic audience
one that can react like a
tennis player returning a
serve - modern music, the
least popular, is turned to
very infrequently by the pro-
gramming conductor. who
has to appeal to an audience
to supplement the subsidies.
BY the way, the National
Symphony measurements are
given in the Musical America
roundup. This year, Howard
Mitchell played 81 works by
Al composers. The leaders
we're: Bach I'D, Beethoven
(6), and Brahms 60. Thir-
teen per cent of the works
were American.
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LAW IN THE NEWS
Increase in Frauds
Spurs Control Plans

Typical is the experience of one
northern California housewife
who was approached by a firm
purpoT.ing to get rid of ants.
They prevailed upon her to pay
them $500 in advance, then
proceeded to treat the attic
with an electric charge and
disappear. Neither the house
wife nor the ants were much
impressed.
Business experts point out
that rising prosperity usually
steps up consumer frauds. Peo-
pie have more money and tend
to relax about the way they
spend it. That's the time that
the petty swindler tries to make
hay. And sooner or later, peo-
pie turn to the lawmakers to
crack down.
Tuesday: Improper Commit
ment.
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GIimpses of France

Lois Jones Pierre-Noel and
Celine Tabary of Howard
University'S art faculty have
spent many summers in
France and know the coun-
try intimately. An exhibit
tion of Is of their paintings,
mostly oils, is at The Art
lists Mart, 1861 Wisconsin
avenue, Georgetown, only
through next Wednesday,
concluding a mere fortnight'S
display. Il frequently Won
der why competent. inter-
eSting exhibitions are
snatched from the walls after
a brief showing, while weari-
some boreS remain on view
for months.)
At any rate, Miss Jones
bright portraits of Paris
streets, houses and famous
landmarks, her colorful pan
Drama of Villefranche, her
charming Morning in Sper-
acedeS," dominated by red
roofs, were painted last sum-
mer.
Miss Tabary's paintings
are not dated, but since most
of them are repreSentational,
I assume they were painted
before she adopted her some
what hammered technique of
painting in angular mosaic
strokes. She too shows
glimpSeS of Paris: ''Medici
Fountain" "BookStallS on the
Seine" panoramic views of
Houdain and Caleris.
Everyone who loves France
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12
BY PHIL YEAGER and
JOHN STARK


Gov. Rockefeller's admins
tration is faced with rising COM
plants about frauds on the
consumer. His Attorney Gener-
al, Louis j. Lefkowitz, reported
in a recent talk that his office
receives so to rs complaints a
week from purchasers, declar-
ing that they were sold second
hand cars. after paying for new
ones. Many of these cars proved
to have been driven several
hundred miles, presumably in
demonstrations, but the mile
age indicators had been turned
back to conceal the fact.
The Attorney General an
nounced that his Office would
seek legislation requiring cars
and other merchandise, par
ticularly TV tubes, to carry
labels showing the year of man
ufacture and indicating whether
or not the merchandise had
been used.
A second kind of grippe comes
from homeownerS who make
advance down payment for
home repairs or improvements,
then find that they have not
received proper value. Efforts to
recapture their money often
prove futile.
The Rockefeller adminiStra-
ton would remedy this evil by
requiring that such down pay
mentS be kept in trust until
completion of the work.
Other States may we'll follow
suit, for the past year has been
marked by a sharp rise in
fraudulent practices. In Cali
fornia, for example, some the
Better Business Bureaus are
being flooded with complaints.
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rente," $1O5.OOO, and Van
Gogh's Hospital Park at
st. Remi," $74,000.
Other Top Prices
More than $4.5 million Of
the seasons total resulted
from sales of furniture and
decorations, rugs and objects
of art. Eighteenth-century
French furniture again led,
with Americana second.
Many Washington collectors
own examples Of the same
categories; but many of us
find it incredible that a
Louis XIV Sevres porcelain
dessert service fetched
100000 and a pair of Nielsen
statuetteS of blue jays
brought $4,000. The sum of
$4,000 for Houdon'S marble
portrait bust of an enchant-
ing little girl seems a bar
gain in comparison. English
antique furniture and dec
orative arts, too, fetched
substantial prices, led by a
Chippendale commode which
brought $4,000. -Four sales
of Oriental art reached a
total of $295, 1922.
In addition to the record
breaking prices obtained by
the modern French and allied
schools, about 1850 paintings
of earlier schools offered
during the season fetched a
record total of $4,379, 367.
Highest prices included one
by Van de Velde the Younger,
$4,000; by Lancret, $4,000:
a Corot pastoral. $4,000:
and surprisingly one of
American primitive Edward
Hicks many versions of The
Peaceable Kingdom" $500.
So many factors enter into
art auction sales that unless
the public takes some of
them into consideration, the
results are battling. For ex-
ample, the highest price ever
paid at an art auction for a
single painting was reached
in London a few weeks ago
by Rubens' great altarpiece,
Alteration of the Magi,"
which fetched $4,000. Out
standing treasure of the late
Duke of WeStminster's COL
lection of old master paint
ings which brought a total
of ST, 229, $50, the Rubens was
said to be the only altarpiece
in Great Britain painted en-
tirely by the master. Rarity
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FOREIGN (Stondurd)

tionality who had their
training abroad, for example,
Stravinsky. are arbitrarily
and logically classified with
the foreignerS) only two, Ives
and Chadwick. are not con-
temporary. Such memorable
names as Mcdowell and
Critics do not appear at all.
Also, of the first three, both
COPELAND and Creston have
been considerably influenced
by jazz, and Gershwin is an
outright jazz composer.
Among the foreign con-
temporary composers it is
amazing to me to find Stra-
whisky so far outdistancing
Shostakovich, Khachaturian
and Kabalevsky that there
is no real race at all. This
cannot be accounted for by
the "Firebird" alone, for
Stravinsky is represented by
II different works. See if
you can name IL pieces
for orchestra by Stravinsky
without recourse to the en-
cyclopedia.
We have a close neighbor,
incidentally, on the Ameri-
can list. Peter Mennin has
just been appointed head of
the Peabody Institute in
Baltimore.
Most Are Foreign
The most important fact
in the Musical America tabu-
lation, although it is a fact
that will startle no one, is
that 70 per cent of all music
played was foreign stand
ards" The public cschews it's
contemporaries and turns to
the past. In what other field
of entertainment is the same
situation evident? Not IN. the
reading of books, not n mcv-
les, not in legitimate plays.
Only in long hair music and
in art galleries.
The truth is, I suppose,
that live, long hair orchestral
music would die out entirely
if it were left solely to the
support of it's audiences. 1t
costs too much and must be
subsidized. Fortunately for
the music lover there have
always been individuals who,
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$lO.208,S79, exceeding the
previous seasons record total
by nearly SO million.
Seventy-three sales and ex-
hibitions held in conjunction
With them, drew an attend
ance Of about 100000 people.
with a larger proportion Of
bidders from Europe and
Latin America than in any
previous season in the COM
pany's history.
In his analysis Of the rec
ord, Leslie A. Hyams, presi-
dent of Parke-Bernet Gal
leries. pointed out that this
last seasons total was almost
double that of the peaks of
1928 and 1929. largely due
to- "the overwhelming de-
mand for modern paintings
and French 18th = century
art"
What he considers par
ticularly interesting is that
values of great individual
collections sold today, housed
mostly in apartments, are
in most cases, and with due
allowance for depreciation Of
the dollar. considerably
higher than the values Of
those which came to public
sale in the '20s from the vast
establishments and almost
tax-free wealth of that
period. Mr.. Hyams also noted
that although the market for
important art property is
international, American bid
ders were most often success
full in carrying of the big
prizes.
Highest Prices
Paintings by French and
other artists of the late 10th
and goth centuries, continued
to command outstanding
prices. Seventeen modern
paintings and drawings in
the Thelma Chrysler Foy col
lection fetched $1,l66.40O; a
second part of the same COL
lection, comprising French
18th-century furniture, paint
ings and objects of art.
brought the total to $685.
$50, the American record for
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FRIDAY

NITED STATES AIR FORCE SYM
PHONY ORCHESTRA, Col. George
S. Howard, conductor. Watergate,
$50 pm. Soloists: william Du
Pree, tenor; The Singing Sergeants,
Capt. Robert L. Landers, director
The National Anthem; Mignon,
Thomas; Cavalleria Rusticana. Mas
cagni: Serenade, Tocelli; Dances
from The Battered Bride, Smetana
Two Movements from the Irish SYM
phony, Harry: Selections from Okla
homa, Rodgers. The Singing Ser
geants: Salute to the Armed Forces
Of the United States.
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TODAY

UNITED STATES MARINE BAND. 1t.
Col. Albert SchOepper, conductor.
Watergate, $50 pm.
5oloistS: Ronald BaltaEaF. clarinet:
James Erdman, trombone: William
Jones. baritone. National Fencibles,
Sousa: Introduction to Act III Of
Lohengrin. Wagner; Cole Porter
Medley: Russian Dance from Swan
Lake, Tchaikovsky; Jericho Could
Valse de Concert, GlaZounov: Annie
Laurie, Pryor; La Fiesta Mexicana.
Reed; Non piu andrai, Mozart;
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NEW OPENINGS

PAINTINGS BY NANCY LLOYD. The
Studio Gallery, Sl4 Prince street,
Alexandria. Today through August :.
WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY HASHIMO-
TO AND SASAJIMA. Hiratsuka Nip
pom Gallery. 3l44 N street NV.
Current through August /.
NATIONAL SHRINES OF AMERICA.
National Housing Center, 1925 l.
street N w Current through July 81.
CHANGING GROUP SHOW. The Art
lists Mart, 1861 Wisconsin avenue
NV. Thursday through August 81.
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TOMORROW

VIVIAN SCOTT. piano. Catholic Uni
versity, pm. Three Chorale Pre-
ludes, Bach-Busoni Sonata. Opus 80,
Chopin: Three Intermezzi, Opus III,
Brahms: Sonata No. z, Prokofefi.
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ART NEWS OF D. c. AREA
Porke-Bernet Sales
Bring Record Prices
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

Auction sales Of art and literary property set
time records annually The September 1885, to
June 1852 according TO the annual report Of the Parke
Bernet Galleries. Inc. New York City (the United States
leading art-auction ARM has closed with record high Of
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WEDNESDAY

SUMMER SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, Frederick Fall, con-
ductor: washington Civic Opera
Chorus. Soloists: Elaine Malbin, So
praro; Patrick Hayes, narrator
Night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12

THE first figure indicates the
number of different works played
BY the b orchestras included in
the subscription series; the sec
ond figure indicates the total
number of performances of all
Of these works given by the 35
orchestras.
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TUESDAY

STATES ARMY BAND. Cap
tain Samuel LOboda, conductor.
Watergate, $40 pm. Soloists: Jack
BehTend, tpmpani; United States
Army Chorus The Purple Pageant,
Kine: Dramatic Overture, Opus so,
Niaskovsky: Beguine for Band. Os-
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an art collection sold at auc-
ton.
Twenty-nine Impressionist
and ost-Impressionist paint
ings from the collection Of
Arnold Kirkeby brought a
total of $l,548,50O; modern
paintings, drawings and
sculpture be longing to Ian
Woodner and others, $519.-
sos; the American collec-
ton Of the late Arthur
j. Sussel, $478,20O, Of which
$37,58 was the unpre-
cedented sum fetched by
a group of SIS Pennsylvania
Fraktur paintings. among
them a quaint depletion of
General and Lady Washing
ton," which fetched $4,000:
French modern paintings,
drawings and sculpture from
the Ralph M. Coe and other
collections, $447,575, and two
other collections Of French
l8th-century furniture and
objects Of art. nearly $780,
900 each.
incidentally, the Parke-
Bernet Galleries publishes
handsome catalogues (hard
covers) for its sales, in which
most. in some cases all, items,
as in the Kirkeby collection,
are illustrated. More than
half the Kirkeby paintings
were faithfully reproduced in
color.
Individual Prices
Highest prices paid for in
dividual items were for mod
ern paintings, and included
three major world records:
$255, 900 for Renoir's "Daugh-
tiers of Durand-Ruel" Cillus-
trated); $4,000 each for
Degas' Dancer" and for
Toulouse-Lautrec's Russian
Woman in a Garden" Other
leading prices were $4,000
for PicaSSo's Mother and
Child" an early transitional
painting of 1908; $4,000 for
Renoir's Lady with ParaSol
in a Garden; Cezanne's RE
Ginning YOUTH" $l25,000;
Renoir's Garden at Sor-
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MUSIC PROGRAMS

ser: Toccata for Tympani. Loboda
French NATIONAL Defiie March, Tur-
let: A Night on Bald Mountain
Moussorgsky; Selections by the U. S
Army Chorus: Elsa's Procession to
the Cathedral. Wagner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-12

will enjoy these bright re-
Elections of that country's
charms. DAILY, 10 to A.
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BY JAMES G. DEANE
star Record Critic

The record-shop horn of
plenty is turning itself around
again. The July catalogues
disclose the usual summer
crop Of deletions.
The public no doubt can get
along with a few fewer rec
ords. There are $4,000 or so
in the guide issued by Bos-
tons w. Schwann, and prob
ably no one will suffer if the
dozen or so issues of Brahms
fourth, or DelibeS' Sylvia bal
let, are reduced by one. A re-
placement will be along soon
enough. Even the lone APP
parent extant edition Of
African Zulu music may be
dispensable, considering the
general strain on pocketbooks.
Stereo. Of course, is safe.
Schwann's gaily yellow stereo
section continues to grow
optimistically, as Of course it
should, at least until the next
chronological breakthrough.
That assumes that at least
some pocketbooks hold up for
a while yet.
Beecham on List
Anyone who cares can't be
wholly lighthearted about it
all, however. Sir Thomas
Beecham is on the deletion
list, for instance. One doesn't
toss away a Beecham record
lightly. This one happens to
be an obscure symphony by
Balakirev, one of the more
obscure of the famous Rus
sian five" whose leading
lights were MuSSorgsky. Rim
Sky-Korsakov and Borodin.
(The other obscure member
was Cui0 The symphony
happens to be quite delight
full, at least as Sir Thomas
leads it, however. Angel may
be risking difficulties in ex-
ciSing it. with Sir Thomas
If with no one else.
Parts of the blacklist
(Schwann's prints black
diamonds beside doome d
itemS) represent sad and out
right reverSals. Peter Cor
neliuS' The Barber of Bag
dad seemed a bright operate
find only two dozen or so
months ago but now, after a
brief filtration with fame, ap-
pears about to drop back
into musicological limbo. The
curious but charming oper-
attic venture of Jean-Jacuues
Rousseau, more famous as a
philosopher, lie Devin du
Village, is in similar circum.
stances.
Even the presence of
Schwarzkopf, Gedda and the
redoubtable Philharmonic, in
the former case, evidently
failed to win a sufficient pub
lie.
Others on Way Out
William Walton's Troilus
and CresSida, another opus
favored by SchWarzkopf.
seems doomed, although
boasting its composers per-
sonal craftsmanship. SINH
larly custer confronted is
Poulenc'S gay Les Mamelles
de TeresiaS. another latter
day operate acquisition of
merit.
Solo vocal efforts of some
distinction are apparently
also due for less than cere-
monious departure. Among
~, 49,. 100 n-zL. - THY-IR
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Grubowski Paintings

Countess Ann de Grabow-
ski is having her first Wash
ington solo exhibition at the
Barnett Alden Gallery, 127
Randolph place NV. through
July. DAILY, noon to 7; Sum-
day, 2 to 81 Now a Washing
ton area resident, the Coun-
tess has lived and painted in
a number of countries IN
Europe, the Middle East and
North Africa since her fam
ily'S estates in Poland were
over-rP during world
War II.
More than 20 oils Is of
which have been sold by the
Barnett Alden Gallery are
naturalistic in effect but
broadly handled, and include
beautiful and picturesque
subjects, as we'll as five or six
flower and still life paintings.
The best of these. with flow
ers. fruit and large brass OBJ
jectS, won a first prize in
Cairo.
Impressions of France in
clude landscapes such as vii
lage in the Ardennes," and
coast scenes in Normandy,
and the Cote d'AZur" a
white village cleaning like a
jewel beside the sapphire sea.
Bay of NapleS,' much SIM
plifed. arresting glimpses Of
Benghazi, Libya. and View
from the Mount of Olives,
Israeli are among her best.
Professor James V. Her
ring, formerly head of How
ard University'S art depart
ment, has been teaching at
St. Augustine College, RAJ
leigh, N. c., this past year.
Next year he will again Jon
the art facility Of Talladega
(Ala.) College, where he
taught a few years ago. Both
these colleges, along with
Bennett in Greensboro, N. c.,
Smith College in Charlotte.
and Alabama College in Mon
tevallo. have had exhibitions
|. during the past year from
the College Art Service,
founded a decade ago while
Prof. Herring was at How
ard and since then taken
over by the Barnett Alden
Gallery. The service also as
sembled a special loan eX-
hibition for Howard Uni
versity last autumn Gre
viewed mere at the tlme.)
News Note
The change in the Play
house Theater MANAGEMENT
has had one deplorable re-
suit: closing of the art gall
lery, which for II years,
under direction of PrentiSs
Taylor, presented a continue
Gus series of admirable small
exhibitions. Works of art in
many media assured variety;
artists of Washington and
other localities throughout
the United States had OPP
portuniGes to obtain recog-
milton.