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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Jan 1929, p. 31

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January 4, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 31 Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly, lOIS Oakwood ·avenue, entertained ten guests at dinner on New Year's. Dr. and Mrs. T. A. Newell and their son, John, of Chicago and Cameron Garbutt of Evanston were among the guests. ··sorrow" Golf Club Gocwlman Theatre Presents 'for· Shawnee Club's New Drama Starlin· Jan. 7 "Six Characters in Search of an New Year · Festivity Author," is the title of the next play ne~ . )I . ., I), Still ·awaiting the completion of their clubhouse on Michigan avenue, Wilmette, members of · the. Shawnee Country club Monday night commandeered the spacious North Shore Golf club for their annual New Year's Eve festjvity. More than 300 members and guests attended the affair, which is one of the outstanding events on the club calendar. Many members gave dinner parties and there was a . large representation of young people home from school for the holidays Dinner was served in two large dining rooms and the guests danced to continuous music furnished by two orchestras. Evergreens and pines, draped with tinsel and festoQps of red and silver foliage, constituted the scheme of decoration in dining rooms and lounges. Strolling players contributed to the evening's diversion. Members of the Shawnee club are looking forward with keen ~nticipation to the formal opening of their stunning new clubhouse and were in evidence in large numbers over the New Year holidays while engaged upon inspection tours of the new club quar· ters soon to be completed. Silv~r. china and glassware for the club have already been purchased. The linen is being made in Europe and the kitchen equipment is now being installed. The club interior is to be furnished in keeping with the early English period of its design and Burnham Bros., Inc., the architects, have provided facilities for all the various uses in demand at the modern smart club . . The Shawnee club gives promises of establishing itself immediately as one of the outstanding social centers of the north shore. Margery and Amy Middendorf, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George N. Middendorf, SIS Roslyn road, Kenilworth, entertained a group of young people at · a dinner dance December to Q~cupy the Goodman theatre stage, tl, at Edgewater Beach hotel. where it will open Monday, January 7. It is the work of an Italian playwright, Luigi Pirandello, whose plays have been translated into fifteen languages. It has proven one of the most sensation_al plays produced in the past quarter of a century. There never has b~en anything like it. Its title suggests the unusual character of the play. Think of six people t.·isiting various authors in search of one who Maple could give the world the story of thdr 1 lives - sordid, dramatic, emotinoal, Pecan and tragic, agonized, comic-in fact, filled Macaroon with all the pathos, the humor and tragedy of human life. It is predicted Bisque that it wiU have a record attendance at the Goodman. This is its first appearance in Chicago. for fancy Ice Cream Moulds Wilmette Snider-Cazel Drug Co. ')-· Model County Jail Will Be Dedicated Early This Year '1 Sh?rtly after New Year's day the masstve doors of Cook county's $7,500,000 Criminal Court building and new County jail wi11 be thrown open for dedication and then the doors of the massive new jail building will clang shut on more than fourteen hundred cells and the new place of incarceration for Cook county's prisoners will begin operation. It will have been thirteen years since the first bond issue for this structure was presented to the people and defeated June ~. 1916. The second bond issue was defeated November 6, 1917, the third bond issue was defeated in June, 1921, and the bond issue passed for the present building in November, 1925. The result is about to be inspected by the public and officials, who will be treated to a revelation in modern jail equipment and material, including glass partitions through which persons can speak, but which are unbreakable; central control cell-locks: segregation sections for various offenders; innovations in guarding prisoners; direct connections with court room ante-rooms and the jail proper; with jury rooms for women and men ; with special guard lookout coves ; and many other modern features of proper cell housing. Jail layout of the building is termed "telegraph pole" design ; because of its resemblance to a telegraph pole, with a center corridor and cell wings to the right and left. Each wing contains fifty cells and there are accommodations for only one prisoner to a cell. 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