The Brussels Post, 1961-12-07, Page 64814
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for almost any kind of invitation,
with the exception of formal
ones
Q. In a double wedding oat
sisters, does each bride have
her own piaid,of-henor?
A. Yes; although they may
share bridesma Ads . And, 0g
course, each bridegroom ,has his
own best man, too, ;
Q. 10t what roetwof the 110M,
should a tea be given?
A, The table may' be spread
in the living room, if the group is
a small .one and the room is large.
Preferable, however, the table
should be in the dinning room.
Tea, coffee, fruit punch, thin
sandwiches, cakes, olives, and
nuts are placed on the table, and
the guests help themselves, ex-
cept that women friends assist in
the'serving of the beverages.
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Hope Rembrandt
Wasn't Listening
In less than four minutes, the
whole fabulous business was
over, Lo1.11$. J, Marion, an amia-
ble auctioneer who can turn high
drama into corn with his quips,
opened' the bidding at $1 million
with a sealed bid. Then, to an
obbligato of gasps from a wel-
tering audience of 1,800, the bid
jumped upward to $2,3 million,—
the highest price ever offered for
a painting. There it hung for a
few tentative seconds until Mari-
on rapped his ivory gavel. The
audience applauded and New
York's Metropolitan Museum of
Art had a glorious new acquisi-
t i o n; Rembrandt's "Aristotle
Contemplating t h e Bust o I
Romer."
The Rembrandt was the great
prize of the Erickson collection,
a group of 24 paintings that had
inspired an international guess-
ing game about how much they
would fetch and who would buy
them. At last month's auction at
the Parke-Bernet Galleries in
New York, the answer was given
in little less than an hour. Muse-
ums, dealers, and private collect-
ors paid a total „of ,$4,679,250 for
the collection,' more !than twice
the previous auction" record, set
in London in 1958 at the sale of
the Goldschmidt Collection of Im-
pressionist paintings.
Ironically, when Rembrandt
painted the "Aristotle" in 1653,
he was near bankruptcy, The•
work was commissioned by a
Sicilian nobehnan, Antonio Ruf-
fo, 'who wanted a portrait of a
philosopher. When it was de-
livered to him, he complained of
the size of the painting (4% by
4% feet), and of its "unfinished"
look, Nevertheless, he paid Rem-
brandt 500 florins—$7,800 in to-
day's currency.
In recent decades the "Aris-
totle" has been the only great
Rembrandt remaining in a pri-
vate collection, and many impor-
tant museums were hopeful of
being willed the painting at the
death of its owner, Mrs. Anna
Erickson, widow of wealthy ad-
man Alfred W. Erickson (Mc-
Cann-Erickson, Inc.). But she
provided instead that her estate
be divided• into 90 equal parts,
which left the trustees no choice
but to sell the whole collection.
At the auction last month, three
museums, the Met, the Cleveland
Museum, and Baron Henry von
Thyssen's Museum in Lugano,
found themselves bidding against
each other, with director James
J. Rorimer of the Met putting in
the winning bid himself.
PRESSED TO BE BLESSED Dressed to 'his tasseled tusks,
this silk-clad state elephant waits with his uniformed keep-
ers •for his turn to be blessed by the Maharaja of'::Mys0,r,41,
India. The ceremony is part of th0 traditional Dbssercih
Festival commemorating a historic victory for "the good."
He danced with Joan Fontaine
and chatted with such other aid
friends as John Gunther and
John Hersey„ He made a grace'
fulspeech, and be watched, en-
raptured, as a magician prac.
ticed his sleight of hand.
ally, shortly before 3 a,m., he
called it a clay. He was '72 years
old, but he still looked like a
pink-cheeked cherub with a
jaunty halo of silvery white
hair.
A four-hour party of such tax-
ing excitement would be a full
evening for most mortal men,
but not for Artur Rubinstein.
Just before it, the pianist had
performed a two-hour program
at Carnegie Hall, the first of a
series of ten eoncerts he will
play there in the next 40 days,
a marathon without its like in
recent memory. Furthermore,
all ten houses were all but sold
out by mail before the box of-
fice ever opened.
Rubinstein's following is
matched by the beneficence he
generally inspires in the critics,
While his digital dexterity pro-
vides a rousing mixture of
nerve-racking suspense (can he
do it?) and awestruck 'admira-
tion (yes, he can), the gorgeous
tonal colour which Rubenstein
invariably drawl from his in-
strument is the marrow of his
art, That, of course, and his un-
_ abashed joy in making music.
"I'm an enthusiastic fellow," he
says: "I adore music. I get
drunk with it."
Shortly before last month's
lead-off concert, Rubinstein was
asked if he felt apprehensive
about playing so many recitals
in so short a time, "What you
don't know in 40 days you won't
Ad414 Can tcCo.rn
Botte>r .tod. .'Fostet. • .
The. "old dog" takes very easily
to new tricks,
TeePreve it, the U.S. National.
Association of Publie School
Adult Educators has just put out
a booklet "How Adults Can
Learn More—Faster,"
It insists that adults can learn.
If they say they can't pick up ;
AeW ways of doing things, or
can't memorize things the way
they .used to, they ere just not
telling the truth.
facts prove otherwise. Some.
time ago, according to the book-
let, a group of 50-year-olds were
given the same intelligence test
they had taken 21 years before,
They made higher scores in prac-
tically every part of the test!
In another case, a group of men
from 20 to 83 years of age took a
course in world affairs at the
University of Chicago, The .older
students were more successful
and continued the subject for a
longer time than the younger
students.
As. for memorizing, an adult is
better at memorizing facts'. for
'use in a speech or examination
than children, "Children are bet-
ter but only a little better —
than you are in memorizing facts
and retaining them for long
periods."
Actually, adults have the ad- _
vantage over children in learning
because of "their year's experi-
ence in living" and because when
they set out to learn something
Festivity Cloth
Modern Etiquette
By Anne Ashley
Q. Is it considered in good
taste to mix jewelry - - for in-
stance, to wear gold earrings and
a pearl necklace?
A. This is quite all right, Not
everyone can hope to have all
her jewelry matching.
Q. When eating olives at the
table, is it proper to put the en-
tire olive into the mouth and,
after the meat has been eaten
off, remove the stone from the
mouth?
A. No. The olive should be
held in the fingers and nibbled
off the stone.
Q. Is it really considered in
good taste to extend any and all
kinds of social invitations over
the telephone?
A. One may use the telephone
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NEW CARMEN — American
opera singer Grace Bumbry"
is in Brussels, Belgium, to
star in Bizet's "Carmen" after
operatic triumphs in Paris,
Beirut, Japan and. Portugal.
they usually have a strong reason
for doing so.
The booklet, a neW publication
put out by the National Educa-
tion Association in Washington,
is an engaging bit of literature
in itself, amusingly illustrated
and delightfully persuasive.
It makes one want to be as
smart as the NEA writers claim
he is. It makes the process of g listeni ng" and "taking nates,,
sound so intriguing that the
reader wants to run to the near-
est stationery store for paper and
pencil.
The technique in listening,
educators say, is to "listen for
use,"—for practical ways in
which a speaker's remarks can
be of use in one's, own, experi-
ence.
`Listen for basic thought" —
for the title, themes and message
of the speech. "As he (the
speaker) talks, concentrate hard,
listening for the grain of content
in the chaff of words. You'll
find listening is an active, dy-
namic thing," the booklet prom-
ises,
"Listen with pencil in hand"
also, and don't be shy about
making notes. You might even
try some "practice listening" if
you're rusty, Just tune in on a
radio speech and see if you can
sum up in five sentences just
what the speech is, all about.
Or, if you want to be a sophis-
ticated listener, listen critically,
the booklet suggests. "Listen for
'sneaky' phrases . . for lapses in
logic . . for loose statistics . . .
for political propaganda . „ or
slanted vieWpoints. . . ."
There is good, sound advice on
note-taking. Most of us could
use It. The gist of it is, don't
make notes on scraps of paper,
backs of envelopes. "Invest in a
strong loose-leaf notebook, with
plenty of room for additional
pages,"
This is nothing, of course, we
don't know. But it is so often
something we don't do, writes
Josephine Ripley in the Christian
Science Monitor.
The next bit of advice the edu-
cators have to offer is "make
your notes short and to the
point." Sum up the high points.
When you hear the speaker say:
"The point is , . ." or "above all
. . ." or "to sum it up , . ," get
set. He is ready to make his
pitch and this is where the note-
taker goes into action.
Study tips include recommen-
dations on methods of concen-
trating on a subject and catching
yourself when you get off the
track. "Jerk your mind back in
line the moment it wanders" A
suggested device to check up on
any mind-wandering is to place
a mark on a piece of paper every
time your mind wanders, "Try-
ing to keep down the number
of marks keeps your mind on
your work."
Six suggested ways to improve
your memory: "Before you start
memorizing anything, read it
over from beginning to end. Un-
derstand it. , . Don't try to cram
your memory. . . . Use initials as
memory aids. . . Find the mem-
ory trick that fits your 'type'.
Always 'overlearn.' . Put the
information to use right away.
Almost everyone wants to read
faster. There is a chapter in the
booklet on this, too, with the en-
couraging assurance that "almost
everyone" can do just this,
Here is one way: "Force your-
self to 'gulp' your words, by
moving a sheet of paper down
the page, covering each line aft-
er you have read it. Move the
paper fast enough to keep your-
self reading more rapidly than
you ordinarily would."
The booklet's purpose is not to
start a trend in adult education,
The trend is already here, with
some 9,000,000 American adults
taking all kinds of courses in
what the National' Education.
Association considers "one of the
most exciting and important
movements in education today."
box was about eight inches
square. "Now what's in here?" I.
asked myself. You'd never/guess.
Love-letters, nO less! Another
box contained letters covering a
two-year period, from my . much
beloved mother Whodied in 1923
of cancer. I 'often wondered
about mother ... had I given her
enough attention while she was
still living, especially after I
came to Canada. Thank heaven,
'her letters reassured me on:that
point. Apparently I had written
quite regularly and Partner and
I together had supplied a little
financial assistance. All her let-
ters were pathetically cheerful
although. I know she suffered
terribly and was getting weaker
all the time. You can imagine
what those letters meant to me
bringing back mazy happy me-
mories as well as sorrowful re-
collections concerning her last
illness.
The box of love-letters 1
haven't had the courage to open
yet. When I told Partner about
them he said — "You had better
burn these unread!" Now why
should he say that? Do you sup-
pose he thought they might con-
tain reasons for regret, of unfor-
filled promises 7-- or of dreams
that didn't materialize? Anyway
they could boomerang for either
of us as some are from Partner
to me, others from me to him.
At the moment I don't think I
have the courage to open them
anyway. Not only that, I haven't
time as I have yet to sort out my
collection of writings. I have a
printed copy of everything I ever
had published, dating back to
1923, in papers, magazines and'
books,• some of them Published,
in England. Some of the dip-
pings are pasted in scrap-books,
others are loose or in the orig-
inal paper or magazine in which
they were published. When .I was
giving them the "once over" I
couldn't belieVe I had written' so
much,
In his way Partner is as bad
as I am for hoarding — he saves'
old nails, screws, bits of board,
tools that need filcing, binder
twine and odds and ends Of paint.
Sometime we shall get it all sort-
ed out, There Will still be a lot
of stuff left. An old edition (24
volumes) of the Encyclopaedia.
Briterthiea, which we consider
priceless. Also a huge Webstet's
Dictionary. Print and flannel-
ette cuttings I refuse to throw
out — I 'am hoping' to Make two
qttilta for the boys. Stall glass
jars make good containers tot
nails, buttons and SO on, as they
don't need to be labelle ee, yott
know what yOU'Ve got St a
glanee. AdVettising letters came
in handy tor 'Making derbon.eop-
ieS for anything I type.
Well that's what We've beeri
doing, thee it put any of you in
the 'notion to go and do likewise?
I'M telling' you it'll be a grand
and glorious, feeling When the job
is diMe! try it yourself some.,
tithe,
We have been having a mar-
vellous. this past week. Oh
no, we haven't been on a trip, if
that's what you are thinking, We
haven't ,been any farther than
our own basement. In fact that
is exactly' Where we went, where
we stayed' 'and where we shall
continue to stay for at least an-
other week. Oh no, we are not
practising living in a bomb shel-
ter. I told you in my last column
we are not in favour of that. Our
one and only reason for practi-
cally living downstairs is for the
purpose of clearing out junk!
And believe me, it was neces-
sary, A lot of the stuff down-
stairs was what we had brought
from the farm — thinking we
would have time to make use of
it later on. Instead of that we
added to the pile. Old clothes
to cut up for braided rugs, some
to make over for our grandsons.
Stacks and stacks of magazines
that contained "interesting ar-
ticles"; paper-back books, local
newspapers, travelogues, maps
and recipe folders, I'm telling
you we could hardly navigate in
our basement at all. More than
that we could never find any-
thing we wanted even if we were
sure it was there.
One day I began to look around
and wondered what would hap-
pen if either of us should pass
to the "Great Beyond"! That was
when I determined to clean up—
end Partner was only too glad
to cooperate, Already lie has
burnt five bushel baskets full of
junk—and the end is not in sight.
We also packed a carton of "bet-
ter books" ready for a White
Elephant Sale.• I don't mean bet-
ter in regard to the condition of
the covers but to the reading
matter — some of them are clas-
sics, some poetry, still of value
to anyone •who has the time and
inclination to read them,
It has been 'a tiring, job and
Yet in a way, enjoyable. Read-
ets of this column may be inter-
ested to know I came across
many of the letters you have
Written to me over the years.
They will not be burnt—at least
riot in my lifetime. They are
stacked away in a big carton
marked "Fan Mail."
Often when I take down a box
I haven't, any idea what T am
going to find inside, One such
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know in 80," he replied, Run-
ning his eye down a handwrit-
ten list of his active repertory
that covered four sheets of pa-
per, he peused at Bach: "Every
bar is
,
difficult, because it is
contrapuntal." Of Mozart he
saide "The sonatas I do not play
in public. Schnabel made a re-
,
Mark that I love when asked
why he didn't play the Mozart
sonatas. `Well,' he answered, '
'it'S too easy for children and
too difficult for aftists.' " •
The love affair which Rubin-
Stein maintains with both his
music and his public can be' sur.
prisingly unmetcenaty. The pro-
ceeds of the present series of ten
concerts — minus essential costs
— go straight to eleven chari-
ties of his choice.
At the party (given at the St.
Aegis Roof by S. Httrok, his
manager, in celebration of their
26 year together) Rubinstein
told why: "I do love you, my
public, in New York," he' said,
"I am incapable of giving any-
thing out of 'thy heart without
loving my public. I play better
when X don't play for money."
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OLD TIMBERS MAKE A NEW CHURCH —Timbers trati'i
Old log-train trestles Were salvaged for construction of. 0 riOti
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miles east of Tadonia, Steam locomotives which once •!.Jsed the
trestles on Weyerhauser•Cornpany's tree Caren have been sea
placed by log trucks. Four of the men who helped build the
church admire their work. The salvaged wood,, 36,000 board
feet, was in good shape after 30 years' exposure, ISStIt 49 166i
'Charge it right nevrt ity-intso
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SEA BAUBLE—ActreSk Nancy KovaCk poses 'prettily oh ah
Italian beach between working sessioru on a new film, iiiatoft•
and the Golden Fleece." The farmer TV bubbler wales
static over:' Italy where;. She SO; 'hat loathed 'to Iis'
everyday,'
tiave to Park my ear Mit,
side during the winter' Months,
Which means much scraping in
the morning of the treat that ac-
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When YOU remove these' 'Mate iii
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