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Religious art today, more steeped in tradition than Most other kinds of painting and sculpture, yet feels and reveals in many ways the modern un- petus and spirit. The foregoing sentence is a brief summary of the thought uppruost in my mind as Ileft the Festival, of Religio us Art, annual' pro- ject of the North Sbore Art league, at Community House'in Winnetka, Iast Sunclay. Ajong the walls of the.league studio were ar- ranged painptings.ý, as.Dudley Crafts Watson, the speaker, pointed out, and other art works firom the oldest and 'Most, primitive, types tQ the ýultra-* sim1art of the moment. ,The exhibit, one loaned through the couts of artists and collectors, by: means of this vaîeyillustrated how religious art, is moving away from:-nationalism, away f rom'creed, denominationalismn and gospel su bjects towards an. abtatsymbolism whicb takes for its therne the inexhaustible mystery of ' man and the. universe. Most representitive of this new spirit,, according to Mr. Watson, was the. painting "Symphonic Formms: by. William S. Schwartz, a picture wbich: j became ail lucidity aftem the lecturer's explanation,,, but one which, to the uninitiated and untutored, must often prove cloudy. Only a f ew minutes~ be- fore-, the Rel". George E. Drew, talking. along the sanie unes, laid the lame for obscurityr in art not. at* the door of the observer but at that of the artist. Mr. Watson, it was amusing to note, took this oppotunity to discredit, in favor of the obscure and symbolistie modemnist, the school of provincial Americana, which bas recently been receiving such popular acclaim. Mr. Drew, the assistant minister of the Winnetka: Congregational church, dlseussed the inter-relation- ships of religion and art, niaking thé dlaim that the only true art 'is religious art. He said, too, that both suifer if divorced f rom one another. The ini- vocation was given by him, musical sélections by the Jenny Lind trio completing the prograni. .Tea and a reception folowed to open the ex- hibit which lista the artists and collectors as: Mitzi Frybort, Adam Dabrowski, Gordon Hannab, AI- phonso Iannelli, Claude Buck, Julius Moessel, Wil- liam S.: Scbwartz, Frank Peyraud, Louis Greil, Oskar Cross, the,.Ryemrson library of the Art In- stitute, Julia Ricketts King,_ Jasper S. King and C. L. Ricketts. Mr. Scbwartz' s work, previously mentioned,-thIe wood' carvings of Dabrowski, Claude Buck's por- trait, ."The 9lst Psalm,"' the Peyraud landscape,. "A Little Bit Closer to Heaven," and the series of colored plates for the famous murais of Violet Oakley in Harrisburg, Pa., are but four or five of Kathry» eii ee uwilbe one of /ie'soloists during the presentation of - the fatnow& Bachi oratorio, "The Passion According to St. Mat- thew," on April 18 and 19 at Orchestra hall, to be given with the Chicago Sympihony orchestra. An exhibit of the work of over one hundred students was Nortbwestern university's contribution to thé Western Arts association convention, held in Chicago April 5 to 6. The association, an organiiza- tion of industrial and creative art teachers of the midwest, returned to Chicago for the first tume ini 15 years. The latest developmients in "the teach- i ng of art and the application of art, to industry were d'scussed. Northwestern university's exhibit, wbich was at Carson, Pirie, Scott and company, included. work done in,. the 'department of interior decorating, de:- signi, drawing and painting. The exhibit was ar- ranged under 'the su pervision of Prof. Rensselaer W. Lee, chairman of the art -department of the university.* >The. interior decorating- exhibits, executed under the direction of Prof. Anna Hong Rutt, included complete plans for decorating a postclna os adapted to modern use and some plates of rnmod- ern interimr. Work done in design under t.he direction of Miss Clara McGowan, included problenis in black and white and color by beginning students. Fif ty-five block prints executed by advanced studeiits which were~ indwlded in the book "'Chicago-~A History ini Blück- Print" were a part of the exhibit. 'These prints have been previously exhibited in the Pedagogical Institute in Viennia, the. Anierican Iibrary in Paris.and the Chicag itoia1scey GUee, Club Appears in Wm'nnetka Concert Frmr innetikanHa One of the outstanding college Glee clubs, in this part of the country is the one from irm college in Ohio, wbich is directed by George Howerton, formemly organist of the Congregational church in Winnetka. About thirty young men with a lot of pep, dignity, and poise compose that group whicb gave a concert at the Winnetka Community House on Thursday evening of last W"eek. The individual voices, which were very good, blended into per- f ect harmony, and. the group's intelligent interpre- tations of the various sonigs was commendable. Tbe progr am was quite -an unusual one, raniging from sacred songs, Negro1 spirituals, and Amnerican folk son gs, to Hiram 1,College serena des. T Iwo of the mpst popular selections were, "'Home on the Range" and the "Song of the jolIy Roger." A quartette gave two groups, and. there wvas a solo by one of R~oIe. în Wagner Opera In bis first appearance in a major opera, Kurt Brownell,- son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Brownell of Santa Monica, Calif., f oimerly of Winnetka, will sing the part of "Walter" in Wagner's "Die Meis- tersinger" at the Metropolitan Opera bouse, New York, Friday, April 12,. in the celebration of tbe 5th anniversamy of Dr. Walter Damrosch, as a conductor. Giving a performýance cbaracterized by the con- ductor as, "remarkable," Brownell sang himsëlf into- the tenor part week.before Iast after learning bis entire score in a little over onie. day. The. ole ,orig-7 inally had been assigned to Richard Crooks. Brownell's chance came wben Crooks 'was f omced, to undergo an operation for appendicitis and he was sent for. while appearing ini the Opera Comique 1 hey may reach hlm at bis h( es the pograms f ree .of charge ttèrested, in muSic. 1of the Ernau Mes too gen, 'ce' e, where of the' ail who Trio,C çert wil rit., tU5 1, 4. 1 IJ fDC pus 66, No Z by Mendelssi be followred by, a tea at 5: n ana the The con- ero, Ruth1 and LeolCK certmaster. ny which was not large, were Maria Mason, Coe Glade, Guiseppe Ben- Duncan, Carlo Morelli, Helen Orn- .ova, joseph Royer, Lodovico Olivi- cand ber Ballet; Isaac Van, Grove conductors, and Carl Heckler, con-