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Friday, May 23, 1975 Page 12 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Opera Always Is A Pleasure By JANE ALLISON Special Correspondent NEW YORK Right now, while the Metropolitan Opera is on tour across the country, only, one outside person knows exactly what is going on within that gilded fleet. ywj -I lhiiMHr h.iummBi TiHiH mLmmmmwm turr fierce rudusici, vnv- runabout and Buick two-seater, plus vital accessories like the tool box, tire pump, ooga horns and carbide generator. It's a great conversation piece for Indianapolis during May. Especially For May A long-time favorite from Arabesque of Traverse City, is this Antique Cars Collage. The simulated wood plaque features replicas of the Art Interest Milton F.

Barlow (left), Kansas City, and Mrs. Paul W. Finney, chat with Harrison Eiteljorg (right) during a tour by the Society of Fellows, Nelson Gallery Foundation, of Krannerr, Clowes and Lilly Pavilions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The group toured the Eiteljorg Gate House and were luncheon guests of the Eiteljorgs yesterday. The NEWS Photo, Jim Young.

Pete DePaolo Will Hopping From Car Keep To Car Last Minute Race Festivities Move Fast She- is Quaintance Eaten, author of "Opera Caravan, Adventures of the Met On Tour," the acknowledged first lady of letters as far as opera writing goes. In the light of women's lib, why limit that title to first lady? First authority is more like it, for what other person has written so much about what goes on behind, and in front of the great golden curtains of the opera houses of the world? For opera buffs from campus to impresarios, Quaintance Eaton's "Opera Production" books I and II are required reading. So is her superb history of "The Boston Opera Company" and "The Miracle of the Met." As though that weren't enough, the always dramatically gowned author edits two opera news letters, one for the New York City Opera Guild and the other for Boosey Hawkes, while turning out a steady stream of stories about the fascinat-. ing personalities that people opera. Recent studies have included Sara Caldwell, the Boston conductor genius, and events contributing to the recent untimely death of basso Norman Treigle.

Nor should one overlook her monthly book reviews for the a a 1 Federaton of Music Club's Magazine. Her inbetween moments are spent with soprano Joan Sutherland and her conductor husband Richard in Sydney, Australia (where they opened the new opera house); in where they spent Christmas; in London for 10 days of rehearsals for Joan's first "Traviata" at Covent Garden, back to Philadelphia for "Traviata," to Houston for Joan's "Lucretzia Borgia" to San Francisco for her "Esclarmonde" and in another few aays, to Japan HOOSIER IN MANHATTAN for another "Traviata." All of it to go into Quaintance Eaton's forthcoming biography about Joan Sutherland. in case the point has yet to be made, is what makes Quaintance Eaton's mail bulge from youngsters everywhere wanting to know how a Kansas-born and educated newspaper reporter became (back to that title again) the first lady of operatic letters? "Will, attending 61 rehearsals if you're after a backstage story will help," says the statuesque author, who has a penchant for feathers and the humorous phrase. "Or spending every day except Thanksgiving and two Sundays backstage at the Met during rehearsals for my long picture story commissioned by the Opera News on the newly revived masterpiece, 'Tales of You never know how hard those people work until you're there! Of course, that's where, the book on Joan had its inception. "Even with all the opera I've seen, it still fascinates me more than any other form of music.

After attending four five recitals a week when I was associate editor of Musical America, I've had up to here with recitals; The same goes for just about everything else, arts, so there's always something new and good in every production I say that, even if there's lots that's bad, there's always something new to redeem it. For me, it's the greatest musical pleasure of all." Walter Thompson, and daughter, Nancy, Mrs. Carter Jenson, "the love of my life." He spoke' with pride of the educational accomplishments of his wife, children and grandchildren. "I didn't go to college. I got my educa-tion traveling and racing.

It was a rich education money couldn't buy in any universi- ty," he said. DePaolo said he was over- whelmed by the recognition he has received this year. "But the thing that means the most is the continuity of seeing old friends. Indianap- olis is my second home. I've been coming back since 1920 for the race.

I call that main gate (at the Speedway) the portals of heaven." De Paolo an exhibition lap in a 1930 Dusenberg before Sunday's race, now live in Laguna Hills, Calif. "We live in a retirement community called Leisure World," he explained. "My wife hates that name. She calls it the 3 Club: Canes, crutches and Cadillacs." Part of his public relations work for Tony Hulman takes him to the nearby Ontario Motor Speedway. "I used to ride a bicycle 43 miles to see Sally in Ontario.

She was born there. It's ironic that now I'm working in Ontario," he said. The a 1 be joined on race day by their son, Tom, a vice-president in the Los Angeles office of J. By MARGE HANLEY Pete DePaolo will be doing a lot of car hopping. As Grand Marshal of the "500" Festival Parade tomorrow at 11 a.m., he'll be hopping into the 1975 pace car.

On Sunday nostalgia will reign, and he'll be back in a Duesey for pre-race activities. It will not be the same Duesenberg he drove to victory in the 1925 500-Mile Race, and his pre-race preparation will be different, too. His breakfast will consist of a different menu. "I always ate two raw eggs in a glass of milk before a race," confessed De-Paolo. "It settled my stomach and kept the blood in my brain, not in my stomach." DePaolo, who admits to a sprightly 77, has the vigor of a young colt.

"I'm almost a vegetarian," he said. "I love vegetables, usually cooked, and eat very little meat. I eat Italian food with my friends occasionally, but can't hold all that food. I guess that's why I was the runt of the family." DePalo and his wife, Sal--ly, who will ride with him in Noted party thrower of Indianapolis, Ardath Burkhart says Saturday's post-parade celebration may be the last "biggie" at the old manse. Among the few hundred guests whose names are on committees serving the many "500" Festival events will be the following celebrities: Jackii Cooper, movli star.

Anion Williami, tmision pirsoml-ity: "Happy Dayi." Adriennt Barbeau, riltvision personality: "Maude." Boo Barter, TV'I "Troth or Consequences" and commentator for the "500" parade. Jimmy Oean, Cowboy-Western sinter. Jim television actor. Karen Petersen, Miss Teen-ail America. Cynthia Thornouroh, Miss Blossom, Benton Harbor, Mich.

William 6. Lawson, manager of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses (Calif.) Parade; float judge. Eaden M. Whiteman eieculi'f director Bridgeport, Barnum Festival. Donald H.

Dooley, coordinator of "Milwaukee Days" 4th of July Parades (no longer in operation). Lawrey Smith, general chairman of Iht St. Paul Winter Carnival. Jamit Farr, television actor: "Mash." Simon Is President William Simon is the new president of, the Indiana University Men's Club of Indianapolis. Other officers are: Ward Sexson, John Durkatt, treasurer, and James B.

secre- i tary.7 i ery. It just happens that Bremen is hometown for the Bowens. They've lived there 28 years. Since the young people had no place to stay in Indianapolis and little funds, Mrs. Bowen merely said, "C'mon-a-my house." A shred of information garnered from publicity-shy Jim Garner is his one-fourth Cherokee Indian heritage inspired the name for his white German shepherd, "Cherokee." Far more interested in watching the cars go "round the, track as they got all the ki'nks out before the formidable race, Garner pleaded, "No interview, please.

I just want to be anonymous. I don't want to be swamped by autograph hounds." Dressed simply in dark blue cotton sport shirt and slacks, the actor rejoined a group of garage mechanics and car owners. At a glance, he was just another ruggedly good-looking man with an enviable suntan. Speaking of pets, Bobby Unser calls his -d "Turbo Charger Unser." His Siamese cat answers to "Offy." Tom Bigelow doesn't indulge in the creative name game. His dog is "Daisy." Tom claims he made his mind up at the age of 12 that he would be a race driver someday.

By 16 his mother took him seriously. By JEAN JENSEN CAs race day approaches ai a speed set by the pole car, the only 500 Festival prerace activities left on the May calendar are the Queen's Ball tonight, the parade at 11 a.m. tomorrow and "500" Festival Memorial Parade Band concerts at 4 p.m. in Castleton and Lafayette shopping malls at 4 p.m. Nineteen high school boys girls from Bremen High School, will be able to point io the 's (new) jnansion, 4750 N.

Meridian, and say to their eventual Offspring, "I slept there." j' ln fact, they may qualify as the first overnight guests Of Gov. Otis R. Bowen and Mrs. Bowen although the mansion is not furnished iwith a single bed to date. JThe youngsters, all members of the Bremen Swing Choir 'jfiere for float judging and to perform from their float in a a 's parade, have brought along their sleeping bags and will take to the floor in the newly carpeted -upstairs bedrooms.

A couple of mothers and the choir director, Larry Howell; have come along as chaperones. The prestigious invitation lacks any vote-getting chican See the 500 Festival Parade Saturday at 11:00 a.m. Then Shop Ay res Downtown For 100's of EOM Savings Downtown Open Today 9:30 to Glendale, Greenwood, Lafayette Square and Washington Square 10:00 to 9:00 Touting Mechanics 1 Is Her Business By JOYCE LAUDIEN She proposed a kiss and was evicted. i That was six years ago in a garage in Charlotte, "N.C., when a "had-to-be-blind" greasy-faced mechanic refused a kiss from the lovely lady. if 1 A "I had not learned it wasn't my place yet," she said.

Nancy Mitchell is in Indi-' a a 1 i for the 500-Mile and you can see her In the garage or pit this Sunday at the a out a kiss or two and extending words of appraisal to the drivers and their mechanics. She works in public relations for S-K Tools in Chicago, a company involved in racing. Nancy is involved in putting more spotlight on the mechanic, who she said she feels is the cast aside hero of racing. "I give out money and kisses," she said. Model, singer and dancer, journalist and one-time tele-) vision hostess and producer, Nancy, who describes her life as "a patchwork quilt," 'is also a qualified mechanic.

having completed, out of her own devout interest in racing a five-week course in driving and mechanics at a school in California i San Francisco. It was there, driving up iand down hills on a tough one-mile course eight hours a day, she said she learned not only admiration for the skills of the mechanic, but also respect for the mental and physical stamina and indication of auto drivers. iShe also learned that she oil Id "absolutely not be-Home a race driver." Save 2.00 On Canvas Big Clearance Of Saveon Totes, Shoulderbags! Men's Dress Shirts Long Play Records 5.99.o6.99 3.994.99 99 Orig. 8.00 to 9.00. A large selection of Orig.

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Classy women are still needlepoint-ing. "I don't feel a woman can handle the mechanics of driving a car without training and apprentice hip. and there just doesn't appear to be any wemun racirg today." Nancy came to S-K Tools as a model. She studied at Professional Children School Continued on Page 13.