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April .26, 1929 WlLMETT 'E LIFE·. ·Buy Tickets Early · I ~~~~~~~ . ~~~~. ~~~~~ . ~.i~~.~~~~ . ~our~~h Dido's song ...................... Purcell .New Books for Music Festival; The Dashing WhiteIV Sergeant .. Bishop and Variations from Sonata · - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' Advice to Patrons Theme 26 T·h e Twenty-first Chicago · Nodh c1~fru~e Lu~e· ·:::: ::::: :: ::: :: ~~!~~~:~ T~e latest ship!llent of ne~ ~ooks La Cathedrale Engloutie . ..... . . Debussy recetved at the Wilmette Pubhc hbrary 1 · ·· I I Andrews-Lost Commander. Wllllams·Ellls-Exqulslte Tragedy. Biat~Q' Osborn-Middle ,Ages. Mathews-French Revolution. VanLoon-.-Fall the Dutch Republic. of Shore Music Festival will open in Patten gymnasium, Evanston~ with the Golliwog's Cakewa~ . .. .. . . ..... Debussy concert of Monday evening, May Zl. Sti~l Wie die Nacht .. .... . . ... ..... Bohm Five gala concer!s will be. given during 1\.dieu, For~ts, from Jeanne d'Arc .... · · · · · · · ......... ......... Tschaikowsky the week, four evening and a Saturday matinee P.e rformance, leaving two open evenings-Wednesday and Friday. The Frank H. Willards have now reThis. Festival marks the association's turned to their home at 505 Ridge avecoming of age and, fittingly, the season nue after spending four months in will be of unpr~cedented brilliance. Sarasota, Fla. Mrs. \Villard had as Distinguish~d artists, great names in her house guest for several days this the world of music, have been engaged. week, Mrs. ]. I. McDonnell of St. The Festival chorus of six hundred is Louis, a former resident of Evanston. in m~gnificent form and the entire Chicago Symphony orchestra will be heard at all performances. On the programs it is explained. will be found old favorites, beloved for their melody and charm, as well as new numbers distinguished for their impressive effectiveness. The season ticket sale opened April 8 by mail and a.t the offices of the a ~ sociation, Room 202. 1609 Sherman avenue, Evanston. The buying of season tickets is of advantage to the ticket holders, it is pointed out, since such patrons secure better seat locations and hear five concerts for the price of four. It also benefits thi s great civic enterprise, assuring the association in advance of financial support. The assoctatton is urging music lovers to order seasgn tickets early, assuring themselves of choice seats and saving 20 percent to 30 percent over cost of single seats. Outstanding artists have been .s ecured for this year's festival, the list including such personages as Marie Morrisey, contralto; Josef Hofmann pianist; Edith Mason. soprano: Efren~ Zimbalist. violinist: Cyrena Van Gordon, mezzo-contralto: Charles Marshall, tenor: Tudor Davis. tenor: Richard Bonell~.J baritone: Gina Pinnera, soprano: Herbert Gould. basso: Barre Hill, baritone: Alice Mock, soprano: Arne Otdberg, pianist. and Anna Bur meister, soprano. Dean Peter Christian Lutkin of Northwestern universitv School of. Music, founder of the ~festival enterprise, appears again as musical director, while Freder.i& Stock and his Chicago Symphony orchestra will provide the instrumental foundation for the festival. John W. Beattie, director of public school music at Northwestern university, is aJ;?ain director and trainer of the large children's chorus. includes travel, history, and biography. The n~w volumes, ann~mnced t~is w~ek by Mtss Anne L. Whttmack, hbranan, are : · 1'ranl Morton-ln Search of England. Winter- Shakespeare's England·. Speakman-Mostly Mississippi. Biography Baumann-Saint Paul. Belloc-.James the Seeond. Laudtr- Hnamin' in the Gloamin.' Tinayre- Madame de Pompadour. \Velby-Swi nburne. Hackett-Henry the Eighth. On Tuesday, April 23, from 3 to S o'clock Mrs. Eugene Arms, 221 Woodbine avenue, was hostess to the mothers' group of kindergarten tots of Laurel school and their popular teacher, Mrs. Virginia Del~na. -oMr. and Mrs. Ira C. Darling, 256 Kenilworth avenue, Kenilworth are entertaining a few friends at dinner Saturday evening, May 4, for Mrs. Claude Burnham, who is expecting to spend the summer abroad. North Shore Artist to Exhibit Oils at Country Day Concert Edith .Jane Bacon, art director at the North Shore Country Day school, will exhibit several of her oils, still life portraits, and landscapes in the lobby of the school auditorium before the concert to be given Friday evening, May 3, at 8:15 o'clock. Miss Bacon has studied at the Church School of Art in Chicago, at the Art Institute, at the Provincetown Art Colony, and in Spain. Three of the members of the school's ·music faculty will be assisted in the concert by Walter Brauer, celJist with the Chicag~ Symphony orchestra. Nina Fitch Bailey will be accompanist, Esther Morton Wood.~ soprano, will sing, and Arthur Landers will be piC\nist. The program will be as follows: Nebbie .... .................. .... Respighi Ploggia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Respig,hi Le Manoir de Rosemonde ...... .. . Duparc II . Etude, C Sharp Minor ............ Chopin Rondo· ................... ..... Boccherlni Hungarian Rhapsody ............ Popper III Cherry Ripe ....................... Horn I