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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1937 Ml 9 Cadmus' Asperts of Suburban Life: Main Street, painted for the Treasury Department Tax Profcrtt, 1937 1 ff'J iiTf A- I twit- tt A III- I 3 0 2 If I I PAUL CADMUS th Navy mm PnT 111 vital If it derives its Immediate inspiration and its outward form from contemporary life. The actual contact with human beings who are living and dying, working and playing, exercising all their functions and passions, demonstrating the heights and depths of man's nature, gives results of far greater significance than those gained by isolation, introspection or subjective contemplation of Inanimate objects. "I cannot term love optimism nor disgust pessimisms; one Implies rose-colored glasses, the other dark glasses. A Satirical Viewpoint "There are, in general, two ways to approach an expression not only of individuals' reactions to society, but also to approach society itself In all Its complex inter-relations. One: to choose the finest and noblest expressions of people and society and to demonstrate them as unalloyed goodness; two: to choose the subversive, selfish and deadening expressions and to display them in all their destructive malignity.

"This then is my viewpoint a satirical viewpoint." absynthe being a big splurge. While abroad he bicycled around the country with a loaf of bread, cheese and grapes under his arm. He came back to this country third class and being just about out of funds went with the Public Works Art Project and fame. The Navy 'Revolution' It wasn't long, April of '34, that he completed "The Fleet's In." Came the revolution in navy circles and his subsequent popularity. Admiral Hugh Rodman called the Riverside Drive scene an "unwarranted insult" to the navy.

But Secretary Swanson after studying it smiled and announced. "Right artistic but not true to the navy." To this day Paul wonders what Is "true" of the navy. He lived on Riverside Drive and he ought to know. He said he didn't tell half the story. Now he is "anxious to settle down" and forget about the sailors.

His last work was the broadside on "Coney Island." True to form, he left unsaid. That's his system. People tell him he crowds too much into one picture; but when he does a subject he wants also to end it. His Art Subtle, Potent Of his work the critics are unanimous In that he has potency, subtlety, swiftness. His work is all his own, just as was the master Signorelli, whose work is reproduced in Cadmus' studio.

About art, Paul Cadmus' credo tells his beliefs: Reflects the Contemporary "I believe that art Is not only more true but also more living and mate and marble fireplace. In the front room, where Mr. Cadmus was working, drafts for future work intruded vividly into the pleasant disarray of scrap books and magazines. Sun streaked through the high windows, playing on Mr. Cadmus' brown skin a sun tan developed on the roof.

Generally, though, he doesn't allow himself such leisure. His day begins around 8 or 9 in the morning. He can't work unless he has had enough sleep. And lately he has been so busy, what with his one-man show at the Mldtown Galleries and other exhibitions, that he hasn't had time to cook his own breakfast. Cooks Spaghetti, too He freely admitted he likes cooking makes a swell dish of spaghetti.

But Just that none of this cleaning-up business. He finds complete relaxation at the piano. And then he reads. But he won't read "Gone With the Wind" or "Anthony Adverse." They are too popular and won't mean anything. He prefers Thomas Mann.

Unless he actually owns the book, no matter what it is, he doesn't enjov reading it. "Whv?" "Well, I don't know," he said. "But I just like it better." Painted Life In Majorca A few year sago he took all his money and went to Europe on a freighter. He lived In Majorca a good part of the time, painting the local peasants, the houses and the water front. Twenty-five dollars took care of his monthly expenses, 5 cents for PAUL CADMUS looks exactly like a Harvard undergraduate except it wouldn't be advisable to say that to his face.

He has a closed-cropped haircut, his trouser cuffs scratch his ankles and he goes into high convulsions when the word "academic" Is applied to his work. But Paul Cadmus, the young man whose painting "The Fleet's In" made the admirals quiver in their sea joints a few years back, Is very friendly and as decided a personality as what he reproduces with his brush. He also cooks. In His Studio Mr. Cadmus lives on the top floor at 5 St.

Luke's Place, Manhattan. Next door is the former home of ex-Mayor Jimmie Walker. Down further is the former address of Starr and also on the block lives the last person to speak with the murdered Nancy Titterton. Bent over his drawing board, busy putting lips on a "high yaller," Mr. Cadmus said: "I hope you don't mind if I go on working.

I've got to get this out." He put aside his drawing and began mounting sketches. "This doesn't require much attention, so I'll know everything you're saying." And Marble Fireplace The studio was comfortably spaced with odd pieces of furniture, a screen, an easel on which rested a canvas by his apartment tip From top to bottom A self portrait, and Four Boats, trhich nail hang in Abraham Lincoln High School Left! The Cadmul hands Scth Bradford Dewey Carrying on the Family's Printing Tradition, Wins Prize for Cape Cod Paper The Man at the Mike At 21, Bed Parks Has Had a Life lime of Thrills Academy, he went to Brooklyn Industrial School for Boys. Young Man With Ideas He had his own ideas on how a page should be composed. A few days before graduation, he got into an argument with one of his instructors. The teacher wanted an old-fashioned routine type used.

Dewey preferred a more modern form. The upshot was that he left school. Last Fall, he Joined the Cape Cod Colonial at Hyannis, Mass. When asked what he could do in the line of newspaper work, he answered: "Anything but run the presses." The job was his. Scth Brndford Dewey Jr.

is the ninth printer in the Bradford family. His greatgrandfather was Seth Bradford, who printed the tickets for the old Brooklyn City Railroad. He was paid for the Job in company stock, which the family still holds. rpHE Bradford family has been producing printers for the borougH for many generation and it was only natural that Scth Bradford Dewey Jr. should have cultivated a taste for ink and type while still in the pre-'teen age.

Today, at 23, he is one of two compositors on a New England paper which was awarded third place for newspapers with a 10,000 circulation in the annual newspaper typography exhibition, sponsored by N. W. Ayer Sons. He supervises of layout and makeup policy in the plant. Young Dewey, son of Seth Bradford Dewey of Fulton famous restaurant, Gage Tollners, took to the printing trade when he was 12.

Given a printing press for a Christmas present, he set up shop in the cellar of his home. He began printing greeting cards and programs. When he was graduated from the primary department of Adelphl Paul Cadmus in hit studio Voice of Youth Jean Ferguson Black, Young Playwright, Has That Rare Quality of Patience By Gertrude McAllister PATIENCE always has seemed to me to be an admirable trait. You seldom meet people who have It as a natural characteristic and fewer yet who ever have tried to cultivate it. Jean Ferguson Black, author or the new Broadway comedy, "Penny Wise," did just that.

She had to. "But don't be maudlin' about It," she pleaded the other day, as I sat on the edge of her bed while she took last sips at her coffee cup. It's hard not to be because when you meet a person who has been confined to a wheelchair since the age of 1 and then turns around and does a rollicking farce on married life, besides having dramatized Christopher Morley's "Thunder on the Left," what can be expected? A Writer Unable to Walk BUT Jean Is frightfully good-natured about the whole situation. She understands all too well what is In the mind of everyone who meets her. There's always an unbelievable "Oh!" lurking some place.

Jean, on the other hand, is a writer who happens not to be able to walk not a wheelchair patient who can write. There's a fine distinction, she insists. Miss Black does not write "in spite" of her handicap. The daughter of John Black, editor of the Chat, she lives in Richmond Hill. But for the next few days, she will be staying at the St.

James Hotel in Manhattan, so that she will be near Morosco Theater on W. 45th where her play is housed. She thinks her play is good and is refusing to read the reviews until she Is all over her present emotional fit. And anyway. If the critics have found too much fault with "Penny Wise," she says it won't matter.

She only wrote it for fun, and that's what It Is. And Mr. Morley Was Pleased JEAN began writing when she was pre-'teen for St. Nicholas magazine. She won all sorts of badges you know.

Then she did some radio script work, a novel and dramatization of a heavy Franch work Her dramatization of "Thunder on the Left" even pleased Morley. She did it without him knowing about it and he was qui! nonplussed when the manuscript was submitted. Lonker-On, Seeing Things HER latest play has all her friends wondering. The plot revolves around a fascinating philanderer who happens to have a smart wife The husband dilly-dallies with three lovely young creatures, all of whom eventually become friends of the wife. It's the wife technique and she sticks to it.

But how did Miss Black ever learn about that side of we? A few years ago. she was a steady guest at her sister's parties down In Greenwich Village. She may not have pranced around but Jean took It all In. At least she came to know all the answers. Somewhere, in her Broadway ventures, she met the man whl is the hero of her play.

He was highly amused when she took him to see himself he didn't know he was in it. After the first act, he said; "No resentment yet." But her friends don't believe the story. Such a man, they Insist, Is purely Imaginary. That, says Jean, holds true only as far as the situation and the wife are concerned. Verse Her Secret Sin WHEN Miss Black goes to the theater, she is Just "good audience." She doesn't go to criticize, but to enjoy.

Her favorites this Winter were Gellgud's "Hamlet," Tor," and "Wingless Victory." "I guess you've gathered by now that Maxwell Anderson is really my favorite playwright?" Several years ago, Miss Black was a patient in a hospital in the shadow of High Tor." When the play was announced, she couldn't wait to see ti. It's typical, she says. "I've heard the thunder clap around High Tor many times. It is different anywhere else." Or maybe that's just the poetry in her coming out, for verse is her secret sin. She doesn't often tell people about it.

NATURALLY, she hopes "Penny Wise" will have a nice long run. She already has another idea for a play as soon as the current one is through. About writing, she says: "Don't do it If you can possibly help It. But If you can't, keep at it." Srth Bradford Dewey Jr. a i Imm.

Deri Parks Slow Down, Co-eds, The Doctor Says So Co-eds this week were advised to take it easy by Dr. Josephine L. Rathbone of Teachers College, Columbia University. She said too many of thpm are endangering their health by using up too much energy in both mental and physical activities. She urged that they learn the art of relaxation rather than spend too much effort trying to excel in extra-curricular work and too many hours in intense mental effort.

Job Takes First Place Among Youth's Need Homer P. Kalney, director of the American Youth Commission, this week said that youth is worried first of all about a Job. In quick succession come a happy home life, guidance, a satisfactory philosophy of life and a knowledge of how best to discharge their duties as citizens. He was giving the replies from a questionnaire submitted to thousands of young people throughout the country. Without a doubt, he said, employment was the foremost need.

He said only 65 percent of the children of high school age were in school. By DAVID BlXI.KIt IDING in a cab that fire in the middle of Queensbom Bridge at about the time you're due for a broadcast in Central may sound like a movie thriller to Just ordinary people, but to Bert Parks, 24-year-old Columbia announcer, It's Just part of his radio life. It doesn't happen nil the time and that's why he says: "You don't have to believe it, but radio announcing is fun." Young Parks now handles some of the major network's most important programs. He gets a kick out of it all and wouldn't swap places with anyone. As it happens, his work is a pleasure with him.

Vp North With Yankees Bert Parks was born and educated in Atlanta, where he had quite a reputation as an amateur actor. His forte was impersonations. He joined the staff of WGST. Atlanta's station, as one of the morning announcers when he was 17. Later a year later hp was made chief announcer.

He there until 1033 at which time Columbia railed him "up north with the Yankees" before leaving home, Brt won the city declimination award but to this day, he hasn't been able to figure out why. This September will round out his fourth year with Columbia. Need Trained Men A graduate of Merisl College in Georgia, Bert says, "I can not place loo much emphasis on the importance of a college education to a man considering radio as a care t. Particularly the Imht el I ii" numb of school olfenng courses in i.k!m. "Two l.ircign l.tl' are lieenvnrv preferably French and Spanish.

Diction. English, poise and a talent lor doing something other than announcing tiiat can be broadcast such as singing, acting, writing or producing another musts." Fright In The Air Recalling some of the more unusual of his broadcasting rxixTi-ences. the young announcer con-tinned. "Htrangelv enough my worst attack of I right had nothing to do with radio. 1 was n.vi tied broadcast the Navy inancv.cr "If Asbury Park.

They were to take place quite a way out to sea I had never been up bclore and wasn't terribly keen on doing a broadcast for my first time up. "We were about 50 miles out to sea when the pilot turned to me and said: 'We're running short of gas. What shall I I was Gals Get Break Matrimonial possibilities, at least from the male standpoint, are to a low ebb on the campus of the University of California this year. Men outnumber girl students, almost two to one, there being 9,575 male students and 5,859 women, Foreigners In Flocks Hollywood air is thick with foreign accents, thicker than at any time since the first talkies rent the kindly cloak of the silents and forced to cover those who spoke unintelligible English, if any. Here are some of the Invaders the studios are hoping will duplicate the successes of Sonja Henie and Greta Garbo.

Do You Collect Stamps? Prof. John J. B. Morgan, Northwestern University psychologist, in an interview today said "stump collectors were so numerous that they defied psychological study of the factors which made thrm 'that way' about the hobby." "One must re careful not to generalize," h. said, "when the field under discussion Includes several million persons in the United States alone.

"Undoubtedly there are certain psychological reasons why philatelists collect stamps, but I think the rpasons are almost as numerous as the collectors. "Not being a collector of anything myself. I may be at a disadvantage in trying to explain what amounts In many cases to a near mania. There are several theories as to 'Why is a But I feel they attempt to generalize too broadly." He said Oi.e theory held collecting, be it stamps, ins. elephants, buus or beer bottle caps, was a handover of the caveman days, when our forcoearers had to store up food against the Winter sons.

beginning to feel sick anyway but managed to hnn to go back. We made it. refuelled and went up again. I got over being sick and the broadcast went off smoothly. The Band Walked Out "Then there was the time when I had to broadcast the day's program at eight o'clock in the morning.

Now while the announcer is reading the program the studio ot'-hc s'liycid to in ht- ready st on the air at ft u.v I linr lic! and had nr.cn the station call I turned at I'imi to giw tne program over to band. my surprise when I didn't x-e a soul in the studio. I had nothing at all to put on in it's place. I dashed out the studio, having the air dead, and ran upstairs to the control room. No one but the control man was there and not a musician could I find.

"Ret inning to tne studio I tried to the listeners. Finally a man came in. A bavest. It couldn't been a violinist or a trumpet, man. No.

it had to be a bassist We around until about 8.25. Then, a cello player came in and lor the next live minutes we had a cello concert going out on the air. One by one the band came In Just in time to sign off. That happens seldom but when it does it certainly means worry," '-'-iff Going Hiking? The town is full of hiking trials if you only know where to look for them. The Subway Sun gives the following suggestions, starting points: Gunhlll Road on 3d Ave.

or White- Plains Road lines for Bronx River Parkway lootpnths. 242d St. on Broadway subway, then through Van CortlHndt Park for Sawmill River Parkway hike. 181 st St. on Brondway subway for Gporge Washington Bridge and the Palisades.

SCANDINAVIAN FRENCH SWEDISH-KtSSIAN At yet untried in films, Militn Knriui, who brought her Utile girl tcith her, it Metro's entry for public favor VIENESSE Franriskn Cool wil star If Paramount hat ill may Cermaine Aussey may be another Sigrid Curia It barked by Sam Simone20th Century hopes Goldyen (mho lost on Ann Sten).