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Highland Park Press, 2 Jul 1942, p. 5

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Treasurerâ€"Mrs. Marshall Pottenâ€" ger. Annual Coupon Book Sale For Ravinia Festival Ends Saturday Mrs. Welch Heads The Deerfield Legion Auxiliary Mrs. John J. Weich, was elected president of the Deerfield Legion Auxiliary at a meeting held recently. Other officers selected were: Carolyn Bennett To Wed Before End of Summer where Mr. Carnes is doing specialied defense work and also studying for his Ph. D. The young couple expect to be married before the end of the sumâ€" mer and te make their home in Jowa City. F * Delegates to the district mectings areâ€" Mrs. Carl Sheer, the retiring president, Mrs. E. G. Jacobson, and Mrs. George Jacobs. Alternates are Mrs. Lyle Fordham, Mrs. George Goodman, . Mrs. Marshall Pottenger, Mrs. Frank Jacobs Jr.. and Mrs. Ralph Dunham. Delegates to the state convention at Peoria are Mrs. Carl Sheer and Mrs. John Welch. The Legion auxiliary, will have charge of the registration booth for the Deerfield Days carnival on July 17â€"18â€"19. The Musart club met at the home of Mrs. Anna Hinn for luncheon June 22. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Emma Erickson, Monday, July 6 at 1 :30 p. m. Tlis Second vice presidentâ€"Mrs. Russell Potterton. Musart Club Will Meet Monday, July 6 Anne Anthanas W. B. Glasel Are Married First vice presidentâ€"Mrs. Edward G. Jacobson. s Miss Bennett recently received her B. A. degree at the University of Iowa Historianâ€"Margaret Plagge. Chaplainâ€"Mrs. George Goodman. Sergeantâ€"atâ€"Armsâ€"Mrs. Dwigh t Merrell. Mrs. Paul S. Brown, Brierhill road, entertained guests at a luncheon last Tuesday. Kenneth and Rowena Bennett Ravinia announce the engagement their daughter, Carolyn Forsyth, Joseph John Carnes of Rock Isla Mr. and Mrs. Gust Athanas, 447 S. St. John‘s Avenue, announce the marâ€" riage of their daughter, Anne, to Warâ€" ren B. (lasel of Lake Forest. The couple are living in Cape May, N. J. where Mr. Glasel is a third class petâ€" tv officer in the Navy. Mrs. Raymond Dobbins entertained the members of her bridge club at her home on Eim Street last Thursâ€" day afternoon. CAROLYN FORSYTH BENNETT Mr. and Mrs. George Whitcomb, Barrington, spent the weekend with Mrs. Minnic Whitcomb. day afternoon. The CC club met at the home of Mrs. Otto Gieske, Elm Street, Thursâ€" The Glencos Theatre and the Highâ€" land Park Press invites you to be their gwest at the CGlencos Theatra, If you will call at the office of the Press, 516 Lewrel Avenne, you will be given a pair of passes, which may be used any thme this wook. Mrs. Dwight Merrell entertained 8. RHETT Rock Island of Society â€"â€" Womens News â€":â€" Locals When the 1942 Ravinia Festival.comâ€" pletes its first week Sunday (July 5) the opportunity to buy moneyâ€"saving coupon books will be withdrawn, acâ€" cording to Mrs. Emst C. hon Ammon, general chairman of the coupon book committee, and Ravinia concertgoers will have to pay full single admission prices for both gate tickets and reâ€" serve dseats. 5 lowing Tuesday (July 7) will bring back to Ravinia George Szell, the Hunâ€" garian conductor who was so successâ€" ful last year that he has been engaged for both the second and third weeks this year. The coupon books have been on sale since. May 26 by more than 400 women working under community chairmen, and are still available from committee members znd at a number of North and are still available from commuttee members znd at a number of North Shore banks, Chicago stores, and at the park itself. f Sunday (July 5) will also end Diâ€" mitri Mitropoulos‘ debut engagement at the North Shore park and the folâ€" Mitropoulos will conduct on Thursâ€" day (July 2), on Saturday evening, the 4th of July, and will finish his enâ€" pagement on Sunday, July 5. Ts Mr. Szell will take over the baton on Tuesday evening (July 7) with a popular program consisting of the Tschaikowsky Sixth Symphony, and two works by Wagner, "A Siegfried Idy!" and the‘prelude to "The Masterâ€" singers of Nuremberg." He will appear again on Thursday (July 9) and on Saturday (July 11) will present Artur Schnabel as piano soloist. He hasâ€"also scheduled the only young people‘s concert of the season for Sunday afternoon, when he will deâ€" vote the program to the more familiar items of the symphonic repertoire loved alike by young and old. The complete programs for the first two weeks follow. Thursday, July 2, at $:30 1. Prelude and Dido‘s Death, from Dido and Aeneas" .... PURCELL s (Transcribed by Dimitri Mitropoulos) 2. Symphony No. 4, B Flat Major .. srizrir«sÂ¥sesserr, ~BEETHOVEN 3. Symphony No. 2, C Major ..... i. Overture, "Ruy Blas Maurice Loving And Ohio Girlâ€"â€" Married Saturday of Maurice Wooten Loving, son of Mr. and Mrs M. W. Loving, County TLine road, Saturday evening at a cereâ€" mony performed in Okron, A reception followed the ritual at the Alexander Miss Antoinette Alexander, danughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Lynn Alexâ€" Overture, "The Corsair", BERLIOZ String Quartet, G Minor . GRIEG Played by the string orchestra) Variations on a Theme by Haydn 124 1+ ce e cb s brx enrr +2 BRANMS MENDELSSOHNâ€"BARTHOLDY Symphony No. 3, A ‘Minor (BCORCHY . /11 0. +4 vrce i en cevihs as MENDELSSOHNâ€"BARTHOLDY Tone Poem, "Don Juan" . Overture on Greek Themes ...... s+Â¥kÂ¥+++» 2+ ++% +. GLAROUNOREF Festival Overture, "1812" ........ s22........... TSCHATIKOWSKY Saturday, July 11, at 8:30 Overture to "Cotiolanus" .. Symphony No: 6, B ,Minor ("Paâ€" thetique") ... TSCHAIKOWSKY Thursday, July 9, at IIQ Symphony No. 7, C Major .. Symphonic Poem, "The Moldau" Rondo, "Till Eulenspiegel‘s Merry Pranks" .............. STRAUSS Concerto No. 4, G Major, for Piaâ€" no and Orchestra . BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4, D Minor ...... A Siegfried Idy ....... WAGNER Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" .......... WAGNER Sunday, July 12, at 4:00 YVoung People‘s Program Qverture to "Fra Diavolo" . Symphony, Eâ€" Flat Major, Koechel No. 543 .............. MOZART Furiant and Polka, from "The Barâ€" tered Bride" .. . SMETANA Perpetual Motion ....... WEBER (Orchestrated by George Szell) Four Slavonic Dances . DVORAK Opus 46, Nos. 1 and & Opus 72, Nos. 2 and 7 Waltz, "On the N’#A-“ Danube" .. JOHANN USS Saturday, July 4, at 8:30 Tuesday, July 7, at 8:30 BEETHOVEN at 4:00 SCHUBERT SCHUMAN SCHUMAN STRAUSS As though not content to break its long silence with mere announcement of a regular season this fall, the Chiâ€" cago Opera Company today followed that announcement with news that it will sponsor two openâ€"air perforâ€" mances this summer â€" both major musical events â€" both to be given at Soldier‘s Field. Chicago Opera to Sponsor T wo Perf ormances In Soldier‘s Field The first event will be a concert by Lily Pons, worldâ€"famous coloraâ€" tura soprano of the Chicago and Metâ€" ropolitan opera companies, to be given in conjunction with her distinguished conductor husband, Andre Kostelanâ€" etz and symphony orchestra. ‘This event will take place on Friday eveâ€" ning July 31, in Soldiers‘ Field. Chiâ€" cagoans still remember the night that the dimuitive French diva and her husâ€" band drew an estimated 300,000 to Grant Park for a summer concert ... with a vocal range ‘that starts at middle C in the lower register and goes to A above C, Miss Pons is a wocal phenomenon. She sings the highest note of any of the celebrated prima donnas of this, or any any other, age. The second event to be sponsored by the Chicago Opera Company at Soldiers‘ Feild will be an openâ€"air opera performance to be presented on Saturday night, August 8. Details of this performance will be announced within a few days. Since the St. Louis Municipal Opera, the Hollywood Bow! and the Cincinnati Summer Opera all draw large audiences, the Chicago Opera Company for some time has been anxious to inaugurate a program of outdoor opera here. This opera performance will be the most colorful musical spectacle ever seen in Chicago, and is expected to dupliâ€" cate the outdoor operas which Forâ€" tune Gallo â€" now general director of the Chicago Company â€" produced at Jones Beach and Sheep‘s Head Bay in New York â€" thelatter hwh&n; audience of 50,000 people. Mr. and Harry Zelzer will be in charge of Legion Auxiliary ‘h-A.:ets to Discuss Carnival Plans The meting of the women‘s "-l-;??-'â€"-tsv-wm American Legion, was held last night in the Highland Park Legion clubâ€" rooms, 21 N. Sheridan Road. Fimal plans for the women‘s part hfilfl“.h“bâ€" right at park were discussed. ‘ Soup is one of the easiest of all â€"ways to get hot food into a meal. ‘It takes but a minute or two to mm‘nmnl‘-z (of your farorite soup, add an equal iquantity of water, heatâ€"and there {diwestions contented. .: Or you might combine .two soups ‘in this manner: &;“m"” ut to mot GWM“.“&MW“M" One of them was that every meal should include some hot foodâ€"especially in summer time. "It‘s just good sense," she‘d say. "Hot food keeps you feeling better." How to include the ONE HOT DISH every summer meal should have by Dorothy Greig Ewedish Meat Balls with Tomato Sauce is an appetizing, light, hot dish for a summer meal Well, that‘s one notion of Granâ€" e‘s that‘s heartily endorsed by Southern Tomate Soup go.m-‘uml- - eeg finwummn;n into meat balls (18â€"20) and brown in fat. Add hot Tomato Sauce, cover and cook for one hour. Serve meat balls with sauce poured over them. Serves 6. Add the water to the condensed tomato and heat to boiling. start the meal with a long cool glass of chilled m‘\:“h’:o. All after that. u-&'u “Mm on the order of this: Swedish Meat Balls with . ; the two performances â€" Mr. Gallo as general director, Mr. Zelzer as proâ€" motion manager. For both performances, a part of Soldiers‘ Field will be transformed into a giant opera amphitheatre. A stage will be set up at the north end, fully equipped with scenery from the Chicago Opera Company‘s extenâ€" sive warehouses. Surrounding this nafg will be 30,000 seats prices at 55¢, $1.10 and $1.65. The $1.10 and $1.65 seats will be reserved, 55¢ seats will be located in the general admission (not reserved) section. Due to the fact that thousands of audience seats can be made available, Chicagoans thus will have the privilege for the first time in the city‘s history â€" of hearing topâ€"ranking stars of the operatic world at popular prices. Tickets for both events â€" the conâ€" cert and the opera â€" will go on sale July 10 at the Civic Opera House, 20 North Wacker Drive. Arrangements are being made to set up a special box office to take care of ticket sales for these two unique summer attracâ€" tions which, in reality, constitute the Chicago Opera Company‘s first "summer season." Mail orders are being filled now. All boxes for both the concert for July 31, and the Opera on August 8 have been taken by the Illinois Opera Guild, who will sell the boxes and turn the money raised into the Guild‘s recreation fund for men in uniform. Mrs. James Gray, Chestnut â€"street entertained the members of the Bethâ€" lchem Woman‘s Auxiliary Tharsday "We feel it‘s a privilege" said Mrs. James G. MacMillan, president of the Guild, "to participate in these two important Soldiers‘ Field events. I hope that next fall will see regular performances of the Chicago Opera Company dotted with men in uniform, wlnumauhmhflna made possible by the s recreaâ€" tion fund for servicemen." The boxes, seating six persons, will sell for $13.20. Deerfield . Tailors _ bowling team were entertained Saturday night at 'l’.uhi".-byflr.udlnmm- Mrs. William F. Weir, Deerfield Road, entertained the Just Sew Cinb at her home Tuesday afternoon. â€"_â€" ‘Temato Sauce 1 pound veal, ground Perhaps, though, you wish to Popular Prices Service Men‘s ¢\ofl\efs‘ Club o Meet Wednesday Programs for Writers Conference Are In Mail Warren Dean Weds Girl From Chicago 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8. The high spot on the program will be a talk by Dr. Louis W. Sherwin, on his recent 3 weeks‘ sojourn at Ft. Bragg, The Service Men‘s Mother‘s Club of Highland Park, Deerfield and Highâ€" wood will meet at the local YWCA at N. C. His talk will be est to those who have Miss Violet Larson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Larson, Chicago and Staff Sgt. Warren C. Dean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melville Dean, 458 Linâ€" coln avenue, were married Friday afâ€" ternoon in the chapel at Tyndall field, Panama City, Fla., where Sgt. Dean is stationed with the Army Air Corps. They wilb make their home in Panama City. â€" Ravinia Garden Club To Meet With Mrs. Pfister The July meeting of the Ravinia Garden Club is to be on flower arrangâ€" ing. The speaker will be Mrs. Allan Marshall Jones of Hinsdale. She places special emphasis on line, form, moveâ€" ment, and color and stresses a scant vse of material. Each member is requested to bring an arrangement in a favorite container and Mrs. Jones will offer constructive criticism. The meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. C. Eugene Pfister at 2385 Lakeside Place on Friday, July 10 at 2 p.m. with Mrs. Phillip Stokes, Mrs. L. F. Harza and Mrs. Frederick Mudge as coâ€"hostesses The regular monthly board meeting of the club will be held at the home of the president, Mrs. Theodore Uehling, 2277 Lincolnwood Road on Friday, July 3 at 9:30 a.m. Fifhter and Bomber Pilots Win Wings At Seven Fields Aerial Axis busters, new pilots for the Army Air Forces, Friday, on Indeâ€" pendence Day Eve, will win their wings at seven Advanced â€"Flying Schools in the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center. Ninety flyers from Illinois are in the seventh postâ€"Pearl Harbor class comâ€" pleting the rigorous thirtyâ€"two week flying schedule of 200 hours aloft, 400 ground school hours. Press, 516 Laure! Avenue, you will be given a pair of passes, which may be used any time this week. Lieut. Hugh B. ‘Suttle, 807 Linâ€" coln Avenue, will receive his wings 2+ the ceremony. If you will call at the office of the ALFRED S. TRUDE The Glencoe Theatre and the Highâ€" Lieut. HUGH B. SUTTLE of special interâ€" boys in camp. ERighty authors, editors, literary critics, college instructors in radio, play, and short story writing are feaâ€" tured in the program of the Third Annual ‘Writers‘> Conference to be mailed this week. Presidents of the seventeen literary groups presiding at morning, afternoon, evening, luncheon and dinner sessions will make these occasions special summertime reâ€" unions for their members. The generâ€" al public interested in authors and their books are invited. These "creâ€" ative listeners" will find the prograw a contemporary thought course as upâ€" toâ€"date as current newspapers. Seven contests each offering twentyâ€"five dollars in cash with pubâ€" lication awards and in some cases royalties for the author have some closing dates as early as July 10 so typewriters are immediately going inâ€" to action this week when final details are announced. The pric winners in Juvenile, radio, feature, poetry, and fiction contests will be announced by their judges during the four days session, July 22 to 25 on the Orringâ€" ton Roof, Evanston. Writers regisâ€" tering for the Manuscript Workshop, meeting before the regular sessions open each day, are also eligible to compete for the $400 novel prize offered by Doubleday Doran to sumâ€" mer conference students from various states. Details of this national conâ€" test will be announced in the Workâ€" shop by Rowena Bennett of Ravinia, workshop leader. Libraries throughâ€" out Chicago and suburbs will have contest details and copies of proâ€" grams as soon as they are off@press. Reuests for individual programs may be mailed to Box C, Ravinia. Private Wright Jackson‘s one act play "Private Worst Class‘ which will be submitted in the One Act Play contest closing July 10 is having the advantage of advance tryouts through the Military Players now in rehearsal at the Highwood USO, Catholic unit. The Military Players, directed by Private Bob Umans, CBS and variety actor, will be one of the groups giving walking rehearsals on Drama Day of the plays being conâ€" sideréd for publication by the Draâ€" matic Publishing Company. Whether Private Jackson‘s play or some other comedy suitable for camp shows is chosen will be announced by the judges when entries are read. The Glencos Theatre and the Highâ€" land Park Press invites you to be their guest at the Glencoe Theatre. If you will call at the office of the Press, 516 Laurel Avenue, you will be given a pair of passes, which may be used any time this woek. Miss Molly Kerr To Have Late Summer Wedding The marriage of Mary Ann Meyer and Alban R. Major was annotunced last week by the bride‘s parents, Dr. and Mrs. Karl A. Meyer, of Highâ€" land Park. Mary Ann Meyer, Alban R. Major Wed In St. Louis The wedding took place in St. Louis where the groom was temporarily stationed. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robin C. Major of Hubbard Woods. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kerr, 53 North Second street, announce the engageâ€" ment of their daughter, Molly, to Jack R. Harper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawâ€" rence Harper, Chicago. The wedding will take place in late summer. Mr. Harper is an aviation cadet, stationed at Chanute field. ces sbrre mttomenst fanfiot touren m).-uâ€" to recreation and ast. daily transportation to our doorâ€" located in the heart of scenic cmâ€"m llmnvnw-hhlah ulcé-:' own. . own beautiful 18 hole metropolitan MAXWELTON BRAES RBaileys Marbos, Whsconsin DANIEL COBB

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