Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Sep 1929, p. 29

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September 27, 1929 WILMETTE LifE 29 · · Comedies, Hungarian IWalter Spry. Returns From Summer Work in Southland Play on Schedule of Walter Spry, eminent north shore University Theater pianist and teacher of piano, has reSeveral comedies including a modern turned to his home in Evanston after English one, an original play from the a summer' engagement as guest teach' Hungarian' and another original play er at Alabama college, Montevallo. hv an American college professor will Ala.. and has resumed hi classes in piano at the Columbia School of ~I usic. on the year's program of the NorthHe giye instructions one daY each ._,·cstern University theater, according week in the school's branch at \Vin :o Prof. Garrett Leverton, director. netka. Under the direction of Prof. Leverten, the University theater was estabCOMPLETES SUMMER TOUR lished on a firm basis last year, and its Milan Lusk. vio lini st. recentlY comproductions drew wide attention. No pleted his summer concert tmir with lc s amhitiou are the plans for this ,t recital at · the Capen auditorium at season's undertakings. the uni\·ersit\· in ~onnal. Til. He was 01~e of the most novel productions \r armly .rcc<.:iYed by a large and en\\ill be "The Insect Comedy" by the thusiastic audience. Toward the end of Capeks. Hungarian playwrights ~nd hi~ program. he receiYed a q~ ritable <tuthors of "R. U. R." All of the Cl \·a tion, according- tu the local press, characters in "The Insect Comcd,·" are adding· a lnng number of encore to insects. 'Provided a suitable cast can an already kngthy program. ).fr. Lusk he found this unusual p la y will have has rc: s un1ccl pri\'atc instruction at his home stu(lin in \\ ' ilmctte . ~111 early production. The English play, which will be pro).I r. and ).f rs. Ceorge Richard:', forduced in 1\ovember, probably will be "The \\'hite Chateau," which has had ilH: rl\' 1ll \\'ilnlf:· tte . nmr residents of a long nm at St. 1\fartin's theater in I )n·t:1it·ld. Ill .. arc spetHling a mnnth in London. The choice rests between tln: .\lichigan \\'tHHls. fr1lt11 \\'heft.' they this and "The ~ew ~forality," another ,,·ill nl·ltm tu Oz1)na. Fla .. w hl' gone hif{hly successful English play. ~either until m·xt spring. ,)f these plays ha been produced in this country. In Fchruar~· '"ill come the prouuction c'i the: Shakespeare comedy. This 'viii ht.: either "11uch :\do About ~othing," "Love's Labor' s Lost," or "~feasure ior ).I ea ure ." Belle .h .ennedy, in tructor in => pcec!1 cnrrt:ction in · the school of -;pecch and formerly \Yith the Stratford Players, will assi · t in directing thi production. The original play to b e gi\·cn a tryn ut ,,·ill be "fn Tammen'. Hoflo\\'·· hy H.tlScoe Conkle. professor of English il1 the Uni\'er. itv of Delaware. As was the case with ·· B. A., B. A., Black Sheep," \Yhich \Y<ls given a try-out iast year, reprc . tntati\·es of New York J,roclucers will Yie\Y the performance nf "In Tammen's H'11low." Professor Conkle is a native of X ebraska and his . rlay deals with illiterate prairie folk. The first production oi tlte year will he "Cock Robin," a mystery play by Philip Barry and Elmer Rice which h.td a su"::essful run in J\ew York. This '.\'ill he earlv in October. Late in t:-te :-:un e month, the school of speech thl·atcr will present "Young \ Voodky" J,,. fohn \'an Drutcn . . 'r'hc fir. t production hy the playsh::>p \rill he a revival in l\oven1ber of "Qu;1gmire," which was first produced last year. This \\'as written by Anne Frier~~1n, a graduate s tudent in the schoo l o i speech, and \\'On high prai~e fr(;lll c:·itics. 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Charles, are now on a fishing and hunting trip in the northwest. and will visit in Seattle before returning to the north shore. The Babcocks, \·v ho ·we re formt'r residents of \Vilmette, will return this fall to . their home 111 \\'i nnetka. 3 6 x 8 81 a ck and White Moderne Portraits FOR SEPTEMBER ONLY $10 CARLOS ** PHOTOS r MIRALAGO BUILDING 1647 SHERIDAN ROAD ~ · WILMETTE and KENILWORTH J( AT THE LAKE e between L._ _..._ Mrs. ] . Hugh Foster of 921 Greenleaf avenue and Mrs. David Crabb, 925 Greenleaf avenue. 'returned recently from Lowell, Ind., where they had been the house guests for a week of Mrs. E. R. Lynch, formerly of Wilmette. * TELEPHONE WILMETTE SIX FIVE 0 0 PEN EVENINGS

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