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Overland Limited | and Routes As Suited Their Convenience MORNING, 8, 1010. I'ART IV 2 LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MAY NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE LOCAL PLAYHOUSES Art Notes ELIZABETH WAGGONER offers a repertoire of melodies in a most The April number ot Alt and Progress, | published by the American effective and pleasing federation of manner. Kit* at Washington, D. C, contains on A portion of the program that will j article by Mr«. B. Henrietta Housh on "The prove exceedingly Interesting to the Beneficence of Art." win. her loyalty to the little ones as well as the older people art Interest! of Southern California, Mrs. Stlckney'g dog lloush. In Fi"'ukliiK of the work Of the Fine is Louise and pony cir- ' Arts league, says: CUB. "Somn of us (tie making a great effort to With a line of fast and funny chatter [ get an art home here In our own loved south- put together under the title of "The land. Our Idea Is that the plto shall be j our that will make possible Doctor and His Patient," Helm and an architectural j effect. Tim building* will be pure In stylo, Cozens will contribute much of the fun ; probably classical. They will be dignified by on the new bill. sculpture, and adorned by pointings. Build- Closing will lie an unusual offering j ings and grounds will make a splendid pic- There will bo proper proportion, in L. A. Street (not meaning a Los i ture. the tho correct distribution, the unity, of effect. The Angeles street, but merely the 1 erform- planting, .the lines leading Into the picture, er's name), who offers p. unique act In all the details will be beautiful ami pic- the skillful juggling and manipulation turesque, yet subordinate, the whole making of lubber balls. one grand effect with a. great central Mm \u25a0 There will be schools of expression, colleges • • for art training, rooms, auditorium, MASON-Charles Frohman will pre- lecture an a great organ, a symphony hall and a place sent Maude Adatna at the Mason opera \ where children may receive lasting Impressions house for an engagement of five nights from laaona Inailllrd by artistic dramatlo beginning Tuesday in J. M. Barries pi.-st iil.illou. Our first aSort will be to cn- trim comedy, "What Knows." oouniKe the art spirit In our own com- Kvery Woman munity, to brlnn about n battM undorstandliiK The announcement will awaken antici- and a keener appreciation, Of III.) good work pations of muili pleasure in the minds that In being done among our own people of countless theatergoers for reasons Our first collection will probably be a group 7POyC£Z. of works by our too numerous to mention. LOUISE own artists." < * * The scenes of the play are Scotch, \BCfJr><B/7M< A number of~» new• canvases• '• will he shown rind It gives Barrie, a Soot himself, a at the Kanst gallery during the coming week, glorious opportunity for poking fun at the first general exhibition since the remodel- CHOfPUS FLORENCEBELASCO.OAKLEY -WWTWW G/ft>t/F>E, jf ing of the galleries. The main picture gal- countrymen. The scenes, however, his lery Ik well lighted, and with its largo wall might be laid anywhere, in the wide ryri/LO*e. 585®^ // rot &**?siSS. spaces oners an excellent opportunity for dis- world wiit-re mere are stubborn, thick- rrprNGKast . y^^ '\ playing some of the more Imposing- things In headed husbands and clever, witty * the collection. Among these is a figure study by Frederick Frlescke that Is strongly In- manage on C. wives to them—and where tprtaining sort, from Europe. Athletics, dividual In treatment and especially delightful the footstool doesn't that condition ex- dancing, fun and other features com- in Its tonality, a landscape by lti'iijamlii up. bine to make it \u25a0-- '\u25a0\u25a0 ist? I v. B^F^ '... .n'-tA™ujHjJUnaMMUm Chambers Brown that is one of the finest Marguerite Without any ado one it taken right Haney with her clever we have seen from his brush, a number of little company in "The Leading Lady," characteristic landscapes by Wylies. dranvillo Red- into the domestic circle of the Kdwln Holt & Co. In "Tho Mayor and mond, a striking rich toned autumn by There are three brothers and their shy the Manicure," Charles F. Semon and John Johanson, In contrast to the spring colors and timid sister, Maggie. The "boys" Barnes & ('rawford, with new motion In the landscape ,by William Merrltt Post; pictures, make up the rest of the ad- delightful have been the owners of a quarry, and \u25a0*, ff i—\u25a0 «'\u2666 , a study of a seated figure In an mirable bill. *s?p\»> j r%^^MKjs&>i pia/J interesting interior.painted by Marian win- as as money goes may K**w far be termed • • ton; a figure piece by John Ilubbard Rich • * comfortable. Having had no time In OLYMPIC—Many have been the and many others by local artists as well as early life to secure an education, the pleasant surprises which Alphln and the representative painters of the east. brothers miss it and greatly admire it Fargo have pleased their patrons with, • • An arts and crafts• afternoon was given John Shand, their neighbor, bu< the pleaaantest was tho presenta- in others. tion of Bunyea, the new prima Monday at the Ebell club at Long Beach Mable \u25a0 has no money, some learning and an dnnna. who made her debut to Los I • Vi« m I'M m :^Mb- \b'* ;.\u25a0;- l»r<*^!W?* \u25a0 I oW*l'iM mM* under tho direction of Mrs. R. H. Jackson, ardent thirst for more—a thirst that Angeles last Monday. Her Immediate '» * chairman of the arts and crafts section of the club. i The principal paper the day drives him to break into the Wylies' li- success, due to her entrancing beauty of was dflLglitful charm, coupled read by Miss Jessie Wushburn of I<oh An- brary at night a thief to study the and with like rare talent, established her nt once geles, an exceptionally able and comprehensive ten yards of the best books in the firmly in the good graces of Olmyplc treatment of the theme, "Beauty and Utility English language that they have stored regulars. In Design as Applied to China and Other Arts and Crafts.';:'.. there. The brothers catch him, and In "The Smugglers" Miss Bunyea part. comedy There was a supplementary exhibit of deco- admiring enterprise, way of will have an excellent The his see a is unique, as It deals with Southern rated china, tapestries and portrait sketches removing one of their difficulties. They California scenes. In ink. Exquisite china was exhibited by 1 '\u25a0 ' ' X W. S. Kalß would like to see their sister Maggie It tells of the efforts of two Germans tJrB ' <^3S JHte I ••'\u25a0'^t^j S* <v jeBH l * <$ 9 Hex Mrs. and Mrs. H. C. Mllner of married. She is a little woman Bearing who have gone into the smuggling busi- Long Beach, the Los Angeles Ceramic club the spinsterhood age, and not without ness to get a Chinaman in a barrel and Miss Jessie Washburn. Mis* Marks of a tinge of romance beneath her pretty, across the Mexican border Into Cali- New York city exhibited china, and tapestries old-fashioned ringlets. But she is so fornia. Unfortunately, the barrel con- and Mrs. Alice Bromley portrait sketches In shy and bashful that somehow or other taining the Chinaman becomes mixed Ink. Mrs. Annie Kmeraon and Miss Jones the young fellows have overlooked her. with a barrel of chop suey Intended of the Ceramic club accompanied the exhibit Here is a man who would make for her for a party given by the chief of the from that club. ; i a good husband. custom house, who gets the Chinaman -i • ; • \u0084 • Having digested the matter, the Instead. Then the trouble for the two One of the water colors by Marion Kava- brothers proposed to Shand that they Germans begin and doesn't end until naugh Wachtel, sent on to New York for the puy his way through college if ut the tho finale, a fire In the custom house, forty-third annual exhibition of the American end of five years he will marry .Mag- due to an Indian uprising, proves the Water Color society, has been awarded the gie—If she wants him then. A most heroism of the little Dutchmen and all honor of reproduction In the catalog of the interesting and enturtaining scene fol- ends happily. Jules Mendel will be one exhibition. A letter from William Merrllt lows, In which the matter is discussed, little German and Pete Gerald will be Poet, one of the Jury of selection for this Maggie, herself, having a word. It the other. Walter Spencer, Leonard exhibition, speaks most enthusiastically of agreeing *r' "\u25a0 • '•'\u25a0 it Interest ends with Shand to the prop- Brisbane. I^aurel Atkins Blair and the It->k v .'i^ S' •'' •t: • &$\ miw "mm B iaw- 9 •fl Mrs. Wachtcl's work, and is of ; \u25a0\u25a0.•" >;* '\u25a0'. r*\yrJßi3r \u25a0 holding \u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0 •"'? \u25a0 he to osition llv" '. 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