Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 16

              lehigh university will be favored with an exhibit of the famouh gimbel pennsylvania art collection which wim be displayed in the art gallery of the university library starting sunday paintings by joe jones nationally known artist who two years ago taught painting in lehigh's evening adult education classes are in cluded in the exhibit which will run through dec 18 the gallery will be open daily from 2 p.m to 5 p.m the exhibit will include work by such men as andrew wyeth paul sample albert gold adolf dehn aaron bohrod george biddle ernest fiene william gropper fletcher martin edward millman hobson pittman franklin watkins and also doris lee the < nly wo man included in the project the aim of the collection is to present the story of con temporary people of pennsylvania influenced as they are by the state!s geograph ical historical industrial and cul tural background with the limita tions indicated the fourteen lead ing american artists were given complete freedom in their ap proach to the subject jones a native of missouri has created a striking series of transportation pictures showing traffic on the delaware ohio and susquehanna rivers also the con trasting water fronts of philadel phia and pittsburgh and the broad railway bridge near harrisburg jones has employed his feeling for inland waterways and his abil ty to contrast admirably in his kenneth e miller 50 set designer and his stage crew are responsible for the making of two stage sets for the dictator alan koppes 52 and herb continued on page 8 col 5 ted christiansen 51 is acting *■ as business manager for this pro duction and omar greene 51 president of the club is in charge of tickets thomas walker 52 and his crew have devoted a great amount of their time to the light ing end of the play charles reed 51 who has the suppolting role as hyne james hood 51 member of m & c roger noone 51 nancy lynn peter thompson 51 anl jesse monselle 51 will all contribute to make the play the success it was on broad way peter conover playing the lead as steve is this evening mak ing his debut with the mustard and cheese club a freshman this year conover is by no means in experienced he has worked for a summer stock company last sum mer first produced in 1904 in new york where it remained a popular play until the early twenties the dictator under the direction of prof h barrett davis head of the speech department will be seen with a cast of 30 students will be admitted upon presentation of coupon v in their activity book and tickets for gen eral admission will be sold at the door for 1.20 the dictator presented by mustard and cheese will be presented tonight and tomorrow night at the broughal junior high school at 8 p.m the play is in honor of the club's founder rich ard harding davis m&c dictator at broughal volume 58 — number 16 dance satirist . . . lehigh university bethlehem pa friday december 2 1949 university to display gimber art exhibit the exhibit of the gimbel collection at lehigh will be the final one before the paintings are returned for permanent dis play at the state captol in har risburg the collecten is the largest to be shown at lehigh both in number of paintings and in number of artists dance satirist to appear scl schedules miss kitchell iva kitchell satirist of the dance will be presented at 8 p.m friday dec 9 in grace hall miss kitchell who has been acclaimed the country over for her humorous caricatures of dancing ranging from the abstract contortions of the modernist ballet to the gloomy antics of the opera although miss kitchell's dances are purely comical she has the background of study which a satirist must depend on for true comical effect her first lessons in dancing were primarily to improve her health and her studies ranged from early lessons to several seasons with the chicago opera company miss kitchell a natural comedienne provides plenty of laughs even for those in the audi ence who have never attended dance recitals one of her most popular dances soul in search for instance had austere carnegie hall resounding with spasms of laughter miss kitchell is too much of an artist to go to extremes of hokum and exhibitionism the slightest bit of overstatement or under statement the pixy glance which is a kitchell trademark are enough to attain her best effects student admission is by coupon c in the activity book tickets for dates may be obtained at the registrar's office for 75c dancing alone however is not all which receives satirism at the hands of miss kitchell her audience you and me and many other types of characters gain humor through her interpretations of them harvey brown her com poser-pianist aids her presentation by supplying a harmonious musical background for her pantomimes aiken attends shah's washington dinner sketches and water colors com pared with an artist like paul sample jones implies in his work much more than he states sample states all in a diffused wash while jones employs clear razorsharp lines albert gold native philadel phian takes the city apart and comes up with a variety of this and that biddle yyeth dehn and doris lee reveal pennsylvania contrasts with quiet cloud-shad owed open farmlands smoke flavored hills of pittsburgh and the grimy rivers of philadelphia fletcher martin and ed ward millman interpret coal min ing and steel production william gropper has accentuated the folk heroes which loom large in the af fections of pennsylvania steel workers in a painting of a mythi cal hero named joe magarac the whole is a result of 18 months of touring the state on the part of the artists to understand the striking conrasts which these artists have displayed in their in terpretation of pennsylvania one must go back through time to an other era and another tempo of living to the folk who still live comparatively unchanged since the 18th century in this creation of a composite of squalor and elegance city and country the complex and the sim ple one sees the manifestation of the basic elements of the state of pennsylvania by 14 of our more able artists the collection of 116 paintings drawings and sketches was organ ized in 1946 with the official sanc tion of the commonwealth of pennsylvania second nature — he can frequently no longer distinguish the true from the false after the medicine and educational programs are well under way agriculture and conservation will be emphasized aiken felt and fin ally wil come to the trend toward moderate industrialization along the lines best suited to iran's resources beset by opposition from every quarter prof aiken said the shah's life is in constant danger through his desire to benefit the low er classes a desire which has led him to turn all his own income back to the land he has become the enemy of certain selfish elements among the aristocracy and of the extreme right wing islamic elements communists and other leftists in iran hate his majesty the pro fesosr revealed simply because he is the king and also because he suc cessfully suppressed the red revolt in azerbaijan — the only ruler on a russian frontal to suppress such an uprising and survive the conse quences success in iran the professor believes will provide the pattern for state department action throughout asia india may be next he said followed by siam and indonesia as the united states strives to show the world what democracy can do if the seven-year program can succeed in spite of such opposition prof aiken pointed out it will mark a great victory for president truman's point four program because if iran receives the things it needs from america it will become the point four laboratory what iran needs from america prof aiken emphasized isj technical advice and training in fields relative to the seven-year plan she needs money too — 650 million dollars of iranian capital will be invested in the program but the shah hopes to interest private ameri can capital as well his majesty is undertaking to lead the revolution the professor re ported the old shah mohammad reza pahlevi's father started the revoultion the son now carries on his father's work where once a pleasant playboy's interlude had successfully survived continued on page 8 col 1 although possessed of great tact and charm his majesty seems a very lonely man prof aiken remarked he is well aware of the dan ger to his life and to the lives of those about him his minister of court was assasinated recently — hussein ala ambassador to the when his imperial majesty mohammad reza pahlevi shah-en shah of iran arrived in the united states recently to enlist support for his seven-year improvement program prof william a aiken of the history department attended two of the social functions given in his majesty's behalf prof aiken was invited to the reception following the shah's wash ington dinner in honor of the trumans and to the iran foundation's dinner in new york in honor of the shah as a result of his friendship with dr a torab mehra medical director in the seven-year plan to laud the shah's seven-year program only for its va?ue as a de fense against russian imperialism the professor asserted on his re turn here is to look only at its negative aspects the plan's true value prof aiken said lies in its positive approach to the spread of communism counteracting that spread with a dynam ic demonstration of western democracy in action on the other hand it is unrealistic aiken pointed out to suppose that the shah is not vitally concerned with maintaining his country's independence by developing his military might in every way at the same time his majesty is equally if not more concerned with raising the iranian standard of living in cooperation therefore with overseas consultants incorporated american industrial combine he has embarked upon his seven-year plan that plan prof aiken believes is probably the most progressive and intelligent plan to date for effecting beneficial social and economic changes in the middle east quite correctly the shah's finst concern is with improving public health he is to construct a modern hospital at shiraz to train iranian nurses and medical personnel with the ultimate aim of developing a network of clinics throughout the country simultaneously prof aiken reported his majesty is determined to improve iranian educational facilities and raise educational standards in an effort to eliminate if possible some of the deeply rooted and per sistent patterns of thought which for centuries have obstructed pro gress in the middle east those thought patterns he explained involve basically the oriental question of face in an effort to save face the oriental has been willing to resort to any sort of subterfuge for so many cen turies that a certain type of dishonesty in social relations has become brown and white