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EE RL SB lh L tt ta ------- WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1923 7 OCIAL Musical Evening For Winnetkans February 27th concert of unusual merit is to be given the evening of Febru- ary at Skokie auditorium by a group of talented artists. Al- len Spencer, pianist, Louise Winter, so- prano and George Smith, baritone, will give a program varied and rich in in- terest, and one which the Winnetka music lover must ordinarily travel to the city to enjoy. Mrs. Charles C. McKinney, Mrs. Wal- ter Strong and Mrs. Laird Bell are the committee arranging for this entertain- ment on behalf of the Woman's Guild of Christ Church. The proceeds will be devoted to the upkeep of the children's work at Poin: Hope, Alaska--a barren wind-swept town on the North Bering coast, where a population of fishers and sealers need our care and sympathy as they have learned some of the ills of civilization and been exploited by the whaling ships, till now their only con- tact with the world. Miss Marian Blatchford has selected a group of girls to act as -ushers Tues- day evening, Miss Pauline, Miss Mar- garet Mercer, Miss Elizabeth McEwen, Miss Barbara Nicholls and Miss Kath- erine Mordock. Tickets may be obtained from any member of the committee or at the door. es One hundred and sixty-four girls, many of whom are from the North shore, have been chosen to take part in "Milady's Bandbox," musical review to be given by Northwestern girls under the direction of the Weman's Athletic association at New Trier high school on April 27 and 28. Marion Drew, senior and member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority, is gen- eral manager of the review. She 1s as- sisted by eleven girls, comprising the exe- cutive 'committee: Helen Schlemen, as- sistant business manger: Virginia Bull, stage manager; Eleanor Fisher, assistant business manager; Jean Calhoun, poster publicity; Thelma M. Butts, press pub- licity; Margaret Couffer and Elizabeth Cutler, costumes; Emily Watt, proper- ties; Ethel Flentye, music; and Marion Copper, programs. Of the cast chosen thirty-six will be ponies, fifty-nine show girls, twenty-one show men, thirty-six specialties or leads, three models, seven character parts, and two leads of the jazz band. The cast is subject to changes. The cast is composed of many KEv- anston and North Shore girls. Spe- cialty or lead: Elizabeth Boring, Kath- erine Bott, Mary Braddock, Geraldine Brode, Evelyn Brown, Miriam Bruno, Margaret Clayton, Marion Copper, Norma Craven, Margaret Bracken, Mary Day, Alexandria Dodd, Louise Ellis, Ethel Flentye, Dorothea Frye, Margaret George, Dorothy Harris, June Harrison, Helene Herman, Helen Houghton, May Johnstone, Norma Lawler, Aleen Lind, Zeta MacDonald, Melba Mathien, Jane McKenna, Elizabeth McMein, Alice Meadows, Adello Mit- chell, Louise Nottingham, Martha Oliver, Hildur Ouse, Mary Paynter, Phyllis Schulze, Winifred Smith, and Marion Youngquist. Show men: Lois Baleke, Gertrude Beck, Margaret Beegle, Dorothy Clay- son, Helen Davis, Constance Freeman, Margaret Harding, Elizabeth Heathcate, Louise: Heppner, Esther Hess, Isabelle Hinds, Elizabeth Martin, Dorothy Mum- ford, Geneva Robertson, Dorothy Todd, Sylvia Torpe, Phyllis Trojan, Marth- etta Vance, Madeline Wenger, and Dor- othy Yonkers. Show girls: Sylvia Ames, Jessie Anglin, Ethel Arries, Marion Blessing, Gretia Boyle, Helen Buehler, Virginia Bull, Kathryn Burnett, Emily Carlisle Marion Case, Margaret Couffer, Opal Daniels, Ruth Dillon, Leora Dingee, Dorothy Duncan, Agnes Durlacher, Eleanor Halloway, Frances Helmkamp, Elizabeth Hilton, Gertrude Hirth, Jean Howell, Mildred Kinney, Alice Kellogg, Ruth Kreutzer, Gertrude MacRae, Grace Madock, Alice Mason, Catherine Mec- Culloch, Dorothy Miller, Adella Mitchell, Sara O'Neal, Dorothy Pearson, Hester Wilhelmina Mueller, Dorothy Olson, Perry, Elizabeth Pope, Tura Jratt, Gen- evieve Proud, Dorothea Rapp, Lyda Ray- mond, Katherine Redfearn, Ethel Saari, Lila Saari, Helen Schmidt, Idamay Schoonover, Gertrude Schirchardt, Eliz- abet Shriver, Frances Smedberg. Dor- othy St. Claire, Glenn Sternberg, Dor- othy Suddard, Virginina Sul¥%van, Isa- bella Taves, Phyllis Tenney, Marion Warnes, Ethel Wellington, Anne White, and Lillian Woodworth. Ponies: Hestor Abbott, Agnes Biese- mier, Alice Bovee, Evelyn Bowman, Marion Coleman, Helen Craig, Caroline Fhle, Mary Fridler, Helen Finn, Norma Fiske, Hazel Fraser, Faye Fullerton, Irene Goche, Jean Harris, Nancy Hat- tery, Vivian Holmes, Margaret Hauser, Emily Irwin, Eleanor Krieger, Naomi Leitz, Esther. Lewis, Helen Limrick, Elizabeth Moore, Sally Morgan, Helen Nash, Henrietta Oliver, Mary Pfeiffer, Doris Powell, Georgine Raithel, Gen- CTIVITIES Helen Lucille and Mildred evieve Sapiro, Louise Shoop, Showalter, Alma Vanderberg, Wait, Rosamond Ward Weber. ---- The marriage of Miss Eleanor Wil- liams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Babbitt of Evanston, to Mr. Warren B. Ewer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Ewer, 1111 Ashland Ave., Wilmette, will take place this evening, in the Rogers Park Congregational church. The cere- mony will be read at eight-thirty o'clock, by Dr. John S. Nichols. A reception will follow at the Evanston hotel. Miss Wil- liams will be attended by her sisters, Mrs. E. M. Gallup of Glencoe, as matron of honor and Miss Gladys Babbitt of Los Angeles, as maid of honor. Mrs. Daniel O. Hubbard of Winnetka, Miss Frances Sweet of Evanston and Miss Margaret Shugrue of Rogers Park will be the bridesmaids, and little Barbara Gallup will be flower girl. Mr. Wallace Thompson of Chicago, will serve Mr. Ewer as best man and the ushers will be Messrs. John Bett- ridge, John Tilton, Julius Collins and E. M. Gallup. Mr. Ewer and his bride will reside at 7033 Sheridan road, Rogers Park, upon their return from a wedding trip. There have been many prenuptial par- ties for Miss Williams, among them a dinner bridge given by Mr. and Mrs. garet Shugrue, a dinner party given by E. M. Gallup, a luncheon by Miss Mar- Mrs. Daniel Hubbard, a luncheon given by Mrs. Archie McLain of Wilmette, another luncheon given by Miss Frances Sweet, and a luncheon and dinner party given by Mrs. Charles Ewer. The brid- al dinner will be given this evening at the Evanston Hotel, by Mr. and Mrs. Bab- bitt. --_--Q-- Patronesses for the gala farewell con- cert to be given by Chaliapin on Sun- day afternoon, March 4, are Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, Mrs. Rockefeller Mc- Cormick, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Arthur Meeker, Mrs. William Sherman Hays, Mrs. Ferdinand W. Peck, Mrs. Edward I. Ryerson, Mrs. John Borden, Mrs. Donald Frazer McPherson, Mrs. Lester Armour and Miss Olga Menn. Reservations for the concert, which is the very last to be given by this musi- cian may be obtained at the box office, or through K. C. Raclin, 1431 First National Bank building, Chicago. --C-- The February meeting of the North Shore Musical Society was held at the home of Mrs. Henry Dirks, in Wil- mette. An Irish and Scotch program was delightfully given by Miss Eloise Bedlan, Mrs. Cordts, Miss Dorothy Rae, Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Akely, Mrs. Stew- art and Mrs. Fuerman. The guests in- cluded Mrs. Burton Atwood and Mrs. Arthur Dean of Winnetka, Mrs. Patti- son Kline of Wilmette and Mrs. Effie Marine Harvey director of Music at the North Shore hotel, in Evanston. The afternoon was greatly enjoyed by every- one. ---- Of interest to many Winnetkans is the announcement that comes from San- ta Monica, Cal, telling of the celebra- tion by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Poff of Olney, Ill, parents of Dr. Delbert W. Poff, 562 Hawthorne lane, of their gold- en wedding anniversary on February 6. The party was held at the home of their daughter in Santa Monica. The elderly couple will arrive in Winnetka within the next few weeks to be with Dr. and Mrs. Poff for a visit before their re- turn to their home. --(-- The Inter Nous Matinee club of which Mrs. Harland Fankboner, 848 Foxdale avenue, is president, will be hostesses to the Friends of the Drama at a luncheon in the Picadilly club on next Wednesday, February 28 Later the two organiza- tions will attend a performance of "The Twist." There will be covers for sixty guests at the luncheon, the honor guests being 3 members of "The Twist" cast, Gale Hamilton, Arthur Byron and Miss Ann Andrews --r Mrs. David L. jennings, 1249 Asbury avenue, Hubbard Woods, was hostess at a Children's Washington party on Thurs- day afternoon in honor of her smali son, the occasion being his third birth- day anniversary. Among these who par- ticipated in the day's frolic was Shurley Ruth Smith, Betty Wilson, Dorothy Raub, Virginia Sweet, Mary Hammond, Harold Beck, Roy Terry, Dick Swank, Ralph Pritchard, nad Charles Dell. ---- Mrs. Sydney Bartlett, whose signature "Floy Little Bartlett" adorns many com- positions dear to the heurt of childhood will give a program before the Matheon Club of Oak Park at the home of Mrs. Carl Kinsey on Saturday afternoon Feb. 24. Following the program Mrs. M. H. Leiber will conduct a class in Parlia- centary Law Procedure. ee (Yor Plans are made for the annual party which the Faculty of the Public schools will give Friday evening, March 2, at the Winnetka Woman's club, 8:30 o'clock. This is the third" festivity of its kind and the parties have proved so successful in the past three vears that it has become quite an institution in Winnetka. Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham Chandler, 9 Indian Hill road, had as guests on Wednesday cvening of last week, Vi- comte and Vicomtesse Jacques di Sibour of London. The vicomtesse formerly was Miss Violet Selfridge. She is the daugh- ter of Mr. Harry Gordon Selfridge of London and the late Mrs. Selfridge, who was Miss Rose Buckingham of Chi- cago. --_---- Mr. and Mrs. Horace K. Tenney, 640 Pine street, will sail today for three months of extensive travel in Italy. Mrs. Tenney was the guest of honor at sev- eral small farewell functions recently, among them a tea given on Monday af- terncon at the home of Mrs. William C. Boyden, 7.5 Pine street, and a lunch- eon on Tuesday given by Mrs. Heyliger A. de Windt of Sheridan road. bE A great deal of enthusiasm has been put into the preparation of the one act play under Mrs. Laird Bell's able leader- ship and many pleasant evenings have been spent making favors for the cotil- lion which wiil {follow, and it is hoped the usual large number of friends will attend and join in the merry making. The teachers voted to turn the entire proceeds over to the Parent Teacher association. Oa Dudley Bradstreet left Saturday eve- ning for St. Louis, Mo, where he was married on Monday morning to Mrs. Louise Taylor of Austin, Texas. After their wedding trip they expect to make their home with J. E. Bradstreet at 334 Ridge avenue. --Q-- Mrs. F. R. Haviland, 839 Ash street is expected home today from Kansas City, Mo., where she was called by the illness of her mother, who is now re- covering from a severe attack of pneu- monia. --Q-- In the exhibition of "Artists of Chi- cago and Vicinity" now at the Art In- stitute, Wilmette is represented by a painting entitled "From the Shadows into the Sunlight" by Mary I. Bockius. --0-- The next East Elm Street Circle meet- ing will be held next Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. C. Winchell, 552 Elm street at two o'clock. The meet- ing will be a social affair. --_--Q-- Mr. M. K. Meyer left Thursday, Feb- ruary 15, for Houston, Tex., to visit his daughter, and will later go on to California, where he expects to remain for an indefinite period. ---- Mrs. Edgar Foster Alden, 352 Linden avenue, will cpen her home for a musi- cale and song fest on Sunday afternoon at four o'clock. A delightful program has been arrarged. --Q-- Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Strotz have returned from the weddmg trip to Vir- ginia Hot Springs, and have taken an apartment at 220 E. Walton place, Chi- cago. : --Q-- Cecilia Klavke, daughter of Henry Klauke, 1138 Scott avenue, was operated upon for appendicitis Wednesday morn- ing at St. Francis hospitial, Evanston. Dn Mr. J. C. Williams of 850 Cherry street, who has been making an ex- tended trip along the eastern coast of Florida, is now sojourning in Cuba. --Q-- Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Huszagh, 609 Sheridan road, left this week for New York on their way to Nassau. They will be gone for four or five weeks. ---- The Walden Road Circle meets Mon- day, February 26, at two o'clock with Mrs. E. R. Ileeler, 63i Walden road. Jessie Royre Landis Studio of Bramatic Art 1527 Kimball Building Instruction may be had in Ecanston as well as Chicago Phones Harrison 7949 Evanston 1698 J. E. SWIFT TEAL BUSINESS & LIFE INSURANCE Representative New York Life Insurance Company 1017 Central Avenue, Wilmette Phone Wilmette 37 "It Takes the Worry Out of Life" CONCERT ALLEN SPENCER, PIANIST LOUISE WINTER, SOPRANO GEORGE SMITH, BARITONE Auspices Woman's Guild Christ Episcopal Church Skokie School Auditorium Tuesday Evening February 27 Tickets, $1.50 The Forty Club entertained with a Washington Birthday dinner and dance on Thursday evening at the Winnetka Woman's club. iy The Current Topics class will meet at 2:30 Friday, March 2, at the home of Mrs. Eugene Fenchtinger, 947 Oak street. --0-- Mrs. George Bisset, 514 Linden street entertained on Wednesday in honor of Mrs. A. Wood. There were thirty-six guests. --_--Q-- Mr. and Mrs. James F. Porter and Mr. George W. Gordon returned to Winnetka eariy this week from an ex- tended Panama Canal trip. Mrs. Gor- don, stopped cver in New York city to spend a few days as the guest of her sister. Washburne Party Expected Back in Village March 3 Latest reports from Carleton W. Washburne, superintendent of Winnetka public schools, indicate that the Win- netka party of teachers, which went to Europe last fall to study educational conditions there, will return to Winnetka on March 3. The party, which includes Miss Mable Vogel and Miss Florence Brett, left Havre, France, last Monday. They are expected to land in New York on Feb- ruary 26. The next day Mr. Washburne will speak before the Superintendents' convention of the National Educational association at Cleveland, Ohio. The entire party will return to Win- neka as soon as the convention is over. The party has travelled in seventeen countries on three continents and have visited schools in nearly all of them. Local Legion Men Will Hear Address on Russia Preston Kummler, recently returned from a tour of investigation in Russia, will speak before the Winnetka Post No. 10 of the American Legion, Tues- day evening, February 27. The local post of the legion is making arrangements for an exhibition of box- ing to be held Tuesday, April 3. Tickets for the exhibition are to be given to the members at the Tuesday meeting, ac- cording to Grinnell Wylie, post adjutant. Grace and Health for Women Physical Training in the privacy of your own Room. Correct carriage of the body brings Grace and Health. I will work with you until you have formed The Good Habit of Daily Exercise. Learn to enjoy doing Snappy Sitting Up Ex- ercises, Toss the Medi- cine Ball, Rope Skip- . ping, Road Work, or Hiking and Walking. I can teach you Personal instructions only EILEEN K. BARRY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 6657 Newgard Ave Rogers Park 9770 . LLL 2 2d 2 7 Ra 77077, Gala Farewell Concert CHALIAPIN Auditorium Sunday March 4th 3:30 P.M. 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