Evening star., 1925-01-05
THRONG EXPECTED
FOR BAL BOHEME
Art, Pageantry and Music on
Program of Annual Arts
Club Event.

Art pageantry and music will com
pete for preferment tonight at the
colorful Bal Boheme of the Arts Club
at the New Willard Hotel.
The ball will open at $3.50 o'clock
promptly with dancing in a setting
provided by virtually every group of
artists of the city. 1t will be 80
when the pageant will start, and sup
per will follow the pageant. Then
there will be general dancing until a
late hour.
The Judgment of Paris" will be
the theme of the pageant. Paris will
arrive at 1870, escorted by the
muses. of architecture. sculpture,
painting, drama. poetry, music and
the dance, the procession to be fol-
lowed by the episodes of the arts, as
one by one they pass before Paris
for his selection.
Model of ParthenOn.
The episodes promise to be elabo-
rately impressive. architecture, by
the local chapter of the American In
stitute of Architects, will constitute
a model of the Parthenon, in the ar
rangemcnt of which Lynch Luquer
acted as director. assisted by a group
of art students, with Mrs. Walter
Tuckerman acting as sponsor for the
scene. In the group will be Messrs.
Adams, Ashford, De Grange, Hartig,
Justement, Kundzin, Peaselee. Rodier,
Delos Smith, Younger, Upman, Wag-
gaman and others.
SCULPTURE, sponsored by Mrs. Min
nigerode Andrews and directed by
H. X. Bush Brown, will present the
Awakening of Galatea," by the mem
bers of the Allied Arts Studio, the
Art League and their friends. Mrs
Ruth Sutphen will appear as Gala
tea, Addison Smith as Pygmalion and
Misses Helen WILDER. Charlene Knapp
Louise Fuller, Fred Boettcher, Ed
ward Morgan and Capt. Victor ker-
ney as attendants.
Painting sponsored by Mrs. Charles
]. Bell ard directed by Burtis Baker
assisted by Mrs. L. NJ. Leisenring and
Mrs Frederic harrington, will be pre-
scented by students of the Corcorar
School of Art. including Misses John
son, Kits, Lewis, Whittier, Will
liams, Burks and Boswell, and Messrs
Walter, Lutz, Williams and McArdle
Miss Margaret Ward will appear as
Minerva and Miss Mary Happier as
the unhappy Arachne.
Story in Pantomine.
Drama, by the Shapespeare Society
of Washington, directed by Walter
w. Beck, will present the story ot
Pyramus and Thisbe, in pantomine
from "a Midsummer Nights Dream.
Leading parts will be taken by James
Otis Porter, Mabel Owens Wilcox
John McInerney. Lulu G. Adams, Les
lie Wandby, Rosemary Arnold, Arthur
j. Rhodes, Theodore Tenley, T. WeeC
Harvey, Clarence Ruebsam and Wal
ter w Beck. Mrs. George Hewitt
Myers is sponsor for the group.
The Art of Poetry is to be presented
by the Mckinley Dancers, directed By
Miss Caroline Mckinley. BY dance
drama they will tell the story of books
20 and % of the "Iliad' of Homer
wherein Jove sends down to earth the
gods to war with gods in aid of either
Hector or Achilles, as they may choose
Mrs. Edward A. Hartman is sponsor
for this episode, and in it will appear
Miss Judy Lyeth. as Hector; Miss
Evelyn Davis. as Achilles: Misses Alice
Callan, Dorothy Parsons. Evelyn Preble
Elizabeth Quigley, Florence Thompson
Dorothy Williams and Ruth Shoemaker
Mrs. Raymond Gorges is sponsor foI
the episode of Music, to be presented
by members of the Rubinstein Club
directed by Claude Robson, and tn
by Mrs. William Barrett Ridgely, i!
to be enacted by the Tchernikoff
Gardiner Studio, arranged and direct
ed by Miss Elizabeth Gardiner. IL
this scene the muses. of architecture
sculpture, painting, drama, poetry
music and the dance will be portrayed
by Miss Catherine Brown, Edns
Duncan. Marguerite Weighell, Dor
othy Burr, Katherine Hereford, JeaI
Densmore and Elizabeth Gardiner
This forms the finale of The SeconC
Judment of Paris" and will be a viviC
and color climax, with the muses.
flower girls, by Misses Duncan
Stewart and Morris; athletes by
Messrs. Sothorone, Hershey, Caplan
Gordon, William Hill, Isaac Simonds
and dancers by Misses Stewart, vii
liams, Hunter, Stahl, Schultz, John
son, Tchekova, Smith, Densmore, Burr
Browne, Hereford, Weighell, Morri:
and Duncan.