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Section 3 Tempo (Tlucarjo (Tribune T'es-3, CeceTter 16. 1975 r- J-J 1 1 I ID- fO 'A or- 11 i 7 ,3 The flags of Brighton Park's 33 ethnic groups form the wings of 3867 S. Archer Av. Immaculate Conception students painted tht a Bicentennial eagle hovering above the city on a wall facing 15- by -40-foot wall; the community financed the project. Painting Chicago wall-to-wall Yankee Doodle Dandy collection of kids' murals S-k A r1 a lt 1..

Above: Jana Kozon's 5th and 6th graders at Pioneer School, 615 Kenwood, West Chicago, finish the original flags that frame the dozen historical murals now on display in the school hallways. (They may be viewed during school hours, but stop in at principal Douglas Weeder's office first, please.) I I tSrQ 7 I jC.i, f- jP- 4 By Susan Nelson CHICAGO, ALREADY blooming with more than 200 murals on once drab brick walls, boasts a few Bicentennial wall paintings, too. They show up even more against winter's skies than they did when area schoolchildren put away their outdoor brushes for the long cold. And they hint of more patriotic paintings to come before July 4, 1976. As the new year approaches, such murals are being planned in classrooms all over the city.

Some are being painted indoors: Mark Rogovin of the Public Art Workshop, in cooperation with Urban Gateways, is busy working on a Bicentennial and an ecology mural with students at the Phillip Sheridan School in South Chicago; in January he will become muralist-in-residence at Howland Elementary School on 16th Street. John Weber, of the Chicago Mural Group and director of its Corridor Art Program, figures that by next year his colleagues will be working on murals in at least a dozen city schools and a half-dozen subnrban schools. Some, both artists say, won't ever make the out-sides of public school walls; they think the Board of Education is impossibly strict about allowing murals outdoors. And so the artwork of children, teen-agers, and their teachers may stay indoors to brighten often dreary school hallways instead. IT IS POSSIBLE to take a Bicentennial mural tour of sorts.

Best known is "Bright-on." Immaculate Conception School's 8th grade class painted It last spring and early summer; Jhe f5-by-40-foot wall was dedicated last July 4. In October, it was. cited as one of two outstanding murals by the Chicago Beautiful Committee. Art teacher Barbara Pavilonls researched the Brighton Park community and found 33 major ethnic grougs represented; the mural features each group's" flag. She and her pupils walked the neighborhood' for a suitable wall and found one between Rinaldi'g Barber Shop and the parking lot of a McDonald's at 3867 S.

Archer Av. Her pupils, Pavilonis says, were enthusiastic about doing the mural for three reasons: They felt ethnic divisions within ther community and hoped the mural might help bring people together. They knew the mural would beautify the area. And they hoped the project might help adults realize that kids aren't all bad. THEIR ENTHUSIASM was contagious.

CTA foremen lugged their ladders and scaffolding to the site. Ernie Cochanis from McDonald's brought out food and drinks. "Little kids watched the 8th-graders' bikes when they went out to lunch," Pavilonis recalls. And neighbors parents, businessmen, and passers-by-Banted up for the paint. Cochanis even commissioned the wall painters to do another, an ecology mural, which, now jazzes up the other side of his business.

Brighton Park isn't the only community thus trimmed. People who live in the Bridgeport area also, have a Bicentennial A pair of them, in fact, on aprons of the viaduct at 26th and Canal streets. Eighth-grade pupils at St. David Elementary School, just one parish removed from the grammar school Mayor Daley's kids attended, set to work early last fall with art teacher Noreen O'Con-nell and 8th grade teacher Sister Ann Trinita. By painting after school and on Saturdays, they were finished Oct.

25, just 22 days after they began. THE NORTH SIDE of the street features a stylized golden eagle above the Chicago skyline; the Continued on page 3 Tribune Photos by Charles Osgoort n(jr4-fr oil Hi SULUVAK hlt I 10-, I Nr f.i. I If 1 ffi vim .1 Left: Sullivan High muralists finished the first of two Bicentennial murals at 6101 N. Broadway before the cold weather set in. They'll resume painting at the first sign of spring.

1 v-jti J. -KrfZft' ''SHE! -mirw Jackie Gleason and his old flame: Honeymooners at last r- b- r. 1'-, 1 V. JiTXJT we, shop on the North Side. Just across the street, there was a catering business run by George Horwich, whom Marilyn eventually married.

Gleason, in the meantime, was granted his divorce in June, 1969. Though the marriage had officially ended- with a legal separation in 1954, he had a lengthy court battle with his wife, Genevieve, who was finally awarded alimony of $100,000 annually. Gleason also paid child support for his two daughters. Ten days after his divorce, Gleason married Beverly Mc-Kittrick. The marriage ended when the comedian filed for divorce in June, 1974.

Again there was an ugly legal fight. This time it lasted for 16 months and Gleason was ordered to pay a $150,000 lump-sum alimony to his second wife. She was allowed to keep personal items, jewelry, and a car, but lost her bid to take possession of their 22-room home near Miami. WHILE JACKIE busied himself with legal-marital entanglements, Marilyn Horwich was very happy as the wife of the president of Weddings, Inc. In 1963, she gave birth to a son, Craig.

Craig was attending Latin School on the Near North Side, and his mother was enjoying mothering, when George Continued on page 3 By Pat Colander THERE'S NOTHING worse than an old chorus girl. In 1937, Marilyn Taylor was an old chorus girl, and her seven year romance with Jackie Gleason was at a dead end. Though estranged, he was married and his wife's religion did not permit divorce. Marilyn retired from her sister June's dancing troupe and away she went. Tuesday, she will become Mrs.

Jackie Gleason. It's a long slory. Marilyn and June Taylor grew up on Chicago's, South Side. Both of the girls loved to dance, but June Ithe elder daughter was the one with the talent, according to her sister. When June become a choreographer, Marilyn danced in her troupe.

They opened at the Blackhawk when Marilyn was 16. The younger Taylor met Jackie Gleason in Baltimore during the late '40s. She was a dancer in a show and Gleason was the master of ceremonies. In 1930, the June Taylor Dancers joined the "Cavalcade of Stars." Gleason was a star and Marilyn a showgirl. They fell tn love.

The romance lasted until Marilyn could no longer see any future In it. She quit Gleason and show business. THE EX-DANCER returned to her hometown and her family. She and a girlfriend opened a children's resale clothing r-- I ft AuoclttM Pntl nata Marilyn Horwich and her husband-to-be. Jackie Gleaso n.

"We are both older and wiser now," she says. 1 HArVY A UiCthw! Smile I The vorst thing i about doing nothing Tomorrow in Tempo Youngsters are tough critics when it comes to Santa. Not any old man with a white beard will do, say a brother and sister who reviewed this year's crop with reporter Elaine Markoutsas. I NomT HOD A 1 WELL, TANk; JUST (ELTON! JOKN VLITTIE FZcSENT.y WHAT I'VE ALWAUANTEO wl CJei rA. 1 li i in i.

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