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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 5 Apr 1929, p. 51

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April· 5, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 5l · 30 NEGROES IN CAST Buffalo Head Ia Prize "Qaacmire" to Ha·e Ita . Premiere for Junior Hiker Patrol at Northweatena Univet"aity Next The Junior Hikers of Kenilwot:th are buffalo head skeleton-which their leader, Rob~rt W. Townley, is offering to the patrol which presents the best stunt at exercises to be held in the new Kenilworth Memorial gymnasium, May 10. The buffalo head was found by Mr. Townley in Saskatchewan while he was working in the Canadian wheat fields in 1913. Each patrol. will ~e allowed fifteen minutes to present ats stunt. Wedneacfay; Ticket. at Drama Office now working for a trophy-a prized A cast that will include 30 negroes from Chicago and its environs will make up the company of players which will present "Quagmire" by Anne Frierson of the School of Speech, Northwestern university, when it has its premi~re Wednesday evening, April 10, and wdl be presented the two evenings folJowing at Annie May Swift hall. The play will be produced by the Town and Gown Playshop and it is being directed by Charlotte Barrows Chorpenning. Settings are by Dean Farnsworth, and special lighting under his direction will be a feature of the production. Advance interest in the play is widespread because of the praise of critics which followed its walking rehearsal at the Playhouse Chicago, last year. Since then it ha~ been rewritten by the young authot, who ·comes from North Carolina and has made her drama of the life of the blacks there as she has witnessed it from childhood. The play has been given the approbation and interest of ~he producers and cast of "In Abraham's Bosom." The entire house has been sold out for Friday evening. ]. Lincoln Gibson, known to north shore audiences by his many succes·ses with the North Shore Theater guild and with groups of local players, will carry one of the white men's parts. The ?thers will be taken by Ralph C. Vorhts and Wesley Yates of the school of speech. Others of the cast are these : Barsheba, Lillian Kave Thompkins; Pearl, Bertha W. Lewis ; Mary, Mary E. Taylor; Ole Man Eddy, Sterling W. Ross; Willie, Isaac Clark; Blac~-Boy-Ben, Robert Dunmore; Chloe, Karlene D. McLaurins ; Daddy Mose, Lyle DuBois Lewis; Werry, Anthony H111: Cripple Johnny, Kenneth S. Richardson ; Enos, Albert Turner ; Ephraim, Leon T. Peyton ; Selema, Myra Turner ; Gussie, Bessie B. Benson ; Spell Woman, Lena S. Barton. Telephones Where You Need Them HY climb up or W or down stairs from one end of the apartment to the other when the telephone ri~gs? · Have telephones where you need them. Extensions upstairs, in the back hall, in the kitchen, in one or more of the bedrooms-in any or all of these locationswill make it easy to use or answer your telephone wherever you may be. Comfortable,' convenient telephone service is the hall mark that stamps your l1ome as truly modern. Telephone extensions are inexpensive. Our Business Office will be glad to give full details of this service or any telephone employee will take your order. Cecelia Baldwin Active in Athletics at Lawrence Miss Cecelia Baldwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Baldwin 622 Washington avenue, returned to' Lawrence college, Appleton, Wis. Wednes~ay a!ter spending the spring vacation wath her parents. Miss Baldwin, who is a freshman, was assistant coach for the girls' hockey team and was a member of the freshman hockey team. She represents her class in the vVoman's Athletic association, and recently has been initiated to the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Four Boys Make Grade of 100 in Gymnasium Tests Of 120 boys in the seventh and eighth grades at the Stolp school only fourFr?nk Kel{ey, George Facht, Roger Fndman, and John Cotseres-received a p~rcentage rating of 100 in the gymnasmm tests recently conducted at the school. These tests were based on the boys' attitude toward their gymnasium work, on their athletic ability, and their · posture. Mrs. D. E. Penkk, 609 Central avenue, and her two children, Mary Virginia and Billy, returned · last week from Florida, where they had been since Janu· a ry 16. They visited Hollywood, St. Petersburg, and St. Augustine. Mrs. Penick's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Montgomery of Wilmette, will return Friday froni Florida by motor. HOME FROM FLORIDA ILLINOIS. BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One Policy .. One System .. Universal Service VISITS KENILWORTH SCHOOL Miss Lillie Bitting, former grade teacher at the Joseph school, Kenilworth, who is now ing' in Oak Park, was a visitor Kenilworth school on Tue~day. fourth Sears teachat the

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