MONTHLY LETTER January 1956 THE CHRISTMAS DINNER ...

New Members cont'd
THEODORE ALLEN HEINRICH
Theodore A. Heinrich, B.A. (California), Mt. Litt. and Ph.D. (Cambridge Univ.)
is a pro-category member who, in July 1955, was appointed to the post of Director
of the Royal Ontario Museum. He came here from the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, where he was associate curator of the department of paintings. Previously
he was curator of art Collections at the Henry E. Huntington Library and
Art Gallery, California.
Dr. Heinrich was born in 1910 at Tacoma, Washington, studied at the University
of California, Cambridge, and at Bonn.
During the war he served on the Intelligence staff of SHAEF and afterward remained
with the government in Germany for nearly six years. His duties were concerned
mainly with the recovery and restitution of looted works of art and assisting in
the reconstruction of German cultural agencies.
His writing has been principally in the fields of 18th and 19th century painting
and old master drawings; and he is a collector as well as scholar in the latter
field.
He is a trustee of the Pasadena Art Museum and of the Institut des Etudes des
Chateaux at Zurich, Switzerland. He is a member of the Council of the Canadian
Museums Association.
JULIUS TORZSAY-BIBER
Mr. Torzsay-Biber, 180 Soudan Avenue, Toronto, enters the Club as a nonprofessional
member. He came to Canada from Europe in 1951. His native country
is Hungary, where he was manager of the law department of the National Bank of
Hungary. He fled to Austria as temporary governor of the bank with the gold
bullion national reserve. When handing over this gold to the U.S. Command he
was incarcerated by the Reds, but escaped with his family in 1945.
He holds the degree of Doctor of Laws of his native country and is at present
practicing as an accountant in Toronto.
Mr. Torzsay-Biber is an art 'connoisseur with a wide knowledge of European
galleries. He has exhibited his own paintings since 1922 and has travelled
extensively in Europe and the Far East. He is particularly interested in water
colour and pen drawing and collects old etchings and engravings.
EUGENE WILLARD BUTT
Mr. Butt enters the Club in the professional category and lives at 2821a Bathurst
Street, Toronto. He is an interior designer with the Robert Simpson Company;
Secretary Treasurer of the Society of Interior Decorators of Ontario; a member
of the executive of the Colour Council of Toronto and a life member of the Art
Gallery of Toronto.
His personal interests include Archaeology, Oriental Philosophies, Fine Art and
Sculpture and Orchestral Music. In connection with the latter he is acting
chairman of the recently formed Toronto Chapter of the American Berlioz Society
Inc.
Mr. Butt's outdoor recreation takes the form of horseback riding and equitation.
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