Northwest Arkansas Times from Fayetteville, Arkansas • Page 8

I NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TIMES, Faysttevtlle, Arkania'i, Monday, September 10, 1962 Arkansas Edited by Allan Gilbert, Jr. Section Titans Of New Orleans Dixieland Swing Neatly They Don't Want Town's Charm Forgotten Long Time Residents Of Monte Ne Plan Book 'ALPINE SLOPES' I5Y EDGAR PAYNE proscnlccl (o 1'rairlc Grove (Ills boyhood home) Oil Painting Presented To Park Presentation of an oil painting by the late K1- gar Alwin Payne, internationally distinguished landscape painter, to the Prairie Grove Battlu- field Park Commission was announced last week by Mrs. Elsie Palmer Payne, widow of the artist. The painting, "Alpine Slopes," is illustrative of Payne's romantic conception and vigorous cxc- cution of landscape painting. It will be placed on permanent exhibit at the Battlefield Park.

Payne is also remembered as author of a high- and spent part of his boyhood in Prairie Grove. He dedicated Ms life to painting from an early age and was a frequenter of the Paris-New York art axis until settling down in later life cm the West Coast. As a resident of Hollywood he or- ganizcd and was first president of the Laguna Beach Art Association. He was a member of art societies in Paris, New York and Chicago as well as in California. He died in 1947.

Payne is also reniembere das author of a high- 1 ly popular book, "Composition Of Outdoor Paint- ing" (Oxford). He is represented in the National Collection of Fine Arts at Washington, D.C. iBFaiFFliitEiiiliSaifelKiBillti.HSaiOlKSiUjaSJfHiiSjSBrHillftB An Extra 'Spectacular' Saga Of Nero's Rome SCOnPUS THE MOOH. By Leslie Tunier While. Doiihlctlay.

$4.50. 2S8 pages. One of these days Hollywood will just have to make another of its terrible Spartacus-t spectaculars, gaudy and loud. And it will gross millions. It will bo called "The Vision." or some such, but it will be based on Leslie Turner White's "Scorpus The Moor." The book has everything a producer of the Charlton Huston type of thing could ask for: Romans in hanging armor, Nero and his 120-foot statue, orgies, burning Christians, marauding lions, dancers in the raw, trumpets, and the conversion of the hero by no less a personage than SI.

Peter himself. That, of course, is a made-to- order excuse for putting all the blood and guts in Panavision. White who has, by some coincidence, done a few movie scripts bothers little with tying the carnage together. He simply plucks a dashing, clever young man from Carthage and dribbles him from one heroic, improbable scene to another. The Moor bounds from the jaws of a killer lion into the clutches of a bandit king, thence Mendez Is Incomparable Within Proper Context THE MAJESTIC SOUND OF silions by Mendez and the oth- into the dccadejit court of Nero.

After that he fights off the love- starved wife of a Roman senator, smashes some 1 d-be dragons and heads lor the Circus Maximus and its violent chariot races. Meanwhile a delicate, soulful- eyed and rather busty slave girl prays fervently for his deliverance. This comes about, of course, after the Moor saves the Christian girl from being ravished by the Romans or clawed to bits in their Colosseum. He wins an extremely bloody chariot race just for good measure, then vows to live a life of apostolic serenity with his bride. By BARBARA CLAUSER (TOIES Staff Writer) MONTE NE (Special) --Monte Ne last week recorded another step toward its fateful disappearance under the waters of Beaver Reservoir.

Mr. and Mrs. Berry D. Graham, wlx both watched Monte Ne built into a thriving resort community just after the turn of the century, held their auction Thursday. By January the couple must vacate the general store and post office they have operated for almost 40 years.

Old buildings that the Grahams remembered since childhood have gradually disappeared in the last few months, and the well-known 11 Girls' Camp closed two summers ago. The Grahams, themselves famous In the history of the small community, are also the only two perosns left to tell the real and complete story of Monte Ne and William H. "Coin" Harvey, the imaginative "sage" who build the village into a famous health resort. Mrs. Graham moved to Monte Ne with 'nor family in January of 1901 when she was two years old, a year after Harvey discovered the remote village for a "retreat." Her father built the general store, and her mother became the first postmistress in 1907.

Mrs. Graham's father also served as postmaster for several years. Mrs. Graham started clerking in the post office 49 years ago for her parents, and she has been postmistress for 32 years. Graham moved to Monte N'c with his parents in 1908, during construction of the resort, and Graham's father worked on many of the buildings.

As a boy Graham worked for Harvey tending the many fireplaces in the two main hotels, Oklahoma Row and Missouri Row. Years later, Graham, who has been a Justice of Peace for 40 years, performed the marriage ceremony of Harvey and his second wife. The Grahams, who were mar- riod in October 1916 have already bought a new house several miles from their old site but si ill on Hwy. 94, which ends at Monte Ne. The couple is hopeful that a new Monte Ne will spring up at the edge of the Beaver waters, just above the town, but they don't know yet they will do when they find themselves relieved of the duties of the general store and post office.

They do want to write a book, though. The Grahams don't want the real Monte Ne to be forgotten. I Millions! --Al Dawson Rafael Mendez and his trumpet. Dccca Records (DL 74210; I)L 4210). Selections: (Side Lahme: The Bell Song Samba Over The Waves Czardas ISide Two) Mendelssohn Concerto Crarda; (Mendez) Carmen: Danse Botieme Dance Of The Hours Rafael Mendez plays trumpet with the precision and surging power of a well-tuned Offenhau- zcr engine.

Quite possibly he is the greatest trumpet virtuoso of all-time. If Senor Mendez has a flaw it would be that his huge and faultless technical ability obscures light or banal compositions. In tills connection he is not at his best with poinilar music. Just as most operatic singers find It Impossible to deal with the likes of Old Black Magic," Senor Mendra, too, requires music of a quality commensurate with his training and abilities. This has nothing to do with this album, which is classical in concept and execution.

trumpet voice is supported by a i symphony ordiestra under the direction of Kurt Graunke. the combination is impeccable. Of the eight selections on this record two are original compo- I cr six are played according to the senor's own arrangements. Few if any instruments have the soaring, biting lilt of trumpet and few if any albums show off the trumpet to better advantage than this one. TOP TEN SHERRY, Four Seasons SHEILA, Roe RAMBL1N' ROSE, Cole I Little Eva GREEN ONIONS, Booker MGs SHE'S NOT YOU, Presley PARTY LIGHTS, Clark YOU BELONG TO ME, Duprees TEEN-AGE IDOL, Nelson PATCHES, Lee Mentholated Cigarettes EXPERT WATCH Low Interest Home Q.

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Apparently the Hirt-Fountain recordings for both albums were made at (he same or five years ago. These arc dis- tinguished by a Hirt who sticks to business and a Fountain at his lyrical On the tracks that find Fountain alone in the solo spotlight, his support comes from group currently playing i him and heard on his recent Coral albums. The, Hirt-Fountain tracks have a different set of sidemen, all associated with the Bourbon Street scene as alumni of cither Sharkey or Tony Almerico bands. As neo-New Orleans Dixieland goes, this is certainly as fluent an example as you'll find. As a study in contrasts it supports my opinion lhat Hirt just isn't as warm a musician as Fountain, though witli unlimited verve and enthusiasm.

"fflie recording is excellent in balance, specially at a high volume setting. Some of the background gets lost when you turn down the sound. This, I suggest, is as it should be. MR. AND MRS.

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