Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08

HE nrSt Of the series OF lectures to be given
during the current season under the aus
pices Of the Washington Society Of Fine Arts
viii take place wednesday evening In Baker
Hail. Young Women's Christian Association
Building, Seventeenth and K streets at $3.50
o'clock. The lecturer will be Charles r. Ash
bee Of Seven Oaks England, and his subject
viii be "A New Point of View in Town Plan
ming"
Mr.. Ashbee is craftsman. architect. author
and city planner. It was he who established
the famous Guild of Handicraft at Chipping
Campden, and he originated the Survey OF
London and founded the Essex House Press.
When, during the World War, England took
over Palestine and planned it's rebuilding.
Charles Ashbee was sent out as civic adviser.
Among his books are Where the Great City
Stands" 1.-The Private PreSs-A Study in Ideal
ISM" "a Palestine Notebook" and "Caricature."
Mr. Ashbee has not been in this country for
some years and is spending only few months
here. The lecture will be illustrated by ster-
eopticon slides.
GENERAL Washington artists are represented
- In the American Water Color Society's
sixty-fifth annual exhibition which opened in
New York October 20 and continues through
today.
S. Peter Wagner shows four paintings, two of
which are marines, The Tides at Grand Ma
nan" and Surf on the Bay OF Ftmdy," both
excellent. Eleanor Parke Gusts shows three.
paintings-"Cheese Market at Alkmaar,"
Loading Hay Isle of Maarken" and "a Brit
tany Pardon" all in her characteristic and in
teresting manner. Mrs. Susan B. Chase also
shows three subjects in all probability found
on the New England Coast; and Eliot O'Eara.
who is now to be counted among Washington
painters, is given a place of honor in one of
the galleries for his group of three New York
scenes lately painted. Park Avenue at Fifty
first Street." Under the Bridge" and Ninth
Avenue and Twenty -third Street." typical Of
our great twentieth century city.
A r the Arts Club two new exhibitions open
n today, one of oils by Marian T. Macintosh.
a member of the National Association of
Women Painters and Sculptors, North Shore
Arts Association and the Society of Washington
Artists: the others of oils and water colors
by Ruth OSgood a member of both of the
local professional organizations and also Of
the Arts Club. At the opening tea this after
noon Miss Osgood viii be hostess.
THE Washington Water Color Club announces
! its thirty-sixth annual exhibition to be held
in the Corcoran Gallery of Art from December
TO 81, inclusive. Works intended for exhibit
ton must be delivered to the Corcoran Gallery
OF Art November 81. This exhibition will In
clude not only water colors and pastels but
drawings in black and white and etchings. Re
quests for entry blanks and other information
Evans Graves, 4853 lockwood parkway north
west.
CAUSTA VITTORIA MENGARINI, young
italian sculptor, whose forceful portraits in
bronze were shown here last Winter, first pri-
vately at the Italian embassy and then In the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Is having an exhibit
ton at the International Art Center of the
Roerich Museum, opening yesterday. Among
the bronzes which are included in this showing
are portraits Of Mussolini George Eastman,
Nansen and David Z. Finley of this city. The
exhibition viii continue through November %.
THE City Art Museum st. Louis, has lately
installed three early American rooms, one
Of which is from Alexandria, Va. This interior
was taken from house South Lee street,
built about 1880 by John and Lawrence Hooff,
prominent bankers and friends of George
Washington. The first floor of the building
was used as banking Offices. The room now in
the st. Louis Museum, which was on the sec
ond floor, is beautifully paneled and distinctly
stately. On one side there are three windows
beautifully proportioned; on the opposite side
a fireplace between two doorways. The room
has been completely furnished in the style OF
the period and in furniture which must be very
similar to that originally used
Another famous room from Alexandria, the
ball room from Gadsbys Tavern, was some
years ago, it will be remembered, incorporated
in the American wing of the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art New York.