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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 15 Jan 1927, p. 44

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WINNETKA TALK January 15, 1927 A lecture by Captain Donald B. MacMillan "The Arctic" By Sea, Land and Air Motion and Stereoptican Pictures Thursday, January 20 Auspices of "Tri-ship" Boy's Club of New Trier High School at the New Trier High School Auditorium 8:15 P. M. Adults $1.00 Students 75¢ Resolved "That 1 will square up with all my creditors. worry over debts, I will pay them up I will not This Company has a plan whereby loans may be made to pay off merchants, doctors and trades people. The Plan is simple, the cost is low, and repayments are easy. A hundred dollar loan cost less than $8.00, and is repaid in equal weekly payments; monthly or semi-monthly payments may be arranged. No Chattel Mortgage or Wage Assignment. Come in and let us explain our plan and let us aid you to get "squared up." This Company is locally owned and controlled by leading business men of Evanston. DIRECTORS Lee Nelson James E. Dolson Fred G. Brooks ~~ C. M. McDonald Horace D. Bent Fred J. Schuett © David Nelson John B. Ortlund, Jr. Wm. L. Dormand The Evanston Security Finance Corporation 628 Grove Street University 252 EVANSTON, ILLINOIS Character Plus Earning Capacity Is the Basis of Credit. "JUDITH" IN AMERICAN PREMIERE AT CHICAGO Mary Garden to Sing Title Role in Piece January 17; Opera Season in Final weeks The repertoire for the last two weeks of the Civic Opera at the Chicago Auditorium, which will bring the sea- son to a close, has been announced. Starting off with the long-promised American premiere of "Judith," which is the most eagerly awaited operatc novelty that America has been promis- ed in many years, the fortnight will contain repetitions of "Don Giovanni" and other great successes of the earlier weeks, and single performances of "Madame Butterfly," "Faust," "Gianni Schicchi," "Hansel and Gretel," "Boris Godunoff" and "I'he Masked Ball." Saturday night "Tiefland" will be re- peated at popular prices, in English, with the same cast that introduced it to the repertoire--Elsa Alsen, Forrest Lamont and Giacomo Rimini; Weber conducting. Sunday matinee, January 16, the sea- son's last performance of "The Jewess" will be given, with Rosa Raisa, Eide Norena, Charles Marshall, Alexander Kipnis, Jose Mojica; Serge Oukrainsky and ballet; Weber conducting. Garden in Title Role Monday evening, January 17, the American premier of Honegger's opera, "Judith," will be given, with Mary Garden in the title role, and Clara Shear, Cesare Formichi and Edouard Cotrouil; Polacco conducting. Follow- ed by Puccini's short opera, "Gianni Schicchi," with Eide Norena, Lorna Doone Jackson, Charles Hackett, Gia- como Rimini, Virgilio Lazzari and Vit- torio Trevisan; Moranzoni conducting. Tuesday evening, January 18, "La Cena delle Beffe" will be repeated with Claudia Muzio, Eide Norena, Lorna Doone Jackson, Irene Pavloska, Anna Hamlin, Antonio Cortis, Theodore Ritch, Luigi Montesanto and Virigilio Lazzari; Polacco conducting. Follow- ed by Serge Oukrainsky and ballet in the world premier of "The Elements"; Frank St. Leger conducting. Wednesday evening "Samson and Delilah" will be repeated with Cyrena Van Gordon, Charles Marshall, Cesare Formichi and Edouard Cotreuil; Ouk- rainsky and ballet; Weber conducting. Thursday evening "L'Amore dei Tre Re" will be repeated with Mary Garden, Fernand Ansseau, Giacomo Rimini and Virgilio Lazzari; Moran- zoni conducting. "Faust" Friday Evening Friday evening the season's only "Faust" will be given, with Edith Mason, Irene Pavloska, Maria Claes- sens, Charles Hackett, Desire Defrere and Vanni Marcoux; Polacco conduct- ing. The occasion will loom big in the day's news, for the greatest experiment in the history of radio will be conduct- ed throughout the greater part of the country through nation-wide hookup of more than a score of powerful radio stations. Saturday matinee, "Il Trovotore" will be repeated with Louise Loring, Au- gusta Lenska, Aroldo Lindi and Rich- ard Bonelli; Weber conducting. Saturday evening a double bill will be given at popular prices, "Cavalleria Rusticana," with Claudia Muzio, Lorna Doone Jackson, Forrest Lamont and Desire Defrere : Moranzoni conducting. Followed by "T'Pagliacci," with Eide Norena, Antonio Cortis and Cesare Formichi; Weber conducting. Sunday at 2 o'clock will be given the season's only performance of "Hansel and Gretel" in English, for the benefit of juvenile music lovess, responsive to hundreds of requests. Irene Pavolska, Clara Shear, Anna Hamlin, Florence Misgen, Maria Claes- sens and Desire Defrere will constitute the cast. The opera will be followed by the ballet in "The Elements"; Frank St. Leger conducting. Monday evening the last perform- ince of "Don Giovanni" will be given with the same cast as before except that Charles Hackett will sing Don Ot- tavio. Kurenka in Debut Tuesday evening the famous Russian coloratura soprano, Maria Kurenka, will make her debut with the company in "The Barber of Seville" with Maria Claessens, Charles Hackett, Richard Bonelli, Virgilio Lazzari and Vittorio Trevisan: Moranzoni conducting. Wednesday at 2, "Carmen" will be given as the last of the mid-week mati- nees at popular prices, with Mary Garden, Eide Norena, Fernand Ans- seau, Giacomo Rimini, Edouard Cot- reuil ; ballet; Polacco conducting. Wednesday evening "Der Rosenka- valier" will be repeated with Elsa Al- sen, Edith Mason, Rosa Raisa, Alice d'Hermanoy, Anna Hamlin, Lorna Doone Jackson, Florence Misgen Clara Shear, Helene Samuels, Jose Mojica, (Continued on page 46) Tony Sarg's Jane Kuppenheimer Memorial Hall SKOKIE SCHOOL, WINNETKA Wednesday Afternoon and Evening January 19th at 4:00 and 8:00 p. m. Presenting "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" Tickets $1.10--Balcony 50c for Young People Only On Sale at Community Pharmacy, Winnetka Carlson's Hubbard Woods Pharmacy Hillman's Drug Store, Glencoe Joseph Sears School, Kenilworth Direction--Rachel Busey Kinsolving Marionettes rh a i Abhi agonist vege. bli uted

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