Show WHO'S c v NEWS 1 THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON YORK In YORK In more than four NEW decades Louis M. M made mad paintings and und drawings and never made mode a cent out ol of them Now three big t A ii t L i f I All V C. C amt Cries inanity y r gB gi giPe t Painter at as Go Id exhibitions of his bis work One Garlands Garland Arrive gallery Is ls reported re re- reported ported to have sold worth of his paintings All his canvases are in demand at nt high prices But Dut Mr an Irascible ble little man maa with a ragged beard and a testy way of speak speak- speaking speaking ing Is bedridden In is his gloomy old house In East Enst Fifty Fifty- seventh street and he be asks the time good of the whole damn thing lies He's 75 years old lie He warned the world many times that It II was going hell for leather down the skids and now he thinks Its It's on the last stretch of at the greased chute and noth nothing ing lug Ingelse else matters not matters not even mon money moncy ey cy and fame tame The late Ralph Blakelock lost his mind after utter years of failure to stir critical or popular interest In his work He lie was hailed as us a great painter and und his pictures were bought by great grent galleries when he heno heno heno no longer knew or cared about money or recognition There is an m Inter inter- Interesting interesting I esting parallel between his career and that of Mr nl although the latter is still bright and und smart as a chipmunk nut But he wont won't even look out of his bis narrow bedroom window He lie wants no outlook on a world turning turnIng- Itself Into lato a madhouse Pictures on the floor covered with dust and aad cobwebs may Inay be worth a fortune pictures of oC moods mood dreams and memories but that doesn't interest him lie had renounced the pomps i and vanities of oC this wicked world long before beCore It beat a path to Ills his door The parallel between Blakelock I and is also marked bythe by bythe byllie the llie amazing diversity of at their tal awaa Blakelock the in son of a clan clon was trained trained in medicine gifted g ln In music mil nn and nt t. t i L n A Bets Bests Blakelock an a almost made s a aIn aIn In Diversity of 01 career of the piano and mu ran Achievements AchIevement sisal compol tion has composed a small library of songs operas and etudes and used to give piano plana con can concerts cents in his youth He painted fe fe- feverishly feverishly feverishly for 40 46 years quitting In 1022 when none would buy his pictures and no galleries hang them hem But Dut In his varied abilities he far out out- outshone outshone shone Blakelock Here lIere are a few of his achievements When he was a n student at Cornell university he discovered a new species species cies Iles of ichneumon fly Later be he an an- announced announced a new law low governing the ramification of trees He lIe wrote somewhat more than 50 volumes of plays novels novelettes essays and verse The verse By By- In tone was written in Eng Eng- English English lish French German Italian and Spanish He published them himself him self and like his pictures they gath gah- gathered ered only on cobwebs and dust He lIe Invented a B new kind of ot rang mag magic ic indelible ink and several studio devices for artists He explored various diseases and offered alTered methods of therapy He lIe was born In Laurel Hill HID N. N J. J J near Newark the son of a wealthy glove manufacturer lIe He attended Cornell two years and was a room room- roommate roommate mate of Robert nobert W W. W Chambers in Paris when they were studying art under His Is a book blue family CornU of Dutch Butch antecedents and his bis name is there Inscribed but that Inter inter- Interests interests ests him no rte more than llian the hang bane Lag bag of his pictures in the Metro Metro- Metropolitan Metropolitan politan the Uie Luxembourg and the Whitney galleries TN ins HIS book Dynamite Louis IN A Adamie Adamle says gays the he Los Angeles Angele Times explosion of 1910 1310 forever ended end end- ended ed Id militancy in the American labor lacor movement In Times Explosion Erp I. I oon that year Sum Slim Put an End to uel Gompers Corners and ink Fr-ink Labor Militancy Morrison were ere sentenced to prison term terms on charges growing gro out of the Buck stove case This was lost 1 Ir the shuttle shuffle with the dynamiting excite excite- excitement excitement ment The terms were never ever served Thereafter neither Gompers nor Morrison was militant currently Mr Morrison the highly esteemed treasurer secretary and ond conserva conservative live tive elder cIder statesman of th tb the A. A F. F F of L. L retire from office after r 43 years in that post flOSt He will be f to years old next month A native of Fr Ont Oat he isa is isa isa a doctor of at laws of LaK Lal-e Lai C Forest uni He entered law practice but turned to the llie printing prints trade and became a member c U the Typographical ical union lon In to 1873 He Ite is member a of Or the the ex utie council of oC the llie Churches of 1 t 1 In America Ameri feature Serviced Service t |