Near-by GalleriesV C. HOUSER’S “Portrait, a head In bas-relief and hit wood ™ • carving ‘The Melting Pot, together with composition* In both oils and water colors are receiving much favorable comment in the show of the Painters and Sculptors Club of Los Angeles in Palos Verdes Public Library Art Gallery.Besides Houser, exhibiting artists Include Christian von Schneidau, F. Giorgl, Walter Shawles, Fritz Kocher, William J. Brown, Waano-Gano, Edgar E. Schafter Jr., Paul Nelson. William P. Krehm, Ralph Ham-meras, Paul F. Weindort Charles K. Ross. Lewis W. Physioc, Ira S. Slack, Clyde Scott, Paul R. Schick, John Me-Culloch, Duncan Gleason, Van Dv. Copeland.The show, which opened with a tea over which Mrs. JohnRice presided as hospitality chairman, will continue through Sept 5. It is open to the public.PAINTINGS from the sec-* ond annual national prizeexhibition of the Festival of Arts are displayed in the lower gallery of the Laguna Beach Art Gallery.They include Streeter Blair, “!900 Box Supper; Sammy Pasto, “Clown Boy; Max Butler, “Orpheus'; Lester M. Mol-leson, “Star Gazers ”; Joan Irving, “Shelley* Flys Her Kite” 5 Bror Utter, “Pygmalion; Garnet Moore Keeney, “Singing Lesson *; Renee B. Broch, Five Minute Break”; Roy C. Keister, “The Newcomer”; Charles A. Morgenthaler, “Missouri Mule Working”; J. Barry Greene, “Sweet Sixteen ; Margo Hoff. “Side Street”; Lenord Kester, “Picnic in the Cove; Nicola Congiiaro, “Equestrian Quartet”; John Be mat, Three Marys”; Robert von Neumann, “After the Toil; Jacqueline M. Bridge, “Virtue of Love”; John G. Collins, “Thanatos”; Henry L. Richter, Old Refrain; Margaret Riggs MelJen, “After the Race”; Jean C Flowers, “String Quartet”; Arnold Allen, ‘Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?”; Norman Chamberlain, “The Class”; Harry Sternberg, “Coal Miner”; Leo Novak, “Gossip at the Bath; Catherine J. Karamagianis, “God Pan in Arcq^ia; Logan Douglas Cookson, “Korean Nobility”; Leonard M. Potesham, “Street Musician”; Philip F. Savaglio. “Nonereda”; Herbert Nagel, “My Irate Father.