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Chicago and suburbs have the opportunity this week and next week of encouraging the National Opera Comique movement which is being supported throughout our country by educational and civic groups of men and women. The New York Opera. Comique is making its first visit heré, and is pre- senting three scintillating operas in English at the, Auditorium theater, "La Vie -Parisienne,"' Offen- bach;««Dancing Doýli," Offenbac, and "The Gay Deceiver," 1Strausi., Europeancounres have long recognized the, need. of a field in wbîch talent of aIl kinde tnight express itself ; hence they develope a type 'of opera known as Opera Comique, as pleasurable to thé layniai . as to thé pr-fessional müsician., Some of the worlds lèveliest music was written for this field. Amierican singer. and stage artists.,are given'ati op- portunity, through the New York Opera Comique, of singing and working out their scenic ideas in an effort- to develop American opera and Americait art. "DXancing. Doil" is the well known "Talés of Hoffmnan" and it is interestinig to note that a former Winnetka boy. Kurtis Brownell, bas the i-oie of Hf oma. . This opera bud ilU opening.on rhurs- day of this week, continuing tbrough Saturday night. On 'Sunday "The Gay Deceiver," which is an English version of "Die Fledermaus," opens for Jour performances. Mr. Brownell bas leading riûes in each opera.. Tickets may be ordered at the Win- netka Comnttiity House. College Glee Club to at johann Sebastian Bach engaged the attention of syniphony. patrons Iast week. Tbe eminent com- poser was boni 250 years ago and so Tbursday night and Friday afternoon Frederick Stoc and the Chicago Symphony orchestra, with five eminent Chicago artists, devoted theirefforts to properly celebrating the anniversaryof -thisgraatit The program consisted of the Suite No. 2. in B niinor for strings and flute with a flute obbligato byMr.ý Liegl; the. Concerto for Two Violins .and String -Orchestra in D minor, played by'Mr. Mischa- koff and Mr. Weicher, from the first, stands of the orchestra; thé Concerto for Three Pianos -and String Orchestra. in C major, recently revised for modem keyboardby Glenn Dillard Gunn, and having its fi-st Chicago perfo rmance, and1 the Fugue in C minor, transcribed. by Frederick Stock.' During the* coming week the orchestra played the fifth. concert in thé, Young People's series anid will give the twelfth of the Poptilar concerts' on Saturday night. The program for the c hildren on Wednesday afternoon consisted of the Overture to "The Secret of Susanne" by Wolf-Ferrari; the andante and .Vernuetto froin Mozartts 3yznfhny in G Mtnot; Alfven's "Midsummer Wake"; the Amierican Hymnn by Keller and the Dances f rom Prince Igor by Borodin. This'Saturday night at the Popular concert the orchestra will play Beetboven's Overture, "Leonore"; Rinisky-Korsakow's Suite, "Scheherazade"; Brahms' Hungarian Dances and Wagner's "The Master- singers.of Nurember." Appear 'in Wunnetka .Wînuietkan [ntertaanîng James Paul Kennedy will appear as accompanist M scGopM rh2 nd piano soloist with the Hiramn College Glee club> U >oprurn~ wnîcn 15s singiiig at the W înnetka .M±usic club on Thursday evening, April 4, under the direction of George Howertc>n. Mr. Kennedy is a member of the music f aculty of Hiram college, Hiram, Ohio. Mr-. Kennedy received bis A. ]B. from Penn col- lege in 1932, and bis. Bachelor ,of, Music .egre a, year later from North*estern university. He lias had graduate study at the University of Southern California and bas studied piano with Char les Griffith and Ai-ne Oldberg. His instructors in composition have been Carl Beecher and Rossiter Cole. At the age. of .18 he .was soloist witb the *Mrs. XM.B. Kennedy, 455 Sheridan road, Win- netka, will have the meeting of the Lake View, Musital society Wednesday afternoon, Marcb 27, at 2:30 The assisting hostesses will hé Mrs. Levering Cartwright and Mrs. Clarence Minnema, .both ýof Glencoe. The prograni, wbich bas 'been arranged by Mrs., C.,,Sberwood'Baker ,will,,bé presented by, Mary, Apn The Mary Crane league will close its season of musicales this Friday evening at Shawnee Coun- t ry club with: an attractive concert arranged hy one of its members, Mrs. Conger Reynolds of Kenil-. worth, program chairanan. The.concert will be given by Wadeeha Atiyeh, young Arabian, soprano, and theé:Norihweste-rn -Uni- véesity String trio which is composed of 'Arcule Sheasbyr, violin; Dudley Powmers, 'cell,i and Emily: Boettcher, piano. Miss Atiyeh,,will sing o 1ne.group, of French, ,German and English songs and another group of ber own native ones, which, she wil i ve in the language of the locality and perioc to6 which they belong., For the latter- shee will dress i the appropriate nùative costumes. ' Miss Atiyeb is the only woman who. can give the Mohammedan Cal to Prayçr, and this sbe promises to: include in,'ber eeôgrm. A'ccornpanyng.her at. the piano will be the ùnoted composer,. Philip Jorgenson,: wbose songs have, been sung by, Baggiore; Lawrence Tibbett, and John Chai-les, Thomas in their concertsan broadcasts. By special arrangement with Shawnee those w ho attend the concert, wbether members of the club or not, inay have dinner there if so desired. Tickets for the musicale may be'obtained fromfi Mrs. W Olsen in Kenilwortli or Mrs. joseph Edgar Lee of Evanston. Dinner reservations should be made at thé club. The proceeds of the musicale will benefit the league's nursery, school at Hull House. Hrpsichordu»sts WÎit G'ive Concert Aprul 3 manuel and Williainson, harpsichordists, and ten assisting artists, will give a concert of miusic. by Johann Sebastian B~ach at the- Goodmian theater on Wednesday evening, April 3. Samuel Thaviu, violinist, of Wilmette, is one of the assisting- artists. Others are Dorothy I.ane and Marguerite Davies, harpsichordists; Erika Thimey, dancer; Madaline Reinecke, soprano; David Van Vactor, fiutist; Walter Gras, gambist; Leonard' Sorkin, violin.; Milton Preves, viola, and Dud- ley Powers, 'cellist. Trhe program includes the D, miînor corner to for three harpsichords and strings; airs for soprano, witb flute and barpsichord; sonata for viola da gamba. and harpsichord;- English suite for harpsichord; concerto for four harpsichords and strings, and selections from "Well Tempered Key- board." This Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock Mrs. Johaii- Mrs. Franik Ketcham, 4 seni will paint a water coler. portrait of some one worth, entertained at tea who is attending 'the exbibit. She . wilI select her Lee, Inc., studios ini Laý subject from, the audience and then will present thirty of ber pastel portri- Sthe sitter witb the finished work Mrs. Jobansen play tbrougbout the week Lu a memuber of the North Shore Art league and is last week at ClerklcFulký on the faculty of New Trier High scl'ool. - again on Tuesday at the lane, Ket t the L' !aiso snown' ,vmtôn and 'oman's club. her next tallc, she wiil play - i C," the Chopin "Fantasie eýntaI Fantasie" by Islamney. inF, and an R -