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Valley News from Van Nuys, California • Page 95

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Valley Newsi
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Van Nuys, California
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95
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Famed Photo Collection to Be Shown "The Family of Man," Edward Steichen's photographic survey of man's life, love and looks in 60 nations, will be exhibited by the Municipal Art Commission in Barnsdall Park beginning March 18. Its 500 pictures by 275 photographers have been culled by Steichen and his staff from more than 2,000,000 photographs, according to Kenneth Ross. director of the Municipal Art Dept. The Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park is near the intersection of Vermont Ave. and Hollywood Blvd.

Exhibition hours will be 1 to 9 p.m. week days and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, the some hours that prevail now at the current exhibit of motion picture art. Most exhibits at the municipal gallery are free but "The Family of Man" will cost the visitor 50 cents to defray the high costs of installation and transportation from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Singers to Perform Three combined choral numbers will climax the third annual Business and Industry Chorus Festival to be held Saturday night.

March 2, at East Los Angeles Junior College, 5357 E. Brooklyn Ave. VALLEY ARTISTS GUILD SHOW SET IN CITY GALLERY Second in a 1957 series of exhibits featuring work by major art clubs of the Los Angeles area will open Tuesday when the Municipal Arts Depf. displays work by members of the Valley Artists' Guild in the 25th floor Tower Gallery of the Los Angeles City Hall. Formed in 1948, the Valley Artists' Guild is headed by H.

E. Huey, president, and Viona Ann Kendal, vice president, with J. Duncan Gleason as exhibition chairman. The exhibit, open to the public without charge, will comprise 32 works by 26 individual artists. Most of those to be shown are oil paintings, though there are also a few drawings and watercolors.

Exhibition hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. The gallery is closed on week ends. Jose Iturbi Plans Piano Program Monumental "Scherzo" in B- flat minor is included in the vivid group of Chopin pieces that will be played by Jose Iturbi, when the renowned piano virtuoso returns to Los Angeles on Impresario Mary Bran's concert series for a stirring program on Friday.

March 15, at p.m. in the Philharmonic Auditorium. inhere to t))Q(j Thursday. Feb. 21, 1957 Nuys (Colif.) 15-C Barnsdall Center Show Continues Exhibition of enameled copper panels, plates and bowls on display to the public at Barns- clear and amusing explana-jdall Arts and Crafts Center, 1645 Vermont will con- iu.ta.isi Nina Dova Planning Program Prefacing each of her delight- ul folk songs and ballads with VALLEY Ramblings By DAVE W.

HIMLIN A gala occasion is being celebrated this week as motion picture and television celebrities drop in to pay their respects to the proprietors of the new Steak Ranch at 26300 Ventura at the Malibu Freeway intersection in Calabasas. Beginning with the informal opening on Friday, owners ofj the new restaurant built on the! site of the long famous Golden Pheasant Inn, have been greeting old friends from all over the Valley. Associated in the new enterprise are Glenn Billingsley, owner of the chain of six Golden Bull restaurants; Doye O'Dell, popular television personality, and Don -Dillaway, well known in Valley real estate circles. Known as Billingsley's Steak Ranch, the new restaurant is an interesting western style building designed in rustic ranch theme by the North Hollywood architectural firm of Ayres and Fiege with emphasis BUILDING MATERIALS These home improvements eon be fun inexpensive "DO IT YOURSELF" OR WE CAN RECOMMEND A CONTRACTOR ADDA MEWROOM We'll tell you how to do it, give you free estimates on all materials needed. If you'd like to have all or part of the work done by professionals, we'll put you in touch with a reliable localbuilder.

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