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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 Feb 1934, p. 28

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On Sunday afternoon, March 18, the Northwestern University A Cappella choir, the 2North Shore Sympbiony orchestra, the North Shore Art league and the Winnetka Drama club wiIl openx'a week's (estival of religious art, to extend.tbrougb the week preceding HoIy week. On the afterpoon of. March 18 the North Shore Art league will open an exhibition oôf religlous paintings and sculptures at which Ernest Iremornt Tittie or Rabbi Shulmnan will 'speak on "Art ini Reli gion"P and Dudley Crafts Watson on "Religion in Art." Memibers of the orchestra will render a. program of religious chamber music, IFollowing on Monday, Tuesday and Welnesday eveninigs tbree performaànces of -"Beyond Human P er"a religious play, by Bjornstjerne Bjornson, wviIl be given and then on Thursday evening or Sunday afternoon the A Cappella choir. will give aconcert of religious choral music. [European Ballet to. Appear On Chicago Mrs. Richard Welch, secretary of the Woman's Library Club of Glencoe, is taking- reservations for the Monte Carlo Ballet Russ which is opening at the Audiforium theater on' Friday, evening,. February 16, for a week's engagement. Special :rates are being given to club groups for. the performnance on, àMonday night, February 0. This is the first timne in eighteen,,years,that Chicago will see ballet in:the great Russian tradition. Using as with Serge1 nuecleus dancers wvho ha'd -appeared aghilev, Col. Vasil.y De Basil formed Dyainatic ballet* stories were written around the inusic' of Tschaikousky, Strauss, Boccherini and others. From the world of art came the- brushes of. Andre Derain, Raoul Dufy, Joan. Miro, Andre. Massoin, Christian Berard ànd Counit Etièe e i Beaumont to create sets of a new order. Instead of two, stars being featutred in' alniost aIl of the ballets' as was1 the Diaghilev [tractice. De, Basil bas developed at least a dozen stars, *'al tjf equal .rank. He featutres tbem flot according to their importance, but accôording to their adaptahýilit%* to the role to be played. Leonide Massine is tbe dramatic ogeniîis of the To Paint Landscape Frank Dillon, prograni chairman of the North Shore Art league, announces that on Friday, Febru- ary 23, Edward T. Grigware will pàint 'lanclscape before a group invited to sSc him at work. When fnished, his canvas wilI be presented to the North Shore Art Icague. Lefgue menibers and guests will b. usvited to watc Mr.. Grigwaro. Pay Photo JElecta Austin Gamron lis the director of the chorus of the North Shore Mu.siciaizs' club, wvhich isgiving a concert next Tuesday evening at the North. Shore, hotel. One of Mrs. Gamrons composi- tions, a hymnn, wiII be.sung. Mrs. Gamtron has been organi1sf for a number of years at St. John's Luth- crait chuirch in Wilimette. Cordon-Pattison in Kenilworth Recital Two distiingutislied virtuosos, Jacques Gordon and Lce Pattison, are again joining forces for a limited tour, giving a series of recitals for violin and piano. Two seasons ago, as weIl as last year, tbey appeared togetlier in New York ini several joint programs. Thbey will give a concert ini Kenilworth on Suniday. aiternoon, \Iarcli 11, under the auspices _of, the North Sbere Chaniber Music association. T he present partinership is the direct outgrowth ofý lc.ng association in Chicago, whère iMr. Gordon and( Mr. Pattison were. both located'for a number of years. They niade several public appearances together in. that city, the. nost. notable being in iiruacasxig copEIIJ. li n cago the station used for putting this great program on the air is WMAQ, and the time and date is every Satur-, day evening at 7 o'clock. The series began on February 3 and will coûtinue untilMa1. An intern ational favorite of the first rankc, Elisa- beth Rethberg, celebrated lyric-dramatic soprano, will be heard on Monday evening, March 12, in. the fourtb of the Artist-,Reci.ta1 series. sponsored by the Winnetkam Music club.ý The recital will be held in.the auditorium of New Trier 11igh school. * ix great opera bouses in America and Europe, claimed béer as "star" last season: The Metropo litan Opera bouse, New York; San Franicisco Opera comp an.y in that city anld Lios Angeles;' Royal Opera, Budapest; -State Opera, Dresden, and the GrandOpera,, Paris. Aside f rom. these brilliant appearances, Rethberg's tqual popularity as concert attraction resulteci in far greater demand, for -ber on botb sides of the world; than, could be complied with. in. Europe alone, offers came for special «'star" appearances by Retbberg. in concert as well as opera. in n ine countries;* italy, Spain,' Holland, Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czecho- slovalcia. Great journals in this country froni:Canada to Florida andl from east coast to west, mention Reth- ber'g's voice and art in .uch ternis as~ "Queen of operatic. songbirds"; "uncquestionably won the high- est tributes of applause"; "the loveliest of them' ail"; "'at once the .delight and despair of sinigers in tbe audience worsbipping at ber shrine." A wireless from Paris chronicled of ber debut ai the Grand Opera, "Following the first act the entire auidience and orchestra rose in a body, mak- ing gig-antie demonstrations. sbouting and ditmand- ing miannerable curtain cails." Opera Singe r Conimng to Shawnee Feb. 18 Mari Barova, contralto, formeri> of the Civic Opera coýmpany, witb CGordon Campbell, accompanist,. wiIl give a program at Shawnee Country> club On _____________ _ S u nda y af ternoon, Februaîy , &during. the Hour of Music from 4 o'cloick until 5. The noted singer bas charni and poise. as \well as a graciotns nianner. Her ,ilctl(i inter1retaton ii (al stvle have c aI11 e d has aciceci anotner' opera to uer list of woris- naiely, "Scenes from 'Little Women'." The com- plete list of operas by Eleanor Everest Freer is as follows: "Legend of the Piper," 'Pieciosà," "Joan of Arc," "The Court Jester," "A Christr mas Tale," "A Legend of Spain," "The Masqu of Pandora," '"The Chilkoot , M aiden." "FPrithiof," "Scenes from'Little W*'men ."

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