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Show Teacher, Club Woman, Mother 161 crowding my days too full. With at least half my life lived, I leisurely. I must live calmly with my precious children, must have time for their timeless ness; especially for Barnard, who is having a hard period of adjustment. And most of all I must enjoy every minute of this happy life, before the war strikes.' must savor the rest of it more Madelyn's waistline and hips were spreading and she deter mined that she must curb her appetite a little and in some program to engage trim; she did exercises every morning as she listened to a Mutual Broadcasting System instructor named Wallace; was getting gray in her hair; and felt a desire for more activities that would stretch her mind. Although women in those days were not obsessed with power relationships, Madelyn wrote her close friend Louise that she felt a certain pleasant sense of power.' As Colorado's leading individual manufacturer, Harold was appointed a director of the National Association of Manufacturers. The N.A.M. was holding meetings in New York City the first week of December 1941, so while Harold went to meetings, luncheons, and dinners, Madelyn visited with his sis ter Eleanor and husband Harry Hermann, who had a penthouse just off Fifth Avenue. Known as Eleanor Farnese in the theater world, Eleanor appeared in two Broadway plays and played leading roles in stock companies in major cities throughout the country. In radio she worked with Burns and Allen, Claude Rains, and George Jessel. Harry, who Madelyn found to be intel lectual and artistic and excellent company, was a radio writer who, at the time, was doing scripts for short wave broadcasting to Europe. Eleanor and Harry were friends to the Shuberts, the atrical producers, so they were given tickets to their shows. One night they saw Wookey, a play of England under war and bomb ing. The next afternoon they saw Macbeth, with Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson. Madelyn "simply loved it;" and one of her former students was a member of the cast. That evening they went to the Metropolitan and heard Rise Stevens sing Delilah. A usher took them on a tour of the building and told them kindly stories of famous people who had sung there. The next evening |
