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Sunday call-chronicle, december 3, 1978, allentown, pa. F-9 artleisure ART human frailty may supervene everyone can carry an image in his head for hours on end. and other works by other artists may destroy our concentration. For these and other reasons the current show of "Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art" is a historic event. For the first time in the history of the museum, we can see everything that the museum possesses by Matisse in one continuous sequence.

As was the case with its comparable exhibitions of Picasso and Miro, not long ago, the museum has published a full-dress catalog ($25 in hardcbver. $12.50 in paperback) with extended notes on almost every item and a particularly interesting list of "promised gifts." Most of those promised gifts have been lent for the show, and they turn out to fill'more than one conspicuous gap in the collection. THE SPECIFIC attraction of this show (which, by the way. will be on view until Jan. 30) is that it allows us to verify what John Elderfield remarks upon in one of his catalog entries: Matisse's ability to work all but simultaneously in different and Virtually opposite styles.

In 1906, for instance, he finished the painting called "Girl Reading." which now has the status of a promised gift in the museum's collection. This is a painting that speaks for the healing quiet of the hearth. He also completed the panoramic "Bonheur de Vivre" (now in the Barnes collection), which has nothing whatever to do with the licensed pleasures of family life, and. just to keep busy, he made the group of lithographs which is shown together at the museum. In more than one of those lithographs above all.

in Verne problem: Translator as traitor the one of a girl with eyes closed and head upturned there is a voluptuous immediacy, a sense of desires manifested and full tiled, which Matisse kept at a distance in his paintings. If we add that, in that same year of 1906. 'Matisse was also testing the possibilities of sculpture, one by one. it will be clear that to put all these activities in perspective is one of the most taxing of tasks for an art historian. There was a time before World War II when Matisse was not nearly so thoroughly known.

The great collections in Russia had been, seen by very few people. Yet Matisse without those collections is like Picasso without the "Demoiselles d'Avignon" itself unknown to most people until the second half of the The great paintings and sculptures in the Modern Museum came mostly in the 1940s and 1950s (or even later). The Matisse most often talked about was the Matisse of the accessible easel-paintings that gave delight and caused no trouble. It is one of the great achievements of the Modern Museum, and above all of Alfred Barr. that it gave Matisse his true stature as one of the greatest of all French artists.

Barr's "Matisse: His Art and His Public." first published in 1951. is still our most comprehensive single introduction to Matisse: thanks to him. and to his colleagues and successors. New Yorkers have at their disposal a view of Matisse which, though not complete, is as far-ranging as ran be found anywhere. HOW TO GET the entire Matisse collection into the Rene d'Harnoncourt Galleries at the museum was not an easy assignment.

Ideally, section after section should have had more room to breathe. As the whole point of the Vence Chanel is that disembodied color is made to move across totally white walls, it may be questioned whether the vestments that Matisse designed for it should really be shown in a dark room. The catalog (by Elderfield. with additional entries by William S. Lieberman and Riva Castleman) is full of valuable insights and a compendium of recent research both in this country and in Europe, but it cannot be said to be easy to consult.

But these are trifling matters in relation to what is beyond a doubt, in its context, the chance of a lifetime. I C) N.Y. Timet Newt Service Matisse show chance of a lifetime By JOHN RUSSELL Of.The New York Times NEW YORK One of the more demanding of human activities js to look long and concentratedly at a major painting by Henri Matisse. Not only is the painting itself likely to be dense and complex beyond all elucidation, but Matisse was also the personification of French thrift. Over a period of more than 50 years, during which he worked virtually all day and every day, he never wasted anything, never lost anything and never forgot anything.

And it all fits together: What may look at first sight like disconnectedness results from a lifelong' sense of what should be undertaken at what time and in what way. Everyone who has ever tried to write about Matisse knows this, and the Museum of Modern Art is a good place to learn it all over again. The museum owns a slew of great paintings by Matisse. They are objects of delectation, but they are also ferocious conundrums. How does the "Male Model" of 1900 relate to Cezannne? What is the true derivation of "Dance" (1909)? In what way is the Bergsonian notion of time implicated in "The Red Studio" (1911)? Why does the cathedral of Notre Dame, in the painting dated "Spring 1914," look like a cut-down version of the World Trade Center? What exactly is happening in "The Moroccans" (1915-16)? What are the functions, respectively, of the candlestick and the metronome in the "Piano Lesson" of 1916? He would be a bold man who claimed to have solved those problems (and the many others to which they give rise) once and for all.

PROBLEMS no less taxing arise in corfnection with the sculptures, drawings, prints, illustrated books and late cut-paper works that the museum has been assembling ever since Alfred Barr. its first director, made up his mind that the duty of a Museum of Modern Art was to take the measure, above all. of Picasso and Matisse. But in normal times we have to go all over the museum and out into the garden to get a hold on the Matisse collection. For some of it.

an appointment is required. Besides. back publishers and the ones most responsible for shaping critical opinion. Other translations of Verne's earlier works "especially the clergyman's tendentious hatchet job" on "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" further diminished any chance Americans had to enjoy and judge the real Verne. Miller says.

(C)Ntwstfay News Service feTvTT iSLA Jf at By VICTOR WILSON Of Newhouse News Service There's good news about science fiction for those aficionados who didn't read the novels of Jules Verne in the original French. It comes from Walter James Miller poet, critic and short -story writer who is a professor of English at New York University. Verne's sci-fi novels, always best-sellers in his native France and in French-speaking countries, never quite took hold in the United States. Miller wondered why until he read them in French. They were no more like the original in English translation than fish is like fowl.

HE TELLS what happened in "The Annotated Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon" (Crowell, The English translations of "From the Earth to the Moon" and such other Verne works as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" were done by an English clergyman and a Philadelphia schoolteacher. Miller relates. The clergyman and the assistant dashed off an abridged version of the earth-moon novel in the 1870s. "Their wholesale cuts weakened Verne's science, his characterization, his humor, his social and political message." Miller writes. Of the teacher, he writes: "He padded every chapter, adding not only miscellaneous details ad nauseam but also his own opinions, changing Verne as he saw fit." THESE FRAUDS, Miller says clergyman's jerky, thin tale and the sc hoolteacher's turgid travesty became the standard English for this and most of Verne's other works.

And the clergyman assistant's versions are the ones usually found in American public schools and libraries, the ones favored by American paper Along Street Road, Lancaster County, 1920 Myers: Long and short of it GIVING Continued From Page 1 astronomer, ranks the 100 in what he considers order of influence: Muhammad is No. 1 physicist Niels Bohr is 100. The author adds a list of 100 runners-up and selects 10 of these also-rans lor short analyses to explain why he rejected them from the top list The book couldc reate a parlor game among contentious guests. This list began with a book about Pennsylvania, and here's a book by a Pennsylvanian to end the suggestions. This.

too. is something of an odditv. THE QUINTESSENTIAL DICTIONARY by I. Mover Hunsberger (Hart Publishing, 438 Pages, Dr. Hunsberger.

a native of Quaker-town who lives in Norristown. is a word maven as well as a chemist and former college dean and provost. The tome has 1.269 entries from 'abjure'' to "zircon Ordinary words like "soap'' or "Iriend" do not appear Each entry-has helpful illustrations of its use by current writers The concept of a dictionary of only bothersome words is clever, but a reader may miss etymologies, which are among the most fascinating things about words but. then. Dr.

Hunsberger misses "etymology" in his dictionary, too Know your newsboy "For everything there is a season." and for Call-Chronicle carrier Frank James Farrell III of Schnecksville, that means football season, baseball season, ski season and swimming season. You might call Chip an all-around athlete. In the fall, he's on the offense as a tight end for Parkland High School's varsity football team. When winter comes, he's plying the breaststroke or backstroke for Parkland's Trojans or schussing down the slopes at one of his favorite spots. Doe Mountain or Camelback.

And. at the first crack of the bat, he's wearing a catcher's mitt for Parkland's baseball team. During the summer, he plays in the Connie Mack summer baseball league in Orefield last year as a member of the championship squad. Having started his career as a newspaper carrier when he was 10, this 16-year-old is a real veteran when it comes to deliveries. He makes 72 of them to Morning Call customers and 80 to Sunday Call-Chronicle subscribers in the Penn Hills area of North Schnecksville.

In his spare time. Chip develops his own photographs in a converted cedar closet that he has equipped as a darkroom with the profits from his newspaper route. The son of Mr. and Mrs. F.J.

Farrell Jr. of 65 Trexler Schnecksville. he hopes to attend college to study engineering. I- 'Pi- By DR. RICHMOND E.

MYERS Call-Chronicle Columnist Pennsylvania has some unusual urban thoroughfares, the kind that should be listed in the Guinness Book of World Kecords The state's longest street is Broad Street in Philadelphia. Twelve miles without a turn or a twist and right through the center ol city hall, this grand old street reaches from the Navy Yard to Cheltenham Avenue save for New Year's Day. when it is given over to the Mummers, a constant flow of iralf it-, makes it one of the state's Farrell Reverie Versions By Alfio MicciEdited by Eugene T. Maleska T7 ft 75 Espadrille 77 Martinique volcano 78 Drawing near the index? 80 Time for a ser. 83 Respiratory sounds 84 Alaskan auk 85 Soprano Grist Singing syllable 87 About 39 inches 88 Felicity 89 Utah city 91 Bravo or brava 93 Pale 94 Caterpillar's hair ft" 43 Joe Doakes 47 Obtained vindication 41 Honorable racket game? 52 Resident of Suffix 53 Wedded 54 Masters's river 50 "Hawaii Five-O" star 57 Kind of dive 58 Garden bloom 59 Steep declivity Small role S2 Dance in a Brando film title C3 Most extreme 4 Ladd or King 05 Garage and yard events Secrete 7 Half a fly 8 Dice game in the van? 71 Miscalculation 72 Where G.W.

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a document we refer to many times POSSIBLY the widest streets in the I'nited States are those found in Salt Lake City. Utah, or Rapid City. S.D.. but there are a lew runners-up in Pennsylvania. Broad Street in Philadelphia is by no means a narrow cowpath.

but have you ever driven down the principal street in Robeson We think this street may be the widest in the state, but Market Street in Mount Carmel is probably a close second There are some pretty steep mountain slopes in Pennsylvania which serve its cities as streets. Although we could think of quite a few candidates lor the dubious distinction of steepest, we believe W. Fairview Avenue in Connellsville. Fayette County, would win. It is truly a terrifying experience to come upon this street unaware, for its resemblance to a roller coaster can make faint hearts tremble.

Which is the most attractive street in Pennsylvania? This is a hard question to answer because there are many beautiful streets in our state. We have always been partial to any street arched over with trees such as one oiten seen in our northern tier county towns. On the other hand, we also like to see a background of water. THINK of the Pennsylvania towns you know that are beside rivers. Picture if you can the streets in these towns that parallel the rivers.

As a rule these are industrial or commercial streets, not particularly given over to beaut ification. One street in this state, however, is unique among riverfront streets N. Front Street in Har-risburg. Which other Pennsylvania city can otter several miles of residential street along its river? Moreover, between the tree-lined street and the river lies a narrow but beautiful park. This remarkable thoroughfare certainly rates high as an attractive Pennsylvania street.

Which is the most confusing street in Pennsylvania? That's easy. True, it is not a street in the urban sense, but it does reach across Chester and Lancaster counties, bearing the name Street Road along its entire length. Throughout its winding right-of-way it is known from one end to the other simply as "the street." It presents a challenge to anyone who would follow it suddenly appears on signposts and just as suddenly vanishes. You can pick it up at Tanguay southeast of West Chester and with luck follow it westward into Lancaster County, past mushroom sheds, old feldspar quarries and beautiful countryside, but it is not always discernible, for the signposts to point the way are lew. If you are looking for an unusual day's outing, take two days and try to follow Street Road from the Bran-dywine to the Susquehanna Valley.

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