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NDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1959

'U' Museum Stresses
Display, Interpretation

B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation
hillel supper cl

Sunday

Between 6 & 7 P.M.

1429 Hill


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The story begins in Lansing, Mich., and develops into
a true camera expose of the stage star lives. A dra-
matic and many times comedy-filled motion picture.

CHARLES SAWYER
. . directs 'U' Museum

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s-DEAN MARTIN
ANTHONY FRANCIOSA
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
CAROLYN JONES
r JOAN BLACKMAN." ROBERT MIDDLETON
o"..d bi JOSEPH ANTHONY". ..,iJAMES LEE
ALSO
Late World News - Color Cartoon
COMING: "A SUMMER PLACE"

International Elements temporary exhibitions c h a n g e
The collection begins chrono- every few weeks."
logically about 500 A.D. because Among the current exhibits are
"we try not to duplicate the ar- such diverse things as prints by
chaeology and anthropology hmu- -the Japanese artist Kiyoshi Saito,
ses."Amng thoparigy .le- and photographs of the Mt. Sinai
sems. Among the various e- expedition. One of the Univer-
Chines of the Japaneseum are PersiJavanese sity's most popular art exhibits is
pottery; painters of the Renais the museum's Christmas-time sale
sance and the 18th century and of prints which opened on Nov. 18.
the impressionists and abstrac-
tionists from the nineteenth and7
twentieth centuries in Europe and F dCTO Aid
the United States.
Of the collection of several
thousand objects, only a small
percentage are on view at any one
many things without distraction." New Syrian archaeological dis
dTo help the museum serve as an coveries will prove equally signi-
aid to teaching, Prof. Sawyer has ficant to advancing knowledge of
tried to arrange the exhibit in a Bible literature as the now-fa-
way that "will show cultural re- mous Dead Sea Scrolls, an emin-
lationships." ent Bible scholar said here Thurs-
Shows Wide Selection day.
Many famous artists are repre- Prof. Emeritus William F. Al-
sented in the collection. Famous bright, formerly of Johns Hopkins
modern painters are Max Beck- University, who was among the
man from Germany, Paul Klee of first to recognize the antiquity .of
Switzerland and Jacques Lip- the Dead Sea Scrolls, said the dis-
schitz, a modern American sculp- covery of "many hundreds" of
tor. Less modern .artists in the texts, tables and artifacts at
gallery are James McNeil Whist- Ugarit, near Latakia in Syria, are
ler and Gustave Courbet. now making it possible to date
"We are trying to assist other Bible poetry and prose back to the
departments and don't regard time of Moses.
ourselves as working exclusively Delivering the first of two an-
under one roof," Prof. Sawyer nual Zwerdling Lectures in Old
said about the museum exhibition Testament studies sponsored by
service, the Near Eastern studies depart-
To bring new art from all over ment, Prof. Albright predicted the
the world to. the University, the new discoveries "will prove just as
museum has established an ac- important for the Old Testament
tive exhibition schedule that av- as the Dead Sea Scrolls are for
erages between thirty and- fifty our understanding of the back-
different exhibits each year. Some ground of the New Testanient."
semi-permanent exhibits come Prof. Albright explained that
from other University museums, poetic phraseology and style of
the Cranbrook Museum, Toledo Canaanite epic poems among the
Museum and Detroit Art Institute. finds are almost identical to early
These change once a year but portions of the Old Testament.
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Newman Club, Ham Dinner, Nov.
6 p.m., Fr. Richard Center.
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Phi Mu Alpha-Sinfornia, meetings:
Actives 4:30 p.m., Pledges 7:30 p.m.,
Nov. 22, Union, Rm. 3N.
Russian Circle, Russian movie "The
Inspector General" by N. Gogol, Eng-
lish subtitles, Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m., Under-
grad, Lib., Multi-Purpose Rm. Russian
Circle members bring membership
cards.
Ukrainian Students Club,. meeting,
Nov. 23. 9:30 p.m., Hill and Univ. Sts.
Unitarian Student Group, meeting.
with Friends Group and Congregation-
al Guild on Disarmament, Nov. 22, 7
p.m., 1416 Hill.

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