Art: Slav Epic

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Particularly fond is he of the Slavic peoples. He has endowed a Slavic chair at the University of Chicago, which for a while was occupied by Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, now President of Czechoslovakia. The successful suitor for the hand of Mr. Crane's daughter Frances was Jan Masaryk, son of the President. It was at a Pan-Slavic dinner in Manhattan that Mr. Crane met Alfons Mucha. Later in their friendship the artist confided his dream of a Slavic Pantheon. This seed had struck the most fertile soil. What Artist Mucha's long, loving labors have cost Mr. Crane is not known. The venerable traveler abjures publicity. He has merely expressed his enthusiasm as a Slavophile.