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Club 1908 K street. These strange and re-
markable paintings will be seen for the first
time by club members and their friends at
Ernest Dawson's piano recital at the club this
afternoon. The exhibition viii be opened
formally by a private reception tomorrow and
will be free to the public for two weeks fol-
lowing.
The artist herself, we are told is the de-
signer of the vivid and harmonious costumes in
'Chu Chin Chow and Mecca" contributing
in no small measure to their success. In ad-
ditiou to her work as q textile designer she
is q color consultant for architects, decorators
and large advertisers such as the Biltmore He-
tel. In private life she IS the wife of Carl
Manahan, the artist. The paintings to be shown
in the Ten O'Clock Club exhibition are small
panels in tempara, very brilliant in color, set
of by broad black mats and narrow black
frames They are abstract interpretations of
"sub-conscious emotions" Quite number have
the appearance of flowers. They do not
plain themselves, but may be interpreted as
the observer sees fit. They have decorative
quality and are SO out Of the ordinary that they
are bound to allure Others have ventured into
the same field but none, perhaps, with moro
daring or less restraint than this artist
Turing the past Winter q very interesting
- collection of photographs made IN Greece
by Charles Harris Whitaker was shown here
in the Public Library, attracting much favor
able attention. Now a second group of photo
graphs of Greece will be placed on view This
second showing will be under the patronage
of the Minister of Greece Fl. e. Charalsmbos
Simopoulos, and is the work of the internation-
ally famous photographer, Dr. Arnold Genthe.
The place will be the Ten O'Clock Club, and
the opening at which the Minister and DR..
Genthe will be present, viii take place tomor-
row afternoon.
DIR. Genthe is especially well known as q
portrait photo grapher. Among his distinguished
cfff Ir,ru Dad cIrs
and others. His photographs have been used
as book illustrations for "The Book of the
Dance" by Isadora Duncan; "Old Chinatown"
"Old San Francisco" "Old New Orleans" "The
Yellow Jacket" by George B. Hazelton and
Benrimo, and The Sanctuary" by Percy
Mackaye. He is scholar, linguist, writer and
collector Of japanese prints Born in Berlin I
and educated in the Wilhelm Gymnasium the
University of Berlin, the Sorbonne and the
University of Jena, he Is . doctor Of philosophy
anQrhas specialized in the study of classical .
philology, archaeology and philosophy. He took
up photography a hobby and 1t ran away
with him, so that since 1898 he has given It
the greater part of his time.
He came to the United States in 1895, lived
in San Francisco until 1911 and since then has
lived in New v"~S. He Is now q naturalized
citizen.
| OIS M JONES' ln..ructor in design in the
l. art department at Howard University is
holding an exhibition of her work in the How
ard University Gallery of Art. This exhibition
consists of water colors, oil paintings, drawings
in black and white and textile designs and
will continue through May 28.
This artist is graduate of the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, where for four
years she held scholarship. She is gradu-
ate also of the Designers Art School of Boston
and has attended Harvard Summer School and
the Massachusetts, Normal Art School, While
H.
prize offered by the Shepherd stores of Boston
and the American Institute for Costume De-
signing for the best original design for a dress
made of rayop. For a time she assisted Grace
Ripley at the Repertory Theater of Boston as
q costume designer, and she has done free lance
textile designing for Titus Blatter, Schumacher
and F. A. Foster of New York. She has also,
In recent years. done cover designs for THE
Crisis" Opportunity" and the Associated Ne
gro Publishers of Washington. She has exhib-
tied in the Harmon Foundation exhibitions for
the past three years, as well as in Greensboro,
N. c.. at the Virginia State College, the New
Bedford Public Library and locally.
This is her third year Of teaching at How
ard Universit-
THE American Federation of Arts will hold its
twenty fourth annual convention in Chi
cago this year. and in order to profit by the
Century of Progress Exposition the dates have
been set three weeks later than usual. The
convention will take place June 8. and 10.
the sessions being held in the Goodman
Theater of the Art Institute of Chicago in
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