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Show Cil it Damaged page's, Ambassador Club building bolds fascinating place in Utab history bit about the city's clubs Th' Once it was pristine white Now it's ra.her sickly shade of pale green and its cornices and moldings are accented in an even more woeful, more livid greenish hue In its prime, just prior to World War II, the building at Jack (Goodman six-stor- city-wid- y East. It was designed to house the hundred or more women and children the nation's lawmakers were certain would abandon their husbands and fa-- I thers. But, as you and Hubert Burns well know, the best laid plans of truce and men have a way of going awry According to local legend, only three women took advantage of the offer of low-coor even rent-fre- e housing! The housing project was abandoned after the building stood vacant for well over two years. Purchase by LDS Church As is so often the case With non- Salt Lake functioning, properties designed and built rather hastily and without regard for the facts of economic life, the! building; was purchased by LDS officials as a. private venture and opened as the Ambassador Hotel. So much for ancient history scrupulously researched or otherwise. I should remind local historian:; the federal government in reality ha:; built other "housing projects" including buildings on Indian reservations,, hospitals for Civil War veterans, and l quarters for officers and wives at establishments and army post:c including Fort Douglas. Military Style Which is why. I suspect, the unnamed architect who designed the Ambassador blueprinted a building that looks, to me at least, rather lilte an Army hospital or tlie Carlisle Indian School back in Pen In any event, the old building functioned in its several roles, although it seems unlikely it will achieve the century mark. The passing of the Ambassadlor Club, if not the passing of its Building, provides an opportunity for nusin g a e g one-tim- na-va- generous Congress appropriated some $50,000 to "properly house" Mormon women who were expected to abandon polygamy or who would soon be abandoned by their fleeing Earlier, in 1887. Congress had Act in passed the Edmunds-Tucke- r an effort to wipe out polygamy and its evils. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-DaSaints had been disincorporated. its funds had been sequestered and its properties confiscated. Church President John Taylor had "died in exile" up in Kaysville while a much sought fugitive from federal justice. Polygamous church leaders and lesser brethren fled to Mexico, to Alberta in Canada, to Arizona territory and to Cohab Canyon in Southern Utah, or were wearing stripes in the state prison at rural Sugarhouse Considerate Congressmen The considerate Congressmen, giving kindly thought to the multitude of wives and children certain to be cast off" by the nefarious "polygs," very kindly appropriated federal dollars sufficient to build them a spacious, hotel-lik- e apartment house on 500 y ( our Wi e Street corner, i members unshaken by legal action Being taken by a visitor of what was once termed the "the " I his adventurous feweaker, sex male is seeking; club's membership admission to th rolls, dining roc mi. parlors and - one supposes - evi tn the members' bar. grill, billiard n )om. game room and barber shop 1 7 A series of four slide presentations on the technical aspects of art w ill be offered at the Bountiful Davis Art Center, 2175 S Main, beginning Jan. 28. The free series, provided by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC., addresses techniques of painting, color and light, composition co-e- d Each presentation is approximate- ly 30 minutes long and will be shown in the center's main gallery. The schedule for the series is as follows Jan. 26, 4 p m., "The Artist's Hand Five Techniques of Painting." Methods and materials used in painting from the Renaissance to modern times are explained and are illustrated in works by such artists as Luini (fresco). Domenico Veneziano (temEl Greco pera). van Eyck (resin-oiland Cezanne (direct oil). Feb. 2., 4 p.m., "Color and Light in Painting." This is an introduction to the theories of color and light in painting. Basic terms are explained. Various techniques using color and light are illustrated in paintings by Rembrandt, Goya, Renoir, Monet. Picasso and other major artists. Feb. 9. 4 p.m., The Artist's Eye Pictorial Composition." The basic elements of composition line, plane and form are defined and examined through a series of diagrams and overlays. Important changes in pictorial organization are traced through paintings from the Byzantine, Gothic. Renaissance, mannerist, baroque, and rococo periods to more recent developments including cubism. March 9, 4 p.m., Physics and Painting." As ideas about the structures of the physical world have been changed by discoveries of Copernicus, Kepler. Newton, Einstein and other scientists, so has the artist's vision. In this program, representative , ), Worm tn's Club? But halt a mor cent. Since the building formerly ho using the Ambassador Club was initially built for women, albeit mis, guided plural wives, perhaps some o. t you upwardly mobile women wot tld like to found an soci tal and athletic club and take over th e old 500 East building before the big iron ball starts swinging"7 Pianists to compete SaUurday phony. The public is invited to the final round, including 15 contestants. ; it no Mar cokian. Cheryl Nor-- . Ron Richardson, man, Paul Polk and Mark Vaugh n. Jenkins, Laurie t Jeff Knight. MONDAY, JAf ilUARY 27 8 P.M. , children of illegal polygamous families. Visual arts events around the area and structure. charge. The audlence will be invited to cast its own vt He for the "Audience Favorite" award. Judges for th ? competition are: Beverly Adams, Jennie Baker, Jenny Bennett, Loui te Bluhm, Laura Broom. Susan D tiehlmeier, Matthew I - D'orv b Joi Goodman by Congress in 1880 to house wives and The Ambassador Club building, 145 S. 500 East, was built with funds appropriated "downtown luncheon dubs," especially the pre iprietary kind that charge sizeable membership fees and have been know n to vqte assessments when building e osts rise Members of b sday's generation of bi miness persons find it convenient to do their eating and drinking in suo it spas as the New Yorker, t !je Haggis or Green Street, where t key need not pay to maintain the e fuivalents of the old Ambassador Ch ib. Country clubs still flourish in the suburbs, but in Salt Lake, as in ma ny cities, downtown mens' clubs see cn to be fading from the social scene. I suspect that admitting women to membership in once sancrosant have ps of the male establishment won't r cverse the ticking of the time-cloc- The final round of t'he Arlette Day Piano Competition, sponsored by the Murray Symphony, will be held .Saturday in the Murray High School Auditorium, 5440 S. State at 7:30 p.n i. Pianists from all over the state will compete for $1,000 in prizes and an appearance with the Murray Sym- . r':' v SMS!. Clu Is Fading While the Alt. I Club remains a masculine Gibralt, ir (by the by, why doesn't a male seek lo join the completely femimn e Town Club'), most downtown cWbmhave faded away or Seem to be in th i ir death throes The University Club is a shadow of its former self, the Elk .sCIub shuttered long ago. With Utah 5 present liquor laws (less strict that t prevailed 20 years ago), there se tms less need for Faerber, Carl; K5 19, I'lHh I , 145 S 500 five-stor- of , 1 SumluS, January old Alta Club flour-isheon its So nth Temple at State a Fast functioned as the Ambassador Motel Later the brick and stucco heart of the building, along w it h the two matching wings, housed apartments, studios and even a rather swank penthouse of two. while the lower floor gained popularity as the Ambassador Club Now from the look of its increasingly decrepit-appearinexterior, the Ambassador Club building has outlived its usefulness. No longer deemed viable, the once pleasant dining rooms, dance floor, bar and meeting rooms will fall to local wrecking crews. The club's doors were shut, seemingly forever, in late 1985, leaving the remaining club members their fond memories of pleasant luncheons and dinners, card games with old or vanished cronies, and meetings on municipal and state matters ate tended by such political power brokers as Gov. J Bracken Lee and Salt Lake City Commissioner Jennings Phillips. Historical Tidbit However, the Ambassador should be remembered for another, and very different reason. It was, in its unique way. the first Federal Housing Project in these United States. This odd bit of history turns back the calendar to 1889. when, the records tell us. a problem I The Suit Lake Tribune, paintings from the Middle Ages to the present are used to point out the parallels between science and art, showing how artists have treated concepts of volume, weight, space, motion and light at different moments of history An informal gallery talk by Charles Loving will be offered Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Hansen Gallery of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on the University of Utah campus. Loving, museum registrar and exhibition curator, will discuss the Nora Eccles Harrison Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, currently on exhibit in the urday mornings designed for those w ho are interested in studio art class--ebut who have no experience in "hands-onart The classes. ' Introduction to Throwing." taught by Wendy Wood and "Learning Calligraphy." taught by Lana Hall, will begin Feb. 8 at the Suit Lake Art Center. 20 S West Temple The two courses will run each Saturday through March 8 from 9 30 a m to noon. The art enter calls this new program the "Buddy System" because the classes are designed to offer a price break for those who bring a friend, relative, spouse or associate along When two people register, both receive a 15 percent discount in tus museum. A slide lecture by Gerhardt Kno-del- . head of the fiber department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bloomfield Hills. Mich., will be given Friday at 4:30 p m. at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium on the University of Utah campus. The lecture is by ition. Also, registration for ter classes winter quar- in printmaking, drawing and painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, jewelry design and enameling is still open. For further information contact the Salt Lake Art Center. Utah Designer Craftsmen. The Salt Lake Center Art School is beginning a series of classes on Sat Augusta Symphony sets contests The Augusta Symphony Orchestra has announced the annual Augusta Symphony String Competition June 6 and 7 recital in Augusta. the ages of between Any artist may apply. Instruments accepted are violin, viola, cello, double bass and classical guitar. There is no entry winner, with a solo 18-3- 0 and the Paganini Competition for Classical Guitar June 7 First prize for the String Competition is a $1,500 cash award and an appearance with the Augusta Symphony. A $1,000 cash prize will be awarded to the Guitar Competition fee. For applications and further information, write to: Competitions Chairman. The Augusta Symphony Orchestra. P.O. Box 3684. Augusta. Ga. 30904. 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