Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
BAL b0HEME PLANS
I NEAR COMPLETION
"The Second Judgment of
Paris" Pageant, to Be
Feature of Program.

Plans for the BAL Boheme' of the
Arts Club of Washington, which is
10 be held the evening OF January
5, in the New Willard ballroom, are
practically completed. under the d.
rection of Carlton Van Valkenburs,
chairman of the committee, ana the
various subchairmen who are In
charge of details in connection with
the unique pageant, The Second
Judgment of Paris" which is to be
presented by representatives or a
large number of the art groups in the
city, with Marie Moore Forrest as
pageant master.
Mr.. Van Valkenburg wrote the
pageant, selecting for his subject an
episode in the golden age of Pericles.
and the entire decoration of the ball
room will be in keeping with this
idea. The particularly interesting
feature in this scheme of decoration
will be the individual designing and
painting of the flags, lamps and
lights, each being the work of a dif-
ferent artist in the group working
under the direction of Cameron Burn
side, chairman of decorations and OF
posters.
Committee Named.
The committee includes also Miss
Anne Abbott, Beverly Harris, Ben
Cain, jr; Prentiss Taylor, F. S. Tay-
lor. Mrs. Howard Nynan, Charming
Smith Mrs. Lawrence Stafford, Miss
Marjorie Bodmer, with Miss Hazel
kits and Miss Elizabeth Haben, as
sisting in the coloring of banners.
The poster which is most effective,
has been designed by Claiming Smith
a young Washington artist, and the
coloring has been done by hand by
Mr.. Smith, assisted by Miss Katherine
Burr. Miss Mary Street, William Wal
ters, jr., and others.
The pageant is to be presented in
seven episodes, representing the seven
arts, architecture, sculpture, painting.
drama, poetry, music and the dance.
The Washington chapter OF the
American Institute of Architects will
give the first episode, that of the
"Receiving of the Model of the
Parthenon," and a group of 80 local
architects, assisted by a number of
art students, will appear in the pro-
cession, including J. w. Adams, Snow
den Ashford, Louis Justement, Arved
i. kundzin, Horace Peaselee, Gilbert
l.. Rodier, Delos Smith, Joseph
Younger, Frank Upman, Eugene
waggaman, De Grange, Hartig. and
Lynch Luquer, who is director of the
group and the scene.
Henry K. Bush Brown is directing
the second group, of Sculpture. which
is to represent Pygmalion and Gal
atea. with Mrs. Ruth Sutphen, Addi-
son Smith and students of the Studio
of Allied Arts, and the third group,
Painting, will be presented by
students of the Corcoran School of
Art, under the direction of Burtis
Baker Mrs. l. NJ. Leisenring and
Mrs Frederic E. harrington. The
group includes Misses Margaret Yard,
Mary Happier, Nell johnson. Hazel
kits, Katherine Lewis, Beatrice
Whittier, Helen Williams, Garrett
Burks, Sarah Baker, Frances Boswell
and Messrs. Bill Walter, Herbert Lutz,
Stuart Williams and Maurice Nc
Ardle.
Drama will be presented by men,
bers of the Shakespeare Society, d.
rected by Walter W. Beck, who will
give a pantomime performance OF
Pyramus and Thisbe, from Shakes
peare's "A Midsummer Nights
Dream The players group in
cludes James Otis Porter, Mabel
Owens Wilcox, John McInerney,
Lulu G.. Adams. Elton b. Taylor, Rose
mary Arnold, Arthur ]. Rhodes, Theo-
dore Tenley. T. Weed Harvey, Car
ence Ruebsam and Walter w. Beck.
Poetry is to be presented by the
Caroline Mckinley dancers, under
Miss McKinley's personal direction,
the story being that of the gods war
ring with the gods, as told in the
twentieth and twenty-second books
of Homer's Had, wherein Trojans,
under Hector, battle with the Greeks
under Achilles. To be seen in this
episode of dramatic poetry are Misses
Judy Lyeth, Evelyn Davis, Alice Cal
Ian, Dorothy Parsons, Evelyn Preble,
Elizabeth Quigley, Ruth Shoemaker,
Florence Thompson and Dorothy Will
liams.
Music is to be interpreted by mem
bers of the Rubinstein Club, directed
by Claude Robesen, who will render
q chorus from Gluck's "Orphyus and
Euridice," mad the Dance will be given
by the Tchernikoff-Ga rdiner Studio,
presenting a ballet called the Dance
"f the Muses., arranged by Elizabeth
Gardiner, and including Misses
Duncan, Stuart, Morris, Catherine
Browne, Edna Duncan, Marguerite
Weighell, Dorothy Burr. Katherine
Hereford, Jean Densmore, Messrs
Jean Sothorene, Hershey Caplan.
Philip Gordon, William Hill, Isaac
Simonds and Misses Williams Hunter,
Stahl. Schultz, johnson, Tchekova,
Smith and Miss Elizabeth Gardiner.