Chrisman Shakespeare Club holds September meeting
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Hostesses Paula Bouton, Sadie Lientz and Alice Lientz
The Chrisman Shakespeare Club met on September 9th at the home of Paula Bouton, with Mrs. Bouton and Alice Lientz as hostesses and Sadie Lientz as honorary hostess. The nine members enjoyed the classic British dessert, Knickerbocker, which consisted of ice cream, apples, caramel, whipped cream and cinnamon layered in a sixteen ounce cup.
Roll call for the club was ‘name a school supply starting with the first letter of your name’. Some responses were markers, abacus, art supplies, scissors, Puffs Kleenex among many others.
Mrs. Lientz held a program about the possibility that Vincent Van Gogh’s death wasn’t historically correct.
In her program, Lientz discussed the new findings by a Dr. Vincent Di Maio that proved that Van Gogh in fact did not shoot himself, but was instead murdered.
As part of his final wishes, Van Gogh took the secret of his murderer to his grave, trying to protect someone whom he thought was a ‘friend’ that shot him. A curator at the Van Gogh museum was quoted as saying “I think it would be like Vincent to protect the boys and take the ‘accident’ as an unexpected way out of his burdened life. But I think the biggest problem you’ll find after publishing the theory is that the suicide is more or less printed in the brains of past and present generations and has become sort of self-evident truth. Vincent’s suicide has become the grand finale of the martyr for art”.
The program was well received among the members.
With no other matters to discuss, the club enjoyed social time for the remainder of the meeting.
