Taft Students Present Two Plays Tonight in Lockport
The Taft school in Lockport hosts two plays at 7:45 p.m. in the Taft auditorium under the Parent-Teacher association. First is Three Pills in a Bottle from Harvard’s 47 Workshop with a large cast. The second is His Majesty Sleeps featuring Doris Montgomery and others. Directed by Fred Holt with student committee handling props.
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Taft School
Lockport
Taft Auditorium
Washington
Seventeenth Streets
Parent-Teacher Association
Rachel Field
Harvard
Marion Ingersoll
Mildred Anderson
Rose Kreger
Marial Sandeen
Betty Jane Washburn
Evelyn Skeldon
Audrey
Illinois coal output rises in January 1940
January coal production in Illinois reached 5,522,343 tons, up 27 percent from December and 24 percent above January 1939. Employment climbed to 28,116 miners, a ten percent rise from December, with average days worked 21.8 compared with 18 in the prior month.
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Illinois
Joliet Dancer Katherine Dunham Praised In New York Review
New York Times on Sunday Feb 25 lauds Joliet dancer Katherine Dunham and her Windsor theater debut in New York City. The piece credits her with elevating Negro dance to a serious art form and notes her Haiti research and Rockefeller Foundation study guiding her cultural pioneering.
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Katherine Dunham
Joliet
New York Times
Windsor Theater
New York City
Miss Dunham
Haiti
Rosenwald
Rockefeller Foundation
Lincoln Days Furnish Mt Pulaski Courthouse With 1850 Walnut Desk
First articles of furniture for the restored Mt Pulaski courthouse include an 1850 walnut desk and an old walnut bookcase that mirror furnishings from Lincoln era when he practiced law there. The courthouse, bought in 1936 for one dollar, has cost $30 000 to restore and drawn about 3000 visitors in its first year open.
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Mt. Pulaski
Lincoln
Division of Architecture and Engineering
City of
Clinic to Conduct Chest Clinic Monday
The Public Health council and the Will County sanitarium will conduct a chest clinic on Monday morning March 4 at the sanitarium. Examinations run from 8 30 to 11 o'clock.
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The
Public Health Council
Will County Sanitarium
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