snow white

 The heroine college saga continued with the gootube finally digging up another lost chestnut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHw-1rVXsSA

Remanes of the train station apparently still exist behind the art museum.  That was the mane entrance, back in the day.

Ego Monger in a nutshell.

JFK on the scene.  Looks like he's in front of the concert hall.

The bra burning era, before Ego Monger brought back a slice of 1950.  That room is actually in the U building next to the track.

https://daniellathompson.com/Texts/Le_Boeuf/milhaud_at_mills.htm

 

The world class hottie was 28 year old Josefa Heifetz, daughter of the violinist Jascha Heifetz.  She became a housewife.

 

Important to note that heroine college built a house specifically for Darious Milhaud.  Only very prominent refugees were being allowed in during WWII & they were edging out less prominent refugees who might have come without the war.  It wasn't a free for all.  WWII resulted in the influx of great minds during that time, which propelled the economy for the next 50 years. 

The lion kingdom saved a copy of this page, in case of the inevitable.  A lot of heroine college nuggets in that one.

There's a note about Milhaud's house

https://quarterly.mills.edu/faculty-village-a-place-they-called-home/

https://quarterly.mills.edu/throwback-faculty-village/

He lived in #14.  They say it became abandoned after the northwestern sale & might be torn down.  Surprised they're not being provided to the general population.

There's an out of print collection of Milhaud recordings from heroine college faculty.  It has nothing he composed during the HC years.

https://www.discogs.com/release/35515213-Milhaud-Milhaud-At-Mills-A-Celebration-In-Song

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZGt3NaY7pc&pp=ygUeTWlsaGF1ZDogQSBDZWxlYnJhdGlvbiBJbiBTb25n

It was uploaded.  No-one in that photo was in the recording.  It might have been a promotional photo for heroine college from the 1940's.

He's most famous in lion minds for the 1 & only scaramouche.  Helas, this wasn't in the heroine college anthology.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74hOfbTm_oU

A completely unknown piano duo performed it.

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https://quarterly.mills.edu/an-ever-evolving-campus/

Some maps of different points in time.  The floor banjo heroine lived on was actually vacated after 1971, but is definitely used now.

Interestingly, this one says college hall, the building sleepy heroine was in

was deemed a fire hazard & torn down before 1926

 https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/kt9n39s09j/

Everything showing a divided sleeping area after 1890 was in that fire trap. 

 

 Could imagine a big box like that with no exits on the sides was hard to escape.

 Sadly, the high res photos from 2021 are gone.  They're maxing out at 1024x768, after inspecting the image element & much fenegling of the URL.  The cdlib.org image viewer is gone.

https://growmane.blogspot.com/2021/04/high-res-photos-of-heroine-college.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiOMKAxr7zk

Nifty scenes from HC in summer 1953, if potato quality.  

https://archive.org/details/avisitwithdariusmilhaud

Slightly better quality on archive.org

https://dariusmilhaud.org/a-visit-with-darius-milhaud/

https://dariusmilhaud.org/a-cine-visit-with-darius-milhaud/

Behind the scenes notes say it was all shot by film students from the Brooks Institute.  They traveled to all the locations that summer.  Imagine what was in the original 11 hours of film, let alone the original quality 16mm.

This was the Santa Barbara scene. That area still exists.

 

 

 The Seminary entrance was already closed.

Complex across the street is still there, 70 years later.

This slice of 1940's doesn't exist anymore.

Warren Olney Hall still exists

Heroine hall, a few earthquake renovations ago.

 

Scenes of Seminary Ave before it was the kill zone.

Easement was rerouted farther north.  Garage is gone.

Then we have Richards Rd in front of the heroine chapel & his house which can be identified on the map.  Dave Brubek & his band came out.

That music room was the prominent northwest facing room.  Reflection of a stage light visible in the window.

 

It occupied only half the roof.  The other half was the kitchen.

The room was completely rearranged for the performing bit.  Then the room was put back the way it was when the same characters exited. The sofa might always face the windows but be different distances from the wall.

 

Stage light is visible in this one.  The same bookshelf, fireplace, front door, piano, picture next to the front door are in all the photos.  The piano moves around.  The satellite photo showed the chimney, indicating the position of the fireplace Igor Stravinsky sat in front of.

Here we discover he had arthritis for most of his life, hence the ever present wheelchair after 1948, age 56.  He found relief in the high altitude of Colorado.  He might have been a good candidate for hip replacement but it affected all of his joints.