Sunday. Evening Club Opens Twelfth ·Year'
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October. 1, 19'~ WILMETTE LIFE . Sunday. Evening Club Opens. Twelfth ·Year' First Program to panied the late President Roosevelt the subject of "Education." We are on his exploration to the "River of BRING YOUR GUESTS fortunate indeed to secure Dr. Mac be Given Sunda ..v Doubt." Mildred Smith Bolan of Hins Cracken for this year. dale, will sing. Many people in Wilmette have Night, October 3 over-Sunday guests. You are cor- Sunday, February 8, Alton Packard, Sunday, November 14, Armistice d' · the widely known cartoonist and S d 1a 11 Y mvited to attend the Wit- Sunday evening, October 3, the Wil un ay program. Address by Dr. Ar- mette Sunday Evening club and speaker, often referred to as the suc- mett s d E - thur E. Bestor, president of Chautau- b · cessor to Frank Beard, will present . e un ay vening club will open qua Institution, Chautauqua, New rmg your guests with you . Your h' '11 d S d . 1 d Its . tw~lfth season with a program I y k W 'lb D N b' ?uests will appreciate the opportun- ts t ustrate un ay program ~nbt e • whtch m many respects is the best in or . I . ur #' es It will be pres- Jty to hear the great speakers and "The Master Painter." !he . his.tory of this notable Wilmette ent and give a rendition of the poem excellent music which is presented Sunday, February 13, the program on mst1tut10n. "Yo_ur Flag and My Flag," of which each Sunday evening. this date will be appropriate to Lin- E" ··ht h h · he ts the author. The Imperial Male coin's birthday. Miss Jane Addams, 1 Kentlworth~ c urcco es m t Wilmette· h' and quartet will· sing among other selec- probably the best known woman · in lar Sunda -opera· e m h t ·1s popu-h tions "Land of Mine," the words of Sunday, January Z, Branson De Cou, America, will deliver the address and . Y. evenmg gat ermg, t e which were written by Mr. Nesbit . meetmgs bemg held in the First Con- photographer and lecturer, who has so the Philharmonic quartet, all members gregational church, corner of Wil- Sunday, November 21, Norman Hap- delighted Wilmette audiences in for- of the Chicago Symphony orchestra, mette avenue and Eleventh street be- good, the well known scholar, news- mer years will bring his latest "Dream will furnish the music. cause it has the largest auditori~m. paper and magazine writer, will speak Pictures" with musical accompani- Sunday, February 20, Mr. ]. Malcolm A very large percent of all the most on "Our Relations with Europe." ments on the Ampico piano and the Bird, foremost investigator of spirit noted people of the United Staltes Madam Ed_ith Rideau Normelli, so- Victrola. "A Springtime Motor Tour phenomena, will speak on "My Psychic have. addre s ~ed this club, including prano, . so1 mst. from ·Mexico to British Columbia" Investigations." As secretary of the Calvm Coohdge while he was Vice- Sunday, November zs, Amos Alonzo will be his. subject and will feature Scientific American committee which President of the United States also Stagg, director of Athletics of the Uni- the deserts of Southern California has been investigating psychic pheno \t~ i c e-President Marshall, Willia~ Jen- versity of Chicago, will speak on "Col- the Redwood Highway, and the Pacifi~ mena, Mr. Bird has had a remarkable nmgs Bryan, and many others. lege Athletics." Musical numbers by Northwest. · experience which has taken him There are thirty weeks in the 1926- Anna Nyberg, violinist. Sunday, January 9, Branson De Cou through the spiritualistic centers of 1927 club year, opening Sunday Octo- Sunday, December S, Grace Thomp- will present his "Dream Pictures of America and Europe. Miss Mildred ber 3, and closing Sunday, Ap~il 24. son Seton, the naturalist, and world Alpine Wonderlands" (Glorious Switz- Smith Bolan will sing. The season's first speaker on the famous traveler, author and lecturer erland). Mr. De Cou's two evenings Sunday, February 27, Dr. Sherwood P:ogram is Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, will describe her recent exploratio~ of pictures, synchronized with music, Eddy of New York City will speak for b1shop of the Chicago area of the trip into South America. Her address will be among the finest and most the first time before the Wilmette Sun Methodist Episcopal church, and one ·u b b 'f ll . wor~h-while of the year. They are day Evening club. · His subject will of the best known ministers ·n that wt e eauh u Y 111 ustrated by stere- mus1cal travelogues illustrated with deal with international relations and 1 opticon slides. Mildred Smith Bolan denomination. Bishop Hughes was for of Hinsdale will sing. masterpieces of art and photography. conditions in Europe, including Ru~sia. seven years president of De Pauw un·_ Sunday J nuary 16 D J h T' He will also discuss industrial rela- 1 Sunday, DecemL -r Dr. S. Parkes , a ' r. o n tmo- nrsity. He is a trustee of the Carne- oe 1Z, th St 11 k f h tions. Madame Normelli, soprano of Cadman, of Brooklytl, one of tile Y one, we nown pastor o t e S k E 1 • g ie Foundation and is the author of Fourth Pr b t · h h Cl · t. Lu e's church, vanston, wit smg. world's greatest preachers, whose ra- es Y enan c urc , ltcago, seyeral well known books. Madat11e w1'll preach Sunday, M. arch 6, the speak·er for Edith, Bide.au Normelli, soprano of St clio audience each Sund·av extends s d J· Z3 C 'l R b this occasion will be announced later. Luk e ~ Episcopal church Evanston from the Atlantic to the Pacific, will un ay, anuary , eel o erts, ' \viii sing. ' ' speak for the first time before the England's brilliant poet, novelist, Sunday, Marcla 13, Carvath Wells, Wilmette Sunday Evening club. essayist and critic, will speak on '~ What author and world traveler, .will speak Su~day, October 10, concert by the S Europe Is Thinking." No lecturer in on -,' Six Years in the Malay Jung!'~." s ,;:e ~lt s h .Male. Cho~us of Chicago, H unday, December 19, Dr. Georga recent years has attracted more favor- His address· will be illustrated by:' a \\ llltam Nordm, dtrector. This is a Dorsey, famou s anthropo.logist, author able attention than· this remarkable wealth of illustrations in the form of chorus of forty voices and is often re- of one of the best sellmg books of young Englishman whose splendid stereopticon slides. The story of his f en~ e d t o as t I1e fi nest smg· 1· ng group th.e 1)resent year.' "\Vh"v . We Behave .wor k ha· s placed him· m· the forefront expenences· m· t h e M a 1ay P emns-u· 1a JS• ~ o~ t~ s ty.pe that i.s comprised entirely Lt~ e Human .B emgs," w11l speak on o~odern writers fill ed with information and is told in a th1 s same subject · - · · t · t t' M' A N . Ot --S "' e <I t s 11 spea k· mg pcop Ic. · unday, January 30, Dr. Henry N . mos m eres mg way. tss. nna y- Sunday, October 17, Strickland Gil- Sunda~, Decer_n~er ~6, Prof. ~· H. ~I cC r a cken, president of Vassar college, berg will play two violin selections. lil~n , the well known poet, author, Clark ot the 'Cnn·e rs1ty of Chtq.go, will speak on "The Aim · of a College Suftday,· · March ZO, Dr. Charles ·phtbsopher and lecturer, who has just for many years .one of tl~ e bes t known Course." EO!.ch year the Sunday Eve- Stelzle, former pastor of the Labor returned from Europe, wilt .. speak for mterpreters of literature m America. ning club. has· given one evening· to Temple,- New 'York, · .\vill' take,:· for his the second time before the' Wilmette subject ·"Religion 'o( the New De- Sunday Evening- club. Solos . by ·Miss . mocracy." Dr. Stel_:Zle's autobiography Da,,·n Hulbert. · ,- is now ~ a-ppearinrr in' Thr Outlonl.-. Tt Hear Rabbi Wise ·,.. Som.e of Those Who Have Appeared! has been classified as the most inter estin.z autobiography-- of the year. Dr. Sunday, OctobeJ 24, Rabbi 'Stephen on Sunday Eve1"t"ng Club PIY.og~/im"' Stelzle is an excellenhspeaker. S: \Vise, of the Free Synagogu.e, New " t 1 1 u .;:,; Madrigals C~ming \ ork, one of America's greatest ora- tors, will speak on "American Democ- Pre'sident Calvin Coolidge Dr. Shailer Mathews Sunday, March Z7, the Madrigal racy in Relation to Europe." Dr. \ Vise \\' bile Yin ·-Presid ent of the __ Club of Chicago. composed of about has just returned from several months' Cnitcd States. Hon. Ben B. Lindsey sixty peop-le, will present a musical' tour of Europe. Dr. Wise is one of program including many of the old the founders of the Zionist movement H~n. Thomas R. Marshall Bishop Charles D. Williams madrigals. This is the first appear- and was himself the founder of the Former Vi ce-President of the ance(. of this wide.ly-known organiza- Zi.onist organization of America. He ·nited States. Bishop Charles P. Anderson tiot1 before the Wilmette Sunday Eve- is the author of several well known ning club. books. Hon. William Jennings Bryan Dr. Henry Churchill King Sunday, April 3, program to .be an- Former Secretary of State. announced. Sunday, October 31, Vilhj ahmur Ste- Frank McGlynn ·Sunday,: Ap.ril 10, Dr. Robert E. f~n s s0n, not~d Arctic Explorer, scien- Hon.