New Britain herald., 1925-03-14

New England Yale clubs will meet In Bridgeport as the guests of the Fairfield County Alumni association May 18th and 16th. A tentative program for the gathering includes On Friday afternoon, informal sports, in the evening an informal dinner and entertainment Saturday morn- ing there will be formal sports, fol. lowed by luncheon at the Brooklawn Country club. In the afternoon the Yale, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Co. lumbia race will be held.
 
 Mrs. Leroy Brown, who has been In Chinese missionary fields for a number of years, will address the foreign missionary department of the Woman's Association of tho South Congregational church at , o'clock next Thursday afternoon. Her sub jcct will bo .'rhe Light That Streams Farthest Shines Brightest at Home"
 Tea will be served and a social hour will follow.
 
 ART CENTER
 An exhibition of the work Of the students of the Hartford Art school, of which Albertus F. Jones is di- rector is shown at the galleries of the New Britain Institute. The work covers a wide range and includes portraits, figure studies, landscap pes in oils and water colors, pastels and interior decoration, poster and costume designs. The very definite theories of the direc- tor have borne fruit in the fine color sense shown in his pupils work.
 A brilliant portrait study of vivid color by Monica Reddy of Bristol is the most prominently displayed canvas at the exhibit. It Is a veri- table symphony in color and is one of those outstandingly mertorious compositions which have to be seen to be appreciated.
 Two landscapes done by Miss Florence Mouat, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Laurence Mouat of Grove Hill, are attracting equal attention, although more subdued in coloring as is wont in this type of picture, they employ delightful details and indicate extraordinary fidelity to nature and the ability to see it's beauties.
 The delicate blending of trees and foliage is done with astonishing skill and effect, and in one of them a barn in the background, enhances the still sylvan beauties of the can vas
 Another New Britain girl is rep resented with commercial drawings. She Is Kate Goodwin, and her ef- forts in this line are on a par with the best in her grade at the ex- hibition.
 There are other pictures of dis tinction in the exhibition, painted by followers of the brush and pal cite in Hartford and other nearby ctiies. Girl artists are far in the majority. but a life study by John ODonnel exhibits unusual strength. | A color study by Polly Whitney. and | other pictures by Helen Maisley, Malcolm Horne and Doris King are of excellent value. The depletion of | a man by Kathleen Becker is un- usually good.
 The exhibition takes Yp the en- tire four walls of one of the large rooms on the upper floor of the in stitute. One will Is taken up with the star paintings" another with . nudes, a third with miscellaneous drawings, and the fourth with com- mercial productions.
 A charcoal drawing finished in three hours creates much interest, both in it's subject and the speed shown in executing 1t. Six chalk drawings on a background of black, each done in five minutes, attracts attention for the same reason. The work of an artist must be speedy, To paint 8 landscape requires it to oe finished in one day or an- 'ther day the same landscape may oe changed in detail. The entire ruition of talent and study must be in the short time at he disposal of the artist.
 An audience ranking high in the ocial and artistic life of this local y heard and marvelled at the ex- cting program of piano music hich Is year old Lois Phelps gave , n Wednesday evening in Unity hall l Hartford. Beginning with Bach's Italian con- erto, she ended with Greigs con- ,rto in A minor, with Irene Kahn T aying at a second piano. In be- ' reen were numbers by Schumann. T ,hubert. sChopi nand Debussy. A twinge of nervousness seemed ' affect her in the first number. but lickly disappeared. Her playing Bach was not mature: the tech que was present, but it is very diff