Show 1 Immigrant Artist Devotes Whole Career to Theodore Roosevelt Hero o Who o Captured Love 30 Years AgoT Ago T T yam a iiI r g v S 4 9 ter 01 pi o 1 4 TM Bj By B HAMPTON IIA SMITH Jr ME NEA loEi Service Smite Writer YORK Oct 22 Young 22 Young oung and NEW j impressionable but resolved to chisel himself him a niche in Americas America's hall hail of fame was Vincenzo Ino Immigrant Italian sculptor when he arrived in New York from the land of his birth He cast a I critical eve e e over possible sUbject matter for his artistry and decided at d once to hitch his wagon to o a star The star was Theodore Theodo-e Roosevelt then in command of the Rough Riders BACK FROM CUBA When Whets Teddy Tedd returned In tri trl triumph from Cuba the young joung sculptor sculptor tor or was one of the h hing thousands thou thou- thousands thousands sands who ho acclaimed him I felt an artists artist's exalta- exalta lon Uon I I knew l. he related I I had found a subject that would ever er challenge my skill I knew kne too that for or this man my admiration and love never would wane one He has hS been doln doing sculptures of Roosevelt ever since One Image after another of the theman theman theman man who WIO captured his imagination has been fashioned by the artist artst Every time he completes a new one ne he feels he has come a little closer loser to his final goal That goal goals is s to create a statue of Roosevelt that will be as perfect In sculptural at attainment at- at attainment attainment as the Venus de Mite Milo or the w 8 Some of s images of Theodore Roosevelt are arc x pictured here At the t e right Is a a. new figure to be cast In heroic size for foe Chicago l Is Ls l shown In Inthe Inthe the extreme upper left leU corner with one of his Roosevelt busts Winged Victory Victory one one ne that portrays portra s 's sto to the fullest all the Roosevelt fine fine- fineness fineness ness of o character r. r personality cour- cour ag age and vital its force torce AND AVD ONLY O THEN 1 If It I t Is ever er accomplished will consider his hs work ork finished Through the years jears ears his love lo for Roosevelt Roose has been as a whip and spur ever urging him hm to loftier heights 1 For Roosevelt Roo evelt said I have now and have always had hada a a. spiritual a love love love-a a passion that is all- all consuming They call him dead but for me he lives on and on What a wonderful face to por por- portray portray tray The greatness of the man consisted con con- in centralized philosophic genius genus big enough to painful vibrations vibration of his hs Inferior forces Therein lay his might When Roosevelt spoke on sub sub- subjects subjects subjects vitally important to him him his his home his hs people his country country he he became total totally oblivious lous of all ex ex- external external external Influences He Heas was as a P human dynamo AT HALL HALLI I I recall a speech that he made one night at Carnegie Hall In New York YorkA A previous speaker had made a I brief address which contained several passages which the Colonel thought detrimental to American Ideals By Jove Joye How he tore into that gentleman when he took the floor I Fire flashed from his eyes ejes his voice olce boomed to the Innermost recesses re recesses re- re recesses of the hall And finally to emphasize his point pont the tho Colonel strode over oyer to the other speaker and shook his hU fist in his face It Is a strange circumstance of this idealistic friendship that Ml er- er never ne sought to shake shaVe Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's hand nor talk tale to him ER NEVER ASKED A rOE POSE FO E ETo To see him from afar ana ana ana to hear hear him was sufficient explained the sculptor simply I I never felt I could ask him to pose for me I did dd not want to monopolize his time even eyen for an Instant It was as too valuable During Roosevelt's Roosevelt s life dino lost no opportunity to see him In action He lIe studied his facial expressions under divers en circumstances es On one occasion when the Colo Colo- Colonel Colonel Colonel nel delivered an address in Madison Square Garden the sculptor who was within a few feet of the orator studied him so Intently that he was questioned by secret sen service Ice officers True to one of Roosevelt's Roosevelt s favorite fa causes is the father of ofa ofa ofa a large family His eldest boy was named in honor of the American pa pa- patriot patriot triot whom the sculptor began to ad admire ad- ad admire admire mire back in 93 and whom he has steadfastly continued to eulogize in speech and in clay working toward the goal of creating a portrait a dynamic as Roosevelt himself Models for two new Roosevelt figures fig fIg- fIgures figures ures have Just been completed by as the country prepares to pay homage to the former president dent on October 27 the date of his birth One Is s for the city of Mount Ver- Ver non New York to be bs placed In the city hall haU plaza The sculptor shows Roosevelt Roose in a moment of thought Just before delivering ering an extemporaneous extemporaneous speech The other model is for an heroic figure to b be erected In Chicago It shows the president in the midst of heated debate expounding his the the- theories ories ones The sculpture is especially In Interesting In- In Interesting interesting for the vitality and action it portrays |