Historical March 1991 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Continuing Exhibitions at the History Museum Waterways West: Photographs From the Missouri River Portfolios. Boulevard and City Street Views of Lindell and DeBaliviere. Seeking a Route West: The Isaac Stevens Pacific Railroad Survey of 1853-54 The Power of Home: St. Louis Victorian Interiors. Ragtime to Rock ‘N’ Roll: St. Louis African-American Music.
March 1 Edison Theatre “Ovations!” Series presents—The Bach Ensemble. 8 p.m. performance. $18; $14 senior citizens, Wash. U faculty and staff; $9 for students.
For ticket information call 889-6543. Componere Gallery of Art and Fashion, 6509 Delmar, presents works by artist Robert F. Jostes titled, “Water Lilies Series,” pastels and oils. Reception, 7-9 p.m. Washington University Association Travel Lecture Series “Norway Northern Delights,” Charles Hartman, filmmaker. Graham Chapel, 6:30 & 8 p.m.
For ticket information call 889-5212. “Carl F. Wimar: Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier” exhibit at the Gallery of Art, upper gallery, Steinberg Hall, Washington University. Through March 24.
3 University of Missouri-Columbia Wind Ensemble concert in St. Louis Art Museum Theatre, Forest Park. 2:30 p.m. Free. Edison Theatre “Ovations!” Series presents “Joshua Rifkin Plays Scott Joplin”; Wash. U. Edison Theatre, 8 p.m. $18; $14 seniors, faculty, staff; $9 students.
For ticket information 889.6543.
4 Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council meeting. 7:30 p.m., 6010 Kingsbury.
5 Primary Election Day—Municipal Officials. “Allies Story: A Person With Aids,”—Alison Gertz—Assembly Series Lecture at 4 p.m.; Washington University, Graham Chapel. Free. Assembly Series Presents The John and Penelope Biggs Residency in the classics lecture, “Euripides: The Playwright’s Viewpoint” Wash. U. May Aud., Simon Hall. 4 p.m. Free.
Call 889-4620.
6 Washington University Assembly Series Lecture with Jonathan Miller, opera and stage director. Graham Chapel; 11 a.m. Free. “Image Success,” workshop, 6-8 p.m., presented at the YWCA Women’s Resource Center, 140 N. Brentwood Clayton.
Call 726-6665 for more information. Fee $35.
9 Theatreworks/USA—”Play To Win: The Story Of Jackie Robinson”: Edison Theatre, Wash. U.; Noon and 2 p.m. Tickets for “Ovations for Young People,” $7.
For ticket information call 889.6543. History Day Regional Competition—St. Louis area students from grades 6 through 12 bring projects and papers to the History Museum and compete for awards. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Black Jack & White Jack”—Story performer Janet Kiefer and Percussionist Blake Travis tell this high-spirited adaptation of a Caribbean folk tale. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. at COCA, 520 Trinity.
10 Program Honors Women’s History Month: Laclede String Quartet—Music for strings by women composers, features quartet by “Katch” Wells. History Museum, 2 p.m. Free.
12 Deadline for voter registration for the April 2nd election.
14 Tea Lecture: Irish Traditions—Helen Gannon brings Irish traditional music and dance to the History Museum. Tea served following the talk. History Museum, 1:30, reservations 454.3195.
15 Washington University Assembly Series Presents Kellwood Lecture with P. Roy Vagelos, Chairman and CEO. Merck & Co. Inc.; The May Aud., Simon Hall; 4 p.m. Free.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, CASA Children’s Theatre production, Julie Krieckhaus, Director. 560 Trinity, 7:30 p.m.
Also
March 16 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and
March 17 at 3 p.m. General admission $3, children $1.
16 Children’s Program: Missouri Tall Tales and Other Stories—lrene Eveland, storyteller from the St. Louis Public Library, tells the legends of Mike Fink and Davy Crockett as well as an Ozark folk tale. History Museum, 10:30 a.m. Free.
17 The Saint Louis Classical Guitar Society presents Norbert Kraft and Bonnie Silver, guitar and harpsichord duo, CASA, 560 Trinity. 8:00 p.m., tickets from $10 to $25. St. Roch’s Science Fair. Lecture Series: The History of Forest Park and Its Institutions—Caroline Loughlin, coauthor of Forest Park and past president of Forest Park Forever, opens new lecture series with slide-illustrated discussion of Forest Park. History Museum, 2:00 p.m. Free.
20 Assembly Series presents—Prof. Margaret Rossiter of Cornell University, author of “Women Scientists in America”; at Washington University, Simon Hall, Room 106; 4 p.m. Free.
21 25th Anniversary Party for the Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council. 6010 Kingsbury, 6-9 p.m. See related story. St. Louis Urban History Seminar: Tim Mahoney, University of Nebraska, discusses “Metropolitan Development and the Reordering of Regional Society,” History Museum, 7:00 p.m. Free. Guarneri String Quartet, CASA, 560 Trinity. 8 p.m.
22 Dempsey Travis, author of “An Autobiography of Black Jazz”; Washington University Assembly Series Lecture; Graham Chapel. 11 a.m. Free. Tommy Flanagan Trio, CASA, 560 Trinity. 8 p.m. $12.50.
The Acting Company presents “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” a comedy of friendship, rivalry and love. Wash. U’s Edison Theatre.
Call 889.6543 for more information. 8 p.m. performance.
23 The Acting Company in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”; Washington U., Edison Theatre. 9 p.m. performance.
Call 889-6543 for ticket information.
24 Program Honors Women’s History Month: Taking Heart: Women’s Voices from the Frontier—Holy Roman Repertory Company presents a program of traditional American folk music and readings from selections of letters and diaries written by women settling the western frontier. History Museum, 2:00 p.m. $6.
26 Support group on self esteem. Learn how your self esteem influences your life. Limited group size, 8 week session, 6-8 p.m. YWCA Women’s Resource Center.
Call 726-6665. Fee $8 per week.
27 Kenneth Manning, History of Science Professor at MIT; author of Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest E. Just; lecture; Wash. U’s Simon Hall Room 106.4 p.m. Washington U’s Assembly Series Lecture with William H. Whyte, Jr., author of “City: Rediscovering its Center.” 11 a.m., Graham Chapel. Free. “Why Women Don’t Feel Good and How They Can Correct It”; free lecture at 6 p.m., presented by Marianne Drainer at the YWCA Women’s Resource Center, 140 N. Brentwood.
Call 726-6665.
28 Doug Back Guitar Concert, CASA, 560 Trinity. 8 p.m. $5.
30 Children’s Program: A Family in Motion—Paul and Win Grace and family dance and perform traditional American and folk music. Children will learn to play spoons during the program. History Museum, 10:30 a.m. Free.
31 Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by Grace United Methodist Church. Skinker & Millbrook, 12:30 p.m. See related article.
April 1 Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council meeting. 7:30 p.m., 6010 Kingsbury. Exhibition by artist Suhaimi Fadzir, titled “Earth/Us”—mixed media paintings; Componere Gallery, 6509 Delmar. Reception April 5, 7-9 p.m.
Call 721.1181 for more information.
2 Election Day—Municipal and School Board officials. Assembly Series presents Lewin Lecture. “French Feminists and the Rights of Man,” Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University; at Wash. U’s May Aud., Simon Hall, 4 p.m.
3 Washington University Assembly Series presents Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. 11 a.m., Graham Chapel. Free.
4 ”The Rediscovery of Shakespeare’s Globe—Lecture by Patrick Spottiswoode, director of education, The International Shakespeare Globe Center; Wash. U’s Edison Theatre. 4 p.m. Free.
5 The Performing Arts Dept. of Wash. U. presents Shakespeare’s “Othello”; Edison Theatre, 8 p.m. (also April 6,12,13 at 8 p.m. and April 7 & 14 at 2 p.m.) Ticket information 889-6543. Washington University Association Travel Lecture Series, “The Great Alaska Cruise,” Doug Jones, film lecturer. Graham Chapel, 6 and 8:30 p.m.
For ticket information call 889-5212.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, March 1991.
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Archival transcription note: Norway lecture timing differs from February calendar; original March times retained.
Original source: SD_Times1991_03.pdf, printed page(s) 3; PDF page(s) 3.
