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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1928
Page
6
A garbled column surveys crime, marriages, media, and fashion, noting sensational press habits and public curios. It mentions a New York writer, a Corvallis resident, and a Spokane telephone girl turned aviation aspirant, with stray observations on politics and culture.
The Chicago Council of Social Agencies designates Play Day for Girls on June 9. City parks boast 193 playgrounds, 62 athletic fields, 10 golf courses, 46 pools and 16 beaches. Over 20 groups back the event with 10,000 anticipated participants ages 14 to 40. Bernice Miller leads as director as volunteers from Girl Reserves, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls organize activities at five parks.
A night photograph shows the Dutch windmill erected by John Le Gat at Fox River Grove as a memorial to his children. The display, titled Electricity Night, makes the windmill a striking spectacle for visitors and locals alike.
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Missouri Synod at WS Circle Ave lists Pastor M. Wagner. Sunday School at 9 a.m. English service 8:45 a.m. German services at 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
At Saint Peters Evangel Church on Hannah avenue and Adama street, Rev William JF Buch pastor services in English and German with Sunday school at 9 am English service 10 am German 11 am Organist William T Born Sexton H Knaack. Church and officers details, community groups including Luther League, Young Women's Missionary Society, and various meetings. Also Madison Street Wisconsin Avenue Oak Park church details and Rev Robert J Devine. Public worship and youth activities listed with schedules. Local churches share service times and organizational activities in Forest Park and nearby areas.
Office of the Clerk announces Sunday services at 10 45 a m with God the Preserver of man. Wednesday evening meets at 8 o'clock. Sunday school at 12 05 p m. Reading at 719 South Boulevard near Oak Park Avenue opens weekdays 9 am to 7 45 pm and 9 to 9 30 pm Sunday 3 to 6 pm. Christian Science services broadcast Sundays at 10 45 am from Seventh Church of Christ in Chicago via WEBH and 7 45 pm from Fifth Church of Christ Scientist via WMBB 250 meters.
Today features The Smart Set with William Haines Jack Holt and Alice Day at Forest Theater Desplaines and Madison Forest Park. Added matinee Rex in The Devil Horse. Sunday presents Burning Daylight with Milton Sills Doris Kenyon and others. Week includes The Chaser The Phantom Opera Ny Best Girl Hello Cheyenne plus comedies and news reels.
Ramon Navarro stars in a whimsical romance as a philandering Englishman with an infatuation complex in A Certain Young Man a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production showing at the Chicago Theater the week of June 11 Navarro appears in modern dress to charm flappers amid a lively cast including Ben Blue John Griffin Alfred Latel and the Felicia Sorrel Girls Galloping On stage production also featured with jazz baton Lou Kosloff leading the Chicago Theater Stage Orchestra
Mark Fisher, famed for his Laton performance at the Oriental Theater during Paul Ash's European tour, will stage a new production entitled Theater Stars. He intends to bring a rollicking cheer to a more realistic presentation starting Sunday.
June 10 ushers in Ride em Cowboy with Oriental ballads and Florence Victors in The Magnificent Flirt at the Oriental. Good News continues its fourth month at the Selwyn theater featuring Jack Haley and a strong cast with lively musical comedy appeal.
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