Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Mar 1929, p. 19

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March 1, 1929 WILMETTE Skokie Reds Forge ~ Near Final Round At the Neighbors in Cage Tourne}' ..___________. · The Skokie Reds basketball team defeated the Murphy-Ward quintet, one of the favorites for the championship in the Chicago open basketball tourna: ment at the Hippodrome Tuesday night. The score was 23 to 20. Paletti with nine point'.; and Whitsett with eight were the leading scorers for the Reds. The victory over the Murphy- Ward team was the second for the Skok·ie Reds in the open tournament. Last Saturday they whipped the Jesse Billard'_, five, 33 to 25. The Reds \vere scheduled to play the Trinity \Vapaus at 8 o'clock last 1;ight, and hoped to go through to the finals · of · the tournament if they came through this game succe.;sfullv. The Trinity Wapaus team was recognized as one of the strongest entered in the tuornament. I LIFE .19 By P. H. Since the last publication of the Wilmette Life the Neighbors of Kenilworth have ·h ad two very interesting department meetings, the first of these occurring last Friday at' the home of Mrs. Tom Dix on Oxford road, when Mrs. Esther Harcourt gave a dramatic rendition of Barrie's "Twelve Pound. Look" with a brief survey of contemporary English writers and playwrights. It was a very interesting program and was well attended especially when it happened to fall on ' the morning of a holiday. The next meeting will be on Friday. l\{arch 8, at the home of Mrs. B. C. Dowse, Leicester road. when Mrs. Harcourt will take up Spanish literature. The other department meeting was the recently organizlCd garden study department. In this time when every woman is interested in gardening, and the two garden clubs of Kenilworth are necessarilv limited in their numrs. it ,~·a s suggested that ber of membea department for earnest study of gardens be established. This would give all members of ·the Neighbors a chance to have this needed study and interest. The department met at the home of Mrs. Arthur Ruf on Cumnor road, on Tuesday morning of this week. Mrs. Anne Higgenson Spicer who is one of the real moving c; pirits in this garden club developement in Ilt: nois, gave a most instructive. helpful and interesting talk illustrated with chalk drawings . on the "Formal and Tnformal Small Garden." Announcement of the next meeting will he made later. The next regular meeting of the Neighbors will occur Tuesdav, March 5. At the regular hour. The prog-ram will he in charge of the art and literature department and wilt he J!iven h" Miss F. lea nor Perkins. Miss Perkins - will give a review to a number of recent novels. ... 1 . '( I Horowitz Playing Nightly for You! Horowitz' vtstts to Chicago are infrequent. Yet he is never absent from homes possessing an AudioGraphic Duo-Art. Through it, all his musical genius is. portrayed in living perfection. . Ernau Akely Appears in Lecture Recital at Club By M. R. H. · ... I I I At the morning meeting of the V\Toman's club of Wilmette on Wednes day, Mrs. Ernau Akely gave a delightful ·lecture-recital on American compo,;ers. She began by playing · a briiJiant "Etude" for the left hand bv Arthur Foote, and during the recital plaved lyric numbers by Gottschalk and Ne~in . concluding with three splendidly rendered compositions of MacDowell. For variety she played the well known "Juha Dance." as representative of a eolored composer: Charle'.; Wakefield Cadman's "To a Vanishing Race": and ··Min net It alien." hy one of the hcst known of American women composers. Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. Her last group was hy Chicago com pu.'crs: a concert Etude by MacFavden, a charming hit hy John Alden Carpenter. and a ,,Jhimsi~al and amulc;ing llUrJbcr by Madame Sturkow-Ryder. "Antics," which was inspired by the graceful movements of a kitten. "Antics" was dedicated to Mrs. Akcly bv the compo,;cr. - The World's Famous Pianists Play for Duo-Art Alone Almost every pianist of world renown during · the past ten years has recorded his playing for the A udioGraphic Duo-Art alone. At I.Jyon & Healy's this wonderful means of artist reproduction is embodied in the moderat~ly priced Stroud and in the glorious Steinway itself. Dates of Exclusive Affiliation Horowitz, 1927 Hofmann. 1918 Paderewski, 1922 Ganz, 1918 Grainger, 1917 Cortot, 1918 Ravel, 1920 Stravinsky, 1924 Friedman, 1920 . Schelling, 1921 Myra. Hess, 1920 N ovaes, 1919 Bachaus, 1923 Bauer, 1917 Powell, 1919 Wilmette Librarians at Regional Meeting Today Mi·,;s Anne L. Whitmack and Miss Winifred Bright, of the Wilmette library, planned to attend a regional library conference being held today at Evanston. "Bringing the Library to the Attention of the Adult Reader" was to be one of the topics discussed at the morning session. Thi'5 afternoon the librarians attending tht conference wilt visit the school libraries in Evanston. and will be guest·s at a te.a given by the Evanston Public Lihn.ry hoard at 4 o'clock. Similar regional library conferences will be held at the follo,~~,: ing Illinois cities during March ~nd April: Peoria, Alton, Decatur Macomb, Gilman, Mount Carmel, Carbondale, Sterling, Peru, and Kewanee. ANDREW BOYD DIES Andrew Boyd, 506 Fifth street, \Vilmette, died of heart trouble Sunda,·. February 25, at the home of his daughter in Milwaukee. Mr. Bovtl was proprietor of the Kenilwor-th !\1eat market for many years. Miss Eloise Smith. daughter of Mr. :tnd Mrs. Julian C. Smith, 1170 Michigan a venue, and Miss Betty Alder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alder, 931 Greenwood ave111,1e, left last Fridav for California with Miss Smith's aunt, ·u rs. Byron Sonsthagen of Manitowoc, \Vis.. to he gone about six weeks. T --o- Sevcnth and eighth grade girls of TEACHERS PLAY VOLLEYBALL the .T oseph Scars school, Kenilworth . Teachers of the Stolp ·,;chool have arc scheduled to meet the alumnae in a basketball game to. be played in. the organized volley ball teams, and the new memorial gymnasium of the first game will be played next Wednesday. school this Friday night, March 1. AT OUR EVANSTON STORE Lyon&Healy 615 Davis St. 4 Artcraft Bldg.

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