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Sixtyâ€"four Dollar Question I never did go for this business of YTove at first sight. Nope . . . I‘d â€"knownâ€"Virginia, for fully. five minutes before I realized that for me it must be Virginia â€"â€" Virginia or nobody at all.. I liked her looks, and the more I looked, the better Iâ€"liked them. _ Ang when she turned those wide, calm eyes on me, with their little glowing candles . . . oh, boy, it was Merry Christmas and Happy plc-AY_-_u with a dash of Fourth of July thrown in! I mean to say â€" I was really that way about her. But . . . I took good care to guard my feelings. No percentage in giving away your hand, I alâ€" ways say. _ "Play the cards close to your chest, boy," Iâ€" told myâ€" self. Another thing, I‘m not the type to go around burbling, "You send me, kiddo," and nonsense of that sort. I would just let things drift for a time, keep Virginia well in sight, and if anybody took a potion to bust in on my terriâ€" tory . . . murâ€"DER! Another thing â€" I couldn‘t be quite sure of Virginia‘s feelings toward me. Oh, I knew she liked me, but did she like me well enough? So things drifted along, in a plaâ€" tonic.sort of way, for quite some spell. We had our good times. But I should have known that the guy knew his onions when he said that the course of trie love never rung smooth. P Thursday, Dec. 26th, 1946 4 never would have suspected Virginia of having any truck with atomic bombs. _ But she sure threw one into my applecart that night. We were talking to some friends â€"â€" or Virginia was. I was standing around in the pleasâ€" ant, halfâ€"dazed condition that had become habitual to me of late. And then I â€" with my own ears â€" heard her say it: "My married sister wants me to spend the winter with her in Florid&. And after all, what‘s the good of having relatives in Floriâ€" da.if you don‘t take advantage of the fact to duck the bad weather we know is coming?" ‘The new 6â€"inâ€"1 kitchen aid A MUST for housewife. huulflmw all sizes ‘of vacuum sealed cans, jars and bottles.: 90 per cent of all vacuum cans sold today are withâ€" t E %m-fi-”- a bottle opener, olive and cherry fork and catsup "starter." It‘s a handy, permanent kitchen aid made of a fine spring steel, heatâ€" Mmmm-w ice Bright finish A real kitchâ€" have one. . Satisfaction u::.“z.le-uuehbm stores: Blue Goose Food Market, Pharmacy, Husenetter Ravinia, Sears, w’c... Larson‘s . Stationery, _ Deerfleld GLENCOE THEATRE â€" 630 Vernem Ave. Highland Park 605 THU., .FRI., SAT., Dec. 26â€"28 New Year‘s Eve Late Show 10 o‘clock Community Sing at 12 o‘clock THU., FRL, SAT., Jan. 2, 3, 4 ‘"TWO GUYS FROM MILWAUKEE" Deeps and Shallows Ask for MASTER KEY "BACHELOR‘S DAUGHTER" Highland Park, Mincis CLEOPATRA" swallowed the smoke. I burst into a fit of coughing. Tears streamed: from my eyes. But my physical discomfort was nothing eximpared to my inner turmoil. Virginia in Florida! Strange men running afâ€" ter her â€" making love to her! To VIRGINIA â€" MY GIRL MURâ€" DER! ® I didn‘t wait for the moonlight night, or for the cozy twosome before an open fire that I‘d had in mind. Noâ€"sirâ€"ee. I grabbed Virâ€" ginia by the wrist and whisked her away from there â€" but fast. "What‘s all this about Florida*" I demanded, glaring. "Oh, that . . . Why I thought it would be nice . . ." YOU think. Look here â€" you‘re not going to Florida or any other place . . . see? _ You‘re staying right here, and you and I are getâ€" ting _ married _ immediately â€" SEE?" Brutal way to propose marriage to a girl. But . . . it worked. "Gracious, honey," Virginia murmured, * it certainly took you long enough to come to the point." I gaped. So Virginia had known all along how I felt about her . . . after all my caution . . . But there were certain conventionalities to be attended to . . . I closed my mouth and took care of that matâ€" ter â€" but good! â€" And now I am a bit concernedâ€" not too much, but a little â€" over just one thing. As we go through life will Virginia always know what I am going to do before I know myself? That, as I see it, is the sixtyâ€"four dollar question. A small, persistent stranger is tapâ€" Of course he‘ll be admitted and made much of, that‘s for sure, But â€"he‘d jolly well better behave himself â€" the brat! ping at our door,â€" .‘ _ A little naked New Yearâ€"feature We give you 365 days of health, happiness and prosperity! North Shorealumni, undergradâ€" uates, and fathers of undergraduâ€" ates of Amberst colege will, hold their annual Christmas luncheon on Friday, Dec.. 27, at 12:15 p.m., in the Wedgewood room of Marshall Field & Co.‘s main of American songs by Mark Love, tone. _ The program is similar to that presented by Mr. Love for GI‘s in a 200,000 mile worldâ€"wide tour of army and navy bases durâ€" ing the war. Henry C. Higginbottom, Evarisâ€" ton, is working with club president Robert J. Koretz, Highland Park, in preparation for the event. The worth, secretary of the Rotary club of Chicago. Home for Holidays Paula Raff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Raff of Cedar avenue, is spending the holidays with her parents, Paula teaches physical education at the Mt. Clemens high school, is a member of the community chorus, and a girl scout leader. She was a memâ€" ber of the Great Lakes hockey team which competed in the naâ€" tional woman‘s hockey tournament on Long Island over the Thanksâ€" giving holidgys. Morton Raff, who is stil workâ€" ing for the Naval Ordnance laborâ€" atory in Washington, D.C., is home for a week. ‘hmâ€"- :“-d-.- or a member I had started a cigarette, and I now A Toast Treadwell of Kenilâ€" Dat? + â€"R.B.0. Rowena Bennett Will Lead Creative Writers With the presentation of awards last Thursday, for the best manuâ€" scripts the North Shore Creative Writers completed the autumm term. Mrs. Ruth McGibeny, the class leader, devoted the forencon to reading manuscripts. Hkr A luncheon followed, with the decorative scheme heralding the Â¥uletide. Mrs. Mildred Haessler, president, presided. es Dr. Charles Yount, professor of English literature, Lake Forest college, who presented the poetry awards, prefaced the presentation with illuminating suggestions and an analysis of the reasons for his selections of the winners. In adâ€" vanced poetry the prize went to Hazel Dame, Elmhurst. In the beâ€" rimn'groilp.!!nilyl.!‘lqdd Winnetka, was the choice. . The judges of prose were Mrs. Frank Peers and Mr. Charles Maâ€" son, both of Highland Park.‘ Mrs. McGibeny made the awards. Geneâ€" vieve S. Dove,~ Elmhurst, _ was awarded first prize for her characâ€" ter sketch "Rosic." The runnerâ€" up was Beatrice Steinman, ‘Highâ€" land Park, for a juvenile entitled "Adamas." . Top honors in fiction went to Jessica Chamberlin, Villa Park, for her story "Off Shore Wind." Alice M. Tozier, Elmhurst, won honorable _ mention _ with "Growing Pains." _ > A highlight of the afternoon was a recitation by Rowena Bastin Bennett, long time resident of Raâ€" vinia, of her poem "Wraith of the Skokie." Mrs, Bennett will introâ€" duce the winter term Jan. 9 when she will explore the general field of juvenile literature, and examâ€" ing manuscripts previously subâ€" mitted. _ Manuscripts, prose and poetry should be sent by January 2 to the program chairman, Mrs. I. M. Greenberg, 1329 Jmm nue, Highland Park. The: heon hostesses of the day will be Highâ€" lang Park members. No workshop is scheduled. > Christmas Program â€" (Continued from puge 1) "Friendly Beasts" _ (French legâ€" end)â€"Green Bay school. ... "O Come Little Children (Schulz) â€"fourth and fifth grades. "Away in a Manger" (Germahn carâ€" ol)â€"all children. "There‘s a Song in the Air" (Speaks)â€"girls sextette. "Angels We Have Heard on High" (old French melody) â€"â€" 6th, 7th and 8th grades. f q . "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (American carol)â€" chilâ€" dren and audience. "Celestial Choirs" (Carpenter)â€" girls chorus. . "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (American carol)â€"boys chorus. "Silent Night" (Gruber) â€" chilâ€" dren and audience. * Prophecy from Isaiszh â€" Morton "A Little Child" â€" Jessie Orton Jones and Elizabeth Orton Jones, (Filmed by Children‘s Producâ€" tions, Palo Alto, Calif. Acting by children of the Community theaâ€" "Hymn to Joy" (Beethoven) â€" children and audience. Presentation of White Gifts. | "Joy to the World" (Handel) â€" children and audience. ‘ Jessie Orton Jones and her. daughter, Elizabeth Orton Jones, presented a lovely Christmas gift â€"the showing of. the soundâ€"color film, "A Little Child." This beauâ€" tiful Christmas picture was filmed from the book by the same title which was written by Mrs. Jones and illustrated by: her daughter. Prior to the showing of the film, Mrs. Jones, a former parent of Elm Place school, described the filming of the picture© by Chilâ€" dren‘s Productions at Prlo Alto, Calif. Elizabeth, an Elm _ Place graduate, told of her experiences in iustrating the book. She exâ€" plained that she had spent much time in the Jesse Lowe Smith auâ€" ditorium while working on her ilâ€" lustrations and had drawn upon it and the children of Elm Place school for her ideas. > # At theâ€" close of the program, children came to the stage and placed their "White Gifts" at the foot of a beautiful Christmas tree. These many gifts were preâ€" sented to the children of the Lake Bluff orphanage, Arden Shore asâ€" sociation, and Ridge Farm prevenâ€" fifj";i;r””"'h-'â€"-' trol . . . Free to cell you the truth about --.b:-:‘li:&dd:ut T H E PRESS Of Ben Hecht Who Donates His Talents to Great Causes Of all American‘ playwrights, Ben Hecht, noted dramatist, movâ€" ie scenarist, novelist and short writer, has consistently been the most liberal in~donating his talents to great causes. When*Hitler was on the march and the natiofé of hmuflm was he_who wrote. the ble pageant, ‘"Fight for Freedom," dramatically calling upon Americaâ€" to arm for World War II. Again, witen Hitler was ruthlessly decimâ€" inating the Jewish peoples of Germany and the conquered counâ€" tries, Hecht, out of the fury of an anguished heart, wrote the imperâ€" ishable "We Shall Not Die.". And now, with hundreds of thousands of displaced Jews pitifully begging for a chance to resettle in Palesâ€" tine, Hecht has composed what may well be his masterpiece, "A Flag Is Born," an electrifying and passâ€" ionate plea for the rebirth of the Jewish nation. The critics, as one, rose to acâ€" claim it. Ward Morehouse, in the New York Sun, said it was "genuâ€" inely stitring." ‘ Howard Barnes, New York Heraldâ€"Tribune, hailed it as "brilliant and imaginative." Walter Winchell summed it up as "a battle cry for justice and deâ€" cency, worth seeing, worth hearâ€" ing and worth remembering." Produced originally for a run of only four weeks, the dramatic impact of "A Flag Is Born" on playgoers has exceeded all expecâ€" tations. Because there are more attractions . seeking . playhouses than there are theaters presently available, "A Flag Is Born" has been forced to shift homes every. few weeks. . Nonetheless, it has played to capacity for 11 weeks at the Alvin, the Adelphi, the Muâ€" sic Box and Broadway theaters in New York, and is now scheduled to open a four week engagement at the Studebaker theater, Chicago, Thursday night, Dec. 26. Jacob Benâ€"Ami is the star, the featured players are Celia Adler and Sidâ€" ney Lumit, and a cast of one hunâ€" jd:d rounds out the acting personâ€" n man, he becomes a fighter, hits articulately with all the fire in a sensitive soul. . Perhaps this exâ€" plains the degree of success he has managed to attain in putting into thrilling dramatic form three of the outstanding pageants of modâ€" ern times, He knows the stage, and with human decency and right on his side skillfully succeeds in o. mnopaginds ~ane * mipquanity 3 and N oving (neatre, o Ben Hecht is a study in conâ€" trasts. By nature he is shy, modâ€" est and unassuming. . When he is aroused by man‘s inhumanity to A native of New York, Hecht was raised in Chicago and became one of the most colorful reporters here. Out of his experiences he wrote, in collaboration with Chas. MacArthur, "Front Page" as earthy a piece of>theatre as has hit the boards in our time. . Reâ€" cently revived, it shared : the Broadway spotlight with four othâ€" er Hecht contrived entertainments â€"the films, ‘‘Specter of the Rose" and the Alfrid Hitcheock produced "Notorious," plus his stage play, "Swan Song," and, of course, the current "A Flag Is Born." Hecht is now back in Hollywood once again turning his talents to films ‘and fiction, but every eveâ€" ning _ the _ California operator brings his voice to the box office of "A Flag‘Is Born" with anxions inquiries on the night‘s attendance. He doesn‘t receive a penny in royâ€" alties, all of the money going to help the unfortunate of Europe find a peaceful home in Palestine, but the success of the play means more to him than the many alâ€" luring contracts held out to him by movie makers and publishers. ‘The management of "A Flag Is Born," incidentally, has establishâ€" ed a special mail order service for out of towners. y There will be a special election at the next meeting of the Highâ€" land Park post of the. 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