The Washington herald., 1922-02-26

exterior and interior of modern
American homes"
You will note tho writer speaks
of Mrs. Totten as Dutch" she is
from Sweden.
SECOND EVENING
OF ORIENTAL ART.
went over to Central High Tuesday
evening for the second of those
Evenings Of Oriental Art" and. my
dear. 10 they are all as delightful
as last Tuesday evenings they are
certainly worth going to see. The
house was crowded and with a
smart audience. too. | never spent
more esentertaining evening. This
one was Japanese Night" with
song and dance. Michio Itow is
always clever; Is a real artist but
he neds no Introduction However.
his brother, Yuji ltow. does; he has
konly been in this country about
two weeks. He has d charming
tenor voice, though not thoroughly
trained. Yet he Is SO earnest, has
much dramatic ability. tempera-
ment and feeling and understanding
that j thoroughly enjoyed him. He
sang in both French and his ma
tive tongue and received great sp-
plause- Anita Enters was new to
me. too. but clever artist who
dances delightfully."- and designs her
own costumes, and they were all
works of art. Itew designs his
own backgrounds, too. and light
effects, and l heard tho other day
that some big producer had Of
fered ltow several thousand for his
lighting effects. Miss Enters was
born in Wyoming. byt of Italian
parents, and has been dancing with
Itow for about two years. Evil
IDENTIFY all of the Itows are artists
of one sort or another-there are
six OF. seven children, of which
Michio Itow is the oldest, and he
is only about twenty-eight and
looks younger. Yuji Is about
twenty-six. They both have most
interesting and expressive faces.
He met his brother Michio in New
York about a week ago and when
he arrived at Michio's home he an
Nnounced himself-he speaks little
English-'I am Michio Itow's
younger"
They are. sons of Japan's leading
architect, and Michio went to Paris
to study architecture, as the oldest
son in Japan usually follows In
his fathers footsteps, as you know,
but while there became interested
in dancing and developed that art
instead, and though so young, Is
widely known already. After about
six years in Paris he came to this
country where he has been for about
four years now. Michio and Yuji
had not seen each other for ten
years until last week, and mean
V,,ff fg n
voice which delighted us all Tues
day night. I learned all this and
other Interesting little details of the
life of the Itows from a friend of
his who happened to sit next to ms
and waXed confidential.
She told me how clever Anita En-
ters is with her needle and how
quick-that a costume sometimes
will not be correct and how she will
slash. dye and sew and in a couple
of hours will dance in her creation:
how delightful the Spanish Embassy
attaches were with her Spanish
Fan Dance" at Mrs. s.Vanderbilt's the
other evening-she danced the same
Tuesday evening-how their name
is pronounced E-To Qong o) and
not E tau-and lots of other inter-
esting things!
While talking of music and art,
Pablo Casals Is coming soon, March
is the date. But how I have wan
dered away from my subject; I was
telling you about the weeks enter
taipments day by day.
President and Mrs. Harding were
entertained at dinner Tuesday even
| ing by the Secretary of the Interior
and Mrs. A. B. Fall. As usual most
of the guests were from out of 'wn
and/from several cities. The Min
lister of Ecuador and Mrs. Elizalde
had a big dinner party Tuesday, and
the wife of the Bulgarian Minister.
| Nine. Panaretof, had another of her
| series of luncheon parties. Mrs.
Edwin Puller had a luncheon, Mrs.
Wilfred duPuy a dinner and so on
and so on.
HOLIDAY OBSERVED
| AT STAG LUNCHEON.
Wednesday was a holiday; Wash
! ington's Birthday, and was celebrat-