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The Rollins Sandspur. 1202. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1202 196 ROLLIN pum 0..61 No. 19 THE ROLLINS SANDSPUR, WINTER PARK, FLORIDA April 30, 1963 ROLLINS UNVEILS NEW MUSEUM OF ART President McKean Announces 1 New Art Museum Rollins will soon unveil a col- Blackman, and Mrs. Frances ection of works of art including Cornish. paintings by Gilbert Stuart, In the main gallery, along with Grandma Moses, Tintoretto, Sir many old masters, are four paint­ Thomas Lawrence, and Jean Bap- ings in "mint condition" by Jean liste Le Prince which will com­ Baptiste Le Prince. Le Prince prise the Rollins College Mu­ was a student of the great Fran­ seum of Art. cois Boucher, court painter to Patrons of the college will have Louis XV of France. He visited preview of the collection, val­ Moscow, charmed the Russian id in the "hundreds of thou­ court, and especially the Czarina, sands of dollars" on Saturday and received many commissions evening, May 4, when it will be to work in the winter palace and installed in a temporary museum other official buildings in Russia. irtiich served formerly as presi- On his return to France, Le 's residence of the College Prince took with him paintings Holt House — New Museum of Art hibited by Rollins are unique in contribution to the cultural life that they are the works of Louis of Florida," President McKean Persons interested in applying Comfort Tiffany himself and not said in announcing the forthcom­ for the office of Union Comp­ examples of the numerous win­ ing opening. "Orlando is the hub troller must send written ap­ dows made by the Tiffany Stu­ of Florida's transportation sys­ plications and a note of recom­ dios. tem. As the importance of Rol­ mendation from Mr. Evans of On view is "Entombment" made lins' new museum becomes the business department to by Tiffany as a memorial to his known, it will bring many people Jon Swanson, Box 471, before father and exhibited in the here to see its treasures." May 7. Bob Stewart Views Painting World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. "It is to be remembered that Also on view are the famous the Museum of Art will not dis­ at 208 N. Interlachen Ave., Win­ of the Russian countryside and "Maiden Feeding Flamingoes" place Rollins' well-known Morse ter Park. Russian peasants, and he is said and the section of the "Four Sea­ Gallery of Art. The Museum will Deadline for Fiesta scholar­ The paintings and other objects to have been responsible for the sons" window which created a show permanent collections. The ship applications is Monday, have been coming to the College Russian vogue at the French sensation in Paris in the 1890's. Morse Gallery will continue as it May 6. Please send all letters over the past 25 years, and the court. The "Four Seasons" window has in the past to show changing of applications to Grant Jenni­ collection, according to Rollins Le Prince's works are also to was exhibited in its entirety in exhibitions from many schools of son, Box 283, Campus Mail. President Hugh F. McKean, "has be found in the Louvre, and the the Paris Salon of Samuel Bing, art. grown to such proportions that Palace of Justice in Paris. and in that year (1895), it in­ "Rollins' Centennial Develop­ the trustees feel duty-bound to Of special interest in the ex­ trigued leading artists of the time ment Plans call for an art mu­ share them with the people of hibition is the painting by Fran­ including Toulouse Lautrec and seum constructed of fire-resistant Florida." cesco de Mura, "The Visitation," Paul Gauguin. They and many materials," McKean said. "Rol­ Inside the 'Spur - given to Rollins by the late other leading French artists made Among the principal donors lins' temporary museum will PAGE George Hammond Sullivan. This designs for Tiffany windows are John C. Myers and his family demonstrate the dramatic possi­ painting has recently been re­ which were carried out in the of Ashland, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. bilities of a new art museum for Movie Review — stored by Edward O. Korany, one Tiffany Studios. n J. Carty, the late George Rollins College and Central Flor­ The Bird 2 ammond Sullivan, Mr. Rush of the country's outstanding art Also on exhibit is a rare six­ ida. When this collection is fress, Mr. Marshall Clark, Mr. restorers, who declared it to be teenth-century French window housed properly, we all will iart Borchard, Mrs. Berkeley "a handsome example of this made in the great glass center of breathe a little easier." Publication Heads well-known Italian Baroque Rouen. The Museum will be open to Announced 3 painter." "The Rollins College Museum the public as soon as final ar­ A special feature in the Mu­ of Art will make an important rangements are completed. seum is a room devoted exclu­ No More Social Groups sively to stained glass windows. Letter to Editor 3 The windows are lent by Presi­ dent and Mrs. Hugh F. McKean, most of them by Louis Comfort Theatre Review — Tiffany. "All My Sons" _ 4 Tiffany is of especial interest to the art world because in his heyday, which was the turn of Society Column 5 the century, he had dazzled Eu­ rope and fascinated his own country with his shimmering and Baseball Season daring glass windows. By the Has Slow Start 6 1920's, Tiffany was almost for­ gotten as an artist. Now he is in the process of being "rediscov­ Sports Roundup of ered" by art scholars who find the Week 7 in his work not only the true marks of genius, but the seeds of much of the modern movement. Campus Scene 8 The Tiffany windows being ex­ PAGE TWO THE ROLLINS SANDSPUR April 30, 1962 Movie Review merely points to the mounting need for bringing C( stantly better instructors here and retaining those we now do have. Personally, I like Rollins, and I believe in its ideaU THE BIRDS and goals. But I hope that none — especially tho; By Tom Chomont with the greatest responsibility in Administration allow any attachment to blind them from seeing | I could not possibly recommend The Birds to you, chistic art of suspense. Now in The Birds, unimpaired most critical need of this school: a constantly bett because most of the critics and patrons have not liked by studio surveillance, unrestrained by major concern faculty through higher salaries. with box-office appeal, Hitchcock has attained the self- it. It is a particularly distasteful dish for a number of Jeff Hicks reasons. To begin with, all of the characters of major expression of the ironically cruel. importance have rather ill-defined problems which Turned into glamorized screen figures a number of serve to motivate them. We are told that the hero common types become the victims of Hitchcock's hor­ Dear Editor: (Rod Taylor) and his mother (Jessica Tandy) are not rors. They are stripped of tragic dignity, and made to As I hope to have observed, the Sandspur has bee Oedipal, but we are not told just what the trouble is. substain only on their rapidly shredded glamor. When taking energetic steps towards presenting issues Furthermore there are a number of sequences of sheer the glamor is gone we are looking with revulsion upon major importance and interest on the Campus scene sadism which are prolonged and painful. our own kind. It is the same process that was used I wish to congratulate you and the staff on this point Unfortunately, the film has been attacked for sev­ in the beginning of Psycho. There it culminated in the However I have also observed that little action s eral faults it does not have. The most important of deglamorizing slaughter of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) few decisive steps are taken by the student body, these is the assertion that the film is clumsily edited. in a shower. When it was over, she was allowed the carry through and work out many of these points To say the least, scenes are handled in an unorthodox tragical dignity of death; in The Birds most of the I am referring to such issues as the Field Housi manner, but one which is nevertheless intentional. It characters are not even allowed that. on this point I feel a student board should have been seems likely that Alfred Hitchcock was trying to please Samples of Hitchcock's anti-human morsels here in­ formed, dedicated exclusively to studying this vital his French followers, among whom are Francois Truf- clude a gleeful and enthusiastic study of a group of necessity and working with the Alums to bring about faut and even more Claude Chabrol. There are two fleeing youngsters being bloodily pecked by crows, a satisfactory program. Also in the light of the ap­ shot sequences in which "Tippi" Hendren crosses a bay close-ups of a man's hand being pecked raw by gulls, parent Beanery problem, some sort of constructive in a motor boat, neither one exceeding a minute.