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Show : AMERiGAN PICTURES ! MMHS INDUSTRY Illustrations to Be Exhibited as Reminders of Struggle in Europe. ENGLISH QUAINTNESS SA 1 British Buildings Are Often Picturesque; German Factories Modern. . VoNDON, Jan. 27. Official sketches y- the great British munitions works have just been completed by Josoph Pennell, tho American artist. These ketchoe will shortly be exhibited in Franc and England and later in the , United States. Mr. Pen noil suggested to Lloyd George thiit there should bo some record rec-ord mado of the munitions industry, and the war minister (as he was then) greed with him. An Pennell was the originator of the idea, Lloyd Georgo askod him to undertake tho work on behalf of the government. Mr. Pennell etarted out on a toor of inspection of the DCTBonallv conducted order that had Already been taken by numerous French, English and neutral journalists. Ho was not satisfied, however, to do his work in this way, and insisted that he te allowed to wander at will through the great plant. After npsetting the entire munitions regulations, he got what he wanted and his sketches are i saturated with correct local color, which makes them extremely valuable to the government. (. English Works Feature. Speaking of his work Mr. Pennell fcaid: I have already done trroeh the same thing in Germany and America Ameri-ca before the war. But in Germany the factories are new and modern, the roofs are frequently of glass, and ono does not get the pietorially -picturesque masses of shadows that ar such a feature of the English works. Many of the British munitions muni-tions works are very old, smoke- grimod factories into which the necessary machinery for munition "niaking has been installed. Much of the old machinery has been left, but is not used; it stands, silent and ghostly, in dark corners. The smoko-blackened entrances to tho blast furnaces look like the openings to some huge inferno with Mephistophelinn figures, naked to the waist, dancing in the lurid glare. And the over-present smoke softens the whole, giving a wonderful won-derful atmosphere for my pictures. Some Are Picturesque. 8ome of tho factories with their high roofs and long windows, on which the grime of years has collected, col-lected, look like old cathedrals, the noise of ptoam hammors and clashing clash-ing machinery taking the place of the organ, the hum of countless belts answering like the subdued responses of the congregation. I saw in one place singe crane, the largest in England. I told the guide with me that surely I had seen that erano before. He assured roe it was impossible, that the crane had been erected only a short time before the war. But when I suggested sug-gested I had seen it in Hamburg, he admitted I was right. This huge crane was brought from Hamburg and is now nsed to hoist British gans onto railway trucks. |