Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1922, Page 34

DWIN WILLARD DEMING is holding an cxhibition of his paintings, decorations and bronzes of American Indlans and animals in the Brooklyn Museum.. which Is proving of much known in Deming, Who well | Washington on unt of hav prises not only -architectural work, 3 here, has made @ | but the allied arts, ang special em- life and Is one of | bhasis is to be laid this year on arts o Amerlean artists who has de- and crafts exhibits, work in terra- Vated himself entirely to the pictorfal | cotta, falence, glass, wood., metal, Tnterpretation of the Amerlean Iu-jtextiles und leather. For the best dian work in this department as well as He was born in 1860 in Ashland, | work in architecture, decorative paint- Te was still a little ohio, child his pa of land in IMinok manhood and habit the life an His early n the_differen them, ph homa w Mr. Deming liv tting Bull's camp when (he last outbreak occurr: (nd Witiies: - big war dance b fore the Knee fight. He was adopted as the son of White Culi. the fumous old of the Tilack Foot trib e sun dance wien it was still religiou the entertainment of tourlsts. In | Arizona and New Mex he lived with the Apaches and s 2 ter leaving Washing- to South Ind : ribe of pigmy which no white man previ- as vistted. > Brooklyn exhibitiem comprises ity-one exhibits, fifty-four paint- 5. fourteen b and three se- Wk illus ons. Among the srtant o is the series aintings rece made in South America Another interesting group original designs of wall in the Morris High School in New York. The bronzes are of buffalo, antelope, bears, puma, lynx and groups of Indians and animzls. Mr. Demint seemz (0 Lo counlly sue- sful as a painter and sculptor. * ok ok ok interest attaches to the g of the seventh annual exhibition of the Brooklyn Society of hers in the print rooms of the Kiyn Museum on December 20, the rotary exhibition reiety. comprising be shown here in the stitution under the urts January 10 because of lent of the so- . is a former snd twenty-two prints izes are to be Bijur prize irint by an e g | York announces interest. | Fine Arts galleries from January 28 tract } ture, a medal of honor will be awarded. Hudeon Dy | Since |integrating effect of weather. A | Chateau D'lssy at Meudon. through | sehool, rite rather shan | ( }1in, with clever lines and a plot un- N T ew York to increase interest In cur- t exhibitions. | * ¥k ¥ Architectural League of New its thirty-eighth ~annual exhibition, to be held in the to February 26. This exhibition com- | ing. sculpture and landscape architec- * | 7PHE Detroit Institute of Arts is fortunate In having recefved as a Zift a full sized replica of Rodiu's Thinker,” “Le Penseur.” This is without question one of the greatest works of sculpture of modern times. { For many years the original'stood In front of the Parthenon in Parls. odin’s death, however, It has | oved to the Rodin Museum, | is said. because of the plica has been erected over Rodin's burial place near the ruin of the * ok k¥ NNETH STEVENS MACINTIRE who has been an instructor in .e Broadmoor Art Academy summer | Colorado Springs, Colo., hi come to Washington and is opening el here in co-operation with Mrs. George Oakley Totten, jr., in the, garden studio, rear of 2653 16th strect. Mrs. Totten, who was Vicken von -Post of Sweden, and whose sculpture both | in porcelain and bronze has won her | enviable reputation, will conduct | classes in modeling and composition. | * AT the Arts Club there is at the present time an exhibition of: aintings by members.. Among those | represented are Miss Catherine { Critcher, Miss Bertha Noyes. Miss| Sarah Munroe. Mr. Musgrave and Mrs. | Edith Ogden Heidel i LEILA MECHLIN. Current Attractions laughs are promised by George Alex- ander and his company in “Hard Boiled Hampton.” a sketch written by Billy Miller and Stenphen Champ- like other comsdy sketch Pe mane and Shelley in * lley-Pulley have a novelty, with musical special- ties. Dolly Irving and Tom Elwood. “A Bouquet of Songs,” sung by fine volces and little effort at comedy, and Leo Zarrell and company will offer balancing, tumbling and acrobatics. “Timothy's Quest,” a photoplay fea- turing a juvenile cast, is the fillm at- traction. Master Joseph Depew and Baby Helen Rowland are its stars. Other film features comedles, news reels and witty paragraphs will com- member of the Arms memorial 25 for the t by a member and the Henry ) for the best by member or | The tightful \ring much nearer $1.000. The same of the works of some of our one may note ion of etchings he (‘orcora the prin heen had made for $30 * x ok ¥ IN DAY HALLE aund Miss DeV. Clements have nen T $40. the plate \['SS ELiE ¥ Gabrielie roturned to Wushington, after an ab- nee of a year, two-thirds of which, not more, was spent in southern brought back with them from ¥ number of etch- inis delightfully suj ive of the Guaint charm of the Sicillan cities. h Miss Hale and Miss Clements iliful etchers, realizing both the bilities and the limitations of the um and employing it well. Miss has perbaps the advantag and simplicity 5 Clements b of line but M X the use of tint und color. t making some very periments alonyg ex- celled in She i nte at pre: sting e and artistic resuits, the intention of Miss Hale 1t and Mi: Clements to spend the win- ter tn the south, and for this reason they rented their S e alley studio for the se lingering on in Washington and may Le here for some weeks. * K ok X TBEN COMINS, who is noy o.cupy- ~ ing Miss Hale and M lements’ studio in St. Matthe alley, artist who has won enviable is a oston yeputation as @ painter of portraits und figure: For 4 number of summers he has | tad a studie at ster and | sas conducted o giving | « udents and others. One win- ‘er not long ugo he spent in Califor- 1ot, wheraf he painted a number of | sortraits of prominent persons. Un- uekily his studio at Gloucester wurned last summer, the fire con- <uming not only the little building hut twenty or more of Mr. Comins' works. In the National Musenm, in the de- partment of history, in the war collec- fon is to be n a series of por- traits by Mr. Comins of typical doughboys, men in the ranks with whom I came fn contact, painted to <how fo those in the future who may be interested the variety of racial| influence uted in the A, 1. MF, Com cvening tireat Cvele of P explained sonie Club " in which he own theories of those painters deeply interested in while Art been modern movement in art, tho : | Hudgins an priced at $300 i":}l’nr. ) 5 this | trio of authors to be prese ine which promises to produce unusual | = Helen Robbins. guest play: ’ day and Saturday nights and Satur- | at the Arcade this week. The special ‘ high-jinks affair of a brilllant terpei- taik last Thursday | plete the bill. GAYETY—“Town Scandals.” “Town Scandals at the Gayety Theater this week. promises an agr tation of song, dance e Harry Le Van and s uties. will be featured as the chief mirth prevoker, and he wiil have the as- Sictance of Van Brothers and Johnny Hudgins in getting the last ounce of comedy out cf a series of original scenes. The fair sox will be handsomely repsented by a chorus of twenty sing- ing and dancing girls, with Maude | Buxter featured as the prima donna: Rose Chevlier, a dainty dancer, who will lead dance numbers, and: Ger- maine and Anneta La Pierre, French music hall dancers, in specialities. Baxter and Le Van will offer a piano. song snd comedy turn, and John imitation of Bert Wil- Ram's Head Players Wednesday. The Ram's Head Players will open their_ little playhouse Wednesday for the season, glving ten performances of each production. during a perlod of two weeks, and making six productions during the season of twelve weeks. No performances will be given on Mon- days and Tuesdays, as those days are to be held for fin the direction of Robert Reynolds and Walter Beck. “The bill chosen for the first produc- tion next Wednesday is a combination of the romantic play of the moyen age, the word-pantomime and the Irish folk Branch Cabell, author of under James rehearsals, Bell, James and satire, whose dance “Jergen"; dramas the f Reynolds. ballets are among the finest on the stage | today. and J. M. Synge, the “genius of | the little theater in Ireland. N ‘ht:l ! i ed. from New Hutchinson. Leona Tves, James Reynoids, Robert Bell, Walter Beck, Lester Shafer and Maurice McRae all appear in the production, for which James Reynolds has designed the costumes‘and settings Performances of this production will be given Wednesday. Thursday, Fri- York; Josephine Robei day afternoon of this week, and on the same nights and afternoon the week following. All information may be had at the theater regarding sub- scriptions and r “tions. — Ascuse. The Yuletide spirit s to be Teflected preparation are a great a matine: events in louble-header” tomorro ~ from 3 to 6 and dance in the evening: dance, with novel souvenirs, Thursday; a_“Paul Jones” dance i the upper ballroom Friday. when the Pi-Tau-Pi Fraterni will occupy the uditorium, and a New Year eve cal al Saturday, described as ¢ “greatest horn-tootin' hum-diggi chorean yea Coming productio ckard, ot aceepting it in its entirety: in in hls work combines the spirit ©f modernity with that of tradition, discarding. did some of the early masters, great depth of shadow and seeking to simplify his expression according to the tenets of the latter day school. He is a thoughtful and skillful painter, and his works have found admission to the foremost ex- \ibitions. = * ok ok % HE Washington Water Color Club will hold its annual exhibition in the Corcoran Gallery of Art In Janu- y. The American Water Color So- ety and the New York Water Color jub are holding their annual exhi- bitions at the present time in the Fine Arts building, 215 West 57th =treet, New York. This exhibition, \which opened with a private view on Tiecember 22, continues until Janu- 9. On Wednesdays and Satur- s from 4 to 6 tea is being served il this exhibition. The evening of January 4 is to be artists’ night, when an informal revel will take place, the several artists performing “stunts.” and at which time an- uncement will be made of the as- sociate member to whom a picture valued at $100 will be presented by the New York Water Color Club. On e afternoon of January 5 the Fed- ated Women's Club of New Jersey will be recelved. And on the morn- ing of January €, under the auspices o»f the School Art League of New York, an Informal talk and tour by Dr. James Parton Haney will be «iven the school children. These 3ro the methods taken in act, - Aliracle Man. STRAND—“Now and Then.” ¥ive of the best vaudeville acts of Loew's circuit are promised at the Strand next week. Will Stanton and company will offer a musical oddity in two scenes entitled “Now and Then,” one of the best musical nov- elty acts the Strand has yet presented. Others include the Three Walters in | “Daring Feats of Kccentricities”; Brennan and Winne in “Melodies_Old and New”; Eddie Tanner and the Pal- mer Sisters in a_humorous novelty, “When We Grow Up,” and J. Hunter Wilson and . Fenton McEvoy ml “Regular Pals." Shirley Mason will be featured in the screen offering, “Shirley of the Circus,” a circus story with action and thrills, GAYETY—“Social Maids.” Next week the Gayety Theater will present “The Social Maids,” featur- ing George Stone and Etta Pillard. This is 2 Joe Hurtig production, and that means lavish expenditures for scenery, costumes and stage equip- ment“generally, with a well drilled and attractive chorus. 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