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The second Century of Progress Art exhibit at the Art. Institute will emphasize American art f rom the pre-colonial period to the present and at the saine time a general. background of the variotus foreign schoiols of painting f rom the thirteenth to. the twentieth century. This second loan.exhibition. which 'willI again be the Officiai Fine Arts Depart- ment of the MWorld's Fair, will be held from jupe 1 to OctQber 31, according to plans announced by the *Art Institute committee consisting of:, Charles H. Worcester, Percy B. Eckhart, John A. Holabird, Max Epstein and Chauncey McCormick. Last year. the art exhibit. paralleled the Century of* Progress exhibits 'of science and industry by sbowing the status of American cultur e as1 ex- pressed by Amecricancoléicions. Lastyear there. was o1~ee picture bQrýrowed f rom abroad.' Whistler's celebrated "Mother." This vear, the Art Institute galleries will continue to be arranged in the same chronological sequence, various gaps and lacks being filled by lbans, of a numnber of, significant ojd masters and modern works, a -number of which wiIl be borrowed from abroad. One section of the summer's show. will stress such loans and will also include paintings now ini America which came originally f rom f oreign museums. There will be a Jamnes McNeill Whist- ler room and another for Winslow Homer. There will be a room for Early American pailntings and, for largè groups by 'Sa rgent, Eakins, Ryder, Wier, Twachtmann, Mary Cassatt, *ellows, He'iri and Luks. The Print Departmient wiIl devote one gai- lery to oid masters, one to the etchings and' litho- graphs of, Whistler, and the rernaining galleries to an International Exhibition of contemporary prints. On the second Rloor of the Institute the contem- * porary. galieries will be civided into tendencies, such as the American Scene, International S tyle and Realism. ,-Cmvic Orchestra toý * Gi Concrt ünday The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, under the -direc-: tion of: Eric DeLamarter, will give'its third conr cert of the season at Orfchestra hall on Sunday afternoon, March 25. The large audiences which attencled the earlier concerts, and the enthusiasm inor, a favorite with ail lovers of the violin and its music. Leonard Krupnick of Wilmette is principal 'cellist in the orchestra, and among those on the board of directors of the Civic Music association are ira. Roland D. Whitman and Mrs. Edwin S. Fetcher of, Wizmetka. .Vathal' Mils/cm, ,yotiugRussiait violini si, w/to gave a concert in lW'ilinetka Iast Januarv, is to be soloisi with -hec Chicago Symeophonv ýorchestra tii Friday aftnrnoon, and also on Titesday affernoon,ý Mardi 27. Jackson-Bertli'ng. Recîtal on April 9 "T'he kind of pianist who creates, excitement,", is what Richard Hlarding Davis, Milwaukee critic, wrote of H-enry Jackson, brilliant yàung pianist who is ta appear in récital with Lolita Bertling of Wil- mette, soprano, at Winnetka Coninunity House. on Monday evening, April 9. The concert is under the direction of Rutheda L. Pretzel, and is the third in: a- series of four scheduled for~ this season at Community House. "He is the s-tuif of which the,,great are Made,"ý said Mr. 'Davis, and his enthusiasmn is echoed by Chica.go critics, wvho predicted a sensational, career for Mr. Jackson when he made his Chicago debut two years ago as a soloist, -playing the difficult Rachimaninoff second piano concerto with the Chii- cago Civic orchestra.* Felix Borowski, internation- To Sung in Evanston Barre Hill will give a recital for the, Junior Awciliary of the Evanston Woman's club~, Mardi 27. Robert Macdonald, pianist, will assist. For the fifth consecutive year, Barre Hill will sing the «Seven Last Words" on -Good Priday for the Armour Hour, N.,B:. C.- Doubtless ail Atnerica and Europe know of the epic created in the "Emperor Jones" last season by Lawrence Tibbett, famous concert and opera, Star who will be heard on Thursday evening, March 29 in- the auditorium of NewTrier. high school under auspices of, the Winnetka. Music club. This concert will be the -fourth in the1 Artist- Recital series. With Tibbett in the tite role, whic 'h is almost a dramatic monologue throughout the opera, "EmoperorJohes" was given a. world pre- miere -at the Metropolitan Opéra House last sea-ý son. His, performance- brought. to Gruenberg's., work the greatest success ever attained, by a- new opera in the United.Stateýs. Important news agen- cies wired- and cabled acoôunts of Tibbett'sspec- tacularsuccess around the globe. *On the openinig night, Tibbett received 22 cur- tain cails, requiring haîf. an hour; 10 times in.- quick succession "Emfperor Jones" was given, with one performanceý in Philadeiphia during the regu- bar season there, wrhen Tibbett received 21 cur- tain cais, and also one at Baltimore with an audi- ence of 4,00'0 and 600 standees when he. appeared with the Metropolitanl Opera company on its road tour. Box-office receipts for the ftew' opera wetê estimated at well'over $100,000. Bevond ail this, Chicago demanded two per- formances of. "Emperor Jones" at the quickly soId-out Auditorium, which Tibbett, heading as, "star". a .speciably selected company, presented. Not only that, but, on both evenings he also sang Tonio in "Pagliacci," itself, considered a role mak- ing strong dramnatic demnands on the baritone. Yet Tibbett performed the prodigious feat with his voice fresh and ringing at the end of "Emperor Jones'ý which closed the program, an opera re- quiring of him 60 minutes of alnost continuous singing. The New York Times said of the famous artist following the opera's world premiere: "Mr. Tib- bett triumphed in a cruelly diffictlt raie: Up to the present time 'Einperor Jones' is his supremre achievement-and it is one worthy of the greatest singer and clramatist, and ýth.e.highest traditions. of the musico-dramatic,-stage.",ý- «At the Winnetka concert on 1March 29 s1srp tions wvill be taken for next Year's Artist-Recifal 'series. Radio Programs MusicFriday, March 23 MscAppreciation Hour, with Walter Damrosch (NBC, 10 a. m.) : Overture to '"A Midstnnmer, Night's Dream".. ... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .M endelssohn Introduction ta Overture "Mignon" ...... Thomas Finale from Overture "Williatn>JTell".....Rossini by a trio consisting of Nesta Smith, violinist, Florence Dangremond, 'celiist, and Verona Sterns, pianilst. Mrs. Kidd will be assisted by, Miss Flor- ence Dangremond, chairman of the entertain- ment, committee and by lXrs. Ethel, Wishover, chaÎrman of theprogramý committee.