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Ladies and gentlemen I'm delighted to be here today only to Wendy Cato you are total commitment in the city of New York to the cultural program being developed by Bob dolling under his great leadership and also to indicate to you that I'd like to day for the first time in many many years there is a great opportunity to see that our good plains our cultural things are not reserved for the few but will and can be made available to the many through our ADD by poverty program as an example we have a great number of programs that will be implemented at the neighborhood level which will expose many of our young people to cultural things for perhaps the first times in their lives we know we have great he was aliens we have great exhibits great facilities but unfortunately it's difficult to get many people out of their local communities to participate so what we're attempting to do here is to broaden the base by bringing many of these facilities to their local communities and this is something we'll be working very closely with Mr Dowling and his great committee on in the years ahead so I'm delighted to be here and it's like all of you who have participated in this program who are giving our viewers sells your time your effort your funds to make New York the cultural seat and the cup of cultural capital of the world thank you so much. Thank you Mr President very greatly your support and the council has been of tremendous value to us and we look forward to many is of happy association with you. I've. Like to present. August. Who was chairman of the General Committee stood down and calls upon me without premeditation or warning but I am glad to say just one word about what seems to me the significance of this event we begin modestly in this office which as I was saying to Bob looks a little bit as if it might be a campaign office for some new movement here in the city I've always felt that politics and culture politics and the art should mix as a matter of fact but there's no question in my mind but that in the in this. Simple surrounding given this modest beginning we shall go forward here in New York to make increasingly available to the cities to the citizens a knowledge and they can sin for the cultural advantages which lie so richly all about us it isn't enough to live in a city which is alive with vital things it's necessary also that the people should know about them but the tourists who come here should have feelings. And and I don't witness what is going on around them and in this place and through these doors we will go the people who will find expose before them the richest the richest of our certainty is the most exciting and challenging sitting in the world thank you. I would like you to know that the Ambassador Patterson. Is present with us and he has been of such help. Through his great office as have only commissioners of the city of New York. It's one the family support we were saving our little office and basta Pattison. Mr Dowling Mr President. Let's take. Them again ladies and gentlemen I have a bit of this but I'll say this to you with the president here at city council here I'm not really supposed. Barrier he has covered the waterfront but I do believe in Bob Downing I believe in this campaign place it's for culture and if you want to mix politics or politics that's what the president whatever Mr Darling would have but I'm honored and pleased to be here and I could say considerable because I know what Bob darling is doing but no voice more committed and I thank you I'm honored to be here. Thank you very much now in introducing Mr Lloyd Goodrich. Director of the Whitney Museum an author a critic of the stain Richman of the arts I want to say just. So they can defend himself when he rises to speak I want to say to you that the museums of New York City ought to they must be open in the evenings these musings one not designed the gifts the treasures one not given by the don't know. For the exclusive use of the silk stocking District of New York City all those who are not otherwise employed from nine o'clock until five or six in the evening. And I want to say to you that the mayor has always supported this idea that we are looking forward to this opportunity that New York will be the first city in the United States you keep on museums open the night the public libraries open it does a phenomenal business across the price is right but they certainly do everything for so many people we're so grateful to them and the directors here and I want to thank him I want to add just this they minister of culture of the French nation Andre Malraux said to me if you keep your museums open in New York City till nine or ten in the evenings I protect that within five years old in museums of the United States and all the museums of Europe will follow this lead ladies and gentlemen just think what a great. What a good good good breaks. What a great gift this is the operas expensive and concerts are costly. So why not give the people of our city and our visitors the great joy and the pleasure and the educational advantage of visiting our museums after their day's work is done thank you very much now I want to present Lloyd Goodrich a director of a great museum just billion No. Building and as I said he can defend himself if he chooses light direction. Like your bob Downing I couldn't agree with your more about him it seems from ending up on of night and something we would all love to do. All we need is a little ready money. We are open to office I hope very much that we can do it one of these days because it's not true extension of our activities something that will put us on up top with all the other forms of cultural entertainment in the city of New York in this respect I think all museums are extremely anachronistic and of several other respects too but particularly in the respect of not they go for the public after working hours. I want to say how much I. Think all of us appreciate what Mrs access done by giving this cultural center a lot Bob Dowling and Dr Dodi have done in arranging it I won the mayor and sponsoring it it's the first time I believe that any major city has had such a set up. After all we have many options in New York City and it's only the city of New York to compose the information out all the sauce together so that will be available in one place. We do have information about for example a plastic office we have information about of but here's a place you could come to find information about every form of octave in New York City and New York City after all is the great cultural center of the country undoubtedly of the world killed. There are so many other places that you can call up to. Make complaints if your area is being polluted or if your next on a bus making too much noise and so on but here is a positive affirmative move on the part of the city of New York. I know. In my own field museums. There are an infinite variety of them they're open at all to put I was. Me I say it would be a blessing and a boon to the Whitney Museum to have the public realize we don't of little one o'clock it's amazing when our opening I was a published all of publications of New York City how many people come barging in of eleven o'clock and I very much took surprise because I can't get him I think these people can read but at least they can call on the telephone and find out what goes on. Then we have three hundred dog galleries in New York City it's going to be a big job for the staff of this place to give information on them but they're all periodicals ought guides which do give this information and here is one of the great sauces of culture in New York City in fact Saturday mornings and Saturday afternoons long Madison Avenue have a calm one of the favor cultural recreations of the United States of America. Then of course we have. All kinds of other things and a visual why I'm just talking about my own field the visual field. We have this is called Gratian collections for example which although for the public I myself don't know what they offer so I think I'll call up the information center to find out. That in addition to that we have the city itself it's one of the most exciting cities in the world it has some of the most marvelous new buildings that also want to ask for it what they forgot was some of the finest old buildings for Turok to chill treasures and if this center is prepared to steer the visitor and even though you know have a chance of New York City themselves to see some of the final buildings that we have here I have maybe it will help us to preserve them instead of having them torn down. And fact New York can be considered a work of art in itself let's call it an unfinished work of art. Let's hope it will be funny someday sort of has the harmony and the order of European settings in the meantime it's one of the most exciting cities in the world. May I say that to. Mrs X. again I want to extend my great gratitude and thanks for watches done. To. Bob Dowling for as this year to be and this whole thing to Dr Dodi's. Hard work and especially to the work done by Mayor Robert Wagner who under whom I think our city has made the greatest civic meniscal artistic and cultural progress of any previous mail thank you so much. Thank you very much live. With spoken of the decorative arts the great museums now we have with us Mr Frederick Steinway. A member of the great Steinway family a leader in New York music. And right near us just a little bit out down the street Steinway home. Which we're all very proud of and he was big for music Mr Frederick Stein my. Thank you Mr Dowling But the main acted out of. This is indeed a blue ribbon day for New York City New York City is used to blue ribbons the blue ribbons I think really should stand for leadership something that Bob Dowling mentioned a moment ago it's something that I thought. It's very much a part of our awareness and our philosophy here in New York City and on a little bit sorry but our good mayor Mayor Wagner is not here in person today somewhat to defend himself because it was some time ago that he called upon the music industry and the music industry here in New York City a center right on this street music Street USA the central offices of the management industry music instrument manufacturers music publishers all facets of the music industry. He called upon this music industry to provide for him a civilian advisory committee being well aware of the fact that this is the center of culture in here in New York City and that it needed some crystal is ation some pulling together something that we could symbolize this industry here. This Music Committee met with the mayor and his offices several times and he said well here's my musical advisory committee what do you advise we had three things which we were particularly interested in at that time and the ribbon today is really phase three of a continuing operation and I'm sure it will continue very well the first and of course most important and most significant act was the saving of Carnegie Hall from demolition. International monument to music and to culture which thanks to the opportunism that moment and to Mayor Wagner's. Still stands right down here on the corner number two was the establishment within the city organization of an office that would control and centralize Cultural Affairs This of course came into being on. Mr Dowling's Aegis and Dr Dodi's direction and we're very much pleased that this has been centralized and accomplished phase three which we asked for was a cultural information center we've been very fortunate that Mr Sachs has made this building available for this purpose and that we now have actually accomplished here in New York City a place where the public has access to information on all cultural affairs cultural activities in a new week here in New York City I think I speak for the entire music industry right here on Music Street to thank the mayor and to thank Mr. Mr Dowling for making this accomplishment. A living fact we hope that very soon in the future there will be more ideas more problems the music industry would be delighted to cooperate what are your problems. Just let us know and we most delighted to cooperate with you and get right into the job thank you very much. Thank you Mr Steinway I'm glad to tell you name is the gentleman that one of the. Prize members of our advisory committee on the arts head of the. Great Manor great Labor leader New York visiting with us now. All I wish to say is I'm very happy to be here I'm B.S. of the more than one million men and women that make up the affiliates of the New York City Central Labor console and I wish. Bob continued success in his effort. And I carry. I wish you hadn't heard that on television you know the time why we're going to keep those museums open so there is one million people can come in the evenings and enjoy it. I'd like present now. Dr donee director of the office a cultural fan and who will tell you of the office work and of our inventory of the arts and resent staff not to donate. Mr Darling presents crane friends my pleasure at this time to welcome you were delighted to see you here and to at this time also introduce the staff which has made many accomplishments of this year possible in fact it would have been impossible without my right standing in the doorway as Mr Stephen Brody deputy director of the office next to him. Will be in charge of the cultural information center. When Greenberg on her right will answer the phone when you call which we want you all will. Back in the back of the middle of the audience in a yellow dress as Mrs Catherine Hemingway our public address relations director. And I believe ten people I can see here right here standing by Mr Rudd will also work a couple of the nations that are we're delighted to have you here we hope you'll use this facility to be of service to you and of the citizens of New York and of the many many visitors that come here thank you for coming. Thank you Dr Doherty. And. Now. We are very proud Jav. The president the city council Mr Paul's prevailing well pay their respects I mean York City. To the generous and lovely don't know how these porous work this office has received. As a present I now request the presence of city council to present a citation. I give up dialing and if you'll recall in my opening remarks I did not mention Mrs X. because we were saving her for something very special and this is something very special this is a certificate of appreciation if you buy my A Wigner which I will read and then present to Mrs X. city of New York know you by these presents that I rob it of like the mayor of the city of New York Bill here by presents a certificate of appreciation to Ruth acts in appreciation for our generous contribution to the cultural life of New York City by making possible its first cultural information center and witness where all by appearing to set my hand and cause the seal of the city of the ark to be effect this twenty first day of June one thousand nine hundred sixty five Robert F. like the mayor of the city of New York and with this goes all of our love and a lot of our section for your great interest and the work being done by this wonderful organization thank you so much. Thank you won't like Mr Wrenn I say Oh I'm very happy to be here and I consider myself primarily a working but this country this state and I city have been very good to me and I now have the and I wanted to be able to make this law token of my appreciation we are in we live in the perhaps. Perhaps the most important. To American aid the most complicated. And his greatest city in the home where my own Xilinx to measure Zax was a dear and lovely person. I. Am very grateful. For many many things in this office of Cultural Affairs. He made it possible and he has always supported it generously and with his own efforts not in the financial way so but in encouragement and counsel so it's a. Privilege to me to present the mare of our great city today Robert F. Wagner. I'm very thrilled that we're going to have this information. Here in the city and I want to again thank. Generously of his great ability and time and energy to make the office of Cultural Affairs. To our executive director Mr and to all of the staff appreciation because we realize more than ever the necessity of promoting. Here to give people opportunities to have good music. And appreciation of so many of the good things in life right next here. And I know. Very glad to work. Past. One of the great treasures of our. Fans not only here in the City but throughout the country in the. Interest. To take violin lessons. So I'm a frustrated violinist but we also have so many other things. Representing the music to the people in Queens. Areas around. The. Park we have. Here and I know we all get a thrill. Time we visit one of the new buildings going up in that great cultural center for the world and we now have. Carried on by the Metropolitan Opera. Wonderful and great friend and many Guggenheim and we are going to have. Various parts. Of. The other concerts these mean a great deal to upkeep and. Provided we do not attempt in any way. Here we're not going to say what is good and what is bad we shouldn't attempt to control it but just to inform and to help and that is main purpose and a special thanks to Mrs X. for giving us the opportunity to have this. Information here and for all of the fine things she's done. And I sincerely hope that whoever succeeds as mayor in the years ahead will continue. Bringing all of the fine things to all of our people. Thank you very. Very greatly. And all the distinguished guests here on this stand and all of you kind people who have been so patient. And the heat to come in and visit with us and do use it thank you very much.