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“On your marks.” and ironic that the meal that we use to mark the begin- “Get set.” ning of the holiday race puts us to sleep. There’s a rea- “Go!” son why the retail stores aren’t open on Thanksgiving Welcome to the fall to winter sprint, otherwise Day. No one would be able to stand up long enough known as the holiday season. Christmas ornaments to make any purchases. The holidays begin with a hol- have been on the store shelves since Halloween. iday nap. Let’s face it; it may be the last good sleep Some of you will purchase Christmas trees this week- you get for a while. end. And let’s not even mention Christmas cards. Often, the best way to start is to stop - to stop and I’m still working on mine from last year. In light of think about what is about to happen. So let’s do that the speed with which the holidays approach and the for just a few moments on this Thanksgiving Day. fury which surrounds them, I think that it is both telling

A Thanksgiving Thought by Courtney Robertson

When you think about it, there has to be more to There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: Thanksgiving than: Long afternoon naps Cozy fires Turkey and stuffing A walk on the beach Football and parades Grandma’s green bean casserole Aunt Betty’s pumpkin pie.

There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: A day in the kitchen An afternoon on the couch Touch football in the back yard A monopoly tournament in the basement.

There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: A six hour drive Long lines at the tollbooths A mini van loaded with children and toys Missed exits Wrong turns. There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: A house full of family Three generations gathered around the dining A house full of friends room table There has to be more to Thanksgiving than: Cousins crowded around wobbly card tables The day. Paper napkins Or does there? Linen tablecloths Eating off of Mother’s china Must there be any more to Thanksgiving than Eating off of plastic plates. these, now that we stop and think about it? November 23, 2000 Page 3 The Land of Plenty Open ‘til 7 p.m. Long ago the Pilgrims came Evenings Across a darkened sea, To pave the way for freedom And for our democracy.

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large sculptures in an area with more spreading-out room. They, like me, carried cameras and though nothing of snapping away at displays that caught their excitement. Signs were posted forbidding any type of filming. So I followed the crop of future artists and took my photo cues from them. Except for a few frowns, we were mostly ignored. The day began at the Chesterton Art Gallery as 25 of us boarded a comfortable bus for Navy Pier. Debarking within footsteps on the expo hall, we scat- tered like the wind to follow our own stars of the show. Occasionally over the next four hours we would bump into one another at a particular booth. Most agreed by afternoon’s end that four hours was not enough time to fully peruse the singular sensational offerings of Look closely: it’s a teapot! the ninety galleries on the site. The cavernous exhibition hall hummed with hun- dreds of lookers, meaning both people and objects d’art. Glass—slumped, fused, raw, sculpted, cut, —appeared to dominate the booths lined up one beside another and spread out row after row in what seemed to be the length of a football field. Ceramics, too, held the crowd’s fine-tuned interest. People poured over the delicate and whimsical, some hardly-recognizable-as teapots that you and I would never consider using for an afternoon gathering. These beauties are meant for display only. Or at least that would be my guess, considering the pric- etags. One could hop on British Airways and enjoy tea and scones in London for the price of many of these pieces of functional art. Art Students “Treasure Hunt” Eunice Peters, John Mullin, Judy Gregurich, and Vivian Twait marvel at a cut glass display. Fiber and wood objects were less obvious at the exposition, but these media samples were even more Fritz Olsen Displays “Lake Michigan Bench” stunning because of their rarity at the exposition. So, What a pleasure to discover Lakeside-based sculp- too, were the metal objects, if you don’t include the tor Fritz Olsen exhibiting his large-scale “Weathered fine jewelry. Vanes” and a freshly executed “Lake Michigan Bench” The most carefree among those who came to collect, in the SOFA expo! Fritz’s Texas red granite bench mag- gush, drool, and/or ask the artists the hows of their netized a throng of admirers who politely took turns work were the art students. Set loose among the sitting on the smooth and sensually wavy seating. throngs, students from Maine West High School went “I just finished this Monday morning and delivered on a teacher-assigned “treasure hunt” to find and assess it here Tuesday,” Fritz said, adding that he “went through their favorites. Most of the teens settled beside the a lot of chisels” while creating the piece. November 23, 2000 Page 5

Fritz’ works were represented by Niemi Fine Art Gallery of Lake Villa, soon to move to Bristol, Wisconsin. At the Niemi booth, Fritz’ talented wife Martha Cares introduced me to Bruce & Suzie Niemi. Bruce’s stainless steel “Interim 9” stood a short distance from Fritz’ bench and larger stainless and marble Weathered Vane. The Niemi booth displayed bronzes, ceramics, marble, and stainless sculptures representing the works of Kevin Robb, Eileen Shabazian, and Paul & Claudette Gerhold in addition to Bruce’s and Fritz’s fine art. Judy Onifrio’s sculpture adds to SOFA’s festive atmosphere.

Martha Cares (Fritz Olsen’s wife), and Bruce & Suzie Niemi pose for a photo at the Niemi Gallery booth.

From France, whimsical, touchable life-size Here is what a creative soul did with metal sculptures. Especially moving. recycled keys.

Dale Chihuly’s Cobalt & Dusty Red Persian set with Canary Lip Wrap. Fritz chats with students from Herron School of Art, $44,000. Indianapolis. Fritz said he went through many chisels while completing his Texas red granite “Lake Michigan Bench.” SOFA Continued on Page 6 Page 6 November 23, 2000

SOFA Continued from Page 5 One of the stated missions of SOFA is to bridge the worlds of contemporary and decorative fine art. Three representatives of the Northern Indiana Without a doubt, SOFA brought together for three days Arts Association rounded out a familiar Hoosier pres- the best in contemporary world sculpture, jewelry and ence at SOFA. Wandering the exhibits, Dylan Jensen, metalsmithing, ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber. The Ruth Crnkovich, and director John Cain of the event also sponsored intriguing lectures throughout Munster-based arts organization were obviously the run that was open to all SOFA attendees. One short enjoying the visual feast, too. day was not enough to take it all in, our Chesterton group agreed. Next year’s SOFA-Chicago is scheduled for October, and their sister show in New York runs several months earlier. First-timers can be overwhelmed with fine art visual overload. Nevertheless, impressed you will be. Guaranteed.

Three representatives of the Northern Indiana Arts Association rounded out a familiar Hoosier presence at SOFA. Wandering the exhibits, Dylan Jensen, Ruth Crnkovich, and director John Cain of the Munster-based arts organization were obviously enjoying the visual feast, too.

I.U. alumna Virginia Scotchie with her hand-built ceramic globes.

If I push you over, will you break? (Let’s not find out). Sculptured glass.

Heads dancing with a day’s full of spectacular visual treats, the Chesterton Art Gallery members prepare to head home after their trip to SOFA at Navy Pier. November 23, 2000 Page 7 Beverly Shores

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Michiana Artist to Exhibit in South Bend by Paula McHugh As a young girl, Frances Andrzejewska Cox passed took no art classes at Marquette University, where she the time in her parents’ ethnic bakery in Chicago by studied to become a teacher. But the art bug had drawing pictures on rolls of brown paper usually bit. “A friend and I went to art lessons at a gallery in reserved for wrapping pastries. She knew at an early Milwaukee after class. I did not even think at that time age that she was destined to become an artist. that I could major in art at the University!” Once back Frances, who now divides her time between Michiana in Chicago, Frances enrolled at the Art Institute. Shores and Wilmette, will be exhibiting her works at “I was one of those students who didn’t follow the South Bend Regional Museum of Art beginning what the instructor wanted us to do.” Frances said that December 1st. she had her own vision of how she wanted her art to The artist, who defines her oils on canvas and be. “In my younger years, my art was more ‘out- paper as a mixing of fantasy and symbolism and sider,’” she said. echoing her Polish background with traces of folk art, “I don’t paint from objects. I am attracted to styl- has come a long way since her brown wrapping paper ized iconic works. I look through art books, (folk art days. The award-winning former student of the Art and textile) for particular objects and patterns, and Institute of Chicago has exhibited in dozens of group then I incorporate the abstract with the real.” Frances’ and solo exhibits all over the Midwest. Frances’ works visions, translated to canvas, incorporate the quali- are represented by the Jan Cicero and ARC Galleries ties of both two- and three-dimensional perspectives. in Chicago and the Edgewood Orchard Gallery in Frances also works on more than one painting at Door County, and her paintings have found perma- a time, allowing herself time to back away from one nent homes in Illinois, Missouri, and as far away as particular piece, then returning to it to “put in some- Japan. thing else.” Frances said that winning an Arts Midwest NEA Frances mainly works out of her studio in Wilmette, Regional Visual Artist Fellowship a few years ago and she and husband Jim, a labor mediator, spend week- “opened doors” to her in the way of invitational ends at their Michiana retreat. Frances said that exhibits, yet a look at her resume reveals an impres- they found their beach cottage serendipitously almost sive list of gallery showings prior to her prestigious 3 years ago. “We had no plans to buy a second home fellowship award. Her non-traditional landscape until a friend led us here. We fell in love with it and and still life paintings have garnered awards over the with the lovely area.” past decade from the Countryside (IL) Art Center, Frances and Jim have four grown children whom Rockford Art Museum, Old Courthouse Art Center in she says also love to come visit at the beach home. The Woodstock, and the Suburban Fine Art Center in Cox’s grandson, Eddie, is showing signs of following Highland Park, to name a few. Frances’ “Leafed his grandmother’s creative skills in art, Frances said. Bowl” oil on paper is the selected December image for The couple is also awaiting the birth of daughter Edgewood Orchard Galleries’ 2000 Calendar, too. Rachel’s triplets. Besides the tubes of oils that mark Although Frances had considered herself an artist France’s tools of her trade, she will be laying in an extra by the time she finished high school, she said that she supply of crayons for the next generation of offspring. Meanwhile, Frances has been transporting her large canvases from Wilmette to Michiana Shores as the opening reception in South Bend draws near. The exhibit will run from December 1st though mid February. The opening reception is scheduled from 5-7 p.m. December 1st.

Frances with one of her paintings that will be on exhibit at the South Bend Regional Art Museum in December.

Frances’ visions, translated to canvas, incorporate the qualities of both two- and three-dimensional perspectives. November 23, 2000 Page 19

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People Engaged in Preservation will present its 5th Go and Al’s Valueland Florist in LaPorte. annual Christmas Candlelight Tour in LaPorte the Tour stops (in order) include: First United Methodist weekend of December 2nd & 3rd. Featuring six pri- Church, 1225 Michigan Avenue; Scott-Rumley Mansion, vate homes and one church, and including sleigh 211 Rose Street; Connie & Robert Beckwith home, 500 rides and musical entertainment, the tours will be held Harrision Street; Harmony House, 1005 Michigan from 4-8 p.m. on Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. Avenue; James & Robyn Rice home, 1132 Indiana Proceeds will go to downtown beautifica- Avenue; Kane & D.J. Benson home, tion, restoration and other projects. Tickets 101 “E” Street; and the Orr Mansion, are $10/in advance and $12/at the door. 4076 Small Road. Advance tickets may be purchased at local For more information, phone the antique malls, Country Mates and City LaPorte County Convention & Visitors Flowers in New Buffalo, Celebrations to Bureau at 1-800/634-2650.

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DECORATED MODEL Open Saturday and Sunday 12-4 p.m or by appointment (219) 874-4156 www.dunescape.com Page 28 November 23, 2000 The Best Birthday Party Ever! by Maggie Beyer When beacher Sheila Stein wanted to do something special for her son-in-law’s birthday, she pondered and pondered. It had been a hard year for Barry Schatz, the birthday boy, but now he was in a new treatment program for leukemia that really held promise, and the party had to be something special that the whole family could celebrate. Voila! She had it. Barry loved tools, loved hardware stores. Why not have the party in a hardware store and have the family chip in to give him a shopping spree. Would Michigan City’s Kabelin True Value Store go for it? Would its manager, Dick Brewe, fellow beacher, approve? Dick went for it. (He has this new open way about him ever since he visited those vortex A family surround. . .Jody Schatz, wife; Barry the Birthday Boy; energy sites in Sedona). The party was in the plan- Martin Schatz, son; Katie Stein, sister-in-law from Chicago; ning stage. Pat Molden, caterer and assistant in Sue Sheila Stein, mom-in-law, Sheridan Beach; David Stein, brother-in-law Spitler’s Incredible Edibles testing kitchen, said she from Chicago; Jerry Stein, dad-in-law, Sheridan Beach. would do the catering for the birthday lunch and supplied her special pasta salad and muffalaattas with cupcakes to hold birthday candles. (Peanut butter and jelly for the kids, just in case). Dick Brewe and his staff set up a table smack in the middle of all the hardware fixings that Barry loves so well. Balloons were hung on high. When Barry and his family came in from Highland Park, surprise, surprise! His Kabelin visit turned into a party that all would remember.

Barry and his boys, Martin, 5 1/2 and Bryan, 8.

A man and his power tools. “As we get older, we realize how important power tools are in our lives,” he said. “Power tools and a family party. What more could anyone ask?” Barry and son Bryan load the cart.

Barry Schatz, the Star! An impromptu treat was the appearance of cheer- leaders from St. Paul School’s Crusaders who were holding a fund-raising event at Kabelin’s that day. Brother- in-law David Stein saw them and asked if they could give a cheer for Barry’s birthday. On the spot, Brittney Stellema, Jessica Schoff and Amy Lukas composed a cheer, gave it with gusto, and topped off the party with another memory for Barry, the Birthday Boy. And, oh, yes. . .Barry did go on his shopping spree, filling his cart with enough to keep a tool man happy for years. A rousing cheer for birthday boy Barry Schatz. November 23, 2000 Page 29

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For additional information please call Robert Clark (219) 325-4306 or Steve Kessler (219) 325-4324 Toll Free 1-877-231-4402 Page 30 November 23, 2000 November 23, 2000 Page 31 The Many Faces of China, Old and New by Maggie Beyer

It was national holiday week in China on our first visit to Tiananmen Square when people from all over this vast country came to visit the national monuments of their People’s Republic. Banks of flowers were everywhere, little children waved red flags as parents posed them for pictures, the entire vast square a throng of visitors. Earlier that week when the national holiday began on October 1st, a Falun Dafa, the banned spiritual sect, had staged a demonstration that drew police and 1,000 arrests, and though there was an obvious military presence and we were warned not to take pictures of the guards, the crowds seemed festive rather than furtive. Back home, we would Chairman Mao’s body lies in state read of another demonstration of the Falun Dafa (or Falun Kong) on October 27th, that drew over a thou- Lines form at Chairman Mao’s mausoleum. sand soldiers and police, and the arrest of 300 more. We were there in-between, and now it’s under- standable why our guide had moved us rather hur- riedly through the Square, the largest in the world, on our way to visit the Forbidden City.

On holiday in Tienanmen Square, two Chinese children carry flags of the Peoples Republic. On our return from Xi’an and the terra-cotta war- riors, some of us had a few days on our own in Beijing and our Intrepid Six decided to visit Tiananmen Square again, this time to visit the Mao Dedong Mausoleum. Solemn lines moved around the build- Mao’s picture hangs over the entrance to the ing for blocks, and as we moved toward the entrance, Forbidden City, once the home of imperial dynasties. we were pulled from the line as guards pointed to our camera and packs which had to be checked before we The monument to the martyrs of the revolution. . . . and a monument of revolutionaries at Mao’s mausoleum. entered. I really was taking the picture of Sun Yat Sen, Across Tiananmen Square which once give television viewers first president of the Republic of China. (Or at least hoped the guard would think I was). the sight of half a million people holding up cards to form the face of Chairman Mao, and where in 1989, students wheeled out Chairman Mao’s Mausoleum stands on acres their Statue of Glory modeled after our own Statue of Liberty, between the Ming Gate and the tall pillar of the giving viewers another scene to burn in memory, Mao’s picture People’s Heroes Monument. Completed in 1977, it holds is still there. Now it hangs over the entrance to the Forbidden not only Mao’s tomb, but also memorial halls to Zhou City, the home of the Imperial Palace, seat of imperial power dur- Enlai, Liu Shaoqi and Zhu De, honored as great rev- ing Ming and Qing dynasties from 1368 to 1911. This is where olutionaries. As the line weaves for blocks, people rush the Empress Dowager sat behind the throne of the last emper- out to the kiosks to buy flowers to place before the impos- or of China who began his rule as a little boy and played in the ing statue of Mao posed against a panorama of China courtyards with names like Hall of Protective Harmony, Palace in the North Hall. Within the mausoleum, there is the of Heavenly Purity, Hall of Union and Peace. Some of the high hushed silence of reverence as people move toward the thresholds at the door had been cut down so he could ride his Hall of Last Respects where Mao Dedong’s body is bicycle through them. Stories of these high thresholds vary: to encased in glass, rising each day from its crypt for view- keep out evil spirits, some say; others to force bending into the ing. Young parents hold their children up, elders are kow-tow of honored subservience, the deeper the kow-tow, the helped along in wheel chairs, young and old obviously more honored the presence. A view of Tiananmen Square with Mao Dedong’s Mausoleum at the center, muse- visibly moved. As we entered, a stern glance from a Do kids everywhere ham it up with rabbit ums at the side, the Forbidden City in the distance. Chinese woman told me to remove my hat. China Continued on Page 32 ears for a picture? Page 32 November 23, 2000

China Continued from Page 31 In days of the dynasties, no commoner could enter; Tiananmen Square then a quarter of its present size, the square itself closed off with a red wall and used only as a place of execution. There are 9,000 rooms in the Imperial Palace; it’s said that a child could enter just one each day and be 29 years old when all had been visited. The palaces and courtyards held just a taste of what a Tang Dynasty poet once wrote: “Without seeing the magnificence of the royal palace, one can never sense the dignity of the emperor”. Within dimly lit rooms holding lacquered vases and bench- es shrouded in silk tapestries, the grandeur was a rem- nant of what had once surrounded the imperial court. We were told that most of the palaces’ treasures had gone to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek. I had the feeling that the lifelessness of these rooms were meant to be portrayed just that way — merely a relic of a past The Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Imperial Palace. that was hollow and empty for the people of the Chinese Republic today. Throughout the Forbidden City there are pairs of lions, the male lion has his paw elevated over the pome- granate symbol of power; the female holds a lion cub under her left paw. (You can see another pair before Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion in Memphis, I’m told). The lions seemed friendly enough, and so did the people. Sitting down on ledge in the Imperial Gardens, I tried my Ni How, hello, on an elder rest- ing there with his family, and was greeted with a broad smile and greetings in return I couldn’t understand. Before this trip, I had heard stories of Chinese and their dislike of “foreign devils”, but didn’t find it true. . .unless you counted the woman on her bicycle The more animals on the eaves, the more important the who almost ran me down on one of the narrow side personage inside. Nine is tops. streets that Marie of the Intrepid Six, and I wandered down while shopping. I was too busy taking in the street scene and I’m sure she was just in a hurry. She was shaking her head as she pedaled away..

A hostess in the garden of a tea house at the North Gate. . .the hill beyond once held the gardens of Kublai Khan, founder of China’s Mongol dynasty, once visited by Marco Polo.

A courtyard in the Imperial Palace. November 23, 2000 Page 33

The every welcome Friendship Store, sponsored by the Dressed for the holiday, shops line the walkway state for visitor’s shopping. around Tiananmen Square. Shopping those streets in the maze beyond Tiananmen Square, street after narrow street of hawkers, shops and stalls, we (I!) finally had to have some food and entered an open front restaurant of just a dozen tables, the only non-Chinese there and not an English word spoken or menu to be seen. Oh, well, I pointed to something on the menu; Marie table hopped and pointed to something some Chinese were eating; we waited, food came, we dug in with our chopsticks. By now, on this last day in China, we may have been pros at bartering at the shops, but chopsticks still eluded us. The other diners laughed, showed us tricks; we laughed, and brought our rice bowls to our chins to scoop it up Chinese style. As all travelers know, just the attempt to speak a word or two, try new ways, usually leads the way to friendly acceptance. No ugly Americans were we.

A street in an old hutong district. There is a hill in the Imperial Gardens called the Hill of Accumulated Elegance where every year, on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the Emperor and Empress would climb to view the distant scenery. The scenery would include the life of the common people that, walled off as they were, would be no part of their lives. Some part of this old China of the common people still exists in the Hutong district, one we would tour by bicycle rickshaw, two to a cart that took us through the narrow streets 700 years old from the time of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. These residential areas were arranged in a kind of royal etiquette, one for imperial kinsmen and aristocrats; the other for merchants and ordinary people. The hutongs are mostly quadrangles, a complex of four houses around a small center square, big and small massed together forming passageways between. The hutong reflects a way of life and culture of its own. A courtyard in a four-family hutong. China Continued on Page 34 Page 34 November 23, 2000

China Continued from Page 33 It’s a way of life that is disappearing as modern devel- opments take over land and the hutongs are torn down. During civil wars and the cultural revolution, historical relics in the hutongs were destroyed. The closed family culture of the quadrangles was changed as well as hutongs disappeared from the city scene. Though the majority of Chinese are Han and speak Mandarin, China has minorities in its population. Some of these are the unskilled workers who have come to Beijing as laborers for its building boom and who work for $4 a day tearing down the hutongs to make way for skyscrapers and apartment buildings. Unregistered, the migratory workers are blamed for rising crime; at the same time protests are organized against developers by people who want to save the historic hutong areas that still house almost one-half of Beijing’s population. We toured a hutong district in a lake district. . .prime location, location, location. The same group of rickshaw drivers that toured with Chelsea Clinton took us through the narrow twisting streets, a bumpety- bump ride, breakneck at times at traffic crossings. A Our poet host at the doorway of his home. stop included one of the old hutongs where family members occupied the entire quadrangle area. Our host was introduced as a poet, and on closer questioning through translation, divulged that he was the head of an association of writers, a trade association, that provided materials for the government. The families shared some outdoor cooking, floors were tile, and heating from a central source took up prime space for the cold Beijing winters. A common laundry area was hung with clothes to dry beyond the moon gate, flower pots and trees. Though sometimes sanitary facilities in the poorer areas are down the alley and shared by many, this family group had its own. It’s a way of close family life and neighborliness with its own nearby shops and schools that may disappear in time. I do go on,. . . and haven’t even climbed the Great Wall yet. . . or explored the Summer Palace. That will have to be another story, at the beginning and end of my China trip. Natural sculptures of stone are used for meditation in parks.

Children on the move. . .everywhere. November 23, 2000 Page 35

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Celebrating 33 years of service to the Blank Center for the Arts, the Art Guild celebrated with a special gathering for all former and new members on November 13th.

Alan Saunders, President of the Blank Center’s Board of Directors, joined Honored with a single longstem pink rose for their hours of dedicated ser- with Arts Guild officers Susan Block, President; Claire Williams, vice to the Guild were: from left, front row: Mary Arndt, Cookie Constant, Treasurer; and Barbara Zawacki, Secretary, for the festive celebration. and Shirley Bowman. Back row, from left: Greta LaFountain, Linda Vice President Sandi Thayer was not present for the photo. Hearst, Margaret Haviland, and Dorothy Miller.

Alan Saunders, Board President of the Blank Therese Harbart names the members recog- Shirley Bowman discusses plans for the Guild’s Center, introduces himself to the nized for putting in the most volunteer hours in December pot luck. Art Guild members. the past year.

Guild members listen to committee reports. November 23, 2000 Page 39

Louise Henrich looks through the Guild’s collection of scrapbooks and Marjorie Hammond and Jan Clarke smile for the camera. photo albums as Mary Arndt awaits her turn.

Pat Mershon, Claire Williams, and Mary Arndt enjoy the elegant repast Margaret Haviland and Cookie Constant are familiar faces at the Museum after the members’ meeting. Shop. They urge Beacher readers to come over to the shop at the Blank Center, where they will find some wonderful holiday gift ideas.

Julie Barry takes her turn at the goodie table Louise Henrich looks through the Guild’s collec- Barbara Zawacki takes on the role of sales clerk after serving as hostess for the November 13th tion of scrapbooks and photo albums. for the Guild’s Museum Store. gathering. Page 40 November 23, 2000 Long Beach Women’s Bowling 'Tis the Season of Giving November 14, 2000

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by Charles McKelvy

I saw the recent open auditions for John Hancock’s before Malkovich, and I had even done a little acting latest film, “Suspended Animation,” as a call to great- there, and I had certainly attended many plays pro- ness. duced by the cutting-edge Theatre Department, so I My wife and constant critic Natalie saw it as: “Just reckoned I was a bonafide actor. another chance to be rejected.” Such, at least, were the thoughts bouncing around Whatever. my febrile brain that full-color fall afternoon as we And whatever the weather was going to be Saturday, pulled into the FilmAcres parking lot. October 28, I was going to be in line at Mr. Hancock’s I was too keyed-up to even pet the dog, and when film production company, FilmAcres, at 352 North Fail I saw that there was no line snaking out the front door Road in LaPorte, waiting to audition my not-so- and plenty of spaces in the lot, I figured that Calliope, young heart out. daughter of Zeus and chief of the Muses, was smil- Hey, I’ve driven a cab in Chicago, worked catering ing down upon me. jobs in Michigan and California, and crewed for a horse Natalie just figured that it was such a fabulous fall show in Pennsylvania, so why not act in a movie in day that all the aspiring film stars had already come Indiana? and gone so they could go out and enjoy the favorable “At least I think it’s going to be shot in Indiana,” weather. I told Natalie as we headed south on Fail Road for my Either that, or the casting was over for the day, or rendezvous with film greatness. “It’s supposed to be the competition all knew I was coming, or there was set in the U.P. (Upper Peninsula of Michigan), but I’m simply a lull in the action. sure Mr. Hancock will use good old LaPorte County Natalie said it had to be the latter and offered to locations. I mean, LaPorte County could pass for the go in with me since she had to use the restroom any- U.P. any day. Don’t you think?” way. Natalie no doubt thought I wasn’t getting enough “And I can find out how long you’ll be, so I’ll know sleep, but she chose to remain mostly silent as we fin- when to come back,” she said. ished our drive through the glorious fall splendor and pulled into the parking lot at FilmAcres.

(Shot of Charles McKelvy by Film Acres sign) Another star seeks to be born at FilmAcres in LaPorte. Thinking there would be long lines of would-be film stars at the production company, we had origi- nally planned to have Natalie go on to downtown LaPorte for an autumnal stroll around the old “Maple (Shot of door to Film Acres) City” with our little dog Harley and then come back Thanks to John Hancock and his FilmAcres production company, LaPorte is becoming known as the Hollywood of the Midwest. and collect me after I was done dazzling the casting director with my scintillating stagecraft. And so the two of us strolled through the very por- After all, I had once upon a time attended Illinois tal of film destiny and were greeted by a nice lady who State University which produced such acting heavy- didn’t look at all like a high-powered Hollywood type. weights as John Malkovich, and — well, the other names She asked if we were there to audition, and I said yes, escape me right now, but, hey, I had been at I.S.U. just and Natalie said no. November 23, 2000 Page 45

“But I’d like to go in had done some acting in high school, and a couple of anyway. Plus, I need other people who had already filled out their forms to use the restroom,” and were waiting outside the room where the actu- Natalie said. al auditions took place. “Sure,” the nice lady Natalie was just saying she’d be happy to stick around said. “Just follow those and provide moral support when a nice lady came up black arrows on the floor. to her and invited her to audition for the part of They’ll take you right Vanessa. past the restrooms and I told Natalie to go for it, and she accepted a sheet then on to the next step.” from the nice lady and immediately began laugh- We followed the black ing. arrows to our respec- “What’s so funny?” tive restrooms, and then “It says here that Vanessa is an extreme character. we continued following She’s an older woman who’s lost her beauty and them into a cavernous apparently she’s one of the female serial killers. The room that could only last line here is: ‘tie him up.’ This is too much!” have been built to store At the risk of incurring my wife’s wrath, I told food or something. her she was perfect for the part, but she simply could Another nice lady not stop laughing. Hollywood, clearly did not have assured us that was pre- a hold on her heart, and so she returned the script to cisely the case, noting the nice lady, and said she’d be content to merely wait that the thick concrete for me. walls made it ideal for The nice lady thereupon gave me a page of script a new life as a film stu- Follow the arrows to stardom. and said I’d be reading the part of Sheriff Montaigne. dio. Yeah, I thought, sheriff. With images of bright lights and glittering sets danc- Law man of the U.P. ing in my head, I followed the arrows over to a desk That’s me. where another nice lady handed me a form, gave me Oh yeah, just like Ringo Starr once sang: “I’m gonna a card with the number 74 on it, and invited me to be in the movies, and they’re gonna make a big star go over to a nearby table outta me. All I gotta do is act naturally.” and fill out the form. And I did. “Then we’ll call you,” Or at least I thought I did when I was called into she said. the audition room and asked to read the part of My heart pounding, I Sheriff Montaigne. Two women and a man watched took the form over to me read the part seated in a chair, and then the the table and eagerly woman who looked like she had just been flown in from filled it out. There was- Hollywood, asked me to stand up and take my hat off n’t much to fill out real- and read the part again. ly, because all they real- Yes, I was so nervous, I had completely forgotten ly wanted to know was to take my ballcap off. where I lived, how old I Can you believe it? was, how tall I was, and Well, I can, and I can say that I read the part how they could contact again with feeling, conviction, and even added a wry me by phone or e-mail. chuckle where it called for Sheriff Montaigne to laugh Then there was a big before delivering a line about somebody or other blank space on the bot- being in jail because of a hunting accident. tom half for them to fill The only other line I remember is something about out after my audition. a body and how the animals got to it. There weren’t Natalie tagged along that many other lines, but I’m afraid I don’t remem- behind me and smiled ber them. indulgently. Sorry. I looked up at her But I do remember that after my second reading, Natalie nearly missed this important and said, “They don’t the Hollywood-looking lady seated at the center of the step, “the sign-up”. have any room here for table made a very small notation on my form, smiled all my brilliant acting exploits.” tightly, and said: “Thank you.” She just shook her head. That was it. I said: “Well, you might as well stay because it does- No lights, cameras, costume changes — nada. n’t look like there are too many people in front of me.” In fact, there were just a few: a young man who Hancock Continued on Page 46 Page 46 November 23, 2000

Hancock Continued from Page 45 In what seemed like a twinkling, we were headed for downtown LaPorte in our little car with our little dog with little hope of film careers. Oh well. While I may never make it to the silver screen, I did take a wonderful walk that afternoon around downtown LaPorte and down one side and up the other of the city’s architecturally pleasing Michigan Avenue. As we kicked through the autumn leaves, I kept thinking: “This would make a great scene for the movies.”

Note to John Hancock: LaPorte’s magnificent Michigan Avenue would be the perfect setting for a locally produced movie. And we know just the star(s).

(Shots of downtown LaPorte) A stroll around downtown LaPorte on a sunny fall afternoon was just the tonic after a taxing film audition.

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in no shape to make a favorable impression on her intended husband with the hangover she is going to have unless we help.” “Help how?” Roger didn’t hesitate to volunteer for There Goes the Bride both of us. by George A. Bowie Arnold had been through this scene several times before. Indeed, he knew the entire script. That became evident. “We start with hot tea,” he commanded. “Not too strong and with no milk in it.” He signaled the car stew- ard and gave the order. About a week after coming ashore in San Diego fol- After the tea had done its medicinal best, we three lowing two years of assignments in Pacific Ocean would alternate in escorting Louise on forth-and- areas, new orders arrived with information that I was back walks through the sleeping-car section. Necessary being granted a 30-day delay in reporting to my next pit-stops would be supervised by two movie-colony ladies duty location. Equipped with such necessary documents, who were on board and, like Arnold, were on a war I had sufficient priority to reserve a berth on an bond promotional tour. eastbound Santa Fe train from Los Angeles to Chicago. My conversations with Louise when she got around It was at the Union Station that I happened upon Captain Roger Adkins of the Royal Air Force. to making sense in her talk was about not having seen Roger would also be travelling on the eastbound train Henry in five years. Both had graduated from the same to Chicago where he would change trains to contin- college, had dated while on campus, then gone sep- ue to Washington, D.C. and his next assignment. He arate ways. Thanks to Class News in the alumni was quite the handsome article in his finely-tailored publication, Louise had learned of Henry’s marriage. uniform with its cluster of campaign ribbons and As for herself, Louise had tried and failed to find a battle stars on the left front of his tunic to testify that “Mr. Right” and turned away from “Second Bests”. he had been places and done things. When Henry’s marriage proved to have been a The two of us were of like mind that our operating mistake and a court agreed on paper, Henry had procedure would be dinner in the diner for starters contacted the college for Louise’s current address. after which we would visit the lounge car for a bit of Correspondence and phone calls led them to discov- social contact and conversation with whomever we might er they really belonged together and that they had wast- encounter. ed enough time apart. The “whomever” turned out to be stage and screen After midnight, Louise was hungry enough to have star Edward Arnold who waved us to seats beside him. a go at some stronger tea and a sliced chicken sand- “We have a problem, Gentlemen,” he greeted as we wich which had been stashed in a cool place behind were sitting down. the bar counter by our thoughtful companion in The problem was seated on the other side of the actor. charge of the rescue attempt. She was pretty, well-dressed, and very much under Bedtime for all. We would check on Louise an hour the influence. “Stoned” would be the appropriate before arrival at her destination. word. She was a smiling statue whose gaze was fixed Which we did. on the couple across the aisle. Her response to our tapping on the door of her “Mr. and Mrs. Cecil B. DeMille,” Arnold introduced bedroom assured us all was well. Louise was up, them. dressed, busy packing, and thrilled it would not be long Both DeMilles were as interested as we were to hear until she and Henry would be together again. Arnold tell about her nibs and why she was “our” prob- Arnold joined Roger and me in the vestibule of lem. Louise’s car while the train slowed. He was carrying “Her name is ‘Louise’,” Arnold began. a bottle of champagne purchased from the dining “She came into the car, saw me and sat next to me. car stock. It was made gorgeous by a white ribbon bow. She said I looked familiar and she thought I might “A wedding gift from the three of us,” the actor have been one of the guests at her going-away party informed. that afternoon.” Arnold asked where she was going Henry was as advertised; handsome, slim, nicely and she had told him, “To marry Henry,” and added dressed, and a pleasant fellow. Louise alighted look- “You will like Henry. He will be meeting me at the sta- ing radiant. She ran to where he stood on the plat- tion in the morning. My name is Louise.” form to become involved in an enthusiastic exchange Arnold admitted it had been his mistake to suggest of hugs and kisses after which she led him to us. Arnold they drink a toast to Henry. That drink plus the oth- presented the champagne. We extended our best ers she must have downed at the party, without wishes. Arnold’s knowing of them, has sent her overboard. “Thoughtful of you, fellows,” Henry said. “But we “The thing is,” Arnold told us, “She is going to be don’t drink alcoholic beverages.” November 23, 2000 Page 59

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