Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 75

Women's SECTION JUmneapo.ltsf tribune MINNEAPOLIS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1956 t'3 AAAV- 'WV' YAv' Ballet by the Shore: The dance adapts itself to the rugged face of the North Shore of Lake Superior and is stimulated by the change of scenery. Representing this spirit of outdoor impact on art form are members of Academy of the Dance, George Verdak, left, Sonia Orlova, William Glenn and Theodora Momrik. Painting the picture they present are Herman Reller, background; Shirley Luke, foreground; Lorraine Paul, left center, and Judy Laymen, right center, all students in summer session at Town HalL School Director: Birney Quick, director of the summer sessions held at Grand Marais, relaxes by his partly-completed painting in the upstairs Town Hall studio. I -'A Sj 7 1 JA'iVAr 'f- irAA -I i MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE PHOTOS BY ARTHUR HAGER 1 4 4 Arts on the Rocks Flourish In Grand Marais Colony I .4 'i i' By JEAN WORRALL Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer 'f A- A 1 4 II 4 V- GRAND MARAIS, Minn. A young blond woman emerges from a tent, gowned in lace, to play chamber music.

An artist with a pony-tail hairdo puts her hands to work washing dishes in a hotel one minute, mixing colors on her palette the next. A concert grand piano, reportedly the first played here, and its artists, draw excited "bravos!" The young blond woman is Mary Roberts Wilson, flutist, who camped with her son, John, 13, near the Cascade river for three days. She rehearsed and performed with the Town Hall ensemble, played in the first of four concerts given here by the Town Hall Art colony, summer school of Minneapolis School of Art. The pony-tailed artist is Lorraine Paul, student at Town Hall. Like most of the other 24 students, she takes odd jobs about town to help pay summer-school costs.

Scraping vegetables, janitoring, tutoring the town's youngsters in art are some of the means to the artistic end. THE CONCERT GRAND PIANO, hauled up highway 61 from Duluth, is an instrument of considerable magic when heard for the first time at the hands of Eva Knardahl, who played two concerts, and John Simms, who played the final in the series of four Saturday night. The arts have come alive on the North Shore. A healthy admissions were sold for this first season of concerts. Busloads came from Canada.

"Committees of ladies" canvassed every town from Duluth, to Fort William, Canada. Director of the concert series was Gerard Samuel, associate conductor of Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, who also was ensemble violinist. Artist Birney Quick directs the summer program here. He's been a North Shore devotee since the sessions started in 1947. Between teaching, painting and mustering up enthusiasm for art, he and Mrs.

Quick built their summer home with their own hands. NEARLY EVXRY HOME has evidence that Grand Marais has a summer art colony, says Mr. Quick. Student paintings, priced from $10 to $35, are shown and sold at a season's-end exhibition each year. Business places and Cook County high school, the auditorium of which is used for concerts, boast murals by students and staff.

And near the waterfront a piece of colony-produced sculpture reminds residents year-round that the artists will be back. It's a concrete sculpture of two bear cubs atop a tree one gazes over the harbor, one keeps watch over the town. Further proof that the artists are entrenching here for good is Byron Bradley, staff member who is busy hauling rocks for the foundation of a cottage he's building during his non-teaching, non-painting hours. Rob Roy Kelly is the third member of the school's staff. THE ART OF THE DANCE was added for one concert this year.

Ballet Concertant, Minneapolis group, composed dances suitable for use with chamber music and eight dancers trunked their makeup and costumes here for the performance. Sonia Orlova, George Verdak and William Glenn are founders of the concertant. Why do these artists leave their convenient Twin Cities studios and auditoriums? Town Hall Art colony is housed chiefly in the top floor of Grand Marais' old town hall. The one-engine fire department and the public library claim the bottom floor. But the stimulation of the climate, the landscape, the seascape, the wild flowers, the wilderness these perk up the city artist who otherwise might wilt in the summer's heat and find his indoor studio confining.

He's happy to exchange convenience for stimulation. The recreation of the North Shore is easily at hand. And a fish fry for 60 with plenty of brook and rainbow trout for all will give evidence that hands talented with the paint brush do right well with a fly rod, too. The art colony broadened its scope this year with music and the dance. If Birney Quick has his way, it won't end there.

He likes to speculate about a day in the future when writers, philosophers, photographers will join those painters, musicians and dancers who benefit from the rugged beauty of this territory. 4- i A A.c a-v 4 t' 1 -A it: A- i.V'iAVA 4 i INDEX About People Page 2 Back-to-Campus Clothes 4 Over-the-Campfire Sandwiches 5 Scene at Club Parties Page 8 Women Politicians Select Clothes 9 Fish Fry: Mrs. Birney Quick, left, and Mrs. Rob Kelly serve up trout fried in butter to Mr. Kelly at one of the student-faculty fish fries staged during the summer session.

Event was held in the 4-H building in Grand Marais..