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A loiHtistUt'Simti -1 4 if yji tiiiiilliwiil jr mftoqwmmt TWO WOMEN OF THE man, met for firtt time at YEAR, Mary Bowling, left, and reception complimenting the 10 Mrt. Harry Franrii Halde. Timet Women of the Year Tlmi ky R. Ollvw CUP ENGRAVED to Dinah Short Montgomery it admked by a Woman of the Year, Dinah Share, and husband, George Montgomery, at reception for winnart, gwutt. Sf it I.

Mrt Tlmf rtieta by frtnH 9. Brown Mrs. Cummingsl 9 Beauty Created Mrs. Irish" Helps Make City Great BY DOROTHY TOWNSSXD She shall have music wherever she goes of that Mrs. Lelland Atherton Irish can be sure.

A woman who can go backstage to warm greet-ings In the major concert halls of the world, who has been so intimately associated with cultural growth in Los Angeles that to think of one is to think of the other, who malntajns that "a city can never be great merely by being large'7 and who has spent 40 years helping to make this city great this woman is a logical choice for a Times Woman of the Year to 1957. Fitted In college for a career In business, she chose, after marriage, a career as a public servant Not long after her first Job with a Red Cross mobile unit in 1917 she was appointed Southern California Military Bureau chief, the only woman on the Pacific Coast holding a position traditionally held by an Army officer. Pioneer of Many Local Institutions Sines that time she has been counted among fit pioneers of many of ths stitutiona which arc today the cornerstones of Los All geles' cultural structure Hollywood Bowl, PhUhaf. monls Orchestra, Los A geles County Art (formerly Otis Art Intf. tute) and the Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunrise Sen-ice.

But there art countless other causes to which shs has devoted her and lent her name In ths 40-year span civic, medical, business, political and social causes. She has campaigned to protect Southern California water sources, championed the cause for a civic auditorium and music center here, fought to save Griffith Park from division by a freeway; worked for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation and American Bureau for Medical Aid to Free China, sold War Bonds and has publicly supported candidates whose causes she approved. These are but a few. Directs Activities From Spacious Office Now she directs her multifarious activities from a spacious, two-level, soothingly shaded office in Hollyhock House, Barnsdall Park. All around her on ths walls are inscribed' photographs of many of ths famous figures In music and art of the past 35 years.

On the bookshelves are bound programs of the Philharmonic Orchestra and Hollywood Bowl dating back to 1921. A fireplace and comfortable chairs give a deceptively relaxed atmoipliere to ths room in which sts exercises her business acumen, It has been her headquarters sines 1946. But her real laboratorr has been ths concert hall, front or backstage. That is where sha works best because that is whet her heart is. That is where shs hat by Mary Bowling BY ELIZABETH GOODLAND, Times Staff Writer Part IV DEC.

15, 1937 Research Challenges Dr. Szego BT GRAHAM BERRY Times Selene Editor When It comes to achieving recognition, such as being named by The. Times as the woman scientist of the year, Endocrinologist Clara Szego gives credit to everyone but herself. First she mentions her husband, Dr. Sidney Roberts, professor of physiological chemistry at UCLA, who, like herself, is engrossed in basic research.

Then she talks about ths help given by her assistant, Miss Dorothy Wolcott, in their work on the fundamental problems of the relation of hormones to tissue growth. Dr. Szego, an associate professor of zoology at UCLA, also pays tribute to her graduate students for their help and even gives credit to her schooling in New York City, Hunter College and the University of Minnesota. You don't "visit with her long before you realize that this good-looking woman hat decided views about many things and especially about her work In basic research, "This kind of work ii an Intellectual challenge for the sake of knowledge itself," she explains. "We need a fundamental reservoir of basic information In the natural and physical sciences from which future applications will come probably In unexpected directions and in ways with which basic research workers are not concerning themselves.

"For example, scientists who investigated the adrenal cortex for 30 years have any idea their work would be useful in treating a number of diseases, including arthritis. 'This work resulted In the of ACTH and oor-Itisone which have wide application in medicine." Endocrinology Study Wins Pair Recognition Dr. Szego and her husband have already won recognition for their work In endocrinology. They received the American Endocrine Society's Ciba Award in 1953, primarily for the demonstration that the steroid hormones, which Include the sex hormones and substances related to cortisone, were carried in the blood in close association with large protein molecules which render them water soluble. "We think this is a fundamental step In understanding the nature of their action," she said.

Dr. Szego forgot her science for a moment when asked her age. "You may say that I've just reached the point where I'm sensitive about it," she replied, smiling. She doesn't look as If she had reached that age. A nroduct of American schools, Dr.

Szego has decided views about education: "Secondary school students are getting too much Intellectual candy and not enough meat. There Is too much emphasis on 'life-adjustment' and not enough on basic education. "Being a teacher, I have very strong views on the importance of a rigorous education In the elementary and high schools." She recently returned to her laboratories in the huge Life Sciences Building at UCLA from a sabbatical leave In England under a Guggenheim Fellowship "to learn new micro-methods Turn Ptfe 2, Column fl Service now open and will be dedi cated next fall. For the Jewish Home for 'the Aged Mrs. Cummings believes in the best that can be had.

The food is exceptional. There is comfort, peace and beauty. "The men and women there areorthodox Jews," she said, "and there are scholars among them who know 100 times more than I do; They have made lasting contributions of great value to the world. "No person in need of a meal or medical care is turned away at the home and medical center," She Often Works Past Midnight Even when she works at her desk until past midnight Cummings wakes early. She brushes her black hair, shot with gray, forward in a miniature pompadour, dons an "easy'1 dress to work in and downstairs for a break-ast of grapefruit and cereal.

The day begins. She has two secretaries at her home and three more at her office on Wllsh'irs Blvd. These secretaries, as well as her family of four chll- Turn to Pago 2, Column Miss Stella Famed for Fashion BY FAY HAMMOND Petite Stella Hanania is gently remindful of the smallest package under a large and glittering Christmas tree! Her gift is genuine and so is "Miss Stella." The most distinguished and discerning fashion clientele in Southern California (and many who come here especially to be dressed by her) depend upon this modest little couturiere who has to stand very straight to measure 5 feet tall. She holds a unique position in the world of haute couture. As head of I.

Magnin custom salon, she travels to Europe twice each year to buy and be Inspired by tha great collections of France and Italy, England and Ireland. Her Quiet Elegance Often Steals Show Miss Stella (her devotees never use her last name; most don't even know it) also designs a collection of her own each season and more often than not her quietly elegant clothes steal the show when Magnin's Turn to Page 4, Column 3 PIT" i Years of BY CORDELL HICKS' The residents in the quiet 800 block on Tremaine go to bed fairly early with one exception. But even the late home-comer is no longer surprised at lights shining from No. 828, the comfortable two-story house surrounded by rose trees and vines. He knows, along with the other neighbors, that Mrs.

Ida Mayer Cummings is at her task of devotion: the Jewish Home for the Aged. Pint-sized (4 feet 10 inches) Mrs. Cummings is unchallenged in her long life of dedicated services. This year she was elected president of the junior auxiliary of the home for the 19th consecutive year. In the 19-year period a $135,000 mortgage has been paid by the auxiliary and the $500,000 Mary Plckford Wing has been completed on the grounds at 325 Boyle Ave.

"Mary Plckford, Florence Irish and I call ourselves 'The Three Musketeers' of the home," she said. Medical Center to Be Dedicated Since the erection of the five-story unit the iunlor auxiliary has constructed the Ida Mayer Cummings Medical Center which is for the unusually beautiful stained glass windows in St. Edmund's Episcopal Church, San Marino, and, in another Imaginative field, designed decorative rod and sheet-metal horses for Hollywood Park. Creations New 4 in World of Art Mary Bowling's intarsias (they can be hung on the wall or set Into it like frescoes) are the exciting "something new" in the field of art. They are imagi native and delicate with a combined gaiety and seriousness, but original, colorful and exquisitely designed and executed.

Instead of inlaying wood into a wooden background as the early Italians did, Mary Bowling uses plaster as a background and lays her designs into it. She uses a fascinating array of colorful and fragile object beads, wire, chains, the works of old watches and clocks, semiprecious stones, marbles, bits of colored glass, shells, pieces of broken mirror. She has a wonderful time delving into antique and junk shops for her materials. Sometimes she makes her own, fashioning bright bits from clay and firing them in her electric kiln, and she is delighted when one of her patrons brings her a box of discarded costume jewelry! Childhood Memory Creative Fabric Encompassed in the Creative fabric of her intarsias is a memory from her childhood. In that little Texas town she walked to school past a pauper cemetery, stopping always to admire what she thought, ths most beautiful thing she'd ever seen.

It was the designs on the gravestones, bits of broken bottles, beads and colored glass embedded in ths cement, an example of folk art accomplished by people who had nothing but were immensely creative. Now inspiration for her murals and intarsias comes from research into the Dr. Seyler Is Pillar of Learning BY MARY ANN CALLAN Times Staff Writer Was it because grandfather taught her the alphabet when she was 3, or that she adored her grammar school principal, or that she played school constantly as a child, or that a professor of education urged her to go on to advanced degrees? Whatever the reason that Louise Wood Seyler now holds the second highest post in the Los Angeles City Schools system, she is the first to admit that she i3 not self-made, that she has been helped and sometimes pushed by others and that the breaks just came naturally. Dr. Seyler's modesty does not alter the fact that she has one of the most responsible positions nationally In education and that, in the midst of this crucial age, stands at dead center on the target point of the future.

For it has been well defined that the hope of the future in leadership and direction depends on the quality of education that can be given to this and coming generations. Dr. Seyler's responsibility, In the second largest school system In the United States, is to co-ordinate the educational program on all levels elementary, secondary and college. She Recalls Small Beginning, Ridicule To her, this may sound like an oversize statement, for she can still recall her small beginnings and the sometimes exasperation and ridicule of fellow playmates in Sioux City, when they would look at her in disgust and exclaim, "Aw, Louise, do we have to play school again?" Now it Isn't play and wasn't 30 years ago when she began earning a succession of degrees at UCLA, at the urging, prodding and encouragement of J. Harold Williams, professor now retired.

"If there's anyone who Turn te Ptfe 5, Column 1 She not only sees a world filled with madness but she translates It through her typewriter to a script creating the doubly mad world through which Lucille Ball and Desl Araai prance on television. Madelyn Pugh Martin then Is one twice blessed. She was born with ths gift of laughter. And she can create laughter for others. One of Few Women Successful in Field Mrs.

Martin Is one of the few women ever to be successful at the exasperating task of writing comedy. Tmra to Pago Cehnoa 1 Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived in one of the border towns in Texas. She was a beautiful little girl with dark brown hair and big brown eyes that sparkled with pleasure at all the lovely things they saw in the world. The little girl is grown up now and has become an artist of Btature and great talent. She is Mary Bowling, chosen one of The Times Women of the Year for 1957.

Mary Bowling's eyes still see the world's beauty. The inspiration it brings is translated through her hands into murals and into intarsia, an ancient Italian art medium she has recreated in modern terms to become peculiarly her own. Her painted murals shine and flow on the walls of many public buildings such as in the executive suite of Ohrbach's Wllshlre store, in the Hillcre8t Country Club, the Bali Boom of the Beverly Hilton, the General Petroleum Building here and In St. Bede's Catholic Church, La Canada, where her mural altarpiece Is painted in shades of gold. She created the design tor fj fi -J I PfV fey ft sW IWJt managed, bargained and fought to keep performers and audiences together in years when each was in danger of losing the other.

In 14 years as general chairman of Symphonies Under the Stars at Hollywood BowL 10 as executive vice-president of the Southern Symphony -Association and manager of the Philharmonic Orchestra, she knew the ups and downs of audience enthusiasm and apathy. Her first general chairmanship at the Bowl was MRS. MARTIN HAS GIFT OF LAUGHTER Turn to Pego 2, Column 1 Turn to Page 5, Column 8 MAGGIE ETTINGER-PUBLICIST SUPREME BY CECIL SMITH What makes lift worth living? To bt born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world it mad. Sabatint There are not too many who qualify by old Saba-tinl's yardstick. Oh, there are millions born with ths gift of laughter.

But a "sense that the world Is that's i rare quality. Here's one, however, who qualifies eminently. A dark-haired, wide-eyed lass. In her mid-30s. Laughter bubbles from her, infectious laughter.

Small pinpoints of delight dance la her deep. Intelligent eyes. BY BARBARA COX From a blue Jay's eye view, Margaret (she prefers Maggie) Ettlnger is the greatest public relations woman in the world. This is no ordinary blue jay. He's the Hollywood variety, a wise Sunset Blvd.

bird. And yet for Maggie Ettlnger he works for peanuts real peanuts, spread temptingly on the sill of the wide-open window behind her desk. We saw him peck them over, with squawking comments, not six Inches from her hand. Like ws said, Maggie Et- tlnger knows her public relations. Trail blazer for women publicists on motion pio-turs lots, friend of Garbo in prerecluse days, ringer of doorbells to find a Job before the Golden 20s, Miss Ettlnger this year became the only woman vice-president of Communications Counselors, international public relations network and affiliate of ths giant advertising firm of McCann-Erlckso a Disarming is the word for Maggit Ettlnger.

Where a Tin to Pago 4, Colwna 1 alte theeinneri ware Mrt. Irving B. Banhm, Mrt. Irene Partone Mann, Mi Margaret Lamb and Mrs. Rote LOS TIEMPOS, home of the Pieman ChanAUrt, toot fitive tcm ef reception honoring the 1957 Timee Women of the Year Among gamtt en hand te eongrae- rrnrn, from to left.

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