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10 THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1929 ON EXHIBITION ETCHINGS COURVOISIEm Author Na tn re and Loail Circus Women Are Mem Writes RolandClark Bensen and Kleiber Diai tndsed Story By Nadia Lavrova Our Chnntlnr Human (ir. Ram-oel D. SchmaUiauaeB. The Maeaulmj Cmpanr.

S3. 60. and Mamma, no-' less 'OMEN, formerly suffered 1 i. repression neuroses. Now than Son and Daughter, will enjoy "Bummer's Circus," an originally conceived and Well written book' fori-'Children by Robert Stakeyy a San -Franciscan.

The booklehgth story depicts the efforts of Bummer, a 'clean, vital, sportsman-like, dog from Houndtown to open a circus In the metropolis, It desdribe's his many Vicissitudes before he achieved' his as his encounter with pup-nap-pers, as kidnappers are known In the Dog1 country; 'his misaflven-' ture In Meowtown, where a tin can was. tied to his his aim- is achieved: the Big Bow-Wow Show opens to a crowded audience. Financial success comes to Bummer, who carts away after the performance thousands of meaty bones, which, In replace the well-known WThat the author, has succeeded In doing Is to humanize dogs to an astounding degree, make their adventure thrilling with suspense, yet carrying a 'hidden moral. -the modelled' after a favorite pointer of his, who liked to take long, rambling trips around town, and hence re- ceived his name. Starkey, resident of San Fran- 1 clsco for twenty-five years, has since his early youth been' connected with 'the big circuses In lSKiif iilliilw CSV IV i nil in By Gobind Behari Lai GREAT etchings are rare.

But even passably good etchings are fascinating. How does the current ehow of the etchings by Frank Bensen, Roland Clark and Hans Kleiber. at the Courvolsler gallery, meas-' ire up? Perhaps, Clark's, prints ere almost at the top In thls-toN lection. A i sample of his work will "serve as the focus of Clark shows, for instance, a i'' fpvey of ducks in a wheeling flight There Is water below, and wlM rushe grow in it the subject is landscape, in a oharm-. trig aspect It will be noticed that the artist does not fall down upon Now, that is a.

point Cf considerable excellence In etchings. The etcher can, not i cover-up a surface by vague blotches of ink and clusters of lines. In other words, he is not a painter or dauber. There is no room in a good etcher's print for superfluous or meaningless lines. -Every line must be there for a definite purpose.

Again, the fewer the lines used, the better the work. The lines tell the entire, tory, even suggest the natural colors, shade and light It was Joseph PennelV one of the most distinguished of modern etchers, who said: "The greatest etchings are those that are the result of the fewest and the most passionate, most vital -And he adds, "By line, I mean an expressive line, not a scrawl, a fluke but a line so drawn on "'the plate, and so printed, that every 4lt of It has life and mean-teg and character." Of course, such perfect art is attained very seldom in the world. Only giants of etching, like Rembrandt and Whistler, especially the latter, were able to Setter Plays Issued in the, lady who won because of her. bad Is dramatized In a new book of short plays by Conrad Seller, the successful California producer and playwright. This lady, Mrs.

Socrates, as we would say now, -Is' the dominant figure In the play "The Husband of which sives title to the latest, collection "of fantasies and dramas published by Seller. In this pseudo-historical sketch Seller a new idea of why' Socrates; was philosophical about drinking the hemlock which caused his death In the Athens calaboose. The volume contains a group of ether plays written with Seller's whimsical humor and instinctive knowledge of the theater. The native of Saa Francisco, now makes his home in, Hollywood. He has been assistant director of the San Gabriel Mission play' and was author and director of the State Pageant' of Arizona, produced In 1927.

The seven plays In this volume, Including a charming and witty oriental extravagunaa, "The Lady In the Sack," are adapted to both amateur and professional presentation. They are filled with the capricious and at. times sardonic humor of the author. The, book, contains one sinister1" tragedy "Eyes," the others are sophisticated commentaries on. life, and "Tln Husband of Xanthippe' and other short ila.

llr Conrad Seller, author of "Suicide" and other one-art rnmediea. (Walter H. Bnker Cuoipuii), Boston. Publishers. 11.6(1 net.) Among the prominent artists who have Illustrated books for children ae Boris Artzybasheff.

James Daugherty, Dorothy P. Lathrop, N. C. Wyeth, Pamela Blanco, Wanda Gag, Paul Honore, Lois Lenskl, Maud and Miska Petersham, Edward A. Wilson, Willy Pogany, Elizabeth MacKin-stry, Ernest H.

Shepard, Dugald S. Walker, Berta and Elmer Hader, Wiese, Norman Price, Jessie Willcox Smith. Professor Sterling P. Lamp-recht discusses John Dewey In the January issue of the "New World Monthly. "jaawiaisjaiajBBaiiwwii mimiiiiuii'" lilllllillllliii ipiilil i fipf 1 rBB' JSMBHM llillllll Ibseg? 1 1 1111 Rohert Starkey former San Fran- the role of star aerial horizontal n.rfn,m twm ln h.

c- anus man, u)io vorites the tlory of a dog's States and "la -Mexico. be Costumes they suffer expression neuroses. That Is the diagnosis of Dr. Schmathaiisen. No hal itual perturbed denouncer of the current edltion'bf young womanhood says harsher things than does Dr.

Schrnalhausen. But he sees woman not as a perverse but as a tragic not as a criminal to be punished and thrust back Into the prison, but as a seeker after more life dancing perilously tm thtr' brink of death. He asks: Who Is to writs the pain-haunted Odyssey of Modern Woman mbr homeless far than aver Ulysses was on that wine-dark tempestuous -sea? It is this Odyssey which he endeavors to outline in his essay on "The Fall of Woman." He declares that "woman's, new free- dora is a rather smudgy carbon copy of man's petty, grand, and glorluos and he sounds his major theme when he asserts roundly: Woman lacks self-respect for the transparent reason that the has no self to respect. This Dr. Schrnalhausen conceives to bo modern woman's soul-searching and life-expanding enterprise to build up a true self.

At present he woman is enslaving herself to man's 1 transitory emotions more than ever, and yet is humiliatingly falling to make man admire and respect her. He says: Woman is trying an experiment that must end in disasters aha acts the part of courtesan and is disappointel when man will hot accept her as trus mate. Some women will suspect that Dr. Schmalhausen's philosophy is that of Grandma Orund y's, carefully concealed under psycho-analytic termlnol-' ogy. They will feel that all he tells them Is: Be good wives and mothers.

But again and again he shows that he Is sincere when he says; The beginning Of Intelligent conduct is the desire to violate superimposed codes, To be as moral as our ancestors (and no more!) is to be as blind and bungling and uncreative. Creative morality Is primarily Interested in the expansion of human personality. While woman is the principal character In the book. Dr. Schrnalhausen returning again and again to her problems, many other subjects are treated In the seventeen essays of the volume, with Shaw, Mencken and Frank Harris, among others, receiving some amusing punches and nudges.

William Griffith, editor of the American and. European Scrap Books for 1930, scheduled for publication by the Forum Press In January, has been elected President of the Poetry Society of America, succeeding Dr. Curtis Hidden. Page. Griffith's "Greek Gestures," which poets and critics are acclaiming as a notable book of the year, bears the imprint of the John Day Company.

Geography presented In the modern manner such was the aim of V. Hlllyer when be wrote "A Child's Geography of the World." The book is published by Century. gan his gymnastic career fn this, city at the Chutes on Halght Btreet Taking up gymnastics at the Acme Club in Oakland, he later practiced fat the "Olympic Club with many of the world's greatest gymnasts. new picture from Czechoslovakia, bound in gay boards and full of unusual" color printing has been received by the Macmillan Company from Prague and Is now being distributed in this country. It contains tales about, the Inhabitants of woods and streams, being en- Two Phlladephla artists have combined "to produce comprehensive volume oh "Early lean Costume" (Century).

The Collaborators are Edward War-, wick, painter, lecturer and In-structor at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art, and Henry Pltz, widely known as an Illustrator of fine books for children and adults. "Early Ameri reach this sort of miracle. But all etchings must submit themselves to the standards they can Costumes" traces not only the changes In costumes in the Well, Roland Clark's ducks are ably drawn, and they not seem to be loaded with too many, meaningless lines. The texture of the lake, the sluggish water and the listless march reeds, are ugested by comparltlvely few lines. Nor is the print altogether arti- titled by Its Joseph Kb- 'and 18th centuries but the Zlsek, Forest Story." Both conditions of life which Were re-the text and the Illustrations by sponsible for those changes.

It Rudolph Mates will appeal to Is Illustrated with numerous children. paintings by old masters ON EOF THE FINE ETCHINGS BY Roland Clarfc included in ihe shou) of etch' ings di Coiirioisier's Other etchers exhibiting are Hans Kleiber and Frank Ben-sen. With a feu), vital lines the etcher creates charming landscapes. Stanley Wood nature's reality. This is the last and most difficult test The ttcher must not copy from photographs.

Nor depict out of his imagination. He must catch a glimpse of nature, and swiftly and spontaneously sketch it in a few and livine lines. Clark's and what do CLERGYMEN SAY ABOUT PROHIBITION? inhlblts his use of more candid color planes. This may well be due to the fact that he has turned himself Into a painter comparatively recently. He was trained as an architect, and that has helped in his perfect drawing and unexceptionable composition.

But the urge of the pure artist was strong In him, He tried and soon found his field to be painting, water color palnti ing. Stanley Wood lives in Carmei and some of his most winsome pictures are Camel Bensen's and Kleiber's prints fulfill these conditions only partially. For commercial etchings, these are able specimens. Vs Mrs. Stellman tellectualism, that is expressed In the Boynton 1.

1 Those who have read Robin- son Jeffer's ultra-modern epic, "The Woman at Point' may recall In that poem vision of Our Lady." -1 Well, Ray' i Boynton has a- pic-; jtoriarinterpretation tit that con-; ceplion. He has a pastel and a woodcu. engraving also dealing wKh the sane themp. But the oil painting is most inter-. esting and decoratlve'-of the at-'.

tempts -at the of the Brilliant colorB and. oomposi-! i tional and "William Blake sort of poetlq thinking' ai-e revealed in this. Boyntbh i Other noteworthy paintln-gs are the "Hatton the "Artichoke "Santa Lu- cla" and, among smallenpietiires, "Rocks at Af'LJttle day', at Stewart's Point," Arena." His water Colors are Sometimes exceedingly Stanley Wood's show of water Color paintings at the Vlckery-Atklna and Torrey print rooms, must be conceded to be of very high merit. One does not see such excellent water colors often in the local exhibitions. A painting must be stimulating OJi account of its colors.

And Wood is: unusually sensitive to color," Some of his pictures, like one' of. the sand-dunes of Carmei, of a cliff set against stormy clouds, are vivid color and are also equally good, ia composition. It is worth- noticing that Wood seldom, if ever, muddles up his colors. He lays pure colors, separately. Thus his depth and nuances are built by painstaking and thoughtful separate color planes, This enables him to ex- TO MAD IT! I i' wnfL T0 REAO.

bit jm Asm ahy 1 ft ran Jhsaa Artf. 1HIN4THAT.I I READ I HJSTHIN0ASIM NrWMWWNk, I J0OSI HOYT'5 I IPROHWTIOM fi I 25.000 PRlZt Winning ANSwtft 1 J5rV' fei 1 MT-- 'yt. BEFORE THE PEOPLE- 1 trtha I If) PROHIBITION Ap 'WvSMK WTEMCDNllST 6 Brief Art Notes An exhibition of paintings by Edith Kinney Stellman Is. the offering at the Past West Gallery. This is the first really compre-henslve show given by Mrs.

in her native city. Even a cursory survey strikes the observer with the versatility, sophistication, experimental cour-' age end esthetic sensibility of this painter. Mrs. Stellman has brought here samples of a many-i faceted art Oil and water and i fresco paintings equally reveal high talent and originality. Mrs.

Stellman was educated at the California School of fine i. Arts here. But subsequently she Block prints and etchings by Elizabeth Norton will be exhibited beginning on November 25, at Courvoisler's gallery. Joseph Slgall, society portrait painter, has returned from New York, where he has a studio at the Ambassador Hotel. He Is now at his estate at Saratoga, and is already busy with commissions to paint leading society men and women here.

nrfia hrlirht cnlnr value, na If hi for instance, tne.Pief at Monica.1 But It Is not as a pictures are lighted from behind. Now and then, Stanley Wood ter but. as -oil colorlst with a marked penchant for orati ve values, Professor Boynton seems to be at his best i shows a tendency to use very subdued, colors, as if he has some repression, some shyness which ylslted and studied in London and Paris, and elsewhere in Europe, Her quest was to reach down to 1 the bottom of the academic as well as the new or radically mod-' era art principles. NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE Her nresent work' la an ernel. 4 lent synthesis of the academic and modernistic technics.

She lias avoided the distortions, the Wild grotesquery of some of the Fascinating as a. novel accurate as a public document an unbiased cross section of national thought on the gravest situation facing America: since the Civil War. EXHIBITION AND SALE mi mem latter-day modern painters. But on the other hand, she has no stateness of the academic sort in ter work-Not caring for immediate rewards, in the commercial sense, We announce an Exhibit Orlatnal Block Prist a and Color Etching In the South Gallery 25t to Oeeaipber ISth Feyzi Antique Rugf i 2436 Fillmore Street TKear Jackson BOPS mis Druiiant anise nas applied. The ruga collected for thts.

exhibit Priests, "Rabbis and; Ministers of practically every denomination submitted their ideas and plans in the $25,000 Hearst Temperance Contest inaugurated to suggest a workable, honest substitute for the existing scheme of national Prohibition. 1' What these men iof the Church have say they say frankly, plainly and in some instances with startling bluntness. Read their opinions as given in the remarkable volume I Sn Pranetot California a a a oump oo. t4-2M Port are genuine authentic example! of great value and Interest A $5.00 book for There is greatness in every aspect of this biography by the author of "Jean Christophe' It is the music of the symphonies transposed into Words. Including i Personal collection of the lata revee Koluk-wide.

Maghificeat ruga from tli Melwood herself to painting with the crusader's real. She Is evolving an art all her own. Her sense of proportion and of "teolor saves her boldly abstract work from vagueness and. literal Illustration, let there is thought' satire and poetry in her paintings. Estate.

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Price $5.00 Christmas Book Shelf, 1929. Sent upon request EKULIJSIBNT NOW OPEN Da. and Evenliic Issues Oral Its Costume Deslis aoH MllllMrr apt to draw considerable-attention. It is the spectacular of the paintings now being exhibited by Prof. Ray Boynton at the Galerie Beaux Arts.

Boynton, as is well known, is one of the ablest teachers, of painting at the California School of Fine Arts, and is reputed, jfustly, to be a leading practitioner of his art He follows his own precepts. Hence, in both his oils and water colors and woodcuts and pastels, there Is rich material for the critical Judge of paintings. Most of these pictures were Suggested by Carmel-by-the-Sea and Us vicinity, where boynton bas been sojourning in the past (few years. It is interesting to see that it is not only the landscape of Carmei, but aleo its in BtjUst Tralninc. Arrhltertaral Deeoratlona and tsnstroellen Our Motto: "To eepr to ateal.

-Be Creative! Be GALERIE BEAUX ARTS 1 GEART ST. Exhthitlon of ralntlnra RAI-BOISTON Th roach Deo. 4th By FRANCIS J. TIETSORT A remarkable book based on the 71,248 plans and statements received by the Hearst $25,000 Temperance Contest." Temperance Book Editor The San Francisco Examiner enclose It: Mai! me copy of 'TEMPERANCE PROHIBITION to I oiy address below. Name, Address I 1 4 RUDOLPH 8CHAEFFER announces an lllintratrf i.rhir.

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