The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
Music And Art Workers Busy 1h For Fall
WTITH the opening of the schools

sive features.
 The public school music work in the city schools of Birmingham has attain ed a reputation far beyond the confines of the state. Under the capable su- pervision of Miss Leta Kits the stand ards maintained are in keeping with those in the most prominent cities of America. Miss Kitts returned to the city in time for the opening of the teach. ers' institute last week, after having spent. the vacation months at her home in New Jersey, and at Rutgers college New Brunswick, where she attended the summer music course there offered
 Several new members have been add. ed to the music faculty this year, first of whom may be mentioned Mir. How ard Wyley of New York, who will teach classes in voice in the high school, some. thing of a new departure, and also direct the Glee club. MT. Wyley has had excellent advantages in vocal study in New York, where he held a choir DO. sition as church soloist.
 Miss Henry of New York will give private voice lessons in the high school taking pupils in classes of three, with periods of forty minutes duration.
 Miss Martha Dick of Minneapolis. Minn., a graduate of the McPhail school of music, is a new supervisor of grade work. Miss Louise White, q graduate of Sophie Newcombe college, will have charge of the classes in music appreciation and harmony in the Wood lawn High school.
 Miss Helen Warner, director of the high school orchestras, who, year ago, spent the summer abroad studying in the famous Belgian school of violin playing, studied this summer in Roches- ter, N. Y., specializing in the methods and organization of school orchestras Her assistant, Mrs. Barton, has just returned from England, where she passed the summer months delightfully."- at her home in that country. While there she attended the convention of the British Federation of Music clubs in London, and heard many things of interest musically.
 Mrs. Barton does not think the pub lie school music work in England more advanced than ours, but concludes that, while they have much learned theory our work is more practical, really more progressive. In ther words, what they are talking about in theory we are putting into practice.
 During some weeks of the summer Mrs. Barton attended the teachers course in music offered at Oxford uni versity. There she made the acquaint ance of the wife of the editor of the London Daily Telegraph, who showed much interest in Mrs. Barton's remarks about the public school music work in Birmingham. Later Mrs. Barton re- ceived a request from the editor of the Daily Telegraph to write an article for that widely known journal on the public school music in the schools of the cit of Birmingham, Ala, U. s. A. This article is now being prepared by Mrs. Barton, and will be mailed to the London Daily Telegraph from here. Thus will go. abroad the fame of the music work in. our city schools.
 Soloists from the music faculty who were heard at the institute during the week were: Miss Mary Jones of Des Moines, Iowa, violin; Miss Nellie Stine, voice teacher in Paul Hayne, vocal solo; Miss Vera Robinson, grade super visor, vocal solo, and Mrs. Elizabeth Krauss, who has been studying in New York, violin selection.
 ART IN CITY SCHOOLS
 The art department of the city schools, with Mrs. Leonore Eldred as supervisor in charge, is ready for ac- tive work during the winter. The aim of art in public schools, states Mrs. Eldred, is to discover talent and latent ability to offer chance to the poor est and most obscure, as well as to the child of well to do and prominent pa rents. More than this, it's purpose IS to inculeate love for art and to edu- cate along all lines of artistic taste, so that a student may be able to discrimi- nate in practical are values. This dis criminative taste may involve the se- lection of house furnishings, house dec oration, draperies, the blending of col ors; or it may include the higher forms of designing, painting tapestries, tex tiles, sculpture.
 Handicapped by the lack of a mu- scum or art gallery in Birmingham, the art teachers are dependent for manifes- tations of are on exhibits they may se- cure, or reproductions of famous paint ings. Mrs. Eldred is arranging for several interesting exhibits during the winter, and also for lantern slides showing views taken in the large mu- seums of all forms of art work-tex- tiles, draperies, pottery, china, paint ings and sculpture.
 Mrs. Eldred spent the summer at Columbia university in New York, do- ing art work there. With her were a number of art teachers from the Bir-I mingham schools. Among these were Miss Evangeline Etley, teacher of art in the Ensley High school; Miss Edris Hughes, of the Paul Hayne; Miss Me Intosh, supervisor in elementary grades; Miss Gladys Carr, supervisor in elementary grades; Miss Roberts, teacher of art in the South Highlands school, and Miss Randall of the Bark CT school All of these teachers were taking the lecture course in art ap- preciation, and doing museum work. The Metropolitan museum is one of the three largest museums in the world, the others being the Louvre in Paris, and the British National Museum in Lon don. So New York, affording this infinite display of the diversified mani festations of art in all branches, offers a most excellent place for teachers to study and gain inspiration.
 At Columbia they ran upon some extremists, who were followers of cubist and futuristic art. They found ten dency to emphasize the incentive in savage art, the childlike simplicity of design, that, while crude in execution, held the highest art conceptions.
 Miss Belle Conner, who will have charge of art work in Phillips High school, has been in New York for two years, studying at Columbia, where she attained a masters degree.
 ALLIED ARTS CLUB
 A recently organized club, the frui- tion of the rapid growth of this city along art lines, is the Allied Arts club. It was the suggestion of Ferdinand Dunkley. who met with cordial response