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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 16 Oct 1926, p. 14

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12 WINNETKA TALK October 16, 1926 Ll rrr rll 7a zzzzzzzizzzizizirziiiiizziiuggdimm 4 lids Concert Announcement Madame Augusta Lenska Leading Contralto--Chicago Civic Opera Co. In Benefit Program -- Under Auspices WINNETKA WOMAN'S CLUB Monday Evening, October 25, at 8:30 Jane Kuppenheimer Hall -- Skokie School Tickets $2.50--%$2.00--$1.50 Obtainable--Adams Pharmacy or by telephoning Club Board Members Press Notices Augusta Lenska, the sensation of last year's May Festival, was again a phenomenal success. Homer and Martinelli were the most famous in their field, but to pick the true sensation of the Festival, the most gracious and charming in personality, the lady of the opera with sheer genius of voice, the choice of the Festival is hardly in doubt-- Augusta Lenska, leading Wagnerian contralto with the Chicago Civic Opera Co. Michigan Daily--Ann Arbor, May 22, 1926. Mad, : L , k p a contralto voice of great beauty and color as well as histrionic talents. Overwhelming applause rewarded Madame Lenska's singing of the celebrated aria. The Gazette--Montreal, April 22, 1926. The most remarkable personality of the evening was without doubt Augusta Lenska. Gifted with a really extraordinary contralto voice, powerful and smooth in the highest as well as the lowest registers. Translation--La Patrie--Montreal, April 26, 1926. LTLLLLLSSLLSSELSSSSSLSSSSSSSSISSSILLSSSSSSSLSSLLLSSSLSS SSL L SSIS LISS SSS SSSSS SSS SSS S SSIES SSSI SSS SIS SSSI ISIS ISIS SSSI IDEAL MARKET 57614, Lincoln Avenue--Winnetka A Good Place to Trade Beginning Saturday, October 16 and Lasting All Next Week We offer these Specials Genuine Best Quality Spring Beef Lamb Legs Rib Roast ~~ 36¢ ~~ 39¢ Phone Winnetka 755 We Deliver a a dd dd did iidedadiiiidiiidiiidiiididid | (Ld SSS SSSSSSISS SSL L SSSI SSS SSSI SAAS 4 Nr 77 ara 77 rrr 7rrrrriiiaiiiid | SKOKIE-MADE PAPER TO BE ISSUED SOON The Journalist, School Publica- tion, is Product of Print Shops at Skokie The Journalist, the newspaper of the Winnetka public schools, will make its first appearance of the present school year this month, along about Hallowe'en time, with a cover appro- priately designed and printed in black and orange, favorite colors of the witches and spooks and which, also are the Skokie school colors. The art de- partment at Skokie school designed and made the cut for the front cover page. The Winnetka public schools have organized the newspaper staff for the present school year, and throughout the business, editorial and advertising departments, as well as in the print shop, all is hustle and bustle to get to press in time with the current issue. There will be an issue each month until the first of the year, and then, if possible, the Journalist will be is- sued semi-monthly. The past four years The Journalist has been issued without a cover page, but this year a cover will be made an attractive feature of the publication. The pupils in the art department at Skokie are producing some exceeding- ly clever designs, many of which the public this year will be permitted to "You get your money's worth and then some when you buy one of these New Rubber-Case Willard Batteries for 11 JONES Electric Service 3 Carton Building Ph. Winn. 1848 enjoy as a feature of the school paper, it is said. All the work of making The Journal- ist is done by the pupils. They sell the advertisements, solicit the sub- scriptions, write the matter for the paper, set the ads and the reading matter, make up the forms, bind and trim their papers "neverthing. Job printing for the schools is also exe- cuted in the print shop at Skokie school, where Wayne L. Claxton is in charge of this course. It is one of | the elective courses and also one of the most popular, it is said. The shop is equipped with two Gor- don presses, a paper cutter, imposing stones, cabinets of type and every- thing complete for the instruction of youth in the art preservative. The editor in chief is elected by the student council and he, in turn, chooses his various assistants, or staff. The business manager and the advertising staff are chosen from among the print shop pupils, because of the im- portance of their possessing practical knowledge of the problems they are to handle in the execution of their re- spective duties. Those who will pilot The Journalist this year are: John Barden, editor in chief; Wayne Andrews and Ruth Offner, editorial department; Lois Goldstein, Louise Wagner, Maryanna Hilton, and David Crawford, literary department; Jamie O'Dell and Page Mergentheim, feature department. Alan Robinson, joke de- partment; Betsy Ballard, personal de- partment; Eugene Nickels and Anne Palmer, assembly department; Eu- gene Schuett and Marjorie McLaren, athletic department; Joe Miller, Super- intendent's column; Jane Copthorne, Alumni notes; Bill Kidd is business manager and has as his assistant, Olin Sethmess; Paul Netterstrom has been placed in charge of the advertising department with Robert Graves, as assistant. Troubadors Inaugurate Season; Need Songsters The Troubadours, well-known to Winnetka people as a group of musi- cally inclined young men, have begun their year's work, and are holding regular meetings every Tuesday eve- ning at 7:45 o'clock at Community House. Mr. Gunn of Hubbard Woods con" ducts the boys, and is arranging an elaborate program for the year, he an- nounces. About twenty men appeared at the first meeting, but the club needs first tenors and basses, they announce. The date for the first concert has not been set, but it is expected to be some time the first of next year. Mrs. Ira C. Darling, 256 Kenilworth avenue, leaves Kenilworth on Mon- day, October 18, for a two weeks' trip to New York. Edward Huck Painter and Decorator Good Work at Reasonable Cost 1405 Central Ave. Wilmette Phone Wil. 2418

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