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Pan American

In contrast to the above and
to remind us of the fashions
of the sos, the Pan American
Union is showing paintings
and drawings by Maria The
reza Negreiros of Columbia
and Brazil.
It's hard to say what Miss
Negreiros makes her paint
ings out Of. They have sand
and pebbles in them, but the
problem is the material itself
that holds the sand and peb-
bles. It could be one of the
new plastic Clues or it could
be old encaustic jazzed up in
the application. At any rate
the surfaces are uniformly
Way and there is an i'm
mense range of textural va
riety, from the sand and peb-
bles to passages Of bubbles
caught in the translucent sur
face. The artist obviously has
a grand time swirling the ma
terial around on the surface
and letting it harden, bubble
laden. If you 60 for bubbles
and pebbles, this is the stuff
for you, but the colors are
garish and the forms are
ShapeleSs.
All the paintings are titled,
sc enc S." which we may
hope refers to the artists own
coming emergence indie
pendent maturity. But it's a
long shot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
Membership Limited
ART NOTES

Openings: Obelisk, watercol-
ors by Sacha Chimkevitch, on
Tuesday: Henri's, collage
paintings by Benny Andrews,
Tuesday; MickelsOn's, sculp-
ture by Milton Hebald,
Wednesday; Bader's, recent
paintings by Herman Maril,
Thursday; George Washing
ton University, paintings by
Blanche Elliot King, today.
Group shows: liza; Ar
lists Mart; Chevy Chase Gal
cries.
Washington Gallery Of Mod
ern Arts James Book exhibit
ton will close on December z
instead Of December 8.
The National Gallery of Art
today begins a lecture series
on art and architecture in
Washington. At 4 pm. in the
auditorium, Frank Getlein,
art critic of The Star, will
speak on sculpture. Later lee
lures will be on painting and
architecture both past and fu-
ture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
By JIM BIRCHFIELD
Star Staff Writer

There are almost as many
approaches to photography as
there are photographers, and
given a group Of serious anna
teurs and a single subject
you'll most likely end up with
as many expressions as there
were photographers.
The various approaches to
photography were d emo n
strated recently by members
of Alpha, a group Of serious
Washington area amateurs.
For their subjects they had
sail boats and wild geese.
Alpha c ontains only 10
members, one of whom is in
Europe, and eight members
showed up for a field trip to
photograph the Maryland oys-
ter fleet on the Choptank Riv-
er near Cambridge, Md, and
the Black Water Game Re-
fuge in Dorchester County be-
low Cambridge.
Last Working Sails
The Maryland oyster fleet,
of about 20 boats, is the last
working sailing fleet in the
Western Hemisphere. Under
Maryland law, no motor pow
er may be used in dredging
oysters in the Bay. And the
boats make dramatic subjects
for the camera.
From dawn until noon time
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American U.

The third Of the three exhi-
billions Of the virtues Of the
non-fashionable is the most
obvious Of all the old-style rep
resentational paintings Of
Eugen Weisz in a memorial
show at American University.
Mr.. Weisz, who died in 1854,
was for many years a teacher
at the Corcoran School and
hence was in touch with most
citizens Of the Washington art
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
Money Was Thicker

LOUISVILLE (AP).-Hous-
ton Jones jr., saw an auto
crash near his school and
promptly called a radio sta.
ton, which gives a SIS bonus
for good stories. He won the
money, but his father wasn't
too happy. Jones ST., is COM
mercial manager at another
station.
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Windowful of Christmas
Kann's Washington, 9Th & Pa.

Come oil We and young eor Recopture The onpo-
non OF childhood ond the magic Of the before ndosl
reel in front of Chstmos "Seee Shoppe filled with rore
heo indeed and you watch Yogi Beer and Friends stage
HootenonnY Christmas that wakes up old ST. Nick See you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
ART AND ARTISTS
F oshions in Art
Are Mixed BLESSINGS
BY FRANK GETLEN
star Art Critic

One of the great troubles with any truly overriding fashion
In art is that closes many eyes to much else that
possible besides the fashion To extent this effect is
reasonable and socially useful in such other fashion
fields as haue couture and interior decor
In both decor and Dress the existence Of prevailing
fashion, with its many marginal variations creates familiar
environment for us and familiar suite Of persons in that
environment In highly mobile society," such as ours fashion
furnishings and clothing thus serves as substitute for
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SAhS' NACA va O1Nd VI ulSo
that a n Client tradition into
touch with the modern city.
Adoms-Morgun
Yet another excellence OBJ
scured by fashion is on view
at the Adams-Morgan in the
large distractions of Jack
Davis. Mr.. D avis, who is
chairman Of the art depart
ment at Hood College, Freder-
lex, Nd, uses some of the
means Of abstract expression
ism but he uses them for very
different purposes. The pic
lures are not primarily re-
ords Of his activity at the
anvas. They are pictorial
objects, made to be looked at
and related to without any ref
erence at all to the struggles
or decisions Of the painter in
putting them together.
A typical painting is a very
large rectangle covered by a
single dominant color, blue or
orange. Within this field, or,
more typically, along its top
and bottom edges, small, in
tricately shaped and colored
forms project themselves
from the e d ge. Sometimes
these make up a kind of
fringe, sometimes they are
larger and get well into the
field.
The field itself is by no
means as simple as it looks at
first. Mr.. Davis devotes a
great deal Of thought and care
to the simple seeming sur
face. It is a ctually richly
worked beneath the dominant
color, so that that color comes
eventually to seem a SHIN
mering veil between the eye
and some pulsing reality be-
meath the surface.
"0asis," for example, has a
silvery gray-blue surface upon
which abstract but organic
forms appear. The most i'm
portant forms, however, are
not these bordering decora-
tons, suggestive of trees or
fruit. Within the field itself
the paint reveals great writh-
ing forms moving upward,
like Van Gogh's expresses
flaming toward the stars.
Given a chance, every pic
ture in the show yields the
same kind of hidden virtue.
Not only Van Gogh but also
Klee and Gorky come to mind
as spiritual forebears. Forms
become presenceS, not mere
expressions of the artists de-
cisions. The paintings live in
themselves and in the mind
Of the beholder. This is
a richly rewarding group of
paintings and probably the
finest shown so far at the gal
lery.
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tine. Viera da Silva brings
that ancient tradition into
touch with the modern city.
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CAMERA
CALENDAR

SILVER SPRING CAMERA rim
viii meet Thursday at Sis nm Al
the Silver Spring Library, saOl
SolesVille road Mrs. Winfield Dud-
iey' who has served as q guide At
washington Cathedral viii shoW
color slides Of the installation Of the
bell tower and slides made al the
casting foundry in EnEland Also
slide competition for members With
entries on any subject.
uSDA PHOTOGRAPHIC ROUND
TABLE VIII meet Friday At 8 pm.
in Room 1909 South Building The
Rev n. Stein Schneider will show
travel slides and make suggestions
ior improving travel pictures and
photo essays.
YMCA FOT0CRAFT CLUB win
meet thursday az pm. at 1918
Twelfth street NV. Guest speaker,
James johnson of the Silver Spring
Camera Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01

before the rise Of the housing
spectators, but is a delicate
ly sensitive study of the many
tones in snow we see as
white, a brisk performance
with the palette knife and the
crystal breath of winter sun
light all at once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01

VI oNASiOil anu OAlCiS olllllldI
rewards, a feeling Of men,
bership in a group and the
resulting sense Of security.
In art, too, fashion offers
these rewards but they cease
to be simple rewards and be-
come extremely mixed bless
ings. You gain security but
you lose adventure and rev.
citation and these latter have
much more to do with the
nature Of art than does the
security derived from al
legiance to an all-prevailing
mode, such as was abstract
expressionism during the
sos.
Three New Shows
BY way Of illustration, there
are three superb exhibitions
in town right now, each COM
pletely different from the 9TH
ers but each very rewarding
In itself and each representa-
tive Of one or another manner
Of painting that went into
eclipse when abstract express
Sionism was a reigning fash
ion.
The first is at the Phil
lips, where a group Of
gouaches and water colors by
Viera da Silva goes on exhibit
ton today.
Viera da Silva, a Portu-
guese artist long living in
Paris, has long painted the
city in very abstract terms.
Thin horizontal lines, extend
ed across vast areas made
more vast by the thinneSs and
manyness of the lines, convey
the infinity of the modern
city. These are broken by YER
ticals, sometimes so as to
form small passages of check
erboard, more often not. The
lines curve gently, often, as if
to recall the curvature Of the
earth,
On occasion the lines disap-
pear completely, but their d.
rection remains in the struc-
ture Of paint, put on always in
short strokes, like hte staccato.
rhythm Of the city. At times
the painting recall an air
view Of the city, at times
a city seen from a distance,
within its environment Of
countryside. At times the city
Of verticals and horizontals
seems to float in space.
The space itself is a great
part of the Viera da Silva
city. At first glance the whole
paper often seems permeated
with a murky, fitful gray.
Then, here and there, small
rectangles of color appear, a
couple Of reds or a flight of
blues. Next you notice theat
the gray itself isn't all that
simply gray. Rather, it is
gray tinged with yellow, or
violet, blue or red. The air it.
self takes on whatever color
may be found in the city and
soaks the city world with it.
Simple and homogeneous, the
surfaces yield on inspection
an infinite variety Of color
modulations and linear forms.
Prolonged contemplation of
the images reveals more and
more tiny, changing detail, all
Of it united, all Of it diverse.
The city as a theme is as old
as the Greeks and St. Angus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
cLosE-UPs AND LONG SHOTS
AIPho Photographs
Oystermen, Geese

Alpha blazed away. The club
was the guest of Edward H.
N b b, Cambridge attorney
and power boat enthusiast,
who unanswered his boat
among the fleet to provide ev-
cry possible angle and all de-
grees Of lighting.
After the morning on the
Bay, thousands Of wild geese
provided camera targets at
the refuge.
Not All Film Burners
II you think all amateurs
are film burners, well, think
again. Hundreds Of pictures
we're not taken as the photo
graphers waited for just the
right picture to appear.
81 pass up more pictures
than / take" commented Ev-
erett johnson, a frequent past
winner in The Stars snapshot
contests. eff a picture doesn't
look just right in the viewer, l
don't snap the shutter"
This is indeed restraint, for
it's much easier to snap wild
ly in the expectation tn at
somewhere on a dozen or so
rolls of film there will be "the
picture. 4"
Only by careful discernment
and discipline does a photo
grapher learn how not to snap
the shutter-to wait for that
picture that he will recognize
in his viewfinder.
Membership Limited
Alpha had its beginnings a
few years ago when a few
amateurs decided a small,
congenial society would offer
them more than the larger
camera clubs.
The membership is limited
to 10 who can meet at men,
bers' houses. There are no
competitions between men,
bers, but there is a lot of cri-
ticism. Members may often
tear apart each others work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01

Hooded against the
Gather, Alpha's only
woman m e Der Miss
Nancy Rogers, focuses on
oyster boats.
gested, we may soon take a
Photographic look at Washing
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
PoIicetoQuiz
Woman on
Missing Boy

A Prince Georges County
Md woman is expected to be
brought in for questioning to-
day in connection with the dis
appearance of 3-year-old Jerry
Lee Tucker on the Fourth of
July, police reported.
Police said they expect to
locate the mystery woman re-
ported to have scolded a young
mother in Carmody Hills, Md.
on July 2 for not taking bet
ter care of her child. The
mother came forward after the
Tucker boy vanished, to report
the woman had tried to lead
her 21a-year-old son away from
the street in front Of their
home.
She said the woman, a bru-
nette, about IS and wearing a
housedress, was three blocks
away with the little boy when
intercepted.
1t. Richard Pearson said
police theorize the brown-eyed,
dark-haired Tucker child may
have been taken by a woman
with a warped mother instinct.
He said he believes the boy
is still alive.
This development came with
announcement that the FBI
has formally entered the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
Two Children
Injured by
Hit-Run Auto

A speeding hit-run motorist
hit two children last night,
striking the second child in
fleeing the scene where his
car hit the first youngster.
According to police, Thomas
Chambers, 6, of 215 H street
NE, was struck as he crossed
Third street at the corner Of
H streets NE. shortly after 7
pm.
Witnesses told police the car
then sped off, travelled several
blocks, reaching so to so miles
per hour, then missed a corner
trying to turn left into E street.
The auto jumped the curb,
knocked down 80 feet of fence,
struck Darrell Wright, 5, of 800
E street NE, as he wheeled
his wagon down the sidewalk,
then bounced off three parked
cars, police said.
The driver abandoned the
car a block later and ran
across the intersection at
Fifth and E streets NE.
Darrell Wright was in critical
condition at Casualty Hospital
with a fractured arm and leg,
decorations and head injuries.
Thomas Chambers was treat
ed for decorations at Casualty
Hospital and released.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

The "a columns cast off from
the old East Front of the
Capitol have been designed by
Architect Edward Durrell Stone
into an open air pavilion for
the National Arboretum.
A four-tiered arc would be
trimmed by the columns, II in
the first and 7 alternated in
the second row. They would be
reflected in an oval pond
centered by a cascading foun-
tain.
The Arboretum borders the
west bank of the Anacostia at
M street and Maryland avenue
NE.
The attempt to work the
columns into a nature shrine
is under study by Senator
Humphrey, Democratic whip
from Minnesota.
II 1t pleases him, the Senator
will introduce a bill TO au-
thorize construction for an
estimated $8S0,0O0.
The stone concept Is at odds
with several ideas Of a Capitol
Commission in control Of the
columns. The shafts will de-
teriorate If exposed TO the
weather. and any court they
decorate must be inside, COM
mission members have claimed.
Also, the commission has
held that tradition demands
the columns be kept on Capitol
Hill.
Members are House Speaker
Mccormack Of Massachusetts,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
First Court Action Is Filed
In Russian Embassy Plan

At that time, citizens resi-
Dental groups said they would
seek a re-hearing before the
board and would also appeal tc
the District Commissioners.
The suit asked that the
United States District Court
set aside the June 10 order and
also rohibit Mr.. ngenfritz from
issuing a building and occu.
pancy permit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
ALTERED ARC IN STONE
Capitol Columns Included in Arboretum Desiqr

probably the greatest archi-
tect Of the last century" and
said that he had built the
columns.
The Capitol architects office
said that Charles Bullfinch,
the architect who succeeded
Mr.. Latrobe, had constructed
the East Front columns.
The stone design sets vertical
to the arch Of columns in a
long. narrow, rectangular
plaza. This strip Of shrubs,
trees, lawn. flowers and foun-
tains would be shaded on both
sides by trees.
The columns today are Grated
at the Capitol Power Plant in
the shadow Of the dome they
used to help support. They
have been there since 1859.
Lots OF people have had ideas
Of what to do with them.
First, they were to go into a
James Madison memorial. then
a Charles Bullfinch memorial
and still later. a Bill Of Rights
memorial on the Mall.
Another suggestion was TO
send Is of them to the 10
original States. Or IL columns
could stand guard at each end
of the new Woodrow Wilson
Bridge.
Some asked that IL shafts
circle the Washington Monu-
ment so it would cast a shadow
! telling air travellers the time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10

ing vacant areas likely to be
developed for this purpose"
Restrictive ZOning
The Ri coming the most re-
strictive residential coming in
the District, and, the suit says,
"for this reason only a few
additional compatible uses are
permitted"
The 1858 coming regulations
Of the District provide, the suit
alleges, that an embassy build
ing must be compatible with
the present and proposed de-
velopfent of the neighborhood
in which it viii be located. /"
Among the factors that should
be considered are size, archi-
lecture, noise, parking and
traffic problems, the suit says.
The two property owners
claim that the embassy would
not conform to the present ma
ture Of the neighborhood based
on the traffic and architectural
patterns and that, in addition
! would prove to be a nuisance
because Of the possibility OF
spies" and tourists.
The two property owners
argued that the boards de-
cision was mot based on the
record made before it at the
public hearing but was the re-
suit Of improper pressure ex-
erted by highly placed persons
in the executive branch Of the
United States Government"
Agreed on Variance
Last June 10 the board of
coming adjustments, after hold
ing two lengthy and heated
publil hearings, agreed to per-
NIT the coming variance Chased
on the preliminary sketches of
the embassy over the objec-
ton Of more than 300 local
residents.
The board said that it would
give final approval for the va
rance If the final architectural
sketches conformed to the
rough drafts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10

and Minority Leader Halleck
Of Indiana and Vice President
johnson, as President Of the
Senate, and Senate Minority
Leader Dirksen Of Illinois, and
Capital Architect j. George
Stewart.
Senator Humphrey appar-
emily solicited Mr.. Stones adj
vice without clearance from the
commission, one spokesman
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
Scattered Sites
Are Barred for
Renewal Plans
CounseI's Opinion
On Two Projects
Cited by TObriner
By CHARLESPIERCE
Star Staff Writer


The scattered-site public
housing provisions in the
dams-Morgan and North
Capitol-West urban renewal
plans will have to be aban-
doned because they have been
ruled illegal, Walter N. To-
briner said yesterday.
Mr.. Tobriner, president of
the District Board of Com
missioners, gave his interpre-
tation of an opinion by Ches-
ter Gray, corporation counsel,
which said that the scattered
site public housing provisions
do not conform with law.
Under the proposed plans,
the Redevelopment Land Agen-
cy would have been empowered
to condemn housing If the
owners failed to rehabilitate
them. Then if the RIA could
not find private buyers for
these houses, 1t could sell them
to the National Capital Hous-
ing Authority for use as public
housing.
However, Mr.. Gray's opinion,
submitted to the Commission
ers yesterday, said that under
the urban renewal law houses
in redevelopment areas can be
sold for public housing only If
their location is designated in
the urban renewal plan.
Availability Unknown
Since RIA does not know
which homes will become
available for public housing
because of the failure OF
owners to rehabilitate them
the scattered-site public hous-
ing provision "is legally OBJ
jectionable," Mr.. Gray said.
The Adams-Morgan plar
called for up to 100 public
housing units at scattered site
and 240 in designated areas
AS q result Of the corpora
ton counsel's opinion, thu
Commissioners repeatedly ar
considering suggesting add
tional public housing at DIES
ignated sites in the two urbal
renewal areas.
Back for Revision
Both renewal plans will nov
! have to go back to the Ma
J tional Capital Planning Com
mission for revision in lint
with the corporation counsel''
opinion.
Phil A. Doyle, RIA executive
director, said that in view o.
the corporation counsel's de.
: cision it apparently would b
necessary to amend the urbar
: renewal plans each time build
: ings become available for pub
tic housing use.
Donald @. Gartenhaus, chair
!, man of the AdamS-Mo
Planning Committee, said it il
too bad the legality Of the
scattered-site housing plar
wasn't investigated before the
plan was submitted"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-10
BY JACK LANDAU
Star Staff Writer

The proposed new Russian
embassy and chancery was at
tackled today iINa court action
filed by two nearby landowners
on behalf Of more than 800
local residents who oppose con-
Struction Of the 50 million
building in the Chevy Chase
section of Washington.
The suit, which is the first
court action in the six-month-
old controversy. asks that the
United States District Court
prohibit the issuing of any
building or occupancy permits
on the grounds that the Board
of zoning Adjustment violated
the coming statutes when 1t
granted a variance in approx
ing the Russian application.
The proposed four STORY en-
bassy and chancery is sched-
uled to be erected at 6036 Ore
gon avenue ND. on the
grounds of the Benny Brae
estate.
100 Offices Planned
The architects sketches show
that it will have 100 offices, II
apartments and a parking lot
for $50 automobiles on the 10
acre estate which, the suit said,
is assessed at $195,OO0.
The suit was filed by w.
Smith Jarrett Of 6605 Thirty
first street NV. and Charles D.
Lenhoff Of 1910 Oregon avenue
NV, the owners Of two nearby
homes which are assessed at a
total Of $4,000.
Mr.. Jarrett and Mr.. Lenhoff
have named the five-man
board of coming adjustment
and j. j. ngenfritz. the director
of licensing and inspection in
the District. as defendants.
/ The suit claims that the
Embassy would be built in an
Ri District esigned ito pro-
tect quiet residential areas now
developed with one-family de-
tached dwellings and adjoin-
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Department Officials and local
planning agency heads about
lack of cooperation between
the National Capital TranSpor-
tation Agency and other gov
eminent agencies.
c. Darwin Stolzenbach, adj
ministrator of the agency, said
that this was a joint project
in every sense of the word" Mr.
Stolzenbach entered into the
record a list showing the nu-
merous conferences and meet
ings he had had with various
highway and planning agencies
in the area.
Tells of Position
At the various conferences,
highway officials consistently
maintained that the interstate
system of freeways should be
left alone, he said. Just 60
along with our plans and maybe
we'll go along with yours" the
highway officials said, accord
ing to Mr.. Stolzenbach.
When Mr.. Harsha asked why
these other officials kept saying
there had been no cooperation,
Mr.. Stolzenbach replied:
IT can only say it was be-
cause they didn't agree with
our conclusions"
The question Of cooperation
between the many agencies in
volved in the planning process
came up in the second day Of
hearings being held by Repre-
sentative Whitener, Democrat
of North Carolina, and his
House District subcommittee.
Mr.. Stolzenbach told the SUBJ
committee that his 1860 legis-
lation from Congress ordered q
re-evaluation of both highway
and rapid transit systems pro-
posed in 1859.
The act did not "call for III