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ocietif, and Glubi Zuetiti, in Muiic ay e-n Friday, August 1, 1947 Chicago JDatlp tribune 19 ON THE AISLE Principals and Two of the Attend ants in Swift-W 'hippie Wedding It's a Typical Monfeux Concert Except for Inept Assault on Tschaikowsky Violin Concerto By Claudia Cassidy One of the puzzles of music happened at Ravinia last night whea Fun Promised in Two Events for Young Set of Barrington BY JUDITH CASS THE younger set of Barrington and its environs is promised a wealth of fun at two events scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 9. From 1 until 5 p. m. the James Cardwell estate will be the setting for an informal horse show, which will provide entertainment for adults as well as children, and that evening the Barrington Country club will be the scene of a supper-dance, titled Carnival Capers, for teen-age boys and girls.

Carousel type decor is planned for the supper-dance of which Mrs. Christian C. "P.uphlpr la rtiairman one of Pierre Monteux's typical and cherished Ravinia concerts with the Chicago Symphony orchestra was damaged almost beyond repair by the ineptitude of the soloist. She was Miriam Solovieff, a young girl from Mr. Monteux's own San Francisco, and her two Ravinia engagements were more than twice as puzzling as her one last winter ia Orchestra hall because they came later.

Painfully insecure of tone and technique, she played the Tschaikowsky Concerto with bland disregard of her own incompetence, while orchestra and conductor plugged drearily along a path suggesting amateur night on the radio. Front Mews Profiles Thru the Looking Glass Fortunately there were other things to rescue the concert. Mr. MARC1A WINN. Monteux followed his soloist with a needed showpiece, Ravel's Spanish Some women, it is true, are never even tempted to "cut corners Rhapsody, and devoted the first part when it comes to the exquisite clean- of the concert to Schumann's Second Symphony, not precisely a regular Chaperons and other committee members include Mr.

Buehler, the Percy H. Olivers, the Edmund P. Strothmans, the John Bennetts, the Dayton Smiths, and the Ross D. Sira-S'jsas. The Olivers' sons, Tom and Jack, will participate in the horse show, as will the Buehlers daughter, Lynn.

Dorothy Dallstream, daughter of the Andrew J. Dallstreams, will ride her horse, JCydra. and Leonore Karcher, daughter of the Leonard Karchers, will ride Baby Bunting. Miss Ann Casselberry, daughter of Mrs. Ed-gerton A.

Throckmorton, also is expected to participate in the show, as are Miss Isabel Farrar, daughter of the John F. Farrars, and Paula and Linda Knickerbocker, daughter of the Kenneth K. Knickerbockers. The youthful equestrians will take their horses thru their paces In a in the repertory, and an overture rarely heard nowadays, the first of Schubert's two in Italian style. liness of all of their possessions, but it is a known fact ask doctors, nurses, sales girls, and beauty operators that women generally are far less fastidious than men about the cleanliness of apparel that doesn't show.

i 7 The Sorrow of Lady H. If the Viscountess Harberton were around today she would never react to the long skirt decree with the seeming passivity of the American women. She would be straining her well modulated voice to the utmost telling the world this is a fine ending for her great crusade of the '80s. She probably would be wearing her divided skirt as she talked, too. If you can dig up a copy of Victoria magazine for July, 1880, you can see this great English dress re It is fashionable to say that all music Schubert dubbed "In the Italian style" was in the manner of Rossini, with or without tongue in cheek.

But the D-major work The dressing room of a doctor office, the fitting room of a dress shop, and the little ante-room of many beauty salons where women slip out of their dresses and into cool smocks before submitting to th shampoo and the hair dryer are interesting if not edifying labor Concert by (he Chlcaca Symphony orche. tra. Plrrre Montru, condnurtor; Miriam Sotovtrfr. vlnliniit. Prcaentrd at Rayinla, park Thunday eyeninf.

July 31, 1947. The program: Overture la Italian Style. No. 1, In major Symphony No. 2, In C.

Concerto for Violin, in Spanlih Rhapaody. Ravel former in faded sepia. She looks as tho everything so far has been very sad. She wears a man's stiff standing collar, fastened with gold collar buttons, but this will give you no idea at all of her divided skirt, for the picture ends at the waist and her black bodice looks like any black bodice. Perhaps she didn't have her divided skirt on at all.

Perhaps the photoerafer Albert E. Fradelle, Cheapside wouldn't permit her in his studio is far more on the Schubert side of the fence, with a strong kinship to Rosamunde." True, its slow and stately introduction eventually bubbles into Rossini textures, but the spirit animating that brilliance is less the lyricism of the Italian opera house than the Vienna concert hall. in such an outrageous costume. What was this gauche attire? The Phelps Hoyt Swift and his bride, the former Peggy Whipple, leaving Lake Forest Presbyterian church after their marriage there yesterday afternoon to go to the wedding reception in the Onwentsia club. tribune rhotoii rules for it stated: "The skirt is divided down the front and 'back so as to clothe each leg separately.

It should cover the instep and have There are never enough rehearsals Lake Forest Church Is Setting for summer concerts, but Mr. Mon about a yard around each ankle. The top skirt falls over it to within three inches of the edge." teux is a conductor of wisdom, tact, and intuition, and the Chicago Sym ring set in a valley on the Cardwell estate, and families of the community will gather at vantage points on a grass covered hillside to view the events. The show is held annually. Another pleasant event on the Earrington calendar will be the annual Barrington Countryside Horse show, to be held Sunday, Aug.

24, at the Dorvillee Round Barn stables. Kenneth Williams will be chairman this year of the show, which was revived last summer after a lapse during the war. Debutante Events The debutante whirl will continue today with a luncheon the Herbert Edmond Kerbers of Highland Park will give at 1 p. m. at Exmoor Country club to Introduce their daughter, Miss Marguerite Kerber, to society.

In the evening Miss Kerber, known to family friends as Bunny; her assistants, and their escorts will go to the Pump room for dinner and dancing. Miss Betty Kerber. who made her debut at Exmoor two years ago, will be one of her sister's assistants, along with the Misses Nancy Mills, Nancy Knight, Nancy Appel, Nancy Sproul. Adele Mason, and Camille Pickett, all of whom grew up in Highland Park with the debutante. Miss Meredith Leverone, who was to have been one of the assistants, will be unable to attend the party as she is sailing for Europe today on the Queen Elizabeth with her parents, the Nathaniel Leverones of Lake Shore dr.

for Ceremony by Candlelight Modern dress reform Iby modern phony orchestra would give him its collective head on a salver if he asked for it. Fortunately for us all, we mean since 1850 didn't originate they compromise on performance, with her, of course. There was always Mrs. Bloomer, who made sage of blue forget-me-nots to go with her handsome blue lace dress and bandeau hat of forget-me-nots. more headlines than headway, and after Mrs.

Bloomer there had been The green and white motif was After a faintly tentative start, the Schubert went beautifully, and every one, including the audience, was in shape for the Schumann. for one, had held that a major expectation, in remembrance of Mr. the Hygienic Committee in Boston, carried out in decor at the church, where an outdoor effect was Miss Margaret Whipple, daughter of the Jay Northam Whipples of Lake Forest, exchanged wedding! vows with Phelps Hoyt Swift, son of the T. Philip Swifts, at a candla-light ceremony at 5 p. m.

yesterday in fashionable Lake Forest Presbyterian church. A reception was held afterward in the Onwentsia club. It was a green and white wedding, the most vivid touches of the women who thought reform should torles for a study of this. Women who wouldn't be found dead wear ing anything but the smartest frocks are often unbelievably careless about the cleanliness of the lingerie and girdle beneath them. Maybe they don't care about th utter contempt with which the beholders of this kind of slovenliness start with the first rather than the final layer.

They advocated no Monteux's Ravinia performance of change in outer dress which would (k z1' the Spring Symphony several make the wearer remarkable," but recommended the Reform Garments achieved with evergreen and white blossoms. The large wedding cake which was cut and served at the Onwentsia was centered with lilies of the valley and flanked by bouquets of white roses. Mr. Swift and his bride will live in Milford, Conn, while he attends Yale university. years ago, aid I was not disappointed.

Lawrence Gilman used to ri i color appearing in the jade green contemplate them; their careless underneath. These were nothing ne VicnPAlre in 1tclf larlr rtf more radical than pajamas. velvet which banded the summery white horsehair hats of the maid respect about which nothing more Except for Victoria, England dealt with outward dress. Victoria, when of honor. Miss Frances Robertson of Llewellyn Park, N.

and the need be said. But what they don't realize, we suspect, is that sub-surface dirt, which is really what this young and alert to such matters, five bridesmaids. The attendants' adopted a scarlet under-petticbat Dillon-Baldwin Mrs. Brooks McCormick of Lake Forest is in Bedford Hills, N. is, reveals itself more often than bouffant ruffled frocks of white marquisette were dainty foils for the we realize.

after Albert's eye once strayed admiringly to the scarlet petticoats of the milkmaids at Balmoral. English bride's lovely white satin gown, Altho the luncheon today is Miss Kerber's formal debut, her parents The woman who Is really clean to be matron of honor today for her sister, Miss Loise Baldwin, who will suggest that if the Second Symphony was the work of an ailing composer, perhaps it should be made required listening for the ones in perfect health. Certainly it is a human testament, signed and sealed, and last night it was delivered. The performance was the eve-' ning's crown, for it permitted the music to speak in human terms, both personal and universal. The struggle of the opening movement, the radiant dexterity of the scherzo so beautifully played the orchestra took an unaccustomed between movements bowl, the deep, reticent longing of the adagio and the finale, not so much triumph as culmina invariably has an orderliness, a freshness that the corner-cutter will become the bride of Herbert Lowell which had an off-the-shoulder yoke of rose point lace from the wedding ensemble of her grandmother, Mrs.

Dillon son of Mrs. John C. Had' will give a small informal party at home at a later date to introduce their daughter to family friends. Among the other parties planned never achieve with makeup, perfume, and smart clothes alone. Sh dock and Mr.

Dillon of New York City. The ceremony will take place has more poise, too; she fs untroubled by the thought that if a shoul lor the debutante, who will be a at 6:30 p. m. in St. Matthew's Epis sophomore at Elackstone college in women, discarding their layers of white petticoats, followed her example.

Lady H's divided skirt evoked jeers, but after it, in 1883, came the dress of the "woman of the future," described as "a purely knickerbocker costume with hardly any skirt and no draperies of any kind." Shocking, but not as brazen an affront to good taste as when a Mrs. King the next year not only used the word "trousers" copal church, with a reception af Leonard G. Cox of Lexington, Ky. Her long veil fell from a rose point lace crown. The bride, who is always called Peggy, carried white orchids, and her attendants carried bouquets of white gladioli arranged to resemble cabbage roses.

the fall, is a dinner Miss Nancy Sproul will give Aug. 7 at the High terward in the Bedford Hills home of the bride's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Bisbee. Mrs.

McCormick, land Park home of her parents, the der strap DOES show it will shockingly grimy, or that if the hem of her slip SHOULD sag. it wiU tell a sorry tale of her secret slovenliness. She has a sense of well being, wearing Immaculate underclothing. iss Clarissa HafFner (left), one of the bridesmaids, and Miss Frances Robertson, maid of honor, at the Swift-Whipple wedding. Edward F.

Swift IIL, whose mar Miss Baldwin, who has visited here, Earl E. Sprouis. with dancing after ward at Exmoor. Mart in- Williams riage to the former Miss Joan Mc- that her careless sister never en in public but pointed to an inch of Kelvy" took place July 2, was his brother's best man. joys and in more ways than on Only a few friends will be present tion these were as beautifully set forth as if the orchestra had been a mirror reflecting the man.

At the end of the concert, no doubt the Rhapsody was as brilliantly played as always when Mr. Monteux is with us. Certainly it The bride's petite, dark eyed and Mrs. John Cartwright of New York City, who will be a matron of honor, are daughters of the Alexander Taylor Baldwins of Bedford Hills. After a wedding trip to Bermuda, Mr.

Dillon and his bride will live in Princeton, N. while he at- Tonight's Program at Grant Park today for the marriage of Mrs. Lynn she is the woman family and friends delight to look upon and be with. mother was an attractive picture in them showing beneath her skirt. Lady Harberton's skirt was never adopted, but she never gave up on it.

She tried 16 years to do what the bicycle achieved without self- a gray lace frock and white hat, to Eleanor Nancle which she pinned white orchids. The A. Williams and Laurance C. Martin, which will take place at 3 p. m.

in the bride's lake front cottage in Evanston. The bride's only attendant will be Mrs. John Kimbark. and Eight o'clock. Free admission.

Band shell on lake front opposite bridegroom's mother chose a Continued on page 20, column 11 cor- tends Princeton university. advertisment, for in the late '90s llth st. Schools' Music Director Will Speak to City Club Dr. Helen Howe, director of music in Chicago public schools, will speak at the meeting of the Woman's City club of Chicago at 2 p. m.

today in the Fine Arts building. Her subject: Music Education as a Deterrent to Delinquency." Town and Tennis Dance There will be a terrace dance tomorrow evening at the Chicago Town and Tennis club. her invention returned and was Harry V. Donaldson of Winnetka Grant Park Symphony orchestra, fcler Solo, mon. conductor: Ida Krchm.

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