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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY . 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Moimtags Pep D4 By PRESTON McGRAW Unitod Prtu Inttrnitiontl Dallas - HUD - Donald S. Vogel la going to (eel a heavy tense of loss when he takes a collection of 54 paintings down from the walls of his gallery, even if he manages to sell the collection for around $2 million. , The 54 paintings are the late Georges Rouault's "Pas sion" and depict by contemp orary plastic means the last days and crucifixion of Christ. Professor Has His Shangri-La On River Seine By ALINE MOSBY Unliid Press International Paris -(UPD- A retired Amer lean professor thinks he has found his Shangri-La. Ney MacMinn, until . 1960 professor of 19th century Eng. lish and American literature at Northwestern university, lives on a boat on the River Seine in the heart of Paris, right under the shadow of the Eiffel tower. The slender, amiable pro fessor believes he has truly gotten away from it all. No doorbells, no telephones, no postman, no car, no radio or television or even family. In his houseboat . are only the things he wanted! Pipe, big cup of coffee n the table, phonograph cello, his dog named Buster, and his belov ed collection of 6,000 books lining every wall, including the bathroom. The' only sounds are the clunk of waves against his boat or the toot of a passing cargo ship. His free view is like the set of a Gene Kelly musical the tree-lined banks of the river, the sculptured bridges, the graceful Eiffel tower in his "backyard." "I've become very fond of that tower," he mused as he sat before a little coal stove in his living room. "I've seen it in rain, in fog, in moonlight it is constantly changing." ine professor, twice-divorc ed and childless, confessed hed been "thinkins of retir ing for 30 years." He checked over many spots, but wanted to 'live in a big city "where i could keep my booka and yet De able to move south when it got cold." Boat It Answer "The logical answer was a boat," he said. , MacMinn purchased his 59 ton, 73-foot boat in Holland. Paris police gave him a per mit to park on the Seine next to French, Dutch and Italian houseboats a few blocks from the plush George V hotel. Soon he will head south for the winter and, if he feels like it, travel the network of placid canals and rivers in Europe to visit Belgium, Hoi land, Germany and Austria. The professor has neatly beat Paris' high rents. With a small investment, he con verted the 1,500 barge into a snug home with living-dining room, kitchen, study, two bedrooms and bathroom. The kitchen stove and refrigerator and lamps run on gas but he plans to buy an electric gen erator. An American cx-student, Kim Bartlctt of Washington, Conn., helped remodel the boat and will run the motor on their planned voyage Hop Cut Of course, life has not been 100 per cent shlp-shape. Some rowdies cut the boat's dock rope and MacMinn floated helplessly on the river until rescued by a policcboal. Now he uses a steel cable. "I never thought the rock of the boat would bother me but when I go ashore I pitch like a drunken sailor." he said. "I think everything still is moving. "It's also amazing how dirty this cabin can get, without a woman's touch ..." So is he never, lonely? "I've never been lonely." he Insisted. "I've always been happy because I'm self. suffi cient. I read, I think, I listen to music or play with the dog. "I'm gregarious and I've made many French and American friends here. I'm organizing a chamber music group so I can play my cello. If I'm alone, then I write in my diary or I write long letter's to everyone I know." Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of Ihe Mail Tribune in Medford, phone 772-BMI; Ann land call at 418 Pride at . or phone 4B2-.1002: Yreha. phono Victory 2-2SPS before 6:43 pjn. dally and 10 30 a nv Sundav If regular delivery arrive ahortly after you call, please notify office, thua eliminating apeclal metaenger aervlce. Vogel is the first gallery own er ever to exhibit them. He got: the paintings last February from Paris and since then has- almost lived with them. He- framed them in wormy chestnut, studied them individually and hung them. They went on exhibition in Vogel's Valley House gallery Nov. 15 and Vogel has spent many hours studying thcin collectively. He said they have almost become an addiction with him. " - . As a whole, Vogel sees the paintings as a sort of sym phonic poem of four move ments, the movements con nected by some paintings which are used as bridges. Ambroise Vollard, a French dealer who discovered Roa ault, commissioned the "Pas sion" collection. Rouauit exe cuted the paintings between 1930 and 1938 to serve as the source of wood engravings to illustrate Andre Suares poem of the "Passion." 82 Paintings Altogether, Rouauit made Alan Sound Over To Grand Jury by Court Gary Gene Asher, Central Point, was bound over to the grand jury after appearing in Jackson County district court Monday on charges of bur glary not in a dwelling. Asher had waived a pre liminary hearing. He was one of two men charged with entering a serv ice station on Table Rock rd. Jan. 4. 82 paintings from which he made 82 wood engravings. He later destroyed 28 of the paint ings, not feeling them to be of the same quality of the re maining 54. The wood engraving illus trated printing of the poem was limited; Vollard was kill ed by a taxi when World War II broke out. The 54 paintings went into a vault and few persons knew they existed. Vogel said he was told about the scries in confidence by one of the handful' of per sons who had seen it. He had known about the series 10 yoars when he and Mrs. Vogel went to Paris in November, 1081, to gel 38 other "virgin" Rouaults. Mr. and Mrs. Vogel were at dinner with Robert de Bolli, a Ofays if Cradffu2xoim French collector-dealer, and Mrs. de Bolli when Vogol thought of a way to mention the "Passion" paintings with out breaking the confidence of the person who told him about. them. Vogel understood that the De Bollis knew all about the series. He told them he had "dreamed" about it-. If there were such a series, he wanted to exhibit it in his gallery. De Bolli was shocked. Vogel said Mrs. de Bolli screamed: "No, never! They are too young." After the Vogels returned to Dallas, Mrs. Vogel con tinued a correspondence with the De Bollis . and in every letter Mrs. Vogel said, "Don ald dreams of 'Passion'." Then, abruptly, the De Bol lis notified Vogel they were shipping him the series. It ar rived early last February and Vogel did nothing afterwards except prepare it for exhibition. 1 962 Job Placements : Increase 24 Per Cent Salem -ftPll- Job replace ments for 1962 increased 24 per cent while claims for un employment insurance drop ped 12 per cent, Eldon Cone, director of the Oregon State Employment Service, said Tuesday. Job-placements for the cal endar year totaled 507,419, Cone said. Claims for unemployment insurance for the yenr totaled 195,306. The works are in oil on heavy rag paper. Each the same size, 17V4 by 13 inches. There is 'an inner painting, surrounded by a blue-green mat. The size of the inner paintings varies but Rouauit varied eacruaiat to form a set ting for the painting within and to add cohesiveness to the series. Halfway through the series, Rouauit put the judges of Christ in modern dress in one picture, saying that judges to day probably would act as they did in Christ's time. "For me, the Rouauit -Passion' is comparable to the famous Scrovegni Chapel at Padua where Giotto immortal ized himself with his scenes of the life of Christ," De Bolli wrote for the catalogue of the exhibition. "For proof, I need only the head of Christ, No. 58 in Rou ault's numbering (the paint ings are numbered irregular ly). I have seen large faces of Christ from this artist, painted in full palette, that do not at tain the grandeur of this head, sublime in its abnegation, where the crown of thorns is represented by only a few strokes of the aureole scarcely indicated, while the wounds and the blood of Christ are evoked by the abstraction of the red line that follows the matting." The collection is insured for $2 million. Vogel was sup posed to end the exhibition Dec. 21, but because of inter est in it, he extended the ex hibition into February. If not sold before the Feb ruary return : date deadline, the collection, has to be re turned to the Vollard collec tion in Paris. 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