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ATTRACTIVE CO loNIAL STYLE HOME living
kite ben three bedrooms and Den EXGEILENST
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DIRECTIONS East AEer I'd. to Ritenhouse ST. right
to PECKs sig p.
Evening star., 1960-04-24

EARLY in his career, artist Prentiss Taylor dis
H covered it easy to be strange and distin-
guished
He found it challenging to try to be plain and
distinguished
Before beginning his work in lthography at the Art
Students League in New York, he had turned out
for Keats and Milton
Then" he says, Il began to make it problem with
myself to what could do by being what you might
call plain and representatonal- meanwhile keeping
the abstract aspects of art very much in mind"
First considered too MODERN, the 52year-old
painter and prntmaker today finds himself being
called conservative in art world currently fevered
by abstract expreSSionsm. But while critic may
tax him with producing too literal postcard views of
famous Places his more traditional style has won
continuing tribute from an impressive roster of in
stitutional and private collectors exhibitors and the
public
He is of the few Washington members of the
National Academy of Design associate in the graph
les class.
Frankly distrustful of the too eager interpreters
the emotional release school of art Mr. Taylor
theleSs maintains that the various art movements
are not crazy not illogical. They out of very
definite needs always bring reactions
That doesn't mean that some people don't jump on
the bandwagon and exploit it, But you have to distin
gush them from the really creative people those who
carrying art forward"
He has a natives devotion to the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal-t the theme of his most recent show in
20
Evening star., 1960-04-24

for New York and stint of designing stage costumes
and settings Increasingly, however he was drawn to
the fine arts especially since returning to Washing
ton in 1895.
He felt instantly at home in lthography in the feel
of the crayon the stone, when he started in that
medium in 1881 It has remained a specially along
with fascination for drawing although he also paints
in oil and water color.
President of the Society of Washington Printmakers
since 1912 he has worked to encourage participation
in the socetys exhibitions by outoftown artists as
stimulus for local printmakers The groups 23d exh
biton at the Smithsonian Institution this year drew
more than 600 recent American graphic works With
only volunteer staff, Mr. Taylor has formidable job
at exhibition time.
He is former president of the Washington Water
Color Club and headed the Artists Guild of Washing
ton for four terms between 1913 and 1850.
A bachelor, Mr. Taylor lives in Arlington Towers
He did not take up art teaching until he was 49, but
nstructs in painting in the Adult Education De-
partment of the YWCA and at American University
He also lectures art subjects
Washington, he says of his home town, has cultural
events but it does not have cultural atmosphere
While there many cultivated residents here there
also many cultural alpinists' with an overa
bundance of uncertain values he finds These, with the
ux of people coming and going act against sufficient
y cohesive and effective group he believes, leaving
neither the provincialiSm of Baltimore or Richmond
nor the concentration of national ferment of New
York
But he adds lin recent years, we have been doing
better"
Evening star., 1960-04-24
A Plain and Distinguished Artist
Bv HARRIET CRIFFITHS
Star Staff Writer

the Bader Gallery-and other hallmarks of the Wash
ingon He also values New England the Charles
ton and the Southwestern United States.
He has tended to express his feelings about people
the obque viewpoint of the effect they have on
their surroundings and vice versa whether place
has happy and growing mood or something that's
kind of bearing down; whether people have appreci
ated what is good in place, have violated it. He
is moved by something of the persistence and survival
on both sides
Mr. Taylor likes people, but his observation of the
cross effects of nature and forces him to admit
that what nature has done to people is very often
better than what people have done to nature"
Besides city and landscape his subject interest
ranges from mythology to the races at Middleburg.
Believing in being "a human being first, and then
artist whatever else are he has participated
in civic and organzatona work since voting for him.
self as color bearer of his Children of the American
Revolution chapter att.
Since 1943 he has been art therapist for the men
tally ill., starting volunteer with recuperating war
patients at Elizabeths Hospital Later, he Joined
the hospital staff and continued there until 1854 He
now works day week at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville
He believes that has great value in its perceptual
and ntegrave aspects well as in its emotional and
symbolic factors.
budding artist at A. he says he knew then That
liked draw better than anything else" The Titanic
disaster made deep impression on his youthful
mind which he expressed in drawings of ships.
The third generation Washington resident attended
Sidwell Friends and Mckinley High Schools and the
Corcoran School of Art before striking out in 1925
uNDAY. STAR MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON APRIL "a 1s
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Permits of 81 Drivers
Are Revoked in Week

williams. 528 Sheppard ST.. NV;
Earl Henry Stokes, 7i9 49th st. ne. !;
Waymond Goodson, 3453 14th st. NV:
Bernardus Heldens, 1855 Park rd.
Albert A. Hunter, 1858 Harvard st.
NV; Henry Tilton Hill, 1905 Lee st.
ne; Maxwell Dudley Sanders. 922
East Capitol ST.: George Wilmer Rob-
erts, 200 @ st. NV; James B. Jack
son, 526 Shepherd st. NV; Richard
Browning, 5S03 4th ST.. NV; Eugene
Broadus, jr.. 1l15 Maryland ave. me-;
Paul Allen Greene, g04 22d ST. ne;
st, Sc; Willie Leeaster Tardy; 1s12h
1854 33d st. NV; Larry Ray. Kraft,
l1OS Buchanan st. NV; Gilbert M.
Horne, 926 Euclid ST., NV: Eddie
Henry Jones, Asp 9th st. NV; Paul
Lauritzen, 1925 18th st. NV; Robert
A. Rhyme, 423 Decatur st. NV; Jesse
Louis Wingf1eld, 1000 Trenton pl. sc. |;
Joe B. Morgan, 1880 George Palmer
hwy. Seat Pleasant, Nd
james l.. Wiley, 1910 Euclid st. NV;
James w. Robinson, 3420 Stanton rd .
Sc; Manuel Rodriguez, 1908 Ingraham
st. NV: Robert Simmons. 251S 18th
St; NV; Ronald Leslie Scott. 1901
Watson. Baltimore. Nd; Lewis Z.
Grigsby, zoos Florida ave, ne; Frank
s. Mcbride. 1927 R st. NV: wilton
B. McNeal. 1928 Benning rd. ne: BEN
jamin F. Robinson, 154 Tennessee ave.
ne; John r. Young. 1910 California
st. NV; Camel e. Foster. 1913 Cor
coran st. NV: James Clayton Stroman.
1919 Olive st. ne; Robert Allen Will
helm, 1902 T st. sc.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Reds to Publish
Miller Plays

MOSCOW, Aug. 10 (AP).-
A collection of plays by Ameri-
can Playwright Arthur Miller
is to be published soon by Is
kusstvo, a Moscow publishing
house.
The Soviet news agency Tass
today reported the collection
will include Mr.. Miller's "All
My Sons" Death of a Sales
man." The Crucible" and
"View From the Bridge"-all
translated into Russian.
Soviet readers said Tass, are
familiar with Death of a Sales
man" and View From the
Bridge" but the other two have
appeared only in abridged form
in magazines.
The news agency called Mr.
Miller a realistically minded
playwright" and said he de-
picts boldly and truthfully the
American way of life and its
contradictions"
Evening star., 1960-08-10
South Dukotu
LeufIet Probe
IsCompIeted
BY the Associated Press

Senate investigators have
completed an investigation of
anonymous literature in North
Dakota's special June sena-
torial campaign.
James H. Duffy, chief coun-
sci of the Senate Elections
Subcommittee. said yesterday
further action awaits a meet
ing of the committee, possibly
within the next two weeks.
Mr.. Duffy said the investi-
gator checked into anonymous
leaflets concerning Democratic
Senator Burdick, who defeated
Republican Gov. John E. Davis
in the June election, was sworn
in yesterday.
Federal law requires that all
campaign literature be signed
by the person responsible for it.
Mr.. Duffy said he expects
the committee to ask the
Justice Department to investi-
gate the source of the pamph-
Evening star., 1960-08-10

The permits of 50 drivers
were revoked during the last
week, the District Department
of Motor Vehicles has an
nounced.
One revocation was for use
of narcotics, IS for driving
while drunk, six for fragrant
disregard for the safety of per-
sons or property. two for mis-
representation when obtaining
the permit, and so for the ac-
cumulation of at least IL
points.
The list of revocations fol-
lows:
| Revoked as user Of narcOties-James
j. Lee, ia Tennessee ave. ne.
Revoked for driyinE while drunk
william Edward Loften. S5 Florida
sge sOa ns sso NatfOn NoasS csTona ave-
Elizabeth Rose Reed, 5000 Brothers
pl. Sc: Harold Rhythm King. l22
36th st. ne: Johnnie James Br9wn'
| 1477 Newton st. NV; James Sanders,
N. Kentucky st., Arlington, Va; Doliia
HjemvilE, 5e2S S6th ave, Hyattsville,
Md; James Eugene Sledd, Vienna,
BenninS % I'd. Sc: Willie James Faison,
sos Irving st. NV, Verne Dauoert'
l::5 18th st. NV.
Revoked for faErant disregard for
safety Of persons or property-Frank
Joseph Magsio, .402O Bladensburg I'd.
tase Geton Sy SoSs S Carbon eofde Td. WoodaSres % @
Md: John A. Delorme. Ft: Belyoir, Va;
Bernard ]. Little, 52S E. Alexandria
ave. Alexandria, Va: Joseph RAYMOND
Thornton. 50l7 Middleton lane Camp
Is Rock Greek Church I'd. NV.
Revoked for obtaining permit by
INSTRUMENTATION = Harvey KoSoerg,
$40 21st St; nv; Lamont Aamlin
| Revoked for accumulated record Of
at least IS points James ,t,;sa Henry ry
Raymond SynM; iS splanei Dsn eSG5 @ M i4th st, n.W;
George Frank Kins. 6262 10Th st.
NV; Wesley Richardson, go I St.
ne Frank .rB., B; wiEiamhS HmShmaSiy NV woodE Noo%s
s54 SD st. ne; Hollis Phifer. 1906
10th st. NV.
Earl Human. 1880 North Carolina
ave, ne; Joseph Scamoni. Indian
Head, Nd; Leroy Williams, 3o32
Ames st. ne; Ronald F. Henderson,
200 18Th st. Sc: Flyde Lindsay
| Coates, 1907 MARYLAND ave. ne.
clifford Douglas DOVE, 1923 Clifton
st. NV; James A. Carey. 6210 Kolb
st. ne; Kenneth E. Piper, '739 xenia
St Sc; John Thomas Myrtle, Burke,
va: william Evans Goodacre, 6156
31st St NV; Conrad Naylor Lancas-
ter, 5403 Grant st. ne; Frank Low
cry, lO11 K st. ne: Cora 8. Moore,
3412 21st st. ne; Zanius B. Rogers.
$50 Tennessee ave. ne: Charles
skipwith, 1911 11th st. NV; Silas
Evening star., 1960-07-24
ART NEWS OF THE D. c. AREA
Auction Sales Show
Healthy Price Level
BY FLORENCE S. BERGMAN
Star Art Critic

summary of the years auction sales records in the art
field for the information of Washington readers who
works in the categoes covered has been given in these
columns for many AS of current values each
years record has such limitations what collections
offered their quality and condition and the economic su
Evening star., 1960-07-24

buffets; $1,000 for a Har-
tung and $4,000 for a Soul
ages, neither of whose works
had sold here before at auc-
ton.
Only two sales devoted
solely to Old Master paint
ings did not create much in
terest, the highest prices be-
ing $10,500 for a Solomon
van Ruysdael, and $4,000 for
a Vigee Lebrun portrait.
The seasons sales offered
plenty of variety: Chinese
and other Oriental art; Pc
ruvian, Mexican and other
pre-Columbian art; Egyp-
tian, Greek and Roman an
tiquities; Romanesque, Goth
ic and Renaissance art: arms
and armor, besides the many
categories mentioned above.
Finally. one of the best
collections of Currier & Ives
prints offered in recent years
fetched a total of $51,352,
the highest price for a sin
gle print being $4,000 for
the dramatic large subject,
THE Life of a Hunter: A
Tight Fix"
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Art Book Review
VAN GOGH-A PICTORIAL
BIOGRAPHY. BY Mark

VAN GOGH-A PICTORIAL
BIOGRAPHY. BY Mark
E. Tralbaut. (The Viking
Press; $6.50D
Seventy years ago this
month, the Dutch painter.
Vincent van Gogh committed
suicide. The books, press
and magazine articles that
have been published about
that strange, tormented
genius, add up to a colossal
photography.
Some so of these books
have been written by Mark
Tralbaut. who seems to be
peculiarly qualified, having
made the study of Van
Gogh his life work." and
having spent many years
building up the International
Van Gogh archives at The
Hague. p
In the present volume,
Mr.. Tralbaut has written
again the complete account
of Van Gogh's life in an
easy, narrative style, and
has illustrated it lavishly
with more than 100 photo
graphs of the artists rela-
tives. homes and lodging
places, people he knew. his
paintings and drawings Of
all these, and documents.
Following the biography are
copious notes on these pho-
tographs.
The pictorial facet is the
books major virtue. The
author relates his story in
such a factual manner, that
at times it approaches url-
derstatement. For example,
concerning the episode with
Sien. which would seem to
have been a major disaster,
Mr.. Tralbaut says:
His Wan Gogh's) desire
to have a family of his own,
to be surrounded by his own
wife and children" etc.
was satisfied for a while.
even though in a rather un-
orthodox fashion"
But perhaps the analytical
biographers have been delv-
ing too deeply or seeing too
much in Van Gogh's tor
ments. This readable ac-
count Of demonstrable hap
penings and behaviour may
be a good balance wheel for
too much past dredging up
Of spiritual tapesnakes. =.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
His Aim Is to Establish
Chekhov as q Funny Writer

playwright - but a pretty
somber fellow.
Actually he was a very
funny writer" contradicts
enthusiastic Alex.
tits a life ambition Of
mine to change the public's
conception of him"
Szogyi pronounced SER
gey) is a moon-faced, 81
year-old Wesleyan Univer-
sity professor who recently
came up with a coup entitled
"A Country Scandal"
Arrival of the charade sent
top critics to gushing super
latives. 1t has settled down to
solid trade at the little
Greenwich News Theater.
And all the big agents,
Szogyi reports. are interested
in his future literary efforts.
Alex, whose linguistic ia
cility embraces six languages,
shaped "a, Country Scandal"
from an unfinished and long
neglected script which Chek-
hov penned at age of 81 in
the Russia of 1881.
1t Was DisOrganiZed
The fledgling author. Alex
found. had packed into the
disorganized effort Cwhic h
would take 61a hours to per-
form in uncut version) most
of the elements that appeared
in his subsequent MASTER
pieces, THE Cherry Or
chard," Uncle Vanya," "The
Seagull" and THE Three Sis
ters."
The research affirmed the
young researchers notion
that the Moscovite was re-
garded too austerely by West
ern audiences.
What has spoiled Chek-
hov for many people up to
now," says Alex. "is that pro-
Evening star., 1960-07-24
His Route
To Sturdom
Is Bruisinq

NEW YORK (AP).-Wil-
liam Daniels is on a black
and-blue path to stardom.
Il always seem to end up
taking a beating" says the
young performer who re-
Gently won one of the the
ater's most-coveted prizes,
the Clarence Derwent Award
for promising newcomers.
1t is the first trophy "a
$500 check goes with it,
which Daniels has won. and
takes the sting out of the
countless bruises absorbed
in the interests of theatrical
realism.
Currently he is one of the
two performers in The Zoo
Story" a one-act drama at
the Provincetown Playhouse.
(The other half of the pro-
gram is "Krapp's Last Tape"
by Samuel Beckett.D
Portraying an urbane eX-
ecutive unwittingly involved
with a frantically distressed
derelict, Daniels lis pum-
melled each evening accord
ing to plot.
His left shoulder bears the
brunt of the attack, but he
also sprained his ankle at one
performance and has suffered
assorted muscular strains. A
pad cushions the action now,
but for a while Bill took it
neat.
Previously he has been the
victim Of dramatic slaps and
twists in National tour of
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
revival Of "The Iceman
Cometh" and Look Back in
Anger"
"This is the first time
though, that I ever. Went on
before the flrststring critics."
he notes.
Daniels is a student of the
Actors Studio method, hence
his dedication to ultra real
ism. His theatrical career
began at age 5 on a radio
program with a sister Can act
later augmented by another
sister,, and at age IS he got
a role in Life With Father"
even though he had never
before acted or even seen a
stage play.
I'VE are the products of an
ambitious m o her" says
Daniels of how he and his
sisters got into show business.
Il love her dearly but that's
the truth"
Evening star., 1960-07-24
NEW OPENINGS

RUMANIAN FOLK ART, Natural
History Museum. Constitution ave
nue. and Tenth street NV. Just
opened. through August II.
GRAPHICs BY MARCIO. GRASS
MAN, Pan American Union. Just
opened, through July 81.
GROUP SHOW BY JIMILU MASON,
HART COWPERTHWAIT AND
KATHERINE PITCHFORD. The
Potter's House 1858 Columbia road
NV. Indefinite.
goth CENTURY COLOR wooDcUTs.
Division Of Graphic Arts, Smith
sonian Building. Through septem-
Der IL.
PRINTS BY DAUMIER AND doYA.
Collectors Gallery. 1925 Wisconsin
avenue NV. ThToush August l5..
AMERICAN INDUSTRY IN THE 10th
CENTURY, Library Of Consress.
Tuesday through September.
wATERCoLoRS BY VINCENT HART
GEN. THEoDoRE TURNER. SALLY,
PAINTINGS OF ITALY BY LILY
SPANDORF Lent by Collectors
Gallery. GEORGETOWN, to McKeldin
Library. University Of Maryland.
PAINTINGS BY STUDENTS OF
JAMES CUPOLI. Tie Colony. 1877
De Sales street NV Recently opened
Through September 2.
Evening star., 1960-07-24

alton here and abroad at q
given time, which might de-
termine whether collections
are sent to London or to New
York to be sold.
Yet despite the fact that
the session just past did not
bring such exciting painting
collections and individual
works to the Parke Bernet
Galleries. Inc. at $50 Mad
ison avenue, New York City,
the United States leading
auction firm for art and
books. as did the season of
1889 land some earlier
years.. rs sales held there
from September 1859 to June.
1860, attained a gross total
of $9.240,982. the second
highest in the firms history.
Leslie A. Hyam. president
Of the galleries, said in part,
Greater numbers of people
are collecting art, antiques
and rare books, Judging from
the enlarged roster of buy
ers." He noted the "increas-
ing demand for the choicest
items in each category. and
a more decided rejection of
the commonplace, indicating
a further growth of informed
taste" But mo new cate
gories were pioneered. and
no old favorites revived"
Increase in Prices
"Impressionist and post
impressionist paintings con-
tinued in demand" he said,
but as the supply of first
class examples begins to
diminish, collectors are
choosing to buy major
abstract and expressionist
works by contemporary
artists" This was especially
evident in the Museum of
Modern Art sale held on
April q.
Mr.. Hyam further pointed
out that Although art IS
one Of the most difficult
Evening star., 1960-07-24

commodities about which 70
form reliable conclusions on
price because of its unique,
subjective character, a COM
parison of pre-sale estimates
with prices realized indicates
an average increase over the
previous season of at least
20 per cent. Another de-
velopment in the art auction
world is that international
competition is no longer
restricted to the occasional
spectacular auction. How
ever he concluded, both
from our own records and
reports from abroad, with
few exceptions, significant
works of art offered at auc-
ton pass into American col
lections."
Evening star., 1960-07-24

ductions have been too SOM
Der. That's followed from the
translations we've had.
Actually C h ekhov was
satirizing with great wit
both the life about him and
certain Russian stage tech
niques. After all, he did Ia
bel all of his plays as COM
edies."
Added Own Lines
Since completing "A Coun-
try Scandal" Alex has done
a new translation of THE
Seagull," which has been ac-
corded approving response in
Bermuda and is to be tested
further this summer along
the stock circuit.
One aspect of the success
of "a Country Scandal" adds
to the twinkle in the profess
sor's eye:
II actually added one plot
element--and none of the
experts commented on it or
seemed to notice. But a lot
of people like it."
Besides translating, Alex
has authorship dreams of his
own. you see. And a bit Of
collaboration with a maestro
never hurt anyone.
Evening star., 1960-07-24
Leading Sales

Twenty sales achieved six
figure totals. Leading among
these (for art collections
were $S71,S5O for the so
modern paintings and sculp-
ture sold for the benefit of
the Museum of Modern Art;
$652,250 for the modern
paintings, sculptures and
drawings in the Baroness
Gourgaud and other collec-
tions; $499. .28O for the Wal
ter P. Chrysler, jr.. collection,
perhaps the greatest Collec-
tion of English XVIII CEN
tury furniture and decora-
tionS ever to appear at public
sale anywhere; $499,000 for
the modern paintings sculp-
lures and drawings of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Sair and
others; $472,690 for the
XVIII century French furni-
ture and decorations of the
Marquesa de Portage and
others.
Highest prices for in
dividual items during the
past season were 100000
for a Cezanne still life, Les
Pommes";; a record $145, 900
for Braque's cubist Com
position: The Violin; $82 500
(another worlds record price,
for Leger's lie Fumeur";
$4,000 for Matisse's 1921
interior, "Deux Files a Nice"
More than $4,400,000 of
the seasons total resulted
from sales of furniture and
decorations, rugs and objects
of art, which compromise the
bulk of Parke Bernet Caller
les material. French XVIII
century furniture held its
dominant place. with Amer
lean second and English
third. The highest price, $48,-
0O9 was paid for a Louis XIV
black lacquer serpentine COM
mode. Six other Louis XIV
pieces fetched successive sim
gle highest prices, ranging
from $44, 900 down to $4,000.