Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-31

y OLIDAY festivities will not yet have
ceased when the culture bug" will be re
instated in popular favor. Not only that
Il but the insectum cultum will be in several
instances the means of raising funds both
for European war sufferers as we'll for
local enterprise the erection of suitable memorial
to Nebraska's early history.
January is indeed flooded with lecture dates. Dr.
T. Lindsey Blayney of Rice institute, Houston, Tex.
ecturing for the Omaha Society of Fine Arts, opeps
the series with two talks Thursday and Friday of
this week. cart Ideals OF the East-Japan" and
Social Forces of the F1orentne Renaissance" are
the subjects he will discuss at the Hotel Fontenellc
at 3:45 o'clock each afternoon. DR.. Blayney is
Kentuckan educated in Germany and has spent ten
years of his life in Europe and the Orient. He was
american Otto Kahn Fellow to the Orient" and
has been this country's representative at nterna-
tona meetings of fine arts associations held in
Vienna, Berlin and London.
His lecture on Social Forces in the Florentne
Renaissance" is entirely different from the usual
lectures upon similar subjects. This lecture
prepared with the intention of giving especially
higher appreciation of the importance of the his
tory of fine arts in their relation serious liberal
education. DR.. Bayney has been vice president OF
the American Federation of Arts. He was recently
asked to be of the five official lecturers for
the Archaeological Institute of America. He is
president of the Houston Society Of Fine Arts
Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet philosopher,
author and lecturer, and far-famed winner of the
Nobel prize for literature in 1918 speaks The
Cult of Nationalism" Friday evening at the Bran
des theater The Hindu mystic will also read, or
rather chant, of his own poems This is
Tagores first lecture in Omaha and if his managers
to be credited the only opportunity to hear him.
as he returns to his own country shortly.
he he
one who last year was introduced to Omaha by the
Fine Arts society. He is |. B. Stoughton Holborn,
NJ. A., F. r. G. S.. lecturer artist and author, who
will speak at the Blackstone hotel on Thursday
January II at 4 O'Clock THE Greek and Modern
Theatcr' is his topic. Mr. Hoborn is from Merton
college, Oxford university, England, and is said
TO be unique stionaby the greatest art lecturer in
the world today As staff lecturer for the three
great English universities of Oxford, Cambridge
and London he for fourteen years attracted the
largest university extension audiences assem-
bled in Great Britain
Mr.. Hoborn is artistically alive to his finger
tips. His lectures vertable literary and artistic
least. He has a keen sense of humor and playful
wit with all a fascinating manner which holds his
audiences from start to finish
series OF four talks on England and France in
relation to the great war. together with talks
Cleopatra and her children, will be given by the
noted Roman lecturer, 5. Richard Fuller of Boston,
who comes to the Blackstone January II, with Mrs.
Fuller. The Fuller lectures arc to be given in the
homes OF prominent Omaha matrons and whatever
money is contributed after the lectures will be for
warded TO the widowed and <atherlcss OF France.
Mrs. Louis c. Nash will be hostes, for the first
lecture. which will be Friday. January L. probably
III the evening Mrs. Harry DoorIy opens her home
lor the second talk, Sunday afternoon. January a.
Mrs. Floyd Smith, the next afterp Jon and Mrs
~ ". Dixon, for the final lecture Wednesday eve
ming, January II,
John Cowper Powys is the fourth lecturer of i'll
ternatlonal prominence to appear in Omaha with
the advent of the new year. Major Isaac Sadler
chapter, Daughters OF the American Revolution, is
bringing Powys for two talks, one Monday, January
IS, at the Boyd theaer, and the second week later
the proceeds of which will help swell the fund to
erect statue to Governor T. +. Cunning the first
territorial governor Of Nebraska. The hope is that
enough money may be raised so that one of the
Borglums may be commissioned to execute the
work. Powys has spoken in Omaha under the aus
piccs of the Fine Arts society and the Vassar club
in the past.
Social Unrest and its Ethical Significance"
lecture by Jay William Hudson of the University, Of
Missouri on January 10, and reading of his own
poems by John Neihardt OF Bancroft Neb on Ian
uary e. both arranged by the Fine Arts society,"
conoIete the lect fOr tba Il