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ONNECTICUT OLLEGE EWS Vol. 3Q-No. 21 ew London, Connecticut, ednesday, April 25, 194.5 5<: per copy - Professor of Design Allied Children's Final Movie About Fund For Purchase Yale Professor of Fund Will Benefit Latin America Will Desien Will Speak Be Shown on May 2 Of a Harpsichord The third of a series of From Jazz Concert Latin American movies "ill Begun by Faculty Here on April 27 be presented in the auditori- On May 14, the junior class A project, initiated by a sell- will present a Jazz concert for um on Wednesday evening, Dr. Richard Bennett Is appointed committee of faculty the benefit of the Allied Child- May 2. The movies, the last ren's fund. The concert .wilf fea- group of the series, will be and friends of Connecticut col- I To Discuss Design and ture a varied program by Art "Bolivia," "Las Pas," and lege, has been started for the, "High Plain." Planning for Post-War Hodes, Max Kaminsky. Fred raising of $3.000 for the purchase The movies will be shown Moore. and Don Frye, from the of a harpsichord for the college. "Post war Planning: The Fac- Village Vanguard in New York, at 8 p.m., not 7 p.m. as pre- For some time the department tor of Design" will be the subject and a clarinetist and trombonist. viously announced. of a lecture by Richard Bennett, The Village Vanguard group All these movies are made of music has needed such an in- played with great success -earlier for and distributed by the Or- strument for the adequate pre- professor of design at Yale unl- in the season at Smith college. fice of the Coordinator of sentation and instruction of the verstty, to be given Friday, April Inter-American Affairs. Mr. The concert will take place at extensive seventeenth and eight- 27, at 8:00 p.m. in the auditorium. Richard Logan of the ge- eenth century music written for Mr. ,Bennett is outstanding in Palmer auditorium and will be· ography department is in it. The committee members be- the field of SOCiological architec- gin at 8 :30 p.m. The sale of ad- charge of the program. vance tickets will begin at a later lieve that frequent opportunities ture, and his experience and topic date. for hearing harpsichord music, will make the lecture of particu- lar interest to students of his- First Jazz Concert either for the solo instrument or tory, civic government, and soci- This is the first musical pre- Vespers Talk Will with ensemble groups, wlll prove to be a very real contribution to ology, as well as those of art and sentation of its kind to be pro- DR. RICHARD BENNE'IT duced here. For a better explana- the musical life of the commun- design. tion of the music to be played, an Be Given April 29 ity. Very few colleges now pes- City Plnnnlng sess one of these invaluable In- excerpt from a recent review of With the emphasis on modern struments, and Connecticut cot- CC Will Celebrate Art Hodes' latest records by John ByRev. R.Sockman art, Mr. Bennett Is interested in Lucas, brother of Margaret Lu- lege could become a leader in the planning cities as a whole. While field of harpsichord music. cas '48, follows. 'The Rev. Ralph W. Sockman, MayDayWith Many at Vassar, he aided in a survey of "White jazz of this calibre is minister of Christ Church (M.E.) The Instrument faculty housing from the socio- consistently produced only by a of New York, will speak at ves- The instrument under consider- Annual Tradition logical view of the needs of the very select coterie of hot musi- pers Sunday, 'April 29. Graduated ation is a two-manual. seven ped- Spring flowers for senior sis- faculty members. Professor Ben· cians, men drawn originally from from Ohio Wesleyan university, al instrument, the best one built ters, a brightly decorated cam- nett was also winner of the cern- either New Orleans or Chicago which later awarded him the D.O. by John Challis of Ypsilanti, pus, spring songs, fresh straw- petition to design the Art Center but developed more recently in degree, he did graduate work at Michigan (maker of Mr. Quim- berries, an outdoor chapel, a sen- at Wheaton college. both New York and San Fr-ancis- Columbia university, where he by's clavichord). This Instrument ior picnic, and moonlight sipg Professor Bennett is a gradu- co as well. These jazzmen play took his M.A. and Ph.D. Later he is on the Idea of a small organ will mark Conn cucut college's ate of Harvard college and School their music night after night, . pursued theological studies at with the two k yboards and dif· offlcial and traditional greeting to of Design, and winner of the Ap- wherever they are. Some of them Union theological seminary, of Ierent pedals for the effects de- spring on May Day. pleton Iellowshlp for travel and have been doing so for fifteen which he is now a director, sired. The harpsichord, however, At 6:15 a.m. the sun and the study in Europe. He has had years, some for thirty. From 1911 to 1913 he was an has strings instead of pipes. sophomores will rise. The latter practical experience in architec- intercollegiate secretary in the will hang corsages on the doors ture and industrial design in both "They work with an abandon FlUId tempered always by intelligent Y.M.C.A., and was with the army of their senior ststers' rooms. At Boston and New York, and has If enough money is ral ed In muslcianship, with an ardour Y.M.C.A. in 1918. Dr. Sackman is 6:30 a group of seniors will deco- worked for the designers of the time, Mr. Challis will send a that beggars description, so that a leader in the affairs of his de- rate the entire campus for the Modern Museum of Art ir. New smaller instrument that can be York. _ I whatever they perform begins nomination and is nationally occasion with crepe paper in their used until the final purchase of with inspiration and culminates known as a religious radio broad- class colors. At 7:00 the seniors the permanent one is made. There in meaning. Their music is ever caster. He is also a favorite will gather in caps and gowns on speaker on many college and unl- is $400 in the fund now and it is the chapel steps to sing spring Philippe Soupault fundamental, at times even ele- hoped that at least S800 can be mental. It represents creation versity campuses. songs, and underclassmen are In- raised by the end of the school vited 10 listen if they wish. To Deliver French based upon definitive patterns, in- He is the author of The Revival year. Students as groups or indio vention full of restraint but nev- of the Conventual Life in the At 7:30 the late and early ris- viduals are invited to contribute, ers will join in a breakfast which Talk on April 30 er actually inhibited. Church of England; The Suburbs no matter how small the amount. "Circumscribed though they of Christianity; Men of the Mys- \\';11 include fresh strawberries. Philippe Soupault will speak in To start the fund each of the At chapel hour the students are by traditional jazz forms, the teries; Morals and Religion; Re- committee has contributed the French on the topic of "From variations supplied by this group coveries in Religion and The will gather to hear the choir sing Twilight to Dawn" (or "From sum of $25, and there have been See "l\lay Day"-Page .. See "Jazz"-Page 6 Highway of God. some smaller gifts from other Underground to Liberation") on friends. Letters have been dis- Monday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in tributed to the alumnae of the Radio Announcer's Palmer auditorium. This will be college telling them of the pro- Mr. Soupault's third visit to Con- ject and suggesting that they add necticut college. Dumbarton Oaks Plan, Peace Chosen by Judges Mr. Soupault has a prominent to the amount. The announcing staff of the place in the contemporary liter- Hope, ToBe Charter's Basis Harpsichord Oommlttee Palmer Radio project for the 1945 ary movement. He was one of the Paul F. Laubenstein is the Summer session and the 194546 first to experiment in the sur- by Dr. Marjorie R. Dilley Decisions will be arrived at ~y chairman of the committee and winter session were selected Mon. realist field. The Dumbarton Oaks propos- simple maj~rity .vote except 10 the others are Dr. Dorothy Be- day evening. April 23 in Palmer He was born in 1897 near Paris. als were published last October certain specified lffipo.rtant c';'te· thurum, Dean E. Alverna Bur- auditorium. Seven were selected At 23 he was one of the most ar- f h .