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Show 051 WHO'S NEWS R&t THIS Wj WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. Progressive education educa-tion h:t been pushed around a lot lately. The Bellwether Lincoln school of New York has been back-tracklng, back-tracklng, as See What CamehaVe several Of Leaving ChapotheT Daniel iiz-.L i r , Boones of the With $2 Camera educational wU. derness. From the right came the charge that they just let the youngsters young-sters fool around with toys and tools, without rubbing in any real education. educa-tion. Here's a field goal for the other side. At the somewhat ultra Fountain Foun-tain Valley, progressive school of Colorado Springs, the boy David Hare, scion of a highly placed New York family, was given carte blanche to build his education around a $2 camera. The idea, as in all progressive schools of those few years back, was to give the green light to any creative impulse. But, at 22, here is Mr. Hare with a New York exhibit of camera cam-era portraiture, with President Roosevelt among his subjects, and with famous artists and photographers, including Arnold Genthe, cheering him as the "Leonardo da Vinci of the camera." cam-era." Specifically, they agree that young Mr. Hare has proved indisputably that the camera not only may be, but now is an instrument in-strument of the highest artistic expression, and that he demonstrates demon-strates an absolutely new method meth-od and medium of color portrait por-trait photography. His three-lens camera allows the superimposing of color images, in the manner of the color-printing process, and makes possible shading shad-ing and emphasis in the service of mood. His is the first and only color portrait exhibit in the country. Artists Art-ists and prominent society folk are boiling with enthusiasm over Mr. Hare's achievement. He is a tall, shy, personable young man, somewhat inarticulate, inarticu-late, as he filters life through a lens, and hesitant in any other form of expression. As was the young Lindbergh. There is the same "We" combination here. Whether he knows the prepositions preposi-tions used with the ablative or whether he stumbled across the "Bridge of Asses" is not revealed. re-vealed. f TJT of the limbo of the past rises "Ole Bill," Bruce Bairnsfather's famous wairus-mustached cartoon character of World war days, to t- ix adorn recruit- rime s Attrition ing posters be. Marks'Ole Bill' ing displayed AndHis Creator "ghout the United Kingdom. King-dom. Bairnsfather says his revised character reveals signs of age, but, for that matter, so does the cartoonist. car-toonist. The slow attrition of 20 years since a slender youngster created "Ole Bill," in a trench in Flanders, has added to his bulk, had taken toll of his thatch of wavy black hair. Bitterness came, too, as when he returned all his war medals to the British government in protest against its treatment of veterans. Somehow, despite the wide and varied exploitation of Bill books, lectures, a play, "The Better Ole," a syndicated piece and so forth Bruce seemed to get the short end of it all. He Is said to have received some $10,000 out of 5500,000 earned by his black and white creation. Putting on his own review, "Ullo," he lost $40,000, and after that events led him straight to bankruptcy, liabilities $75,000, assets negligible. He was born in India of a long line of army forebears and began life as an electrical engineer. Of recent years, what with lecturing, writing and drawing, life is said to have dealt more amiably by him. C ELECTED for transfer from his post as ambassador to Argentina to the government of Gen. Francisco Franco in Spain, Alexander W. Wed- Our Ambassadors1 ? y 6 a r s . uurold, bears with i o Spam Packs him such assets Diplomatic Bag as are implied in the long experience ex-perience of a career diplomat, a man of tact and diplomatic deftness, deft-ness, combined with broad humanitarian humani-tarian sympathies. Mr. Weddell was educated at George Washington university law school and the University of Catania in Italy. Appointed private secretary to the minister minis-ter to Denmark in 1908, he entered en-tered the consular service two - years later as consul at Zanzibar. Zanzi-bar. He spent two years, 1912-14, 1912-14, as consul at Catania, going thence to Athens as consul general. gen-eral. 6 Retiring from the diplomatic serv- lltr28, he returned si years lng various consular posts until his appointment as ambassador ambassa-dor to the Argentine. -.-New.r,.tur... |