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January 10, 1979
Crafts show
Joycee-ettes will hand out ribbons to winners
A ‘‘Creative Craft Day’
will be sponsored by the
Mount Joy Joycee-ettes on
Saturday, March 24th, at
St. Mark’s United Method-
ist Church, Main Street
Mount Joy.
The Craft Day is a
chance for you to show
your talents to the public.
All crafts will be judged.
Three winners in each cate-
gory will recieve a ribbon.
Listed here are the 12
categories:
. paintings
. macrame
. sewing
. knitting
crocheting
. quilts
. embroidery, needlepoint,
and cruel
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8. hook rugs and
wallhangings
9. cake decoration
10. flower arrangements
11. paper arts
12. sculpture, carving,
and ceramics
To enter, you need only
fill .out an entry form and
pay 2S cents for each entry.
Forms are available by
calling Patsy Hoffer at
653-5958 or Connie Ginder
at 653-8535. The deadline
is March 10th.
The event will be held
for the public on Saturday,
March 24th, from 9:00 AM
to 3:00 PM. During the day
the Joycee-ettes will have a
spring bazaar, food and
bake sale.
Columbia Little Theater plans new season
The Columbia Little
Theater held its first
meeting of the ’79 season
Sunday evening at St.
Mary's Church in Marietta.
A full schedule for the
coming year is planned.
The company will offer
its audience their first chil-
dren’s production, ‘‘Let’s
Go To the Moon,”” on
March 9th and 10th at
Columbia High School
auditorium under the direc-
tion of Duane Peters.
Auditions will be held on
Monday, January 15th.
Adults and children, male
and female, are needed. If
you are interested in
reading for a part, call
684-7282.
Other offerings for 1979
will include ‘‘Star-Spangled
Girl,” ‘a modern comedy
by Neil Simon, to be staged
in May. ‘‘Oklahoma,’”’ a
classic Rogers and
Hammerstein musical, is
planned for a September
opening.
Because of its success
Hershey
Theatre
looking for
singers,
actors
& dancers
The Hershey Theatre has
announced that auditions
for its next production will
be held on January 24th
and 25th at the Hershey
Little Theatre, Community
Center Building, Hershey,
from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
A piano accompanist will
be available for the
auditions, which will be for
singers/dancers/actors. No
more than three minutes
per audition is requested.
Dancers should bring shoes
and be ready to improvise.
Please have sheet music
clearly marked.
Rehearsals
February 14th.
begin on
with children last season,
the Little Theater will stage
a second children’s produc-
tion in November: ‘‘The
Red Shoes,” a Hans
Christian Anderson favor-
ite, will debut on the
Columbia stage.
Many fund raising activ-
ities have been planned,
the first of which will be a
dance to be held on March
17th at the Susquehanna
Fire Hall in Columbia.
Music will be by ‘‘Hog
Wild.” The cost will be $12
per couple or $7 for
singles. Refreshments and
food will ‘be provided.
For information on this,
call Ron Haug at 684-6663,
or Mary Jane Demmy - at
426-1234.
A March dinner meeting
is planned and a member-
ship drive has started.
Anyone interested in com-
munity theater, both on
stage and off, is most
welcome.
Ken Brandt elected to House
Internal Affairs. Committee
Local state legislative
representative Ken Brandt
has been elected to the
House Internal Affairs
Committee, a ‘‘watchdog’’
group which oversees hir-
ing and salaries in the
House. The Committee has
responsibility for work
... Marietta artist
re-discovered
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equaled Eicholtz’s, locally.
But Armstrong died
young—at age S54 in
1852—before he could
establish himself in Phila-
delphia, where artistic
repuations, including Eic-
holtz’s, were made.
Ten years ago, a
Lancaster collector who
bought an Armstrong was
advised to throw away the
painting so that he could
use the frame. Today, that
advice would be foolish
indeed.
“lI think Armstrong was
every bit as good as Jacob
Eicholz,’”’ says art and
technology historian Irwin
Richman, who is spear-
heading the movement to
revive Armstrong's reputa-
tion.
Richman became inter-
ested in Armstrong after he
spotted a self-portrait of
the artist, and a companion
piece of the artist’s wife, in
Hovie and Evie Gleason's
Marietta antiques shop.
Impressed by both the
quality of the paintings,
and the relative anonymity
of the artist, he set out to
learn all he could about
Armstrong and his work.
One of Richman’s stu-
dents, Penn Museum
public relations curator
Ruth Arnold, did most of
the legwork in the investi-
gation. She and Professor
Richman managed to track
down forty-three surviving
Armstrong paintings, which
were scattered from Phila-
delphia to LeHabre, Cali-
fornia. Most of the paint-
ings, however, are still in
Lancaster County.
Armstrong was born in
Manor Township in 1798.
He taught and painted in
Marietta during the 1820's,
then moved to Lancaster,
where he enjoyed consider-
able success as a portrait-
ist. Many of the town's
leading citizens commis-
sioned him to paint their
likenesses.
There is a tradition,
however, that Armstrong
refused to paint anyone
whom he did not like.
He married Harriet
Wentz, who bore him five
girls and a boy. In the
artist”s portrait of his wife,
she looks quite beautiful.
No Armstrongs of his
line live in this area today.
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