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in SANTA FE

That there could be no more beautiful concert hall than St. Francis auditorium of the Art Museum in Santa Fe was once again noted by more than 700 persons attending the Vronsky-Babin benefit concert Tuesday night

The stage was magnificently set, the two huge ebony pianos being placed behind floral footlights, masses of white gladioli and white daisies extending their length in front. The entire setting was in ebony and ivory white, because of Victor Babin's customary "white tie and tails," and Vitya Vronsky wearing a gown of white etched in silver.

This was the second program in the summer concert series but the first was also beautifully set. At that time the red, white and blue of Britain and the United States was used, the beneficiary being Bundles for Britain. Two huge white containers at either side of the stage were arranged with red gladioli, blue and white daisies and baby's breath. When the blue of the British and American flags could not be obtained, daisies were dyed the exact color.

Mrs. Frank Hamlin Fincke was designer of stage decorations in both instances, the arrangements being executed by Boyle's. Further masses of gladioli were in evidence Tuesday night ,a gift to Bundles for Britain by a California gladioli grower who was in town on the day of the concert they sponsored. This week's concert benefitted home charity, all proceeds being donated by the artists to the Maternal Health Center.

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Miss Jean Barker had her "bachelor dinner" preceding the arrival of her fiance, William Harlan Hale, from New York, or at least that was what she chose to term dinner with Miss Eleanor Bedell and Mrs. Betty Parsons of New York preceding the Tuesday night concert. Mrs. Parsons, artist and director of the Wakefield gallery in New York, is visiting Miss Bedell, and being a friend too of Miss Barker, Miss Bedell arranged the small dinner party, "just like a bachelor event."

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Victor Babin is doing something that has never before been done in musical composition, according to Maurice M. Lichtmann, fellow-pianist, and fellow-Russian of the
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TWO VISITORS here today are Mrs. Harry Knight of Granby, Colo., and Mrs. Betty Parsons of New York -just back from Old Mexico. They found Taxco the delight of artists with church bells ringing at 5, 6 and 8 a. m., with a Brahms symphony, per phonograph, pouring out of one window, and "O Johnny", per radio, out of another. Motoring through Texas early this week, with a Connecticut license, the visitors declared the Texas men passed them without offering aid for a punctured tire, but a woman motorist-tourist had pit yon them. "It was the Mew England license," they explained. Mrs. Parsons, an artist, brought back a strange and beautiful silver chain-bracelet.

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