The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-18

brought all this to my mind.
At Mrs. Luke McNamee's
studio above the White Peacock
Tea House, Mrs. McNamee, who
was Dorothy Swinburne, has
been-and in fact still is-show-
ing her pastel portraits of chill
dren, and Mrs. Alan Kirk, who
was Lydia Chaplin, daughter Of
Mrs. Frederick L. Chaplin, a
group of statuettes of children.
That exhibit is simply charm
ing. I can't say which enjoyed
the most, the portraits or the
statuettes.
Then. Nine. Hubrecht, wife Of
the counselor of the Netherlands
legation, is showing some IF her
work. Many of US did not know
until recently that she did any
thing of the sort, but it seems
that under the name OF Lenore
Van Alphen she is widely known
In her country as an artist cs
great talent. Her collection, which
has been on view at the Arts
Club. is not large but is delighr-
full I've heard so many say they
thought her portrait Of Mrs. Carlo
Huntington perhaps the best OF
the collection. 1t is fascinating
and suggests the Flemish school.
She did that shortly after the
tragic death of her small son
about year ago, when her emo
tons were deeply stirred ana she
was very much in the mood for
painting. Mrs. Huntington made
IN unusually good subject, too,
for she is rather an unusual
type of beauty. The Huntingtons
and the Hubrechts are very close
friends.
Captain Huntington, by the
way, has taken a years furlouGh
from the diplomatic corps-he
was assistant military attache
Of the Italian embassy hereto
try his hand at business.
Mrs. Kinks statuettes bring to
mind those of Mrs. Lithgow o.
borne, whose husband is in the
diplomatic service. She had such
an exhibit here several years ago
and her work was delightful. Her
subjects were not all children,
- however. Gladys Hinckley does
similar work, too, and very well.
And then there is Mrs. George
Oakley Totten. who does sucn
lovely statuettes in porcelain!
MRS. VOLNEY CHASE, widow
of Captain Chase, U. s. NJ.
has won some fame as an artist,
water colors being her speciality.
And Warren Ferris is another
artist who is undoubtedly on the
road to fame. He recently ex-
hibited his work at the Art Cen
ter and some Of it was shown at
the Washington Opera ball.
Franklin Barber Clark is a por-
trait painter Of much talent. Jack
Siebert, now in Paris. Washing
ton can claim as one of its artist
colony; also Nathan Wyeth,
whose reputation as clever
illustrator is growing by leaps and
bounds. But the list is too long
to complete.
Then, do you know that ]. de
Lagerberg, of the Swedish lega-
ton staff, is a pianist of grea:
ability and that both DIR. and Mrs.
Ardreal, of the Netherlands Iega-
ton staff, are great musicians?
Or that Willmott Lewis has q
magnificent voice and is an &C.
complished musician, as is Henry
Suydan? That reminds me. in
turn, that I hear that Gladys
Hinckley has made a bust Of
Mr.. Suydam, and II should
start to enumerate the society
people who write with success I
would never get through!
ESEVERYBODY'S DOING IT,!
Wasn't there once a popular
song that went something like
that? What everybody is doing
now is getting sick. I never saw
anything like it! Among the lat
est to succumb are Secretary and
Mrs. Hughes, both of them. Sir
Auckland Geddes II confined "a