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Show Miss Dorothy Hirschi Wins Acclaim As Queen of Fine Arts Fete Miss Dorothy Hirschi, Hurricane, daughter of President and Mrs. Claud Hirschi, was presented as the "Spirit of Fine Arts", as the concluding feature of the Fine Arts Festival last Friday night. Her attendants were: VerNell Chamberlain, Ruth Hafen, Alda Hinton, Edith Crosby, Yvonne Jackson, Vivian Prince, Barbara Tweedie and Opal Isom. The floor show was directed by Mrs. Ada Neilson and Miss Margaret Jones. The color scheme represented the spectrum. Unveil Painting Also featured at the Fine Arts Ball was the unveiling of the painting, "The Strays", by Paul Salisbury, young Provo artist. This picture was selected as the one to become a part of the permanent perm-anent collection of the Dixie college. col-lege. Friday afternoon Donald B. Goodall, director of the Utah State Art Center, Salt Lake City, spoke on, "Why Should Today's Utahn Understand Modern Design?" A musical program was given under the direction of the college music faculty. Two demonstrations were given during Friday afternoon, one of the silk screen project by Mr. (Continued on page six) Fine Arts Festival (Continued from first page) Vaughn, from the Utah State Art ' Center, and one on metal working work-ing by Kenneth L. Whipple of the same jArt center. Thursday evening the Utah State Symphony orchestra, under the direction of Hans Heniot, gave a concert in the Tabernacle. The numbers were well-chosen, well-played, well-played, and well-directed. The purpose of the concert, art appreciation, ap-preciation, was accomplished, state those who attended. Mr. Heniot's explanation of the numbers helped accomplish this purpose. The college play, "The Celebrity", Celeb-rity", by Jerome K. Jerome, directed direc-ted by Miss Myrtle Henderson, was the opening number of the Festival. The play was repealed Saturday night. Art Kxhibit Still Oiwn The art exhibit, of nearly 150 1 excellent paintings, which opened on Dec. 1st, has been visited by a large number of patrons. It will remain open until the end of next week. Those who have not seen the exhibt. should arrange to do so. Ralph Huntsman, chairman of the Festival, advises patrons to visit, the display several times. It is by this means, he says, that, true art appreciation comes about. Mr. Huntsman also urges patrons pat-rons to keep as many of these paintings as possible in this vicinity. vi-cinity. I'urcliases may be arranged arrang-ed for with Mr. Huntsman. This is not a commercial enterprise, according to Mr. Huntsman, but a means of improving our art environment en-vironment and a means of insuring insur-ing the continuation of the exhibit. ex-hibit. A: .i.'.l ing Mi'. Hunt ..man on the central committee were Miss Linna Snow, in charge of the day of literature, and Karl J. lileak, in charge of the day of music. |