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PAGE 4 SANDUSKY REGISTER DEC. 9, 1087 Beaut iniature If beauty in miniature is your delight, the Sandusky High School Supplemental Education Center art gallery is the place to visit during December. DECKED TN Yuletide motif, the gallery this weei? opened Its exJiibit of the treasures of Christmas past displays of more than 200 richly-illuminated holiday greeting cards from the Hallmark Historical Collection and a cased exhibition of inlricatcly- crafted antique dolls loaned l)y Mrs. Lois Gunn of Berlin Heights. Director Frank Smith today told the Register that the sliowing's first six days of a run extending thi'ough Christmas, "public response has been extremely gratifying" The historic cards, many bearing the signatures of 19th century arlisls whose fame was worldwide, depict every mood of the holidays, from RICHLY FRAMED, this turn- card on dis- )lay here in Hallmark Col- ection shows religious art entwined with scenes of youthful Yuletide merriment.

puckish greetings bubbling with good cheer to ornately- fabrieed messages illustrated with works of inspiring religious art. Nearly all the cards are small by contemporary standards, many measuring little more than the size of a playing card. BUT THEY are effectively displayed on individual mountings and fill all the walls and DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS, DOLLS HAVE BROUGHT childhood Christmas cheer. Coffman) TASSEL TRIM fringes one of the ornate cards from craftsman Louis Prang, whose name is borne by products of Sandusky's American Crayon Co. Children were theme.

center-gallery exhibit boards. Topping your don't-miss list while touring the show should be the replica of the fist commercially-printed Yuletide card ever made, published in London for Sir Henry Cole in 1843 and designed by John Calcott Harsley. American artist Louis Prang, a name known to San- duskians for the crayon company here whose products bear his name, is heavily-represented in the exhibit, as befits the man known as "the fatner of the American Christmas card." In the showcases flanked along the gallery's east wall, more than two dozen lifelike dolls set in family scenes attract viewers. MRS. GUNN, who has spent years carefully assembling the collection, points out the deftly-detailed faces and tailored clothing that made these dolls the delight of Christmas mornings long past for little girls of the 1880s and 1890s.

The exhibition is open to the public without charge Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and on Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9. Area Art Happenings Photographs At Oberlin Two exhibits of photographs have opened at Oberlin College. An exhibit of 25 photographs by Robert Frank is now being shown in the collegeis Northwest Gallery. The photographs are from the Swiss-American's book, the Americans.

Frank, who came to this country in 1947, photographed throughout this country in 1955-56 for the book. He has since worked for such picture minded journals as Life, Look and Harper's Bazaar. The other exhibit, in the college auditorium, is an exhibit of 170 photographs of the work of French architect LeCorbui- ser. Lindner Paintings In Cleveland Paintings, a drawing and a watercolor by Richard Lindner, German-born artist now living in America, are currently on display in Gallery 26 of The Cleveland Musieum of Art. The show was planned by Museum curator of contemporary art, Edward B.

Kenning, and contains fourteen works, including the Museum's own Lindner canvas LOUIS IL Toledo Will Have van Gogh The Toledo Museum of Art will present the only mid-west fhowing of the largest exhibition of watercolors and drawings of the great artist Vincent van Gogh. The major international exhibition, "The Art of van Gogh," will begin Sunday, January 14,1968 and will include nearly 100 major drawings and watercolors, part of the personal collection inherited by the artists's nephew and namesake Dr. V. W. van Gogh.

African Music ells it All By DAVE ARNOLD Register Huron County Bureau Chief NORWALK The songs tell it like it is and was. They make pictures of toothless grins on old women's faces in a Savannah sunset. They tell about the dull throbbing pain of a farmer maimed by a lion in the hills and lying all alone in the hills. They tell about night in a farming village high in the mountains where in two separate huts, men and women prepare a young boy and girl for their first wedding night. This is all part of the jigsaw puzzle the old part slowly changing that is Africa.

It's all said in the songs of emerging Africa. Men, mostly Negroes, sang some of them in the Leonard De Paur Chorus. They are all old songs, fast becoming the folk lore of the new nations. These old songs come with clapping hands, rumbling base and shrill tenor shouts like the dry bones spirituals. Leonard DePaur directs a 24-man chorus in singing -many of the old'songs and they are hard to find.

In his race with time Paur makes tours of Africa taping sounds from a wizard's drum beats to the psychedelic melodies the spirit of jungle firelight. These sounds are fast being replaced by High Life, the sounds that blare from Fiat buses across the continent. High Life is the city-directed Black Africans new rythym and melody taking a bit of the old jungle rythym and a lot more from the western world. It goes along with the high- rise government buildings and side'Walk coffee houses that harbor the new and revolutionary educated Africans. Armenian fiddles, Italian accordions, and Tex Benneke's sax are all becoming part of the many new strains of African song.

But all music is truth to the men in DePaur's chorus. All are professionals and work at any form of music that pays. Humilton Grandison, born in Barbados, with West Indian Sudanest, Algerian, and Dutch background, has a musical career as patchwork as his heritage. He writes music, orchestrates, directs, and sings. "Anything that pays," he warns.

It doesn't matter as long as it's music because Grandison left theology to find truth in music. His African music sorts out the fuzzy elements of David Livingstone's Dark Continent. BOOK REVIEW ALEXIS LICHINE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WINES SPIRITS (Knopf WINE by Hugh Johnson (Simon and Schuster WINES OF THE WORLD, edited by Andre L. Simon' (McGraw-Hill A reader and wine lover faced with a choice among these three books has a real problem. While there is, inevitably, some duplication of basic information, each of the trio is different enough in overall content to warrant the inclusion of all in a well-rounded library.

Lichine's is a definitive reference work on wines and spirits, but a reference book that is both easy and interesting to read. The author is a winegrower and wine merchant, author and lecturer. Common sense as well as good taste is reflected in liis suggestion that weather as well as menu be considered in choosing wines. Chilled roses and whites are preferable in the tropics, even with food with which red wines ordinarily taste best, he writes. Some experts abjure wine with curries, but Lichine suggests that a Gewurztraminer's distinctive flavor "can hold its own against the spicy taste." Johnson's book also is readable, informative and immensely practical particularly for the inexperienced wine buyer.

Johnson, who is travel editor of the London Times and former secretary- general of the international Wine and Food Society, explains with reporlorial lucidity the difficulties inherent in describing the tastes of wine then goes on to describe them in easily understandable terms. Are you overwhelmed by the choice of wines at your local dealer's and skeptical of his expertise in advising you? Johnson has a system of handling the kind of merchant who knows next to nothing about what he is selling anyway, sells you the one thing he does know about, which is the wine with the biggest profit margin." The author's advice: take home wme lists from several dealers, study them and look up in a good reference book the ones you're interested in before you return to buy. The book edited by the venerable Andre L. Simon, at 90 the dean of wine experts and gastronomes, is an anthology of works on wine by himself and seven other acknowledged experts. Some of the material has appeared previously in book form in England and the United States, and the literary styles of some of the writers are slightly more formal than that of the other two books but nonetheless readable.

Lichine, Johnson and John N. Hutchinson, who Wrote the American section of the Simon book, concur in their assessment of American wines. They rank some dry or table wines of California as excellent, others as great and lowpriced and standard wines of that state as much better value for the money than cornparably priced imported wines. Eastern, southern and niidwestern American wines come off less well in the experts' opinions. Jeanne Lesem LUNAR EFFECTS are possible in daylight, says Register Photo Editor Dick McCullough, and this picture proves it.

For this one McCullough under exposed by two factors and developed in a compensating developer. He -ied a 4x5 Graphic View camera with a 7 inch Ekier lens. Exposure on Panatomic film yas f45 at of a second. BEST SELLERS OF THE NONFICTION "OUR CROWD" Stephen Birmingham NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA Robert Massie THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE John Kenneth Galbraith TWNETY LETTERS TO A FRIEND Svetlana Alliluyeva A MODERN PRIEST LOOKS AT HIS OUTDATED CHURCH Father James Kavanaugh ANYONE CAN MAKE A MILLION Morton Shulman INCREDIBLE VICTORY Walter Lord MEMOIRS 1925-1950 George F. Kennan AT EASE Dwight D.

Eisenhower BERNIE NEUBER DAVE RENEY TOM SMITH BOB BENSICK PHIL MILLER Munx Makin It? By TOM JOHNSON In the giant war for popularity on teenage record charts, the battle is sometimes fierce, the competition overwhelming. Before one of today's swim- ing young groups cuts its first record, a whole mountain of dragons must be slain; miles of guitar strings snaked into the trash pile. THIS WEEK in Cleveland, Sandusky, Toledo, Detroit, Akron and eastern Michigan, a new group is pushing its way into the ranks of the professionals The Munx of Sandusky. Their record, "Our Dream" is starting its midwest climb, and if the trend continues, their sound will bust, but from Long Island Sound to Monterey. Cast in the mold of today's long-haired pop group, The Munx Tom Smith, Dave Erney, Bernie Neuber, Bob Bensick and Phil Miller are making it their own special way.

They started with the musical talent and poured in the hard work. TOM SMITH, 19, his rhythm guitar lying in a corner, told The Register that the group's cur re popularity mean.i three to six stands a night, in cities from Youngstown to Jackson, Mich. 'It means a lot less sleep," he said, but he wasn't knocking it. Like the other Munx, he's hooked on music. "Today's crowd is pretty much like it was three yeai-s ago about half dancers, half listeners.

"'Onstage we sort of let our- self go. "If we make it, we'll have to go where the other groups have gone New York or the Coast." He wears his hair long in the current 'in' style. "People don't bother me much about it now." How does a group of five guys hang together under the grueling demands of a road schedule? "You have to take it lightly. You have to because you practically live together," he said. DAVE ERNEY, also 19, wrote their hit record "Our Dream" along with Tom.

"If we make it I've got two things I want to do put some away for college, and buy my parents a liouse." Onstage he has eyes for his music only. "You stay professional on stage. If you don't, you get depressed." With the others, he works out every week in Phil Miller's house on Second Street. With a combo in the basement of the Second Street liome Mrs. Aloysius Miller has for free what others are laying out hundreds of dollars to get wall-to-wall Her son, Phil, plays lead guitar and trumpet.

During a break in the music, which gently shakes the whole house, he talked about the sweet taste of success. "We always hoped to make it, but with a trailer tagging along there was always a reasonable closer we got, the easier it seemed." The five travel now in a van with a trailer tagging along behind. BOB BENSICK, 18, is the drummer "percussionist," he said, "I like that better." Percussionist is the better word. Today's drum pushers are called on to come up with a variety of new sounds. Bensick joined the group after it formed, along with Bernie Neuber.

Bensick, for once, didn't have his drumsticks in his hands. "I take my drum sticks everywhere they tell me to keep quiet because I'm always knocking around with he grinned. The night life of a musician agrees with Bob. "I like the way Cleveland looks at dawn," The group will work a dance, get out in the small hours, and head downtown for some dawn breakfast frequently. Bob keeps his eyes There are an awful lot of fakes in the business.

You've gotta watch it or you start acting offstage like you act onstage. You're in danger of losing your personality if you're not careful." BERNIE NEUBER, whose father Otto manages the group, is its old man. At 20, he's working on a John Carroll University degree. The four others, all from Sandusky, are hunting their degrees at Lorain Community College. How do they fit a career into college work? Bernie says it can be done.

"I've got a lot of time between classes," he grinned. Like the others, he's a professional. "The object is to try to put on a good show." Why does he beat his head against the stone wall of the music world? "I just dig music." Dig it he does, with an electric piano, organ, flute and sax license in his pocket. With five television appear- ancas, one million one-night stands and a record behind them. The Munx don't coast.

They meet for practice every night, to work out the kinks which mysteriously appear in all arrangements. Then Bernie comes over from Cleveland on Tuesdays and Thursdays and they put the pieces together. Everything, however, hangs on the disc. If "Our Dream" continues to click on the turntables, their dream goes up with it. It couldn 't happen to a coot er group..