Winter Park Topics, 03/12/1948
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WINTER PARK TOPICS A Weekly Review of Social and Cultural Activities During the Winter Resort Season Entered as second-class matter January 8, 1937, at the Post Office, at Winter Parlt, Fin., under the Act oj March 3, 1819. Vol. 15—No. 11 Charles P. Hammond, Publisher Winter Park, Florida, Friday, MARCH 12, 1948 Season Subscription $2.25 Price 15 Cents WOMAN'S CLUB TO SHOW "IRON FANG MAN" NEXT LEE ADAMS PAINTINGS AT ANNIE RUSSELL A major event in the calendar of Winifred Gwyn-Jeffreys has au- the Woman's Club of Winter Park thored another exciting, spellbind- is the exhibit of paintings by Lee ing, peanut-selling ''mellow-dram- Adams to be held next week under mer," "The Man With the Iron the auspices of the Art Department, Mrs. Leland Murrah, chairman, Pang," to open next .Thursday in and arranged by Mrs. Edith Tadd Annie Russell Theatre, also play- Little with the assistance of Dr. ing the evenings of March 19 and and Mrs. George H. Opdyke and 20. It is being presented for the Mrs. Edward M. Davis. Annie Russell Theatre Improve- ment Fund. Theatregoers recalling last sea- son's peanut-pelted "Finger of Fate1' will have another opportuni- ty to hiss the villain and applaud the hero. "The Man With the Iron Fang" is the story of the electri- fying exploits of Skinlock Bones, celebrated sleuth, who foils a gang- The nave of Knowles Memorial Chapel, an impressive setting for the land attempt to steal a bracelet Bach Festival of Winter Park. from the hero of the play. The hero must have the trinket in order to NEW HAMPSHIRE ARTISTS DEFECTS IN FOREIGN Identify himself and claim his in- SHOW AT MORSE GALLERY POLICY OUR DANGER heritance. Pronounced by critics a brilliant Howard Bailey will be seen as cross section of the many trends in "Is there no hope?" groaned Win- Skinlock. Barbara Greason is the contemporary American painting, ter Park's elder statesman, John heroine. Henry Jacobs portrays the the exhibition of 40 pictures by the Martin, of lecturer Col. James juvenile hero. Rose Dresser, Lydia Warner Bellah, after the latter had Dorsett, Ernest Kilroe, Baroness New Hampshire Art Association given an extremely ominous pic- Colette van Boecop, Rudolph Fisch- will be shown at the Morse Gallery ture of the problems confronting er, Ainslee Minor, Edith Allen, Jul- of Art, opening Monday, March 15, the United States in his address, iana Crow and Jack Hennessy com- at 2 p.m. Among the prominent "Pitfalls of American Foreign Pol- prise the group of criminals led by artists whose work is included are icy," in the Town Hall Series. Helen Bailey and William Whltta- Malvina Hoffman, Grace Bliss Col. Bellah is a realist and has ker. Horace Tollefson, Rhea Marsh Stewart, Lois Bartlett Tracy, Helen seen, the war from the military an- Doves and Grapes Smith, and Winifred Gwyn-Jeffreys Stotesbury and Kurt Roesch. gle. He offered no wishful thinking One of Lee Adams' pictures of complete the cast, The gallery will be open during to those who hope that somehow tropical fruits and birds to be shown peace may be brought to the world. at the Woman's Club. Tickets may be obtained at the the exhibition from 2 to 5 daily, theatre box office with no admission charge. Having defeated the Nazis, said he, The exhibit will open on Tuesday we are now confronted by another evening, March 16, at the Woman's equally totalitarian despotism which Club, with a private showing to IMPRESSIONS OF THE BACH FESTIVAL has adopted world dominion as its members of that club, the Garden Thirteenth Annual Bach Festival exhibition of the work of a master destiny. He did not spend any time Club and the Rollins faculty, be- of Winter Park, Thursday, March painter or a series of Shakespeare's on how war might come but he tween the hours of 8 and 10 p.m., 4, Camtata No. 144, "Take what plays; the element of entertainment took it for granted that we must Assisting Mrs. Murrah and her thine is and go thy way"; Motet, is subordinate in the presence of prepare for it and that it would be committee at this reception will be "Jesus, Priceless Treasure"; Ex- the product of commanding g'enius. better for us if it came while we Mesdames Henry Chamberlain, cerpts from the "Passion Accord- And yet not all of Bach's work is (Continued from Page 4) Fred Trisman, Miss Loretta Sal- ing' to St, Matthew." Friday, equally superlative any more than (Continued on Page 8) March. 5, "The Mass in B Minor," is it true of any creative artist: ELEANOR THORNTON in its entirety, at 3 p.m. and 7:30 the contrasts between the highest PHOTO EXHIBITION DR. CONSTABLE ASKS p.m. Dr. Christopher O. Honaas, inspirations and the more conven- Mr. Alexander B. Trowbridge has HIGHER CIVIC IDEALS Conducter; RutFi Diehl, Soprano; tional passages but serve to glori- issued Invitations to a photographic Lydia Summers, Contralto; Harold fy them. Indeed it is the intensely exhibit of the work of Mrs. Eleanor Bev. William A. Constable, asso- Haugh, Tenor; J. Alden Edkins, human touch that makes us so H. Thornton, of Maitland, Florida, ciate professor of English at Rol- Baritone. Dr. Herman F. Siewert completely responsive to many of March 17th and 18th, 2 to 5 p.m. at lins, took the place of Dr. Hamilton and Louise George Totihy, Organ- Bach's wonderful pages. He did not his home, 320 Sylvan Boulevard. Holt in the John Martin lecture se- ists; Katherine Carlo, Piano; Ed- compose decorative music for su- This is the second time Mrs. ries yesterday afternoon at the ward Bernard, Concert Master; perficial entertainment, but music Thornton has shown her beautiful Congregational Church. Edith Allen, Grace MacBriclc, Fred- that sounds the depths of human photographs at the attractive stu- Mr. Constable in his lecture on erick MacFalls, First Violins; feeling', dio-gallery of Mr. Trowbridge, and ''The State and the Individual" Charles G. Rex, Anne Lovell, Bet- Our Bach Festival in Winter Park it is sure to be an event of much commenced by contrasting extreme ty McCauslin, Frances Stephens, interest to lovers of art, Individualism with Statism in its means an ever-widening knowledge Second Violins; Bernard Friedland, in the community of the greatest Mrs. Thornton is an artist, who two quite distinct forms of Fascism Terry Page, Viola; Gerard Haft, studied for many years in Europe and Communism. choral music through the constant Rudolph Fischer, Violincello; Ed- study of those who sing in the and America. She holds a Master He then discussed the possibility ward W. Rosevear, Bass; William of Arts degree in Fine Arts from of rinding another way that would chorus and by the increasing ap- Druckenmiller and Byron, Hester, preciation of those who attend. The Columbia University, and in Paris avoid the anarchy of the one and Flutes; Lois Wann and Konstantin studied at the Sorbonne. She gradu- the betrayal of liberty of the other. efforts made to present this music Epp, Oboe and Oboe d'amore; Rob- according to the highest possible ated from the New York Institute He pointed out that with the growth ert Landholt, Armando Ghitalla, of Photography and chose to go of our society in complexity amid standards are each year more gen- Trumpet; David Cramp, Timpani. erally understood and valued. into that field professionally be- increasing industrial and social ten- The annual Bach Festival of last cause it appealed to her artistic sions the state is bound to grow in These efforts have always been week revealed more clearly than conscientious and idealistic and talent. Among the many places she power, and to touch our lives at an heretofore that the true nature of has exhibited are the exclusive increasing number of places. In- have been crowned with success in this Festival is a period consecrat- many instances, giving moments of Hillsboro Club, Pompano, Fla., deed the state is necessary even ed to the meditation of musical art where she has held two shows of to protect our very freedoms. exalted beauty to be treasured in — a meditation in which Bach's memory. her color photographs, and where But can we avoid the evils of bu- music provides spiritual refresh- she was a guest during a three-day reaucracy, graft and dirty politics ment through its tonal depiction of Although larger than in recent show, also at the beautiful gallery which seem so frequently to occui' the vitality of religious faith. The years and correspondingly richer of Mr. Colona at Barnstable, Cape (Continued on Page 5) Festival is similar to attending an (Continued on Page 6) Cod, Mass. Page Two WINTER PARK TOPICS, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1948 THE CENTER STREET GALLERY Works of Art Appraisals and Restoring ON CENTER STREET BETWEEN WEI-BOURNE AVE. AND MORSE BLVD. F. Hosic, Mrs. Herbert Halver- SOCIAL NOTES stadt, who, with her husband, has been on a several months' trip to Sport Clothes An attractive event of last Tues- the Belgian Congo, South Africa, to day afternoon was the tea at which visit a son, states that they planned Gowns — Wraps Mrs. Henry M. Chambex-lain and to sail for New Orleans on March Mrs. James W, Newton were host- 5th from Matadi on the Del Viento, esses, entertaining a group of the Delta Line and would arrive at friends in the Winter Park Wom- their home here early in April. an's Club. The Halverstadt's son, Mr. James m San Juan Hotel Building The decorations were in green Halverstadt, is treasurer of the and white with an attractive table Southern Presbyterian Christian centerpiece of calla lilies and mag- Mission at Luluaburg, Belgian Con- nolia leaves.