Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 116, 26 March 1921 — Page 15
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1921
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THE JUNIOR RICHMOND PALLADIUM i HAS FIFTEEN PETS
The Junior Palladium is the children's bection of the Rhmond ! P1 Indium nnnlfA Ufav R 191G Qnrl IkvIpiI parli Rntiitvlnv aftemnnn I
All boys and girls are invited to bo reporters and contributes. News items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poems are acceptable and will bo pablished. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's nami? --4Dj age signed. Aunt Polly is always glad to meet the children personaUy Jl" tS?y bjla lhelr arliclos to The Palladium office, or to receive letters addressed to UlO 3Ktdor Editor. This is your little newspaper, aud we hope each boy and girl win us V. through!.
AUNT POLLY'S LETTER
Good Evening, Junior Friends: I am so pleased and happy tonight I am going to write to you and tell you some of the things that please me. First 1 am glad for the idea that Easter brings to mind, a new life and a raised or finer life as a possibility for us all and as a present
joy made sure by that first resurrection morning. I am glad, too, that always there are seekers after beauty. Galahads wit! the finding of perfect beauty as their quest, and
some of these seekers, after they have traveled quite a distance, are willing and happy to turn back and tell us about the beauty they have found. Some of these travellers arc the members of the New York Philharmonic orchestra which by some unusual good fortune is to play in Richmond April 1 and that isn't an April Fool joke either, it's the real truth. Another thing that makes me happy is to know that you do not have to wait until you're grown up to be a traveler on this highway, but can start just the very eariiest minute you wish to. You will agree with me, if you do not right now, after you have been to the Junior Art Exhibit, and see what beauty of line and color and harmony of design are shown to us by these juniors who have set foot on the broad highway 'that leads through innumerable and charming ways to the fairy palat e where it is believed perfect beauty lies. Beauty in sound, in color, in fragrance all beauty seems to draw us toward itself. When we hear and kuow one beautiful combination of tones in music, we wish to hear more and then more again and it is that way with painting and all that we call art in the broad use of the word. Perhaps you do not understand all this; perhaps in my search after beauty I have strayed from the road and gotten tangled in some thistle bushes but nver mind, then, forget this letter but keep your eyes open and vour ears-for all the beauty you can see and hear and feel begin tonight. AUNT POLLY.
New r.-.rlR. O., Feb. 22. 1921.
Dear Aunt Polly: I never wrote
a letter to the Juniors in my life. My aister wrote one and so I am going to try it. I am going to write about my pets. My Pets. I have 15 pets. I have 11 rabbits. Three cats and a dog. I can let my dog and cats in with the rabbits and they will not hurt them. "Fih? cats names are Tommy, Spot and Pnssy. . tiy gs name is Orla. I have one black raut?:t fiad a white one and nine Belgian hares, I like my pets very well. The best pet I had died Friday. Her name was Whiter. She was white. I don't think I will get to keep my rabbits very long. Thomas Bradshaw, 5th grade, Friendship school. Dear Thomas: So many pets! Isn't that snlendid! I am so sorry
ir! about Whitey, though. It is so that i hard to have a favorite pet die.
Write us aaaiu sometime. Aunt Polly.
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HOW I ENTERTAINED THE I CHILDREN AFTER LUNCH I We went into Miss Dickinson's i room. (It's the kindergarten).
When we went in we took small chairs and arranged them in a circle and I sat on a bench in front of them.
I read to them a story from "Old Mother West Wind, When" stories. The chapter I read to them was, "Why Jimmy Skunk never Hurries." They all seemed to like it, because they were very quiet, only when some got restless, they would change chairs with someone else and be very noisy and I would have to stop reading until they got settled again. Alma Jack, Joseph Moore school, 6B grade.
FIRST JUNIOR ART EXHIBIT TO OPEN C'JNDAY UNIQUE
Walter Johnson, Mervine Loper, Mina Emily Miller, Florine Mitchell, Martha Osborne, Elmer Porter, Russell Richardson, Carl Rogers, Hazel Sarver, Bernice Simnson.
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THE REASON WHY We go to Baxter every Thursday. We go at recess and take our boxes with our things that we need. When we get over there we go
down in the basement. There were
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Miss Pamela Bianco and some of her amazing work. This fourteen-year-old artist, who bat come here with !6? of bei drawings, has never taken a lesson in her art. In spite ot this fact there has been a rapid development of her talent and a steady ripening of her art. Her drawings, mainly pen and ink sketches, will be seen at the Anderson galleries. New York city. Pamela is of Italian-American parentage. Her mother is Margery Williams of Philadelphia, who trained prominence as a novelist a', the age of eighteen, tier father fought for Italy during the war. The Bianco home is in Turin, Italy, and here some of her most effective work has been done. Copies of bet drawings are to be found at the South Kensington museum, the Tate gallery. lr.don. and the National gallery in Ireland, at well aa aroonp
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Myron Wender. Mary Wesler. Eu- ranking vrv much hncaiiae we ereti he possessions of many prominent persons abroad.
Sundav afternoon, March 27, at 2 o'clock in the public art gallery the first junior art exhibit ever held in Richmond will be opened to the
public. An
be given.
gene Wicket t, Lewis Wilson, Fran
cis wissier, Jacob Woiiey, Richard Zeigler.
informal program will
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a school exhibit but after the Hame manner as the senior art exhibits. A committee of artists being chosen to pass on all the work sent in, accepting or rejecting them on their artistic value. Thirty-seven junior artists have work on exhibit in the gallery and there are 101 entries accepted representing work in oils (a surprising amount of pictures in this medium), water colors, pastels, crayon, pencil, pen and ink, tiles
and wood carving. Most of the i
work was completed outside of school. Special mention should be made of the work of Northrop Elmer which shows imagination and decorative quality. His paintings are unusually large in size, and of Edwin Taggart who secures a particularly rich color. His drawing of a gypsy head is especially good. The pastels by Elmer Porter are nicely drawn and show a nice harmony of color. 1 Work exhibited by Richard Zieg-, ler has received very favorable! comment from the committee in
charge. The portraits of his little sister, Esther, are very fine in respect to drawing and are said to be excellent likenesses. The sketches of outdoor subjects by Marston Hodgin are very nice, the trees being especially well painted. A sketch of the Main street bridge by Lory Brown is interesting. Work exhibited by grade school pupils includes some very nice pencil work, and a few water colors. The executive . committee in
charge of the exhibit is composed of Elmer Porter, chairman; Edwin Taggart, Mina Emily Miller, Northrop Elmer and the faculty members of the school art department. The exhibit will last two weeks. Juniors who have work hanging in this exhibit are: Byron Bond, Lorey -Brown. Maxine Coblentz, Lawrence Daily, Northrop Elmer, Tracy Evans. John Evans, Tony Oalli, Emory Guerring, Madge Harris, Beverley Harter. Roy Hoffman, Marston Hodgin, Iiouise Krone,
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MARCH SKY. The sky is blue, Pussy-willows come, too; The sun doth shine And the air is fine. The flowers have come; We hear the bees hum, Hear the birds sing As they fly on the wing. Lawrence Porter, Fifth Grade, College Hill School.
Other Arts Besides Painting. auctions ot 1'ameias pictures, In a She is accompanied by her big de luxe volume, father, Francesco Bianco, himself1 T1,e child's pictures were bought something of an art expert and an y the South Kensington museum, authority on fine bookbinding a (ne Tat gallery and other Importvery much Anglicized Italian, whoant art institutions. Rich collect-
speaks English with the authentic ' ors competed lor them. Royalty accent of Pall Mall. They will went to see them and bestowed
soon
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be joined by Pamela's mother, ! compliments on the embarrassed is English and who writes ("'Pamela. Famous authors like John
Easter
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a joyful time, with its merry
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found After Easter's been around.
I should like to see this bunny Who at every year Brings us sweets and Easter tidings With a word of cheer.
novels. Mr. Bianco explained that
they were careful to defend Pamela's sturdy juvenility against
the undermining influence of fame, adulation and prematurely flowering genius. "Pamela," he said, "what else do you do well besides making pictures and eating ice cream?" "Sweeping," answered Pamela, with a grin, "and dusting and makine beds and washinc rlothes and
onnlrtnir and la vine thA thl and" 1 do not know how
It became a litanv of household Phenomenon.
and gardening tasks, with a happy little laugh after each Rem. Some of the jokes between her and her father relate to the period of the war, when he, then an officer In
j the Italian army, paid infrequent I visits to his family in Turin. ! Thn rtpnri vatinns at thA war
period, sometimes amounting to famine, are reflected inversely in drawings made by Pamela at that period, especially one, "The Tea Party," in whicli a number of chil
dren are gathered around a feast
Including every size, shape and
species she could recall from the
period of plenty before the war.
, There are many fairies in her
earlier drawings, and Pamela says
that she used to see fairies when she was little, but has not seen any for a long time. She began tb draw as soon as he discovered that a pencil would make marks on paper, and her drawings from the age of seven are included" in collections that have astonished the art connoisseurs of Europe.
Book of Poems on Her Works. It is only since the war that she has taken to painting, chiefly still life studies. One of-a cauliflower and some onions excited such admiration that two members of the Royal Academy in England, William Nicholson and Sir John Lavery, bought it simultaneously, and then had to draw lots for it. The English poet, Walter de la Mare, fell in love so with Pamela's drawings of girls, gardens, fairies butterflies flowers, guinea pigs, rabbits, queens, Babes in the Wood, Bluebeards, cats' and many other things, that he composed poems to a number of them, and a publisher brought out his poems, with repro-
Galsworthy, wrote long letters to
her. Academicians treated her as a chum. William Nicholson, R.A., made a caricature of her, and she made one of him. Mrs. Payne Whitney, of New York, was one of the American collectors to add some of Pamela's work to her store of art treasures. Artists approach Pamela's work, not as that of an extraordinary child, but as that of a master. They
to explain the
QUESTION FOR DEBATE Resolved: That all public schools should be placed under the federal government with a secretary of edu-' cation on a par with other cabinet officers.
TURTLE JOINS STARR'S MERRY COMPANY A nice brown turtle of medium size is now living in an especially built home of earth and water in the nature study room at Stanschool. It seems very well satisfied with its new residence and: probably feels happy because the children are so delighted to see him there. There are some pear blossoms blooming in the nature room too, which it is 'hoped will arouse the lazy tadpoles with the announcement that spring is really here, into completing their natural evolution by becoming frogs.
BUNNIES WILL PLAY
Cambridge City, Ind.
March 19, 1921. Dear Aunt Polly: I live in Cambridge City and air ten years old. New Years Day I was in the hos pital for appendicitis. Here is a poem for Easter whicl I made up: It will soon be Easter time. And the bells will sweetly chime; Bunnies will come out to play, On the glorious Easter Day. Lorraine Petty.