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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1940
Page
1
The choir performs a formal concert in Wilmette Parish Methodist Church sanctuary on Monday evening February 12 at 8 o'clock. The program features choral masterpieces from various ages and nations including Bach’s Sing Ye to the Lord and Kodaly’s Evening by the modern Hungarian composer.
The Saidenberg Symphony Orchestra presents a final season program at the Goodman Theatre on Sunday February 18 at 8 30 pm conducted by Daniel Saidenberg. Featured dancers include Eleanore Block Ana Kurgans Pearl Lack and Leyah Lucatsky with operatic soloists Virginia Haskins soprano and Giacomo Rimini baritone. The one act opera La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi will be staged.
Mrs Eva Lips former Nazi Germany exile and author of Savage Symphony will speak at North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe on Wednesday February 14 at 8 15 p m. The lecture is free under the North Shore Congregation Israel Men's club and Sisterhood and features her husband Prof Julius Lips an anthropologist. They describe themselves as pure Aryan and part of venerable German families.
Community center activity shows steady growth as boys join the Model Airplane Club. Two flying models near completion for an April exhibition. plans include 25 of this size. Craft room offers solid and flying models plus racing cars and trains for realistic displays.endregion
On Ash Wednesday February 7 the Wilmette Parish Methodist Church will start Lent with an all church buffet in the dining hall at 6 30 pm Families are asked to bring a covered dish and join in fellowship music and devotion The dinner will be served by the Woman's Guild with Mrs M C Greigg as chair Dean McSloy directs music Mrs Sarah M Eilert plays piano and the Rev Erskine M Jeffords will deliver a Lent message The event marks an Anniversary Year Observance and preludes the Sunday Evening University of Life series running February 11 to March 10.
St John s Lutheran church Wilmette will host a sacred concert Friday at 8 15 p m with Lolita Bertling soprano and Robert Reuter organ soloist Assisted by Electa Gamron piano and Northwestern University music faculty The program features works by Schumann Franck Bach Mozart and Gounod with selections including piano concerto arrangements and choral preludes.
Mr and Mrs William H Alexander of 2137 Chestnut avenue Wilmette announce the birth of a son on Saturday January 27 at Chicago Memorial hospital The couple also have a daughter Lila Jane and a son Raymond Hall Alexander The maternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Raymond M Ashcraft of Chicago and Mrs Alexander is the former Jane Ashcraft.
Mrs Leslie MacArthur of Bridgeport Connecticut spent time visiting in Kenilworth recently while stopping at the Pearson hotel in Chicago.
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