In Cleveland

Surrounded by dreary houses, blackened by the soot that creeps into the air from factory chimneys and shaken at intervals by sluggish trolley cars, there stands in Cleveland a building known as Slovenian Hall--rendezvous for exiled Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians. Last week this hall blazed with light and wit. The Slovenians of Cleveland entertained their most widely celebrated countryman, Ivan Mestrovic, sculptor. Ivan Zorman, spokesman for Cleveland Slovenians, was toastmaster; other prominent citizens--John Gornik, Frank Tomic, Rev. George Petrovic, Bojeslav Mihalievic, W. M. Milliken-- spoke. In the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sculptor Mestrovic's work stood on exhibit.

Ivan Mestrovic once tended sheep in a valley in Dalmatia. In copying the reliques of Greek and Roman art he showed such ability that his father apprenticed him to a master mason. In 1911 he won the Prix de Rome. Almost all important capitals have seen exhibitions of his work.