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WILMETTE LIFE April Z/, 1928 - "My Family Enjoys Living in ·Deere Park" DEERE PARK Sheridan Road (Route 42) to North Boundary of Glencoe --at Kn. Harry Cqffman of Peoria. · NEW ·TRIER ·WINS Pl11~ers .spen.t several weeks here as the guest This year .appears to . be a banner of Mrs. · W · .W. Baldwin, of 1015 Wil- one for New Trier . High school in mette avenue. With the passing matters athletic. -oof very successful seasons in football, Mrs. Craig Ketcham of Cumberland basketball, and swimming, New Trier's 81 M. B. road. Kenilworth entertained the Fri- baseball team ·has started out by winJust ' as no tale of Robin Hood day bridge club last week. ning. In their first came of the sea- would be complete ·without an account son they defeated Evanston High of his love ·for the (!OOr, so , would it school easily with a final score ·of 9-2. be incomplete without showing how he often risked himself to help hts comrades. In "Sherwood," Alfred Noyes Mrs. Ame6a D. Wilson, who has UllinnitJCHAIRS ... TABLES for RENT. spent the past two months in the has taken many of the myths sursouth, has returned to her home at 839 rounding the life of Robin and worked Park avenue. Mrs. Wilson visited in them into the play. Beginning at the point of his banishment, the play deals Mobile and Citronelle, Ala. with many of the characters and the incidents that are associated with him. has been condemned to Will Scarlet · die by being hanged. · Disguised as an old man, Robin offers to kill him by his· own baw, in the absence of the -If' hangman, with three shots. Instead of doing that, he uses the shots to cut the rope that binds Wi11, and to kill one of the guards; then, under .the protection of his merry men, and with the aid of a ·strange Black Knight, Will is taken back tQ the forest. Prince John is not alone in his desire to · hann Robin. His mother, Queen Elinor, plots with ·h er son to bring sorrow and unhappiness to Robin and Lady Marian. After Marian . has followed her lover to the forest, Queen Elinor in turn pursues her and tries vainly to kill her ; but she is "Every one in the family·is so keenly enjoying all seasons saved by her quick-footed little fool, Shadow-of-a-Leaf. Again, later in the of the year in this beauty spot. Summer. winter. spring play, it is this same Shadow-of-a-Leaf or fall-it makes no difference. Deere Park is be~utiful, who helps Robin to escape from the into which John has thrown him. cell and Deere Park is their home. John has his men seal up the wall, thinking in this way to do away with him and be ususpected, Robin Hood "The family has learned to know one another so much escapes, but is w~und~d, and the folbetter since we are in our own home, enjoying our ·own lowing day in Sherwood forest, he is found to be gravely ill. fireside. The only thing that can be done is to take Robin to a convent where the Prioress is noted for her skill in treat"The children are thriving in their play in this healthful, ing with herbs. Here he is taken to be fresh air. My wife has learned to appreciate our motor cured ; however, Queen . Elinor has come just before him. and, pretending car, for she can drive on uncongested roads now. And I to the Prioress t· h at she intends to help him, she is left with him. She am a better worker for the restful relaxation of the place, finally obtains her vengeance by bleeding h.~m to death. By the time Lady after a day at the office. Marian arrives, Robin is near death. Alone and unprotected, Marian falls "Yes, my whole family enjoys living in Deere Park." easily into Elinor's trap. She stabs Marian and leaves the convent. The play is a serious one, and rather A DEERE PARK RESIDENT. a large undertaking for high school students, but l'he cast is in the capable hands of the Players. The New Trier Dramatic club promises a very interesting perfonnance Saturday night. April 28. Miss Elizabeth Stanwood is directing. m., New Trier to Prese·l . N o:pes' Dram11, "Sherwood" J· B ·BD4LB STORAGE the Lake HOSTESS AT DINNER Mrs. Elmer L. Young of 218 Dupee place entertained twenty-six at dinner last week after which there was a rehearsal of two ~lays which are to be given at Hamlin Park ha11 on May 9. Mrs. Young is coaching the players who will appear in productions entitled '-The Old Maid's club" and "The Rummage Sale." Those who ~re to appear in the plays are members of the Maje·stic chapter (ll,7, of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Roger E. Williams of 410 Forest avenue is entertaining ·her luncheon and bridge club today. Next Wednesday, Mrs. Williams will be hostess to her dinner club. Mr. and Mrs. 0. E. Beich of Bloomington, Ill. will be guests. -_..___· tL. ~ ~- BAIRDl(WARNER DIVISION OP COMMUNITY DBVBLOPKBMT 646 N. Michigan Avenue Superior 1855 -···-------------------..------------------··~--