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Show Students to Take Part in Anniversary Event; Paintings Arrive for Exhibit Long before the first annuoncement of the approaching ap-proaching April Art Show, details are worked out bv art committee members at the high school for the big annual event. This year, plans include something different a fiftieth anniversary celebration celebra-tion in the form of an art pageant. It has been fifty years since John Hafen, noted Springville artist, art-ist, gave the picture "Mountain Stream" to the school and thus started an art collection and an exhibit surpassing any of its kind in any high school in the country. To mark this memorable occasion,- a pageant, written by Mrs. Mae Huntington of the high school art committee, will be given as a special entertainment event in connection con-nection with the annual April Art Exhibit this year. It is planned to present the pageant pag-eant Tuesday, March 31 for Jun-or Jun-or high school students, in their assembly and for senior students on April 1 at their assembly. The evening of Wednesday, April 1, will be for the general public. The pageant has been entitled, "Art Triumphant," and elaborate stage effects and musical and dance accompaniment will make it an outstanding event. A description descrip-tion of . Springville and the art movement will be worked out with picture slides as a background for the stage" performance. High school students will take part in the pageant, directed by Grant Clyde and Eli Tippetts with lighting and picture slides being arranged by Omar . Hansen - and Harmon Hatch. Joylene Tingey will direct the dancing and Glen Montague and his A'Cappella choir will furnish the music. Elaine Erickson will be the reader. Paint-iigs. Arrive In response to invitations sent out to artists some time ago, pictures pic-tures are already at the high school for the, April Exhibit and indications are that this, the 1953. 50th anniversary show, will be one of the finest ever. Among the early arrivals is Robert Brackman's "Boy From Main Street," a large oil which will undoubtedly be a favorite, exhibiting ex-hibiting the artists's rare skill as a draftsman and colorist. Mr. Brackman, of Noank, Conn., was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1898 and came to this country as a child. He has won many honors as a portrait painter having made pictures for Col. and Mrs. Lind-berg, Lind-berg, Rabbi Stephen, Helen Morgan Mor-gan and other notables. He has studied under George (Continued on page two) Students to Take Part In Anniversary Event (Continued from page One) Bellows and at the National Academy Acad-emy of Design in New York and his work has won many honors. He is presently teaching in New York at the Art Students' League and gives lectures at the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science as well as conducting his own summer sum-mer art classes at Mystic, Conn. His paintings hang in the Metropolitan Metro-politan Museum and the Newark Museum; also the Addison Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum and other collections about the country. |