Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 May 1929, p. 35

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May 10, 1929 ' , WILMETTE LIFE 35 Bra.~h.; :Alfreda-Mattie's .ciumsy and melancholy helper, ~earletta Geer. George Seaberg, the Chicago pianist, who recently · won a contest sponsored by the Society of American Musicians, will appear in recital at Curtiss hall, Fine Arts building, Friday evening, May 17, at 8:15 o'clock, under the sponsorship of the society. Mr. Seaberg is well known in north shore towns, and especially in \Vinnetka, where he has a large class of pupils. His program is well balanced, and will give him the opportunity to demonstrate his virtuosity. He will play a Beckstein piano, sent to the hall for that occasion by the Cable· pianq company. This is the great European piano, and is considered by manv to outrank the Steinwa \·. The program wilt he as follows: .I George Seaberg, North Shore Girl Will Mallinckrodt Drama Group Pianist, to Play at Manage Purdue Play Shop Presents .Play, "Sardines" . Miss Mary Farmer of Wilmette, who As diversion from studies, the Curtis Hall May 17 enrolled at Purdue university as a Junior aDramatic club of Mallinckrodt IS sophomore in the school of home economics, has been elected costume man~ger of the Play Shop of the uniyerslty for next year. The Play Shop b a newly organized campus dramatic cl~b. which during the school year presents a group of standard plays in an effort to afford an opportunity for students to gain experience in dramatic work, and to promote interest in such work among the student body. Th~se are the only plays given for \\·h1ch the students do all the production . work, including the designing of costumes and scenery. Miss Farmer i a member of the Chi Omega sorority. She is the daughter of Mr. . and Mrs. Fred R. Farmer of 915 Elmwood avenue, \Vilmette. Partita in C' Minor Sinfonia Sarabande Bandeau Capriccio II . . Bach ·or. H. G. Smith Presides at Phi Beta Kappa Dinner Dr. Horace G. Smith, pastor of the \\"ilmette Parish Methodist church, presided at the annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa society of Northv\·estcrn university, of which he is president, last Thursday evening. The society held a dinner at the Evanston University club followed by reception at Harris hall on tht t~ vanston campus. Principal Wallace of the University of Toronto wa~ the principal speaker at the annual meeting. Mrs. Robert 0. Annin of Denver, Colo., arrived last Friday to spend the High school presented a one act play, summer with her parents, Col. and "Sardines" for the student body on Mrs. Arthur Johnson of 322 Fourteenth May 2. The stage was effectively ar- street. ranged and the players, under the directiort of Miss Frances Pearson, dramatic teacher, showed noteworthy skill. Pearletta Geer as "Alfreda," the clumsy maid, was the star of the play. There was a good deal of competition between Miss Geer and Miss Dodo, Specializing in the treatment the other comedienne in the play. of your best 'friends, the The cast was as follows: Mattie Eaton-an attractive woman of middle age-Harriet Steigleman, Anne Carroll-her fashionable guest All Call~ Receive My Personal from New York, Anna Mary Mann, Attention Lizzie Pike-whose voice is as sharp LADY ~SSISTANT as her tongue, Elsie Dodo; Lucy Wat1000 Ridge Awe. Wilmette 3347 kins-whose deafness has made of her J a quiet, wistful, little person, Ruth VBTBRIMABIAII I'BAIIK B. BRWDI . I "Dog aad Cat" Sonata, Opus III . . . . . ....... BeethoYen First movement EXHIBITION III Etude in F Major . . . . . . . . . Chopin Three Prelud s .... Chopin Scherzo, Opus 39 ......... . ..... Chopin IV Soin"e dans Granada ........ . . Debussy La Terrasse des Audi ence du Claire de Lune . . . . ... . . .. ....... . Debu~f.;Y Btude in G Sharp Minor .. Bortlde wicz Humming Dirds . . . . ... ~iemann Etude . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... .... Stra.Yinsky Etude in 'A :\Iinor .......... ::\lend lssohn On v..·ings of Song .... ::\Iend e ls~ohn-Liszt Concert Etude . . . .. . . Sternberg- a v GIVES RECITAL SUNDAY Ed\Yard Collins, pianist, will appear in recital at The Playhouse Sunday aiternoon. May 12. The program is given under auspices of Bertha Ott, Inc . HAS DRAMA ROLE Francis Hughes, son of Bishop and 1-Irs. E. H. Hughes, 941 · Sheridan road, \Yihnette, is to play one of the leading role::; in the musical comedy, "Miss \Ycsleyanna." to be presented May 17 and 18 under auspices of the Ohio \Vesleyan chapter of Phi Mu Alpha, national honorary fraternity. I · · i 636 CHURCH ST. EVANSTON

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