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EE ----.--_ er -- ---- 24 WINNETKA TALK July 16, 1927 Hold Children's Midsummer Frolic of 1927 on July 26 North Shore Women on Sponsor List for Annual Frolic BY JEAN TEN BROECK Summer time and garden time seem ideally time. Again this season, with a garden background for the alluring figures who will come to life from the story book page, a chil- dren's midsummer frolic will be staged Tuesday, July 26, at 3:30 o'clock, at "Bluff Edge," 915 Sheridan road, Hub- bard Woods, the home of Mrs. Doug- las Smith. The event will be given by the National Kindergarten and Ele- mentary college. Hardly a person of feminine per- suasion is impervious to the appeal of entertainments for children, or to the charm of story lore. The quoted an- nouncement which follows tells of the events more in detail and gives the names of those on the north shore who are aiding in the arrangements for this event for children. "All who attended last year's frolic given at 'Craigie Lea' the home of Mrs. Andrew MacLeish in Glencoe, will welcome the announcemnt of this equally lovely Frolic of 1927. The gar- dens of 'Bluff Edge,' overlooking the lake, will be a very beautiful setting for so lovely an entertainment, and grown folks as well as children, with the first news of another frolic, are planning to celebrate midsummer re- union with groups of friends. "Miss Margaret Farrar of the col- lege faculty, who produced and pre- sented last summer's most successful frolic, has a very delightful plan for this year's entertainment. '"The Fairy Lady with her magic wand will lead her guests through the realm of Story Land, always so full of the lure of the unexpected. Friends old and new, Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit and Mr. MacGregor, the Three Bears, and many others, will appear upon the greensward to gladden with song and dance. A tale within a tale this will be, woven together in an al- together delightful fashion. - "Attractive posters announcing the frolic are to be seen in each of our north shore towns. Tickets are on sale at the college office, 2770 Sheridan road, Evanston, telephone Greenleaf 221. "Among the governing board mem- bers who are sponsoring the frolic and assisting with publicity and the sale of tickets are: Mesdames Douglas Smith, Andrew MacLeish, Frederick Scott, Philip D. Armour, III, Fred A. Cus- caden, B. F. Langworthy, Merritt Starr, Mary Juliette Cooper, E. J. Buffington, Frank J. Bersbach, Landon Hoyt, Harry Byram, P. W. Bradstreet, William Marsh Burns, C. S. Bigelow, Harry Lay, Albert H. Veeder, Lloyd Hollister, Theodore Coyne, Fred Kin- gore, Harry Phillips, Charles Cart- wright, George Groves, C. P. Dubbs, Walter Marx, Fred Meyer, Albert E. Peirce, Fred D. Porter, Albert H. Ulrich, Arthur H. Woodward, Alfred Alschuler, Otto Barnett, Jesse B. Al- ton, Wellington Coolidge, George Tomlinson, and Miss Madeline Fore- man, Miss Louise Lovedale, and Miss Katherine Beebe." children's Entertain for Visitor Miss Virginia Hobart of 660 Pine street was® hostess at the Indian Hill club Wednesday for luncheon and bridge in honor of Miss Donita Fergu- son of New York City, who is a class- mate of Miss Hobart at the Ethel Walker school. June Bride and Her Wedding Attendants [ Photo by Reick Miss Winifred Bilsland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Bilsland of Wilmette, became the bride of High Mackellar Robinson of Chicago Wed- nesday evening, June 29. She had as her attendants, a matron of honor, Mrs. Harry Donaldson, a maid of honor, Miss Virginia Croft of Chicago, and brides- maids, Miss Jane Ridgeway of Kenilworth, Miss Laura Emily Slosson of Hub- bard Woods, Miss Elizabeth Becker of Minneapolis, and Miss Dorothy Shackle- ford of Frankfort, Ky. Parties Precede Wedding of Miss Frances Rising Among the affairs being given in honor of Miss Frances Rising of Ev- anston, whose marriage to Arthur Burnam Durham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Durham of 431 Abbottsford road, Kenilworth, is to take place July 23, are three of particular inter- est. Wednesday of last week Miss Evelyn Olson of 726 Ninth street, Wilmette, was hostess at a hosiery shower. The little niece and nephew of the hostess were masters of cere- monies, as they presented to the bride- elect the basket containing the con: tents of the shower. Bridge was then played. Miss Emilie Durham gave a kitchen shower at her home in Kenil- worth Wednesday, and Friday evening, July 22, Miss Rising's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Rising, will give the' bridal dinner at the Orrington hotel. Mrs. Brainerd Albright of Evanston, sister of Miss Rising, will be her ma- tron of honor. Miss Iska Morgan of Evanston and Miss Emilie Durham of Kenilworth, sisters of the bridegroom, will be bridesmaids. Frances and Marian Beeler, little Winnetka twins, will be flower girls. Brainerd Albright will act as best man and the ushers are to be Walter Mead of Wisconsin Rapids, brother- in-law of the bridegroom, and Jerry Cope of Champaign, fraternity brother of Mr. Durham. The ceremony will be performed at Westmoreland Country club at 8:30 o'clock, with a reception and dancing following. Guests at Ravinia The Winnetka committee for Ra- vinia entertained forty-one girls and two teachers from the Park Ridge School for Girls at Ravinia Park July 7. About thirteen of the members went up to serve the box luncheons and take the girls to the children's concert that afternoon. Last Month's Bride Photo by Reick Mrs. Lewis Hinsdale Withey, II, be- fore her marriage on June 11, was Miss Elizabeth Arney Clore, daughter of Mrs. Wallace Bondurant Clore of Win- netka. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie S. Gordon of 38 Indian Hill road are entertaining at the diner-dance at the Indian Hill club tonight in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mercer, who were formerly residents of Glencoe and who now live in Winter Park, Fla. Miss Elizabeth Boyden entertained at luncheon in her home at 725 Pine street yesterday in honor of Miss Frances Parker of Rye, N. Y., who ar- rived Wednesday to be a guest for ten "days in the Boyden home. '| Charming Artist Gives Program at Skokie on Sunday BY RUTHEDA L. PRETZEL Once in awhile an artist is made who has the perfect setting for her talent, beauty, charming personality, and intelligent: dramatic ability. Miss Lorna Doone Jackson, contralto of the Chicago Civic Opera company, who gave a program last Sunday afternoon at the Skokie Country club is such an artist. Her voice is beautifully adapt- ed to every phase of the emotions, it has no "corners," and (praise be!) she does not sing flat. Her good enuncia- tion, and her wise plan of giving the story or raison d'etre of each song before she sings it, complete the pic- ture. She was ably supported by her accompanist, Miss Violet Bradley. In Tschaikowsky's "Farewell, ye Hills," from "Jeanne d'Arc," Miss Jackson's tone was smooth and rich, with the intensity of religious fervor, sadness and courage coloring it. "Plaisir d'amour," by Martin, from the classic Italian school, and Sanderson's "Quiet" again revealed a full, luscious quality. As a contrast she sang an old Italian folk song, "La Girometta," by Libella, which was very saucy and sweet. The last of the group was a song written by St. Leger, one of the conductors of the Chicago Civic Opera company, for Miss Jackson, "Joy." Needless to say, Miss Jackson swept it out with joyousness and exhiliration. As an encore, she gave the old musical comedy favorite, "My Hero," from "The Chocolate Soldier." Two songs from the American opera "Shanewis" by the American composer Cadman, made up the next group. In "For Half a Thousand Years," Miss Jackson brought out the despair and the scathing denunciation of the In- dian girl for the white race. "The Spring Song of the Robin Woman," which is based on an old Indian legend, and which ends with a thrilling tribal song, was done with great elasticity and grace. It was a good argument for American opera. Miss Bradley followed this group by playing Dohnannyi's "Rhapsody in F Sharp Minor," but refused to acknow- ledge the applause with more than a bow. For her last group, Miss Jackson ap- peared in the picturesque costume she wears as "Carmen" in the opera of that name. She sang "Habanera" with all the cajolery, the threatening, and pleading of the "immortal flirt," mak- ing her entirely irresistible. Then she showed the sombre, sullen side of "Carmen" in "Air des Cartis." The last of the group was an Andalusian folk song by Valverde, "Clavelitos," which was very vivacious. Miss Jack- son's encores were "Lesson of the Fan," "The April Fool," and the comi- cal story of an owl who wanted to win a sweetheart, but found a heavy rain made him "Too wet to woo." Give Dinner for Bride The Misses Joan and Ellen Stuart, daughters of Mr and Mrs. John Stuart of Sheridan road, Hubbard Woods, are entertaining tonight at the Indian Hill club dinner-dance, in honor of Miss Mari Smith and Scott Bromwell of Lake Forest, whose marriage is to take place in the near future. There will be about thirty guests. Among those who are having parties at the Indian Hill club this evening are Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Biddle of 290 Forest avenue, who are entertaining in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Kendall of Kansas City, Mo., whe are to be in Chicago for the week-end.