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Thursday. November 2. 1939
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THE ARTS
'Art week7
observed by
state schools
NU fine arts classes
aid by exhibiting work
in Morrill rooms, halls
Beginning yesterday and run
ning through Nov. 7th the fifth
annual "Art week" will be observed
this year. Ench year the celebra
tion has achieved a greater suc
cess in its mission of making the
American public conscious of the
great influence of art. In 1937
many schools and colleges of Ne
braska observed the week in va
rious ways.
The fine arts department of
Nebraska is doing its share to
promote this interest by loading
the halls and rooms in Morrill
with students' work. They have
placed books and prints in both
the city and university libraries.
The starting of sketching classes
and the picture-of-the-month will
also increase an active interest in
students.
The outstanding achievement is
the exhibition of the Lincoln Art
ists Guild which shows the stu
dents the progress made in Ne
braska art during the year.
Symphony tickets
still available
Student tickets to the entire
season of Lincoln Symphony con
certs and guest artists are still
available, announced William G.
Tempel yesterday, adding that
"students cannot afford to pass up
such an opportunity to hear out
standing artists."
Lawrence Tibbett, making his
second appearance in Lincoln, will
appear in the symphony series
January v. ncneis ior tne iid
bett rnnoert Alone will cost S3.7S.
V Price of the student season ticket
is also $3.75. Other individual con
cert tickets are $2.50.
Ida Kremm, pianist, will appear
with the orchestra when it makes
its seasonal debut November 20.
Movies-
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Rogers began reminiscing about
his home town. Bob Burns, an
other reminiscer, has made Van
Buren, Ark., as well as a host of
his relatives, famous.
Gallipolic, Ohio, was just a town
on the map that was hard to pro
nounce until O. O. Mclntyre be
gan to write about it. Now the
whole world has heard of the
famous landmark. It was Jack
Benny who made the nation Wau
kegan conscious, and Max Baer
who gave Livermore, California a
place in the sun.
While nations have been tossing
away all obsolete wartime equip
ment, one man in Hollywood has
been gathering it as fast as he
can. The man, J. S. Stembridge,
supplies the motion picture studios
with the guns they need In their
sequences. One set of guns is not
enough, for each picture, set in a
different country or r-Miod, de
tnands a different type of gun.
For example, the French in Beau
H Guest had to have a French rifle
of that period. English guns of ap
proximately the same period, far
different from the French, were
needed for the shooting of "The
Light That Failed."
"Drums Along the Mohawk"
took plenty of old time American
. guns which had to date clear
back to the revolutionary period
"The Royal Canadian Mounted"
and "Sussana of the Mounties"
both required Canadian guns, but
they had to be of different pe
riods.
Tictures going into production
the end of this week are "At Good
Old Siwash," "The Way of All
Flesh," and "Triumph Over Fain."
Now with the senate deliberat
ing over a bill to limit freedom of
the seas for American rhipping,
the Hollywood studios are offer
ing a variety of voyages on all
oceans. Pictures, laid against the
, background of the seas which
have been or are about to be re
leased are "Jamaica Inn" and
"Rulers of the Sea," Both set
against the background of the At
lantic; "The Sea Hawk" and
"South of Pngo Pago'' cover most
of the other bcus left.
Nebraskans display pointings
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Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star
Nebraska artists
meet in Guild show
Nebraska artists hold the spotlight in the third
annual exhibition of the Lincoln Artists Guild cur
rently showing in galleries "A" anil "B" at Morrill.
Taking in 13 towns and 40 artists the show pre
sents a varied program depicting the progress made
in the art of Nebraska during the year. It is espe
cially well selected because it has all mediums,
forms, and techniques of today's art.
The exhibition is quite good with some out
standing pictures. Three water colors; 'Hillside
Farm;" "Landscape;" and "Late Afternoon" by Avlo
Munroe, assistant instructor in fine arts, should re
ceive special attention. Each painting presents a
consistent turn of composition, color, and fresh
ness. "Catastrophe at Noon" an oil by Leonard Thios
sen, Omaha artist, is one of the better pictures hold
ing a notable place in the exhibition. Its increasing
pattern of lights and darks, grayed colors, and ac
tion clearly tell the story the artist wants.
Two more oils by Miss Kady Faulkner, "Spires
of St. Alphonse's" and "Tupper's Lake" are ex
cellent examples of work done in that medium.
These two hold the onlooker's attention because of
their pattern of dark and light. The latter has been
invited to hang in the "Jubilee" (550th anniversary)
exhibition of the Nebraska Art Association in 1940.
Dwight Kirsch, chairman of the fine arts depart
ment has only two pictures; one a water color,
"Calico Corn," and the other, "Little Houses," a
gouache, to be given especial notice.
Miss Schwake, fashion illustration instructor, has
hanging, three examples of fashion illustrations,
two gouache and ink, and the other in water color
and ink.
"Seated Woman" by Thealtus Alberts, sculpture
instructor, is a very amusing terra cotta figure. It
is an example of the trend (seen at both fairs this
year) taking place in one of the major forms of art
expression.
Several pictures done in different mediums are
pleasing because of that fact. "Portait" done in
pastel by Hazel Pennington is one of the better
cnes done in that meduim. Barbara Ross has done
a picture in tempera "No Name" of which there are
few. A good painting showing the advantages of
drybrush is Miss Faulkner a "Piercefield Hill."
Leonard Thiessen, and "Indian
Leonard Thlesen, and "Indian
Summer" by Barbara Ellis Ross
are on display among 143 entries
in the annual Nebraska Art ex
hibit, now being shown In Gal
leries A and B in Morrill.
Surveying past and present
in field of American art
Initial symphony concert
acclaimed by music critic
The finest watch In the world
was put to shame in the univer
sity coliseum Sunday afternoon.
Surpassing it In intricacy and pre-,
cision was a musical instrument
that functioned impeccably for an
all too-short hour and a half.
It Is the good fortune of the
city and surrounding provinces
that this instrument can be put
back together again at will, to
function perfectly. The university
can well be proud of the 69 mu
sicians who this year make up the
university symphony orchestra,
under the direction of Don Lentz.
Magnificently performed
The program Sunday afternoon,
from the works of Tchaikovsky,
Griffes, and Berlioz, was magnifi
cently performed by a group keyed
to their best. A masculine equiva
lent of presenting an orchid ought
to be invented for the Dick White,
graduate student from Lincoln,
who played the melodic horn solo
part in the Tchaikovsky Sym
phony No. 5 in E Minor.
The orchids themselves must go
to the entire cello section for its
pizzicato in the Minuet of the Will
'o the Wisp, from "The Damna
tion of Faust." No finer unison
is likely to shoot out of any or
chestral performance this season;
we were positive nly a single
flawless. Disdaining to use a
score, he lead his young men and
women thru the mazes of the An
dante in the Tchaikovsky sym
phony, the fluid andanfe cantabile
which we lesser mortals know as
"Moon Love" and the resounding
Hungarian air of the closing num
ber, as tho he were out for a stroll
with nothing more than walking
to think about.
Working harder.
Evidently he was thinking hard
and working harder, however.
Each arm movement was not only
definite but imperative, not only
meaningful to his workmen but
translatable to his hearers. Cues
for upbeat entrances, single notes
from the brass or tympanl, the
Minuet's insistant calcando, all
were there at the end of his baton
strictly at the proper instant, en
tirely from memory. To train a
group to give so fine a first per
formance is undoubtedly mastery;
to Inspire the musicians to suc
cessful execution is genius.
One of the most Interesting facts
about the personnel of the univer
sity orchestra is the high percent
age of young women better than
50 per cent, in fact. The program
lists 36 girls to 33 boys. Remark
able, too, is the fact that half of
the girls are freshmen, and we
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hand plucked a single' Instrument Z llB lZ
until we looked
Delicacy of phrasing
In the same suite, the Dance of
the Sylphs was a delicacy of
phrasing, but the Rokoczy March
which followed had the lilt and
carry of a band, so versatile was
the orchestra.
' Before we ran out of superla
tives we will disclose a secret
about the conductor. Most people
know that he is a fine flutist but
anv remaining 'doubters in the
eludes all classes and some gradu
ate students, however.
Girls Plentiful In most sections
Girls occupy chairs in all but
five sections of the orchestra, the
lone piccolo and tuba, the bas
soons, trombones and percussions
being entirely male. Excepting for
the oboes and horns, the girls
equal or outnumber the boys in
all other sections. Balancing the
piccolo and tuba, the harp and
crowd of 1,800 who listened Sun- celeste react to feminine hands,
day afternoon to his rendition of Only one viola and two clarinets
Griffes poem for Flute and Or- two bases and one cello are wielded
chestra were assuredly converted. by t8- And ln tne bras8' where
In his conducting, Lcntz, as be- See Critic, Page 6,
By Dwight Kirsch.
(Chairman of Department of Fine Art".)
The celebration of American art
week, Nov. 1 to 7, calls our at
tention to just what the artists of
America are doing to give added
progress to that field, as compared
with the artists of the past. Amer
ican painters, from the earliest
days have been somewhat depend
ent on the styles of painting set
in European centers, partly be
cause of the custom of going
abroad to study. A break with this
tradition and with others derived
from European art has come
about thru the efforts of various
individual artists and groups of
artists, so that at the present time,
it is not only a good practice to
look to America first for inspira
tion and subject matter but it has
become practically a fad for
American painters to "paint the
American scene."
Looks to middle west.
It should be significant to those
Interested in art that many art
critics from New York are begin
ning to look more to the middle
west for the production of the
best in characteristic American
art. Opportunity to observe the
growth of the American spirit in
painting is available to any one
who wishes to visit the university
art galleries in Morrill hall. The
permanent art collection of the
university is considered one of the
best and most progressive in any
state . university to represent the
outstanding contemporary Amer
ican painters.
Pictures by such artists as Henri,
Brendergast, Burchfield, and Hop
per show the earlier stages while
Curry, Benton, Wood and Marsh
show experiments in localized sub
ject matter presented in very per
sonal and dramatic ways. Of spe
cial interest this fall is Alexander
Brook's painting of his wife,
Peggy Bacon, with her cat, "Meta
physics." Brook has just been
awarded the most coveted prize in
this country, that of the Carnegie
International Exhibition in Pitts
burgh. Brook is a subtle colorist,
whose brushwork eludes analysis.
A definite loeling of illumination,
and the use of unexpected accents
help to bring Brook's feeling of il
lumination, and the use of unex-
Art instructors
speak this week
Two faculty members of the art
department have speaking engage
ments this week. Miss Katharine
Schwake will talk Saturday at a
luncheon meeting of the A. A.
U. W. at Crete in connection with,
the annual homecoming celebra
tion of Doane college. She will
tell about her experiences last year
in Paris and study of fashion il
lustration at the New York School
of Fine and Applied Art.
Miss Kady Faulkner will speak
Friday at the weekly chapel ser
vice at Doane outlining the quali
fications of an artist and how he
works. She will also talk before
a vocational group at Lincoln high,
school on art as a profession. To
day Miss Faulkner has been in
vited to give a demonstration to
the members of the art club at the
high school. She will show differ
ent techniques of handling water
color as a medium of painting.
Octet to sing at
Love hall Sunday
The university male octet under
the direction of W. G. Tempel will
sing "Ye Banks and Braes" by
Vogrich and "In the Time of
Rases," by Reichart, at the Love
Memorial hall dedication ceremo
nies Sunday at 3 p. m.
Members of the octet are: Jack
Donovan and Jack Traver, first
tenors; Earl Jenkins and Keith
Sturdevant, second tenors; Dale
Ganz and Lynn Myers, baritones;
Elmer Bauer and Robert Sand
berg, basses. 1
A boy and a girl from each of
the 27 Nebraska Legion posts will
compete in the contest. Dr. A. A,
Reed, university extension division
director, will have general charge
of the affair.
Dr. Worcester will be in charge
of psychological tests and exami
nations in general culture and
civic affairs.
pected accents help to bring
Brook's paintings to life.
The present show of works by
Nebraska artists brings our re
view of American Art up to date,
and close to home. More than ever,
a number of Nebraska artists are
finding ways of expressing that
which means a lot to them and
which says "Nebraska" in honest,
straight forward terms to the gnl-
I lcry visitor,