Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1934 — Page 5

MAY 19, 1934.

City Drama Group Will End Season Dinner-Dance and Business Session Scheduled at Woodstock Club. BY BEATRICE BIROAN' Time* Woman * Paie F.ditor AFTER a season of three stage successes, the Dramatic Club will ring down its curtain for the session tonight at the Woodstock Club with a dinner dance and a busines session to choose new of-

fleers for next year. Board of directors’ terms of Mrs. John D. Gould. Mrs. Meredith Nicholson. Jr., and Mrs. Russell J. Ryan have expired. and their places will be filled in the election. Austin H Brown, president, will direct a business session. Mr. and Mrs.

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Brown will entertain a party of twenty at dinner. In a Dutch treat party will be Mrs. Jesse Fletcher, Dr. Robert Milliken, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Higgins. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wolff, Mr. and Mrs. George Denny, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Griffith, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. Nobie Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Guv Wainwright, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Woollen. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Gorrell, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adams. Richard Buttolph has several friends to his home for cocktails before going to the club. Mr. and Mrs. John K. Ruckelshaus also will entertain with a cocktail party at their home. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Griffith will join them at their home before attending the dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Elias C. Atkins also will "ntertain guests. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Alig will entertain guests in one of the dinner partes at the club. Distinction has come to Miss Elinor C. Frantz at Smith college. In. her sophomore year she recently was announced eligible for special honors. Miss Frantz, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. George Arthur Frantz, will undertake special study in her major and will be exempt from the routine of class attendance during the remainder of her college course. During the last few weeks of classes at the Erskine school, Boston. Miss Judy Hall, daughter of Mrs. Helen S. Hall, and Muss Gretchen Grant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse R. Grant, have been rehearsing for roles in "Pirates of Penzance.” Members of glee clubs of Harvard university and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology appeared in the operetta, presented last Wednesday by the Erskine Glee Club. LUNCHEON MARKS FOUNDING OF CLUB Rose Coleman Study Club cele-r brated its fourteenth anniversarytoday at a luncheon in the Barbara Frietchie tearoom. Mrs. Harvey Coons, retiring president, installed as new officers: Mrs. Audrel Apple, president; Miss Louise Duncan, vice-president; Mrs. Homer Keller, secretary; Mrs. Fred Fate, assistant secretary, and Mrs. Harvey N. Brown, treasurer. The program committee was composed of Mrs. Coons. Mrs. Apple. Miss Duncan and Mrs. Brown. Miss Louise Fate, violinist, presented a program.

Y.W.C.A. Official at Mexico City Will Be Entertained Here

A Moxical fiesta will be given for Miss Sue H. Perry, general secretary of the Y. W. C. A. of Mexico City and formerly of Montevideo. Uruguay. by the Indianapolis Y. W. C. A. at 3 Tuesday afternoon in the green parlors of the Central building. Miss Perry is a guest of the local association. Members and friends of the Y. W. C. A. are invited to meet her. Hostesses will be Mesdames John

Sororities

Mrs. Joseph Erpelding. 3121 North Oxford street, will entertain members and pledges of Kappa Phi Delta sorority. Wednesday night at a bridge party with Misses Martha Vollmer. Mildred Kennedy. Elizabeth Allen and Mrs. Fred Johnston, guests. Alpha chapter. Delta Phi Beta sorority, will meet Monday night with Miss Fay Banta. 510 East Tenth street. Omega Chi sorority will celebrate its fifth anniversary Wednesday night with a dinner and theater party. Misses Agnes Nayrocker, Mary Hockersmith and Loretta Nayrocker are charter members. Alpha chapter. Sigma Delta Pi teachers' sorority, will entertain with a bridge party Monday night at the home of Miss Josephine McDowell. 1902 North Talbot street. Alpha chapter. Pi Omega sorority, will meet at 8 Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. Agnes Ostermver. 16 North Rural street.

Miss McCormick Sets June 15 as Date for Wedding

The marriage of Miss Mary Loretta McCormick and Wilev Orville Wilson will take place at 8 30 Friday night. June 15. at Christ church. The Rev. E. Ainger Powell will read the ceremony. Ml** McCormick has chosen Miss Helen Adolav as maid of honor, and Mis* Virginia Small and Mrs. George Henderson, bridesmaids. Ruel Sexton will be best man. and Walter Burbrink and George Henderson, ushers. <

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E. Se.vbert, Fermor S. Cannon. Edgar Evans, A. W. Bowen, Samuel Ashby. W. C. Smith and members of the world fellowship committee, Mesdames M. E. Costen. Ernest N. Evans. John Koch. Grant K. Lewis, S. M. Hoes. C. H. Sedam, Frank B. McKibben and J. E. Shewman. Other parties being planned for Miss Perry include a dinner Tuesday night given by the Miriam Club, with Miss Mary H. Noonan president., and a Y. W. C. A. staff breakfast Wednesday morning. Miss Perry also will be the guest of the Wednesday Afternoon Club on that day and of the business and professional women's department at its Wednesday supper meeting. On Thursday the industrial department will entertain for Miss Perry, and on Friday she will be the guest of the Phyllis Wheatley branch. Miss Perry has been attending the national Y. W. C. A. convention in Philadelphia and will go to Los Angeles for a short vacation before leaving for Mexico on June 30. SORORITY TO GIVE SPEEDWAY FROLIC Mrs. John A. Lyons is chairman of a Speedway frolic, to be held by Gamma chapter. Omega Nu Tau sorority, Thursday night, for members and their guests. Assisting Mrs. Lyons will be Mesdames Hugh Hogan. W. C. Lobdell. Margaret Flora and J. Nelson Marks, John E. Wvttenbach and William West; Misses Ruth Harbison. Marguerite Swan. Nehersta Pierce, Lillian Chapman. Marguerite Hastev. Evelyn McDaniels and Blanche Shane.

Miss Adolay and Mrs. Henderson will entertain June 1 at the home of Mrs. Henderson. 1308 Central avenue, and Miss Mary McDonald will give a bridge party and personal shower June 8. Miss Virginia Small will entertain at her home. 202 Washington court, June 11, and Mrs. Paul Myers and Mrs. W’alter Burbrink wil lentertain n dates to be announced later.

DR. AND MRS. JOHN A. LAMBERT announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dorothy Lambert, and William Charles Otto, son of William N. Otto. The ceremony will take place at 4:30 Sunday, June 17. at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Miss Lambert is a graduate of Butler university and a member of Alpha Chi Omega, and Mr. Otto is a graduate of Purdue university and a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Activities of the Matinee Musicale will be directed by Miss Carolyn Richardson, recently elected president. Alumnae and guests of St. Mary's college, Notre Dame, will attend a tea from 3 to 6 tomorrow' afternoon at the home of Miss Frances Kotteman, 5245 North Pennsylvania street. Mrs. Maurice D. Mc-

Kappa Group of Mu Phi Epsilon Sets Initiation Initiation services will be held by Kappa chapter, Mu Phi Epsilon, national honorary musical sorority. Tuesday night at the chapter house, Pennsylvania and Thirty-fourth streets. Miss Violet Albert, violinist; Mrs. Blanche Harvey Quirk, contralto and Miss Beth Wilson, pianist-cell-ist. will become members and Miss Mary Lohrmann will be installed as patroness. Miss Imogene Pierson, newly elected president, will preside, and Mrs. W. Lee Rickman will be in charge of the following musical program: ••Life” Oley Speaks 'The Brownies” Leoni Mrs. Quirk. Miss Frances Wishard. piano Concerto in A Major—Adagio” Mozart Miss Aibers. violin: Miss Ramona W'ilson. piano. • Lotus Land” ■ Cyril Scott Scherzo in Bb Minor”. Chopin Miss Wilson, piono. Aria. ‘T Mourn Asa Dove" Benedict Bohemian Cradle Song” Schindler • Hohamge to Spring" ... Mac Fadyen Miss Van Arman. ' "Trio in D Minor” Mendelsohn "Allegro Agitato.” Andante con moto tranquillo—Miss Albers, Mis s Lohrman, Miss Wilson Following the program, new members will be honored at a dinner which will be served at 8 at the Dinner Bell. Alumnae and patronesses are invited. Reservations may be made with Mrs. Rickman. Keeping Moths Away Moths thrive in woolen fabric that is soiled, so don't pack away the winter clothing, rugs and blankets until they have been dry cleaned or at least brushed and aired in the sunshine for several hours. Moths detest newsprint and they’ll stay away from packages of clothing that axe wrapped in old newspapers.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Nulty is a member of the committee arranging the party sponsored by the Indianapolis alumae of the school. Mrs. Harold C. Stark before her marriage Thursday was Miss Betty Remy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oriiff W. Remy. Mr. and Mrs. Stark are on a trip east. The marriage of Miss Jew’el L. Bridgford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brigford, and Dr. Russell W. Lamb took place Monday. Dr. and Mrs. Lambs will make their home in Lobitos, Peru, South America. Marriage ceremony was read today for Miss Geraldine Frances Shaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shaw, and Cortland V. Carrington, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Carrington, at the Third Christian church.

National Observance to Be Aided by Indiana Poetry Clubs

Indiana Poetry Society will join all poetry clubs in America to observe national poetry week from Sunday through next Saturday. Mrs. Eletha Mae Taylor, president since organization of the state society in 1921. and other members have scheduled programs to be presented on radio programs of WFBM and WKBF and before clubs. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. John Robert Craig will entertain the society at

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Miss Marie Wallman

—Photo by Rochelle. Mrs. Marie C. Wallman announces the engagement of her daughter. Miss Marie Wallman, and Eugene A. Raines, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Raines, Greencastle. The wedding will take place June 17,

its annual guest meeting Thursday night a the Claypool. Mrs. Taylor will be recognized at the meeting as the “state poet.” The program will include singing by the DeVore sisters and piano numbers by Miss Pauline Tolin. Mrs. Walter E. Treanor, violinist, will play, accompanied by Mrs. R. E. Turner. Miss Lola Echard will read original Negro dialect poems; Mrs. Carl Lieber will read selections of poetry, and Miss Helen Coffey will entertain with whistling solos. Mrs. Charles E. Ferguson, 3919 Washington boulevard, will entertain members of the society next Saturday afternoon at her home. Officers besides Mrs. Taylor are Mrs. Edna Denham Raymond, first vice-president; Mrs. Carrie Abboitt Guio, second vice-president; Miss Margaret Anne Boyd, secretary; Miss June Winona Snyder, corresponding secretary, and Miss Echard, treasurer.

Card Parties

Finance committee of Meta Coun- : cil, D. of P.. will hold a benefit card party tonight in Red Men's hall, North Pershing avenue and West Michigan street. Fidelity Review' No. 140, W. B. A., will hold a card party at 2 Tuesday at the Banner-WhitehiL'. auditorium. Drill team of Women of the Moose will entertain at cards at 8:30 tomorrow night in the hall. 135 North Delaware street. Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Henderson are expecting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sligh and Dr. and Mrs. Athol Thompson, all of Grand Rapids, Mich., on May 29. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson will attend the Speedway race with their guests.

May Festival for Children Set at Sunnyside Sanatorium

“The Craning of the May Queen” will be the theme of the annual May day festival of children of Sunnyside sanatorium at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. Miss Harriett Krauss is directing the program which is sponsored by the Children's Sunshine Club, with Mrs. Alva Cradick, president.

Alumnae Group Closes Season at Garden Party A garden party and program concluded the year’s activities for the Indianapolis Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority today at the home of Mrs. William M. Louden. 36 West Forty-third | | street. One hundred attended the party | which was in charge of Delta alum- j nae of the sorority. Mrs. Reed Steele was hostess chairman and Miss Virginia Kerb, president. Miss Barbara Hickam played ! three piano numbers, “Prelude” by Prokofieff, “A Maiden's Wish” Chopin-Lizst and “Polichinelle” by Rachmaninoff. Mrs. Eleanor Miller from Ayres Little Shop was guest speaker. As- j sisting Mrs. Steele were Mesdames Delos Alig. Alan A. Boyd. Tom S. Elrod. Ephriam Inman. Ray Blatch- : j ley, Charles L. Railsback. Lyman Pearson, Warren D. Oakes • and ; Gayle B. Wolfe. LEAGUE FOUNDING TO BE OBSERVED The Rainbow division birthday i dinner in observance of the forty- j first birthday of the International: Walther League will be given by the City League at 7:15 Wednesday at the Lincoln. The Rev. Werner Kuntz of Grace Evangelical Lutheran church will be guest speaker, and Albert Brethauer, president of the Indiana league will be toastmaster. Louis Moehlman. president of the City League, will install new officers, including Herbert Hansen, president, and Miss Gertrude Bluemel, vice-president.

New Harrison Tap Room Will Interest Visitors Here for Speedway Race G. F. Warren Shortly Will Open Rendezvous Designed by Max Recker with Antique Motif. BY HELEN LINDSAY VISITORS to the Speedway race will find anew place to gather for conversation and cocktails when they come to Indianapolis this year. G. F. Warren will open anew tap room in the Harrison Tuesday or Wednesday. The room has been planned and furnished by Max Recker of the Sander & Recker interior decorating department. It opens on Capitol

avenue, and hanging over the entrance is a rustic Neon sign in copper and green. The sign also is a design by Mr. Recker. Entire furnishings are reproductions of antique pieces. The bar is of knotty pine, with reproductions of antique mirrors with spool turning borders back of it. Mirror shelves are filled with a collection of antique bottles, and just over each of them is an old life mask. Around the walls of the room, which are covered with a glazed paper designed with a Colonial hunting scene, are pewter lamps. Glazed green, chintz, polkadotted in white, has been used as a balance over the bar. and in draperies over the Venetian blinds at the windows. A deep wainscoting in apple green is used around the walls, and the same color is seen in a fireplace which in winter will be lighted with an electiic fire.

\ cozv setting for afternoon cocktails is seen just in front of the fireplace, which has an upholstered fire rail around it A deep wing chair, upholstered in gTeen leather, is placed in front ot the fireplace, beside a maple coffee table. ** * a “ Furniture Made of Maple Y TANGING just over the fireplace is a convex Girandole mirror, and H. on each side are prism lights with hurricane shields. TTo StaffordShU Alf S "maple, °some Roistered in green leather. Tables are in various styles, the old trestle and sawbuck tables having been reproduced for large gatherings, while smaller ones in maple are placed abol Chairs "show the ingenuity in design of pioneer ancestors Some are in the arrowback design, the backs showing the influence of the Indian bow and arrow. Others are reproductions of the Hitchcock chair J™med tor Governor Hitchcock of Massachusetts. A variety of maple Windsor Chai Th. al b°ar al back e bar. fireplace, and other decorative woodpieces in the room were made in the workshop of the Sander & Recker store. * * * Russian Women Interested in Styles EVIDENCE that women all are interested in clothes was seen in the interest aroused recently by the style show’ of 200 models in the Moscow theater. The show was held by the Experimental Clothing Factory Mosbelyo, and artists were employed to design the models. Original colored sketch.?s were displayed with the garments which showed a tendency to resemble American and western European sashThe enthusiasm with which .he display was greeted indicated that Soviet women are tiring of the present dullness of their clothes and looking forward to a time when they can purchase reproductions of the models shown in the display. Popular vote on the models showed a preference for brighter colors.

Church Gi-oups and Sorority Alumnae Sponsor Program

Seven circles of the Central Avenue Methodist church and the Indianapolis Alumnae Club of Mu Plii Epsilon, national honorary musical sorority, will present a program at the church at 8:15 Friday night. . Miss Virginia Leyenberger ana Miss Imogene Pierson of Kappa chapter will assist, and the arrangements are in charge of Mesdames M. H. Woll, Lorenzo B. Jones, T. G. Crawford, Charles E. Smith, John C. Barnhill Jr. and Miss Helen L. Quig. Miss Hisey will have charge of the following ushers: Misses Virginia Siefker, Rachael Cartwright, Virginia Burford, Marianna Crossland. Helen Noble, Margaret Conner, Florabelle Crawford, Loraine Mclntosh, Eleanor Cleaver, Elizabeth Miller, Ruth McColgin, Marjorie Alexander and Katherine Cooper; Mesdames Maxine Hubbard and John E. Bartlow. Presidents of the seven circles include: Mesdames A. G. Siefker, George M. Crossland, E. W. Stockdale, Max H. Wall, J. C. McColgin,

Mrs. W. J. Overmire, entertainment chairman, will be assisted by Mesdames David Jolly, George J. Hasely, William C. Schaefer, Otis Carmichael, Harry Grimes, Harry Knannlein and William T. Miller. Taking part in the entertainment will be the following children: Jean Daily, Ruth George, Imogene Cox, Jean Higgs, Frances Higgs, Mary Frances Sigrets, Haymond Hall. Donald Cox, Paul Russell, Raymond Chambers, Eugene Duffey, Curtis Winters, Ruth Craig, Helen Higgs, Gladys Chambers, Alice Lambert, Ruth Krackenburger, Flora Bennett, Elizabeth Smith, Dorothy Hayes, Robert Cox, Martha Craig, James Hayes, Ruth Craig, Roland Pruitt, Doris Higgs and Opal Knight. Miss Frances Logsdon wall be queen. The club will entertain with a spring luncheon-bridge party at 12:30 Wednesday at the Hillcrest Country Club. Mrs. Carmichael is chairman. Assisting the chairman will be Mesdames Donald Smith, Frank Coyle, John Connor, L. A. Fleming, C. O. Koepper, William C. Schaeffer, Harry McHale, Charles Manley, Robert Schingler and J. D. Volz. Mrs. F. John Herrmann, accompanied by Mrs. Oscar Passmore, will sing several selections. Club Sponsors Bridge Mrs. J. C. Moore is chairman of the bridge party to be held by the Mothers’ Club of Phi Delta Theta fraternity at 8 Friday night at the chapter house. Assisting Mrs. Moore will be Mesdames A. G. Coddington, J. E. Perry. A. F. Johnson, H. G. Kalb. O. T. Roberts and F. C. Cash.

Irvington Union of Clubs Will Unveil Founder’s Portrait

A portrait of Mrs. Elijah Jordan, painted by Simon Baus, will be unveiled at the annual meeting of the Irvington Union of Clubs at 2 Wednesday in the parlors of the Irvington Presbyterian church. Miss Katherine Layman will present the portrait of Miss Jordan, union founder, to the union, represented by Mrs. W. W. Ward, president. The eighth annual meeting will include a short business session. The Madrigal Club of Technical, high school will sing. Mrs. Jordan and

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G. M. Chandler, J. F. Matthews. Officers of the general group: Mesdames T. G. Crawford, Harris Holland, Harry Plummer, F. L. Kresge, M. K. Pruyn, Sarah Bundy and Charles E. Smith. The program, as follows, will be open to the public; Costume Songs—- • In Her Old-fashioned W.'ay” Harris "To a Miniature" Gaynor “An Old Romance" d’Hardelot “When Love Is Kind" (old melodyi. Mrs. Charles G. Fitch with violin obligato; Miss Berenice H Reagan; Miss Helen Louise Quig. accompanist. Cello. Miss Virginia Levenberger, accompanied by Miss Imogene Pierson. “Feast of Lanterns" Bantock "A Little Song” Voorhis “Love Is the W’ind” Mitcheli Miss Mary Moorman, contralto; Miss Louise Swan, accompanist. Xylophone—- " Caprice Viennois" Kreisler "Mighty Lak a Rose” Nevin ■ Estreliita" Ponce "Novelette" Swerdlow Miss Imogene Pierson. Miss Mary Gottman. accompanist. Organ—- “ The Lost Chord" Sullivan "Night Song" Stults “Sortie" Rogers Miss Louise E Swan. Vocal Ensemble— Dawn" Curran "Prayer Perfect” Stenson “Thanks Be to God” Dickson Mesdames Asel Spellman Stitt .John E Thompson. June Baker. Misses Ruby Winders. Charlotte Lieber, Dorothy Richardson and Mrs. Nell Kemper McMurtrev. accompanist. MISS ARGUS TO RE SORORITY HOSTESS Miss Louise Argus, 4232 Central avenue, will be hostess for a rush tea of Beta Beta Sigma sorority tomorrow afternoon. Miss Katherine Leppert w'ill head the receiving line, which wilj include Miss Mary Beth King. Miss Dorothy Keene, and Miss Argus. Green and white decorations will be used throughout the house. Assisting Miss Argus will be Miss Leppert, Miss Betty Early and Miss Mary Frances Fink.

MISS HARDING WILL BE MAY BRIDE

Marriage of Miss Jane Harding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harding, and Herman Albert Straus, son of Mrs. M. Freiberg Straus of Cincinnati, will take place at noon Sunday, May 27, at the Harding home, 3607 Washington boulevard. Miss Harding was graduated from Tudor Hall and attended Wellesley college, and Mr. Straus is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. Section to Entertain Husbands and friends of members of the choral section of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale will attend a dinner and program at 6:30 Monday night at the Foodcraft shop. Mrs. Rex P. Young is chairman of reservations. Alumnae Meeting Set Epsilon alumnae of Delta Zeta sorority will meet Monday night at the home of Mrs Robert Hueslein, 6060 Park avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. Baus will be special guests. In the receiving line will be retiring and incoming officers. Mesdames C. M. Cunningham. J. C. Todd, W. O. Terry, J. Willard Bolte. C A. Harris, T. S Elrod, E. J. Hirschman, R. J. Anderson and G. C. Bender Jr. In charge of a social hour will be Mesdames Theodore Layman. Gilbert McNutt, C. Earl Byrket and Miss Lorene Jeffries. Mrs. Francis W. Payne. 5345 University avenue, will entertain the executive board at Ia breakfast Monday.