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The Place of Fine Arts In a University By Dean Lewis Salter S CHOOLS devoted to the fine arts are essential parts of any university designed to cover the arts, the sciences and the professions for which students may de- sire to fit themselves ; and in addition, they make an important contribution to the general life of the university as a whole . Besides providing training for those who wish to do professional work in art, dra- ma, and music, either as creative or ex- ecutive artists, or as teachers, the College of Fine Arts affords opportunity for stu- dents to major in the branch of art in which they are most interested for avoca- tional or cultural reasons . Students from other schools and colleges of the Univer- sity may elect courses in the history and appreciation of fine arts and this they are doing in increasing numbers . Some of them enrol for practical courses in music (lessons in voice, piano, or some other in- strument) and for practical courses in art . Many students from outside the College of Fine Arts participate in musical organiza- tions, the glee clubs, the bands, and the University Symphony Orchestra, and take roles in the dramatic productions spon- sored by the School of Drama. For ex- ample, only one member of this year's Sooner Male Quartet is a fine arts student . Students in the University who do not actually participate in any of the activities of the College of Fine Arts as outlined above have a chance to develop an appre- ciation of the fine arts by viewing the various art exhibitions on display in the Art Building, of which there were twenty- five this year, or in the Union Building, where three exhibitions were held ; by viewing the mural paintings about the campus, some forty of which have been painted by students of the School of Art; by attending the recitals and concerts giv- en by the School of Music, some thirty or forty of which are given free of charge each season ; and by attending the series of five Playhouse plays which are given each season . The work in the fine arts is made as practical as possible and students are given abundant opportunity to demonstrate pub- licly their talent and the results of the training they are receiving . Art students are decorating and beautifying the build- ings of the campus with mural paintings and pieces of sculpture . Student exhibi- tions are held on the campus and fine work is sent away to shows in this and other states . The reputation and standing of the Art School is constantly being ad- vanced by the recognition and honors won by its graduates and students . In the All- State Art Exhibit held in Tulsa last No- vember five students won prizes in com- petition with mature professional artists and three faculty members won honors . Tom Simms, in a national competition, has won a scholarship for advanced work in sculpture at the Art Students League in New York City . The New York School of Fine and Applied Art has awarded a aC scholarship to Robert W. Tomberlin, '38 art, for study in its ateliers in Paris . The work of the School of Drama af- fords its students practical training and experience in every phase of the theatre : playwriting, producing, acting, scene and costume design, stage lighting, etc . The Playhouse produces annually four modern plays and one original play for which all sets are made and painted in the playhouse carpenter and paint shops located under the West Stadium . A prize of $50 is of- fered annually for the best original play and the winning author sometimes has the privilege of directing his own play . This competition affords a strong stimulus for regional drama. The members of the pro- ducing class present, each semester, a se- ries of one-act plays which have been se- lected, cast, directed, and staged entirely by them . Playhouse productions approach professional standards in stagecraft and as a whole will compare favorably with those of any university in the country . William N . Robson, director of the Columbia Broadcasting System, New York City, wit- nessed the production of "High Tor" dur- ing the recent Southwest Theatre Confer- ence and compared it favorably with the New York performance . The School of Drama has been judged by several compe- tent critics, who have inspected it, as the most outstanding dramatic school of the Southwest . This growing interest in the drama is spontaneous . Although no par- ticular effort has been made to get stu- dents, they have come to us from all over the Southwest and a few even from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts . THE students of the School of Music ap- pear as soloists and accompanists in re- citals and concerts, and get ensemble train- ing and experience in the University Sym- phony Orchestra, the Concert Band, the men's or women's glee clubs, and the var- ious quartets and smaller ensemble groups . Concert tours for these organizations are arranged and managed by the Extension Division of the University . Valuable con- cert experience is also gained by students in appearances before civic clubs and other organizations in Norman and nearby towns. The University Symphony Or- chestra endeavors to acquaint its players with as large a body of standard sym- phonic literature as possible . Its work has been so outstanding that its director, Pro- fessor Paul S. Carpenter, was invited to collect and display representative programs from all the college symphony orchest s of the country at the National Music Ed- ucators' Conference in St . Louis. The Uni- versity Concert Band, directed by Profes- sor William R. Wehrend, won a triumph in its recent home concert . Its light, mel- low body of tone, free from the blare and blast usually associated with bands, was delightful and in this respect, at least, it was undoubtedly superior to the United States Navy Band which played here last TIIE SOONER MAGAZINE

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The Place ofFine ArtsIn aUniversity

ByDean Lewis Salter

S CHOOLS devoted to the finearts are essential parts of any universitydesigned to cover the arts, the sciences andthe professions for which students may de-sire to fit themselves ; and in addition, theymake an important contribution to thegeneral life of the university as a whole.

Besides providing training for those whowish to do professional work in art, dra-ma, and music, either as creative or ex-ecutive artists, or as teachers, the Collegeof Fine Arts affords opportunity for stu-dents to major in the branch of art inwhich they are most interested for avoca-tional or cultural reasons. Students fromother schools and colleges of the Univer-sity may elect courses in the history andappreciation of fine arts and this they aredoing in increasing numbers. Some ofthem enrol for practical courses in music(lessons in voice, piano, or some other in-strument) and for practical courses in art .Many students from outside the College ofFine Arts participate in musical organiza-tions, the glee clubs, the bands, and theUniversity Symphony Orchestra, and takeroles in the dramatic productions spon-sored by the School of Drama. For ex-ample, only one member of this year'sSooner Male Quartet is a fine arts student .

Students in the University who do notactually participate in any of the activitiesof the College of Fine Arts as outlinedabove have a chance to develop an appre-ciation of the fine arts by viewing thevarious art exhibitions on display in theArt Building, of which there were twenty-five this year, or in the Union Building,where three exhibitions were held ; byviewing the mural paintings about thecampus, some forty of which have beenpainted by students of the School of Art;by attending the recitals and concerts giv-en by the School of Music, some thirty orforty of which are given free of chargeeach season ; and by attending the seriesof five Playhouse plays which are giveneach season .The work in the fine arts is made as

practical as possible and students are givenabundant opportunity to demonstrate pub-licly their talent and the results of thetraining they are receiving . Art studentsare decorating and beautifying the build-ings of the campus with mural paintingsand pieces of sculpture . Student exhibi-tions are held on the campus and finework is sent away to shows in this andother states . The reputation and standingof the Art School is constantly being ad-vanced by the recognition and honors wonby its graduates and students . In the All-State Art Exhibit held in Tulsa last No-vember five students won prizes in com-petition with mature professional artistsand three faculty members won honors .Tom Simms, in a national competition,has won a scholarship for advanced workin sculpture at the Art Students Leaguein New York City . The New York Schoolof Fine and Applied Art has awarded a

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scholarship to Robert W. Tomberlin, '38art, for study in its ateliers in Paris.The work of the School of Drama af-

fords its students practical training andexperience in every phase of the theatre :playwriting, producing, acting, scene andcostume design, stage lighting, etc . ThePlayhouse produces annually four modernplays and one original play for which allsets are made and painted in the playhousecarpenter and paint shops located underthe West Stadium. A prize of $50 is of-fered annually for the best original playand the winning author sometimes has theprivilege of directing his own play . Thiscompetition affords a strong stimulus forregional drama. The members of the pro-ducing class present, each semester, a se-ries of one-act plays which have been se-lected, cast, directed, and staged entirelyby them . Playhouse productions approachprofessional standards in stagecraft and asa whole will compare favorably with thoseof any university in the country. WilliamN. Robson, director of the ColumbiaBroadcasting System, New York City, wit-nessed the production of "High Tor" dur-ing the recent Southwest Theatre Confer-ence and compared it favorably with theNew York performance . The School ofDrama has been judged by several compe-tent critics, who have inspected it, as themost outstanding dramatic school of theSouthwest. This growing interest in thedrama is spontaneous . Although no par-ticular effort has been made to get stu-dents, they have come to us from all overthe Southwest and a few even from theAtlantic and Pacific coasts .

THE students of the School of Music ap-pear as soloists and accompanists in re-citals and concerts, and get ensemble train-ing and experience in the University Sym-phony Orchestra, the Concert Band, themen's or women's glee clubs, and the var-ious quartets and smaller ensemble groups .Concert tours for these organizations arearranged and managed by the ExtensionDivision of the University . Valuable con-cert experience is also gained by studentsin appearances before civic clubs and otherorganizations in Norman and nearbytowns. The University Symphony Or-chestra endeavors to acquaint its playerswith as large a body of standard sym-phonic literature as possible . Its work hasbeen so outstanding that its director, Pro-fessor Paul S. Carpenter, was invited tocollect and display representative programsfrom all the college symphony orchest sof the country at the National Music Ed-ucators' Conference in St . Louis. The Uni-versity Concert Band, directed by Profes-sor William R. Wehrend, won a triumphin its recent home concert. Its light, mel-low body of tone, free from the blare andblast usually associated with bands, wasdelightful and in this respect, at least, itwas undoubtedly superior to the UnitedStates Navy Band which played here last

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fall . Equally outstanding arc the choralgroups directed by Professor R. H . Rich-ards and Miss Jessie Lone Clarkson .The School of Music is proud of the line

careers and growing success of its gradu-ates and former students in the fields ofopera, concert, motion pictures, compo-sition, radio, professional band and or-chestra, and music teaching . Among thosewho could be mentioned are Joseph Ben-ton (Bentonelli), in opera and concert;Ernest Sharpe (Erick Rhodes) in themovies (there are indications that he willbe allowed to show more of his fine talentas a singer) ; Rene (Robert) Stone in pic-tures and radio ; Emily Stephenson, LucileHudibcrg and Virginia George in concert,radio and theater in New York City ; RuthAlexander Young and Genevieve Doug-lass Taliaterro in opera, concert and radio;Tessie iMobley (Princess Luslianya) inopera and concert; Wesley Robertson (Ish-Tio-Pi) in concert and radio; Maurice(Larry) Cotton and Aubrey Popeloy inradio ; Merl Freeland and Zane Mentzerin concert as accompanists ; Albert Kirk-Patrick in concert and music criticism ;Ivan Lehrer, Cecil Meadors, George Lee-man and Claude Kennedy in dance or-chestras and arranging ; Spencer Nortonand Jack Looney (John Lowell) ill com-position .More than thirty graduates and former

students of the School of Music have uni-versity and college teaching positions.Among them are Lewis S. Salter, SpencerNorton, Wilda Griffin and Jessie LoneClarkson at O.U . ; John Lowell and AnnaMac Sharpe at the University of Arizona ;Thamazin HUtChInS, Oklahoma A. andM. College, Stillwater ; Forrest West, Cen-tral State Teachers College, Edmond ;Henri Minsky and Tessie Rudell atNortheastern Teachers College, Tahle-quah ; Merle Campbell Montgomery, Vir-ginia Fesler, Roger Fenn, and Vera Searsat Southwestern State Teachers College,Weatherford ; Dorothy Tulloss, Helen Col-lar, and Elias T. Novikow, OklahomaCollege for Women, Chickasha; LucileLeftwich Watkins, lion Garlick, LouisRonchetto, and Rooncy Coffer, OklahomaCity University ; Donald L. McCollum,Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee;Ruth Lang, Bethany-P'enicl College, Beth-any; Homer B . Courtright, Murray StateSchool of Agriculture, Tishomingo ; How-ard Way and Pansy Robertson, CameronState School of Agriculture, Lawton ; E. J.Kieth, Northeastern Oklahoma JuniorCollege, Miami ; Folsom 1) . Jackson, Pan-handle A. and M. College, Goodwell .Two hundred and fifty music teachers

in the public schools of Oklahoma aregraduates or former students of the Uni-versity, according to records of the StateBoard of Education. Texas, Arkansas,Kansas and surrounding states have calledon us for many music teachers . Everyyear we have more calls for vocal and in-strumental supervisors and directors thanwe can fill .

MAY, 1938

Dean Lewis Salter, '12

The most important development in theCollege of Fine Arts in recent years is theaddition of graduate courses leading to themaster's degree . Heretofore students wish-ing to major in music or art for advanceddegrees have been forced to go to otherstates to do so . Last June the first Masterof Music and the first Master of MusicEducation degrees were granted . AnotherMaster of Music Education degree wasgranted at the close of the summer ses-sion . More than forty graduate studentsare now working in the field of music.'['here are six candidates for the Master of],'me Arts degree, with a major in art anda number of Master of Education candi-dates with a minor in art . As soon asfunds are available for additional teachersit is planned to offer work leading to thedegree of Master of Fine Arts in Drama.

THE enrolment in the College of FineArts has shown a steady growth from 420in 1927 to 560 in 1938 . A more rapid ex-pansion has been and is prevented by phys-ical limitations, lack of room in which toexpand and lack of money for equipmentand for salaries of teachers that would beneeded if we had more students . As onesample of the condition which exists letme cite the organ department . There aretwelve students enrolled in organ this se-mester and we do not dare allow this num-ber to increase for the reason that the Uni-vcrsity has only two organs on which thestudents can practice . If we had the mon-ey to buy an additional practice organ sothat more pupils could be taken, we wouldhave no place in Holmberg Hall to putit . When the building was built in 1918there were thirty practice rooms in it . Asthe faculty grew, the larger practice roomshad to be taken for studios and by lastfall there were only nineteen practicerooms left . By sub-dividing six of these

we have increased the numlxxr to twenty-five but we should have twice that num-ber to accommodate the students who aretaking applied music.The most pressing needs of the College

of Fine Arts, in my opinion, are a Univer-sity Playhouse and an Art Museum . TheUniversity Playhouse would house theSchool of Drama, which would allow themusic school to expand and to occupy ex-clusively Holmberg Hall . The construc-tion of a modern theater with a wagonstage and with a seating capacity of aboutfive hundred would enable the Playhousedirectors to produce plays which underpresent conditions are either difficult orimpossible . An Art Museum would per-mit adequate display of the great collec-tions of paintings and Oriental art whichare now in the custody of the Art Schooland would allow some expansion in thatschool . At the present time the major por-tion of these collections (worth approxi-mately $400,000) is in storage, packed upin boxes and occupying needed space inclassrooms and studios in the Art Build-ing-absolutely unavailable to the studentsor public .

SINCE it is impossible to accommodatemany more students because of the lack ofsufficient classrooms and equipment, theSchool of Art is centering its efforts onimprovement of the quality of work donerather than on increasing the enrolment .Nevertheless, the attendance is increasingto such an extent that it is difficult tokliow how to solve the problem. Duringthe first semester of this year, there were860 class enrolment cards, and 375 indi-viduals pursuing some kind of art work .At present there are 181 students major-ing in Art.The new five-year program of work in

Art for industry is arousing wide interest .The first year's work follows the generalplan of the other curricula in the ArtSchool . The remaining four years of thecurriculum are designed to train studentsfor positions in the commercial world .They include, among other things, twoyears of Fashion Drawing under MissMahler, four years of Lettering, Lay-outAdvertising and Industrial Art under Pro-fessor Smith and Lithography under MissKritser, two years of Industrial Modelingunder Professor Taylor, two years of Pic-torial Composition including photographyunder Professor Good, special work inScenic Design offered by the School ofDrama and a study of Textiles, etc . Inconnection with the launching of this de-partment a survey of industries in the stateis being conducted. We hope to be ableto place our graduates in desirable posi-tions with manufacturing and other firms .

Director Oscar B. Jacobson has acted onthe jury of selection and awards for theTexas Art Exhibition at the Texas Mu-seum of Fine Arts, Houston, and he alsowas on the jury of awards at the All-

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Miss Edith Mahler, associate professorof art, has recently been listed in the vol-ume, American Women, and also inWho's Who in American Art. Last yearshe won the Theta Sigma Phi Award.

Professor Joseph Taylor of the depart-ment of sculpture has exhibited during theyear at the All-State Art Exhibition atTulsa, the Mid-Western Exhibition inKansas City, the Pennsylvania Academyof Design in Philadelphia, and the Archi-tect's League Show in New York City .

Professor Leonard Good studied pho-tography at Clarence White's School inNew York City during the summer of1937 . He exhibited "Herald the Season"at the Second National Exhibition ofAmerican Art in New York City in 1937 .He exhibited "Farmer of Jacauro," a Mex-ican landscape, at the Springfield (Illinois)Art League, 1937 . Mr . Good won theGeorge Sneeden purchase prize in watercolor at the Tulsa Art League, December1937, with "Taos Ruins." Last year Mr .Good painted murals at the Taft JuniorHigh School in Oklahoma City .Professor Harold Smith held a one-man.

show in the Seattle Art Museum in 1935and in 1934 he won second place in "oils"at the Northwestern Annual Art Exhibi-tion in Seattle .

Miss Harriet Kritser, assistant professorof art, has held one-man shows in Ama-rillo, Texas, and at the Elizabeth NeyMuseum in Austin, Texas . She exhibitedthis year with the Rio Grande Painters atthe Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas:She is a inember of the Texas Fine ArtsAssociation and the Oklahoma Art Asso-ciation .

Miss Dorothy Kirk, assistant professorin art, is listed in Who's Who in Ameri-can Art. She held a one-man show in thejunior League Room in Tulsa and exhib-ited at the Kansas City Art Institute.Roger D. Corsaw, our ceramics instruc-

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ramie Exhibition in Syracuse, New York,last fall .John O'Neil won a scholarship to the

Colorado Springs Fine Art Center lastsummer . He received honorable mentionin "oils" at the All-State Art Exhibition inTulsa last year . Mr . O'Neil is librarian ofthe School of Art.

Miss Margaret Roberts, assistant in art,is listed in Who's Who in American Art.She studied landscape at Chouinard be-fore becoming a member of our teachingstaff. Miss Roberts is in charge of the de-partment o£ Art Education and does half-time work as art supervisor in the Collegeof Education.

Professors Jacobson, Good, and Taylorwere selected to represent Oklahoma atthe All-American Show at RockefellerCenter, New York City, this year .

Olive Nuhfer, '34art, has just completeda mural painting entitled "The DailyMail" for the Post Office at Westerville,Ohio . Mrs. Nuhfer is now one of the wellknown artists of the younger set at Pitts-burgh, Pennsylvania . She recently won a$100 prize there offered by the society,"Friends of Art."

Stephen Mopope, '28ex, assisted byJames Auchiah and Spencer Asah, alsoformer students in the School of Art, com-pleted a series of thirteen mural paintingsfor the Federal Building at Anadarko lastNovember. These murals are consideredas among the most important in the state .Martha Lingsley, a graduate of the Art

School, has a job drawing for the SillySymphonies in Hollywood .James Roth is stage designer for Metro-

Goldwyn-Mayer, and Don Nabers is work-ing as designer for an English companyin Hollywood .

Bartlett Ward, a senior in the ArtSchool, has accepted a position as instruc-tor in art at Oklahoma City University .

THE enrolment in the School of Dramahas increased in the last seven years from74 to 110. Another teacher is urgentlyneeded to allow sectioning of classes whichare too large and crowded to enable us tooffer the graduate work for which there isa constant demand .A modification of the professional cur-

riculum leading to the B.F.A . degree hasbeen made to allow the student who is in-terested in radio to prepare for work inthat field. Courses in radio acting, radioscript writing and program productionhave been worked out in cooperation withHomer Heck, who is in charge of the Uni-versity radio station, WNAD.On March 4 and 5 the Southwest Thea-

tre Conference was held here . More thanone hundred guests from all the surround-ing states attended . Professor E. C. Ma-bie, director of dramatics at the Universityof Iowa, led the discussions in the theatregroup. William N. Robson, Director ofthe Columbia Workshop of the ColumbiaBroadcasting System, New York, led thediscussions in the radio group. He is work-

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ing on plans to make WNAD a try-outstation for the Columbia Workshop .A new paint shop has been built next

to our carpenter shop under the West Sta-dium. We now have as good a scenic stu-dio as any school in the country.A large outside stage door has been

built on the west side of Holmberg Hall .This enables the truck to back up andunload scenery directly onto the stage in-stead of bringing it in at the front doorand carrying it over the seats in the audi-torium as was formerly necessary .One of the serious drawbacks of the

auditorium is the lack of space backstage.Some additional room was gained thisyear by eliminating the small room on theright side of the stage.Room 312 in Holmberg Hall has been

completely redecorated . It no longer re-sembles a classroom. The colorful wallsand drapery make the surroundings morepleasant . The one-arm chairs have beentaken from the room and replaced by bentwood chairs and tables, around which thestudents and faculty gather to discuss theirwork . The purpose has been to get awayfrom rows of seats with students lined upagainst the instructor. The results havebeen very satisfactory.

Last fall Charles Elson was appointedassistant professor of drama to replaceMerwin Elwell, '36B.F.A . in Drama, whoresigned to study for a master's degree atYale . Mr . Elson studied at the Universityof Illinois and the University of Chicagowhere he received the degree of Ph.B . in1932 . He has a Master of Fine Arts de-gree, 1935, from the Department of Dra-ma, Yale University . The subject for histhesis was "Design Project for Rimsky-Korsakow's SADKO." Mr . Elson was artdirector for "The Forty Niners," ChasePlayhouse, summer theatre at Whitefield,N. H., in 1934 and 1935 ; art and technicaldirector for the ice carnivals and balletsfeaturing Sonja Henie and Carl Schaeferat the national skating championship,New Haven, Connecticut in 1934 and1935 ; art director in Department of Dra-ma and instructor in speech at the Uni-versity of Iowa, 1935 and 1936 ; art andtechnical director of the world premiere of"Within These Walls," Columbia College,Dubuque, Iowa, December, 1935 ; and artdirector and coordinator for approximatelyforty productions of the Federal TheatreProject, Los Angeles, 1936 and 1937 .Rupel J. Jones, director of the School of

Drama, has been elected to the AssociateEditorial Board for the Tributary Theatreissue of Theatre Arts monthly.William Cope, '34B .F.A . in Drama, ap-

peared last fall in the New York produc-tion of "Right This Way." He is now inMiami Beach, Florida, playing in "TheDrunkard."

Joe Calloway, a former student in theSchool of Drama who has been on theprofessional stage for the last four years isnow directing and appearing in "TheDrunkard" at Miami Beach, Florida. He

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will return this summer to Marquette,Michigan, as director of the summer thea-tre there .

Professor John W. Dunn is director ofthe Federal Theatre Project in Oklahoma .One of the outstanding developments ofthe Federal Theatre of Oklahoma is a re-search and play bureau of the Southwestwhich has for its prime purpose the de-velopment of regional drama. The Vaga-bond Puppeteers is the production unit ofthe project in puppets . This unit hasplayed to more than thirty thousand peo-ple in the last eight months . Mr . Dunnis also doing professional radio work inwriting, production, and acting over com-mercial radio stations of the state.The enrolment in the School of Music

reached 200 majors this year . More thanhalf of them are majoring in vocal andinstrumental music-education for the rea-son, doubtless, that school music teachingotters a fairly sure method of making aliving . As has already been stated, theUniversity has been unable to supply thedemand for teachers in this field .

Several changes in the faculty have beenmade in the past two years due to deathand resignation . Barre Hill, noted bari-tone of opera and concert, became the headof the voice department in September,1936, filling the vacancy caused by thedeath of Professor William (i . Schmidt.Professor Hill has proved himself a verysuccessful teacher as well as concert artist .He has given 34 concerts in Oklahomathis season and is scheduled for a concerttour of New Zealand and Australia dur-ing the summer vacation . This fall Her-man Larson, tenor, and Arthur T. Meyer,'cellist, joined our faculty, replacing EarlVirDen and Milton Dieterich, who re-signed to accept other positions . Both menhave proved to be valuable acquisitions .Mr . Larson is a pupil of Theodore Har-rison of Chicago and has a wide reputa-tion in the Chicago area as oratorio, con-cert and radio singer . 'The School of Music has been fortunate

in being able to add three new facultymembers in the last two years . Miss JessieLone Clarkson, '27fa, was added to thevocal music-education faculty year beforelast and has had outstanding success asdirector of the University Women's Chor-al Club, the Ladies Quartet, and the LadiesTrio . Last fall George Anson was ap-pointed associate professor of piano. Mr .Anson, who has a master's degree in mu-sic, taught at Illinois Wesleyan Univer-sity, Bloomington, before coming here .He has demonstrated his great talent asconcert pianist in his faculty recital here,in his appearance as soloist with the Uni-versity Symphony Orchestra and in twosolo appearances in other towns in thestate. Bertram N. Haigh, new instructorin brass instruments and instrumentalmusic-education this year, resigned fromthe faculty in April.

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WEEKLY SAILINGSROUND TRIP ANTWERP $189S.S . Konigstein, Gerolstein, Ilsenstein

TOURIST CLASS IS TOP

RoundTrip Southampton $246-Antwerp $253S.S.Pennland, Westernland

YOUR LOCAL AGENT OR

* RED STAR LINEArnold Bernstein Line

17 BATTERY PLACE, NEW YORK

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TheUpholsteringShopMrs. Louis P. Burns C. H. Jackson

Decorators - Upholsterers101 E. Comanche Phone 1121

LINDSAYDRUG STORE

James S. Downing--The DruggistPRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY

"Pangburn's Candy"

116 East Main Phone 362

Fred Thompson Co .Electric Wiring - Appliances

Authorized Sales and ServiceFor Frigidaire andGeneral Electric

125 E. Main Phone 161

Whi§tler'sSouthern

Floral ShopREX WHISTLER,'27