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SECTION SIX PAGE SIX THE PITTSBURGH SUNDAY POST. 'MARCH 20. 1927. FRANCES DELEHANTY'S PORTRAIT DRAWINGS 0 AUOTEflDRf BT MWTtni C. WORK.

Ta latenwtloaal AnthorttT ViW Awthm mt "AacUaa BHde Cvmpiaie" a Fourteenth Annual Salon of Art-Science Academy Opens at Institute Today Gillespie Gallery to Show Group of Portraits by Frances Delhanty; Exhibition Of Bronze Models of "The Pioneer Woman" to Be Hel Here in April. BT RKDD The photographic section of the Academy of Science and Art presents its fourteenth annual salon at the Carnegie Institute today. Abont 2o0 prints, representing 163 contributors, were selected out of the 1,200 submitted. The jury of selection included Richard T. Dooner of Philadelphia; Francis Orville Libby of Portland, and Charles K.

Archer, Samuel A. Martin and C. C. Reiter of Pittsburgh. The exhibition, which will continue through April 17.

will be reviewed later Th CarnerJe Institute announces) cuseth no the credulous tin-reading player la led to change about every six days, although the Code of 1920. lasted six years and the 1926 Code Is expected to remain unaltered for a longer period. The Bridge players of the country also may be divided into halves upon the question of scoring bonuses for the winning of games. When one Is playing rubbers, 250 is awarded as a bonus being awarded either side for winning the first game; In Duplicate and Progressive lt is impossible to play rubbers and as there can be no rubber bonus of 250125 Js allowed for game in one hand. It Is unfortunate that the rubber feature cannot be Incorporated Into Duplicate and Progres-rive, as robbers unquestionably add greatly to the attraction of Bridge play; but no one ever has suggested a feasible cleans of using' that feature in either of tbeee forms of play.

Using a 125 game-bonus In Duplicate and Progressive Is quite as It should be; but the remarkable thing Is that about half of the country use the bonus even when not playing Duplicate or Progressive (L when playing the single-table non-duplicate game) and lo not play rubbers. It will startle the half of the country that always has played rubbers to hear that the other half does not play them at all and it may equally startle the no-rubber half to know that then- game misses much of the charm and facl nation of Bridge. The rubber game has the additional advantage or permitting a sitifT-e-table game to be made up of five or six. Just as well as of four, players. When playing rubbers, opportunities constantly arise, for using keen skill in bidding because or the fact that the rubber gam Is worth much more than either of the others; and I am auite sure that those who writ to me asking "what Is a rubber" or why do people play rubbers when they can add 125 for game," wfll find that the rubber method is much the best for single-table play they once try it.

As a concluding word, I urge all bridge players to obtain a copy of the laws and to follow them. Should any-change be made In the 1926 code (nothing of the tort is now being considered), prompt announcement and explanation will be made In these articles. The old saying that "one half of tht world does not know how the other half lives might be f-araphrased for Bridge as follows: "One half the Bridge world does not know how the sther half plays Bridge." Living and playing in cne community or locality, a person Is apt to assume that every body everywhere plays according to the same laws; and each one is apt to take lt for granted that the customs and conventions with which he is familiar are the ones known and fol lowed wherever Bridge is In the United States there is and al ways has teen but one official code 01 Bridge Laws. Nevertheless, innumerable communities are using variations of that code which are pure localisms; nd are using them under the misapprehension that their idiosyncrasies are part of the laws of the game. In round figures, half of the Bridge players of the country use the code adopted by The Whist Club and would be utterly astounded If they heard of the customs and practices of the other half.

The "lawless" half do not seem to know of the existence of a formal cod. Their idea sems to be that Bridge practices and conventions rhange like styles and that a mysterious "They" decree when styles shall change. Half the letters I receive asking some ques- tion about Bridge laws begin with "They say that;" and then then will follow a "rule" about having a new deal when cne player has neither Ace nor face, or abont "reserved bids," or compusory fourth hand bids, or not being permitted to go game on the doubled value of tricks, or the elimination of all double etc. Apparently In some ca timunities any one with a little assurance of manner can put a new rule into effect wherever and whenever he or she chooses, by asset-tin (tor example) some such astounding and absurd statement as: "They now say that if all four players pass the first time, the dealer has another chance to bid that's the latest" or "the new law Is that the dummy must expose Its trumps before the first lead they all play that way or "they say that it Is unsportsmanlike to lead a or "They say vou cannot double imlesa you have four trumps" or something els equel- 1 Illegal and absurd. As a result 01 this ignorance of the law (which "ex- jrxo Marilyn Miller "Sunny" Marie Night Louis Metcalfe, the American authority on Mellan from whom Kenneth Seaver purchased the Mellan collection for the Carnegie Institute, writes of one interlude in Mellan's life which resulted In probably his greatest portrait, that of Fabri de Pelresc.

Mellan Journeyed to Aix in Provence in 1635 to visit de Peireac, a scholar and a collector. This visit was the beginning of his great fame France. Mellan ever disregards splendor of costume, and throughout the long list of his portraits one is Impressed with his passion to emphasize character. He never portrays people as social automatons. Mellan's engravings represent substantially the same group ef personages that do those of Nanteuil, only that Mellan depicted them in youth and NantuiL in maturity.

Mellan was not limited to portraits, but busied himself with illustrations for books which culminated In his appointment as illustrator of the fsditions being published by the Royal Printing Press at the Louvre. Metcalfe says that Mellan "exhibited such taste and versatility that was presented with an apartment In those famous galleries of the Louvre where In after year Colbert loxfeed the entire French school of engraving." In our opinion Mr. SJeaver has performed a great serviceytn Carnegie Institute In making available a group of the finest of French portrait engravings. THE CHARETTE. The sprightly Charette, published by the Pittsburgh Architectural Club, prints the followlng in the current number: "The pardon came too late This one was heard at the recent gathering of architects who were not going to get a Job that was about to be given out.

It was said that Harry Thaw strolled Into the new Paramount Theater in New York and looked about. As he departed he was heard to murmur. 1 am afraid I shot the wrong architect'." -THE PIONEER WOMAN." I- f-Vf miiiimnmajiNMMsaMSMiissiBaaOTsasMsaMsiBiiaMia V'CTQrilA TITU5 1 Kri MAA4TV1 fip I 1 iff rt" "i -a vV -C 1 I v- I A1AIN Taylor in hjmln" mmmty'-' JHsMilBBWa -sjgSliBMMrUJ rer v. Tfl -v. sag COUrTE5 VOO.l3 that the group of bronzes Interpreting The Pioneer Woman" recently shown at the Reinhardt gallery In New York will probably be exhibited In Pitta-bunch about mid-April.

The 12 bronzes modeled by as many prominent sculptor were commissioned by R. W. Mar land of Oklahoma. He plans to exhibit them in the important dtlaa, to afford the public an opportunity to vote for three aa the basia for the final selection. Mr.

Marland reserves the rlg-ht to choose the model from the three for the statue to be erected near the old pioneer trail in Oklahoma. Details of the exhibition are printed elsewhere in this column. FRANCES DELEHANTY. The Oinesple gallery will show a group of portraits by Frances Delehanty commencing tomorrow March 21. None of the pictures were available for study at the time this review was prepared.

A sheaf of press clippings concerning the same exhibition recently shown at the Ferajrll galleries In New York Indicate that the exhibition will attract those who like their "art" fashionable. "The New Yorker" summarises the exhibition as "distinguished portraits In a different manner." In the review Itself Miss Delehanty la said to have "met the new tempo of the time." "Her I medium exactly fits this age gracile, gay and beautiful." writes the same reviewer. Among the portraits of those known In the social and artistic worlds are: the Princess AchJTle Murat, and the Vrmeesa Matchabelll; John Anderson, dramatlo critic; John Gregory, the senlptor, and Jacques Dairy associated with "Vanity Fair." The foreword of the catalogue of Miss Delehanty New York exhibition states: "An early Interest in Oriental art taught her economy of expression and persuaded her to a love of flowing, rhythmic line, to an emphasis on beauty of pattern, to preferring. In short, what the Oriental sage called The slde-by-sideneas things. 7 CLAIDE MEM The print section of the department ff fine arts has received several gifts which distinguish the Carnegie Jnstl-tnte la the Held of the graphic arta.

Thee gift have been made by reason ef the work done by Edward Duff Ilaiken. who has secured permanent benefits to the Carnegie Institute without any spectacular display of personality. Among the significant contributions Is the collection of line engravings by Clande Mellan, presented to the Carnegie Institute by Kenneth Beaver and now being exhibited for the first tlrrwv One appreciates the Import of Mr. Fenver's gift as one recalls the various exhibitions of engraved portraits which Mr. Ralken has organized from time to time, for Mellan's work Is vital to a comprehension of the world of engraved portraiture.

In the matter of engraved portraiture, aa In other of the pictorial arts, the early Frenchmen acquired their' technical elements from their predecessors In Flanders and the Netherlands. Then they Inevitably seemed to receive the quickening Impulse that marked them as possessed of authentic talent, through sojourns Italy. The same facts are recorded In biography after biography in the history of French art. Mellan Is no exception to this tradition. In fact, the best of his work was accomplished In Italy.

Comparing Mellan with Nanteutl one is faced with a sharp contrast, probably explained In part by the fact that Mellan "lived." insofar as his triumph was concerned, in the period of Louis XIII, while Nanteull flourished in the resplendent reign of Louis XIV. Strangely enough, Mellan, the older man, s-jrvlved Nanteull; but Mellan was to all intents dead to the fashionable world seeking portraits long before he passed on. A FORGOTTEN MASTER. Mellan stayed dead to collectors as is proven by the sparse comment made upon him in histories and articles on the graphic arts. He seems to have been remembered but for a single technical stunt modeling a large head of Christ "by means of a single spiral line" in the "Sudariaum of Saint Veronica." shows the Imprint of the holy face.

Mellan, who was the source of the French school of engraving which persisted through the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, was almost totally disregarded by collectors. His rather austere technic does not Impress the hasty of eye as does the rteh one of Nanteull or of the engravers who devoted themselves to the reproduction of painted portraits, jsfenan made hi engravlnfs from his rm pencil portraits. Indeed, the engravings partake of the quality of the pencil. Mellan's skillful precision seems to Mnxo the path for the endlessly rKh variations of the same essential style later developed by Nanteull. Mel-tan had an orderly, direct method of working by which his followers fronted greatly.

He Introduced the device of the frame which became characteristic of the entire French school of engraving. Durer's use of a jleevratlve border probably rus-jreMed 't to Mellnn. Be that as It may. It became an integral part of almost every French engraving. The vogue for CUude Mellan's in a gallery of prelates, painters and various 11-hes of the French court- 3fow to lieep Wt By PR.

W. A. rVANS. (Oopyrtxht, 117. by Dr.

W. A. Kvwni) 4 4V PITT Phyllis Htm What Price Glory" VUw 'x i GRAND TVtxs Daniels "Kiea hi a Taxi" Him AUIiyR Gloria Hwanson "Ixvre of Sunyn" 111m A1JMNK "Love of Sonya" Film. "The Love of Sunya," the motion picture selected to open the new Boxy Theater, New York, will 1 shown in the Aldine the week beginning March 28. It Is the story of a Yogi who goes out Into the world to right a wrong be committed in his incarnation of centuries ago, and the struggle of a girl to decide between love, ambition and duty.

Sunya Is Played by Miss Swan son. The Xogl offers to draw aside the veil of the future and within a crystal shows Sunya what would happen if she followed her ambition, if ahe married, or remained at borne to support bex family. The Admiral's orchestra and the entertainers. Mills and Shea, will be sUge' attractions. LIBKKTY "Kiss In av Taxi" Film.

The next stage attraction in the Stanley-Rowland Clark Liberty will be the Maria MacQuarrie Harp Ensemble, the week of March 28. On the screen wIU be Bebe Daniels in "Kiaa in a ACADEStT fSUy Rockets." Frances Fair and her "Sky Rockets" will be the attraction next In the Academy. The company will present the review. "Follies and iVjllies." Harry Morris la the principal comic liuster Sanborn, Les Dunn, Bille Aldrich and ddle Lloyd are In the show. SILVER MASK TENOR in Sheridan Square.

A 7. I VP'S rf 1 7 -s. The Department of Fine Arta of Carnegie Institute has announced an exhibition 14 be held in April of twelve bronze models by prominent American sculptors tor a monument to the Pioneer Worn tn America. The monument to be made from one of these models will be erected In Oklahoma at a total cost of by E. W.

Marland. western oil magnate. The sculptors whose models win be sho-n arc: Bryan Baker. A. Stirling Calder.

Jo Davidson. James Karl Fraser, John Gregory, F. Lynn Jenkins. Mario Korbel, Arthur Lee, H. A.

Mac Neil. Maurice Sterne, Wheeler Williams and Mahonii Young. Thia is in the nature of a competition. The models will tour the country and at eaca place of exhibition ballots will be given the, visitors who are ask. ed to vote on the model of their choice.

Mr. Marland will have the final word, taking into consideration the opinion of the public. The models have been designed as sketches for a great monument 25 feet high to be erected on the famous Cher-okee strip near Ponca City, Okla, the last land opened to homesteaders by the United States Gcvernment. The sculptors, chosen about a year and a half ago, have received compensation for their -work, and no restrictions were made by Mr. Marland.

Each sculptor was given the same data in writing and to each was given specific information regarding costumes and character. This exhibition will be of particular interest to Pittsburgh as Mr. Marland, the donor of the monument, originally came from this city. OBESITY IN MODERN ART. Henry McBride in a long discussion cf the work of Gaston Lachaise, reports that he "has been curiously neglected." He ascribes this neglect to an "over-life-size Venus that proclaimed at once that a new genius had come to town" when Lachaise's first exhibition was given in New York eigrht years ago.

Says Mr. McBride of Lachaise: "It was his 'personal sense of beau ty' the thing above all others that a genius must have that held him back with ctrtain people. His Venus was fat. There was no getting away from the fact she was large. But not so incredibly monstrous that she would stand out in the history of art upon her dimensions alone.

There was nothing in her width and girth to frighten those with a knowledge cf classic art. She took her place naturally with Lorenzo dl Credi's women, with most of the women of the rtnaissance, with. In fact, the admired Venus de Milo. "Yet so anaemic Is modern taste, and so controlled by fashion, that were the Venus de Milo now be put forward as the work of some new man, there are millions who would see at once how ridiculous such a creture weald be in the garments of Callot Soeurs and would conclude her to be. In consequence, vulgar.

Nobility and the godl.ke qualities are not, it must be confessed, a la mode. Yet one great connoisseur and patron of the arts could make then so. It is a discoursing thought to thoee who would like to have the careers of men of talent made easier that the patron must be as great in spirit as the artist, in order to see it. It is La-chaise's traxedy that the connoisseur with vision equal to his own has not et appeared. CATHERINE Frances Delehanty arrives at the' Gillespie gallery tomorrow with an exhibition of portrait drawings which received a cordial presa at their re cent New York exhibit.

Miss Dele hanty has an impressive number of celebrities to her credit. Among the portraits to be shown are those of Victoria Titus, Catherine Pemberton, the Countess Loria-Melikolt and that of the Princess Matchabelli. TRDfl, Spanish dancing; beauty, in the Davis. The beautiful Spanish dancer, erst-while star of "The Dancing Girl" and at present a -feature on the Keith-Albce circuit, says she has discovered tiuit the American public likes familiar thinrrs with an original ticist. Trini cjplains by citing her exotic and btitrre costumes.

"The public knotrs me a a Fpanixh dnnecr. It arrets me to be Spanish. It iroull be dumppointed to thf point ot dUlike if pretended to be anything else. "fpain to the American public is by gorgeous shatcls, big ctmbs. castanets and tangoes.

Therefore, must eon'nrm to tradition and tomehoje incorporate these recognized iidicafions. thcre'ore, take all the props nnd Fife them tnme sort of an individual interpretation and all is am lok Spanish. create SpanUh nim'sphcre, and yet remain rryirlf." Trin( is accompanied by Ixui 'enrovr' Marimba. Qrrhcs'ra is asistd by Albto Gale and C. Bolt.

if SX- I I I i fElJKOFF prepare for one wardrobe; one week spent in the making of a single skirt; five hours for one flttiag. This gives some idea of the infinite care and pains that are spent on the gowns worn by Mae Murra. in a single production. "Valencia," Miss Murray's newest starring vehicle, to be shown this week in the Aldine, is an example- In this production Miss Murray wears no. less than 14 differ ent costumes, has as many changes of slippers and' as different headdresses.

Everything shoes, gowns, stockings, even jewelry was specially designed for the star. "The impressions I receive are mostly visual," says Miss Murray. "And so. even before a scenario Vs ready I be gin on my gowns, seeing each costume in my mind's eye as the story pro gresses. Thus as the story unfolds.

costume ideas unfold with it." Cuts Hair to Fit Part mi LOIS WILSON. We have all either heard of. or have seen the lovely looking leading lady who has played opposite so many stars and who has found her ascent in tho film firmament just a trifle bit difficult because of the mistaken idea that she is too good and sweet to be true. She is Lois Wilson and recently, in active revolt against the wave of titles given to the "goodest" girl in films, Lois went and did it. Tea, she bobbed her hair.

And it was done in the presence of the cast of "The Great Catsby." which is showing in the Regent this week. She done this to prove to her fellow workers that she could io this without shedding a tear. She was told that the script called for a ultra-modern girl with short and clipped hair, bo Lois said okay. A- (y 1 DAVIS Be SamaeU VnodeviUe OAYETY KdMh 8fencer "Karin' to Go" NEXON Marilyn MUler, "Sonny." Marilyn Miller. Americi's musical (bow rweetheart, will come to the Nixon the week of March 28 in "Smuiy." Charles Dilling ham started "Sonny" in New York 15 months ago and Miss Miller has been appearing in It at the New Amsterdam all the time.

It Is the story of a circus girl in England who becomes a stowaway on the ship that Is bringing her sweeyieart, an American boy. back to the Tnited States. In order to land in America it Is necessary for Sunny to go through a form of marriage ceremony with some one else, and after getting a divorce, marry her real sweetheart. The music is by Jerome Kern and the book by Otto Harbach and Oscar Bammerstein 2d. Sunny" was staged by Hansard Short.

In the cast is Jack Dononue, whose unique dancing won him popularity; the tall and angular dancer, Clifton Webb; Frank Doane, Miriam Crosby, Pert Kelton, William Valentine, Elsa Peterson, Esther Howard. Miss Linda, Louis Harrison, George Olsen's band and 100 others. AI.VTN "A Night In Spain." The rerlew. "A Night in Spain," the latest Winter Garden production. Is announced for the Alrin beginning March 28.

This snow has the celebrated Gertrude Hoffman girls and the famous Poster girls. The book is by Harold Atteridge. the lyrics by Al Byran and the music by Jean Schwarts. The company includes Georgie Price. Morris Harrey, La Mart, Tripolltoff lad RmlrnOTa, Grace Bowman, Jimmy Trainer, Pilar Laredo, Bel by Galloway, Ted and Betty Healy, Grace Hayes, Walter Johnson, Rhea Mason.

Bits Montaner, George Trainer, Fanay Todd Mitchell, the Randnlla quartet, Kathryn Ray, Helba Huara, LMo Ralne. Toto Coral. Bert Gardner, Rhemp Howard, Helen Kane and beauty chorus. DAVP VamdeHlle. Rae Samuels, "the blue streak of vaudeville," is coming to the Paris the week of March 28 to head the six Keiui-Albee attraction which will share the continuous with a screen program, the feature of which will be nnitcnuis in.

1 Plant and James Ktrkwood. A. Robins, the one-man music store from "Step, Step, Stent." a dance review; Senna and Iean, song comics: Phil and Eddie Rose. Jesters: Ramsey's Performing Canaries are other vaudeville attractions. GAYKTY "lUrin1 t.

Go." The big double show, "Rartn1 to Go." containing a company of T5, with one section consisting of colored entertainers, will be in the Gayety the week of March 2. The two shows in one wUl have 36 scenes. The aol-emnfaced comic, Frank Harconrt, Is the laturh ace. In the colored second part Jimmie rer-guson. star of "Inxie to Tim and Gertie Moore and Fred Johnson are the life of the party.

There win be a double chorus 25 peaches" for the nrst bslf and that many chocolate belles for the colored part. 4 MW Kiss la Tnxf" Film. "A Km ib a Taxi." starring Bebe Itaniels, will be the feature picture In the Grand starting March 28. Mian InleU Is shown as a French bar-maid who get Into complications with society. An elaborate musical production sa tha stage wUl supplement the picture I NIGHT URINATION.

F. T. T. writes: Kindly discuss night urination. Can it be controlled? Night urination is a symptom which always calls for in -estigation.

Ordinarily there Is ampie room in the urine sac for all the urine which the kidneys in the eight hours of sleep. When morning comes C10 sac is full, but not uncomfortably f. There are those who say the size of the sac and its ability to comfortably hold as much urine as the kidneys secrete in eight sleeping hours is one of the facts which has established the custom of sleeping that many hours. These people say the human body does not require just that amount of sleep. There are about two hours of deep sleep and then comes a period of shallow sleep and partial rest, which might last four hours, or six it does not greatly matter which.

Since it does not matter particularly man has ws tablished the habit of just sleeping on until the sac begins to ke -uncomfortable; then the fringe of discomfort causes waking. This has established the eight-hour sleeping custom. But there are various disorders which may interfere with the continuance of comfort during this eight hours of sleep. Since some of these are very important and some quite important, when the symptom is present, investigation is in order. In some children night urination is a sympton of epilespsy.

In others it means nothing more than worms. Blanton says one cause is organic difficulty, another is failure In training, and a third, some emotional instability. His advice is that a close study be made of the body, mind and habits. in order to discover the meaning of nifrht urination in children. If the meaning is discovered the remedy usually suggests itself.

Night urination in adults may have any one of several meanings: Men have it because they have enlarged prostate glands which make it impossible to completely empty the sac. Therefore, when they urinate at bed- time they only half empty the sac and that means night urination with-; in a few hours after going to sleep. Women have some trouble in com-i pletely emptying the sac, but not as often as men do. Night urination may be a result of excessive secretion of urine which characterizes diabetes. The urine is separated by the kidneys from the blood.

When it is first secreted it is as light as the blood serum from which it came. The nut job the kidney has is to concentrate this light fluid to the consistency of urine. In Bright's, the diseased kidney is not fully equal to the job of concen trating the urine. In consequence the quantity secreted in eight hours of sleep is beyond the capacity of the storing sac. Night urination results.

Therefore, the sign may mean Bright's disease. It may mean high blood pres sure. It may mean cystitis, or an infected sac. It may be due to drinking too much coffee, or too much liquor or beer. It may be due to excitement.

particularly excitement after supper. It may be due to too little cover. The point is night urination is merely a symptom. It calls for investigation. Some cases are cured by cutting out coffee.

Some, by quiet evenings. In some, serious organic disease is at the bottom of the svmptom. APPLES NOT FATTENING. D. D.

writes: 1. Are three apples a day fattening? 2. Is coffee fattening? 3. I drink eight to 12 ctrps of coffee a day. Is this a harmful habit? REPLY.

1. No. I assume you eat apples in place of more substantial foods. 2. No.

3. You bet. Designs Her Own Gowns MAE MURRAY. Three weeks of constant -work to.