224 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Dr. George A. Kennedy and Mrs. Mary Price Kennedy have 

 loaned to the Museum a collection of oriental rugs dating from the 

 fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A portion of their large collection 

 has been on display in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston since the 

 year nineteen hundred and thirteen, but those in the Carnegie Museum 

 have been received from Berlin, where Dr. and Mrs. Kennedy have 

 made their home for a number of years. 



The most notable example in the collection is a large fragment of a 

 so-called Ispahan or Herat carpet of the fifteenth centur}'. There 

 are also three Ushak rugs and numerous other beautiful examples 

 from Asia Minor. 



The entire collection, numbering twenty pieces, is displayed on the 

 walls of the Gallery of Useful Arts. It is the intention of the owners 

 to add some specimens as soon as they can be sent from abroad. 



Mr. John B. Reynolds, manager of the Alvin Theater, of Pitts- 

 burgh, has loaned to the Carnegie Museum his personal collection of 

 one hundred and forty-two photographs of members of the theatrical 

 profession. These photographs have been presented from time to time 

 to Mr. Reynolds, and for the most part are accompanied by auto- 

 graphs. The collection, which is attractively framed, has been placed 

 on exhibition on the third tioor of the Museum, and has caused a 

 great deal of favorable comment. Although it is an unusual thing 

 for a museum to have an exhibit of this character, so many people are 

 interested in the theater either professionally or as constant \'isitors, 

 that it does not seem very strange that interest should be aroused by 

 the exhibition. 



The photographs cover a wide range, including exponents of the 

 higher drama, opera, musical comedy, and farce. There are pictures 

 of Edwin Booth, Forbes Robertson, William Gillette, Pavlowa, Julia 

 Marlowe, E. H. Sothern, Margaret Anglin, Julia Deane, Victor Her- 

 bert, and many others equally well known. 



