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3 WINNETKA TALK June 11, 1927 EE -- North Shore Public Invited to Ravinia Play Festival North Shore Drama Groups T ake Part in Play Festival By Jean Ten Broeck The last year or two has brought about quite a remarkable growth in the interest in amateur dramatics all along the north shore. Little groups of players suddenly have sprung into being and have contributed much to the life. of our villages. As nations no longer can live entirely apart and center their own activities within themselves, so these little player groups are gradually intermingling and interchanging their interests and their talents. This season is having its innovations. Recently a contest for amateur drama- tic groups was held in Chicago for entrants from Chicago and its vicinity. Not long ago we saw an example of this neighborly spirit at a meeting of the Threshold Players of Glencoe when the Ravinia Players, as their guests, were invited to present their talent. The latest step in bringing together north shore talent and pre- senting it to the public, is the Play Festival in Ravinia Saturday, June 11. The north shore public, without ad- mission fee, is invited to be the au- dience at an out-of-door set of pro- ductions by local drama groups. The plays are to be put on in the woods opposite the Ravinia Community House on Rogers Williams avenue. Lionel Robertson is in charge of scen- ic effects and the entire production. Lights are to twinkle among the trees, the entire background is to be charm- ing. The Ravinia group will give the first act of Rostand's "Romancers." The Threshold Players of Glencoe will offer Kenneth Goodman's "Green Scarf." The Town and Gown group will be represented by "As It Was in the Beginning" with the same cast that gave it in Wilmette recently. The play is from thé pen of Mrs. James A. Burrill of Wilmette. Marian Brown Weds at Home of Her Brother The marriage of Miss Marian Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brown of Hinsdale and 202 East Delaware place, to Eliot Furness Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Porter of Hubbard Woods, took place Wednesday, Jn-e 8, at the home of the bride's brother and sister-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cotton Brown of 515 Abbottsford road, Kenil- worth. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Horace Bridges of Chicago, at 4 o'clock. Only members of the im- mediate families and relatives attended the wedding. Miss Barbara Channing of Boston a classmate at Bryn Mawr, attended the bride as maid of honor, while Mrs. Frederic Bowes of Chicago was the matron of honor. Fairbanks Carpenter of Chicago served as best man. After a honeymoon abroad during the summer, Mr. Porter and his bride will reside temporarily in Boston, while he completes his medical course at Harvard. Mrs. Porter, who has not finished her work at Bryn Mawr, will continue studying at Radcliffe in the fall. In Last Meeting The final meeting of the Senior New Trier Music club at which parents were guests, was held Thursday, June 9, at the home of Harriet Mons, 157 Woodstock avenue, Kenilworth. About 120 guests were present. In Ivy Chain Group Photo by Wilhite Miss Virginia Delay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. DeLay of 878 Oak street, Winnetka, has been chos- en one of the junior ushers of Smith college who will carry the ivy chain as a part of the commencement exercises this June. A certain group of mem- bers of the junior class are chosen each year to carry the two ivy chains, through which the seniors march. These ushers are elected on the grounds of beauty, popularity, and service to the college. Miss Delay also has received the honor of being chosen as a delegate from Smith college to attend the Sil- ver Bay conference, held annually at the close of the school year. Repre- sentatives from many colleges and universities are sent to Silver Bay to discuss present day problems. New Trier Alumni to Hold Reunion at High School June 16 New Trier alumni will begin their annual meeting on Thursday, June 16, with a bring-your-own picnic supper on the quadrangle lawn. Tradition rules that seniors, and they for only the last week of school, may share the privilege of using the quadrangle lawn. Bennett McAllistar, one of the twe members in the first graduating class of the north shore school, is alumni president and will be in charge of the get-together which begins at 7:30 in the auditorium. An excellent enter- tainment given entirely by alumni will be put on in two parts. The first is the showing of the movies of last vear's quarto-centennial pageant; the cecond is four individual numbers: (1) Carlton Kaumeyer and Ernau Akely, violin and piano; (2) Cow Dance, Doris Fraser and Lisbeth Goss; (3) A song by Hardin VanDeursen; (4) Reading by Genevieve Klock. Officers for next year are Ray Roth, president, and Elizabeth Brown, vice president. All alumni are cordially invited. Miss Suzanne Kohlsaat, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Kohlsaat of 777 Bryant avenue, has been elected president of Josselyn hall at Vassar college, where she 1s attending school. Miss Kohlsaat is a member of the sophomore class this year. = Scharf-Runyon Wedding to Take Place June 25 The marriage of Miss Dorothy Minty Scharf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert McKenzie Scharf of 509 Cherry street, to Benjamin Francis Runyon, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Runyon of La Grange, Ill, will take place Saturday, June 25, at 4 o'clock in the Winnetka Congregational church. Rev. James Austin Richards will per- form the ceremony, which will be fol- lowed by a reception in the bride's home. Miss Scharf will be attended by her sister, Lois, as maid of honor. Ernest Runyon of Washington university, St. Louis, the groom's brother, will serve as best man. In addition to these two attendants, the other members of the wedding party will include four ushers, George Atkin of Winnetka, the bride's cousin, Lafayette W. Schutz of Chicago, Mer- lin Hughes of Crystal Lake, Ill, and Therbjorn Germundsson of Chicago. Miss Scharf is a graduate of New Trier high school and Northwestern university, class of 1924. She is a mem- ber of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Af- ter finishing her university work, Miss Scharf was engaged in girl reserve work and in chemical laboratories. Dur- ing the past vear she has been an as- sistant in the New Trier High School library. Mr. Runyon is also a gradu- ate of Northwestern university, class of 1923. After teaching a year and tak- his master's degree at the University of Illinois he is now associated in the development of research department of the Bell Telephone company in New York City. Following a week's honeymoon in the Adirondacks, Mr. Runyon and his bride will make their future home in New York City. In Wedding Party Miss Mary Ott, daughter of the John Nash Otts of 17 Indian Hill road, was the maid of honor at the marriage of her cousin, Miss Margaret Forgan, daughter of the Robert D. Forgans of Highland Park, when she became the bride of William Edward Smith Satur- day, June 4. Mr. and Mrs. Ott, uncle and aunt of the bride, entertained at a dinner and a theater party Tuesday evening, June 2, at the Blackstone, when they attended "The Barker." Club Luncheons Begin Bridge luncheons at the Country clubs always are popular means of entertainment for many north shore residents during the summer months. Wednesday of this week was the time of opening of the summer bridge luncheon season at Sunset Ridge. At Indian Hill Friday, June 17, will prob- ably be the occasion of the first lunch- eon and bridge of the summer. Marries Today Miss Elizabeth Clore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bondurant Clore of 654 Cherry street, will become the bride of Lewis Hinsdale Withey, II, of Grand Rapids, Mich., this evening at 8:30 o'clock, at Christ church, the Rev. E. Ashley Gerhard officiating. The Woman's club will be the scene of the reception following the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Greeley of 200 Chestnut street, have as their house guests, Mr, and Mrs. Howard Isham of Pasadena. They entertained at a din- ner-dance at their home in their honor Friday evening, June 3. Winnetka Garden Club Plants Roof Garden at Hospital The latest work of the Winnetka Garden club has been the planting of the roof garden of the Cook County hospital. Mrs. Stephen Foster has charge of this work, and her group will keep fresh flowers there all sum- mer as some are destroyed by exposure. Flowers that will not easily be spoiled have been chosen. Mrs. C. Colton Daughaday and Mrs. Richard Walsh will represent the club at a meeting to be held Monday at the Hotel Sherman for the forming of the Garden club of Illinois. This or- ganization is a federation of all the Garden clubs of the state. Yesterday was the first day the Winnetka club had special responsibil- ity for providing flowers for Chicago charities, through the Plant, Fruit and Flower guild. Winnetka has every other Friday, but garden owners are reminded that flowers are needed and acceptable every other day as well. The club has been invited to have a display at an exhibition to be held by the Wheaton Garden club June 24, at Trinity church in Wheaton. Winifred Bilsland Names June 29 as Wedding Day Wednesday, June 29, has peen chos- en by Miss Winifred Bilsland, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Bils- land of 1228 Elmwood avenue, as the day of her marriage to Hugh Mac- kellar Robinson, son of Mrs. William Colin Robinson of Chicago. The Rev. Leland Hobart Danforth is to read the service in the Church of the Holy Comforter, Kenilworth, at 8:30 o'clock, and a reception will follow immedi- ately after at Indian Hill club. The bridal attendants will include Mrs. Harry V. Donaldson (Marian Reese of Wilmette) as matron of honor, Miss Virginia Croft of Chica- go as maid of honor, and Jane Ridg- way of Kenilworth, Laura Emily Slos- son of Hubbard Woods, Elizabeth Becker of Minneapolis, and Dorothy Shackelford of Frankfort, Ky, as bridesmaids. Paul Robinson will serve as his brother's best man, while the ushers are to be Harry V. Donaldson, and Winston Tarbot, Thomas Flack, Kim- ball Burr, and Edwin Shoup, of Chi- cago. D. B. E. Chapters Join for Annual Pound Day The Cambridge and the Lloyd George chapters are joining with the other chapters of the Daughters of the British Empire for their annual Pound day Thursday, June 16. The members will go by bus to visit the Business Old People's home at River- side, each member taking a pound of something for the home. Mrs. George A. Thursby, 504 Park avenue, Wilmette, is in charge of ar- rangements for the Cambridge chap- ter. Anyone who is interested in the work, who is not a member of the or- ganization, is invited to make the trip. The Playwriting class will convene June 21, in the garden of Mrs. Harri- son B. Riley's home, 1822 Sheridan road, Evanston, from 10 o'clock in the morning until noon, Theodore Hinck- ley of Chicago is to be in charge of the class which will meet each succes- sive Tuesday for five weeks in the Riley garden, to read, write, criticise, and produce plays. a penn sifa arg