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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-06
)RLD'S FINEST
BY LEE WALSH
Star Staff Writer

LENINGRAD.-There are
two overwhelming impress
sions Of Leningrad's great
art museum, The Hermitage.
The first is Of the grandeur
and magnificence Of the
Cars of all the Russians,
the second is of the thou
sands of restless feet of the
people in the Union Of So
Wet Socialist Republics.
There Is no doubt that it
is one Of the worlds great
museums, and that now the
Soviet Union recognizes that
it is what Catherine the
Great first planned it to be
"a repository for some of
the masterpieces of all time.
There have been countless
stories on the looting and
destruction of private art and
the wealth of the Cars dur
ing and after the Revolution,
but like everything else in
Russia, there is such a vast
ness that what is left is daz-
cling. True, the hands and
feet Of Lorenzo Lorenzetti's
exquisite Dead Boy on a Dol
phin have been broken off
and repaired, but the effect
is still one Of such poignancy
that the visitor stands silent
before it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-06
Famous Addition

Because the collections of
the cars grew so rapidly, a
further extension to the
museum was built at the end
of the 18th Century, known
as the Old Hermitage. In the
middle Of the 10th Century,
work was started on a new
building, completed in 1850,
and known as the New Her
mitage. 1t is the portico Of
the entrance to the New
Hermitage that is adorned
with nous altantes,
carved in fine granite by the
Russian artist Terebenev.
Today there are six de-
partments open to the visitor.
They are the departments of
Russian Culture, The Culture
and Art of the People of the
Soviet East, The Culture Of
Art of Foreign Countries of
the East, The Culture and
Art of the Ancient World
and West European Art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-06
Wealthy Display

The wealth of the Italian
and Dutch and Flemish art is
such that the Rubens are
hung one upon the other on
a gigantic wall. The Rem
brandtS alone would make a
wealthy museum. 81 Rem
brandts are on display this
summer, although others are
said to be stored. The Rem
brandts draw the largest
number of visitors, and the
painting at which most pause
the longest is The Descent
From the Cross with it's in
credible light effects. How
ever, the lighting at the Her
mitage is old fashioned &C
cording to most modern mu-
SeumS, and it is necessary to
stand back against the win
dow to study the painting
and see its real value. Also
among the Rembrandts are
Abraham's Sacrifice and Por-
trait of a Man.
There are numerous por-
traits of his wife, Saskia, in
GLIDING the beautiful Flora,
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lists around the splendor in
Russian. English, French,
German, italian, Spanish
and the languages of the
East. But 1t Is the thousands
upon thousands Of Russian
school children and the var
ried faces of Mongol and
European mixtures that in
trigue.
The lobby of the Hermit
age is like the Armory dur
ing an Inaugural Ball. One
can scarcely move for the
throngs of young and old.
The language barrier is very
much of a handicap, for one
wishes that he could under
stand the rapid Russian con-
versation in order to hear
what guides say to school
children as they pause be-
fore Rembrandt's The Holy
Family or Raphael's Ma
donna.
And always, one is con-
Scious Of the feet-strolling,
stopping, walking briskly.
And there Is the wonder of
how long the beautiful par
quet and marquetry floors
can take this never-ending
stream of walkers.
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Kokoshku Paintings

Turn right as you enter the
darkened entrance Of the
Phillips. Three steps place
you in a room of large Ko-
koShka paintings aerial
views, they almost seem. Of
Lyon, built on a hill with a
river winding past its feet,
with limitless space enhanc-
ing it and the space en-
HANGED by wheeling birds. of
snow-capped mountains and,
in the midst Of all this light
and space, a single portrait,
flat and non-commital.
Beyond KokoShka'S uni
verse is the close intensity Of
Georges Rouault. rich color
glowing out from under the
great pressure Of impacted
blacks. The face Of Christ.
the head Of q clown. a sun
set landscape called "Gali-
lee" Among the RoualtS ap-
pear works by Monticello.
placed as If to suggest one
origin of the modern master,
for Monticslli. too. made a
good thing out Of heavy pig
ment. A scene from GAS You
Like 1t" dappleS gold and
shadow over the little group
of exiles in the forest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-06
Policeman Seizes
Virginia Escupee
In Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Aug. 3 (AP).-
A city patrolman early today
captured one of two fugitiveS
from a Virginia jail, but the
mans companion escaped.
In custody was Thomas Lee
Scott, 16, who escaped from the
Jail at Martinsville yesterday
along with James Lawrence
MorriSSey, %.
Patrolman Gilbert Haig
spotted the pair at 3 am. on
a west Baltimore street. He
captured Scott without a fight,
but Morrissey escaped on foot.
Scott was taken to Western
District Police Headquarters,
where he was held for Balti-
more County authorities. Scott
is wanted in connection with
breaking and entering charges
in the county.
Morrissey is wanted by county
police for automobile larceny.
He and Scott were arrested by
Virginia authorities who be-
came suspicious of their &C
tivitieS.
Police said Scott told them
he and MorriSSey reached Bal
timore after their escape by
stealing a car and driving to
Roanoke, Va, where 1t ran out
Of gas, and then hitchhiking
the rest of the way.
The pair apparently escaped
from the Jail when a self-lock-
ing door failed to function
properly, allowing them to walk
out of the cell undetected.
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RoouI Dufy's World

The other basement room
has one of the surprises the
Phillips always has for those
who know the place and love
1t. Walk in and you are in
the frivolous world Of Raoul
Duffy. Seaside and country
houses, life is a holiday and
the holiday is pictured as If
by a child who had learned
to draw, who had an i'm
mensely sophisticated life
and who yet retained his
plastic innocence.
On the second floor of the
main building you can find a
small, sunny room full of the
small sunny paintings Of
Marjorie Phillips, flowers and
fields for the most part, also
one baseball tableau and one
very acute study Of a philo-
dendron, a maSterful COM
position of light and dark,
shape and space.
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An Entruncing Corot

Back at the entrance, you
might have turned left, in
stead. Had you done so, you
would have come face to face
with one Of the most en-
trancing Corots in existence.
Dark trees separate a stream
from a sky. There's a town
in the distance and in the
foreground cows slop up
water and peasant girls wait
patiently for their charges.
But over all a silver light
glows, making the air itself
a thing perceived, though no
less transparent. In the same
room, Daumier, in painting
Two Sculptors." managed
with his own paint to imi-
tate a Sculptor's handling Of
clay. In the room beyond are
pictures by q group Of less
well-known American I'm
pressionists, notably Lawson
and Twachtman, their hazy
views of nature brought into
focus by a marvellous small
Monet picture of light and
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The Hermitage

A guidebook to the museum
makes no mention of the
fact that it was Catherine
who ordered the original
Hermitage built adjoining
the beautiful Winter Palace.
But the Intourist guide with
the knowledge that the Wis
itor is interested in Czarist
Russia will point it out. It
was also Catherine who
commissioned the hanging
gardens of the gallery, which
in its time was one of the
sights of st. Petersburg, and
the Raphael Loggias ada
cent to the Hermitage. These
are copies of the loggiaS built
in Rome to the design Of
Bramante and decorated
with frescoes by Raphael and
his pupils.
In 1888, the architect Gia-
como Guarenghi erected the
loggias along the Winter
Canal next to the original
Hermitage. A group of art
lists headed by Unterberger
spent several years in Rome
copying the paintings on
canvas. These canvaseS were
then shipped to st. Peters,
burg and stretched on frames
in the walls and ceilings in
the gallery. The official
guidebook points out: Be
cause of the damage that the
original murals in Rome have
since suffered, the late 18th
century copies, the only set
existing in the world, have
a special value for art his
torians."
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Throne Hall

The Georgiyevsky or Large
Throne Hall also contains a
beautiful parquet floor of
sixteen different kinds of
woods. (The Russians were
known for their parquet and
marquetry floors). The
breath-taking throne room is
done in white Italian marble
and gilded bronze. At the
far end Of the hall, where
sat the czars, there is now
a giant, flag-draped map Of
the Soviet Union worked in
semi-precious stones includ-
ing malachite and lapis
laZuli.
One Of the most interesting
rooms is the Gallery Of the
War of 1912 which contains
portraits of the generals of
the Russian army who fought
Napoleon. They include por-
traits of Marshal KutuZov
and Bagration. Barclay de
FOLLY, Davydov, Rayevsky,
Dokhturov and Volkonsky.
Throughout the palace
there is rich decoration with
semi-precious stones. Mala-
chite, jasper of varying
shades, agate, porphyry and
other stones were used by the
stone carvers of the Kolyvan
works in the Altai, and the
Ekaterinburg and Peterhof
stone cutting works,
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The New Wing

There's no reason at all to
try to touch all bases in a
single visit to any art ;nu-
scum, and every reason to
limit yourself to three or
four rooms. But Supposing
you have the time and the
visual strength, or Supposing
you begin from the other end,
you might find yourself at
this point in the new wing.
Here again are rooms de-
voted each to a single artist.
Downstairs prague has a spa
cious room in which you find
yourself transported by such
humble things as oysters and
lemon peels rearranged by
BraQue. Upstairs is a room
filled mostly by Bonnard,
where a colored mist softens
the lines Of landscapes and Of
ladies at the bath. Down
stairs again, the Phillips, in
a small room, has the most
effective installation of lAark
Rothko that may anywhere
be seen. There are three Of
the paintings of rectangles
floating above each other, and
three chairs. You cannot walk
through the little gallery. If
you enter you have to sit and
look, which is the only way
to get at Rothko at all. At
first. fleeing glance, his rec
tangular invention seems pa
tently absurd; and if ex-
hibited in great numbers, it
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Foreign Students
Garry Wireless
Interpreters

ANN ARBoR, Mich, Aug. S
(AP). Spanish-speaking stu
dents at the University Of
Michigan's second Venezuelan
student leader seminar are car
rying their Interpreters" in
their pockets.
The .16 students have been
fitted with earphones and a
wireless, portable FIN radio
transmitter-receiver.
A professor and interpreter,
equipped with earphones and
microphoneS, can carry on con-
versations with the students
because the system eliminates
the two-way switching Of con-
ventional radio devices. The
students hear only the inter-
prefer.
If a student has a question,
he asks it of the interpreter
who relays 1t to the instructor
in English. The apparatus al
lows the students to be as far
as 100 feet away from the in
structor but still be within
"earshot."
The seminar, which features
lectures on economics, market
ing, accounting and other
topics, ends September II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-06
Church School
Loans Hit

Senator Randolph, Democrats
Of West Virginia, said yesterday
he will fight on the Senate floor
to eliminate from the National
Defense Education Act extern
sion bill any provision for loans
to help build church school
claSsrooms.
Senator Randolph told a re-
porter he fears the launching
of a broad program Of aid to
parochial and other private
schools could lead to the frag-
menting of the Nations school
population.
The Defense Education Act
bill, as sent to the Senate floor
by the Labor Committee, would
authorize $375 million in pri-
vate school classroom loans over
three years for teaching of basic
subjects.
A leadership decision as to
whether it will be considered
this year now apparently rests
on the outcome of efforts being
made to unsnarl a House tangle
on all Of President Kennedy'S
education bills.
Originally Democratic con-
greSSional leaders expressed the
view that the private school
loan provision in the defense
education bill would help pros
poets of President Kennedy's
$2.5-billion general school aid
measure.
They felt the inclusion of this
provision would make it pos
sible for Democratic Congress
men Of the Roman Catholic
faith and those from districts
with large Catholic populations
to support the general bill.
However, the general bill, a
House defense education act ex-
tender, and a higher education
bill all have been shelved in
the House Rules Committee.
Negotiations involving the
White House, the Welfare De-
partment and Democratic con-
greSSional leaders still are going
in an effort to salvage at least
one bill.
Senator Morse, Democrat of
Oregon, Senate Education Sub
committee chairman, has said
these may come to a head this
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-06
Southeastern Adopts
Yeor-Round Glasses

Io1 significant help 70 students
who must work during the day
to pay for their night classes,
particularly since tuition fees
at many universities are be-
ginning to soar.
2. Enable the university to
make maximum use of its ia
cities by using them more days
per year.
3. Enable the university to
offer more liberal arts courses
and at more advanced levels.
All Southeastern courses al
ready are offered at or above
nationally, recognized standards,
however.
DR.. Mas, president Of South
eastern since 1916, said the
switch to a year-round system
will be accompanied by a
slight reorganization Of cur
riculum.
Changes Initiated
The Schools of Business Ad-
miniStration and Transports
ton will be combined into a
School Of Business and Finan-
cial Administration.
Under that heading there
will be a senior division offer
ing a bachelor Of science degree
in business and public admin
iStration. with majors In pub
lie accounting, commercial &C
counting, transportation. mar
keting, business management
and Federal finance manage
ment, and a junior division
offering associate degrees in
public accounting, commercial
accounting and science and
business administration.
Liberal arts subjects, mean
while, will include English,
public speaking, social science,
psychology, economics and the
humanities.
Referring to the new South
eastern plan, DR.. Mas said
that "it is improvements such
as this that our national lead
ers in education are calling for
at the university level"
He noted, for instance, a re-
cent plea by Oliver C. Car
michael, a member of the Com
mission on Goals for Higher
Education, that American col
leges and universities seriously
consider establishing year.
round schooling instead of two
regular terms plus summer
schools, "the latter amounting
in many cases to little more
than makeup work."
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KIees and Morins

There, too, are a whole
room of Klees and another Of
Marins. The Marin room is
a marvel of kaleidoscope
color and form, as the sea
and coastal islands spin
around a window frame that
itself seems at times ready
to join the dance. Then,
spang in the middle Of all
this exuberance of nature,
is planted an intricate, aus
tere construction of plastic,
nylon wire and pure geometry
by Naum Gabo, a breath-tak-
ing juxtaposition.
Half a flight up is what
used to be the main room Of
the gallery. Here are several
paintings by Karl KnathS,
long a speciality Of the
Phillips. In one q wind
shaped pine towers against
a void of sky. In another.
. a wooded dune, a patch Of
sea, a scrap Of sky and q
setting sun provide an in
tricate set Of forms against
which deer leap and gullS
soar.
Tucked away behind all
this is a room you didn't
know was there, because IN
fact 1t wasn't there until the
new wing was opened last
year. Here are hung a hand
full Of early Goth century
Americans, including a brav-
ura portrait of one old Stager,
Otis Skinner, by another,
George LukS. Here also are
two of the finest paintings by
John Sloan: "The Wake of
the Ferry" shows the sliding
hills of water in New York
harbor on a rainy day; six
O'Clock" captures the eternal
truth in what has proved to
be a transitory aspect Of city
life: Like a holt of lightning,
the strong diagonal Of an
elevated train separates the
brilliant sky from the crowd
going home in darkness.
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by Bradley Walker Tomlin,
once characterized as the
finest painter of Band-aidS in
the business. Dominating
the room, though, is Nicholas
de Stael, represented by three
works. One is totally abstract
"Fugue," a color and texture
exercise in visual harmony
that is fully justified by
Street Musicians" in which
the figures and their setting
become large SwatcheS of
thick color.
Besides the Bonnard room,
upstairs the new wing con-
tainS some of the most IA
nous works in the Phillips
Collection, including Dau-
mier's Uprising" and the
two paintings of the re-
pentant Peter by Ell Greco
and by Goya. 1t is no news
to observe that Goya's Peter
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the West European depart
ment. The Italian collections
alone include Filippo Lippi's
Vision of st. Augustine,
Giovanni della Robbia's altar,
Nativity, Botticelli's st.
Jerome and st. Dominic,
Ghirlandajo's Alteration Of
the Infant Christ, da Vinci'S
Madonna with a Flower and
the Madonna Litta, Vero-
nese's Alteration Of the
Shepherds, Corregio's Ma
donna. with Child and an An
gel, Michelangelo's Crouching
Boy, Cellini's Perseus with
the Head Of Medusa and
seven Titians, including the
famous Danae.
The Dutch and Flemish
collections are especially rich.
It includes 81 Rubens and Is
Van Dycks at the moment.
The Van Dycks include De-
scent from the Cross, a self
portrait, a wonderful Head
of an Old Man and a portrait
of Rubens with his son, Al
bert.
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look at in the Luncheon"
qualities and persons, a sense
Of time and place and mood,
but a good place to begin is
the use Of reflected light.
The group around the table
is under an awning. Light
filters through, taking color,
bounces off the white cloth,
illumines the underside of
cheek and chin. In the dis
lance light sparkles on the
river as it does, close up, on
crystal and on silver. Shrub
berry around the group throws
off the light; frocks and the
fur of a dog absorb it.
If you know no riverside
inn on the Potomac, visit
this one at the Phillips. Even
if you have your own, up
stream or down, Renoir can
still teach you to see it in
joy.
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West European Art

1t is the department of
West European Art that has
given the Hermitage it's repu-
tation, and justly so. Far,
from all Of the art is on dis
play at the museum, as much
Of it is stored in Easements
and Storerooms. All of the
works of such artists as
Rembrandt, RubenS, Van
Dyck and Poussin and others
are not listed in "the short
guide" but still the number
of items on exhibit exceeds
two million.
Because Of its wealth, it is
difficult to describe, even in
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autumn falling across a
country road.
Theoretically the basement
rooms are for prints. At the
moment, one of them is oc-
cupied by contemporary Eng
lish art, the domin ant
pieces being an only slightly
halucinatory Figure in
Landscape" by Francis Bacon
and a small Family Group"
by Moore, which, as with al
most all his small work,
could be taken for ten feet
high if seen by itself.
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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

COCHRAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven.
teenth street and New. York avenue
NV. Daily, 10 am, to 4:30 PIN;
Saturday, 8 am. to 4:30 pm;
Sunday and holidays, 2 to 8 pm;
closed Monday. Through summer,
Jewels by Faberge.
DUMBARTON OAKS REsEARCH IL
BRARY AND COLLECTION, 1908
Thirty-Second street NV. Daily
2 to 8 pm: closed Monday. Closed
July and August.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and jefferson drive SsW.
Daily, 8 am. to 4:30 pm.
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ARTS Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily am. to 1850
pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Com
stitution avenue at Sixth street NV.
Daily, 10 am. to PM; sunday
to 10 pm. Through August 1S'
Chinese art.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1921 Twenty
second street NV. Daily, IL am.
to 6 pm; Monday, IL am. to 10
pm; Sunday, 2 to pm.
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ART AND ARTISTS
Quiet Ruminotion
At the Phillips
By FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

One Of the oveiest lines in modern English literature
occurs when Londoner explains to another why
favore restaurant longer fashionable Nobody
there anymore it's too crowded"
The principle in reverse, explains why the Phillips
Collection generates unique affection and devotion
art lovers not only in Washington but all the
country Everyone to the Phillips it's never crowded
That Of only part of the appeal OF the place.
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In Four Buildings

But this is only one Of the
wonders of the Hermitage.
At the present time, it oc-
cupies four buildings. The
oldest of the buildings is the
lovely, haunting Baroque
Winter Palace itself. The
main stairway to the palace,
now the entrance to the
museum, preserves most of
its original 18th century ap-
pearance. 1t is a stairway
of such beauty and elegance
that one can easily imagine
Catherine and her courtierS
or Alexander I and his fol-
lowers sweeping down 1t i'm
periouSly.
Shortly after the Winter
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Reflected Light

Finally one comes to what
is certainly the most famous
picture in the collection,
Renoir'S Luncheon of the
Boating Party" In the new
wing it occupies a room 9TH
erwiSe hung only with a small
and amethyst Monet land
scape and a Renoir drawing
for the Judgement Of Paris"
There are many things to
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Cattle in Scotland
Deyour Golf BuIIs

WEST LOTHIAN, Scotland
AP).-The latest taste fad
among the cows of West
Lothian is golf balls.
A herd of 20 cattle con-
tinously MUNICH the little It'd.
bits while members of the
Uphall Golf Club resignedly
throw up their arms.
The bovine golf ball eaters
lie in wait for their repast
around the 4th and 5th tees
and pounce on the balls when
a shot pitches near the greens.
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For All the People

But the leading impression
is always of the taste and
feeling for grandeur that the
cars possessed. Today the
museums are open to the
people of the Soviet Union
and there must be a great
desire on their part to see
them, for there are thousands
of visitors. Guides take tour