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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MONDAY, MAY 23, 1957 THE EVERYDAY MAGAZINE 2D rsssrasWe Well Well Wefc Former Sf. Louisan Becomes Composer Rebekah West Harkness's 'Safari' to Be Premiered at Carnegie Hall A Critic Fires Back At Arthur Godfrey By John Crosby it NEW YORK, My 23. ELL WELL WELL WELL WELL. To borrow a phise from Arthur Godfrty, magnificent pros stylist.

What have we here? To borrow another. (Godfrey only had three writers to turn out this splendid stuff. Two Disney's True Life Adventures VhsAf Rhinoceros lb IS HUNSKY FOR THOSB TENFESV TCJfA top leaves. cah't yfTSd HIS PINNER POWN rft T''- Bnnt in go it alone well, almost alone. The next time you hear God r'f i 3i X- Nr.

4 1 1 A I 1 I It. I I 1 -I, a 4 If 4 a frey ask a Talent Scout "What Is your name?" "Where are you from?" Remember one of those lines he wrote, himself.) Anyhow, the great writer (or his assistant) came up with the following the other day: "I read in a magazine that's on the stands these days a fatuous article by an equally fatuous ass who poses for a picture alongside and polished for long months in her Park avenue studio, is the tone poem divided into the Chant of the Masai, Moorish Dance, Birds and Beasts of the Jungle, Dance of the Spears and The Missionaries. RECENTLY Mrs. Harkness has added sculpture to her, activities and is now at work on a piece she rails "Masai Warrior at Drums." She plans to continue her studies with Nikolai Dmitrieff, well known New York sculptor, until she leaves for France this summer to study at the Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau. Born Rebekah Semple West, Mrs.

Harkness is the daughter of Mrs. Allen T. West of the Park Plaza Hotel. Her father, the late Allen West, was a partner in the brokerage firm of G. H.

Walker and her grandfather, Thomas H. West, was the founder of the Union Trust Co. In St. Louis. Mrs.

Harkness's late husband was a member of the Cleveland family associated with John D. Rockefeller in founding what became the Standard Oil Co. Of Mrs. Harkness's three children. Allen, 14 years old, Terry, 11, and Edith, 6, one may also turn out to be a composer.

Daughter Terry shares her mother's love of music and has turned nut several songs, including "a pleasant little thing" called "Bunny Parade." Whether in her Park avenue apartment, at her Watch Hill, R.I., summer home or vacationing in Florida, Mrs. Harkness does not cut down on the time she spends on her music. She also spends considerable time on the affairs of the William Harkness Foundation, founded to aid various charities. Her chief interest outside music are the theater and ballet. "I played the piano a little as a child but I was never really very much interested in it," Mrs.

Harkness says. "But since I toolrup the study of music seriously five years ago I've developed one ambition. I want to write something that will last, something that will be By Virginia Irwin A Stiff Csrripene'nt of ih Peit-Ditpttch NEW YORK, May 23. FIVE YEARS ago, former St Louisan Rebekah West Hark-ness rearranged her busy life as a young society matron to begin piano studies. Soon she found that her interest in music was so deep that it was keeping her at the keyboard some six hours a day and within a short time she was encouraged to believe that she had a real talent for composing music.

Today the long hours of work and study are paying off. Within the past year, three of Betty Harkpess's compositions' have been played by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the Carnegie Pops Orchestra and on Thursday her latest work, a tone poem which she has called "Safari," will be premiered at Carnegie Hall by the New York Philharmonic with D'Artega conducting. "I think I work as hard at my music as a career woman works at a job." the tall, attractive mother of three growing children explained, nodding toward the grand piano in the big, sunny studio on the top floor of her 14-room Park avenue duplex apartment "Because I find the early morning hours the best time to work, I'm usually at the piano by 8 a.m. All told I average about six hours a day in the studio. There are, of course, interruptions from the children but those are the only distractions I allow.

The social calendar bows to my work." Mrs. Harkness, widow of the late William Hale Harkness, a stock broker, has had six popular songs released on records. She has "high hopes" for her "Tulips in Springtime" which has been published by the firm of Shapiro, Bernstein and and was first heard when it was played by the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. Now released by Cavalcade Records, "Tulips in Springtime" was the theme song of the debut of Mrs. Harkness's niece, Barbara Anne Whlttemore, who was presented ARTHUR IS YOUR NAME?" designing Woman Color for Cafe Curtains By Elizabeth Hillyer REKXAH WIST HARKNESS THE SOCIAL CALENDAR BOWS TO HER MUSIC.

to society at the St. Louis Country Club last Dec. 23. Miss Whlttemore. daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Clinton L. Whlttemore is the reigning Veiled Prophet Queen. Another of her songs, "My Heart," also or. Cavalcade label, was premiered by the Carnegie Pops Orchestra at a Heart Fund program starring Eddie Fisher.

Published by Keys Music, "My Heart," a ballad, has on the recording a vocal by Freddie Munnings, a one-time Nassau, Bahamas, policeman. Last month still another of Mrs. Harkness's songs had its first performance at a concert at Town Hall. Called "When Love Is News." it will soon be released by Mercury Records. Also to be released soon on the Cavalcade label are her "Thun-derbird," "Windy Day'1 and "Autumn." Mrs.

Harkness calls her "Safari," a tone poem or symphony orchestras, her first "big work." "Safari" grew out ofa trip she took to Africa with her husband in 1952. It was at the time of the Mau Mau uprising and as Mrs. Harkness listened to the chanting of the. natives outside her tent at night, she began putting down her impressions i.i music. The result labored over7 1 1 l( i v- It's dark mahogany now, and JUST when cafe curtains seem to be just as popular they possibly could be, along comes summer to make them more desirable than ever.

They're crisp little room refreshers as they are sketched here. Bright ribbons spark the top design, ribbons in three bright colors on party dress white organdy. The curtain is merely a straight strip, hemmed at top and below. The hanging loop ribbons might be grosgrain, which comes, in vivid shades, and they're easy to sew on, need no finishing and dangle fetch-ingly against the white. To be extra practical, the ribbons might go on with snaps for easy removal and replacement when the organdy is laundered.

How about brilliant jade green, royal blue, ar.d sunny yellow for the colors? For the other design, a flower print is cut to outline the flowers for the top edge, and the top hem is a facing. Here, the hanging loops are green to match green touches in the yellow and white print. Note that these sketches suggest hanging rods set forward from the window frame, to solve the problem of the frame that isn't deep enough to fit the curtain inside. MRS. B.

J. "What's the easiest way to reflnish "a picture frame? Let's Explore Your Mind By Dr. Albirt E. Wlggam My Neighbor Says: Tenderized packaged prunes do not need to be soaked before cooking. Just wash the prunes, cover with water and simmer until tender.

Be sure to add a few slices of lemon to the prunes while you are simmering them "for fine flavor. his byline on top of It with a cigarette butt about to burn his fingers, you know with a silly look on his face as if he needs a Turns." (The magazine is Collier's and the silly look is mine.) "He says In his article that there's nothing any more that's any good on television or radio except fine actors and fine actresses, that none of the things will endure or have endured that started out In TV. For Instance he says that Arthur Godfrey has slipped completely out of the picture." WELL. I SUPPOSE the great Godfrey (or whoever writes the stuff) didn't dare mention my last name or the name of the magazine because that happens to be a completely Inaccurate resume of what I said. I didn't say Godfrey had slipped out of the picture; I said his ratings had slipped and they have.

(Godfrey's Talent Scout show was once second; his last rating: twenty-fifth. His Friends show was once third and it's now twentieth.) And another thing I didn't say Is that there's nothing any good on radio (which was hardly mentioned In the article) or television except fine actors and actresses. I plead guilty to holding a cigarette but I think it's a funny charge to come from a guy whose first sponsor was Chesterfield and who was seen on posters all over the country smoking them. MR. GODFREY went on In this wise: "He (meaning me) wants to point out that Gleason, he intimates, is not an actor.

I have never in all my days seen a finer one than that fellow Gleason." I not only did not say that Gleason is not an actor, I have repeatedly said that he is one of the most miraculous talents around. I did predict sticking my neck out that the comedians on the present once-a-week level were not going to endure on television because the record reads otherwise. It's just a prediction and it might be very wrong as I admitted. What's eating Godfrey, anyhow? In 5500 words I only mentioned him in two sentences and in both cases I was talking about something besides Godfrey and was just using him almost as a metaphor. He's got a clear right to complain about what I write but I think he ought to read it first.

(Or have it read to him accurately.) "THEY COULD DO such a beautiful job, these so-called critics, these radio oracles," concluded Godfrey. "What a wonderful job they could do if they would if they would just report and 'give a good expert opinion, if they had one." 'Well, I remember giving a good expert opinion on Godfrey, years and years ago when he had no sponsors at all. I tried to point out that he was a remarkable personality and that his was one of the pleasantest daytime shows on radio, though widely unknown. Probably no guy got a better press or deserved it more than Godfrey in those early years. What's happened? (Copyright, 1958, Niw York Herald Trunin Int.) ill! we'd like it light." There's no getting around the application of paint and varnish remover, wiping it off to take the color with it, and perhaps giving special attention to low levels in the molding with gentle scraping.

Then the wood must be bleached. But when the stain is removed, you can speed up the finish with the application of a satin finish water white lacquer or varnish, which may complete the job with one coat. RE-DO Your Prcitnt WJf Nw Coorfut Fvmlcf T.pi S'itf Cell a Krtctitii Jp.tl.Hif WESTOWN KITCHEN MART 7207 D.lmor PA. 1-3700 'III I fJ. Should you ever find it necessary to saw through a glued joint in wood, use an old saw for the job.

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i AM seeking advice in a I feeding problem we have with our 13-month-old boy," a mother writes. He is a happy, healthy (25-pound) child who has never had too much Interest in food. Unless given a toy to play with, he will not sit still in his high chair to eat. Probably because of this, he has not shown any interest in feeding himself in any way. I have tried to encourage him by giving him a spoon to play with instead of a toy, but he only bangs with it, tosses it aside, snd refuses to eat until distracted with a plaything.

"Also he Is still on canned junior foods and refuses to eat anything else. His great love, however, is milk. (Is this the root of my problem?) He likes to drink it from a glass that he holds well. Also he has about four ounces with his nap in a bottle. At night about 7 o'clock he goes to bed with an eight-ounce bottle about 10 o'clock he has another bottle and sometimes another at 3 o'clock." FROM what you say in your letter, it doesn't seem to us that you have too much of a feeding problem.

Your boy may be just slightly immature, but it is certainly nothing to worry about. It is quite normal for a boy around his age level to be more interested in playing with toys than in feeding himself. As long as he allows you to feed him, you don't have to worry. It is also a little late to be on canned junior foods, but again this is something that time should remedy. However, it is really late for him to have a 3 o'clock bottle.

You might try to. get him to give this up. At least give him his milk from a glass. Try to cut down his bottles to one or possibly two. As you yourself suspect, If he did give up his bottle entirely, It is true that he probably would show more enthusiasm for other foods.

But it might be most difficult to get him to give it up entirely, right now. As you probably know, many children do go on with theif bottles until two and even two-and-a-half years of age, Opin Monday, Thurt. Friday Til I P.M. 3.1ft KNOWLEDGE Or GeOSRAPKV MOM IMPORTANT NOW THAN 6VEft? VESD rJOQ two graduates were In the $2000 to $4000 bracket. Business has become a profession, and few can succeed by the old rule of thumb methods that made a few men rich but most men poor.

Answer to Question 3. Yes, yet few college students could name all the United States states from an outline map, and many thought Florida was where California is, and vice versa. Few people know where Indonesia or Viet Nam are, and many think that Mount Everest is at the South Pele. We have large departments to teach romance languages, but usually only small departments to teach what's on the outside of this globe we live on. I find few people know what a geographer does for a living.

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GENTLEMEN will probably soon be rare, if our hoodlum youth gangs are any indication. But a nation-wide survey showed 60 per cent of men preferred brunettes; 30 percent, blondes; 10 per cent, redheads. This doesn't prove much since there are about three times as many brunettes as blondes the natural variety. The late psychologist, L. Marston, concluded that the gal men really go for is the brunette with blue eyes.

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UR little problem for today I I concerns a section of inside wall directly under a window that becomes damp a day or so after a hard rain. Now this as you may have guessed has something to do with a leak and the chances are that the leak has something to do with the window but the trick is to find out just what part of the window and frame is causing the trouble. Start out on the outside and first check the top of the window frame where it joins the house siding. This seam should be covered with metal flashing, but holes in the flashing will allow water to enter the window frame and once It's inside, it can go almost any place. If there is no flashing, apply caulking compound to this joint.

Next go over the window frame and check the joints between the various pieces that make up the frame. Clean out any open scams with an awl and then fill the joint with white lead thinned with turpentine. The next spot to look for trouble is the window sill on the outside where it joins the house siding. A driving rain will force water right along the underside of the sill and also right through any open seam between the sill and the siding. Fill the joint between siding and sill with caulking compound and then cover this with a strip of quarter round molding.

If you want to play doubly safe, take a wood gouge and cut a groove the entire length of the sill on the underside about half the distance between the siding and the outside edge of the sill. This will act as a little "stop" and prevent a lot of the wind blown water ever reaching the joint between sill and siding. a REBUILT SINGER ELECTRIC PORTABLE WHILE OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed By Elinor Williams IT doesn't lake a mind reader to guess that party and dance time is here. Even the masculine half of the high school whirl has written to this column to ask what's correct to wear to "formals." For boys up to about 16, "formal" means a navy blue suit. With it, wear a white shirt, a conservative tie, black socks and black shoes.

This is the equivalent of a tuxedo boys who are 18 or less not only for formal dances, but also for evening weddings (after 6 p.m.), formal parties or receptions. A dark brown or dark gray suit may be worn, but navy blue is first choice, considered more formal. When you wear a tuxedo, a white dress shirt goes with it, a formal black bow tie, black socks and black shoes. "Dinner Jacket" is another name for a tuxedo. Tuxedos are not correct for daytime only after 6 p.m.

For girls, a short evening dress is as formal as a full-length one. The choice is up to you. Short evening dresses are pretty with silver or gold or dyed-to-match pumps or sandals. Should you wear stockings? (some girls ksk this). Yes.

You'll also need a little evening bag to carry your handkerchief, compact, lipstick, comb, etc. It's a good idea to get all these things ready before the zero hour, so you won't have to rush like crazy at the last minute before your date rings the doorbell. Social Problems By Emily Post A YOUNG woman writes me: "My boy friend, whose home is in another state, is graduating from a college in my home town. I met his mother and father some time ago; in fact I stayed at their house for a few days, but my family has never met them. May I write to her and ask her and her husband to stay with us when they are here for their son's graduation?" You cannot invite them, but your mother might do so by writing something like this to his mother: "Mary has told me so much about you that I would like so much to have you and your husband stay with us when you come here for your son's graduation." DEAR MRS.

POST: Was saying "thank you" enough when leaving the house of strange hosts who were very kind to invite me to come with a friend to their house for dinner? I shall probably never be able to give these people any return invitation. Answer: "Thank you" is proper so far as It goes, but you should say a little more than just these words. For instance, "Thank you for letting Mary bring me I've enjoyed the evening very much" or if you like them especially well, It would be quite all right to say, "It's been such a pleasure to meet you." ALL-PURPOSE ATTACHMENT THAT 9 BuHonholes E2 a El II a THEY LAST! 1 Darns El Zigzags Forward Reverse II Safety Wheel 3 Automatic Tension El M95 mi btj" ItftftlH NODEL FREE 1522-27 HOME TRIAL -Trui iM-iriiftfffiiniscfTiii- j- lir-r fcu 'Hew Base Hew Fool Control Hew Motor 5-Year Service Guaranty NONI SOLD SOLD BY HOME DEMONSTRATION ONLY Rtbullf bv Rtliabl wltb ftellab't parti WEEK DAYS CALL OL 2-7715 TO DIALIKJ Potato Dumplings One cup cold mashed potatoes; three eggs, beaten; one teaspoon salt; one cup sifted all-purpose flour; one-half teaspoon double-acting baking powder; three slices white bread; two tablespoons butter. Combine first three ingredi-ents. Sift flour with baking powder, add to potato mixture.

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