Lincoln (Neb.) -- Guidebooks; Lincoln (Neb.) -- History
The name of Rockefeller and the smell of oil were offensive to those who
had to do with accepting and placing buildings, but the gift was not
quite to be refused. The Temple was delicately dropped outside the
gates. However, the Temple has been a useful and busy edifice these 35
years, and but for reporters with fingers always crooked hungrily over
typewriter keys old ghosts would not have been disturbed. The Y. M. C.
A. has used the Temple for headquarters and other innocent activities
have been housed therein.
Principally, however, the building is known as the theater of the
University Players, Lincoln’s theatrical stock company, personnel of
which consists of instructors and advanced students of dramatic art. Six
plays are presented each university year. Here Fred Ballard’s “Believe
Me Xantippe” had its premiere—Mr. Ballard being a university student
some 35 years ago. His more recent “Ladies of the Jury” also appeared
here, but not the premiere. A number of the players have become known
elsewhere—Zolly Lerner, Augusta French, Jack Rank and others. The name
of Miss H. Alice Howell, for years director of The Players, is
inevitably connected with this organization.
No. 24—Art Gallery, Morrill Hall
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Morrill hall, 14th and U, is a spot on the campus where everyone is very
welcome. In most of the campus buildings, while by no means barred, one
is likely to be run down by a horde of young things charging to a class.
As they outstrip one on the stairs he is left acutely aware of his
brittle old bones and the fact that from college days he can recall
offhand only two French verbs and one theorem.
In this hall—named for Charles H. Morrill, Nebraskan who did a great
deal for the university—you may saunter and look, and look and saunter.
The art galleries are in the two top rooms, the museum on the two below.
Dwight Kirsch of the university art department caught this particular
slant of sun into the upper art gallery.
Like the native Chicagoan who never heard of Hull House, we know too
little about what we have at our own doors. The Nebraska art association
has built up a fine collection of paintings. Each year it holds an
exhibit, and the fact that it buys one or more pictures every year
brings in a collection worth inspecting. The late Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Hall of Lincoln bequeathed their collection to the university, also a
fund for further purchases.
Among the valuable paintings by modern artists owned by the art
association are the late Grant Wood’s “Arnold Comes of Age,” one of
Thomas Hart Benton’s vigorous paintings, “Lonesome Road” and John
Steuart Curry’s “Roadmender’s Camp.”
No. 25—Morrill Hall Entrance
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