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HERALD TRiBUNE NOV. 20, 1938
World's Fair 'Hospitality Center'
To Be Begun at Exercises Tuesday

Building Will Serve as Meeting Place for 12,000
Promoters of Exposition; Whalen Picks 
Jury to Select Art Exhibits

Construction of the National Advisory Committees' Building at the New York World's Fair 1939 will begin with ground-breaking ceremonies on Tuesday, it was announced yesterday. "This building," the official announcement said, "will be the hospitality center for the six thousand women and as many men who have helped to make the fair a reality by promoting its program and purposes throughout the United States and its territories."

An elaborate fifty-six-page booklet describing the social and cultural aspect of the fair will be mailed on November 21 to members of the National Advisory Committee on Women's Participation, of which Mrs. Vincent Astor is chairman and Mrs. Courtlandt D. Barnes, vice-chairman.

The National Advisory Committees' Building will be of functional design, finished on the outside in natural wood, with conference rooms, lounge, restaurant and a patio. The designer of the restaurant, which will resemble an indoor garden, is Mrs. Miriam M. Wolff, one of the decorators of the fair's Terrace Club.

"The New York World's Fair is probably the greatest opportunity women have ever had for constructive service in every field of human betterment," Miss Monica Barry Walsh, director of Women's Participation, wrote in the fifty-six page booklet. "We are looking to the women leaders of America to carry the ideals and plans of the fair to every hamlet in the United States.

"One of the most important opportunities of the state committee will be the recommendation of the best type of World's Fair publicity to the editors of their local newspapers and other publications."

The Advisory Committee on Women's Participation is composed so far of forty-three state committees. California, Kansas, Kentucky, Wyoming and New Mexico are not yet represented. Among the state chairmen are Mrs. Reeve Schley, New Jersey; Miss Annie Burr Jennings, Connecticut; Mrs. Robert W. Lovett, Massachusetts, and Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, Pennsylvania.

Harry Rich Mooney, real estate operator, announced that a $1,500,000 trailer town would be constructed for World's Fair visitors on a ninety-acre tract in the Throg's Neck section of the Bronx, bounded by the East River, Baxter Creet and the approach to the new Whitestone Bridge across the East River to Queens. Mr. Mooney, who heads a syndicate planning it, said that parking and service facilities would be provided for 1,200 trailers daily.

Each trailer will occupy a 900-square-foot plot, he said. There will be a garbage receptacle for every four trailers and an incinerator will be placed in one corner of the heavily-wooded area, which stands on high ground, while a laundry building will eliminate unsightly wash 
lines. For entertainment, Mr. Mooney said, there will be a baseball diamond, athletic field, children's playground, motion-picture theater, restaurants, stores, comfort stations and a building for doctors and dentists.

The board of directors of the Temple of Religion at the fair issued a statement that "the temple will demonstrate to visitors from every state and from foreign lands that religion, as the enemy of despotism, has preserved the individual liberties of our people."

Grover A. Whalen, president of the fair corporation, made public the personnel of the fair's juries for the selection of 800 contemporary works of art which will be exhibited in the twenty-three galleries of the fair's Contemporary Arts Building. They will be chosen from more than 15,000 paintings, pieces of sculpture and works of graphic to be submitted throughout the United States.

The juries from New York City and state are as follows - Paintings: Stuart Davis, Philip Evergood, Hermon More, Henry E. Schnakenberg, Eugene E. Speicher, Max Weber, Gifford Beal, Charles E. Burchfield and Jonas Lie, with Wayman Adams, Gwendolyn Bennett and Allen Tucker as alternates; Sculpture: Gaetano Cecere, Cornelia V. A. Chapin, RObert M. Cronbach, Louis Slobodkin, Adolph A. Weinman, Warren Wheelock, Paul Manship, John Gregory and William Zorach, with Chaim Gross, Thomas Lo Medico and Hugo Robus as alternates; Graphic Arts: Adolf Dehn, Hugo Gellert, Elizabeth Olds, Ernest D. Roth, Stow Wengenroth, John Taylor Arms, Anne Goldthwaite, William Gropper and Reginald Marsh, with Kerr Eby, Ronald Joseph and Gladys A. Mock as alternates.

A "governing committee," which will have joint control of the exhibition, will include A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art, as chairman; Holger Cahill, national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration; Mrs. Juliana Force, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Herbert E. Winlock, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Laurance P. Roberts, acting director of the Brooklyn Museum.

ART DiGEST DEC. 1. 1938
Art at N.Y. Fair

AMPLE PROVISION has been made so that conservatives, modernists and middle-of-the-roaders will all have their champions when they meet at the New York World's Fair in 1939, according to complete plans announced by Grover Whalen - at a reception given to a large segment of the New York art world in his home, 48 Washington Mews (where Howard Hughes was entertained). Leaders of the widest reputation and greatly diverse aesthetic leanings will assume the herculean task of selecting 800 exhibits from the estimated 15,000 that will be submitted by artists from all regions in "democratically" administered try-outs. "If this difficult task is even approximately fulfilled," says the Times editorially, "the result should be something to thrill the country."

The exhibition will be held in the Contemporary Arts Building, consisting of 40,000 square feet and facing Bowling Green and one of the main gates of the fair. Divided into 23 galleries, the structure - modern and functional in conformity with the other fair buildings - will provide exhibition space for 800 works of art in the fields of painting, sculpture and graphic art. The opening has been set for April 30, and it will continue until late in October. An admission fee of 25 cents will be charged - it is rumored that a portion of the receipts may be used to make purchases for the City of New York.

Holger Cahill, national director of the WPA Federal Art Project, is director of the exhibition. A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art, is chairman of the governing committee, which also included: Juliana Force, director of the Whitney Museum; Herbert E. Winlock, director of the Metropolitan Museum; Laurance P. Roberts, of the Brooklyn Museum, and Mr. Cahill.

The artist committee is composed of Anne Goldthwaite, chairman of the American Printmakers; John Taylor Arms, president of the Society of American Etchers; Stuart Davis, chairman of the American Artists Congress; Hugo Gellert, chairman of the Artists Coordinating Committee; John Gregory, president of the National Sculpture Society; Paul Manship, Eugene Speicher and William Zorach. Donald J. Baer, director of the Denver Museum and consultant for the Rocky Mountain section, will assist Mr. Cahill.

Artists living outside the New York metropolitan area will present their work to the nearest Committees of Selection in their states (details may be obtained by writing Exhibition of Contemporary Art, New York World's Fair, Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York City). Artists living within the metropolitan are and New York State will present their work to the New York Committee of Selection, which will labor on Feb. 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27 and 28.

Although the list of jurors is too long to print here, a sample of the catholic taste of the representatives may be had from the New York selectors:

Painting - Gifford Beal, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Philip Evergood, Jonas Lie, Hermon More, Henry Schnakenberg, Eugene Speicher and Max Weber. Sculpture - Gaetano Cecere, Cornelia Chapin, Robert Cronbach, John Gregory, Paul Manship, Louis Slobodkin, A. A. Weinman, Warren Wheelock and William Zorach. Graphic arts - John Taylor Arms, Adolf Dehn, Hugo Gellert, Anne Goldthwaite, William Gropper, Reginald Marsh, Elizabeth Olds, Ernest Roth and Stow Wengenroth.

Artists desiring information on their local juries may obtain it from THE ART DIGEST or the Fair Corporation.

1st December, 1938