Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1916, Page 13

-~ — PART TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO EIGHT VOL. XLVI—NO. 23. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1916. PART TWO MAGAZINE PAGES ONE TO EIGHT SINGLE" COPY FIVE CENTS. Their Judgment Determines Art Display CLUBDQM Calendar of Club Doings Monday— ) Omaha Woman's club, political and social science department, Metropolitan club house, 2:30 p. m y Association of Collegiate Alumnae, music sec- tion, Miss Henriksen, hostess, 4 p. m. Chautauqua circle, Tennyson chapter, Mrs. \V. A. George, hostess, 2:30 p. m. Tuesday— Omaha Woman's club, oratory department, Metropolitan club house, 10 a. m.; current topics department, 2:30 p. m., and philosophy and ethics department, 4 p. m. Business Women's Council, court house, 11 to 2 p. m. e Custer Woman's Relief Corps, Sunshine club, Mrs. M. J. Funk, hostess. > Business Women's club, Y. W. C. A, 8 p. m. Drama league, public library, 4 p. m Wednesday— Association of Collegiate Alumnae, called meet- in Hotel Fontenelle, 4 p. m.* Dundee Woman's club, Mrs. J. W. Marshell, hostess, 2:30 p. m. Mu Sigma, Mrs. George Platner, hostess, 9:30 Omaha Society of Fine Arts, lecture by Prof. J. B. Haney, Hotel Fontenelle, 3:45 p. m. g Association of Collegiate Alumnae, story tellers section, Miss Edith Fisher, hostess, 4 p. m. Mothers’ Culture club, Mrs, J. C. Buffington, hostess, 1 p. m. . . Old People’s Home, “Donation day. Thursday— B Omaha Woman’s club, art department, Metro- politan club house, 10 a. m, . Benson Woman’s club, Benson cxty‘hal.l, 2:30 Wyche Story Tellers’ league, public library, 4:15 p. m. : . B’nai B'rith Ladies’ auxiliary, Lyric hall, 8 p. m. Fine Arts’ exhibit, gallery talk by Dr. Haney, 10 a. m. Friday— Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Hotel Fontenelle, 3:45 p. m. West Omaha Mothers’ Culture club, Mrs. Ed- ward Peterson, hostess, 2:30"p. m. : Child Conservation league, North Side circle, Mrs. C. H. Savidge, hostess. Society of American Widows, Crounse block, 7:45 p. m. Dmcaspclub, Mrs. M. N. Woodward, hostess, 2p. m. Worl:mn's auxiliary, Episcopal churches, St Barnabas, 2:30 p. m. Saturday— Association of Collegiate Alumnae, drama sec- tion, Miss Juliet Griffin, hostess, 10:45 a. m. OLITICS will be replaced by esth:ztics this week and Omaha women Who love the beau- tiful in art will, afford the community an opportunity to enjoy as fine a collection of contemporary art as could be assembled for the next ten days, in the Fontenelle ball room, Mrs. Ward Burgess and her issuflpts or the exhibition committee of the Omaha Society .of Fine Arts it is who bring to Omaha a collection of paintings by five artists who stand at the head of their profession—Emil Carlson,_ Childe Hassam, Frederick Fricseke, Charles H. Davis and Paul Dougherty. Five canvases from the brush of each is included in the exhibit, the work of each of these artists being represented in the important galleries of America, and ope at least in France, Italy and Austria. . Emil Carlsen, born in Denmark, came to this country when 19 years of age, bringing with him the old Viking’s love of the great waters. There is a poetic, or one may say, spiritual quality in Carl- sen’s work. A Frederick Frieseke, winner of the grand prize at the Panama exposition, is a delightful artist. His canvases are perhaps superficial, but exceedingly decorative and altogether charming. The examples of Mr. Frieseke’s work to be shown here are of the highest quality. 4 Paul Dougherty, the marine painter, who better than others, has interpreted atmospheric effects on luminous spray, shows to Omaha five marines. One, a calm sea, is rather ungsual for Dougherty, as the power, latent cruelty and the speed of high billows is what one usually finds and has grown to expect in a Dougherty canvas. Kenyon Cox says, “With Childe Hassam, the subject matters nothing. - Whether he paints the sea or the land, the cool nudity of white nymps among rose-tinted laurel blossoms, or the canyons of New York, his art is of the same quality. It is the freshness and vigor of his observations, the solidity of his design, his sparkling light and color, and the deft embroidery of his touch that inevitably attracts and delights us.” Charles H. Davis, one of the strongest landscape painters, is thought by many to be the greatest. A well known criti¢, speakirig of the work of Mr. Davis at a late exhibit, says, “Everywhere is dash, free- dom, personality, nature, charm.” It will be inter- esting to compare/ these pictures with the one of 1890 now in the public library. -Six admission tickets will be sold for one dollar Mr. Dougherty threw a bomb into art circles last winter when he expressed his dissatisfaction at the way people go to art exhibitions and museums “Who has not seen them,” he asked. “Flocks of victims, shuffling through the museums, being in- structed on dates, tags - - labels—what have these nistorical ana and cssional rhapsodists got to do with art? An intelligent child might get, if leit to himself, something from a visit to the Metro- politan museum, provided no cultured individuals were there to tell him what was the proper thing to feel, or prevent his feeling anything but a desire to escape.” Prof. Stockton Axson’s lecture still lingering in our minds, attention is directed to the next lectures of the Fine Arts society course, those of Dr. James P. Haney. director of art in the New York high schools. Dr. Haney tells the “Relation of Art to Home and Community Life,” Wgdnesday afternoon at 3:45 at the Fentenelle and talks again Friday afternoon 4t the same hour on “The Art of ing Art,” a lecture illustrated by a class of fifty school children. Arrangements have been made for Dr. Haney to address high school teachers Thurs- day and he will probably give a gallery talk at the exhibition as well. The last lecture, which will be an exposition of his method, promises to be the most interesting. Dr. Haney always makes drawings before the audi- ence, in connection with his method of teaching art to children. These are supplemented by lantern slides and very frequently he calls upon several of the audience to assist by posing for the speaker while he sketches. ive hundred children are often in the class at one time. Another speaker of interest during the be Mrs. Gertrude F. Martin of Ithaca, N. Y. exccutive secretary for the Association giate Alumnaec, who speaks to local college women eek will Wednesd 4 o'clock at the Hotel Fontenelle Om college women will give a luncheon for her Tuesday at the university club and Wednesday ceven ing. the officers and executive committee of the loca! association will entertain her at dinner at The Fon- tenelle Committee of Fine Arts Society on Whose Taste Depends Nature of Annual Exhibit in Omaha RINEHAR? 5I2FFENS Mps WizLiAM GARRATT SOCIETY Social Calendar Monday— Tea for Miss Regina Connell, Mrs. John W. Towle, hostess. Original Monday Bridge club, Mrs. Osgood T. Eastman, host Luncheon for Miss Marian Mathers of Green- ville, Pa., Miss Helen Dunham, hostess. M. L. club dancing party at the Metropolitan club house ' Tuesday— F'uesday Night Dancing club at the Hotel Fon- tenell Luncheon at University club giveff by the As- sociation of Collegiate Alumnae for Mrs. Ger- trude F. Martin of Ithaca, N. Y, Dancing party at Metropolitan club house, Luncheon given Miss Margaret Donelan of Plattsmouth for Miss Marian Mathers and Miss Lounise Hupp of Chicago. - Tea for Miss Nell Calvin, Miss Mary Furay, hostess Women of First Congregational church present Dr. Frederick Mantel in recital at First Con- gregational church % Wednesday— Bridge-luncheon for Miss Regina Connell, Mrs. J. M. Metcalf, hostess. Omaha Woman's Press club luncheon at Hotel Loyal, 12:45, Dinner given by the exccutive board of A. C. A, for Mrs. Martin, Assembly dance at Turpin's Dancing academy. Trinity Parish A society, Mrs. J. J. Sullivan, hostess, 10:30. W. W. club Juncheon, Mrs. Charles Bruenig, hostess W. GO T, Ul Omaha union, Y. M. C. A, 2 p. m. J ", Frances Willard ‘union, Y. W. W. €. T. U, North Side union, Mrs. G. W. Tiffev, hostess Thursday— Pagalco club dance at Rome hotel. Dancing party at Metropolitan club house. 1. F. W. club, Mrs. Miltan Dodds, hostess. P. E. O. Sisterhood, Chapter E, Mrs. Harry Rinder, hostess, 1 p. m. Omaha W. C, T. UL, fortieth anniversary, Hans- com Park M. E. church, I p. m. Friday— « Qui Vive Dancing club at Turpin's. Friday Bridge club, Miss Mary Burkley, hostess. “Friday Night Dancing club at Druid hall, Saturday— Masquerade dancing party, at Metropolitan hall, Miss Dorothy Bingham, hostess, P. E. O. Sisterhood, Chapter M, Mrs. C. W, Sears, ho. HO SATD that a dull scason is in pros- pect? Because society, like the bon vivant after he dines, now and then pauses to take forty, winks, need the world conclude that Omaha is hibernat- ing? Our autumn brides, it is true, will all soon establish their own menages and cease to be centers of interest. _The first bride was like a modest purple violet; the second, like a colorful pink rose; the third, like a sunny yellow chrysan- themum. Our first? debutante was like a dreamy white narcissus and our latest is like a blushing pink-tinted sweet pea. Did the gay debut party for this last flower Thursday evening presage an uneventful winter? Surely the young people who one-stepped and fox- trotted so blithely without missing a number will hardly lapse into a state of coma soon. Nor will their elders be far behind them in conviviality if their evident enjoyment of the dancing s an index. Minutes of dancing grew into fraction hours when some especially popular selection was played, and when the musicians suggested that the L be struck out of Kelly, the dancers so persistently forbade the lced that only after repeated encores were they silenced. So many pretty girls and so many really 'andsome young men will meet by irresistible attrac- tion to form a socicty for the prevention of social stupidity. Mrs. John W. Towle's tea for Miss Connell Mon- day will be followed by the bridge luncheon, given by Mrs. J. M. Metcalf, Wednesday. The remainder of the time is packed full with all sorts of interesting events. The zealous work- ers for the Franco-Belgian Relicf society, in addi- tion to doing their daily stint of making bandages and compresses, are hard at work procuring prizes for their card party at the Blackstone, December 2. Such generous response is being received to their appeal that Mrs. John McShane, president, is very hopeful of its success. The funds derived from the card party will be used to supply aterial for the work, and all the women are hoping for is a sum sufficient to buy plenty of muslin, cotton and gauze. Several visiting girls are in town, delightful girls for whom it is a pleasure to entertain. Miss Mariah Mathers of Greenville, Pa., who is siting Miss Mil- dred Todd on her way to Ca fornia, and Miss Louise Hupp of Chicago. who is frequently the guest of Miss Helen Van Dusen, are sharing honors’ at numerous functions. This afternoon Miss Van Dusen is giving a tea for them: tomorrow Miss Helen Dunham will entertain at luncheon and Tues- day they are planning a little trip to Plattsmouth, where Miss Margaret Donelan will give a luncheon in their honor. Miss Mary Van Kleeck of New Haven, Conn,, and Miss Margaret Dows of Cedar Rapids, Ia., will be the guests of Miss Regina Con- neil for another week. Miss Van Kleeck came to be maid of honor at the wedding of Miss Isabel Vinsonhaler and stayed over for the debut of Miss Connell, both of whom were her classmates at Brad- ford academy. Miss Dows came for the debut and was one of the most popular girls at the party. Monday evening sees the regular society night throng at the Orpheum. With some it has become second nature to sit in an Orpheum seat each Mon- day evening. Tuesday evening the elect may attend the dances of the new Tuesday Evening Dancing club at the Fontenelle, which is the most exclusive party meeting weekly. If you must dance Wednes- day evening there is a regular assembly dance at lurpin’s that evening, and Thursday evening some partics are sure to drop in at the Metropolitan club house to enjoy the good music and- the good floor there Saturday evening Miss Dorothy Bingham is giy- g a little masquerade dancing party for about ffty guests of the younger set at the Metropolitan club. Meetings of bridge clubs, bridge-luncheon ‘clubs will Il in the time for the members, Monday Mrs. Osgood T. Eastman will entertain the Original Monday bridge. Friday Miss Mary Burkley will have the Friday Bridge club. One of the” newest arrivals in Omaha will be ‘ntertained this week when Miss Mary Furay gives ea Thursday afternoon for Miss™ Nell Calvin, thter of E “alvin and Mrs. Calvin, whom she 1 Salt Lake City. The Association of Colle- Alumnae will give a luncheon Tuesday and dinner Wednesday for Mrs. Gertrude F. Martin i Ithaca, N. Y., national executive secretary of the association, who will talke before the association olficers on several occasions this week.