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WILMETTE . LIFE· D.eeember 7. 1928 Plans for Young Folk Hold ·sway Along North Shore Bazaar Today Benefits Young People Plan Gamma Phi Beta to Stage Chicago Junior School Vaudeville Show Benefit Numerous Yuletide The North End branch, Friends of The Gamma Phi Beta sorority at Dancing Festivities Northwestern university, active and Chicago Junior school, is· giving a baBY ELIZABETH STUTSON ~~ Racketty-Packetty I House,, Continues During December Hunderds of children flock to the Harris theater Saturday mornings to become delighted spectators at "Racketty - Packetty House" the Junior Leaguers' entrancing production which continues throughout the current month. North Shore children are in its audiences, north shore society girls and young matrons are in its cast. "Treasure Island" will be the league's next production which is scheduled to open January 5, to be given each successive week until February 23, inclusive. The Junior league seems, in carrying out its purpose, "To foster interest among its members in · the social, economic, educational, civic, and cultural condition3 of their c;ommunity and to make efficient their volunteer service," to make it effective by appealing to children. Its plays are for them, and its Lake Forest book shop is for them. "The Junior League Theater for Children was started," an announcement states, "in the fall of 1921 by Alice Gerstenberg and Annette Washburne with the purpose of providing amusing and wholesome entertainment for children of all ages. It quickly found its niche in the life of the city and in seven years has increased its following from about 1,000, to 12,000. "Junior leagues all over the country have taken up the idea and look to Chicago's Children's theater for inspiration and help. In December 1926, the first national Junior League Children's Theater conference was held in Chicago, at which a bureau was established for the purpose of keeping complete records of all plays, hunting up new plays or new books for dramatiza tion, giving information to any league. and arranging for the interchange of scenery .and costumes. · This bureau ha5 been ;110ved to New York National headquarters and is functioning very efficiently." All proceeds derived from the Junior league plays go to Junior League charities. Donations for 1927-28, amounting to $11,200 were divided between eleven charitable institutions. Officers for the Chicago Junior league for this season are : Sarane Otis, president; Mrs. John V. Farwell, III, first vice-president; Elle.n Stua~t of Hubbard Woods, second vice-president; Mrs. Lyman Manley Drake. Jr ., now of Glencoe, secretary; Mrs. Garc!ner Hammond, treasurer; Mrs. Latimer Goodrich, executive secretary. Directors, Mrs. John L. Cochran. Mrs. John R. Winterbotham, Jr., Mrs. Walter Paepcke, Mrs. Nathan G. Osborne, Mrs. Robert Curtis, Mrs. J~hn C. Hawkins, Miss Dorothy Schn~urlt, and Miss Helen Bournique of Htghland Park. Party frocks for nine dances, freshly pressed trousers for t~e same evenings! By the time the Christmas vacation is over the tired feet of high school students will drag back to the old desks and books . . . . for a rest. The gayest of holiday seasons will 9pen the night school closes on December 21, and rush through to a triumphant finish on January 5, with scarcely a pause for anything but Santa's presents. It would be interesting to speculate on how many pairs of silver slippers, how many new evening dresses, how many first tuxedos, and how many, thrills of thrills, re~l evening coats, make their appearance under the Christmas trees on December 25. Surely there will be some of these things to help fulfill the requirements of such an · exacting season! The first dance will be on Friday, December 21, at the Edgewater Beach hotel. The group of hostesses for the dance will be the Misses Muriel Wilson, Catherine Past, Mary Forrest, Sarah Page, Eloise Kramer, Maurine Jones, Celeste Jones, Josephine Farley, Patricia Goodhue, and Virginia Taylor. A group of young men will be hosts on December 22, at the Evanston Country club. Ralph Warble, Donald M. French, Joseph Tuerck, Logan Bagly, William Bennett, Robert Gertel, Arthur Johnston, Charles Smith, Richard Fuller, and Robert Gonsalves wiJl be the hosts. Before the dance, Mr. Warble, Mr. French, and Mr. Tuerck will be hosts at dinner at the Georgian hotel. . The Evanston Country club will again be the scene of a dance on December 26, at which ten young women will be hostesses. They are the Misses Faith Rurge, Martha Etzback Elizabeth Kelley, Mary Louise 'Cotton Alice Feakins, Mable Throckmorton'· Ruth Watts, Elizabeth Weber, Mar~ McDonald, and Ruth Shepherd. December 27, at the Evanston Country club, is another dance given by the Misses Mary Elizabeth Townsend, Martha Tencher, Shirley Ross, Gretchen Brever, Helene Mahan Mary Elizabeth Parker, Virgini~ French, Marjorie Evers, and Ruth Wenter. Ten young men will be hosts on January 3, at the Evanston Country club. They are Robert M. Brown, George E. CogsweJJ, Clifton L. Darling, Jr., Dorland J. Davis, Leon T. Dickinson, Robert K. Ellis William M. Gibson, Carl B. Hall, William 0. Kurtz, Jr., and Robert H. Simons. On January 4, at Skokie Country club will be a dance given by the Misse~ Sarah Minor, Lois Nordburg, Janet Hughes, Barbara Laing, Helen Shepherd, Evelyn Wienecke, Mary Karker. Nancy Knapp, Helen Brandriff Harriet Christie, Clara Cornell, Ruth Enright, Georgianna Gonsalves, Barbara Mearns, and Josephine Otter. The invitations for December 28, and 29, and January 2, are in the mail and the hostesses have not yet been announced. alumnae chapters,. will stage a vaudeville show Saturday evening, January 19, at the Evanston Woman's club, under the direction of Miss Hope Summers of Evanston. Miss Lillian Woodworth of Chicago is the business manager and Miss Helen Northrop of Evanston is in charge of the ticket sale. The chapter house in the women's quadrangle is rtow the scene of great activity, since the girls already have begun rehearsing for the choruses under the direction of Miss Dorothy Steinert, a member of the sorority· who has a dance studio. After they have wearied from their intensive practice, one may hear the Harmony Girls as they diligently work together under the leadership of Mrs. John Freeman of Evanston and Mrs. A. Steele of Chicago. The 'event promises to be a real vaudeville. Part of the proceeds of the show will go to the sorority's camp for und~rprivileged children at Denver, Colo. zaar today from 10 in the morning until 11 at night, in the Italian loun.ge of the Sovereign hotel. Baroness Vtolet Beatrice Wenner, European portrait painter, is assisting in the foreign booth, one of the attractions of the bazaar, which, with its novelties, will be presided over by Mrs. James Rupert Wolfenden and Mrs. Carey Urban Snyder. Mrs. Andrew E. Buesch of Evanston is in charge of the apron booth and Mrs. James E. Purnell of Evanston, of the white elephant booth. Other articles will be available at the pillow booth, the linen booth, the candy, miscellaneous, children's, and the men's haberdashery booths. Fortune tellers and music wilt provide the entertainment. The bazaar, which is in charge of Mrs. Harold B. Hinrichs of Chicago, chairman, and Mrs. Lester Singer of Evanston and Mrs. George Karnes of Winnetka, co-chairmen, is held for the benefit of the Chicago Junior school, a home for boys. N~ Welfare Auxiliary Plans Christmas Fund Bridge Mrs. A. J, Ruby, secretary · of the Junior auxiliary of the Infant Welfare society, will open her home at 191 Park avenue Monday, December 17 at 2 o'clock, to members of the a~xiliary for a Christmas fund bridge. The hostess will be assisted by the other officers of the auxiliary, ~frs. T. \V. Shedden, Mrs. E. M. Antrini, Mrs. H. J. Smith, Miss Ella Butz, Mrs. G. H. Redding, Mrs. R. Armstrong, Mrs. J. J. Johnson, Mrs. Roger Williams, Mrs. L. W. Benson, Miss Alice \Vheelock, Mrs. William Balhatchet, and Mrs. A. L. Fuller. K. E. C. Faculty Hold Carnival Today Three Friendship Links Are Meeting in December The Friendship links of the Baptist church will meet as follows during December: Link R-Mrs. William Huggins, leader, at the home of Mrs. R. J. La~ cell_es, 1635 Spencer avenue, Thursday, December 13, at 1 o'clock luncheon. Link N-Mrs. Alfred Heerens, leader, at the home of Mrs. R. C. Redhead, 1011 Chestnut avenue, Friday, December 14. Mrs. W. S. Campbell will be assisting hostess. Link H-Mrs. L. Bremmer, leader, at the home of Mrs. Harvey Bowen, 1314 Forest avenue, Tuesday, December 11. Links I, E, D. S will not meet in December. A carnival commencing at 2 o'clock this afternoon and lasting until 10 o'clock this evening is being sponsored by the faculty of the National Kin1ergarten and Elementary college. The affair is a combination of Christmas shops and amusements. The booths will be arrayed with handwrought silver, jewelry, pearl beads, handwoven linen, pottery, Korean brass, and Christmas sweetmeats. Side shows will offer fortune telling, marionettes, and silhouette artists. A pawn· shop will be opened by Ikey, and the hot dog vendor, the ice cream sandwich man, and the taffy apple dealer1 will each proclaim the merits of his wares. Proceeds from the carni"·al will be devoted to the college building fun ct. Gives Bazaar, Supper Friday, December 7, members of Alpha Theta chapter of Alpha Xi Delta are holding a Christmas bazaar at the sorority house in Evanston. A hot supper will be served. Mrs. Fred Crossley of Wilmette is general chairman of the bazaar, Mrs. Leonard Gessler of Evanston is in charge of the fancy work booth, Mrs. 0. P. Olson of Kenilworth is in charge of the food booth, Mn. B. T. Gibbs of the south shore, formerly of Evanston, is in charge of the dinner. Entertain Guests Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hart of 623 Greenleaf avenue were host and hostess to a number of persons during the Thanksgiving weekend, giving a bridge party Thursday night to entertain them. Mrs. Hart's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ainsworth, and her two sisters, Miss Gertrude and Miss Kathryn Ainsworth, of Battle Creek, Mich.; John Ware of Detroit; and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ibbotson, Ann Arbor, Mich., were the guests. Club Dance Is Benefit The next of the subscri11tion dances sponsored by the ways and means committee of the Woman's club of Wilmette under the chairmanship of Mrs. Earl D. Lyon as a benefit for the building funcl of the club, will take place December 15. The affair Saturdav evening of next week will be the fourth in the 5eries of Welfare Board Hostess The Wilmette board of the Infant eight given during th~ club year. Welfare society of Chicago will hold its next all-day meeting Monday, De- Food Sale Today cember 10, at the home of Mrs. Joseph Home-made foods, charming new B. Marshall, 1040 Elmwood avenue. gifts. and an array of white elephants are the attractions offered today by lfr. and Mrs. E. M. Antrim of 1136 the associated guilds of St. Augustine's Ashland avenue entertained at dinner Episcopal church in their club house, at their home Friday last in honor of 1126 Wilmette avenue. The sale, this Dimitri Dimanesco of Roumama, who season, takes the place of the . annual is visiting in Chicago. Christmas bazaar. Give Game Dinners Joseph F. Comee and his son, Lowell, 1612 Forest avenue, who went hunting this past month at Beardsto~n, Ill., bagged enough game to provtde for a series of ten duck and pheasant dinners given by Mrs. Comee within the past month. One of . t~e dinners was in honor of Col. Wtlham Edens and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bartley of Evanston and Washington, D. C., who have left for the short session of Congress. Children See Puppets A Puppet show and gay balloons delighted about 130 children at the afternoon affair given especially in their honor at the Club Vista del Lago Fridav of last week. Accompanying the children were fifty mothers who enjoyed several hours of social intercourse ov~r their cups of tta. Ex-Service Group Meets The regular monthly meeting of the ex-service committee of the Woman's club of Wilmette will be held at the home of the vice-chairman, Mrs A. J. Nystrom, 714 Central avenue, Monday, December 10, at 11 o'clock.