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Art Museum Features Lectures By QlanvilleBy Alice Marie SelserOpening art exhibitions at SMU and at Fair Park give promise of an exhilirating and varied season. Tonight at 8 p. m, the SMU art department will present Dr. J. I. Glanville, historian of the SMU faculty, on the subject Almost Sunny Italy. Dr. Glanville’s subject will be in connection with the department's present exhibition of photographs of Italian cities, including Rome, Pisa, Milan, Venice and towns in Sicily. These pictures were given to the school by Mrs. Ethel Muse Gillespie from the private collection of William E. Muse and include some 132 books, 450 reproductions and photographs, 6,000 post cards, and 3,000 slides, some of which Dr. Glanville will use in his talk.John Knott, internationally known editorial cartoonist of The Dallas Morning News, will lecture at the request of SMU art department on Oct. 20. Eight of Mr. Knott’s war cartoons are now appearing at the Fair Park Art Museum. The eight originals to be seen in the Print Niche of the museum concern not only the battle of the continent (Berlin Reports Successful Disengagement, suggests the true nature of a German communique), but the war at home as well (Black Market, Dallas Master Plan and Remember How the Rabbit Lost That Race, pointing out the folly of complacency). They will remain on view through Oct. 24.Sunday will mark the formal opening of the new American Federation of Arts show at Fair Park, Texas Panorama, assembled by Jerry By waters, director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and on the SMU art faculty. Next Sunday will also mark the inauguration of the 1943-44 series of solo shows, with an exhibition of water colors by Artine Smith. A new exhibition of photographs by members of the Dallas Camera Club, and the large collection of Latin American photographs being circulated by the Pan American Union will also be events of Sunday, Oct. 10.A third lecture and reception open to art students and to the public by the SMU art department will be given by Mrs. Kay Vedder of Neiman-Marcus, authority on interior decoration, on Nov. 17.All of these talks are open to the public and will be made in the art department, third floor of Dallas Hall.CURRENT ON ELM ST.One of the commonest criticisms of the acting of Gary Cooper is an alleged awkwardness, and I’ve been hearing it all week. If this is an uncomplimentary term, (and so it is usually employed), then certainly Cooper is deserving of censure. But I like to think that in general man is not a highly polished organism but is, on the contrary, essentially and fundamentally awkward. Generations of thinking men have assured themselves that the ultimate criterion of all art is its truthfulness to life. Assuming that I am right regarding man's behavior then it must certainly follow that the art of Gary Cooper is truly great. I’m convinced that this is a logical conclusion and those of you who have seen Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe, Sergeant York’ or Pride of the Yankees will surely agree. The best playwright I ever read said in his greatest play, “Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o’er step not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o’er-weigh a whole theatx*e of others.” The principles of good acting have changed surprisingly little since these words were written some three hundred years ago.Now, For Whom the Bell Tolls has been a highly touted production and I, like most everyone else, enjoy being able to pick highly publicized pictures apart. This tendency has a very firm psychological foundation. It may be motivated by many factors but the
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Thu, Oct 07, 1943
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