Evening star., 1927-05-01
Picturesque Program
Is Planned for World
Welfare Conference
Concert by Washington
Artists and Reception
Among Features for Open
ing Session Tuesday
Evening,

A concert by an outstanding group
OF Washington artists, A reception and
the formal opening of the extensive
art exhibit which has been arranged
by the committee in charge will be
the features of the opening evening
or the World Welfare Conference,
which will begin its sessions Tuesday
evening at 8 o'clock in the patio Of the
Carlton Hotel, TO continue throughout
the week.
In addition to the concert program,
WHICH will he given by the Elena de
Ssyne String Quartet, assisted by
Emily Harold, lyric soprano, and Rob
ert Davidson. baritone. there viii he
music during the reception. which is
tn follow Immediately after the con
cert.
In. the receiving line with Mrs.
Clarence Crittenden Calhoun, presi.
dent of the Women's Universal ALI
snce, which is sponsoring the confer
enee. will be two of the members of
the executive committee of the ALI
ance. Mrs. Geneva S. Dunham and
Miss Margaret Patton Craig, and the
committee of arrangements for the
conference, Mrs Francis Hopkins,
chairman; Mrs, Robert \. Stanfield,
Mrs. Sol Bloom, Mrs. William Boyd
Carpenter, Miss Vera Bloom, Mrs,
William Fitch Kelley, Mrs. James
Huntington Turner, Mrs Frank Bar
rows Freyer, Mrs. James Pryor Tar
win, Mrs. Edgar Orme. Mrs. Gordon
Orme. Mrs. Franklin Barbour Clark,
Mrs. Lillian Hendricks, Mrs Charles
Selden, Mrs. H. w. Evans, Mrs.
Stokeley Morgan. Mrs. Jesse w.
Nicholson Miss Maude I. Richards,
Mrs, William Wolff Smith, Mrs. Ar
thur Hollis Tirrell. Mrs w. F. Zum-
brunn, Mrs. Dallett Wilson, Mrs
Blaine Lipscomb. Mrs. Turin Boone,
Mrs Mamie Green lobe. Mrs. William
Laird Dunlop. Mrs Isabel Boniface,
Mrs. Cabot Stevens. Mrs. Carl Droop,
Mrs H. r. Fulton and Mrs. Louis \.
huffman.
Thursday two notable events are
planned in addition 10 the regular
morning and afternoon sessions. The
banquet. which is TO he held IT S
o'clock AT the Carlton Hotel and at
which there viii be notable speakers,
including former Senator Robert l..
Owen OF Oklahoma and Miss Belle
Kearnev. brilliant Southern woman
and a member of the State Senate Of
Mississippi, is expected TO he one of
the largely attended and brilliant af
fairs Of the week. In addition to the
speakers. there will be a musical pro
gram and some attractive dancing
novelties, staged by Miss Marjorie
Webster
Thursday. following the tea at the
Carlton Hotel in the late afternoon.
the delegates to the conference and
their guests have been invited to visit
the home of Mrs. Frank Barrows
Freyer, 1771 Massachusetts avenue, to
view her large and interesting collec-
tion of Peruvian art treasures, which
were attained by her during her
residence in Lima. Peru, from 1920
TO 1928, when her husband, Capt. |
Freyer. was stationed there as chief
of the American Naval Mission, which |
assisted in reorganizing the navy of
Peru at that time.
The collection includes many an.
cient pieces of furniture of Peruvian |
design q I'd construction. interesting
both az examples of the Peruvian ip- |
depreciation Of Spanish design and as
Indicative of the culture and luxury
of the. early civilization in that coun-
try. The paintings. which are au.
fhentio prin1itives, are religious in |
theme and are strikingly beautiful, |
since the rich hrocades which were |
worn, hy-beth~ the men and the women |
of the period depicted are reproduced |
in all their richness of design and |
color. Mrs. Freyer will show some of |
her rare manuscripts, among them a |
document signed by an Inca princess, |
the daughter of the last Inca. this |
autograph being the only known one |
extant of an Inca princess. Preced- |
ing the visit to her home, Mrs. Freyer |
Will address the conference at the |
Carlton Hotel on THE Women of !
Peru"