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Pucker-Safrai is fond of this Spanish-born artist; he has had 5 shows here over the past 6 years. The two series presently on exhibit, "Folklore" and "Circus," justify the gallery's committment; Kieff proves himself a master of polished bronze. The "Folklore" works, like tales, sweep through time and space. Symbolic continuums of metal, they demand time to trace their complex curves and planes, yet unify their motion in abstract patterns which seem as natural, yet are as carefully structured, as plot elements in a folk tale (three brothers, wicked step-mothers). "Ciecus" is more subtly rooted...
When newshawks twitted him on his long chase after his vessel, solemn Captain Kieff became huffy, remarked...
Like the typical seaman he is, tall, lean Captain Hans Kieff of the Hamburg-American Line is adept at battling the elements, poor at talking about them. At 52, he has been everything on ships from cabin boy to U-Boat commander during the War. Lately he has been master of the S. S. Deutschland...
Last month, when the Deutschland was in Manhattan, he was ordered to take over the staff captaincy of the cruise ship Reliance, then at Hamburg. Promptly he sailed for Germany, ran into storms, arrived after the Reliance had steamed out for Manhattan under Commodore Fritz Kruse. Captain Kieff boarded the Europa as a passenger, headed back across the Atlantic in pursuit. Last week the Europa ran into heavy weather, arrived ten hours after the Reliance had churned off south on a round-the-world cruise. Grimly the taciturn German skipper stamped aboard the Furness Liner Eastern Prince, sailed...
During the service, the choir, under the direction of Dr. A. T. Dayison, will sing three anthems: "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," R. Vaughan Williams; "Give Rest, O Christ," Kieff Melody; and "Salvation Belongeth To Our God," Tschesnokoff. Dr. Davison will be at the organ, given by Ralph Isham '89, in memory of his son, A. K. Isham...