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Life and Death' Porfrayecl in Church Murals On the Sid jmiihii if a if pnmm mm mm mm em i i -By E. V. DURLING light in the pupil of the eye is In Eleven years ago, when Father the form of a Duvc. IZagar became pastor. St.

Nicholas Below, directly opposite the'Chuch was in sheriff's sale. Since "Mother, 1941," is a conception ofjthcn. he deot has been reduced huge woman in $99,000 to $24,000. repulsive gas mask, holding scale on which gold materialism I'lOIll lis VI ijUUUr far outweighs bread To complete the murals. Vanka In one hand the figure holds a llhnH hour, a riav aeven Perhaps a better teaman after all, With chubby children hanging an my neck To keep me low and wise.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. (Said Wordsworth: "Thou, while thy babfs around thee cling, halt how how divine a thing, a woman, may be made." Observed Thackeray: nt a young mother one of the sweetest sight life heme And Robert Browning stated: "A mother who boasts two boyg was ever accounted 1 bloody sword. Angel hands a (nr anrt months. He worked on three levels of scaffolding, and never was able to see his figures complete until the scaffolding was removed. A MAN IS YOUTHFUL," said Anatole France, "as long retains critical eyes for women's hats." Have yoi ou as he been trying to tear the mask from her face.

'Divine' Justice The angelic finger points across the wall to a painting of "Justice Divine" an angel with scales per-; In the heat of July and August wre Vanka's father-in-law, Dr. his crushes became so sticky thatjDeWitt Stctten: Joseph Hertzig. uaiaillXU, ViClKlllIltj IWUHIllca HIC ouam uu uu i spiritual flames. Among the last of Vanka's paintings Is of a poor immigrant jWaucing on swaying planus. family's frugal dinner.

While the! Vsnka studied in Belgium and father says the prayer before Trance, and was professor of lately, mister? "The most eyes," said Harry Thurston Peck, authority on the subject, "are hesitate between gray and green. inscrutable eyes; they make us wonder as to what they have seen" they have smoking rooms in public Where a man could sit down and a book and enjoy himself highest street In the world is Main Denver; the widest, Market Street, the most beautiful, Champs the shortest, Rucble, Paris, and Via Sol, Havana, which is only In width," states a contemporary. man is right except for one thing: New Orleans, is wider than Street, Philadelphia. meais, ine ngure oi cririst appears; painting ana oesign me dimly, with hand uplifted in biess-igieb Academy of Art. He has ex cuwuzing tne little LJi MISS f'EKBEK L' author, lady's hats fascinating a recognized those that They are curiously Why don't libraries? with a pipe "The Street, Philadelphia; Elysee, Paris; the narrowest.

42 inches I think this Canal Street, Market DNA ing. He is seen only by a small child. The head of this pictured family is E. B. W.

Pflschner, Burgess of Millvale. and good friend of Father Zagar. Another benefactor honored in the church is Anthony Tomasic. ivy if i i I fr 1 i -iV' V'W I lcuilciuuii Two full paset of Vanka'i painlingM in the Millvatt Church in thit Mdion on fan" 6 and 7.) By JOSEPH A. BREIG A PAINTING of a soldier whose right eye is dead and whose left eye is alive looks down upon visitors entering St.

Nicholas Catholic Church in Millvale. Such a collision of life and death is typical of the murals by Maxo Vanka, which will be dedicated today, having already attracted world-wide attention to this obscure Croatian basilica. What Vanka has done Is to dip brush in the old Christian truths, and in colors of fire and violence to challenge the modern world as the prophets of old challenged the ancient. Here are no sweet-faced Ma donnas, no gentle and patient Christs, no flower-bearing saints or benign and harmless old patriarchs. The soldier with the dead-alive face lies at the feet of the Virgin Mother, who with horror-filled face and burning eyes has rushed between the combatants.

Christian Emblems With her right hand, she breaks the bayonet which has pierced the youth at her feet. With the other, she thrusts aside a gun. On the ground, spring flowers are blooming. To the left, two other soldiers are struggling. One has been pierced to the heart, and his face Is like a green skull.

The enemy linn wiitt Virion It hn Iflimf i. 'Arranged for Today PASSING BY FERBER. America's wealthiest well on the way to her second million. From her brain-child, "Show Boat." Fulfill "Her" Fondest thU T)hankwvW Hun-THrtraiih I'lmlu VAN'KA MURAL The painting which appears on the ceiling at the entrance to St. Nicholas Church, Millvale.

It Is Artist Maxo Vanka's commentary on war. The soldier has just stabbed another soldier, and lunging for a second thrust, he finds that he has plunged his bayonet into the Crucified Christ. Edna made a half a million dollars. For the film rights to her latest book, "Saratoga Trunk," she has received $125,000 and for a recent magazine serial she was paid $75,000. SIDELIGHTS IN LOS ANGELES and vicinity waitresses earn more money than stenographers.

From $10 to $20 a week more. Incidentally, Los Angeles has the mast beautiful waitresses in the country To call a single girl an "old maid" is not so good. Calling her a spinster is not much better, Neither is referring to her as bachelor girl. We ehould try to think of something adequate "If you can ask me a fair question about the theater of the past 40 years I cannot answer." says a Broadwaylte. "I will buy you a cigar." All right.

Tell me what famous play opened with a scene of a funeral "Plain women," said Eden Phllpotts. "make better wives than beautiful ones, for they are always bent on showing the man that married them that he made no mistake." ASIDES SOME TIME AGO A WISE and observant man said; "Few women can walk well. They waddle. But the fascinating woman will move easily and swiftly, gliding along rather than walking an embodiment of the poetry of motion" Friend of mine has a kitten that likes to play the piano by running over the keys. Which, of course, recalls that musical number of the yesteryear, 'Kitten on the Keys." PLEASE NOTE rpHIS YEAR HAS BEEN a very profitable one for those who sell i- things for babies.

And next year will be even better. So claim Students of business A hairdresser of Chicago states: "As to there being more silly blondes than silly brunettes, the fact Is that most of the silly blondes are brunettes In disguise. I know" Mahatma Gandhi and his wife are both 71 years old. They have been married 58 years, each having been 13 years of age at time of wedding Chicagoan says she has a dog named Muggsy who Is 17 'a years old. Which brings to mind Edith Wharton's touching lines: "My little old dog.

A heartbeat at my feet." he could hardly continue. Some- ni, h. came almost unbearable. He was sensauon oi hibited there and in Belgrade, Prague, Vienna, Munich. London, Paris, Barcelona and Am sterdam.

He holds the Palm Academlqifc of the French Legion of Honor, and was three times gold medal winner In Bruxelles and Paris. Stainless Sink t-'J 1 But the hatred In his face has'and a Crucifixion scene; turned to horror, for out of concePti ons- wiit a h.ioo rm! On the opposite walls are rmiurm njnuti-Bie, hum Among those whose portraits lias done is King Alexander of Yugoslavia. Gift to America Vank said: "These murals are my contribution to America not only mine, but my Immigrant people's, who also are grateful, like me, that they are noi in inc slaughter of Europe." Among guests Invited to the dedication at 10:30 a. m. today oi Momesteaa, 7 inarkabe stained-glass windows, Onhunln rotuaaa he savs.

born out of a revulsion aKainst -must killing." lie said: their tell men that thev must kill. Men must revolt against must-killing." The murals in their entirety he describes in the sentence: "Divinity became human so that humanity might become (livlne. His patron saint Is the Madonna of Bistrlca. known in Croatia as Mariya Bistrlca. Dream with Cabinet GR PHONE AT.

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One shows a mother weeping over a dead coal miner; t' other, a mother burying a sol- uler son- Vanka tells the stories: "The coal mine scene comes from a disaster nearJohns-town, when 72 men weretrapped in an explosion. The body of this son was the first brought to the surface. "The mother Is sorrowing over him, while at the same time sending his three brothers into the mine with a rescue expedition. It actually happened; and she lost all four." 'It Is My Son' Of the other painting, he re lates: "As the Mother of Cod gave her Son for humanity, so this mother gave her son for her country. This was a boy a beautiful lad who was shot In the head on the Italian front.

"In the midst of a terrible tempest, he got out of the base hospital. Seeking his mother, he walked 15 miles through the storm. "He was found In the morning at the base of the little hill where his village was situated. He was so emaciated as to be unrecognizable, and all the mothers came, crying: "'It is my son; my son' "But then they saw he had only one arm; and there was a little birthmark by which he was identified. I have painted his mother weeping for him, with the little graveyard in the background." Star of Angels At the highest point of the apse, above the Ascending Christ, Vanka has painted a Dove, symbolizing the Holy Spirit, in an 'abstraction of Heaven." Around TRANSPARENT WATER REPELLENT RAYON 1ELVET i Holiday Dresses Si as if It were an individual work.

At the" four corners of the heavens, forming a "star of are the Angels of Celestial Music, Profane Music, Purity and Spiritual Fire, or Love. From the heavens, Christ, transported by a six-winged Seraph, is seen appearing to St. Francis on Mt. Alvernia, when the "little poor man of Assist" was impressed with the stigmata. St.

Francis, in a kneeling position, is lifted from the earth in ecstasy, his body outlined by flames sjTnbolic of the love of God, and girdled with a wonderful circle of singing birds in flight. Painting of Moses Vanka has a pet sparrow, "Pre-pelica" (meaning quail), which flutters around his head, perches on his shoulder, pecks at his lips and sometimes lives in his pocket. It was named by his 9-year-old daughter, Peggy. Vanka rescued! it from a lightning-struck tree on the farm in Bucks County where he lives with his wife and child. On the right wall of the apse Is a heroic painting of Moses, re ceiving the Ten Commandments from the Hand of God, which, surrounded by angels, Is thrust forth from cosmic clouds.

Moses is an overpowering figure with devastating eyes. His mantle covers most of the commandments, leaving visible only two-Do Not Kill; Do Not Lust. New Testament Scene Near him is Aaron, calling down the lightnings to destroy the Golden Calf and thundering reproaches at the faithless Israelites. Opposite, on the left wall, is the central New Testament scene, showing Christ sending an angel messenger to give the Key of the Kingdom to St. Peter.

Nearby is St. Michael crushing Satan in observance of the prom ise of Christ that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the angels parting the clouds. The S. Patent Office. Work-Saving Make her work eaiier, more efficient.

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Ho considers these panels his best work. He says: "I feel like an Instrument. I prayed for guidance, and it was as if some one had taken my hand and painted with It. The lines are so sure so sure. I call it the grace of God.

"The soldier with the dead eye and the living eye? I was walking in a field in Belgium on a beautiful day in May, and I saw a soldier lying down, looking up at the sky. "I stopped and said to him: 'Good morning. So you, too, are a lover of the "He neither answered nor moved, and then I saw that he was dead." Battlefield Faces There Is a green cast on the faces of Vanka's soldiers. Their lips are empurpled, and their eyes are bloodshot. The artist said: "Men are like that on a battlefield.

There is no flush of anger In their faces. There 19 only that pale horrified green." He is dedicating one of these paintings to "My Slavic Brothers In Arms;" the other to "My Broth ers In Christ." With them he ranks one other "Mother, 1941" dedicated to Louis Adamlc, who In the book "Cradle of Life" told the story of Vanka's life. Mother, 1941," is a woman, perhaps 50 years old, chained on a cross. At the foot of the cross is a cell-window, through the bars of which young hands are thrust, appealing for deliverance. Slavery Symbol A broken linden tree national tree of Croatia symbolizes the enslavement of the Slavic peoples; but a new branch budding sym bolizes hope.

The Vanka murals tell a unified story. They begin In the sanctuary with a painting of peasants praying the Augelus. Opposite Is a group of Immigrants in the New World. Through their priest, the Rev. Albert Zagar, they are offering their parish church to the Madonna, asking her to offer it to God.

The Madonna Is of heroic size. Above her is a conception of the Ascension Christ rising from an Earth surrounded by the choas of creation. To the right and left are groups of Apostles, with the Blessed Vir gin prominent in one, fct. Peter in the other. Angels are comforting: them with the assurance that their Master will return.

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