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14 SKOKIE VALLEY LAUNDRY Highland Park Ice Co. AS another year approaches, we join our good wishes to the many you will be reâ€" ceiving. We hope we have served you well in the past â€" and ask the privilege of continfuâ€" ing to do so in the future. GINGERALE CHARGED WATER ICE CUBES â€" CRUSHED ICE 241 North St. Johns Avenue Highland Park, Illinois Telephones 33 â€" 34 Tel. L. F. 1023 ’eueraged T HE PR ES 8 Ballet Russe At Auditorium Theatre 'Five new ballet productions will be introduced to Chicago by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo when it opens today at the Auditorium theatre for its annual Christmasâ€" week season of glamorous Russian dancing. The engagement of the company begins Decemberâ€".26 and closes Sunday, January 5. All of the ballerinas who have delighted local audiences in the past few years will return. Leonide Masâ€" sine, artistic director, will dance in many of the ballets. The list of leadâ€" ing ballerinas includes Alice Marâ€" kova, Alexandra Danilova, Mia Slaâ€" ;m.h, and Nathalie Krassovska. n the list of male dancers, which is perhaps the most impressive ever presented by a Russian ballet, will appear the names of Andreé Eglevâ€" sky, Igor Youskevitch, Frederic Franklin, Marc Platoff, and Roland Guerard. 5 : The outstanding novelty of â€"the recent New York season of the Monâ€" te Carlo dancers was a new proâ€" duction of Tschaikowsky‘s â€" "Nutâ€" ecracker." While this has been aâ€"popâ€" ular number for many years abroad, it has never before been done in its entirety in this country by a leading ballet organization. The leading role is danced by Alice Markova‘who had previously danced it many times in London. Another novelty will be "Poker Game," built on an original score by Stravinsky. This ballet is a creation of George Balanchine. Alâ€" exandria Danilova as the "Queen of Spades," Alicia Markova as the "Queen of Hearts" and Marc Plaâ€" toff as the "Joker" are conspicuousâ€" ly cast. > f . Massine‘s latest ballet creation, "The New Yorker," with music by George Gershwin, employs almost all of the solo dancers in the comâ€" pany, including. Massine himself. Characters copied after cartoons by Helen Hokinson, William Steig, Peâ€" ter Arno, and cther artists appearâ€" ing regularly in the magazine "The New Yorker," dance in this fastâ€" moving picture of life in New York after dark. $ ~â€"A second new Massine ballet callâ€" ed "Viennaâ€"1814" has a score by Von Weber. This is a series of diâ€" vertissements and character dances which are held together by a little drama of Viennia in the Napoleonâ€" ic era. _ The fifth novelty of the Monte Carlo Ballet‘s Chica®o season is "Serenade," the choreographic creation of George Balanchine set to the music of Tschaikowsky‘s "Serâ€" enade for Strings." This might be called "counterpoint ballet," as the patterns of the dance has been deâ€" signed in a manner suggestive of musical counterpoint. 3 _ The complete schedule for the Chicago engagement of this world famous company is as follows: QualityCleaners Phone H, P. 178 RELIABLE LAUNDRY Dec. 26. Poker Game, Capriccio DRY CLEANING CO. AND Espagnole, The Nuteracker; Dec. 27, Serenade, Baiser de la Fee, Gaite Parisienne; Dec. 28 (matinee), Po. ker Game, Spectre de la Rose, The Nutcracker; Dec. 28 (evening), Syl. phides, Scheherazade, Viennaâ€"1814; Dec. 29 (matinee), Boutique Fantas. que, Baiser de la Fee, the New York. er; Dec. 29. (evening), Sylphides, The New Yorker, Bachanale, Caâ€" priccio Espagnole; Dec. 30, Sehch. erazade, Afternoon of a Faun, The Nuteracker; Dec. 31, Serenade, Poâ€" ker Ggme, The New Yorker, Viennia â€"1814; Jan. 1, Swan Lake, Petrouch. ka, Gaite Parisienne; Jan. 2, Swan Lake, Boutiqueâ€"Fantasque, Afser. noon of a Faun, Capriccio Espag. nole; Jan. 8, Serenade, Poker Game, The Nuet:_r}cker; Jan. 4 (matinee), Sylphides,;~ Petrouchka, Viennaâ€" b 1814; Jan. 4. (evening), Swan Lake, Scheherazade, Gaite Parisienne; Jan. 5 (matinee), Serenade, Bacchanale, Spectre de la Rose, Viennaâ€"1814; Jn. 5 evening) Baiser de la Fese, The New Yorker, The Nuteracker. Girl Scouts Publish Volume of Poems At Tribute To Mrs. Eddy The publication of a volume of poems by Birdsall Otis Edey, with a short biography of the author by Mildred Adams Kenyon, has been announced by the national headâ€" quarters of Girl Scouts in New York City, according to an anâ€" nouncement received by Mrs. Roy O. Nereim, Commissioner of the Highland Park Girl Scout Council. Called "Builders" the book has been published as a memorial to Mrs. Edey, former National Commissionâ€" er of the Girl Scouts, who died last year. iess Mrs. Edey‘s keen interest in Girl Scout activities during her twentyâ€" one "years‘ association with the orâ€" ganization won for her a â€"great many friends. A statement from national headquarters regarding the publication reads: "In publishing this book of her poems we are in some measure continuing the work she was devoted to at the time of her death, as the proceeds from its sale will be used entirely to provide funds for training scholarships for volunteers." "Builders" can be purchased through bookstores or authorized department store agencies for one dollar, Copies may also be obtained from the Ntional Equipment Servâ€" iceâ€"of ~the â€"Girlâ€" Scouts â€"atâ€" 14â€" West 49th street, New York City. During her association with the Girl Scouts, Mrs. Edey served five successive terms as president from. 1930 to 1933. In the latter year the office and title, National Comâ€" missioner, was created for her She was a delegate to the sixth interâ€" national conference of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts at Foxlease, Girl Guide leadâ€" ers‘ training camp near London, in 1930, and to the eighth international eonference at Abslboden, Switzerâ€" land, in 1934 *At the time of hoer death Mrs: Edey was chairman of the Girl Scout International Conâ€" mittee in this country. ., The heart o gift dear and ther. Thursday, December 26, 1940 irt of the giver makes ! and precious.â€"Martin 1 nMI Decem 480,000 LO BY LL Fortyâ€"six per C cial banks in J than 480,000 loar 000,000 to busin dividuals through ing the first six r cording to the s of bank lending the American B A Total of $1, Business t The A. 56. A participated in by or 46.1 per cent cial banks in the These 393 ba they made betwe June 30, 1940: 296.672 new loans tot 178,544 renewals of 1 5,365 new mortgag tallny .â€".......â€" 480,581 The survey sh firms in the stat cent of the "cont credit" maintain the books of ba: banks in the lan state reported t their books $46 lines of credit" . available for re; use as needed. amount $117,53 gent was used. The average n made per ban mon‘hs period w and the averag $4,092. The average 1 gage loans macd and the average was $4,885. The average 1 newed per ban} average renewal The Illinois s national survey tivity made by : ers association. a whole 6,203 cent of the :1 banks reported tween January 41,831,097 new loan 6,134,178 renewals totaling â€" 11717,398 new mor totaling _ This is a tota transactions an 584,028, report of the year by country‘s banks 13,642.673 Mr, and Mrs. hosts at a fam mas Day at t avenue.