Easter with Frank and Linda, March 27

  We spent Easter with Frank and Linda Morral. We went to White Sands where they  now live and had a lovely Easter dinner in their dining room with their friends, Carolyn and John.

Barbara and Linda at White Sands, La Jolla

View from Frank and Linda's apartment

    In the afternoon, we all went to see Mack and Mabel at the Lamplighter Theater in La Mesa. It was a musical about the silent movie director, Mack Sennett. (He worked with Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle and is famous for the Keystone Cops.) He was in love with one of his stars, Mabel Normand, but he was never able to commit to her. He bullied his staff and underpaid them. Eventually, Mabel left him and made films with other directors. She played opposite Charlie Chaplin in about a dozen films. She was involved in a scandal surrounding the death of the director William Desmond Taylor. In the play it implied that he got her hooked on cocaine, but it is more likely that she went to him for help in beating the addiction. At any rate, she died of tuberculosis at age 37. So, the play took quite a few liberties with the facts, but the play worked anyhow.
   The play was well cast and well acted and we all enjoyed it very much. 
   Barbara won a raffle, too - a bunny rabbit that we will send to our granddaughter, Sage. We seldom win raffles, but the audience was small and Barbara was certain this time that she would win...and, hers was the first number called. Happy Easter!
   Then we went back to Linda and Frank's and chatted about theater and other things for another hour.

Linda, Frank, Ocho, Harley

   A lovely day.
   A real highlight also for us was over 100 photos sent from Willy and Jecca of their house in Maine which they saw for the first time this weekend.

Jecca, Maggie