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2-D THE NASHVILLE TENNESSON, Sunday. Feb. 16 1964 Art and Theater i I Days With the Days oj Severa Jtlf; l-j a imw III rAi iHw 7 XA AU' TU-aO Margaret Henderton holdi an oil lamp aa ahe peert down a ttair Tinwa IIICIOI ft -Life With Mother." Her huiband (in real life), John Hender. Staff photos by Terry Tomlin D-sew AAmSJc Jne Turk left- nd UMn Dvcul wef Pn stripe and pleated rreriy VaiaS: ruiei a fashionable servant girla of tha 1880a in "Life With Mother." The famoua comedy openi Friday at the Belcourt. Winninn Wavs- then now Milling nup.

on the proper occasion. George Freeman looka oddly preoccupied aa he holda coyly-bonneted Sandra Locke in hit arma in the Theater Naahvillt comedy. commute from Franklin for rehearaaU eon atandi by with hat in hand. The Henderton and the run of the play. Job Hazardous To place your Classified Ad call AL 4-103L Docents' Lecture Stirs Wide Cheekwood Interest WICHITA, Kan.

CP) 1 fir, wcrwfEs AMICES Among other qualifications, toll taker on the Kama Turnpike bad better be able to Jump fast A check of turnpike accident record for last vear thowed a number of accidents occurring at the gates. One cause, said Lou I Stroup, public relations director for the turnpike authority. Is failure of brakes as a vehicle approaches the gate. Another happened when a driver reached for his toll ticket aa it blew In the wind and stepped on the accelerator by mistake, crashing Into a guard railing. Other causes of accidents that Stroup found: A driver who had taken off hia shirt started to put It back on but the wind whipped the tail across hia fsce and be crashed.

A man watched so Intentlv while hia wife put a piece of paper acrosa the windshield to block out the aun that he wrecked the car. Ashes from a driver's cigar blinded him momentarily and he ran off the road. By CLARA HIERONYMUS rrHE DROLL doings of the Day family will be brought to life this week by An it a Grannis' hand-picked Theater Nashville cast. "Life With Mother" opens Friday at the Belcourt where it will continue through Feb. 29.

Barbara Izard and John Thompson play father and mother Day, with Tom Hill, Gordon Anderson, Mike Wise and Charles Galbreath Jr. as their four red-headed sons. The manner and fashion of the 1880 provide a delightful background for the peppery character ef the Day people who prove that if their times look quaint at this point, true individuality remain fresh regardless of period. Call the Belcourt Playhouse to make reservations; smiling- ml by Cheekwood. was described by Hagewood as one which the artist himself valued aa his "most significant painting" for that period of his life.

Show at Peabody Hagewood himself will be included in a show of drawings at Peabody, along with Robert Flock and Frank Toole of Buffalo. N.Y. He will be presented in a gallery talk at the opening reception there this afternoon. The public is invited; there is no admission charge. Each artist will exhibit 15 works.

Toole and Flock are represented mainly by ink landscape drawings, though aorne ef Toole's drawing are ctudie for tculpture. The human figure, done in mixed media, is the dominant theme of Hagewood' drawings. Hagewood, a native Nash-vllllan, Is 27. He received the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Auburn University, and the M.F.A. from the t'niver-ity of Illinois, where he held a fellowship In 1960 and a graduate asslstantshlp In 1961 and 1962.

411 LJ voicea reiaa Bauer win oe on Etery day Is mIp day in if1: 'Si Record Department 'Art of Stephen Greene': A i a Clay a wood. Staff photo by Terry Tomlin tiont of aubtequent gallerygoera. Hagewood'a own work i featured in a three-man drawing ahow which open today in the Peabody Fine Arte Mutium. standing right, ducuttet Greene a painting for a group of decent at Cheekwood who, in turn, will aniwer the que- Teaching Varied Rock to the Sounds of The Beatles He ha taught art at Illinois, Peabody and the Nashville branch of U.T. His recent exhibits and awards Include the Library of Congress.

1960; Smithsonian Institution. 1960; Cheekwood. 1960. 1962 and 1963; Seattle Art Museum, 32nd and 35th International Print exhibition: the 13th National Print exhibition at IaYooklyn Museum; Nashville Arts Festival awards in graphics (first prize in 1960, purchase prize in 1961 and merit award in 1962); Tennessee State Fair awards in graphics. 1959.

1960. 1961; California Society of Etchers 46th exhibition, purchase award 1961; St. Paul Art Center, "Drawings USA" show, merit award and purchase prize, 1963. Flock, native to New York, was a 1956 fellow at the Yale Summer Art ichool, and now teache art In the Kenmore, N.Y. junior high school.

Toole is from Pennsylvania, holds B.F.A. and Master's degrees from the University of Buffalo, and is presently a sculptor-teacher in Tona-wanda, N.Y. Gyra Lecture FRANCIS J. Gyra, artist-teacher from Woodstock, will pay his second visit to Nashville with a lecture at Aquinas Junior College tomorrow at 8 p.m. He will also lead a workshop at the college Feb.

18, 19 and 20. which is open to a limited registration and requires a 810 fee. The three-afternoon workshop will open with dis- Four Tennessee Primitives' (Roerich; to Feb. 9) la an exhibition of two painter and two sculptors from Nashville or nearby. Fairy Locke Newman started painting when the waa aeventy five.

Her rustic landscapes with people and animals have the simple direct charm of Grandma Mosca. Paul Lancaster lyrical nature paintings teem with fentaetio and decorative detail. William Ed-mondson, Negro sculptor who died in 1951, ia represented by several excellent limestone figure, (olid and Implacable. Clarence Stringflelda email wood carving of figure and heads are plain, disarming statements." "The Mornlngslder," a neighborhood weekly In New York, carried a comment on the show along with Terry Tomlin photo of tha Btringfleld "Owl" and "Head of a Man." Next Sunday, Feb. 23, the Jewish Community Center en West End Ave, will present the Nsihvllle Symphony String Quartet at I p.m., along with an exhibit ef painting by Max Weetfleld.

WeitfKld work, largely oil portrait and still lifts, will continue on display through Feb. 27. 'Miracle Worker' WILLIAM Gibson's stirring drama, "The Miracle Worker" will be performed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings by the Ail State Play, era Guild in the university auditorium. The production la under the direction of Bettye Van Bu-ren. speech and drama Instructor, with slmultaneou set design by William D.

Cox, technical director and associate professor of speech and drama. Dr. Thomae X. Poag le producer-aupervlsor, and Troy L. Jonea serve a property manager and sound technician, Andre Bryant will play tha famoua Annie Sullivan role, and Joan SpelghU, the part of the child, Helen.

cusslon of word-image relationships and include experiments in organization and design through watercolor techniques. Cyra talk tomorrow i entitled "The Eye See, the Mind Explore, and the Finger Touch," which refer to hi philosophy that art belongs to man, and that the individual must be made aware of hia potential. A persuasive and interesting speaker, he will draw on his work with Vermont school children to show the gradual process of artistic development and apply the sequence to creativity in the adult. Gyra'a early work was done in hia native New England, and in England. Italy and France.

His paintings some of which will be on display during his visit here have been exhibited in more than a dozen major cities. Listed aa early ae 1938 in "Who'a Who In American Art," Gyra recently became a Fallow ef the International Institute) Art and Litter. Friend of Aqulnaa Junior College and their guest will honor him at a reception tea this afternoon In the college foyer. Lecture, workshop and exhibit are open to the public. Artists Recognized THE February Issue of Art News, nationally circulated art magazine, devoted space to the recent showin? of primitive art by Nashville artists at the Nicholas Roerich Art Museum In New York, as follows: i v-' m.mm a a 1 DAVID IIMDOMI COLLIQE ARTIST SERIES Marion Cawood Soprano The group that told aver 3,080,080 recardi In England la 183! FEB.

17 8 P.M. ALL SIATS KCiryiD $1 i Francia J. Gyra Artist-lecturer at Aquims duty every day during the coming week. Docents' Lecture iLAY Hagewood's lecture to the docents drew a large and intent group to Cheekwood Wednesday morning to hear one artist's point of view about the works of another artist, Stephen Greene. Green' retrospective show of paintings and drawings delineating hi progress over the year from a realistic style to a purely abstract one ha elicited unusual Interest on the part of gallerygoer.

Docente, beielged with questions about these great, calm lntellectuallzatlona, listened and asked question themselves aa part of their obligation to make exhibit more meaningful to those who come to Cheekwood. Hagewood pointed out the artlst'a omnipresent concern with man a an "Isolated, spiritually tortured and haplcea figure." He I ihown at first realistically, then abstractly, but always with recognlxable Icon the tool he build to help himself hunt futilely for a way out. he said. "Greane Is concerned with an examination of the mora) order, but this muni always be a product of hia Im- aclnatlon with only a thin layer of narrative veneer." Greene's transitional painting. "Saul and David." owned refalar price 3.SS! Ilarveyi price UewMk b.kImm offlte AM e-Sei, St.

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