The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-30

Colony Two Interesting We'd
dngs-The Brides Were Marguerite Mead and
Theodore Wadsworth.

f There have been two interesting we'd
adings in the minneapolis colony in New
York recently both with a fascinating
element of romance. For years Miss Mar
guerite Mead and Ernest Anderson have
been devoted friends, between whom their
love of art was a strong bond of sym
pathy Both were, however, so much
wrapped up in their ambitions that they
seemed to fear that marriage might en-
danger them Not long ago. however
Miss Mead fell i'll Of typhoid fever, and
before she was taken to the hop1tal she
was made the bride OF Mr. Anderson
while lying on her stckbed. Fortunately,
the run Of the fever was light ana ana she IS
While Mr.. Anderson has not lost MS
interest: in music, for which he has marked
talent, he has become engrosseds IN the
management of a patent for a gas saving
device that leaves him little time for com
|ly perfected a device that is now in sue
cessful operation and gives abundant
promise Of yielding him large returns.
Frank j. Mead has found. a congenial po-
sition on the New York Journal. where
I he is making good his reputation OF being
| a newspaper man Of marked ability
III. f. Messick who married Mr.. Mead S
iyounger daughter. Ottilie, is the general
manager of the Wade company, that had
work is the s1lperintendence of the corset
factory permanently located in Philadel-
lphiai George T.. Plowman, president OF
| the Company, is in Philadelphia much OF
the time, altho still retaining MS nome
lin New York. The New York headquar-
| ters being in the able1hands OF Mrs. Mar
1garet, Wade Grinager, Mr.. PloWman VIII
lprobably establish himself IN elmer Thi lL
delphia or Boston.
| All OF the officers and many OF the en-
ployes of the Wade company are former
Minneapolitans. In the New York Once,
besides Mrs. Grinager, are Miss Hazel
Hanforth and Miss Laura. Mickey, and
pany, lives in New York. The latter mas
also found business so absorbing that he
has given 11p music as a profession, altho
! his beautiful voice is in its prime and
frnany able critics have urged him to make
1 full use of it.
! "A Great Scenic Studio.
! Alexander Grinager is one OF the primer,
pal artists in the great scenic studio o.
! Albert. that turns out some OF the most
tions Of the country While he often de-
signs and executes the whole OF an I'M
portant piece Of work, his careful artistic
training and fine sense Of color IS more
often employed specially on figures and
i yistas. in which very careful treatment Is
REQUIRED. Arthur B. HURT OF Minneapolis
1 is working in the same studio for the sum
mer.
4 x, The scenic studio is vastly more inter
esting in it's methods and arrangements
i than tl1e ordinary studio of a painter. aItht
/ the high building with all its floors ou'
1 except for series of narrow galleries a
| the end has no interesting accessories
and the work does not remain on exh1pl
/ ton after it is completed. Instead OF the
4 permaIent floors there are SUSPENDED
bridges. leaving room around the Walls
j for the canvas to hang between them anf
the walls and to be rolled up and down b.
1 means Of l1oisting machinery. As only {
1 cor1parati lively small portion Of the canva:
+ can be reached at once, the painter mus
Ibe very familiar with the design and Will
Its technical requirements in order tina
7 the whole may hold together when 1t Il
Z seen completed. This is rendered more
1 difficult from the circumstance of large
4 number working on the same curtain OF
lScene.
4 Complete Working Models.
T la For the scenery complete models are
made by the designers and fitted into 2
miniature stage that is equipped with ev.
Ierys device for lighting employed in the
Il theater and gives the effect precisely o.
1.-The finished set. In the model-room there
Iare usually about dozen Of these sets il
I place, and both the scenic artists and the
4 atrical managers spend much time In this
froom testing the effects with the lights
i In the model room when | visited it were