JULY'7, 1941
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Fifth Square Dance Class To Meet Tomorrow
Fifth in the series of Summer Ses- ballroom by 8 p.m., announces Chair-
sion square dancing classes will con- man Mary Neafie, or they will not
vene at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the be permitted to join in the dance. This
League Ballroom. provision was necessitated to take
Instructor of the course, which is care of the large numbers that have
cpmplimentary to all students through attended the course.
In offering the lessons, Lovett
the generosity of Henry Ford, is Ben- stresses the value they possess in so-
jamin Lovett from the Edison Insti- cial training, which, he says, is so
tute in Dearborn. Each summer for neglected in the educational system
four years the teacher has come to of this country.
the campus with his staff and with a Hostesses for the evening will be
special square dance orchestra to give members of the League Council.
these weekly lessons to members of
the Summer Session. This season's pack of canned salm-
Students who wish to take advan- on in British Columbia will total
tage of these classes must be in the approximately 1,700,000 cases.
Librarian Doll Collector Has Models
Of People From All Over The Globe
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SO LIGHT
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SUCH MIGHT
By E. BRADFORD CHURCH
"My dolls are not just dolls but
miniature models of people from al-
most all the lands of the world,"
said Mrs. Jessie Croft Ellis, assistant
librarian of the School of Business
Administration, lecturer and a col-
lector of dolls as one of her spare-
time activities. She insists she is
not interested in dolls as dolls but
as they represent home industries
and as miniature models of people.
Mrs. Ellis has a varied collection
of over 250 costumed dolls from a
wide variety of countries all over
the world. Most of the lands repre-
sented from Venezuela to distant
Alaska, and from the backwoods of
the Ozarks to cosmopolitan Singa-
pore, she has herself visited over
the period of years that she has been
accumulating her collection and lec-
turing.
"I always loved clothes," she said
when I asked her how she happened
td launch out into this avocation.
"The clothes of the peasants which
I say in my travels fascinated me
with their bright colors, beauty and
history which they represented; I
think that started it. I liked people,
folklore and legends too." And one
does not need to let her talk about
her collection for long without real-
izing what a fund of information she
has stored up about every one of her
models and the lands from which
they come.
Necklace Of Coins
"The little modern Greek girl in
some of the country districts wears
her dowry around her neck," she
said as she showed me a colorfully
garbed girl doll with a string of
shiny coins hung on a chain about
her neck. "They haven't any banks
in sections where girls like her live."
The dolls in this collection as has
been said are those that have some
connection with folklore or history
or they may represent home indus-
tries like the corn husk dolls from
the South and "Hill billies" from the
Arkansas mountains. And, of course
they must be authentic.
The dolls have come from a variety
of sources. Missionaries have sent
her many dolls from the far interior
of Africa. "I travel a part of each
year if I can," she said. "I talk to
the people; I get away from the usual
beaten path of sightseers and go to
out-of-the-way nooks, and I find
people who can make the dolls for
me and who reproduce the facial
characteristics of the people and1 the
costume of the land accurately.
More Dolls Than Cases
The collection is kept in display
cases in her home on Washtenaw
Avenue but many, of them she has
had to pack away because her col-
lection has outgrown the cases. Her
prize doll she keeps on her living
room mantle. He is a great man of
the tribe of headhunters in the high
mountains of Ecuador. He carries
in his hand a freshly cut human
head-not a shriveled one-which he
is proudly bearing to his bride. Mrs.
Ellis had to have several made be-
cause each time it arrived it had
been so poorly packed that the mail
had almost demolished it. The fer-
ocious looking dark-skinned creature
she has now arrived almost intact-
with but one arm broken which was
not beyond repair.
Many of her dolls are dressed in
national costume which are memor-
ials to great statesmen and historical
events; many are out of history" and
some are peasants. She has royalty
and coeds, famed churchmen and
elves and leprechauns.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning is here
in red satin and lace, copied from
a portarit in a London gallery. Mrs.
Ellis has fairy folk from many lands:
"Little folk" from Germany; trolls
from Norway and leprechauns from
Ireland; a Civil War bride; a plump
Hawaiian woman with her handful
of leis (American advertising has de-
ceived us into thinking that all Ha-
waiian women are thin and beauti-
ful) ; a devil dancer from Ceylon
with his mask, and George VI and
Elizabeth in their coronation robes;
a British yeoman of the guard; a
Turkish woman with her veil and
a Polish boy with his striped woolen
pants from west of Moscow.
Angel Of Singapore
Her policeman from Singapore is
quaint. He wears across his shoulders
a narrow white board which pro-
jects at each side beyond his body
which helps to make him more easily
seen, and gives him the title of "angel
of Singapore." Several countries of
South America are represented:
Guatemala, Ecuador and Venezuela
but none from Chile and Argentina,
which she would like to have. The
sacred man from India has ashes
on his lgead and the mark of his
religion on his forehead; he wan-
iers up and down the highways like
our country tramps but unlike them
he has to return to his home once in
every seven years and is of very high
caste.
"I love the little Albanian," she
said. And the reason one would
judge is because of the colorful cos-
tume and also for the intriguing lore
and history that is connected with
the peasants and their dress. He
wears a short black jacket in mem-
ory of the Albanian hero and liber-
ator, Scanderbeg.
The Civil War bride has a flag
for her wedding bouquet and with
her is connected a tale. A Northern
soldier fell in love with her but be-
because of their political differences
'cy wre -fated never to be joined
tcg th'e. Sihe gave him a present
on thi ptin; and when he arrived
Sandcnd it it was the doll
b-id! with a card bearing this in-
'n "this is the only bride you
will ever get out of Dixis."
Skirts Wider Than Doors
There is a story with the little
Rumanian girl that she had so many
skirts in her festival costume and it
projected so that when she wanted
to put it on she had to go out of
doors, else she wouldn't have been
able to get through the doorway.
An unmarried girl in the Schwarz-
wald region of Southern Germany
can always be spotted at once by
the three red pompoms on her hat;
when she marries she puts on a
more subdued hat-one with three
black pompoms befitting her more
subdued way of life. Believe it or
not, these customs were being per-;
petuated as recently as the summer
of 1937 when this writer saw the
Schwarzwald peasant on Sundays in
these hats.
The fashion for wearing gorgeous
costumes in foreign lands is going
out, says Mrs. Ellis. The peasants
used to spend hours and hours mak-
ing their dresses and putting on
beautiful embroidery but now their
time is taken up earning a living
and in warfare. These colorful and
elaborate dresses were of course worn
by the peasants only on festive oc-
casions and they, were prized and
handed down from generation to
generation. Mrs. Ellis is still add-
ing to her collection. Although the
war has curtailed her travelling, still'
she is able occasionally to get au-
thentic costumes from importers and
natives in some lands.
Native Music Also
She is also building up a very in-
teresting and exotic collection of
records of the native music in all
the lands. For it is through the
early native music, played by na-
tives on their own instruments that
one learns much of the character of
the people, how they live, and their
background. Good records actually
made by the people themselves in
their own country are hard to find
but can be obtained if one searches
long, and far and wide.
All of this material-the dolls, mu-
sic recordings, some actual costumes,
and colored motion pictures-is used
by Mrs. Ellis in her lectures on cus-
toms, costumes, history and folklore
of the people-"ourselves and our
neighbors aroung the world."
House Group Plans
To Tour Republics
WASHINGTON, July 26. -(P)-
The State Department announced to-
day that a House Ippropriations
Subcommittee would leave on Aug.
11 for a two-months tour in the
American republics to secure first-
hand knowledge of the work done by
United States diplomatic missions in
those nations.
The announcement said the inves-
tigation is being made with the full
approval of Secretary of State Hull
and Sumner Welles, Acting Secre-
tary, in his absence.
The group will be headed by Repre-
sentative Rabaut (Dem.-Mich.), sub-
committee chairman. The appropri-
ations committee deals with provision
of funds for the activities of the
State Department and the foreign
service.
The wedding of Elizabeth Day Not- iand general chairman for the League
ley, daughter of Mrs. George Notley Fair.
of Ann Arbor, and Raymond L. Fred. She was a member of Senior So-
rrciety, honorary senior women's or-
erik, r.,sonofMr.andMrs R.L.ganization, and did graduate work
Frederick of Oak Park, fI., both 'in journalism last year in the Uni-
alumni of the University, will take versity.
place. at 4 p.m. today in the garden Mr. Webb served during his junior
of the League and senior years as president and
Thromedinnt fdurigbtheUNstytreasurer of the Roger Williams
yrs inAerMr theorganizeioy Guild. He was secretary and pledge-
yofr An Assborndymh rgztond Fe m h aste a f tembcl hper of AorhS
of non-sorority women, Miss Notley materKooteamldal crateen rofe
has been entertained by a number Kappa Labafaernity.
of her friends during the past weeks. Au*t3 is th*a chsnb
FredericofghaddnarIll.,bthaniBetty Wooster, '43, daughter of Mr
will be held in the garden. A luncheon and Mrs. Lyell ooster of Dowi-
yesterday given by the mother of the agiac, for her marriage to Eugene
bride-elect honored relatives in Ann Singer, '43, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jsse
Arbor for the wedding Prof. and Robinson of Cleveland, Ohio.
-n ni Miss Wooster is a member of Alpha
Mrs. Hugh E. Keeler, Miss Notley's Delta Pi sorority and of Zeta Phi
uncle and aunt, gave a rehearsal Eta freshman honorary society for
dinner yesterday at their home. women. She was on the sophomore
* * * editorial staff of The Daily.
Another wedding ceremony will Following the wedding, at 4 p.m.
take place in the League Garden at in the Federated Church of Dow-
2:30 p.m., when Ellen Cuthbert, agiac, the couple will journey to Chi-
daughter of r. and Mrs. Ivan N. cago and other points for a two-week
Cuthbert, and Kermit M. Webb, son wedding trip. Miss Wooster has
of Mrs. Fred A. Webb of Oak Park, chosen Hilda Johnson, '43, to be her
Ill., exchange vows, maid of honor.
During her years in the University***
Miss Cuthbert was a member of the Maxine Baribeau, '41, daughter of
women's staff of The Daily, publicity Dr. and Mrs. Charles Baribeau of
chairman of Assembly Ball, senior Grand Ledge, and Franklin Butler,
chairman of publicity for the thea- 'oL, were married at 11 a.m. yes-
tre arts committee of the League, terday in Grand Ledge.
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