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Show Centennial Art Tea Attracts 500 Guests Refreshments Decorations, Program Given - s A centennial note predominated throughout the decorations and other details of the annual Art Tea, held Saturday afternoon at the Art Building under the direction of the epnngvnie Federated Ladies clubs. In formal attire, presidents of the local clubs and district and state officials greeted the guests numbering more than 500. All were entertained with a program and refreshments and then invited to tour the current Art Show. Springville club ladies were on hand to show them about the galleries gal-leries and to tell them something of the pictures on exhibition. The serving table, in the Little Theater, was covered with a Quaker lace cloth and centered with bronze roses and other blossoms blos-soms to correspond with the copper candle holders and other copper service used to emphasize the centennial theme. Gold and Green ribbons on the flowers corresponded cor-responded to the colors in the refreshments. re-freshments. The stage of the Little Theater was a picture in itself and represented repre-sented many hours of work by the committee in , charge of decorations. decora-tions. A miniature art building was on one side while on the other, a replica of a typical pioneer scene representing the arrival of the first settlers in Springville was seen. The tiny covered wagons and pioneer pio-neer figures arranged to complete the theme, were works of art. Gold beehives in the halls also added an appropriate note. The Mussettes with accompaniment accompani-ment by a string quartet were worth coming a long way to hear, according to comments made by several out-of-town visitors. These ladies, many of whom are federated federa-ted club members, entertained with three selections. The Treble tones of the high school also sang during the afternoon and Mrs. Maurice Bird and Mrs. Merle Sargent also entertained with piano music. Pouring during the afternoon were: Mrs. J. Bracken Lee, wife of the governor; Mrs. Edward Clyde, wife of the mayor; Mrs. O. H. Kingston, president of the Utah Federated of Women's Clubs; Mrs. C. R. Lomax, district president; presi-dent; Mrs. Wayne Johnson, wife of the curator of the first art exhibit ex-hibit and Mrs. Glen Turner, wife of a local artist. In the receiving lines were presidents presi-dents of the various clubs, who acted as general chairmen of the event. These ladies include: Mrs. Erling Roylance, president of the Aureole club and president of the Springville Federated Clubs; Mrs. Lee R. Taylor, Mothers Study club; Mrs. Jack Perham, Home Culture culb; Mrs. E. V. Crandall. Alpha Beta club; Mrs. Harold Christensen. Christen-sen. Ladies Literary club; Mrs. Harold Jordan, Pari Passu club; Mrs. Glen Christensen Cultural Arts club; Mrs. Orval Clark, Juene Mere. Also state and district officials of-ficials assisted in the line during the afternoon. The tea was one of the most successful and colorful held and attracted guests from a majority of the cities in Utah. |