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16 WINNETKA TALK June 25, 1927 Register 680 Pupils in New Trier Summer School | The summer session at New High school is now in full swing, ac- cording to Wesley L: Brown, principal of the summer school, and since the completion of preliminary adjustments | found necessary when classes convened | is oper- | for the first time on Monday, ating smoothly. Registration now totals 680 pupils; seventy-five in advance of last year's enrollment, which constitutes a 12% percent increase. An attitude of genuine interest in the classes on the part of the students is to be noticed, according to Mr. Brown, due particu- larly to the fact that most of the pu- pils enrolled are attending on their own volition and are eager to get into the work. Mrs. S. F. McKenney of 752 Foxdale avenue returned Tuesday from De- troit, where she had gone with her «daughter, Dr. Rosamond McKenney, her son, Rev. Luke McKenney, and Miss Margaret Connelly. They left her to go by boat to Buffalo. with her brother, Dr. J. U. Gallagher. Trier | 'RAVINIA BECKONS TO PATRONS OF THE OPERA World Renowned Summer Opera Season Opens Sixteenth year Saturday Evening, June 25 The centered upon Ravinia, for the sixteenth opera and con- Saturday night, June 25, thus again making this cele- brated spot the capital of the music world. From this time until the first Monday of September this sylvan eyes of music lovers are now | season of Ravinia certs will begin on opera house will be a place of pilgrim- | age, visited daily by thousands come to satiate their thirst for the best in| (on he proclaimed Ravinia opera and music. Thus it is every year, and that this interest is growing constantly and steadily is apparent even to the most casual observer. Ravinia holds a place of its own among the greatest of the artistic institutions, for it functions during those summer months when p i Mrs. | musical activity elsewhere is generally McKenney stayed in Detroit one day | at a standstill, and here, night after night, is presented major grand opera | season, by a galaxy of the most widely known singer-actors. Ample proof of the position Ravinia occupies in the regard of those who recognize the importance of opera in | the cultural life of the nation has been furnished on many occasions by those who may rightly be considered lead- ers in this great form of art. Last for instance, and the season before, Otto H. Kahn, international vanker, chairman of the board of di- rectors of the Metropolitan Opera com- pany, New York, and generous patron of the arts, made a special trip from New York to Chicago that he might, as the guest of Louis Eckstein, who has made Ravinia opera possible, at- tend these performances, and address- ing those who, like himself, had been drawn hither by the love of music, he sounded the keynote of the situation | concerts as an institution which is per- | forming a wonderful mission by its contribution to the advancement and appreciation of one of the highest arts known to civilized man. Daring Institution Ravinia is a daring institution, for, season after season, it dares to present ten weeks and three days of grand WINNETKA FOLKS By C. R. Patchen helpful merchandise. : 750 Elm Street US GO DOWN T¢ COMMUNI TX, se) RIACY -AND HAVE A ICE CREAM | SoDA/ A Confections for all. 1 Get acquainted. 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There is an ancient and homely bit of philosophy regarding a man who made a mouse trap, but made it better than the mouse traps of his fellows. The world soon wore a path to his door. How pertinently this applies to Ravinia, and it is bound to come to mind, as one observes the thousands of music lovers who flock from Chicago and its suburbs, as indeed they flock from nearly every state in the Union and from some foreign countries, to the Ravinia opera house, so appropriately designated as "The Opera House in the Woods." They come by steam road, by electric line, by motor -- a throng of devotees seeking to pay homage to a sublime art at one of its chosen shrines. There is nothing dis- tinctly of the middle-west in this -- the middle-west of level fields filled with yellowing grain. There is nothing of Chicago in it--not the Chicago that the world knows best as a bee-hive of industry, the hub of a hundred rail- roads, a city of iron and steel and of vast commercial enterprises. Ravinia brings to light another phase of life as it is lived here in America. [t is the aesthetic, the artistic, the cul- tural bent of the people that is re- flected, as wrapt in the joy of antici- pation they come to drink their fill of music that is soul-satisfying. Mr. Eck- stein holds to the opinion that life de- void of the artistic things is a sordid and sorry affair; that every man, re- gardless of ideas born of years of prosaic humdrum, has within him a craving for the finer and better things. That craving may be satisfied at Rav- inia. As one beholds the crowds as they make their way through the massive gates of the beautiful grounds in which the Ravinia Opera House is enshrined, as he observes them as they sit spell- bound in the presence of the world's greatest singers, and as they listen to the master works of the ages, an- other thought comes to mind--and this that the American people are rapidly becoming a musical people. In sixteen years Ravinia has worked so many miracles that one must wonder how so much could have been accom- pliished in so short a time. During the comparatively short span of its life Ravinia has acquired a tradition--an individual tradition, if you will, that clings to it in a manner which sym- bolizes the tenacity of its purpose. Be- cause of the fineness of its achieve- ments, because of its many unique fea- tures, because it has always maintained better known in Europe than in Amer- itself at the highest standard of ex- cellence, it has almost from the first been recognized as a world center of art. There were years when it was ica, outside of its own immediate com- munity, for its fame was carried aboard by the artists who had been on its ros- ter, and by music lovers who had at- tended its performances. Tradition has heretofore not played an important part in American music, but Ravinia, by reason of its unusualness, invites customs of the kind that go down in an unwritten history. Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Mitten of 562 Hill terrace, with their children, leave July 1, for Delavan, Wis., where they will visit Mrs. Mitten's mother, Mrs. C. B. Moore. They expect to be gone a month. --Cpe-- The H. P. Clark family of 958 Spruce street left Monday for Cambridge, Mass., where they will remain until late in August.