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exibiit of th~e Index of Amnerican Design and a talk byý Miss Hildegarde, Crosby,, director of the Index iChicago. Amnerican 1olk, and provincial, arts from Co- lonlal Urnes to the end of the l9th century is the' theme of the exhibition, 'the. first of its kind on the North Shore. It will be here a month. Ini beautitully executed water color drawings are recreated sorme of ýthe everyday' arts 'o! a young complex people. The creative embrol- deies of Colonial days and o! French New. Orleans, the santos o! Spanisb Colonial New Mexico,.the gay and sturdy arts of the Penn- sylvania Germans, 18tb centry fîgureheads, ci- gar, store Indians, matemial, from., Mormon Nauvoo- and Swedish Bishop Hill in Illinois, textiles, church figures, the flrst quadrant made i Amrica, early surveying instruments, toys, weathervaries~ a Conestoga wagon, a graphie. tombstone--aU these and much else will be shown. ~'Up to ecent years" wrltes Holger Cahiil, Director of the WPA Federal Art Projeet, "rnost Americans have had something o! an inferiority complex about American art. Many of them havebeen far too ready to say that it bas been rather barmen; that the paths o! American art i the past have been few. Tbey have usually sought to mitigate this judgment by saying that, after all,. America is a young country, much too busy witb practical matters to bother -The Index o! American Design is especially concerned witb (1) recording .pictorially ma- terial of 'historical significance which bas not. heretofore been studied and wbicb for one rea- son or another stands in danger of being lost, (2) gatbering pictorial records of a b ody, of traditional material whicb rnay form the basis Bernie Photo David Geppert, Wilmette pWanfst, will ap- pear as soloi st on a festival pro qram c91, Aià>efeàn üüec't> 'the éer'a~l misc on- cert hall, 632 North Dearbo'rn street, Chicagio, Weclnesdai, evening, Pebrudcri, 22, at. 8:15 o'clock. No admission will b~e char geci and the public is invited to attend, .Gifted son of 1ËIr. and Mrs. Otto Geppert, 725 Ninth street, Wilmette, the young musician is now majoring in composition and studylng piano and tbeomy at Northwestern university. His 'com- positions for piano and string quartets have won Presen~ts Twlo Recitais for Co Gro- Jr.. of and the entire program of songs W1il De ren- dered by pupils of Madame Savelli, whose studio was formerly located hi Wilmette '.1 Several"of. Madame Savelli's. pupils have ap-m peated publicly. The* fourteen-year-old. Alice O'Connor, daughter of 'theý John O'Connors of Kenilworth, gave an. "Ave 'Maria " soloin: La- Grange several weeksago- a1nd w mill be he ard singing Puccini's. "Si Mi Chiama Mimi" this Sunday.- Other. songs on her program are "Nina N. 11ana Toscana". by Gina. Sadero and "Comin' Through the. Rye."'! Another of Ma- dameý Savëlli's.,aécomnplished pupils, Iris Isaac of Hill road, Winnetka will s ing "Vissi D'Arte Vissi D'Amore" by Puccini, and "Tes Yeux", by Rene Rabey. The Frank Ketcham's daughter, 'Jody, of -Ken-. ilworth, is one of Madame Savelli's newest pupils and will make ber first appearance, Sunday evening. Her lovely soprano voice is aqected to do justice to "Tomna a Sorrento" by Ernesto di Curtis, Perey B. Kabn's "Ave. Mai"-n 5y a iu V . police. Charlotte Miller, the daughter o! the Charles Millers of Park *drive, Kenilworth, bas been asked to sing "By the Waters of Minnetonka." This was on her programn in the Novemnber recital when it was encored. The balance of hem numbers , are Scbubert's "Ave Maria," "Girometta" by Sibella and "Land of the Sky Blue Water" by Cadman. Other young volces to be heard that evening are Helen Louise Smith, daugbter o! the Oral Smiths o! Evanston, Mrs. Gertrude Stuart' s day eVening wil arii~k the introduction of songs in English. Madame Savelli studied voice in Milano, Italy, under the direction o! Jean. D'Reske, Emma Petrélla and several other well-known instructors. 1.Holds' er'in Y 1'