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the the the the the the the the the the ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1958 ST. LOUIS POST- -DISPATCH 3 GALSTON WORKS ON DISPLAY Prints Outstanding at Playhouse, Enamel Compositions at The Center. By GEORGE McCUE A show paintings, drawings and prints" by Belle Cramer and a show of enamels, paintings, batiks and metal work by Alexandra Korsakoff Galston are on view separate galleries. Both exhibitions combine past and recent works.

The Belle Cramer exhibition, at the Repertory Playhouse gallery, 7 North Bemiston avenue, Clayton, includes a print of her color woodcut, "Bull and Toreador," which won the purchase prize at the Artists' Guild Prints, Drawings and Crafts exhibition last fall and was in the Missouri Show. Several other prints, in black and white, are in the current show. "Enigmatic Figure" and "Aztec Heads," both etchings, pleasing subtleties incorporate, and textures. Some of the drawings produce much the same effect as the prints with their treatments of dark forms in shadowy space. whole, the prints, which are a fairly new medium with Mrs.

Cramer, make a more impressive showing than the paintings she exhibits here. Her "Table in the Window," a still life of a vase of zinnias and a background stands out in sprightly prominence in one corner of the room, its colors working compatibly together. On the same wall, "Sea Piece," a mermaid figure seen arching across some cubist saw-tooth waves, comes off as a somewhat static composition. There are several paintings on Mexican themes, done in stylized drawing in strong, raw colors. The show runs through do March 17.

In Mrs. Gaston's exhibition, at The Center, 3559 Lindell boulevard, there is a wide range of items on display, and an almost equally wide spread in the quality of the show, which runs through March. The artist's varied talents seem at their height here in 41 enamel works, which include pictorial compositions, jewelry and ash trays. The themes take in sacred subjects, engaging motifs with fishes and birds and little flashes of color with no theme but the color itself. Mrs.

Galston proves herself exceedingly inventive in this medium-she won first prize in craft with an enamel in the recent Artists' Guild Religious Art Competition and she brings off these effects with admirable finish and competence. How the same artist could have produced the painting "Good to Eat Watermelon," a still life potboiler, if ever there was one, or the perfunctorily sketchy "Place de Luxembourg, Paris," is hard to understand. At the upper end of the scale among the paintings on view are her "I Remember an abstraction of fiery hues, her "Self Portrait," in which the face takes form in a flow of opulent background colors, and two or three watercolors that have the rich fluidity of batiks. Mrs. Galston has had long experience in batik production, and there are five of these works--produced by dipping silk repeatedly in dyes, after various parts of the design have been masked off with wax.

They seem quite attractive, but space limitations in the gallery prevent their being displayed to best advantage. Aspirants for Municipal Opera Chorus -by a Post -Dispatch Candidates for singing chorus of Municipal Opera at auditions yesterday at Kiel torium conducted by MUSICAL DIRECTOR EDWIN McARTHUR, seated at From left, PAT TUCKER, Springfield, MARGARET HODGKINSON, MARY JO BOSCH. Creve Coeur: PAT HARTMAN, 1636 South Theresa NAOMI BARRATT, Chicago: JUDY COVERT, Flossmoor, NANCY JO LIAMS, Albion, JUDY SNIDER, Sikeston, HELEN HUNT LAISE, wood, and 1 LOUISE BLACKBURN, Southwestern University, Georgetown, AT CHURCHILPANTINGS MUSEUM SHOWN NEW YORK, March 7 (AP)An exhibit of 40 paintings by Sir Winston Churchill opened today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The one-man show runs through March 30. At a preview, invitation-only benefit by the English-Speaking Union last night, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adars told several hundred guests that the paintings add another dimension to understanding of one of the great figures of the times.

He paid tribute to the 83 year old statesmanpainter. Among British officials who attended the preview were Sir Harold Caccia, ambassador to the United States, and Sir Pierson Dixon permanent representative to the United Nations. President Eisenhower, another amateur painter, wrote the foreword to the exhibit catalogue. In Sir Winston's consent for the display Mr. Eisenhower found "a signal compliment to our country." DR.

WALTER STEWART DIES; ADVISER TO 4 PRESIDENTS NEW YORK, March 7 (AP)Dr. Walter W. Stewart of Gladstone, N.J., who served as an economic adviser to four Presidents, died yesterday at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center following a neart attack. He was 72 years old. Dr.

Stewart served Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Eisenhower. He was American to the Bank of England and American member of a special advisory committee. studying German reparation payments after World War I. Dr. Stewart was born in Manhattan, and was graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Missouri.

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You can trust your hairdresser does ON SALE WALGREEN: DRUG AT ALL STORES UNUSUAL PROGRAM BY PHILHARMONC Performance Not Up to High Standard of Numbers Chosen. By MANUS SASONKIN. Frederick Prausnitz, guest conductor of the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra, at its third concert of the season last night in Kiel Auditorium, assembled an enterprising and rather unusual the four works two were prerformed, new to St. Louisans; the third was a post-romantic tone poem; and the last, a Beethoven symphony.

In short, a well-balanced and carefully planned evening. Unfortunately, the performances did not consistently maintain the lofty standard of the program itself. Here and there particularly in "Don Juan" of Richard Strauss and Beethoven's Eighth Symphony -the orchestra did not play together, balances favored secondary details (such as counterpoints and figurations) rather than principal melodic lines, and tentative attacks resulted in a feeling of insecurity and lack of conviction. Intonation, throughout the evening, was hazardous. Of course, the orchestra is not professional group, but somehow I this as explanation cannot brine, myself to accept various defects, if only because, in its virtues, the Philharmonic is so utterly professional.

The tone of the strings, for example, would give credit to many a professional orchestra. Similarly, the over-all orchestral texture (devoid of the weak patches which so often identify the amateur ensemble) was uniformly homogenized. I think that the trouble-if it can be called that--stems from the fact that Mr. Prausnitz has a rather individual style of conducting (tending toward extreme floridity) and the Orchestra simply hadn't gotten completely used to it. Certainly Mr.

Prausnitz's interpretations were straightforward and spirited, and they left no room in which to doubt his beautiful insight. Four of the Brahms choral-preludes (transcribed by Virgil Thomson) emerged appropriately austere twilit; Juan" had a swashbuckling impetuosity which was altogether refreshing; and Beethoven was forever extroverted, and occasionally openly mirthful. I must add, however, that I objected strongly to Mr. Pausnitz's making a separate movement out of the trio of the minuet (from the symphony) by coming to a dead stop before and after. It is the sort of thing which, if Beethoven had wanted, he would have indicated in the score.

Before the intermission, Mr. Prausnitz offered William Schuman's "New England Triptych." Deaf as I am to regional mannerism, I cannot tell 1 you Catholic High Schools to Begin Using Three-Track Curriculum Institutions That Accept Students of All Scholastic Abilities Will Make Changeover in Fall. A three-track curriculum plan affecting about 7000 Catholic students here will be introduced this fall in all diocesan comprehensive high schools, the Rev. James T. Curtin, superintendent of diocesan high schools, announced today.

Comprehensive high schools are those schools which accept students of all scholastic abilities. Schools be included in the new program are Bishop DuBourg, DeAndreis, St. Mary's, Mercy, Blessed Sacrament, (Ninth Grade Center), St. Thomas Aquinas and Corpus Christi. "Under new plan, each student will be given a general education according to his potentialX" Father Curtin said.

He added that each of the three "tracks" would differ in the number, type and content of courses. Maximum Requirement. Students in the upper track will be required to take additional advanced courses in languages and science, Father Curtin said, and they will have to earn a greater number of units to be eligible for graduation. Factors to be used in determining placement students in the three will be achievement ability tests, recommendations of principals and counselors and teachers' marks. whether Mr.

Schuman's efforts are successfully northeastern, but I can inform you that I found his score aimless, noisy and diffuse. The day has long since passed when the sound produced by the simultaneous activation of all the hardware in the percussion section could arouse me. Mr. Schuman seemed to find the technique thoroughly beguiling, though, and he used it, as if intoxicated, to mark all of his climaxes. The pleasure is his.

JAMES B. M'NAMEE DIES; PAPER FIRM EXECUTIVE James B. McNamee, vice president and sales manager of Shaughnessy Kniep Hawe Paper 200 South Eighth street, died today at DePaul Hospital after an extended illness. He. was 75 years old, and had been an executive in the paper business here for more than 40 years.

He lived at the Saum Hotel. Surviving are his wife and a son, Robert McNamee, Peoria, Ill. Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church, 3854 Flad avenue, with burial in Calvary Cemetery.

CATHOLIC WOMEN'S COLLEGE AWARDS Scholarships Go to 30 High School Students in St. Louis Area. I 200 Singers Display Talents For Municipal Opera Director Friends and Relatives Give Encourage- ment to Candidates Final Selections to Be Made in May. Edwin McArthur, musical director of the Municipal Opera, began hearing his annual twoday concert of repeated snatches of Herbert, Strauss and Romberg yesterday, as preliminary tryouts for next summer's Opera singing chorus started at Kiel Auditorium. About 200 aspirants, young men and young women, sang at the afternoon and evening sessions, and presented in voices ranging from concert soprano through rich bass well known favorites from light opera and Broadway musicals.

The singers were also heard by John Kennedy, productions director. He and McArthur will choose finalists from among the preliminary candiand will make final selection of the chorus after another. audition in many May. obviously nervous at singing for the first time, appeared to gain confidence after singing a few bars of familiar music. Accompaniment was provided by Mc- ROBERT T.

HENSLEY HEADS CITY-COUNTY POLIO GROUP Robert T. Hensley, attorney, has been re-elected chairman of the St. Louis-St. Louis County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, it was announced today. Dr.

Carl F. Vohs, who was re-elected chairman of the chapter's medical advisory committee, reported the chapter cared for 633 patients in 1957. Last year 27 persons were stricken with polio in the city and county and 39 persons stricken in earlier years were reported for the first time. There were three polio deaths last year. Joseph P.

Clark, head of the AFL labor council here, was elected a member of board of directors to fill the vacancy created by the death of William A. Webb. All other officers were re-elected. SYMPHONY DRAWS CHEERS AT ST.JOSEPH (MO.) CONCERT Special to the Post ST. JOSEPH, March 7 -The St.

Louis Symphony Orchestra played three encores here last night for an audience that cheered its presentation of the Schuman Symphony No. 2. Vladimir Golschmann conducted. The orchestra, under the direction of Harry Farbman, earlier yesterday played in Municipal Auditorium here for more than 3000 children who came from St. Joseph and other parts of northwest Missouri.

Golschmann missed his first concert in 27 years of tours Wednesday in Wichita, because of flu. The orchestra will play tonight in Beatrice, Nebr. Tomorrow's Events Children's Program: Films and stories for children, conducted by Irene Eveland, Wellston Branch Library, 5901 Easton avenue, 10 a.m. Children's Program: "Wyatt Earp," conducted by Mrs. Robert Phillips, children's room, Jefferson Memorial building, Forest Park, 10:30 a.m., for boys and girls 7 to 12 years of age.

Lecture: "India--Cave Temof Ajanta," by Jaquelin Ambler, illustrated with color slides, 2:15 p.m.; sketching and recorded music, 1 p.m., for adults, City Art Museum, Forest Park. Children's Program: "March Wind." conducted by Mary Powell, p.m.; games, 2 p.m.; drawing, 1:30 p.m.; for children 8 to 11 years of age, City Art Museum, Forest Park. Children's Program: "Riddle of the Sphinx," conducted by Betty Grossman, 2:30 p.m.; museum treasure hunts, 2 p.m.; drawing and recorded music, 1:30 p.m., for boys and girls years of age and older; City Art Museum, Forest Park, Photographer. Audipiano. Hillsboro, avenue; WILKirk- Tex.

Arthur, who sat at a scarred and shop-worn piano. In addition to the judges, the singers were also heard by friends and relatives, who sat in clusters around the room, and provided applause after each selection. the singing "began, McArthur, who is accustomed to the practices of audition audiences, asked the group to keep conversation to a minimum and not to smoke in the room. Both smoking and talking are distracting to the singers, he explained. Auditions for the singing chorus continued today at the auditorium, then preliminary tryouts for dancing chorus were scheduled to be held at the American Theater this afternoon and this evening.

Those singers chosen to appear at final auditions will be notified by mail, McArthur said. Singing chorus rehearsals for the Opera's first production "Show Boat," will begin May 15. UNITED FUND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE IS NAMED Appointment of a United Fund executive committee, consisting of 15 persons, to work with the United Fund officers in conducting business during the coming year was announced Fund today presidenuel D. Conant, Those appointed are: Ben F. Jackson, Irving Edison, Kenton R.

Cravens, Benjamin M. Loeb, Joseph H. Vatterott, David R. Calhoun Donald Danforth, Mrs. R.

A. Bullock, F. Wendell Huntington, Felix N. Williams, William B. McMillan, Joseph P.

Clark, Oscar A. Ehrhardt, Arthur A. Hunn and Bige Wyatt. The executive committee also includes the United Fund officers. Besides Conant, they are Arthur K.

Atkinson, Roland Richards, Hugh A. Logan, Morton D. May, Harry F. Harrington and John B. Dillencourt.

VICTOR BORGE HERE TONIGHT IN HIS 'COMEDY IN MUSIC' Victor Borge, Danish-born pianist-comedian, will appear in his one-man show, "Comedy in Music," tonight at 8:30 o'clock at Kiel Auditorium Opera House. Borge will be giving his second performance in St. Louis. His previous show here was in 1955. Locations, 3718 8228 FORSYTH 100 N.

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Louis 1, Mo. Telephone CEntral 1-2834 The "major learning program," which is Track A in the new three-track plan, was placed in effect last year at McBride Rosa High Schools. Father Curtin said that, been results "most of that favorable." program Track A of the program will be for students of aboveaverage ability who have qualified for the major learning program, Father Curtin said. Requirements in this track will be four units each of English, social studies and foreign languages and a total of 23 units to be eligible for graduation. Purposes of Divisions.

Curriculum of Track A was designed to prepare the student to continue his education beyond school, Father Curtin said." Track is for students whose general ability and achievement are average or slightly above average. Courses in this track are intended to provide "a strong general education." Nineteen units are required for graduation. Track is designed for students whose academic preparation probably will end with the completion of high school. Less emphasis is laid on colthis these stulege preparatory, courses in dents will be required to earn 19 units for graduation, Father Curtin said. REPORTS ON ST.

LOUIS U. RESEARCH ON HORMONES KANSAS CITY, March 7-St. Louis University School of Medicine research which developed an improved method for liberation of estrogens and hormones, without alteration of their molecular structure, was reported to the University of Kansas Medical Center last night by Dr. Philip Katzman, professor of biochemistry at St. Louis University.

Dr. Katzman said an enzyme called beta glucuronidase, obtained from bacteria, had been found capable of liberating hormones from glucuronic acids under conditions of mild temperature and acidity. A former method involves boiling with strong mineral acids, which alters the hormones. The hormones are excreted largely in combination with glucoronic acid. The newer method enables scientists to isolate hormones in an unmodified form, was explained, and this facilitates measurements that are important in diagnosis of disease.

Dr. Katzman said the development might lead to better understanding of hormones metabolism in the human body. Thirty high school students in the St. Louis area have been awarded four-year partial scholarships to the three Catholic women's colleges here, it was announced today. The awards to Fontbonne, Maryville and Webster colleges, each valued at $250 a year, were made on the basis of a competitive examination taken last Feb.

22 by 179 girls from 33 high schools. Fontbonne College scholarships were awarded to Anita Apprill, 5820 Itaska street; Madelyn J. Bell, 3939 Pennsylvania avenue; Betty Huber, 3970 Dover place; Katherine McDaniel, 6117 Westminister place; Mary Ellen Matejka, 4007 South Spring avenue. Barbara Kay Mueller, 6290 Marmadue avenue, Carolyn Osiek, St. Charles; Deanna Schaefer, 319 Westside avenue, Webster Groves; Marilyn Scheer, 926 Westwold avenue, Ferguson, and Rose C.

Tuhro, 3656 Meramec street. Students who received scholarships to Maryville college include: Madeleine V. Anderson, villa Duchesne: Mary Claire Beatty, 8990 Sappington road, Sappington; Carla Montani, 2334 Macklind avenue; Joan Overmann, 6055 Kingsbury avenue. Mary Rosalie Pieper, 7 SherCreve Coeur; Gail Patricia Porter, 7215 Sapphire Jennings; Patricia A. Steffen, 5008 Lansdowne avenue; Barbara Jo' Wenger, 58 Berkshire drive, Richmond Heights; Susan Wessels, 201 East Sherman avenue, Jefferson Barracks, and Mary Ann Wiegers, 6023 Pernod avenue.

Scholarships to Webster College were awarded to Anne Broderick. 54 Hill drive, Glendale: Gloria Ann Callan, 6322 Darlow drive: Virginia Ann Howard, 2007 Victor street; Patricia J. Keating, 6241 Kinsey place; Carol Korst, 3611 Oak Hill avenue. Mary Anne McDonough, 330 Calvert avenue, Webster Groves; O'Connor, 4246 Delor street; Linda Rodriguez, 1467 Coolidge drive, University City; Lorraine Wengstrom, 1447 East Grand avenue, and Judith Wilhelmy, 4267 Ellenwood avenue. JACKET DRESSES from $25,00 10 to 20 Sizes grace ashley 4904 McPherson FO 1-4513 Meisels Presents The Incomparable All New POR BLE Mark XXVI RIDING MOWER FOR 1958 With "Select-A-Cut" and "Speedmatic Transmission" MORE FABULOUS THAN YOU EVER DREAMED A MOWER COULD BE! A FREE Demonstration Porter-Cable Quality Power Tools Will Convince You! CABLE 26-INCH CUT 5-HORSEPOWER ENGINE 5 SPEEDS FORWARD AND REVERSE 8 INSTANT -CHANGE CUTTING HEIGHTS AIRPLANE- TYPE GROUPED CONTROLS AUTOMOTIVE- TYPE DIFFERENTIAL COIL SPRING SUSPENSION YOU MUST SEE THE MARK XXVI JUMBO GENERAL BALLOON TIRES FOUR- WHEEL STABILITY BEFORE YOU BUY! SAFETY BLADE BRAKE FULL LINE OF ATTACHMENTS Use Meisels' 12-Month Budget Plan OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY and Supplies" 'TIL 9:00 P.M.

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