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g g THURSDAY. JUNE 27. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEPFORD. OREGON ' . eirkelev Shock Scemie off Cosftimig ffoir Paris Exhibit ' " ... ... .. i . l j , . mDnt Prnere&s and art da n JOSH EPPINGEH ni Unittd Press InUinational . Berkeley, Calif.-'l'Ptt-At the rear of a dilapidated con demned slum house stands a mall, iron-corrusated shack. The shack, too. is crumbling. Ballrooms Lose Wide Patronage In Modern Age Br MORT J. SULLIVAN United Press International Chicago - IUP1) - It's been described as a "Castle in Soain." "a Palace of Dreams" and the "Alhambra of the Midwest." From Its bandstand .two decades ago poured the mu sic of Dick Jergens, Wayne King, Guy Lombardo, The Dorsey Brothers, Russ Mor gan and the late Eddy now ard - who held forth for more than IS years. Today it is an ingeniously ornate, fireproof, air-conditioned relic doing regular business only on Thursday, Friday and Saturday - and waiting for a buyer. - The "Palace" on the block for $750,000 is the Aragon Ballroom on Chicago's north side. "We have a teen-age dance nrxt week." said Andrew Karzas whose father, William, opened the ballroom - and its counterpart on the city's soulli side, the Trianon. "We still are going along fairly well," he said. "But It's less comfortable than the old days." "The old days" wore the days' when several thousand flocked to the ballroom with artificial sky and with star light twinkle "to dance and dance." In an age of palatinal open ings, the opening of the Ara gon ranked with the best. Mayor William Hale (Big Gill) Thompson bought the first ticket in July, 1026, and more than 8,000 persons mov ed in after him that night. The Trianon opened four years earlier. William Karzas sold it In 1DS4. No more can one turn on hli radio and hear tho announcer saying "direct from the Aragon on Chicago's north side." "It's not a lack of business that put the ballroom up for sale. It was Dad's decision to retire and it's his decision," Karzas said. Karzas offered some rea. sons for the decline of ball room dancing since World War II. They Included the present popularity of sing' crs, the fear of many single girls to take public transpor tation because of the rise in crime, and movies and tele vision. "People Just don't seem to want to go out ny more," he said. What could the Aragon become if it were sold? "It could be made into a bowling alley, or a convention center or a catering or banquet hall," Karzas said. Or maybe radio or a television studio. "And tho now owner could continue It as a ballroom," lie said hopefully. When a reporter suggested that possibly the big band era was gone forever, Karzas fired back "it Is not!" "The big bands will come back," he said, "and it would be great to have the Aragon waiting for them. Court Records Tthoda Marin Scrry, dliohtytd traffic Hsr.Al. 310. Ifeanna Jn Arnold, dtiobtywl traffic signal. $10 Martin Detlef Srhnarlc Jr vio lation of hatle ml. 10. John Deuo CmIU. improDtr, It ft uirn, iu. Htlirn Barnhirt, 4tobt4 atop aign. aiu. C.UHya Joifphtn Stewart, dli ohevrd traffic itaual. HO Yvonna Jcanna Ludwlf , dli ohf crl iton uaiv tio Albert Gilict Miller. dlsoboyed traitir tmal. 110 Walter fcftwarri Bailey, viol a Hon of naatc rule J3 Loyd htanlty Huston, violation of haic rule. 110 John Naiho, violation of batc ruie. aau Carv Humphary Skacgi, dlt obrvrd traffic aianal, SIO. Harel tirtrud Gerde. Improper itnn upHg( tin rtemant Jnaeph Nithaus, dis- obayad atop aim, 10. Flanked on one side by an auto repair hop and the other by an empty lot, the little shack is noticeable only in its obsolescence. But Inside the dusty shack, is an American art exhibit of major sifnUlcance - In all sizes, forms and material. The Incongruous setting near the Berkeley waterfront is the workshop and foundry of 12 sculptors from the Uni v e r s 1 1 y of California, who have been selected to repre sent the United States this fall at the third Blennale de Paris. REAiooo! utippr The exhibition will be held Sept. 28 through Nov. 4 at the Paris Museum of Modern Art and will include major works 'of outstanding young artists from around the world. The Paris exhibition ranks In Importance with the older festivals of Venice and Sao Paulo. Money Dictates The insignificant little shack has played an instru mental role in the careers of the university sculptors. They quickly found that free ex pression goes only so far In sculpture. No matter what form or shape la desired In bronze, money eventually molds the final product. But sending wax models to profes sional foundrymen to be cast Is expensive and sculptors in sist foundrymen are. not ex perienced in handling art works. The Berkeley men were left with the choice of either send ing their works abroad or learning the craft of the foundryman. Dedication to chisel and knife became di rected to boiling pots, pullies, plaster models and hard, hot physical work. The artists proved adapts ble, versatile and, surprising ly enough, found that they could make fast and high quality castings at a fraction of the previous cost. But more important, the rather routine and laborious casting cycle opened to them a whole new world in the art of sculpture. Break Barrier "They broke the barrier of old prejudices," explained Herchel B. Chipp, professor of art at the university, who is organizing the U. S. exhibit at Paris. "The artists ventured into design techniques that had been previously rejected as impossible. They also found they could do things they had been told they couldn't do be fore." . The conventional bronze sculpture method begins with a carved wax model which is embedded in plaster, then melted out with heat. The plaster mold is then used to cast the bronze. Soon, the Berkeley artists found they didn't have to work just with wax. . Cloth, cardboard, plastic, rope and even old wooden furniture was put to use The finished bronze prod ucts astonished the group's tutor, Peter Voulkos, asso ciate professor of design. "The fact that work of this quality is being done in an American university, and that the entire process is executed by the artists themselves, is a rather unusual achievement in the field of art," Chipp the future of the sculptors rests on the ac ceptance of their works, the future of the shack has al ready been decided. It will . !, i . .L..mDni Prnere&s and art do soon be aemoiuuico iu " --- room for a housing develop-! not always coincide. 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