Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1928 — Page 9

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Committees for Theater Announced MISS SARA LAUTER, chairman of the administrative committee of the Indianapolis Little Theatre, announces the complete membership of two of the major committees which are to serve throughout the season in connection with actual production of the plays. Mrs. Norman Green will again act as chairman of the costume committee, and Mrs. William Allen Moore will be in charge of properties. The second production of the 1928-29 season will be presented Wednesday evening and will be repeated Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Friday and Saturday, Dec. 21 and 22, with special matinees Saturday, Dec. 15, and Saturday, Dec. 22. Members of the costume committee under Mrs. Green are: Mesdames S. Ashjean, Robert F. DagKett, Mary T. Hedges. Lillian Jones, J. Benson Titus, Edward F. Short, Ruby K. Fisher, Mat B. Lay, Lewis Ott Ward. Rivers Peterson, John B. Titus, Henry Dithmer, John Tarkington. R. Levy, Otto Delusc, Zaffar Blkoff, Henry Armstrong, George Q. Bruce. Tom Polk, W. D. Durden, W. C. Roach, R. Hartley Sherwood, Enrique Miller and E. M. Craft. Misses Bernice Le Master, Dorothy Smith, Mary Lois Ketcham, Nina Mae Jarvis, Jenifer McKee. Fadalia Moore, Beety Keller, Alice P. Torsell, Ethel Fosbrlnk, Martha Fishback, Winifred Smith, Carolyn B. Warner and Mary Jo Ross; Messrs. W. T. Leavell and Leonard J. Lutz. Mrs. Moore will have assisting her: Mesdames Dick Richards, Carlos Recker, Donald Morris, Robert McKee, George Bailey, W. Finley Wright, Enrique Miller, Louis Sc'.witzer; Misses Helen Coffey, Nina Mae Jarvis, Elizabeth Keller, Winifred Smith, Ruth Benefield, Dorothy Reagan, Rachael Hill, Evelyn Poston; Messrs. Blair Taylor, Vernon Bronson, Robert Snyder and Leonard J. Lutz.

Dramatist and Reader on Program MISS GAY MACLAREN, dramatist and reader, will present the program at the general meeting of the Woman’s Department Club at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. She will be introduced by Mrs. Littleberry Foster, chairman of the drama department. The pr—ram to be given by Miss MacLe K will feature her own play, “Father and Dad,” in which she takes all the parts herself. The art of Miss MacLaren consists in the presentation of plays without any aid simplest stage settings and her gift of mimicry and memory. Mrs. C. M. Breece will be in charge of a musical program. Paul J. Mendelssohn, violinist, accompanied by Mme. Julson, will play “Hegre Kati,” Geno Hubay; “Canzonetta,” Ambrosio, and “Ave Maria,” Gounod. Mr. Mendelssohn was formerly with the New York and Detroit symphony orchestras. Following the program tea will be served by members of the general hospitality committee and the drama department committee, assisted by: Mesdames. O. A. Wtley. Victor Hendall, H. E. P. Stanford, Harvey Grimes and E. F. Ludlum. Members of the general hospitality committee are Mesdames Moses B. fcalry. Martha Wilson, A. S. Ayres, J. A. Warrender. W. F. Milholland. Felix T. McWhirter. Curtis lodges, L. H. Sturges, W. C. Smith, A. R. Dewey. Samuel Ashby, W. W. Thornton. H. C. Ryker, H. E. Watson and A. E. Sterne. The drama department hospitality committee is composed of: Mesdames. Harry Watson, W. L. Mailey, Lewis A. Coleman, John. D. Davy, Bertha Edwards. Joseph J. Granling. J. Homer Higgins. E. H. Katterhenry, W. R. Klingholtz, T. J. Moll. L. A. McDonald, R. Harry Miller, C. E. Pittman, W. C. Royer, W. H. Schmidt. Samuel Steele, Elnore Stewart, F. A. Symmls, Ollah Toph, James P. Trenton, C. Warner Williams and Max Ziegler. The tea table will be decorated with holly and lighted with red tapers. Mesdames Everett M. Schofield and R. O. McAlexander will pour. ¥ The program will be preceded by a business meeting at 2, with Mrs. Everett M. Schofield and Mrs. Edward Ferger presiding. Mrs. Foster announces that the regular monthly meeting of the drama department will not be held Monday, as that department is combining with the general club in the Wednesday program. EDWARD LA SHELLE TO ASSIST MAROTT TRIO Edward La Shelle, barytone, will be the assisting artist at the unday afternoon musicale to be g /en by the Marott Trio from 2:30 to 3:30 at the Marott hotel. The trio is composed of Maud Custer, Consuelo Couchman Rettig and Hilda Burrichter. Following is the program: "Larghctto” Mozart “Menuetto” Mozart Trio "The Star’’ Rogers "Daybreak” Daniels Edward La Sshelle "Negro Spiritual” Dvorak-Kreisler "Dancing Doll” Poldini-Kreisler Maud Custer "Vision Fugitive” (Herodiade).. .Massenet Edward La Sshelle "Berceuse de Jocelyn" Godard Trio (at "Nocturn” Curran (b) "Tally Ho” Leoni Edward Le Shelle “The Pearl Fishers” Bizet Trio Annual Christmas Party Cervus Club members will be entertained at their annual Christmas party/and luncheon at 12:30 p. m Monday at the Elks’ Club home with Mrs. Otis McCracken general chairman in charge of the program Mrs. Maurine Gluck is chairman of the decorations committee and Mr:>. Clifford Richter chairman of the “grab bag.” The regular monthly card party will follow, with Mesdames Joseph Forrest, James Miller and August Souther as hostesses.

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pany of “Naughty Marietta,” Ml 'll \ . the late Czar Nicholas II of R which wil be produced Wednesday I , | M . _ sia and cousin-in-law of K afternoon and evening at the ~ „J| \ George of England, arrived recer f ] •> f ii ~ / - ■ ■ * - ■ 'l'-p- ■* from Pans, for his third visit thfl°g a ram“SrmemKrfoi QcUf ThTT/maTv /VlUs LUoZjH WUtf, - ' 9 TIUsTUM S‘SS WAmott’c norvorfment /'IlnH at. / / i .

Mesdames w. h. hanning president of the Chalcedony Club; Frank Wilson, of the Women’s Auxiliary to the Railway Mail Association; Donald Graham, of the Welfare Club and Miss Edna Fevrier, vice-president of Chee Foo chapter, International Study and Travel Club, have been named chairmmen of Marion County Tuberculosis Association Christmas Seal sale booths in the downtown district. The sale opened today. Mrs. Roy H. Peterson, vicer resident of the board of directors of the Indianapolis Women’s PanHellenic organization, and Mrs. George Witt, a member of the board, are among those who are on committees in charge of the appearance of the New York company of “Naughty Marietta,” which wil be produced Wednesday afternoon and evening at the Murat Theater. Miss Gay MacLearen will present the program before members of the Woman’s Department Club at a general meeting Wednesday.

MEETINGS OF INDIANAPOLIS CLUBS TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK

Monday Indianapolis Literary Club members will hold an evening meeting at the D. A. R. chapter house. Ferrid T. Taylor will speak on “Voltaire.” The Christmas party of the Irvington Coterie will be held at the home of Mrs. F. T. Davenport, 814 North Audubon road. The committee in charge consists of Mesdames W. B. Gates, J. S. Milligan and Tyler Oglesby. Pi Beta Phi Mothers’ Club will hold its regular monthly meeting at the chapter house, 706 West Fortythird street. Mrs. Earl Mushiltz is in charge of luncheon, assisted by Mesdames William Kried and A. F. Sutton. Girls of the active chapter, Butler university, will sing Christmas carols during lunqjieon. The board of directors of the Indianapolis Women’s Panhellenic organization will meet to complete plans for the presentation of the New York cast in “Naughty Marietta,” a Victor Herbert opera, at tho Murat theater Wednesday, matinee and evening. Miss Ellen Clark will be hostess at 8:15 p. m. for a meeting of Alpha chapter, Phi Theta Delta sorority, at her home, 343 North Ritter ave-

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nuc Miss Dorothy Gibson will be in charge of pledge services. Miss Dorothy Young will be pledged. Tuesday Mrs. E. C. Rumpler, 88 Whittier place, will entertain members ol the Irvington Tuesday Club. Mrs. J. Murray Chenoweth will review “The Play’s the Thing,” and Mrs H. L. Scott will give “A Book of Verses.” Members of the Meridian Heights Inter-se Club will meet at the home of Mrs. F. A. Linton, 4819 Guilford avenue. The subject of the afternoon program will be “Pictures Seen in the Yule Log Fires.” The Irvington Chautauqua Christ mas party will be held at the home of Mrs. C. E. Hill, 366 South Audubon road. A paper, “The Origin of Clubs and Some Famous Clubs,” will be read by Mrs. G. W. Lahr There will be a current events session. Members of the Inter Alia Club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Frank H. Langsenkamp, 3828 Washington boulevard. Mrs. Ancil T. Brown will talk on “Two Chairs, the Hepplewaite and Sheraton.” and Mrs. Raymond Maguire will speak on “A Desk in the Tradition of Chippendale.”

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1928

Mrs. Stanley Cain, 450 North Audubon road, will entertain members of the Alpha Delta Latreian Club, with Miss Ilene Harryman as Assisting hostess. Miss Alta Henry will talk on “Public Library Social Service Work.” Members of the Hoosier Tourist Club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. H. K. Fatout, 3107 Ruckle street, with Mesdames C. E. Ferrell and J. B. Phillips as assisting hostesses. Mrs. J. B. Andrew will describe “Christmas in Scotland.” A program of Scotch music will be presented. The meeting of the Independent Social Club will be held at the home of Mrs. Roberta Graham, 1837 Graceland avenue. Amigo Club members will meet for their annual Christmas party at 2 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Clyde O. Neace, 34 South Colorado avenue. Members of the Artemas Club will hold their December meeting at the home of the president. Mrs. Charles Mcßride, 325 North Chester avenue. Luncheon will be served at noon, followed by a business meeting. Mrs. Edward Woods, 1920 North Alabama street, will entertain members of the North Side Lioness Club. A buffet supper will be served

at 6:30 to members and their hus- , bands. Wednesday The Inter Nos Club will met at the home of Mrs. G. H. Tomlinson, 330 N. Drexel avenue for a Christmas party. Luncheon will be served at 12:30. Assisting hostesses will be Mesdames H. C. Kinley, J. M. Corwin, L. B. Hopkins and John Rusk. The program will be in charge of Mesdames E. C. Rumpler, Chapin Wagner, Ralph B. Clark and Miss Elizabeth Scott. Do not bring guests. Mesdames John Larison and W. Newton will be joint hostesses for the meeting of the New Century Club. Mrs. E. P. Jones will present "The Charm of the English Bible” and Mrs. Curtis Hodges will talk on “Kingdom of Judah and Its Captivity.” Response to roll call will be verses from the Bible and a musical program of hymns will be presented. Members of the Wednesday Afternoon Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Fred Chastain, 1341 West Michigan street, when a book shower for children at the Guardian’s home will be held. A recproclty program will be given by Mrs. B. H.. Bass. Mrs. E. H. Thomas will conduct the Bible lesson.

A meeting of the Zetathea Club will be held at the home of Mrs. T. W. Engle, 462 North State avenue. Responses to roll call will be made with names of Indiana pioneers. The subject for study will be the “State of Indiana.” Mrs. R. E. Stevenson will talk on “State Constitution and General Assembly” and Mrs. R. H. Hollywood will discuss “State Politics Since 1860.” Sigma Nu Mothers’ Club will entertain with a 1 p. m. luncheon at the chapter house, 4635 North Capitol avenue. The program is in charge of Mrs. R. J. Waltham. Clarissa chapter of the Oldenburg Alumnae, formerly the Junior Oldenburg Club, will meet Wednesday evening at 8 at the home of Miss Henrietta Boehm, 1328 Union street All members are urged to attend. Officers of the organization recently elected are: President, Miss Mary Madden; vice president, Miss Pauline Singleton; secretary. Miss Helen O’Brien; treasurer, Miss Martha Garaghan, and sergeant-at-arms, Miss Helen Nolan. Thursday Mrs. Mary J. Billings, 3966 Winthrop avenue, will enteitain members of the Indianapolis Current Events Club. Response to roll call (Turn to Page 10)

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Grand Duke Will Present Lecture Here Wednesday Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich, cousin and brother-in-law of the late Czar Nicholas II of Russia and cousin-in-law of King George of England, arrived recently from Paris, for his third visit to America. He will lecture at 8:15 Wednesday evening at the Masonic temple on “Out of My Life.” His appearance in Indianapolis is being sponsored by the Indianapolis Business and Professional Women’s Club. The duke, head of the imperial house of Russia, exiled with his family in Paris, visit his sons, Prince Dimitri, New York, and Rosisiav, Chicago. He was met, as he debarked from the Leviathan by his niece, Mrs. W. B. Leeds, formerly Princess Xenia, and i rince Dmitri, Tickets for the lecture may be obtained from Miss Harriet Nateman, chairman, or at the Clark & Cade store, Illinois and Washington streets. Dolls to Be Dressed Members of the North Side Lioness Club will spend the afternoon dressing dolls and preparing baskets for poor families, when they meet with Mrs. Edward Woods, 1920 North Alabqjpa street, Tuesday. A buffe r supper will be served at 6:30 to members and their husbands. The evening will be spent playing bridge. Skating Party Seniors of Sacred Heart school will sponsor a skating party to b> given at 8 Monday evening at the Riverside rink. Miss Mary Speth Is chairman In charge, assisted by the Misses Rosemary Livingstone, Pauline Gehring and Kathryn Connaughton; Messrs Charles Seal and James Cafouros,

Matrix Table Guest List Made Public ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of the guests who will attend the first Matrix Table, to be given by Theta Sigma Phi, women’s journalistic fraternity, Butler chapter, Tuesday evening f t the Map* i hotel. _ , . Speakers will be Mrs. Beulah Brown Fletcher, newspaper woman and Miss Mary B. Orvis, writer of short stories and author of “Short Story Writing.” The Matrix Table, which will be an annual event, will be attended by the elect of the school, women of the faculty, alumnae and prominent newspaper women throughout Indiana. Mrs. Fletcher was feature writer on the Indianapolis Star during the first five years of its existence, and for the Scripps-Howard newspapers for a number of years and publicity representative for Margaret Aught, John Drew and Mrs. Leslie Carter. She was also dramatic and feature editor for the St. Louis Republic. Miss Orvis is a member of the faculty in the Indiana university extension school and of Theta Sigma Phi. She will talk on “Personality in Writing.” She will tell of her experiences in teaching and review three recent books. She was graduated from the University of Wisconsin and received an M. A. degree from Indiana university. Alpha lota chapter. Theta Sigma Phi, was installed at Butler university, March 4, 1927, with Caroline Godley O’Dell as president; Dorothy Stephenson Stout, Dorothy Carroll, Louise Eleanor Ross. Elizabeth HefTernan, Frances Woolery and Mildred Kelley as charter members. The organization was formerly known as the Scribblers Club. The Matrix Table, which is one of the chief functions of Theta Sigma Phi throughout the nation is to be given by the Butler university chapter for the first time, Tuesday, in charge of Miss Maja Brownlee, president of the chapter. She will be assisted by Misses Ann Hall, (Turn to Page 10.)

Women to Offer Opera Wednesday MEMBERS of the Indianapolis Women’s Pan-Hellenic organization are sponsoring the appearance of the New York cast, the Charles F. Homer Opera Company, in "Naughty Marietta.” Victor Herbert’s opera, to be presented matinee and evening Wednesday at the Murat theater. The Pan-llellenic organization is composed of all alumnae sorority members in the city. Miss Maxine McKay. Alpha Delta PI, Is president; vice-president, Mrs. Roy H. Peterson. Delta Zeta; treasurer, Miss Mildred Blacklidge, Alpha Chi Omega; corresponding secretary. Mrs. L. O. Ward, Pi Beta Phi. and recording secretary, Mrs. Eugene R. Ong, Delta Delta. Among members are: Mesdames. Darrell Foeter, Alpha Gamma Delta; John Waldo. Alpha Omtcron PI; Walter Ayke. Alph- Delta Theta; Neal Grider, Alpha Phi; Bjorn Winger. Alnha XI Delta; Barrett M. Woodsman, Delj Gamma; Dick Wright. Chi Omega; George Witt. Kappa Alpha Theta; Olenn Heanonrldge. Kappa Delta; Maurice Stephenson, Kappa Kappa Oamma; Robert D. Coleman Sigma Kappa; Misses Margaret Friedrich, Gamma Phi; Marie Sangerntbo, Phi Mu. and Eleanor King, Zeta Tau Alpha. The Pan-Hellenic has as its project a scholarship fund and the proceeds from the production of “Naughty Marietta” will be used to send young women to colleges. Tho organization has three scholarship students at Butler university and one at De Pauw at present. Among those who will sing parts in the opera are Era Briggs, Aimee Lorriani, Dan Marble and Ferdinand Zegel. Tickets may be obtained from any member of the sororities mentioned or may be purchased directly at the Murat box office. Mrs. L- O. Ward is chairman of the ticket committee.

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Meredith Nicholson was the guest of honor and principal speaker at the annual dinner given Friday evening in South Bend by members ol Schuyler Colfax chapter at the new Progress Club home. Following dinner, the author lectured. He was in South Bend by arrangement with the Bobbs-Merril Company, publishers of his books. He was introduced by McCready Huston, also a BobboMerrill writer, and managing editor of the South Bend News-Times. Among those who are giving partita for Mr. Nicholson duri r, ' T stay in South Bend aro Mr. and Mra Charles Arthur Carlisle; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Harwood; Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd J. Crumpacker, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Swantz. a a it Lone Tree chapter, Greensburg, met Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. John W. Craig. Mrs. Charles Dobyns and Miss Mary Foley were assisting hostesses. After a short business session, during which a box was prepared for Ellis Island, a program of Christmas music was presented, with Mrs. Herbert West in charge. Decorations and appointments were carried out in the Christmas colors. * <t Miss Ida Greenwood entertained members of the Ouibache chapter, Attica, Tuesday afternoon. Roll call was answered with names of countries of South America and their capitals. Mrs. C. F. Propst read a paper on the Monroe Doctrine, written by Miss Enid L. Waldrip. Th membership of Mrs. Elizabeth H. Vanderbilt. Ambia, was transferred from the Lafayette chapter to the Ouibache chapter.