DOMINION ARTISTS’ CLUB.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19616, 21 October 1925, Page 11

DOMINION ARTISTS’ CLUB.

ITS PERMANENT HOME. (Feom Oub Own Correspondent.) LONDON, September 3. The Dominion Artists' Club is getting well into its stride, and its prospects of usefulness for students of all the arts who are coming to London are many. Now that it has a permanent home at H Clifton Gardens, M.aida Vale, there is 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 line gardens at the back of the block have a section laid out for lawn tennis. The large drawing room is capable of holding many people, and iierc a very excellent series of musical and dramatic evenings is taking place. At the annual meeting the following Executive Committee was elected:—Chairman, Dr (i. A. Pfistcr; joint hon. treasurers, Madame Blanche Levi and Miss Doris Carter; secretary, Miss Edith Stratton; hon. assistant secretary, Miss Rynil Thompson. Other members of the committee are Miss Eileen Baker, Miss May Brahe, Mr Hubert Carter, Mr H. T. 13. Drew, Miss L. Drummond, Miss A. E. Evans, Mj Harold Garde, Mr Adolpbo llallis, Miss Daisy Kennedy, Miss Margaret King, Miss Vera Moore, Mr Horace Stevens, Miss Mignon Trevor, Miss Vera Trush, Mr Harold Williams, and Miss Zara West. It was decided lo admit people from the dominions, other than artists, as associate members. The direction and supervision of the hostel is in the capable hands of Mies Doris Carter, and resident members will have.the advantage of the free services of Dr Benjamin, lion, physician to the club hostel. Arrangements have also been made whereby free tickets will be available to guests for many recitals and concerts. Every student who comes for vocal study must take languages, and, at the request of a number of the members of the club, Dr Pfiaier has consented to arrange for classes to be confined to club members. Dr Pfister is a highly qualified linguist. Reflecting how necessary it is for artists in general and for singera 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 the request. It will not be long before classes in French, Italian, and German are in progress, at a moderate fee. The helpful benefit of the clurb in other ways has been manifested recently.