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Tuesday, January 23.1973
University Daily Kansan
Monet Added to Nelson Collection
By MARY LIND
Entertainment Editor
Claude Monet's *Boulevard des Capucines* is a key painting in the history of art. In 1896 she exhibited at the Kirkwood Hall of the Nelson Art Gallery. The Gallery announced the acquisition of the work Sunday, made by the organization of £1 million by Mrs Kenneth Spencer.
The painting was done in the winter of 1873-74 and was shown in the first Impressionist exhibition which opened on April 15, 1874. This painting played a decisive role in what was then considered a radical movement by the art world.
"Boulevard des Capucines" depicts a view from the window of a photographer's studio of the Parisian street, Boulevard des Capucines. The snowy boulevard is alive with strollers, horse-drawn carriages and a crowd of people dancing into a haze at the pierizon into the cool sky. Monet was a genius of sight and his eyes were trained to record the most subtle
mances of color and light. This basic concern for color as a function of light softly enhances the beauty of any setting.
"While many Impressionist paintings are examples of the style and even excellent examples of the style, the "Boulevard des Capucines" is one of the pictures that I see about Ralph T. Coe, assistant director and curator of paintings and sculpture, said.
The price of nearly $1 million for the painting is considered a very good buy in the light of the amounts paid for other paintings by Monet.
The donation by Mrs Spencer, made through the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer foundation, was originally to be divided into four yearly installments, but plans were revised in order to permit this extraordinary acquisition. This is the same donation that donated the money for the University of Kansas's Spencer Research Library.
"Sometimes it takes more imagination to
'Tango' Selected to Appear At College Theatre Festival
By JOE ZANATTA Kansan Staff Writer
University of Kansas theatre will be represented in the National College Theatre Festival by the production "Tango," which was initially presented in Nov. 1972.
"Wango" was presented as part of the KU Stave Festival of the Arts and was watched by the entire audience.
"It was seen at that time by three judges representing the National College Theatre Festival," William Kuhke, who replaced Mr. Hensel, said last week. "From a field of some 100 seen in the area, it was one of five selected to be performed at Drake University."
Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, will be host of the central region presentations for the National College Theatre Festival. "Tango" will be presented on Feb. 8.
ONE PRODUCTION from each of 10 regions then will be presented in May at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
"The honor of performing there is tremendous," Khukhe in tribute. A college art student can receive
This is the fifth year of Festival competition and the second time a KU production has been invited to the festival. KU's production of "Indians" was
presented in Washington in 1971.
"This is a tremendous honor and recognition of the excellence of our
production program." said Kublke
"TANGO" WAS written by Slawimor Mrozek, a Czechoslovakian playwright.
"The play is about the comical-tragic efforts of a young man to render order out of chaos in a society represented by his family-first by the reason of action and then by force," said Kuhlke. "He fails and the power vacuum left by his failure is occupied by the representative of unreasoning ignorant brute force."
"The play grows out of the Polish experience of the late 19th and 20th centuries to the popularity all over the world testifies to the power of a parable accepted as kind of a parable of our times."
There are two other paintings by Monet, who was the central figure in Impressionism, in the Nelson Gallery. They are the huge painting of water lilies, acquired in 1957 and the landscape called 'View of Argument' acquired in 1944.
"I it's a very funny play, full of farcal activity and grotesque comedy. Its central action, its message, is bitterly serious. It's an intense picture of the grotesque, the serious, the sad."
KUHLER SAID he would take a company of 25 to the regional presentations in Des Moines and hopefully to Washington. There are seven cast members in "Tango" Avi Clough, Lawrence graduate student, Jay Clough, Lawrence special student, Howard Renensland, Lawrence graduate student, Steve Gilham, Pratt graduate student, Margeret Voldeng, Lawrence graduate student, Dan Duling, Lawrence graduate student.
"Tango" will go into rehearsal for the Des Moines performance as soon as classes begin.
sanction the purchase of a well-known masterpiece, because to do so you rely go on a limb. Mrs. Spencer was willing to do this and promote a new level of possible purchase with regard to the painting department" Coe said.
Manhattan's 'Earl Scruggs Revue' Draws Crowd of 7,600 Persons
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP)—More than 7,600 passengers attended one of the longest musical events ever in the Midwest over the weekend—a revue entitled "Earl Scruggs. His Family and Friends" at Kansas State University that lasted more than 10 and a half hours.
Joan Baes, folk singer and pacifist,
headlined the revue that also featured banjo
pickers Scruggs, Doc Watson and S, Tracy
Nelson and Mother Earth, The Byrds, The
Nitty Grilty Dirt Band, Rambin' Jack
Elliot and the Ear Scruggs Revue.
The concert began about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, but the crowd had started to form at Ahearn Fieldhouse in mid-afterparty. The crowd was very large, and 5,000 persons still were on hand when the
concert ended at 8 a.m. Sunday morning,
Baze  Flew to Manhattan from
washington to took part in anti-war
demonstrations during President Nixon's
annual ceremonies.
She did not perform until about 5 a.m. and between songs she spoke about her recent trip to Hanoi. She was especially critical of damage to the property of North Vietnamese civilians which, she said, was caused by American bombers.
Despite a ban on glankers or pillows announced by university officials before the concert, many of those attending brought to their knees to fortify themselves for the long night.
Authorities said the overflow crowd, some as far as Oklahoma City and Denver, could have been inundated.
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University of Kansas students have been invited to have an informal idea exchange session with leaders of the Lawrence Law School. Attendees will be in the Lawrence public library auditorium.
Students to Exchange Ideas With Local Businessmen
Dear Kaydeck, assistant dean of men and one of the coordinators of the meeting, said we are no agenda for the meeting except to discuss matters of interest that perceive business and how does business
The meeting is being jointly sponsored by KU and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce as suggestion by the Kansas Association of Commerce and Industry.
Kackey said 22 businessmen would attend the meeting and that he had sent invitations to 80 KU student leaders, their organizations to attend the meeting.
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