‘Wednesday,. October 31, 1951

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Art Treasures of Vienna Collections
Coming to Philadelphia Museum Soon

The famous Art Treasures from
the Vienna Collections will be
shown by the Philadelphia Mu-
seum of Art, in collaboration with
the Catherwood Foundation, from
February 2 through March 23,
1952, at the Art Museum, Park-
way at 26th Street, it is announc-
‘ed today by R. Sturgis Ingersoll,
President of the Museum. The
greatest assemblage of Old World
masters ever to cross the Atlantic
is in America on loan from the
Austrian Government. It was
first shown at the National Gal-
lery in Washington and has been
seen in seven other cities in the
United States and Canada. Fol-
lowing its final American show-
ing in Philadelphia, the collection
will return to Europe on its way
back to the Museums in Vienna.

The exhibition includes some
300 priceless masterpieces of
painting , sculpture,
-goldsmith’s work and other deco-
rative arts, and arms and armour.
All these are part of the great
collections amassed .by the Haps
burgs, the Austrian Imperial and
Royal house, during the six cen-
turies of their ascendancy, through
‘tthe Holy Roman Empire, in Eu-
ropean politics. The Hapsburgs,
like the Medici, and equal to them
in the field, were inveterate col-
lectors of works of art. Reigning
or allied by marriage to the lead-
ing sovereigns of Europe, at the
height of their influence they
ruled in Spain, Italy, Germany
and the Low Countries and owned
the greater part of the Americas.

 

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| November 3 and 4. See Senior
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From this eminence the emperors,
kings, archdukes, and princes were
able to command by conquest and
heritage the finest art treasures
of the Europe of their day. Tap-
estries from the looms of Brus-
sels, the creations of the greatest
goldsmiths and other artisans dec-
orated their palaces and churches;
among their court painters were
‘Titian, Velasquez, Rubens. In-
dividual members collected in spe-
cial fields: paintings, bronzes,
armor, antiquities, ivories and
crystals.

The Vienna _ collections
survived domestic and foreign
‘conflicts, invasions and_ revolu-
tions, looting and pillage. The
Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic
campaigns, the two World Wars

have

of the 20th Centry left little mark
and a very large proportion of
the original holdings of the Im-
perial family have come down to
our time. After the dissolution
of the Austro-Hungarian mon-
archy in 1917 these became the
property of the Austrian state.
The exhibition to be presented in
Philadelphia is approximately one-
fifth of the whole Hapsburg Col-
lections and includes many of its
finest works.

(Next week: An article describ-
ing the paintings and sculpture
among the Vienna Treasures.)

Hytier Discusses
Literary Dispute

 

tapestries,

Monsieur Jean Hytier, Pro-
fessor of French at Columbia Uni-
versity, discussed Une Haine Lit-
teraire: Balzac et Sainte-Beuve
on Thursday, October 25th, in
Wyndham. The hatred which sep-
arated these two men is one of
the most famous in French lit-
erary history. It began in 1834,
at the time of the publication of
Sainte-Beuve’s Volupte, and con-
tinued until the death of Balzac.
In 1834 Sainte-Beuve was very
poor, while Balzac was already
launched in the social and liter-
ary world. Sainte-Beuve was in-
troverted and over-sensitive; Bal-
;zac, on the other hand, was ex-
cessively open and jovial by na-
ture, Though they almost never
met, Sainte-Beuve’s dislike of
Balzac was violent. The quarrel
was carried on more actively by
Sainte-Beuve than by Balzac.
Sainte-Beuve accused Balzac of
immorality: in, his youth Balzac
had carried on what Monsieur

tivities”. Balzac on the contrary
had a great admiration for Sainte-
Beuve’s Volupte. Sainte-Beuve’s
method of criticism was one which
sought to define the connection
between the author and his work.
His hatred of Balzac led him to
make judgments of Balzac’s per-
sonal life. He went so far as to
criticize the cheap literature which
Balzac had hacked out in the days
of his obscurity, and even accused
him of achieving success by “flat-
tering the perversities of women”.
Balzac, he said, flattered women
differently according to their age,
status, etc. Since Balzac places
each of his novels in a specific
region, he accused him of flatter-
ing the inhabitants of each region
in turn. Balzac, at one point in
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First of Wyndham Concerts Schedules
Jack Maxin, Pianist, On November 11

Jack Maxin will play in the Ger-
trude Ely Room in Wyndham at
5 p.m. on Sunday, November 11,
1951. It is the first concert of the
1951-52 season,

Jack Maxin is 22 years old and
began piano studies when he was
five. He studied for ten years
with Irma Wolpe, first at the
‘Settlement Music School in Phil-
adelphia ‘and later at Swarthmore
College under a two-year scholar-
ship.

While at Swarthmore he made
two successive mid-west concert
tours under the Lucius Pryor -con-
cert service, playing in Oklahoma,
‘Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
and Nebraska. He played with
the Oklahoma City Symphony Or-
chestra.

In 1949 he was awarded a schol-
arship at the Philadelphia Con-
servatory of Music to study with
Edward Steuermann and has
since twice been awarded the D.

Henrik Ezerman scholarship: to)

continue ‘his studies.

   

 

He has played in and around
Philadelphia and New York and
at Yale University.

His program is as follows:

I. — Brahms .. . Two Choral
Preludes for organ, transcribed
for piano by Busoni: “A rose
breaks into bloom”, Op, 122, No.
8; “O world, I e’en must leave
thee”, Op. 122, No. 11.

Brahms... Capriccio in F sharp
minor, Op . 76, ‘No. 1.

Chopin . . . Nocturne in B ma-
jor, Op. 62, No. 1.

IIl.— ‘Chopin... Sonata in B
Minor, Op. 58. Allegro maestoso,

Scherzo molto vivace, Largo,
Finale Presto, non tanto.
Intermission.

‘ITI. — Stefan Wolfe ... Zemach
suite (1989), written for the danc-
er Benjamin Zemach. 1. Sono. 2.
Piece of embittered music. 3. Fugue
No. 1. 5. Fugue music. 6. Con fu-
0co.

IV. —- Bartok .. . Etude No. 3.
Music of the night.

 

  

Hytier qualified as “obscure ac-|.

Anderson Voices
Parallel Between
Past and Present

by Betty-Jeanne Yorshis, ’52

Maxwell Anderson whose play,
Barefoot in Athens, is currently
appearing in Philadelphia, spoke
at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia,
Thursday, October 25. The first
speaker in a series of lectures
open to the public given at this
time. Mr. Anderson read the pre-
face to his latest work, and then
opened the session to questions.
“Being neither critic nor speaker’,
Mr. Anderson refused to discuss
his play, and stated that “a writer
was 1n no position to talk about his
work anyhow”, He _ gave the
sources of Barefoot in Athens and
then answered a barrage of ques-
tions ranging from “Why doesn’t
your play have more action?”, to
“Do you believe that Socrates
should have been convicted?”’.

Mr. Anderson avoided any eval-
uation of his latest effort, beyond
saying that he himself wasn’t sat-
isfied with it, and spoke of the ma-
terial upon which he based the
play. The exact words of Socrates
were never written down, but in-
terpreted by each man who wrote
about him. The main biographers
of Socrates were Plato and Xeno-
thon, the former the great philos-
opher, and the latter a historian
who passed into oblivion. Of Plato,
Mr. Anderson said, “I doubt his
honesty”, since “he (Plato) put his
own ideas into Socrates’ mouth”.
In the later Dialogues and in the
Republic which Mr. Anderson con-
siders a propaganda doctrine, Pla-

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SPORTS

by Emmy Cadwalader, 53

The First, Second, and Third
Hockey Varsities emerged victori-
ous from their matches.with the
University of Pennsylvania last
week. Penn usually has good
teams, but Bryn Mawr proved
themselves the superior players
and all three teams played ex-
tremely well. There was more
teamwork evident, and much bet-
ter hockey all around than before
this season, though Miss Apple-
bee, who arrived in time to see
the last half of the matches, was
heard to mutter her usual com-
ment of “RUN”.

The line-up was again different
from the week before, and the
teams were as follows:

FIRST
R.W.—G. Gilbert
R.I.—L. Kimball
C.—D. Hanna
L.I.—P. Tilson
L.W.—S. Merritt
R.H.—A, L. Perkins
C.H.—P. Albert
L.H.—D. McCormick
R.F.—A. Wagoner
L.F.—B. Townsend
G.—P. Mulligan

SECOND
R.W.—M. Muir
R.I.—J. Thompson
C.—E. Cadwalader
L.I.—J. Jones
L.W.—M. Reiglé
R.H.—A. Eristoff
C.H.—S. Kennedy
L.H.—B. McClenahan
R.F.—B. Merrick

L.F.—B. Davis
G.—J. Williams
THIRD

R.W.—J. Wilmerdine
R.1I—M. G. Warren
C.—L, Simpson
L.I—J. Davis
L.W.—G. Vare
R.H.—M, Mackall
C.H.—M. Kennedy
L.H.—D. Kelly
R.F.—E. “McGinnity ~

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In Haverford Public Affairs Lecture,
Hans Kohn Denies U.N. Incompetency

On Wednesday, October 24, the
newly-formed Public Affairs As-
sociation at Haverford sponsored
a lecture by Professor Hans Kohn,
who spoke on “A U.N. Balance
Sheet, 1946-1951”. Six years ago,
Mr. Kohn began, everyone looked
hopefully toward the United. Na-
tions; today, that hope has pretty
generally reverted to scepticism.
“Is the U.N. worthwhile? Are
we not on the eve of another
war?”; these are the questions
most men are asking themselves
at present. |

Mr. Kohn strongly decried those
who say that war is just around
the corner and that the U.N. has
done little to prevent it. “There
can be no panacea for peace”, he

 

Dean of Dancers

Defines Her Art

by Ann McGregor, ’54

Last Wednesday night Miss
Ruth St. Denis gave a lecture-
recital under the sponsorship of
the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

Miss St. Denis, dean of modern
dancers and still completely fas-
cinating at the age of 72, spoke
at length on her career, her dance

interpretations, her hopes for the:

future of the dance in America
and her philosophy concerning the
dance as an emotional and basic
expression. Having been, at one
point in her life, invited to India
as a “temptress of Buddha”, she
found herself, if not a temptress,
at least tempted by Buddha and
the rich dance background and
forms that surround all Indian
religion. Since “vibration (or
rhythm) is the basic property of
everything” and the dance is bas-

ically rhythm, it. is the obvious | *

means for expressing human feel-
ing and emotion. From this point,
logically, the next step is to state
that the dance is a condition of
the soul and of art rather than
merely a series of physical con-
tortions. .The dance should be
beautiful and emotional rather
than a combination of “African
drum beats and Irish whiskey.”
Miss St. Denis not only disap-
proves of this “cabaret wriggl-
ing”. but also of the Physical Edu-
cation Department’s form of mod-
ern dance: “Rather thick-ankled
young ladies with—(a gesture in-
dicating hornrims)—doing board-
pounding exercises.” The dance
belongs instead, believes Miss St.
Denis, to the departments of art

declared. The success or failure
of the U.N. must be judged by
the number of wars it has pre-
vented. In the last six years, he
claimed there have been “five
major occasions when world war
was possible—even probable.”

In 1946, the Soviet Union had
set up a pro-communist regime in
the north-west province of Iran
and threatened to engulf all Iran,
The U.N. “induced” the Kremlin
to forego their expansion in Iran.
In 1946-1947, there was danger of
war in the Balkans—the “trouble
spot of Europe since the end of
the eighteenth century”. The
U.N., by supporting the govern-
ment of Greece, defeated Stalin’s
plans. Mr. Kohn added that the
Balkans are “more peaceful today
than they have been for decades”;
that is not to say that they are
happy, but “the Balkans have not
been happy for centuries.’ In the
summer of 1948, Stalin threaten-
ed Yugoslavia, calling Tito’s gov-
ernment the “festering wound in
the body of decency of central
Europe”. Today, Yugoslavia is a
member of the Security Council
and Mr. Kohn stated that he
thought the danger there was
past. West Berlin presented the
fourth crisis, but there, too, war
was not the result.

Most recent, was the outbreak
of hostilities in Korea on June 25,
1950. “The fate of the world
hung in balance”, but when the
U.N. again resisted the forces of
aggression and took a firm stand,
| we reached a turning point in
| world history. If the League of
| Nations had followed a similar
course with regard to Ethiopia,
perhaps the last war would never.

 

 

The stacks of the Library
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have occurred. Despite certain
“incantations” common to all So-
viet speeches, Malik has acknowl-
edged defeat in Korea by his ex-
pressed desire to restore the 38th
parallel. The task of the U.N.
is “to prevent aggression—or if
aggression takes place—to drive
the aggressors back to where
they started.”

Mr. Kohn stated that, in his
opinion, the U.N. has for the pres-
ent checked Soviet expansion in
Europe and contained Soviet
power in Asia. He averred that
“in spite of the immense tension
in the world today, we are further
from war than we were in the
thirties when no such tension was
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League Holds Maids & Porters Tea;
Plans Courses and Events for Year

“he League held its annual tea
for the maids and porters on Wed-
nesday, October 23 in the Common
Room. Judy Leopold, head of the
maids and porters committee, act-
ed as hostess and led the discus-
sion about the subjects to be
taught in the classes, which will
be conducted by students two or
three times a week. The courses
requested were much the same
ones that have been held in past
years: English, including the fun-
damentals of English grammar;
music, both piano and chorus; pol-
itics, which would cover history
and current events; Spanish and
French, typing, knitting, and, for
sports, tennis and badminton.

It was suggested that two or
three classes be held the same
night, because no one would want
to go to all of them. Conflicts
would be avoided because of the
schedule of work which provides
for a full week of work followed
by a week of vacation. In this

way, no one could come to the
classes every week, so that they
would have to be on a bi-weekly
basis.

Once or twice a season, there
will be a folk dance night with in-
struction in various square dances
and folk dances. This will not be
a regular weekly session. It was
also requested that the Maids’ and
Porters’ Dance, which is usually
during Lent, be held earlier this
year, before the beginning of
Lent, as there are so many whe
are not willing to come to a dance
at that time.

The Maids’ and Porters’ Coun-
cil is to be revived as soon as poss-
ible. This council consists of two
employees from each hall, prefer-
ably a maid and a porter, who
meet once a month to discuss im-
provements which they feel are
necessary. These representatives
are chosen by their fellows in each
hall. This year, the. council will

 

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