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dated January 25, 1956: Promotion of fine arts

The Chief Minister of Mysore, Mr. K. Hanumanthaiya, has expressed his desire to see a national theatre, one of the best that the world could boast of, established in Bangalore. The city, he said, was assuming international importance, but there was hardly a single theatre in the city. The Chief Minister, who was inaugurating the Music Festival in Bangalore on January 23, gave an account of the steps the State Government wanted to take for the promotion of fine arts in Mysore. He said the Government had in view the opening of an art gallery. The Vidhana Soudha building was expected to be completed in about six months' time and declared open on June 18 this year. When all the Government offices were transferred to the Vidhana Soudha, one of the buildings available for housing the art gallery was the Victory Hall. He hoped it would be possible to open the art gallery on the same occasion. He would invite artists to secure famous pieces of art bearing on the glorious history of the State for exhibition at the gallery. He would also make an appeal to the famous sculptor, Mr. Venkatappa, in this connection and place the art gallery entirely in his charge. He referred to the proposal to open a college for music and said its location was temporarily fixed at Mysore.

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