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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1925)
Bellini Marriage to Omaha Girl Is : Illegal in Italy * M " 4 C. Patterson, Father of Eugenia, Insists Mussolini * Regime Holds Captain U as Political Prisoner. 4Bt.itements by Claude Arezzo, editor o£ 11 Progresso. Omaha. Italian news paper, that Capt. Umberto Bellini is not- held prisoner in Italy because of opposition to the Mussolini rule, were declared false Saturday by T). C. Pat terson, father of Mrs. Bellini, who was Kugenle Patterson of Omaha. ftrezzo in a letter cited a cable dis patch to a New York Italian paper under date of October 7, 1924. which h£ said was as follows: ‘‘Clara Cavalieri, belonging to a pairician family of Bologna, de ruflmced to the kings attorney, for mer Cavalry Officer Umberto Bcl litifl of Siena, to whom she intrusted ",*00,000 lire worth of objects of art to. be sold In America, where he said l’Cwas returning to re-enter the con sular service in Boston. " Charge* Hewed Illegally. “Bellini it was charged never gave arv accounting of the proceeds of the objects of art intrusted to hint and while in Boston remarried, notwith standing the fact that he had a legal wife in Italy. Returning to Italy he was arrested today in Rome.” Patterson said the charge of the woman has been disproved and that suit has been filed against her for $6,000 to reimburse tlaptain Bellini for big expenditures in futile attempts to sell the art works. '.‘After some effort laid been made . to r sell the art collection, my other daughter, Mrs. Livingston Fairbank of'Chicago engaged an expert to ap praise it and he pronounced it worth less. Eugenia Not Married. “Mrs. Bellini, now with- her sister in, Chicago, is not dismayed at the question of her marriage's legality. It Is unquestioned, except under the present regime in'Italy. The present administration merely decreed that all divorces granted in Fiume—where Captain Bellini's was granted—were invalid so far as Italian law was con cerned. ^Captain Bellini was imprisoned purely because he opposed the Musso lini regime. The Cavalieri complaint wafr made a month after this arrest.” Fremont s Music * Festival Success “Messiah"’ Chorus of 250 rPraised by All: Annual Affair. ferial Ulspatrh to The Omaha Bee. Jremont, Xeb.. April 4.—This little city Is just beginning to get acquaint ed! with itself. It took' a three-day music festival with "The Messiah” by a ehorus of 230 voices as the climax, to Impress upon these folks that much unappreciated musical talent was hhl dea In their mMst. 4 cathedral-llke silence that con tinued from start to finish of the • ^fiessiah” demonstrated the impres siveness of the event. Because of the sawed music the audience of 1,700 tli^t jammed the Midland gymnasium " as asked to refrain flora applaud ing Festival Kg Success. Bremen it’s three-day music festival win a big success in every way. The profits accrued from t]ie undertaking wiH be used to procure soloists for the “Messiah” next year. There Is iltfle doubt now that Fremont's music festival -will become an annual affair. The chorus was accompanied by a sygiphonw orchestra of local amateur atid^,professional talent, all volunteer ing tlielr services. The work of the orchestra was compared favorably with the best In the middle-west by critic* who have heard them all. T^ie soloists. Genevieve Rice Cow den, soprano of Kansas City; Margaret •Spaulding Sturges, contralto of Oma ha ^.awrence Dodds, tenor of Omaha, and Walter Jenkins, baritone of Coun cil Bluffs, atl came in for their share of {he appreciation. Brof. T. Amos Jones, director; Carl W.’ Hawklnson, secretary-manager, and Dean W. F? Ttlherg, vice presi dent of the “Messiah” organization, were also praised. Dog Catcher Desired. Bridgeport, Xeb., April .4.—At a masting of the village board of Anti och. held Friday, It was voted to em ploy a city marshal to enforce the law and get rid of stray dogs, provided one could be found to accept the place at the salary allowed. The budget for the coming year was flxed at 11,000. ~ AnVKBXmj(MK»T New Special Way To Shampoo * Blonde Hair! ifilen the moat attractive light hair )uk.aa beauty with age. But Blondex, the t.«\« abampoo for blonde hair only. pr« •«h4b light hair from darkening and keape It beautifully attractive—alway*' Alwo krtag* bank the true golden beauty »o e ca the moat faded or darkened blonde half. UtN# hair wonderfully ailky. tiuWy. Not a dye. Highly beneficial to a If and ecalp. At all good daab.ra. won a fthorirjun A: M- Connell, Merrlt'a Phar IJonlon brtig Co., Hayden Hroe. BLONDEX i Omaha Camera Club “Shoots Up” Hanscom Park and Nature's Wilds f&MSSHQECB|SBE955S3C555S3C£j^^^^^^^^^^9ES55i!&S3»MStf$S^^^M 1 i .. .-..“ The Omaha Camera club “shot up” Hauscom park last Sunday. The pictures were taken by John Tlte. Culver hotel, club member. No. 1 shows (left to riuht) Isabelle Cotteuier. 4315 South Twenty-fifth streei: Alverda Trieni. 1323 Canton street: John Merrill, 2501 South Thirty second street: Mary Cotteuier, 4315 South Twenty-fifth street; Aline Cotteuier, 4315 South Twenty-fifth street, and Isabelle Itehni . N’o. 2 is a photo of a pleasant little path which winds up over the hill from the lake at ilansconi park. When spring days come Omaha camera fans, armed with their rtusty "■weapons/* set out to "shoot" na ture at her wildest, or at least at her nicest. Moat any day in any park and in the woodlands about Florence and Child’s Point they may be seen gar nering fresh trophies for their al bums. The Omaha Camera club Is com i posed of members who make a habit, of peeking out tjie beauty spots of Omaha and preserving them on vellum prints. This club meets each Monday evening at the T. M. C. A. building. The members make regular hiking trips, "snapping" as they hike. The more experienced members give in structions in photography and photos taken on these trips are shown as lantern slides at the regular meetings. Battle Creek Youth ins District Oratorical Meet Speetal BUpatoh to The Omalin Bee. Norfolk, Neb., April 4.—Howard Miller, jr., Battle Creek, Neb., won first place in the oratorical class of the district declamatory contest here. Richard Galbois. Norfolk, 4on first in the dramatic, and June Carrico, Nor folk, won first 1n the humorous class.! Nineteen students from schools all1 over the district contested. 7.0.j2 Meals for Needy. The Salvation Army, in the six months just ended, supplied 7,(h>2 meals and 2,723 lodgings to the needy. Rummage stores, kept supplied from old clothing, furniture and so on donated by Omabftns, have provided means for many of the poor to fill their needs at small cost. During the six months, f>26 mep were pro vided with temporary employment outside the Army home. Huge Canvas of Shoshone Falls Recalls Tragic Story of Artist Crazed by Concentration on Work Rv .1, T. ARMSTRONG To travel eastward by horseback and train for 1,(100 miles, then to step Into one of Omaha’s modern hotels and behold the same soenb: view upon which you have gazed every morning from your doorstep back home—well, It 4s a novel, if npt a startling sensation. This is the experience of D. A. Tay lor, Idaho sheepman, each time ho, comes to Omaha from his ranch home near Shoshone Falls. For in the lobby of Hotel Castle, where Mr. Taylor stops, Is a huge oil painting of the famous falls. The hlg paint ing is such a realistic reproduction I of the falls and surrounding coun try that Mr. Taylor says it never i falls to thrill him. "f can almost hear the rear of the water ns I look at the picture." Mr. Taylor declared. "The painting is so large and so natural that it would lie easy to fancy, as T look at It, that I'm back at my ranch again, gazing at the original." Tragedy In Oils Many other Idaho guests at the Castle pronounce the picture start lingly realistic, according to Fred L. Dafnery, manager of the hotel. Yet in, the beauty of the falls there Is a wildness which had a sinister effect on the creator of the painting. Only a few “old timers" remember the tragedy connected with the picture, and their tales concerning it vary. But a tragedy there was, and the artist who devoted more than two years of his life to the picture was the victim. Many years ago Count Creighton and F. If. H. Clark, of Omaha, and Senator Clark, of Montana, became Interested In a project to establish an elaborate summer resort at the falls, near the Snake river. It occurred to Count Creighton that a large, real istic painting of the falls would he thoroughly desirable, first aa a means of promoting Interest id the rAre*, and second as a work of art. And so, attracted by the work of Charles Lander leu. an English langseape painter of some note. Count Creigh ton arranged for the painter to come to this country and make a picture of the falls. Artist, Suicide Tianderieu spent an entire year at the falls, working on hi* canva* In the deafening roar, almost under the spray of the cataract. He then re turned to Omaha, where he estab lished his studio in the old Omaha National hank building on Thirteenth street. There he worked on the painting almost incessantly for an other year, and as his task neared co*4pletion, hts work became m»f what feverish. He slept n the same room with the picture, and frequently failed to stop his work for food, the story has It. As his work drew to an end and the picture became more and more realistic there crept into Randerleu's manner something of the tumultuous wildness of his subject, it is said. Finally the artist applied his brush for the last time, and the picture was finished. The tragedy followed. One who claims to remember says a disparag ing remark about the merits of the painting drove Randerieu into such a frenzy , (hat he ended Ills life. An . other says the artist, obsessed with The wildness of tlio scene and jealous of bis work, barricaded bis studio to would-be invaders and died. “I^ead” Was Ochre Fred Castle, who in 1909 purchased the picture from an art dealer named Rose, says the artist lost hi* mind as the result of his long concentra tion oh the wild scene, and that in a fit of jealousy he attempted to des troy the isilntlng by applying large quantities of lead to the canvas. But, says Mr. Castle, Randerleu mistook ochre for lend, and later the ochre was removed and the painting saved. The canvas, probably the largest In Omaha, hung and was much admired for several years In the Her Orand hotel. Then Mr. Castle built the hotel bearing his name. Since then it has held a prominent pic. ' in the first floor lobby of the Castle. The True Myth. “The only figures on Olympus which I have always regarded as being pure ly mythical,” Mr. Cardan went on. "as having no foundation in the facts of life. Is Athena. A goddess of wis dom—a goddess!” he repeated with emphasis. “Isn’t that a little too thick?”—Aldous Huxley. r. . i i—. ■ ■ 1 ..K Julius Orkin Tomorrow—A Great Under-Price Sale of SPRING COATS s A Remarkable Low-Pricing of Elega nt Coats |ft for the Smart Miss and Youthful Woman i{£j i | ALL NEW SILK V ' ffl | SPRING - LININGS hVi i COLORS jjl / CoatsThatAre Usually Priced MuchHigher jJl | Striking models—in exquisite fabrics—trimmed with light furs. ’ , The smartest models the season affords—finely tailored and ' distinctive in every detail. An opportunity to secure at great » ] savings better coats of quality. . The Smartest Models Specially Grouped --- Sensibly Priced! j WOMEN'S AND MISSES' COAT DEPT. SECOND FLOOR . # Orchard-Wilheli i. SIXTEENTH AND HOWARD STREETS We Cannot Urge Our Customers 'Too Strongly to Attend Early the Special Purchase Sale of M. E. Smith and Co.’s RUGS, LINOLEUMS and DRAPERIES This sale cannot last more than two or three days more and we are therefore urging our customers to attend Monday or 1 ues day and buy their floor coverings and draperies for spring and summer. A sale like this only occurs once in five or ten \ears. Savings are greater than in the ordinary sale because this is a WHOLESALE STOCK bought at a very low figure. RUOS—Available for Monday’s Selling , Wool and Fiber Reversible Rug, 12x15 size, at .14.75 Wool and Fiber Reversible Rug, 12x12 size, at .12.75 Stenciled Fiber, Seamless Rug, 9x12 size, at .'.14.75 * Printed Brussels Seamless Rug, 9x12 size4 at .13.75 Axminster Hall Runner, 2-3x12 size,... 8.50 Axminster Hall Runner, 2-3x15 size... .10.00 Seamless Tapestry Brussels, 8-3x10-6 size, at . 15.75 Seamless Velvet, 6x9 size... .17.75 Best Body Brussels, 6x9 size.29.50 Seamless Woolfaced Brussels, 9x12 size, at .19.75 Oriental Pattern Axminster, 9x12 size, 31.50 Seamless Heavy Axminster, 9x12 size, 35.00 Extra Quality Axminster, 9x12 size...45.00 Plain Blue Seamless Velvet, 9x12 size, 49.50 Figured Seamless Wilton Velvet, 9x12 size, at .39.50 Seamless Heavy Axminster, 8-3x10-6 size, each .37.50 Best Body Brussels, 9x12 size.47.50 Seamless Woolfaced Brussels, 8-3x10-6 size, at .17.75 Hartford Saxony, dropped patterns, 9x12 size, at .105.00 Wool Wiltons, plain effects, 9x12 size, 72.50 Wool Wiltons, Chinese patterns, 9x12 size, at ...i...:...79.50 Worsted Wiltons, Oriental patterns, 4-6x7-6 size, at.39.50 Wool Wilton, Jaspe effect, 8-3x10-6 size, at .67.50 I.inen Fringed Wiltons, 8-3x10-6 size. 73.50 Worsted Wiltons, Oriental effects, 8-3x10-6 size, at.89.50 Finest Made Wiltons, linen fringed, 8-3x10-6 size, at .... .#..105.00 Finest Made Wilton, linen fringed, 6-9x9 size, at.77.50 Wool Wilton, good patterns, 6x9 size, 45.00 Fringed Wiltons, Oriental patterns. 6x9 size. at .54.50 Fine Wiltons, linen fringe. 6x9 size... .69.50 Brown Jaspe Saxony, 8-3x9 size:.95.00 Extra Large Sizes Seamless Tapestry Brussels, 11-3x12 size, at .•. 23.oO Seamless Blue Velvet, 11-3x12 size.... 35.00 Best Tapestry Brussels, ll-3xl5_ size, 42.50 Seamless Tapestry Brussels, 9x15 size, 29.00 Floral and Oriental Axminster, 11-3x12 size, at . 39.00 Heavy Seamless Axminster, 9x15 size, 59.OO Oriental Design Axminster, 11-3x12 size, 52.50 Extra Heavy Axminster, 11-3x12 size, 57.50 Oriental Woolfaced Axminster, 11-3x15 size, at . 59.00 Best Body Brussels, 10-6x13-6 size... 110.00 Xeatlv Fringed Wool Wiltons, 10-6x13-6 size. at . 105.00 Fringed, Oriental Design Wilton, 11-3x12 size, at. 117.50 Worsted Wiltons, linen fringed, 11-3x12 size, at.167.50 Wool Wilton, Oriental patterns, 11-3x15 size, at . 125.00 Worsted Wiltons, best designs, 11-3x15 size, at . 172.50 Heavy Worsted Wilton, all fringed, 11-3x18 size, at . 215.00 Small Rugs Extra Heavy, Oval, 18x30 Bath Mats... 2.25 Extra Heavy, Oval, 30x60 Bath Mats.. 4.75 Reversible Chenille, 36x72 Bath Mats, 5.50 Hit and Miss Rag Rugs. 25x48.95 Figured Grass Reversible Rugs. 27x54.. 1.25 Extra Heavy Grass Rugs, 27x54. 3.25 Printed Brussels Rugs, 27x52. 1.05 Good Axminster Rugs, 27x52. 3.25 Fringed Velvet Rugs, 27x54. 3.75 Plain and Figured Axminster Rugs, 27x60, __ at . 4.75 Wool Fringed Wilton Rugs, 27x54.10.50 Choice Pattern Wilton Velvet Rugs, 27x54, * at . 7.50 Fine Worsted Wilton Rugs, 27x54.11.50 Dropped Patterns, Hartford Saxony, 27x54, at .12.75 Figured Grass Rugs, 36x72. 1.75 Reversible Wool and Fiber Rugs. 36x72 , 6.25 Oriental Designed Axminster Rugs, 36x72. at . 7.25 Linen Fringed Wilton Velvet Rugs, 36x63, at . 6.90 Worsted Wilton Rugs, big assortment, 36x63, at .15.75 Large assortment of Smith's trawling men's mad samples of fine Wilton and Body Brussels. Body Brussels samples, 27x54. each....1.50 Wool Wilton samples. 27x54, each.2.95 Worsted Wilton samples, 27x54, each....3.75 Finest Wilton samples, 27x54, each.4.50 Felt Base Rugsand Linoleums Printed Linoleums of excellent quality in n pood range of patterns. 6 ft. wide .85«^ sq. yd. 12 ft. wide . . . .f)5<* sq- yd. Felt Base Rugs Congolcum and Armstrong grades, perfect goods. Savings 33's % from prevailing retail price. 6x9 . 6.25 9x12 . 12.25 9x9 . 6.25 0-4x6 . 1.25 9x10-6 .... 10.50 0x6 . 1.75 Linoleum Rugs in very pood patterns on genuine burlap backs. Savings about 30Tv. .6x9 . 7.25 12x12. 19.25 7-6x9 . 9.95 12x15 . 23.95 9x10-6_ 12.65 4ox54 . 2.25 9x12. 14.50 Useful Remnants Plain Linoleum, Jaspe and inlaid tiles in short lengths suitable for small rooms and offices arc offered at about 33 Vs r\ off. Draperies and Curtainings Owing to the unusual nature of this sale, all sales will be con sidered final; and as quantities are limited, “Smith goods” can not be sent on approval. Artificial Silk Overdrapery Materials Several shades of rose, blue, gold, mulberry and brown in plain and figured effects. Some guar anteed Sunfast. 1,50 values, 30 inches wide, per yard.... 75C 2.00 values, 50 inches wide, per yard.J)5f* ,1.85 and 4.75 values. 50 inches wide, yd., l.f>5 Other overdrapery fabrics at HALF PRICK— 28C 38C 50C Madras, Silk Sunfast and Damask « A largo aSHot Jnvnt, all 50 inches wide. Reduced to HALF PIH(?K.npd in many instances less . 1.85 2.25 2.05 3.25 3.05 Plain Burlaps Sold by the holt (about 50 yards! _ In natural color, 30 inches wide, a 35c quality, per yard . 15C Wonderful Cretonnes \ largo and attractive offering that include* patterns suitable for every room. Prices are HALF or even less— 15C 25 C 38c 50c Silkolines (Plain Colors Only) Sold by the bolt (about 40 yards! We do not carry Silkolines in our Drapery de partment and we are therefor* offering the '■took at a ridiculous price. Color*: green, gold, lose, lavender, blue, cream and white. 25c quality, per yard. 12'vC Fringes and Trimmings A very large assortment is offered at prices that register big savings. Per yd.. 5C to 50C Curtain Sets Including Filets. Super Filets and Shadow or Casement effects. Savings at least .*>0 per cent, 25C 38C 45c 85c 1.25 Marquisettes In dotted, figured and plain weaves, some with hemstitched edge, in white, ivory and conn lttc 25c 3Sc Voiles and (Irenadines In white, ivory and ecru with bar dots and f,.. tiro*. 7oc values, per yard . 3Nc* Colored Crenadines White with colored dots and figures, ;',8 inches wide, 68c and 8oo values.. 3Sc and 50O Rose Poplin This excellent portiere and overdrapery fabric. bO inches wide and worth 1.50 per yard. is offered at .. 75«* Cur rex Flat Extension Rods Single and double, ordinary and extra lengths HALF PRICE - sc, IOC. 20C. 35C. »5C Remnants Of all classes of curtain and drapery materials from a fraction of a yard to o yards lo- g *1 HALF PRICE AND LE$$