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-I, S.I4-JKIDEPENDENT-PRESS-TELEGRAM LMW IDA It CM, JH. ML IN a day when taxpayers resent, with justice, the imposition of additional loads on already weary backs. Tift consensus again was as at Los Angeles Music Center, the leadership and the impetus-to create for the future will develop locally, pri- Long Beach's need for a cultural center. There, was eventless' conflict over whichj group should receive priority, inany future building program Conceding that such-a large and pensive project would, of be done in stages, th six seemed to agree that itir immaterial whether a concert -hall, playhouse or art gallery comes first' Location wasnt a stumbling block in anyones thinking, eithep so long as. the center could -be located centrally enough to servelll the citizSlirsfXfiflBeach: vately.

The Problem For a Center group which would 'maintain long-range schedules.) Those ever-larger Long Beach audiences, though are forced to hear their ex -cellenL symphony orchestra nlav in a too-small Concert Hall view1 paintings in l- Will we be forced to wait five years to find the; money-to build -a Cultural Center? rhetorically asks Dr. Green. Art," the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy once remarked, is i humsn activity hiving for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest smTBest feelings to which" men have risen. (Continued Page S-18, Col. 1) Financing always will bfc a problem in For 57 years tee have consistently provided dependable motoring as a favorite pastime to the greater Harbor area.

Depend on the Dependables G.E.T.DODGE an equally-cramped Art Museum watch plays under less than perfect technical conditions or attend events at academic facilities never designed for larger crowds. That high artistic standards generally prevail here was the group consensus, even though, in the words of one. Oarfacilities are shockingly inadequate." Included among- the "inadequacies was the main public library. two generations ago, already was obsolete one generation ago Municipal. Auditorium and its Concert Hall was erected in the mid-1920s, is considered too small and with less than per-- feet acoustics.

The new Arena must be bypassed as a home for most cultural events, again because of sound problems echoing across its main floor. At least three privately-owned auditoriums serve the city's semi-professional Little Theater movement, but except for Community Theater's 'own recently built playhouse, ail suffer from various technical -defects, says the group. Which leaves public school and Long Reach State College auditoriums to be part-time homes for the independent performing art groups. Needed, then, the group insists, is a civic cultural complex" comparable in its civic cultural complex" comparable in its in downtown Los Angeles. Its not just a question of duplicating facilities, because of misplaced local pride, "either.

We have in the long Beach area' the people to produce fine work for our own discriminating audience. Parenthetically it should be noted that none of the six felt it was possible, or even desirable to attempt a divorce between artistic efforts here and in Los Angeles. Local patriots should feel no twinges from their expressed belief that it is unrealistic to attempt to compartmentalize Long Beach culture as opposed to Los Angeles culture. Setting our sights for something better than cither now has is, they say, todays goal. There was remarkable unanimity about How to accomplish this Ipfty goal, this transmission to others," today more than ever befqre poses major questions for Lwg Beach's many devoted friends of the arts.

Art for arts sake" as a working premise is obsolete, the panelists agreed; Art no longer is the exclusive domain of an elite in this era, marked as it is with a growing awareness of the arts by an ever- larger segmcnt-nf the Therefore, they transmitting, nr making available, the arts to Long Beach's increasingly sophisticated art -mu sic -theater-oriented, community is the prime Cultural problem Jacing the city today and in the next five years. Long Beach, right now, is at the crossroads, they warn. What we do or don't do in the immediate future will create the pattern for 1970. It'wal different a century ago when Tolstoy was writing his monumental War and Peace. Then artists, musicians" and theatrical people were largely involved with art for its intrinsic values.

Transmission to others was the concern, of government, of rich pgtrons emulating, the earlier art fanciers of Renaissance Italy. The Western worlds great cultural palaces Londons Covent Gardens'theater, the Theatre Francaise in Paris, the St. Petersburg opera house, among others were the financial creations of the state. Their productions were for the few, the aristocracy and a rising but small middle class. Over the past two decades that pattern has been irrevocably changed through the democratization of the arts.

Thousands in this area, millions across the nation, know the.ir Schonberg, Alban Berg, Picasso. They will, pay to hear the composers music, watch the playwright's drama, view the artist's abstractions. Excellent turnouts this weekend and -last and undoubtedly next weekend greeted Long Beach productions on a scale considered impossible before the last war. (A recurring problem the panelists noted: conflicts in scheduling often cut audience sizes here. One proposed solution: a central booking agency operated by local FOR THE FUTURE DODGE Six experts seated around a table, pouring into a recording machine their hopes and fears for Long Beach as a major cultural center five years hence.

That was the setting for the series of projections, of educated guesses, into the artistic world of 1970. five topics were given the panel: What does Long Beach need to develop -its a culture center? How would they assess local talent, audience sophistication, relationships between existing cultural groups, and the recent International Sculpture Symposium at Long Beach State College? Participating in this extended think, session were LB SC faculty members Drs. Bobert E. Tyndall of the music department, John H. Green, drama, James S.

Crafts, art; Sue MacDonald, former Long Beach Symphony Orchestra manager and a member of the California Arts Commission; Jason director of the Long Beach Museum, of Art; and Elise Emery, for five years editor, of these newspapers arts page. Moderating and producing this written synoposis from recordings made that afternoon was Ralph Hinman Jr. of The P-T staff. 340 E. ANAHEIM ST.

LONG BEACH HEmlock 7-6491 M6B SATE.SIA'N vAv v. Av 'ft 'A' I September 15, I960, was a big day in the life of the Hust family Hubert, his wife Joan, and sons Rick, David and Ron. On that day, the cafeteria at 318 East Fourth Street, in Downtown Long Beach, became known as HUBERT'S CAFETERIA. September 7. 1965 was another milestone for the Husts.

The deal was closed which changed AndyYHotcake House at 64312 Pine also in Downtown Long Beach, info another HUBERT'S CAFETERIA. nt. a Both establishments are doing nicely, thank you. Six days a week, the beautiful buttermilk hofeakes appear and disappear like magic; luscious roasts of choicest beef dwindle as'patrons order the specialty of both houses the famous Roast Beef Dinners, complete for only These are but two of the many delicious dishes featured always. at HUBERT'S.

i Sundays, we close, so we and our.employees may rest and attend the church of our choice. 1i i Unless some genius comes along and shows us how to improve them, the quality of HUBERT'S food and service will remain at the same highlevel. v. iV-v. 1, Plans are being considered with construction in the next half decade for the newest Hubert's Cafeteria.

Also to be located in Downtown Long Beach in a new multistoried building. This cafeteria will feature the latest innovations in cafeteria dining but with the famous quality and home style preparation that you, our customers and friends, have found to your liking ana to which we owe our success. We hope you can come often, but If you can make it only once, make it on the day when we give our entire day's receipts to the United Way. It Ml' 0 643V2 PINE. AVE.

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