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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Feb 1938, p. 25

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oratury andU jugieA tU Laic iL, IL UwI and stamp it out. American soldiers braving à death far more terrible than gunfire by permitting themselves to be bitten by virus carrying mos- quitoes ini human guineapig experi- mnents to discover how this terrible disease is carried and spread. That is the gripping, dramatiç story which. the Threshold Players promise to unfold f or you on the nightsof Frid.ay .and. Saturday, ,February 18 and 19 in the Glencoe Central school auditorium as they present' one of 1937's 'outstanding plays, "Yellow "Yetlow jack" stands. unique among modemi plays. It is as historically accurate .as the patient research of playWright Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif could make. it. And it deals not with the petty. trials, of yotflloyers or the sophistication usually asslociated' wîth the modern draina, but with. the stern, .earthy story of how mankind has conqutered the dreaded y~elow fever. When ",Yeliow Jack" was introduced ini New York last season critics un- animously hâiled it as one of the outstaliding shows of the year. And. inasmuch as the play has not reached evenl the professional stage of Chi- cago,IFebruary 18 and 19 will be your opportunity to witness a brilliant draina thatno north shore theater goer cati afford to miss. Different Casting The story of "Yellow jack," its staging and its cast differ f rom thoseo any other shows you have ever seen. By its very simplicity and accuracy the story of this. fight agaist the mysterious plague be- comes something more than the usual run of draina. Instead of being, carefully divided into the accepted three, acts, "Yellow: jack" literally flows froin start to finish through a kaleidoscopic series of 35,gr.ippingý Cpiso(les, which tell ' you the viv i& storv iii.a vivid fashion. Ii. the staging of "Yellow jack" you will see none of the usual paint- cd canvas scenery against which ýmost drainas are played. Instead ech episode is staged ini a brilliant Because thl.s-ye«ar, mrethan ver 1before, the reputation, of the Threshold 1Players bas been qpreading so. rapidly from Chicago to Waukegan that ad- vance ticket. demands for l'YelIow Jack" p utrank those of- any previous show. Foreseeing that they cëould flot accomn- mùodate al wýho will want to, see this Civie Orchestra. WiII- Present Concert Sunday The Civic orchestra, Dr. ..Frederick Stock, musical direictor, and ýHan1s Lange, conducétor, will give its first concert of the season, Sunday fter- noon, February 6, at. 3:30 o'clock in O rchestra hall. The prograin, subject to change, is announced as follows: Overture to l'Oberon"........... Weber Symphony, D Major, lIWith the Hornsignal", (B.&H. Ed. No. 31. Haydn 1.IntermIssion Tone Poem, 'Death and TransfigurationIl Opus 24 .. . Strauss Capricclo Espagnol, Opus .34.........Rimsky-Korsakow Aiborada- Variations Scene and Gypsy Song- 1'andan-o of the A.qturias (Played wlthout pause) i pink, agua, beige, maize, cruise h4e, grey, whlite, brown . or blck . youIl find 4il in t/lis collection of, soit, par e zephyr wool sw'eater.. and at a REA L bargain! Througk aspecial bar- gain, ive canoffer these sweaters at tMie amazingly low p eo $195 1BBiUbm.vm~p 714 hurch St. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS IU 9/14 cal4?dLs4duegp4t - e.. Get T.4egJ College Shop Evanston Todigui

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