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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1924 LIGHT WONDER ORGAN COMING Skokie First School to See Famed "Clavilux" in Action PRONOUNCED NEW ART Georgeous Color Effects En- rapture Critics For the first time since Thomas Wil- fred startled the theatrical world with his noted light organ, the "Clavilux," he will present the exochal instrument in an American school when he fills an engagement in the Kuppenheimer Me- morial auditorium at Skokie school, Sat- urday, February 23. Direct from a sen- sational tour of the nation's best thea- ters, Wilfred has consented to come to Winnetka after negotiations of several weeks between his manager, Miss Rachel B. Kinsolving and W. W. Beatty, prin- cipal of the Skokie school. "I am convinced that Wilfred's in- vention marks the opening of a new field in the art world," Mr. Beatty says. "I believe that it will completely revolu- tionize the science of theatrical lighting from which it originated. We are un- usually fortunate to secure his concert for Winnetka." Deluge of Color Through an arrangement of lights and shadows, controlled by the organist, the "clavilux" throws upon the screen a beautiful deluge of colors, brilliant, pale, soft, radiant, glittering, melting, ever- changing, which are said to fascinate the eyes of the spectators. Describing the instrument the Theatre Arts magazine says: "You sit within the darkened theatre before the space in which the light will play. There is a complete silence; and presently you become aware of a pro- scenium opening. Impalpable forms ap- pear on the sides; they are pale, almost white, they move in a slow, waving rhythm like soft curtains; you see one alone and you see others moving in it and through it and beyond it. A {faint blue fades into depths between these forms; and then suddenly in the center of it far away a crimson appears. It has no form; it radiates from its own depths, and is the image of nothing but crimson and its power. And then it sweeps up into soft lines; it is drawn upward as if we saw the paradise with spirits rising; it is like a robe swept upward into paradise; it is gone. At the lower end the same form appears and another with it, seen through it, then others; they are white now; the crimson comes into varying rythms at the sides; those long robe-like forms draw upward again; pause, hover, re- turn, change to amethyst on blue to gold, to fire." "Impossible to Describe" Like all other criticisms this one ends with the admission that "what we see is impossible to describe." One art can- not describe another; words cannot des- cribe the '"clavilux." It must be seen. Sponsors of the instrument describe it as follows: "The "clavilux" is the first instrument to make possible the development of light as a fine art. Though resembling a pipe organ it plays in color instead of tone. On a white screen in a darkened hall, beautiful color forms appear, as- suming ever changing shapes, with one exquisite hue melting into another, glowing into vividness and fading away. Beautiful intangible figures of light, re- ceding into nothing, then bursting back in glorious waves of color. The varia- North Shore Window & House Cleaning Co. 10 Prouty Annex, Phone Win. 1994 Winnetka, Ill. Dr. Harold R. Schildberg Osteopathic Physician 545 Lincoln Ave. Office Phone Winn. 799 Winnetka, Ill Res. Phone Winn. 2041 Associated with Dr. Edwin T. Schildberg Brady & Riddle Will Do Your Carpenter Repairs Cheaply and Promptly Estimates Furnished Phone Winnetka 381 tion of shape and color bring as much enchantment to the sense of vision as music does to the sense of hearing. The "clavilux" is played with stops and keys, and from written music, or the perform- er may extemporize. The "clavilux" has been seen by hundreds of thousands in the Eastern cities, in New York, Boston, Philadel- phia, Buffalo, and at the Baltimore Fes- tival of Light was seen by 100,000 at one time. It was presented in Cleve- land seven times in one season. It has been called "the marvel of the age," and Thomas Wilfred, the inventor hailed as a genius and the pioneer of a new Art. The Drama League has named him as one of ten persons who have done the most for the theatre in America. Among those who saw a 'clavilux" recital in Chicago and are most enthusiastic about it are Frederick Stock, Georgio Polacco, John Alden Carpenter, and well known writers, artists, musicians and scientists." "Some day we may have such an in- strument to play with at Skokie school," predicts Mr. Beatty. "It is not at all impossible that the future will see them indespensible for entertainment and in- struction." Definite plans have not been arranged but Wilfred will probably give a con- cert in the afternoon for the school children, exclusively and another in the evening for the public. On his trip to the north shore he will appear at only one other town, namely, Evanston. Charles Wylie, Former Winnetkan, Passes Away Stricken with heart trouble, Mr. Charles Wylie, a pioneer of Winnetka who knew the village when it consisted of a dozen houses, died at his home in Milwaukee Tuesday, according to word received by Winnetka relatives. A Ma- sonic funeral was held Friday after- noon and burial was in Milwaukee. Grinnell Wylie, of 898 Elm street, Winnetka, is one of the three sons sur- viving him. He also leaves three daugh- ters and a brother, Allen Wylie, formerly of Winnetka, but now living in Minne- sota. Twenty-six years ago Mr. Wylie, with Elmer E. Adams, Winnetka postmaster, and other pioneers came to Winnetka, then a small hamlet in its swaddling clothes. 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