Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1940 — Page 4

Willa Dryden to Present Program

At '"Propylaeum Day' Thursday

THE ENTERTAINMENT committee of the Propylaeum will present Willa Dryden, lyric soprano, at the first “Propylaeum Day” of the season Thursday. Charles Lurvey will be the accompanist. Members of {he entertainment committee assisting Mrs. Frederick E. Matson, chairman, are Mesdames Roy Elder Adams, Maurice E. Tennant.- Arthur R. Brown, Oscar N. Torian. Fred L. Carter, Henry J. McCoy, Frank G. Wood, Charles O. Roemier, Robert E. Sweeney, Cora L. Epps, John P. Collett, Newton Todd, Frank C. Balke, H. A, Van Osdol, Samuel Dowden, Ross H. Wallace, Paul H. White, C. A. Harms, Frank D. Stalnaker, Daniel S. Robinson, Ralph K. Smith, Bernays Kennedy and O. D. Bohlen. Others are Mesdames Carl Vernon Griffith, Frank C. Groninger, Leoti T. Trook, William H. Wemmer, William C. Dobson, James H. Genung, Thomas C. Howe, M. D. Segur, Howard T. Griffith, W. 'W. Critchlow, John H. Toy, George V. Underwood, Julia Lilly Darlington, Thomas F. Hudgins, Edward Lynn, William Niles Wishard, James B. Nelson, C. J. Prentiss, Edward Zink, J. Irving Holcomb, Perris T. Taylor, Henry B. Danner, Russell Sullivan and J. M. Williams and Misses Edith Allen, Della Dearborn, Margaret Day, Anna Hasselman and Grace L. Brown. Miss Dryden's program will include Schubert's ‘“Fruhlingstraum” and “Rastlose Liebe” and Brahm’s “Sonntag” and -Botschaft,” “Ebben, ne andro lontana” from Alfredo Catalani’s “La Wally,” “Green” (Debussy), “La Statue de Czarskoe-Selo” (Cesar Cui), “Tambourin” (Julien Tiersot), “La Partida” (FF. M. Alvarez), “Nana” (Manvel de Falla) and “Los locas por amor” (Joaquin Turina’, She will conclude her program with “Laughing Song” from Johann Strauss’ “The Bat,” “We Walked in the Garden” (Clara Edwards), “Sometimes” (Madeleine Clark Walther), “Wallpaper” (Charles Kinsford) and “The Best Is Yet to Be” (Pearl G. Curran), The Propylaeum membership committee for 1940-41 has been announced. Mrs. Matson is chairman and other members are Mesdames Hugh . Carpenter, Ralph S. Chappell, Harvey J. Elam, J. Emmett Hall, William Perry Hahn, John W. Kern, William Allen Moore, William Fletcher, Herbert W. Todd and E. E. Voyles.

Symphony Luncheons Scheduled

MRS. HERBERT T. WAGNER, member of the executive board cof the Indiana State Symphony Society's women’s committee, has announced the “continuance this year of the popular pre-concert luncheons and explanatory music talks given on Fridays just befors each pair of concerts to be played by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Mrs. Wagner is chairman of this branch of women's committee activitiese. Luncheons and lectures will be given in the Athenaeum as usual, members of the women's committee and season ticket holders are eligible to attend both events. People may attend either or both, Mrs. Wagner said. There is a nominal charge for the luncheons but the lectures are complimentary. Official music commentator for the lecture series will again be Mrs. Lenore Coffin, and guest speakers will be invited for special programs. The lectures, usually attended by several hundred women, are concerned with explanations and evaluations of the program to be played that afternoon and the fgllowing evening by the Indiarrapolis Symphony Orchestra. “Due to the marked increase in the number of season ticket holders for the Friday afternoon series, we expect attendance at the luncheon-lectures to be larger than ever before,” Mrs. Wagner said. Among Friday afternoon subscribers who may take advantage of the programs are Mesdames Edward A. Gardner, F. Elbert Glass, John K. Goodwin, Howard T. Griffith, William C. Griffith, Guy Dixon, W. J. Hamakér, M. P. Helm, Walter C. Hiser, A. R. Holliday, Addison Howe, William H. Insley and F. L. Iske. Also numbered among probable patrons are Mesdames Sylvester Johnson, M. V. Kahler, J. J. Kennedy, James L. Kingsbury, John Kolmer, Homer C. Lathrop, A. L. Leatherman, Ralph A. Lemcke, Albert H. Losche, and Erwin Luessow. The first of the luncheon lectures will be held on Friday, Nov, 15, the opening date of the concert series.

Tudor Play Will Be Oct. 26

THE JUNIOR CLASS of Tudor Hall School will present Arthur Wing Pinero’s “The Schoolmisteress” in the school auditorium at 8:15 p. m. Oct. 26. The play is a farce on life in an English boarding school of about 1890. Miss Mary Landis will play the title role, and principal characters will be depicted by Misses Margaret, Rogers, Anne Amelia Marmon and Evaline Hitz. Others in the cast are Misses Suzanne Ganter, Caroline Gray, Barbara Winslow, Alice Slappey, Sallie Eaglesfield, Ann Spiegel, Helen Hoadley, Patricia McConnaughay, Florane Mouch, Julia Jane Carman and Heberton Weiss. The production staff includes Miss Sara Lee Kramer, technical director; Miss Ethel Janet White, business manager; Miss Slappey, assistant business manager; Misses Gray and Spiegel, costume cochairmen; Miss Suzanne Littell, property chairman, and Misses Weiss and Carman, publicity chairmen.

Meridian Hills Bridge to Be Tuesday

MRS. ALAN C. SWEETSER and Mrs. Horace E. Storer are' in charge of the last luncheon bridge party of the Meridian Hills Country Club at 1 p. m. Tuesday at the clubhouse. Alsc on the October program is the annual stockholders meeting to be held at 8 p. m. Monday, Oct.. 21. Annual reports will be given by the club president, Walter L. Brant, and committee chairmen, Three directors will be chosen.

Supper Honors Barbara Ballinger and: Fiance

MISS BARBARA BALLINGER and her fiance, Robert J. Clay, whose marriage will be Oct. 23 in the Broadway Methodist Church, will be honor guests at a buffet supper and silver shower given tonight by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Reilly at their home. Guests will be Messrs. and Mesdames Emsley- W. Johnson Jr., Robert Lewis and Paul Dolzall, Miss Bettyann Jones, Martha Norman, Jean Rau and Mary Jane Shafer, Norman Kelly and L. Nicholas Summers,

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Churches Plan

Programs

A musical tea and style show, a picnic and a fair and supper are included in church group activities next week. A fall musical tea and style show will be given by the Women's Society, IRVINGTON METHODIST CHURCH, at 2 p. m. Monday. Miss Harriet Payne, of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, will present viola solos and the Girls’ Sextet of Technical High School, directed by Miss Louise Swan, will sing. Mrs. Arthur Robinson, general chairman, will be assisted by Mrs. George Vestal, tickets; Mrs. Lorenzo Jones, program; Mrs. Oscar Wadsworth, decorations; Mrs. A. F. Henley and Mrs. Mary Nell Musselman, candy: Mrs. Thomas Stover, cookies; Mrs. C. W. Hitchcock and Mrs. Margaret Clapp, tea, and Mrs. Sam Walker, reception.

A showing of the moving picture, “Our Master's Voice,” will be sponsored by the Brotherhood of the IMMANUEL EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED CHURCH at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. On Tuesday evening, the Women’s Missionary Society of the church will entertain members of the Girl's Missionary Guild at a 6 p. m. supper. Reservations may be made with Mrs. George Joslin or Mrs. Henry Jasper.

The Triangle Club of ALL SOULS UNITARIAN CHURCH will have a picnic at Smith's cabin near Mooresville, Ind. tomorrow from 3 to 7 p. m. A treasure hunt will be a feature of the program. Mrs. Fred

1s. Smith and Mrs. John M. O’'Con-

nor will serve the supper. The Red Cross Unit of the Jessy Wallin Heywood Alliance of the church will meet at 10 a. m. Thursday to work for the Red Cross. The Wednesday section of the Alliance will meet at 12:30 p. m. Wednesday with Mrs. C. N. Warren, who is to be assisted by Mrs. C. B. Blakeslee.

The annual fair and supper of ST. JOHN’S EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED CHURCH will be held Wednesday and Thursday. Suppers will be served from 5 to 8 p. m. Home-baked goods, candy and needlework will be sold.

The Women’s Auxiliary of TABERNACLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH will meet for luncheon at the church Tuesday. Mrs. Florence Webster Long will speak on “Behind the Lines.”

Card Party Monday

The Cervus Club will hold a business meeting at 1 p. m. Monday at the Hotel Washington and a card party at 2 Ociock, i.

Richard Thompson -

Is Engaged

Word has been reeeived of the engagement of Miss Louellen Gibson Cornett, Louisville, Ky., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Denver Bennett Cornett of Louisville, to Richard Howard Thompson, son- of Mrs. Edward D. Porter Jr., 3805 N. Delaware St. The wedding will be next month in Louisville. Miss Cornett was graduated from the Louisville Collegiate School and attended Briarcliff Junior College. She also studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and at the Louisville Art Center. Mr. Thompson was graduated from DePauw University where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.

Service Read

In Noblesville

Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Oct. 12.— The home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Houghteling will be the scene at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon of the marriage of their daughter, Geraldine, to Charles Wilmer Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Lee of Indianapolis. The Rev. A. Wesley Pugh of Muncie, Ind., will read the service before an improvised altar surrounded by ferns, greenery and white chrysanthemums and lighted by sevenbranch candelabra. Miss Mary Kathryn Rhoads will sing “I Love You Truly” and “At Dawning” and Pasquale Montani, Indianapolis harpist, will play. The hride, who will be given in marriage by her father, will wear a blush pink bridal satin gown made

with a square neckline edged with |

Alencon-lace, a fitted bodice and a long train, Her veil of illusion also will be edged with lace and her arm bouquet will be of white bridal roses and white orchids. Mrs. Karl Stipher, her sister’s only attendant, will wear pink satin and carry pink roses and blue chrysanthemums. Clyde Lee will be his son’s best man. The bride's mother will wear black accessories with a dove gray dress and a corsage of sunburst roses. Mrs. Lee’s brown costume will be worn with matching accessories and with a corsage of yellow roses and baby chrysanthemums. Following a reception, Mr. and Mrs. Lee will leave on a Southern wedding trip and will be at home after Oct. 26 at 3640 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. The bride’s traveling ensemble will be an olive green costume suit worn with brown accessories and a corsage of orchids. Miss Houghteling is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and Mr. Lee belongs to Sigma Chi. Both attended

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SATURDAY,

OCT. 12, 1940"

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Louise Mayes To Be Married

The Rev. Charles cousin of’ the bride, will officiate at the: wedding tomorrow of Miss Louise Mayes to Byron L. Donough. The ceremony will be in the Roosevel

R. Holmes,

Temple Methodist Church immediately ,following the morning service,

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Mayes, 541 N. Oakland Ave. She will wear a soldier blue ensemble with’a corsage of chrysanthemums in fall shades. Her only attendant, Mrs. Ernest B. Smith, will wear cinnamon brown jersey with chrysanthemums. Dale Pumphry, Greensburg, Ind., brother-in-law of the bridegroom, will be best man. A dinner for the immediate families and the bridal party will follow at the home of the bride’s parents. After Nov. 1, the couple will be at home at 307 S. Emerson Ave,

To Entertain Husbands

The year’s first meeting will be held by Alpha Mu Chapter, Latreian Club, at 2:30 p. m. Monday at the home of Mrs. Stephen Hadley near Carmel, Ind. Mrs. Kenneth Galm will assist the hostess, The meeting will be followed by a wiener roast at which husbands of club members will be: guests.

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Maxine Korthaus Becomes Bride

Miss Maxine Korthaus, daughter of Mrs. Anthony Fritz, 1232 Blaine Ave., became the bride of Albert H. Seyfried in a ceremony at 9 o'clock this morning in Sacred . Heart | Catholic Church, with the Rev. Fr. Ephram Muench officiating. Mr Seyfried is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Seyfried Sr., 1509 Union St. The bride wore a soldier blue costume suit with squirrel trim and an orchid corsage. Her only attendant, Miss Dolores Kahn, wore rust and orange chrysanthemums with her neutral tan suit. Charles Rathz was best man. A wedding breakfast at Bluff Crest followed the ceremony and a reception will be held at the home of the bride’s mother at 8 p. m. tonight. Mr. and Mrs. Seyfried will pe at home after next week with the bride's mother.

Legion Group Has Hay Ride

The Bruce P. Robison Unit 133, junior group of the American Legion Auxiliary, is holding a moonlight hayride tonight, meeting at 7 p. m. at the home of Miss Betty Lou Hasselbring; 3029 Ruckle St. Reservations may be made with the Misses Helen Humphrey, Betty Jeanne Scott or Olivene Buenaman. Miss Marian Ellen Scott has received the personal merit award for

Mu Phi Epsilon Meeting Set

Music by American composers will

tbe presented at the October pro-

gram meeting of Kappa Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music

‘lhonor sorority, at 8 o'clock Tues-

day evening at the home of Mrs. Russell J. Spiveys 3907 N. Delaware St. Miss Harriet Payne has arranged the program. Miss Virginia Leyenberger, cellist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, will play a group of solos for cello composed by Adolph Schellschmidt of Indianapolis. Miss Mae Engle will accompany her and also present piano selections written by Carl Beutel of Detroit, Mich., formerly on the piano faculty of the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music. George Gershwin'’s “Summertime” and songs by Cadman and Charles Huerter will be given by Mrs. Spivey, accompanied by the Mu Phi Epsilon trio. Miss Lucille Wagner is pianist, Miss Marjorie Bernat, cellist, and Miss Lorinda Howell, violinist with the trio.

Silver Tea Set

The Women’s Missionary Society of the’ Brookside United Brethren Church, 11th and Olney Sts. will give a silver tea at 8 p. m. Monday in the church dining room. Mrs. Charles W. Compton ' will review “Three Sisters,” esis

Hibbeh Photos. 1. The Traders Point Hunt will

entertain today with its annual -

Farmers’ Party for landowners over whose fields members ride from fall to early spring. The Hunt season opens tomorrow. In this photo the professional staff and hounds are shown at Com-= | mander and Mrs. O. Fred Heslar’s in Traders Point. - Charles Mayer : (right) looks on.

ers’ Party. Fa 2. Mrs, Conrad Ruckelshaus, 3. Miss Selina Alig who won last |

year’s hunter trials at the Rar { 3

er’s Party.

4. The Hunt in action. Frenzel is at the left front.

5. The blessing of the hounds,

O’Brien-Welsh! Wedding Today,

St. Patrick’s Catholic Church was the scene, at 9 o'clock: this morning, of the wedding of Miss ¥eraldine

Welsh, daughter of Mr. ahd Mrs.

John F. Welsh, to John Thomas O’Brien, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. O'Brien. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. John O'Connell performed the ceremony. before an altar banked with palms and white gladioli.. The bride’s attendants, Miss Margaret' Manning, maid of honor, and Misses Patricia and Phyllis Welsh, sisters of the bride, bridesmaids, were gowned alike: in boy blue velveteen. Their frocks were made with sweetheart necklines, puffed sleeves and full skirts. They wore sweetheart hats matching their frocks, trimmed with blush ostrich feathers, and wore pearls given them by the bride. Mr. Welsh gave his daughter in marriage.

ivory was styled with: a shirred

bodice, bouffant sleeves and sweet- °

heart neckline. The full draped skirt extended into a court train and she wore a three-tiered. veil caught with a crown of orange blossoms. Trueman T. Rembusch was best man and ushers were Frank McCarthy and Gordon Messerlie.

Commander and Mrs. Heslar are assisting with to-

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Her gown of antique

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bride’s mother chose a navy blue .

costume suit and Mrs. O’Brien was in a brown costume suit. A wedding breakfast at the In. dianapolis Athletic Club followed the ceremony and a reception was to he held from 2 to 4 p. m. this afternoon at the home of the pride’s parents. The house will be decorated with fall flowers and leaves. The three-tiered wedding cake will rest upon a table

decorated with white roses and:

candelabra. Following their return from a wed- °

ding trip, Mr. and Mrs, O'Brien will - =

be at home, Oct. 28, at 256 Hendricks Place. the bride will wear a monotone plaid

1 suit, cattail brown and forest green

accessories and an orchid corsage.

Meets Monday

As her going-away costume,” '

The First Aiders Club will hold: .

its regular meeting at 7:30 p. m,

Monday at the World War Mem-* 7

orial,

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