Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON N NEW EW YORK In In more than four decades Louis Louis M. M made paintings and drawings and never made a cent out of them A PP j ft Now three big iLL i-iLL All V Vanity amt y C. C Cries rles galleries galleries give Painter as Gold Goldt exhibitions of his work One Garlands Arrive gallery Is 3 rc re ported to have sold worth of his paintings All his canvases are arc in demand at high prices But Mr 11 an irascible Irascible ble little man with a ragged beard and a testy way of speakInG speakIng speaking speak speak- ing is bedridden in his gloomy old house In East Fifty- Fifty seventh street and he be asks the good of the whole damn thing hing lies lie's 75 years old He Be warned the world many times that it was going hell for leather down the skids and now he thinks Its It's on the the last stretch of the greased chute and nothIng nothing noth noth- ing else matters not matters not even money money money mon mon- ey and fame I IThe The late Ralph Blakelock lost his I mind after years of failure to stir critical or popular interest in his I work He was hailed as a great painter and his pictures were bought by great galleries when he heno heno heno no longer knew or cared about money or recognition There is an interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting parallel between his his' career and that of Mr although the latter is still bright and smart I as a chipmunk But he wont won't even look out of his narrow bedroom window He wants no outlook on a world turning itself into a madhouse Pictures on the floor covered with dust and cobwebs may be worth a fortune pictures of moods dreams and aud memories but that doesn't interest h him m He had renounced the pomps and vanities of ot this wicked world long before it beat a path to his door The V parallel between Blakelock and is also marked by bythe bythe bythe the amazing diversity of their tal tal- tal- tal Blak Blakelock lock the son of a physIcian physician cian was tr trained in medicine gifted in ta mUsic and Bests D Blakelock Of I. I I t almost made a aIn aIn aIn In Diversity of career of at the piano and mu mu- Achievements tion has composed a small library o of songs operas and etudes and used to give pi piano c concerts con concerts con con- n- n in his youth He painted feverishly feverishly fe Ic for or 46 years quitting in 1922 when none would buy his pictures and no galleries h hang them But in his varied abilities he ho far outshone outshone outshone out out- shone Blakelock Here are a few of his achievements When he was a student at Cornell university he discovered a new species cies des of ichneumon fly Later he announced announced an an- a new law governing the ramification of trees He wrote somewhat more than 50 volumes of plays novels novelettes essays and verse The verse Byronic Byronic By By- in tone was written in English English English Eng Eng- lish French German Italian and Spanish He published them himself him him- sell self and like his pictures they gathered gathered gath gath- ered only cobwebs and dust He invented a new kind of magIc magic magic mag ic indelible ink and several studio devices for artists He explored various diseases and offered methods of therapy He was born in Laurel Hill N. N J. J near Newark the son of a wealthy glove manufacturer He attended Cornell two years and was a roommate roommate roommate room room- mate of Robert W. W Chambers in Paris when they were studying art under His is a book blue family of Dutch antecedents and his name is there inscribed but that Interests interests interests Inter inter- ests him no more than the hanging hang hang- ing of his bis pictures in the Metropolitan Metropolitan Metro Metro- politan the Luxembourg embourg and the Whitney galleries IN TN HIS book Dynamite Dynamite Louis LouisI I Adamic says the Los Angeles Times explosion of 1910 forever ended ended ended end end- ed militancy in the American labor r i movement In Times E Explosion I. I oSlon that year Sam Sam- Put an End to uel Gompers f and Frank Labor Militancy Morrison were sentenced to prison terms on charges growing out of at the Buck stove case This was lost in the shuffle with the dynamiting excite cIte ment mente The terms were never served Thereafter neither Gompers nor Morrison was militant Currently Mr Morrison 1 the highly esteemed treasurer secretary-treasurer and conservative conservative conserva conserva- tive elder cider statesman of the A. A F. F of L. L retires retire from office after 13 years in hi that post He will vili be beSt 80 years jears old next month A n native of Fr Frankton Ont he Isa Isa is isa a doctor of laws of Lake Forest university uni H He IVIC entered law practice but turned to the printing trade and b became a member of ot the Typographical ical union in 1873 He is a member of the executive council of ot the Churches of V Christ in America Consolidated Features Nt Service |