The Topeka state journal., 1919-08-02
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and Dana Seal, Benjamin and Harris
Goodrich. Mrs. Goodrich was assisted
by Mrs. w. w. Clayton, Mrs. Hardley
Roe. Miss Elizabeth Embree and Miss
Bessie Euler.
DR.. and Mrs Don Paine entertained
with an informal dinner at the Coun-
try club last evening. Covers were
laid for Miss Pauline McVey, Mr.. Will
liam Macferran, tr., and DR.. and Mrs.
Paine.
The Topeka branch of the Associa
tion of Collegiate Alumnae will meet
for luncheon at the Pelletier Tea room
at 12 o'clock next Saturday, August 8.
Members of the invitation committee
will make reports of the work they
have done. All women who are college
graduates are invited to attend this
luncheon and no reservations are
necessary.
Mrs. Charles Wolff entertained her
bridge club at the Country club Fri
day afternoon. Mrs. Frank Griggs.
Mrs. Joe Wilson, Mrs. Sam Lux and
Miss Clyde Bonebrake played for alb
sent members.
The Rota club will hold its regular
noon meeting at the Chamber of Com
merce Wednesday. August 6. Mem
bers not being able to attend please
notify Mrs. L. D. Wolfe.
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IN A STUDIO.
Clouds do more than bring rain;
they are sometimes a source of artistic
inspiration. and it was from their long,
beautiful lines and free motion that
Mr.. Merrell Gage. the Topeka sculptor,
got the notion for two of the most
beautiful of the studies he is working
on this summer. One is a design for a
a in A x1yffh
robes and outstretched arms forms
with the sleeve of her robe a bowl
from which the water flows into the
other sleeve and then down into the
base main bowl of the fountain. An
other is called Transatlantic"
The figure of a woman eagerly
stretched out as If in flight and har-
ried by the furies of the air above and
held down by old Neptune below yet
still eager. still hopeful. Even the un-
trained can appreciate its beauty and
understand hs relation to the clouds.
From Mr.. Cages experience in a
hospital in France he has worked out
group he called Wounded" A man
with his eyes gone 'is aiding a lamed
man who points out the way The
tragedy OF it all is there. Another war
piece is the figure of a soldier who
looks up startled, wondering, almost
glad as the mantel Of Infinity falls
upon him.
Every one Is interested IN air travel
these days and Mr.. Gage has ex-
pressed this interest in "Flight"-the
figure of a man with a robe out
stretched, full of wind. You can feel
the motion he has caught in the clay
and more nearly understand why man
has such a passion to fly
There are many other models in the
studio in various stages-some mere
sketches, others more fully worked
out. 1t IS privilege to visit this
studio in the barn back of Mr.. Cages
home in Fillmore street, and you know
you are in the work room of a real ar
tist. Nothing has been put in the room
for effect or atmosphere" and the
brown burlap curtains at the windows
you know are there to regulate the
light and not because burlap should
be there. 1t is a room teeming with
ideas and ideals and you come away
feeling as If you've read a beautiful
poem or been listening to real music.
The small cast of Abraham Lincoln
from which the state house monument
was taken is one of the most conspic-
uous figures in the studio and makes
one feel sort of at home.
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PLAYBOY-
A little of the fascination of the
ultra-modernism, of the daring, of the
realism, of the romance of Green
wich village. New York City, has been
brought to Topeka by the "Playboy,"
a magazine published in the print
shop of Edgmont Arens in Washing
ton Square. Mr.. Arens's wife is re-
memberd in Topeka as Miss Josephine
Bell. the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
T. Bell of Fillmore street.
"a portfolio of art and satire deco
rated with wood cuts and linoleum
cuts it reads on the cover which is
made of heavy paper resembling old
fashioned wrapping paper and deco
rated with an impressionistic wood
cut which seems strange at first but
grows on you as you see it again.
The work on this paper is all done
by hand and the heavy double pages
are sewed together. The cuts are all