Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Feb 1935, p. 38

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of Junior ýLeague, Enchants. Audience Grown-ups and children are throngigto he Grand Opera bouse, -Chicago,"these Saturday mornings to see ýthe .junior egue'S presentation of' "Snow Wite and; the Seven' Dwarf s," of which there are to be two more perfoirmancs--on Febru- ay9 and February .16. When I saw the play 1l.ast'Saturdaýy the, audiencelas .rfectly enichanted by the Am=atization of. this old fairy. tae-which brouight to life favorite characters, and -wbich faithfully f ol- lowed thé sequence of events ini the. story. None. of the magical spelis or superuatural atmosphere is lost, on the stage, but instead is heightened thwoqr -he visual, eentstioet Al the niagical transformations take place before the eyes of the audience -the witch appears from nowhere and disappears into thin air at the command of the wicked queen. The qucen is changed into a beggar wom- an almost before your eyes and back again into a queen. The witch who brews hier spelis over a boiling ket- tde weaves a spell over her willing audience. is blaec ms ebony.é vivacious and charming she carrnes her audience with ber through a world of make- believe wbere the wicked are aways punished and the good rewarded. GùIId Meiefng Friday Her scenes with the seven dwarf s The Associated Guilds of St. are the most whimsical in the play. Augustine's Episcopal church revert,. The dwarfs are strange little people toterfre0eeigdy rdy with squçacy voicesand withqee nd*1 be in session February 8, for habits. tedy ovnn t1'i1 The sets and costumes enhanced tedy ovnn t1 o'cloclç,ii the mmd o f snr.ealitv,. the throne the Parish House, philanthropy sew-1 Two WiIm.1$e Girls ina Leads ina Chilciren s Play Miss Aileen Ryan and Miss MuriÏel Meyer, both of Wilmette, are playing leading roles in The Adventures of Peter and Lotta," a deliahtful chil. Recitol of Negro Soprano Feb. 18 A numiber of -north Shore patrons will sponsor. a recital by Cecelia Carter, New Orleans Negro soprano, to,,be giveri at Winnetka Community Ho.use. on Monday' evening, February 18, under the direction of Rutheda L. Pretzel. Enthusiattic praise cornes f romn Ev- anston, *here Miss Carter sang a program of negro hymnsat the Ev- aniston Woman's club in December. Society was there to applaud the colored woman whose voice is said to rank her with Paul Robeson. She slngs with assurance Itatcores of excellent 'training and innate poise, and she lias the rare ability pot only to establigli the niood she wishes' to create, but to cause her listeners to be profoundly moved, her critics declare. The list of patronesses îs as yet in- complete, but the following already have signified their interest: Mesdamues Paul I. Aldrich, Alfred Alachuler, Arch Anderson, B. W. Anderson, W. E. Antrini, Godfrey Aticin, Alfred Brittain, Jr, William IFP. Benoist, Ernest Ballard, Robert B. Brown,~ Edgar Baunian, Gerald Butler, Muscoe Burnett Jr., Rush C. Butler, Raipli C. Brown, Laird. Bell, E. E. Brach, Frederic Burnham, Arthur M. Barrett, Ayres Boal, jr., W. . Brown, Guy Stuart Bailey, Robert Otto Butz, Arnold Baa r, Frankc T. Crawford, Norman. Copthorne, E. Channing Coolidge, Warren S. Cor- ning, Barret Conway, Henry J. Cary- Curr, Roswell Chrisman, J. Paul Clay- ton, William J. Corhoy, R. Hill, Car- ruth, William M. Crilly, Eluier Ewell Dick,, W. W. Darrow, Percy B. WipU1 us o cmlnFar LilAAI mayity and produci ud-sults.-DIorothy ns were by Isa- deserves credit' ation with real- lie effective re- Le, of tt VotcriL bof t15h, Lge Mar Mary1 yf Grha J M., ýtorm. i

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