Evening star., 1939-09-03
Art Club
Program
Denmark, Finland
Subject of Columbia
Heights Group

A study of Denmark and Finland
will be made by the Columbia
Heights Art Club during the coming
season, which will open with ses-
sion October 5, at which Mrs. M. H.
Fohrman and Mrs. Berley Winton
will be hostesses.
Yearbooks are just of the press
and indicate the club will make an
exhaustive study of virtually every
phase of life in the two countries
selected. These books also announce
May 16 as the date for the clubs
celebration of its 40th anniversary.
Mrs. Robert c. Hibben is the presi-
dent.
Three-minute talks on Fair
Memories" will be given by members
at the opening program, of which
Mrs. Lou P. Woodruff Is chairman,
but serious study will commence
at the October 10 meeting, when
Mrs. A. Rogers Tracy will give an
historical background of Denmark
and Finland. Mrs. Joseph R. Nc
Cuen will talk on national monu-
ments on this program, of which
Miss Cornelia Hill is chairman.
Trade Guilds Topic.
At the succeeding meeting, No
vember 2, Miss Hill will discuss trade
guilds and industries in the two
countries, while Mrs. George Peck
ham will talk on Islands and Co.
lonial Possessions" Mrs. Elmer S.
Frazier will be the chairman.
Mrs. Raleigh Gilchrist will be
chairman of the November Is meet
ing, when Mrs. A. F. Williams, jr.,
will give study of the life of
Sibelius, followed by piano selec-
tions given by Mrs Arthur Seaton.
Danish artists will be discussed by
Mrs. Anton Heitmuller and archi-
lecture by Mrs. Fohrman at the
December meeting. Mrs. De Witt
Croissant will be program chair
man.
Myths and Legends" by Mrs. r.
Bruce Bare; Travel Talk" by Mrs.
Faber Stevenson, and Reading and
Folk Dance" by Mrs. Gilchrist, will
be the topics covered on December
81. Mrs, Heitmuller will be in charge.
Mrs. Hoover to Talk.
With Mrs. Mahlon A. Winter in
charge on January 4, Mrs. Charles
K. Hoover will talk on education,
and Mrs. John E. Briggs, handi-
craft.
THE Royal Family of Denmark"
will be the topic of Mrs. John w.
Frizzell on January 18, when Mrs.
Croissant will discuss dramatists.
Mrs. Briggs will be chairman.
A talk on Copenhagen will be
given by Mrs. Dudley S. Bright, and
another on "Galleries" by Mrs.
Woodruff on the February / pro-
gram, with Mrs. George A. Cook as
chairman.
Mrs. Bright will serve as chairman
for the February 18 meeting, when
the club president, Mrs. Hibben, will
talk on "Helsinki" and Mrs. Gill
christ, Hamlet"
Tales From Anderson.
Following talk on the life of
Hans Christian Anderson by Mrs.
Winton March 7, Miss Anne Darl-
ington will give tales from Ander.
son. Mrs. Frizzell will be chair
man.
Social conditions will be discussed
by Mrs. Audley L. Smith, and tex
tiles and costumes by Mrs. Mary
Nalle on the March 81 program ar
ranged by Mrs. Tracy.
The annual meeting for reports
and election of officers will be held
April 4, but the study will continue
April 18 with a report on Scandi-
navian novelists by Mrs. T. H. Nit
chell, and another on Thorwaldsen,
by Mrs. Frederick L. Pratt, with
Mrs. Bare the program chairman.
Scientists of Denmark and Fin
land will be discussed May 2 by
Miss Mary Embrey and Mrs. Cook
will talk on Danes in America"
Mrs. Hoover will be chairman