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A committee comprised of two bankers and three local business men was appointed on Wednesday of this week for the purpose of working out a fea·s · ible plan of financing the opening of the old theater on Central avenue in order to provide a community motion picture house, of which the Village was deprived through the closing of the Village theater recently. This committee is as follows : E. C. Cazel, Fred Miller, J. M. Budinger, J. M. Carrico and Dan G. Stiles. The appointment of this body came as a result of the mass meeting held last Tuesday night at the Byron Stolp school which was attended by a group of about 75 citizens representing practically every "walk in Village life." At this session Hoyt King was elected permanent chairman of the meeting and empowered to appoint the committee. The meeting, which was featured by warm interest in the proposition on the part of the citizens and a frank discussion of the situation, ~an be said to indicate the following points: 1. That the closing of the Villalle theater recently bas been felt keenly by the citizens and that they are intensely interested in its replacement. 2. That a material slumo in business conditions in the Village ha·s been felt since the closing of the theater. 3. That it is considered possible to operate a theater successfully on a 6 day week basis. 4. That two plans of raising the necessary money to finance the reopening of the theater-the formation of a stock company and the issuance of $10 books of ticketsare suggested. Oatliaee Sitaatioa At the opening of the meeting, following the election of Mr. King as chairman, J. B. Koppel, former manager of the Village theater, addressed the group, reviewing the situation and outlining the poosibilities of reopening the Central avenue house. He expressed the opinion that the old Village equipment ~ould be purchased for about $8,000 and that about $7.500 in addition would be needed to prepare the house for opening and insure its operation. He also assured the group that the operation of the theater on a six day basis was financially possible, reviewing briefly the history of the former Village theater. The capacity of the Central avenu~ house, if opened as proposed, he . estimated at about 500. Buaiaeaa Mea Ground waJ broken Wednesday of this week for the new $300,000 im.. provement in ..No Man's Land," wllere the same interests which built . the Teatro del Lago theater and the stores in Spanish court are erecting a threestory brick aparbnent building and a two-story business and apartment structure. The buildings are to be completed by July 1, it is said. The apartment building will be erected at the corner of Spanish court and Tenth street. It will be of brick, three stories high and of very pleasing architectural design, comprising twelve five-room apartments. The other building, also of brick, will be located on Spanish court, opposite the theater. On the firat floor will be twelve store rooms, and on the second, twenty small apartments, comprising one, two and three rooms. each with kitchenette and bath. In the discussion that followed, the appointment of the committee to work out plans for procedure was ·su~gested ~nd adopt~d unanimously. Various r~presentat1ve business and profesSIOnal men. among them William Tavlor, .T. M. Carrico. Rev. Geor~e MasPII, B. B. Udell, Fred Miller and Andrew Woodcock, spoke on the situation, from the standpoint of businesos conditions resulting froni the c1osin'{ of the theater. its desirahilitv ~s a community asset and the feasibility of reopening such a house. The poS'~ihilit:v of obtaininsr a revision of Village codes to allow the operation of the theater throullhout a seven day week was not considered at the meeting as it · was thought to be a proposition that should be taken up, if at all, by another group. llr. and Mrs. W. P. Senst nf 401 Lake avmue have gone to Florida for a visit. s..-. The Wilmette Village board voted ' unanimotisly in faYOr of a motioll · olered by Trustee Hans vonReillll*8 at the regular board session T ~ night of this week instructin1 Villqe Attorney Jacbon to draw ·up ~ orCIinance making it compulsory upon a Village trustee, as a committee member, to turn over to his successor aD documents, maps, charts, correspondence and other data and information relating to committee discussions. Trmtee vonReinsperg's mot I o a came as a direct result of inferences made by Trustee Clarence E. Drayer at a board meeting in January, that the public Service committee, of which Mr. vonReinsperg is chairman, wu delinquent in the matter of securing action with reference to the remonl of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee railway line from Greenleaf ~~.....~_.,._._WI!-..-...- - avenue. · and the co11ection of a proLewi· B. Springer, 4JO Mapie ave- posed tax upon the railroad in connue, Wilmette, is seeking the Repub- slderation oJ the ~xtension privileges Citizens of the north shore interest- lican nomination for the office of under which the company is operating ed in better government are invited to Representative in the Illinois State over Wilmette streets. l.ta.it llail P..W.. witness a dramatic sketch entitled "A Legislature from the Seventh SenatorDay at the Polls," to be staged in the ial district, which includes the New Trustee Drayer was Trustee YonNew Trier High school auditorium Trier area. Mr. Springer is a former Reinsperg's immediate predecessor u Tuesday evening, February 14, at 8 state representative and has been par- chairman of the Public Service como'clock. The program is given under ticularly interested in reforestation mittee, and it is claimed that he has the auspices of the Social Science de- legislation. He was instrumental in failed to turn over important data partment at the high school. having an agriculture experimental placed in his possession by the railroad County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki station established in Cook county, rompany during· his connection with will open the evening's program with which has i ·oved a boon to truck the committee. The Chica~o. North Shore and Kitan address introductory to the presen- gardeners in this vicinity. tation of the sketch, which will in., waukee road's Wilmette franchise exelude in its cast of characters twentypired six years ago, since which time five men and women from the election the railroad has been operatin~ under commissioner's offices. the extension privileges. Negotiations looking towal'd an annual assessThe dramatic sketch will depict a ment upon the road for this privilege,.. typical day in a Chicago polling place, and entered into with the railroad duremphasizing humorous as well as serious incidents attendant upon the exer- A series of unusually interesting in~ Mr. Drayer's c:hairmauship of the· cise of the franchise in a large city. community Lenten services are being Public Servi~e cilmmittee. brought no arranged jointly by the Kenilworth definite results, it' is stated, and the Union church and the Church of the oroblem was oassed over to the new Chauffeur Hurt in Crash Holy Comforter to be held each Wed- committee which came into existence evening through the Lenten less than a year a2o. Removal of on Sheridan Road, Dies nesday season, beginning February 29. These tracks from Greenleaf avenue has · Adolphus Callahan. a chauffeur, who sei"Vices, which will alternate between sustained serious injuries in the auto- the .churches, will bring to Kenilworth been delayed because of liticratiot1 mobile accident which occurred at the some of the foremost preachers in this concernim! the nrooosed new right-nfwav of- the North Shore line traversing curve on Sheridan roaa just north of north Evanston. Greenwood avenue on Sunday, Jan- section of the countri. Included among the great leaders A statement bv Trustee John Clark uary 29, in which his employer, George B. Friend of Chicago was who have been secured for these Baker at Tuesdav's board meetin~r. contendin~ that the Public: Service killed, died of his injuries at the Ev- special observances are : anston Sanitarium last Saturday Dr. Henry Hepburn, Buena Memor- committee had held no meetin~s since ial Presbyterian church, Chicago; Dr. last spring, brought the rejoinder from morning. An inquest scheduled for last Mon- Tames M. Stifter, Evanston Baptist the committee members that no len day was continued until February 14. church; the Rev. }Qhn K. Coolidge, than eight meetings had been held rector, St. Elisabeth's E pi s c o p a 1 since the inception of the committee. Km Baker Molioa church, Glencoe ; Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of the Methodist denomina- Another interesting incident at Tues~. Walther Leagues to Meet Dr. James A. Richards, Winnet- day's board session followed the moin Wilmette Febi'UilrY 19 tion; k:l Congteqational church, and Dean tion. made bv Trustee Baker, that the The next regular quarterly meeting Frederick C. Grant, Western Theologi- special ~ommittee, appointed recently of the North Shore Zone of the Wal- cal seminary. by President Orner to rP.consider a ther league of young people will he The Kenilworth Choral society wi11 vetoed amendment to the Village Zonheld Sunday, February 19, in St. John's assist in the musical program at th,.... ing ordinance, be disl>anded. The moLutheran church, Wilmette. There tion was lost. Trustee Hoffman, chairwill be meetings in ·the afternoon and services. man of the soecial committee in quesevening comprising dis~ussions of the tion stated that,· as chairman .of the league's work in this zone, and sup- Art lnatitute Exhibits Sewer and Water committee, he had per will be 'Sened at the church. The been devoting all available time re,. Percy B. Eckhart Canvu cently to the matter of securing relief Rev. 0. A. Geiseman of Grace Lutheran church. Oak Park, will speak Percy B. Eckhart of 206 Cumberland for surface drainage in the west secat the evening service on the subject, avenue, Kenilworth, during his spare tion of the vilfage, a problem which "The Han~ oi God in History." time and when he is not attending to he emphasized a·3 of imminent imporhis duties as an attorney, devotes his tance and which, he said, was nearitac PLAN KINDERGARTEN TEA efforts to art. And with such good pur~ solution with the promised aid of the The Logan School Kindergarten will pose that one of the most recently com- Sanitary district. · hold a room tea Tuesday afternoon, pleted of his canvases is to be disThe amendment to the Zoning or~ February 14, at 3 o'clock in the Kin- played in an exhibition in the Art In- inance prooosed to strike out the teraa dergarten room. Mrs. W. H. Hayt, 1310 stitute of Chicago in the near future. "private clubs" from thP. section of the Maple Avenue, the room mother, will Mr. Eckhart's painting was made in ordinance relating to Class "A" Rest~ be hostess, assisted by Mrs. F. E. New England just within a few months dential districts. Davenport and Miss Annette Kelley. and is a landscape. It has been accepted There will be a display and sale of by the jury of the Art Institute and Mr. and Mr.:. A~ Lonnquist and th articles made by lthe children, the will be hung in the Annual Exhibition son, WDiiam, of 500· Elmwood aven proceeds · to be used for the Kinder- by Artists of Chicago and vicinity which are enjoyina- a vacation in Flori opened at the Institute this week. They left Wilmette J ZS. . starten room. Election Drama -to be Staled at New Trier Hall Kenilworth Plans Special Series of Lenten Observances