Show Artist Returns R From Expedition To Asia With Canvases Party Spent Months in Captivity t I Cut Off From World Describes Stay By Dy HORTENSE SAUNDERS NEW NEY YORK NEA-Ater NEA After NEA-After After five years of ot adventure and hazard In InC C Central Asia artist art art- art art- 1st scientist j jand and ph philosopher ph er returns rt re re returns turns t to th new canvases tWo completed books and an understanding of tho amazIng Ing Ute life and culture of or perhaps the most mysterious and lt little known country In the th world One pf of the greatest res in contemporary art R aJr already ad h has s paintings to his credit and Is Is' represented in nearly all nl the famed tamed museums of ot t the tho world Next fall tan the new new skyscraper museum named t r him which now is be- be completed In N New w York Cf City Asiatic canvases canvases can can- Will hIS new v well of ot his older vases as a J as many hs ones VAn An n amazing mysterious s people people peo peo- pie these Tibetans he said They he have o been ben studying evolution for centuries sL Before BeCore America was vas discovered they were building skyscrapers skyscrapers sky skY- scrap scrapers r iri In Lhasa the Lhasa-the the Iss Is's is' is s seventeen v stories high and ver very I in architectural tural C Uon tion to what now Is going goig up Inthis inthIs In Inthis this country F FOUND DE DEIFIED fIED What surprised me rue most niost was was' that In In the the remote mount mountain ln re regions regions re- re re- re II gions Ios they know about President nt Hoover and have deified him I found an nn n 01 old picture of Ot r him enshrined en enshrined en- en edn In a a. home ole and the people ll They hey have ha e confused his name hame with which Is Is hs the nani name of r their god sad of happi- happi Sg ness l In these scattered mou mount t asp ke nests on on the sl sides es c r rocks ck he hO fo found nd a 3 people n not l unlike unlike- the American Indians In physical appearance who hO n ncr never cr had had seen an n airplane or on a tra tractor r or 01 n a radio but who knew all al about them were Interested In iri ini electricity ele trl iy andare and are aro searching for a n new hew type of ot p power identified ed they believe is shortly to be discovered ered The The Tibetan does does' hot not travel but hut In Professor h went on some OnH m mysterious way tho the world conies to him He says sa everything Is I written In his sacred books He HeIs 1 Is surprised and he QUN questions ques- ques tl n nothing He seems to to receive physically rs' rs I what the westerner tU must t mental and physical struggle Je How the the artist st tU dis dismissed dismissed dis- dis missed i gesture est re and a shrug of ot hi hl his shoulders He too J learned l ed ednot noL not to question but to a accept ept ORIENTAL TRAITS ARE HIS There Is Js an an oriental orIental calm and qui quietness qui quietness etness about the iho art artist artist t which made him hInt J less co conspicuously a S stranger er Y YIn In the the cast than a a typical go get ting A American might be Is a Russian b by birth and an n American Amer Amer- lean ican by adoption Then to too tod hi his son Who h is i- i an v expert expert and ard speaks Tibetan arid aiM Chinese accompanied ac ac- comp companied him hIm The he br pf barrer-pf r Ian lan language guage once removed Jt ft was easier t to get g t Int Into t tile the life me CC th people themselves Naturally the they thOy dislike and distrust strangers and arid make mak possible traveling as difficult for them is as Even wih the most favorable conditions con con- diton the tho trip was beset with dangel's dangers dan dan- gels gers and great great discomfort rt Fo For more than a a. year ear no word ord was heard from a the expedition and It I was feared it I was lost During DurIn this time they were were detained for tor six months In a summer tent in one of ot the loftiest and coldest plateaus plate ot of northern lotest Tibet at an an altitude of ot l feet et Ot Of the tha original caravan of ot camels 90 were lost lost- and 5 6 of ot the SO p people In the the tho party parly died from froni cx exposure PERILS ALWAYS AT HAND We k knew v c when hen we we- went to tobed d nt at night ho recalled whether t we could survive th the In- In cold or n not t. t We had little food and nd doled It out with the tho strictest economy The natives would give g us u's us nothing but occa occa- occasionally we e were Ju lucky ky eno enough gh toi to steal aw away y at night and bu buy a sheen orsome r som such animal They refused to allow us us to tog g get t tInto Into communication with the Ule outside Vod j world orld Finally FInaly we era were al allowed al- al J Jow lowed d to t to go on on ju Just t. t as n we a been stopped We er neer ne'er knew wh why In either case Mr sut suffered red s such ch hardship hard hardship ship at at this time she was notable notable not notable able to return but bit remained in In Indin In din cUn NO SERVANT PROBLEM I In all parts of ot tho the c cast st It surprised surprised sur sur- prized al t to find find- that t people abandoned fertile farms to live J e In p pol y in n larger Jar cities l Jes eIn certaIn ot Turkestan for for Cor instance part that many mapy are so 59 0 po ert stricken richer t folks lk i neVer hire servants servants- servants U that would be 0 foolish 0 1 c extravagance r For 2 23 or 30 30 about si 2 one can buy buya a L' L slave that will last last fOr a I lifetime with fair treatment Chil- Chil dr n sOil sell seU for for about S 12 25 Professor Ro rich first came to country In 1920 having n achieved his fame lm hi In Europe to conI condUct conduct con duct I ct an n exhibition of or his paintings s. s When he he- completed d hI hla 1111 tour It I was decided to to r found und the Ro mu mu- mu s scum un and and form 1 a permanent home for tor his collection It I is th the one e I t o world to be named for tor I a. a artist artst |