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The next P.T.A. meeting of Lincoln School will be held on Wednesday, April 2nd at 3:15. Dr. G. F. Weinâ€" feld of Highland Park will be the guest speaker, the subject of ‘his talk "Healthâ€"Education and Growth." There will be a flm shown entitled "When Bobby Goes to School." There will also be an interesting display of flowers sent in by our local florists and homemade candy for sale. Order can be given for Easter delivery. Dr. G. F. Weinfeld To Speak April 2nd At Lincoln P.â€"T.A. This program is being presented to the club by the Collectors‘ Study group. This group has conducted a study class for four years which has been of great interest to collectors and persons interested in antiques all along the North Shore. The comâ€" mittee, headed by Mrs. Wilford S. Shipnes, is composed of members who have noteworthy collections of old glass, lace, china, figurines, furâ€" niture and most every collecting hobby one â€"could . mention. The original group who started this study class is still active on the committee. Fuâ€" ture plans include a tour of homes of members to view collections. Hostesses for the day are Mrs. Lowell RBushnell, Mrs. Charles C. Davis, Mrs. Irving Barnett, Mrs. George L. Martin and Mrs. Tom Leeming. propriate There are madonnas from Italy, France, Germany, England, Sweden, Portugal, Mexico, Bohemia, Bavaria, Brazil and the United States. m latest acquisition is an . squimaux Madonna of carved ivory from Island. This collection is outsta @ and one gets new ideas on Madonpas â€"their history, and their place in art as well as their religious exptesâ€" sion. This lecture is especially apâ€" propriate at the lenten season. Mrs. Byrne pursues the spirituality and romantic quest for household and private shrine images of The Ble,srcid Virgin, a quest which leads back to the Scythian and Sarmatian trios of Asia, to Babylon and Greece; carâ€" ries you with the Goths across the steppes of Russia; sweeps you back and forth across ‘Eroupe for five centuries with the barbarian hordes and at last to Nostre Dame de Donna Neuvelle lez Rouen, to Swineshhad to the altar of Our Lady of Tortosa and to the Church of St. Philip Benâ€" iti and the moving Devotion to the Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin. "Household madonnas" and display her priceless collection of 90 figurâ€" ines. This collection of effigies of the Madonna in plastic materials shows examples covering more than four hundred years, her oldest bcinq a Provincial French carved ivory | of the early fiteen hunderds and the most _ modern, "The Flight â€" into Exypt" from the porcelain factory of Metzgerâ€"Ottlof of Vienna. | Mrs. John T. Byrne To Lecture on "Household Madonnas" on April 1 On Tuesday, April 1, at 2:00 p.m. the Highland Park Woman‘s Club will hear Mrs. John T. Byrne of Grand Rapids, Michigan lecture on Display Figurines At Woman‘s Club PAGE FOUR Represented in the collection are examples by most of the best known artists of the 18th century in England. While there may still be some conâ€" troversary regarding whether Thomas Gainsborough or Sir Joshua Reynolds was the greater painter, all will agree 200 years ago, on the walls of a stateâ€" ly manor house or a grim castle in the English countryside. Fearing for their safety, these treasures have been entrusted by the owners to the care of Mr. Sidney Leger formâ€" erly of London and now associated with the well known art firm of THE FINDLAY GALLERIES in Chicago. It must be with satisfaction to all concerned that such a splendid buildâ€" ing as that which houses the club should be among the first to give harbor to these pictures. The club walls approach as nearly as possible the original settings of these famous paintings. _ Works of art have in some cases been more fortunate than.the English children in becoming ¢vacutees from that war torn country, as witness the collection of British portraits to be shown from Aprilâ€"1st at the Highâ€" land Park Woman‘s Club. Until recently most of these paintâ€" ings were occupying the identical places first designated to them some British Art "Refugees" Display at Women‘s Club T HE PRES S Of more serious demeanor is the magnificent portrait of Capt. Charles Phipps by Thomas Gainsborough. Painted in 1780 it shows the typical naval officer of the time just prior to Nelson at the period when the British navy was ~being built up to its foremost position. It is interâ€" esting to note the difference in the painting technique of these two artâ€" ists. Reynolds with his strong and forceiul manner while Gainsborough employed a light and dainty touch. Next on our list is a military porâ€" " From the brush of Reynolds comes the handsome and dashing portrait of Sir Francis Blake Deval K.B.; born 1724, he was famous as a young man about town and as an amateur singer and actor, later apparently taking life more seriously, he became a Member of Parliament for Andovâ€" er, was presented with the high honâ€" or of Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1761 but unâ€" fortunately died at the early age of 41. <~This <portrait was painted in 1757 and shows him in the extremely decorative costume of this period. that they wer of that day a having a. fine these Masters y were the most outstanding day and we are fortunate in a. fine example of each of (Continued on page 16) Mrs.. Clifford Glader, the former Naomi White of this city who has been ill in Victory Memorial hospital, Waukegan for the past week returnâ€" ed to her home in Chicago, Sunday. Miss Pratt will exhibit costumes collected over a period of years, some of which are now museum pieces. . Tea and conferences will Vb};fc'edc the lecture. to further her plans: Queen Marie of Roumania, Count Berchtold, formâ€" er Austrian Minister of Foreign Afâ€" fairs, Baroness Hatâ€"Vany of Hatâ€" Van, Hungary, Count Komisky of Czechoâ€"Slovakia, President Masargk and his daughter Alice, members of the former polish nobility. She has won the friendship of nobility in othâ€" er than the titled formâ€"nobility in the arts. These are the designers of the Budapest Royal Opera and musicians of ‘the National Conservâ€" atory, Mme. Zlezney sculptress of Rome, Professor Cizek of Vienna, Herre Hege of Prague, MacConstanâ€" tinescu of Bucharest. She feels that in creative art and friends, made by those working together, is to be found the "eau de vivre"; in helpâ€" ing others attain this ideal is a servâ€" ice to mankind it is her privilege and destiny to give." "Elma Pratt not only makes friends but keeps them. Her contacts in Europe brought to her the friendship and cooperation of people of interâ€" national fame who, with faith in the sincerity of her purposes, helped "Miss Pratt has worked with the governments . of . Czechoâ€"Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Roumania in the founding and developing of the International School of Art. She watched her idea grow from its origâ€" inal inception in a little peasant cotâ€" tage in the High Tatra Mountains in southern Poland where she had gone to paint, through discouraging years of depression, to a living reality in which she saw students, teachers, artists organized into more or less homogeneous . groups traveling through these peasant countries sketch (and check) book in hand, enâ€" joying the delightful experiences she prepared for them. "It is difficult in these days of inâ€" tegrated personalities to separate an individual from his accomplishments, especially when the individual is that oneâ€"hundredâ€"pound, redâ€"haired, fearless, dynamic young worian namâ€" ed Elma Pratt. She has "played many parts," as Shakespeare would say, in her comparatively short life, and played them all well, college and uniâ€" versity student, social worker, art teacher, interior decorator, painter, violinist, skater, writer, philosopher, philanthropist and diplomat, Though recognized on two continents as a leader in the field of art education, and an organizer of travel and study groups, she prefers in all sincerity to be just herself, artist and humanâ€" ist. She loves people. f On Thursday afternoon, April 3rd, at 3:45 the Parentâ€"Teacher Associaâ€" tion of the Highland Park High School will hold its regular meeting in the English Club Room. Miss Elma Pratt will speak on "Hints for us from the European peasant." Elma Pratt Will Address Pâ€"TA Apr. 3 Leader in Field of Art Education To Be Heard at High School MARCH 27, 1941