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Show A YOUSG COAST SCULPTRESS. Awarded the First Prize In a World's Fair Competition. Chicago, Dec. 5. Miss Alice Rideout of San Franeisce was yesterday awarded the lirst prize in the competition of woman sculptors for the attic and cornice of the women's World's fair building. The reward carries with it a contract for the execution of full-sized models of the groups at a prtee from $1500 to 2500 for the divans and from $-2000 to f32UO for the great forty-foot panel The successful competitor is not yet out of her teens. She has made modeling and sculpture a study from childhood. Three groups of figures represent respectively "Womens Virtues," "Woman as the Spirit of Civilization'' and "Woman's Place in History." Miss Hideout has already done some noteworthy note-worthy work. Her last success is the more remarkable that a number of older and more experienced sculptors were among her competitors, com-petitors, but her designs were far in advance of all others. |