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40 WINNETKA TALK December 12, 1925 8 College Girls to Give "Fire King" Drama December 12 The "Fire King," a play for children, adapted from the story of the Nurn- berg Stove, will be given by student players of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college Saturday, De- cember 12, in the Evanston Woman's club. Two performances of the play will be given, the first at 10:30 o'clock mn the morning and the second at 2:15 in the afternoon. The story of the Nurnberg Stove has gained much in child-like appeal in its adaption for the play. Children of all ages will revel in the fun and games of the large family of boys and girls and in the shopful of curios, dolls and pictures, gabbling geese and jolly jugs that come to life and bring the-land of make-believe very near. For the past four years groups of students from the college have worked out original versions of stories and plays for children and given them as benefits for the college building fund. Those on the north shore have been given under the auspices of the large local group of alumnae who are spon- soring the present performance... Miss Etta Mount and other members of the faculty who have had special training and experience in this work with chil- dren direct the production, and the success of the endeavor to give pleas- ure to children is shown in the demand for tickets for the coming performance. Change Date of Three One-Act Club Plays The arts committee of the Woman's Civic Club of Ravinia announces a change of date of the three one-act plays by Lula Warmington. The plays will be given Saturday, December 12, and Monday, December 14, instead of Friday and Saturday of this week as previously announced. Tickets may be procured from Mrs. Lucian M. Brouil- letta, 370 Cedar avenue, Highland Park, telephone Highland Park 1450. -- Know Illinois! All of Illinois, with the exception of a small section in the north central part of the state, and a narrow strip in the center, lies within 40 miles, or one day's truck haul of navigable waters. The shopping and manufacturing centers in the central portion of the state, Peoria, Bloomington, Decatur, Danville, Champaign and Springfield, are joined by an electric railway system which extends south to St. Louis, Mo. Second to Pennsylvania, Illinois is the largest coal consuming state in the Union. Chicago has more than 100 railroad yards. Ome of these has a daily capa- city of 10,000 cars. The daily output of the combined envelope manufacturers of Illinois is more than 15,000,000 or 4,500,000,000 annually. Illinois' investment in electrical systems is $260,000,000. Approximately 73 per_cent of Illinois homes are equip- ped for electricity. 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