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University Daily Kansan Monday.Feb.23.1959
EXIIBIT OPENS—A new acquisition to the Museum of Art is shown here getting the once-over yesterday as a new exhibition at the
museum opened. Looking at the oil sketch by Edouard Manet are Judy Nordstrom, Newton sophomore, and Nancy Smith, Liberal senior.
Manet Oil in Art Collection
The Museum of Art displayed its new acquisitions in an exhibition yesterday afternoon.
The exhibit was made up of gifts to the museum that have been received during the past year.
The major acquisition is an oil sketch by Edouard Manet. The sketch was made by the artist before he began work on a portrait of Line Campineanu. The portrait now hangs in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
The sketch is the first work of the 19th century French impressionist to be acquired by the Museum of Art. It is the gift of Charles E. Curry, class of 1440.
Mr. Curry said he first saw the painting in San Francisco in 1954. The painting was loaned to him for a while and then he returned it to the gallery. He said when he was
in San Francisco again the next year he saw the painting again and bought it. It hung in his home until he donated it to the Museum of Art
Mr. Curry said the sketch, which was painted around 1880, had been purchased in Berlin by the gallery from which he bought it. He said Manet often painted sketches of a subject before beginning work on the final painting.
Dancing Night Features Greco, Haskell Indians
By Robert Harwi
Friday night was dance night on the campus. Most people were aware of the presence and the spectacular performance of the Jose Greco dance troupe in Hoch Auditorium. Those who saw it are not likely to soon forget it.
But the performance of a group of Indian students from Haskell Institute in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union, while not having the professional precision of the Greco exhibition, was in some ways just as valuable.
The Haskell group performed some of their ceremonial dances before about 40 members of the International Club, an organization whose members probably know of the American Indian only through his Technicolor adventures in Hollywood.
The Indians put on a display of simple dignity and high culture that had the guests from foreign lands watching in rapt attention. No better choice of a program could have been made.
The Indians, dressed in bright costumes and accompanied-only by the chanting of two voices and the heady rhythm of a drum, performed social and war dances. About sixteen men and women were in their troupe. They realized they were presenting high art. Their faces were sober and their movements were pleasantly disorganized. At times
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"He painted preliminary oils for several of his better known paintings," he said.
they seemed just to shuffle around. If the Indians gave a foreign audience an example of American art, the Greco troupe at Hoch gave an American audience a display of Old World art.
Precision and smooth movement were the features of this group. But so were its stunning women, its quick exits, brilliant lighting, its wits and good humor, its bright costumes and unusual rhythms.
Other gifts include a painting by Thomas Hart Benton, two 17th century Flemish tapestries, two portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, a 15th century Italian Renaissance throne, an 18th century silver chalice, and a 17th century Portuguese table.
The exhibit also included objects on loan to the Museum of Art. It is hoped these will be purchased and donated to the permanent collection of the museum.
About 20 members of the Associated Women Students served as hostesses and guides at the exhibition. The museum's next exhibit, April 12, will be made up of works of Grant Wood.
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The departments of English and Speech and Drama selected the materials with funds made available by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, who took a personal interest in the library last spring.
Music Library Adds To Record Collection
A large collection of musical, drama and poetry recordings has been added to the Music Library in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building within the past year.
The recordings are not to be checked out for home use. They
"There has been a tremendous increase in the use of library materials in the last year. It has been well worth the money and time spent," Robert L. Quinsey, chief of reader service of Watson Library, said.
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Relays Committee Names 8 Freshmen
The KU Relays Committee has selected eight men from 28 applicants for freshman positions on the committee.
The new members are Lawrence G. Wilson, Augusta; Neal S. McCoy, Winfield; John M. Falletta, Arma; Stuart H. Barger, Harrisonville, Mo.; John F. Erickson, Clay Center; William J. Gissendanner, Kirkwood, Mo.; Richard M. Harper, Prairie Village, and John B. McFarlane, Newton.
Co-chairmen of the KU Relays Committee this year are Stephen H. Hill, Lawrence, and Daniel L. Casson, Topeka, both seniors.
Sophomores on the committee are Elbert E. Smith and John A. Redick, Kansas City, Kan.; Edward H. Saylor, Jon L. T. Eicholtz and David L. Stahl, Topeka; Ronald R. Broun, Phillipsburg; David R. Thorning, Atchison, Herbert K. Dixon, Kinsley, and Ronald D. Andreas Abilene.
Juniors on the committee are Robert L. Luce, Ottawa, Larry G. Ostertag, Kansas City, Kan.; John R. Bolin, Mission; Thomas W. Van Dyke and Edward Dolson, Kansas City, Mo.; Lance F. Johnson, Wymore, Neb.; Stanley A. Lehman, Abilene; William A. Godfrey, Arkansas City, and Richard Endacott, Bartlesville, Okla.
Other seniors on the committee are Ralph L. Wright, Paola; Walter C. Ashcraft, Ashland; John A. Barrett and David T. Graves, Kansas City, Kan., and Donald L. Dunaway, Lawrence.
Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body" read by Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson and Raymond Massey; Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," by Bergen Evans; Charles Dickens' "Episode from Pickwick Papers" by Emlyn Williams and T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" by Robert Donat and The Old Vic Theatre Co.
may be used in the library only by students.
George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" by Lawrence Winters and Camilla Williams; Gilbert and Sullivan selections by D'oyly Carte; Goethe's "Faust" in German; Frank Loeser's "The Most Happy Fella" by Jo Sullivan and Robert Weede, and Carl Sandburg's "A Lincoln Album."
by students. Some of the recordings which have been added to the collection are:
George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" by Siobhan McKenna; Hans Christian Andersen selections by Michael Redgrave; Alben W. Barkley's "Weep," an interview with Sidney Shalett; J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, and Robert Browning's poetry read by James Mason.
Cervantes' "Don Quixote" by Walter Starkie; "The Democratic Party" narrated by Henry Fonda; Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, "Notice to the World"; Dwight D. Eisenhower's and Adlai E. Stevenson's "Acceptance Speeches"; Robert Frost's poems read by the author, and "Greatest Moments in Sports" by Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and Knute Rocke.
Eleanor Roosevelt's "In Conversation with Ben Grauer" and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "The Presidential Years Speeches."
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