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Show Dailin Returns to Childhood Environs For Inspiration ic . Reminiscently Relates Incidents Of Early Days Spent In Springville During Exclusive Interview "I came back to Springville to renew my youth," said Cyrus E. Dailin Tuesday morning, as he looked with moist eyes towards Rock Canyon and the stately state-ly mountains that surround the beloved town of his boyhood. In a personal interview Tuesday morning at the Herald Office, Mr. Dailin said that in spite of the fact that he had lived away from Sprinorville since 18S0. ; rwhen he left for the East at the age of eighteen, it was here that his heart had always been. He recalled memories and and incidents that took place during ; his early days spent in Spring- ! ville. His first recollection in schools was wanting to draw, indicating in-dicating even then his artistic i inclinations, and Mr. Dailin some- ! what humorously stated that his I teacher, Mrs. Singleton, would I say, "Now, Teddy," and draw his i attention again to the more com- ! monplace "R's" under consideration. considera-tion. Mr. Dailin said that that i teacher was a great influence in ' shaping his entire life. He spoke very affectionately of the little woman who guided the early lives j of he and his companions without the used of a switch. He declared that that teacher was an artist with an appreciation of what children needed. Mr. Dailin announced that at the present time he is working on a sculptor piece of a knight on horseback holding aloft a sword. He is creating the piece with scrupulous scru-pulous care, and expects to exhibit it in some relation to modern art as one of his most interesting works. The famous sculptor, in inter- i upreting his version of art, said: j "Art is an attempt to show that ; thing that you can't show by in- ! tellect." He said further that it is impossible to make a great work of art without an emotional nature, na-ture, and that a good artist has a combination of. high intelligence and emotionalism. For example, Mr. Dailin spoke of Michael Au-gelo Au-gelo as a good example of a great artist who possessed both a strong intellect and the emotional soul necessary, to a high degree, to accomplish ac-complish great works of art. Such is the basic foundational truth of great art. What is truth? Mr. Dailin simply sim-ply said, "Truth is not absolute; it may be all right in one case but not in another. Truth is an appreciation ap-preciation of all the conditions, not just one. "If the artist's work has any value, it has a quality of the soul," continued Mr. Dailin. "Science acknowledges the subconscious, subcon-scious, and that is where the artist art-ist starts, but he must have with that intelligence, to know what ho is doing." Mr. Dailin said that the major- ! ity of the people today accept what happens to be the style or the modern trend, and that ten years from now what may be tho style now will prove worthless, because be-cause art lovers find nothing in it. Many modern artists prey on the susceptibility of the human being, and it isn't an emotional appreciation of the thing that they feel but it is because Mr. Jones says it Is good. In connection with the National Nation-al convention of the American Legion Le-gion to be held In Boston in September Sep-tember with the theme "Revere Rides Again," Dallln's statue of Paul Revere in bronze will be unveiled un-veiled on the opening day of the convention as one of the features of the convention program. Mr. Dailin won the contract for the statue In 1884, but It has taken 55 years to get the statue erected. It will be placed near Paul Re-vere's Re-vere's old home In the center of Paul Revere mall. Mr. Dailin plans to spend a fortnight in Springville visiting relatives and renewing old acquaintances. |