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water color a Santa Barbara shore scene brimming with movement by Charlotte Rerend Mme Berend now in New York is also represented In Yellow House lent by the Bears "Blue Day Santa by Clarence Hinkle the harbor and angle of the breakwater as they appear from the studio on the Ridge is happily seen again er Minturn Sedgwick Is a lieutenant colonel in the Army now in London Not satisfied with all this tal ent in his own family Erancis Sedgwick married into the gifted doEoresl clan a long time the Erancis Sedgwick have been coming out to California to spend three years at a st retch at their Goieta Valiev ranch Now they Spni(l most' of the time in the Santa Ynez oldest girl who shows inclinations to paint is a boarder at the Howard School Bobby attends I a Loma eliz and (lie rest of school age are taught at the ranch through a Calvert Correspondence Course under the guidance of Mrs Sedg wick They all love the ranch Weekends Mr and Mrs Sedg wick come oer to their Goleta home Wind rain or shine Mr Sedgwick saiil he works every day al his art He is a pupil in sculpture of Herman MacNeil who de signed tlie south pediment of the Supreme Court Building and collaborated with Mr MacNeill in his Ponv Express monument at St Joseph As the ranch er artist pul it was office loy in his studio while the nine foot monument was being exe Own Com missions Among his own commissions were a head of Tom Barbour head of the Agassiz Museum at Harvard a bust of the late Pro fessor Alfred de Eore of Mas sachusetts Institute of Technol ogy brother of Lockwood de orest of tliis city He exhibited at the National Acmlpniy in 193G and held a one man show at the former Delphic Studios in New York A portrait of his wife was exhibited at the Santa Bar bara Art Museum Ranching in California is easy according to Mr Sedgwick The neighbors follow the old Spanish custom of doing all the work at roundup time "They do the roping and we feed he put it it is roundup time on the Bill Luton or Ted Chamber lain ranches near the artist joked: offer my modest serv on the BILL DEEATED SACRAMENTO June 9 I A bill to establish minimum I prices for hair dressing and other services performed bv cosmetol ogists was decisivelv defeated i bv the Senate Saturday S9 to 2 I It had passed the Assembly i Beltone scientists and engineer bring you revolutionary new HEARING AID COMORT! The MONO PAC combine transmitter and batteries into one compact unit weigh only 12 a much a old type hearing aid itals itted and Unfitted Cases Military Brush Sets Brief Cases Naples Royal Conservatory or a time it wa uncertain whether her professional career would be as a violinist or as a soprano The die was cast when she was given the title role in a produced by the Pan Carlos Grand Opera Company in Radio City New York under Conduc tor Erno Rapee Recently she has toured the United States and Canada with the Philadelphia Opera Company under Hu aegis With her mother Mrs Rose Carbone Miss Montain is pres ently residing with her grand mother Mrs Bumbaca 1220 San Andres St HEARING AID SERVICE Harry Scott Mgr 319 Anapamu St Santa Barbara Telephone 3030 Pl send me your REE deicriptive booklet on the New Beltone Mono pie Hearing Aid' rancis Sedgwick amed Artist Sculptor and Author of Novel Combines Work With Ranching Look out it'll make your head spin our wonderful array of the brightest gayest colors you've ever seen color in our crisp rayon jumpers color that plays up your tan like lime gold cherry color in our sleek rayon skirts bursting out all over with luscious blossoms with blazing stripes! and Junior sizes Martha Graham in New Triumphs in New York Martha Graham whom Santa land Entrances'' and Soul Barbara claim a her most dis is a (Bettone $1 Barbara rlaim her most dis tinguished daughter has become more firmly entrenched as the greatest American dancer since her brief season just closing in New York City Critics of the dance jn New York have devoted columns to her superb work The seven scheduled perform ances at the National Theaterwere sold out and an eighth performance was added by what critics affirmed was really pop ular demand Miss Graham is the daughter of Mrs Homer Duffey of this city where she occasionally has time to visit She has given two performances at the Lobero Theater the second to a sold out house She is a graduate of the Santa Barbara schools Miss Graham's current sea son has been marked by two new works being shown in New York for the first time They were commissioned by the Cool idge oundation and first per formed in the Library of Con gress One of these chian Spring" was the winner of the Pulitzer prize It was created by her a a tribute to her early American forebears The other new work was diade" Bciclfst Successful John Martin of the New York Times in the Sunday June 3 issue sums up Miss Graham's season bv saying that the briefest it was by all odds the most successful" and that every local inch of space had been sold out The other works in the reper tory included to the No more "Bulky BeHery Blue The MONO PAC bring you gloriou new free dom Don't wolf comi innd try MONO AC todoy or Multi colored Purses Small purses for Dressy wear large Envelopes and handle pouches for suits i ide nun a I rr 1 1 nr the moment of her first in qanta ti vr mi idiiiii uxnes Miss Graham suffuses the cage a if bv a kind of magnet I ism with an intense emotion Is not one among them" writes Mr Martin "that is not a very fine work and that will not boar many lie thinks is Miss Gra most brilliant composi tion This and Shore" he finds the most persuasive Virgil Thomson music critic reviewing Miss per formance for the Mav 20 issue of the New York Herald Trib une remarks that turns out to be as one has long suspected not onlv an expressive dancer but a great actress one of the very great among living actress es in fact" Mr Thomson is impressed by Aaron "Appalachian music and Raul Hinde score of derived from Mallarme's rench poem of the same title Copland and Hindesmith scores are another line of musical coun try 1 assure you higher and more commanding and incredi bly more adequate both to the support of a choreographic line and the evocation of their stated subject" he writes reeling of Hillsides seeing Martha Graham's new Appalachian a sec ond lime" comments Edwin Denby also in the New York Herald Tribune quality which touched me particularly was the freh feeling of hillside woods and fields the piece conveys It does it partly in the way the still figures look off as if at an horizon of hills describes the landscape not only in terms of its contour but in terms of living con ditions The separateness of still figures one from another which their poses emphasize suggests that people who live in these hills are accustomed to spending much of their time alone Their outlines blend like those of townsmen sol itude shall I find entertainment' painted on an early Pennsyl vania Dutch bride chest and the bride in might well have read it It is touching how gently the piece persuades you of the value of domestic and neighborly ties by giving you a sense of rural iso Appalachian isolation of the pioneer farmhouse in the piece is he contin ues "more imaginatively by a note of wildlife that keep cropping up in the dance A passage of Mi" first solo looked to me as if she were a hillside girl darting after the little beasts her playing flushed from The Tragic Theater Acccording to Mr Martin Miss performance in is dancing in something of the sense of the tragic the ater of the Greeks dancing that is essentially acting grown be yond the limitations of words "Whatever it is called it is a gripping and tremendous the atrical he adds Describing the dance Mr Mar tin says its two characters are a woman and her attendant the scene an antechamber in which the woman awaits some name less ordeal and the action con sists of her preparatory self searching and her eventual ele vation above anguish At the conclusion the attendant attires inti anu ivaics i her to meet her fate To walk into the studio of rancis Sedgwick from un der the Citrus trees of his Golota Valley ranch is a curious expo The studio is part of the white washed garage ap proached by a whitewashed pas Aigc vvay under a tangle of vinos The high ceiling is painted blue the light is excellent On can hear the swish swish of the sprinklers on the thick lemon and walnut leaves the quail call across the rolling ranch acres 'I'liere are several portrait heads all striking likenesses around the studio some in plas ter and bronze others still in the clay stage They have a piquancy combined with refine ment and reserve it seems strange to find them in such an environment The artist lias thesun tanned skin of the rancher and the expression in his eyes that comes of looking out distances Duns Cattle Ranch rancis Sedgwick sculptor painter and author of a novel just out did not intend to go so heavily into ranching In addition to the lemon and wal nut ranch on Cathedral Oaks Goleta he owns a 3000 acre cattle ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley see I thought I was go to be in the he ex plained hocked ever thing and bought a place over the mountains so that my wife and our eight children twould have something to live on But the Army turned me down asth Now he is resigned to the life of a combined gentleman ranch er and artist with studios Ngw York near hiS home atSpring Harbor I and at both ranches In the Santa Xnez the studio is in the barn If he wishes to paint horses a model is always at hand Writing is Mr Sedgwicks first love in the arts sculpting sec ond and painting third He has executed commissions in many parts of the country and several prominent Santa Barbarans have sat for him including Mrs Ed ward Baring Gould and young Howland Russell for portiait sculptures in bronze and Curtis Cate for a portrait in oil Review The novel published several weeks ago by Coward McCann is story of a sculptor Its author declares most of the reviews have been and that he is to he is writing another novel His own doings bear the brunt of his quick humor: of the Sedg wick family though he is frank ly proud Henry Dwight Sedgwick re nowned historian fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is his father Author of in the 13th and other scholarly volumes the senior Sedgwick recently was a guest of his son and daughter in law at their San ta Ynez Valley home and was at work on a life of Horace Uncles of the artist rancher are Ellerv Sedgwick for years editor of 'the Atlantic Monthly and Theodore Sedgwick rector or the American Church at Rome: and hi cousins are il liam Ellerv Sedgwick author of Tragedy of the story of Herman Melville and A Sedgwick who is also the neph ew of Mrs Cameron Roger of this city author of Spar Sedgwick was Amer ican correspondent with the British Eighth Army all through the African Campaign Artist own broth New of Sterling Silver Animal Pins beautifully only 295 'INTERIM SHOW' EATURED AT ART MUSEUM In the interim before the ar rival of the Thomas Eakins show anticipated as a Summer highlight at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art the Gould aswell as the McCormick gallery has been given over to the muse acquisitions and loans: it is a good time to look around and see for oneself the growth of the collection here and the good re lations that exist with other museums as this institution pas ses its fifth anniversary In the Gould Gallery where a new exhibition of water color and tempera painting has just been hung by Rudolph Gilbert registrar can be seen Blue by George Grosz the manwho attacked Nazism and wa forced to flee to American in 1932 The water color wa lent by the Walker Galleries of New Y'ork This painting has neith er political nor social signific it is pure mood and lyric ism the capturing of a fragile moment in nature by an artist always sensitive to the poignant in life Abstraction On View The prismatic an abstraction by the late Charles Demuth gift of Lt Wright Lud ington has been brought out again for further admiration Otherwise this is a gallery filled with landscapes by New Mexico Colorado and Santa Barbara painters The re gional note does not appear but the peculiar clarity and vastness of the western scene and again the fleeting daintiness of Spring in high altitudes have been putjlnun on nanpr arrnrdincr tn Tpm perament and individual style to make a cnarming cumuiatne im pression of the area in and this In memory of the late John lb nvverr Or Edward Thompson of Denver a insianA It dificult io recall teacher of Donald Bear the Mu a work in the theater 1 Gray since Pearl Harbor has oeen a tecnmcai illustrator ror 100 octane refinery construction aircraft and synthetic rubber construction NOISELESSLY C0ME0RTWLY MONO PAC Bank Adds Trust Department Officer Arthur Clarke has been add ed to the Trust Department at the Santa Barbara main office Bank of America Manager 1 Ackerson announced Saturday He will assist Trust Officer II Sparks in taking care of the steadily increasing demands of the Santa Barbara section Clarke has been with the Bank of America Southern California trust division for the past 23 years in various departments in cluding subdivisions and escrow He spent a number of years with the Collector of Internal Reve nue in Pennsylvania before com ing to the Bank of America giv inrv Kim valuable hark'rrrmind i rs He Dians to re Slue in 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