The Pine Cone, Autumn 1950

AUTUMN, 1950 (A privately supported, state-wide, non-partisan, non-profit organization for the promotion and development of Maine's agricultural, industrial and recreational resources.) 1050 AUTUMN 1!)5Q Page Sum m er Su m m a r y ............................... Emeline K. Paige 3 Maine Inspires Creative Genius Miss Maine A t Bar Har bo r .......................... Bill Hatch 7 Week End on Mt. Desert Island The Portland Public Lib r a r y ..................Elsie Wood 13 Service Record With A Future Recent Maine Bo o k s ............................................................ 18 A Listing In Maine and On Maine Outdoors In M a i n e ...............................John C. Page, Jr. 20 Duck Hunting Data From An Expert The Bates Outing Cl u b ...................... Roy P. Fairfield 24 Year-Around Fun For All Students A round T he Cracker Barrel . Elizabeth A. Mason 28 Notes From Around the State Bayberry Ca n d l e s ..................... Doris Barbour Jordan 31 A Little Touch — and Aroma — of Maine M instrelsy of Ma i n e ..................Edited by Dan Kelly 33 Poetic Inspiration in the Pine Tree State Famous Maine Re c ip e s ...................... June L. Maxfield 36 Maine Cooking At Its Best My Is l a n d ..................................................... Inside Back Cover A utumn Pa r a d e ....................................................... Back Cover THE PINE CONE AUTUMN, 1950 VOL. 6, NO. 3 Published Quarterly by THE STATE OF MAINE PUBLICITY BUREAU PORTLAND - KITTERY - BANGOR - NEW YORK Main Office: 3 St. John St., Portland 4, Maine GUY P. BUTLER RICHARD A. HEBERT Executive Manager Editorial Manager PINE CONE SUBSCRIPTION: $1 A YEAR (Printed in Maine on Maine-made Paper) Summer Summary Maine loved every one of its more than 200 “ Summer Events,” but takes special pride in the inspiration it offers to a growing list of nationally-famous artists, musicians, writers and dramatists, who gave concerts and exhibitions, held forums and world-premieres and generally contributed richly to life in the Pine Tree State. By E meline K. Paige hether it’s fishing or fancy- Calais. There may have been some W work . music or sculpture we didn’t hear about, but the success . the stage or a beauty contest—if of Open House Days, both as a form you like it, you’d have found it in of entertainment for visitors, and as Maine this past Summer. a means of raising funds for local Lakewood, at Skowhegan, cele charitable and cultural activities, is brated its golden anniversary, with a matter of record. Clarence Durwent, president of Ac . Bowdoin College unrolled its tors’ Equity, on hand to applaud with red carpet for Lakewood and Mr. old friends and famous people. A Durwent, and that giant among Amer tall, blonde Millinocket girl with an ican playwrights, Owen Davis, and an Irish name earned the title of “ Miss overflow audience on July 20, at an Maine.” Half a dozen nationally occasion called “ Dramatic Arts Day.” known artists sat around a table at Members of the Lakewood company Brunswick and criticized their own gave two scenes from that week’s work. More people than ever before play: “ Harvey.” saw an exhibit by more Maine crafts Getting down to places and people, men than ever before, who pooled on July 2 the New England Folk their products at Rockport. Dance Festival at Southport featured A new play, seen at Ogunquit Play a world-wide radio broadcast, linking house before it went to Broadway, Southport, U.S.A., with Southport, was a sellout for two weeks, a record England. Guest “ caller” was Albert for the straw-hat-and-barn circuit. Haynes, former director of Henry The Camden Hospital is richer for a Ford’s Folk Dance School. concert given by three internationally . the Jan Veen Dancers stopped acclaimed musicians, who summer in off at Machias on July 13, for a ballet Maine. Lea Luboshutz, violinist, and performance between engagements in Pierre Luboschutz and Genia Neme- Boston and in St. John, New Bruns noff, duo-pianists, playing at Camden, wick. August 29. One of our town libraries . two new art groups settled in acquired by gift a portrait of a form the Mount Desert Island region: er resident, painted by Greenwood. Studio Lodge, headed by Charles R. In other words: It was a typical Kinghan, nationally recognized water Maine Summer. colorist, was at Lamoine Beach, over . famous and beautiful houses looking Frenchman’s Bay; and the were open to a large and appreciative Mount Desert Island School of Art public—all the way from Kittery to had for its director William Dacey, AUTUMN, 1950 3 . organ music at its magnificent best was free for the listening at Portland’s City Hall four afternoons a week all Summer, when resident and visiting artists gave concerts on the Nation’s first (and still the largest) municipal pipe organ: the Kotz- schmar Memorial organ, gift to the city of his birth by the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis. Mr. Curtis was born in Portland a hundred years ago—June 16, 1850. William J. Ryan, Yale student, put . hour-long programs of classical ting finishing touches on the “ Yes, and semi-classical music “on the My Darling Daughter” set for Deer- lawn” made waiting for curtain time trees final play of the 1950 season. at Deertrees Theater (Harrison) a pleasant prelude to invariably top- level dramatic fare. Of special ex cellence were the stage settings de whose portrait of Dr. Charles A. signed and executed at Deertrees by Kraus, internationally known chemist, a young man still busy at Yale after belongs to Brown University. a noteworthy foundation at the Car negie Institute of Technology, Wil . Mrs. Walter Hartwig’s Ogun- liam J. Ryan. Bill Ryan’s a lad to quit Playhouse raised the first curtain watch. on Garson Kanin’s current Broadway . at the end of July, after suf show, “ The Live Wire,” on July 17, fering all the delays a new building the Michael Todd production attract can suffer, the Rowantrees Pavilion ing not only the author and the pro of Creative Arts opened with results ducer and the author’s distinguished that will bring new laurels to the wife, Miss Ruth Gordon, but The Blue Hill Peninsula . straight from Critics. Such was its local and long New York’s 57th Street, stronghold distance appeal that it ran to ca of Art, these days. pacity audiences for two weeks, in . Colby College invited the public stead of the summer theater’s usual to attend the dedication of a highly one week. prized addition to a still-expanding . maybe beauty is no deeper than campus, the Walcker Memorial Organ, the suntan, but a lot of it showed in July 28. Three days later, Kenne- Maine this past Summer. First bunk Town Hall opened its doors to Ladies were selected in the name of an Antiques Fair, the opening de the Potato Blossom, the Lobster, Va- layed slightly because of previous oc cationland, and, of course, the State cupancy by a group of talented young of Maine itself. With pulchritude to musicians and dancers known as The spare, local communities may well be Arundel Opera Theater in Englisn. obliged to add new categories another . Shakespeare-in-the-open, and year—choosing Miss Inland Water theater-in-the-round, were both in ways, Miss Pulp - and - Paper, Miss cluded in the season’s dramatic of Canned Corn (Maine is world-famous ferings, and much applauded, the for canned corn!), and, as a gesture former in the Bok Garden at Camden, to guests, Miss Summer Theater. the latter at two of the thirteen . York Village welcomed at its summer theaters, Bar Harbor and Town Hall (July 25-28) all those Shapleigh. who can admire a genuine antique . the Maine Coast Craftsmen’s without looking to see if they dare Exhibition and Sale attracted record- risk another dollar to make it their breaking crowds at Rockport the week own. The show was staged by pro starting August 7, when work of out fessional exhibitors and drew wide standing quality showed how practical attention. things of beauty can be. 4 THE PINE CONE . art museums throughout the State held representative shows dur ing July and August, the list of names reading like a cross-section of Who’s Who in American Art. Most notable, perhaps, (and please note the tentative “ perhaps” !) was the August exhibit at the Walker Art Museum (Brunswick), which came most sharply into focus on the 18th, when Russell Cowles, Ernest Fiene, Abraham Rattner, Sidney Simon, and Artists round table discussion at Marguerite and William Zorach sat Bowdoin Dramatic Arts day August around a table on the museum ter 18. Around the table, left to right: race, each with a microphone, and Marguerite Zorach, Russell Cowles, criticized their own work! These are Ernest Fiene, William Zorach, Sid only half-a-dozen of the brilliant ros ney Simon, and Abraham Rattner. ter of faculty and visiting artists who make the Skowhegan School of Paint when “ Wild Life Down East” was ing and Sculpture a brush-and-chisel shown at the Kennebunkport Play counterpart of what Tanglewood is to house on August 21, the seating ca music. This occasion was Bowdoin’s pacity was taxed to the point of fold tribute to the Skowhegan school. The ing chairs being placed in the aisles Farnsworth Museum at Rockland (mindful, however, of the fire regu held notable exhibits all Summer. lations!), and a goodly number turned . the Maine Writers’ Conference away. at Ocean Park, the several music . finally . going back to the schools, and an ever-growing number afternoon of July 6, art and history of art schools, are three reasons why met in the town of Alfred where, as so many people who appear to come Adelbert M.

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