The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-31


instead the New York Philharmonic Club
viii give the concert. This organization Is
one of the finest in the country, and the
Musicale organization is particularly fortu-
cital. The club includes Inez Grenelli, So
prano; Eugene Weiner. flute; Louis kapp.
violin; Adolph Studer, violin; Henry Leh-
man. double bass. Carl krill, cello, and
Paul Mende, viola. a sextette OF musicians
whose playing together season after sea-
son has made them distinguished organi-
zation.
Mrs Alfred F. Potts invited about forty
friends TO her home yesterday morning TO
listen to a paper on Consensus of Opinion"
by Mrs. John +. Cleland. which she read
recently at the Katherine Merrill Club. The
paper is in the form of diary OF a col
lege educated girl. She returns from col
lege and goes into all sorts of club work
Nervous prostration enSueS and she is
Obliged to give up her club work. While
confined to her room she comes TO her.
senses and finally leads a more rational life
and becomes companion to her mother
AT the close of the reading there was a
spirited discussion in regard to the college
bred girl and what she should do when she
finishes her college course and returns
home. Among those who participated in the
conversation were Mrs. G. A. Christensen
Mrs. McGregory Miss Rowland, Mrs. Win
ters. Mrs. Mason. Miss Nicholson. Mrs.
Fairbanks. Miss Dye. Mrs Henry Coburn.
Miss Ship. Mrs. Griffiths and others Sun
light flooded the pretty rooms. and the noon
after dainty luncheon. Miss Risk of New
Jersey. was the only guest from out of
town.
THE PORTFOLIOS POSTER EXHIBIT.
At the Portfolio Club last evening Miss
Roda Sellick, instructor of art in the High
School. president of the Sketching Club.
member of the executive committee of the
Drawing Teachers Association. and in many
ways identified with art in the State, read
a paper. Her subject was the modern
and che cl-ot oh a., TT -
ter illustrate her subject she had a fine
collection of posters, which turned the dull
terra Gotta walls of the clubroom into a
bewildering vision of glaring lines and col
ors. The pictures which serve to call at
tention to the merits of magazines, books,
newspapers plays and various things which
need advertising, transformed the literary
interest of the paper into a study of what
the poster artist has achieved. There were
foreign posters in the first room, drawing
attention TO the Coincide Franchise. TO the
AlcaZar and various gay places Of pleasure.
posters. the Chap Book group, by viii II.
Bradley; the Lippencott group. by Tark-
Vile; picture of Charles Dana Gibson,
and some of his sketches for Scribner, and
quite a number of Edward Penfolds pic
lures for Harpers. There was a small
group of the Modern Art posters. selected
crate pictures was a life size one Of Bern
hardt in "Gismonda," drawn by Mucha. 1t
is harmony of lines and symphony of
color, and is a really beautiful poster, which
is more than can be said for most of them.
One of the largest posters-a three-sheet
one-is a Beggarstaff. The ground is bright
red. The actual drawing Is in very few
black lines. but they are so skillfully put
on that 1t gives the effect of complete fig
ure. There are a few black lines with a
trifle of white for the collar and buckle.
One Of the conspicuous posters is Faust
and Marguerite" issued by the Hasselman
Printing Company, of this city. To add to
the interest of the evening, Mr.. Collins
Marvin, engraver for that company, ex-
planned and illustrated the process of print
ing these posters in colors and the method
of blending the brilliant red blue and yell
low inks with black and white until the
various shades are produced. Miss Has
selman, Miss Kathryn Cathcart and Mr.. l..
III. Gibson have some of the notable poster
collections in the city. These are in the ex
hibit well several hundred others
collected by Miss Sellick from many cities.
The poster exhibit will be left at the rooms
of the Portfolio Club, in the College of
Music building, to-day and tomorrow, and
will be open TO the public for a slight fee.
Whether one is interested in art or not, or
even in posters, the collection will furnish
a fund of amusement for every visitor. 1t
is a vertable collection of curios. With
the tendency of the modern poster to be
bizarre, one cannot predict how far or in
what direction 1t will go. how long it will
last, or to what it may be turned.