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DETROIT FREE PRESS Wednesday, April 8, '53 1 HAVE YOU HEARD rw a a cv kif i Sextet Ends Florida Stay BY LAL'RENA PRINGLE Free Prut Women'! Editor Monday was open season on birthday congratulations in the Lanny Pittman household. Both Pittman boys, Philip and John, were celebrating, Phil for the twelfth time, John for the fifth. But their parties have been postponed. Mother mfm-'- just returned home from the south on Sun- EXPERIMENTS MAY GIVE THE ANSWER: How Can Drama Be Scaled to Child Size? day, after a three weeks' absence. Mr.

and Mrs. Pittman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Backus and the William McMillans went to Florida three weeks ago. They headquartered at Delray Beach.

En route south the McMillans dropped 1 tneir young oaugnters on in nousion, to visit their maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Fouts. They picked them up on the way back. Lanny and Charlie returned to town a week ago.

The John Finkenstaedts have set their Miss Pringle return from the West Coast for the end of next week. They're leaving Palm Springs this (Wednesday) afternoon and en route to San Francisco will stop for a couple of days in Pasadena. The week-end will be spent with Sally Watters, Mrs. Finkenstaedt's daughter, who lives in the Golden Gate city. .1 'y Cv, 4w" 'ff Cst The Kit Hamlins are celebrating the birth of a son on April 4.

Mrs. Hamlin is the former Mary Brett of St. Alban, Eng. LOCAL SEEN-ERY: understanding and development of Christian morals, Mr. Allen has a definite feeling on the value of theater for children.

Protesting that it sounds pretentious, he says, nevertheless, that drama is a wonderful way of combining the inner life that human beings must cultivate with the outward expression that a healthy person must have. He sees it also as an answer to another question: How to teach children "beautiful "Children are leaving school completely uneducated," he says. "They must come to grips with English. This wonderful thing, the English language, is in danger of decaying into a welter of yeahs and OKs." AMERICAN children's theater, says Mr. Allen, is far ahead in experiments with creative dramatics and with the organization of plays for children.

There is much more activity in this country in forming drama companies and getting children to the plays. He is particularly interested in finding a way to fill the gap between plays by children and plays for children. Mr. Allen's next stop when he leaves Detroit this Wednesday morning will be New York for a talk before the ANTA foundation and a visit with an old coworker, Rudolph Bing, now director of the Metropolitan Opera Co. The two men worked together in the Glydenbourne Children's Theater just after the war.

When funds ran short all over England they parted ways, one to go to the Met and one to the British Broadcasting Co. Mr. Allen writes and produces scripts for BBC Children's programs, with the option of taking time off to work on professional theater productions. Waiting for him In England are his wife, who at 26 became the youngest juvenile court magistrate in England, and five children ranging in age from the "small wrecker" of two and a half, to 14. He'll find a new addition to his family, a nine-year-old boy whom the Aliens have just adopted.

Mr. Allen has met the child before, during school holidays, but his analysis of the situation is, "It will be quite alarming." BY ROBERTA MACKEY Free Preai Society Eidtor John Allen, a man who devotes a good deal of his time to the problems of drama for children, likes to say that he really doesn't know a thing about it. Mr. Allen is a tall, polished native of London, England, who talks in just the clipped accents and very British phrases that the movies lead us to hope for from all Englishmen. He is currently engaged in organizing a national English Children's Theater movement similar to the Children's Theater Conference in the United States.

He has been in Canada for three months as a judge of the Dominion Drama Festival, and the Junior League of Detroit de-toured him en route home Tuesday for a luncheon and discussion of children's theater at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. Mr. Allen sees children's theater as "terrifically new" and "exciting," but in spite of extensive experiment he doesn't feel that anybody yet has the perfect formula for drama for children. SHAKESPEARE for young fry is a great idea, in his opinion, but what plays for what ages? How much advance preparation should children have before seeing them? To what extent should Elizabethan language be edited? English normal schools are conducting what Mr. Allen calls "thrilling experiments" in the twin fields of creative dramatics for the children themselves and production of plays for school-age consumption "and everything in between." It is now possible in many English colleges to take an extra year's course specializing in drama.

It gives a thorough grounding in the background of the theater and provides the opportunity to experiment with the kind of drama most satisfactory for children of certain ages. "People who just talk about children, ithout really being in contact with them," In his opinion, "get all sentimental and sort of mystical. They are too theoretical." "They rapidly turn children into an abstraction. It is not enough to say that children are dear and that they are a delightful audience. Children must have true professional guidance." ASIDE FROM the involved questions of the part that drama plays in international Lights in the Iroquois Avenue home of Mrs.

G. Ogden Ellis. Mrs. Ellis is back after a three months' visit in Alta-dena, with her sister, Mrs. Frederick Kellogg.

The reunited Dan Goodenough family. Mr. and Mrs. Goodenough took their three children to Washington for spring vacation and when the two Dans came home, the girls, Mrs. Goodenough, Pixie and Elizabeth, went up to New York for a week.

Mrs. Russell Devlin down from the Canadian Soo with her two children, Jere and Sheila. The trio arrived by motor Monday for a week's visit with Martha's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E.

Werneken. The three Bennett girls, Sylvia, Linda and Gwendy, traipsing back to Country Day after a Florida vacation with their mother, Mrs. Navarre Bennett. John Allen at luncheon with Mrs. William Herbert and Mre.

C. B. Gorey, Jr. Tanglefoot Teens Unwind FASHION NOTE: The trim that's away out on the popularity front is the trim that sticks straight up in back of a hat. Mrs.

Roy Dalhberg's Easter bonnet is an excellent example. THE OFFICIAL communiques say the Fred Keydels have moved from Waco to Laredo, but that still leaves them inside the boundaries of Texas The Max Mc-Kees can be found in New York this week And the Tom Paddocks in Asheville. They're staying at the Biltmore-Forest Club Mrs. Joseph Standart has issued invitations for a cocktail pour on Friday. wherever she happents to be.

Tired bones make her lazy. She exhausts herself in school sports and then trier to find comfort for her weary body in an arm chair. The habit of taking a nap after school and of wearing feminine clothes Instead of boyish slacks give more of any Incentive to be ladylike. SLOUCHING SUSIE: It just that seems you grow a few inches every couple of minutes, so what to do with all that new height? The tendency might be to buckle It under. But why not take the queenly stance and strive for the tall, tall look? If you do, you'll find that admiring glances will encourage you to continue that big stretch.

BY VIVIAN BROWN Of the Auorlkted PreM Are you a tanglefoot Tilly? Or a hair-twisting Annie Or perhaps you are a pretzel Betty or a slouching Susie. There is something about youthful growing pains that tends to make a girl act like "just what she ain't." Pretend you are a glamor psychiatrist, diagnosing your own case. TANGLEFOOT: With a ten-dency to stumble over your own brogans or wrap one foot around your other calf, it's time to unwind. Look at it this way: Every time you pause for a moment to talk or relax, concentrate on your posture. How am I standing at this moment? That is the question you should put to yourself.

If you are all entwined like a honeysuckle vine, straighten out. Stand on your two feet, flat on the soles, feet close together, toes slightly pointed out. HAIR TWISTER: This is a universal habit of shy girls who can't talk to a stranger or teacher unless supported by a handful of their locks. One solution to this habit ts to press your hands together gently, sort of prayerful-like, keeping the fingers limber, or clasp them together in your lap, whenever you must engage in conversation with older people. rRETZEL-BENDER: She's the girl who loves to curt up A HIRE to Detroit friends from the Mrs.

Dahlberg family of Mrs. Dugald Stewart Miller brought the sad tidings of the former Detroiter's death on April 3 in Tenn. Kansas City Picks Up Texas Style Cue For shopping information, call WO 2-7807 or write to Jean Sharley, in care of the Women's Service Bureau, The Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped BY JEAN SHARLEY free Prut Faihlon Writer Missourians, taking a cue from their Dallas, friends are tooting their fashion horns this month. The newest daytime dresses made in Kansas City are being heralded as "the best buys since the Louisiana purchase" (150 years ago). Actually, Detroiters don't have to be convinced about the merits of Nelly Don dresses.

The spring collection, Louisiana atmosphere and all, will be presented at two fashion shows this Thursday in a downtown store. The morning parade will be at afternoon at 3. THE 15 STYLES are mostly cottons, ranging from tailored two-piece suit dress- A WRINKLE resistant, preshrunk leaf print cotton with Everglaze finish is used for a sleeveless day dress with matching reversible stole. In brown, blue or green, it's under $18. Prettiest bare-top dress of the season so far is the one shown.

A pebble finished cotton satin, with rhinestone buttons, it's in gray, green, rose or brown, tagged under $20. es to bare-top party satins, priced from about $12 to $20. Washabllity is stressed, particularly in the three dresses photographed. The suit is woven striped seersucker, preshrunk, in gray, brown, red or green with white. Shoulder tucks pull the eye down to the belted waistline which is elasticized for adjustable fit.

In misses' sizes 10 to 16, the suit is under $13. I if I Ranch Life Coming Up For Couple Lovely, blond Janey Briggs Fisher and her fiance, Thomas Murray Luf-kin, are anticipating life as ranchers in Sheridan, Wyo after their marriage. The couple has set a Jun 11 wedding date. The ceremony will be held in St. Paul's Church on the Lake Shore and will be followed by a small reception in the Lake Court home of Miss Fisher's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Thomas Fisher, Jr. Mary Elizabeth Fisher 1 to be her sister's maid of honor, and Mrs. Charles T. Fisher III, matron of honor.

Bridesmaids will be Marie, i the prospective bridegroom's sister; Margaret Hurley, of Erie, Anne Hammond, of Garden City, L. Mrs. Frederic Chartier, of Oxford, and Ann Schroedar. Two more members of the bride's family, nine-year-old Sarah W. Fisher and John, Allen Fisher, five years old, will serve as flower girl and ring-bearer for their sister.

Mr. Lufkin, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elgood Lufkin, of Norfolk, has not jet completed his list of attendants. One party is definite on the pre -wedding calendar, and that ia the rehearsal dinner, to be given June 10 at the Little Club by the bride elect's grandmother, Mrs.

Walter O. Briggs. Party cotton with a satin luster Louisiana Purchase celebrated in cotton Electric Aids Speed French Cookery AP Newifmtor Caron, the pixie French star, lives In a modest bungalow with husband George Hormel and does her own cooking. During the heavy film schedule which her studio has set for her, Leslie has found it difficult to find enough time to do her housework, put in the required time before the movie cameras and lavish her usual loving care on her cooking. So Leslie has been Investing in electric mixers, blenders, grills and broilers, on which she quickly turns out food that keeps her husband and guests happy.

With barbecued chicken, which she prepares on a rotisserie broiler, she serves a special French gravy, made like this: Pour brown juices and 3 drippings from the chicken into sauce pan; stir in 3 flour, mixing to a smooth paste, then add cold water, stirring constantly until gravy thickens. Add salt, pepper and a dash of cayenne. Just before serving, stir in 1 lemon Juice, 3 orange juice and 4 claret wine. Nine Taking Derby-Bound Tilly Special' girls with box lunches under their arms, will board busses to Churchill Downs. AFTER the final race the same busses will transport the party to Cincinnati for sight seeing trips through the blue grass country and to famous horse breeding farms.

When the "Filly Special-pulls out of Chicago, on May 1, bound for the Kentucky Derby, at least nine Detroit working girls will be aboard. They will join other members of Sigma Alpha Sijrma Sorority on a "Kentucky Glamour" trip. Arriving In Louisville, the Joyce Harwood, of Burns is local chairman for the trip. Rosalie Fazio, Frances Lombardo, Ella Pedersen and Xenia Caravity will be in the party. Others who have made reservations are Frieda Bliss, Ann Flucker, Mary Lucille McDaris and Ceil Barry.

Cotton town suit for $13 1 i 2.