Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1936 — Page 7
Actress Plays Role in British Comedy
Miss Petri Is Too Busy to Do Sight-Seeing in British City.
BY BEATRICE BURGAN' Society Editor LL the Indianapolis faces seen in London this sumer haven't been vacationers taking in the sights. One Indianapolis native is there making a name for herself. Miss Helene Petri, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Petri, has been playing there all summer in “Boy Meets Girl,” and a new engagement at the Shaftsbury Theater indicates the show is to continue until September. - Miss Petri writes to her parents that she has been so busy rehearsing and acting that she hasn't as yet seen the Tower of Loridon. “But wait until the show is over. Then you catch the next steamer and we will see London together,” she wrote to hier mother. Recently Miss Petri assisted in a garden fair given to raise money for needy actors. She sold candy in a booth with Ann Harding and Helen Chandler. Mr. and Mrs. Mexwell Shaw, friends of the Petri family, expected to see Miss Petri this week. Many tourists called for tne young actress’ address before they went abroad. Miss Peggy Pearson and Miss Ruth Tyndall, who are expected back soon from Europead. travels, were among them. - On two different occasions Miss Petri played into the second lead role of the popular play. " " » Mr. and Mrs. I. C. DeHaven are home again after visiting their daughter, Miss Joan DeHaven, who has heen at Strawberry Hill, N. H,, this summer. Miss DeHavén his
been working in a quaint tea shop, }-
located on the owners’ aicestrdl estate. Miss DeHaven won't be home before returning to Scudder School in New York this fall.
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Mrs. Billie Teel Tappen and her son, Robert, will return from Eaton - Ranch, Wyo.,.in time to pack Robert's trunk for his first year at Cul. ver Military Academy. .
Kitchen Shower and Breakfast to Fete Guest
Red and cream colors are to appoint the sewing lable at a kitchen shower and breakiast to be given at the home of Miss Wilma Aulenbacher, 943 N. Audubon-rd, tomorrow for Miss Phyllis Sharpe. The marriage of Miss Sharpe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Cole Sharpe, to Clarence A. Wacher is to take place Aug. 14. Other hostesses with Miss Aulenbacher are Mrs. Melvin E. Robbins, Mrs. Dana Hannon, Miss Louise Troy and Miss Helen Carver. With Miss Sharpe and her moth-
er, guesis are to include Mesdames-
William Givens, Bertha B. Orme, Richard Cheeseman, William Haslet, J. Tracey Davis, Jack Maxwell, Howard S. Campbell, Lee Carter, Oscar. = Aulenbacher, Clarence E. Clark, Harry Carver, Edward Troy, ‘W. S. Holmes, Frank H. Keppen, Walter Witt, Lawrence Sims and Herman Hess, and Misses Catherine Vogel, Lucille Morison, Rebecca Blackley, Rosemary Byrket, Hallie Hunt, Helen Baker, Rosamund Baker, Virginia Shewalter, Jeanne Goulding, Mary E. Cooke, Helen Hicks, Betty Akin, Betty Ann Nichols, Margaret Walden, Virginia Ploch, Jane Fisher, Helen and Dorothy Dauner, Frances Brummit, Margaret Roher, Suzanne Merrill and Joan Miller. : Out-of-town guests are to include Mesdames R. Leininger, Cincinnati; Mrs. "Ralph H. Thompson, Crawfordsville; Mrs. Russell E. Hansen, Houston, Tex., and Mrs. Harry H. Clark, Boston, Mass.
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Constance Pearce Is Honored Guest at Shower Today
Guests had a choice of games to play at the miscellaneous shower Misses Ruby Gene Beaver and Josette Yelch gave today in honor of Miss Constance Pearce, who is to be married to Edwin W. Mower, Evansville, Aug. 5. Bridge, monopoly and bingo tables were arranged by the hostesses, who were assisted by Mrs. Phil Rupert, Miss Gertrude Glover and Mrs. Harry L. Yelch. Mrs. Harry Marshall Pearce, mother ‘of the bride-to-be, and Mrs. A. J. Mower, mother of the bride-groom-to-be, were among the guests. Others were Misses Charlene Richardson, Carolyn Hawekotite, Marjorie Newman, Mary Jacquelin Holliday, Martha Howard, Martha Louise Boyd, Ethel Jean Johnson, Hélen Carver, Betty ‘Thomas. Also invited were Martha Dean Lesher, Maxine Hubbard, Mildred Cross, Eleanor Young, Louise Baker, Virginia « Hoffmah, - Mary ° Helen Karnes, Alice Wilde. Virginia Burford, Lois Morton, Madeline Price, Barbara Varin, Ruth Hickman, Virginia Straughn, Janet and Ann Chapman, Mary Lou Richter and Mrs. Jane Ann Wood.
NOVEL TREATMENT IS GIVEN WINDOWS
If you have redecorated your room and are looking for a novel window treatment you may be interested in a plan employed in a country home. were a pale green and ey 5 shades were of a glazed upholstery af
BY MARGARET McBRIDE NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Longlashed, glamorous Edith Dustman, age 19, who looks as-if she ought to be in the movies or on the stage herself, earns her living as dressmaker for Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Beatrice Lillie, Joe Penner, George Arliss—or at least for their Puppet counterparts. Altholugh when she was younger she wanted to be an actress, Miss Dustman is now . entirely pleased with her job and with life in general. “Mine is the most fascinating work,” she declared, blushing because it was necessary to talk about herself. For Edith is a singularly modest career woman. “It, was Just by accident that I got into it,” she explained. “Russell Patterson, who creates puppet ‘personettes,’ asked me if I could type. I told him not very well, but then I grew bold and suggested that I might help him dress his personettes. You see, I had made all my own clothes and hats from the time I got into high school.”
Ingenuity Required
, Puppets are as perverse as people sometimes, Edith says, and once in a while you get pretty sick of them before you finish them. The sickest she ever got was of an angel 24 inches high that she dressed in white satin. However, she thinks that her job. has helped mold her Character by teaching her patience. “We dress the personettes as the stars really dress in pictures, but sometimes I feel that I could make them ‘handsomer by designing them |g brand new things,” Miss Dustman admits timidly.’ “XY don't like Miss Dietrich in short clothes, for .instance.. She has a divine figure and you can do so much with a figire like that if you put it in long
“I work best at night. Sometimes I go on as late as four in the morning when I have something to finish. “The hardest figures to dress I ever had were six-inch ones for & show window. Two of them had on coats and one a silver fox cape. I had a dreadful time with the. &lver fox cape. I y had to dye ermine to simulate silver fox.” =. . |
Young Beauty Enjoys Career as Dresser tor Film Star Puppets
they get caught in the strings which are being manipulated by the .puppeteers. ‘It’s a gamble how many times a week that tiny backless black frock worn by Greta Garbo’s miniature is going to be the reason for her understucy-to go on in the star's role.” For, in the event of a torn skirt, or some such catastrophe, Greta has to go into the workshop until she’s fit for public appearance again.. At Ten. Vion : The careers of the male puppets are somewhat more dependable, though- ‘their wardrobe 'mistress finds them harder to dress. Inasmuch as they are more substantially clothed, however, they sometimes last through the entire run of the show.
Accidents, Maim Doll Actors
Accidents happen on the miniature stage just as they do in real life, even more ser ious ones. ‘Hands and feet break off quite frequently, and when they do the actor is sefiously laid up and out goes the understudy. For, as on the real stage, the show must go on. The strings
fourteen strings that the puppeteer?
which are made of 18-pound tested silk fishline’ (but even these wear out) are constantly. getting caught in the clothing. ‘Maiming the frailer parts of the body, such as the ilelicately formed
‘hands and legs, happens frequent. "Probably ne worry 2
Suet Secured was on the night when D. post in the Montmarte sechd i ne fell over Fifl, one: Patterson was laid up for a few days oe then came back: as spry as ever. Fifi is a real trouper.. She has played 2 a thousand pérformances. Once she hcid her own with a boat-load of men en route to Jamaica.” On this oitasion a manufacturing company had ‘chartered the ship for a ten-day cruise.. All
the passengers, as well as all the other , were men. But Fifi
kept her head. ol to Miss Dustman, rea peat BE necklace of sent by an anonymous smi,
“FoR BRIDE BLECT 3 - Margaret
accident that |
1. Miss ‘Mary <Phyliis Sharpe’s engagement to Clarence A. Wacker has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cole Sharpe. The wedding is to take place Aug. 14 at the Bethlehem
Lutheran Church.
2. Miss Mabel Espey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Espey;- is -to--be a September bride.
Noble Biddinger, Her
engagement to Gifford A. Cast, son of Mr. and Mrs. "Harry E. Cast, recently was announced. The wedding is ta bé on Sept. 12. _.» 3. Miss Eleanor Jane Lynch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lynch, Elkhart, is to become the bride of
in’ 4 ceremony late today at Elkhart. The couple is to live at; 7 ‘N.
son of J. W. Biddinger, Columbus,
Penusylvania-st.
| Easy Coiffure
Recommended for Ww arm Days
‘BY ALICIA HART Times Special Writer The perfect. summer coiffure is one that retains its shape, wave and curls while under a bathing cap, doesn’t look frowsy 10 minutes after the wind starts to blow through: it and, between shampoos, can be ar-
ranged without the help of the man |
who, designed it. Unless your hair is curly or looks
‘well straight, better have a new
permanent. before you. start . for ranch, seashore or farm. Then find an ‘excellent hairdgesser, tell him your requirements and let him work out a coiffure which he considers practical as well as flattering. Try it for a week." If it musses too easily or if you find that you simply can’t coax it back into place yourself, try something else. Summer coiffures with curls and
no waves are new right now. One
especially good hair. style, designed by an important New York expert, is perfect for short locks. The hair is brushed upward from the nape of the neck, backward frm the face, then. all ends are: eurled in‘ soft, rather loose ringlets.
. ‘Have Hair Dried
It is not smart to wear tight ringlets that shriek to the world the fact that you have just stepped out of a beauty shop. If you are going to spend your money to have your hair beautified once a week, do stay under the dryer until waves and curls are dry, then. insist. upon . having them brushed out before you leave. Nothing is more ‘unattractive than ringlets and waves that are brittle and stiff looking. Strive for soft, natural effects. And. don’t let a hairdresser dismiss you until your hair is thoroughly dry and has been not only combed but brushed through and ARrough, then put in place. -
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Mrs. Anna Siebolt, assistants. . chairman. Lotto.
Ice cream social and bingo.
EVENTS
LODGES George H. [. Thomas Woman's Reltef Corps. 2 p. m. Mon. Fort Friendly SORORITIES Alpha Theta Chi. 8 p. m. Tues. Mrs. Woodrow Wines, 1224 N. Illinois-
Phi’ Kappa. Alpha. Mon. Riverside Park. Iotta Kappa. Mon. Mrs. James. McGee, 1853 N. Talbot-st. CARD’ PARTIES Liederkrantz Ladies Society. 8:15 p.m. Sun. Hall, 1421 E. Washing-ton-st. Mrs. Bartl Brandmaier, chairman; Mrs. Gus Leibrock and St. Phillip Neri .Church.. Mon, Auditorium. Mrs. Adam Gerlach,
Townsend Club. No. 10. 7: 30 n m. Mon. Park-av and St. Clair-sts,
Lake Cruise Is to Follow Marriage Ceremony Today
‘Following an exchange of vows at 4:30 p..m. today in the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Albert S. Troy and his bride ‘are to leave for Chicago and a Great Lakes cruise. The ceremony is to be read by the Rev. H. T. Graham for Miss Dorothy Rentsch and Mr. Troy before a palm banked altar, Mrs. Dorothy Greig is to play the organ preceding and during the ceremony. Guests are to be seated by George Robertson and Joseph Sullivan, ushers. - Edward Troy, Hammend, is to be best man. ; Out-of-town guests are to include Mr. and Mrs. Albert Scheik, Louisville; Bernard O'Neil, Miss Pauline Blaner and Harold Owings, all of Gary, and the following from Madison: Mr, and Mrs. Louis Scheik, Mrs. Fred Crozier, .-Mrs. John Mitchell, Mrs. J. W. Leland and Miss Mary. Hill. “The bride is to wear a white tailored suit with a gardenia corsage. Her - only attendant, Miss Louise
| Troy, is to wear a green silk. dress
Marriage Rites to Be Read at Third Christian Church
Pastel colored organdie gownsare
‘to be worn by the bride's attendants at the wedding of Miss Mary Miller | ‘to Robert H. Thomas tonight. are the major cause of most of the ) Gladioll, roses and asters in som. casualties. Each puppet has about jplimenting shades are io form heir larm bouquets.
overhead operates. These strings, |
The ceremony is to be read at
8 p. m. today at the Third Chris ‘tian Church by the Rev. Charles
M. Fillmore. Dale Young, organist, ‘is to play a program of bridal music and accompany the soloist, Miss Mary Paxton Young. Charles Taylor is to be best man and Garth R, Marine and Oral J. Thurber, ushers. . Miss Clarinne Manning, maid of honor, is to wear yellow; Miss June Miller, a bridesmaid, green, and Miss Maribel Snider, = another bridesmaid, pink, Mary =
Wed Recently
Helen
Kaercher, .Pittsburgh, . Pa., flower girl, is to wear green, and is to carry a basket of rose petals. The bride is to enter with her father, Henry B. Miller. - Her white satin gown, fashioned on fitted lines, has a full skirt and a frain. She is to wear her mother’s wedding veil, which ‘is to be held in place by a narrow band of sweetheéart roses. Her bouquet is to be of Bride's roses and baby breath. Members of immediate families and a few intimate friends are to be guests’ at a’ reception at the home of the. bride’s parents, 118 W. 29th-st, following the ceremony. Mr. Thomas and his bride are to leave on a motor trip following ihe reception. They aré to make bome in Indianapolis. ;
HILLCREST PARTY | HOSTESSES NAMED
Mrs. L. C. Morgan is fo be hostess | for the Hillcrest Country luncheon and auction bridge Thursday st we auphouse © . contrast e and or ednesday, Aug. 12, with Mrs. A. R. Jones as hostess.
DIVISION IN FALL STYLES CLEAR CUT i autumn just around er, smart women are
Columbus.
A Peviney Afbuckle and Grace. Hols!
with white accessories and a gardenia . - corsage. ‘Mrs. Rentsch, mother of the bride, is'to wear blue with ashes of roses accessories and. Mrs. Edward ‘Troy, mother of the bridegroom, is to be gowned in flowered. chiffon. The couple is to live in Gary Joy their return from the wedding rip
Couple to Reside in Indianapolis on Return From Trip
Times Special - : T, nd, Aug. 1.—After a mofor- trip. through- Michigan and Canada, Noble Biddinger and -his bride, Miss Eleanor Jane Lynch, are to live at 3736 N. Pennsylvania-s, Indianapolis. They are to exchange vows at 4:30 p. m. today at the Elkhart Presbyterian Church. The ‘bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Lynch. Mr. Biddinger’s father is J. W. Biddinger,
Misses Mary Troxel and Margaret Lynch, Elkhart, were chosen . as bridesmaids; Glendon Hodson, Mays, Ind, best man; John Holdeman, Elkhart, and "John O’Hearn, Indianapolis, iishers." The bride attended Indiana University and is. a member of Alpha Chi. Omega Sgrority. Mr. Biddinger
also attended the university and is|
a Sigma Chi Fraternity member.
Y. W. C. A. GROUP TO HEAR SPEECH
Miss Delores Diaz, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 35.50 Yo Speaker ai & difipér to be given at 7 p. m. Monday in the Seville by students of she ¥.. W. C. A. advanced Span-
a Maier tn tides 1s com. posed of Otto W. Cox, Misses
lens. |
Re ecent Bride
Adoiph/ VIS
The appoifiment: of committiee
Mis Bentley’ S Marriage Plans Are Announced
“Miss Evelyn Bentley's engagement to Dr. Wendell E. Brown has been announced _by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Bentley. The wedding isto e.place in August. The announcement was made at her mother’s garden party given yesterday in her honor. ‘Guests included Mrs. Edgar F. Brown, mother of the bridegroom~ Mrs. Pierre De Miller; Mun- - hy Vg Henry Unger, Misses Elsie Calvin, Marjorie Welch, Marjorie Lytle, ‘Mary Love Hewlett, Grace Wierick, “Harriet Watkins, Josgtte Yelch, Lottie Irwin, Vera Sudbroek, Olive Montel and Louise Haworth. Miss Bentley is a Butler University graduate and a member of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. Dr. Brown is a Butler University and Indiana University School of Medicine graduate and member of Sigma Nu and Nu Sigma Nu Fraternities.
Rites Are Read for Miss Kord, John O’Neal Jr.
Miss Carolyn’ Kord, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Kord, became the bride of John J. O'Neal Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. O'Neal, in a ceremony this morning at St. Anthony’s Church. The Rev. C. S. Burgett officiated. The bride’s ‘gown was of ivory satin, fashioned with a train, and her tulle veil fell trom a halo of braided satin. Her bouquet was of white roses and lilies of the valley. . Miss. Emma Fraaces Bernhardt, maid: of ‘honor, attended in a pink mousseline de sole gown, fashioned princess style. Her off-the-face hat was of the same material and her botuet. of Briarcliffe roses and del-
ve Kathryn Feeney, bridesmaid, wore a ‘blue mousseline de soie gown fashioned as Miss Bernhardt’ S. She carried Pernhet roses. . Robert. A. O'Neal, the bridégroom’s brother, was best man. James T. Gaughan,
‘Charles J. Bell and C. Ormel Chese-
brough were ushers. A breakfast at Hollyhock Hill followed the ceremony. The couple left on a moter trip, later to return here for residence. Out-of -tawi guests, were Mr. and 'S. "Russell McCarty and. family, Seymour} the .Rev. Ralph 8. Pfau, Jeffersonville; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bernhardt, Winchester, and Mr. and Mrs. George Shaunessey and family,
‘| Louisville.
FLAPPER FANNY ATS:
. No bat-infested cavern holds the
terrors“ of a manless summer : resort.
About midsummer, one of the most“ frequent. queries from home gardeners concerns, the failure of
tomato, “blosoe Es A start
the formation of’fruit. : Masi Ji ribe a condiion of blossoms sequent development. of fruit... tly, most of the inquiries
| 1a joie ds,
Significan come from gardeners who have pres
ters of Union Select mmittee Heads for New
i, Season’ s Various Activities Chapter i Announces Several Appoint-
ments; Honorary. President General Isto | Nisit State Organization Groups.
chairmen for the Governor Oliver
+ Daughters. of the Union, today gave impetus to :
oming ; 3 er regent, and board. members an= afd i appointments: Mrs. E. C. Rumpler, parlia=
mentarian; Mrs. John Askren, chaplain; Mrs, A. F. Shaffer, color bearer; Mrs. Allen T. Fleming, pros gram; Mrs. Karl Kayser, hospitals ity; Mrs. William I. Hoag, publicity; ; Mrs. Fred M. Wolf, Americaniza« tion; Mrs. A. B. Glick, memorial;
Mrs. Thomas Demmerly, - visitation and floral; Mrs. M. D. Didway, music; Mrs. A. M. Tomlinson, auditing; Mrs. G. M. Spiegel, resolutions and ways and- means, and Mrs. Thomas Larkin, telephone. ‘Personnel of various committees is to be announced following “the September “board Ineeting at the American National Bank-bldg. The chapter is to open its year's activie ties with a meeting the first Mone day in October. New York honorary past presie dent general, Mrs. Leonard V. Nash, is to arrive Tuesday to be ‘a guest of the state regent, Mrs. Walter N. Winkler. addition to contacting the Governor Oliver Perry Morton Chapter, the oldest in the "state, she is to visit with the General John A. Logan Chapter here’ and chap. ters in Madison, Frankfort, Columse bus, Terre Haute, Liberty and Winchester.
Years Project Selected Among ects to be studied dure ing the ypar is to be “The United States and her Possessions.” Last yéar’s program subject was “The Civil Wdr.” At a board meeting yesterday at the home of Mrs. A. B. Glick, five past regents, Mrs. P. M. Dill, Mrs, Demmerly, Mrs. C. J. Finch, Mrs. Glick and Mrs. Spiegel, were among the guests. Other officers with Mrs. Moore’ are Mrs. Glick, first vice regent; Mrs, Dill, second vice regent; Mrs. Fleming, third vice regent; Mrs. Walter Baxter, recording ‘ secretary; Mrs. Speigel, treasurer; Mrs. George W, Hardesty, historian, and ~ Mrs, Thomas F. Larkin, registrar. : ‘Mrs. Demmery, Mts. Didway and Mts. Kayser are directors for 1936+ 37, and Mrs. Hoag, Mrs. Finch and Mrs. Wolf, 1936-38. :
Assists Sister at Shower for Miss Jean Boyd
Mts. R. E. Russell assisted: her sis= ter, Miss Betty Kalleen, at the lingerie shower Miss Kalleen gaye today in honor of Miss Jean Eliza=: beth Boyd, bride-to-be. : Miss Boyd is to be married to Charles D, Hoyt Jr. Aug, 15 at the Broadway Methodist Church. : Guests played pridge. With Miss Boyd . those , attending were. Mrs.
- Pearce “MeClelland, Misses.
Frances Mitchell, Virginia Powell, Mary. Elizabeth Ikeird, Virginia Fos= ler, Helene Wetnight and Lois Gerdts. , Mrs. McClelland is to be matron : of honor at the wedding. Other ate tendants are. to be Maurice Boyd, best man; Robert Cavanaugh and Clifford Higgins, Detroit, ushers,
Party in Garden Is Pleasant Way
of Entertaining
A garden party! Doesn't that conjure up visions of lovely ladies in organdy frocks, gayly colored um-= brellas over equally colorful garden tables with comfortable chairs to match, shady trees, birds chirping, flowers nodding in the breeze, ice tinkling in tall liquid-filled glasses,
| dainty sandwiches, intriguing salads
—with coolness and freshness per vading. Garden parties ‘are such ‘delights and so informal. ‘There’s an air of vivre that fills and thrills the hear of your guests. Plan one for this summer. Youll find it ne : simple to arrange and your guests will be s0 dpreclative. A little buffet table, gaily decor~ ated, set off to one side of your yard, will &olve your serving problem,
Water Garden Plants at Stem, Experts Advise Home Growers
and permitting the water to flow : around the 'basé “of the plants, Adoption of this method usually 1 Sulis in 2 mush better yield, Ci
with no sub- po
PARTY ARRANGED BY HOSPITAL GUILD