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Variety of Shows vo End Art Month Dead Yesterdays Point to Live Tomorro ws BY HELEN the artists are Moronobu, Hokusal, Hlroshigl and Utamaro. Portrait Show TETROIT men and women of achievement are the subjects rpHIS week will be a busy one for Michigan artists, preparing for the final week of Michigan Art Month, of which John D. Morse, of the Detroit Institute of Arts, is chairman. There will be art exhibits In Detroit and throughout the state, including local arts and crafts displays in Upper Peninsula communities. In Detroit there will be a show of design and craftsmanship by Michigan workers at the Institute, supplementing the Michigan Artists Exhibition, At the Scarab Club popular-priced pictures will be on display.

The Society of Arts and Crafts ART wiU have a staif show; work of Michigan portrait painters will be of 18 portraits and additional portrait sketches by Iris Andrews Miller in the one-man show opening at the Women's City Club Monday, under the auspices of the club's art committee, Florence Davies, chairman. Among the portraits loaned by their owners are those of Harry C. Bulkley, Mrs. John Detwiler, Mrs. Robert Kales, John Robert Bryant and Mrs.

George Adams Snvder. Mrs. Miller's portrait of her grandmother, Mrs. Samuel Andrews, also Included, has been exhibited at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at a Michigan Artists exhibition some years ago, where it took the Frank Scott Clark prize. In the 1910 Michigan Artists Exhibition now at the Institute Mrs.

Miller is represented by a portrait of Judge Arthur Webster. "Space-Stage" WALT SPECK and Edgar Yae-ger, Detroit artists, have turned their hands to a collaboration in scenic design for the pro I I exhibited at the John Hanna Gallery, and other special shows will be open at the Detroit Artists' Market, Cranbrook and other centers. C. BOWER 1 Meanwhile the political scene changed. The peasants had a simple devotion for King Ludwig, mad though they knew him to be.

After his death and the rise of Prusslanism came the imperialism of the Kaiser, WUhelm H. In the second half of the book, which relates Graf's experiences after he Cut away from the family pattern and became a writer, there is the eye-witness story of post-war Germany, the rise of Hitler and Graf's escape to Vienna. The book ends when Graf has word of his mother's death. TRENT'S book begins with the desire of his wife and himself to settle on a farm which, eventually, they found in the Adirondacks. But "Asgaard," which means "farm of the gods," is as often as not merely a point of departure, or a focal point for Kent's fight with a railroad to restore service on a branch line and his fight on behalf of the local taxpayers' association against mismanagement of county finances.

Kent has something vital to say in this section about the obsolete township system in American politics. Throughout this is the story of an "embattled farmer," whether he Is crusading for strikers at a Vermont marble quarry, getting himself involved in a controversy over the message in Eskimo to the people of Puerto Rico on a mural commissioned by the Treasury Department or getting Involved in Brazilian politics. Kent; is one of those who. thinks it can happen here, and knows how it can. Charged by a Dies Investigator with being a communist, he lists some of his affiliations and the things to which they are subversive: underpayment and exploitation of artists as workers, injustice, Fascism, racial intolerance and race suicide, as "father, father-in-law, grandfather of seventeen." But Kent's belief, "until happiness and peace return to earth," is gone.

He believes neither in the words of rulers or presidents anywhere, including the supervisor of the township of Jay; nor in pacts and treaties; nor "in force of arms or ownership called anything you like," nor In "our pretensions of love" for the peoples to the south of us. TV7HERE Kent quotes, generally In full, his own documents of protest, Cloete quotes from the Bible, especially from the Sermon on the Mount He faces all possibilities, including German victory. Artists and craftsmen are re minded that Tuesday is the last day for submitting paintings for the Scarab Club exhibit, and crafts for the Institute show. Material for both should be brought to the Institute shipping room, where rVAS news last week when Joseph P. Kennedy, hassador t0 the Court of St, James's, the existence of an undercurrent of feeling in 2 iiand which he caIled 016 "stron upsurge from ft was new because a man of Kennedy's tion put Into words a recognition of something P09' by no means confined to Britain.

Whoever IK otherwise is blind to the signs of our time, some of the signs are in the new books. Through 6 of these it ia possible to trace their evolution Br in the last century. Two of them emphasize the restiveness which lles DcIw tne Burface of the ROCylw moment, a sense that men who stand for liberty and justice, who are men of goodwill, must take a stand against those forces which threaten are "The Life of My Mother" (Howell, onskin Co j), by Oskar Maria Graf, a Bavarian of peasant stock, now an exile in the United Sr "This Is My Own" (Duell, Sloan Pearce), hv Rockwell Kent, American artist and writer; and Yesterday Is Dead" (Smith Durrell, by uart Cloete, English novelist and World War teran. Kent's Is illustrated by eight full-page drawings and others by the author. Graf's biographical novel gives the European background from which so many broke away to come to America.

Kent's autobiographical narrative is the expression of a native American's complete dLiUusionment. Cloete's volume of analysis is one of pessimism and faith: "If eighty million people can be educated into a fanatical belief In National Socialism, other millions can be educated into a belief in true democracy; into a belief in the rights of man, into self and mutual respect. But it reauires faith, and belief in the sanctity of human life and endeavor. It must divorce the pursuit of happiness from its material contexts." GRAF'S 583 pages stretch into a big canvas as full of color and lusty vigor as a painting by Breughel Here is the conditioning that in the past led the arrogant to think of the peasantry as "dumb cattle." It Is a story of peasant simplicity, crude-ress, who "get Jnto trouble" and young men who serve their time In the army, sometimes returning as martinets. His mother was the daughter of a peasant farmer, his father one of the young veterans of 1870 who, after a period of comparative wildness and adjustment, settled down in the Bavarian village as a baker and lifted his family out of poverty.

One of Graf's aunts, emigrating to America after her marriage, learned that when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he lived in a house in Philadelphia belonging to a bricklayer named Graff. "We Grafs are already a very old American family," she wrote home, though she ran a boarding house in Seattle and her husband worked in a mine. Frau Graf was a pious Catholic, a passive woman (oon worn by child-bearing; accepting toil as her lot in life, making no effort to ease her own existence with the rise of her husband's fortunes. juries win be at work. At the Jewish Community Cen ter, Woodward and Holbrook, For Man, Woman or Child, Young and Old, Hudson's Book Shop Presents This Magnificent Array of Literary Gems for Thoughtful Christmas giving.

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IV," which the Workshop Civic Players of the Wayne University Theater will present the evenings THE six artists are William of Nov. 22 and 23 in the Detroit Institute of Arts auditorium under the direction of Richard R. Dun A Schwartz, who has had one man shows in Chicago and has ham. The "space-stage'r Idea In stage exhibited in Detroit in the past 22 settings Involves the use of a set years; Marco Zlm, whose work is on permanent exhibition at the for the center portion or the stage only. Chicago Art Institute; William NON-FICTION FICTION He cannot, and does not attempt to, come to Auerbach-Levy, noted for his conclusions.

etchings, who is represented in the Yaeger and Speck both studied at the Wicker School of Fine Arts in Detroit, and in Europe. In Detroit Institute of Arts perma' "If it has been possible by advertising to frighten the nation of its own smell, the smell of its breath and its body, it should be possible to frighten it nent collections, among others; A. 1932 Yaeger won the Anna Scripps Whitcomb traveling scholarship Raymond Katz, who decorated the Palestine Pavilion at the World's AP, THE STORY OF THE NEWS Oliver OramUng. The fast-moving, action-filled narrative of the rise of the Associated Press from pigeon post to telegraph and $3.50 THE FACE IS FAMILIAR Ogden Nash. The first and only collection of the best of Ogden Nash's poetry.

Nimble and naughty, lyric and laughing. $2.75 into the consciousness of its more vital necessities the defense of its liberties and the reorganization of and the Founders Society prize at the Michigan Artists show. In Fair; Frank Horowitz, who will its spirit," he says. display paintings recently done in 1933 Speck won the Scarab Club American war Industries acknowledge Palestine, and Isaac Lichtensteln, a first-time exhibitor in Detroit, themselves handicapped by German control of gold medal for his painting In the Michigan Artists show of that year. In this year's Michigan patents and the country sleeps.

The Achilles' heel who will show scenes from village life in Europe. Artists exhibition Specks rme or America is Dusiness. in ner desire to make a deal, without considering the result, America has sold a man as big as herself the stick with which ceramic, "Buffalo Resting," was awarded the only cash prize in Japanese Prints sne will be belabored." THE DOCTOR AND HIS PATIENTS Arthur E. Ilertzler, M. D.

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