The DAILY NEBRASKAN
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MUSIC
DRAMA BOOKS
THE ARTS
Sunday. October 29. 1939
Third annual
state exhibit
opens today
Paintings, sculpturing?,
craftwork on display
in Morrill 'til Nov. 13
raintinps by native Nebraskans
will be placed on exhibit today in
the third annual exhibition of
work by Nebraska artists. The
pictures will remain on display In
(lalleries A and B in Morrill until
Nov. 13.
"From what I have
already
seen of the pictures this year, the
quality of work is better than in
years past, "Dwight Kirsch, chair
man of the fine arts department
explained. "Unusual treatment
has been given subjects that seem
to have big meanings to the ar
tists themselves," Kirsch declared
that ordinarily an exhibit of this
"kind gets subjects of much th
same type, but that this year con
siderable variety exists.
Feature exhibition.
The 18 artists iudrred to have
the best paintings in the exhibit
will receive invitations to enter
examples of their work in the an
nual feature exhibition in March.
The latter is .sponsored by the
Nebraska Art association.
Any Nebraska artist was able
to display their work at the ex
hibition this week. It was neces
sary however for their work to
pass a jury tf three. Entries are
coming front jail over the state,
including a 'great number from
Lincoln. In addition to oil and
water color paintings there will
be exhibits of .sculpture work and
of crafts, She latter including
metal work and weaving.
The exhibit is sponsored by the
Lincoln Artists- guild.
War-
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two days later, on Saturday after
t noon, they would have their first
jnmA TkAn ftlAtf ll'flnt YQ U I Ck
i-. 1 1 1 1 1 1 III 11 W11V J T V 1 ' ftsui. fcw
opposite sides of the river to prac
tice. Just as they were getting
inflated basketballs from the gym
nasium, a British bomber flew
overhead dropping its daily quota
or leaneis. iney were an nuuuu
the evils of Hitlerism. And they
didn't bother , much except that
L1"8:"" V.
. f u 1 T i"a ni
around the arms and legs But
someone got the happy idea of
starting a battle with paper wads
mmie uui ui uie suggy
A great war was just starting
when the five-thirty whistles in
U)th forta blew, and the men
ing nappny about me game as
they climbed back up the bank.
...i.v .u5 ' .. ... Kx.
Willi UlClll. OUI J t fc"i
rood nere anynow.
Prlioner dead.
Mpvt mnrninir the chill hush of
impending death fell over the fort on the flute, he teaches and plays
The prisoner vrfts sick. He had had practically every musical instru
a cold the day before, and swim- ment.
mlng In the icy water had given
him pneumonia. Men tip-toed past
the room where the delirious man
lay. The doct6rs. who had been
called from all the forta up and
in and out
gravely, sadly Bhaking their heads.
Then, a little past noon, the ter-
rible news broke. The doctors au
came out together, anu siooa if promlnent painters in the an
quictly talking to the general. He nuJ natlonal art week Nov. 1-7.
lurnea. anu wun an enon io
overcome his grief, said:
"Our beloved prisoner Is dead.
But we must bear our sorrow like
men. We are soldiers. And men
after a reflective pause, "Will one
of you volunteer to carry the
news to the French general?"
No one stepped forward.
"I am sorry that I asked you.
mat was unfair. It must be Dy
chance that a man Is selected to
bear the message of great sad-
ness. I shall draw a number from
into injr UI.IV.U. ..v. vi.x.
man, whose number I draw, shall
AU quiet.
There was no sound as the gen
eral left thp mom. And un even
honvior ui.tt i..,i si hp ri-
nnnpnrpil
"I have drawn No. 2064," he
"-- ....... - L A ..
said. "No 2M4 vnu Hhall bear the
fateful news."
2H(u fnnrui'tho uvnnrh ppneral
drowsing before a roaring fire
place. Through tears of grief he
I A survey of .". .
New and interesting books
found on the library shelf
By Consuelo S. Graham.
(Head of circulation department at the
uiuverrmy iinrurjiy.;
"Dictatorship in the Modern
World," edited by Guy Stanton
Ford is a new edition of a read
able svmnosium on one of the
foi.emost nroblems of modern his
tory. The editor was a professor
0f history, dean of the graduate
school, and is now president of the
University of Minnesota. With
partisan views of dictatorship so
common, it is stimulating to read
a dispassionate, factual survey.
Lentz, guest
star in first
symphony
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in beautiful and haunting melodies,
some lyrical, others virile and de
manning tne tun resources or a
large orchestra. This symphony is
l ,nany reapers ie moat oauaiy
Journal and Star.
LENTZ.
DON A.
in
th , r formg
rww n" Ta0ntl h
, , impressionistic and
harmo4 jftruc?ure lg most un.
usual. Notwithstanding its rhyth-
mic variety and climacUc sections,
h work ha3 a definite
.rt pftl' alitv
Bej,oz, iDamnation
rwi,wlir,r th .vrm.hnnv is a
.Damnation of
Fausf " by Berlioz. Berlioz is con
greatest of composers,
he is one of the most entertaining.
Lentz, nationally recognized mu
:ian, haj
vcral of
symphony
I " i "j; VT.., V-l, .rnv
.nnrpH unioist in sev-
eral of the better known musie
centers. Besides being an artisi
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TOT I NUV. I -
America will pay tribute to its
artiat8 and wm evaluate the work
Leonard Theisscn, art critic on
I th. of the Omaha World
.., wm ,iiHciiHsion on
. 8U'b.ect8 Thursday from 7-9
p. m. Special activities win ue
carried on thruout the week in the
Union. Efforts will be made to
call attention to the lives and
work of our American artists.
i .H ,, looin,, nl handed
.,' IVl n.. pnprn rom
u and then( with a great attempt
phiiosophical calm, he said,
you mustn t iBe it so nam,
my boy Thi(J j8 war An,ii al-
thntiirh rruel fate has taken from
you your only prisoner, think how
we. h s countrymen, musi ieei
Think of our even jreater sor
row. But we must bear u. mis
is war!''
lie paused a mumem, mm
cazinz into space. At last ne sain
in a choked voice,
"Carrv mv thanks to your gen
- eral for all that he has done. Anu
I tell him uiai m view ui uie.iui
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The titles of some of the essays
and their authors will suggest the
quality of the book: "The Pattern
of Dictatorship," by Max Lerner;
"The Mussolini Regime," by H. R.
Spencer; "The Origins of Dicta
torship in Germany," by H. C.
Deutsch; "The Soviet Union: a
Working Class Dictatorship," by
J. N. Hazard; "Kanialist Turkey,"
by T. K. Ford; "Dictatorships in
Latin America," by J. F. Rippy;
"The Economics of Fascism," by
C. B. Hoover; "Propaganda and
Dictatorship." bv P. H. Odeerard.
and "The Prospects for Democ-n
racy, by D. W. Brogan. A chron
ology of dictatorship summarizes
events from 1917 thru the early
part of 1939. '
BETRAYAL IN CENTRAL
EUROPE.
G. E. R. Gedye gives a dra
matic account of the events which
led up to Hitler's successful diplo
matic maneuvers of 1938 in "Be
trayal in Central Europe." The
author writes with the "fluency
and fury" of a journalist who
fears that uncensored writing will
not be permitted much longer. He
bitterly criticizes the part that
England and France played in the
"betrayal."
BEHOLD, THIS DREAMER.
An anthology selected by a poet
is of unusual interest. "Behold,
This Dreamer," by Walter De la
Mare, contains poems and pas
sages in prose which are arranged
under headings such as day
dreaming, evening and night,
sleep. Mr. De la Mare devotes
over a hundred pages of his own
discussion of the subjects under
which he has grouped his mate
rial. A sampling of the poets in
cluded are Robert Herrick, Sheila
Wingfield, W. B. Yeats; prose se
lections are made from Thomas
Hardy, Gilbert White and H. M.
Tomlinson. The author hopes that
the book "may be opened at ran
dom, browsed in, and then laid
aside until . . . it is returned to
again."
FLIGHT INTO OBLIVION
The experiences of the Confed
erate cabinet members at the close
of the Civil war is described in
"Flight Into Oblivion," by A. J.
Hanna. Judah Benjamin, George
Trenholm, Mallory, Breckinridge,
and Reagan are names which are
now little known. In 1865 a large
public sentiment In the north was
calling for the severest punish
ment for these men. Their flight
of two thousand miles was filled
with breath-taking adventures,
Hitherto unpublished material is
used in the narrative of the escape
thru the jungles of Florida to
Cuba. Numerous maps and illus
trations enhance the book.
BELOVED FRIEND
"'Beloved Friend,' the Story of
Tschalkowsky and Nadejda von
Mech," by Catherine Drinker
Bowen and Barbara von Meek is
timely due to the fact that the
university orchestra is opening the
concert season with Tscraikow
sky's Fifth Symphony in E Minor,
The theme of the book is the rela
tionship between the famous Rus
sian composer and his wealthy
patroness. They knew each other
only thru their letters, never so
much as meeting. Most of the
correspondence is published In
English for the first time. One of
the letters expresses Tschaikow
Bky's disappointment at the rccep
tlon of the Fifth Symphony after
its first performance. Altho the
Fifth is now one of his best-loved
works, it fell flat when he con
ducted it. The slightest exprcs
sion of boredom on the part of the
orchestra frightened him into apol
ogetlc ineffectiveness.
usual circumstances, tomorrow's
water polo game must be post
poned.
Boucher, Stoke attend
41st AAU conference
Chancellor Boucher and Dean
Harold W. Stoke of the graduate
college will attend the forty-first
annual conference of the Assocla
tion of American Universities at
Columbia, Mo., Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of this week. The
conference is held In conjuncuoi
with the observance of the Univer
slty of Missouri's centennial.
Band gets play in
popularmagazine
Three pictures of the Nebraska
band and a paragraph about it
appear in this month's issue of
Popular Mechanics in connection
with the article "The Band Steals
the show."
Emphasized in the article is the
fact that before becoming a mem
ber of the varsity band each play
er must spend a year on the fresh
man band. A description of one of
the maneuvers is given: "One joint
display by the varsity musicians
in brilliant scarlet and cream uni
forms with the blue-and-white
clad freshman players represent
ing the stars and blue field."
irst Lady
talks Friday
on Peace
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
be in Lincoln Friday, Nov. 3, to
talk on "Peace" in the University
coliseum. She will be the first
speaker of the year on the Town
Journal and Star.
ROOSEVELT.
MRS. F. D.
Hall series sponsored by the Lin
coin Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
Student admission is 25 cents.
Mrs. Walter Gardner, director of
the series, has charge of arrange
ments and ticket sales. Her office
is In Hotel Cornhusker.
Drummer
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big night and got through his tests
in great style. You certainly have
read how he has torn up the grid
iron this fall. No footballer like
him has been seen in these parts
for quite some time. And he has
practically forgotten his brief
drumming career.
'How sad," muttered the
stranger.
"What did you say, mister?
"Oh, nothing. Just muttering to
myself. Well, thanks for the story.
I enjoyed it very much. More than
you'll ever know. Have to be run
ning along now. Take care of
yourself, Johnny."
"Yeah, sure. You do the same.
Goodbye."
Surprise.
"Wonder who that guy Is, and
why did he seem so interested In
Ron," thought Johnny to himself
as he trudged back to the "Claw"
office to write up the evening's
practice. "Probably some traveler
who was passing through and
wanted to get a glimpse of our
Ail-American."
When Johnny reached the office
he was met at the door by
"Scoop" Johnson, the "Claw's"
number one reporter.
"Guess what, chief. I've really
got a scoop for tomorrow's paper.
The campus Jitterbugs will go
J M
FOR THAT
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Individual pumpkin mold
Horn of plrnty
Mark rat
Alto denign-ronler bricks
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Art instructor
shows work of
Denver pupils
Marion Miller tells
teachers to correlate
design, other subjects
Miss Marion Miller, supervisor
of art in the Denver public schools
and former educational director
for the Metropolitan museum in
New York City, exhibited samples
of student work in Gallery A of
Morrill Friday and Saturday.
Displays consisted of water col
ors made by students irom me
first grade through high school,
and were divided in such a way as
to show the development of the
student's ability as he advanced in
years.
Speaking before the art, music
and speech divisions of the Ne
braska State Teachers convention
Friday, Miss Miller discussed the
integration of art with other
school and home work and the
methods that have been carried
out in the Denver public schools.
Relate art to other subjects.
"Miss Miller is a great believer
in design work," Dwight Kirsch,
chairman of the fine arts depart
ment, explained when surveying
the work. Examples of complex
designs, carved in linoleum and
then printed on fabrics, adorned
the walls of the gallery. Particu
larly interesting was a large
mural entitled "Down on the
Farm," picturing four cows in hu
morous yet lifelike positions.
In her address to the teachers,
Miss Miller stated that art work
should be related so closely as to
be a part of the child's major in
terests and experiences. She said
that relation of art to hobbies such
as bird study and to other subjects
such as geography and history has
been accomplished with fine re
sults. For one mural, portraying
the capture of an Indian chief by
Cortez, the students made a
thorough study of the costumes of
that period.
Warning against any artificial
interest connections such as as
suming all third graders are in
terested in Indians, the Denver in
structor explained the superficial
relationship of art to the social
science. 4
wild. The Junior-Senior swing
committee has just signed Benny
Goodboy for the big dance. Benny,
himself, was in town this after
noon to sign the contract. I heard
that he asked about Ron Ramp.
Said that he might go out to watch
the big boy practice. You didn't
by any chance see him at prac
tice. He is tall, wears glasses, and
had on... Hey, chief, you're...
gang, hey, gang, come quick. The
chief just keeled over... guess he
fainted. Now what the dickens is
the matter with him?"
'Wind Without Rain'
comes to libe shelves
Among the new books recently ur
cliH.i"il by tho library are the following:
Ailvent'iiri of a Young Man, by John
T)os 1'uxHii; War Is a Racket, by Hen.
Smedley O. Butler; American Jan Mulc,
by Wilder Holisun; Wind Without Hftin,
by Herbert Krause; Frontiers of Kn
chiinlment, by William H. Ieich; A
Younjc People, by Hans K. Klnrk; Hardy
Chrysanthemums, by Alex Cumming;
Claire Clalrmnnt. Mother of Byron'f
Allexra, by R. (ilynn Cryll : Solon the
Liberator, by W. J. Woodhnuae; Kulcra
of Conflict, by DoiiKlas Spencer; Flight
Into Oblivion, by A. J. Hanna; Karly
American Ijind Companies:, by Hhaw Uver
more; Hlr William Rlackslone, by Oavld A.
Lockmlller; Napoleon In Brief Review,
by lirorge (1. Andrews; The Dog in
Training, by Josef Weher; Invisible Km
pire. History of the Old Ku Klux Klan,
by 8. T. Horn; William Pitt, Karl of
Chathuns, by Brian Tunslall.
A.A.U.W. hears Boucher
Chancellor C. S. Boucher ad
dressed a program of the Amer
ican Association of University
Women at FJlen Smith Saturday.
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