Show WHO bews THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N NEW EW YORK in more than tour four decades louis M made paintings and drawings and never made a cent out of them now three A 1117 jr big all vanity cries series galleries give painter as gold exhibitions of his work one garlands arrive gallery is re ported to have sold worth of his paintings all his canvases are in demand at high prices but mr 1 an irascible bl little man with a ragged beard and a testy way of speak ing la Is bedridden in his gloomy old house in east cast fifty seventh street and ho he asks the good of 0 tho the whole damn thing lies iles 75 y years ears old lie ile warned the world many times that it was going hell bell tor for leather down the skids and now ho he thinks its on the last stretch of the greased chute and nothing else matters not even money meney slid and fame the late ralph blakelock lost his mind after years of failure to stir critical or popular interest in his work ile he was hailed as a great painter and his pictures were bought by great gall galleries erle s when he no ho longer knew or cared about money or recognition there is an interesting parallel between his career and that of mr although the latter is still bright and smart as 3 a c chipmunk hip munk but lie fie wont even look out of his narrow bedroom window lie wants no outlook on a world I 1 turning itself into a madhouse pictures on tho the floor covered with dust and cobwebs may be worth a fortune pictures of moods dreams and memories but that interest him ile he had renounced tho the Ill pomps omps and vanities of this wicked world long lone before it beat a path to ills his door the parallel between blakelock and is also marked by the amazing diversity of their talents blakelock the son of a physician was waa trained in medicine gifted in music and be bests 0 ts j Bla blakelock 01 helock f n almost made a in diversity of career of the piano and mu achievements al composition com has composed a small library of songs operas and etudes eludes and used to give piano concerts cerasin tsIn in his youth he painted feverishly ly for 40 years quitting in 1922 when none would buy his pictures and no galleries hang them but in his varied abilities he far outshone blakelock here are arc a few of his achievements when he was a student tit at cornell university he discovered a new species of ichneumon fly later he announced a new law governing the ramification of trees ho he wrote somewhat more than 50 volumes of plays novels noveis novelettes nove lettes essays and verse the berse verse by in tone was written in english french german italian and spanish lie he published th them em himself and me like his pictures they gathered only cobwebs and dust 11 ho invented a new kind of magic fall indelible ink and several studio devices for artists he explored various diseases and offered ofle red methods of therapy he was born in laurel hill N J near nea newark the son of a wealthy glove manufacturer he attended cornell two years and was a roommate of robert W chambers in paris when they were studying art under bouzereau Bou gereau ills his Is a bluebook blue book family of dutch an antecedents and his name is there inscribed but that inter ests him no more than the hanging of his pictures in th he e metro politan poll tan the he luxembourg and the he whitney galleries IN N HIS book Dyn dynamite arnIte louis adamic says the los angeles times explosion of 1910 fore forever ver ended militancy in the american labor movement in times tim es explosion rr that year sam put an end to uel el gompers and an frank labohm labor v i militancy I 1 litan cy morrison were sentenced to prison terms on charges growing out of the duck buck stove case this was lost in the shuffle with the dynamiting excitement the terms were never served thereafter neither gompers nor morrison was militant currently mr morrison the highly esteemed secretary treasurer and conservative elder statesman of the A F of 0 L retires from office after 43 years in that post he will be 80 years old next month A native of frankton ont he is a doctor of laws of lake forest university ver sity lie he entered law practice but turned to the printing trade and became be came a member of the typographical union in 1873 lie he is a member of the executive council counch of the churches of christ in america consolidated features service |