{"id":5587,"date":"2016-10-12T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2016-10-21T07:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:55:46","slug":"october-to-march-its-alice-b-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/october-to-march-its-alice-b-time\/","title":{"rendered":"October to April: It\u2019s ALICE B. TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my goals when I began this blog was to bring as much recognition to Alice as to Gertrude. Though my use of the term \u201cGertrudeandAlice\u201d implies a symbiotic relationship, which it was, Alice still often plays second fiddle to Gertrude\u2019s first chair violin for some people.<\/p>\n

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I think I have been able to rectify this disparity of wellknownness over the years and I must think that even Gertrude would not be upset to know that Alice has gotten her due as so much more than chief cook and bottle washer!<\/p>\n

In the next few months I propose giving Alice even more due !<\/p>\n

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March 7, 2017 marks the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of Alice\u2019s death, so I\u2019m declaring the six\u00a0month period from now until Alice\u2019s 140th<\/sup> birthday on April 30th<\/sup> ALICE B. TIME! And by chance, there are a lot of Alice related things happening during ABT.<\/p>\n

In Dallas as part of the Dallas Pride Performing Arts Festival, a production of THE NECESSARY LUXURY COMPANY<\/strong>\u00a0by Marty Martin was performed a few weeks ago, This one-person Alice B. play is a companion piece to his 1979 one-person Gertrude Stein play GERTRUDE STEIN, GERTRUDE STEIN, GERTRUDE STEIN<\/strong> which was a big hit on Broadway with Pat Carroll. (I saw a touring production in Chicago.)<\/p>\n

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Pat Carroll as Gertrude<\/p><\/div>\n

The title of the play, THE NECESSARY LUXURY COMPANY<\/strong> was a name given to Alice and her coterie of girlfriends in San Francisco by a male friend because of their unique ability to quickly restore everyday pleasures to their lives following the city\u2019s 1906 earthquake. Alice was played by Gene Raye Price. I did not see the production, but would like to read the script to see how it parallels GS,GS,GS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The GertrudeandAlice opera 27 <\/strong>by Royce Vavrek and Ricky Ian Gordon, which had its premiere in St. Louis at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, has just had its New York premiere at New York City Center.<\/p>\n

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Stephanie Blythe as Gertrude in “27” (photo by Ken Howard)<\/p><\/div>\n

Another GertrudeandAlice play which has been widely performed, GERTRUDE STEIN AND A COMPANION<\/strong> by Win Wells will be presented by San Francisco\u2019s Theatre Rhinoceros in December. This play won best play at the Edinburgh Festival in 1984 when it premiered starring Natasha Morgan as Alice. The following year, it had a successful run in New York with Marian Seldes as Alice. (Seldes had met GertrudeandAlice as a child and her \u00a0parents had hosted GertrudeandAlice in New York during the 1934-35 U.S. lecture tour.)<\/p>\n

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Marian Seldes as ABT<\/p><\/div>\n

For the Theatre Rhino production, I have offered to install an exhibition in their lobby of items from my collection and serve as dramaturge, a fancy name for \u201cplay advisor emeritus!\u201d<\/p>\n

As has happened frequently, I heard about the next Alice project via an e mail from a writer, Anne Green, in Australia. She is working on a novel about Alice and received a grant to come to the U.S. to do research for it. Her journey has taken her to Paris, New York City, the GertrudeandAlice collection at Yale and I will be meeting with her in San Francisco. I’ll give her my Alice Sites Tour and she\u2019ll also cross the Bay to view items in the Bancroft Library collection at UC-Berkeley relating to GertrudeandAlice. Before she heads home, she\u2019ll also stop off in Monterey, one of Alice\u2019s favorite getaways from her housekeeping duties for her father, grandfather and brother. It will be exciting to follow the progress of this book and I will post updates.<\/p>\n

Am I going to coordinate a 50th anniversary f\u00eate? I\u2019ll try. I\u2019ve been contacting restaurants to see if they\u2019ll host an event with a menu from the <\/strong>cookbook. Any local restaurant contacts anyone may have, should be sent my way.<\/p>\n

The non-ABT movie which had a brownie recipe linking it quite superficially and humorously to Alice, \u201cI Love You, Alice B. Toklas,\u201d doesn’t turn fifty till 2018. The recipe will undoubtedly, however, figure prominently in making the festivities even groovier next summer as San Francisco celebrates the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the Summer of Love! The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood has recently been granted landmark status since:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe district is significant for its association with the events of the counter-culture movement, when this area of San Francisco served as the nation\u2019s epicenter for \u201chippies\u201d and their anti-establishment lifestyles, which included psychedelic drugs, rock music, free love, and an anti-war ethos.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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It looks as if all is set for Alice B. Time and there is no better way to say \u201cWe love you, Alice B. Toklas (and so does Gertrude Stein!)\u201d<\/p>\n

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