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To 3. ON THE AISLE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE Mond.y, Oct. 8,1945 17 omen ay 'w By Claudia Cassidy Opera Opening Wear Air of Pre-War Gayety Tonight BY JUDITH CASS (Picture on back page) WHEN the Chicago Opera company opens In the Civic Opera house tonight, directors are expecting a festive first night, reminiscent of pre-war splendor, with top hats and white ties in order for masculine box seat and main floor patrons. Their companions naturally will appear in formal gowns. Ballet Russe Takes Sparkling Departure, Turning Theater Over to Tonight's Manon" Models for Sf.

Luke's Fashion Show Oct. 17 I Jeanne clean cut perfection, th Maybe it's a plot, this habit the wiMMTMTrmrnniiiMrrriiii in 1 Mniff nuTrrjnnriinjTjnorrp irr nnin rmr" This 'Carmen' Displays Some Good Singing ballet troupes have of getting bet Rodeo in Agnes de Mille style by ter as they go along, until at the end you can't bear to have them Vida Brown, who is leaving th troupe for domesticity, the piquant work of little Gertrude Tyven. th clarity of Tallchief and Beau Dan Evening gowns will not only bloom in the opera house this year. son of Mrs. Verba Clark and the late Dr.

Clark of St. Louis, received his degree from the University of Missouri. Miss Betty Talbot will be her sis but they will also be worn at many dinner parties which will precede the opening, and at dozens of sup leave. In the instance of the Ballet Russe, all is forgiven only if they return in the spring according to plans now hatching. Actually, there is no mystery about the improvement in balletic residence, tho you invariably expect any theatrical troupe to put its best foot forward opening night.

The dancers often arrive worn out from travel, their repertory a bit frayed at the edges ube," with Danilova to remember in that wine velvet dress as the focal point of the best revival Massine's enchanting work has had in seasons, thanks also to Franklin. Danielian. Krassovska and Etheridge of the crisp fouettes. And then it was midnight and the ball was over, except perhaps for a forgotten ballet slipper. The cleaning crew moved In to tix things up for tonight's opening of the opera season, with Bida Sayao's "Manon." ter's only attendant.

Dr. Chester Clark, who will be here from St. Louis, with his wife and mother, will be best man for his brother. A reception in the home of the bride's parents will follow the ceremony. Lt.

Clark will take his bride to of one night stands, their orchestra per parties which will follow the performance. Abner J. Stilwell, president of the opera company, and Mrs. Stilwell will entertain their guests at dinner in the Electric club, where the Robert Hall Mc-Cormicks and the George I. Haights also will entertain; John D.

Allen, chairman of the opera board, and Mrs. Allen and their guests will dine in the Tavern club; and the Herbert Lorbers are giving a dinner in the Pump room. The Mil BY ALBERT GOLDBERG Whether the throng that crammed the Eighth Street theater last night for the Mid-West Opera company's Carmen was made up of overflow customers who couldn't get tickets for tonight's Chicago Opera opening, or whether they were Eighth. Street regulars, only a poll would have proved. We suspect the latter, for the more circumspect citizens who patronize six dollar opera rarely vent their approval with the explosiveness that was the regular order of business last night.

Some of this noisy enthusiasm was justified, tho by and large the merits of the production were of a promissory nature. "Carmen" is indestructible and can take all kinds of treatment, from Carmen Jones to Eighth Street opera. But it is also a boomerang; it is usually Bizet who laughs last. for the most part newly recruited. By the time everything is whipped into crackling shape, the engage Macon, GaM where he is stationed with the infantry.

ment is over. The most alluring Miss Joan Porter entertained for the bride at a luncheon on Saturday in the Pump room, and Miss Patri moral I can spin, aside from more visits, is longer seasons. Had this season begun backwards, instead of the tepid opening night cia Dillon was hostess at a shower yesterday in her home in Kenil- lard B. Kennedys will take their guests to supper later in the Black "Les Sylphides," we would have had yesterday's, truly the romantic stone, and the James A. Hirsch- reverie of Fokine's imagination oTevens Stst near Washington Budget Shops Open Monday.

12 to 9 P.M. fields and the Sigurd Olsens will "take their box guests to Camellia Ivan Boutnikoff conducted his own orchestration of Chopin's melodies with a warm feeling for their ro House. Elaine Sldley Engaged worth. Mrs. Albert Haag will give another shower for Miss Talbot tonight.

Miss Patricia McNally will be hostess at a dinner party tomorrow night in the Winnetka home of her parents, the Thomas F. Mc-Nallys. Here and There Lt. Comdr. Georges Dapples, who has just been released from the navy, and his wife, the former Flor manticism and a secure sense of Quite the most interesting item their dancing line.

The corps de When Miss Elaine Siciiey and her mother, Mrs. William D. Sidley, ar ballet was not only deft but moon of this Carmen was the lady herself, as sung by Lois Gentile, a young woman with a flair for the struck, the soloists were expert, and rive on Oct. 26 from their home, Silver Spur ranch, in Encampment, they will have a few days Alexandra Danilova herself' ap stace. a dusky attractive voice, and a smoldering temperament that here in which to tell their Chicago peared in the leading role, which she dances all too rarely, giving it the subtle poetry of mood evoked ence Hermes, returned to Chicago yesterday after an absence of four needs only experience to fan it into friends of plans for Miss Sidley's flame.

If you are an habitual opera goer you have often paid more to only by the most sensitive class ipism. years. Mrs. Dapples spent last winter in Coronado, with Mrs. Charles L.

Peet, and last summer in hear and see less. All sorts of week-end trades were Santa Fe. N. M. She returned to Coronado to meet Mr.

Dapples and made in repertory and roles Frank On the credit side there was also a Micaela in Flora a 1 a who looked Innocent and sometimes acted that way, and who sang her to celebrate the announcement of lin and Danielian switched in "Danses Concertantes and "Scheherazade and any newcomers in the engagement of Mrs. Peet and first act assignments easily in a Miss Alice Byrne (left) and Miss Patricia Wyman discussing the coming St. Luke's fashion show on Oct. 17 in the Medinah temple, in which they will model, over a game of backgammon. Miss Byrne, a debutante of the season, will make her bow to society at a tea on Dec.

22 in south side home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Maurice W. K. Byrne.

tribune pnotoi Lt. Walter Watson. fresh and pretty voice. Towering marriage next month to Lt. Robert Fielding Bauer of the naval reserve.

Today Mr. and Mrs. Sidley are announcing their only daughter's engagement to the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C.

Bauer of New York. The ceremony, tentatively set for Nov. 10, will be in New York, where the Sidleys formerly lived. Miss Sidley's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

William Pratt Sidley, in whose Winnetka home she made her debut last year, will go east for the wedding, and also present will be her brother, William F. Sidley, a naval O. T. C. student at Yale university.

Miss Sidley attended the Spence A new addition to the Stanhope Roger Carl Biede focused unwonted Sunday's audience who didn't get corrected programs may have been more than a little puzzled that Adams' nursery is a second son born to them on Sept. 23 in Passavant attention upon the role of Zuniga. Some of this was because you can hospital. The baby has been named GIRL "Nutcracker" didn't quite fit the specifications laid down by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and divertissements from Coppelia." But help noticing a very tall man on the stage, particularly when he is a bit awkward; but some of it was also because of his sonorous bass voice. Parker, the maiden name of his mother, the former Joan Parker.

He and his 3 year old brother, Stanhope Tit w'ml BY RUTH MAC KAY- a mamma sitting near me explained are grandchildren of Mr. and George Tozzi had the physical re Grand Adagio in advance to her Mrs. Charles E. B. Adams and Mrs Miss Prather Is Engaged to Capt.

Wright Mrs. B. II. Prather of Paducah, Night and Day offspring. Adagio," she said.

is a Paul Parker of Evanston. Dear Diary ey becky French dance, and a little rough. Today's Events quirements for a credible toreador, and his voice undeniably is a good one; and he isn't the first baritone to bark his way thru Escamillo's aria. The line between the romantic school and was graduated in 1944 from the Ethel Walker school. She is a member of the New York Junior league.

Lt. Bauer, an alumnus of Lawrenceville and of Yale univer Two people come out and throw The Woman's board of the Illinois When I go home, each night at 5, 1 say, "No, not another Day I'll work for Mr. lie's got me down now, brother!" each other around." Well, children are wonderful. Danilova and Frank Children's Home and Aid society will open headquarters today in the Drake hotel to sell tickets to its sity, has been on active duty in the Atlantic for three years and took lin came out and threw each other around in the loveliest, most lan But then at 9 a. m.

I see and the ridiculous is always a narrow one in the instance of Don Jose, and David Johnson certainly cut it close. When he gets behind and announces the engagement of her daughter, Lee, to Capt. Richard His friendly, grinning face me iwiumiiuY invasion, asi i he has been assigned to east coast And think, "He's really not so bad A business meeting will be held at pushes, his voice develops an agree Wright of the army air forces, son of Dr. and Mrs. Sewall Wright of Harper av.

Miss Prather is an guess I like this place!" Peggy duty, he and his bride will live this winter in Boston or New York. They able ring. It was too bad he couldn 11 a. m. today.

The Ridge Service guild will hold plan, however, to follow the exam Office Irk its monthly meeting today In the guorous and yet Somehow throbbing performance that has revealed its Balanchine worth this season, and my little friend paid it tribute. He said, very quietly. "Oh, boy!" Nathalie Krassovska and Nicolas Magallanes were the principals in the last "Nutcracker," which had some sumptuous Tschaikowsky coaxed from the orchestra by Eman- alumna of Murray State college in Murray, Ky. Her fiance' enlisted pie of her parents and live in Wyo Gentlemen or ladies as the case sing loudly all the time. William Fantozzi worked hard at the conducting and came thru many episodes with colors flying.

The quintet, however, was not among jthe victorious incidents, and some in the royal Canadian air fdrce may be: Please consider this special irk of mine which concerns both 1 after two years at Swarthmore college and later transferred to the United States 8th air force of the tempi were more cautious Uel Balaban, and a colorful perfor- Martha Washington Home for Crippled Children, which the guild helps support. John Duncan Miller of the British Information Services will analyze Recent Elections in Great Britain before an adult discussion group of the Chicago branch of the English Speaking union at 7:30 o'clock tonight in its headquarters. On the program for a meeting of He will be discharged soon after the boss and the operator. When I call Smith Co. and ask for Mr.

Smith and say, Mr. Jones calling," why do so many operators and often rudely instruct me to "Put Mr. Jones on the line After all, it is my employer 95 missions as a navigator, during which time he was awarded the ming, using the senior Sidleys' Winnetka home as a half way house between Wyoming and New York. Other Engagement News Along with the announcement which the Albert G. Talbots are making of the engagement of their daughter, Helen Hunt, to Lt.

Grover Clark of the army, comes the news that the wedding will take place at 4 p. m. on Saturday in their Winnetka home. Miss Talbot was graduated from the Sacred Heart academy in Lake ForesJ and Trinity college, Washington, D. C.

Her fianc6, British distinguished flying cross, You'll Be Smart at Work or Play In this skillful basic dress the American distinguished flying cross with oak leaf cluster, and mance in champagne spirits. Kras-sovska's dancing was supple, swift, and, of course, blessed with her own dark beauty, and Magallanes was a light hearted cavalier whose dancing, like Danielian's, is going the right direction fast. No farewell story can crowd everything in, but there is no skipping the diamond cut brilliance of "Danses Concertantes," the best "Concerto Barocco" with Marie the air medal with eight clusters, i that fills a dual role I His father is a member of the the Cordon club at 8 o'clock tonight is a talk by Miss Carolyn Barr on "Sara Teasdale, Lyric Poet." Members will meet in the clubrooms for dinner preceding the program. than correct. Two Negro sopranos held forth In Kimball hall recitals during the day.

Marion McCree, who came from Boston to sing last night, owns one of the most beautiful new voices to be heard here in some time. It is solid in texture, rich in color, notable in range. Tho there are some inconsistencies In her singing, her approach to her songs is generally that of a cultured and sensitive musician. In the afternoon Rosa Lee Jones displayed a voice that is light, sil who is paying for the call and it is only courteous for Mr. Smith's operator to ring his phone.

Otherwise the assumption is that the time of Mr. Smith who is being called is more valuable than the time of Mr. Jones. Possibly this Is the fault of the 2 3 zoology department at the Univer sity of Chicago. There's double attraction in i versatile dress that's casual by day and Rear Adm.

and Mrs. Richard L. Conolly of Chevy Chase, and accessory-d resiy by La Holla, announce the en night! It's a perfect "ba-sic," with long, full Thru the Looking Glass gagement of their daughter, Ann, to operator. Or it may be the responsibility of the boss who issues the instructions. But most assuredly it does not promote good feeling between the two business men.

sleeves, silverv-buttoned Ensign George Haring Hughey Jr troubles to a friend who wore an bodice and fly-front, gath of the navy, son of Mrs. Hughey Jr. ensign's uniform. It seems the ered skirt. In Grey, Royal San Marino, and the late Capt, 8th Annual School for Flower Judges Set for Oct.

23-25 Early enrollment of members of garden clubs thruout the state for B. A. very in quality, and well trained up to a point. She made pleasant listening of "Come Unto Him" from Handel's "Messiah," fared tol Hughey of the army. Miss Conolly, a granddaughter of Mrs.

Robert B. young man nice looking and he wore a Phi Beta Kappa key had been taking dictation from the boss' Now is the time to buckle down to giving the hands the beauty care they need when the weather turns brisk. The occasional use of a soft One in Every Office Conolly of Waukegan, was graduat I'd like Octdober when sumber Id erably with Mozart's "Alleluia," and went in beyond her depth with private secretary while the boss was on vacation. The secretary dead ening preparation that sumced a Black Velvet Still a Fashion Parade Leader BY REA SEEGER Coal black velvet, always one of the most flattering fabrics in the winter fashion dress parade, is just as alluring this season as ever. There is something inimitably lush to the soft sheen and in the deep black that creates an enviable aura of elegance.

One smart collection with amaz ed in 1943 from Wellesley college. Her fiance a graduate of the United or Black rayon crepe, sizes 10 to 18. YouH be twice as smart in this dress both on the job and on a spree! 10.95 Sorry, no mail nr phone orient Downstairs Floor Stato Oirct Subway tatraaca Chas. A. Sievens Co.

couple of weeks ago won't be ade If I didn't hab thid cold Id my head. the dramatic hyperbole of Salter's dictated at according to him the States Naval academy in Annapolis, quate to keep hands looking white and smooth from now on thru the "The Cry of Rachel." Virgil Johnson, the accompanist has just returned from 14 rate of 200 words a minute, then added insult to injury by criticizing iss-Ann-Thrope The Secretary Dictatet A certain young man on the winter. the 8th judging school of the Garden Club of Illinois Oct. 23, 24. and 25 in the Palmer House indicates the growing popularity of the annual study course.

The school is designed to raise the standard of community flower exhibitions by providing accredited judger- for the his shorthand outlines. But the months of duty in the Pacific. The wedding will take place late this also made a show of talent in Beethoven's Sonata in flat, Opus 31, Get back in the habit of using this morning was telline his month in Washington. your favorite hand cream or lotion several times a day and give them a more complete treatment at night From Larchmont, N. comes the National Cathedral school in Wash ington.

Her fiance, a graduate of before retiring. announcement made by Mr. and Mrs James Guinan, formerly of Kenil 4 1 If you are befuddled about the the Boys' Latin school in Baltimore, attended Johns Hopkins university. worth, of the engagement of their choice of preparation, you might ingly low price marks will break records for fashion success. Four i No.

3, tho there were frequent wide discrepancies between what Beethoven wrote and what Mr. Johnson played. Dr. J. A.

Magner Opens Charles Carroll Forum Dr. James A. Magner of the Catholic University of D. opened the ninth season of the Charles Carroll Forum of Chi worst part of the whole situation was revealed when the young man added, "And she's just a little squirt only 18 years old!" A bit of nosing brought to light the fact that the little squirt of 18 was three seats away from the young man and his friend on the and vastly entertained by the situation! Nosey Parker II. Definition "Executive: A man who can hand back a letter for a third retyping to orevens Mr.

and Mrs. George M. Ford of distinctive models in this collection shows and by teachinr exhibitors how to grow and display plant materials properly. Mrs. Wilbur E.

Frib-ley of Chicago, chairman of the school, announces that the three day course is open to all interested persons, regardless of club affiliations. Lecturers this year will include Dr. L. Grove, assistant extension horticulturist, Iowa State College of Evanston announce the engagement illustrate four different ways of liV' ins in velvet. of their daughter, Marjorie Lee, to Stata near Washington Budget Shops Open Monday.

12 to 9 P. There is a basic and severly plain Irving L. Wells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wells of Portland, Ore.

daughter, Marion, to Malcolm Theodore Stamper of the naval reserve, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Theodore Stamper of Detroit, Mich. Miss Guinan attended the Roycemore school and Vassar college and was graduated from the University of Michigan, where her fiance1 studied before entering the navy. He is stationed with the navy V-12 unit at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

aress witn long htted sleeves, a gracefully side swept draped skirt Miss Ford attended DePauw univer cago yesterday at the Morrison ho Agriculture; Miss Polly Coan, acting like to try one which we have found highly satisfactory. This is a hand balm something between a lotion and a cream in consistency. It is a pure white preparation rich in oils and softening lanolin, and whipped to a creamy fluffiness. There is no danger of spilling it, because it's easy to get at in its smartly designed container which has an opening broad enough to dip a finger in and come out with the right amount of balm for a complete application. Smooth a small dab of it on the hands and they feel and look infinitely softer instantly.

You need and a simple high neckline bodice. This is the winner as a foundation dress, for with costume accessories it can be changed at will to suit the sity and received her degree from the University of Wisconsin. Her fiance was graduated from the engineering school of Stanford university. They will be married on tel. Marks Nathan Hall Chicago members of the inter director of the Milwaukee Art institute; Mrs.

O. W. Dy.ies of Hinsdale, recognized authority on flower show practice, and Mrs. Henry M. Kistner occasions for which it will be worn The workmanship in it is flawless, Oct.

27 in Evanston. national auxiliary of Marks Nathan hall will gather for a luncheon meeting at 1:30 p. m. today in the Standard club. of New York, writer and lecturer.

Miss Elizabeth R. Howland, who heads the Illinois Garden club, will make the opening address. The Rev. and Mrs. C.

Emil Berg- Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Richards of Scarsdale, N. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Adrian, to Lt. j.

g. Johri David Brainard Pamp of the naval air forces, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Frederic E. Pamp of N.

Sawyer av. A second basic type is the dress that is virtually sleeveless and also simple ir" design. The skirt is straight and slim, but the bodice is a charming version of the softly draped models-' It has the most quist of S. Peoria st. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Priscilla Ann, to William Paul Steinbrecher, son of Mr.

and Mrs. George Steinbrecher of N. a red headed stenographer and' live! From the Northerner The Mail Bag Anent the subject of early careers, a WCG reader sends a delightful old engraving of 1878, showing the village amanuensis," quill pen in hand, writing a letter for one of the villagers. Medico objects to the loop window where the breezes blow on the late sleeper, saying "any idiot who sleeps that close to the open window will be a good pneumonia case." The Profane Poet writes that he has found a silver bracelet and thinks we should locate the owner. It's inscribed, "China, Burma, India, etc.

and he believes it to be "a link to romance." Practically every one appears to know more about canning than this white collar de only a few seconds for the operation, because the lotion disappears in a twinkling, leaving no after Lakewood av. Miss Bergquist, whose father is pastor of the Bethel Luth math of stickiness. Miss Richards, whose father is the well known tennis player, was graduated from the Academy of Mount St. Vincent in Kiverdale, N. Y.

Lt. Pamp, was graduated from North Park college and has been serving as a dive bomber pilot in the Pacific. eran church, was graduated last 7V CROC BET TABLECLOTHS, SCURFS, CHAIR This is a wonderful protection against chapping and redness. Use it before immersing the hands in June from the University of Chicago, and now Is connected with the Red Cross in Chicago. Her flancd is a graduate of the univer water or going out of Apply it after each hand washing and use it generously with massage before retiring and you've got a His father is pastor of the Evanston Mission Covenant church.

From Baltimore, comes word of the engagement of Miss Elizabeth Millholland, daughter of Mrs. Florence D. Carr of Chicago and flattering of deep necklines with a simulated soft bow drape. A third dress has a cluster of white ermine tails tucked in at the waistline accent the otherwise simple bodice, the short sleeves, and the rather full skirt. Worn with white gloves, a little roly poly ermine muff, and a tiny ermine hat it becomes a costume of picture book charm.

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