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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 8 Mar 1929, p. 15

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March 8, 1929 WILMETTE LIPB 15 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Knudtson, 1141 Chestnut avenue, and their nephew;· Don Mathieson of Linden, Wis., returned Monday from a three weeks~ trip to California. JUNIOR LIFE ·visitors Make It Pretty Tough for Young Stanley One day Mrs. Groves gave all of the boys and girls in our room an assignment on South America. We were to give our recitations the next day. That day came and a lot of New Trier students came to hear it, also Mr. Todd a;ml some teachers. I was the first to g1ve mine. I was going along fine when I began to get rattled because of so much company and Mrs. Groves had to tell me what to say and so I ended fairly well. But those people did laugh !-Stanley Cochran, Howard 6B Talks on Art Last Monday. afternoon, before the art class of the Woman's club of Wilmette, Francis Marion Arnold talked on painting~ of the Italian Renaiss·· ance. Mr. Arnold spoke of the historic aml devotional pictures, saying that the former reproduces the actual setting of whatever· Christian incident is depicted, while the latter uses for a background the artist's own city, its buildings and people. The Florentine, Venetian and Umbrian schools brought art to the people, because they saw themselves in the pictures. There were several types of painting before the Renaissance : the symbolic figures on the walls of the Catacombs ; th.~ Byzantine, which brought in the element of color; and the frescoe painting, which came about with the building of Italian churches where a great wall space had to be filled. The latter portrayed the events in the life of the Virgin and Christ. The. Romanesque took this up, but in order to point out the corrupt lives of people, pictures of the last judgment and the tortures of hell were used. The Gothic carried this out in a more human way, bringing in the element of love. Cimibue, the Italian artist in Flor-· ence, was the first to recognize in art the strongest element in the worldlove, and Giotto brought painting into the realm of human comprehension by making his ~fadonna a peasant woman. Masaccio followed a hundred years later and introduced the study of anatomy and perspective for the first time. Fra Angelico refused to follow this new trend, but made his pictures in pure color, at1d very spiritual. However, the main stream of · , Sixth Graders Write Play Around Glories of Rome The sixth grade class of Miss Scheidroom at Howard school have begun to write their plays on Rome as an empire and ~Iistress of the world. It will be written by every pupil and the be!'lt parts of each one will be taken and made into one. The play tome:-; from our history and will be given in the spring. l\fiss :\Iadse n, our English tt>acher, is h e ltJing ·UR and later on Miss Scheidler will h elp us with seenery and costumes.-Gt·orge Grt>t>n , 6B Howard ler·~ Book Reviewers Receive~ "Fast One" .F rom Teacher On February 19, Mrs. Stalling, our rt>ading teacher, said that she wanted everybod~· to write a book review. All went w e ll for a few minutes when suddenlv e \' erylJodv wanted to. know something· at onre. The n Mrs. Stalling said. "Are ~·o u writing this or am I?" ThPn f'n ryhody sa t down and began to do the hest h e or she could. 1\Iost of the r~:>port~ wE>re very good. We will haw· anothf.'r one soon.-George Green, 6B Howard v Italian painting was to make it less heavenly, and more earthly. Fra Filippo Lippi's work is typical, and in his time he used living women as models for his Madonna and saints. Chirlandajo carried this still further by actually using sacred pictures as an excuse for portraits. Bohicelli, losing his faith in Christianity, and not quite believiflg in the old Greek myths, has invested his paintings with sadness, and he used the old myths as if he wished they were true. As for Leonardo da Vinci, he was probably the most versatile man the world has ever known. His life was devoted to a search for the secret of existence. His "Mona Lisa," and "The Last Supper" bear this out. Mr. Arnold devoted a few minutes to these two pictures, pointing out the rhythm, of heads, arms and hands in the latter. Raphael was entirely different from da Vinci in every way. He was a geni us, and carried painting almost to the highest point. He was the greatest painter of Madonnas the world has ever known, and they were all mysterious. churchly, theological Madonnas. The Sistine Madonna is the supreme one. Correggio, whose "Holy Night," is so well known, made a wonderful use of chiarascuro, placing in contrast the blackest blacks and the lightest lights. Then came Michelangelo, who brought Italian painting to its highest point. He painted the whole story of the creation on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel in the Vatican. Mr. Arnold spoke of the Venetian school, which did for color what the Florentines did for form, and ga.ve brief comments on outstanding Venetian artists. Less than a month after publication, "The Sealed Trunk," by Henry Kitchell Webster, "Queen Cleopatra," by Talbot Mundy, and "The Spider and the Fly," by Clive Arden, are each in their third large printing. WET BASEMENTS We Make Them Bone n ~ y From tha Inside . All Work Guaranteed Write 506 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Dl. National Waterproofintr Co. Girl Cage T earns Will Have Elimination Meet The e ighth grade girls of Stolp school are going to J)}ay basketball throughout an t"'limination contest. The five captnin~ who a re Betty Southwick, Helen Winslow , Francis Ellis, Alison Burge, and J ~?::t n Munro, drew numbers to see who their teams will play. Fighting \Varrior:;;; will play Basketball Boob~. tio-G etters play the Badger s. The Horsefeathers team will play the winners of the aboYe game~.-J e~n Munro, 8B Stolp JflJRU.AY FOR AL! Good news to a ll Norshore ticket winners! After a long vacation in the :-;un!ly south for two weeks, Al Kvale is back at the Nor~hore theater. So e \·erybouy better ,vin a- ticket ann give Al a real homecoming. I am sure he wiJl ~·njoy it very much.- George Gr'('11, 6B Howard ClJT TARDY LIST The tnrdies in the 6B Howard class have been cut down a lot. Miss Sch~id ler ::;ays ~he likes the way they ar·.! going down. We hope to have a hundred per cent this month.-George Gl'(:'~'n, GB Howard F.XCF.L I:S SPELLING GB Howard has been pretty good in An early start is essential · with new spring lawns. As soon as the host is out of the ground and the soil can be worked, begin preparing the seed bed. Thorough preparation 18 important. The subsoil must be dug deeply ·and carefully levelled and worked. Grass will not grow through clods. H necessary,eeveralinchesof good black soil, evenly spread on top, will complete the preparation. The next important step is to broadcast40pounds per 1000 square feet of HAMILTON GLASS CO. of EVANSTON Only exclusive house on the North Shore in a position to do all kinds of beveling, grinding and polishing of Mirrors.. We remake old Mirrors into newest styles. .Ar.n~ourS f/:::3.-:: GROWER lately. At the first of the year, our reports were bad but now we h ave an average of about 87 per cent. We hope to keep up the good work.- George Green, 6B Howard JIOW ARD 'i·A WINNERS Howard 7A defeated Howard 7B in a basketball game !\fonday, February 18. at the Howard gymnasium. Both team~ from 7B played 7A teams. 7A won hoth games.-Walter Foslund, 7B Howard STUDY BIRDS 1\liss Stevens, Howard's science teacher, wants 6B to study birds. We a r e looking hard for robins. There h ave been some here in Wilmette.-Kenneth Rahn, 6B Howard GOES TO CALIFORNIA Eleanor Lewis, a pupil in Mrs. Glennon's room in Central school, left March 3 for California. She expects to be away three weeks. We miss her a lot.-Nancy Pickard, 4th Grade, Central WARRIORS WIN The 8B Fi~hting- Warriors won from the 8C Badgers Tuesday, February 1!), 13 to 0. At the end of the h a lf the sco r~ waR 7 to 0 in favor of the Warriors.Helen Booz, 8B Stolp }~EATHERWEIGIIT CAPTAIN Marshall Doose has been elected captain of the Wilmette Featherweight basketball team. We are glad because he is from H<>ward school. He plays right forward.-.John A. Osborne, 7A Howard ~nelling No Weed 5ef*l. &qto~. No OtrtniiNOdar. ,· ..,"Jiiiiiiirl~ a.ultiQulc:k and c:.taln. ,MW ,_ ·~ , ·· ., - ,,.,...., lertiliteT pyact.ice f Of' suburban lawn~ Asfc for de·criPdt~e booUd on and &ardau. John Weiland ,( Large assortment of mirrors ) '\and plateaus reasonably priced. 1161 Wilmette A-ve., Wllmette, Ill. 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