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Highland Park Press, 9 Apr 1942, p. 2

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Each movement of each dance has a special significance, expressing as it does a change of mood or fecling. Exotic richness of costume and meâ€" lodious Gamelan music add to the paâ€" geantry of the Devi Dja performance. She and her troupe present enterâ€" tainment that is both the authentic record of one of the world‘s oldest and finest civilizations and a colorâ€" ful spectacle of the dance. to mood which is so beautifully. capâ€" tured by Devi Dja and her dancers. The troupe‘s repertoire runs the gamut from ficrce rituals of war to languorous love dances, reflecting the varying ‘degrees of civilization which prevail in the: Dutch East Indies. Each movement of each dance has a tives of Bak, Java, Sumatra, or. of other islands in the Dutch East Inâ€" diks. They portray in their exquisite dancing the ageâ€"old culture of the Javanese and the Balinese. From carâ€" liest life these island people express their emotions, customs, and national lifc in dance, and it is this sensitivity Bali And Java Dancers At Civic Opera & INTERMISSLION Meistersinger Overture ..... Three Etudes .............. B. Op. 10 No. 3 C. Op.. 10 No..5 Romeo and Juliet F Espana Khapsody Suite No. 4 .............. Scarlatti Preludeâ€"and Fugue No. 4,â€"C Sharp Fortieth Symphony, G Minor, First and Fourth Movements .. Mozart Fifth Symphonyâ€"First Movement .. adakaerraaÂ¥ieerte rarv css . Meeivoven tic qualities and values of music thru the medium of the accordion, rather than the hereto accepted carelesslyâ€" gottenâ€"together popular use of the inâ€" strument. In his repertoire the old and modern masters‘ works are excluâ€" sively representative, as well as comâ€" positions of his own. Young Geraci has given numerous recitals throughout the United States with overwhelming success. In addition he has appeared as soloist with the National and Columbia Broadcasting radio network. Vincent Geraci, Accordionist, T o Give Recital Vincent Geraci, twentyâ€"two year old at the Eighth Street Theatre on Sunâ€" day afternoon on April 19 at 3:30 0‘~ clock under the concert management of Bertha Ott. Geraci is a native Chicagoan and reâ€" ceived all of his education and musical training here, and for the past seven years has been under the exclusive guidance and instruction of Andy Rizâ€" zo, whose knowledge of the accordion is widely known throughout the counâ€" try. Geraci‘s incentive to study the of his father, Charles Geraci, a one time accordionist on the vaudeville stage of the Keithâ€"Orpheum circuit. Since then he has made definite efforts to bring to the concert field the artisâ€" ‘ ©@Whatever you grow in your garden, you‘ll enjoy far better reâ€" sults if you feed Vigoro. This comâ€" plete plant food supplies all 11 food clements growing things need from soil. It‘s safe, sanitary, odorâ€" lese, easy to apply and ecomomical. A Vigoro is for sale by all garden supply dealers." Phone Highland Park 124 Op. 25 No. 2 Evans Feed Store PROGRAM antasy, Tchaikovsky .......... Chabrier MOVIES AND AMUSEMENT S Wagner Chopin The April mecting of the Evanston North Shore Alumnae Chapter of Delta Gamma will be held Monday the 13th, at the home of Mrs. Elmer J. Dick, 746 Rosewood Ave., Winnetâ€" ka at one o‘clock. Following the busâ€" incss mecting, Mr. Charles Evans, wellâ€"known authority on roses, will speak on "Rose Gardens." Please make reservations before April l1th with Mrs. Cyrus M. Avery, Highland Park 3880. Delta Gamma To Meet April 13th Devi Dja and Bali To further the patriotic motif of the Home Show, Servas is making space available to the American Red Cross, the Federal Housing Administration, Bundles for Blue Jackets, Inc., and other groups concerned with victory in all its aspects. The Red Cross, for exâ€" ample, will conduct a service booth where recruits will be enrolled in the Ked Cross Blood Donor Service. Aside from the national defense phases, the Home Show will emphaâ€" size home modernization and maintenâ€" ance. Interior decoration will have a prominent place in the exposition, moâ€" del rooms guiding the visitor. More than 100 national advertisers will exâ€" hibit at the Home Show. Thurs., Fri., Sat., GLENCOE 630 Vernom Ave. _ Glences 606 Sun., Mon., Tues. _ April 12, 13, 14 "Rise and Shine" At the same time, home owners and householders will find instruction on how to conduct themselves and their families in the event of air raids and cther possible emergencies, these inâ€" structions @ugmenting the cityâ€"wide educational job being done by officials directly concerned with the work. Jack Oakie, George Murphy and Linda Darnell At Coliseum May 2 to 10 In addition to finding counse! on home construction and maintenance in view of priorities on many homeâ€"buildâ€" be devoted, also, to subjects which will 2cquaint householders with, procedures that can boister national defense. Several exhibits, for example, will be given over to conservation, revealâ€" ing to the home owner the victoryâ€" logic of conserving fuel, light, food and other items vital to American subâ€" sistence .for the duration. Other exhi bits, meanwlale, will point to the value of "victory gardens" in providing healthful foods, to the purpose of augmenting the nation‘s food supply and relieving to a considerable extent the drain on national defense items because of packaging, delivery, etc. Home Show to be held in the Coliâ€" seum, Fifteenth street and Wabash avenue, from May 2 to May 10, John A. Servas, exposition director, anâ€" nounced today. The place of the home in national defense will be brought to the fore during Chicago‘s Seventh Annual Robert Marx Bros "Flight Command" "Blue, White and â€"ANDâ€" ""The Big Store" Taylor, Waiter Pidgeon and Ruth Hussey Matines Daily Tony Martin and r;.i;"inh Grey Pertect" Nolan April 9, 10, 11 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goodrode and children, 384 North avenue, spent Easâ€" ter in Wheeling. Mrs. Baldwin Newman is chairman of the Highland Park team which conâ€" sists of: Mrs. Lawrence Abt, Mrs. Robert M. Cobb, Mrs. R. W. Douglass, Miss Frances Kelly, Mrs. Edward Lawrence, Mrs. Bernard Nath, Mrs. A. E. Patton, Mrs. John T. Snite, Mrs. Pierce Snite, Mrs. George B. Carpenâ€" ter, Mrs. Harold Florsheim, Mrs. Earl T. Moseley, Mrs. Edward J. Loewen thal, Mrs. William J. Alexander, Mrs. Philip Sparling and Mrs. Macinnis Dunbar. The Chicago Secing Eye Memberâ€" ship Enroliment committee, under the leadership of Mrs. William H. Mitâ€" chell, of Highland Park, will launch a fourâ€"week membership drive Tuesday. Seeing Eye Drive For New Members To Open Tuesday Delta Gamma Unit of Blue Jackets To Give Ball J. Geittmann. Proceeds will go for knitting and comfort kits for Great Lakes sailors. Delta Gamma unit of Bundles for Blue Jackets, Inc. will give a ball in the Crystal room of the Edgewater Beach hotel, from 9 until 1 o‘clock, April 18. Jimmy Greere and his orchesâ€" ftra will play. A floor show will be featured. A dance number will be preâ€" sented by a group of active Delta Gamâ€" mas from Northwestern who are being trained by Abbott. Tickets in Highland Fark are being handled by Mrs. Edwin 5 ohe (Nex yerous Te yrmzin_Peaper IGAT Wisboldt‘s, The Fair, Mandel‘s, Bosâ€" ton Store, Wahigreen‘s, Coldblatt‘s, Td anp in e io opanke supply, or $1.25 m box, : wuaranteed to pare to contain no JOL. drags and to reâ€" M- wa out or In a clnical test just completed under the direction of Dr. C. E. Von Hoover in San Antonto. l”ww-uhnnnhl reary . 1948. registered Nurse lost 29 pounds, and a Distitian 30 pounds in A dance open to all high school stuâ€" dents of Chicago and suburbs will be given by the Junior Red Cross at the Medinah Club, 505 N. Michigan aveâ€" nue, on April 24, it was announced toâ€" day. Featuring a "Caribbean Cruise" theme and Carl Schreiber‘s music, the dance will be held from nine until twelveâ€"thirty. A floor show presented by Chicago celebrities will be the inâ€" termission feature. Bids may be obâ€" tained from official Junior Red Cross delegates at any High School, or at the Junior Red Cross office, 616 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Mrs. Artbur Raff and her daughter, Paula, are spending the Spring vacaâ€" tion at Shakamak State Park in Southern Indiana. Jr. Red Cross To Give Dance at Medinah Club Jacobs who is making his second apâ€" pearance in succession in the Olympia show has just completed a winter of successes in "Shrine Circuses" in Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Atâ€" lantic City and several large Canadian towns. . Last summer: he was. the featured part of the pageantry at the Atlantic City pier where he had a run of 26 weeks. Producer Wm. H. Burke will be deâ€" voting his entire time to the circus for the first time. Coâ€"producer of the Sonja Henie Hollywood Ice Revue and the musical iceâ€"revue "It Happens on Ice" now in its second year on Broadway. Burke is one of the newest and most prominent figures in the show world, and incidentally is the oldest employee in the point of service with the Chicago Stadium Corporation. Terrell Jacobs, veteran wild animal trainer with the largest collection of performing lions in the circus world today will again be the major attracâ€" tion. Dolly Jacobs, wife of the "Lion King" will also be starred in a lion act ,and cightyâ€"seven other acts inâ€" volving over 450 circus performers will be presented in the tenth renewal of Chicago‘s only circus produced in this city. Different in design, production and boasting the largest and most diversiâ€" fied array of talent ever presented in the Chicago Stadium, the 10th Anâ€" nual Olympia Circus will be seen in the big west side building in daily matinee and evening performances from Friday, April 17, thru Sunday, May 3. That announcement was made this week end by William H. "Bill" Burke, viceâ€"president and manager of the Stadium. The show will be proâ€" duced by Burke in coâ€"operation with Sam Levy of the Barnes and Carâ€" ruthers organization of Chicago. Olympic Circus at Chicago Stadium 100 FAT LADIES LOSE 20 LBS. EACH Peggy McClure, 333 Woodland rd., freshman at Denison University, Granville, O., is returning home with a classmate, Bonnie Gutchess of Toâ€" ledo, O., to spend the spring holiday. Archers to Meet at Teare Home Miss Dorothy Teare, 212 North Linâ€" den Avenue, at 8 o‘clock Wednesday night, April 15. The Highland Park Archers will hold a business meeting at the home of The repertoire for the week are as follows : â€" April 12, 8:15 p.m. .......... AIDE April 13, 8:15 pm. . LA T%AVIATA April 14, 8:15 p.m. ...... CARMEN April 15, 8:15 p.m. .... RIGOQLETTO April 16, 8:15 p.m. .. LA BOHEME April 17, 8:15 pm. ........ FAUST April 18, 2:30 pm. ...... MARTHA Followed by .. THE SECRET OF SUZANNE 8:15 p.m. ...... April 19, 8:15 p.m Carlo Peroni will conduct the orâ€" chestra for all performances, and Louis Raybaut will be in charge of the stage direction. Such wellâ€"known stars of grand opâ€" era as Coe Glade, Anne Roselle, Charâ€" lotte Bruno, Mostyn Thomas, and Harâ€" old Lindi are among the many princiâ€" pal artists who will appear. Maria Kurenko, popular and talented Rusâ€" sian soprano, has been added to the Company as a guest artist for the Chicago engagement. In addition to these. stars, the San Carlo corps de balâ€" let will perform the dances incidental to the operas. The San Carlo Company was foundâ€" ¢d in 1911 by its present manager, Forâ€" tune Gallo, and has consistently mairâ€" tained for over a quarter of a century the high artistic standards of â€" grand opera. The Chicago repertoire is limited to one week. Beginning this Sunday, the Company will present a different opera each night through Sunday, April 19, inclusive. The only matinee of the run is scheduled for Saturday, April 18, when "Martha" and "The Secret of Suzanne" will be given, both in Engâ€" lish. Popular prices. will prevail for all performances. Chicago will play host to the world‘s foremost touring opera company when the San Carlo Opera Company comes to the Civic Opera House next Sunday, April 12, for a repertoire of one week. The Company will appear under the local management of Harry Zelzer. San Carlo Opera Company â€" At Civic Opera Playing the soâ€"called "relief" music when Duchin and his bandsmen are taking their restâ€"periods is the inimiâ€" table music of the popular Pedro De Leon and his Rhumba band. From the ranks of Mr. Duchin‘s own orchestra comes songstress, June Robbins. t Duchin‘s frio of male singers also shine in the "Springtime Revue." They include Lew Sherwood, Johnny Drake and Tony Leonard. TAILORING â€" REMODELLING RESTYLING â€" RELINING Jimmie Rae, an acrobaticâ€"comedian, is another of the acts that Miss Abâ€" bott has booked to embelish the floor revue surrounding the â€" piano playing of Mr. Duchin. Still another of the attractions is Lew Hoffman, professionally known Still another of the Lew Hoffman, profes as "The Mad Hatter." Framing the famed leader and his band is the Merriel Abbott "Springâ€" time Revue," this time, as always, star studded with every precious moâ€" ment packed with the finest in enâ€" tertainment artistry. Heading the great cast of this revue in the Emâ€" pire Room are the adorable balliroom dancing couple, Gower and Jeanne. Eddy Duchin And His Orchestra At Palmer House The booking of the internationally famed lfldl’“ Eddy Duchin, whose supreme piano playing has assured himself and his orchestra successful engagements everywhere, promisés that the supperâ€"club at the Paimer House will be continually sold out during the limited period of Mr. Duâ€" chin‘s engagement. As welcome as the enchanting seaâ€" son of Spmingtime is the advent of the magical master of the piano‘s keyboard, Eddy. Duchin, to amuseâ€" ment seekers in Chicago. Mr. Duâ€" chin, his orchestra, and the annual "Springtime Revue" are all three beâ€" ing presented to Chicago and visiâ€" tors to the city for a limited engageâ€" ment in the swanky Empire Room of the Palmer House. .... CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Followed by ........ PAGLIACCI EXCLUSIVE Cleaning with Choracter Exclusive Tailors & Cleaners 1545 S. St. Johns Ave. long, long time." IL TROVATORE â€"-h--t{i'liu-“'";"fi say . . . Clark soill mext be sterred bylao:‘d:qh'u’: &mh:-.'fij'{..“ dq.h.-â€"d'lom Bride" . . . Larry Purks, playing the =d.~*mh': b:-flh through ki school in a ges sation."" high woae is t a vavies ut m Fae '."'!‘v::’”.‘.'fad.u Henry Segall, who won an Oscar for his original story, ‘"Here Comes Mr. Jordan," which was made by Columbia, tried vainly for three years to sell it. The studio execuâ€" tives who wouldn‘t buy it must feel like the publishers who turned down -v-m..wu:.,.._,, Twentyâ€"five thousand beauty shop owners recently chose Rita Hay worth as America‘s No. 1 redâ€"head. Jinx Falkenburg as the No. 1 bruâ€" nette, and Evelyn Keyes as the blonde. Scems for a year they‘d consulted their customers and found that the hair styles ‘of these three were the ones most popular. You may judge for yourself by seeing Rita‘s new picture, ‘"My Sister Eileen," Miss Falkenburg‘s "Sweetâ€" beart of the Fleet" and Evelyn Keyes‘ ‘‘The Adventures of Martin Eden‘"â€"of course it‘s pure coimciâ€" dence that they‘re all Columbia picâ€" tures! When Clarence Nash first quacked like a duck on a Burns and Alien program, way back last Nevember, nobody had any idea that the duck might soon become a star member of the cast. But "Herman‘ has beâ€" up. Dr. Frank Black, NBC general music director, will conduct the perâ€" formance, and Vivian della Chiesa and Felix Knight, both well known to radio listeners, will sing the leadâ€" ing roles. The opera is based on an Oscar Wilde fairy tale. signers of screen clothes to avoid planning costumes which would use a lot of material, when the women of America are being Instructed to conserve material. Veronica Lake will be the first star to wear the new ‘"conservation" garments; in ‘‘The Glass Key" she‘ll wear "just enough goods to go around." | Of course, Dorothy Lamour _ really came first, with her sarong. come se real to a host of listemers week brings letters asking if he‘s a real duck or just a noise, which deâ€" lights both George and Gracile. ‘‘The Nightingale and the Rose," & new oneâ€"act opera comtnissioned by the National Broadcasting cpmâ€" pany, will have its first performance on April 25 over a nationâ€"wide hookâ€" "Zing Go the Strings of My Heart." It‘s her lucky song; she sang it sevâ€" eral years ago when she auditioned for her contract at Metro, and ever since then she‘s chosen it for her personal appearances. JOA!‘ BENNETT‘S young daughter Diane is hoping that the tires on the family car will wear out fast. She‘s been waging a campaign to drive that car, or else to have a pony cart of her own. The first thing Miss Bennett did after completing work with Frar.chot Tone in Columbia‘s ‘Highly Irregular"‘ was to buy the pony cart; Diane‘s offered to drive her mother to the studio each mornâ€" young lady not only had acquired quite a vocabulary in Chinese, but preferred it to English! Judy Garland‘s sort of pleased beâ€" cause, after singing for more than 150,000 soldiers on her recent tour of army camps, she‘s found that the song the boys liked best was time between scenes of ‘‘Meet the Stewarts" in studying Chinese. When Bill and Brenda Marshall, his wife, went east recently they left Brenda‘s fourâ€"yearâ€"old daughter with the Chiâ€" themâ€"and returned to find that the (Released by Western Newspuper nion The Hays office has requested deâ€" By VIRGINIA VALE Thursdoy, April 9, 1942 JUDY GARLAND

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