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in January at the Royal Institute Galleries. It The Chelsea Arts Club Annual Costume .Ball
may still be called a quite new Society. Messrs. will be held at the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington,
Oswald Mosley, Douglas Fox-Pitt, Frank Gillett, on Wednesday, February 22. Dancing will begin
W.J. Leech, Isaac Cooke, F. Whitehead, seemed at ro p.m. and continue until 5 a.m. Fancy costume
to us to bear away the honours this time. will be de rigueur ■ but Venetian capes and Turkish
- caps will be considered a sufficient compliance
We hesitate to append the word "sketch" to with the rule. The Ball last year was a brilliant
the kind of canvas lately exhibited by Mr. ' success, and the Committee anticipate an even
Augustus John at the Chenil Galleries, though greater success this time. Those who wish to be
their author has no hesitation in referring to present should communicate at once with Mr. Sher-
them in his catalogue simply as studies—Pro- wood Foster, Chelsea Arts Club, 143 and 145,
venfal Studies. Those who were most unfriendly Church Street, Chelsea, S.W.
to Mr. John's innovations were always wont to
admit the transcendent quality of his drawing. T"~*V IRMINGHAM.—The St. George's Guild
In view of these studies, the admission must I ^ of Crafts of Birmingham has recently
be that his colour is of the most distinguished 1 carried out an interesting scheme of
order. * decoration at the Clarion Caf£, Man-
chester. The cafe is semi-divided into two rooms,
Other exhibitions of the month included Mr. one of which is called the Morris Room, the
Egerton Hine's water-colours at the Fine Art other the Oak Room, with a total seating capa-
Society's; Mr. R. C. Velicogna's drawings at the city of 200. The " Morris" Room (illustrated)
Brook Street Gallery, and Baroness de Bertouch's is a scheme in white, green, and blue, kept very
paintings and black-and-white sketches at the quiet and subdued in character, with a brilliant
Victoria Gallery, 123, Victoria Street. setting of colour in the decorative frieze panels
THE "MORRIS" ROOM AT THE CLARION CAFE, MANCHESTER. DECORATED BY THE ST. GEORGE'S GUILD OF
CRAFTS, BIRMINGHAM
58
in January at the Royal Institute Galleries. It The Chelsea Arts Club Annual Costume .Ball
may still be called a quite new Society. Messrs. will be held at the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington,
Oswald Mosley, Douglas Fox-Pitt, Frank Gillett, on Wednesday, February 22. Dancing will begin
W.J. Leech, Isaac Cooke, F. Whitehead, seemed at ro p.m. and continue until 5 a.m. Fancy costume
to us to bear away the honours this time. will be de rigueur ■ but Venetian capes and Turkish
- caps will be considered a sufficient compliance
We hesitate to append the word "sketch" to with the rule. The Ball last year was a brilliant
the kind of canvas lately exhibited by Mr. ' success, and the Committee anticipate an even
Augustus John at the Chenil Galleries, though greater success this time. Those who wish to be
their author has no hesitation in referring to present should communicate at once with Mr. Sher-
them in his catalogue simply as studies—Pro- wood Foster, Chelsea Arts Club, 143 and 145,
venfal Studies. Those who were most unfriendly Church Street, Chelsea, S.W.
to Mr. John's innovations were always wont to
admit the transcendent quality of his drawing. T"~*V IRMINGHAM.—The St. George's Guild
In view of these studies, the admission must I ^ of Crafts of Birmingham has recently
be that his colour is of the most distinguished 1 carried out an interesting scheme of
order. * decoration at the Clarion Caf£, Man-
chester. The cafe is semi-divided into two rooms,
Other exhibitions of the month included Mr. one of which is called the Morris Room, the
Egerton Hine's water-colours at the Fine Art other the Oak Room, with a total seating capa-
Society's; Mr. R. C. Velicogna's drawings at the city of 200. The " Morris" Room (illustrated)
Brook Street Gallery, and Baroness de Bertouch's is a scheme in white, green, and blue, kept very
paintings and black-and-white sketches at the quiet and subdued in character, with a brilliant
Victoria Gallery, 123, Victoria Street. setting of colour in the decorative frieze panels
THE "MORRIS" ROOM AT THE CLARION CAFE, MANCHESTER. DECORATED BY THE ST. GEORGE'S GUILD OF
CRAFTS, BIRMINGHAM
58