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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 6 Apr 1939, p. 40

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Plans for the repertoire was made this week by officiaIs >of the opera company fromn the offices at 20 North Wacker drive. Mhe seagon wifl open with a non-subsc ription performance Saturday evening, Octobér 28, and will continue -for seven weeks,> closing December 16. The reper- toire, as arranged by Mr. Longone, Winl cons!st of somne thirty. operas. In addition to the standardl reper-< toire it will include: Charpentier's "Louise," starring f Grace Moore, who sang. the title role with the Metropolitan Opera association recently.with great.suc- cess, and, whoj this year completfed the French ciner-na version of the opera.' Miss Moore will also sing for the flrst time ýin her career the opera, "Madame Butterfly," in re- sponse to overwhelming popular Wolf-Ferrari's "Jewels of the Ma- donna," which has flot been sung here for ten years, with a cast headed by Martha Caniglia, a so- prano new to Chicago from La- Scala, Milan, Italy, who has scored at the Metropolitan where she has recently made her American debut. Verdi's "Falstaff," which has flot been presented for manv vears. at thé school recently, and at -that time "Winter Afternoon", was chosen favorite painting by a p opular vote, of the students. "North Wocods"' was Second choice, . "After the Rain" third choice, and "Deep Snow" f ourthi. -__ an's Club of Evanston March 28 to April 4. The C. H. Dennis prize o1 $25 was awarded to Ferdinand L Hotz. of Glencoe. for his, water color, "Along the- Tracks," which showed a few: humble city dwellings in' subdued, dusk after sundown. Miss Catherine M. Murphy, head of the art department, of New, Trier Hih ehol.entered two, water. colors whichshe painted on her recent trip to the North'Cape, and, wonthe E.A.. Renwick. flfteen-dol- lar prize' for, a water color lanid- scaipe entitled "Magdale'aBy Spitzbergen." For her portrait of a young girl in blue Elizabeth Engeihard (Mrs. George Enigeihard. 1045 Starr road, Winnetka) was awarded the fif- teen-dollar prize given by Mrs. Charles O. Barnes. Mrs. Engeihard also entered a stili life in the oil pafitngclassificaton. Stili another prize for an oil painting was given to a Winnetkan. Miss Vîrginia Burpo, who is the teacher of a craft class in the vil- Î. lage. She exhibited two ois. "Pier- rot" and "Mask" and won the Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Grey prize of $10 for "Pierrot." In ail, twenty-nine awards were given in a show with 445 entries, in- cluding ols, water colors. pastels. Du-bull iii z3atera j3rLi LU- Dy :smetLWa. .The revival of Moussorgsky's "Boris Godu- nof," which has been scheduled for two seasons and whicb, 1ecause of the ilIness and death of Feodor Chaliapin and other causes* beyond the control of the company, was canceled, is now assured for the 1939 season with Ezio Pinza, fanious basso, singing the titie rôle. The five members of the Buehr famiiy, all painters, will hold an exhibit this month at the Evanston Public library under the sponsorship of the Evanston Art center. In honor of the Oc- casion a tea and program will be helci at the library. at 4 o'clock Sunday, April 16, at which time there will be an opportunity for guests to meet the artists. eXhibitead y Ldi classes at the b along with a poi S. Jonanisen, Shore Art Le of Agnes Quis Other oil painting.s by artists known Iocally were those of Ruth Llewellyn Baird, Mary L. Bockius, Mary Bornarth, Grace P. Brion, Anita .Willets Burnham,. Levina Penin Gray, Isabel B3. Hannah. F. R. Harper, ]Rena A. Hostetlen, Ru- dolph F. Ingerle. Alice Ma e Jackson. Irmna A.

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