BEACH, CHESTER ), American sculptor, was born in San Francisco, Calif., May 23, 188 i . After his prelimi nary education in America he went to Paris where he was a pupil of Verdet and of Roland. Returning to the United States, he settled in New York. He works with the stone, cutting from the rough and revealing his originality in ideas and his skill in modelling in powerful figures such as the bronze "Stoker" and delicate ones such as the marble "Beyond" and "Wavehead." His contrasts, "Tears" and "Laughter," two heads of infants, and "Youth and Age," the heads of a girl and of a hag, are unusually effective, as are his medallions and portraits of children. The marble portrait of his wife is in the Art Institute in Chicago.