Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 14

BROOKLYN' LIFE 14 in the world of art, but it can be summed up in a few words he has a tremendous ambition and a real love pAMBRLDGE CLUB held its meeting of February 16th in the Metropolitan Museum. There the mem- bers, with the aid of a guide, studied, American sculpture at first hand. I 1 I fx? -F" At ONG ISLAND STATE SOCIETY, D. R. The luncheon given by the Daughters of the Revolution; Long Island State Society on Wednesday, February 18th at the Hotel Bossert was a brilliant affair.

The tables were decorated in blue and gold, the colors of the. for work. His story includes working at uncongenial labor in the day time and going to school at night, not for a. few months but for several There were prizes won in school, and more work, then came the opportunity to teach, and still more work and finally in 1919 came the first big monument, "The Doughboy" which was erected in Hassier Square, Brook-, lyn, in 1920. The idea was so beauti fully conceived and so artistically expressed that several copies have been made.

One will be found in Arlington, N. and still another in Alliance, Ohio. "The Doughboy" in Ohio has a rather touching history. Mr. B.

F. Weylnecht of Alliance was in Arlington for a brief visit and while being shown over the town by friends, his attention was i t. 1 421 Society, the flowers being yellow jonquils and the vases were tied with blue tulle. At one o'clock the" officers and guests entered the ballroom which was filled with tables, then entered the Flag and color bearers and all present joined in the salute to the Flag, after which the Star Spangled Banner was sung. The Invocation was pronounced by the Society's Chaolain.

the Rev. Charles William Roeder, and everyone 4 sat down to a delicious repast. While the courses were being changed very spontaneous community singing of familiar songs was done-with Howard Wade Kimsey as cnnv 1mW. and his wife Lora Orth-Kimsey at the piano. a son whom Mr.

Weylnecht lost in the war, that he immediately sought the sculptor and completed arrangements to have a copy made. In 1921 the third copy of "The Doughboy" was erected in the city cemetery at Alliance, a fitting monument to a brave boy. In 1922, "The Victory" was erected in Freedom Square, and in 1923 "The Dawn of Glory," a masterpiece of classic art, in Highland Park. Mr. Montana was born in Alcamo, Italy, so when he After luncheon John Franklin Berry, the newly re-elected Regent, presided over the afternoon's entertainment, and introduced first Mrs.

Edgar E. Shumway, who gave a very logical address against the Child Labor Amendment, then Mrs. Latham, President General of the Society begged her audience not to be extremists but to be medium in thought, and she sighted the excitement and misunderstandings over Defence Day, Next a clever monologist, Mrs. Mabel gave two recitations, "Mother and Son on a Pullman," and "Selling Seeds in the Basement of a Department Store." Mr. Kimsey, who was selected to make a monument for the town of his childhood he -was most happy.

The monument; which he is completing now, he calls "The Spirit of the Roman Soldier." It will be sent to Rome some time next that is, the plaster cast will be sent. The monument is to be cast in Rome, of bronze made from guns captured by the Italian Army from the Austrians. It will be unveiled in October or November in one of the principal squares of Alcamo. Mr. Montana's latest work, a bust of Miss Julia Fox, who is a rising young composer of New York, was unveiled at a tea given at the Fox home recently.

The bust of Justice Harrison Glore, which is in the Unity Republican Club of- Brooklyn, is the work of Montana. During the last week he has started work on a portrait of "Mother" Davison (Mrs. Davison, a sister of Daniel Frohman, theatrical producer), who is well known for her wonderful work for "the boys" during the war. "Mother" Davison sits for her por-' trait twice a week, stopping at the studio on her way to see "her boys" living in the home bearing her name oh Governor's Island. When the bust is completed it will be placed in this home.

has a tine bass voice, loiiowea witn un me mrau xo Mandalay" and "The Horn," by Flegier. The Rev. Charles who is the pastor of the old Flatlands Dutch Church made a telling address on the value of patriotic societies as a bulwark against Bolshevism and Communism. He said that Communists were teaching the children, even in this country, and he told of an incident in which he said that while he was on his way to, his church one Sunday afternoon, three little boys came across the graveyard alkl when they saw him icu4 "TtTifi 'flA rfmrrVi Ylamti fnft. and Damn Monument by Pietro Montana in Prospect Park to those who fought in the Great War The Art Gallery Pietro Montana, Brootyn Sculptor 1 A visit to the studio of Pietro Montana, sculptor, re- veals quite as much as his conversation, the seriousness of his ambition to "do good work and keep producing." From the place the young sculptor has made for himself in the heart and memory of New York, one must judge that he does good work and the chances are that he will be producing for years to He is a splendid example of that old saying, "Genius is the infinite capacity for hard work," for it is only when he is working that he is completely happy.

Brooklyn knows Montana chiefly by the monuments in the park but should you be for-tunate enough to be invited to his studio you would discover that he is painter as well as sculptor. The pictures he has were done when he was very young, but they show a great deal of promise and he would no doubt have produced some excellent paintings, had he chosen this field for his endeavor. There is much to tell concerning the struggle Montana has had in order to reach the position he now occupies ministers" and they took to their heels, and ran away. Miss Adeline Sterling, the Registrar General said a few words, and then Mrs. John Morton Halstead spoke as representing the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century in place of Mrs.

I. Sherwood Coffin the president, who is ill. Miss Rowland gave more monologues, and after singing "America" and "Auld Lang Syne" the guests dispersed. Our Dog and Us Lows J. rich exhibition at Neighborhood Club The Neighborhood Club, 104 Clark Street has opened its doors until March 2nd to a pleasing exhibition of sculpture and paintings by Louis J.

Urich, an American who was born in Paterson, N. and received his training at Cooper Union, The Art Students' League, Pratt Institute, and The Beaux Arts of New York Gty and has won the Helen Foster Barett prize for sculpture at the Academy of Design, and the War. Theme Prize for Sculpture in the Young Artists' Contest in Manhattan. The opening night of Mr, Urich's exhibition was on Wednesday, February 4th, Neighbors at the Neighborhood Cub; and there were a great many persons present; but we found upon a second visit that the water-color paintings were far more interesting by daylight, the color being so much richer, Three especially attractive subjects were "The Summer Shacks," "The Inlet" and "New Hampshire Hills." Among the sculptures are four portrait reliefs which give a certain amount of pleasure, but lack strength; and there are six little statuettes and a bust called "Sonny." Among those present on the opening night were Dr. and Mrs.

Clark Burnham, Mr. Robert Alfred Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Awbrey. N.

Shaw," Mrs. Robert J. Wickenden, Mr. and Mrs. Louis J.

Urich, Miss Mildred Van Blarcom, Mr. Stanislav Rembsky, Mr. and Mrs. Bryant, Mr. Dear Dogs: I couldn't write to you last.

week, because the boss had a toothache, and she wouldn't let me go near the typewriter or anything else, in fact. She would say in a dentist-made voice: "What are you smelling around there for! Go away, go. to bed;" and suchlike peevish statements. My bed is under her bed, because she says it makes such a nice cave for my more primitive side but do you think she remembered that last week? No! she would cry out from her silken coverlette: "What are you doing down under Stop that scrubbing and humping around." And I was only making my bed. I.

always hump mine up, don't you. dogs, when go "to bed. She got mad at the cook, and wondered why she gave us all that kind of food when nobody could eat it. "You're the only one of the five of us that can't eat it," I yapped. "Won't somebody get that dog out?" agitated she, so I left the dining room with a certain lack of dignity and went straight to the boss' room, where I chewed up her ticket to the luncheon of the Daughters of the Revolution, and she never found it out until she needed it, and among other places decided to look in my bed, where I have filed things away for her before.

She was all over the toothache by that time, so all she did was to remark that it looked a bit but that she would trust to it as a meal ticket any day, rather than her, face. Which sounded like horse sense me. Well dogs, I will have to cut this letter short; because, you can see for yourselves, with the boss ing the agonies of the condemned," as she puts it, and the dentist, as the chief devil, prodding her with his buzzard from day to day, that I did not have much fun and spent all my time making myself scarce and looking out at her from under chairs and fables as she gloomed about. and Mrs. William Spelman, Mrs.

tredenc K. Middle-brook and Miss Cornelia Henshaw. I Robert J. Wicenden in Canada Mr. Wickenden writes that his exhibition of paintings, which are principally of Ottawa environs and other Canadian subjects, opened very successfully oh January 28th in Ontario, with practical results already, ''i We agree with him when he writes that: "Brooklynites must learn of the pleasure and advantage that lies in a personal interest towards the productions of its art workers, by acquiring as well as admiring them." CG.H.

But cheerio, she is well, and Spring is coming, and the cat crop- promises to be fine, so Keep Smelling, dogs I Yours truly, William Winkie. "The Roman Soldier Awakening to the. Defense of His Country," Mr. Montana's latest piece of sculpture, to be erected at Alcamo, Italy 1.