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...schools are the result of one lec ture made at the camp a year ago by Director Boris Blai of the Tyler School of Fine Arts (part of Philadelphia's Temple University). Blai told soldier listeners that anyone could learn to use his hands to express himself. The men wanted to hear more. Back came Blai. He was swamped with requests, questions. Result was a Blai-promoted fund-raising and teacher-recruiting campaign. First classes were held last spring. Subjects were painting, sculpture, ceramics, lithography, bookbinding, jewelry-making. Last fortnight Russian-born Boris Blai told a few stories about...
...converts send their work home, give it to friends, exhibit it at the Community Auditoriums. One soldier changed his life by fashioning an irresistible engagement ring for his girl. Army officers' expectation is that, later on, alumni of the Blai courses will aid rehabilitation of the wounded by imparting their new-found knowledge of manual crafts. Blai and assistants may later take their teaching into Army hospitals...
...Says Blai: "Discipline does it. The Army is teaching Americans discipline and control, the foundation for success in art, or in any other sphere...
Temple's benefactors have included Publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, his son-in-law Edward Bok, and Mr. & Mrs. George F. Tyler, who gave the $1,000,000 School of Fine Arts now headed by Sculptor Boris Blai. In 1929 Thomas D. Sullivan, president of Philadelphia's Terminal Warehouse Co. and brother of Pundit Mark Sullivan, left $278,000 towards a library. In 1934, with private benefactions dried up, President Beury turned to the PWA for $550,000 to complete the building...
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