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Evening star., 1960-04-11
By the Associated Press

With a couple of exceptions,
most Of 1960s crop Of presi-
Dental aspirants are men Of
considerable wealth.
1t used to be automatic in
politics that the candidate had
to be a poor man. 1t was re-
garded as just dandy if he
had been born in a log cabin.
But the supply of log cabins
is running out. And Senator
Kerr. Democrat Of Oklahoma,
a multimillionaire, found that
even his log cabin origin didn't
help much in his 1852 try for
the Democratic nomination.
The best estimates of polit-
lcians wise in such matters are
that at least $25 million will
have been spent more or less
directly in the presidential
campaign by the time it ends
in November.
Nixon an Exception
One Of the exceptions to the
big money group of White
House aSpirantS is Vice Presi-
dent Nixon, the probable Re-
publican presidential nominee.
Mr.. Nixon's assets reflect 13
years spent in public life with
out any outside personal in
come. He has a $4,000 equity
in a $4,000 home, a 1855
Oldsmobile, some term insur-
ance and savings Oaccounts,
but no stocks or bonds.
In a year when it's politi-
cally respectable to be a rich
man. Senator Kennedy, Demo-
crat of Massachusetts,, modestly
admits be is worth about a
million, maybe only 5000, ,000."
This would indicate he hasn't
Improved his financial stand
ing since his father, Joseph P.
Kennedy, gave him a 81 mil
lion trust fund when he was 9.
The elder Kennedy is usually
tabled in the $400 million
bracket. but young Jack has
never been much interested in
making money.
johnson worth" 100000
One of Senator Kennedy's
top rivals for the Democratic
nomination, Senate Majority
Leader johnson of Texas,
rates his financial condition as
average" He thinks if he
sold out today he would cash
In for around 100000. But his
wife is worth a lot more.
Senator johnson has prop
erty. cattle, bank stocks and
bonds. He has told his finan-
cial managers not to buy any
common stocks because Of his
position in Congress. He re-
frains from voting on matters
concerning the Federal Com
munications Commission be-
cause Of his wife's TV-radio
holdings.
Mrs. Johnson's holdings in
clude about a half interest in
two TV and two radio stations.
Her own holding company has
Evening star., 1960-04-11

Personal loans are available in most cases
without collateral or endorsers. Take 1s
months (or more) to repay. Life insurance is
included. Loans usually are completed the
same day they are requested. Details for
Evening star., 1960-09-04
TODAY'S GOOD
MUSIC DIAL

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zart's Piano Concerto No. 25
in c Major.
9.O5, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc.
and 1885 Mc.l-The Royal
Instrument. Bach'S Fantasia
in c Minor.
1905, WGMS AMIN $50 Kc.
and 1O3.5 Me- - Sunday
Morning Symp h ony.
Haydn's Trumpet Concerto
in E Flat.
2:O5, WGMS AMIN $50 Kc.
and 1895 Mc.)-Philadel-
phia Orchestra. First Of a
13-week series. Eugene Or
mandy, conducting. Works
by Robertson, Haydn, Rous-
sci and Brahms.
800, WASH-FM (97.1 Mc0-
Sunday Symphony. Vivaldfs
The -Four SEASONS.
4:O5, WGMS AMIN (57O
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Theater. Excerpts from De-
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500, WMAL-FM t107.3 Me-
Concert Stage. Fhe Three
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$500, WMAL-FM (1O7.3 Mc.)-
Opera Stage. The Magic
Flute, by Mozart, complete.
$500, WASH-FM (97.1 Mc.)-
Symphony Hall. Tchaikov-
sky's Symphony No. S in E
minor.
$500, WGMS AMIN $50 Kc.
and 1885 Me- - Festival
Casals, 1860. Works by
Bach, Vivaldi and Brahms.
$3.50, WTOP-World Music
Festivals, Excerpts from
Richard Strauss Opera, der
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1O:30, WMAL-FM (107.3 Me-
-Serenade. Piano Concerto
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Masterworks. Bruck
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Flat, Romantic.
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Dawn. Vaughn Williams
Symphony No. 4.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
Oriental Influence
On Our Western Art

adornment Of church altars.
had, most obviously, seen and
studied the Far Eastern
worries brought to Rome for
the imperial palaces.
Sculptors Of those great
cathedrals which we call Ro-
manesque, built just before
the more famous Gothic ones,
had learned the lessons taught
by the Byzantine artists of
Constantinople. Frequently
we forget that, in turn, the
artists of the Eastern Chris
tian church had learned much
from the arts imported over
the great caravan routes
reaching into the farthest
East.
Buddha Has Greek Smile
Centuries earlier the infiu-
ences were exerted in the
opposite direction. AS the
armies Of Alexander the Great
swept across the Near East
and Persia, Greek artists and
craftsmen followed.
The stamp which they put
on the arts Of India are
dramatically visible in every
traditional image of Buddha.
The Buddha's smile is
Greek. It has taken us a
long time to realize it. The
Greek lesson did not stop
there. In the view of history.
the stone figures of the Indian
temples and those Of Cambo-
dia are dancing to Greek
music.
AS the Buddhist religion
spread so did this lingering
Greek influence. One may
even see it in the ancient
arts of distant Korea. Look
ing for it in a Korean bronze
figure of the sixth century
we suddenly find a deeper
basis for the enjoyment OF
its individual charm and
grace. We see it better. Some
of its "foreignness" has been
removed.
An exhibition of color
Signal, Corps photographs OF
Korean sculpture and monu-
ments is presently being cir
culated to museums across
the country.
Colorfully, they acquaint
us with the individuality OF
a monumental art which, too
Evening star., 1960-09-04

about Seurat, his life and
work by John Rewald, are
in French. Henri Dorra's
scholarly, lucid and detailed
exposition of "The Evolution
of Seurat's Style" is in Eng
lish. Comments on the cata-
logued works are in which,
ever language they were first
printed.
Born a century ago last
year, Seurat was only 80
when. he died. He was &C
tive as a mature artist barely
more than a decade" says
Mr.. Dorra," yet during that
time he played a leading role
in the momentous revolution
that was taking place in the
arts"
This is a book for scholars
and serious students, and for
art lovers interested in
analyses and discussions of
Seurat's paintings, going be-
yond mere appreciative ap-
praiSalS.
Evening star., 1960-09-04

Of Japanese methods. These,
along with prints by Walter
j. Phillips and F. Morley
Fletcher, have much pictorial
charm.
Striking glimpses of our
big cities are seen in Emma
Bormann'S panoramic "Outer
Drive, Chicago" and Louis
Novak'S handsome "Old State
House, Boston"
Contemporary woodcuts
range from Antonio Fras-
coni's semiabstract Santa
Clara Valley" and Irving
Amen's modern figurative
"Eve." to Ada Yunker's alb
Stract "Ostia" and Seong
Moy's non-objective designs.
Two of the most interesting
prints are by Israeli artists.
Jakob Steinhardt's "Fantas-
tic Landscape" is modern
baroque in its convolutions.
Jacob Pins Tiger" is the
most menacing big cat in art,
marvellously effective. Open
daily 8 to 4.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
ABA Group

More than so paintings and
prints by five artists compose
the second exhibition of ABA
International Gallery of
Modern Art on the second
floor of 3144 M street NV.
through September Is. Paint
ings by Paul Robertson of Vir-
ginia and Ronald Watts of
Maryland impressed me as
the shows best. Both. are
now teaching art in the pub
lie schools of their native
States.
Mr.. Roberson's landscapes
and still life are close to
abstraction but the themes
are conveyed, and the color
fresh and attractive, par
ticuarly in Potomac Inlet"
and Summer Landscape"
Mr.. Watts paintings include
both abstract expreSsionist
and mod ern figurative.
Women and objects in Jar
diniere" and Red Shawl"
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NEW OPENINGS

SCULPTURE, by Nancy Dryfoos;
French drawings and prints. Col
lectors Gallery, 1925 Wisconsin
avenue NV. Wednesday through
September 25.
PAINTINGS. by Francis Luzzatto
Franz Sader Gallery. 1905 9
street NV Wednesday Through
September "a.
RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION, by
Richard Neutra. National Housing
Center, 1925 L street NV. Wednes-
day through September 25.
PAINTINGS AND GRAPHICS. by
Robert Burkert. !. A. r. Galleries,
1923 Connecticut avenue NV.
Tuesday through September "a.
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ART.
Drawings by John c. ROGERS.
Alexandria Library, III Queen
street. Tuesday through Septem-
ber 30.
PAINTINGS, by NJ. H. Brandenburg.
Art Gallery, Civic Centerc Rock
vile, Md, Today through Sep
temper -.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
Art Book Review
SEURAT. BY Henri Dora

SEURAT. BY Henri Dora
and John Rewald. Oes
Beaux-Arts, Paris; $37.500
Henri Dora, assistant di-
rector Of the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art, and John Rewald,
associated with the Museum
of Modern Art, New York
City. art historian and au-
thor, gave six years of in
tensive research to this de-
f1nitive study of the life and
works of Georges Seurat.
They found much original
material. and assembled for
this volume all the known
paintings by Seurat and the
critical literature on each,
from the time it was exc
cuted. This volume has more
than 400 pages, and 275
illustrations, including out
standing works in color.
Felix Feneon's writings
Evening star., 1960-09-04

executed. with forms donni-
mated by circles and curves.
The most striking group is
a series of eight oils, abstract
interpretations of "The Way
of the Cross" with the fig
ures in black, white and gray,
against red, orange and brown
backgrounds. A lucid ex-
PLANTATION by the artist, illus
trated with small, naturalistic
pen sketches, enables the
visitor to understand these
paintings, viewing them at a
distance. They are planned
as murals for a modern
church, and should be very
effective in such q location.
There is more variety in
her 10 casein paintings. which
have figurative subjects in
two instances CMadonna"
and Lutte Player'D and
graceful. curved. abstract
forms in the majority. some
rising like flames. others ex-
pressing rhythm and move
ment.
Open Monday through Fri
day 8 to S, Saturday to 4,
Sunday / to 5.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
BY RICHARD HIRsCH


The discovery" of the
Japanese woodcut, late in the
nineteenth century, had an
explosive influence upon
Western art. Whistler's ia
nous Mother" was contrived
and posed on the exotic basis
of what the American artist
had learned from studying
Japan's imagery of the PASS
ing World" the color wood
cut. Thanks to the Japanese
he will notice, suddenly, the
patterning of B a ttersea a
Bridge against the London
sky. And paint it memorably.
Other Americans accepted
the same lessons.
Sargent will picture little
girls in the large dark rooms
of their mansion, surrounding
them with and off balance, a
Japanese, area of emptiness.
Eastern Patterning
Mary Cassatt will compose
her scenes of motherhood
with more conscious regard
for rhythmic balance than
classical symmetry. The Japa-
nese craftsmen had taught
her this through their wood
cuts.
Degas will paint and draw
his famous ballet dancers
surrounded by startling open
or empty areas because Of the
same discovery" of the Japa-
nese. Van Gogh will paint
a picture including in it an
elaborate copy of a Japanese
print in token of this same
debt. Gauguin's pictures of
Brittany and his more ia
nous ones of the South Seas
will be consciously painted
with reference to the Japa-
nese patterning. suggesting
space solely on the basis of
lines dividing up a two di-
mensional area.
In Sculpture
The list is impressive.
We forget, however, that
this was but one instance of
the Oriental influence upon
the arts of the West.
We forget, for instance,
that the earliest Christian
artists, carving ivories for the
Evening star., 1960-09-04

emerge with incre a sing
clarity as the observer moves
back from the canvas.
Two artists born in Havana,
Cuba, have the largest groups.
Felipe Orlando has the more
impressive record of eXhibi-
tions and representation in
museum collections. His alb
Stractions are in very dark
colors. with central forms
Illuminated with flashes of
higher keyed colors. The
abstract compositions and
color schemes Of Ahis seri-
graphs seemed to me more
interesting than his oils.
Robert EStopinan is repre-
sented entirely with engrav-
ings and monotypes, in which
mechanistic subjects are exc
cuted with competence and
textural variety. Water
melons," a large modern still
life, is the best of the group
by California Artist Dan
Beard.
Open Monday through Sat-
urday from 10 to 6.
Evening star., 1960-09-04

$artists and one Of the mas
ter craftsmen Of all time.
Hokusai was born in the
ninth month of 1850, and
lived nearly nine decades.
His output of paintings,
sketches, prints. books and
even textile designs was pro-
digious, because their creation
was his master passion. He
called himself the "Old Man
Mad About Painting" And
vet, because he was an artist
of the popular genre school,
he was appreciated much
more by the western world
than by his homeland, until
very recently.
Largest Collection
The Freer Gallery has the
largest collection of Hokusai's
paintings and drawings. Only
here and in the Boston Mu-
scum, which also has a large
collection, can the develop
ment of the japanese mas
ter's individual style be care
fully traced, according to
Harold P. Stern of the Freer
Gallery staff. He has written
a short but authoritative and
lively account of Hokusai's
life, in the monograph avail
able at the exhibition, with
more than 40 illustrations
($1.00).
Hokusai recorded all that
passed before his eyes and
through his mind" says Mr..
Stern. Living in a compara-
lively prosperous period, Ho-
kusai had a market for his
works. Travellers and the
newly prosperous wanted rep
resentations of scenes from
everyday life, of favorite
pleasures, portraits of theater
stars and courtesans. And
that is what he gave them.
The idea of spurning popu-
larity for the sake of esoteric
self expression prob a bly,
never entered his head.
Fine Art and Fun
Consequently, the Freer
Gallery's exhibition is not
only fine art, it is fun. The
endearing humanity of Ho-
kusai's figures makes them
our brothers under their 18th
century dress. Happy people
having a picnic; a beautiful
girl dressed to the eyebrows
for a formal call; the flute
playing boy perched precari-
ously on a tree, gazing at
Mount Full; a woman intent
on tuning her musical in
strument; a housemaid wrap
ping a cloth around her hair
before busting, and innumer-
able others. In "A Shinto
Ritual" a woman holding
the hand of a little boy make
a pair reminiscent of the
mother and little son in Man
tegna's Circumcision" i'll the
Uffizi Gallery.
Besides the pleasure Of rec
ognition in Hokusai's work,
is beauty of color and of sub
jects in the paintings. which
decorate two-fold to six-told
screens in pairs, and hand
scrolls. These paintings are
in ink and color, sometimes
with gold and silver. on paper
or silk. The drawings are
done in expressive outline,
ink on paper. and some Of
these, too, have color.
This enchanting exhibition
is open every day, 8 to 4:30.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
Lees Group

Ceramics are more impress
sive than paintings in the
group show at the Lees Gal
lery, 1909 Mount Vernon
avenue. Alexandria, through
Wednesday. Ceramic sculp-
lures by Dorothy French are
outstanding for variety and
interest, ranging from COM
ically sinister "Mr. Ikabo,"
2 feet high, to a pair of lively
frogs. Her footed gray-blue
vase with white pebble dec
Grafton is also noteworthy.
Other arresting objects in
pottery are Edna Lees bowls,
one gray, mauve and green,
another jade and terra Gotta;
Ralph Fast's speckled bottle
and leaf decorated dish;
Harding Blacks deep-blue
bowl with inciSed wave de-
sign; Joan Orlov's covered
jar: Bernard Levy's stream
lined pigeon and white and
brown bowl; a free form tray
by Ada Appleton; Mildred
Taylor's abstract crow; and
Adrian Van Wyen's large
decorated green bowl.
In the painting display, I
liked A. M. Cornwell's De-
serted Street." Josephine
Danforth's ink and wash
street scene. several harbor
scenes by Margaret Farmer,
who will soon have a solo
exhibition at the Lees; Ruth
Starr Roses Inauguration
Day" and Lowell Owslev's
Sea and Birds"
Open daily / to 6.
Evening star., 1960-09-04

Playing the Piano for Pleas
ure," by Charles Cooke. Simon g.
Schuster. 1s6 3D.: SLAB.
Nearly 20 years ago, Charles
Cooke, at one time the
New Workers. Man Stan
ley" and now a Washing
tonian who writes on nuclear
radiation for the United
States Public Health Service,
published a book saturated
with enthusiasm for amateur
piano-playing in the home,
and with instruction and ad-
vice for the pianist. The
book has been praised by
many people during the last
two decades, by musician and
amateur alike, and is now
re-iSsued as a paperback by
Simon and Schuster.
It is an excellent "do-it-
yourself" book on a subject
which-and I would not be
surprised to find that the
author agrees - should not
ordin arily be undertaken
without a certain amount of
personal, 1breathing assist
a1ce. Mr.. Cooke Is persuasive
in saying that playing piano
correctly is fun, that an hour
a day is sufficient to develop
a serviceaole technique, and
that one cannot expect to
play music without a mastery
of the tools-the scales, ar
peggios, and other figurations
out Of which piano music, is
contrived.
He discusses the various
fundamental approaches to
the keyboard informally and
engagingly. and does not set
his pupil on any one specific
course, Matthay, or Lesche-
tizky, or Schnabel, or any
other great pedagogic ap-
proach. Possibly he devotes
too little attention to the po-
sition of the hands and the
fundamental m e h DDS Of
playing a simple scale. OF
this I cannot judge, for I my
self have had no experience
in piano-playipg. The book.
I can say, is directly and
clearly written, and should,
achieve what no good text
. can fail to achieve-the stim-
ulation of desire.
First, the Thought
While I do not play the
piano, I, like Mr.. Cooke, have
had a special interest, almost
all my life, in finding out
how a piano Cor any other
keyboard instrument) should
be played. Since 1880 vari-
GUS circumstances seem to
have put me, with astonish-
ing regularity, in the same
house or the same room with
pianists, practicing. playing
talking.
I can confirm what to me
is the most important plea
Evening star., 1960-09-04
10th Century Prints

Twentieth century color
woodcuts compose the sum-
mer exhibition in the Divi-
sion Of Graphic Arts print
gallery in the Smithsonian
Building through September
H., Seventeen prints from
the divisions permanent COL
lection have a comprehensive
range from the first 20
years when Helen Hyde, Eliz-
abeth Keith. Frances Gear
hart and Lillian Miller made
beautiful woodcuts of Orien-
tai subjects, with adaptations
Evening star., 1960-09-04

"The Crowned Maitreya,"
dating from sixth or sew
enth century AID. A rep
resentatiOn of the Buddha
of the Future, by a KO-
rean artist, belonging to
the National Museum of
Korea, Seoul, and includ-
ed in the exhibition of
Signal Corps photographs
of Korean art being cir
culated nationally.
often, the casual viewer just
Jumps together with other
exotic forms as merely
Oriental" These superb
photographs of proud monu-
ments point up the history
of the national struggle
against conquest which may
well be the longest one of
any nation on earth.
Human Heritage
Together with the memory
of Whistler, Sargent, Cassatt,
these images remind us of
the ebb and flow of inf1u-
ences,a cceptedo r rejected,
down the centuies of man.
They remind as that the
artists vision and his tools
are the forms bequeathed by
his human heritage.
However, if he is truly
artist, not copyist, what he
says will ever be new. For
his is the gift of tongues.
(CopyriRht 1850, General Features
Corp.)
Evening star., 1960-09-04

in Mr., Cookies book-prac-
tice that is only muscular
reflex action is worthless.
A beautiful scale does not
originate in the fingers, or
the arms or the shoulder,
but in the brain. No key
board practice is worth any
thing when you hear the
result and are surprised, you
must have first imagined the
result-how in the scale of
C, the note F is pushed up
ward to G, and the note B
is pulled upward to c.
I am sure that very few
amateurs have any idea of
the amount of practice and
the intensity of concentra-
ton that are marks of almost
all the greatest keyboard
artists.
Ralph Kirkpatrick, for ex-
ample, though Scarlatti has
purchased for him his lux
uries. has made his bread and
butter for 80 years by the
Goldberg Variations. He has
played them at least a thou
sand times in public, some
times twice in the same con-
cert. Few would deny that he
can do with this music what
he wants to have done, yet
even today-or let us say as
recently as five years ago,
so that I can write from
personal knowledge-he goes
over the work, in preparation
for every concert, half tempo,
full tempo, hands separately,
accents reversed, re-eStab-
fishing in his mind and fin
gers every harmonic change,
every voice leading, every
infection of phrase.
I recently asked "a friend
who is a brilliant pianist. a
pupil of Boulanger, to read
for me the Mendelssohn
Songs Witho Words"
music I love but have no OPP
portunity to hear in my pro-
fessional rounds. Some of
these pieces are extremely
difficult, and my friend had
never seen them before. Too
fast, I said as he started one
piece. II agree" he answered,
but played the piece to the
end at the same tempo, be-
fore repeating it more slowly.
"I learned from Boulanger, "
he remarked, never to stop
or change the tempo of a
piece you're sight-reading
except when you're playing
chamber music. It can get
you into a habit you can't
break" ... w..
Interpretation
I could cite many examples
Evening star., 1960-09-04
Chilean Pointer

The first Washington area
exhibition by Virginia de
Vera of Chile is at the Pan
American Union through
September 13. More than
20 oil and casein paintings
are distractions meticulously
Evening star., 1960-09-04
ART NEWS OF THE D. c. AREA
Two Anniversaries
Celebrated at Freer
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN
star Art Critic

anniversaries celebrated at the Freer Gallery Of
Art by its large exhibition of paintings and drawings by
Katsushka Hokusa summerlong show which may remain
to Thanksgiving honors the Tooth anniversary of the
Townsend Harris treaty with Japan; and marks the BIZ
the birth Of Hokusai Of Japans greatest