Funds Needed

Two million dollars is the sum needed to complete the carving of the Confederate Memorial on the face of a granite mountain near Atlanta. The Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association has already raised $450,000 and is now considering means of collecting the additional funds. There are three schemes: 1) sale of memberships in the Founders' Roll at $1,000 each; 2) sale of memberships in the Children's Founders' Roll at $1 each; 3) sale (at $1 each) of a memorial half dollar authorized by special act of Congress and approved by President Coolidge.

The Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial is a large face of granite on which will be carved figures of Confederate soldiers and cavalry covering an area of several acres. The design for the sculpture was made by Gutzon Borglum (TIME, Aug 13), and his drawing was projected on the mountain side with a huge stereopticon. Lines were then drawn where the image fell.

Borglum is a specialist in colossal sculpture, having made the huge figures of the twelve apostles for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, and the enormous head of Lincoln in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. The Stone Mountain Memorial will be the largest piece of sculpture in the world.

Stransky's Renoirs

Three hundred thousand dollars was paid by the Fearon Galleries of Manhattan for a group of paintings collected by Joseph Stransky, famed musical director.* Among the 30 canvases are La Dame en Noir and L'Officier by Renoir and considered by the artist his best portraits. By the same artist are the well-known Lisa, The Japanese Parasol, a composition of figures in a garden setting, Frank Lamy, La Femme et L'Enfant (which created considerable interest in the Loan Exhibition of French Art at the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan, in 1921), and a still life, Flowers, in which the artist's great command of color is particularly well exemplified. Other 19th Century French artists represented are Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Pissarro, Matisse, Boudin. Though small, the Stransky collection is considered the best of its kind in the country. The pictures will be placed on sale.

Fragile Hermes

The plan of the Greek Government to send the statue of Hermes by Praxiteles (TIME, May 5, GREECE) to the U. S. for free view by Art lovers, has been abandoned. This is the result of objections from U. S. and Foreign Archaeological Societies and Museum directors who feared the trip would be dangerous for the ancient Hermes.

* Joseph Straisky was born in CzechoSlovakia in 1874. He studied music in Vienna, and was Conductor of the Royal Opera in Prague, 1898-1903. He then went to Berlin and scored great success as a conductor there. He was called to conduct the New York Philharmonic Society in 1911, occupying that post until last year with distinction. He became the first conductor of the newly-organized State Symphony Orchestra last Fall, which gave during the season, a series of 15 concerts at the Manhattan Opera House and Carnegie Hall (Manhattan). The last season of this new orchestra was so successful that extensive plans have been made for it next year.