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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-11-23, Page 2Successful. Artist Three Years Old! At the Cincinnati Zoo, whioh. boasts ,a splendid season of grand opera each summer in an airy pavilion between Monkey Island and the Reptile House, culture is taken as much for granted as the roaring of lions during the death scene of "La Boheme.' But even at such a level of sophisti- cation, Cincinnati was hardly prepared for the prodigious rise of Beauty, a chimpanzee scarce- ly dry behind the ears, to the giddiest heights of abstract art, in less than- seven months, Last, month, after the triumphant, champagne - toasted opening of her one -chimp show at a fashion- able New York art gallery, Beau- ' ty found herself more famous at the age of three than Picasso— at the age of three. As the ex- cited word of Beauty's talent be- came the talk of the haut monde, critics, feature writers, and news- paper and television cameramen swarmed to the Bianchini Gal- lery in Manhattan, Paintings sold so fast at from $25 to $95 each that the artist, back in her zoo studio, was reportedly working her fingers to the bone (she is a finger painter) to keep up with demand. More paintings were requested before the show was two days old, It loked as though the Cincinnati Zoological Society would realize well over $5,000 by the time the show closed. • Some of the early purchasers of Beauty's work, like collector and cafe society photographer Jerome Zerbe, seemed a little sheepish about buying anthro- poid art. Zerbe explained with a nervous laugh that his acquisi- tion was a Christmas present for his niece; then promptly hung it in his Sutton Place apartment. Others, like Arthur A. Hough - fon Jr., president of Steuben Glass, who bought several, were forthright in their admiration. "A brilliant discovery!" Hough- ton said with a smile. Beauty's inspiring success story began last April as a publicity gag for an Arts Festival at the zoo, "Why not," asked Mrs. Anne H. Stevenson, a zoo trustee and modern -art buff, "teach one of the trained chimps to paint in- stead of just riding its pony or roller skating all day long?" Beauty's finger painting, on . cardboard in five colors of gou- ache, was the hit of the festival, and the demand grew so fast, Week's Sew -thrifty PRINTED PATTERN 4725 S-14-16 M-18--20 411481,14. -41/eiete$ Use a 100 -pound feedbag or a gay remnant to make this handy kitchen helper! It's sew -easy (see diagram)—your best friend at clean-up time. Send now! Printed' Pattern 4725: Misses' Sizes Small (14, 16); Medium (18, 20). All sizes: 100 -pound feedbag or 11 yards 39 -inch. Send FIFTY CENTS (500) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE number. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, FALL'S 100 BEST FASHIONS —separates, dresses, suits, en- sembles, all sizes, all in our new Pattern Catalog in color. Sew for yourself, family. 35e. Ontario residents must include le Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered. There is no sale, tax on the patterns. that the price zoomed from noth- ing, to $22 framed, to $50 un- framed. Beauty's road/to fame and for tune was not without its pot- holes. Her attention span was maddeningly limited,. She went through abrown period so de- pressing that her brown paint' finally was withdrawn (unlike Picasso, who simply outgrew his' blue period). Beauty remainedat home in Cincinnati all through . the New York excitement for fear that she might catch pneumonia, Be- sides, explained Mrs. Stevenson, Beauty is happier at home with her partner, Bean, and their close friends — Winnie, a pony, Blackjack, a Husky dog, and a baby elephant, still unnamed. When the news got out that the Cincinnati Zoo had a baby elephant at its command, a trem- or rooked the whole world of modern art From NEWSWEEIC. Farewell, House Flies! .--We Hope, We Hope In a low, cream - and - brown - colored building at suburban New Brunswick, N.J., a team of re- search chemists is spending valu- able hours these days studying the sex life of the fly. From this research, Olin Mathieson Chem- ical Corp. revealed last month, has come a promise of a new pro- duct that may ultimately make the housefly as extinct as the dodo bird. It's a chemical called Apholate,, which when eaten or even walked on—by the Musca domestiea (the housefly), renders the insect sterile. Thus the fly lives out its 30 -day life as before, with one hitch—its eggs don't hatch. Olin entomologists hope that Aphol- ate may eventually eliminate what they say is "the biggest single transmitter of disease." The chemical — originally de- veloped as a cancer cure but abandoned as not too promising — is still in the experimental stage. But preliminary field tests show what can be done. In the Florida Keys last summer, Olin scientists mixed the sterilant with a "bait" made of cornmeal and sugar and scattered it around. Within a month, 80 per cent of the fly population on the test isl- ands was wiped out. Olin hopes to have the product on the market by 1964. It will take that long to test all its ef- fects—such as those on other in- sects and even people. And while housewives can contemplate fly - free homes, businessmen can hope to profit, too. One example: If dairymen eliminate flies by sprinkling Apholate around their barns, cows can spend less time swishing off the flies with their tails, have more time to produce milk contentedly. ISSUE 46 --- 1961 Keeper Of Famous Tomb Retires Hundreds of young lovers write to Romeo or Juliet at Verona, Italy. Here lived the couple on whom Shakespeare based his ever -popular love story. For twenty years these letters have been answered by Ettore Solimani, the keeper and custodi- an of Juliet's legendary tomb, where Romeo is also said to be buried. It was he who encouraged and fostered the legend that if lovers visiting the tomb desired life- long happiness or asked advice, their wishes would be granted. Letters from the lovelorn used to pour into Verona. Some were addressed to "Juliet, Verona," others to "The Private Secretary, Juliet Capulet, Verona." He has penned 10,000 replies since 1941, and now he has re- tired, Girls who were thinking of jilting their sweethearts were told to think again. Of his work Solimani said: "I answer the writers' little prayers and tell them not to worry." , Now he has gone and instead of listening to this sixty -five- year-old man telling what has been called "the greatest love story in the world" visitors put fifty lire (80) in a juke box, and hear it recited in English, French, German and Italian. Progress! It isn't that some people are al- ways right, It's just that they argue better. SALLY'S SALLIES "Vm lumpy; as eliminate the 09Vtl AI IOW 11991W— SILVER TWINS — To Purdue University football fans Karon, left, and Sharon Roeske . are known as the Silver Twins. Here, they are performing with the Purdue band, •.f.. RONICLE.S "INGERFARFI Have you been for a drive through the country during the past week? If not be sure you do before it is too late. The maples are magnificent. The leaves have been a long time turning but at last the country is decked out in its full autumn glory, We had a letter from Partner's sister today. She is back. in Eng- land after an enjoyable and un- eventful flight, She said it took her as long to get from London to Bournemouth as it did to fly the Atlantic, That sort of thing applies to both sides of the water. We have been more or less getting back to normal this week—odd jobs done and so on. Partner has been busy outside and I have finished the last of my six pairs of pyjamas for our grandsons. ' After sending home the first three pairs I said to Dee—"Oh, my goodness, I forgot to put pockets on the jackets!" "Don't worry — the boys will never know the difference." Oh no? Today i phoned birthday greetings to Dave and the first thing I heard was this: "Grand- ma, do you know what , . . you forgot to put pockets on our pyjamas!" I'm telling you, young- sters these days don't miss a trick. Of course, like everyone else — I hope — we followed with great interest the Conservative Con- . ventnion and the election of a new Ontario Prime Minister. Mr. Leslie Frost has done a wonder- ful job and we are sorry to see him go but he certainly deserves a rest — and he has had the wisdom to give up before he cracks up. We don't know any- thing about Mr. Roberts so we can't express an opinion, Cer- tainly he has youth and vitality in his favour. If he has the wis- dom to match all should be well. But that has yet to be proven. And another matter that has been uppermost in our minds — the threatened explosion of that huge megaton bomb by the Rus- sians. ussians. It all sounds so crazy. Surely if the results are likely to be so devastating the Russians will suffer just as much as the rest of humanity. But do you know, some people even get a little humour out of the situation. In a letter from England today the writersaid this: "Maybe if we live long enough in this nu- clear age the genes may get mix- ed up to the point where we'll all sprout wings and fly our way across the Atlantic without bene- fit of planes!" Well, now, that's a hopeful thought isn't it? More cheering than the probability of two -headed' monsters. When I came back from shop- ping this afternoon I noticed Partner was at .the back of our acre -lot putting up what appear- ed to be a small shack, I walked, over to him; "Look", I said, "that isn't big enough to be any good." "Good for what?" he asked. "A fall -out shelter." "Who said anything about a fall -out shelter? This is a shelter: for my compost heap! 1 no;soon- er get leaves gathered up than, the wind blows theta away'again: With this shelter I can at least keep them in one place." Of course I hadn't really thought it was a fall -out shelter. Siding nailed on to four posts Wouldn't be much protection for anything — except a compost heap. Earlier in the day I had a pro- tective brain -wave of quite a different nature, We have a large front porch and recessed door- way with glass panels. It allows us to see out but it also allows visitors, vendors and undersir- ables to see in before I can get to the door. So I put a mirror on the side wall which reflects the imagine of the caller. And now my dear readers I'm going to ask you a question . . . have you any problems? I can hear you answer — "What a question — who hasn't prob- lems?" 'Exactly, but how often do we realize the fact? Sure, we all have problems — family, fi- nancial, physical or mental. Just lately every person with whom I have come in contact seems to have very serious problem), A friend, partly incapacitated, has gone home alone after spending a year in hospital. An elderly couple on a farm is in dire straits, one with diabetes, the other with ruptured varicose veins, A mid- dle-aged couple are paying a mortgage on a house that is vacant and won't sell. A young mother with two children and expecting a third has not been allowed out of bed since her sixth month. All very real prob- lems — and you can doubtless think of others — including your own, We all try to find a solu- tion to our worries. Sometimes it takes a long time before we meet with success. The thing is, what- ever their nature, we have to learn to live with our problems, without becoming beaten, embit- tered or sick at heart. Things eventually have a way of straigh- tening out and it is well to re- member that so often "the dark- est hour is just before the dawn". Remember too, YOU are not the only one who has problems. Many a man has tried to pull the wool over his wife's eyes by using the wrong yarn. Three -Moon Theory Startles. Scientists Take a look at the moon at the first opportunity and .hen pon- der the question: Has the earth THREE moons? A Polish astron- omer has startled scientists by reporting to the International Astronomical Union that he had photographed tem faint "clouds" cireing the earth in the same or- bit as the moon but some dis- tance behind it, He thinks they may be moons made up of meteoric debris and collected over thousands of mil- lions of years. • The origin of the moon which space expiorels may soon set foot upon is still a big puzzle, It 'used to be thought that it was once part of the earth and broke away millions of years ago leaving a "hole" that became the bed of the Pacific Ocean. But today's astronomers now believe that it might have been a small passing planet that was caught and held by the earth's pull or that it was formed from "left -overs" 'of the cooling mass of gas that formed our earth. The startling theory that the moon will one day collide with the earth was'propounded by one scientist. Planets, he explained, follow an elliptical spiral orbit so that the distance from the centre of the orbit gradually de- creases. Our familiar moon is therefore getting nearer and nearer to the earth. But we are safe for an- other few million years! A French scientist has demon- strated that light reflected from volcanic ash exactly matches moonlight. Others believe the moon's surface is covered with a layer of fine meteoric ash many feet deep or with a crust of por- ous slag formed during the melt- ' ing, and cooling, of rock as a re- sult of a non-stop "bombard- ment" of the surface by meteor- ites. .We use the phrase "once in a blue moon" without realizing that a blue moon WAS seen dur- ing the 1902 eclipse. The moon's surface, though cut off from sunlight by the passing of the earth's shadow, reflected light from the earth's atmosphere and was noticeably blue. Cyclone, Typhoon Or Hurricane? Hurricanes and typhoons are severe tropical cyclones whose winds are 74 miles an hour or higher. But whether a cyclone is a huuricane, a typhoon, or just a cyclone pedents on its birthplaec, according to the United States Weather Bureau, Storms of this type which form over the tropical areas of the At- lantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the eastern North Pacific Ocean, the South Pacific Ocean and the southern Indian Ocean are hurricanes. Typhoons come from the North Pacific (west of the International Date Line), and cyclones from the northern Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and the Arabian Sea. "Carla" was called a hurricane because it formed in the western Caribbean; "Nancy," occurring in the North Pacific, was called a typhoon. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. Would it be proper for me to give a bathrobe to my fiance for his birthday? A. Since you are engaged to be married, this is quite all right. Q. When a number of girls are playing bridge at a friend's home, and the mother of the hostess enters the room for the first timeare all the girls supposed to rise when greeting her? A. By all means, they must rise! \ Q. When someone begins a story or joke you have already heard, should you stop him? A, Not if you are a member of a group; since this would be dis- courteous to the other's. However, if you are the sole listener, it is. quite all right to say you have already heard the story. Q, Is It all right for a man .to use only his initials wiled sign- ing social correspondence? A. No; he should sign his full name. Q, I received a 'birthday card which had a pretty, handkerehief enclosed with it. I failed to Write a note of thanks, and my hus- band claims this wasimpolite of me. What do you think? A. I. agree with your husband. One should always thank •the donor of a gift, no matter how. small it maybe. That is a mark of refinement. Q, I'd like to know if it would be in good taste fcr'a divorcee to be the honoree at one or more parties before her second mar- riage. • A. I can see no reason why she shouldn't have some p-rties giv- en :for her, so long as they are not showers. Showers, are net usually given for second mar- riages., Gifts Golorc Treasure trove of gift ideas! Enrich bed sets, pillow -tops, scarves with lavish embroidery. Add beauty to linens with pea- cock panel—bluebird embroidery —elegant in blue, green, gold. Pattern 624: transfer 12 motifs 83/4x121/2 to 11/2x21/2 inches. Send THIRTY -FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. DDRESS. FOR THE FIRST TIME! Over 200 designs in our new, 1962 Needlecraft Catalog — biggest ever! Pages, pages, pages of fash- ions, home accessories to knit, crochet, sew, weave, embroider, quilt. 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