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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
BY FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

Star Art Critic
The art event of the year
is now on view at the seth
Regiment Armory in New
York. This is the reconstruc-
ton of the famed Armory
Show Of 1918. The origi-
nal is widely believed to
have changed the course Of
American art. 1t didn't really,
but it did change the nature
Of American acceptance of
art.
Now, so years later, both
our art and our acceptance
of art seem to have reached
the end of a process for
which the Armory Show was
a beginning. It is therefore
useful and stimulating that
the MunSon-W illiams-Proctor
Institute, Utica, and the
Henry Street Settlement,
Henry street, have collabor-
ated to re-tasge the show on
the original battlefield.
Startled the Country
The process there begun
can be found in the intent
OF the organizers. The
Armory Show was an out
growth Of the spirit of the
Eight, the New York painters
Of the ash Can School"
who had already startled the
country by their devotion to
such "non-artistic" subjects
as street urchins. ferry boats,
slum life and restaurant
diners.
The main objective Of the
artist-organizers was to gain
American acceptance for
American art and especially
for American realism. More
generally. they wished to
present to America the en-
tire spectrum Of modern art.
In the European section Of
the mammoth exhibition the
history of the new art was
traced back to the beginning
Of the 10th century and up
through Cezanne, Van Gogh
and Gauguin. But the stars
Of the show turned out to be
the art that came after the
paintings Of Matisse, Braque,
Picasso, Duchamps and Plea
bia.
In the next decade or two,
the same thing happened to
the realist organizers Of the
show that happened to Miles
Standish when he asked his
friend John to speak to the
Mullins girl about matrimony.
A marriage took place, all
right, but it was between the
American art public and the
European strangers, not the
American artists who had
gone to so much trouble and
expense to bring about the
meeting.
Twenty-Five years after
the show, Thomas Hart Ben
ton could still complain that
American museums showed
only European art, although
1t was now modern European
art instead Of old-fashioned
European art.
For his pains, Benton got
the same reward as Walt
Kuhn, one Of the leading
Armory Americans. The art
world doors were opened,
after World War II, to Amer
lean art. but only. or chiefly,
to non objective American
art. Terrorized by the folk
memory Of the museum Off
cials who had rejected Re-
noir, Van Gogh and Picasso,
American officials operated
on the policy that to be Of
merit art had to be incom-
prehensible. The American
realism that had begun the
whole revolution was still ex-
cluded and that situation
prevailed through the decade
Of the sos.
determination
Today, the naive quest for
the new In art as the supreme
value has pretty well played
itself out. The permissiVe-
ness Of institutions has be-
come so permissive that even
art in touch with life Is per-
mitted. Largely through
sheer exhaustion Of the pos
sibilities Of new kinds Of
painting, even the old kinds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14

Matlsse energies as by far
the most important Of the
Europeans. His two big
works. THE Red Studio" and
Goldfish and Sculpture" are
as fresh and masterful as
they were In 1918. BY con-
trast, Please Is represented
by only one painting and one
sculpture head. both cubist,
neither outstanding.
In 1918. according 10 the
news accounts, the widest
eyed revolutionaries In the
show we're Picabia and Ouch
amp. especially, Of course, the
latter In Nude Descending
q Staircase"
The whole show, 10 be sure,
has lost It's shock value:
what Is more interesting Is
that both Duchamps and
Picabia seem not only tame
but essentially second-rate.
Picabia's "cubism" Is a la
bored adaptation Of insiehts
by Picasso and prague. The
celebrated Nude" Of Du-
champs is much the same
only not so labored. Some
years ago Bartlett Hayes took
multiple exposures on q single
negative OF q girl IN tennis
costume descending q stair
case. The resulting photo
graph he used 10 Justify"
Duchamps. II does and the
weakness Of the painting Ia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-14
REORGANIZATION

Today, the naive quest for
the new In art as the supreme
value has pretty well played
itself out. The permissiVe-
ness Of institutions has be-
come so permissive that even
art In touch with life Is per-
mitted. Largely through
sheer exhaustion Of the pos
sibilities Of new kinds Of
painting, even the old kinds
have been re-examined and
some Of them admitted into
polite institutional society.
REORGANIZATION at the re-
constituted Armory show It.
self is fascinating. It must
be done under allowance
made for actual, physical diff
ferences between then and
now. The most important Of
which Is that the reconstruc-
ton has less than 400 Of the
original 1900 pictures and
statues. Redon and Ryder,
for example. probably appear
as more dominant than they
were simply because more Of
their paintings have been
found and rehung than has
been the fortune Of other
artists in the show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-14

Miss Ann Werner. you win be
happy TO know. has weathereo
the months well and still Il
Just as pretty as she was last
summer when she was chosen
Miss washington. Maybe pref
tier.
She also Is continuing Il
pursue the show business careei
she indicated she could take o.
leave when she won the towns
beauty crown. She appeared fol
several weeks at the Sunday
night folk sing festivals at thu
Showboat Lounge and this weel
moved in with guitar as I
nightly entertainment feature
at Twining Court Stables.
This makes Twining Court
Stables the best decorated res
taurant youll find up an alleI
around here. In addition u
being decorative. Miss Werner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-14
A Beauty Sings
Up That Alley
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

displays a captivating manner
rs, clad In red tights and loose
shirt Of the same bright hue,
she perches on a stool TO play
and sing.
The voice isn't large or spec
tacular, but 1t falls pleasantly
on the ear and Miss Werner
seems TO be learning how to
make the most Of it. AS her
own accompanist, she can use
a guitar for something more
than beating time. too. Her
parents, having been deprived
Of such luxuries when young
were determined their Ann
would not be deprived and Sc,
her to the study Of the classical
guitar at an early age.
Miss Werner also comes with
q built-in alibi. "One nice
thing about being a folk
singer" she once observed OF
her act, lis II you don't get
the right tune, who's to know
II It's right or wrong2"
Miss verner's performance
Is q folk singer takes on added
freshness from the fact that
most Of her songs have an Ole
English air and are unhack-
neyed. They are. ct least. II
you are not q folk music adj
dict who has heard everything
Some OF them she has learned
from tapes at the Library Of
Congress, others from
Observation-Disclosures" from the
hills Of West Virginia.
Twining Court Stables. in.
cidentally, win have an UNI
familiar look II you haven't
been around there lately. A
corner Of the main dining room
has been turned into an al
cove for the bar. q few tables
and o piano and electric organ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-14
French Accent
On Left Bank
By JOHN N. RossoN

house are the eye catchers.
Among them Is chateaubriand
Ia rancienne (tor two), SIC; lie
filet de boeuf en- croute "a filet
OF beef with q meat pate fill
|ing). $40; roast duckling with
orange sauce. $3.50, and le steak
q Ia Marseillaise "a minute
steak sauteed In butter with
anchovies) $6.25.
Your vegetable might be
white French asparagus hollan-
daiSe, tl.50, or tiny French
peas. 81. The salads are legion,
most Of them priced at 81.
OF course there are crepes
Suzette (for two), IS, or q
souffle grand mariner (for
two), So.
We had q whiskey sour, Si.i0;
vichysoisse. IS cents; duck,
$3.50: white asparagus with
hollandaise, $3.50: salad. rs
cents; half q bottle Of 1860
vouvray. t2.25; q great straw
berry tart topped with choco-
late mousse. 81, and filter cof-
fee. 80 cents. Counting the
bread and butter cas- cents)
and tax. but not the tip, the bill
came TO $l5.l3.
The reader should not panic
however. 1t Is entirely possible
TO dine at the Rive Gauche
In fine style for much less
There is q daily menu which Is
much more moderate In price
and M. De Parata sees to II
that Just rs much care Is taken
with that listing as with his
more expensive ones. For ex-
ample: You won't easily find
better filets de pompano en-
papilotte (pompano baked In q
paper bag), and the price Il
S4.95, including two vegetables
The Rive Gauche, seating 100
opened In 1857 while M. De
Parata also owned and was op-
Grating the old Place Vendome
on Seventeenth street. The lat.
ter made way for a new office
building. however, and thus be-
came a part Of his present en-.
terprise--the Rive Gauche anc
Place Vendome, now the officiaI
name. 1t Is open from noon II
midnight Monday through sat
urday. There Is free parking
The doorman will take YOU
car.
The Old Europe Restaurant
and Rathskeller. 2434 Wis.
consin avenue NV, has q new
entree to tempt you: Founder
filet Helgoland, the filet beinl
topped with three sauces. one
white. one red and the other
made Of herbs. The book beef
season has opened at the Ole
Europe, too, as well as d
the other German restaurants
The s23, the Old Stein ane
Arnold's Haufbrau. The Oh
Europe is observing It's l5tl
anniversary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-14
DINING OUT

Probably no one group Of
restaurants In the washington
area has done more 10 give the
Nations Capital It's new-found
dining-out prestige than the
French.
The reason Is simple: Taken
as q whole, the areas French
restaurants are the best. Some
how It seems to come naturally
We could run off q whole list
of them. Included would be the
Jockey Club. the Pierre. the
Chez Francois. LeBistro. Il
Pigalle. the Rue Royale, the
France, the ITee. Maxine, thu
Sans Souci. La Sale du Bots,
the Chez Albert and so forth
There isn't . Stacker in tbs
crowd. Quite the contrary
many OF them rank at or neal
the top Of many diners list.
ings, and most Of them are rel.
alive newcomers. too.
Not the least Of the grouT
is the Rive Gauche.
Located at Wisconsin avenue
and M street NV. in George.
town, the Rive Gauche is many
an area diners first choice. al.
belt he'll be q well-heeled diner
An evening at this -flight
spot, so reminiscent Of the fine
French restaurants Of New
York. New Orleans and Sar
Francisco, can run you from
So TO sic, depending on how
thirsty you are for its vintage
wines. But you'd surely gel
your moneys worth.
The setting itself gets you
In the mood for the bill: Sub
dued lighting. crystal chande.
liers, downy Competing, tufteC
leather seats. elegant table set
tings, q Parisienne mural, golC
sconces and princely hosts, Il
say nothing Of Blaise Gustav
De Parata. the owner, an en-
PERTAINING fellow II there evel
was one. t...
The menu. however, is the
real star. There are at least
seven courses, and probably
more II you ask.
Your appetizer might b
Little Neck clans at 81 or Il
fois gras du Perigord an gelee
at $3.75. The snails are 81.
Soups include onion, st. Ger.
main (green peal, and con.
somme madrilene. all 81. and
an excellent vichyssoise, 81
cents.
Then come eggs. An hert
omelet is 81, and eggs Benedict
$3.50.
Fish choices include q
remarkable creature from th'
English channel which the RivI
Gauche peaches, at $3.50. IT.
called lie turbot de L'Atlaniqu'
mousseline. Entrees run from
filets of beef Strogonoff. IS. b
chateaubriand bernaise witt
souffle potatoes (for two), SIS
But the specialties Of tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-14

, Gordon Leslie 10 the fellow who
presides over the latter two
items when Miss Werner isn't
singing. Often plays both pi-
ano and organ a. the same
time.
RETURN - Back at the
Shoreham Blue Room is EMO
Stuart and the place should
be chalking up decibel count
records nightly. Mr.. Stuart Is
an Italian tenor with power,
AS he warns to his work he at
tains some astounding heights
of vocal volume and his au-
dience responds In kind-loudly
and enthusiastically.
He covers q variety Of music
between his What Kind OF
Fool Am ~" opener TO his
"Ve're Not Strangers" sign
off. He salutes Sound OF
Music" rousingly, does "Arri-
viderci Roma" as II It had beer
written for him. He gives ar
old Jolson number the full
treatment and blends q pair Of
Leonard Bernstein songs from
"West Side Story" with the af-
fectionate manner Of q fellow
who appreciates O superior
score when he hears one.
Being an Italian tenor. HI
also arrives nightly at thai
moment when he squares Of
for q full-steam rendition Of
"Vesti la diubba." And wher
he does It, 1t doesn't SOUND
at all like something you've
heard too often. II soundi
great.
So does everything he sings
He also displays a winning
personality and II won't be 81
all surprising II he makes Enc
Stuarti one of the biggest
names in all Of show business
/. The movie maker who comes
up with the right filmusica'
script for EMO will wind uT
! with his own private Fort Knox
Ha.s
CHANGES-The Bayou, that
. under e-freeway haven Of tho
Dixieland set on X street ir
Georgetown, is coming up will
a new continuous entertain.
! ment policy, starting Monday
Joe Rinaldi and his Foggy Bot.
J tom Six win remain. Of course
and so win the Bayou Bellies
who decorate the premises.
They'll be joined come Mon.
day by Julie Gibson, the noted
ecdysiast, and Fats TIMER. pi'
anist who has been playing
nightly at the Market Inn. Mis-
Gibson went from the Casino
Royal here to New York's Latir
Quarter more than q year agI
and has remained there evel
. since,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30
THE PICNIC AND THE PARADE.
BY CHARLOTTE HUSTON REIscHER

UuC
In 1895 we were the Texas Centennial. Clad
in star-studded navy blue sun suit and from
tier suit consisting of sombrero and cowboy
belt. and carrying the nag Of the Lone Star
State, my brother and marched round and
round the village green till we were noticed
and brought onto the stand. Perhaps we didn't
take the first prize in our northern village, but
certainly q second.
The most sensational costume ever was
worn by boy who got up early one Fourth to
play with firecrackers. They were bigger than
he could manage, and he had to be treated for
burns. When the doctor was bandaging him
they decided to make it look really good. He
came to the parade clad in bandages, and not
much else. That provided food for thought for
long time to come.
Although there was no age-limit on entries
to the Fourth Of July Parade, there came time
in all our lives when we thought we were too
old for it. Most of US were away for the summer
by the time we reached high school, but if we
were home we went down to see the parade.
We didn't 60 to the assembly spot in front of
the school but waited with the grownups over
at the station, around the village green.
We stood and watched as the parade ap-
preached, the children wheeling round and
sunlight, and little girls tripping on the trains
of their silken gowns, and parents rushing out
to rearrange a hat that had fallen off. Some
times a baby carriage would collapse under
the strain of an 8year-old baby and have to be
carried to the sidelines There was invariably
something worth seeing besides, of course,
everyone else in the village.
After the prizes were awarded there was
The Ceremony, including long and patriotic
speeches by the American LegiOnnaires, all
wearing their hats What was upperm0st in
everyone's mind during the speeches was the
coming scramble for the free ice cream lido
mated by the American Legion) And after the
ice cream there were races over in the school
grounds: potato sack races and threelegged
races and a hundred-yard dash for the boys
On the morning of the Fourth, while all the
children were marching from the school to the
station and around the green, and the fathers
were making speeches or handing out ice
cream, the women were busy in the kitchen,
with last-minute preparations for The Picnic
II was pOt-luck affair, including dozen fam
lilies. Somebody brought ham, someone else
q turkey or couple of cherry pies, or choeo-
late cake, or salad, or ice cream. My family
always brought potato salad
The Picnic itself was never especially
"eventful" As children we enjoyed IL mostly
because there was always more than enough Of
anything we wanted to eat and no one asked US
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30

III LlSthu0o anu SAAC OuIbu VI SuAys 4uG CWV
holidays divided the year exactly in two, and
were awaited with impotence for the preced-
ing five months. Che month after each was
spent enjoying the memories) If asked to de-
eide which was the nicer of the two, would
probably have chosen the Fourth partly be-
cause il was in better time of year you could
always count on swimming weather, while at
Christmas you could never be sure Santa
Clauss sleigh would have snow to light On) and
partly because Christmas brought with it the
uncertainty Of gifts will get what long for?
Do long for more than deserve? The Fourth
brought the certainty Of two things the Picnic
and the Parade.
The Fourth of July was always celebrated
in exactly the same way by my family. At eight
o'clock on that always hot and rarely rainy
morning, the fire siren in our little Midwest
village blew out long and hard That was the
beginning Flags were raised in most front
yards, and firecrackers started exploding
sporadically in some back yards
When the fire siren blew, our family was
just finishing breakfast, and we children were
straining at the bit to get away to arrange our
costumes The parade was to begin at nine
o'clock, in front Of the school
My first parade remember as much from
photographs as from memory. More properly,
the memory has been fused with the snap
shots. l was wearing sheet, wrapped around
me as if were having haircut. Perhaps l
was meant to be the Statue of Liberty, or a
Goddess of Freedom. sat in a wagon pulled
by my older sister. My brother, two years older
than /, but not quite 5, wore white sailor suit.
Could we have won prize that year? It seems
unlikely, yet we almost always got one. The
main memory of the day, not shown in the pho
tograph, is that / desperately wanted to be in
that parade, and at the last minute got stage
fright. burst into tears and said would not
60. But by then was an indispensable part of
the get-up. They couldn't 60 without me. ! sup
pose they must have tied me in.
The theme / remember best was the
Dionne Quintuplets, which we did one year.
My sister had the idea, but luckily for me she
had only four friends. got to be one Of the
Quints My sister, being the tallest, was Dr. Da-
fee, wearing derby, tortoiseshell spectacles
and black suit She carried doctors satchel.
The rest Of US were attired In white lace
dresses and babies bonnets. That year we won
first prize.
One of the most spectacular group-entries
was q prairie schooner pulled by someone's
pony and filled with the fiercest group Of cut
throat gold miners had ever seen.
When my brother was he got dog Coin
cidentally land we did think IL was splendid
coincidence the dog was born on the Fourth
of July. We called him Duke. On Dukes first
birthday my brother took him on q leash to the
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out under wide Oaken caves onto lOw-walled
flagstone terrace and great lawn beyond. I'm
der the oak trees by the house long tables were
set on horses, covered with Fourth Of July
colored table cloths And in the open space,
farther from the house. q badmint0n net was
set up, and a bean bag stand. In the woods we
sometimes had complicated scavenger hunts
in which we were to find the leaf of a Jack-in-
the-Pulpit (nO longer in bloOm), May Apple
(ripening just them, and shell from the creek.
Late in the afternoon, when the children
were stated with ice cream, and the parents
were beginning to weary of games and food and
talk, we all sat for our pictures on the terrace
After the pictures it was time to eat again.
Nobody was hungry, but the hour called for
more food, and there always was more. AS it
began to get dark the smallest children would
wave sparklers in the dusk, trying to scare
people with their fearful sparks, but soaring
themselves most of ALL My earliest memory in
cludes fireworks They were not the spectacu-
lar affairs my children know. Seen next to the
Washington Monument these little red rockets
and tiny Roman candles would have seemed
cheap indeed. But to small eyes, weary from
day of Picnics and Parades, the small displays
we scraped together were grand.
Twice ! have been back with my children.
The parade in the village was peopled with
children ! didn't know, but when the prizes
were given out recognized surnames that had
won prizes generation earlier. My own chill
dren (prize-winners, of course) marched with
their cousins under dropping pup tent hastily
made the night before of two curtains sewn to-
gether. Along the top seam was a jagged spine
Of red felt Gan old Christmas table cloth. Attic
head of the creature were some horns. II was
dragon with sneakered feet Behind the dragon
was baby carriage with live parrot on top. It
was pushed by the mother Of child who was
too young to walk the whole distance The
mother, wearing bright red muu-muu be-
cause she was expecting another child had
walked in this same parade as a child some 80
years ago.
few new people, old friends of decade, and
beer is now included with the ham, the potato
salad and the pies. A new group of young
people plays badminton while the very old
teach the very young to pitch beanbags. The
energetic scavenger hunt has been replaced
by sitting-d0wn games of Twenty Questions
The grand old camera under the black cloth
has been replaced these many years by split
second little gadgets of German or Japanese
origin, and the children Of my generation now
sit with the grownups. But essentially nothing
has changed.
In world where so much else Is uncertain,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-13

EOURS: SAirIingtsn Spsa Msa,
IhuFs- Ffi. Ill :. IBes- We'd.
Sat. I'll 6; BsuHisua spsa Mon.
Ihurs. Ill ., daily and Sat. iii
8. Closed We'd. Whestea Plaza.
daily iii $50 p.m- Sat. til 6.
eapitsl Plaza. Men. through
Sat. I'll SO.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1963-01-05
EX-JACKSONION DIES

Services were held for Mrs.
Willye v. Patterson Allen in
Oakland, Calf, December 20.
A native of Jackson, Mrs. Al
len lived in Oakland for "a
years. =
She was the daughter of the
late Williams and Anna Pat.
terson, niece of the late Mrs.
Ida v. Davis and Turner M.
Patterson and sister of Mrs.
Irene Patterson Walker.
A former student of Jackson
College, she taught school in
Greenville, for many years
before going to Oakland
where she married the late
Lloyd Allen.
Mrs. Ilene Patterson Todd.
a n a tive Jacksonian, now
making her home in Chicago,
flew to the California city for
funeral services.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1963-01-05

This event was given in hon.
or of Robert Lee Bell for his
outstanding work and service
to the church.
Members of the young peo-
pies department attending the
feast were: Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Bibbs, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Beel, Mr.. and Mrs. B. T. Bell,
Mrs. Frances Marshall Bell,
rs. L. M. Bell, Mrs. A. Pen
nington, Mr.. and Mrs. Carter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Lee Glib
Miss Maggie Bibbs, Miss Hell
en- Hollins, students of Holl
High, Mr.. E. Bell, Forest,
Miss.
The D e a cons attending
were: Messrs Ellis, B. B. Hol-
Inns and Elder E. j. Wash
ington, Sr., Asst. Pastor of
the church of God, Mothers at
tending were: Mesdames Or
tina Mcdonald and Henry E.
Mcdonald. Contributing much
to the success of the feast
was Willie Caren. Mrs. Rosie
Dell Shavers is reporter.