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kv-w-vwvvvvvvwv'v-v Section Bloomington-Normal, III. Jan. 31, 1971 Features honoring Virginia Mil ii i-- Chaunce Conklin and Sandy Broadrick, seated, portray the Americans from Newark and Debi Bartlett and Robert Aseltine the young lovers in "Don't Drink the Water," the Woody Allen comedy slated to open Feb. 5 at Williams Towne Hall. Nine others are featured in the cast of the play to run for seven weekends.

(Pantagraph Photo) Towns Hall play leads 7 black artists exhibiting at ISU Luke A. Shaw, assistant professor of art at Coppin State College, is a painter and sculptor in Baltimore. Lois Mailou Jones has had several one-man shows and in 1954 was awarded the Diploma and Decoration de l'Ordre National "Honneur et Merite" au grade de "chevalier" by the government of Haiti for her achievement in art. Ruth Waddy has exhibited at group shows all Art West Associated Shows at Los Angeles City Hall; Oakland Museum's New Perspectives; Graphic Art Exhibition at Internationale Buchkunstausstellung, Leipzig; Print Exhibition at Friendhip Houses in Moscow; Leningrad, Baku and Alma Ata, USSR. Evangeline Montgomery has exhibited with Design West 1962, L.A.

Science Museum; Cambridge Art Association; San Francisco Art Festival; All Metal Art Guild Shows; New Perspective in Black Art 1968 Oakland Museum and The Honolulu Academy of Arts. Earl Hooks, ceramist, has exhibited in many and invitational shows across the country. He is assistant professor 'of art at Fisk University. James Newton, printmaker, has many shows and awards to his credit. Presently he is a graduate student at ISU.

His works are especially advanced in presenting the new image characteristic of the contemporary black artist. The exhibit in genreal represents a new and fresh approach to contemporary works created by black artists. The show will open Monday and run through February. Exhibit hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Seven representative members of the National Conference of Artists are exhibiting in the New Directions Gallery of Illinois State University. This National Conference of Artists, founded in 1959, is An organization of artists, who have at one time or another participated in Atlanta University's National Annual Exhibition for Artists and who were not invited or accepted in other galleries or museums. Although the organization was founded by such a group, other individuals are invited to join. The only prerequisite for membership is sincere interest in the growth and development of artists.

Its purpose is the stimulation and promulgation of art created by blacks. It proposes by organizing artists into a cohesive unit to improve the position of the artists in American life. By its annual conference and through regional meetings it seeks to bring the black artist together with his fellows to discuss mutual problems, exchange ideas, and 'exhibits. The National Conference of Artists is organized by its members on a nationwide basis. It is governed by its mem-ership through a body of elected representatives including the officers.

The representative members exhibiting in the show are Jimmy Mosely, Lois M. Jones, Evangeline Montgomery, Earl Hooks, Ruth Waddy, James Newton and Luke Shaw. Jimmy Mosely is a member of the Committee to Improve Art in Black Colleges at the Department of Fine Arts, Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. TV star By Charlotte Fleshman A fragile but fertile Lincoln Land seed, blown west to a sculptor's studio in Des Moines, Iowa, and then east to West Virginia, now is taking permanent root in the state created by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. The full-blown production will be an heroic, bronze statue, "Abraham Lincoln Editor's Note: Charlotte Fleshman is a former Daily Pantagraph reporter and is currently associate editor of the Beckley Post-Herald in Beckley, W.

Va. Walks at Midnight," on the grounds of the Mountain State capitol in Charleston, W.Va. The statue, sculpted by Fred Torrey (1884-1967) is a materialization of the poem by Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), who envisioned Lincoln as walking at midnight, unable to rest because "a sick world cries." Torrey heard Lindsay's poem read nearly 40 years ago by Harriet Monroe, poet and editor of Poetry Magazine, at the close of a group tour of historic sites in Springfield. He translated the words of Springfield's "tramp poet" into a 42-inch plaster figure of Lincoln, walking with slippered feet and clutching his night robe with his right hand at his chest. His head is slightly bowed and his expression reflects deep, trobuled thought.

The figure, designed for bronze when sculpted in 1933, was exhibited at the New York World's Fair (1939-40), the Pennsylvania Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago, but retained in Torrey's personal collection until after his death in July, 1967. It was not until nearly two years later, in May, 1969, that the model was acquired for West Virginia from Torrey's widow, Mabel Landrum Torry, then in a nursing home in Ames, Iowa, although initial negotiations with her husband had begun in 1963 during West Virginia's centennial. In the intervening years, an elderly Charleston women, Miss Louise Bing, conducted an almost single-handed campaign to acquire the model and get it cast into bronze for the capitol grounds. Submitted features The effort was an outgrowth of her cooperation when her local newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, asked readers to submit centennial feature articles on any outstanding native of West Virginia. Miss Bing wrote about Fred Torrey, a native of Fairmont, W.

who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he met the Colorado artist who became his wife. Both were proteges of Lorado Taft and worked closely with him in the Midway Studios in Chicago for several years opener are in charge of the reception. "A Thousand Clowns" will run Feb. 12-13, 17-20 and 24-27. It is being produced by Mrs.

Irving Tick and directed by Walter Brody. Krannerf gets Greek vases URBANA businessman Harlan E. Moore has presented the Krannert Art Museum of the University of Illinois with a gift of 15. antique Greek vases, Mrs. Muriel Christison, associate director of the museum, has announced.

The gift was made through the University of Illinois Foundation. Moore is the donor of the Theresa E. and Harlan E. Moore Gallery at the museum. It houses the late Mrs.

Moore's collection of 18th and 19th century decorative arts and was given to the university by her husband as a memorial to his wife. Moore is president of Harlan E. Moore building products and services, Champaign. It has been his intention to add art objects to the Moore collection so that it might represent many different styles and historical periods. The vases will be on display for the first time today.

The Greek vases are a significant addition to the museum's permanent collections, Christioson said. Not only are they works of art, with shapes and decorations of high quality, but they are also educationally valuable since they provide students with representative examples of classic Greek art. Various periods of Greek vase-decoration are represented, from as curly as GOO B.C through the year 300 B.C. before establishing their own studio in Des Moines. Their combined lifetime production totals nearly 100 works, mostly in stone and bronze and in the classical tradition.

She specialized in children's figures and he in Lincoln studies, although a wide range of subjects were covered in their long working life. Both husband and wife worked on "Lincoln and Tad" for the Iowa capitol grounds in Des Moines. Otherwise, the Lincoln sculpture is solely the husband's. Torrey's specialization in Lincoln figures may account for the fact that Illinois has more of his sculpture than any other state has. Probably the most-viewed are "Lincoln, the Circuit Rider" and "Lincoln, the Ranger" at tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield.

Both were done in 1930 on order of Charles Herrick Hammond, Illinois state architect then rebuilding Lincoln's tomb. Torrey also designed the four tomb plaques giving a brief biography of Lincoln, his farewell address and part of his second inaugural address. Decatur also has two of Torrey's works. One is a bust of Martin Luther in Macon County Memorial Park and the other is a full figure of Lincoln, "At Twenty-One I Came to Illinois," placed on the Millikin University campus in 1948. The latter and also Torrey's "Little Giant," a sitting figure of Stephen A.

Douglas in the Winchester city square, were commissioned by the State of Illinois. Bloomington school Over the doors of Jefferson School in Bloomington are a pair of Torrey panels, "Teacher and Student." In these larger than life-size limestone reliefs done in 1933, the girl in one and the boy in the other are in contemporary dress, conveying transitoriness, but the teacher in each panel is in classical garb to show the timelessness of learning. Masterworks of Torrey stand in Kansas his largest commission, won through competition, was the $50,000 Munn Memorial for Topeka Colorado, Nebraska, Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania and New York, as well as in Illinois and Iowa. It was therefore surprising to the Charleston woman, researching for her centennial article, that not a single example of Torrey's work was in his native state of West Virginia. Even more shocking to Miss Bing was realization that the capitol of West Virginia had no statue or memorial of any kind honoring Abraham Lincoln, whose proclamation created the state.

In correspondence with Torrey, she reported this doubly-dismaying discovery. He responded that he would be "honored" if West Virginians would wish to have his "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" cast in bronze for the state capitol grounds. The West Virginia Legislature gave-permission for the Lincoln statue to be placed on the capitol grounds. However, no financial aid was available from a state entirely in economically-depressed Appalachia and hard-pressed for funds for more urgent needs, such as highways and schools. The elderly Charleston woman, now 73, thereupon launched a spirited, single-handed campaign for voluntary contributions.

Although past normal retirement age, she was working full-time in an employment office, keeping house and caring for an ill sister, so she had little time to devote to such an undertaking, and the project lagged. Some animosity Her enthusiasm never waned, though, even when she was subjected to some expressions of animosity from descendants of Confederate soldiers. Neighbors and even families were split in sympathies within what became West Virginia during the Civil War more often referred to as the War Between the States. The famed Hatfield-McCoy feud stem- Steinburg art at Galesburg A painting by C. Louis Steinburg, assistant professor of art at Illinois State University, has been accepted for the Galex 5 Exhibit which will open at the Galesburg Civic Art Center today.

Hours for the opening are from 2 to 4 p.m., with awards presentation scheduled for 3 p.m. Weekly hours at the Art Center are from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The "Galex 5" is a regional exhibit open to artists in a five-state area. Mr.

Steinburg will show a painting titled "Child's Flag," which he describes as a combination of paint and constructed materials, including carved wooden stars. A member of the ISU art department faculty since 1959, Mr. Steinburg currently teaches graduate and undergraduate painting. lions for the casting, however, and all rights were transferred with the model 21 months ago. Since then, the statue fund has been inching forward slowly but steadily.

The pace is expected to accelerate in the spring with a publicity campaign. Assistance on this has been provided by a Bloomington women, Mrs. Harold "Ethel" Sinclair, who vacationed in West Virginia last summer. Mrs. Sinclair is Daily Pantagraph librarian.

Meanwhile, word has leaked to two Pontiac families with West Virginia links and they have made contributions. The first was from Dr. and Mrs. Otis Law, whose son, Douglas, is a West Virgina newspaperman although currently on leave from the staff of the Beckley Post-Herald to study photojournalism at Duke University. The second was from Oscar D.

Brissenden, Pontiac, retired assistant to the president of the Illinois Agricultural Association and a Lincolniana collector. He sent a generous check to cover two daughters and six grandchildren as well as himself and his wife, whose father came to Illinois from Hebron, W. Va. Now less than $30,000 remains to be raised and the amount seems assured with the increasing flow of individual gifts plus benefit projects in progress or planning stage. The statue model, now on display in the office of Gov.

Arch A. Moore is pictured in a $5 paperweight being brought out on Lincoln's birthday. The rectangular, scalloped slab Is designed like paperweights of Lincoln's own time except for a modern, plexiglas window on the underside, where statue facts, including mention of Vachel Lindsay, are printed. The statue also is pictured on one side of postcards selling for three cents to benefit the statue fund. There is a reverse side message that contributions may be mailed to the National Bank of Commerce in Charleston, W.

Va. 25301. Hines concert The bank is planning to underwrite a concert by Jerome Hines, who has written a composition, "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," which he will sing and narrate with Charleston Symphony Orchestra accompaniment. The West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council is standing by with promise of $5,000 and possibly more if needed later this year, when bronze casting is tentatively scheduled. Unveiling and dedication ceremonies are expected to take place in the early summer of 1972.

At that time, a list of donors will be placed in state archives. The Charleston bank is keeping specific records so any donor's tax claim may be verified, but the amount r.f contributions is not being publicly disclosed unless by the contributing group or individual. Miss Bing, painfully aware that the fund has been developed from many small gifts over a long period of years, has instructed the bank to show only names, not amounts, in the contributors' list to be permanently preserved in the state archives. "The statue must belong equally to all the people," she explains. "Lincoln did not distinguish one American from another.

That's the meaning of 'Abraham Lincoln Walks at Until we are as one, Lincoln's spirit cannot rest." 4si Champaign Two champions, Don Knight of Canada and Japan's Sashi Kuchiki, team up for an Ice Capades special. The company will perform five evening and four matinee shows at the Assembly Hall here starting Tuesday, Feb. 9. Added feature will be camera night to be held opening night. Skating stars will pose and do routines following show for benefit of picture-takers.

fit 4 Air Mac Stevenson Walks at midnight "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," Fred Torrey's sculptural translation of Vachel Lindsay's poem, was chosen to illustrate the jacket of Gladys E. Hamlin's new art book, "The Sculpture of Fred and Mabel Torrey." The photo is of a 41-inch plaster model soon to be enlarged into a nine and one-half foot bronze statue, with three-foot base, for the state capitol grounds in Charleston, W. Va. med from that wartime division of neighbors and it was with some trepidation that a dramatization of the mountain feud was begun last summer at Cliffside Amphitheatre in Grandview State Park near Beckley, W. Va.

The bitterness has been distilled but that it still exists is reflected in the fact that the United Daughters of the Confederacy is generally viewed as a "status" organization for West Virginia women. Also pertinent to note is that the only statue now on state capitol grounds is one of Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson on horseback. When Lincoln walks where Jackson gallops, it can symbolize the harmony for which Lincoln the man who couldn't hate yearned and perhaps could have achieved if he had not been assassinated before he could heal the oreach. In persevering toward this goal a century later, Miss Bing has been sustained greatly by response from West Virginia school children.

Slow but steady They have contributed Lincoln pennies also Jefferson nickels and Roosevelt dimes from time to time for a current total of roundly $4,500. Miss Bing's greatest sorrow over the turtle pace of the statue project is that the sculptor died before the statue could be erected. He had completed instruc- Champs skate os global team Wv if, I to attend play "That Girl," "Name of the Game" and the "Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Special." He was in the cast of the "Tim Conway Comedy Hour," which was canceled after 13 broadcasts. In television commercials he has plugged such products as deodorants, cars, coffee, peanuts, starches, to name only a few. He and his wife, Louise, and year-old daughter, Jennifer, live in North Hollywood, Calif.

Players' president Jack Ingold said that following the introduction of Stevenson a reception will be held in the theater lobby to which first-nighters are invited. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Childers 2 'A 1 McLean Stevenson By Tony Holloway McLean "Mac" Stevenson, a Twin Cities native who has made good in television as a member of the Doris Day Show cast and numerous commercials, will attend the opening night performance of the Community Players' production of "A Thousand Clowns" Friday, Feb. 12.

Mr. Stevenson, the son of Dr. and Mrs. E. M.

Stevenson, 612 Fairway Drive, will arrive here either Feb. 10 or 11 and will leave the following Sunday. He is presently between tapings of the Doris Day Show, which will soon begin Its third season. Mrs. Richard Dunn, who has known Mac since he was an infant, wrote to him in Hollywood at.

the suggestion of Mrs. Fred Mattingly, co-hospitality chairman for the Players, asking him to attend the opening performance. He will be guest of honor at a pre-performance cocktal party hosted by the Dunns and will be introduced to the first-nighters at the conclusion of the play. The 43-year-old actor was born in Normal and attended Metcalf School in Normal and Bloomington High School. He attended Northwestern University School of Speech and Drama and one year of law school.

lie has studied acting with Lee Strasbcrg and Sandy Meisner, singing with David Craig, Lehman Engel and Sue Seaton and dancing with Hanya Holm and Ona White. Before landing his role on the Day Show Stevenson appeared on stage in such productions at "Bye Bye Birdie," 'Music Man" and "Brigadoon." His television credits include such shows as "The Ed Sullivan Show," The Perry Como Show," City," "The Defenders," "Car 54, Where Are You," i -i urn i. jn..