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WINNETKA TALK February 12, 1927 | 5 (1 News of the North Shore Clubs [oh Cash and Carry Club Is New Here Woman's Society Embarks Upon a New Venture to Raise Funds for Church Work A Cash and Carry club now is in- troduced as another branch in the ac- tivity of the Woman's society of the Winnetka Congregational church. Its purpose, its organization, and its per- sonnel are explained in the following announcement from the chairman. "Variety is the spice of life. Com- petition is the test of success. 'The shortest way to a man's heart' goeth the old saying. The rest of this quo- tation will be in evidence most temp- tingly arrayed on tables in front of the fireplace in the lobby of Commun- ity House at every meeting of the Woman's society. "The Stitch-in-Time club will have to watch its step from now on for a new department called the Cash and Carry club has been organized to further the expanding interests of this very active society. "A variety of most wholesome home- made foods will be offered for the first time Wednesday, February 16, at the place above mentioned. "A preliminary meeting of those in- terested in this project was held last Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Wallace Rumsey, where Mrs. Caleb A. Busick was chosen chairman, with Mrs. Albert Martin as co-chairman. Mrs. Charles Thomson is treasurer. The able, supporting committee is made up of Mrs. Charles O. Aspenwall, Mrs. Daniel Greenhalgh, Mrs. Ralph Morphett, Mrs. R. S. Childs, Mrs. William A Morse, Mrs. Harry M. Mess, Mrs. A. M. Scharf and Mrs. Chester L. Van Buskirk. "The committee hopes to secure the co-operation of many matrons, who may not be able to come regularly to the sewing meetings, who may be glad to send in some article of food to these bi-monthly sales. "We know the variety of foods to be on sale at reasonable prices will be in great demand for it will include among other offering, homemade white, bran, nut and Boston brown breads, coffee cake, baked beans, apple roll, doughnuts. "Anyone desiring any special article on those days may call Mrs. Busick, Winnetka 388, or Mrs. Martin, Win- netka 1485, and an effort will be made to supply the order. Those wishing to contribute articles for the sale may telephone either of these women or Mrs. Rumsey, Winnetka 475. Dona- tions will be called for on Wednesday mornings. "This is an opportunity for many of our new young matrons to help a new department of church endeavor." O. E. §. TO MEET The regular meeting of the Win- netka Chapter, O. E. S., will be held Monday evening, February 14, at 7:30 o'clock, in the Winnetka Masonic tem- ple. Plans for initiation have been postponed for two weeks, and instead, 'a bunco party with prizes will take place. Refreshments are to be served. GARDEN CLUB TO MEET The Winnetka Garden club will hold its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Rudolph Matz of 1005 Sheridan oe : road, Thursday, February 17, in the i 1 Several important items of be discussed at this time. * cutta, and Chicago. Woman's Society to Hear Talk on Work With Lepers The program for the next meeting of the Woman's society of the Con- gregational church, to be held on Feb- ruary 16, reads: "10 o'clock, sewing, 11 o'clock, recent news from foreign fields, 12 o'clock, devotionals, Mrs. Mortimer Parker, 12:15 o'clock, lunch- eon, and 1 o'clock, illustrated talk on leprosy by Miss Lulu D. Ervin of the American Missions to Lepers. At 2 o'clock sewing will be resumed." "The entire program is of great in- terest and importance," the committee states. "Of special interest is Miss Ervin's illustrated talk on leprosy. How many of us realize that there are over three hundred known cases of leprosy in the United States and that there is a large hospital for lepers in Louisiana? How many of us are really intelligent in regard to the recent experiments and discoveries connected with leprosy? It is another of those thrilling stories that science often spins of apparently curing the incurable." ' Miss Ervin is the Chicago repre- sentative of "The American Missions to Lepers," which has its headquarters in New York, co-operates with the London "Mission to Lepers," main- tains offices in New York, Toronto, London, Edinburgh, Shanghai, Cal- These organiza- tions maintain and aid homes and hos- pitals all over the world, in Africa, Arabia, Burma, Ceylon, and other places. According to a recent press notice, "Miss Ervin has a pleasing personality and a strong message. In her presen- tation of the work done, its romance thrills and sparkles with her enthusi- asm. Dudley Crafts Watson Is to Speak at Art 'League Members and guests of the North Shore Art league will journey to High- land Park for the next meeting which will take place Friday, February 18. The speaker of the evening is to be Dudley Crafts Watson, noted as a clever, interesting lecturer, with a wideawake, energetic personality, and a wide experienee in art work. He will address his audience on "Modern Art--Is There a Reason for Its Be- ing?" The meeting will be held at the Highland Park High school. Mr. Wat- son will bring with him an exhibit of his pictures. Work done by Frank Peyraud, Rudolph Ingerle, James Cady Ewell and William R. Watson, artists resid- ing in Highland Park and Ravinia, members of the league, will be on ex- hibit. Many of th pieces in the in- teresting exhibition are the result of work done during the summer of 1926. CLUB TOUR OF INSTITUTE The Art and Travel club is to have its annual view day of the Art insti- tute Tuesday, February 15, commenc- ing at 10 o'clock. The tour is to be conducted by Pauline Palmer, who gives a talk on the pictures. Lunch- eon will follow in the Wedgwood room of Marshall Field's. Marshall Field and company will then put on a style show of the latest works of art. A music program will be given as well. Mrs. Franklin Anderson, 910 Spruce street, Winnetka 560, is in charge of tickets. North Shore Club Women Active in Promoting Drama Of special interest to north shore theatre lovers, and those interested in the promotion of good drama, is the announcement that three Winnetka and one Wilmette names are mention- ed in the list of members of the board of directors and founders of the new Chicago Play Producing company, which produced Wednesday "The Rag- ged Edge," the first play of the com- pany's program of three this season. This play was adapted by George Ab- hott from Max Reinhardt's Berlin suc- cess, "Periphery," by Franz Langer, and was started on what promises to he a most successful journey, Wednes- day evening, February 9, at the Prin- cess theatre. Mrs. Dudlev Cates of 620 Ash street, Winnetka, Mrs. William Hibbard of R40 Willow road. Winnetka, Mrs. Wil- tiam P. Sidlev of 739 Humboldt avenue, Winnetka. and Benjamin. Marshall of A12 Sheridan road, Wilmette, are in- terested in the company. Aside from the directors and found- ers including Harold and Leander McCormick. Mrs. Rockefeller McCor- mick, Miss Helen Bennett, Louis Eck- «tein. Lawrence Meeker, Mrs. William Q, Monroe, Alexander Revell, Mrs. Tulius Rosenwald, Mrs. Arthur Ryer- <on, the advisory counsel is' to be Kenneth Macgowan, and the general manager, Sam Wren. Robert Ames is to head the cast of "The Ragged Edge," coming from "Seed of the Brute," after two vears *q Cecil deMille movies. Wanda Lyon is to be the leading woman. Preceding the unofficial premiere of this play, manv society folks in Chica- oo entertained at dinner before the performance, including Arthur Aldis, the John Bordens, Arthur Bissell, Mrs. Aucustus Carpenter, the Louis Eck- steins and several others. This new venture being sponsored bv a list of almost seventy Chicago and north shore peonle, seems to be the result of civic pride in havine Chicago become a theatrical center. For many vears in fact since plays have heen nroduced in United States, New York has held the "center of the stage." Marion Gerine., formerly of the Meyer- hold theatre, Moscow. a competitor of Stanislavski, was persuaded to join the group as director. He will be remembered for his production of "Gas" at the Goodman Memorial thea- tre last year. The second performance to be given by the companv is scheduled as "T.a- »arus Laughed" bv Eugene O'Neili, his latest work, to be given in March in association with and at the Good- man theatre. Norman Bel-Gedde, de- signer of "The Miracle," will design spectacular scenes and costumes for this production. The Friday morning artistry study class will meet at the Winnetka Wo- man's club on February 18. An invi- t~tion is extended to others interested who are not members of the class. The North Shore Wellesley circle meets again Tuesday, February 15, at the home of Mrs. Chester D. Tripp. 1404 Forest avenue, Evanston, at 2:30 o'clock. The North Shore groun, Women's Rotary, met at the home of Mrs. L. G. Lawrence. 1007 Lake avenue, on Wed- nesday, February 9, at 12 o'clock. To Read Members' Original Writings Miss Tibbals Will Read Stories, Poems and Plays by Class in Imaginative Writing Original short stories, realistic sket- ches, verse and one-act plays written by members of the Woman's club who have been attending Miss Kate Tib- bals' class in imaginative writing, will be read by Miss Tibbals at the regu- lar meeting of the club, Tuesday, Feb- ruary 15, at 2:30 o'clock. The meet- ing is called New Members' day, and every old and every new member is cordially urged to attend what prob- ably will prove to be a most enter- taining afternoon. Representatives selected from each type of writing will be included in Miss Tibbals' program, but the names of the authors will be withheld. At the end of the reading, however, Miss Tibbals will read the list of authors, and the audience will be left to fit the article and the name together if they choose. Mrs. William A. Otis of 644 Oak street, Mrs. Albert H. Veeder, Jr. of 635 Maple avenue, Mrs. Harry C. Watts of 434 Elder lane, Mrs. Harry I. Wells of Hubbard Woods, Mrs. Victor IL. Cunnyngham of 710 Lincoln avenue, Mrs. Lloyd A. Faxon of 228 Poplar street, Mrs. Robert Ripley of 29 Indian Hill road, Mrs. Henry Stan- ton of 698 Blackthorn road, Mrs. Ed- mund B. Bartlett of 710 Walden road, Mrs. Morris Wilson of 429 Sheridan road, and Mrs. Marcus Richards of 1240 Tower road, comprise the mem- bers of the class. Miss Tibbals is considering the for- mation of a continuation class, which will begin after the regular club ac- tivities are over for the year. A graduate of Wellesley college, Miss Tibbals took graduate work at Bryn Mawr college. From the Uni- versitv of Pennsylvania she received her Ph. D. degree in English and Greek. Her career has been one of study and teaching, for she taught English literature in her alma mater, Wellesley, and has taught English at Vassar, Wells, and Swathmore col- leges. From Swathmore, Miss Tib- bals came directly to Winnetka. In addition to her career as a stu- dent and teacher of literature, Miss Tibbals has found time to write and publish articles and verse. Her last published article, "The Speech of Plain Friends" appeared in the Amer- ican Speech magazine. State Club Federation Works for Gala Concert «An innovation comes in the annals of the Illinois Federation of Women's clubs, for the state federation put on its first gala concert Friday evening, March 11, at Orchestra hall. A woman's symphony orchestra of thirty-five play- ers, a chorus of four hundred women singers representing every district in Illinois, and a musical program consist- ing largely of the works of Illinois composers, most of whom are women, will be the outstanding features, ac- cording to an announcement made last week by Mrs. Arthur G. Jackson, chairman of the music committee of the Illinois federation. Elena Moneak, conductor of the first woman's symphony orchestra of Chi- cago, will conduct the cantata, "The Galleons of Spain," hy William Lester.