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Show •-i • 7"""f*Tf ' " • / • • • • • • ' 1 , " • • • -N E W S- Spanish Fork Covering what matters most WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009 f 3 Spanish Fork Community Theater Upcoming events to hold 1920s themed fundraiser in Benjamin wards ' Mareen Robinson SFCTSpanish Fork Community Theater will be performing .Singin' In The Rain" during Fiesta Days, 2009. The play was written specifically for the song, that is so familiar to many people. The story line of the play is about the transition from the Silent Movies to "Talkies." It takes place in 1926 — the "Roaring Twenties." This is the time of the Flappers — girls who had short, sleek hair, wore shorter than average, shapeless shift dresses, with chests asflatas a board. The term "flapper" was coined because the girls were likefledglingbaby birds, just trying to come out of the nest. They flaunted the fashions of their mothers, smoked with a long cigarette holder, drank, drove automobiles and danced the night away during the Jazz Age. Although the 1960*s are thought of the first time that teenagers led fashion, the prerequisite for the twenties flapper fashion was a youthful body. Rappers were thefirstto show off and get a little crazy in terms of fashion. They wore heavy make up with scarlet lips and heavy eye make up. Before the flapper, only "loose" women wore make up. The clothes were very different frrjm what their mothers wore. No more corsets — the phrase was that they "parked" their corsets when the girls went out dancing. They now wore what was called step ins—a one piece suit that was used as un- derwear instead of the corset, so they had much more freedom of movement. Flappers had both an image and an attitude. Many people assume that all dresses, day and evening were short, and flappers were the only fashion style of the twenties. But dress and coat lengths were actually calf length and quite long for most of the decade. The shapeless dress style was actually created by Coco Chanel and was all the rage. Even today, the Chanel jacket is shapeless. Arms were now bare and stockings were beige, giving an overall more skin showing appearance. Up until that time ankles and calves were hidden in black stockings. The Mary Jane ankle strap button shoe was the style of the twenties. You can see all this of this and more in the play, "Singin' In The Rain." Friday, April 3, 2009, will be our fund raiser, a "Hollywood Premier Night." We will auction off baskets donated by Spanish Fork businesses and everyone is invited. Flapper costumes are encouraged. As costumer for the theater, I am crafting them now, so that we have them available to rent for that evening. Look for the costume you wear that night, in the play. < Be sure to mark your calendars so that you come to see Singin' In The Rain during Fiesta Days next summer. Spanish Fork Community Theater is sponsored in part, by On Guard Self Storage. Will you be a sponsor or patron of the Theater? Click on Be a Patron on our website: www.sfctordine.org 'Round and About Benjamin Kathleen Olsen It is a beautiful morning today. The fog has dissipated for the most part leaving a blue and white world with the tree limbs laced with frost and sparkling in the sun. It is cold but very pretty. ••• Welcome home to Elder Adam Swenson! He has returned from serving in the Washington Spokane Mission and spoke in the Benjamin 2nd Ward on Sunday, Jan. 11,2009. Adam is the son of Alan and Pat Swenson. ' ••• Both Benjamin wards have events coming during the last half of January: Benjamin 2nd Ward Relief Society has a mini Enrichment Evening planned for Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 which will concentrate on emergency heating and cooking. Beth Ann Bartholomew will be instructing on these items. On Tuesday, Jan. 27, the Benjamin 2nd Ward Primary is sponsoring a Ward Talent Show which will feature the talents of various ward members. Everyone is invited to that fun evening. Benjamin 1st Ward Relief Society will be hosting a Visiting Teacher Conference on Wednesday, Jan. 28, to which all Visiting Teachers are urged to attend. This will be held in the cultural hall at the Benjamin Church and will begin at 7 p.m. Benjamin 1st Ward's Relief Society Family History Class will not be held in January but has been rescheduled for the third Thursday in February. ••• We send our best wishes to several in our community who have suffered accidents which will be taking a long time to heal plus some who are facing surgeries and will be home bound for a while. We wish them well and hope they have speedy recoveries. Madison's Avenue by "Big Al" and "Farnzy" Courtesy photo ROARING TWENTIES: "This is the time of the Flappers — girls who had short, sleek hair, wore shorter than average, shapeless shift dresses, with chests as flat as a board. The term "flapper" was coined because the girls were like fledgling baby birds, just trying to come out of the nest." Shirlene: From SHIRLENE • 2 ously considering making a change back so they can burn wood or coal in them. I told you in this column a couple of weeks ago about my moving back into my childhood home where we had a couple of wood burning stoves, a heater in the living room and the cook stove in the kitchen. The chimney is still there and when we had those few super cold nights, I looked at that chimney again and thought, "maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to go back to those "good ole'days." Some of you reading this grew up in homes heated with coal. Just like a good supply of hay for the cows, a fruit cupboard with lots of bottled fruit, a root cellar tilled with root vegetables, and a shed full of coal was a necessary preparation for winter. The homes then weren't built for cold weath- er like they are now and so a trip to Price for a load of coal or a call to a nearby coal dealer was important. As for the heat, there is nothing like the warmth of burning coal. Sometimes if there was too much coal in the stove and there was a stiff wind blowing outside, the stove pipe would turn red and that was scary. But, most of the time everything went fine. If you lived in a home heated with coal burning stoves, you soon learned the ins and outs of regulating the damper. I was thinking the other day that before going to bed at night, one of the main chores of the younger children in years past was to make sure there was enough wood in the wood box and coal in the coal bucket to make a fire the next morning. Now the main chore before going to bed seems to be making sure all the cell phones are charging for use the next day. How times have changed! ©2009 Madingo L.L.C., Allan Olsen and Darren Fames "Mom says that grain is good for me, so... it must be good for you too. Right?" ADVERTISE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS Call The Spanish Fork News •SHEHHIHIHIKSMHHHmil DKDAVIS PHOTOGRAPHY.COM 801.318.9907 SPECIALIZING IN GRUNGE PHOTOGRAPHY 794-4964 |