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DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 16 Vim SS Wh MirS Son Sk (lkk The Museum of Modern Art finally has been pressured into having a free night on Mondays, but the art exhibit in the Hotel Chelsea lobby is always free and open around the clock. Next Tuesday there will be an' "unveiling" of the latest work, a grouping- of some Chelsea famous folk done in papier-mache by artist and resident Eugenie Gershoy. Actually the work is on view right now because it's too delicate to risk having a real veil draped over it, but there will be a whimsical little ceremony and some drinks afterward for the invited in composer Virgil Thomson's apartment in the hotel. The Gershoy hommage is a permanent addition to the rotating exhibit from the collection of hotfl manager Stanley Bard. The Lobby of 86-year-old Hotel Chelsea is filled with contemporary art.

FMltty CauKels facta Padey By MARTIN KING A meeting between dissident students and the executive committee of the faculty council at Hunter College was called off yesterday when faculty members ruled that the session could not be held in an orderly atmosphere. The committee had promised to I meet with the students to discuss cently named to the college's presidency, was in her office yesterday. Scorns Student Pressure She said she hoped to secure a "rational discussion" of student demands in orderly meetings. She also said she would not bow to student pressure and expressed a hope that negotiations with students would result in a report by May 15. Students seek a reduction in tuition for night students, representation oh faculty committees, review of faculty hiring and firing and voting rights on budget matters among other demands.

Meanwhile, Brother Gregory Nugent, president of Manhattan College, said he would discuss student demands in a speech to students Wednesday. Students sat in at the college Thursday to support tuition and other demands. tuition and other demands at 3:15 p.m. yesterday in the college auditorium at 68th St. and Park Ave.

The promise to meet was made after some 1,000 students staged a sit-in at the institution Thursday. When a horde of students showed up yesterday afternoon bearing a six-page list of demands, faculty members decided to postpone the meeting. 200 Students Meet Some 200 students then massed in the auditorium to discuss their own demands. Although day classes were suspended, the university administration said that graduate classes were to meet today. The college's Easter vacation starts Monday and ends March 30.

Mrs. Jacqueline Grennan Wex-ler, the former Catholic nun re i Mrs. Jacqueline Wexler Won't bout to pressure NEWS photos by Frank Russo Eagenie Gershoy and her papier-mache con ping, depicting some of Hotel Chelsea's famous residents. Btinute you step into the lobby, you know this is not hotel art, this Is cream. Works by men like Larry Rivers and Jasper Johns should ba too valuable to be hung so freely, but here they are.

Who doesn't know the Chelsea, at 222 W. 2d It's a drab lft-tory building" in a drab block, and it once was beautiful and it till la in the right eyes. Thomas Woifa found it beautiful and so did Eotcnt O'Neill and Bienoan Behan and Dylan Thomas and so do Andy Warhol and Steve Paul and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Contemporary art in an 86-year-old lobby is only one proof that being alive can transcend years. tJpstaira whitehaired Virgil Thomson is preparing for his weekly radio Bhow and remembering Gertrude Stein.

Downstairs at the desk explosion-haired Jerry Ragni is checking in after a trip to Boston, wher the DA is trying to bust his show, "Hair." Andy Warhol protegee Viva is curled up in her room talking on the phone while in another part of tr.e hotel Eugenie Cershoy works on the papier-mache phase of a career going back to WPA days. This afternoon, as I was hanging the she said, "some eharming young creature looked at it and said, 'Oh, the I would like to have included people like Viva she's a lovely thing bet I couldn't go on and on and on. There wasn't space. These young people have brought their vitality to the hotel and their color and their imagination and their money." She sighed. "They're all filthy rich." Any clash between old and young is muted with an attempt at mutual understanding, and the moderating agent is Bard.

He joined his late father on the hotel management staff in 1957 direct from military service. Today co-managers Julius Krauss and Joseph Gross, both 40 vears his senior, defer to his judgment. There's a theory that the Chelsea's contemporary status was established bv such a simple thing as the title of Andy Warhol's 19S6 barrier-breaker, "The Chelsea Girls." "Andy asked me if I would object to his using the hotel in some of the scenes," Bard said, "and I told him it depended entirely on what kind of scenes they were. Now everyone associates the movie with the hotel, not that I care. I really don't.

I never did see it although Andy invited me for a private showing. Mr. Krauss and his wife went "to see it and they walked out. He may not like everything about the hotel today, but he sees it work." The fact that Bob Dylan chose to stay there at about the same time has to be equally important. "His wife had her baby here in 1S'35," Bard said.

"Dylan put the seal of approval on it for all contemporary groups. The Jefferson Airplane just called to make a reservation for 14 rooms, but I told them, six I can give you. Call me back Monday. "I don't if the groups play -n their rooms, but as soon as omeone compla.ns, they stop. Everyone knows what goes.

It's amazing. It's like an unwritten law. We don't even allow the smell of incense if it gets too strong." A girl in an Indian headband edged into thn cffice and began phrase a question. "I told you before that you can't," he said centlv but firmlv. Whatever it was she couldn t.

she accepted with aV.ietk "All rihi" arjd left. ERNEST LEOGRANDE Samuels Wows Prism Reforms Howard Samuels, a leading candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, said yesterda3r that "no convict will be taught to a shuttle loom in my admin istration. THE NEWS 1970 TRAVEL GUIDE P.O. BOX 1885 New York, N.Y. 10017 Suf pestpaiAL Uiti) $2.25 ea.

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He spoke with them in the office of the Fortune Society, a two-year-old organization dedicated to prison reform. "They (the convicts) will be taught how to repair automobiles or radios or some other kind of work that will help them get a job when they get out," Samuels said. "Sexual violations will not be considered 'wholesome', in my administration and every warden will know that the day I take office." Samuels issued a statement on prison system problems in which he explained that homosexual attacks were frequent but that officials generally looked the other way on the apparent theory that any sexual outlet is better than THE CALENDAR r- Travel Guide Has Visa Info If you expect to be among the millions of overseas travelers this year, you'll need a passport. This important document will be accepted as proof of your identity, citizenship and legal right to leave and reenter the U.S. Some nations also require a visa others issue only a tourist card.

The 1970 World Travel Vacation Almanac devotes a section to explaining all you'll need to know about these documents in addition to its 2,744 detailed domestic and foreign tours. This never before published guide is now available at $1.95 at The News Information Bureau, 220 E. 42nd weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. or $2.25 by mail.

Allow at least three weeks for delivery under normal circumstances. Completely indexed, the volume provides information on hotels, meals, tips, sightseeing and departure and arrival times. Travel hint: Get your passport early. Waiting until two or three weeks before departurewill; almogtceE- -taihly delay you: plans. Jefferson Airplane, after registering at the Chelsea, will plav next Tuesday at the Capitol in Port Chester (914-939- 876).

Also Roxy and Glenn McKay's Headlights light show. George Kuchar's underground comedy film, "Hold Me While I'm Naked." from "Chelsea Girls" era, 9 p.m. Satur- day at coffee house in Spencer Memorial Church, 99 Clinton Brooklyn. Also gospel singing by Brother John Sellers. olio La Rsa, Hines.

Jlines Dad pid Corbet Monica 7:30 and 11 p.m. Satur Jav at 46th St. Theatre, 4515 New i Utrecht Brooklyn (43S-C454). Alice Play ten, the little girl with the big voice, and Al Carmines, the man with tha music, in concert 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Judson Memorial 55 Washington Square South.

No admission, just contribution. Moody Bices extra concert at Fillmore, canceled last Thursday, will be played Monday instead. Earth Peoples Park is holding an fund-raising 1 party (till 6 a.m. Saturday) at its New York headquarters, IS Seccrd Ave. Music by Jebediah Wu-Jtl.

$2 contribution. I Attn I Hearing Waived By Maddox Jr. Atlanta, March 20 (AP) Lester Maddox 26, son of Gov. Maddox, waived a preliminary hearing today cn a charge of burglary cf a suburban service station. Officials said the case probably will be presented to the Fulton County grand jury next week.

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