Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 128

Tennyson Paper Collection To Be Given toUniversity a 8F Bichmond Tlmes-Dispatch Sun April 16 1961 Art in Richmond Museum Opens Egyptian Gallery I JUK 6i4m A ikjl A in a Hftjf 1 Aa CHARLOTTESVILLE A group of alumni and friends of the University of Virginia tomorrow will present to the University in honor of University President Edgar Shannon Jr the greatest remaining private collection of the works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-92) The collection Includes one of the few manuscripts of famous of toe Light Brigade" (1854) as well as a manuscript of (1855) with numerous corrections In Tennyson's hand which differs considerably from the published version The collection of about 90 items is valued at 316000 and belonged to the late Templeton Crocker of San Francisco It hs been augmented by a collection of 20 pieces from Waller Barrett of New York City who also waa one of 43 persons who con-tributed to the purchase of toe Crocker-Tennyson collection Dr Shannon a professor of English at the University prior to his election to the presidency is a Tennyson scholar The collection will he housed in the HAD THE FEWEST branch! Alderman Barrett libraries stood 12th as to an-which contains the great-nual budget 12th in books collection of American liter- ft Ak Xu per passageway leading to the Inner tomb of the Virginia permanent Egyptian exhibition Two young visitors examine a small sculpture in bronze and stone of gods Mid pharaohs In the low-celling up Friends of City Library Look Ahead Continued from Page 8 hmfmm the ctW organizer andimoud ranked almost at toa hot-founding president I tom of Its 15-city size group on Harrison surveying the prob-lall five basic yardsticks used lems back in November 1956! to measure the effectiveness of was appalled to find that Rich- a public library Hjl lull fapdu: fefur Xr-f fmJkj 1 jMjl Willett Harry Schwarzschild Virginius Dabney Dr George Modlin and A Harrison who Continued from Page 5 exhibition Free-standing sculpture is heavy in proportion and without suggestion of movement for example the headless king at the top of the ramp The impression that Egyptian sculpture conveys is of timeless permanence Even the stone used in these statues are some of hardest basalt granite so that chisels and saws had to be tipped with precious stones to cut them RELIEF SCULPTURE was more graceful delicate and precise almost like a jeweler's work Two relief fragments in the glass cases are sculptures' models made by a master as guides for the vast army of artists who worked on some of the tombs One of these reliefs depicts a duck with such accuracy that ornithologists can tell what variety it is All reliefs and most free-standing sculpture were painted realistically and occasionally some of this color survives today usually red and blue 1 The walls of tombs and temples were often completely covered with such painted reliefs which depicted the great deeds of toe deceased or listed all of toe things that toe dead man wanted in toe next world It is priinarily from these paintings that we know so much about Ilfs in ancient Efeypt AFTER CLIMBING the ramp the visitor ascends into the Inner where he will see mailer objects alabaster dishes statues in bronze wood and pottery There is much jewelry gold earrings very much like ours and a string of beads with amulets that looks just like charm bracelet Amethyst garnet camelian are same of the stones used in the jewelry and faience a kind of glazed pot- tery that could be made Into beads of any shape Although death dominated life in ancient Egypt daily existence was not all gloomy we know from the many painted reliefs of people playing games hunting fishing and being entertained by acrobats and musicians The vast amounts of jewelry cosmetics and other articles of luxury bespeak a definite enjoyment of life FINALLY THE VISITOR reaches an opening through which he can look through the floor into the tomb chamber below and experience some of the thrill that must cone to an archeologist when he makes such a discovery Here the mummy of Theby which Was found by the Boston Museum of Fine expedition near Luxor in 1923 lies on the rockstrewn floor surrounded by some of the objects that were buried with tools vessels food and even a razor X-rays of the mummy which show toe position of its skeleton are displayed nearby A second mummy lies unwrapped with trinkets scattered around as if grave-robbers had ransacked the tomb for treasure We still don't know when Egyptian culture began hut 40 centuries before' Christ there was agriculture manufacturing architecture and a form of pie-ture-writing on toe banks of the Nile The ancient Egyptians developed mathematics astronomy and medicine (which explains the Egyptian buildings at MCV) They had a 365-day calendar counted by tens and could multiply divide and use simple fractions And of course their alphabet of hieroglyphs enabled them to record their history literature and thoughts about the universe EGYPTIAN SOCIETY was remarkably unchanging and so was Egyptian art For nearly 3000 yean their art change so little that it takes an expert to tell the difference between toe work of one period and another Ons painting In the Virginia new gallery le different from all the rest however It is a portrait of brown-skinned woman with large long-lashed eyes and gold earrings very much like those in the glass case in the tomb chamber Done in the 1st Century AD when Egypt was part of the Roman empire it hows the effect of the more photographic Roman style There are also a number of plaster heads with fancy hairdos and straight Roman noses from too 1st and 2d Centuries obviously made for the sarcophagi of Romans living In Egypt i ht 0lYk tuf setoff Le Ak edkhU This is reproduction of the first page of a manuscript of of the Light Brigade1 included In a $16000 collection of the English poet's works to be presented to the University of Virginia tomorrow lure in existence presented last spring 1o the University by Waller Barrett Items from the two Tennyson collections will be on exhibit at the library throughout next week AH donors have been Invited to a dinner at 8 pm Monday at the McGregor Room of Aider-man Library Gordon Ray of the Guggenheim Foundation New York City will- speak on the work of Tennyson The Crocker-Tennyson collection largely consists of first editions and galley proofs of Tennyson's works many of which contain additions and corrections in the author's hand Among others it includes a copy of and Otner (London 1855) which Tennyson used in making corrections for the third edition and which contains many cor rations and additions by Tennyson It also includes an autograph manuscript by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Richard Horne entitled Barrett's collection includes an autograph manuscript "Tears Idle written Mormon Choirs to Give Concert Saturday Night loaned 13llr in expenditures per capita and 14th in loans per the CAP Telephone Co official recalls Mors than 800 Friends resulted from to first membership drive a mail solicitation conducted from tot dining room table of Mrs John Moon now membership chairman The astonishing 35 per cent return wanned toa hearts of the founding committee Today the Friends number about 1150 Dues range from 31 annually for an active member to 3500 for a life membership FRIENDS GET MORE for their contribution than the mere knowledge that they are helping a worthy cause Their enthusiasm and continued support is kept up through quarterly newsletters and programs Guided by Mrs John Pershing toa at ries has brought them such speakers as novelist Nancy Hale and biographer Lenoir Chambers John Chapman dean of the New York drama critics spoke at the April 12 meeting A Epps a chronic reader who has made regular use of Richmond's library facilities is the current president of the Friends Epps who says he acquired the reading habit as a child when his grandmother read Dickens and Hiding to him now sandwiches books in between briefs as he practices with the law firm of Christian Barton Parker and Boyd Other officers are Mrs Osbourne Ashworth William Ellyson Jr and Mrs Robert Jessie Faye Edison will direct the 45volce combined choirs of the Richmond and Petersburg Wards of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint (Mormon) in a concert to he given in the Richmond Ward Chapel 5600 Monument ave at 8 pm on Saturday Mrs Edison has been director 0f'nf the choir of the Richmond outward the past seven years stir rMu City librarian Howard Smith receive books in a replica of the from Mrs John Moon an official of the Friends of the Library committee which is devoting its energies to improvements in the facility in 1865 for the Virginian John She studied choral directing un-R Thompson along with a let-ider Dr John Finlay William-ter of presentation to Thomp-I800- founder and president of son This collection eontainsestminster Choir College and nine Tennyson letters and four of hia and Puzzle Solution Pearl Lang Dance Group To Appear Here April 28 Mirr to Give A Recital On April 28 Edward Mirr trumpeter will give his first local recital in the Hibbs Building of Richmond Professional Institute at 8:30 pm Friday April 28 The publie is invited without charge Jane Benson will play the piano part Mirr came to this city last September to teach brass instruments at RPI and promptly became the Arst trumpeter with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra In addition to teaching brasses he is director of the RPI Band and the RPI Brass Ensemble and of the recently formed Richmond Regional High School Band that is sponsored by RPI music school Hires numbers will comprise the program and will include Concerto In flat by Joseph Haydn Sonata for trumpet I I UWL)JL i unuu plSflj UUULin UDlliHJ L4HCJI1 Graham Company Spencer Cornwall director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir The program will include works of Haydn Bach and Will James as well as number of hymns dating from the early days of the Latter Day Saints when they crossed the plains to found the Mormon Church in jUtah I Soloists will he Leonard How-lerton who was a bass soloist jvrilh the Westminster Choir lor three years Jerrell Sober ten- or and Mary Reego Lyric so-jprano Clifford Jordan will be at the organ The new Richmond Ward Chapel will accommodate 1000 week's puzzle Page F-1S sons The concert is open to the Pearl Lang will be assisted bylMartha a company of 10 dancer and two technicians when she appears at the Virginia Museum Theater at 8:15 pm on Friday Much she She dancer of the chorergraphy which programs is her own is equally renowned as choreographer and Seiler vice presidents Mrs April 28 as the final offering onjteadier dances many concertslKenneth Lee secretary and the Virginia Dance Society sc- jn New York and has made aGeorge llumrickhouse treas-j rfgf IN 642 THE ARABS conquered Egypt and in 1517 too Turks Napoleon Invaded It in 1796 and later the British Ail through the centuries grave robbers plundered the ancient tombs for gold and jewels What the robbers did not take however was the greatest treasure of all: the painting and sculpture which has revealed to us the thoughts and ideas the deeds and daily lives of toe world's earliest and moat remarkable civilizations And so Thalhiaw Stadia Miss Jessie Fay Edison public without charge but voluntary contributions toward toe building fund will be accepted ries Her company includes Patricia Christopher Betty DeJohn Tryntje Ostrander Beatty Carol Fried Bruee Marks Paul Sanasardo Norman Walker Paul Bercnsohn and Koert Stuyf Miss Lang formed her group In 1949 following eight years as solo dancer with the PatriclajLeua composed by Paul Hindemith the beautiful things that the THE DATE OF APRIL 20fh BECAUSE B0NT flflISS THIS FORUM number of tours Among herurer awards are those from the Doris Duke Foundation in 1955 toe Robbins Foundation in 1959 and the Guggenheim Foundation In I960 She baa been guest teacher In danca centers in Germany Switzerland Sweden Israel Mexico- Chile and Holland One of her new works premiered last season will be Included In the local program It ia Marigolds" based on a Persian poem and set to the music of Allan Hovhaness Tickets are available at the Museum Theater box office heads the be The in 1939 and SonatineAria by Jtan-Miehel Defey written in 1956 ancient Egyptians put Into their tenths did in way result In a kind of survival after death Shepard to Give Recital Tonight Volney Shepard1 pianist who the piano department at School of Music of Richmond Professional Institute returned last week from concert-izlng in West Virginia and will presented in recital at the Woman's Cub at 8:30 tonight! public is invited to attend without charge THURSDAY APRIL 20 THE A 8:00 IT MOSQUE pm: rSA- Ji TWO ACTION PACKED HOURS WITH lonnw than ifmmn mm llmi DR NORMAN VINCENT PEA LI MILLARD BENNETT FOR EXECUTIVES FOR SALESMEN America's Most Dynamic Speakers They Tell How To DEVELOP PERSONAL POWER ACHIEVE BUSINESS SUCCESS ENJOY A FINER LIFE There Shall Be No War a painting executed Jn -the 1920s by Frost a Marblehead Mass fisherman gardener and handyman who took up painting in his old is among more than 70 items in an exhibition called The Folk Artist Looks at the Civil War' assembled by the Abby Aldrich Bockefeller Folk Art Collection in Williamsburg The exhibition which opened yesterday will con- tinue through July 80 YOU WILL PROFIT IF YOU ATTEND THIS FORUM WILL BE MONEY AND TIME WELl 1 SPENT If is Virginia Union Fete Opens Today FOR CLERICAL PEOPLE FOR PROFESSIONAL 4i PEOPLE i The eighth annual Fine Arts Festival will be held this week ants as well as students will participate Daytime progranw will include a lecture on African Mu in a Free Lecture Entitled CHMSTIAD SCIENCE Heals Through Enlightened Thought by Albert Clinton Moon CSB of Chicago Illinois Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church The first Church of Christ Scientist in Boston Massachusetts Sunday April First Church of Christ Scientist 2201 Monument Avenue Parking will be Permitted along toe Medlsa Strip for Hds Lector All arm wefcomt a concert in Bareo-Stevens Hall at 1:30 pm Thursday For the first time speech and drama clinic will be held in connection with the festival for the special benefit of high school teachers of speech and drama Ariel Bal lif and Tom Carlin of the Renaissance Theater will he consultants for the clinic Evening programs will feature a concert by Georgia Davis contralto at 8:30 Tuesday in Bar co-Stevens Hall and chamber music by the Virginia State College at 8 o'clock Wednesday in Cobum Hall On Thursday and Friday at 8 pm in Coburn Hall the Virginia Union Players will present for the Prosecution" by Agatha FOR YOU Attend this rmonal Development Forum conducted by two of the World's most dynamic speakers This program Is yon must be absolutely satisfied or your fee will be refunded We feel you will spend two of the finest hours of your life REGISTRATION FEE $300 Registrations may be obtained at Miller Rhoads and at Thalhimers For further Information call Mrs Hogan BE 2-0322 or write Box 142 THURSDAY APRIL 20th 1961 THE MOSQUE 8:00 PM Sponsorid by the Salts Exieutlvts Club Riehmind at Virginia Union University This year a prominent place in the festival will be given to African Art An important exhibition of African sculpture and artifacts will be on loan from the American Museum of Natural History in New York The art exhibition will be open at 6:30 pm today in Clark Library on the campus At this time Jon Longaker of Ran-dolph-Macon College art critic of The Times-Dispatch will give an illustrated lecture on African Sculpture and Modem Art There will be a panel discussion on Living With Art at 1:30 pm Monday Guest consult-li sic by Colin Turnbull assistant curator of African ethnology American Museum of Natural History This program will be given in Cobum Chapel at 11:30 am Tuesday Poetry reading by Ulrich Tronbetzkoy poet and managing editor of Virginia Cavalcade will take place at 1:30 pm Tuesday in Cobum ChapeL In observanct of National Library Week then will be a Book Review of at 1:30 P-m Wednesday in the library The West Virginia State College symphonic band will give.