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Ridgewood Herald-News from Ridgewood, New Jersey • 21

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Thursday, May 8, 1969 THE RIDGEWOOD, N. HERALD-NEWS- Page 21 0 Notably Notable Actress -V Julia Meade PaysTNostalgiG VisiHFo Ridgewood theater quite naturally. Her mother was- a leading Shakespearian actress and was a member of the Walter Hampden Company. 'While at Ridgewood, Julie had parts in class days and won two rhetorical contests. After graduation, the aspiring actress attended the Yale University Drama School, appeared in summer plays and became a Conover model.

She hesitated when first approached to do commercials on the Ed Sullivan Show, because she didnt want get as a video salesgirl. Obviously, she reconsidered and gained fame and fortune. She even became known as the rich mans Betty Furness. If her name wasnt quite a house hold word, her face became, as familiar to families as some of the stars appearing on the television screen. But it was Actress-Meade, not Student-Meade, who appeared before the humanities class but without benefit of script.

Like a pro, she fielded the students perceptive and probing questions' honestly and adroitly. Todays students are more sophisticated, more knowledgeable. Canned answers just dont satisfy them, she remarked. Dialogue Lets review the exchange of ideas, the dialogue, that came from this humanities class, which is designed to stress inquiry and in round opened new gates for me. It involves the totality of acting since you are being seen from so many angles.

I also enjoy my part iii Front Page because Im playing an old woman, a complete departure from the model-next-door parts I seem to get. Student: Hqw do you approach a role? Is it simply as a job? Miss Meade: Yes, thats the way it must be done. You are on a deadline and you cant wait to be inspired. You must just memorize your lines cold and get them so much inside you that you can make them come outside. Then you use your life experiences and emotions to help interpret the role.

Student: Which is the most valuable: school or experience? Miss Meade: School gave me the time to grow up as a human being and I became better able to cope with my occupation. But, of course, experience before a live audience is invaluable. Student: Do actors tend to act out their own personal lives? Miss Meade: Some do. Some dont. In the old days your had movie stars.

Today actors are essentially business people. The theater is not a glamorous business. With that, the bell rang and she left for lunch. At Sardis? Nq. at the Ridgewood High School cafeteria.

Thats Julia Meade. sight rather than emphasis on accumulation of information. Heres an abbreviated playback on part of her extemporaneous "performance. Student: How do you feel about censorship? Miss Meade: The theater and television are businesses, commercial enterprises. A network has a right to exercise its moral judgment and, in fact, it must be responsible because it is providing the hall.

A city, too, has to be responsible for what is playing. Someone must keeper of the gate. Student: Would you rather work live on screen or television? Miss Meade: I feel television is the most exciting, fun and perceptive medium. Student: What authors do you particularly enjoy? MiSS The theater is very short of good writers. Plays should make a statement about the times and the future.

So much of what is being done on Broadway now is passe, simply a new edition of an old play. Actors, are very concerned about this? In fact, the cast of Front Page4 is working for a minimum salary as a benefit to help aspiring young writers. Of course, there is talent around. Al-bee is a good example. Student: What has been your most rewarding acting experience? Miss Meade: Working in-the 3 4 1 ''v lltfi i I 'WtoMw Sitting on the other side of the desk, Julia Meade, a veil-known actress of stage and television, returned to her alma mater.

last week to make an appearance before the Ridgewood High School Humanities class. Student Gail Graef pays close attention as Miss Meade animates a point she is making during the question and answer session. Fashion Finds Formal Fashions Fit Ladies Fancies f- jf 6. -nnmii iwiiiM ented woman designed herself. It was magnificent.

Men In Fashion? The evening could well have rated a spread in the fashion bible, Womens Wear Daily, if it hadnt been for those marvelously lovable men folk. Now, really, men, where were all those Edwardian dinner jackets? What happened to the shaped How about the deep double vents, wide lapels and colored shirts? Is it because fashion columnists are spending too much time with the June bridal parties? Apologies, then. And if you were wearing the conventional tuxedo or dark business suit because you were, doing your thing then you are forgiven. But if you men were too busy at the office to find out what in the world is in in this world of mod mod designers and art deco, then we can simply pray for the day that Arnold Gingrich predicted in his speech Friday jnight. The day when instant facsimile reproduction will be possible with magazines as well as newspapers.

We can pray for the day when the fashion fare will be just a button away. Said Gingrich: That time may not be too far off when' magazines may be projected onto the magnetic field on the living room or office wall, and perhaps it is hot too distant a possibility to figure on having a remote control Xerox button beside your armchair that you can simply press to save any page or feature that strikes you as worthy of preservation, or even a second look. Well, men, when the day of press a button boutique arrives then -fashionable pace-setters should flourish. Local Women Entertain Orphans totniwi iS A scarf fell from her neck. Shining in beads with a smile so familiar to Kukla, Fran and Ollie lovers was Fran Allison looking very regal in a short black beaded dress with a crescent neck and elbow length Also in black was Mrs.

Alfred Schiaffo, wife of the state senator and a Seventh Avenue fashion figure in her own right. She wore a halter-top dress that criss-crossed at the bodice which glistened from the silvery gems that oulined the top and continued into very thin straps. Laurel Hurley, Metropolitan opera singer was also there looking like a cool spring day in a straight line, floor length gown. The high, wide neckline, -which stood away from her face, was jeweled in the same gleamers that added a dramatic touch to the dress back. Solids seemed to flourish, but the chairman of the event, Mrs.

B. L. (Honey) Frank swept through the evening as the most gracious hostess imaginable in a paisley red Malcolm Starr evening gown, with a short jacket that the many-tal- Painter To Address Local Church Guild RIDGEWOOD The Womans Guild for Christian Service of Upper Ridgewood Community Church will hold its monthly luncheon on May 13 at 12:45 p.m. The programs speaker, Mrs. E.

Brennan of Ridgewood will speak on Tinsel Painting for which she has been honored in House of Years Exhibit. Her paintings are shown throughout the United States. By RITA WATSON BERGEN COUNTY Evenings ere plunging necklines, bare midriffs, bare backs, flowing skirts, billowing materials, shimmering beads and sassy silks. That is what fashion experts predicted that you gals would be wearing for those black tie optional, dinner-dances. But what does the Bergen County woman wear? She wears a dress that fits her fancy even for the very formal optional occasion.

Women are doing their own thing, end this was. evident at a gala affair last Friday evening. Tammy Brook Country Club was transformed from the haven that can house 800 women for fashion show luncheons to that heaven plentiful with the opposite sex at a dinner to celebrate the Englewood Womans Clubs 75th birthday. Ridgewoods Mr. and Mrs.

Arnold Gingrich were on hand as honored guests. What a difference a man makes at Tammy Brook, not to mention, of course, the candles and elegant array of evening dresses so tastefully sported by the birthday gals. There was idee, and silk, and jersey, and chiffons and a crocheted Lily Skirts were long and short and there was just one mini, lacey Victorian, worn by guess who, and shell never give up that heavenly hike. The Fashionables Saw only one pant outfit there and it was worn by singer Kitty Kallen, who began her career with the Dorsey band. She looked glowing in a white silk suit.

The pants had that newer, straighter leg and the tunic jacket, which buttoned down the front, had a stand-up A sparkling pin to match her eyes adorned the jacket and a long, long turquoise and blue By JEAN LUDLOW RIDGEWOOD Juliaf Meade-came home last Wednesday. Back in 1944, she was a senior at Ridgewood High. Last week she was a guest lecturer for their humanities class. In 1944, war was waging, skirts were long and the future was indefinite. Today; war is waging, skirts are short and the future is still indefinite.

-Twenty-five, years ago, she was known as Julie, active in the French Club and German Club, a participant in basketball, hockey and roller skating and in the cast of the senior play. She was also a winner of a rhetorical contest, to say nothing of being chairman of the cafeteria committee. Today shes Julia Meade: wife, mother, actress and former television saleswoman. She gained fame selling cars and clicking cameras and demonstrating cosmetics on such video classics as The Ed Sullivan Show, Playhouse 90, Guy Lombardo, and the Hit Parade. At one time, she was seen by 65 million viewers a week.

Ironically, for the most part the students she addressed Wednesday were 'too young to remember her television commercials, Glen Rock Girl Julia Meade was bom Julia Meade Kunze, the daughter of Adam and Caroline Kunze. For years she lived at 440 Doremus Glen Rock, and the family has also lived in Ho-Ho-Kus and Allendale. She came by her interest in the RIDGEWOOD Twelve tables were in play Thursday at the Ridgewood Community Bridge Club. Mrs. Walter Mainberger and Mrs.

Norman Segal won the north-south competition. Mrs. John Big-gi and Eugene Ritter were second. In third place were- Mrs. Henry Bruning and Mrs.

John Macchi while Mr. and Mrs. Donald Michael were fourth. The east-west winners were Mr. and Mrs.

Lipton Bowen. Pete Mangels- and Bill Tannler were second. In third place were Duke Wellington and Bob Schaeffer while Mrs. Robert Tripp and Mrs. H.

E. Nebel came in fourth. RIDGEWOOD There were nine tables in play at last Fridays game' held-by the Mount Carmel Pairs Duplicate Bridge Club. Fred Allen and John Holwell were the winners in the north-south section with Mr. and Mrs.

A. H. Schultz 'second and Mr. and Mrs. Neil Stuart third.

In the east-west section Mr. and Mrs. Donald Michaels led the field With Paul Scott and Thomas White second and Ahmed Manadi and Miss Cora Frisinger third. RIDGEWOOD The annual Charity Tournament of the Ridgewood Community Bridge a roster of famous battles, punctuated notations such as, "Starved to death at Anderson-ville Prison. As times have changed, Kil-barchan has changed to meet the needs of the children it serves.

The orphans of the Civil War have been replaced by dependent children who need a residential treatment program with all the social services. Right now Kilbarchan has 23 boarders who attend the public schools of Paterson. Supported mainly by its endowment, Kilbarchan receives a small amount from the State for every child who is a State ward. Mrs. Hartnett emphasizes that these funds do not provide any extras for children often desperately in need of special helps.

Therefore Mrs. Hartnett speaks appreciatively of the Federal O.E.O. programs. We have received good substantial things through O.E.O. grants, she says.

Among these things have been remedial reading help, psychologists fees, equipment, and a camper vehicle that enables staff members to take groups of children on special trips and outings. Kilbarchan used its camper on Sunday to bring the children to Ramapo Lake where Mrs. Edwin M. Goddard and her community service committee and their husbands were waiting with all the fixings for a cook-out and a happy day at the edge of a wooded lake. i-- A sir, -v I i 7 RIDGEWOOD The community service committee of the Womans Club of Ridgewood entertained a group of children from Kilbarchan, often called The Paterson Orphanage, at a picnic at Ramapo Lake on Sunday, May 4.

This is a new project for the Womans Club. Mrs. Kathleen Hartnett, case worker at Kilbarchan, stresses the need for Our children to associate with adults who are normal, who are courteous with one another and patient with children. Since 1942 the Paterson Orphanage has occupied the old Barbour estate called Kilbarchan. A meaningful gift to the institution was permission to use the name Kil barchan, Scottish for heaven rest.

Now housing dependent children, Kilbarchan has a long history of providing a home for children bereft of one. A private organization functioning since 1831, the Paterson Orphan Asylum to give the official title, was chartered by a special act of the State Legislature in -1864 because the orphanages in Newark were filled by the carnage of the Civil War. Now completely non-sectarian and interracial, Kilbarchan took Protestant children in those early years because Paterson already had a Roman Catholic and a Jewish orphanage. Old files read like fee 4 isS W-'ir. BRIDGE BUFFS as Ridgewood Community Bridge Club are held in the Knights of Columbus Hall, at 8:15 p.m.

Partnerships may be arranged by call-, ing John Macchi, 464 Carlton Road, Wyckoff. FRANKLIN LAKES Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Schemer were the winners in the Evening Round Robin Bridge sponsored by the Franklin Lakes Auxiliary of The Valley- Hospital.

Mrd and Mrs. Schemer are both Life Masters in bridge and won the local bridge With a cumulative score of 37,360. Mrs. John Spoor presented the annual prizes at a champagne punch party in the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles R. Kahn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kahn were second in the bridge with a score of 34,650 and Mr.

and Mrs: Bruce Sterne were third with 30,230. A number of prizes were donated to the Franklin- Lakes Auxiliary for thils event, so prizes were also won by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Keller, Mr. and Mrs.

Philip Pettit, and Mrs. John Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs, Richard Steves, and Mrs. Donald Speicher and Mr. and Mrs.

Spoor. Mrs. Spoor will be chairman! of the Evening Round Robin' Bridge again next season. Club was held last Thursday night. All proceeds of this event are being contributed to the American Contract Bridge League Charity Fund.

A full 14 tables were in play and the north-south winners were Mr; and Mrs. Julian Katz. Mrs. E. V.

Wolf and Kurt Zendig were second, while Allen and Bill Hofmayer were third. Mrs. Henry Bruning and Mrs. John Biggi were fourth. In fifth place were Gerald and Walter Hertz and Mrs.

Fred Schultz and Mrs. Thomas Duffy were sixth. Among the moving east-west pairs, Duke Wellington and A1 Runk were the victors. Mrs. Robert Tripp' and Eugene Ritter were followed by third place winners Mrs.

Dud Mcllwrath and Mrs. Walter Reither. Mrs. Ed Mack-soud and Kaare Larsen were fourth, while Mrs. Ray David and Mrs.

D. F. Yates were fifth. Mr, and Mrs. Liptoh Bowen finished IJiie next special club tournament is in the form of an Individual Championship for the Henry Bruning Trophy and is scheduled for May 15.

Reservations are necessary for this event, and should be made with John Macchi, town a ment director. These weekly games of the After a quick dip in the chilly water of Ramapo Lake, Sunday, Stacy Florstedt and Denley Poor of Ridgewood chat with two. of the children from the Paterson Orphanage. state Senator and Mrs. Alfred Schiaffo chat with Arnold Gingrich of Ridgewood who was guest speaker at the Englewood Womans Club dinner.

Seated is Mrs. Gingrich (left) and Mrs. B. L. Frank.

It was a gala evening of fashions with that feminine flair..

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