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Florida Southern College and the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright  "...out of the ground and into the light, a child of the sun." Frank Lloyd Wright describing work at Florida Southern College   The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright on the campus of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida (FSC) has the largest concentration of Wright designed structures anywhere in the world with 10 buildings and two additional structures on campus, and is in the National Register of Historic Places.  Ludd M. Spivey was FSC President from 1925 to 1957.  In the midst of The Great Depression, Spivey envisioned a "college of tomorrow" as one part of a plan to build college enrollment which had been hit hard by The Depression.  Spivey visited Wright at his Wisconsin home in 1936 and proposed that the world famous architect design the Methodist college campus.  The two men's dreams came together with a handshake, and Wright began design immediately.  In 1938 ground was broken for the first building.  See pictures at
http://www.franklloydwrightatfsc.com/

Helen Sobel Smith (1910–1969) was an American bridge player.  She is said to have been the "greatest woman bridge player of all time" and "may well have been the most brilliant card player of all time"  She won 35 North American Bridge Championships, and was the first woman to play in the Bermuda Bowl.  She was a long-time partner of Charles Goren.  When a female kibitzer asked Sobel, in the middle of a hand, 'How does it feel to play with an expert?' the best female player in bridge pointed to Goren and said:  'I don't know.  Ask him.'  Sobel Smith was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995, when the League established that honor by adding eight names to a list of nine whom The Bridge World had recognized in the 1960s.  Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  Helen was a chorus girl in her youth.  She appeared in several stage shows, the best known being Animal Crackers with the Marx Brothers.  Another chorus girl taught her bridge:  she took to the game like a duck to water.  From that moment on, there was no doubt about her future.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Sobel_Smith

One example of the type of franchise that used to dominate Hollywood is that of MGM's Hardy family, specifically favorite son Andy Hardy, as played by the late Mickey Rooney.  Balancing light humor with drama, they follow Andy through adolescence and young adulthood in a small American town.  The franchise began in 1937 with the B-film A Family Affair, based on a play by Aurania Rouverol called Skidding, which focused on the Hardy family in general.  Family was successful, but not a huge box office smash.  It was the exhibitors who pushed MGM for a follow-up, according to the book The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames.  The sequel, You're Only Young Once, was made later in the same year, 1937, though not without some casting changes due to schedule conflicts.  Lionel Barrymore and Spring Byington, the original Judge & Mrs. Hardy, were replaced by Lewis Stone and Fay Holden, who would remain throughout the rest of the series.  Rooney returned as Andy, of course, as did Cecilia Parker as Marian, his older sister, and Sara Haden as their Aunt Milly.  (Betty Ross Clarke would take over her role for the next two films before Haden returned.)  Eldest sister Joan never came back.  Over the course of the 16-film series, from 1937-58, additional cast members appeared in recurring roles.  George Breakston played Andy's pal Beezy. Ann Rutherford played Andy's girlfriend Polly, though there were also a number of romantic rivals, played by, among others, Donna Reed, Lana Turner, Kathryn Grayson and Esther Williams.  And then there was Judy Garland.  She appeared in three Hardy movies, beginning with 1938's  Love Finds Andy Hardy, as Betsy, a slightly younger girl with an unrequited crush on Andy. Garland and Rooney had appeared together the year before, in a film called Thoroughbreds Don't Cry.  http://widescreenworld.blogspot.com/2014/06/mgm-franchises-andy-hardy.html

The wordless novel is a narrative genre that uses sequences of captionless pictures to tell a story.  As artists have often made such books using woodcut and other relief printing techniques, the terms woodcut novel or novel in woodcuts are also used.  The genre flourished primarily in the 1920s and 1930s and was most popular in Germany.  The wordless novel has its origin in the German Expressionist movement of the early 20th century.  The typically socialist work drew inspiration from mediaeval woodcuts and used the awkward look of that medium to express angst and frustration at social injustice.  The first such book was the Belgian Frans Masereel's 25 Images of a Man's Passion, published in 1918.  The German Otto Nückel and other artists followed Masereel's example.  Lynd Ward brought the genre to the United States in 1929 when he produced Gods' Man, which inspired other American wordless novels and a parody in 1930 by cartoonist Milt Gross with He Done Her Wrong.  Following an early-1930s peak in production and popularity, the genre waned in the face of competition from sound films and anti-socialist censorship in Nazi Germany and the US.  Read more and see graphics at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordless_novel

March 8, 2015 fundraisers for Toledo area charities

8th Annual Acoustics for Autism  March 8  noon-2 a.m.  four stages  free admission  downtown Maumee--Bier Garden tent, Village Idiot stage, Buster Brown's stage, silent auction tent--over 30 local musical acts--raises money for Project iAm scholarships

http://acousticsforautism.com/

Toledo SOUP  March 8  5 p.m.  Toledo School for the Arts, 333 14th St.  $5  Get soup, salad and bread, then vote for favorite organization which takes home all the cash.  Toledo SOUP began in 2012 and hosts several sessions a year.  Competing for  your vote will be Silke Goudos of 419 Tales, Gretchen DeBacker of Sisters in Law, Dee Brown of Delightful Art with Dee, and Sandy Sieben of Toledo Youth Pages.  There will also be a raffle and delicious baked goods for sale.  All of that money goes directly to the winner, too.  http://toledosoup.com/  See also https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/youwilldobetterintoledo?source=feed_text&story_id=869121563130501

flam  (Latin:  fire, burn, blaze)  flamboyant, flamboyance  1.  Highly elaborate; ornate.  2.  Richly colored; resplendent.  3.  In architecture, relating to, or having wavy lines and flamelike forms characteristic of 15th and 16th-century French Gothic architecture.  4.  Given to ostentatious or audacious display.  5.  Etymology: "flame-like curves", from French flamboyant, "flaming, wavy" from flamboyer, "to flame" from Old French flamboier, from flambe, "flame".  http://wordinfo.info/unit/832/s:aflame

Hush Puppies recipe adapted from Alfred Brumley's All-Day Singin' and Dinner on the Ground   1 c. cornmeal, 1 tbsp. flour, 1/4 tsp. salt, 3/4 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. pepper   Mix dry ingredients together.  When ready to cook, add 1 3/4 c. water and 1/4 c. chopped onion, mixing  thoroughly.  Drop batter from  tablespoon onto well-greased hot griddle.  If desired, depress center of dough and add leftovers.  When brown, flip and brown on other side.

Two bakers supply the 200 million boxes sold every Girl Scout cookie season.  ABC Bakers, owned by Interbake Foods and headquartered in Richmond, Va., has been baking for the Girl Scouts since 1937.  Little Brownie Bakers, owned by Kellogg Co. and headquartered in Louisville, Ky., has been licensed by the Girl Scouts since 1974.  http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-girl-scout-cookies-differences-20150303-story.html   But wait, there are two bakers.  And they make two very different Thin Mints:  One is crunchier, more minty.  The other is richer with a smooth chocolate coating.  Where you buy determines which ones you get.  Orange County gets the crunchier Thin Mints, while Los Angeles gets the smoother ones; Dallas gets Samoas, but Fort Worth gets Caramel deLites.  Most of Florida eats Tagalongs, but Orlando gets Peanut Butter Patties.  Which cookies are you eating?  Your local Girl Scouts decide.  Find interactive map at http://graphics.latimes.com/girl-scout-cookies/

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1265  March 6, 2015  On this date in 1820, the Missouri Compromise was signed into law by President James Monroe.  The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brought Maine into the Union as a free state, and made the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.  On this date in 1943, Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.