THE DOMINION ARTISTS CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 109, 4 November 1925, Page 2

THE DOMINION ARTISTS CLUB

ITS PERMANENT HOME

(ritOK ODE OWN COMUPONVIXT.)

LONDON, 3rd Sept

The Dominion Artists' Club is get-, ting well into its stride, and its proBpects of usefulness for students of all the arts who are coming to Lon-, don are many. Now that it has a permanent home at."l 4, Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, there i»" residential accommodation, at very moderate, price, for young people who are coming to London to work at their studies. The headquarters is the house of Miss Doris Carter, the Australian vocalist; it is very capacious and excellently appointed, and' the. several acres of fine gardens at the back of the block have a section laid out for lawn tennis. The large Cdrawing-rponi is capable of holding many people, and hero a. very :excellen|..serie» of musical and dramatic evenings is taking place. " ■•' •■'• At thVannnal meeting the following executive committee was elected: —Chairman, Dr. G. A. Pfister; joint lion, treasurers, -Madame Blanche Levi and Miss Doris Carter; secretary, Miss Edith Stratton; hon. assistant secretary, Miss Bynil Thompson. Other members of the committee are Miss Eileen Baker, Miss May; Brahe, Mr. Hubert Carter, , Mr. 'H-. T. B. Drew, Miss L. Drunimdnd, Miss A. B. Evans, Mr. Harold iJarde, Mr. Adolphe Hallis, Miss Daisy Keanedy, Miss Margaret King, Mis« Vera Moore. Mr. Horace Stevens, Miss Mignon Trevor, Miss Vera Thrush, Mr. Harold Williams, aiid. Miss Zara West. It was decided to admit people from the Dominions, other. than artists, as associate members. _ The .direction and supervision or the hostel is in the capable hands of Miss Doris Carter, and resident members will have the advantage of the free services of Dr. Benjamin, hon. physician to the club hostel. Arrangements have also made whereby free, tickets will be -available to guests for many recitals:; and concerts. , '".■•■■'■ ■■?"-'^"-. ' , Every student who comes, for vocal study must take languagcs^nd; at the request of a number of the members of the club, Dr. Pfister" has consented to arrange for classes to bo confined to club members. Dr. Pfister is a highly qualified linguist. Befleeting how necessary it is for artists in general and for singers in particular to speak foreign languages correctly and to understand them, and knowing how expensive first-class tuition usually is, he decided to accede to tlie request. It will not be long beforo clashes;in French, Italian, and German are in progress at a moderate fee. , The helpful benefit.of the club in other ways has been manifested recently. . . . .'