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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Mar 1929, p. 20

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WILMETTE LIF .E March 1, 192 Neighbors .Celebrate Thirty-Fourth Birthday at Luncheon O..dley Crafts Watson Discusses Modem Art The Kenilworth club presented Dudlev Crafts Watson last Friday evening for the second of his lectures pertaining to art. On t.Ms ~~ca~i<;m he spoke upon "Modern Art gtvmg a clear survey of the background of modern art, showing with stereopti~on pictures the extreme and conservattve in modern paintin!!. It was a lecture on "contrasts." After the lecture, ~e fre3hments were served and Mr. Wat son spoke informally ahout each of the twehty pictures which were hung in the club rooms. These picture !'> were left hanging on the walls and ca n be seen hy anyone so de:;iring. Among the pictt~res are ~ve .wat~r color studies hy F ranees Chapm, of whom Mr. Watson speaks in mo ..;t enthusiastic terms, a still life by Paul ine Palmer, "Bacchus." a western ~cene bv Martin Hennings, "Spanish Waterfront," by Rider, a frieze , "Peacocks " by Jessie Arms Bodke. In gerle'~ "M?o!!light," ~il~orc's "Scene in Californta, and pamtmgs by Carl Krafft, Frank Dudley, Speltmann. Geoffrey Grant, Anna Lynch, and others. These picture'-' will remain on ~he walls long enough for those attendmgthe next meeting of the N eighhor~ to se(>, also for the Chamber Music program on Sunday. 'I l The Neighbors of Kenilworth are pictured here celebrating their thirty-fourth birthday luncheon at the Kenilworth club last Tuesday. Mrs. Charles Howard Bent, president of the club, ·presided as chairman at the meeting. Toastmistress was Mrs. Ann Higginson Spicer, a former president of the cluh. Letters from several ex-presidents were read, among which were notes from Mrs. Charles Ware, Mrs. Charles Chandler, Mrs. Courtney Campbell, and Mrs. McClellan. Former prec;idents who attended the luncheon meeting included Mrs. Anson Peck, Mrs. Victor Sanborn, Mrs. Calvin Case, Mrs. Kdso Farley, Mrs. Howard Jones, and Mrs. Spicer. ATTEND LUNCHEONS Today a group of women of the guild of the church of the Holy Co!'ll.forter are gue'sts at the last of a ,.senes of luncheons given in Marshalt Field's tea room.' The object of the luncheon and meeting is to hear reports on the progress of the million rlollar fun.d which the Episcopal women of Ameri ca are rarsing for St. Luke's International Medical center in Tokio, .T a pan. HAVE LENTEN LUNCHEONS During Lent. the women of t hr church 'of the Holv Comforter, Kenil worth arc taking their luncheons with them on Mondays and turning thr money they ,~·ould spend otherwise, into the treasury. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Noble Gillett, 533 Roslyn road, Kenilworth, left Monday to join Mr. Gillett in New York. The.v sailed ye·sterday from New York. on the White Star liner, Adriatic for a M editcrrancan cruise. · Thev will not return to Kenilworth until ·May 15th. -aWednesday, February 27, Mrs. Burt Crowe, 234 Raleigh road. Kenilworth spoke before the women of the guild of St. Matthews Episcopal church of Evanston. Mr'3. Crowe's subject was "The United Thank Offering." -oM iss Bethany Crowe, 234 Raleigh road, Kenilworth who is at Mrs. Dow's school, Briar Cliff manor, New York, is expected home March 21, to spend her Easter vacation with her parents. Watching Your Money ·Work for You in Real Estate If you are seeking a safe investment, one that contains no element of speculation, one that has proven profitable, sometimes far beyond human expectation, we earnestlv recom· mend that you carefully read the many real estate advertisements to be found in the classified columns of this paper. ~ -oMrs. Samuel Ros13 (Connie Hannah) 708 Willow road, Winnetka has returned from California where she went for the wedding of her sister, Elizabeth Hannah, to Louis Roser. I -oMrs. Claude G. Burnham, 536 Roslyn road. Kenilworth, who has been in California visiting Mrs. A. W. Hannah for the past month, has returned to her home. -oJane Darling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira C. Darling, 256 Kenilworth avenue, Kenilworth ha·.:; a mild case of scarlet fever. ·," -oMrs. John V. Rathbone, 523 Abbottsford road, Kenilworth has as her guest, her mother, who expect;, to be here several weeks.

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