Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 13 Feb 1936, p. 3

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Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, popular speak- er and writer on music cornes. te the platformi of Forum Council in Glen- coe, Tuesday evening, February 25, at. 8$:15 o'clock witb bis bigbly enter- taining .subject "Adventures of a Tunie!Detective." Dr. Spaeth is- best known as a, radio artist in1 the field of music where bis greatest contribution has been as an original music commc-nta- ter. Perbaps the' chief reason -for bis wide popularity is bis ability to place music and 'its interpretation wîthiintbe reacb of everyone. Amazing Veratility As music critic for several New York and Boston newspapers, and as contributor to a number of leading magazinies,, Dr. Spa'eth is well known to the .music and bterary, .vorld wvberç bis recentbook "The Art of Enjoying Music?' bas beeti enthusi- astically receivéd. Toý a scholatly f background which includes a 'Ph. D. degree from Princeton .universitv, he. adds a hurnan.understanding and an amazing versatility that bas. carried im ito varions fields -of music. Following one of bis. musical dis- cussions, one critic wrote: .'The niost unconventioflal lecturer that bas corne to the lecture platforn lisS ig- mnund Spaeth. He h, a real nius.ýiclatn, at dynarnic entertainer and a ken hunoist with a scholarly knlowieidge of nusie. 1-e, is deliglitftillY ýinforai la i his inethod. He sits at the i).ino inâ keeps uip a running connentar.V as lit deinonstrates, measure by niesure. the orlign of so na'ny of opOlIiII sang-s. Youi will' be tremendously pleased1 with Dr. Spaeth-he punctures sham.;, esati- rizes pretensions. and Illuillinates, througbhlis genial nature. on of the, mnost desirable qvalities of. good, nusic.- Sixth Talk of. Seriez Dr. $Pàëtb'S addresq will be. the sixtb ini the. 1936 series of lectures sponsored by tbe North Shore Con- *gregationi Israel. Miss, CarIa. Or- lando will folloe-on.Marcb 24, wben she will discuss "Fascism~ in Italy," and on April' 28, Dr. Stephen Lea- cock will conclude the course' of lectures with bis address on "Litera- ture and Progress." coaJUULuctea in Lt uia-msii.u Rogers Park hospital, 6970 N. Clark street, through the courtesy of Dr. Frank Deacon, chief of the bospital. Instruction will be given by John Roy Haywood, educational instructor of the Dictophone school in Chicago. Arrangements for this free instruc- tion are in the hands of Frank Nýichols chairmùan of the underprivi:- ledged child work committee of the Kiwanis club,) wo announces, that the schoolofP-instruction for deaf- mutes is'the major objective of the club this year. It isthe first serv-1 ice.of its type provided.north of the loop. .Organizations and individuals on the north shore having 'knowledge of deaf-mutes in this area. are invited to comniunicate with Mr. Nichols at bis. Hacienda dining. place at 1614 Howard street, Chicago. Mrs. Dorothy Baker Will Address Baha'i Meeting "The Bible ljnderstood" is -the siah- ject on wbicb Mrs. Dorothy Baker of. Lima, Ohio, will speak at 3 :30 o'clock, on February 16. at the Sun- day afternoon service beld in Foundâ- tion hall,' Baha'i Universal House of Worship, at Linden avenue and Sher- idan road, Wilmette. ,Mrs. Baker is visiting this region for a week.ý 1s."peaking and teacbing in a number of, assemblies in Chicago and on the north' shore. She is a descendant of Henry Ward Beecher and the grand-] daughter of' the late Mrs. Ellen V. Beecher, a teacher in the Baha'i1 faith. PRESIDESAT SUNDAY CLUB Clarence. B. ýRandall, 644 Waldén road, Winnetka, a trustee of the Chicago Sunday Evening club, 'will preside at the club's services .Sundayv evening, February 16, at Orchestra Hall, Chicago. Dr. Phillips Elliott of Brooklyn, N. Y. will be the speaker. 'The Melodists of Maywood will give .a special program at 7 o'clock. ierd tA heý Doride Photo Col. John W.- H. Pollard, -)Çýv- anston health commnissioner, retirilég president, of the North . Shore chai'- ter, Rceerve ff icers associat'ion, will bc accordèed hpn ors at a dinne,- and bail Saturday, Februwry 22, to bc held by the association at the Orrington hotel. 'Walther Leaguers WilI Hold Session in Elgin Meimber of the north shore units of the Walther leagues are looking forward to the l2th annual conven- tion of the Northern Illinois district of the Walther league which will be held at St. John's Lutheran cburch in Elgin, Saturday and Sunclay, Feb-. ruary 15 and 16. League uits'in St. John's Lutheran church, Wilmette, and Trinity Luth- eran cburch, Glencoe, are expected to have a large presentation at- the convention. Two) nortb shore leaders' whose naines baye been iproposed for offices in the. Northern Illinois district are the. Rev. J. H. Gockel of St. John's cëhurch, wbo is suggested as spiritual advisor .for the district, and George Craemer of Wlmette, wbo has been nominated for vice 'president of . the district. ýre-, the stage- and her openjng remtrks' are a decided feature in her appear- ance.' TheWinuetka Womman's club, sponsor',ot the Mary Garden recitail in the New Trier auditorium next Modynight,- therefo re'-urges al wh lnto attend to be in their seats promptly, at 8:45 ýo'clock. Eugene Stison, one. of the ms able. of the Chicago musiccritiçs, bas the following to say vôÙcerning :Miss Garden's Chicago recital:, "There was a prolonged ovation. H-ad we venerated Miss Garden, we should have risen to our f eet.. But' she leaves us no timeý for reverence; she bas other ways of commanding us. We sat tight and, applauded for tbree.minutes, the while she curtisied as she bas neyer curtsied to a king. When everybody had quietd down sbe said, 'Hello Chicago!' 'Her talk was fascinating, and she held 'us in the hollow of ber band, not by eloquence but by ber point of vîew. It thrilled me to observe bow be balcony, where tbere were s0 maiiy .young people, hung upon ber words, bow jubilantly its Iaugh rang out at ber wit and how miraculously, as neyer in my life have I seen a play elicit it, ber simple narrative could at times draw a gasp fromn the bouse a's we clung to the drama of ber tbougbt. "Surely this is .personality.' But it 'is also power. Another of the Chicago .*music critics, Edward Barry, said of the Mary Garden recital: - Audience Lost iu Story "She succeeded witbout difficulty in, bringing ber audience 'f rom the lighted Auditorium back to the Paris of the last years of peace to nicet the man who, more than any other.sîngle musician, was responsible for winfiing art's modern battle against the Philis-- tinès. by the -week's ires was negligie. 'CL SCARLET FEVER CASE ~ iIi 'g One case. of scarlet fever is ire- ' yiIl.mette 43'00 corded-by the Wilmnette Healtb de- SK FOR. AD-TA KER- patetfor tli@ week'ending Sat-: S urday, February .8. M,ýiss Fisher is a, memiber c jor class at Nortbamnpton. CI VLt. and rark z wi'O wg ejun- Tickets are also being.-à jEvanston Woman's club. at m

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