The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-26
FINE EXHIBITS AT
 ARTS AND GRATIS
 SHOW GIVEN HERE


 small industries combine with the old at the second annual Arts ano Crafts Exhibit which opened yes terday afternoon at the Scottish Rite Temple. More than 200 persons at I tended the first day showing.
 Many of the first visitors to the exhibit, some of whom had beer Alaskan residents for many years expressed themselves as being thrill ed and surprised at the novel uses to which products native to the Territory have been put.
 The displays of jewelry made of semi precious Alaskan stones have been a revelation to a number of people, who had not realized there was such a variety with so many possibilities.
 Adding much to the interest of the exhibit will be lectures to be heard this afternoon and evening. At 3:30 o'clock Mrs. Robert Hen sing will speak on the subject of originality in Arts and Crafts, and this evening, beginning at 8:30 o'clock, Donald c. Foster and E. L. Keithahn will be heard on the De velopment of Arts and Crafts in Alaska
 Acting as hosts and hostesses dur ing the afternoon and evening will he Art Braendel, Judson Whittier MT. and Mrs H. w. Startling, MT and Mrs. R. L. Wolfe, Mir and Mrs c. T. Warfield, MT and Mrs. Harold Smith, Mrs. Don Burrus, Mrs. Mabel Carter, Mrs. Ernest Parsons, Mrs Josephine Boyd, Mrs Harold Sver- drup, Mrs. Catherine Nordale, Ralph Wright, Curtis Shattuck, and w. C. Mcdonald.
 \ The Exhibit will he open tomor row afternoon from 2 o'clock to 5 o'clock, with Louis c. Peters, R. L. Emel, Art Braendel and Bob San ford as hosts and guides.
 Hcstssses Sunday afternoon will be Mrs. Charles Warner, Mrs M. O. Johnson, Mrs. Burrass Smith, Mrs James Beall Mrs. Roy Perotrovich and pr. Bernita Block
 FisRtng Products
 Some of the most interesting divis- ions in the exhibit, not previously mentioned, are the Fishing Pro ducts Laboratory show, the pottery exhibit and the Bureau of Mines show.
 The Fishing Products Laboratory of Ketchikan features raw products and what may be done with them. Besides sharkskin, salmon and other fish skins mounted and classified as to toughness, strength tanning quail ]. ities, etc, the exhibit shows a com l pact made with fish skin, pair of nloccasins of chum salmon skin, and l other clever craft work items. Mrs Charlotte Dunlap of the laboratory is on duty to explain the exhibited articles. She said that many vet erans and other persons had ap- preached the Laboratory officials lately wanting to know the possibil- ities of financially successful fish skin craft work. To prove how adaptable is the medium of fish skin to art work, Mrs. Dunlap had made a number of articles as samples. ;. They include a clever place card motif made from dyed fish scales |. and fins. and a menu decoration of fish bones and tiny shore star fish for restaurant specializing in fish culinary.
 The Bureau of Mines displays a delightful array of Alaskan jades, and other minerals. Featured in the local pottery division is the :. handiwork of Mrs. John Hagmeier and Mrs Robert Henning. . Special Items Some of the items receiving special attention of visitors to the exhibit were: Judge J. w. Kehoe's clever and beautifully done painting of a smiling Eskimo moppet; table nap lkinS embroidered to match the colorful pattern in china set; a series of tiny pipe cleaner dolls , dressed in meticulous detail by Mrs. Chas. Tuckett.
 The photographic exhibit is one of the favorite stopping places for visitors to the show. Portraits, scenes, and novelty shots are fea- tured. Most of the photographs are black and whites, but there were several large tinted pictures
 Photographers represented in the show were: Estelle Wagner, William Paul, Jr,, Vincent Isheris, Mrs David Wise, Amy Lou Blood, Fern Eaton, Margaret Maland, Clay Scudder, Robert E. Thorne, J. H. Brilliant, E. Thompson, Margaret White, J. O. Rude, Robert Henning, Jim Klein,