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~165==::::::===========~===============W=I= . L=M= · =E=T=T~ · :E: .:L:L:F:E.·-.=================================== TO .LEAD BALL Miss Charlotte Eckhart, 206 Cumberl""d road, Keniiviorth, and Dorothy Hartford, Chicago, are the two women students at the UnivP.rsity of Chicag~ who have been chosen to lead the military ball, an annual affair at the university. Their partners will be Arthur Peterson and Charles Noebel. Miss Eckhart is a .member of the 'Sigma club and is aide to the president of the university. She is extremely active in university dramatics and is manuscript chairman of the "Mirror," the women's annual show. February 1, 1929 :Dudley Crafts Watson Lectures in Kenilworth By P. H. Last Friday evening, Dudley Crafts Watson gave one of his inimicable lfcture-picture-recitals and took Kenilworth club members . to the lands of sunny Spain. Mr. Watson stands quite alone in his lectures for he has a very definite and individual style of delivery. His pictures are always a delight. This lecture is the first of a serie : : of three by Mr. Watson. The second on February 22, will be "The Enjoyment of Modern -Painting" and th1s will be followed by an exhibition of American paintings and etchings. Mr. Watson is an authority o·n this subject and is such an enthusiast in the fi,;!ld of art that the lecture will be highl:; instructive and inspirational. This Friday evening the men of th~ club are having a stag dinner bridg~ and in the afternoon, the women, a luncheon and brijge~ Alison Phillips, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Ray Phillips, 344 Woodstock avenue, Kenilworth, entertained several of her little friends, Tuesday afternoon, on the occasion of her eighth birthday. ~---------~-~ ··Reviews At the JVeighbors The next ·regular meeting of the Neighbors wi.ll be on Tuesday, Fe?ruarv 5. The program presented w!ll be given by R. M. Pl~ister ~nd Rudolph Winter. 1\f r. Platster wtll speak on "Alice in the Financial . V\7onderland." This seems to be a very timely subject in this age of "frenzied finance" when almost every family is interested more or less in the 3tock. market or other financial subjects. ·Mr. Wint~r is a baritone and will present a program of songs. On February 12, at 10:15 in the morning, the art and literature depart-· ment will meet at the · home of Mrs. \ Villiam Healy, 205 Melrose avenue. Mrs. F. B. McKinnon will report on a current art exhibit and Mrs. J. Dean Vail will report on a current book. On Wednesday of last week the officers and members of the board of directors of the Neighbors entertained the new members of the club at a thimble and bridge party at the home of Mrs. Charles Bent on Melrose avenue. There were thirty guests present in spite of the dangerously icv pavements and all enjoyed a most charming afternoon. When it seemed sure that nearly everyone playerl bridge, the game of "Advertisements," \\"hich had been planned only for tho ~<' who had brought their thimbles, wa<> played by all and bridge followed. . About 4 o'clock, Mrs. Edwin Blut llardt sang several numbers and Mis:; Margaret Bluthardt gave several piann selections much to the delight of everybody present. Tea was served as a close to the afternoon. . The education department of the K eighbors announces the foni1ation of a n;orning Drama Study cla 3s, beginning in February. The department has secu red Mi se; Esther Harcourt, formerly instruc'tor of interpretation at Northwestern uni vcrsity, to lead this class and in five morning recital lectures she will tak t:' up the drama of England, Spain, Ru:;sia, America and France, giving dramatic interpretati~n· of plays in illustration. Mrs. Tom Dix is chairman of thi~ department and anyone destring to purchase tickets for the course m2.y call Mrs. Dix, Mrs. Harry \Veese, Mrs. Ech\'in Blutharclt, Mrs. Louis Jones, or Mrs. John Wilds and make reservations. Announcement of the place and hour of meetings will be given later. The first lecture will occur on February 22. 'Mother and Son' at Kenilworth Study Class On \iVednesday of last week, · the ENTERTAINS IN KENILWORTH Mrs. William Marshall Branch of Evanston entertained \~ednesday afte:noon in honor of Miss Inabelle Branch, whose marriage to Benjamin Lones takes place in March. Mrs. Branch entertained at the home of her mother, Mrs. Frank Cherry, 422 Abbottsford road, Kenilworth. Mrs. Albert Webster, 314 Oxford road, Kenilworth, gave a dinner in honor of her young daughter, Harriet Webster, on Thursday evening, January 24. It was a surprise party on her sixteenth birthday. About twelve of Harriet's intimate friends were guests. Kenilworth Literature class met at the home of Mr3. Noble Gillett on Roslyn road. Mrs. MacClintock discussed Romaine Rolland's "Mother and Son," a translation of the third book of his trilogy "A Soul Enchanted" which includes "Annette and Sylvie," "Summer," and "Mother and Son." Rolland has been called the "Beethoven of the Novel." He . generally writes of things beautiful and esthetic. In "Mother and Son" however he dcoarts from the u:m al type and gives his ideas of War, dealing with the sordidness of conflict. Mrs. MacClintock read passages from the novel in her clear beautiful way, and the characters ' . became ahve. It ·was a quiet, intense afternoon':; program, long to be remembered. The next meeti11g · of the Study class will occurr on Wednesday, February 13 at the home of Mrs. Guy Littell on Woodstock avenue. Mrs. MacClintock will discuss Virginia Woolfe's "To the Light House" and "Mn. Daltoway," also, Ardous Huxley's "Point Counter Point." Neighbors Committee Gives Birthday Party for Vets The Kenilworth Neighbors gave a birthday · party at Great Lakes hospital Friday, January 25. About fourteen members of the club drove to Great Lakes, taking with them their gifts of ice cream, cakes, cigarets, and candy, to gladden the birthdays of war veterans. Harry Harrison of Kenilworth ga-;e as his gift to the boys, a performam:e by one who is said to be one of the finest magicians in this country, Ed Reno. He brought great delight to the men with his two hour show put on in less than an hour. The Neighbors committee finds that the boys and men at the hospital still are in need of clothing and again sends out a plea for suits, overcoat-;, shirts, underwear, and shoes. Those having such contributions to give are asked to call Mrs. James Prentiss, Kenilworth 127, or Mrs. Frank Nason, Kenilworth 4363. - FRANK C. JORDAN formerly of the Arch Preserver Shoe Shop takes pleasure in announcing the opening of JORDAN'S FOOT-SAVER SHOE SHOP on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY FIRST t!{ineteen hun,dred and twenty-nine at 63 4 Church Stree~ I evanston,· Ill. HOME AND GARDEN CLUB Thf" Home and Garden Club of Ken ilworth will meet at the home of Mr~. Richard Johnston on Melrose avenue Monday afternoon, February 4. Mrc;. Charles D. Hm~~;·e will give a paper on "Mirrors" and members of the cluh will cliscus3 their exhibits for the coming Garden and Flower show to he held at the Hotel Sherman in February. · Mr. and ~frs. Frank Ketcham, Mrs. Theodore Moritz is president of Devonshire lane, and Mr. and Mrs. the Home and Garden club. \Vard Starrett. Richmond road, Kenilworth. and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fred C. Little and his daughter, VirSheridan of Evanston and their ginia Little, 514 Essex road, Kenilfamilies left last week for California worth, left Tuesday for California. and will be at Coranado Beach for They expect to be present at the the rest of the winter. wedding of Miss Elizabeth Hannah -a-and Louis Roeser on February 2 in The Junior Neighbors, held a meet- Pasadena. ing on Tuesday, January 29, at the -ohome of Elizabeth Kelly, 412 Cumnor M iss Kathryn Parish, a member of road, Kenilworth. Mrs. Phyllis R. the Delta Gamma sorority, and a Sanders spoke of the work she had senior in Northwestern university I been doing with the Infant Welfare. school of speech, has been selected to ; -a-play the lead in "Ba, Ba, Black Sheep," Miss Patty Foresman, 515 Essex a satire on college life, to be presented road, Kenilworth left Tuesday for Ne'"' February 12, 13- and 14. York and sailed Wednesday on a Med-o-iterrean cruise. Miss Foresman joined Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hawxhurst, two friends in New York and will br Essex road, Kenilworth, are sailing gone two months. February 9 for Europe. They expect -oto be gone several weeks. M r. and Mrs. H. A. Brassert, 547 -oRoslyn road, Kenilworth left th1s Mrs. Hugh Petersen, 212 \Varwick week for Na3sau to be gone several road, Kenilworth has gone to St. Louis weeks. because of the death of her mother. -oShe expects to be gone a week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shattuck, 423 --oCumnor road, Kenilworth entertained Mr. and Mrs. Frank Willard, 505 their bridge club on Monday evening Ridge avenue, Kenilworth have gone at to Sarasota, Fla., for the winter. · -.. . ... dinner. .. ·r r· ··