The Ministry of Education's Banquet for the Sixth Exhibition / Guittat's Lecture on the History of Art

On the occasion of the Sixth Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, and in honor of the exhibition committee and the artists who won the prizes and decorations, the Ministry of National Education and Fine Arts gave a dinner banquet on the evening of Friday, the twenty-fourth of last January, at the Bristol Hotel; it was attended by ... Mrs. Zalfa Chamoun, His Excellency the Prime Minister Sami al-Solh, and a gathering of artists and art critics. At the end of the banquet, His Excellency the Minister of Education delivered a gracious address in which he saluted the artistic renaissance, and also saluted the President's lady for the effective solicitude she shows toward artistic projects. And the artists passed a pleasant interval of evening conversation, during which the President's lady moved from circle to circle, talking of matters of art.

At the invitation of the arts section of the Ministry of National Education and Fine Arts, Monsieur Hubert Guittat, curator of the Rouen museum in France and a member of the exhibition committee, delivered a lecture in French on 'The Most Important Stages in the History of Painting,' at half past six on the evening of Tuesday, January 28, in the lecture hall of the Ministry of National Education, the Chartouni Building, Sheikh Bechara el-Khoury Street.