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28 COUIIII POST, CmUm, N. Uun4ey, Avgutt SI. IMS American Culture Great On the Social Scene I- "TJ i vl 'k WimSmm p7 -Jrrs for the Back Bay-ers at least they bathe. But, on the whole, the audiences here that pack the theatres, the art museums, the dance programs and the concerts, whether symphonic or cyclonic, are composed of Americans who come from all over the United States (see the car licenses in the parking lots) to enjoy a tremendous variety of cultural fare. Before its season is ended next week, it is anticipated that at least a quarter of a million persons will have paid to hear the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a "shell" that seats (,000.

Since the Boston orchestra first played here in 1936 it has acted as a magnet for other arts and artists during a national period of cultural explosion. Until a year ago this cultural explosion was rated as one of the nation's prime achievements in the 20th Century. But suddenly within the past 12 months lt has become the fashion to downgrade the nation's interest in the arts. Some very vocal native critics have discovered that we Americans aren't good for culture. It is the old urge to belittle American cultural interests.

Fortunately, the downgrading hasn't affected this enclave. In this neck of the woods culture (Continued from Page 25) their daughter. Miss Catherine Ann Innamorato, to Mr. Ronald 'Atkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Cyril Atkinson of 330 E. 3d Runnemede. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Rug-gerio of 436 Tomlinson Laurel Springs, have returned after a brief stay in Sea Isle Mr.

and Mrs. Vernon C. Miller of 618 Chester Moorestown, and their children, have been spending five weeks in Breda, Belgium where Mrs. Miller formerly resided. Mr.

and Mrs. John H. Mc-Keon of 116 E. Maple Moorestown have had with them for a brief stay, Mr. and Mrs; Lewis J.

Hammond of Westport, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Au-ghenbaugh Jr.

of 17 N. Brown Gloucester City, are being congratulated on the birth of a second daughter, Karen Mae, on Aug. 5. Mr. and Mrs.

John P. Werst of 285 E. 2nd st, Moorestown, have returned following a two-week stay in Ocean Grove. Mrs. William Radcliffe of 613 Sycamore Hadodn Heights, and twin daughters, Maureen and Karen, have returned after spending two weeks in Ocean City.

Mr. and Mrs. William G. Faul of 103 Fairmount Laurel Springs, have had with them for three months their daughter, Mrs. Tip Linzy Perkins of Montgomery, Ala.

Mrs. Anthony Skroski, with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Buelow, all of National Park, have returned after a month's tour of the West Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur H. Evans of 535 Bowling Green, Moorestown, have with them for two weeks Mrs. Evans' mother, Mrs. Vincent Gates of Williamsburg, Calif. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Yatzus of 845 Devenney Bellmawr, are being congratulated on the birth of a third child, a daughter, Denise Marie, on Aug. 14. Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer J. Adan of 2567 Morgan announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Constance Lee Adan, to Mr. John Albert Trendler, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Trendler of Aldan, Pa.

Miss Adan is a senior at Glassboro State College. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Palma of 44 Mountwell Haddonfield, and their daughters, Joan and Katherine, have returned after a two-week tour of Florida.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Mul-holland of 14 E. Spruce Moorestown, have returned after spending a month at Rehoboth Beach, Del.

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Lodgek of 822 Princeton Haddonfield, with their children Janet, Jill and Robert, have returned after spending two weeks in Wrilford, N.H. Mr.

and Mrs. Paul J. Gilson of 12 Loucroft Haddon Heights, and their sons, Richard, David and Donald, have returned after a week's motor trip to Ft. Ticonderoga, N.Y. Mrs.

Redmond P. Smith of 222 Broadway, Laurel Springs, i i i i i i. By LNEZ ROEB country. It is spread all ever the Bertskires. AjM wfclle centered in Massachusetts, the enclave spills ever into the Shaker Museum on the West at Chatham, N.Y and into the Sharon Playhouse, the Music Mountain and the Yale Summer School in Connecticut on the South.

Its northern boundary is Wil-liamstown with its summer or strawhat theatre and the excellent, year-round Clark Art Institute, which, for example, has Renoirs running out of its ears. Thirty of 'em are on display at the moment. And that is only a fraction of the institute's goodies. Its collection of silver and porcelain, almost lost among the pictures, would justify any other museum. The enclave's eastern boundary is the romantically named Jacob's Pillow, the ballet center founded and still run by the ageless anud indefatigable Ted Shawn.

(I was wise enough to write and buy tickets for the BSO performances three weeks before coming to Tanglewood. I didn't dream the ballet performance would boast an SRO sign, too.) As a matter of fact, even the cows in this district can't get into any barn without a ticket and a reserved seat The Music Barn is a prime example. A black Angus, unless it's a cool cat, couldn't hope to get through the Barn door. The Barn, which is only three haystacks and a meadow away from the Tanglewood home of the BSO, is sacred to jazz in all its forms. There is something for everyone in this Kulturklatsch, from longhairs to beatniks.

It is a tossup which is the most painful: The dowagers and banker types with proper Bos-tonian written all over them or the beatniks, male and female. There is this to be said TANGLEWOQD, Mass. If someone in this territory says "The woods are full of 'em" he isn't referring to the canny deer that have plastered the highways with the warnings: "Deer Crossing." What the woods and they are very beautiful are full of in this district are violinists, painters, apprentice actors, jazz aficionados, ballet scholars, sunbathing members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and fans andor patrons. Tanglewood, where the Boston Symphony Orchestra (familiarly known in these parts simply as "The per-sents aa eight week summer season, Is the center of the largest Kulturklatsch in this Primitive Styles Lure Devotees There is a well established, if scattered, group of women who believe in fashion only if it is derived from a so-called primitive source. Hongkong coolie coats, Javanese' sarongs, Peruvian ponchos and Hawaiian muumuus are their dish.

But these natives are a restless lot. Despite their cry for "genuine" clothes, rather than "phony fashions," they don't put down roots in any of the native areas they try. Right now they are haring off after the "bama," a garment of Indian inspiration which looks rather like a cocoon with bat-wing sleeves. It's a convenient design, since it's usually reversible, can be made of any fabric, turns into dress, coat or robe. The fashion natives have to have imported native fabrics, of course.

Homespun wools and tweeds, Indian silks and Bali batiks are their dish. Someday they will all come home and discover the original American native fashion: the Mother L. Austin, and her brothers and sisters-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Austin and Mr.

and Mrs. Guy L. Austin Jr. and in Vinton, with her brother-in-law and sister. Rev.

and Mrs. William Hungate. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brooks of 2810 Cleveland are being congratulated on the birth of a sixth child, a daughter, Kathleen Mildred, on Aug.

10. Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Cres-son of 320 Landis Oaklyn, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Roberta Sandra Cresson, to Mr.

Roy Douglas Kennedy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melville R. Kennedy of 110 E. Bettlewood that suburb.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph P. Jones Jr. of E.

Laurel Stratford, and their daughter, Priscilla, and Mrs. Ralph P. Jones, also of Stratford, accompanied by Mrs. Edna Lewis, Miss Mabel Freudenwiler and Miss Lola E. Price of Laurel Springs, have returned after a motor trip to Niagara Falls and Canada.

Mrs. William Biddle of Kins-ton, N.C., with her son, Kirk, is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Boudwin of 307 S. High st, Moorestown.

Mrs. Biddle will be accompanied on her return home, Sept. 3, by Miss Hannah Baylis of Moorestown, who will be the guest of Mrs. Biddle's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Geiter of New Bern, N.C. Miss Lois M. Lynde of 211 Haddon Westmont, has returned after a nine-week tour of Europe. Miss Judith Fisher of Haddon Heights and Miss Diane McDonnell of Barrington have returned after spending a week at Lake George, N.Y. Mrs.

E. J. Guarro of 245 Strawbridge Westmont, entertained at dinner last evening in honor of her cousin, Mr. Louis Palma of Avellino, Italy who is spending a month in this country. Mr.

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