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...opened last week will move to San Diego, to Los Angeles, to Portland. Ore. The Honolulu Museum is calling for it. It includes 15 huge Kakemono-like drawings which Sculptor Noguchi made in Peiping and about 20 of his well-known portrait heads: Dancer Martha Graham, Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich. Authors John Erskine and Thornton Niven Wilder, Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. Left out of the California exhibition is the newest Noguchi, a great white plaster shape something like a starfish and something like a woman which he has named "Miss Expanding Universe...
Grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich has been more fortunate than most Russian emigres since the days when he was official scene painter for the Moscow Art Theatre. He went to the U. S. in 1920 with a mystical manner and a shipload of paintings, explored Thibet, gave lectures on the Higher Life, acquired a circle of adoring acolytes who refer to him as The Marster, designed an international peace flag, and had a 24-story apartment house-museum put up in Manhattan in his honor. Last week came a check. Because of failure to meet interest on mortgages totalling...
Proud indeed last week were followers of Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, painter-explorer-mystic. In the 24-story apartment-house-museum which his disciples have built for him on upper Riverside Drive, Manhattan, there was happy talk about the Master's latest step in his mission of Unifying Humanity Through Art. From Roerich in Paris had come a cable saying that the League of Nations' International Commission of Intellectual Cooperation (TIME, Aug. 4) had endorsed an international convention suggested by him to ensure Art's neutrality and safety in wartime. The "Roerich Pact" was drawn...
Friends of Roerich wished for him last week that such a treaty already existed. Carrying Art's flag he might be able to wrangle from the British a visa for India, where his wife lay sick but where the British-despite official pleas from Washington and Paris and four other countries -(Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Brazil & Peru)-feared his alleged sympathy for Soviet Russia...
...Paris, en route to India (where his wife is ill) to continue his painting and archeological trips, Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, Russian artist-scientist-mystic, founder of Roerich Museum, in Manhattan, learned that a visa for India had been denied him by the British Government, which charged him with sympathy for the Soviets. Said he: "Any person who is even superficially acquainted with the nature of my work and activities for the past 40 years will understand that the allegation of Communism is inconsistent with the truth...