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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 27 Jan 1923, p. 19

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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1923 19 3 1 ' D0. 0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 00.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.90 90 f STARTS STONE MOUNTAIN WORK Louis Betts, Portrait RI a a a a a a a a aa aaa a ad v . 90 90 , : Painter, Was Reared |& Pave tos 20 d o : & oa : <0 ays 10r oundas 3 In Atmosphere of Art| $1 (0 ¥ p 1 By JESSIE L. FERGUSON W W OUIS BETTS, from his child- | %* . of et ash x 1 hood has lived in the atmos-|¢% 90 phere of art. He was the son on < of E. D. Betts, Sr., a painter of some 4 talent, and the eldest of four children, %° *, all of whom have followed the same | 9* Pays for 20 lbs. of Dry % career. 9,9 i LX 4 Like many another artist of note, 5 ® WwW ash; flat work ironed CS among whom were Valesquez and o o Murillo, the great Spanish painters, oo & Louis Betts received much of his 3: 3 early training in the practical school * h 4 of experience. Armed with a small | 9%* P f 20) 1b f 4 amount of training from his father, 9 | 0 ays or S. 0 oo and the confidence of youth born of | ¢% oe the necessity of making his own way & ® All Ironed W ork oe in the world, he was ready to at- & be 4 tempt ary kind of commercial art : 3 work which he could find to do. Tea °° %* trays, illustrations for advertisements, | %* 9 posters, and many other kinds of dec- & Every Day oo orative work were executed cleverly, & & bringing him financial returns, and at - ad the same time affording him valuable & Every YZ! ay getting be 4 - practice and steady development in ji 4 & his choosen work. One of his earliest attempts at book & Better and Better and Better. 9 illustration was for a novel on the be 4 oe American Indian. The first illustra- 3 * tion submitted to the publisher was so | 9¢ . LX 4 well done that he was commissioned & o to make the illustrations for the entire 4 $ book. This was a most successful | %* Finest Collar Work on Earth %* venture from a financial standpoint, RN oo and he decided to leave his home in| 3 bs Little Rock, Arkansas, and go to New > bo York where greater opportunities | ¢% oe for work as an illustrator might be 4 3 0 9.0 Gutzub Borglum, famous sculptor, is preparing to execute the largest ITs EASY TO PAY 1 3 piece of sculpture in the world--the great memorial to the southern con- A federacy to be carved into the side of Stone mountain, near Atlanta, Ga. CHEVROLET & Phone Wilmette 1800 - The entire work will be 700 feet long and the head of Gen. Robert E. Lee, OUR WAY 4 3 preliminary sketches of which the artist is now making, will be nine feet °° " in height. The nose itself is to be two. feet long. 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B., f ; of San Francisco, California A n nua a [24 O Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church E The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts g THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1ST, 1923 E ' | 8 O'CLOCK z IN THE CHURCH EDIFICE : This ja A Squat force if those who need not | aig Wha me consider cost, but relish the satisfaction o ' E 1003 Central Avenue, Wilmette The public is cordially invited oe "onl % ' oS Cet ret - Soofpluy, 2 Fad E Corner Tenth Street to. attend ose Ww. o ave regarae rienta ugs as a luxury to e.enjoye | sometime in the}future. g The Price Reducti f 25% to 30% appeal to the common sense thrift of the former, and make A Custom ] E = = = Lo] E I = E = dreams come true for the latter. We have been serving the folks of Evanston for so WR years A Few Examples of the Values Offered that it is now taken for granted that we will officiate when there WEE, Sale is a death in the family. 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