The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-07

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 would be Q fine
 time to an-
 nounce the new
 stamp, if not
 to place 1t on sale of Gallipolis, which should be the first postoffice to offer 1t.
 If half of those who loved odd will write to the President about the stamp, I'm confident MT. Roosevelt will be amply reminded. I've seen glass-blowers working at fairs in the West, and never ceased to wonder how they could hold on to the glass tubes, so close to the flame that melts the glass. But 1t seems that the tubes are not so hot as had supposed, a short distance from the melt ing point.
 watched seven glass-blowers, working shoulder to shoulder at a table in @ room no bigger than & medium-sized kitchen, in the home of Marianna von Allesch, the other day.
 There's @ book in Mrs. von AL lesch, and wish I had hime to write 1t. She is 6 thin, muscular, wiry woman of middle years, with gray hair, large blue eyes, no makeup, lined face that bespeaks character and great talent. She speaks with 0 German (Bavarian) accent. She was wearing slacks and a mannish blouse, with @ short jacket, when I talked with her. She wears her hair short.
 Mrs. von Allesch is creating @ new industry in this country. It was once a leading industry of Thuringia, one of the important states of the German Republic. But glass-blowing blew up, along with a lot of other things, during and after the imitation, and Mrs. von Allesch came to America. Most of her workers are German young men who had some experi- ence in the old country.
 It's surprising what they can do with e few glass tubes and rods Gall made in America.) Mrs. von- Allesch draws the designs for the new pieces. Then she stands over the boys and helps them, step by step, as they work out the de- signs in glass.
 One of her large pieces, which I saw being made, Is an artistic impression of 0 lady clinging to Q tree in e hurricane. You'd think that might be rather time when done in glass. It isn't. You can see the wind, really. t,
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 It isn't e money -making busi- ness-at least, not yet. An Ameri- can patron of art who became interested in some of Mrs. von Alleschs little glass horses, foots the bills. The work is done in the artists own home, in East 08th street. Although the finished pieces sell for high prices, the time spent in training the work. CTS takes oil the profit away. Maybe some day enough of these workers will be well trained so that artistic glass creations can be made in the voa Allesch man. ner without calling upon Q patron for funds. Who knows?
 I'm reminded that Charles Dick ems was born i27 years ago today. Ills David Copperfield" was one of the most inspiring books l read in early boyhood, and to 1t l owe much of the drive to write and keep on writing that has meant so much to me. It was the first book my wife and I read aloud to ono another. Daughter Pat iS now reading 1t for school work. With all his faults, give me Dick ems for a cozy winter evening In Q cofnportable chair.
 Robert Benchley has been &C., quiring Q large following aS c radio humorist who doesn't de- pend upon shouting and loud music to put over his fun. The handicap Of 6 bad radio voice has been overcome by ay personal charm that his friends have al- ways recognized. But few thought he could project 1t over the air.
 Joe Israels was showing me .. vance proofs of an article he's to have in Scribner's soon. It's oil about how he would handle the King and Queen of England if he had tho job of selling them to the American people when they visit this country. Joe, brilliant 90. years-oid son of the late Mrs. Belle Moskowitz, makes 1t plain that Their Majesties can't win the American people by the same kind of high-hat pomp with which they maintain their positions in the old country.
 think Joe is right. still, I'd hate to see His Majesty dressing Up in overals and pitching hay for the movies on c Vermont farm, getting himself adopted as Q member Of the Navajo tribe for rug publicity, wearing . brown derby to the races, driving c lo- comotive on the D. & O., or en- dorsing Q beer that might make America famous.
 Copyright, 1889. McNaught
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