Evening star. [volume], October 31, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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Sixth Annual Conference to
Fd Held in Capital No
vember 15-17.
Solutions to municipal problems
created by labor disputes, unemploy
ment, housing projects and rapid de
velopments in air transportation will
be sought at the sixth annual meeting
Of the United States Conference of
Mayors here November 15-17.
Administrative officials of approxi
mately 150 of the major cities of the
country are expected to attend the
Cessions, which will open on the same
day Congress convenes to tackle from
the national angle some of the same
problems facing the mayors.
A symposium on the 1 problem of
handling industrial disputes will in
clude addresses by Chairman J. War
ren Madden of the National Labor
Relations Board, officials of the New
York State Labor Relations Board
and Mayor Cornelius 1). Scully of
Pittsburgh.
Air Officials to Speak.
The program also will include ad
dresses by the two ranking Federal
officials in the field of air transporta
tion—Assistant Secretary of Commerce
J. M. Johnson and Second Assistant
Postmaster General Harllce Branch.
They will discuss municipal airport
problems, created by introduction of
bigger and faster planes that have
made obsolete many landing fields de
veloped by the cities.
Works Progress Administrator Harry
L. Hopkins will outline the Federal
relief program for 1938. Mayor FYank
L. Shaw of Los Angeles and Alan
Johnstone, chief counsel of the Senate
Committee Investigating Relief and
Unemployment, also will take part in
the discussions of the relief problem
created by continued unemployment.
Straus on Program.
Nathan Straus, recently appointed
Federal Housing Administrator, will
outline the Federal program contem
plated under the new Wagner-Steagall
Housing Act.
In addition to these major problems
scheduled for discussion, the program
includes addresses by Surgeon-General
Thomas Parran on •‘Cities and the
War Against Social Diseases,” and by
Thomas E. Dewey of New York on
“Outlawing Rackets in the Cities.”
WANDERBIRDS HIKE
Members to Meet Today and Take
11-Mile Jaunt.
Members of the Wanderbirds Hiking
Club will meet at 1416 G street N.W.
at 9 a m. today for an 11-mile hike
in the vicinity of Cabin John Valley
at Great Falls. The club will hold its
annual Halloween dance at the Hay
loft, 1326 Massachusetts avenue N.W.,
from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. tomorrow.
Sisterhood to Hear Speaker.
Judge Joseph Fromberg will be the
guest speaker at a luncheon spon
sored by the Sisterhood of the B'Nai
Israel Congregation’ at 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday in the Willard Hotel. Mrs.
Louis L. Prawde and Mrs. John Krup
eaw are in charge of arrangements.
Webster Students Visit Art Booth
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Art Students of the Marjorie Webster Schools are studying each iveek the pictures and lessons
released by The Star in its art program. Pictured above are a group of them calling in person at
the art booth on the first floor of The Star Hail ding to secure their picture sets. In the back
ground and looking to the right is Miss Stella M. Engelsen, dean of the School of Fine and Applied
Art of the Webster Schools, an ardent supporter of the movement to popularize art.
—Star Staff Photo.
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Art Consciousness Increases **
As Plan Enters Fourth We<>k
Interest of Thousands Stimulated 1>y
Star Program—Seventeenth Century
Works Comprise New Set.
Evidence that the general public in and around Washington is becoming
increasingly art conscious was manifest today as The Star's movement of
“art for the public's sake" entered its fourth week.
The interest of countless thousands—to whom art heretofore has been
unknown or out of reach—has been stimulated by the art appreciation cam
paign through which 48 famous paintings of old and modern masters may
be obtained at popular prices.
lilt* rainpiugii was in* i
force everywhere as the fourth set of
tieautiful color reproductions—the
works of >a quartet of great painters
of the seventeenth century—became
available to followers of the program
The Star is conducting in collabora
tion with the National Committee for
Art Appreciation.
This group of prints, obtainable
either at the art booth on the first
floor of The Star Building or by mail,
{ includes four masterpieces famous for
the beauty their creators transferred
from real life to canvas. They are:
"View of Toledo." by El Greco.
"The Infanta Margarita Teresa in
Red." by Velasquez.
"The Lute Player.” by Caravaggio.
"The Ford," by Claude Lorrain.
17th Century Works.
These artists achieved their emi
nence In Italy, Spain and Flanders
during the 17th century, when kings
and popes were still the greatest
patrons of art and portrayal of the
common people was still new to an
art-loving Europe. The color prints
are approximately 11 by 14 inches and
are suitable for framing.
The first group of pictures offered
in the campaign represented modern
American art, ft he second went back
to the "Golden Age" of the Italian
Renaissance and last week's set de
picted art as it flourished In Northern
Europe during the Renaissance. Sets
already released will remain on sale
throughout the campaign.
Last week's reproductioas, which
impelled the art appreciation cam
paign to new heights, were Breughel's
"Peasant Wedding," Holbein's "Anne
6f Cleves,” Durer's "View of Trent”
and Massy's "Banker and His Wife."
At this stage of the campaign it is
timely to review the widespread pub
lic support it is receiving. Thus far
the program to popularize art and
bring its benefits to every home has
won the unanimous indorsement of
the District Board of Education, the
District Congress of Parent-Teacher
Associations, the District Federation
of Women's Clubs, Washington Fed
eration of Churches, Daughters of the
American Revolution, public, private
and parochial schools, colleges and
universities, art schools and numerous
clubs.
Lessons Accompany Prints.
The famous paintings and the les
sons in art appreciation by Dr. Bern
ard Myers of New York University
which accompany ^ach set have be
come a part of the curriculum of art
classes in schools and colleges and
are being presented to children of all
grades and ages by teachers In the
public school systems of the District
and surrounding counties of Mary
land and Virginia.
Here are brief sketches of this
week’s paintings:
•'The Infanta Margarita in Red”—
Velasquez had the most perfect eye
in the history of art. He saw not only
texture, atmosphere and flesh but also
the character of his sitters. At the
age of 23 he became painter to the
King of Spain. Philip IV, with a
studio in the palace, a residence in
Madrid and a good monthly salary.
For 37 years thereafter Velasquez
painted the King so frequently and so
well that their names have become
inseparable. Because of these immor
tal portraits this weakling King has
left the stamp of his face and figure
upon the ages. Velasquez in his whole
career painted only one nude. It Is
the supremely beautiful "Venus.”
“View of Toledo,” by El Greco—
Crowds usually are to be found before
this painting in the Metropolitan Mu
seum in rapt wonder at the unreal,
dreamlike quality of El Greco’s paint
ing. The flames of Spain, which have
all but destroyed Toledo, may have
consumed other famous El Grecos, but
this masterpiece is still safe. El Greco
(1541-1614) lived in Spain, but never
forgot Crete, his birthplace, and con
tinued to be a proud foreigner, signing
his name In Greek and adding, always,
“The Cretan.” He was twice discov
ered, first by Philip II of Spain, but
the King did not continue his royal
favor. Three hundred years later he
was rediscovered out of almost com
plete obscurity. He was strangely
more modern than the modernists and
influenced a whole school of modern
artists.
Lorrain a Pioneer.
“The Ford," by Claude Lorrain—
While Spanish painters in the 17lh
century were reproducing tiie ele
gance of court life, Italians were
concerned witli religious subjects and
the Flemish were painting simple,
every-day scenes, Claude Lorrain
<1600-1682) discovered the outdoors.
He was practically the first to paint
directly from nature, seeing landscapes
as poetic pictures in themselves and
not merely as background for figure
groups of portraits . . . In “The Ford"
the soft light of the end of day is used
as a background for the picturesque
peasants who have crossed the river
on their way home . . . Lorrain could
neither read nor write until late in
life. Apprenticed as a pastry cook, he
learned painting in Home, paying for
his board by working as a stable boy.
“Tiie Lute Player" by Caravaggio—
Caravaggio (1569-1609) “swashbuckler
among painters,” could paint scenes
as charming as “The Lute Player,”
and then engage in a tavern brawl or
a violent quarrel that might end In
death for his opponents. This turbu
lence was often carried into his pic
tures, as well. He painted murders
and tavern scenes and gypsies and
vagabonds .. . Often every-day subject
matter was traaslated Into material
for his religious pictures. An engag
ing thief or cutthroat, a lovely girl
or a child became a saint or an angel
... In an age when other painters
were imitative, painting diluted Ra
phaels, idealizing their subjects and
reverting to mythology for their in
spiration, Caravaggio, bold naturalist
in his work, took the people with
whom he rubbed shoulders for Ills sub
jects.
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CLUB TO HEAR REPORT
The Washington Interfratemity Clut
will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the
Raleigh Hotel to hear a report of the
Committee on Headquarters. The clut
Is considering establishing headquar
ters in the metro)>olitan district whirl
will be available to all nalional college
fraternity members. Lloyd Morris ii
chairman of the committee.
COL CHARLES LYNCH,
WAR HERO, EXPIRES
Retired Medical Officer Dies in
Florida—Arlington Rites
Planned Tuesday.
The War Department yesterday an
nounced the death in St. Petersburg.
Fla., of Col. Charles Lynch, U. S. A ,
Medical Corps, retired, on Fririly.
Private funeral services will be held
at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday from the Fort
Myer gate of Arlington National
Cemetery.
Born in Syracuse, N. Y., In 1868.
Col. Lynch studied medicine at Syra
cuse University from which he was
graduated in 1891. He served here In
the Office of the Surgeon General
from August, 1919, until his retire
ment in November, 1924.
During this period he was editor of
the History of the Medical Depart
ment in the World War. He was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal for his work at Newport News,
Va., in handling the transportation
of wounded soldiers. He Is survived
by his widow.
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