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"NEVER AGAIN!" This was Mrs. Rose Zirl's attitude towards gros-point after finishing this wall hanging which was two years in the making. It depicts all of her Interests puppet ry, papier mache, reading, ceramics, sketching, sewing and painting. CREATIVE COUPLE Meyer and Rose Zirl, Highland Park, still enjoy playing with what remains of their collection of papier mache puppets. Most of their once-large collection of puppets has been vven away since their daughter Paula has grown up and married.

Homemade Artwork Adorns Highland Park Couple's House be scenes from "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Kings" by 'J. Ri R. Tolkien. "These stories are really fairy tales for adults," she said. "They are peopled with fantastically lovely characters which can't help but provide great artistic scope.

I'm very anxious to start working on these pieces." child because tlie dominant characters are Punch and Judy. However, Mrs. Zirl explained she designed the piece for her own pleasure and worked into the composition fill the things she likes to do such as ceramics, sewing, sketching, puppet making, reading, painting and papier mache. Mrs. Zirl studied designing at the Pratt Institute in New York By MAREL HARAYDA Art is not exactly a hobby for either Rose or Meyer Zirl.

It is more a way of life. In their Highland Park apartment at 420 Bcnner evidence of their creativity is visible in every room. On the walls hang Mrs. Zirl's striking "wool paintings." Each of these paintings was executed in a different way. Crewel embroidery was the technique used on a large colorful composition of a fisherman with his net.

An impressionistic wall-hanging of birds was hooked from worn out wool dresses and nylon stockings which were cut into strips, then dyed to the required colors. Took Two Years A third picture was done in gros point, and of this technique, Mrs. Zirl commented, again! It took an eternity almost two years!" At first glance, this one seems to have been made tor a and put on shows for friends, at parties and in schools." The couple have always made their own Christmas cards and gifts, but just give hand made gifts to very close neighbors and friends. "Not everyone would want or appreciate them," Mrs. Zirl said.

Meyer Zirl is a sixth grade teacher at Lafayette School in Highland Park. Mrs. Zirl after working full time until just four years ago is now happy to be "just a housewife" with plenty of time to devote to art. "When I was working, there just wasn't enough time to work on the time consuming projects such as the wool paintings I'm doing now, so I had to try to incorporate art into every day living and gear it to what was happening at home." What was happening at home could have been a Halloween party and making a very special mask for Paul, or making Christmas gifts that could be finished quickly but still be artistic accomplishments such as papier mache fruit. Even with the free time that being a housewife provides, Mrs.

Zirl finds there isn't enough time to squeeze in all the things she's been thinking about doing for so many years. Course in Oils This year she plans to take a course in oils, "because I've never really worked in that medium." But she is most excited about a series of wall hangings she is now designing which will for two years but did not become interested in sewn wall-hangings until several years later when she began working as an occupational therapist at Lrirhworh Village in New York State, a completely self-sustaining home for the retarded. While at Letchworth, a small kiln was disposed of because anything sharp or hot is considered unsafe for retarded people to use. Mrs. Zirl took it home and for years it collected dust.

Then her husband dusted it off and tried his hand at copper enameling. "That year for Christmas we gave everyone copper enameled jewelry like this," Mrs. Zirl said pointing to a crescent-shaped pin on her collar. For the men, Zirl made cufflinks. In addition to enameling copper, Zirl likes to do wood-carving.

His first work was done with a pocket knife and pieces of chopped down trees he found on the ground. His first pieces were primitively styled heads and figures. Even though some of the wood was cracked he did not attempt to fill in the flaws. One of the heads has a crack from the forehead through the eye and down through the cheek. Disturbing Flaws "That seems to disturb a lot of people," he laughed, "but I think the crack makes the piece more effective." Shortly after taking up wood carving Zirl saw an exhibit of carved chess sets from countries all over the world.

He had always wanted a good chess set and after studying the pieces concluded he was capable of carving his own set. "The hardest part was finding inspiration for the pieces," he said. "Once I got an idea the carving was easy." Brancusi's "Bird in Flight" inspired the bishop. A carving on a Parthenon Frieze was adapted for the knight. "I was really stuck when I got to the astlc," he remembers, "then one day I was listening to a lecturer on TV and was struck by his unusual podium.

A few changes, and I had the castle." While working on the chess set, Zirl found the pocket knife too crude and invested in a set of carving tools. In earlier years, while daughter Paula, who is now married, was growing up, the Zirls devoted most of their attention to child-centered creations. A favorite then was papier mache puppets. They created many fairy tale puppets such as Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and Punch and Judy, most of which have since been given away. Wrote Own Scripts "At that time," Mrs.

Zirl recalls, "we wrote our own scripts FREE FOR McCarter Drama Subscribers A Symposium THE NATURE OF COMEDY with special reference to the Spring Drama Series at McCarter Center ROSEMARY ELLIS HARRIS RABB A.PA. REPERTORY NEW YORK CITY Prof. Alan Downer, Keynote Speaker Arthur Lithgow Dr. Max Bogart McCarter Theatre Wednesday, January 18, 1 p.m. 5 p.m.

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Idea for the castle cam from a speaker's podium. A carving an fritie of Parthenon was modified for the horse, and Brancusi's "Bird in Flight" was inspiration for Ik i CREWEL EMBROIDERY WALL HANGING Mrs. Rose Zirl, Highland Park embroidered this colorful fisherman. She became interested in c'oini wool paintings while workin? as an occupational therapist a home for retarded people. 1 1 1 Sr I 1 Jliyil 1 Mil 'W.

A ft am Watercolor Painting Needs New Blood 1 By MILES A. SMITH And Thank Yon We've enjoyed serving you and hope lo serve you next year, too! 1 NEW YORK 'AP Watercolor painting in America has m-n crably short of distinction. In passing from the historical sec-tion of the bhow to the present-day there is a considerable lit letdown. This double exhibition will be on view through Jan. 29.

Coincidental with this event, a book has been published YEAR'S ncni Vrf.Ky Aim Wi'rt (ding the prid this GREETINGS which contains a cross section of the pictures in the show ytar with our best withes to all lor a btoutiM and happy Now Ytor. II LIU I YV Kim I-MARTIIlly UHARGRET rt Ten ijj paint- J2250 15 "A History of American Watercolor Painting," by Albe Fyck Gardner, associate curator in charge of American ings and sculpture At the Metropolitan Museum 'Reinhold. is a survey containing a brief introduction and 100 illustrations, ft COME SEE! KARL MALDEil THE FINEST COLOR TV YET I ZENITH COLOR TV betted days, it would appeflr from a double-barreled exhibition currently al the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The main part of the show is a historical review covering the past 200 years, organized to celebrate the centennial of tne American Watercolor Society. The retrospective, prepared by Stuart P.

Feld of (he museum's curatorial staff, consists of 2M works by 107 artists, and the Met is proud that 166 of them are from its own collections. It ranees in time from an unidentified artihfs view of New York in 1757 to works done 'n recent months by Alexander Ca'der and Helen Franl.enthalcr; there even arc a few examples from the drip and Op Art people. But its principal attractions are Winslow Homer, Thomas Eak-Ins, Charles Burchficld. John Marin and Andrew Wyeth of whom only Mann and Burchficld concentrated on the watercolor field. Adjoining this historical review is a show of 78 watercolor items by current members of the AWS.

Twenty members whose works are in the museum's collections are represented in this section by one example each. They, in turn, were asked lo Klect 53 other items from entries, submitted by other current members. The confirm the museum's judgment, but the 53 fall consij- i The Idtil Nw Ytr Gift for tht Entire Family Enjoyl" L-AMLiUaiUHiL which 50 are in color. A principal feature of the historical show is a gallery full of Homer watcrcolors, most of them belonging to the museum, which after his death bought a whole series created during his visits to Bermuda and the Bahamas. There are six works by Eakins.

Shown for the first time are some historical views of New York, bequeathed in 1354 by Edward W. C. Carnold. and selections from a large group of John Singer Sargent watcrcolors presented to the museum in 1950 by his sister. Mrs.

Francis Ormond. From Georgia O'Keefe's gift of the Sticglitz Collection there have been drawn many examples, including 14 Marins and 10 items by Charles Demuth. One of the most striking pictures lent to the show is a self portrait by Mary Cassatt, executed in 1878. I. TELEVISION SALES largest Selection of and Black 'n' White Zenith Color TV's in this area HAnnvs CH 9-3550 'I CHIllA SPM JAMES GREGORY BEVERLY ADAMS IJ MOWN AT S42 GEORGES NORTH, BRUNSWICK IrVsfWWiaiWa (No ParVina Probltm Htrei) atatiaictw.