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Show SCULPTOR AND PHILANTHROPIST - - - - j Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, fSSS-ssv, whose masterpiece of sculpture, "The jV, x x Fountain of El Dorado," is on exhi- X x" bition at the Panama-Pacific expos!- A : "V "" v:xT vO. tion, is pronounced by critics to be ff" r VV? tlle most gifted woman sculptor in "txj v America. She has been devoted to . J i, A t " ' art throughout her life, and in the v x 'js- ht summer months has toiled in her - 1K New York studio in MacDougal alley, v if & fraternizing with the sculptors' col-Swr'' col-Swr'' , ' t& 3 1 -r-J ony anJ many a time helping stu-f stu-f -.. .-,Jr dents in distress. Her great wealth t ? . ijJr never interfered with her conscien-- fe, tious work, but it permitted her to V, ' " f exercise her philanthropic tendencies, L which are almost as notable as her A artistic. She has given much time I - and money to charity, and with the -' A breaking out of the war she turned Ji-"- ' at once to the aid of the suffering. She established a hospital in Paris, of At - if I , which she is in active charge. All s?Qf ' I her days now are devoted to the re lief of the wounded soldiers that are brought back from the battle lines. Mrs. Whitney is the eldest daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and the wifa of Harry Payne Whitney, the famous j)oIo player who has represented America in international contests. She is the sister of Countess Gladys Szechenyi, who has equipped a hospital corns in Austria-Hungary. |