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The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

N11. dilQ wi D. buI ICCl DldCh-
mon and children of Brandon
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bit KySer over the weekend.
DR.. w. G.. Brock and Mr.. c..
L. Brock were business visitors
10 Lexington Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. j. Hand shop
ped in Memphis Tuesday. They
also visited Miss Jean Hand.
Mr.. Bill Townsend of Winona
was a business visitor in West
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Bouchil-
lion and Ralph, and Mrs. A. w.
Bouchillion attended the graz
duation of Mr.. Junior Bouchil-
lion of fernando Friday night.
Mrs. A. w. Bouchillion stayed
over night and returned home
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. M. Siddon
and son of Huntsville, Alabama
! visited here recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnny Cobb
and children. Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
May and children all of Jack
son spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. Jim Siddon.
Mr.. Bill O'Briant and his
friend of Alexandria, Louisiana
visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
D. c. O'Briant over the week
end.
Mr.. Houston Jones of Clarks-
dale visited Mr.. and Mrs S. E.
Ellis Sunday.
Miss Mammie Siddon spent
the weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Siddon
of Hollandale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Halbert Strick-
land and son Guy of Jackson
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Loran Green over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Bicker
transacted business and shopped
in Durant Thursday afternoon.
MIR. Arnold Dyre of Grenada
was business visitor here Fri
Gay
Mrs. William Brock returned
home Thursday after several
days with relatives in Memphis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Cade spent
tie weekend in Jackson with
friends and relatives.
Mrs. Mary Dunning returned
home Wednesday after several
days visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
Billy Dunning of Clarksdale.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18
West Gurden Club
Met On Wednesday


IN the Club Room Wednesday at
3:15.
The meeting opened with the
club collect. Minutes were read
and approved. The nominating
committee presented the names
of officers for next year:
President, Mrs. w. B. John
son;
Vice President, Mrs. J. r.
Melton;
Secretary, Mrs. w. L. Wright;
Treasury, Mrs. A. r. Bicker.
They were all unanimously
elected.
The meeting closed with the
club prayer by Mrs. Melton.
Mr. Jimmie Bowen of MisSis-
sippi State spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Bowen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Terry of
Memphis visited relatives this
weekend.
Mr.. Arnold Hammond of
Winona was transacting business
and visiting friends Tuesday.
Mr.. Leon Mayfield of Walden
was here on business Wednes-
Gay.
The Rev. Mr.. Boullard of
French Camp filled his appoint
ment at the Presbyterian Church
Sunday and was dinner guest
of Mrs. M. A. Campbell and
Billy Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Cade
of Greenville spent Monday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Ramage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Ellis visit
ed his sister, Miss Mildred Ellis
who is a patient in the Winona
Hospital Sunday.
Mrs. Ola Musselwhite is visit
ing relatives in Durant for seve-
raj days.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Campbell
and their grandchildren Bobby
and Chris Rosson visited in
French Camp Monday.
Mrs. Bit Kyzer and Mrs. Hir-
man Kettle visited in Canton
Thursday.
Mrs. Lester Reeves of Jack
son visited relatives Wednesday.
Mrs. Jimmie Guess of Duarnt
was visitor in West Thurs
| day.
Mr.. Percy Joyce of Durant
visited relatives Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Brown
ing made a trip to Holmes Jun
ior College Friday and Miss
Rosemary Browning came home
with them for the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. C.. M. Tate at
tended to business and visited
with relatives in Lexington
] Thursday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mrs. Oscar Rogers, Miss Glen
da Rogers and Sam Hearn went
to Jackson Monday afternoon
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mrs. Adele McGinty and Mrs.
Joe Gilmore visited with Mrs.
Rufus Netherland Monday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mrs. D. F. Montgomery, Mrs.
]. D. Montgomery, little David
and Miss Willie Shivers visited
Mrs. Herman Sanders in Sails
Tuesday afternoon.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Will Frazer of
Kosciusko spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Denton Ed
wards and children.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Terry of
Memphis visited relatives this
weekend.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. Jimmie Bowen of MisSis-
Sippi State spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Bowen.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. Arnold Hammond of
Winona was transacting business
and visiting friends Tuesday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. Roy Tucker and children
of Memphis visited Mr.. l.. B.
Tucker, Sr. Sunday afternoon.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. +. M. Siddon
and son of Huntsville, Alabama
visited here recently.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr. Bobby Ramage of Milling
ton, Tennessee came down for
Mothers Day with his mother
Mrs. Allen Ramage and Mr.
Ramage.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. Bill Townsend of ,Winona
was a business visitor in West
Thursday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. Leon Mayfield of Walden
was here on business Wednes-
Gay.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Tate at
tended to business and visited
with relatives in Lexington
Thursday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs Johnny Cobb
and children, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
May and children all of Jack
son spent the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. Jim Siddon.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Attend The Church Of Your
Choice This Sunday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. Cade Bicker and Mr..
Larry Ramage attended the ball
game in Louisville Thursday
afternoon.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

The Rev. Mr.. Boullard of
French Camp filled his appoint
ment at the Presbyterian Church
Sunday and was dinner guest
of Mrs. NJ A. Campbell and
Billy Jones.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. J.. Hand shop
ped in Memphis Tuesday. They
also visited Miss Jean Hand.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. A. C.. Autry attended the
sale in Lexington Wednesday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Brown
ing made a trip to Holmes Jun
ior College Friday and Miss
Rosemary Browning came home
with them for the weekend.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Rev. and Mrs. Jimmy Jackson
son were Sunday dinner guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe c. Abel.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

DR.. w. G.. Brock and Mr.. c..
L. Brock were business visitors
10 Lexington Friday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Miss Jean Hand of Memphis,
Tennessee and Mrs. Presley
Davenport of Hatiesburg spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
L. J. Hand.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Reid and
son of Mobile, Alabama visit
cd Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Reid
over the weekend.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. Percy Joyce of Duran
visited relatives Thursday.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mrs. Cora Caldwell returned
home Friday night after several
weeks visit with her daughter
and family of Grenada.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Burnett Black
mon and children of Brandon
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bit KySer over the weekend.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Cade
of Greenville spent Monday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Ramage.
The Lexington advertiser., 1961-05-18

Mr.. Houston Jones of Clarks-
dale visited Mr.. and Mrs. S. E.
Ellis Sunday.
Evening star., 1961-12-31
Provinciulism

"Provincialism" is a word
that gets tossed around reg
ularly in talk about Wash
intgon and the arts, but there
is more than one kind of
provincialism. One of the
most eroding in its effects
on the human spirit is the
provincialism of time, the
state of mind, that is, of the
person who only knows the
few years he happens per-
sonally to remember, who is
not entirely convinced that
any other years ever really
took place, and who takes
it for granted that all vir-
tue resides exclusively in
those years. That kind of
provincialiSm is closely asso-
ciated with developments in
American painting of the last
decade and a half. In some
ways that painting is a glori-
fication of that kind of
provincialism.
Only from such deeply
rooted provincialism is it pos
sible for art observers to
speak of the desert of art
in Washington and ignore the
towering and life enhancing
existence of the collections at
the National Gallery, the
Phillips, the Freer and the
print cabinet of the Library
of Congress,
Evening star., 1961-12-31
Singing Not Sole
Lennon Talent

HOLLYWOOD (AP).-The
Lennon Sisters, who used to
be the favorites of President
Eisenhower, might we'll be-
come President Kennedy's
favorites, too-but not for
singing.
Janet, the 15-year-old
junior member of the trio.
is an avid touch football
player.
Papa Bill Lennon claims
that his daughter threw a
47-yard forward pass in a
recent game with kids in
their Venice neighborhood.
Il measured it with a yard
stick" says the father. IF
I hadn't seen it with my own
eyes, I wouldn't have believed
it. My oldest daughter Diane
(now married and out of
show business) was a long
passer, too."
The Lemons, with II chill
dren, have a built-in foot
ball team, five of them boys.
The boys so far are a little
young to get down the field
fast enough for Janet's long
toSSeS.
Evening star., 1961-12-31

with a world premiere of a
Hymn of the Nativity" by
Lee Hobby today at the Ca
thedral Robert Paris
plays tomorrow at the Phil
lips Collection, featuring in
his eagerly anticipated harp
sichord recital first perform
ances of works by Robert
Evett and Es her Williamson
Ballou, as well as a fascinat-
ing selection of pieces by an
18th-century composer with
the unlikely name of JOOse
BOutmy. Better come early
And the National Sym
phOny Orchestra pair shapes
up as one of the best of the
season. The service bands
start activity, with the Ma
rine and Navy Bands playing
this week LeOntyne Price
has Cancelled all her January
oncerts, including one
scheduled for the 14th in
Constitution Hall, on doctors
orders. The recital will be
presented here on Friday,
May 4. -. WGMS makes the
new year happier with the
good news that it will broad
cast a 39-week series of con-
certs recorded by the late
Serge KOussevitzky and the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
between 1912 and 1948. The
series begins Tuesday at 8
pm. Those who have men,
ories of the BSO of those days
as a matchless ensemble will
not be disappointed, while
those who don't will have
cause to marvel.
Evening star., 1961-12-31
TODAY

BAPTIST MEMoRIAL cHuRCH.
George steiner, conductor: Soloists:
Monica Ortiz, soprano; Mary Ken
nedy, contralto; Ben Mitchell Morris,
At the Church, 10th st. and Column
bia I'd: NV, II am. Excerpts from
the Messiah, Handel.
WASHINGTON AND CATHEDRAL
CHORAL SOCIETIES, Paul Galloway,
conductor. Soloists: Adele Addison,
RiCS.pS fSDssnS 6n Gh:. sssssr bensIi tenoE
Gramm, bass. Washington Cathedral,
4 p;m. A Hymn of the Nativity
world premiere. Hobby: LEnfance
FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB
STUDENT RECITAL; Participating
Niemeyer.. violin; Diane HanseI, vio-
Dabney, soprano: Dorothy Hudson,
hsssman, cello; Marg1ret Middleton.
ard Green, cornet; Anne Heriindahi,
piano; Eyelina ChAo, violin. Wash
ington Musical Institute, 1870 18th
st. NV, 4 pm. Music by Rach-
manioff' vivaidi, Brahms, Bach.
HOWARD FRIED, tenor; Esther Ostroff,
Ariers song, from The Tempest,
Purcell: All, how sweet it is to love.
from Tyrannick Love, Purcell: o
sleep, why dost thou leave me. from
Semele, Handel; Where'er you walk,
frcm Semele, Handel: Winter Words,
op: 81, Britten: Lay of the Inn
prisoned HuntSman, Schubert; The
Dying Christian to His Soul, Schu-
bert; My love is like red. red
rose, Schumann: Sun Of the sleep
less, Schuman; The bonnie Earl O.
Moray, Brahms: Bottoms Song: The
ousel cock, Wolf.
STANLEY WIENER, violin; Lowell
Farr, piano. National Gallery, 8 pm.
Sonata in D. Francoeur; Sonata No
c%haconne.% % mach Bach; 3; Sonata. aHa' peSusss; SSs;
Sonata No. 3 in E minor 1st Wash
ington perfO. Weiner.
WILLIAM PARTRIDGE. organ. First
Baptist Church. 18th and o Sts
NV. 1890 pm. Program unavail-
able,
Evening star., 1961-12-31
Corcorun Gallery

The Corcoran Gallery of
Art broke new ground in its
series of one-man shows for
Washington artists this week
by hanging an exhibition of
paintings and drawings by
Peter Thomas. Heretofore the
series has presented artists
reasonably well known at
least to part of the COM
munity. With Mr.. Thomas
the Gallery is giving an art
ist his first one-man show
and the first showing of his
work in this city. This de-
parture widens the range of
the Corcoran's activity, add
ing the function of discovery
Of totally new talent. In
theory there are excellent rea-
sons against this; in prac-
tice, in Washington, such
reason may not carry as much
weight as in New York. In
the specific case of Mr..
Thomas, the innovation is
justified by the clear author
ity evident in his work. Mr..
Thomas, on the basis Of his
paintings on view, knows
pretty we'll what he wants to
do and is in full command of
the means for doing it.
What he wants to do, at
the moment, is to produce
pictures blending Arshile
Gorky and Willem De Koon-
ing and the show pulSateS
with the spirit of these two
men. There are only two
major oils in the show and
both are in the De Kooning
manner of bright colorS, bold
slasheS of paint and a strong
informal organization. Mr..
Thomas obviously enjoys
himself immensely while at
work and his enjoyment car
ries over into the finished
product.
Unlike most younger artists
working the fields charted by
older Abstract Expressionists,
Mr.. Thomas manages to
maintain complete control
over the work. The bulk of
the show, about two dozen
pieces, is relatively very small
in scale and is done in a
variety of media including
crayon and collage. Again,
most younger men following
the footsteps of these par
Evening star., 1961-12-31
Where Are We?

Against this glittering, if
wholly imaginary, pyramid Of
culture. reality can look
fairly drab. Hence it is that
the question, Where are we
in the visual arts: Can get
mutually exclusive. answers:
We are in the new Athens, on
the one hand and, on the
other, we are in the old Sauk
Center. The realistic view re-
minds us to be grateful for
a dramatically aware Chief
Magistrate-we don't really
deserve one and at the same
time to know that nobody
ever initiated a Golden Age
by collecting antiques.
The third general cause for
the seasons cultural CONVEX
Sation about Washington's
leadership in the arts has
been a series of real and
promised events, each of
which is alleged to be cap
able of bringing on the new
Athens.
Evening star., 1961-12-31
Modern Art Museum

At the moment highly
speculative, but apparently
getting less so is the pros
pect of a Museum of Mod
ern Art for Washington. In
formed guessing is that an
announcement will be made
within a month listing the
local citizens backing the new
institution. the initial staff
and the location, as we'll as
the proposed program of ac-
tiVitieS.
That being the way of the
world, all three of these de-
velopments have been used
to prove both that Washing
ton is the new Athens and
that the city is a horrid old
cultural backwater. This may
not seem easy, but with prac-
tice the same speaker can &C
tually take both positions in
the same paragraph. Here's
how: Project c is so vital
and has aroused so much
enthusiasm because the city
is a cultural desert which
must be made to bloom; on
the other hand, Project c,
even in the conversation
stage. has so much power
that it has already trans
formed the desert and here
we are in Athens.
BY all odds the oldest of
the Athenian themes, how
ever, is one sounded within
the last two weeks. This
shifts the burden of creating
Athens on the Potomac to a
New York art writer and
sometimes picture dealer who
greatly admires the paint
ings of two Washington art
lists whom he has represented
from time to time. On the
basis of this admiration we
are asked to believe Athens
is here once more. The proc
eSs is akin to asking Mr..
Pierre Salinger for an OBJ
jective view of the Kennedy
administration: AS an insider
he doubtless has access to
facinating information, but
seriously to accept his view
as that of a detached OBJ
server of the political scene
is to reveal an altogether en-
chanting innocence.
Evening star., 1961-12-31
Go Take q Look

Recognition of these ex-
cellences is not a plea for
complacency. 1t is now and
it always has been a shame
that the American capital
lacks a comprehensive COL
lection of American art. The
shame is in the process of
being attoned for and will be
largely eliminated between
the addition of the Halpert
collection to the Corcoran
and the "unleashing" of the
National Collection of Fine
Arts at the Old Patent Of
flee. For American art, too,
really did exist and some
times brilliantly before the
coming of the Big Dripper,
and that prior existence will
be brilliantly recorded at the
Corcoran and at the National
Collection. There will still
remain, perhaps. the need for
a public institution special
izing in art enjoying the
blessing of Art News and of
the Museum of Modern Art
New York;. 1t may be that
the Museum of Modern Art
Washington will fill the
need. Whether it does or
not, it is well for all Of us
to remember that Action
Painting is a very small, very
recent development in the
enormous history of art. For
the most part Washington is
we'll supplied with a view Of
that history.
The easiest way to think
yourself out of that cultural
desert is to go and look at
some of the pictures.
Evening star., 1961-12-31
HoIpert Collection

Probably the most solid and
measurable of these events
is the gift of the Halpert
Collection of Goth century
American art to the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. There has
been a certain amount Of con-
fusion over this gift, espe-
cially. on the scene. For the
sake of clarity, a review of
the present status is in order.
Edith Gregor Halpert has
been one of the pioneer deal
ers in American art of this
century, beginning in 1926
and continuing today as di-
rector of New York's Down.
town Gallery. She has Of
fered her private collection
of paintings and sculpture to
the Corcoran on certain con-
ditions, chief of which is sep
arate housing. The Corcoran
has accepted her offer. A
deed of gift is expected to be
signed sometime in January.
When the deed of gift is
signed, the Corcoran expects
to begin work on creating
from seven to ten new gal
leries on the ground floor of
the building. facing E street.
The new galleries will house
the Halpert collection and
other art gifts which Mrs.
Halpert expects to be forth
coming from collectors. The
actual art will not arrive
until the new galleries are
ready to receive it, some
where between six and 18
months from now. The choice
of art from the collection
will be made by the Corcoran,
Mrs. Halpert and a third
party, the director of a first
rate American collection.
Evening star., 1961-12-31

that IN the week or so
after Christmas not much
else is going on. Shall we?
There's been a good bit
Of rather aimleSs converSa-
ton around town this season
as to whether Washington
is at last ready to assume
its proper status as a leader
in the visual arts, whether
the city indeed already has
assumed such status, whether
such status is out of the
question, what can be done,
what ought to be done and
why doesn't somebody do
something? A certain amount
of this chatter is the froth on
the wave that has swept the
District, in the last quarter
century. from its comfortable
position as the most north
ern of the Southern small
towns to the nervous one as
capital of the free world.
A great deal more of it
seems to stem from persist
ent side effects of New From
tier fever. From right after
the 1860 elections until today
many observers have built a
cultural pyramid in their
minds based on the facts
that the President speaks de-
cent English and Mrs. Ken
nedy speaks decent French
and Spanish as well. From
these syntactical gratifica-
tions, the pyramid scars ef-
fortleSsly toward a new
Golden Age of Art scheduled
to begin any minute and to
make Washington the Athens
of the Western World.
Evening star., 1961-12-31
"Dahlias and POmegranates" BY Henri
Matisse at the Phillips Collection now.

of painting was practiced-
and often practiced very
well-for years and even CEN
turies before Pollock dripped.
Once your eyes have been
opened to the existence of
pre-Pollockian painting. you
begin to see real possibilities
in Washingtons stature as
a center of the visual arts.
For the unnerving fact is
that Washington already is
first class in painting and
it is so because of two insti-
tutionS not so far mentioned
in this survey and rarely
mentioned in the talk of
making the city an Athens
by getting in some Action
Painters. The institutions
are the National Gallery of
Art and the Phillips Collec-
ton. The latter is complete
ly unique as a pleasant place
not only to look at pictures
but, for a brief time, to live
with them. The former is
one of perhaps a dozen in
StitutionS in the world which
constitute the top echelon of
great public collections. Not
more than three American
museums are in the class of
the National Gallery, yet
Washington people interested
in art can discuss the art
scene as if the gallery didn't
exist.
How is this possible? 1t is
possible because of the mis-
taken notion that art, for
most of us, is something
other than looking at pic
lures, that it centers on at
tending the openings of one
man exhibitions for painters
who have figured out yet an
other new way to splash
paint onto canvas without
brushes, or on drinking cock
tails and hearing the latest
art gossip.
Evening star., 1961-12-31
Vive La Difference

With all the building Of
the new Athens from so many
different blueprints, it may
be worthwhile to ask what
on earth is meant by the
ambition to make Washing
ton a first-class city in the
visual arts. Obviously it
means different things to
different people and even to
the same people at different
times.
One basic observation to
be made is that, like Fall
River. Mass, the District is a
long way from New York. If
first rate" in painting and
sculpture means having on
hand the painters who regu-
larly exhibit in New York
galleries, this will never be.
If you honestly believe that
painting did not begin until
jackson Pollock dripped his
first drip painting, Washing
ton doesn't have a chance.
The man is dead. At best
the city can turn up an oc-
caSional imitation Jasper
Johns, but Mr.. Johns himself
is only diluted Pollock of a
kind. New York City for al
most $50 years, has been the
center of the art business and
it is likely to continue being
so. Just as the commercial
theater is a New York insti-
tuition as an accompanying
felicity of the garment in
dustry-out-of-toWn buyers
like to see the shows while
they're in town-So abstract
expreSSionism is a New York
industry for similar reasons.
The main buyers of the goods
are agency vice presidents
and broadcasting network Of
ficials; most of the top ad
agencies and all of the broad
cast networks are located in
New York; therefore abstract
expreSSionism is likely to re-
main there, at least until the
sheriff of the wasteland is
given bullets for his guns.