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WILME ,T ·Te· LIFE March 1, 1929 TWO View of TrJwnship's Largest ~uditorium SETS OF ACTORS c·nclren·a Theater WiD C......e Leada' in "Biaeltircl" at Hana and Nichola School. in EYanaton For the first time since the opening .of the Children's theater, there wilJ be a different set of leading characters on the two days of one of its plays. The part of Tyltyl, the boy who searches for the blue bird in the Land of Memory, the Palace of Night and the Kingdom of the Future in Maeterlinck's exquisite fantasy, HThe Blue Bird," will be enacted at the two March 9 per·formances at Haven school Evanston, by Biily Barry, a pupil in the drama -· tic department of that school. On the following Saturday, at the perform ances which will ope1i the theater in the new Nichols school, Evanston, the part v:ill be played by a Nichols pupil. Frederick McCo:y. · Mytyl, the little si·.;ter, will be played the first Saturday by June Thrall of Haven school, and the following week by Betty Scanlan of Marywood. These two characters, the only ones that appear in all the six scenes, are the only parts to be doubled. The Fairy Berylune will be played both days by Alvina Krause of the school of 3pcech. Light, another of the im portant adult parts, will be played by Agnes White, a graduate student in the school of ·.;peech ; Tylo, the dog. will be played by Dick Hadl~y, one of t 1 e favorite men players in the Child ren's theater; while Tylette, the cat, is Beatrice Kaplan, who first apPeared in " Robin Hood." Fire, Water, Milk, Sugar and Bread will be played by Irene Dreeves, Catherine Muller, Thelma Ga·3ser, Mar guerite 'Rapp and Madalene Bachman; Gaffer and Granny Tyl by Dick Rose ar.d Marie Hollingshead, both of whom have appeared in former plays; the little brothers and sister in the Land of Memory by Bob Brady and John Allyn of Nichols and Peggy Bachmann of Marywood; Time by Ralph Voorhis of the school of speech, and Night by Vivian Bork. Besides these characters are the little children in the Kingdom of the Future, the groups of dancers interpreting the Hours, the Stars, the Mists and the Dews; and another group singing the Song of the Mothers. The performances will be at 10 and 2:30, March 9 at Haven school, and the same hours the following Saturday at Nichols school. Miss Sarah O'Kean of 502 Provi dent avenue, Winnetka, attended a formal dance at the University of Notre Dame, on Friday, February 22. ~ ! .... .' I ...I I An indication of the excellent facilities for accommodating large audiences in the Le.;lie F. Gates Memorial gymnasium at New Trier High school is given in this view of a large portion of -the student body and friends attending a recent flag presentation ceremony. The gymnasium is by a 11 o_dds ~he largest "au~itorium" in the to~nship .. Its acoustic properties were pronounced perfect followmg the Horowttz recttal m January whtch attracted capactty audtence to the gym. PHOTO BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Miss Adelaide Meyers Ia Taken by Death Feb. 20 Funeral services for Miss Adelaide Meyers were held Saturday afternoon, February 23, at 2 o'clock at the late residence, 628 Abbotr.;ford road, Kenilworth, with the Rev. Vere V. Loper, minister of the first Congregational church of Wilmette, officiating. Miss Meyers, who was 46 years old, died at her home Wednesday, February 20, after an illness of three weeks. . She had been a resident of Kenilworth for twenty-two years. Miss Meyers wa13 a member of the Kenilworth Union . c hurch and the Kenilworth Neighbors club. Burial took place at Rosehill cemetery. Surviving Miss Meyers are her mother, Mrs. Mary Meyer.;, of 628 Abbottsford road, Kenilworth, a sister, Lillian, and a brother, William, of the same address, her twin sister, Mrs. A. D. Speedie, of Winchester, Mass.,- and another brother, George W.· Meyers, of Oak Park. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Grisamore, 411 Lake avenue, and Dr. and Mrs. L. Willis Strong, 1115 Chestnut avenue, have returned to Wilmette after spending ten days at the Edgewater Golf hotel at Biloxi. They report good golfing on several of the southern courses. Poet on the Program for MacDowell Society Eunice Tietjens, the poet, who has visited many lands and is known particularly for her Chinese writings, will be one of the entertainers at the dinner which the MacDowell society will hold this evening, Thursday, at the Orrington hotel. Miss Tietjens will appear with Bertha Ochsner, director of dancing at t.he Goodman theater, Chicago, and the latter will present dance interpretations of the former's "Seven Poems for Voice and Dancing." Other guests of honor will include Cloyd Head, Miss Tietjens' husband, manager of the Goodman theater; Mrs. Albert J. Ochsner and Dr. Campbell Douglas Gordon, Miss Ochsner's husband. · + I --oMr. and Mrs. Joseph Schmitz, 1936 Schiller street, announce the birth of a son on Monday, February 25. 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