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WINNETKA TALK October 9, 1926 ie BS News of the North Shore Clubs "Swi load Heads of Local Clubs Guests at District Meeting Mrs. William F. Farrell, president of the Tenth district, I. F. W. C. will pre- side at the first meeting of the board at 10 o'clock, Wednesday, October 13, at the North End club, 6200 Sheridan road, Chicago. Plans for the year will be outlined by the department chairmen in three minute talks, and this will be followed by remarks from presidents of the lo- cal clubs of the district, each giving her ideas of the work of her individual club in connection with the district. Mrs. Farrell will entertain the board members at luncheon, following the business session. The officers of the district for the year 1926-1927 are: Mrs. William F. Farrell, president; Mrs. I. I. Winters, Highland Park first vice president; Mrs. W. W. Lill, Kenilworth, second vice president; Mrs. John S. Whyte, Waukegan, recording secretary; Mrs. Jeris 0. Newton, Chicago, correspond- ing secretary; Mrs. Henry W. Price, Evanston, treasurer: Mrs. G. 3: Munch, Lake Bluff, county president, Lake County. Winnetka Music Club Holds Meeting Monday The first meeting of the Winnetka Music club will be held Monday, Oc- tober 11, at the home of Mrs. C. E. Karstrom of Barrington, Ill. Mrs. Karstrom, a member of the club, has left the village and is making her home in Barrington. meeting will begin at 12:30 o'clock with a luncheon to be followed by the program. Mrs. Karstrom will take part in the program by singing. Mrs. Laurence L. Doty, 467 Linden street will be a guest-pianist, and Mrs. Julian Clay Risk, 787 Foxdale avenue, will be a guest soprano. Mrs. Charles Byron, a member of the club will give a piano program, and Mrs. Valona Brewer will play the violin. The Music club has announced the first artist of its artist-recital series as Tito Schipa. Tea Opens Fall Season for La Petite Causerie La Petite Causerie of Glencoe opened its fall meetings with a tea on Wednesday afternoon, October 6, at 3 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Auguste C. Babize, 484 Sheridan road, Glencoe. Distinguished guests were invited for the afternoon. A one-act play in French, "Rosalie," was presented by three of the mem- bers. The three characters, "Madame Bol," "Monsieur Bol," and "Rosalie" are to be taken by Rutheda L. Pretzel, Mrs. Whitman Taylor, and Miss In- geborg Lincoln, respectively. Mrs. Robert Moulton, chairman of the music for the coming year, has arranged folk songs for the first fea- ture. The Kentucky Society of Evanston and the North Shore will hold its next meeting Tuesday afternoon, October 12, at 2:30 o'clock, at the Edgewater Beach hotel. Mrs. Roy Lunde of Chi- cago will appear on the program to give a musical reading. The hostesses on this occasion will be Mrs. R. L Hall, Mrs. Henry Bamford, Mrs. J. J. Mulligan, Mrs. H. P. Clement and Mrs. David Fiske. Mrs. Eugene J. Buffing- ton of Evanston is the society's presi- Anticipate Meeting of Voters' League Monday Winnetka women are rapidly mak- ing reservations for the opening meet- ing of the Winnetka League of Wo- men Voters on Monday, October 11. The privilege of hearing Max Mason, president of the University of Chicago, is attracting the attention of the league, alumnae of the University of Chicago and those especially interested in education, it is announced. _ The reception in the Camp Fire room in Community House will afford a splendid opportunity for guests to meet personally this distinguished guest of the Winnetka league. Those women not receiving reg- istration cards are requested to call Mrs. Eugene Rummler, Winnetka 1097. Catholic Woman's Lensue Commences Season on Tuesday The North Shore Catholic Woman's leacue will open its year's program with a most interesting meeting on October 12, at the Winnetka Woman's club, assembly room, at 2:30 o'clock. Ethel M. Colson-Brazelton of news- paper fame will speak on "Walking the Plank." Mrs. Rrazelton was for- merly dramatic critic on the Herald- Examiner, and has recently been liter- arv critic for the Chicago Evening Post. A musical program to be given by Loretto Leidell, soprano, will follow the address. Aside from the recular meetings held once a month, the league holds other meetings of value to those inter- ested in literature and social service work. Meeting at the homes of various members. Mrs. Anthony French Mer- rill will give Book talks once a month durino the season. The dates of these will ba announced later; but it is ex- pected that they will begin in October. The sncial service monthly meetings are conducted in the same way, meet- ines to be held at the homes of mem- bers, whose names can be found in the year book. The league will be guided this vear hv an outstanding group of officers who are arranging stimulating meet- ines. Mre. William E. Brown of Win- netka, will serve as oresident, Mrs James J. Enright of Glencoe, first vice nrecident, Mrs. F. T. O'Brien of Win- netka, second vice president, Mrs. William Schildegen of Evanston. third vice president, Mrs Frederick Hubsch of Winnetka, recording secretary, Mrs. Leo T. Hillman of Glencoe corres- pondine secretary, Mrs. A. E. Tilroe of Winnetka. financial secretary, Mrs. Frederick Albrecht of Winnetka, treasurer. The Current Events club will hold its next meeting at the home of Mrs. Tesse Ray, 472 Elder lane, on Friday, Octo- her 15. at 2 o'clock. The club looks for a large attendance, for the reports of the summer meetings and outings will be given. --C-- A meetine of the art chairmen of the Tenth district of Illinois Federa- tion of Women's clubs will meet on Friday, October 15. at 10:30, in the Winnetka Woman's club. Mrs. John Vennema, 849 Willow road. Winnetka. is chairman of the Tenth district of the federation. Book Review at Club The Winnetka Woman's club opened its season October 5, with a most de- lightful luncheon at which a very large part of the membership was present. Mrs. Marcus Richards was luncheon chairman. Later a very interesting program, presided over by Mrs. Arthur W. Cushman, the new president, was given under the direction of the art and lit- erature committee, with Mrs. Ernest S. Ballard as chairman. Four mem- bers of the club, Mrs. James Porter, Mrs. I. H. G. Bouscaren, Mrs. Wil- liam Dow Harvey and Mrs. Laird Bell, gave reviews of their summer reading. Mrs. Bouscaren was first, with an appreciation of "Beau Sabreur." She gave interesting information about the author, P. G. Wren, an Englishman, an Oxford graduate, "a major in the British service, with experience in France's Foreign Legion and in the Sahara, which he so vividly pictures. It is a book of gorgeous adventure with a fine accuracy in its setting. One curious thing is the author's facility with American slang. Mrs. James Porter came next, with three interesting biographies, not all new, but each significant. She had found pleasure in reading and con- trasting "Letters and Memories of Jane Welsh Carlyle," a new "Bio- graphy of Edgar Allen Poe" and "A Century of Family Letters" by Emma Darwin, wife of the great Charles. Mrs. Porter's talk gave fascinating glimpses of the everyday life of these great and peculiar ones. The Life of Poe by Joseph Wood Krutch is done in a very modern and psvchoanalytic manner. It is a study of the strange abnormality of the man and of the forces which both wrecked his life and gave his ex- pression. Then came Mrs. Laird Bell, who has read much drama this summer with an eye to reproducing it on the north shore. The plays must be stimulating, interesting, playable novelties to the north shore, and not held up by copy- right. She reviewed Somerset Maug- ham's "Caesar's Wife," A. A. Milne's "Ariadne," a piece from the Italian, "The Pleasure of Honor," which suf- fers in translation, Noel Coward's "I'll Leave It to You" and Isben's "Wild Duck." This last work she de- cided, is very modern and playable. Then came a Czecho-Slovakian piece about "The Insect World," which reads well, but presents insurmountable dif- ficulties in finding north shore players who will be willing to spend nights re- hearsing the "fourth butterfly," the "second bee," or the "fiftieth ant." Not much is coming out of Ireland now, but Mrs. Bell found two plays of interest, "Juno and the Haycock" and "Autumn Fires." Then--she re-read Shake- speare's "Henry the Eighth" and was surprised to find what a good play it still is! As for current American plays, she finds them devoted to sordid real- ism and sex. She illustrated with a bit from "A Man's Man," popular in New York, and almost the winner of the Pulitzer prize. Mrs. Harvey was last, with a review of the four books which she said had constituted her entire summer's read- ing. She had raised the question, "why must a person who had read only four books be called on to review them for the Woman's club?" and had re- ceived encouragement from the reply of the distracted chairman, "Go ahead, they're not very highbrow anyhow." Winnetka League to Have Speakers at Circles in October The Speakers' bureau of the Win- netka League of Women Voters, with Mrs. Ralph S. Childs as director, has scheduled speakers for the October meetings of the Winnetka circles. The speakers will touch briefly upon the importance of voting at the coming election and will explain the proposed tax amendment. In explaining this amendment, they will present the arguments for and against the amend- ment and the reasons why the Illinois league is endorsing the bill. The sched- ule for the speakers follows: October 8--Mrs. Walter Benson, Winnetka Heights circle, Mrs. W. P. Heyn, 1024 Fig street, hostess; October 12--Mrs. Carrie B. Prouty, Scott Avenue circle, Mrs. William Kurtz, 1229 Scott avenue, hostess; Mrs. John Montgomery, Lincoln Ave- nue circle, Mrs. John Norling, 744 Prospect avenue, hostess; Mrs. Edwin E. Brown, Cherry Street circle, Mrs. Harry Cadenhead, 414 Prospect ave- nue, hostess; Mrs. Edwin E. Brown, Willow Street circle, Mrs. Charles Pat- terson, 370 Walnut street, hostess; Mrs. George Levy, Oak Street circle, Mrs. George Feuchtinger, 947 Oak street, hostess; Mrs. George Levy, East Elm Street circle, Mrs. M. Leigh, 513 Walnut street, hostess; Mrs. Gross Williams, New Trier circle, Mrs. Sher- man Orwig, 921 Greenwood avenue, Wilmette, hostess ; Mrs. Gross Williams, Rosewood circle, Mrs. Frank Stover, 1183 Tower road, hostess; Mrs. J. J. Sampson, Hawthorn Lane circle, Mrs. W. R. English, 374 Hawthorn lane, hostess; October 13--Mrs. Samuel McCaulley, West Elm Street circle, Mrs. E Weissenberg, 965 Elm street, hostess; Mrs Gross Williams, Indian Hill circle; Mrs. Arthur Bryson, 182 Myrtle street, hostess; Mrs. Gross Williams, Ash Street circle, Mrs. William Sauer, 1022 Ash street, hostess; October 14--Mrs. Samuel McCaulley, Pine Street circle, Mrs. Henry Carry- Curr, 1051 Spruce street, hostess; October 18--Mrs. George Levy, Ridge Avenue circle, Mrs. Frank Plow- man, 421 Linden street, hostess; October 25--Mrs. Robert Mehren, Walden Road circle, Mrs. Emil Olsen, 1000 Vine street, hostess. Mrs. Edwin E Brown addressed the Woman's Society of the Congrega- tional church October 6, and will do so again October 20. Mrs. Robert Mehren will give a talk before the North Shore Catholic Woman's league October 12. "The Great Valley" by Mary John- ston, Mrs. Harvey said was too good to be interesting. It has, however, one big scene and a memorable ending. "We Must March" by Mrs. Morrow, takes liberties with some of the pion- eers of the Oregon country, but it is interesting fiction, imaginatively his- torical, so to speak. "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" is scholarly and above reproach historically, it is a lesson for husbands,--not to treat their wives too well. "Mantrap" by Sinclair Lewis is good entertainment, though not as convincing as "Main Street" and "Babbit."