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...years Montana's candidate for the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall has been its late, beloved cowboy artist, Charles M. Russell, famed for his bucking broncs, whooping Indians, buffalo hunts and roundup scenes, which recorded the disappearing Wild West with vigor and validity. But it seemed that Charlie would never get to Washington; somebody always cut him off at the pass...
...first attempt to honor the cowboy painter came a cropper in 1931 when his widow telegraphed Montana's governor that the winning model of the seven submitted in a competition for a statue was "unlike the real Charlie Russell." World War II halted a second effort. Meantime, Charlie's friends and admirers -including just about every hard-rock miner, drive-in carhop and state legislator in the Treasure State-dug into their jeans for $75,000 to build a museum in Great Falls to house his works, anted up again to buy a collection of Russell paintings valued...
Commission decided to get Charlie to Washington or bust, issued a statewide invitation for sculptors to submit models, then called in three out-of-state judges (one of them an old personal friend of Cowboy Russell) to judge the five entries. Last week the judges announced their unanimous choice: a standing figure, palette in hand, staring Montana-like into the distance (see cut). The sculptor: John B. Weaver, curator of the Montana Historical Society. Said the judges: "It captures the spirit of Charles M. Russell, and is worthy of representing him to posterity." At last the trail to Washington seemed...
...Charles Ives was represented by his strangely polytonal "Sixty - seventh Psalm;" Randall Thompson '20, Rosen Profesor of Music, by "Alleluia," his best piece; Irving Fine '37, by "Have You Seen the White Lily Grow?"; Carl McKinley '17, by a portion of his dramatic legend The Kid, which incorporated American cowboy song material and is scored for piano and percussion; and Mabel Daniels by her rousing "Psalm of Praise" with piano, three trumpets and timpani, composed last year for the 75th anniversary of Radcliffe. Several of the composers were present to comment on their music...
...personalities and incidents concerning all but the two main characters are submerged in the usual modernized cowboy-and-Indian routine, punctuated with moral statements such as "A man has gotta fight for what he believes in" and the like...