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VOLUME 38. NUMBER 30. ZEBULON. N. C.. JULY 2S. 1063 Mrs. Layfield with recently completed portrait. Methodist Minister's Wife Is Talented Portrait Painter “When mother is painting, we have to wash the dishes,” Ann, the younger of the two pretty daughters of Mrs. Pierce Layfield, laughingly said. Frances Layfield, wife of Zebulon Methodist Church’s minister, agreed with 16-year-old daughter Ann. “Painting with me takes precedent over everything else,” Mrs. Layfield said. “I get so absorbed in it every thing else is forgotten.” All her life Mrs. Layfield has been interested in art. Almost from the time she could hold a pencil she began to draw. And she hasn’t wavered since. “While in school when I should have been studying or listening to the teacher I was drawing my class mates," she said. “And, of course, like most teen-agers I would sketch pictures of movie stars I found in newspapers or magazines.” However, it has been only in the last five years that Mrs. Layfield has taken her painting quite seriously. Since that time she has worked main ly in the field of oils with most of her work consisting of portraiture. She said she prefers oils over other painting media. However, she likes other phases of art, and feels that the artist should not limit himself to one world of art. “An artist needs to broaden his horizons,” she admitted. For a portrait Mrs. Layfield gets a favorite photograph of the subject. She also uses her Polaroid camera to get other shots of the person, different angles, poses, etc. “It isn’t difficult to work from a photograph,” she said. “And a lot of times it is more convenient for the subject. Some times it isn’t convenient for him or her to sit when Guardsmen Give To Help Widow Members of Battery A, 5th Mis sile Battalion, 113th Artillery, Zebulon, contributed $57.00 to a fund to be presented the widow of Sp4 James M. Daniel of Mebane, who was killed in an accident j when helping load military equip- j ment for camp June 7 in Durham. | The voluntary contribution by \ the Zebulon National Guardsman amounted to nearly $1.00 per man. It was nearly half of the money given by North Carolina Guards men training at Ft. Benning. The 30th Infantry Division gave $4,471.90 at the end of the field training period in June. The en tire fund will be presented the National Guardsman’s widow by his unit commander. I need him or her, and I refer to the photograph.” Mrs. Layfield strives to get the subject’s personality into the picture as well as the features. She said she feels this is a requisite, having the subject’s personality project from the likeness. “I want the person’s soul to show through,” she said in explanation. The artist likes to include the person’s hands in the picture. She said she feels that hands are one of the most graceful things about a person and therefore adds the same grace and rhythm to the portrait. One of the first things she asks the person who desires a portrait done is where it will hang. This plays an inportant part in her thinking of how the picture will look. She also finds out the sitter’s favorite colors, hobbies, and other aspects of his personality. All these things are used in helping her to put the subject on canvas. Mrs. Layfield said she prefers working with a 20 x 24-inch size canvas. She feels a portrait done on this size canvas is more appropriate for the average home. However, Mrs. Layfield recently did a full-length portrait. She is inordinately proud of this canvas. It was her first full-length com mission, and she averred she would place it against any anywhere. She usually keeps a portrait for a month. Then if there is something that needs changing or reworking she can do so. This time limit is usually the time taken for her to do a portrait. She, however, has done some portraits in a week. Mrs. Layfield advised that por traits be at least a year old before they are varnished. After varnishing they are completely preserved and will last for many generations. Mrs. Layfield, the former Frances Zimmerman of Decatur, Ga., feels that the talent she inherited came from her father. She said her father could design anything, and her mother and grandmother dabbled a bit with the brush. She talks enthusiastically about art. j Glad to be this near the State Art Museum, she said she plans to visit it as often as she can. “I just want to steep myself in the I old masters hanging in the museum. I could spend a whole day there, observing the way they used color, composition, and other facets.” She admires most of the old master painters of Europe. Van Gogh she especially likes. She likes most of the American artists. But she is definitely averse to modem art. Mrs. Layfield said die would like to branch out to other things in the world of art She laughingly said it is hard to make a name in portrait (Continued on Page 9) Lovely Miss Marie Scarborough Wins Scholarship at Jaycees' Miss North Carolina Pageant Marie Annette Scarborough, Miss Zebulon, did not come back from the North Carolina Beauty Pageant last week in Greensboro with the state title. But the local beauty did come back $200 richer. She was awarded the scholarship funds af ter being named the second most talented entry in the non-finalist division. Miss Scarborough will use the scholarship to further her educa tion. She will become a member of the freshman class at East Car olina College in September. The talented beauty plans to take a degree in home economics. She feels that the field of home economics is a wide open vocation. From it one can teach or branch off into other areas connected with it—appliance company demon strators, county home demonstra tion agents, etc. She also feels that it will be invaluable when she becomes a housewife and mother. One can never be too well versed in the field of meal planning, sewing, child care, and the management of a home. Marie is a petite 5-5 with a fig ure as exquisitely made as a young ballet dancer. Her big hazel eyes are wide-spaced and eagerly expressive in her heart shaped face, bright and full of in telligence. Her thick light brown hair falls gracefully back from a widow’s peak into a becoming fashion. She is tanned well, and her skin is flawless under the pati na of rosy brown. She has a provocative laugh, sometimes half child, sometimes half woman; a gentle laugh, warm, with a woman’s tenderness in it. Her smiles have a way of bursting into sudden radiance. She possesses a charm of seren ity, which is derived from bouncing health and uninterrupted security. She has a warm, inti mate way of speaking to you, as if you and only you existed. Miss Scarborough displays a dis arming wit. She said she was “tickled to death” at being named Miss Zebulon. “I was sitting back with my shoes off waiting for them to name some other contestant the queen.” In the local and state pageants she modeled clothes she made heT self. Her ensemble consisted of a turquoise sheath dress with a basque bodice with spaghetti straps and sheath skirt; turquoise Even queens do housework. | Marie at the sewing machine, a talented seamstress. hip-length box lapelled jacket made of a nubby fabric with three-quarter sleeves and double covered buttons; A small off-the-face hat topped with dark aqua flowers and a white nose-length veil; a tur quoise chiffon wrap-around party skirt gathered on a band; An aqua evening skirt made of drapery material fashioned with a bell-shape with kick pleat in the back and a rosette of the same material attached to the waist front. Her swim suit was made of polished cotton with a floral de sign, strapless and with little boy legs. It is fully lined. Her beach jacket was made of an olive colored material, opened down the side and could be but toned with large brasg buttons. The jacket was thigh-length. She had a carry-all beach bag made of the same material with appli qued flowers that matched her swim suit. Completing the ensemble was a small off-the-face hat topped with dark aqua flowers and a white nose-length veil. She wore white kid gloves. The ensemble took Miss Scar borough about three weeks to make. There were times when she worked until 2 or 3 o’clock at night Marie Annette Scarborough, Miss Zebulon, showing off an ensemble. on the outfit she modeled. The Miss Zebulon title is not the only crown she has worn. She was named “Little Miss Dillon” (S.C.) in 1946 when she was three years old. The family then resided in Dillon. The young lady did not take an interest in sewing until about three years ago. She laughingly said the first garment she ever made was a muu-muu, which were then fashionable. She proudly admits that her mother has been a great inspira tion toward her needle work and career. Mrs. Scarborough is an excellent seamstress. She believes in simplicity when it comes to designing and dressing. She said she had rather be under dressed than over dressed. Miss Scarborough lists her hobbies as sewing, dancing, swim ming and singing. She has taken six years of dancing, tap, toe, bal let. She has a soprano timbre. She is wearing a diamond on her third finger, left hand but there are no immediate plans for future matrimony. If she marries before her year’s reign is up she must re linquish her title. She was presented a $100 schol arship by the local Jaycees Club, (Continued on Page 4)
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