Dinner smoker of Chicago section

The last meeting of the 1929–30 season of the Chicago Section was a dinner-smoker held May 14, in the Bal Tabarin of the Hotel Sherman in Chicago. The attendance was over 400 and not one of those present expressed himself as dissatisfied with the meeting. A striking feature was the small part which professional entertainment played in the program. It was felt that the members of the section would be brought closer together and made better acquainted with each other if reliance were placed upon the members themselves for the major part of the entertainment. Accordingly a number of representative groups in the Section were requested to prepare and present such acts as talent was available for. The result was extraordinarily successful. It contributed no little to the success of the party to have the entertainment originate in the Section. The Commonwealth Edison Company members put on an elaborate sketch. Members associated with the General Electric Company put on another; the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois furnished a magician from among their employees. The Illinois Bell Telephone Company produced a telephone operator who could sing as well as say “The line is busy,” and who directed a large chorus of men from that organization. Lewis and Armour Institutes which furnish a large number of the Student Members of the Section each contributed vaudeville acts of professional caliber. The season just concluded has been an extraordinarily successful one for the Chicago Section from all points of view and the dinner-smoker proved itself to be a highly enjoyable and very fitting wind-up to the season´s activities.