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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1933 Art and Artists Music and Mmsiciaes Book Reviews and- Literary Notes Amateurs Show Many Paintings Orpheus Club, One Line Given' Women's Choral San Francisco Sing This Week By Basil Woon Edmund Jaeger Treats Deserts TURN with tht BOOKWORM MASTERPIECE S. F. Museum Of California 8S In Hi mm But Bay Area Residents Will Be Interested in So, though Frank Farley has allotted us a share In a tidket for the French National Lottery, we do not consider it a lottery, because we never win in any such scheme. It probably comes under the head Teresina Brings Dance Art of Spain Here Friday Evening Professor Visits Region For Health and Writes Book on Life, Color fEW YORK. Dec.

9. Having absent-mindedly picked up our copy of "Oh, Yeah!" a lit tle book which you may remember was compiled by Edward Angly two years ago as a memorial of the New Era and a tribute to our Great Thinkers, we rrad'ln it a statement by Professor Irving insner. dated in the early autumn of 1929, in which the professor told the world he could then "see no DOGSibilitv" of a -tork-markpt crash With this assurance. 1.1 we feePperfectly safe in the hands ot the professors, especially those cummiuea io rroiessor nsners theory of the commodity dolla We've glad we saved that little book; such public services are too often forgotten. So we shall endeavor today to devote our whole attention to pure literature, if we can keep Ramona Herdman quiet.

She's trying to tell us about Frank Simonds' "America Faces the Next War." Aren't we to be allowed to preserve our equanimity for a minute? Marria Passage 'told us about a customer who looked at a few pages of "The Fust World War and then asked her if she hadn't a book with pleasanter war pictures. That's the idea, why face things if they look like don't read the reprint of Andrew Dickson White's, "Fiat Maney Inflation in France." It is auite an uncomfortable torv and tactless to bring it up now One should therefore read as little history as possible. One may encounter such remarks as this: "The pestilent effects of paper money on the necessary confidence between man and man, on the necessary confidence in the public counsels, constitutes an enormous debt against the states chargeable with this unadvised measure. Who said that0 Oh, that was James Madison the old Tory. Here is "King Edward VII." by E.

F. Benson, alongside "The Fl wardian Era," by Andre Maurois. A comparative study in tact: i on the whole, Benson makes Ihe best showing, gliding gracefully over an immense area of thin ice. the Tranby, Croft baccarat episode Benson achieves a masterpiece of apologetics. "He (Edward! asserted thntj.ic had a horror of gambling, n.s he Understood it.

and his definition of it was thai a gambler risked sums' np cnuri nn( affolrl osp The first timn Hp had evei played cards for money was with Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, whist at threepenny points. No one could consider that gambling." "Portrait of Archduke Ferdinand, Cardinal-Infant of Spain' by Peter Paul Rubens. The canvas was obtained by the Legion of Honor through th: James D. Phelan bequest. Slides to be Used in Children's Concert LA Artists Exhibit In Oakland Gallery ATER colors selected from the annual exhibit of the California Water Color So- of a redistribution of wealth.

Gustav Eckstein stopped in on his way home to" Cincinnati lately and i said he had bought a ticket for the raffle of a baby donkey in Greece. He was lucky; he didn't win. Somerset Maugham says he "believes in luck. People accuse me of being cynical or bitter, whereas I am simply trying to set down my impressions of strange and ruth less forces that are beyond our control" The best example is the short story. "The Vessel 1 Wrath." in Maugham's latest volume.

"Ah King" Some owlish reviewer has rebuked him for this highly risible tale of a beachcomber and a lady missionary, because it isn't "serious." In fact, it contains implications so weighty they could not be put into anything but' humorous terms. We find consolation in Yeats, and here at last is his "collected Poems." which contains the series of poems hitherto published only in a limited edition as "The Winding Stair." Yeats is a man who has lived in his time, through poverty and success and the bitterness of civil wsr and the disillusionment of peice. the despair of youth and the humiliation of age; and he has set himself against the whole current ui nis ume. aim won, "A Book of Americans," by Rose- mary and Stephen Vincent Benet, was brought out in a limited first edition and oversubscribed, So Fiosemary Benet was wearing orchids presented by her publisher. John Farrar.

at the tea for Christa Winsloe last week. Christa Winsloe is the Baroness Hatvany and author of "The Child Mayela." the novel from which "Maedchen in Uniform" war, filmed. This is her first visit to the United States, but she speaks English very well. The English-speaking Union gave a tea for E. M.

Delafield. author of "Gay Life" and the "Provincial Lady." Miss Delafield was in town for the week, after a lecture tour, before sailing for England. i There was a tea for Dolly Gann, I but at the moment of writing we I don't know who took precedence of whom, or if any one go hurt 1 in Ilia U' A in i in uitr ci ilc niunin.r. But here is a summons to another tea, for Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Just two days earlier, quite by accident.

I. M. P. for the classics' and for sleep. JTali- fer thinks, "No man could watch A face and form so harrowingly divine As hers and tell himself it was all folly To be its famished prey." The more disinterested Dr.

Quick remarks to Talifer, "Is it not strange That one right woman, with fate for you. Should be left wailing while you might possess And cherish, in an amatory tranae A changeling epicene anomaly Who sleeps, and finds her catnip in the classics?" The surprising quality of Althea is her development of a sense of comedy in the interval of Talifer's marriage to Karen, which survives until in the findl scenes she demurely baits Dr. Quirk. Talifer and 1 her little son as audience and vindi cation of her suffering. are so removed! I i I I ciety, Los Angeles, are being shown young people, when he gives a seat the Oakland Art Gallery The ex- of lhrefi Symphony programs hibit occupies three galleries, with 1 plenty of space between pictures Oakland and San Francisco which, after all, is the way an cx- around the "holidays, hibition should be hung, Srhelling.

who has built up a Some good pictures are on the national reputation, as a conductor Book on Rest of State BASIL WOON. one of the few remaining of that colorful i remaining of that colorful i breed of correspondents that included in its ranks Richard Hard- ing Davis. Sam Blythe. Alex Wooll- cott. Irvin Cobb and Floyd Gibbons, i has indicated in his new book "In- credible Land" that San Francisco will soon be the object of his re-portorial investigations.

In Incredible Land." Woon, who. in recent years, having no wars or rumors of wars worthy of his pen. has taken to jaunty travel books, discusses in eMail most of the wonder places in California, but de, votes only a single line to the city of San Francisco. Unless he wrote a book on that subject, he said, he could not do it iustire. But pending that time the hav area will find much to interest it in "Incredible Land," for while it is not touched upon directly, its neighbors to the north and south are constantly in mind.

Woon is not the customary Vav- elogist. His books follow no set form and as a result are more in- formative than most tourist guides. This one. for examole. begins with an historic account of the begin- nings of Los Angeles and shifts in 1 its second chapter to a satirical study of Hollywood'.

Here again Woon is writing from personal exnerience. He came out here again three years ago with no obierf in mind other than a va- cation. One of the things he was i pertain was that he was not going i "in pictures." It so happened that his books were not suitable at the moment for films, and he did not purpose becoming a cinema writer. 1 So he was forthwith hired (II -1 1 ic i ihni one of he best analyses of that strange metropolis yet to be pro- dured. He deals with it in a de- tached manner, exposes its fads and foibles, but dpes not approach it, with that, sjtiwcilious air is common to visiting writers.

Fully appreciative of its importance, he is none the less alive to its amusing superficialities. inose wno me lamm-i w.u. tn msioe i-iniiywoou, nuuu i Woon's report of a premiere that he attended as the escort of Clair Windsor is hilarious fun. For those who really want some readable information on the pictures and their manner of making, he has passages that are as succinct as they are accurate. But Hollywood is not the chief object of Woon's "Incredible Land." He had eyes for all the things that are California's, and he found time to invade Nevada and survey it carefully.

And his charts and budgets are especially valuable to the prospective tourist. Woon's chapter on Yosemite Park and his essays on its various beauties is a beautifully written piece of work. His jaunt into Death Valley is one of the most exciting of travelogues. But more important, he gives really helpful hints to readers who may wish to follow in his trail information on hotel and camping accommodations, necessities of travel and costs. At.

base "Incredible Land" is designed as a travelogue and' Baedeker; actually it serves a dual purpose. For the easterner, or the westerner for that matter, who wants to see the country's important places, Woon has provided a searching study; for the arm chair traveler he has an amusing and inter esting book Los Angeles. Hollywood, Tia Juana, Caliente, Palm Springs, 1 Arrowhead, Noah Beery trout farm, Santa Barbara and other Coast. Route cities; Yosemite, Reno, Los Vegas, Death Valley, Boulder Dam, the Grand Canyon, Colon and various and sundry other places are given their due and their come-up paftce as the spirit moves-Woon. "Incredible Land" follows no definite pattern, but it achieves its purpose of entertainment and enlightenment, and it is delightfully written.

Land." by Basil Woon: New York: Uvrrlcht Puhllshina Co.) Kyn Dilates in Fantastic Strain When Peter B. Kyne turns his hand to the light and airy in fiction he can be depended Upon to wans ann some commonplace ones As a whole the exhibition is not up to ihe standard set by the Oakland Art Gallery's recent water color annual. Phil Dike shows some exceptional paintings, including a view of Tole do. Spain, handled freely, yet with, certainty. His use of white spots of paper showing through the paint gives a sparkle to his pictures.

Edouard Vysekal's "Hollywood" I Edwin Arlington Robinson Does Shift in Style for Late Verse is really an abstract design, which afternoon. December 30 The Sn started out to be beams of light and Francisco dates are December 27 dark buildings against the light. and 4. in the War Mefnor-all having something to do with nl Opera House at 2:30. Hollywood It's a sort of a mussy The three programs will intro-sffair.

-dure thp following works: Over- Hardie Gramatky has a nice, loose ture to "The Marriage of Figaro." touch-to his work, which includes a Mozart; Suite. Rach; Pizzicato from Notables, Who Paint for The Fun of It, Exhibit In De Young Gallery By H. L. DUNGAN rtE amateur artist is one who doesn't have to paint for a living, but paints because he wants to. The professional artist is one who paints because he has to make a living and is lucky if he survives.

With this understanding we now approach the exhibition of San Francisco amateur artists at the De Young Museum. Whoever organized the exhibition had a good deal of courage, and, judging from some of the exhibits, the exhibitors themselves must be Of heroic build. Anyway, it's all good, clean fun. Such exhibits hould be held, say, every now and then, not oftener. Some of the amateurs show talent.

If forced to work at art they would make a go of it. Others, I suspect, are like many professionals they couldn't be artists under any circumstances. Works by the amateurs occupy two galleries. They are in oil. water colors and pastel, and of all sites.

In general. I would say that amateurs do not stint on canvas. Anions the exhibitors are: Hildi W. Ford "Cypress Trees. Carmel," with a glimpse of the sea; painted in heavy brush strokes, with considerable Diue.

dui nui uu. William W. Crocker Two still life studies and a portrait, of a young woman. In one still life some pears have been well handled, but the portrait leaves considerable to be desired. Templeton Crt'cker, cousin of V.

Crocker, also is an exhibitor, ihowing a number of pastels, mainly flower and fruit studies. They have a modern touch, but I suspect the artist intended them to be academic. Harold Mack, one of San Francisco' patrons of art, exhibits some landscapes and' figure studies. A draped figure shows the modern influence by a sort of easy indifference to anatomy, Mrs. Reginald Knliht-Smllh has the most ambitious individual display in the exhibition consisting of large portraits of Mrs.

Langfcy Porter Miss Marion Dassonville, Mrs. Bdward Haas and Scott Knight-Smith. Mrs. Lewi P. Hobart "Luxembourg Gardens," 9 small, charming oil.

with' a decidedly professional touch. William L. Geratle, also a patron Of art, exhibits some landscapes, and wetty good ones at that, and a portrait, "Shelagh Guide." which misses being excellent by a hair's breadth. Ethel McA. Grabb "Marie Louiae," a portrait of a child and a playground scene, the latter in rugged impressionism.

Mrs. Mortimer rielihhacker-Landscapes and still Jife studies of mtrit. Mrs. Fleishhacker a student of John Emmett Gerrity. so the pictures have much of the Gerrity color and feeling.

Dr. Otto Pool, Los Gate's," a water color handled with a good deal of skill. Frances Bevett Wallace-Four decorations in water colors; out standing works. 0 IN ALL the gallery there were but two men who sat for a long time and looked with eat-er eves On the works of certain old masters. Other's passed through, casually, and glanced about and wan-ilraH on talking.

The two who sat end looked sat apart, (or they were nn, to the other. And they had no words to say but only eyes to see one wnn gai ihusc the canvases of certain old masters had hair as white as snow. His suit was blue and his collar white. He shivered in ecstasy at what his eyes beheld. And the man who sat bark "of the man whose hair was white had lines in his face and on his blond temples there was a touch of gray.

His suit was somber, his shirt brown and flannel, hut there was light In his eyes. The persons who chatter departed end the two were alone in the great hall save only for one other who tip-toed silently past the man whose temples were touched with white end Stood beside the man whose hair was as white as snow There was silence in the great hall. For a long time there was silence in the great hall. And no word was spoken then or thereafter among these three who understood and knew there' were no words to say The man whose hair was white looked lpng at El Greco's "St Francis" and longer at Velasquez' "Portrait of a Young Woman." and still longer at Paul Potter's "Landscape With Cattle." When his gaze turned to Ruben's "Portrait of Archduke Ferdinand." it turned back to Pot-terV'Landscape." Always his gaze turned to the landscape. AncVjthe one who had tip-toed in.

tip-trH out of the great hall and entered the gallery in the Legion of Honor where paintings by members of the. San Francisco Society of Women Artists, but in his mind he saw only the picture of a Bum whose hair was white sitting silently before canvases of certain masters. a With the culmination of the exhibition by Gleb Ilyln in the main ball, the Mills College Art Gallery will be closed for three weeks beginning Sunday. December 17. The nailery will reopen January 7.

with a loan exhibition of paintings from New Mexico, assembled by Willard Nash of Santa Fe. These paintings will be shown in the main hall of the Mills College Art Gallery from January .7 through January 31. Christmas exhibition of the Rudolph Schaeffer School, 138 St Anne Street, San Jrancitco, opened Friday and will continue through December If California desert country is I a comparatively little knnwr section of the state that within the past couple of years has corns in for an increased interest from the touring public. As the lovers of the outdoors learn more of this marvel land they are also beginnir' to learn that the desert is a thifc to respect but not fear, that it is a land of marvels, of beauty and pleasure, a genuine playground. Now comes a new book on this fascinating land, "The California Deserts," by Edmund C.

Jaeger, that is about the best guide pook on the area to be published. author, who originally went into tfie desert for his healih. learned to love it and remained to worship. He has done a notable piece of work in his book, describing the scenic wonders of the desert, the natural history, plant and animal life, and geologic features. It is not done in either a schoolbookish manner or in the manner of the usual guidebook, but with an intimate touch such as comes only from one who knows his subject thoroughly jaeger nas also brought out sev- eral rather interesting theories on the "formation of some of the desert features that in a way, upset formerly held ideas For instance he shows rather conclusively, that at one time a series of great fresh water lakes occupied the basins of the Mohave add Colorado wastes.

In proof that thesp were fresh and not salt lakes as has penerally been held, he shows that the shells, strewn so plentifully about the Imperial and Coachella Valleys, are fresh water shells, and could not have existed in salt or even brark- ish water. He also shows how the snails and frogs and fish found in the various streams and springs of the desert country are descendants of the ones that occupied the fresh water lakes. A beauty of the book is that the author points out the features and permits the reader to ferret out his own deductions all of which adds to 1 I I'llllld Wllllurl Ml.n "The California Deserts" is well illustrated with line drawings of the subjects treated by Ihe text. An interesting feature isthe maps in 'he front and baclFTrrvers of the two great deserts of the State The author is one of the professors attached to the Riverside Junior College. He was assisted by several of his students in the collection of material for the present work.

I'Thf California nrsrts." by Fdmuni T. Jafrtr: SUnfiiril I'nlvfr-ily Prrss. $2 1 Book Publishers Issue New Plays "One Sunday Afternoon." one of New York surprise hits which more recently was made into a cinema with Gary Cooper taking his first bucolic role, has appeared in book form under the imprint of the Samuel French Company. The work of James Hagan. a new writer to Broadway.

"One Sunday Afternoon" relates an interesting story of a young country bully who fjnaiiy gets his chance "to get even" when his victim visits his dental parlor and demands gas for a tooth extraction. Interesting in the library, it is a play that will find ready production in the amateur theater, as it pre sents few difficulties that the nnn- rfcinslI anri type of entertainment. It is pub lished in a thirty-five cent issue. The third volume of "Short Plays of American History and Literature" designed for classroom production has been edited by Olive M. Price and contains six playlets, one "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," based on the Washington Irving tale.

Percy MacKaye is also on the stands with a new volume of short plays. "Kentucky Mountain Fantasies." There are three in the book. Ir Mountain Fantasii." by Ferry MarKayr: SI: "Short Pby of Amerlran History. by Olive Prlrr: Sl.t.i; "One Sunday Afternoon," by James Haran: SI.Ml.l Boys Told How to Operate Airplanes Edwin Love jkes boys and ajr pianP5. He has written a book tell- ing how to buna ann fly small planes, furnishing charts and full instructions.

Every model described has been actually constructed by the author and has been flown. For the boy who likes the model airplane, this is a complete and accurate book. "Junior Planes." by Edwin Love: Chi-rato. Albert Whitman A SI.) ()fl SPECIAL SALE of PAINTINGS G.J ery 4270 PIEDMONT AVE. Beautiful Landscapes Exhibited by A.

W. Best The includes paintings of Death Valley Painted Desert Mt. Diablo and many beautiful spots inMarin County. Also choice paintings. Small sizes $5.00 up Oygn 1 to 5, Including Sunday A By RONALD D.

SCOFIELD ANOTHER week of chorals and dancing is in store for East-bay concert goers, with the Orpheus Club Male Chorus giving its annual Christmas program in the Auditorium Theater Tuesday evening, Wednesday Morning Choral of Eastbay women singing Thursday evening in the Scottish Rite Auditorium, and Teresina. a young and highly lauded Spanish dancer, appearing Friday evening in the Auditorium Theater. Frankly sensuous, colorful and entertaining, the Spanish dancer's art will provide a sharp contrast to that of her Hindu colleague, Shan-Kar, with its religio-rymbolic narration and rememonial, seen last, week. Teresina will make her Kastbay debut in a recital of gypsy tangos, seguidillas. jotas' and other characteristic and appealing dance forms from the Spanish repertoire.

All the dances presented by Teresina are her own choreography. Some are danced to popular tunes and others to music of Granados, Albeniz. Morero, Gimenez or de Falla. Assisting are two Spanish musicians, Javier Alfonso, pianist, and Carlos Montoya. guitarist.

The Wednesday Morning Choral, in its concert. Thursday evenlrjg will have as guest artist Nathan Stewart, baritone of the San Francisco Opera Company, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Nathan Stewart, As usual, the choral will he directed by Wallace A. Sabin and will have as accompanist Mabel Hill Redfield. The program follows: "Let Our Gladness" 'old Bohemian enroll, arr.

by Sabin; "Oh. Sleep" i Alsatian carroli, arr. by Sabin: "Christmas." arr. by J. Sidney Lewis: song from Ossian's "Fingal." Brahms; "The Sleigh," Kountz-Baldwin.

Stewart's numbers inrlude: "Raindrop Prelude." Chopin; "Whirl and Twirl," Richard Wagner: "Evening Prayer in Brittany." Chaminade. Soloists, Lorena Carmen, Bertha Schulze. "Here a Torch. Jeanette. Isabella." arr.

by Manney; Sing We Noel." air. by Manney; "Lullaby," G. W. Chadwick. SOLO GROUP "Blind" 'vision of a sightless child i.

Parks. "The Indifferent Mariner." Bullard; "Graveyard Rabbit." Woods. NathHn Stewart. "Yearning." Ts'-haikowski. Soloist.

Dorathe Merrall Knox. "The Alphabet," Mozart; "Bv the Beautiful Blue Danube," Johanr Strauss. "Zueigming." Strauss; "Sea Fog." Cochrane: "Vision Fugitive" (from Massenet. 0 0 0 Catherine Rue. contralto of Los Angeles, will again be the soloist for the Oakland Orpheus concert Tuesday evening, which marks the beginning of the fortieth season of this organization Under the direction of Emil Polak the chorus will give a varied program, with a gen-erous selection of the best known Christinas carols, the "Halleluiah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah." and including "Invocation of 'Orpheus." Perl-Bimboni; Schumann's "Gipsy "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming." Foster; "Good Night, Good Night, Beloved." Fitz-hugh.

andean excerpt from "Boris Godunoff" by Moussorgsky. Solo parts in the choral numbers will be sung by Benton Hood. Wallace Ed. Yeager. Dixon Ervin and Edmonds Chandler, tenors and Emil Olson and Stillman Robinson, baritones.

Mildred Randolph as accompanist. 0 Under the auspices of the Federation Music Settlement, choral classes are being held for both adults and children at the International Institute. 93fi Broadway. Oakland. These classes are under the experienced leadership of Miss Eleanor Hofman.

M. graduate of Mills College in the department of music. Classes lor adults meet on Friday evenings at 7 o'clock, and classes for children Saturday mornings at 10. Information may be obtained from the International Institute, GLencourt 2846. 0 The Cora W.

Jenkins School of Music is presenting a group of advanced piano pupils in a musioale at the Berkeley Piano Club. 2724 Haste Street, Berkeley, today at 3 o'clock, assisted by Francis Car-moriy. flutist, and Beatrice Cotton, accompanist. Those taking part in the program are Lavilla Con. Helen Corder, Leopold Heindl, Kathleen Kraul.

Jane Peterson and Edna Richmond. 0 The Alameda County Music Teachers' Association will hold a Pedagogues' Frolic. Christmas Carol Sing. Dutch supper, and election of officers tomorrow evening at the studios of Mme. Sofia Neustadt.

Esther Hjelte and Etwin Calberg, 2409 Telegraph Avenue. Berkeley. Music Calendar Docr-mtipr 12 Orphous Club concert, Oakland Auditorium Theater. December 14 Wednesday Morning Choral concert. Scottish Rite Auditorium.

Oakland. December 1 Tereelna, a I dancer. Auditorium Theater. December Ifi K. Symphony concert.

conductor, Ornce Monre soloist, S. F. Opera House. December 22' (afternoon) and 23 (eveninc) S. F.

Symphony, Oo-broiven, conductor, S. Opera House. December 27 (afternoon) toiinj Peoples' Symphony. Srhelling, conductor, S. F.

Opera House, December 2D S. F. Symphony "Pop" concert, Dobrbwen, conductor, S. F. Opera House.

December 30 (afternoon) Young Peoples' Symphony. Schelllng conductor, Oakland Auditorium Theater. iTEBEOPTICON slides will be ncoH hv Prnpcl Qnhdllincr fa- mous conductor of concerts for of such concerts for the Philharmonic Society of New York, has a program technique that Is said to assure the Interest of his audiences from start to finish. In addition to his leqlure illustrated by the orchestra and slides, he also devotes a portion of his concert to community singing. The Oakland concert' W'H be1 in the Auditorium Theater Saturday the Fourth Symphony, Tsohaikow-sky; The Battle Hynin of the Republic with everyone singing: Pol-ovetzian Dances from "Prince Igor," Borodin; Allegro from Fifth in v.

Beethoven; Scherzo from "The Midsummer Night's Dream" Mondelssorn: Cvdalise. Picoe. Fvcrpts from "Schehera-znrtp." Rtmskv-Ko'sakow; "Amer- with pvei-i-one suiging anrt Virginia Reel. Sehel- line. Tickets are no won sale in San Francisco and Oakland.

0 0 RUTH St.ENCZYNSKI TO GIVE S. F. CONCERT. Ruth Julia Slenrzqnski. year-old pianist formerly of Berkeley will return home long enough to give one concert Sunday afternoon.

January 7 in the San Francisco Memorial Opera House. After two sensational appearances in New York and one at the Academy of Music in she will be heard in one recital in Chicago before coming here, Nev York critics hailed her as one of the coming geniuses. Olin Downes. in the New York Times said of her: "She is phennminally giflrd and precocious the best qualities of Ruth's playing were its instinctive musicality, the fire and elan of manv passages, prophetic of a later day." OOO Edgar A. will present Yzellc Pedr'orii.

soprano, in a program of antique and modern Spanish art songs in the Thorpe Stunio, 387 Jayne Avenue, Oakland, tomorrow at 8:30 p. m. Yzelle Pedroni has devoted many years to the study and interpretation of Spanish art songs. She is giving her recital in costume. Mr.

Thorpe will also be heard in two groups of organ and piano solos. ft, 0 0 Marena L. Hewitt will present a group of junior piano pupils at her Piedmont Studio, in a Christmas program tomorrow evening. Mildred Bush Farley of Berkeley, guest artist, will sing a group of songs in costume Those who will play are Aroxi Hagopian. Jean Guerra, Evah Rae Hunter.

Barbara Morrison, Joanna Miebach. Dorothy Jane Edwards. Conchila Mc-Kaig. Ivalee Copland, Martha Masple, Sidney Halbert, Dorothy Rae Lindgren. Richard Copland, Madeline Soligan.

Shirley Halbert, Mauverine Le Messuricr, Lorraine Bagley. The New Music Workshop will devote the evening of Tuesday. December 12. to singing the vocal parts of Stravinsky's controversial composition, the Symphony pf Psalms. The symphony is scored for an orchestra without violins but including two pianos, and mixed chorus in four parts.

Charles C. dishing of the University of California Department of Music will conduct the singing. All -singers interested are invited to take part. The Workshop meets on the second and fourth Tuesday evening of each month at 8, in the Ensemble Room of the Mills College Music Building. from modern problems, so exclu- tells a wnolesome sivolv devoted to their private emotional concerns that their history Other new bonks pub ished this offers the reader complete escape from the present such as that found by.Irrh vanety of in the placid novels of Henry toP'' Tidings of Joy is a one-James.

And "Talifer" is so easy act Christmas play by Eluabeth Mc l-h in iaio. i Fadden. a popular writer of this "Talifer" Edwin Arlington Rob- inson blends pity and pungent satire somewhat after his usual method of elaborate analysis and circumlocutory monologues. Yet those who have become inoculated with the distinct individualism of this poet, to whom his involuted thought and convoluted verse aec inimitable and inevitably precious, may be puzzled by certain innova tions in this most recent addition to his fine series of profound narratives of human maladjustments To his triangle of two women and a man is added a fourth, the witty Dr. Quick, to resolve the tangle ipso humorous and subtly sardonic a fashion that the innovation of a happy ending, and a child, unprecedented in Robinson's longer novels in verse, are pleasant surprises.

An elasticity of verse has rc-nlaced the repressed nervous taut- ness of phrase, narrating at a high pitch of tension. Robinson's staunch est admirers will admit a change in manner, a fundamental difference in the mood of "Talifer" in contrast, to several others, "Cavcn-rier's House." "The Glory of the Nightingales," or "Mathias at the Door." This is a poetic study of the emotions involved when Talifer. whom the gofls have endowed with all a man might wish for. finds peace in the cool Karen and abandons his affianced Althea. the warmly "Like a white bird left alone In a still cage of leaves and memories." Karen has an abnormal capacity Steinbeck Tale Has California Setting John Steinbeck's second novel, "To a God Unknown," is the story of Joseph Wayne, son of a New Fnolanri farmer.

He goes alone to I nr nromise that he will follow un- In Infill, a lernie viinuj 1 .1 fellies a large traci oi building near a great tree into which his father's spirit seems to have entered. His brothers with their wives follow, Joseph marries a sweet young school teacher. F.lizaheth. But Hurlon worships cmri nf his Calvimst ancestors. Benjy is absorbed and destroyed by liquor and women, and Thomas identifies himself with the animals i for whom his sympathy is almost abnormal, Joseph has a strange communion with the tree in which he seems to understand his father presence and wisdom.

He pours his abundant virility into -worship of the cosmic fecundity of his sur- i roundings. When Burton, the fanatic, fears these pagan excesses and girdles i the tree and abandons the land in order to live with his own kind of 1 rcli ei OUS eilt hllSiastS; when Eliza beth tragically Dreans i'i when Benjy is knifed by a husband, still Joseph lives in valiant detachment. But when the drought persists until the land is burned dry of every other living thing he decides to stay in the simplest way. The last few pages of this strangely beautiful novel are mefnorable. "Tn a (iod 1'nknown." by John Stein beck: Mew York; Robert Ballot.

St.) i 1 view looking out on a wharf. This Is splendid piece of painting, handled with such seeming carelessness but with nothing amiss. Jewel Bennett's view of mountain, stream and houses shows some good contrasts of light and shadow. The paint looks as if it had been tossed on, but the colors hit the right places. It is an effective work.

Donna Schuster's "Sunkissed" grane fruit hangs against a golden background. It Is a belter work than her twp, nudes, who were careless aboui 'heir anatpnvicsl arrangement. The exhibition will close December 30. a a EXHIBITIONS in adjoining galleries at the Legion of Honor offer interesting contrasts in the works of two artists who show about equal facility in brush handling One gallery is filled with works by Zenya Gay and the other with canvases by Russell Cheney. Miss Gay's paintings show imagination, sometimes, perhaps, too lively for her complete conquest of the subject at hand.

Chenev paints just good, solid scenes of I forest and waterfront in Maine They form a substantial but heavy mental dief Miss Gay1 exhibits drawings, lithographs and paintings. Her lithographs of the "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" are an extremely well done set of horrors. Her pen and Inks are drawn with great care and detail, but she allows herself more freedom in her oils which includes a striking "Portrait of Jan." done in the smooth-paint, detallless fashion. Her animals are well drawn, even including some cats, which one is entitled to abominate in art; that is. the common, garden variety of art cats.

6 0 0 PHOTO-PRINTS of California's historic mining region by Louis ,1 Stellman, author, lecturer and photographer, are being shown at the Gelber and Lili-enthal Galleries. 33fi Sutter Street. San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs.

Stellman. the latter a well known artist, recently toured IJse Mother Lode and adjacent territory in search of material for their respective crafts and returned, it is said, well supplied Stellman's photographs depict the iron-shuttered and historic ghost towns of the Mother Lode region, including Columbia. North San Juan and Mokelumne Hill, most of which are returning to prosperous activity; the quaint and picturesque characters found in the mining country and some of the current mining activities which the recent high value of gold hve encouraged. Among his pictures of special interest are. the first brewery in California, the first "sky-scraper" three stories high, built in the early 'SO's.

and the last gallows on' which a stage robber wag hanged as late at 1885; also several night photographs of Dow-nieville's famous main street, unchanged since the height of Its mining glory, eighty years ago. The exhibition will dose December 15. provide a pleasant evening's enVLr if ia witri father's blessing tic, gnarled in diction, and yet with so much of the fine poetic nuality of Robinson's best work it is certain to find the warmest of welcomes. by Edwin Arlington Robinson New York, Thr MafMlllan Company. SI .75.

1 South Seas Woman Paints Vivid Past A glamorous and exotic woman from the South Seas takes a young Parisian bank clerk through the adventures of her past without any very important concessions to his wooing in the present. Her romantic memories, her -husband and child left behind in Tahiti, her art aim i.uan-tc his ardor for hundreds of pages of breathless yearning on his part and fluent conversation on hers. Not often do we have such a translation j-nm thS French, seemingly a modern combination of Colette and Guy de Maupassant. There is a sparkling humor in certain situations, as when Marie-Anne allows an intoxicating series of caresses late on the shores of a lake and then languidly murmurs, "I'm thinking of my wedding trip." And continues speaking as if to herself. r.1 1.

her oceanic visions to the Bois-de- Boulogne realities, but failing, consoles himself with typical Gallic insouciance, "why interrupt the film of her voyage? It would really be stupid, now- that her memories are flowing freely." For all its absurd frothy inconsequence this story is rather refreshingly young. Tahiti," by Andre de Ilia nt ant Yronne de Sainl-Cyr: New York. William Famuhar Parson, $2.) tertainment. and he is to be found in one oi nis nappies! moons in nmracies of the olorm. The plot is paper thin and the credulity is stretched to the breaking point, but Kyne palpably is not dealing in realism.

He is writing for the arm chair and hammnrk trade, and it is doubtful if he has hit a more fantastic peak than in his telephone scene. This is the story of "Comrades of the Storm" when a pair of New York irresponsibles decide to make a touch by long distance. A call is put in for a long lost, but quite wealthy, fraternity brother. He is absent but his father answers the phone. What happens in that delight- fullv insane conversation starts the story rolling and interest in the affairs of its principals never slack ens after that impetus.

Most of the story is set in the Mother Lode pniintrv hut erooDi-a nh line nn( i a to do with its madness and 1he scene might as well be Indo-China. In "Comrades of the Storm" Kyne proves that the American romantic humorist can be equally as successful as his British brother who has the reputation of maintaining a corner on books of this type. the storm." by Peter B. Kyne; Mew York: H. C.

Kinsej; 2.).