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after which the posters will be on
exhibition there until January 2.
| Awards are offered also, as usual, for
costumes worn at the Bal. These
awards will be selected from articles
of artistry and craftsmanship sub
mitted by members of the club, and
the amounts allotted for their pur-
chase are SIS each.
From December % there will be on
view at the Arts Club, in addition to
the posters submitted in competition.
| collection of sketches by Miss Noyes
| of the Bal decorations and designs,
| together with collection of photo
| graphs taken in Bali by w. J. Lind
quist, and studies of Balinese subjects
made by the Abbott School Of Art.
Everything points to a most notable
and delightful occasion.
Incidentally, the clubs annual
Christmas dinner will be held on the
evening of December %, with Mr.. and
Mrs. Bittinger as hosts, and a program
! of Christmas music rendered by the
| choral group of the club, under the
direction of Otto Torney Simon.
DR.. Edgar Lee HeUett to Lee
ture on Ancient Life in Peru.
PECULIARLY appropriate, on &C.
count Of the exhibition of pre-
| Columbian art from South America
now on view In the National Museum,
under the auspices of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union and diplomats from Ecua-
| dor, Peru and Venezuela, will be an
illustrated lecture to be given by Dr.
Edgar Lee Hewett, director of the
Museum of New Mexico, at Santa Fe.
before the Archaeological Society of
Washington, affiliated with the Archie
illogical Institute of America, on Mon
day evening at the Sulgrave Club, on
the subject Ancient Life in Peru"
The hosts on this occasion will be the
president of the society, Wade H. Ellis,
and his wife Dr. Hewett has for many
years been associated with the Insti-
tute of American Archaeolog New
Mexico, and is leader, not only in
this field, but in that of cultural de-
velopment among the Indians of our.
great Southwest. AS writer on
American archaeology he is known
throughout the Western world, and
as director of the Museum of New
Mexico he also holds a high place
among workers in this field.
Paintings for Rent
By the Little Gallery.
THE Little Gallery, which Is up a
steep flight of old. turning stairs
above the Intimate Bookshop at 1904
o street, not only puts on, month b.
month, an exhibition of paintings b.
local artists but has undertaken TO
lend works of art, like books, for a
nominal fee to those who would
rather borrow than buy. This is not a
new experiment but one proved and
tried. Among those who have con-
tributed paintings to this purpose
and In this cause are Robert F. Gates.
Susan Chase, Edith Hoyt and Nine.
Siboni. A collection of works which
may be rented Is now on view. This
exhibition will be followed early in
January by one of paintings by Row
land Lyon, enormously announced for
December.
Exhibits in
London.
WORD has just been received from
w London that Miss Elizabeth
Keith, who exhibited here in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art last May. has
been holding most successful exhibi-
ton of her color wood block prints of
China and Korea in one Of the leading
galleries. The Queen visited the ex-
hibition and acquired several of the
prints. Miss Keith and her sister have
many friends in Washington.
Pinhole Photographs
By H. E. West.
AN EXHIBITION of pictorial pho
tographs by H. E West, set forth
in the Northeast Branch Of the
Public Library during the month of
December, has certain unique features
Some of the prints in this display were
made without lens and are exam
piles of what is known as 'pinhole"
photography. A thin metal disc, per-
forated with fine needle, Is sub
stituted on the camera front in place
Of the orthodox lens. To present-day
camera enthusiasts the use of PIN
hole photography is said to be uns
!. thinkable, practically on par with
the OK cart in relationship to modern
transportation. AS Mr.. West polpv
out, however, modern transportation
has direct bearing on the use OF
the pinhole in early photography,
citing as an example his picture OF
the Christian Church at Thomas Cir
Gle, which shows not a trace of an
automobile in the foreground, al
though more than 200 motorized ve-
hicles passed in front Of the camera
during the 10 minutes that his plate
was exposed.
Another valid reason which this pho.
tographer gives for the use Of ths
slow-working pinhole is its ability ia
record any image of any desired size
from a given viewpoint and without
architectural distortion: also, q cam.
era of this sort is cheaper, more readily
obtainable when the purse Is slender
but above all, he says, the image pro.
duced by the pinhole has an esthetie
quality peculiarly its own. No lens car
match its delicate softness Of line and
tone, a contention which his work con.
firms.
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