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MMIII WINNETKA TALK April 14, 1928 Fourth Annual Art League Exhibit Opens at Orrington Members' Banquet Begins Interesting Art League Display By ELIZABETH NEIDLINGER Perhaps it's because the North Shore Art league was forced, by limited space, to have a committee of selection for this year's exhibit, that the fourth annual exhibit is of an unusually high order. A banquet opened the affair last evening. The portraits in an exhibit usually receive the first attention. One of the most attractive in this group is Frances Buell Mullen's large painting of "Miss Merryweather." Mrs. Mullen has another portrait, one of Mrs. E. W. J. Holden. Elizabeth Boldenweck has an amusing study of twins, "Nancy and Elizabeth." Another amusing painting is Edna May Johansen's "Practice," showing a boy at the piano, his dog asleep at his feet. The composition and technique of this picture make it one of the most delightful. Leslie Raymond Nash has a nice oil that he calls "Girl in Furs" Cora Gould Davies exhibits two interesting por- traits that show fine technique. A splashy, effective canvas is "Spanish Girl," by Harold Clark. James Cady Ewell also has a striking portrait. Others are exhibited by Elizabeth Millard, Maria K. Gallagher, Irma A. Keehn, and Pauline Graf Dayis. Carol Lou Burnham has one called "Slum- ber," done in her own striking manner. Several attractive landscapes are offered in the exhibit, One of the finest is a large canvas done by Allen Philbrick using, largely, gorgeous blues and lavenders. Marguerite Calkins Taylor and W. T. Jones show two landscapes each. Edna R. Cook has a charming, quaint, "Lincoln Street." Helen J. Taylor's "Road at Rocky- neck" has lovely, auiet coloring and nice composition. "A Corner of the Courtyard," shown by Grace P. Brion, has fine lines. A brilliant, splashy pic- ture is Mrs. Bertha Glass' "The Harbor, Gloucester." FEleanor Hatch's "Yellow House" has a lovely effect of sunlight. Wilford Barton shows two, "Spring Awakening" and "September on the Skokie." The Skokie theme is also used in a nice sketch by Irma Keehn, showing our Skokie valley. Helen J. Taylor has a restful nicture of the dock at Gloucester, and Uintah Shippen's "Sunshine in the Woods" has the same restful quality. Edna Cook has a colorful "At the Ford" and Anita Willetts Burnham has an attractive "Decoration" F. M. Wheeler's "A Break in the Clouds" is a lovely sea-scape, with beautiful col- oring. R. Fayerweather Babcock's "Canoe Land" also has gorgeous colors. A most unusual painting, with a strik- ing use of colors, is Alice Mae Jack- son's "Departure of the Fleet." Hugo von Hofsten shows "Winter Evening, Sweden," a lovely thing, with a rosy glow from the setting sun. Pauline Graf has an amusing large canvas, with much color and action, which she calls "The Circus." Kate Bacon Bond shows a case of the exquisite miniatures, without which no North Shore league exhibit would be complete. { Grace M. Haskins has a strikingly beautiful flower study. Rene Lavenant has one in brilliant colors called "Aca- cia and Other Things." Anita Willetts Burnham and Uintah Shippen have attractive flower paintings. Harold Clark's "Freesias" is done with more freedom than is usual with flower studies, and is quite striking. Mrs. C. H. Dennis has an amusing parrot, with lovely coloring in the parrot and the flowers. "Romance," a delicate, delightful still life, is painted by Mrs. Helena Chase Johnson. . . To Open Log House for Benefit Will Give Dinners Preceding Lecture Sydnie Smith Cooley will open her home, "The Log House," Hubbar Woods, for a benefit bridge given for the scholarship fund of Iota Alpha chapter of Mu Phi Honorary Musical sorority, Wednesday afternoon, April 18, at 2 o'clock. Marian Chase Schaeffer, reader, will entertain, and tea will be served. Sylvia Bargman Wentworth, president, and Mrs. Cooley are in charge of reservations. on Contract Bridge Charles Adams' lecture on contract bridge, to be given Tuesday evening, April 24, at the Winnetka Woman's club, will be quite a social affair, with several dinner parties preceding it. . Among the hostesses will be Mrs. Wyndham Channer, Mrs. Raymond Durham, Mrs. William S. Elliott, Mrs. Frank Blatchford, Mrs. Warren Craw- ford and Mrs. Ernest Ballard. The tickets are already three-fourths sold, and those interested in learning to play contract are urged by the committee to apply immediately to avoid disappointment. The space is limited, and the committee refuses to crowd the room. An entire row of tables has been taken out to provide an aisle and extra space, the committee explaining that, "Gentlemen are invit- ed, and they take up so much room that we won't make them uncomfor- table by crowding." Mrs. Godfrey Atkin, who may be called at Winnetka 1353, has taken charge of the ticket sales, and has assisting her Mrs. Blatchford, Mrs. Durham, Mrs. Elliott, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Langdon Pierce, Mrs. Robert Laird, Mrs. Ralph Hobart, Mrs. Charles Coffin, Mrs. William G. Wool- folk, Mrs. Walter Strong, Mrs. T. K. Webster, Mrs. William Bacon, Mrs. John Lawrence, and Mrs. Oliver Knode. Announce Engagement of Today's Debutante Mr. and Mrs, Towner K. Webster, Jr., of 696 Prospect avenue, Winnetka, announce the engagement of their q daughter, Elizabeth Jane, to Sturte- vant Hinman, son of Mrs. George Wheeler Hinman of 567 Oak street, also of Winnetka. Miss Webster is attending Connecticut college, New London, Conn. Mr. Hinman graduated from the University of Wisconsin in To Give Studio Tea Anita Willetts Burnham is to be at home to teachers of the Winnetka schools and her other friends at a studio tea and an exhibition of her foreign sketches Wednesday afternoon, April 18. The occasion is to be what the hostess terms a "house cooling," as she, with her husband and their three children, are leaving their log cabin home at 1407 Tower road, Winnetka, April 21, to sail on a two years' jaunt around the world. Luncheon Hostess Miss Adele Kanaley of 682 Ardsley road entertained thirty friends at a luncheon and bridge party Thursday at her home. She and her sister, Au- drey, are spending the spring vacation with their parents, Mr, and Mrs. Byron V. Kanaley. They attend Sacred Heart Convent at Lake Forest. Bon Voyage Dinner Dance The C. Colton Daughadays of 180 Chestnut street are entertaining at a bon voyage dinner dance this evening for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Greeley of 200 Chestnut street, who sail next Friday on the Cunarder, Tuscania, for six weeks in Europe. Elizabeth Engelhard has two charm- ing studies of babies. Julia Ricketts has done a fine bit of work in illumi- nating a poem of Emily Dickinson. Robert Elliott has a nice sketch, "Th Lighthouse." : 1925, and from Northwestern Law school in 1927. Luncheon Last Tuesday Miss Webster is being introduced to society this afternoon at a tea dance Mrs. De Witt S. Stillman of 852 which her parents and her uncle and Oak street, Winnetka, has announced aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Strong of the engagement of her sister, Miss 1337 Tower road, are giving for her at Eleanor Ruth Holman, daughter of C. their home. Miss Mary Louise Irvine : Rockford, Ill, a school friend of L. Holman of St. Louis, to George of 4 nin ay Wheeler Olcott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Miss Webster, arrived today to be the week-end guest of Miss Webster. Harry L. Olcott of River Forest. The Aggisting announcement was made at a luncheon g., ce are Mrs. Henry Kitchell Web- party Tuesday at the Kenilworth club. ster, Mrs, Laird Bell, Mrs. Ernest Mr. Olcott is a graduate of the Ballard, Mrs. Raymond Durham, Mrs. University of Illinois with the class of Erskine Wilder, Mrs. Harold Wilder, 25. Miss Holman attended the Uni- Mrs. Buckingham Chandler, Mrs. Rob- versity school in Chicago, and later ert Biddle, Mrs. Alvin Bastien, Mrs. graduated from the Finch school in William D. Dean, Mrs. Robert E. New York City. Since her return last James, Mrs. Bruce MacLeish, and Miss fall from three years in Europe, she Alice Haugen. has made her home with a sister. A small dinner party at the Webster The wedding will probably be held home will follow the tea. The younger in June, from the new home the Still- people, friends of Miss Webster, will mans are building on Virginia avenue attend this affair, though many of Miss in Kenilworth, and into which they will Webster's friends have returned to move May 1. school, Chooses Wedding Day Announce Betrothal Saturday, June 30, has been chosen Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Bowers of by Miss Isabel Scott as the date for Los Angeles, formerly of Winnetka, her wedding to Albert Keep. The announce the engagement of their service will be read at the Winnetka daughter, Mildred, to John Tilt Arm- Congregational church and will, if the strong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy W. weather permits, be folowed by a re- Armstrong of Glencoe. Miss Bowers ception in the gardens of the bride's is a contributor to "Hit or Miss" of parents, Mr. and Mrs, Frederick Scott the Daily News, under the nom de of 175 Sheridan road, Hubbard Woods. - plume, Twist o' Smoke, the title of a Mr. Keep is the son of the late Albert book of her poems recently published Engagement Announced at Keep, II, and of Mrs. John P. Wilson by the Yale University press at New of 1516 State parkway. Haven, 4 in receiving at the tea : or