The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-16
ART LEAGUE
FESTIVAL
Ainahau Is Scene OF the
Twelfth Anniversary
of KiIohanas.

| GIeghOrn s beautiful estate at w a1klk
There could have been no more fttin
place for the holding of the festiva
which was intended principally to sho'
the effect which the kilohana Ar
League, through it's various circles
could have on Identification and cit
Improvement in Honolulu. Gov. Cles
horn has tor many years been leade
| in this work in Honolulu and has, i
every way possible, done what he coul
| to help toward the improvement 0
the city.
The day was perfect, the arrange
ments could not have been excelle,
and everything went along in tn
smoothest way, the only exception com
Hitchcock and FL. P. Wood were I'm
able to be present Both these gentle
men were on the program for speeches
Mr.. Hitchcock sent a written address
| which was read by Mrs. Frear ane
Mr.. Wood IS place was filed most ac
ceptably by Mrs. w. NJ. Graham, who
spoke on City Improvement. -
There were nearly two hundred mem
bers of the League and their friends
present, for whom chairs were pro.
vided under the shade of the enormous
banyan tree, which stands in front of
hn az A ,Iaf
with a background of green leaves in
which the monogram of the Art League
was carefully worked in plumaria flow
ers, was in position for the speakers,
while little to one side was Berger IS
band, ! which diseoursed sweet strains
between the addresses which were de-
liyered by the members. In the rear
OF the seats were two very large flags,
side by side, one the emblem of Ha-
waii and the other of the United
States.
Grouped carefully around the plat
of potted palms for which Gov. Cieg-
horn s estate is famous and the tables
from which refreshments were served
were daintily strewn with garlands of
green and flowers. The guests were re-
ceived as they arrived by Mrs. Graham,
representing charter members of the
Art League, and by Gov. Gleghorn, and
then turned over to number of young
men who acted as ushers and who found
seats for all who came
The refreshments which were served
after the program had been .complet-
ed were very simple, consisting of a
tea punch, with dainty sandwiches and
cakes. This part of the festival was
made still more attractive on account
of the fact that the refreshments were
served by a bevy of young girls, dress
ed in white and covered with wreaths
of flowers.
The decorating committee which had
charge of preparing the grounds for
the reception consisted of Miss Nolte,
Mrs. Charles Booth and Mrs. Clara
Schmidt. Mrs. Graham had general
charge of the entire festival
Owing to the unavoidable absence
of d. Howard Hitchcock the following
address which Mr. Hitchcock had writ
ten for the occasion as coming from
the Pictorial Circle was read by Mrs.
Frear:
MIR. HITCHCOCK'S ADDRESS.
Whenever / think of myself in the
guise Of the preacher. it is with sense
of appropriateness. To put thoughts
into words, to give verbal color to an
idea. to create a harmonious arrange
ment in phrases, is somewhat out of
my line.
And when / appear before you to
talk about art some of the ideas ex-
pressed SO pithily by Whistler in his
Ten O'clock generally come to mind,
and it is only by strong self-restraint
that | keep from quoting him.
And when I am asked to specially
talk on art at springtime," or the
influence of spring upon artists" or
painters of springtime,'' I cannot re-
frain from just one little quotation
apart from its context
but nevertheless giving the
ideas I have in this connection.
Listen. There never was an artis-
tic period" To the true artist nature
is ever lovely, the tender budding
green's of spring. the tawny hues of
the freshness, its dullness, the
the greyness-are the vary
ing phases of nature-are alike a low
to the artist who has the soul to see
beauty in everything about him and.
seeing, the power to take and use these
beauties.
For an artist to take and use one
only of the phases is a confusion OF
his limitations, and to be able to name
an artist as a painter of spring is to
suggest restrictions it is not for me
to mention. For all artists q speak
more particularly of landscape paint
ers), have found at one time or another
special inspiration at this beautiful
season.
Here in Hawaii, where it is eternal
spring and summer combined art in
Its happiest, most joyous form, should
find many opponents. But alasi the
lows nf intTs pafino apH the r7a4frJ.+ F,,1