The Washington times., 1929-04-10
Visitor From California Is Authority
On Oriental Art; TO Make VOrld Tour
Miss Katherine Ball Is
Guest of Capt. and
Mrs. Frank B. Freyer

Guest of Capt. and
Mrs. Frank B. Freyer
The bizarre, colorful and
typically Mexican decora-
tions of some of the apart
ments at the Mexican EN-
bassy made a peculiar ap-
peal to one of the guests at
the reception given by the
Ambassador of Mexico and
Sonora de Teller the other
evening. For Miss Kath-
crime Ball, of San Francisco,
who attended the fete with
her hosts, Capt. and Mrs.
Frank B. Freyer, has a cul-
!, tivated. appreciation of the
decorative arts Of many
countries.
Oriental Art
Her speciality is Oriental art,
on which she is considered an
authority, but she has COM
prehensive knowledge of the art
of many other lands to serve
as a foundation for a world
tour she is about to undertake,
with view to writing a book,
companion volume to her
Decorative Motifs in Oriental
Art" which is quite generally
used as a text book.
Until recently Miss Ball has
been serving as director of art
in the San Francisco schools, a
position she resigned to start
forth upon her travels. She
will leave Washington tonight
for Philadelphia and will visit
Boston before sailing from New
York for England. After spend
ing some weeks there she will
tour Continental Europe and
will then visit Egypt, India,
China and Japan.
Old Peru
Mrs. F"eyer has also made a
study of decorative arts. inspired
by her interest in the curious and
very beautiful art of Peru, where
she spent several years while Cap
. tain Freyer was at the head of an
America naval mission in Lima.
Her collection of ancient Peruvian
pictures. rare furniture and other
ARTICLES Of bisotry and virtue" is
nationally famous. 1t is also his
torically significant, because it
shows a superimposing of Spanish
ecclesiastical influence upon the
more ancient art of the Incas
which is unknown in any other
civilization. The old.time Peruv-
ians had also perfected a method
of using pure leaf gold in painting,
the secret Of which Is long since
lost.
All Mrs. Freyer's rare and lovely
things are installed in her house
in Massachusetts Avenue. They
are museum pieces, yet the house
mas 11O GAL VI - 1AuSVuLI1 bOI 1S -
charming and livable home.
Wives of Deans
Columbian Women of the George
Washington University will enter
tain the wives of the Deans of
Men who come to Washington
this week for the annual con-
vention of the Association of
Deans of Men, at their twenty
first annual banquet on Thursday
evening at o'clock at the Chevy
Chase Club.
An additional list of those who
have made reservations for the
banquet includes Mrs. Charles W.
Richardson, Mrs. William ]. NAL
1ory, Mrs. Edwin Behrend, Miss
Marjorie Mothershead, Miss Julia
L. v. McCord, Miss Harriet
Cheney. Miss Anne Kennedy, Miss
Ildria Bridges. Mrs. Henry Wal.
ther, Miss Maxine Girts, Mrs.
William Cline Borden. Miss Myrtle
Yost. Miss Jessie Espey, Mrs.
Bernice Angelica, Mrs. M. Moore,
Miss Olive Postley, Miss Agnes
Farrell, Mrs. Joseph Roe. Miss
Alice Dodd, Mrs. Hubert Bisselle,
Miss Marjorie Kline. Miss Grace
Wright, Miss Ada Entwisle, Miss
Helen Harper, Mrs. John Paul
Earnest, Mrs. Bertha Y. Werthner,
Miss Anna S. Hazelton. Miss Alice
Drake, Mrs. Rufus Allen, Miss
Emile Margaret White, Miss
Edna Clark, Miss Edith Lowe.
Miss Helen Gregg, Mrs. Arnold
McNitt, Miss Anna Fenton. Mrs.
Tomas Capigas, Miss Janet Nc
williams, Mrs. S. Oregon, Miss
Julia Macmillan, Miss Anna Muir
ray, Miss NJ. Chapman. Miss
Elizabeth Peet, Mrs. Paul conger,
Miss Maxine Role, Miss Irene
Pistorio, Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle. Miss Ida Harmed, Mrs. J.
E. Benedict. Miss Betty 10 Hop
kins, Miss Blanche Marshall, Miss
Ruth Bennett, MS. F. A. Moss.
Mrs. Gilbert Han, Miss Helen
Newman, Miss Anna Bischoff,
Mrs. Judson Knappen and Miss
Phoebe Knappen, Mrs. Robert F.
Griggs and Miss Sarah Farr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Brad.
ley are receiving congratulations
on the birth of a daughter. Mrs.
Bradley was formerly Miss Carolyn
Chamberlain, daughter of Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. John L. Chamber
lain. D
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