Artist, Witchcraft Expert Will Visit Dunster House

Two Ford grant guests--a Zulu artist and an authority on witchcraft--will visit Dunster House during the next two weeks, the House office announced yesterday.

Mr. Selbourne Mvusi, a Zulu painter and sculptor, will arrive Saturday for three days, sponsored by Gordon W. Allport '19, Professor of Psychology. A leader in the movement to develop native African art, Mr. Mvusi is Director of Art Education for Bantu children attending the Loram Native School in Durban, Natal.

In South Africa, Mvusi's paintings and sculptures have been widely exhibited and admired. A group of visiting Americans provided a special fellowship for him to study in the U.S.

Mvusi is now working for his Masters Degree at Pennsylvania State University.

He received his first training in art through a correspondence course offered to natives by the University of South Africa.

Dunster's second guest, Dr. Rossell Hope Robbins, is an internationally known authority on medieval poetry and witchcraft. Sponsored by Albert B. Friedman, assistant professor of English, Robbins will spend four days in Cambridge.

Now a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Robbins earned his doctorate at Cambridge University in 1937, and has been a visiting lecturer at several American universities.

The Eliot Myth

His latest book, The T. S. Eliot Myth, attacks the more rabid members of the Eliot cult. Earlier, Robbins helped to edit a compendious listing of all known Middle English poetry. In addition, he wrote one of the volumes in the Oxford edition of medieval lyrics.

These visits by an artist and an authority on poetry are typical of Dunster's Ford grant program for this academic year. "At Dunster, the emphasis is on the fine arts," said Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, when he announced his plans for use of the grant last month.