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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Mar 1928, p. 20

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Karch 9, 19.28 Ac:r AS MODELS AT CLUB Miss Anna Helga Hong, professor of art ·at Northwestern university, spoke before the Woman's club of Wilmette Wednesday morning on the subject, "Color in Costume and Interior Decorating." She was assisted by Malvina Lowenburg, Coralee .Whitsett, Lucille Copeland, Myrtiel Torcom. and Marjorie Nitholson, members of her classes, who acted as models for the display of various types of costume. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Howard of 1514 Lake avenue entertained a few friends at a dinner last Tuesday evening for Lesley Alexander, who has just returned from Nicaragua and South Americ~ after being honorably discharged from the radio department of the United States Navy. PLAY IS BIG SUCCESS ·aacirett7·P~ a....· at N. K. E. C. Drawa 1,511 ClaiWrea SAYS"One-third the Radcliffe College students, half the Harvard stutlents, replying to questions about companionate marriage, approve that invention. Two Harvard men and one Radcliffe girl are married already in that . fashion. Twenty-two· Radc-iffe girls are willing .to marry on the companionate plan. "This proves some girls at Radcliffe and some ·men at Harvard know little about life. When they know more their views will change. "If the twenty-two Radcliffe girls enter companionate marriages, they will know, when their faces begin to have lines, their hips get wider, and their eyes dim, that they made a mistake." .. B -=:aFm~~~Eir~Am~mm~i (Coatl'ilndeel) Over 1,500 north shore children and their mothers enjoyed the performances of "Racketty-Packetty House" given by students of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college . in Harrison hall Saturday. The reputation which the students have earned for themselves, the ideal weather, and the work of the alumnae in the sale of tickets. resulted in the most successful performances of a children's play ever given at the college. The .advisability of arranging for three performances of the play for children next year is being discussed, as many were turned away from each of the Saturday plays. Miss Catherine Wilcox as the daintywinged fairy and her attendant elves, held the children spellbound in the opening scene, but before the play was well under way they were chuckling and laughing aloud at the appearance and antics of the dolls. Many of the children were thoroughly familiar with the story and at one point. when the dolls were bewailing the fact that their shabby old house was to be burned, a little voice from the darkness beyond the footlights piped up "Don't you care I They're not really going to burn it!" . The luncheon. with its 350 patrons, was quite as successful an affair as the plays. ,. I I l ... ( IS BRISBANE RIGHT7 SEE FUR SCARFS -CHOKERStso BEAlJTIFUL PIECES to choose from In Fox Furs we offer Prof. Frederick Starr Ia Speaker at Uptown Forum Prof. Frederick Starr of Seattle. the famous anthropologist at the University of Chicago for ·thirty years. will speak on "What is Today's Civilization Doing to the Race?" at . the Uptown Forum, Chicago. Sunday evening. March 11. Dr. Starr has made continuous special studies of various civilizations all over the world and has especial ability for presenting in a popular way the results of his researches. On this occasio·n he will make a diagnosis of the trends in our present civilization and show what are to he some of the future outcomes. His address will be fo11owed by the usual question period. The Uptown Forum meets in the People's church, 941 Lawrence avenue, just cast of Sheridan road, Chicago, at 8 p.m. John R. Bentley left Wednesday after a week's visit at the home of his parents, E. G. Bentley, 804 Elmwood avenue, for Buffalo, where he intends to make his permanent home. ~Ir. Bentley has spent the last four years in Los Angeles. 'CONPAMIOMATB Silver, Blue, Cross, Cbettf} Red, Beige tJnd PltJtinum and a great variety of others from $10 to $275. FUR STORAGE A Flat Rate of Cleaned, Glazed, Stored GB' BY~= $5 THE REMARKABLE NEW PLAY WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED IN EVANSTON FOR THE FIRST 'TIME ON ANY STAGE IN THE WORLD. M. B. Okean~ Co. Manufacturing Furrier Linc~ln 15 ------- Years on the North Shore 567 Ave.,. Winnetka Ph. Winnetka 2752 IIOMDAY BVBIOIIG, MARCH IZtb NEW EVANSTON THEATRE ' WILL BE SHOWN IN NEW NOTE: THIS PRODUCTION YORK AND CHICAGO AT $3:· ADMISSION, BUT THE REGULAR NEW EVANSTON PRICES WILL PREVAIL DURING THE ENGAGEMENT IN THIS CITY " ' CELEBRITIES OF THE THEATRICAL WORLD WILL ATTEND THIS GALA EVENT. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! TEL. UNIV. 8~00 ----;__;; ._ we~-- --· r . ll. sa · . ---:_..,.. - ,..:; :*

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