1936-06-08 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAH, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1936

TWO ART SHOWS AMERICA'S

CANCELLED

Customs Demand Duties

FRENCH DRAWINGS DETAINED

As the result of an unfore

AMERICA'S TEMPLE OF HISTORY

SPECIAL BUILDING TO HOUSE ARCHIVES

seen demand by the Customs SPECIAL FACILITIES FOR STUDENTS

authorities the exhibition

of

paintings by Max Jacob, the

well-known French artist and An archives temple, as nearly fire-proof and earthquake, writer: which was to have been proof as modern research knows how to make it, has been built held at the Mayor Gallery last in Washington to house America's most valued historic docu- month, was cancelled.

ments for the next 1,000 years. It cost $12,000,000,

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Mr. Douglas Cooper, a direc- The importance attached to the new edifice is exemplified tor of the Gallery, said that by the position given it at the apex of the new federal triangle paintings in gouache--a method If it is true, as has been stated, that the care which a nation of painting in opaque colours devotes to the preservation of the monuments of its past serves ground in water and mixed as a measure of the degree of civilisation to which it has attained, with gum

and honey-which then the United States should take an important step forward contain a basis of drawing in among the nations of the world, when, after 125 years of discus-

It was discovered that sion, it begins to collect its archives under one roof. iak-drawings are not included among works of art exempted from tax under the Import Duties Act of 1932.

ink

Other arrangements had also to be made at the Zwemmer Gallery, where an important exhibition of works by Picasso was to take place. A large set of pen-and-ink drawings had;

Customs on their Paris.

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The men put of. in their fishing cable Endeavour with the rest of the Tyne salmon fishing fleet, and were expected back for the following day's market at North Shields.

MAN WITH MAGIC EYE

Many a student who prefer- red to carry on his research in London, Paris or The Hague, rather than search in Washing-j ton for a document that might be mouldering in a cellar, warehouse or even an abandon- ed car-barn, is expected to move his headquarters to Archives Building.

2

the new

Robert D. W. Connor, whom President Roosevelt appointed last March to be the first Archivist of the United States, is warning students not to ex- pect all the material, to be cata- logued and ready for their use in a day or even a year. It took the British Record Office 40 years to get all the historic papers.of the British Empire in jorder after it started in 1850.

Cataloguing Begins Preliminary work archives has been going for- the

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Rescue Attempt Fails

The omission of ink-draw- ings, if not accidental, seems unreasonable. The term in cludes, of course, pen-and-ink sketches made abroad by British, artists, and applies work in other mediums if it con-

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1932 which placed "paintings The Riviera's Hindu hypnotist, cubic feet and cataloguing each They have been measuring and drawings" on the Free List, who obtains money from people by document.

This was formulated thus in just turning his eye on them, is still what shall be moved

Final decision as to the list of exemptions now in at large, but the polier are on his archives and in which order to the force.

One of his latest victims is a bar-Archives Council, composed of rests with the National Ink Drawings Omitted

The barman told the police members of the Cabinet, or "Paintings in oil, or water- he remembered the hypnotist.com-their representatives, the chair- colours, framed or unframed, on ing into his bar at Nice. There] SAILINGS any material; and pencil and was no money in the till, but the man of the Senate Committee charcoal drawings, and pastels, in hypnotised him into giving him on the Library, the Librarian of Congress, the Secretary of on canvas or paper (including a drink. board)."

the Smithsonian Institution and the Archivist of the United papers occupies the place of school-teacher, States.

an attendant honour in a semi-circular hall, will sit on a high stool in the Henceforth, any Government the walls of which are to be centre of the room and keep department which wants to dis-decorated with huge murals by everyone therein under surveil- pose of a bundle of records Barry Faulkner, New York lance. must report this desire to the artist, depicting the signing of Even Has A Movie archivist, who will send his ex-the documents. perts to examine it to ascertain

A small motion picture thea- Mrs. Margaret Florence Lewis if there is anything of historic) But does a signature turn as, of Waterford-road. Fulham. value that should be preserved separates the "shrine

A 13-foot grilled gate tre is provided in order that drawing into a manuscript.pt from Battersea Bridge into After he has made his selec-1from the front corridor of the toric films. These are to be room"there may be showings of his- ja blot turn a letter from abroad Her sister-in-law said at the in-tion, the librarian of Congress building. On either side of the preserved in 40-degree cham- into a drawing, and render gest that she tried to save her chooses what he may want and green stone shrine will be 13 bers that are equipped with fire-

the Joint people liable to defrauding the but she jumped over the parapet House and Senate study the re continual parade of documents safety outlets for gases in ease Committee of the bronze display cases where alextinguishing apparatus and Customs unless its existence is leaving her cost in her hands. declared on the envelope? Why,

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CYLINDER THROUGH ROOF

Sing Sing prepared recently for the largest mass execution in its history as the authorities were notified, that six men had been convicted for the first degree murder of Edwin Esposito, subway messenger, in Brooklyn, New York, last September. pictured above with District Attorney Francis L. Googhan as they confessed to the holdap murder. From the left, standing, they are Exgese Bruno, aged 21; Joseph Bolognia, aged 28; Samuel Kimmel, aged 22, and, Dominick Rizzo, aged 35, ́ ́At the rear in Theodore

di Donne, aged 2), and seated, with Googhan, is Balvatore Scuta, aged 15, The largest famber ever executed to date in Sing Sing

· at one time was fvs, when the quintet died in 1912 for the alizing of Mrs. Mary: Hall of Croton Lake, New York.

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