Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1934 — Page 6

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Mrs. Wood Will Serve at Theater Wardrobe Chairman Faces Season’s Activities at Civic Playhouse. BY BEATRICE BURG AN Tim't Woman Mitor STOWED away in orderly fashion at the Civic theater playhouse are about 300 costumes, but that doesn't lessen Mrs. Gaylord Wood s problem wardrobe chairman for the coming season. Now that Mrs Wood has ended the summer swimming programs at Woodstock Club, she's ready to as-

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semble costumes for a musical project, which is being considered as a special production of the theater Jater in the season. One of the secrets of wardrobe committees in the past has been to create as effective costumes as possible. and at the

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same time to entail little expense. Equipped with yards of inexpensive materials, paints, dyes, and the seamtress’ tools, the committees have collaborated on ideas and turned out wardrobe, which behind the footlights achieve the effects needed to make the plays successes. Some of the costumes in the wardrobe have been remodeled many times, while others faithfully copying period modes have been preserved to be used again. Mrs. Stephen Bogert and Mrs. Elizabeth Schofield set a precedent of skillful designing when the theater presented its first pageant in 1916 at the time of the Indiana centennial of Indiana authors. The committee members resorted to dyeing the materials in their effort to have the colors they desired for the costumes. Mrs. Ida Strnwn Baker took up the task when production of “Alice in Wonderland" was a project in 1924 With paints and brushes, the committee members under her reproduced costumes, rival the effectiveness of the professionally designed wardrobe they copied. Members of the theater joined Mrs. Norman Green in designing Italian costumes for “The Lyre” in 1927. and again in 1930 when she was assigned the task of preparing the wardrobe for “The Marquise." When “The Importance of Being Earnest” was revived in 1932. Mrs. William L. Horn loaned the theater some of the dresses which composed her trousseau in the nineties. But more dresses were needed than were available, so the committee tackled the task of designing gowns of the period For a fashion pageant early in the theater's history. Mrs. Edna Christian assembled gowns worn by many of Indianapolis leading society women in earlier days. Particularly treasured in the theater's wardrobe are several ball costumes and gowns donated by Mrs. Christian, Mrs. William H. Coleman and Mrs. Will Cobum. It was with an appropriately gay mood that Mrs. Paul Matthew's workers approached the assignment of designing circus costumes for “He Who Gets Slapped." presented last year Many of the Civic workers remember with particular joy the hours they spent in the workshop which the late Dr. and Mrs. Henry Jameson arranged over the garage of their home at Tenth and Pennsylvania streets. Costumes and scenery wpre designed in the shop, and often George Somnes, then director, led rehearsals in the shop. Dr. and Mrs. Jameson's daughter. Mrs. J. D. Pierce, now is an active worker in the theater. CLUB COMMITTEE TO GIVE DINNER Wavs and means committee of the Ephamar Club will sponsor a dinner and card party at 6 Saturday night at the Foodcraft shop. Mrs. W. H. Blodgett is chairman. Members of the committee are Mesdames R. E. Coleman. H. J. Scudder. O. S. Pollard. Matt Harris and Loretta Yocum. Reservations are in charge of Mrs. Blodgett and Mrs. Coleman.

Sororities

Miss Margaret Ratcliff. 3822 Kenwood avenue, will be hostess tonight for a meeting of Lambda Gamma sorority. Miss Helen Hirshman. 1240 West Thirty-first street, will be hostess tonight to members of Alpha Pi Omega sorority. Evadne Club will hold pledge services for Miss Lorna Jones tonight at the home of Miss Ethel Finley, 4232 North Capitol avenue. Miss Helen Smith will be hostess for a costume party to be given tonight at her home. 337 North Drexel avenue, by members of Kappa Delta Theta sorority. Monthly meeting of Theta Tau Psi sorority will be a luncheon Friday at the home of Mrs. Ralph Eberhart. 1409 North La Salle street. Miss Mary Keating. 1302 Hoyt avenue, will be hostess tonight for a meeting of Beta chapter, Alpha Beta Phi sorority. Alpha chapter. Sigma Delta Zeta sorority, will hold its regular business meeting tonight at the home of Miss Naomi McDonald. Club Meeting Set Perry Township Women's Democratic Club will meet at 2 Saturday at township headquarters. 4302 Madison avenue, with Mrs. John H. Bingham, speaker. Mrs O. D. Ludwig is club president. Hostesses will be Mesdarr.es Alma Mayer. Joseph Brand. Ruth Brush Miller. Fred Krukemeir. Clara Garbe and Leonard A Hohlt. The club will hold a tea Oct. 13.

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Separate Furs Featured in Autumn Styles

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A fur cape done in the grand manner of Persian lamb. Notice the upstanding collar, pleated like a ruff.

'T'HE acme of luxury this season is to have an evening coat lined with ermine! Designers are pretty nonchalant about the way they handle precious furs. If you are one to cringe at the sight of a mannequin dragging a silver fox cape along the floor as if it were just one of those things you may still prefer to have your fur trimming in a high, wide and handsome fur collar that flaunts its importance to the world. a It a BUT if you would be “eomme il fait” you will appear to take your sables or your foxes casually, as if they had been in the family for years and the family furrier had just whipped them into anew shape, even though they may be anew and desperate purchase involving your life's savings. After you study the separate furs that are making fashion headlines this fall it 'will he pretty difficult to remember what the original animal looked like, so freely have the cutters and sewers turned out new shapes in capelets, collarettes, round collars, stoles and combinations of cape and stole. Now. instead of the silhouette being built to shoulder an animal scarf, the animal scarf is cut

Manners and Morals

tet Jane Jordan help you with your problem*. Put your trouble* in a letter today and read your answer within the neat few d*v*! _ Dear Jane Jordan—l am a young girl and live with my mother and stepfather. I am so worried about my home affairs that I don’t know what to do. My mother is very

sweet and a good wife. My stepfather is mean and obnoxious. He doesn't want to live with mother, but isn’t man enough to come out with it. He has a child of Isis own and mother loves it as well as she does me. My stepfather implies that I am in the way. Sev-

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eral times I had to get out and work in homes because I can not find a job elsewhere. He said I didn't look very far. I am not a strong girl and am under the doctor's care constantly. All my stepfather does is feed me. My mother had the home first. When he married all he brought in was himself and the child. He treats my friends terribly—especially my boy friends. He drinks excessively and when drunk he picks on me. He draws a good salary but never spends it on mother or the home. Mother is a very good manager. All the neighbors can vouch for the fact that mother is an excellent wife. She isn’t allowed to correct his child, who is only 11 years old. Here I am 20 and he treats me like a 2-year-old. He wants to drive me away from home. He knows he has nothing against mother. She loves a home and knows how to manage one. There must be another woman

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he is after and seeing. If she only knew! Please tell us what to do. POLLY. Answer—Every hate has its love and every love its hate. Any intense feeling hides it opposite in some obscure corner of the individual's being. If your stepfather goes out of his way to make life miserable for you, it is possible that he does so because he is determined not to be fond of you. The same divided attitude may be true of you. Os course, you long for a father’s affection and care. The man has disappointed you by not coming up to your expectations. You despise him for his failure without losing the yearning that he would play the role of father with more finesse. The situation is complicated and difficult to work out. I think it would be advisable for you to find a job which would not overtax your strength and live away from home. In fact, you might find i your health considerably improved if you lived in more peaceful surroundings. It may take a little time to get on your feet financially. The main thing is to set your goal and move toward it as rapidly as possible. You will help your mother by avoiding conflicts with your stepfather. A pleasant attitude toward him would go far toward keeping down a storm until you 1 can make your escape. Ido not know your mother’s attitude toward the man and therefore can not make an enlightened answer. It is not enough for a woman to love a home and be a good manager. If she leaves him emotionally unsatisfied that helps to account for his bad behavior. When you judge him. try hard to give him a break. Reflect that he has his conflicts and miseries, too. u m m Dear Jane Jordan—Nine years ago I lost my head and let my husband’s brother get the upper hand of me. and after a thing is started it is hard to stop. This brother-in-law is married now and everything is different. He has told his wife : all about our affair. She doesn’t seem jealous but just kidded me about it and said she bet my hus- : band would throw a fit if he knew i everything. I am scared stiff for fear she will tell him. She thinks he is a swell fellow, which he is,

up and manipulated to enhance the silhouette, an effect that makes you want to get the new note into your costume—new or not so new. a a a IT is not entirely a question of money. We have all seen women dressed in handsome materials, rich furs, even wearing fine jewelry, who, nevertheless, were not well dressed—simply because their clothes, expensive as they were, did not suit them. Unless you are pretty sure in your own mind what is most becoming to you—flat furs or longhaired furs, waistcoat, cape, stole or collar—it is best to let a friend tell you. The better furriers appreciate that none of us can afford to waste money on failures, on unsuccessful experiments, and will help you to select just the right furs for your type. ana BLUE fur is now a classic in Paris. Alaska seal appears in anew reddish brown, cedar. Galyak is manipulated into standup ruffle collars. For long-haired furs, foxes have it. Green-dyed foxes are just beginning their fight for recognition. For the first time Hudson seal is being used in soft feminine turbans. Nutria. Persian lamb and beaver all are having their day in the present mode.

but I don’t know how he would take it. Do you think I had better make a clean confession and tell him everything myself or keep my fingers crossed and pray he won’t find out. I am so nervous I dont know what to do. , WORRIED. Answer —I think it would be the most senseless brutality for anybody to tell your husband the truth. You will have to take care not to antagonize either your brother-in-law or his wife. If they have any consideration for your husband whatever, they will not strike down his peace by tattling. There is no way for you to , avoid the penalty of uneasiness. Perhaps it would relieve your conscience to confess, but when you only put the burden of your acts on your husband, confession turns into self-indulgence. brTdal party to HONOR MISS REA At a dinner and personal shower tonight at the Charm House, Miss Ada Fay Rea will be honored before her marriage to Jaspar D. Harvey on Oct. 3. Misses Mary Harvey and Lou Cravens will be hostesses. Guests will include Misses Eleanor Marshall, Betty Vice, Betty Smith. Ann Reed. Betty Elliott and Gladys Grove: Mrs. Kenneth Tohrnburgh and Mrs. L. P. Chandler.

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A Womans Viewpoint

-BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

r I 'HE longer I live the more I disagree with the modern idea that parents should separate after love has died between them. The wish, I suspect, is father to the thought. Adults are allowing sentiment to run away with them when they insist that all children are sensitive little souls who can detect immediately the spiritual rifts in domes-

tic lutes. The contrary is usually true, since our youngsters go gaily about their own business and are content to let the grown-ups worry about the m selves. What a child wants most during infancy and adolesce n c e is a sense of secur-

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ity. To be sure, he craves love, but he doesn’t ask that everybody around him shall love everybody else, because he’s rather a selfish little entity, preoccupied mainly

Card Parties

Woman’s Benefit Association,, Silver Star No. 15, will sponsor a card party at 8:30 tonight at 1122 East Washington street. Women of St. Mary’s church will sponsor card and lotto parties tomorrow afternoon and evening at the school hall, 315 North New Jersey street. Proceeds will be used for the benefit of the bazar. Sacred Heart Social Club will give a card party at 2 tomorrow afternoon at St. Cecilia clubrooms. After a supper from 5 to 7 tonight, St. Roch's Altar Society will sponsor a lotto game in its hall, 3600 South Meridian street. Women’s Club of Holy Rosary church will entertain with a card party at 2 and 8 Friday in the parish hall. Officers of the club, Mesdames Fra*cis O'Connell, Rose Gatto, Lenora Quattrocchi, Anna Neese and Rose Stewart, will be in charge.

Announcements

Members of Xi chapter, Sigma Tau Phi fraternity, will entertain with a script dance from 9 to 12 Saturday night at the Sherman inn. James R. Bennett is chairman, assisted by George Tilford and Fred A. Strutner. Out-of-town guests will include T. Clayton Elrod, national president, and members from Alpha chapter, Nashville, Tenn.

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WOMEN WILL HEAR DISTRICT CHAIRMAN Gavin L. Payne, Twelfth district Republican chairman, will address the Indiana Woman's Republican Club at 2 tomorrow' at the Columbia Club on “Women in Politics.” Mrs. Belle Baldwin Wood, Republican candidate for state senator from Marion county, will talk on “We Want a Change in Administrations. Not Government." Mrs. Samuel H. Fletcher, president. will be in charge of the club's opening fall meeting. Nominating committee will be elected and a musical program arranged by Miss Pearl Randall will include a musical monolog by Mrs. William T. Randall. Hostesses for the afternoon will be Mesdames St. Clair Parry. Garvin L. Pavne, R. Harry Miller. Elmer Petty, Nora Wetter. Paul Mathews, Josephine Fairhead. Aileen Kidd, Ina Stebbing and John Riddle. MRS. WEYL TO BE HOSTESS FOR TEA Mrs. A. B. Weyl, 5307 Broadway, will be hostess at an informal tea friday afternoon in honor of Miss Margaret C. Liggett, Los Angeles, formerly of Madson, Ind. No invitations have been issued.

SEASON OPENS AT BRIDGE PARTY

Wives of members of the Variety Club sponsored their first social function today in the clubrooms at the Claypool. The bridge party was the first of a series, tvhich will be held during the winter. Reservations were made for thirty-five tables. Mrs. A. C. Zaring was chairman of the party, and was assisted by Mesdames Marty Soloman, Herbert Kauffman, Sterling Wilson, Hadley Hull and K. T. Collins.

ALUMNAE LUNCHEON SET AT HOTEL,

Mrs. Gordon Thompson, is chairman of arrangements for a meeting of Indianapolis alumnae of Delta Delta Delta sorority Saturday at the Marott. Bridge play will follow luncheon. Fall flowers will decorate tables which will be lighted with tapers. Mrs. W. R. Shirley, president, is assisted this year by Mrs. William Mace, program chairman; Miss Marian Davis, telephone; Miss Anna Marie Sander, membership, and Mrs. Lee Hanson, publicity.

with his small concerns, and he takes the puzzling affairs of an adult world for granted. I do believe he needs a father and a mother —or two persons who stand in such a capacity to him. The proper development of his character requires assistance from a male and female personality, two utterly different types of individual, from whom he can get two utterly different kinds of help. I Parents are not just people to small children—they are citadels of strength and permanence to which a hurt or bewildered little one may flee in times of stress. Just -being there is about all our children need of us and certainly parental love and care represent for them the light upon a sanctuary altar, a light that never fails and flickers steadfastly through the deepest dark. A little boy runs to his mother., for tenderness when he is hurt, sad or sleepy, but he goes to his father when he wants to be reassured as to his own importance. He knows instinctively that there is a wisdom of the heart and a wisdom of the He must have both of these to develop along normal lines. Continued rancor, implacable domestic hatred will in time cause any child unhappiness and may, as the experts tell us, give him a complex. But a broken home may give him a blow from which he can never recover. The effect of a few quarrels is nothing compared to the positive harm worked upon modern children by the ruthless destruction of their world —the home. Entertains Sorority Mrs. Walter E. Stevens entertained members of Epsilon chapter, Alpha Omicron Alpha sorority, Monday night at an informal dinner and bridge party. Special guests included Mrs. John R. Sentney, national president: Mrs. Louis Carroll, sponsor, and Mrs. Glen Conway.

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Feminine Touches Mark Costumes Frances Starr Wears in Latest Play; Star of ‘Lady Jane/ Liked by Indianapolis Audiences, Displays Attire With Soft, Flattering- Lines. BY HELEN I.INDSAY APPEARING as a mellow, middle-aged woman in her most recent picture, “Lady Jane,” which opened at the Plymouth theater In New York recently, Frances Starr wears costumes of softly flattering lines and colors. Indianapolis theater patrons, with whom Miss Starr has been a favorite, will visualize her as she is described in press dispatches from New York. Miss Starr's coiffure in the play is a ringlet mode, which shows off well with the tones of baby pink, sky blue and aqua blue used in iier costume. The costumes are made with draped necklines and feminine

effects. In the opening scene she appears in a hostess gown of soft pink sheer material, which has eight horizontal oox-pleated ruffles for the skirt, with a slight train. The dress is made with a front-slashed bodice, and soft, demure bow ties are used at the neck and waistline. The shoulders are plain, and deep pleated ruffles end them just above the elbows. An evening gown which Miss Starr wears in “Lady Jane" is of sky-blue crepe, in a beltless model, molded to her slender figure. It is lavishly decorated with diamante, and like the hostess gown, has a short train. In her role as mother of a young married son and an unruly young daughter. Miss Starr as Lady Jane wears a morning costume of baby blue dull crepe, with a draped, low-front neckline, and an ankle-length

pleated skirt. The costumes of Lila Lee, the daughter, are in direct contrast to the soft, mature ones worn by Miss Starr. They are bright, and sometimes of harsh fabrics, decidedly sophisticated in design and color. Ona is a black taffeta evening gown, unbelted, molded, and with a long sectional train. It has a one-sided diagonal ruffle from one shoulder to the side of the waistline, which stands high at the shoulder. A sparkling narrow shoulder strap supports the dress at the other side. With this Miss Lee wears elbow-length black velvet gloves, and a silver fox evening cape of waist length. it it it a a a Sports Costumes Worn by Lila Lee MISS LEE wears several active sports costumes in the play. One of these is a double-breasted navy blue jacket, hip length, worn with white jupeculotte. and another is composed of rust colored jodhpurs with a white crepe shirt, showing short sleeves. Miss Frieda Inescourt, who plays the part of Lady Jane’s daughter-in-law, wears an evening dress of flowing lines, showing a leaf print of burgundy on white. Her daytime costumes include a tunic dross, the front fastened with eight shining buttons. The dress is of pine green, and with it she wears a cravat of yellow matching the belt. With this she wears a tricorn of felt. Miss Inescourt’s mornjng dress is of carioca, with slender skirt, and a high-closing bodice fastening with a tie. a a a tt n tt Miriam Hopkins Chooses Striking Garb WHILE the costumes of the actresses in “Lady Jane” express the mode of the stage, Miriam Hopkins will appear in striking outfits in the RKO Radio picture, “The Richest Girl in the World.” Rich fabrics are seen in these costumes, many of them evening fashions. One is a light crinkled crepe jacket costume, the blouse of which has a standing collar with a ruffled neckline. The high neckline is used in many of the costumes which Miss Hopkins will wear in the picture. It is seen in a spangled costume, and in a formal lace negligee. Like Miss Starr, in “Lady Jane,” Miss Hopkins has a coiffure of curls. Bangs are curled, as well as the back part of the coiffure.

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