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ish- a the yet of art for no of of but (P.O. '· .. The Dingb.ats Return To Northpof?l By Eunice Halls . . (Editor's Note; This article was pro- VI(:Jed to us by Ms. Halls as a corre- lary to her having' brought to the .· Northport Histor:ical' Society elements. · ol the former SUNY FarmingdQ.1e Press Collection which she managed for.many years. Among the Items ac\' qwrefi by the mt.Jseum; through the ausf!1Cf!JS of M~. Halls, was the type cab met and dmgbat drawer used· in letterpress editing by the Northport Journal's former editor, Marion Brett.) Pressperson Marion Brett did her own layouts with artistry and could set her own type. On herjobber treadle press she printed commercially things like programs and books-of-chance .. She was also an all-around editor, win~ ning New York State honors. ·metal fingers pointing; Indian~. fiber bei'!.s, several sizes of stars, an . much more. Type. set-ups from .ht\. · .. qompos.ing stick, to be· re .. used, ar string bound. · ln 1985 JeJf Purvis of Northport er trusted to me her beloved o~k tYP• cabinet. The Purvis family offered t , store her press equipment _in the o! . Purvis Pump Factory in Brooklyn afu she changed to linotype, It had bee there a decade or so. Interested in Marion Brett, I went t. the Northport Journal. They spok with me and referred me to Anna L die who had worked with her for year at the Journal. · Originally established in 187 4, in 1875 the Suffolk County Journal be- came the Northport Journal. In 1921 the Northport Journal was sold to John Alden Brett (then Marion Brett's husband). He edited it for about a year before moving to New York City. The dingbats and other type used .by Mculon Brett, editor of the ·Northport Journal., are bact< In the village again,. says Eunice HaUs - after having been shifted over the rears from a warehouse In Brooklyn to a press museum In SUNY Farmingdale. \What was Marion like?\ I asked Ar na. ''She was a lady, very bright, an. beautifu I too. She liked everybocl~, She was brilliant. People arotmd her: · did not appreciate her because Sh- said what she thought.;, \Sorrows were overcome where sh was happiest, in her print shop. HE> youngest daughter, Mary Ellen, lost hE first husband in World War II a wee before it ended. Her oldest daughte lost the first granddaughter, a girl, .~ age 1 0 when she was run over in a. accident with her bicycle. After the: tragedy, Marion resolved to stop smo~ ing her pack a day in penance for th· death. And she did it, too.\ The first paper Marion Brett edited for the Northport Journal recorded on microfilm at the Northport Library is of the Great Depression Era. In her dingbat case in her old wooden Hamilton-type cabinet were two sizes of ding bat eagles, stalwart, metal ea- gles poised for instant flight, looking back over one wing. Other dingbat eagles were to print il- lustrations of the NRA (National Recov- ery Administration) seal of 1933, which affirms \We do our part.\ One talon Photo by George W~llace grasps a gear; the other talon grasps surges of jagged power current. . On microfilm at the Northport Li- brary were several issues bf Marion Brett's paper using the NRA eagles still roosting in her dingbat type case. Also in this treasure drawer remain (Continued on page 2: LIU Hosts First Anais Nin Conference The first conference in the world de- voted completely to the literary works of the controversial Anais Nin will. take place May 27-29 at Long Island Uni- versity's Southampton Campus. Nin, an author, critic and essayist who be- came a cult figure in the 1970s in Greenwich Village and on university campuses across the country, pro- moted the cause of women writers prior to her death in 1977 of cancer. The conference will feature a keynote address by her brother, Joac- quin Nin-Culmell. Anais Nin was born in Paris, France in 1903. Her father was Joaquin, a concert pianist and composer, and her mother was Rosa, a singer. In 1914, she came to the United States and became an American citizen. At the age of 21, she married Hugh Guiler, a Philadelphian who, as lan Hugo, became known as a filmmaker, engraver and illustrator of Nin's books. It was in Paris that she published her first book, a commentary on DH Lawrence. The lawyer she hired tone- gotiate the book introduced her to HenM ry Miller, a poor, unpublished American author. The pair stayed friends for more than three decades and greatly influ- enced each other's works. To other important influences on Nin's work were psychiatrists Rene Al- lendy and Otto Rank. Fascinated with psychoanalysis her novels always at- . tempted to show the inner feelings of a character. In the 1970s, Ms. Nin became a cult figure in New York City's Green- wich Village, as she promoted the cause of women writers. Her life-long diaries, which became the signature of her career, were written over a peri- od of 60 years -. beginning at the age of i 1 , when she began writing notes on a boat from Barcelona to New York - and recorded her experi- ences in New York City and Paris. They also told of her associations with such artistic figures as Lawrence Dur- rell and Gore Vidal. Anais Nin has attracted such world- wide attention that a perfume by Cacharel was named after her. The three-day conference will in- clude lectures and round table dis- cussions with speakers from institu- tions around the world and across the country. Topics for the conference in- clude Nin's dream cities and in- scapes; the Japanese reception and interpretation of Nin; and the role of her own psychoanalysis in her writ- ings; as well as issues of androgyny, duality and creativity. \This conference will allow its par- ticipants for the first time to delve into the psyche of this prolific and creative writers, II said Suzanne Nalgantian, PhD, director of the conference. \Nin's contribution to the literary world was invaluable not only in terms of her contribution to feminist writing but also her ability to dramatize the multi- plicity of selves in the individual. II Following the keynote address by Nin's brother, a reception will be held for an exhibition in the Fine Arts Gallery of photomontages by Val Tel- berg. The exhibition features the dreamlike images which Telberg cre- ated for his 1958 collaboration with Ninon her book \House of Incest.\ In addition to the ten images that even- tually appeared in the book, Telberg produced more than one hundred al- ternative images and variations, many of which never exhibited before. He corresponded with Nin over a 17-year period, sending her photos and sketches that were a major part of the collaborative process for her book A selection of the unique album cov€rs, which T~lberg produced for a record- ing of Nin reading from House of In- cest, will also be on view. Telber, notes curators of the shQW, created his surrealistic photomon- tages by superimposing several negatives to create multiple images of figures, objects and scenes. The result was a floating, dreamlike feel- ing which Nin felt to be in harmon with the sensuous immediacy of he writing. Also on Friday evening, the confer ence will feature a viewing of films b: Nin's husband lan Hugo from the cot lection of the Museum of Modern Art The conference will close on Sunda• with a round-table discussion entitle \Personal Encounters With Anais Nir For more information about the c• terence, call the CW Post Campus LIU at 299-2391. Abstract Landscapes Paintings, wall constructions and Installations by Julienne Saslaw, described by He- len Harrison of the New York Times as homages to the Inherent beauty of the earth, will be on view at the Northport;BJ Spoke Gallery In Huntington from May 24-June ~ 29. Shown here Is •• ••• to shining seas.,.\ a mixed media composition from the show. The Northport Journal • Ma, ~~~ 1'99.4 ·.3i . ·' .. ·.:., j. ,'
