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Atlanta Arts Monthly Magazine of the WHA, 10:00 and 8:00 AtlantaTHE MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE ATLANTA MEMORIALArts ARTS CENTER NOVEMBER 1976 HesOneOf The Souths Brightest Architects, An MIT Graduate, AnLIrbanRevitalist And AGoodOl Boy Harry Charles Wolf III of step back and look at it in what this New South, is Charlotte, North Carolina, relation to older buildings all about. It’s actually the was bom and reared in the around it. We make sure real South.” South same as his father and that the new building will The New South. It’s full grandfather. Harry of real Southerners. watched the emergence Oh, they ’re movers of the New South and and shakers alright. is now helping build it, But beneath it all that revitalizing Southern good ol’boy is still cities. “Everybody down alive and well. It’s the here was trying to catch part of us that holds up with the North and onto that little bit of old that wasn t all good. amidst all this new. Whole city blocks were You can see it in the demolished, the good buildings Harry builds with the bad. Up went and in the bourbon he the shiny buildings like drinks. Rebel Yell. The you’d see anywhere. The t bourbon of the South. went part ofour heritage.’’ be an intruder. It must Made and sola only below Harry Wolf believes the strengthen the individual the Mason-Dixon line, and South should rebuild instead characteristics of the city. We tailored exclusively for ofiust build. “Weshould keep must recognize what they are ■■ Southern tastes. and build on them and ..ij| Rebel Yell's whisper not be bringing ourselves of wheat imparts a one graphic step closer luxurious flavor to conformity. |3| found in no other We re fortunate to ■ premium bourbon. have an identity Next time ask and a heritage. The for Rebel Yell and South isn’t like any water. A part of place else and doesn ’t » the real South what’s not, instead of just have to be. We can have REBEEYELt enjoyed in the changing everything. When the best of both u>orlds. New South by we start a new building we Were unique. That’s •‘"taai'yij!*-1 those who know. DEEP S( Rebel Ydl.Thc Good OF Boys Bourbon. REBEL YELL DISTILLERY • LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY • 90 PROOF • KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY Of Special Interest AT THE CENTER ini__________________ HIGH MUSEUM OF ART Special Exhibition ", . Remember the Ladies . Women in America 1750-1815 On View at the High Museum Through November 14 This exhibition gathers together portraits (including paintings by Copley and Peale), furniturejewelry, needlework, silverware, costumes, implements, and manuscripts to provide an overview of the American woman of the Revolutionary period. Organized by Conover Hunt and historian Linda Grant de Pauw, the exhibition seeks to illustrate class differences while looking at women participating in war, education, politics, arts, and child-rearing. ", .. Remember the Ladies ...” is supported by grants from Philip Morris, Inc., Clairol, the National to come to our collections Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. An of fashion for the illustrated catalogue, published by Viking Press, containing essays by Ms. Hunt and entire family, the home, Ms. De Pauw. is available in both hard and gifts and antiques too. soft cover. Do stay for luncheon New Installations of 18th Century or tea at our Bird Cage Ceramics Opens November 29 on Museum's Third Floor restaurant, open every Through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. shopping day. Lord & Taylor, G. Ryland Scott and their families, the nationally-celebrated Scott-Allen Phipps Plaza, Peachtree Collection of porcelains has been made Road between Wieuca available to the High Museum on long­ term loan. This remarkable collection is and Lenox Roads. 266-0600 broad in scope, with tablewares and figures from more than 25 factories, including Monday through prime examples by leading modelers and painters, tracing the production of Saturday 10:00 a.m. to European porcelain from its discovery at 6:00 p.m., Monday and Meissen in 1709 to the rare Welsh Nantgarw made a century later. Thursday evenings until In conjunction with this special installation, the English ceramics from the 9:00 p.m. _______________ 3 MUSE’S PROUDLYANNOUNCES THE RETURN TO • ELEGANCE. T -IFVE fHE eaning jk _ •* • MH Illi_____________________ Frances and Emory Cocke Collection will be displayed along with other English Sears wares from the museum’s permanent collection (gifts of Mrs. Thomas K. Glenn, Mrs. Clifford Early and others). In all, the McBurney Decorative Arts Gallery will present over 350 pieces, illustrating a So many ways to magnificent century of European art and Shop at Sears technology. and SAVE! Got a Match? The High Museum has received its 8 BIG STORES IN ATLANTA open every night and Sunday afternoons fourth matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the purchases 17 Appliance Catalog Stores of works of art by living American artists. all around the Atlanta area Needless to say, we are terribly pleased about this, but now we are obliged to find $20,000 necessary to match the grant. We 24 Hour Catalog Shopping by phone from home, call 892-4242 have, in the past, been able to acquire some of our major contemporary works through Surplus and Bargain Stores these grants and the interest on the part of with closeouts from catalog and stores our members or suggestions on funding sources will be welcomed by the museum PLEASE SEE YOUR staff. TELEPHONE DIRECTORY FOR MORE SPECIAL SERVICES INCLUDING ■ ATLANTA CHILDREN'S THEATRE SEARS CARPET CLEANING ACT on Tour call 351-4082 Atlanta Children’s Theatre concludes its SEARS DRAIN & SEWER SERVICE Atlanta run of Legend of the Silver Arrow call 892-6565 with a special performance for the ACT Guild Night November 5. SEARS DRIVING SCHOOL The company then begins a tour call 352-3400 throughout Georgia with a week’s run at FLOWERS BY SEARS the Cobb County Civic Center followed by call 325-0337 (Atlanta) performances in Jackson, Griffin, and or 422-0656 (Marietta) Macon. Once again the wizardry of production SEARS MEAT & FROZEN FOOD stage manager D. Wayne Hughes, call 325-5359 technical director Reid Pierce, light SEARS RENT-A-CAR designer Carol Graebner, and company call 261-6700 (Buckhead) manager Bix Doughty will be required to or 659-5010 (Downtown) set up a production of this magnitude on tour. The Alliance Theatre stage in Atlanta SEARS TERMITE & PEST CONTROL is 60 feet wide while in several tour stops call 351-4082 I the stage width is half that. Pierce carefully constructed the elaborate set to be completely portable and the entire set up can be accomplished in a few hours including the complicated special effects. During the one hour show I 27 lightning bolts explode, thunder roars, 5 THE FLUID LINES OF GREAT DESIGNS. From our very complete collection of Omega watches for women, these ideas in 14 karat yellow gold, with and without diamonds. Classics all, and only a sampling of what we can show you when you come in. Something Beautiful for Everyone. 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Designed for fourth through seventh graders, a series of acting workshops is conducted after school in the schools in Fulton, DeKalb, and Cobb counties. The introductory course includes theatre games, acting exercises, scene j.p Allen study, role preparation and public presentation of improvisations and scenes. A second course follows with emphasis Ptlonto on play construction, building the role, Women’s and children’s fashions, scene dissection, and acting technique. Each series is composed of 15 hour and a cosmetics and gifts. half sessions. All areas of technical production also are discussed, such as A luxurious designer costume lighting, costumes, make-up, set design, in camel. One from an elegant and construction. collection in our Sports Shop. Director of these workshops is Joe Catalinotto who came to Atlanta from We invite you to visit any of our five stores. Weston, Connecticut, to assume this post. Catalinotto has years of experience as a DOWNTOWN, LENOX SQUARE. GREENBRIAR. 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