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Show Noted Art Connoisseur Visits Springville Art Gallery; Praises Work A visitor of Importance at the Springville high school this week was Royal B. Farnum, who came with a card of introduction from C. E. Dailin of Boston. Mr. Farnum was at one time a student under Mr. Dailin, but for the past eight years he has bean at the head of the art school in which Mr. Dailin is teaching. He is a member of the art committee of the Carnegie Institute, and it is in connection with this institution that he made his visit here. When President Hoover appointed appoint-ed a committee to investigate social trends throughout the country, he asked the cooperation of the art section of the Carnegia Institute in the art phase of the work. As a result of this cooperative undertaking, undertak-ing, Mr. Farnum was elected to visit cities of importance throughout through-out the United States and report his findings in actual art production produc-tion and application, not only in the ' schools but in industries as well. He has visited the large industrial centers with a view to investigating investigat-ing the extent of art application in industry; he has studied the art movements in the most important colleges; and he has surveyed the art educational work of various museums and in public and private schools. This art phase covers music, architecture, civic artistic development and dramatic art. After this extensive survey, his praise for the art movement in the Springville high school was unstinted un-stinted and sincere. He was emphatic em-phatic in his assertion that this pioject is unique and highly deserving deserv-ing of every encouragement and support. Mr. Farnum has a very pleasing personality quiet, reserved, and sincere and his visit was greatly enjoyed en-joyed during he time he was making mak-ing his survey of conditions at the tchool. |