Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-27
FREEHAND NOTES.
BANQUET GIVEN BY TIE SAN FRAN
CISCO ART ASSOCIATION.
Description Of Arrangements and the &C.
casion-other Social Events and
Personal Mention.
sAN FRANcIsco, April Is, ISS9.

SAN Francisco, April %, 1883.
Last Wednesday evening was the Artists
/ Dinner, given by the Directors of the Art |
Association at the rooms of that august |
corporation. The banquet was laid in the
main exhibition hall, the tables standing |
at the south end, one long board and three
shorter ones proceeding from it. forming to
the eye of fancy the letter E. Someone |
asked if the arrangement was significant
standing for effect. "effervescence, or
even eating and was informed that the
tables were SO placed for a distinct pur-
pose-to seat the guests. The decorations
were prattily characteristic. Above the
walnut wainscoting of the hall painted
dado about six feet wide was applied to the
walls, the design being intended to repre-.
sent old tapestry, but the effect, as was re.
marked, resembled more the decorated
Japanese mating. Thecan was painted
with luxuriant fan palms, and gigantic
brakes or branches from the tree fern
waved symmetrically apart at set distances
to form frame for medallions on gold back
grounds of the great painters of all times
and countries-Michael Angelo, Rubens,
Van Wyok, Hograth, Poussin, and q dozen
others. The Hograth head, done by Voegt-
lin, was capital. At the north end of the
hall was
FEMALE FIGURE SYMBOLIC OF ART.
It was of heroic size and placed upon a
pedestal entirely banked up by flowers.
The "statue" was cleverly devised, like
| those used in Germany and France for mil
itary triumphs and illuminations-sha is,
a head, hands and feet carefully nodded
and attached to a lay figure from any
studio Drapery was then adjusted in
| fine powerful folds, and daubed with plas.
ter, which, when dry, appeared call that
there is of most marble. as the French
idiom runs. Marion Wells, competitor for
! the Garfield monument last year, modelled
the head and gave it a speaking and intel
lectual expression-not to be wasted on the
ephemeral goddess of night, let us hope.
The menus were very tasteful, the work of
many artistic hands. The designs were
either in illustration of the comicslities of
the bill of fare, like ga foreshortening of
crustacea," which was most gallant little |
crayfish, or the more usual hower.sprays,
effectively done by Mrs. Virgil Williams
and Mrs. Irelan. The guests chose num-
bered slips from basket, and drew with |
them correspoldingly numbered menus, so |
that the distribution was strictly impair
tial. There was music, and there were
speeches, and there were ladies. 1t was
good dinner.
| OTHER SOCIAL EVENTS.
The echoes of 420Pine street will awaken
to jollity again this week, when the b.
hemian Club gives banquet to Mr.. Dana
tomorrow night. There was a pleasant
feature at Professor Blankart's at the last
concert-singing by Mrs. Small. The
musicals have hitherto been exclusively in
strumental. Mrs. Small sang Miss Cary's
fsvorite encore, "Oh, My Love, l Loved
Her &c." and also, ANGELS Ever Bright
and Fair" She sang trife too conscien.
tiously, perhaps, but very pleasantly. The
andante from one of Beethovens sonatas
for the violin and piano was understand
ingly played by Professor and Mrs. Blank.
art. What we are all lying in wait for is
to hear Zech play Liszs's arrangement of
SchuberEs Erl-King." In an unguarded
moment he betrayed that it was in his re-
pertory, but circumstances apparently have
never been harmoniously propitious enough
to induce him to play it, so we get Kullak's
octave study and Schumann's novelette,
and Zech's minuet, but no Erl. King " up
to date; and what are olives and cheese to
one warming for fillet or pheasants? Our
esthetic appetite has been sufficiently
whetted-we are ready for substantisls
| h,,A kla -Er,o Sc
"piece of resistance himself and will
play when he gets ready, and not until
| that movable feast
TRAVELS ABRoAD-FAvoRITE CHARITY.
The Bancrofts - Fl. HIS family-are
scattered little everywhere. Their mu-
steal of month ago was kind of herald.
ing of their complete disintegration. Mr.
Bancroft has gone to Mexico to pursue
arche illogical studies; Mrs. Bancroft is
rusticsting with the younger children in a
cottage at Piedmont, and Miss Kate Ban
croft is on her travels once more with
friends at the East. Exit the Bancrofts,
severally, as it were. Mrs. Dodge has
taken their town house, and the unquench-
able and brilliant Miss Molly has found her
fate in an army officer, says watchful
world, but the engagement is not yet an.
nounced. Miss Arner is married tonight
and Miss Lander tomorrow mornings
much for merriment and marriage bells
The fsvorite charity, the Boys and Girls
Aid, received another kind push from Mrs
Sanderson in the form of fair given for it
by that lady at her house last week. It
was an evening affair and all varieties of
costume were observed-ball dresses, din
ner dresses and carriage costume. The
great beauty of the flowers presented for
sale-and most rapidly sold by the way
was commented upon everywhere. An ex-
ceediDgly pretty entertainment is antici-
pated by the invited guests of Mira. Scho-
field. She gives
GARDEN PARTY
Next Saturday at her place at Black
Point or Fort Mason, as strict army ETH
quette demands that familiar old Black
Point shall be called. The hours are from
3 until I, and there will be dsncing. Miss
Schofeld made her debut at Mrs. Ashes
reception to her daughter.in- law. She is
an accomplished tennis player, fond of long
walks and of dsshing about in pretty
little village cart, of which there was dis
astrous upset the other day through the
ill-advised yielding of the reins into the
hands of an inexperienced young friend.
There is also new star among the less
heralded consultations of the dark sex.
Frank Carolan dawns upon the horizon.
BE is handsome, and horseman, often
the escort of Miss Mullins and her sisters
on their rides, and an amisble firt of the
sofa variety. The Banjo Club met at Mrs.
Teyis' house last week. and there was q
musical Mrs. De Guigne-Miss Minnie
Psrrott that was-sang Gounod's " Medic"
an Arabian love. song, like one of Gerome's
Moorish scenes that lie, Mussulmans as
they should be, rather than as we feel they
are. A Bedouin is not likely to
SELL HIS HORSE TO BUY JEWELS
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