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14 WINNETKA TALK April 28, 1928 Sunday School Class in Visit to Chicago Ghetto Some of the boys of the senior Sun- day School class of the Winnetka Congregational church, accompanied by Dr. J. M. Garner, visited the Ghetto, the Italian quarter of Chicago last Sunday. Those who took the trip were * Bill Hughes, Kenneth Lovgren, Ted Schultz, and Gould Davies. They visited the various shops and booths in the district, and found it a good deal like a foreign country, in many respects. As in Europe, purchasing anything means arguing long enough to bring down the original outrageous price to one within the limits of one's pocketbook. The record on this trip was from $4.00 to 20c, which is not bad for the first time. Herma Logan and Emily Simpson, accompanied by S. R. Logan, principal of Skokie school, also visited the Chetto on the same day. PLAY IS SUCCESS The play given Tuesday night by the Friendship Circle at the Community House was very successful. Next Tuesday night the circle will hold its usual meeting with basketball at 8:30 Young People's Group to Hear Educational Leader Miss Vera Noyes, educational direc- tor of the Diocese of Chicago, will address the Young People's Fellowship of Christ church Sunday evening, April 29. Miss Noyes has been active in young people's work for a number of years. Her rich experience and her faith in youth make her a most in- teresting speaker. Supper will be served at 6:30 o'clock. Mis. EC Weissenberg of 965 Elm street entertained a number of friends o'clock and a social 'hour following. at bridge Thursday afternoon, April 26. smiling. { 435 Elm Street "Tidy Things Up!" 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Winn. 843-844 WINNETKA To have L F WINNETKA MUSIC CLUB REMARKABLE SUCCESS Artist-Recitals Produce Waiting List of Subscribers; Sur- plus in Exchequer Editor's note: The following is an in- teresting report submitted by Mrs. Roland D. Whitman as president of the Win- netka Music club which each winter pre- sents a series of Artist-Recitals in the New Trier auditorium. The club has achieved an unprecedented success, as indicated in the report. By Mrs. Roland D. Whitman (Annual report submitted at the meet- ing on April 23, 1928.) As Mrs. Bessie Grant has made a full statement of our finances for the past year, it will be unnecessary to go into that matter in this report. This seems a fitting time at the close of our fourth season, to cast our minds backward and contemplate a resume of the work accomplished by this com- mittee. Verily, great oaks from little acorns grow--in looking over my note-book, which I kept while I served as president, I find the following mem- orandum. of a suggestion I offered at our business meeting, held December 4, 1923, at the residence of Mrs. Ever- ett Harris. "I have this morning an- other important matter for your con- sideration. That you may not misun- derstand, let me say that I appreciate the purpose for which the club was or- ganized. Without detracting from these objects we can do, in addition, some- thing bigger and broader to our own credit and to the profit of Winnetka and the north shore. This is my sug- gestion." Then follows a description of the proposed artist series, and the memorandum continues: "I have al- ready given some thought to and dis- cussed with others the difficulties and objections to such a series. They are not as serious as they at first appear, and there are many things which favor the enterprise. "(a) The time is ripe. "(b) The high type of artist will as- sist in advertising our series. "(c) While the work will be done necessarily by a small group, the club will reap the credit. I think enthusias- tic men could be added to the com- mittee to help us in the work. "(d) All the mailing lists of the Lit- tle Symphony organization will, I think, be available to us. "(e) Any committee taking up the preliminary work, including finances, will survey the field and present ex- act information before committing us." Substantial Waiting List The foregoing is very interesting in the light of our situation to-day. We have now a substantial waiting list which steadily grows. Our series is known up and down the shore, as well as in Chicago and beyond. We have been fortunate indeed in being able to maintain an exceedingly high standard of artists. ' Criticisms, of course, there have been. It is normal and healthy that there should be. Whatever the criticisms may have been of individual concerts, the adverse comment of the thoughtful has, for the most part, been criticisms on the program presented, seldom upon the artist. Let us go back to our first year. We sold our course on the basis of three concerts and gave four. We believe that these, in conjunction with the five orchestral concerts, comprise an ade- quate musical series for the north shore suburbs. The first artist to ap- pear on our series was Louise Homer, and I can still remember the thrill with which I read the cable, so thoughtfully sent to me in Paris,--"Concert com- plete triumph." Ossip Gabrilowitsch was our pianist that first year. And we have only to read of what he is doing to-day to appreciate his great musicianship. Werrenrath gave a most enjoyable song recital, and the (Continued on Page 43)