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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 13 Aug 1927, p. 18

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16 WINNETKA TALK August 13, 1927 We're Moving-- SATURDAY, AUGUST 13th fo THE MEYER BANK BUILDING ON ELM STREET BUT business will continue just the same--all your wants in Electrical Supplies can be had just as always. North Shore Electric Shop O. L. PORTER TELEPHONE WINNETKA 44 GOOD CLOTHES-- the kind that fit and give that distinctive "made-for -you"' look of well dressed attractiveness--are always tailored to individual or- der. © Investigate the service offered by our Fourth Floor City Sales. Have your clothes in- spire the well known question-- YF SUITS $35 $45 $40 Cut, Fitted and Tailored to Your Order $50 CITY SALES--FOURTH FLOOR 319 West Van Buren Street | much-blanketed sanaws march out and ARDEN SHORE FROLICS IN HISTORIC PAGEANT Longfellow's Hiawatha Is Basis | Theme of Fete Participated | in By Campers By Rutheda L. Pretzel By the shores of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. There the wrinkled, old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha. Something of the sweep and solemn- ity of Longfellow's great poem crept into the hearts of the poor, thin little children and the tired mothers, out at Arden Shore camp on Wednesday af- ternoon, August 10, as they played their parts in the pageant of Hiawatha's life under the tall trees, in such a setting described above. All of the very tiny tots, the bigger boys and girls, and the mothers, took part in the pageant, which was whipped into shape in hard- lv more than a week's time. Miss Reba Rosenthal, camp theatrical direc- tor, arranced the pageant, and Miss Pauline Houck, camp pianist, arranged music for it from some of our greatest composers. Several members of the Great Lakes band assisted Miss Houck. Miss D. V. Smith, who assists the camp stnerintendent., Miss Anna Belle Fer- rier, also took an active part in super- vising the production of the pageant. Campers Prepare Pageant Those who tonk part, and who did most of the work on the pageant and the makine of costumes, are the camp- ers themselves, who took this opportun- itv of showing publicly their apprecia- tion for the week of sunshine and good food given them. Everyone knew his nort nerfectlv. and all was done with a slow, sober manner that matched the red man's own majesty. It was very effective. because the spirit of the thing had been caught. Two Indian braves opened the pageant bv lichting a huge fire in the center of the clearing on the bluff. Tt seemed the natural thing to watch a lene line of lovely Indian maidens and sng an Indian lullaby. There stood old Nokomis fnlaved hv Mrs. Reuter) holding the infant Hiawatha in her arms, singine in a remarkably sweet voice a special lullabv, while on the hacks of their mothers real Arden Shore "panooses" nodded and blinked sleenilv. A dance bv the girls to a tom- -tom ended that episode. Frolic in Forest "Hiawatha's brothers," little red- winged fire-flies, erav souirrels with elegant purple tails (a special variety found at Arden Shore!), bland brown bears, slender grey deer with imposing horns, and young Indian braves ran ! tumes. | chiefs, plaved by Herbert | Svdney Trice, gave a war dance, after out to frolic in the forest. Hiawatha, now a boy full of questions and fun, ran out to play with them and to learn their secrets. William Hunt played Hiawatha in the succeeding episodes. Hiawatha, as a chief, called an Indian council, and from | all directions came running the braves | in their war paint and abbreviated cos- Here, "in the drowsy, dreamy sunshine. they smoked the calumet, the Peace-Pine," and Hiawatha asked the blessing of the Great Spirit. Two Kolb and which eight lads with bows shot imag- inary arrows, and shouted with blood- curdling vells when the invisible foe was vanauished. thus exhibiting the nrowess of the Indian. After the council was adiourned, and all the members had disnersed in bic- turesaue snake-dance fashion, old Nok- amis watrhed Hiawatha set off to the land of the Dakotahs, for a bride. "Ctridine over moor and meadow," Hiawatha arrived at the wigwam of the arrow-maker. and asked the hand of Minnehaha. The heantiful Angeline Di- Raeo. who nlaved Minnehaha, wore a marvelons deenly fringed costume that looked like white doe skin from a dis- tance. and suspiciously like a cleverly remodeled sleening bao near-bv. When the young couple returned to Nokomis. ahout thirty verv tinv Indians greeted them with earlands of flowers. Medicine Man Fails The last enisode was the coming of Famine and Fever, two eirls in grev who waved malevolent draneries about. T avelvr Minnehaha "lav down on her hed of Silence" and even a Medicine Man (dicgniced hv a cheepskin) ~onldn't dance the evil spirits awav. Manv moons nassed (eraceful white- ~lad girls with silver streamers), and Hiawatha ealled another Council When the clearing was acain filled with tha half_nalked hadies of his tribe. he told them he mnst sav farewell. Tust then the hlark-robe chief he the priest of praver, the pale-face" and other nale-faces. entered. Tohn T.ennen, as the white man. was recieved cordiallv hv Hiawatha, for it was noticed that wherever the white man trods, there oraw flowers and the land is aerain a "pleasant land and peaceful" Telling his tribe to listen to the pnale-face's wisdom. Hiawatha said farewell, and went to the "Islands of the Blessed." The paceant ended with the entire oroup singing the red man's desire to be one nation with the white man, "one strong nation everlastingly." Chairmen Are Hostesses After the performance, the officers and town chairmen of the Arden Shore association were hostesses at a tea. Mrs. George Richardson of Lake Forest poured, and she was assisted at the table by Mrs. Donald Wells. Among those present were Mrs. Bruce MacLeish, Mrs. Mark W. Cresap, Mrs. FD. Parmelee, Miss Helen Clow, Mrs. Marston and her daughter Dorothy, Mrs. L. F. Gates, Mrs. Mrs. J. Glid- den. Mrs. Maurice Mandeville, Mrs. William Rees. Mrs. J. C. Husted and Mrs. L. T. Wallace. rapher, Bookkeeper, Typist, A Metropolitan training is 54th Year 37 South Wabash Ave., Here Is Your Opportunity! Let us train you for a position as Private Secretary, Stenog- economical for business that you can possibly secure. 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