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...sister of the late Alexander J. Cassatt, onetime President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. She went to Paris in 1875, where she studied art, becoming an ardent admirer of Velasquez, Manet, Degas. She has long been recognized as one of the foremost American artists. Her particular metier is pastel but she has turned her facile hand to etchings and oils as well. Miss Cassatt, the friend of many people of prominence, has been respected for her personality and her ability everywhere...
...program follows: Toccaba and Fugue in D minor-Invocation Bach Pastorale Franck Chant de May Jangen Scripture Reading Pastel in B major Karg-Elert Menuet Gothique Boellmann "Fire Music", from "Die Walkure" Wagner
Joseph Stanislaus Jablonski '23 of Rochester, N. Y., is the winner of the Dramatic Club poster designing competition. The delicate pastel shading of the background has caught well the spirit of the play woven about the life of Beranger, the famous song writer. The figure depicted on the poster is a copy of an old picture of this character...
...collection of paintings in oil, pastel and water color, by Professor Arthur Pope, is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. The exhibition will be open daily through June 9th. Among the paintings are several portraits, some views in Fenway Court, and landscapes done at Naushon, Mass., and in New Hampshire...
...readers will question whether "Mr. Galsworthy's Justice' as a whole falls below the dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount of conventionally correct verse, with one piece, "Escaped," by Mr. W. A. Norris, that is more individual and distinguished than the rest. Even Mr. Cowley's vers libre is conventional according...