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PHOT-SIXTH YEAS* polk coin oor in theSERVICE OF ONCLE SUM*******+++++++++.{. *.2..;.*+++GEORGE N. ELLERPfc George N. Eller. 22, son of Mr and Mrs. Nick Eller, entered the Service February 2, 1943. He is now with the 424th Ordnance Evacuation Company somewhere in Germany with the 3rd Army.MANY ATTEND SHOWING OF DUREN PAINTINGSMore than 800 people from this and surrounding communities attended a showing of paintings by Terence Duren at Shelby Sunday afternoon The affair was sponsored by the Shelby business men in connection with the annual parish picnic Coincidentally Mr. Duren's well known painting, Parish Picnic was recently sold to the International Business Machine Co. for a reported one thousand dollars. Thirty-one of Mr. Duren’s paintings were on display and the many,visitors during tJie afternoon attested to the interest of this section in art as well as the accomplishment of Shelby’s rising young artist.Tremendous Victorian arrangements of flowers utilizing the old fashioned heaters, painted chalk white as urns, dominated the room whose smart decar in shades of azure mauve and Juschla bore the stamp of the typically fashionable New York gallery scheme.With this sophisticated color background, was combined the rural Nebraska motifs as evidenced by the presence of green corn leaves among the flowers and the use of glittering cream cans surmounted by eoually shining chicken waterers which served to hold further masses of giant gladioli in tints of flesh pink, white and cerise.More than eight hundred persons viewpd the paintings from 3-00 until closing at 10:00. many of whom came from Omaha, Grand Island and further distant points in and out of the state.Mr Duren spoke briefly at four o’clock on the subject of continuance of such art shows in Shelby and the practicability of a permanent gallery and studio tlrnre to establish Shelby as an important midwestern art center in the future, as a project to be a forthcoming undertaking of the Shelby OommerciaLClub and the community in general.A very distinguished visitor. Senator Butler echoed Mr Duren’s remarks during his visit to the show in the evening and during his address at the picnic grounds earlier in the dayAlmost the entire membership of Grand Island’s well known Sketch Club, were present as well as a large contingent of Columbus, David City and Lincoln visitors. Reporters and photographers covering the event fully were John Keogh of Time and Life” magazines, Miss Hayes, columnist of the State Journal, Earl Bunker and Don McCarty of the World Herald.A reporter from the State Journal gives the following Interesting highlight of Mr. Duren and his paintings:“A Nebraska 'painter in every sense is Terence Duren of Shelby, whose exhibit drew hundreds of people on Sunday. Born and reared here, the son of John Duren, he graduated from Chicago Art Institute and went on to Fontainebleau and Vienna, Joined the faculty of the Cleveland art school, then painted for a while in New York, and came back home to find it much better than I remembered,” he testified. That he was in the right place is attested by his increasing productivity—nearly all the 34 pictures In the show had been done during the past year— by the development of his own style and by his use of tho every-day things and scenes about him as the materials of art.Favorites with the crowd were Sleighride painting of a crowded bobsled abruptly foreshortened on a hillside; Remember Victoria showing a house and formal garden of that quaint era, and a youth and maiden strolling about; Hide and Seek,” in which the painter recalled the ominous feeling engendered by playing that game in a cornfield and emphasized It with the scarecrow and circling birds and Circus inTown”, a truly striking view of a circus tent, the flap turned back to display the form of an acrobat, while a small crowd outside peered in, a camel stood by Its wagon in the center, and at the extreme right two white clad performers, lt;their cloaks blown by the wind, i gave an effect of statuary. i“East of the Water Tower”, sug- i gested by a local scene, was not- i able for the contrast between the ! red light on the tower, illumining | the figure of the child leaning ( against it, and the dark greenish blue twilight sky, centered by the t new moon and the evening star, i Easily recognized in the group cal- i led Still Life” were the portraits t of the Truman family. A tour de l force in color was Pink Snow” and another was “Sleeping Platte’’ e showing the sandbars just before i dawn, a shadowy horse drinking i from the stream, a group of wild s looking trees overhanging one bank. Trees blanketed with heavy t snow were portrayed as Winter i Ermine,” while Little Drama’’ (_ proved to be the struggle of a woman trying to get clothes off the j line before the storm broke. yMr. Duren’s own favorite was a symbolic work, a bit on the side t of fantasy called Regional Artist t of the Golden Age.” It signified r the struggle of the Nebraska ar- s tists. for instance, in his environ- j. nient. so lacking in the elements s and typical objects of art that nourished painters of another n time. There were numerous flower ^ pieces, some of them just that, ti others poetically symbolizing such fj subjects as “Bridal Night” and *, Young Girl”.” wMany of Mr. Duren’s paintings as remotely owned as those of Paul McPharlin of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marsden of Washington D. C., Mrs. Karl The- d len of Salem, Oregon and Captain flt; John Barker of Salina, Kansas a were loaned for the exhibition as o were those locally owned by Mr. and Mrs. W. Ray and Miss Alma 1lt; Hayhurst, These and the other flt; paintings of the complete exhlbi- h tion Including those sold Sunday h to Dr. and Mrs. Sven Isacson and h Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Karpf of Oma- E ha are still to be seen on two sue- w ceedlng Sunday exhibitions at Shelby from 3 to 5 o’clock on August a: 1)2th and 19th. The public is wel- d: come. ‘ SMEOIC.A.L FACTS . _djftSponsored By MThe Polk County Medical Society SJWe are all familiar with the dis- ^ comfort, and in some cases actual ™ suffering of persons who are aller- a, gic to ragweed and other pollens, .i, the victims of hay fever.One person may be allergic to a great many substances, such as n£ certain foods, dust, pollens, feath- W( ers, silk and wool. There are sev- ar eral methods by which the sub- Wl stance causing the allergy may be -p] determined Your family physician ar will advise you concerning tests nr for allergies.After tho materials causing the sn allergy are determined, there are p0 two ways of giving relief. One is to remove the offending substance da the other is. a desensitizing treat- vli ment which the physician gives if an the pollen is causing the distur- pa bance by administering hypodemic injections of an extract made up rii from the offending pollen. This M latter method is comparatively new be and. to he successful, must he Mi started well in advance of the season when the offending pollens are H( in the air. seOften hay fever sufferers say He that their trouble Is most severe he at night. Frequently, feather or — kapok pillows or mattresses are the disturbing factors. Sometimes bedding made of silk floss will entirely relieve the 'hay fever condition.Allergy In children may manifest Itself in many forms: someof these are eczema, asthma, hay fever and hives. Obviously, the victim of hay fever or other allergic symptoms should consult a competent physician. He is the person best qualifed to make an accurate diagnosis and administer intelligent treatment.WESLEY CHAPELMr. and Mrs. .August Fischer and Mrs A. E. Dawes and Mrs. Merle IJawes attended the Herr-man family reunion at the Valley Church Sunday.Mr. and Mrs. Ray Burns of Lincoln were guests of polk County relatives Sunday. Their son, Donald Burns has been transferred from Hawaii to Saipan.Miss Lula Burns, Mrs. Charlotte VanHorn and Mrs. Hazel Brown were Lincoln visitors Friday.Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gabriel of Fullerton spent Sunday here. Their son, Tech. Sgt. Richard Gabriel, who visited 'the Emory and Alfred Kuehnal families last week, has been transferred to Florida.Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Carter of Gresham were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Sterrup.Pfc. Robert Fischer returned to his duties at McCook Wednesday after a furlough at home.LET US SEND IN rODR JOURNAL OR WORLD-HERALD SUBSCRIPTIONS.
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