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BULLETIN OF THE BRCOKIYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES MARCH 7, 1931 VOLUME XXXV NUMBER 14 ABRAHAM <f FULTQN ST. o» HOYT VI > R eplenish your sheets (/I There are excellent v allies in peppeiiem.s these days LADY PEPPERELL SHEETS AND CASES Single Full Size 63x99, usually 1.69, now 1.39 81 x 99, usually 1.98, now 1.59 81 x 108, 63x 108, usually 1.79, now 1.49 usually 2.25, now 1.79 Extra Size 34 Size 90 x 108, usually 2.45, now 1.98 72x99, usually 1.79, now 1.49 Cases 72x 108, usually 1.98, now 1.59 45 x 36, usually .49, now .39 1 The Celebrated LADY PEPPERELL Sheets Snowy white, firm and com¬ fortable — Lady Pepperell sheets are without a flaw and their future without end. When you shop for Lady Pep¬ perell sheets, note especially— as you open your purse—the rich linen finish. It's per¬ manent. (And you really needn't open the purse very wide!) STREET FLOOR, CENTRAL BUILDING THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 41 Years in Brooklyn — 41 Years of Growth! 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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 Page Two Hundred forty-nine THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES "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 Page Two Hundred fifty THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 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 COPYRIGHTED BY THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 1931 VOLUME XXXV NUMBER 14 MARCH 7 , 19 3 1 PUBLISHED BY THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES BROOKLYN-NEW YORK CITY BI-WEEKLY, EXCEPT DURING MAY, JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST SINGLE NUMBER, 15 CENTS ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 povtacx (ir sent by mail) three cents a number TO MEMBERS OP THE INSTITUTE PEES The Brooklyn Eagle Press TOLLEFSEN STUDIOS OF MUSICAL ART Offers Its Services 946 President St., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Near Prospect Park West) to TELEPHONE, STerling 3-3730 Discriminating Buyers A School for the Thorough Training of Serious Music Students of Printing A representative will co-operate Augusta Tollefsen, Piano; Carl H. 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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. "ige Two Hundred fifty-two The Bulletin of the 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.