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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 May 1937, p. 56

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S. Hostesses to Honored at Annuel Fntrt~n Iinir ,Matrix Table Banquet Eneri. Junior.w League Visitors F Tuesday evenîng of the second day of the, annual conf erence: of the Association. of the Junior Leagues of Amrerica, niany din- ner Parties were :given, with gulests afterwards -hearing the broadcast given by the president of the association, Mrs. Peter L. -Harvie.: Several of 'these affairs had north s ho r e hostesses. Visiting, Junior leaguers arriving for the. convention, -are house guests. on. the. north -shore as well, as in the -city, ýsome.of thclir hostesses. living in' Wilmette, Ken il- worth, Winnetka, and Glencoe. Miss Marian Carpenter of Evans- ton had a party for thirty-five, tak- ing lier guests to the Tavern for diii- nier and then going to the NBC stu- dios to hear Mrs. Harvîe's broadcast f rom 9 :30 to 9:45 o'clock. A dinner for about sixty was 11,ýld at the Gleni View club that nigiht, with the hostesses including Ms John Herdic, Mrs. John Eliot War- ner, Mrs. Henry Haven Windsor, .Mrs. Robert Sherman, Mrs. Muscoe Robert n.rIlovey. Mrs. Noble MacFarlane and rs Graham Penfield gave a dinner Tues- day. Tuesday evening, too, Indian Hh club was the scene of a dinner in charge of Mrs. Margaret 1-ardin.Y Cecil i nd Mrs. Richard . Ulilemann., Between fifty and sixty guests wcre entertained, Mrs. Horton Fail, Mrs. Arthur Rogers, Mrs. Charles M. Price.' Mrs. William' L. Heiser and- iJay of Boston, are leaving. the enui of the week on a ' short motor .trip. They plan to drive south through Tennessee and visit Pinehurst, N * C. Mrs. Dav arrived in Wilmette Tues- d-ay to i,. the guest of lier son-in-Iaw and dugtt for a-ifotnight.- Among those honored at the thir- teenth annual Matrix table of. Northwestern -university held recently at the Georgian hotel, wer.e ,MISss Ruth Hougland of Winnetka andMiss Ruth Urice. of. Vinton, Iowa, Wh o1 is making lier home with lier uncle and aura,, MrÈ. and Mrs. John T. Urice of> 423 Cumnor, road, Kenilworth., Miss Hloagland, daughter 'of Mr. andý Mrs., R. A. Hoagland,. 416 Willow road, was. one of: fine outstanding 'seniQr women who were the: honor guests, of .Theta Sigma. Phi. These women were chosen on a double basi ,s of, grades; and campus activities and represented a fine> cross-section of campus life at Northwestern.- In ad- dition to -these, nine. seniors, nine. freshmen were also rec ,ognized at the l)an*quüet. Miss Urice was included, in the latter group. Both she and Miss H-oagland are members of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Boy Voyage Luncheon Mrs. Elmer A. Claar, 1301 Chest- xiut avenue, gave a luncheon at Shawnee Country club on Tuesdlay in honor of Mrs. A. C.,Younigberg of. Wilmette, who with Mr. Young- berg. will sail next Saturday to spend Mrs. W. F. Healy of Kenilworth gave a luncheon and bridge part,, Saturday in hier homle at 205 Melrose avenue. Ehtertains tins week; is ivrs. W. r. ienks 0f Wliinnetka. The party is a dinner dance held under the auiçPices of the Kenilworth ceizter'of the Infant Welfar.e2 -.iety oft Chico go. - Prize Play to Have Premiere in City A prize-wiflfifg play by Miss, Janet Marshall, daughter of the John C.'Marshalls of 112 Green Bay road, Hubbard W oods, is to .!-ave its, Chicago. Premiere ýMay 21.and.22, at the Interna- tionaL House theater on theý Uni- I versity of Chicago campus. This play, " A Sti-eak of Pinik," 'w'on, te$2,500.first prize in the first jnational competition of the'Bu- reau of- New,' Plays, Inc.,, spon- sored recently by- seven motion icture companies. baguerre Photo The 2cinving of the $2500 first .prize in- the-first national conPeti- lion of flwic ureau of Newe Plays, hIc., for her play, ".4 Streak of. Pin k", is an Ionor whicj: camte re- centlv fto Mliss Janet Marshall of IHztbard WVoods. The play will have its Ch icago premiere May' 21- St. Mary's Honors Marguerite Cleary Miss Marguerite Cleary was home last"week-enid from Saint Mary's col- lege, Notre Dame, to attend some of the festival concerts and to visit lier parents, Mr. and Mrs.. J. M.. Cleary of 227 Sheridan road. She returned Mr. and Mrs. 'Edmund McCarthy are former residents of iEvanston who recently moved to Wilmette, having purchased the :bouse at Il112 Seventeenth street Their two éhil- dren Allan and Grace; Ann attendSt. - Atanaiusschal n Eaniàton. The prize signified flot. only the ex- cellence of the play iiselIf, ý but also the recognition of the playwrighting promise ini the author, and since thé judges, were famous dramatic per- sonages, the honor of winning first place was no mean one. The play itself is a satiric comedy in which a group of friends try to bring back to the path of common sense and reason, a young woman who has suddenly and inexplicably gone communiet. Be- c ause the people invàlved are. clever. sophisticated, and able to laugli at themselves and each other, the situ- ation mnoves through, a series of riotous scenes in which the friends tilt with Marxisni and Marxists, until it reaches a climax wherein the young conimunist and' the :group of .friends have exchaniged places. After graduating from Eryn Mawr, -Miss Marshall studied Etiglish and playwrighting at the University of Chi;cago, and then went to Yale -to, eer the famous "47 Workshp course now uinder Walter Pritchard fEaton. It mvas for this. course thagt she wrote "A Str.eak of .Pink." I ,F'rancisco. ThIey recently. had as their guests two of Mr. Cochrati's brothers, Dr., josephi Cochran and Clement Cochran, Who were en route to Minneapolis from Buffalo. Mrs. Cochran's mother, Mrs. Ben- net 0. . Skewis, is iving with lier daughter and f'~il at present.

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