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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1924)
FUTURISTIC m HUM MFU; Fine Arts Instructor Gives: Adverse Comment BASIS IS SYNAESTHESIA; Portland Exhibit Includes Foreign Productions By Margaret Skavlan Something new, strange and start ling—something indeed which does its best to be something new under the sun—that is the exhibition of futur sitic art which opened Saturday in Portland, as seen by Virgil O. Hafen, instructor in fine arts. “Their forced originality looks like insanity,” said Professor Hafen with a twinkle in his eye. The exhibit includes French and American paintings, drawings, bronz es, and African masks/ brought from New York and Paris by Miss Sally Lewis and displayed in the Portland Art museum. Davies’ Work Discussed “ The work of Arthur B. Davies was dominant in the exhibition,” Profes sor Hafen declared. “Some of this shows a fine sense of color when he worked long enough on a picture, and there is a line or two in each picture that is graceful, but nothing which shows thought.” He said there was nothing about the exhibition which showed cultivation or study. Nearly all of the figures are made : out of proportion, which is some times legitimate in giving an heroic quality, but in this case done for no i apparent Teason. “They say they are expressing a mood,” said Professor Hafen, “and of eourse no one can dispute them.” ■ He believes that the real basis for the paintings is synaesthesia, the psychol ogical term for the state in which colors have sounds. This he believes to be particularly true of Walt Kuhn, whose “Decoration, Intermezzo,” is included in the display. Warm Colors Favored ”Kuhn hears his colors, undoubt-! edly,” he said. “Synaesthesia is the!' only explanation for so many dirty | colors,” Professor Hafen explained.! “ They are in pyramids, ranging all' the way from charcoal black to dirty | greens and red. They rather farvor j the warm colors.” When asked if he was familiar with the same movement in his studies; abroad, Professor Hafen replied, “Ij tried to become familiar with; it. I have seen millions of the pic- j tures. Two were hung in the Salon in ’14, which the judges said they could not reject because they did not understand them, and hence had no . basis for judgment.” Art Is Personal Professor Hafen said that he agreed with the campus psychologist who said that the works are very interest ing from the point of synaesthesia, but that they are as personal as a man’s pajamas, and so should be kept at home. “When I first saw such'examples in Europe I did not approach them with blood in my eye—I really tried to understand them. But I doubt if I ever will.” One of the “works of art” on dis play is made up of pastings part of CLASSIFIED ADS -<*> i Minimum charge, 1 time, -26c; 2 time*, 46c: 3 times, 60c; 1 week, $1.20. Must be limited to 5 Hnes; over this limit 6c per line. Phone 961, or leave copy with Business office of Emerald, In University Press. Office hours, 1 to 4 p. m. it AY ABLE IN ADVANCE ONLY Dressmaking—And all kinds of sewing. Work guaranteed, at 1145 Onyx street. Phone 1369-J. A 4-9 Lost — Elgin watch, monogram initials, M. L. A., April 7, near Alpha Beta Chi house. Finder call 730. Reward. A 9-11 Lost — Waterman fountain pen, with initials E. R. on gold cap, be tween Ad building and Hilvard st. Call Betty Rauch, 851. Reward. A-9 Be a Newspaper Correspondent With the Heacock Plan and earn a good income while learning; we show you how; begin actual work at once; all or spare time; experi ence unnecessary; no canvassing; send for particulars. Newswriters Training Bureau, Buffalo, N. 1-. F 12-tf “SALLY” OF MUSICAL COMEDY VISITS CAMPUS Shirley Vernon, Delighted With College Life, Expresses Desire to Be a Student By Olive Merry Shirley Vernon, 18, the “Sally” of the musical comedy, that played Monday evening, visited the War ner museum with her mother Mon day afternoon. “It is the most wonderful thing that I have ever seen in my life!” she declared. “In sence burners always appeal to me —anything wierd, because I have al ways wanted to go to the Orient. But I’m afraid our shows would be loo short for them. You know the Chinese shows last for three or four lays/’ she added. Miss Vernon says that she grew up with “Sally.” She entered musical comedy four years ago playing the part of one of the dish washers that appears at the first if the show. While she was in the Sollies she had the opportunity to travel with this company, playing the part of Sally. “This offer came the week before Christmas. It was surely a wonderful Christmas pres ent,” she added with a wink. It has always been Shirley’s de sire to complete her education in a jollege and because of thisN she was anxious to visit the campus and to meet the college students. She got in insight into sorority life while she was entertained at the Alpha Delta Pi house. “Oh, I’d love it tiere!” she exclaimed. “I’d like to be a college girl on the Oregon sampus.” When comment was made that she did not appear like a leading lady in a successful company, she quickly replied, “Well, I don’t see anything to get ‘upstage’ about.” Miss Vernon thinks she would like to be cast in a few movies. “I'd like to see myself on the screen, so I could criticize myself. But mother has been a good critic. I don’t see how I could get along without lieT,” she said, glancing af fectionately at her mother. “One time I went on to the stage without my eyebrows and it took me the whole first act to find out what was wrong. Now I depend upon my mother more than ever to detect any mistakes,” she said. Studying is the hardest part of being in a company, according to Miss Vernon. “The really pleasant part of it all is the acting. Your audience is such an inspiration, and you wouldn’t get that in the movies.” Kismet is her companion, which she carries with her all the time. It is a 30-inch doll, which conceals her purse and vanity case. Kis met’s hands are snapped together forming the handle of the bag. She wears a silver turban over her blond hair, and her gown is blue and silver. It fastens around her neck and when unsnapped shows a neat vanity case, with all con veniences. The face of the doll is beautiful. Sally is a doll holding a doll. i torn Italian newspaper pasted on, i scrap of wall paper, and some pieces >f charcoal paper (possibly picked )ff the floor) all smeared over with harcoal. “Those who say they understand his one, explained Professor Hafen, ‘say that after one has lived with t, long enough he actually doesn’t mnd it.” Attempt Is Creative The main attempt seems to be to io something more creative than real sm. Some of them are attempts at lesign, others approach realism. Al ogether they are a complete break vith tradition, and the impression as t whole is chaos, Professor Hafen aid. His main objection to them s that they are displayed until they tecome the fad, and then any fakir inn make money off an unsuspecting niblic. Some of them may indeed be lincere synaesthesic reactions, but hese are valueless since no two peo ple react in the same way or could un lerstand another person’s reaction. The list of artists includes F. G. Applegate, Davies, Andre Derain, Preston Dickinson, Juan Gris, Kuhn, Marie Laurencin, Andre Masson, Pablo Picasso, Henry Varnum Poor, Maurice H. Prendergast, Charles Prendergast, Odilon Redon, Henri Matisse, B. J. O. Nordfeldt, H. F. ■hhnakenberg, Charles Sheeler, Hen •y Fitch Taylor, John Thompson, Max iVeber, J. G. Bakos and Constantin Irascusi. Titles Are Improving The circulars announcing the ex libit are enigmatically headed “ ‘ Art Ray Graham’s ollegians I GRILLE DANCE Friday Night I GRILLE DANCE Saturday Night Collegiate (grille Which Expresses Life as Mysterious as Life.’ ” “ I notice that the artists are get ting more clever with the titles of their pictures,” Professor Hafen said, in commenting on such pictures as “Landscape,” “Drawing,” “Two Trees.” In the earlier days of the movement artists would give their works outlandish titles, nd then would be put to the awful task of ex plaining why they named them what they did.” ASSEMBLY SPEAKER KNOWN AS SCHOLAR - j Dr. Swartz Heads Pacific School of Religion Dr. Herman Frank Swartz, the speaker at assembly Thursday, was prominent as a member of the Con gregational ministry before becom ing president of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. California, in 1922. He was ordained as a Congrega tional minister in 1898. He then became pastor of the Congrega tional church in Mansfieid, Massa chusetts, in 1898, and served there until 1901. From 1901 to 1907 lie served as superintendent of the City Missionary society, and from 1907 to 1910 he was pastor of the Web ster Groves church in St. Louis. Dr. Swartz has had considerable work with missions. He was secre- ^ tary of missions for the Congrega tional Home Missionary society dur ing the years from 1911 to 1913. | Dr. Swartz also served as executive secretary for the Pilgrim Memorial 1 fund and corresponding secretary j of the annuity fund for Congrega- j tional ministers from 1918 to 1919. ! From 1920 to 1922 he was gouejral secretary of the Congregational World Movement. The social sciences were the sub jects that Dr. Swartz took up dur ing his college life. He received his bachelor of science degree from Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, from which he was graduated with honors in 1891. He was granted a master of science degree from there in 1893. Dr. Swartz -was also a student at the Union Theological seminary and Columbia university. In 1895 he graduated from the Hart ford Theological seminary, where he was a fellow in the social sci ences. Then he took special work in the social sciences in the uni versities of Berlin, Paris, Romo and London. Dr. Swartz was given his doctor of divinity degree in 1915 from Fargo college, North Dakota. The assembly will be held in Vil lard hall. The music and the one who will give the invocation have not yet been decided. A tale of love and adventure amid the volup tuous beauty of tropical splendor. mtlAM FOX presents aw vfl #\|J^ in SOUTH* SEA LOVE Story By FREDERICK e FANNY HATTON Directed By DAVID SOLOMON “South Sea Love” is as deep as the tropical seas, as tall as the palms and as hotly passionate as the volcanic isles. And here’s a comedy that’s filled with real honest-to goodness fun— “ABOUT FACE” with JOHN FOX, JR. The “Covered Wagon’’ Kid An emotional drama of the emotional tropics. • TODAY and Thursday The CASTLE HOME of the BEST * Your Spine may have a vertaberal lesion as shown, which may be the cause of your ailments. The Chiropractor corrects these subluxations— lib erates the nerve impulses —Health returns. DR. GEO. A. SIMON 916 Willamette Street MISS SEAMEN TALKS TO Y. W. C. A. MEETING “Campus Is But Miniature World,” Says Speaker “College is the world in miniature, and the problems the students face on their campus are of the same form as those in life, said Miss Josephine Seaman of the world service council of tho Y. W. C. A. in her talk be fore the association meeting of the student Y. W. C. A. last evening. “The greatest opportunities of col lege are not what you learn from books, and from your associations, but the greatest opportunities are tho chances to come in contact with the problems of government, group form ation, labor situations and public opin ion, declared Miss Seamen. Preceding Miss Seamen’s address the new officers of tho University Y. w. C. A. wore installed for the year 1924-25. Officers to take their posi tions are: Florence Buck, president; Marv Donaldson, ^ice-president; Mar ian Lowry, secretary ; Lois'Uaster brooks, treasurer, and Helen Andrews, undergraduate manager. Today the officers and all department heads will meet at the College Side Inn for a luncheon meeting. SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM GETS VALUABLE PAPERS A valuable gift made to the school of journalism, through Dean Allen, is that of 150 volumes of the old illustrated London News, pre sented by Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull, secretary of the state industrial wel fare commission. These old files have been in the family, and date back to 1844, covering the period of our Civil war. They are especially interest ing for their old wood cuts. All the numbers not contained in the University library have been sent to the bindery and the rest are in the journalism library. 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