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Land mines abound for potential professional actors BY EMILY SPECTRE
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ave you ever wondered how to become a professional actor? Take it from Carole Dibo, founder and director of the Actors Training Center (ATC) at the Wilmette Theatre: the entertainment industry is full of land mines for an aspiring actor who doesn’t understand the business. That is why 12 years ago Dibo started the one-day workshop called Breaking Into The Business. Relying on over 30 years’ experience in the field, Dibo shares her own advice and also moderates a panel of industry experts. “What you don’t want to do is make costly mistakes along the way,” Dibo said. According to her, many aspiring actors and well-intended parents are duped by costly classes, agents and others looking to take advantage of unsuspecting novices who desire to break into show business. By offering the workshop, Dibo’s goal is to provide straight answers for the
person who knows nothing about the industry. Relying on her connections in the field, Dibo put together a panel of experts from agents and casting directors, to working actors who once were students at ATC. She looks for approachable people who are willing to share their knowledge. But Dibo finds that while most agents want aspiring actors to understand how the industry works, they are usually just too pressed for time to share that knowledge. During the workshop, Dibo asks the panel carefully crafted questions that cover such topics as how to get an agent, what type of work an actor should pursue and what casting directors look for in an actor. She wants to answer those questions would-be actors wouldn’t even know to ask. It’s about “inside secrets you wouldn’t think about,” she said. After the panel discussion, Dido opens up the floor for questions by the audience. Continues on page 12
LOOKING TO SAVE FACE(S) A portrait beloved by former Mayor Daley searches for a home BY BILL MCLEAN
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he lithograph of four expressions of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley rests in a home in Wilmette. For now. How it got there — why it was produced, actually — is rooted in an ornery aide of the longtime Democratic mayor, a crestfallen, scrambling artist and a man of the cloth who votes … Republican. The Rev. Richard Dalton, an Anglican priest from Rochester, Mich., and his wife, Theresa, have four daughters. One of them, Elisabeth, lives in the North Shore home with the reproduction of the oil painting, created by Diana NevilleKnowles in 1975 and presented to an awestruck, teary-eyed Daley in a ceremony held at City Hall. Elisabeth and her father, a former Wilmette resident, believe it belongs elsewhere. “My dad [the late Robert G. Dalton] bought it in the mid1970s, but I’m not exactly sure why,” Fr. Dalton, 64, says. “He never hung it on a wall. He collected portraits of U.S. Presidents, all of them painted by Diana, and he hung those. I have 10 of them; they’re in my home
The Rev. Richard Dalton — a Republican — with the lithograph of the late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, a staunch Democrat, which rests at Dalton’s daughter’s home in Wilmette. PHOTOGRAPHY BY J0EL LERNER
in Michigan. Dad loved Diana’s work. “I like the image of Daley at the bottom, the one where he is kind of smirking, with a twinkle in his eye … his Irish eye. You look at him, you think of Chicago, don’t you? You don’t think of Michigan, and you don’t think of Wilmette.
“It needs to find a home, a proper home, in Chicago.” The portrait’s artist is living in Bigfork, Mont., tickled somebody is devoting time to relocate a lithograph of one of her 20,000-plus pieces of artwork. Her subjects also include Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Johnny Carson, Jackie Robinson and
Jack Nicklaus. Her portrait of former first lady Pat Nixon hangs in the Smithsonian. The Variety Club had commissioned Neville-Knowles to create the Daley oil painting. She needed 18 months to complete it, sometimes working up to Continues on page 12
Farmers markets are plentiful on North Shore BY EMILY SPECTRE
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inding locally grown produce gets a lot easier during the summer thanks to the bounty of farmers markets on the North Shore. Almost every suburb boasts its own farmers market, with vendors
offering fresh local produce, plants and flowers, cheese, baked goods and even hand-crafted items. Some markets offer live entertainment such as the Glenview market located across from Wagner Farm, or Highwood’s Evening Market. Others have a long history, selling organic and local produce before Whole Foods made
it popular. The Ravinia Farmers Market in Highland Park is celebrating 36 years, while Lake Bluff started its farmers market 22 years ago. And there are (almost) enough farmers markets on the North Shore to fill the week. Check what is offered this summer:
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