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:sz ~ 1- W.f·LM£ ·T:r- E. LIP E z Febru -ary U, -1927 !'. Country Clubs Commemorate Both President and Saint . Clubs. Find FestitJe Days Time Opportune for Dinner and Dance By MARGERY WINDES Club Speaker North Shore Club Woman's Auxiliaries Will Assist at ~enelit Bridge Women Active in Mrs. John H. B· echler of Glencoe. who is in charge a£ the benefit bridge party which the Woman's Auxiliary societies of Onward Neighborhood house, Chicago, are giving February 28. has announced the names of her assistants for that day. The party is to be given in the ballroom of the Georgian hotel. Evanston. at l :30 o'clock. Mrs. Buechler, who is chairman of the auxiliaries, will have assisting her Mrs. Hubert E. Allen of the Woman's society of the Winnetka Congregational church . and Mrs. W . ]. McAllen of the Glencoe Union church. Among the members of the Winnetka group, captained by Mrs. Harry S. Marshall, are these names of committee members: Mrs. George F . Suker, Mrs. Joseph E. Winterbotham, Mrs. William T. Wersted, Mrs. Harry ·E. Cadenhead and Mrs. Davies Lazear. The Glencoe group, including a committee from both the Woman's league and the Young Woma.n 's guild, is : Mrs. Clarence T. MacNeille, Mrs. Franklin deBeers, Mrs. Ralph Rogers, Mrs. H. H. Bellows, Mrs. James Dickson, Mrs. E. A. Robertson, Mrs. George F. Brown, Mrs. Cleveland Morse and Mrs. Ray Garrett. In addition to these committee members is a list of workers from Winnetka and Glencoe. These workers are Mrs. Stanley Simpson, Mrs. George J. Pope, Mrs. Donald M. Gallie. Mrs. Forbes Cadenhead, Mrs. Howard S. Stevens, Mrs. Ralph M. Snyder, Mrs. Francis S. Graham, Miss Olive Weyman, Mrs. Alfred W. Fischer, Mrs. Frank McKeegan, Jr., and Mrs. T. B. Childs. Promoting Drama Of special interest to north shore theatre lovers, and those interested in the promotion _of gpod d~ama;. is the ann o uncement that three ' Wmnetka and one Wilmette names are mentioned in the list of' members of the board directors and founders of the ne\\' Chicago Play P.roducing company, which produced Wednesday "The Ragged Edge," the fir st play of the company's program of three this season. This play was adapted by George Abbott from Max .Reinhardt's Berlin success. "Periphery," by Franz Langer, and was started on what promises to he a most successful journey, \Vedne s<lay evenitfg, February 9, at the P.rincess theatre. February, teeming with birthdays of great and renowned men, and blessed . with the happy celebration held in honor of St. Valentine, is to be duly recognized by the country clubs S'aturday evening, February 12. Saturday, is of course, Lincoln's birthday, and . the Tuesday of February 22, is Washington's. In between comes St. Valentine's day, which makes the month Jess austere and adds to its romance and glamour. The Ouilmette Country club is en' tertaining at a costume party tomQrrow · evening, with supper served at the club i after the dance. An orchestra from Cope Harvey will play. Monday, St. ! Valentine's day, the club is having a Special bridge party, with a 1 o'clock : luncht:on preceding. The feature of : this party is that members wilt play · with one pa.rtner during the whole afternoon. Valentine decorations will add to the festive air. On Saturday, February 26, the club is entertaining at one of the formal dinner dances that it gives bi-monthly. Cope Harvey will also furnish music for this dance. Indian Hill club, always a resort of socially inclined folk who either a.r e m e m b e r s, or fortunate guests and friends of members, is planning a Valentine dinner dance for Saturday, February 12. Appropriate decorations and an attractive menu will add to the spi.rit of the occasion. Several large private groups will take dinner together, Winnetka couples, acting as hosts and hostesses to their friends. Mr. and Mrs. Robe.rt C. Biddle of 290 Forest avenue, are having twelve or more guests for dinner at the club. Mr. and Mrs. Everett L. Harris of 334 FQrest avenue, are also entertaining a group of friends at dinner. The William H. Lyons of 644 Spruce street are planning a table set : for eighteen friends, and Mr. and Mrs. N. Landon Hoyt, Jr., · of 500 Cher,r y . street are planning· to entertain about : twenty. Skokie Country club has reserved its · ballroom on Saturday, February 12, for 1 the annual subscription . dance, given under the di.rection of a committee of six, Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Wilder of 661 Bluff street, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Templeton of 898 Grove street, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Cunningham of 757 Bluff street. of Mrs. Dudley Cates of 620 Ash street, \Vinnetka, Mrs. William Hibbard of x-tO \\r.illow road, Winnetka, Mrs. \Villiam P. Sidley of 739 Humboldt avenue. Winnetka, and Benjamin Marshall of M2 Sheridan road, Wilmette, are interested in the company. Aside from the directors and founders including Harold and Leander :\fcCormick, Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick, Miss Helen Bennett, Louis Eckstein. Lawrence Meeker , Mr s. William S. Monroe, Alexander Revell, Mrs . ] ulius Rosenwald, M.rs. Arthur Ryerson, the advisory counsel is to be Kenneth Macgowan, and the general manager, Sam Wren. Robert Ames is to head lhe cast of "The Ragged Edge," coming from "Seed of the Brute," after two years in Cecil deMille movies. Wanda Lvon is to be the leading woman. · Preceding the unofficial premiere of this play, many society folks in Chicago entertained at dinner before the performance, including Arthur Aldis. the John Bordens, Arthur Bissell, Mrs. Augustus Carpenter, the Louis Ecksteins and several others. This new venture · being sponsored by a list of almost seventy Chicago and north shore people, seems to be the result of civic pride in having Chicago become a theatrical cente.r. For manv · years in fact since plays have bee;1 produced in United States, New York has held the "center of the stage." Feeling that many good plays are never sent on to what almost seems to be considered a "wild-west" village, and feeling that there are enough culturally interested "villagers" in this region to war.rant a theatre movement of this kind, this company has been launched. Marion Gering, formerly of the Meyerhold theatre, Moscow, a competitor of Stanislavski, was persuaded to join the group as director. He will be remembered for his production of "Gas" at the Goodman Memorial theatre last year. Mrs. Anthony French Me.rrill, who is an authority on the subjects of current events and literature and contemporary drama, has given a number of talks recently before north shore groups, including the North Shore Catholic league, the Woman's Library club of Glencoe, a group from the Winnetka Woman's club and the Woman's club of Wilmette. ;, I Mrs. Merrill Tells Woman's Club of Modern Biography "Practically all great men are writ ing or being written about. This is an articulate age,"· Mrs. Anthony French Merrill commented in her talk on modern - biography and current events at the Woman's club of Wilmette on Monday afternoon. The modern tendency to produce work that will exhibit the author's powers of ridicule and his cleverness of portrayal. rather than work that will make the character live. was inaugurated in the work of Lytton Strachey in his biography of Queen Victoria. Mrs. Merrill pointed out. Biography is much more in demand now and the subjects of it are more varied. Outstanding figures in all lines . industrial, political and military, are treated ii1 the modern biography. There is a biographv of Ford, several of Lincoln, four of Washington. Mrs . Merrill mentioned among others : Sargent's "Life and Letters," the autobiography of Herbert Quick. the story of the Red Cross · with the life of <;tar~ . ~arton . as f~under. Mark Suiltvan s Our Ttmes, and Arthur Gard·ncr's "Portraits and Portents." . . . . Much. mterest ts shown m detatled accot~nts. ~f how men grew great 1 Mrs. Mernll !Satd. ------- Arranging Large Dance and Card Party Benefit A large affair planned for the near i uture is the formal dance and ca·r d party which the Evanston-Wilmette branch, Friends of Chicago Junior school, will give February 26, in the Evanston Woman's club, which some hundreds of north shore residents will attend. The hour is to be 8 :30 o'clock. There will be dancing in the ballroom upstai.rs, and tables for bridge will be placed in the lounges. Prominent north shore persons who have consented to the use of their names as patrons and patronesses are: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Molter of Wilmette; Mr. and Mrs. Lansing B. Warner of Hubhard \Voods, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hedberg of Glencoe; Mrs. 0. J. Buck, Mrs. \Vatter Lee Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Ha.rry E. Byram, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Capron, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Colvin, .T r., Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dean Howard, Mrs. Florence Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Chancellor Jenks, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. ,Tohnson, D.r.. and Mrs. Arthur J. Todd, Mr. and Mrs. Roderick McKinnon, Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Freeman Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Wilsey of Evanston. . . , Wtlmett~ Congregational Cook bo~ks , for sale, 01lcloth bound, and filled wtth practical delectable and oft-tried rec: ipes are' the offering at half price to women of Wilmette by the East End circle of the Congregational church. Each circle of the Woman's guild, 1 of the ch""h has a special fund to raise yearly to contribute toward the . work of the guild, and the East End circle, in order to aid in the raising of its quota, has compiled and edited the books which are composed of recipes giving ingredients and directions for preparing foods and confections contributed by circle members and their £riends, with the name of the contributor under each recipe. . .A large edition of the books has been ··published and copies may be ordered from Mrs. Frank Watson, 1341 Chest·.~~t .a.wenae, Wilmette 2026. East End Circle Puts Its Cook Books on Sale Club Birthday Tuesday The annu::1l birthday luncheon of The Neighbors will be given Tuesday, Februa.ry 15, at the Kenilworth club, with . a program dovoted to "Reminiscences." The members of the club will gather at this time in celebration of the thirtysecond anniversary of their organization. -oThe North End branch, Friends of Chicago Junior School, will hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, February 15, at 8 o'clock, at the Sovereign hotel, 6200 KenmQre avenue, Chicago. The second performance to be given by the company is scheduled as "Lazarus Laughed" by Eugene O'N eili. his latest work, to be given in March in association with and at the Goodman theat,re. Norman Bel-Gedde, deGive Party for School signer of 14 The Miracle," will design The Woman's Catholic club of Wilspectacular scenes and costumes for mette is giving a card party fM the this production. benefit of St. Francis Xavier school Monday afternoon, February 14, at the home of Mrs. Joseph O'Neill, 1033 Carnival Called Off Sheridan road. Because of the warm spring weather, Mrs. William Leary is the chairman and pools of water instead of ice rinks, in charge of ar.rangements, with a com- the Children's hard times skating carnmittee consisting of Mrs. P. J. Joyce, ival scheduled at the Skokie Country Mrs. Paul Fieberg, Mrs. Harry Davies club for Saturday, February 5, at 2 :30 Mrs. J. F. Wiedlin, Mrs. H. L. Barke; o'clock, did not take place, and will not and Mrs. Thomas Chambers~ unless an announcement is made later.