Show JINX ON TRAIL OF SCULPTOR EDSTROM Hard Luck Has Pursued Him From Boyhood I By LORRY A A. JACOBS I Newspaper Newspaper- Enterprise Association Staff Correspondent NEW EW YORK Nov 18 What What grim fate has been stalking David Edstrom preeminent American sculptor through his career And why lIe He was born in Sweden and came to America with his parents when he was 7 years 01 old 1 i Barely able to speak English he went I out on the streets of Ottumwa la Ia and sold newspapers Even then he as aspired aspired as- as 1 to become an artistI artist I Finally knowing that a ait at t centered I somewhere in Europe he quit his Job as an engine wiper in a factory and announced to his parents he ho was going to Europe Crazy said they GOES AS STOKER But Edstro m ent From New York ho secured a Job as a stoker on a steamer bound for a North Sea port Arriving at Copenhagen he presented himself at the Ro Royal Roal al Academy to find only a chosen few could enter there and only after two years of preparation at the Poly technical school Starving slaving and hardly sleeping he made mado his way through those two years and gained his victory entering the Royal Academy in a blaze of glory Living on the proceeds of his work as a super in the Royal Opera House 1 had his first real success when i he sold his first real piece Spring for 1000 II About this same time his wife suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly packed up anti and left lert London for Paris Pans MORE HARD LUCK I So Edstrom returned to Stockholm with his ears ringing with praise for tor his work but with an empty heart I Finally ho he came camo to America in 1915 only to find that America torn by the tho emotions emo erno- I of or war had no place for a tor and he could not secure a single commission being finally forced I to become become become be be- come a private tutor at Sewanee University university uni- uni in Tennessee Prom From there thero he I bas baa worked until he has duplicated fame in America that came to him in I I other places I Iother But still sWI mysterious things happen Returning recently to his New York I studio Edstrom found a piece of sculpture 1 I ture on v which he had worked for years I j Tho The Triumph of or Man 1 shattered to I pieces and not another piece in his I studio harmed Yet Edstrom declared red by many to I ho bo the successor of Augustus St St. Gaudens Gaudens Gaudens Gau- Gau GauI I dens says he must borrow money from his friends to continue his work and his wife is suing him for separation and anda a large sum of money although he declares he is practically penniless |