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Allowing ‘Lee’ way in the antiques world ensures beauty. P38
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Sydney Parker continues to be something special for the New Trier girls soccer program. P30
SOCIAL SCENE Some 2,000 people attended the 2018 Humanitarian Awards Dinner. P17
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‘Rumors’ Flying Around New Trier BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
On a day that feels like the first real day of spring, when most teenagers are outside enjoying the weather, a group of New Trier High School students has instead elected to stay inside after school. This isn’t a punishment; the students are the 10 cast members of the school’s spring play, Rumors, by Neil Simon. “This has been one of the most fun shows I have directed because we are laughing all the time,” Ryan Dunn, director, told DailyNorthShore. Fun, high energy, fast-paced, hilarious — words that Dunn and the cast members used to describe the play. Rumors takes place in a tastefully appointed townhouse, where four couples have gathered to celebrate a 10th wedding anniversary, only to find the host (and deputy mayor of New York) has accidentally shot himself in the ear and his wife is nowhere to be found. What follows is a comedic farce of confusion and miscommunication, where all the guests are complicit in a cover-up no one entirely understands. Dunn confessed he chose Rumors as the spring play because he has loved Neil Simon since he was in high school. And he really wanted to give the students an opportunity to act in one of the award-winning playwright’s comedies. “It’s funny Continued on PG 10
CLASS ACT ART SHAY: MARCH 31, 1922 – APRIL 28, 2018 BY DONALD LIEBENSON DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
Photographer Art Shay, an icon of the Chicago arts community, died April 28 of heart failure at his Deerfield home. He was 96. Michelle Monroe, co-owner of the Monroe Gallery of Photography, which represents his fine arts photography, considered him a Renaissance man. “It’s a huge loss,” she said in a phone interview. “He was a mentor; he guided us. We trusted him. You might never find someone like Art Shay; it’s once in a career.” Actor and collaborator Mike Nussbaum once compared Shay to the Woody Allen character Zelig. “He has been with all kinds of famous people at important moments in history, having taken their photographs or living with them as (he did) with Jimmy Stewart and Nelson Algren,” he told the Chicago Tribune in 2002. I interviewed Shay on a few occasions and always left his company thoroughly jazzed and inspired by the artistry of his work, his indefatigable creative drive, his passion for art and literature, and the enduring love for his wife of 67 years, Florence, who passed away from cancer in 2012. Shay’s photographs appeared in Life magazine, Sports Illustrated and other publications, and are exhibited in galleries and museums. Currently on display at the American Writers Museum in Chicago is the exhibition “Capturing Stories: Photographs of Writers by Art Shay.” He wrote three plays, roughly 80 books (including a 2002 autobiography, An Album for an Age, Nelson Algren’s Chicago and a series of sports how-to books, of which 40 Common Errors in Golf and How to Correct Them was his bestseller, according to his son, Richard). He was a blogger, a columnist, and also a champion racquetball player. “He’s one of our cultural treasures,” Thomas Continued on PG 10
Art Shay. PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD SHAY
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