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Show Springville, Art Given Page In Denver Newspaper; Article By Local Writer I Mrs. Virginia Sorensen Describes Art City, V Tells Why It Is Different, In Well j Written Article Which Appeared Sunday . What seems quite ordinary to Springville citizens is evidently quite the opposite to the travelor or tourist tour-ist passing thru our city, according to an article ap- 1 pearing Sunday in the magazine section of the Denver Post. Written by Mrs. Virginia E. Sorensen, Sor-ensen, the article is entitled "The Art City" and covers the major portion of an entire page featuring featur-ing two 2-column pictures of paintings which have appeared in the high schol.. art exhibit; one, 1-column 1-column picture of "Breakfast Time," by F. C. Frieske, which was added to the art collection in " 1928, and a 3-column picture of , the " art building. 5 The article is especially complimentary compli-mentary of the city and its major cultural project, the Art. In the introductory paragraph, it states: "When You Come Into Springville, Spring-ville, Utah, the south way, you see the most different sign you ' can imagine the figures of a Gre cian woman holding a palette and I brush, and informing visitors that i they are entering the Art City. "In this town of less than 5000 I population, the word Art domin ates signs in the street: Art City 1 ; Publishing Co., Art City Cab Com-: Com-: pany, Art City Bowling Alleys, Art Music Company, Art City Tourist Cabins, and so on. If you go to a baseball game any summer night you will see the same palette palet-te and brush on the suits of the Springville team, with the words, 'Artists'." The article goes on to describe " the art contests in the schools and gives a short synopsis of the life of John Hafen, as well as the story of growth and development of the art project. It reviews the part the students and citizens take in raising funds with which to purchase more paintings for the art exhibit, and it tells of the April art show, announcing an-nouncing the date for the opening this year on April 1. One paragraph is devoted to the collection given by the A. Merlin Steeds of Glendale, Calif., and numerous other details of special interest are related in this well-written well-written and altogether complimentary complimen-tary writer. The writer, Mrs. Sorensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Eggcrtsen of this city, gathered the material for the article on one of her recent visits to Springville, and in an editor's note attached to the article, it states that "she is a best-selling novelist and an occasional occa-sional contributor to the Rocky Mountain Empire Magazine." |