Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Oct 1938, p. 26

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Featuring Pied Piper ,Shoes SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 A complete line of Pied. Piper regiilar and corrective shoes In ail sizes and widths., Expertly. fited by -children's shoe specialise andchecked ýby X-Ray. FEn. GLFTS to.all the children 1619 Sherman Ave.. Evansfon CHRISIMAS. CARDS are1 readY to pirk Lloyd ilollisterIl #e. 1232-36 CENTRAL AVENUE JVilmette cortribute to the art of meuineatr in a new course offered for the first Clothes Make Actor tîrne this year,, called theatre arts. Clothes make the person to a far In this course, coveriflg an~ entire greater extent on th3 stage than in year, they will become acquainted reai life. How to design a costume with somne of the history of the the-. to bring out the character of the atre; the principles. of design, color,aco;hwtcotuttiso- and light as applied.to the stage; the turne; the problem. of renti ng cos- construction, painting, and lighting turnes; the, use of special theatri .cal of ý stage scenery; the pncples of costumes and substitutes; and a his- interior decoration as applied to the tory, of costume design Will also be, stage,, including. a .suirvey of period, taught by -Mrs. ,Lighter. desgn;cosumedesgn nd on- Since after al it is the actor whom strtiction; and some te problems the audience cornesý to see, the unit of acting and. direceting., on acting and dîrecting is saved un- Since much of the: material of the i h twee its importance course is highly specialized, and may be seen înrelation to, the units technical,, the,. various members Of which have preceded it. Miss Stan- the faculty best quaiified to present wood, who is in charge of thisunit, different phases.of the work will, at -wili be.assisted by Miss Poliy Feeni- different. times, have, charge of the ey, Miner Coburn, and Gordon Van class. It is apparent,- then, that this Kirk,, al of whomr are thoroughly is an integration course, to which faiiar with the problems o f stu- specialists from a number of diff er- dent acting and directing., ent departrnents contribute. îcsCrenPis 1 iesip,ÇoI.r Studled ies urn ly Miss Elisabeth Stanwoôd, -of theDinTg t'he entire year urn Engiish departmeflt, head of the piays both amatea~r and professioflal dramatics division, and director of1 will be discussed as they are seen the New Trier draniatic club, intro-, by mbers of the class or faculty. duces the studénts to the course. She The students will be encouraged to discusses the place of the theatre in wide readitig of plays which they conternporary life, and its deveiop- cannot see produced, and other lit- ment to its present place. Some tirne erature of the theatre. Excursions is spent studying the theatre of wifl be made to various theatrjes and Greece and Rome, and the Eliza- other points of interest. At present bethan theatre. For this work the the class is looking forward to the high schooi rnuseum, with its excel-' opportunity to visit the stage of the lent models of a Roman theatre, and Chicago City Opera house. the Fortune theatré of Elizabethaxi It is the objective of this course to England, is used. discover and deveiop the abilities of The generai art principies of de- the student in the various phases of sign and color must be modified to a dramatic activîty; to prepare him to certain extent when appiied to the continue the, study of dramatics in stage. The scene as it is viewed by coilege or in little theatre amateur the audience is many feet away. D~e- groups, and perhaps even to enter tail must therefore be sacrificed for into dramatics as a vocation. In this mass; color must be boid yet skiJll course only a bare introduction can fuiiy handied in Q 'rder to emphasize be given to the arts of the theatre the actor andi create the proper feel- but enough can be done to familiar-, ing and rnood in the audience. ize the student with their diversity; ,Mrs. Henrietta Brander,. who is a to discover his abilities; and to' member of the homne' economics and arouse his interest in an institution> art departrnents, is weli qualified to which is almost as old as cîvilization têch, this work. ý itseif and .certainly.as exciting. of the pieces is dictated by the ac-, Th is offer is tion of the drama. n! Mrs. Jane Winter Lighter, head- Ofony ited tlime.

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