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THE CLARE TREE

MAJOR COMPANY presents A Play from England in the International Series for Children "The Enjoyment of a Robin Hood " Poetry" Course The Colorful Adventures of Robin Hood and His Band of Jolly Dr. MARK VAN DOREN, Chairman Outlaws in Sherwood Forest. Saturday Afternoon, March 21, LOUIS UNTERMEYER at 3 o'clock Monday Evening, March 16 LEONORA SPEYER Monday Evening, March 23 Opera House Academy of Music Remaining Dates to be announced Tickets on Sale Saturday, March 7, at 8:30 a.m. To Members 25c, 50c, 75c. $1.00, $1.50 Lecture Hall Academy of Music Boxes $1.00, $1.50 To Non-Members $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 Single Admission: $1.50 Boxes $1.75, $2.00

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"SCREEN OF SPANISH LADIES" By Natalia Goncharova

EXHIBITION OF MODERN PAINTINGS AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM The Brooklyn Museum opened to the public on Tuesday, February 17, a room of modern paintings loaned by Miss Mary H. Wiborg. All of the artists represented are much in the public eye at present and have been for some time so that visitors to the Museum will be afforded a chance to see some of the finest examples of the work of these artists. Those represented are Picasso, Chirico, Vlaminck, Leger, M adeleine Luka and Natalia Goncharova. There are seven paintings and two screens, the latter done by Goncharova, the Russian artist. The exhibition is hung in a special room on the fourth floor and will be on view for an extended period.

"EES AMOUREl'X" By Pablo Picasso

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CONTENTS Page Page Frontispiece, "St. John," by Andrea San- Plays for Children 259 soytno 252 Events from March 25 to April 8 260, 261 The Institute 253 Travel Tales 261 Theodore Roosevelt 253 Electrical Wonders 961 Rachmaninoff 254, 263 Understanding One's Self (David Seabury) . 262 Communism 262 hlNSTEIN S 1 HEORY (PROF. V. KARAPETOFF) ... 254 At Home in Many Lands 264 The Photography Exhibition .... 254, 255, 256, 257, 258 "Craig's Wife" (Institute Players) 264 Lous L'ntermeyer 254 "Robin Hood" (Clare Tree Major Company) 264

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This lovely statue in marble of St. John■ is attributed to the Florentine sculptor, Andrea Sansovino. It is three feet six inches in height. Sansovino, himself the son of a shepherd, has here presented the Saint as a graceful shepherd boy, seated on a rock, a shell in one hand and his pipe hanging from the other. At his feet lies a lamb. The beautifully modeled head with long curling locks is turned to look over the right shoulder. The statue is from the collection of the late Daniel Z. Noorian who obtained it in Bologna, Italy, in 1900. It is one of the features of the sale of his possessions to take place at the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., on March 12, 13 and 14. The objects will go on exhibition March 7.

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Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Brooklyn, New York City, March 7, 1931 VOLUME XXXV NUMBER 14

THE 1 INSTITUTE THEODORE ROOSEVELT One of the chief avenues to self-realization and de¬ Theodore Roose¬ velopment during leisure hours is the Brooklyn Insti¬ velt has been called tute of Arts and Sciences. There are few better ways "the last great Amer¬ of spending these spare hours than in partaking of the ican,"—not without many activities of the Institute. Here in its Depart¬ reason, for he was an ment of Education any citizen may obtain at low cost embodiment of all access to the finest gifts of thought, past and present, that was best in the access to the latest information in art, letters and in spirit of a nation science—instruction in almost every subject of current which is now of the human interest. Its work knows no restriction of past. The United class, creed or years. States of today is not The Department's yearly program must cover a that of the era which wide range of mental interests, for its Membership ended with the War represents a great cross-section of humanity. Life to and which was pass- such a Membership speaks a various language. There ing before 1914. Per¬ must accordingly be found in the program something haps the new national of interest to the casual listener who does not wish to incarnation is better keep his mind in cold storage nor to devote himself —time alone can tell—but it is assuredly different. to study with the zeal of a scholar; something for If Roosevelt also exhibited some of the faults and those who would invest hours of leisure in instructive shortcomings of his day that is merely to say that he entertainment; something for the alert-minded, intent was human and no demigod. To those who knew on keeping step with the significant happenings and and loved him progress of the day, and something for the serious He was a man, take him for all in all, student, hungering for knowledge and increased intel¬ Eye shall not look upon his like again. lectual capacity. As attendance is voluntary, lecturers of exceptional ability are required. The program is The Roosevelt Memorial Association has rendered therefore rich in vital, inspiring personalities, men an excellent service to the present generation in the who are natural teachers by grace of God rather than preparation of some dozen reels of motion pictures by grace of books. covering the more important, significant phases of The great danger to a democracy is that it will pass Roosevelt's astonishingly varied career. The mass from the guidance of thinking men, men of high pur¬ of literature about him, both of adulation and of par¬ pose, of enlightened judgment, into the hands of the tisan detraction, is much too new to be of great value self-seekers and the demagogues. Who can measure to the present younger generation. Visual impres¬ the leavening influence of a group of several thousand sions are far more efficient for the present. There men and women quickened mentally by the great was so much of picturesqueness in his life—ranch¬ minds of the past and present, deepened spiritually by- man, scholar, police commissioner, naturalist, diplo¬ all that is ennobling in music and the arts and all that mat, historian, governor, soldier, big-game hunter, makes for culture for self and for olhers. Scholarship president, explorer—that it lends itself well to pic¬ which does not fertilize the soil of our common hu¬ torial treatment. He was greatly versatile, an all- manity must in the end prove barren. A work like round man— that of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences .... the elements which brings together the scholar and the people, So mixed in him, that Mature might stand up which makes the scholar popular and inspires in the And say to all the world, "This was a man!" people faith and interest in his ideals and achieve¬ ments, is a movement equally in the interest of sound In his lecture Sunday afternoon, March 15, Pro¬ scholarship and real democracy. fessor W illiam Lyon Phelps will discuss, among other hooks, the following: "The Diaries of John B1 ock printing, most ancient of all methods of Bright," edited by R. A. J. Walling; "Horror House," producing pictures in duplicate and now becoming a by Carolyn Wells; "Theatre Street," by Tamara popular means of expression for the creative artist, Karsavlna; "Wordsworth," by C. H. Herford; will he demonstrated by Mr. Ernest \X. W atson in "Lives of A Bengal Lancer," by F. X eats-Brown, and the Art Boom, Tuesday evening, March 10. "The Bible as Literature," by C. H. Dinsmore. Page Two Hundred fifty-three THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

RACHMANINOFF THE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Sergei Rachmaninoff, the eminent Russian pianist Examination of the sample pictures from the Forty- and composer, will give his only Brooklyn recital of First Annual Exhibition of the Institute's Department the season under Institute auspices on Friday evening, of Photography, reproduced elsewhere in this issue March 27. When Rachmaninoff seats himself at the of the Bulletin, will demonstrate something of the excellence and attractiveness of the display now to be seen at the Brooklyn Museum. One should remem¬ ber that a printed reproduction of such photographs, however good, rarely, if ever, does justice to the original. That is particularly so in the case of the somewhat impressionistic examples. To be fully ap¬ preciated these pictures should be viewed as they are. To those unacquainted with the development of ar¬ tistic photography, they will be a revelation. Not so long ago the painter and the engraver were somewhat given to depreciating photography, claim¬ ing it was a purely mechanical device and of no real artistic value. In the beginning that was so; and it is still so when the manipulation of the camera and the printing remain in the hands of one without ar¬ tistic ability. But in the hands of an artist the proc¬ esses of photography become merely tools for the expression of the creative artist's ideas—tools in the same sense that the painter's brushes and palette piano he proceeds to make his audience forget the per¬ knife and ground colors are tools. And to use these former and everything else in the rapt attention it mechanical and chemical tools effectively is in some accords to the chosen music. respects more difficult than to use pencil or paint Foremost of living musicians, he plays with an ap¬ brush. Photography is capable of ranking as a fine parently absolute mastery of every resource of his art. art—an art that truly conceals art. It seems futile to speak of technical facility in the case of a performer who has long since forgotten that technical difficulties LOUIS UNTERMEYER exist. A poet who began Possessing great force and at times playing with his business career at crashing power, Rachmaninoff never goes beyond the age of seventeen the limit of beauty in musical tone; he does not let as a manufacturing speed becloud clearness and distinct articulation. j e w e 1 e r, and re¬ Rachmaninoff is not an interpreter of unyielding mained in the jewelry objectivity and every now and then there seems to he business to the age heard in familiar compositions something never heard of 38, finding time before. It is a case of a great musician and a great during that period pianist putting poetry and passion and soaring im¬ for the production of agination into his interpretations. half a dozen vol¬ umes of verse and of miscellaneous criti¬ EINSTEIN'S THEORY cal writing, has a The third and last lecture on Einstein's restricted somewhat unusual theory of relativity by Professor V. Kar\petoff, of background. E. C. Cornell University, will be given on Saturday eve¬ S T E o M A N was a ning, March 14. During the first lecture the speaker hanker; other parallels could he found but, tradi¬ outlined certain difficulties with the ether theory in tionally, the poet is not often a good business man. explaining some physical and astronomical phenom¬ Mr. Louis Untermeyer also has the still rarer dis¬ ena; at the second lecture he mainly dwelt on the tinction of having seen some of his hooks run space-time relationships postulated by Lorentz and through several editions. He is one of the best of Einstein, irrespective of whether these relationships our poetry anthologists. He has produced too a are true or not for our world. During the third lec¬ good deal of excellent parody and even burlesque ture Professor Karapetoff will bring together the without having suffered the fate of some other singers phenomena discussed at the first lecture and the who are recognized by the average reader as merelv theory explained at the second lecture and will show "funny men" or "columnists." For Mr. Unter¬ an agreement between the theory and the experimen¬ meyer is—despite all these qualifications—a genuine tal data. If time permits, he will explain briefly at poet, of serious achievement. He will give the lec¬ the end the nature of Maxwell's electromagnetic ture-reading in the course on "The Enjoyment of equations and their significance. Poetry" on Monday evening, March 16. Page Two Hundred fifty-four THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Representative Prints from

The Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Pictorial Photography By the Department of Photography, The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

MARCH 3 BROOKLYN MUSEUM MARCH 31

'THE OLD LANDING PLACE" 'THE LITTLE OLD MILL" By Edward I). Mudge By Rudolph G. Paul

"THE STREAM THKOl'GH THE BRIDGE" "A BRETON PEASANT" By J. M. Bergen By Myers R. Jones Page Two Hundred fifty-five THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Pictorial Photography

"A TEA ROSE" By H. Richardson Cremer

By Walter E. Owen By Antoinette B. Hervey Page Two Hundred fifty-six THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Pictorial Photography

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"THEY TOIL NOT" "MORNING SHADOWS" By Mrs. J. Petrocelli By Harry B. Fisher

"OLD MADISON CHI RCH" "STREET IN BELLAGIO" By Harry D. Scribner By Mary Caelaghan Page Two Hundred fifty-seven THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Pictorial Photography

"YOUNG NINETY"

"BOYS WILL BE BOYS" "CAESAR" By Samuel P. Ward By Jefferson Skinner Page Two Hundred fifty-eight THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

PLAYS FOR CHILDREN Normal children are naturally fond of "making- believe." They love to act themselves, to dress up and perform dramas of their own invention. This his¬ trionic instinct is deeply ingrained in the human make-up and it develops at a very early period. It follows that children are especially attracted by and interested in dramatic shows of all sorts. The better the play, the more will it be appreciated, for children are inexorable critics. The thing must be done in the right way to gain their approval. \ et there are few stage offerings for children; hardly anything in the legitimate theatre and little of value in motion pictures. That is one reason why audiences of 2200 children and their parents crowd the Opera House to its capacity when the Clare Tree Major Company comes to the Institute. The picture on this page shows the largest audience, according to Mrs. Major, that is drawn in this coun¬ try by a play for children. Every seat in the Opera House was taken for "Little Women." It is interest¬ ing to note from the picture that many little women of other years are still fascinated by the imperishable story of Louisa M. Alcott's.

Mr. A. Kupchik, former New York State Chess MRS. MARCH WITH MEG. TO, BETH AND AMY. Champion, gave an interesting simultaneous chess ex¬ LOUISA M. ALCOTT'S IMMORTAL LITTLE WOMEN hibition to the members of the Institute Chess Club in the Art Room on Saturday evening, February 28. none and drew three—one with his son, one with Flaying against twenty-three members of the Club Dr. R. C. Slater, member of the Club, and one with and their guests, including his son, P. Kupchik, a Mr. Edward Sill, a guest. Play began at 8:30 p.m. high school boy of 13, he won twenty games, lost and the final game was finished at 11 p.m.

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Sat., Mar. 28. Chess Club. Members of Brooklyn Institute The INSTITUTE BULLETIN Chess Club will meet for play from 2 to 6 p.m. and from PUBLISHED BY 8 to 11 p.m. Art Room. THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Sat., Mar. 28. Department of Dramatic Art. All-Talking Motion Picture Program, including latest News Releases and Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," featuring Leslie The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Howard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Music Hall, 2:30 p.m. Weekly Ticket admits one. Guest Ticket, Annual Subscription, $2.00 To Members, Free 50 cents. Single Numbers, 15 cents Postage, extra, 3 cents Sat., Mar. 28. Department of Astronomy. Round Table Conference. John G. Steffee, Chairman. Subject: Sym¬ posium—Early American Astronomers. Short Papers and Life Membership in the Institute $500.00 Addresses by various Members. Science Room, 8:15 Sustaining Members, Annual Dues 25.00 p.m. Sat., Mar. 28. Department of Engineering. Lecture, by DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Henry W. Troelsch, Designing Engineer, American Bridge Company. Subject: The Great Bridges of Neiv Associate Membership, Registration Fee $5.00 York (illustrated by lantern views and motion pictures). Associate Membership, Annual Dues 10.00 Lecture Hall, 8:15 p.m. Sun., Mar. 29. Department of Philology. The A. Au¬ gustus Healy Foundation. Twelfth in a Course of four¬ Officers of the Board of Trustees teen Lectures on "Contemporary Books Worth Reading," Frank L. Babbott Honorary President by Dr. William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English Literature, Yale University. Opera House, 3 Edward C. Blum President p.m. Weekly Ticket admits one. Reserved Seat Walter H. Crittenden First Vice-President Tickets for front section of Parquet may be purchased William A. Putnam Second Vice-President by presenting Weekly Ticket and 50 cents at Institute Adrian Van Sindf:ren Third Vice-President Box Office. Guest Ticket, 50 cents. G. Foster Smith Treasurer Mon., Mar. 30. Department of Botany. Lecture, by John H. Denbigh Secretary Vivien May Parker, of the World Agricultural Society. Subject: Home Gardens in Many Lands (illustrated by Officers of the Council colored lantern views, native songs in costumes of coun¬ Hon. William R. Bayes President tries described, and music). Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Stansbury Hagar Secretary Mon., Mar. 30. Department of Geography. Last in a Director Series of four illustrated Travel Lectures, by B. R. Baum¬ Charles D. Atkins gardt, F.R.A.S., of Los Angeles, Calif. Subject: Our National Parks. Music Hall, 8:15 p.m. Tues., Mar. 31. Department of Political Science. The "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative Harris and Ella J. Filson Foundation. First in a Series expression and knowledge."—Einstein. of four Lectures on "Current History," by H. V. Kalten- born, Publicist. Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. EVENTS FROM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, TO Tues., Mar. 31. Department of Astronomy. The Obser¬ W EDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931 vatory of Department will be open to Institute Members who present Weekly Ticket for observation of Moon, Wed., Mar. 25. Department of Dramatic Art. All-Talking Planets Mars and Jupiter. William Henry, Secretary Motion Picture Program, including latest News Releases of Department, in charge. Academy of Music, 8 to 9:30 and Owen Wister's "I he Virginian," featuring Gary p.m. Cooper. Music Hall, 3:30 p.m. Weekly Ticket ad¬ Ti es., Mar. 31. Department of Philology. Third in a mits one. Guest Ticket, 50 cents. Course of five Lectures, by Dr. Horace J. Bridges, of Wed., Mar. 25. Department of Psychology. Seventh in a Chicago. Subject: "Middletown": America's Hope and Course of nine Lectures on "Human Psychology," by America's Menace. Lecture Hall, 8:15 p.m. David Seabury, Psychologist. Subject: Debunking Our Wed., Apr. 1. Department of Psychology. First in a Personalities. Music Hall, 8:15 p.m. Weekly Ticket Course of five Lectures on "Fundamental Problems of admits one. Life and Mind," by E. G. Spaulding, Ph.D., LL.D., Pro¬ Thurs., Mar. 26. Department of Pedagogy. Last in a fessor of Philosophy, Princeton University. Subject: Series of three Lectures on "Modern Reformers," by Reason, Institution and Sensrticn: Science, Religion, Art Alfred W. Martin, M.A., Lecturer and Author. Subject: and Philosophy. Lecture Hall, 8:15 p.m. Emerson, Loftiest Expression of the American Spirit. Frl, Apr. 3. Department of Dramatic Art. Last in a Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Course of five illustrated Lectures on "Great Religious Thurs., Mar. 26. Department of Astronomy. Illustrated Dramas," by Dr. Henry R. Rose, of Newark, N.J. Sub¬ Lecture, by B. R. Baumgardt, F.R.A.S., of Los Angeles. ject: The 1930 Passion Play of Oberammergau. Lecture Calif. Subject: An Evening with the Stars. Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Hall, 8:15 p.m. Mon., Apr. 6. Department of Photography. Opening Frl, Mar. 27. Department of Dramatic Art. Fourth in a Exhibition of Photographs by Beginners' Class, conducted Course of five illustrated Lectures on "Great Religious by James C. Coppola. Open to Public. Department Dramas," by Dr. Henry R. Rose, of Newark, N.J. Sub¬ Studio, fourth floor. Academy of Music, 7:30 to 10 p.m. ject: "The Green Pastures." Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Mon., Apr. 6. Department of Psychology. Eighth in a Frl, Mar. 27. Department of Music. Recital, by Sergei Course of nine Lectures on "Human Psychology," by Rachmaninoff, Composer. Pianist. Opera House, 8:15 David Seabury, Psychologist. Subject: Yourself in Ex¬ p.m. For conditions of admission, see Bulletin and perience. Music Hall, 8:15 p.m. Weekly Ticket ad¬ Weekly Ticket. mits one. Page Two Hundred sixty THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Tues., Apr. 7. Department of Political Science. The Harris and Ella J. Filson Foundation. Second in a Series of four Lectures on "Current History," by H. V. Kaltenborx, Publicist. Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Tues., Apr. 7. Department of Philology. Fourth in a Course of five Lectures, by Dr. Horace J. Bridges, of Chicago. Subject: Mr. Bertrand Russell on Marriage and Morals. Lecture Hall, 8:15 p.m. Xs the TRAVEL TALES From the dawn of first $1,000 artistic literature tales of travel and adventure in far-off, the hardest? strange lands have been a favorite genre. Some folks say: "the first One of the earliest monuments of Egyp¬ thousand dollars are the most tian literature, of the difficult to accumulate Xllth Dyn asty, is such a tale. The greatest of the world's epics is still the Odyssey, and at For them, we offer a another literary pole simple, sincere advice! Start one of the most note¬ worthy monuments of investing cautiously with the early Middle Ages is the so-called "Christian Topography" of one Cosmas Indicopleustes, a mer¬ $100 only—put it aside each chant of Alexandria who voyaged to Abyssinia, the Persian Culf and even to India, and produced an month. In ten months you amazing narrative which was a popular school book for more than three centuries. At the head of what will have $1,000 invested may be called modern travel books is the account writ¬ safely—and it's become a ten by Marco Polo, during his imprisonment in 1298, of his extraordinary travels in Asia. habit! And there is no more popular lecture today than the good travelogue. An example of this will be afforded in the series of four illustrated lectures by Home Title Guaranteed 5V1'% Mr. B. R. Baumgardt, F.R.A.S., of Los Angeles, the first of which, Monday evening, March 9, will tell of First Mortgage Certificates "Constantinople and the Golden Horn." Mr. Baum¬ are ideal $100 investments. gardt is a master lecturer in this field, one of the most popular conductors of arm-chair travel. W rite to-day for data. ELECTRICAL WONDERS The telephone has been in use so long that one seldom thinks of the years of patient research be¬ hind it. So, too, the radio, although still quite new, has become such a household institution that the magic of it has worn off. But the layman is still ready to stand rather in awe of the achievements of telephotography, and still more so of television. An illustrated lecture-demonstration on "Progress in Electrical Communication" by Mr. William Eondiller, Assistant Director of Apparatus De¬ velopment of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, on Tuesday evening, March 10, will display some of these modern miracles. Mr. Eondiller will illus¬ 51 WILLOUGHBY STREET trate, as a beginning, Bell's original telephone, go¬ BROOKLYN ing on to Pupin's invention of "loading," and the application of the vacuum tube to telephone re¬ Jamaica - Mineola - Rivcrhead - Scarsdale peaters, etc. He will also discuss the trans-Atlantic radio, and the latest things in actual television. Page Two Hundred sixty-one THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

UNDERSTANDING ONE'S SELF SCREEN PROGRAMS Counterfeit p s y - After the recent showing in the evening program chology, of the "gold of the motion picture film, "Mother Nature," so much brick" order, as Mr. favorable comment upon this was received that it Albert Wiggam re¬ has been re-scheduled for Monday afternoon, March marks in a recent 9. This film might well be described as love-life book, "is more prev¬ in nature. It takes the audience to the very source of alent than the real." the stream of life and then down through its various It has provided a stages of development to the position man has in the mine of ill-gotten complicated creation of today. wealth for the ex¬ ploiters who take ad¬ "The Playboy of Paris," a comedy romance in vantage of the grow¬ which Maurice Chevalier introduces several new ing desire of intelli¬ songs, notably "My Ideal," will be included in the gent humanity t o all-talking motion picture program, Wednesday after¬ understand itself. noon, March 11. Chevalier, who has been a dancing That desire is alto¬ partner of Mistinguett, queen of French revues, gether commendable. creates with ease the gay, debonair and dauntless Its development is a necessity if mankind is to keep waiter by day and rich Lothario by night of this rol¬ on growing up. Mr. WlGGAM also quoted with ap¬ licking Parisian comedy. proval the advice to "read text-books," but one needs "Let Us Be Gay" (Wednesday afternoon and even¬ to know which text-books, and also how to read them ing, March 18) is an excellent screen tale in which profitably. At this point, for most students, the gui¬ Norma Shearer has won her third success in the dance and help of an expert teacher are needed. sound picture medium. As Kitty Brown, in "Let Us Mr. David Seabury, who is already well known to Be Gay," an erstwhile efficient young home-maker, many Members, is such a guide. He is also one who Miss Shearer becomes a feminine cosmopolite, the proceeds upon practical, workable lines rather than center of amusing situations in a plot of gay intrigue upon the more abstruse theoretical ways. He pre¬ to win back an attractive but philandering husband. fers to call his talks not so much technical psychology as lectures upon the "science of human adjustment in "The Virginian" (Wednesday afternoon, March 25) the drama of everyday experience." Mr. Seabury is features Gary Cooper in the title role of Owen Wis- to give a series of four lectures on "Human Psychol¬ ter's glamorous novel of pioneer days in the West. ogy" beginning Wednesday evening, March II, with Humor and tragedy are intermingled in this drama a discussion of "Personality and the Individual Dif¬ of stampeding herds and cowboys chanting round the ferences." crackling camp fire, while always the motivating theme is the Virginian's love for Molly Wood, at¬ COMMUNISM tractive school-ma'am from the East. II' To some people the "The Royal Family of Broadway" (Saturday, April j word, Communism, is 11) is an intimate and amusing study of the private I like a red rag to a bull. lives of a famous family of stage stars, based on the They see things in a terri¬ play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. It is fying red haze. The a rich, human story garnished with good comedy, recent report of the satire and a tinge of drama, and is rated by critics as Congressional Committee among the best of the year's films. Screen lovers will headed by Hon. Hamil¬ especially enjoy Fredric March's impersonations. ton Fish, Jr., asserted that there are over 500,- In his lecture Saturday evening, March 7, on "The 000 organized Com¬ Evolution and Functional Significance of Cerebral munists in this country, Mechanisms," Professor James W. Papez, of Cornell whose purpose is to over¬ University, will deal with the evolution of some of the throw the existing Gov¬ more fundamental structural relations of the forebrain ernment and the present of the vertebrates in general. In discussing the mam¬ social order to substi¬ malian forebrain Professor Papez will present some tute in its place a Communist organization similar of the essential features which convert the cerebrum to that in Russia. Most of the twenty-five millions of into a structure capable of carrying on higher psychic adult voting citizens remain calm in contemplation activities. This will be illustrated by the ingrowth of of this threat. To turn the United States Bolshevik sensory connections, growth and expansion of func¬ seems a rather large order. tional areas, and the appearance of permanent sub- A more serious phase of the problem appears in cortical and intracortical connections which ulti¬ the recommendations of this Committee, which in¬ mately convert the cerebrum into definite functional clude the "outlawry" of the Communist political mechanisms. The lecture will be illustrated through¬ (Continued on page 264) out by lantern slides. Page Two Hundred sixty-two THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

"There was much of that kind "His technical skill and bril¬ PIANO of applause that follows only liance again seemed to exist for large achievement. Such applause belongs with an element almost of the service of the music, rather exclusiveness to Rachmaninoff's than as something to be set forth recitals. Whatever he does is cast for his own sake."—N.Y. Herald RECITAL in large mold. He does nothing Tribune, 2/15/31. in the miniature genre." by —N.Y. Sun, 2/16/31.

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TICKETS ON SALE SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 8:30 a.m. To Members with Coupons.. $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 To Non-Members $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 Boxes $2.00 and $2.50 Boxes $2.50 and $3.00 Note: Coupons void after March 14. From March 15 to March 27 inclusive. Tickets for this Recital will be sold at Non-Members' rates only. THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

AT HOME IN MANY LANDS "ROBIN HOOD" Starting from Robin Hood and his band of jolly outlaws will en¬ their own home tertain the Young Members when the Clare Tree with its four-gen¬ Major Company presents on Saturday afternoon, eration garden of March 21, the dramatization of this famous story of N e w England, Old England. The tale of Robin Hood and his brave Y i v i e n May band is one familiar to both hoys and girls. Its set¬ Parker and her ting is in Sherwood Forest where Robin Hood and his daughter Eliza¬ companions dwell, and every scene in the play is one beth Eddy Par¬ of adventure and excitement. The good humor and ker have taken kindliness with which Robin and his men carry out many audiences their plans and the jovial spirit in which they admin¬ with them to ister an occasional drubbing to one who would home gardens thwart them serve to make the encounters with swords of other lands: and clubs entertaining and amusing to the children to the hedged rather than in any way fearful. gardens of The robust singing of Robin Hood and his com¬ England; to the panions is one of the features which contributes great¬ palms and pines ly to the charm of this play. In the music, as in all of Southern else in the productions of the Clare Tree Major France and of Company, a high standard is maintained for the bene¬ our own South; fit of the young audiences. Though the dramatization to city gardens is in no way dependent upon a musical setting for its overflowing with bloom in Rome, Florence and interest, the few characteristic songs introduced are Venice; to Naples; to Capri and Pompeii across the handled as artistically as they would be were the Com¬ street from Vesuvius. With colored lantern slides pany presenting "Robin Hood" as an opera. "Hark, from photographs of their own taking and with songs Hark, the Lark," "Under the Greenwood Tree," "0 indigenous to the scenes they show they recreate the Mistress Mine" and "A Merry Monk Am I" are among home atmosphere of these different countries. the old songs which will be sung as they suit the In the costume-song-dances from France, French action. Canada, Italy and Switzerland, Miss Parker inter¬ Lark Taylor, who has the role of Wat Tinker, was prets the people of these lands. Miss Parker re¬ a successful singer in light opera before coming to the ceived her training from Mme. Yvette Guilbert, the Children's Theatre. Paul Jones, who plays Robin Jaques Dalcroze Institute at Geneva, Switzerland, Hood and possesses a baritone voice of rich quality, and at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. has also sung for several seasons in light opera, as has Those who heard Mrs. Parker and her daughter Alan Mathes, cast as Will Stutley. Harry Rad- in their Lecture-Recital, "The Message of an Old New CLIFFE, who is playing Friar Tuck, sang with an England Country Home," in 1929 will welcome them Australian grand opera company before coming to on their second visit to the Institute, on Monday after¬ this country. noon, March 30, when they will present "Home Gardens in Many Lands." (Continued from page 262) party, cancellation of the citizenship of its members, deportation of alien Communists, barring Communist "CRAIG'S WIFE" literature from the mails, etc. Commenting on these If the volume of appreciative comment is a guide, proposals the Philadelphia Record said that "they seldom have the patrons of the Institute plays been reveal a brand of political infantilism which disre¬ granted a more satisfying production than the Feb¬ gards constitutional rights, and is fatally lacking in ruary bill, "The Goose Hangs High." The three per¬ practical statesmanship." Mr. Fish himself, however, formances of this play reflected careful direction and has been perhaps somewhat misunderstood, as he ad¬ intelligent and efficient handling of the parts by the mits that "Capitalism" is also on trial. The true Cast to the great enjoyment of the large audiences. significance of the movement, loosely and rather in¬ For their March bill the Institute Players will pre¬ accurately called communism, lies in the justice of sent on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, some of its indictments against the present industrial, March 19, 20 and 21, George Kelly's fine and vig¬ capitalist civilization. There will he a debate Friday orous American drama, "Craig's Wife." This play, a evening, March 13, on the question: "Resolved, That Pulitzer Prize winner, is one of moving intensity: a the Majority Recommendations of the Fish Con¬ character study of a woman incredibly selfish in a gressional Committee for the Regulation of Commu¬ very subtle fashion. The author of "The Torch- nism Should be Adopted" in which Mr. Fish will bearers" and "The Show-Off" reveals his best crafts¬ argue the Committee's case in opposition to Professor manship in "Craig's W ife" and this merry comedy Jerome Davis, of Yale, who is one of the leading should long remain in the sparse list of excellent scientific sociologists of the dav and a well-known plays on an American theme. lecturer and writer on social developments. Page Two Hundred sixty-four THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

ERASMUS The career of Erasmus affords a remarkable in¬ "Casals, Kreisler—these are probably the only two instru¬ mentalists of our time who have the vision, the imaginative stance of the difficulties that confront a man born insight which rests in the music of this great master of the ahead of his lime. It is also remarkable in that he flute."—San Francisco Journal. surmounted those difficulties and escaped martyrdom without time-serving evasions or abandonment of RECITAL principles. He has been called an inconsistent trim¬ on the mer because he was able to steer a middle course; the FLUTE slur is not justified. While in advance of his day in many respects, he nevertheless belonged also to his own age. He has been called the "Voltaire of the Renaissance" but the parallel is not so close as it might seem at first sight. Erasmus was not a reform¬ er of the type that must begin a reform by tearing down all the old structure. And in the long run his influence has probably counted for more in the devel¬ opment of the modern rational era than that of the belligerent Luther, who, as Erasmus himself noted, only substituted one form of intellectual tyr¬ anny for another. As an apostle of humanism the foundation work done by Erasmus still stands, and without intending to do so, he accomplished much toward disentangling the course of civilization from the mediaeval church. His life will form the subject of the first of the lectures on "Modern Reformers" by Mr. Alfred W. Martin, M.A., on Thursday afternoon, March 12. Mr. Martin, who is an old friend of the Institute, has been prominent since 1907 as an associate leader of the Ethical Culture Society, as well as a popular university extension lecturer. by " 'Craig's Wife,' of all the recent plays ... is the strongest, most vigorous and forthright."—N.Y. Sun. The Theatre Club, Inc., selected "Craig's Wife," by George Kelly, as the best American play of the year it was produced, Georges and presented to Mr. Kelly its gold medal, significant of this distinction.

Barrere THE INSTITUTE PLAYERS present A Drama in Three Acts, by PROGRAM I GEORGE KELLY Concerto in D major Mozart II Siciliano _ Bach Tambourin Mondonville Musette Le Clair "Craig's Wife" Scene from "Orpheus" Gluck III A Pulitzer Prize Play Nocturne and Yalse Chopin IV Thursday, Friday, Saturday Evenings, Serenade •. ...G. Hue Madrigal Wormser March 19, 20 and 21, at 8:15 o'clock Scherzo Widor Andantino Faure Pavane Saint-Saens Music Hall Academy of Music The Little Shepherd Debussy Allegretto Godard Reserved Seat Tickets for Front Rows of Parquet and Halcony for Thursday evening may be obtained by presenting Weekly Ticket No. 21 and 25 or 50 cents; for Friday and Satur¬ day evenings, 25 cents, 50 cents or 75 cents, at the Institute Sunday Afternoon, March 8, Box Office on or after Saturday, March 7, 8:30 a.m. A Member may obtain without charge a Reserved Seat Ticket at 3 o'clock for certain sections of Parquet and Balcony, up to their capacity, for any performance, by presenting Weekly Ticket No. 22 at the Institute Box Office on or after Saturday, March 14. Lecture Hall Academy of Music Additional seats for Rear Rows of Parquet or Balcony for any performance may be purchased by a Member at 25 cents. Reserved Seat Tickets to Non-Members, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 WEEKLY TICKET ADMITS ONE and $1.75. Guest Ticket, 50 cents Non-Members, $1.50 The

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 30 LAFAYETTE AVENUE

Spring Term Courses 1931—School of Pedagogy

ART BLOCK PRINTING. Ernest W. Watson. I 0 sessions, 3 hours each. Saturdays, 2 p.m., WATER COLOR, OIL PAINTING AND QUICK beginning March 14. $25 for the Course. SKETCHING FROM THE COSTUMED MODEL. John R. Koopman, Instructor in Students provide own materials. Life Drawing and Antique at the Grand Cen¬ PEN AND PENCIL DRAWING. Arthur L. Guptill, tral School of Art; Instructor in Water Color Member, American Institute of Architects; Painting, New York School of Fine and Ap¬ part-time Instructor, Pratt Institute 1914- plied Art (Parsons) ; Student with Robert 1930, teaching classes in Interior Design and Henri, William M. Chase, Kenneth Hayes Architecture, Architectural Design, Perspective Miller, Irving R. Wiles. and Rendering. Author, "Sketching and Ren¬ 10 sessions, 2 hours each. Thursdays, dering in Pencil," "Drawing with Pen and 3:30 p.m., beginning March 19. $10 to Ink," etc. Institute Members; to others, $15. 12 sessions, 2 hours each. Mondays, 7:30 p.m., beginning March 9. $12 to Institute WATER COLOR AND OIL SKETCHING (First Year). Walter C. L. White, M.A., Member, Art Members; to others, $16. Alliance of America, New York Water Color RENDERING. Arthur L. Guptill. Club, American Water Color Society, New II sessions, 2 hours each. Tuesdays, 7:30 Haven Paint and Clay Club. p.m., beginning March 10. $11 to Institute 10 sessions, 2 hours each. Mondays, Members; to others, $15. 3:45 p.m., beginning March 9. $10 to Insti¬ tute Members; to others, $15. FINANCE WATER COLOR AND OIL SKETCHING (Second PRINCIPLES OF INVESTMENT (Second Term). Year). Walter C. L. White. Thatcher C. Jones, M.A., Assistant Professor 10 sessions, 2 hours each. Mondays, of Finance, New York University. 4:15 p.m., beginning March 9. $10 to In¬ 15 sessions, 2 hours each. Wednesdays, 7:30 stitute Members; to others, $15. p.m., beginning March 11. $15 to Institute QUICK SKETCHING. G. L. Briem, Instructor at Members; to others, $20. the Grand Central School of Art; Assistant Instructor at the New York School of Fine PUBLIC SPEAKING AND and Applied Art; Student with Karl Trunk, Painter-Architect, Germany; John R. Koop¬ DRAMATIC ART man and Carl J. Nordell. ENGLISH DICTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF 10 sessions, 2 hours each. Tuesdays, THE SPEAKING VOICE. Walter O. Robin¬ 7:30 p.m., beginning March 10. $10 to son, Instructor in Public Speaking at St. Institute Members; to others, $15. John's College, Brooklyn; General Theologi¬ COMMERCIAL ILLUSTRATION, POSTER ADVER¬ cal Seminary, New York; Drew Theological TISING AND BLOCK PRINTING. William Seminary, Madison, N. J.; Jewish Theological L. Longyear, Chairman of the Course in Ad¬ Seminary, New York; Advertising Club of vertising Design at Pratt Institute. New York; West Side Y.M.C.A., New York. 10 sessions, 2 hours each. Wednesdays, 10 sessions, 1 V2 hours each. Mondays, 6 7:30 p.m., beginning March 11. $10 to p.m., beginning March 16. $15 to Institute Institute Members; to others, $15. Members; to others, $20. FRIDAY NIGHT SKETCH CLUB. Ernest W. Watson, Student with Joseph DeCamp, Ernest L. Major, PUBLIC SPEAKING. Walter O. Robinson. Richard Andrew, and Walter deS. Beck. 10 sessions, 1 V2 hours each. Mondays, Block Printer: Prints in European and Ameri¬ 8 p.m., beginning March 16. $15 to Insti¬ can Museum Collections. Member, American tute Members; to others, $20., Institute of Graphic Arts, Print Makers So¬ ciety of California, etc. Instructor at Pratt DRAMATIC ART. Theodora Irvine, Director of the Institute 1908-1930. Irvine Players. 7 sessions, 2 hours each. Fridays, 7:30 p.m., 10 sessions, 1 V2 hours each. Thursdays, beginning March 13. $11.50 to Institute 6 p.m., beginning March 26. $7.50 to In¬ Members; to others, $14. stitute Members; to others, $10. Courses in Current Events, H. V. Kaltenborn; French, Mme. Jehanne La Sauze; German, Professor Jacob W. Hartmann; Spanish, Jose A. Garcia; Interior Decoration, Watterson Lowe, are included in the Spring Term. For further information, address Registrar, School of Pedagogy,^ or telephone, STerling 3-6700.