30 WINNETKA TALK August 13, 1927 Summer Drama Proves Popular With North Shore Society Midsummer Rivals June as Popular Season for Brides! Contrary to the impression which one is likely to get from reading the society columns in June, that month is not the only one to claim a large pro- portion of the year's weddings. Al- ready several announcements have been made of approaching marriages during the latter part of this month, September and October, and the fall has been indicated as the time for other weddings. Next Monday evening, at the home of the bride's brother, Carleton Lar- mon, in Bowling Green, Ky. Miss Virginia Larmon will be married to Robert Swaim, Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swaim of 701 Laurel avenue, Wilmette. The wedding will be a quiet one with the ceremony witnessed by relatives of the couple only. Mr. Swaim is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, in the class of 1926. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Miss Larmon was also a student at the University of Illinois with Mr. Swaim Mr. and Mrs. Swaim, who returned Saturday after six weeks spent at Rochester, Minn., and Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Bay and Miss Rosemary Bay arz leaving Saturday for Bowling Green. A wedding especially interesting in University of Wisconsin circles will be that of Miss Margaret Helen Birk, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John W. Birk of 6008 Winthrop avenue, Chi- cago, and Frederick S. Rye, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Rye of 1015 Chestnut avenue, Wilmette, which will take place at 8:30 o'clock Thurs- day evening, August 25, at the Edge- water Presbyterian church. The Rev. Asa J. Ferry will perform the cere- mony. Miss Birk has chosen as her attend- ants Mrs. Brower Munroe of Evans- ton, sister of the groom, who will be matron of honor; and Miss Elizabeth Stolte of Reedsburg, Wis., Miss Mar- garet Wegener of Chicago, Miss Ruth Huyette of Detroit and Miss Gertrude Gundlach of Chicago, who will be bridesmaids. Brower Munroe will be best man for his brother-in-law, and the ushers will be John Smalley of Wilmette, Carl Webster of Rockford, Horace Moderwell of Evanston, and Gordon Brine of Kenosha, Wis. Miss Birk and Mr. Rye are both University of Wisconsin graduates. Miss Birk is a member of Alpha Phi sorority, and Mr. Rye of Phi Gamma 'Delta fraternity. Still another university romance will find its culmination in one of the fall weddings, that of Miss Marguerite Lundberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 'Charles A. Lundberg of 1010 Elmwood avenue, Wilmette, and Howard Storck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clemens Stcrck of Chicago and Punta Gorda, Fla, which will take place Wednesday eve- ning, September 21, in the First Meth- odist church of Wilmette. The Rev. Horace G. Smith will perform the ceremony. Miss Emily Patterson of Chicago will be Miss Lundberg's maid of honor, and the bridesmaids will be Miss Winifred Mickey of Wilmette, Miss Luella Burroughs of Winnetka, Miss Ruth Stoker of Winnetka, and Miss Margaret Law of Evanston. Leon Emmert of Chicago will attend Mr. Storck as best man, and Paul Fairchild of Evanston, Robert Shim- min of Evanston, Keith Wyman of Evanston will usher. Both Miss Lund- berg and Mr. Storck were juniors at Northwestern university last year. September Bride September 10 is the date which has been set for the marriage of Miss Marion Fulton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Fulton of Winnetka, to Lawrence Edmund BeBout, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard BeBout of Loudon- ville, Ohio. The ceremony is to take place at 8:30 o'clock in the evening at Christ church, Winnetka, with the Rev. E. Ashley Gerhard officiating. There will be a reception immediatelv after the ceremony at the home of the bride's parents, 884 Hill road. Miss Fulton has chosen her sister, Miss Helen Fulton, to be her maid-of- honor, and her cousin, Mrs. George Snyder of Evanston, to be matron-of- honor. The bridesmaids will be Miss T.onise Shriver of Evanston. Miss Betty Schwartz of Winnetka. Miss Helen Anderson of Macedon, N. Y., and Miss Tane Hawlev of Milwaukee. Margaret Cohb and Marjorie McNie of Winnetka will be flower girls. Russell Bill of Syracuse, N. Y.. will be Mr. BeBout's best man, and the ushers are Edmond Fulton' brother of the bride. George Snvder of Evanston. cousin of the bride, Max Whistler of Loudonville. Harvey Bailey and Curtis Clifford of Mansfield, Ohio. and Jermyn Downey and Tommy Thomp- son of Syracuse. Miss Olga Menn will sing at the wed- ding. Several of Miss Fulton's friends have been entertaining in her honor. Miss Louise Shriver of Evanston and Miss Elinor Calkins of Roeers Park were both hostesses during Tuly, the former at a trousseau shower and bridee- luncheon, and the latter at a linen shower. Mrs. Theodore Andrews en- tertained at a kitchen shower in her home in Rogers Park on Wednesday of this week. Next Tuesday Mrs. Robert Ward and Mrs. Frederick Ward will entertain in the former's home in Wilmette at a trousseau show- er for about twenty guests, and on Thursday Miss Margaret Cobb of Win- netka will be hostess at a kitchen shower. Miss Martha Thomas of Glen- coe and Miss Betty Schwartz of Win- netka will also be hostesses in Miss Fulton's honor sometime this month. Weds in September Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Wyman of 150 Lake avenue, Hubbard Woods, an- nounce the engagement of their daugh- ter, Vina, to George Eberhardt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest P. Eberhardt of Chicago. The wedding is to take place in September. Miss Wyman is a gradu- ate of New Trier High school. Garden Lovers to Display Blooms at Exhibit in Glencoe Asters, zinnias, gladioli, dahlias and vegetables will be on display at the an- nual flower show at the North Shore Garden club Saturday and Sunday, Au- gust 20 and 21. The show is to be held at the home of Mrs. Charles Stonehill on Sheridan road, Glencoe, from 2 to 7 o'clock Saturday and from 10 to 5 o'clock Sunday. The proceeds result- ing from the admission charge will be used for the benefit of Sunset camp, a camp which is opened for two months every spring and fall for cardiac chil- dren and throughout the summer for working girls, who come for two-week periods each. Tickets will admit their bearers not only to Mrs. Stonehill's garden and the display in her home, but also to the gardens of Milton Goodman, 1114 Sheridan road, Glen- coe; Jesse Strauss, Sheridan road Glen- coe: Iawrence F. Stern. 981 Sheridan road, Glencoe; Sam Marx, 1140 Sheri- dan road. Glencoe; Tulius Rosenwald, Rooer Williams road. Highland Park; and Louis Kuppenheimer, Laurel av- nue, Winnetka. The exhibits will be divided into nine sections, as follows: asters, zinnias, oladioli, dahlias, miscellaneous cut fiowers, potted plants, vegetables, ar- rangements of flowers for effect, and exhibits from other garden clubs. All entries for competition must be in the hands of the chairman, Mrs. Charles A. Stonehill, by Thursday, August 18. Ex- hibitions for competition must be ready for judgine by 11 o'clock Saturday morning. Ribbons will be awarded to the women whose flowers win prizes, and money prizes will be given to their gardeners. Members of Mrs. Stonehill's com- mittee are Mrs. A. G. Becker, Highland Park; Mrs. Herman Black, Highland Park: Mrs. Terame JT Daimel (hi cago; Mrs. Ira Frank, Hichland Park; Mrs. Milton Goodman, Glencoe; Mrs. Edwin S. Rosenbaum, Glencoe; Miss Amy Rothschild. Mrs. J. Harry Selz, Glencoe: Mrs. Jesse L. Strauss and Mrs. Melvin Straus. both of Glencoe; Mrs. Morris Woolf, Highland Park; Mrs. Theodore Kaufman. Chicago. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, Highland Park. List Hostesses for Annual Welcome Tea for Illini Freshmen The list of Chicago and north shore women who will assist Mrs. Charles H. Dennis of Evanston as hostesses for the incoming University of Illinois freshmen at the tea in their honor on September 10 will include the follow- ing alumnae: Miss Helen Evans of Wilmette and Mrs. Charles Plochman of Evanston, co-chairmen of the affair; Mrs. Duncan Lloyd of Evanston, Mrs. Charles Howard Bent of Winnetka, Mrs. Fritz Wagner of Winnetka: Mrs. E. E. Stults of Winnetka, Mrs. Robert Knox of Glencoe, Mrs. Harrv N. Kerr of Evanston, Mrs. Donald Robinson of Wilmette, Miss Edith Adkins of Wil- mette. Mrs. R. E. Schreiber of Chicago, Mrs. Roderick Rawlins of Chicago and Miss Elizabeth Nilson of Glencoe. The committee in charge of the tea met Tuesday afternoon in the home of Miss Evans, 616 Gregory avenue, Wil- mette, to make final arrangements. The Chicago Illinae club, which is sponsor- ing the tea, will have as its guest of honor on the afternoon of September 10, Miss Maria Leonard, dean of wom- en at the university, who will give a short speech of welcome to the new girls. The tea is to be in the gardens of the Dennis home at 1225 Michigan avenue, Evanston. Art T heatre Plays Will Attract Large Audience August 17 North shore people who are spend- ing the month of August at home and who are looking for something differ- ent, and satisfvingly so, to entertain them will find it in the three one-act plays of the Chicago Art theatre, which are being presented every other Wednesday evening during the month at the Moraine Hotel theater in High- land Park. The three plays, which are "Riders to the Sea," by John M. Synge, "The Dear Departed," by Stanley Houghton, and "Jubilee," by Anton Chekhov, will be presented for the second time next Wednesday eve- ning, August 17. The Moraine Hotel theater, which is a rather informal affair, extends back from the hotel proper toward a deep ravine and the beach. A wide porch extends along the lake side of the room, so that the theater is cool on the very warmest nights. The en- tire atmosphere, both of the plays and of their setting, is so different from the usual one as to be extremely refreshing. The most noticeable fact about the presentation and arrangement of the three plavs themselves is the unusual emotional effect which thev have on the audience. The first, "Riders to the Sea," is a deep tracedy showing the reactions of the Trish coast people toward the sea. The old Trish mother, mourning over the body of Bartley, the last of her many sons to fall vie- tim of the sea, leaves the members of the audience trying to swallow over svmpathetic lumps in their throats as the curtain goes down. The setting is bare and the costumes are plain, but the acting is intense and effective. The audience is looking forward to a comedy when the curtain rises on "The Dear Departed." but it sees im- mediately that death and mourning are still with them. The comedv is soon apparent, however, in the redicu- lous costumes and actions of the play- ers, and in the fact that grandfather himself, about whom all the mourning and quarreling over property are being done bv "fond" relatives, annears. He had not died: he was just taking a nap, and he immediately announces that he plans to make a new will effective by-- marrying! The third play, "Tubilee." attempts little at character portraval and more in the way of purely ridiculous situa- tions and conversations. Tts only ob- jective is a casual portrayal of the humorous side of Russian banking. The Chicago Art theatre is directed by Ivan Lazareff, and the company members are Aecnes George, Emily Hamill, Arthur Klein, Shirlev Linder, Elsa Moses, Charles McReynolds, Tohn Marsh, Margot Stanton, and Lola Volkoff. The theater states as its present purpose "a program of summer playing to acquaint a larger audience with the ideals of the Thea- tre and its thoroughly orieinal Ameri- can interpretation of the Moscow Art Theatre method." The patrons of the theater for the 1927 summer season are Graham Aldis of Chicaeo, Laird Bell of Winnetka, Tiffany Blake of Lake Forest, Augus- tus A. Carpenter of Lake Forest, Percy B. Eckhart of Kenilworth, Charles Hamill and William Stanton Monroe of Chicago, and James Porter of Hubbard Woods.