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"Improvements are being made in the â€"grandstand â€"as ~well as in the track," said Lundgreen. "More than 500 box seats are now available. We are planning to conduct a number of important championship races during the season." Early entrants for the inaugural program include Ray Richards, naâ€" tional 100 mile champion and winner of the 1941â€"42 midwest indoor chamâ€" pionship; Ted Duncan, who will deâ€" fend the title of Riverview champion which he annexed last year after an allâ€"season battle with Richards; Tony Bettenhausen, R a ce w ay champion, and 1941 runnerâ€"up â€"for the Threeâ€"A midwest big car title; Myron Fohr, Bob Mulke, Pete Nielsen, Jimmy Carâ€" is, Mike O‘Halloran, Emil Andres, Pete Romcevich, Gus Klingbiel, Cowâ€" boy O‘Rourke, Harry Lewis, Frank Buranay, Al Cummings, Eddic Kracek, Harry Turner, Dan Kiladis, Al Sprang and Byron Fisher. Midget Auto Racing to Start May 17 at Riverview Speedway "Speed at the maximum is always possible at Riverview because of the flawless track," said one topline driver, "I have wheeled racing cars on the best tracks in the east and far west but none compare in speed possibilities with Riverview. The semiâ€" banked turns are more perfect than you will find anywhere and the comâ€" bination of turns, stretches and speâ€" cially treated clay surface make for a lightning fast speedway." Leading drivers and the fastest cars in the country are listed to compete Sunday night, May 17, in the inauâ€" gural midget auto racing program of the season at Riverview Speedway, on Addison street near Western aveâ€" nue. Work has been underway for several weeks under the direction of Bob Lundgreen and a crops of exâ€" perts to round the fifth of a mile track into prime condition for the opening card. Lundgreen returns for the sixth successive season as director of the north side speedway and is making notable improvements in the plant, conceded to be the most modern and best equipped in the country devoted to midget racing. "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" Thurs., Fri., Sat GLENCOE Carole Lombard, Jack Benny Robt. Taylor, Brian Donlevy Sun., Mon., Tues., "Billy The Kid" Myrna Loy, Wim. Powell ay Kyser, Ginny Sims John Barrymore "‘Love Crazy" "Playmates" May 10â€"11â€"12â€"13 in technicolor MOVIES AND AMUSEMENT S May 7â€"8â€"9 Lawrence W. O‘Neill, 34, of 389 Roâ€" ger Williams avenue, Highland Park, has been received at the U. S. Naval Training Station and will undergo seâ€" veral weeks intensive training in the fundmentals of seamanship. Admission to the luncheon will be $1.75 per plate and reserved seats for the Soldiers‘ field show will be 55 cents and ‘$1.10 each, tax included. More than 2,000 are expected at the luncheon, Miss Bessie Vydra is the festival secretary. All inquiries conâ€" cerning the concerts should be sent to the headquarters, care of the Chiâ€" cago Tribune, Tribune Tower in Chiâ€" cago. Previous to the big concert in Solâ€" diers‘ field there will be 12 prelimiâ€" nary festivals held throughout Chiâ€" cago and in Chicagoland. Most of them will feature preliminary conâ€" tests, the winners entering the finals in Chicago, On Friday, August 14, the sixth annual Chicagoland Music Fesâ€" tival luncheon will be held in the grand ballgoom of the Stevens Hotel. Appearing there and also in Soldiers‘ field will be Irving Berlin, and H. J. Lutcher Stark and his Bengal Guards, girls‘ drum and bugle corps of Orange, Texas. Clair Omar Musser will reâ€" turn to the festival concert with his festival marimba orchestra. ‘ Chicagoland Music Festival August 15th field supervisor, Mrs. Edmund Tyler is in charge of vocal and choral conâ€" tests. There will be other competition for concert and accordian bands, fretâ€" ted orchestras, trombonists, pianists, accordionists, Hawaiian and Spanish guitarists, tenor banjoists and marimâ€" ba players. Also there will be compeâ€" titions for flag swingers and baton twirlers. The 13th annual Chicagoland Music Festival, sponsored by Chicago Triâ€" bune Charities, Inc., will be held Saâ€" turday night, August 15, in Soldiers‘ freld in Chicago. Nearly 100,000 perâ€" sons are expected to attend this show which will be participated in a cast of 10,000 singers and players from 30 states and canada. The specticle this summer is dedicated to the armed forces of the United States. In announcing the plans for the festival, Philip Maxwell, director, said : "Song will help unify our nation. Let us sing of America‘s greatness, of her past glory, of her heroic presâ€" ¢nt and sing for that victory which must come â€"to all nations that fight to keep people free." Henry Weber, general musical diâ€" rector of the entertainment, again will lead a festival orchestra of more than 100 pieces and Dr. Edgar Nelâ€" son will conduct the festival chorus of 5000 voices. Capt. Howard Stube again will be in charge of instrumenâ€" tal participation and Fred Miller, the For used and alto and tenor saxes, flutes, cornets, trumâ€" pets, trombones, wood and ebonite clarinets; modern systems. LYON & HEALY HICGHEST CASH PRICES 243 S. Wabash Avenue 4th Floor Illinois Dorothy Korn organist and Perry Essig Crafton, ‘violinist, winners of the young artist contest, Society of American Musicians, will give a joint recital at Kimball Hall on Wednesday evening May 27th at 8:30 Bertha Ott Award. Organ and Violin Concert May 27th Speakers included Maj. Benjamin H. Namm, chairman of the National Reâ€" tailers Advisory Committee, Harold N. Graves, assistant secretary of the treasury, Branch Rickey, St. Louis, Missouri State Administrator and Horâ€" tense Odlum, board chairman of Bonâ€" witâ€"Teller. Suggestions whereby sales of war stamps through retail stores can be increased were discussed. Advertising programs andâ€" store promotional efâ€" forts aimed at stimulating greater deâ€" mand among customers of retail stores were analyzed. The Chicago meeting was sponsored by The National Retailers Council, The State Street Council,, The Illinois Chain Store Council, Illinois Federaâ€" tion‘ of Retail Associations, Chicago Federated Advertising Club and the IHlinois War Savings Staff. Arrangeâ€" ments were made by Ray Schacffer, chairman of the Cook County Retail Committee, Gilbert M. Clayton, state chairman of the Retail Committee, and D. D. Richards, member of the, Retail Advisory Committee. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt started the proceedings, from New York. Meeting withâ€"a group of retailers there, Mrs. Roosevelt acted as "First Lady" â€"in anâ€" other capacityâ€"the first woman to take all her change in war stamps in the current retailers‘ campaign. Plans whereby retaglers of the nation will sell more than a billion dollars worth of War Stamps and Bonds were discussed in Chicago Monday, May 4, at a national "Retailers for Victory" clinic. Retailers Hold War Bond Clinic In Chicago Phone Highland .Parkâ€"124 Vigoro is for sale by all garden supply dealers." BE SURE OF THEM WITH ‘nl(unmnmn. ©@Vigoro does vondeil;l for growing things because it supâ€" plies, in balanced prwrnm all 11 food elements ite from soil. Safe, -nm odorâ€" less, easy to apply. Economical, too! It‘s a product of Swift & Company. In the romantic dimout at Atlantic City, Dick Robertson seres MMM-“MMWM Evans Feed Store "DIMOUT ROMANCE" Highland Park Camera Club Meets May 13 An interesting meeting is planned for the Highland Park Camera Club on May 13th. George Elliott, of Chicago, will demonstrate portrait lighting on a live model, using only clampâ€"on lighting units such as most amateur photographers own. Members will bring their cameras and record the different lighting arrangements as set up by Mr. Elliott. Amateur © photographers are welâ€" come to attend this meeting at the Community Center at 8 p. m. Don‘t forget to attend the musical comedy "The Singing Saints of Hicksâ€" ville" to be given on Friday, May 15th, 8 P. M. at the Masonic Temple, 21 N. Sheridan Road. The Musart Club under the direction of Gladys M. Hawley, is working. hard to make this a successâ€"it is sponsored by Campbell Chapter, No. â€"712, Order of the Eastern Star. Tickets at a reaâ€" sonable price, may be secured from members of the Club, officers of Campbell Chapter, or at the door. The public is cordially invited. Musart Club. Musical Comedy Friday, May 15 A i\ / Je JA / SAVINGS PROGRAM ConTRIBUTED TO THE PEFENSE NANCY â€" ay ZFRNMIE BUSHAMILLER of these people used h for a trial Teumrurt n ie Riecient som t i and Colan Bout at Stadium May 22 The speaker spent considerable time in Washington working on this "freeze" legislation, and since no reâ€" tailer is excluded from the provisions of the Act, all business persons are invited to attend this program. An open forum will follow the speaker‘s discussion. The monthly dinner meeting of the Highland Park Chamber of Comâ€" merce will be held this coming Tuesâ€" day evening at The Open House Tea Room at sixâ€"thirty. Christensen Is Chamber Speaker May Twelfth Mr. C. L. Christenson. of the Office of Price Administration, is to be the guest speaker with the topic relating to the "New General Maximum Price Regulation." Chrisof ordis Colan is in Chicago at the pret‘n time, heâ€"remgined here after the Alâ€" len fight and intends to make his home in the Windy City. He will go back into training immediately at Trafton‘s Gym. Colan, whose style of boxing has been likened to the savage slugging of Jack Dempsey, may be just the man to really revive interest in the lightheavyweight class, a division that hasn‘t had any too much color, since Billy Conn left it. Colan, a far harder puncher than Conn, is also very fast and in beatâ€" ing Jimmy Webb in New York the Gothamites recognized the Dempsey in the kid from Hell‘s kitchen. Anton Christofordis, former chamâ€" i anppantenian, t P try stop the rush to the top of Johnny ‘Colan, sensational young New Yorker in a ten round boxing bout that headlines the next card in the Chicago Stadium on Friday night, May 22. The Christoforidisâ€"Colan match was announced Sunday by John "Scotty" Strachan, the matchmaker for. the Stadium interests and the tussle brings together two of the main threats for the lightheavyweight crown now held by Gus Lesnevich, fight for the chamâ€" 100 FAT I.ADIIS} LOSE 20 LBS. EACH pionship is the tidbit held out for the winner of the bout on the Z2nd. Christoforidis, c on q ue r e d Melio Bettina, recent Chicago winner over Booker Beckwith for the 175 pound crown, and then lost it in a close fight with the present champion and is after another shot at it. Solan, the boy who set Chicago on fire as a middleweight a year ago when he scored six successive knockouts here, and who since then has grown into the 175 pound class is the gravest threat to the Greek‘s ambitions. In his first Chicago appearance of the year Colan gave away plenty of weight and defeated the rejuvenated Altus Allen in one of the fiercest fights ever seen here. He thinks his punching ability can offset the greater experience of the Cleveland Greek and that the fight will just prove a stepping stone to a championship match with Lesnevich. p â€"FRN/E Tiate ht Hipged andl mined her anbhat || R #semar, that of the lead in onn.s_inn ENDSâ€"Evelyn a"'-: opposite her 5(- Ay &;‘*5::;-"*_.. t pefame . «d a ‘"Share Your Birthday With Men in the Service" campaignâ€"she took her 45 pound birthday cake to the Stage Door Canteén in New York and divided it among men of the armed forces. Pat Friday, another young singer recently heard with Bergen, told Ray Noble that be played Cupid for her and her aviatorâ€"husband. They were listening to his orchestra, at a Los Angeles hotel, and to its muâ€" sic her busband told her that she was the most beautiful girl in the world. She thinks the music had a lot to do with itâ€""But it was so beautifully done that I just had to marry him!*" Jean Tennyson, star of "Great ll-n-_h_h Music," has inauguratâ€" her to stick to it and some day she‘d win the Academy Award. She visited him on the set of "Atlantic Convoy®* the other day. "I just came The last picture John Beal did in Hollywood before he went to New York to appear in a stage play was ‘‘The Man Who Found Himself," in which Joan Fontaine was getting her start. He gave her a pep talk, told ll THAT Victory C;uv-g appears anywhere your vicinity you‘ll certainly want:| to see it. Players euli.n.dby‘ the Hollywood Victory comâ€" mittee to tour for Army and‘ Navy relief are Charles Boyâ€" er, Eleanor Powell, Merle: Oberon, Rise Stevens,‘ Stan| Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Labr, Frankâ€" McHugh, m‘ MacDonald, Desi ‘ Arnaz, Cary! Grant, James Cagney, Joan Ben nett and Olivia de Havilland. Lynn Martin appeared several weeks ago in a singing commercial on the air‘s Radio Theater, and reâ€" ceived so much praise that when a night club sequenceâ€" appeared in a later script she was promptly signed for it Also, she was engaged to sing with Ray Noble‘s band on the Edgar Bergen show. Pat O‘Brien‘s youngsters â€" Ma wourneen, seven, and Sean, five wisited their father on locst o a the Alhambra airport for ~Ze‘s M\ Old Man," and persuaccd to mical advisor to take. them on & flight. The "flight" consseqa of to : ing from one end of the ficid to w« other. & Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker and Barbara Britton lead it But stunt pilots were a necessityâ€"and only four could be found! Fifteen years ago there were at least 100 who vied for jobs in such pictures as ‘‘Wings" and ‘"Hell‘s Angels"; now they‘re in the army, navy, maâ€" rine corps and Royal Canadian Air force. * When Betty Jane Rhodes was a child actress, appearing in ‘Forgotâ€" ten Faces," Herbert Marshall used to buy her miniature airplanes as gifts.‘ Reginald Denny gave her two model planes with tiny gas engines. She‘s a welder in an aircraft plant in the new musical, ‘"Pricrities of 1942," completely surrounded by planes, and is airâ€"minded enough to be perfectly happy. R:chard Lyons, sevenâ€"yearâ€"old son ; of Bebe Danicls and Ben Lyons, is | uflyhcnwfiihm.m‘ while his parents star on the radio | in England instead of on the Arherâ€" jcan screen. He has an important role in "Atlantic Convoy"; is playâ€" ing an English refugee, which comes close to his own life. By VIEGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union.) It wasn‘t hard for Paramount .i up a cast for "‘Wake Island"â€"‘ BETTY JANE RHODES 1. 1942