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-WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1977 THF, 1V Arf' 'S STAR PAGE 11 RUTA GERULAITIS IN TOWN Loves' New Sibling Act Admiring grins and her eyes twinkle wnen us-cussing her "flamboyant" brother. "I'm quieter. He's on the go all the time. We couldn't possibly live together Mother says I'd never make it! We get along great. He's very generous, too.

No, we don't talk about his love life. I don't think he's seen Chris Evert lately, but we haven't talked about it." Ruta dates a guy at New York, where she'll return after the Loves travel and insurance agent and part-time tennis pro. Ruta was more interested in other activities in her earlier school days, but when she did take up tennis she "really put a lot of work into it." This is her second' year on the tour, and she has said that only the women's circuit superstars break even financially- A natural blond who pours a lot of lemon juice through her locks, Ruta Ruta, in town yesterday for contract signing, admitted her terms were less spectacular than her brother's, but said they weren't too bad for a 19-year-old who didn't take up tennis until she was 15. THEIR FATHER played tourna -ment tennis in Europe before he and his wife fled their native Lithuania when the Communists took over. They settled at Brooklyn, where he is a By DONNA SNODGRASS All brother-sister acts should be as mutually admiring as Ruta and Vitas Gerulaitis, newly signed to the Indiana Loves of World Team Tennis.

Each attractive to the opposite sex Ruta recently made the top seven in a "sexiest woman tennis player" poll the two young Brooklynites soon will be setting up housekeeping in Indianapolis for the Loves season. PEGGY HAS BEEN POTTERING AROUND Earthy Art Restores Ex-Therapist season, but "I stay loose, you never know when you'll meet Mr. Right. Wouldn't want to be tied up already!" She loves dancing and plans to investigate Indianapolis' night life. "I'M REALLY EXCITED about team tennis," she says.

"It will be interesting to live in a new place a couple of months. There might be cities that sound more attractive (than Indianapolis), but if the people here are nice She credits Billie Jean King and Chris Evert, among others, for improving the status of women's tennis, though "at Wimbledon, well, the English are always a little; reluctant to change." Vitas sometimes teases his little sister that she should be home knitting, but "I think he believes It's good for a woman to be in sports." Ruta likes sweets and currently is battling bulges. "I won't do any real cooking in my apartment- here," she predicts. "Lunches, maybe, but most dinners out." At New York she occasionally works out in a health spa. "Exercising tones your body, keeps your muscles limber," she says.

SHE CAN GET a real workout just dragging her luggage around. "I never travel light," she says. "I take half of my closet with me." She loves dressing up "Clothes are my weakness, I guess." She'll make a great teammate to new Loves player Sue: Barker, who took top honors in that "sexiest" poll. her first pieces to Thelma Battersby, buyer of what ll JUL. I I I The apprentice loaded kilns, cleaned glaze off waxed bottoms of freshly glazed pots and ground iron spots off finished pieces.

Peggy returned to Indianapolis as a potter and set up shop on Michigan Road. In 1970 she showed 'Concerning i Ruta Gerulaitis, half of the Indiana Loves newest brother-sister tennis team, picks a bright, sunny day to arrive in Indianapolis to sign her contract yesterday. The 5-foot, 5Vi-inch blond from King Point, N.Y., says she's looking forward to joining her brother. Vitas, and the other Loves this season. (Star Photo by Frank H.

Fisse) is now the Alliance Museum snop, wno as wnuiy enthusiastic," says Peggy. "The Museum Shop continues to be my only outlet other than my own shop and art fairs." More work than meets the eye goes on in the cheddar cheese works. "I mix clay twice a year in a cow trough-a terrible job," the potter reports. The clay then is churned in a pug mill, a mini-cement mixer, and wheeled into the studio by the trim, young woman. It then is "kneaded" in another pug mill for the potter, who uses 300 to 400 pounds a day.

Peggy "throws" her pottery. "That means I 'womp' it on te wheel and -shape the pieces by hand." They then are dried, busque fired, glazed and fired again. SHE IS A PRODUCTION POTTER, as opposed to presons putting out "one-of-a-kinds. "I enjoy repetition. It is part of my character.

I like seeing my shop stuffed with pottery. I enjoy the process more than the finished product." Peggy keeps simple the shapes and decorations of her casseroles, pie plates, planters, souffle dishes and others. "I don't want my customers to have to pay such high prices that they would be afraid to use the pottery for fear of breaking it." "And if it's not practical, it bothers me." Her pottery is lead-free (safe for cooking), dishwater-proof and goes in microwave ovens. Her work is distinguished by the light color glazes she uses. Her bert-seller is the fluted pie plate.

The stoneware artist now has her fingers into porcelain work. Among her newest pieces on display is a new concept in planters. A friend of hers originally saw the hanging containers in Holland. The planters are shaped like a tube pan with the cord inserted up through the cone. "If plants won't grow in it," Peggy observes, "you always can bake an angel food cake in it." By BETSY HALLIDAY A slice of good ol' Hoosier earth has returned home handsomely potted! The stoneware and porcelain work of former resident Peggy Ahlgren is featured in a special show and sale sponsored by the Alliance Museum Shop.

The Spring Green (Wis.) potter will be on hand tnrough Sunday demonstrating at her wheel in the Indianapolis Museum of Art luncheonette. Her ware will be exhibited through March 31 on the IMA parking level. The artist, who moved her studio in 1973 to an abandoned cheddar cheese factory on the Wisconsin River, continues to buy the clay for her stoneware from an Indianapolis source. "My van holds 3,200 pounds of dry clay," says the roadrunning potter. Her production gobbles up five tons a year.

THE ARTIST IS A MADISON (Wis.) native. She-came to Indianapolis in the late '80s as an occupational therapist in James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. The position got to her after a year-and-a-half. "At 21 and 22 I wasn't old enough to deal with the parent problems," Peggy reflects. "I worked with the burn kids and I have a squeamish stomach.

It was hard to see them die and suffer." As an antidote for her own miseries, the O.T. enrolled in a night pottery course in Northwest High School. She had had one semester of pottery at the University of Wisconsin. "I loved the immediate gratification in pottery. Once you make a pot.

ycu can see it and touch it." She spent a summer session in the former Herron School of Art, threw in the O.T. towel and set off for Boulder, to karn her ait at the hand of a "gutsy lady," Betty Woodman. "The FIT'ST NIGHT OF THE course, she asked me if I'd like to work for Peggy recounts. "I did the nitty gritty, but it was a good way to Women ArtS rWJ firX 1 -NUHMmilTtaiii ii i Sa Ketivbeve Youm? Garage. Peggy Ahlgren, artist and potter, demonstrates her craft.

The former resident's wheel is set up through Sunday in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, "sponsored by the Alliance Museum Shop. (Star Photo by Frank H. Fisse) ANN LANDERS First Serious Love Evaporates Like Alcohol Pilgrim SELF SERVICE STORAGE The antl-cluttf peopie SEE THE PHONE BOOK FOR THE PILGRIM MINI-WAREHOUSE NEAR YOU. ASK THE RESIDENT MANAGER FOR DETAILS. been made by your doctor and seconded by your clergyman.

I'm with them. Throw the bum out. The parents of that 13-year-old have oatmeal where their brains belong. Too bad the boy may have to pay a big price for hjs parents' stupidity. DEAR ANN: I married a guy 10 years my senior when I was 19.

Bill was handsome, a smooth and my first serious love affair. if I (p5 afraid to tsll me for Par he'd lose me. We eloped the next night. My life has been plain hell ever snce. We have two small children.

My keeps tlrm whils I work. Bill can't hold a job because of his drinking. He denies he has a problem, won't go to A. refuses to talk to our clergyman. WHEN BILL GETS drunk (which is often), he becomes violent.

The children are afraid of him and so am I. I learned last week he has been bringing women to our home while I'm at work. I'm heartsick and fed up. My doctor says I will get rid of my colitis when I get rid of my husband. My clergyman says I should get out of this marriage while I still have a chance to make a life for myself.

I'm only 27 and I feel like 90. What should I do? Messed Up Early DEAR EARLY: The motion has parents didn't like him because he showed up intoxi-c a a few times and said some things that weren't true. Of course the more they talked against Bill, the more determined I was to prove them wrong. When my father came home DEAR ANN LANDERS: Our neighbors caught their 13 year old son smoking. They told him, "If you want to smoke we'd rather you do it in front of us than behind our backs." They reasoned if the boy was permitted to smoke, he'd overdo it, get sick, and quit forever.

ti Well, he didn't get sick and he's not quitting. It's revolting to see this young punk puffing away in front of his friends. Now our son (age 14) wants to know why HE can't smoke. We need help. Battle Weary In Wyoming DEAR BAT: Tell your son he can't smoke because it's bad for him and to drop the subject for at least eight 'Rescuing Tourist Has Both Rewards, Perils Gstaad, Switzerland (WNS) Christine Hoppe, 17, and Louis Suares, 18, were snuggling at a roaring river's edge when they saw an "inebriated; octogenarian tourist" fall In.

The teens jumped into the water and rescued him. When the elderly gentleman offered them rewards, Christine requested a new sweater to replace the shrinking one she was wearing. Louis asked for "a decent funeral because my mother will kill me when she sees my wet clothing." i 'L Ann Landers with a complete report from a private investigator, I learned Bill naa oeen married and had a son. He admitted it. claimed he was vears.

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