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Fourteen and PHILADELPHIA REC THUR

Cornelia Chapin Here To Show Her Sculpture And Visit Francis Biddles 

By JUDY JENNINGS 
Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin arrives tomorrow to visit her sister and brother-in-law, the Francis Biddles, of Germantown. So that's good news. 

 One of her first engagements while here will be with her Pelican at the Pennsylvannia Academy of the Fine Arts. For she's showing that piece of sculpture, which is so often patted that she has to wash it, at the private view at the Academy Saturday evening. 
Tomorrow night the Biddles are giving a dinner for her. The guests will be Anna Ingersoll, Virginia McCall, Mr and Mrs. Alexander Brooks, Baron Bonienz, Mr. Samuel E. Eckert, Mr. Emlen Pope Etting and Dr. Zozaya. The table talk will probably center around art, for besides Miss Chapin, Anna Ingersoll, Virginia McCall and Emlen Etting have exhibits in the coming show at the Academy. 
The visitor, a pupil of the Spanish master, Meteo Hernandez, recently returned to New York from her Paris studio. The piece she is showing is "Pelican-in-response." It is carved direct from life in Greek marble, and, together with her turtle, carved direct from life in volcanic rock, and her penguin in black granite was awarded the second Grand Prix at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937. 

MODEL ABROAD 
The model for Miss Chapin's pelican resides at the Vincennes Zoo in Paris. There she went daily with her little pushcart, upon which stood the large piece of Greek marble that she carved into living Pelican form. After the exhibition, her pet will be returned to New York to be entered in her one-man show opening at the Fifteenth Gallery, 37 W. 57th st., on April 4. Though the greater part of Miss Chapin's work is of animal figures in the round, she also cuts nudes and portraits in a variety of media, many of them Egyptian manner of cutting in one plane rather than the embossed style, as emphasized so strongly today. 
Artistic and literary talent flows in the Chapin veins. For Mrs. Biddle has had several book of verse published, besides her contributions to various magazines. She shares her literary interests with her husband, eminent lawyer, who in 1927 published a novel, "Ilansear Pattern," a story of Philadelphia which proved very popular. 

Biddles Plan Dinner Party Event to Precede Art Viewing 

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Biddle, of Germantown, will entertain at a dinner next Saturday evening before the private view and reception at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in honor of Mrs. Biddle's sister, Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin, who is one of the exhibitors. 
The guests will include Miss Anna Ingersoll, Miss Virginia McCall, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Brooks, Baron Bonlenz, Mr. Samuel B. Eckert, Mr. Emlen Pope Etting and Dr. Zozaya. 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Master, Jr., of Wynnewood, will entertain a buffet supper at their home next Saturday evening.  
Phila. Janquierez
Jan. 25. 1938

On Saturday, the usual fashionable group of art lovers will be found at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, for the private view of the 133d annual exhibition. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel are entertaining beforehand, and there is a distinguished group of ladies receiving. 
Another interesting dinner will be that given by the Francis Biddles in honor of Mrs. Biddle's sister, Miss Cornelia Van Auken Chapin, of New York, whose white marble pelican will be seen in the exhibition. Miss Chapin, who works entirely from life, and without preliminary clay models, made this quant bird in the Vincennes Zoo. It has already won honors at the Paris Exposition. 
For the younger married group and the post-debs the climax will be reached that evening in another of the Piccadilly-dances at the Bellevue-Stratford. Reservations have been pouring in for days, and many parties are being arranged, from which it would appear this week's affair will be as enjoyable as the last, and that is saying plenty. 
Such a full schedule leaves little time for smaller gatherings like the informal party tomorrow afternoon at the Junior League headquarters at the Warwick, and Mrs. Lewis Audenreid's Gay Nineties Party on Thursday night, and the luncheons, teas and dinner parties that make up the usual round of entertaining in this quiet season. 
Nancy Wynne

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