Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1936 — Page 17

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A hletic Club Dancing Mecca his Christmas

Indac Jr. Formal Ball To Open Festivities On Dec. 23.

BY BEATRICE BURGAN Society Editor R a fortnight there is to be no ~ cessation of holiday party go- | ing. ° . The Indianapolis Athletic Club to be a mecca for dancers from Dec. 23 to New Year's Eve. Begin-

ning with the Indac Jr. formal ' dance on Dec. 23 and continuing * “through the New Year's eve celebration, there are to be daily dancing | parties. : |“ ‘On Christmas eve there is to be tea dancing from 4 to 6 p. m. in the Venetian room; dinner dancing from 6:30 to 8:30 p. m, on Christmas day; supper dancing from 9:30 to 1 p. m. on Dec. 26; dinner dancing on Dec. 27, and more tea dancing on Dec. 29 and 30 in the -Venetian room. The New Year's eve party is to be a “West Point” ball. . The children are to have their Christmas Mickey Mouse party on Dec. 19 in the gym- ‘| nasium. And in addition, there are the Tudor Hall Alumnae Club annual holiday dance Dec. 22; the Bachelors Club ball on Christmas eve; the Traders Point Hunt Ball, the Columbia Club and Meridian Hills Country Club Christmas dances on ‘Dec. 26, and the Princeton Triangle Club show tentatively set for New Year's eve.

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Impressions of December— Women are starting early on their

shopping tours. Mrs. E. E. Gates elbowed through the crowds in a gray Persian lamb coat with a matching hat tilted pack off her.forehead. Mrs. Earl Barnes waited patiently for an elevator. A puff of fur topped the peal” of her green felt hat, which matched her swagger coat: with its light fox collar. Mrs. Norman Kevers and Mrs. Wilbur Carter hurried down the street on their way to brave the crowds in the stores. Mrs. Kevers’ gray coat, nipped in at the waist, and its collar a swirl of wolf; Mrs. Carter, looking very smart in a bright green coat, furred in leopard.

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Women continue their interest in social betterment— Mrs. Smiley Chambers, Mrs. Perry Lesh, Mrs. Austin Clifford and Mrs. Sylvester (Johnson listened attentively to child welfare discussions at the two-day meeting of the Indiana Conference on Social Work. Thoughts tutn to philanthropy in the gift-giving: season— ' Calls parted coming in today to the Clothe-A-Child editor from generous men and women. who want to warm a youthful heart and body. a eration lism

Plans Arranged | For Holidays at Country Club

The Meridian Hills Country Club .is arranging a number of holiday parties for its members and guests. A formal dinner bridge party is to be held at the clubhouse Christmas eve. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Flood are chairmen. . Dinner is to be served at 7 p. m. followed by auction and contract bridge sections. ‘The junior dance is to be held Dec. 29. Music is to be provided by Richard Gerard and his orchestra, with dancing from 9 p. m. to midnight. Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Holmes are chairmen, assisted by Dr. and Mrs. J. Kent Leasure, assistant chairmen; Dr. and Mrs. Willis D. Gatch, Messrs. and Mesdames W. F. Kegley, Eli Lilly, Fred W. Casem, J. W. Hutchings and Frank A. Montrose. . The customary Néw' Year's Day tea is to be held on New Year's afternoon, with club officers and directors serving as hosts and hostesses. k

Boonville Club To Mark Birth

Times Special BOONVILLE, Ind, Dec. 1.—The Boonville Woman's Club is to observe its twenty-seventh birthday Sunday. The club, organized by the teachers of the city, has a member-

ship limited to 30. Miss Elsie Owens is club president; Mrs. Lula Tweedy, vice president and Miss Isabelle French, secretarytreasurer.

‘Dean Coulter ~ To Be Speaker

Dean Stanley Coulter is to talk “Women and World of Peace” at Second Presbyterian Church 's Missionary Society at 2:30 tomorrow in the church

Margaret Clarke is to lead |ward and the Cha)

Mra. Albert Gail is to be hasies de LEAGUE TO DISCUSS

Anne Albershardt watches her mother, Mrs. Frederick Albershardt (right) leave to work on a project of the Wheel and Distaff members of the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, Daughters of the

American Revolution.

Miss Alice Angerer (left) and Mrs. Noble Hiatt are members of the committee selling tickets for Uptown Theater shows today and tomorrow.

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Best, president, has appointed Mrs.

W. O. Webber, chairman; assisted also by Mesdames George Caleb Wright, O. H. Hershman, George P. Peavey, William F. Sandmann, W. F. Kegley, A. W.

McDonald, Carl Piel, Kenneth Coffin, Paul Ragan, J. Francis Madden, Sylvan L. Mouser, Herbert H. Wilson, Verne H. Trask and Miss Myrtle Barker.

Beta Chapter, Rho Delta. 8 p.

George Stinson, candy sale.

Cards.

ness meeting. Gift exchange.

bama-Washington-sts. Party.

and Gray-sts. Election.

EVENTS

SORORITIES

Beta Beta Beta. 6 p. m. Wed. Swift's Chicken Dinner Place, Ravenswood. Miss Lena Scheurer, hostess. m. Wed. Severin. Lambda Chapter, Delta Sigma Kappa. Tonight. Miss Marié¢ Sorensen, 1356 N. Dearborn-st, hostess. ' Beta Alpha Chapter, Pi Omicron. E. 23d-st, hostess. Misses Marie Casey, Amelia Cook, assistants.

CARD PARTIES

P.-T. A. School 78. 2 p. m. Thurs. Wm. H. Block Co. auditorium. Mrs. William Eckhart, chairman; Mrs. Al Houck, door prizes; Mrs. C. E. Maudlin, cards and. tallies; Mrs. Albert Spratt and Mrs. Benefit card party. : Englewood Auxiliary, O. E. 8. 8 p. m. Wed. 2714 E. Washington-st. PROGRAMS

Sons and Veterans, Aug. 10. Tonight. Fort Friendly, 512 N. Illinois-st. Past Noble Grands Association. 12:30 p. m. "Wed. Mrs. R. H. Hollywood, 5555 Broadway, hostess. Cheer Sister Christmas party, busiE. VanHorn, Naomi. Gill and Chloe Mains, assistants. LODGES Red Men's Lodge 190. 8:30 p. m. Today, Sun. Plumbers Hall, Ala-

Brookside Chapter 481, O. E. S. Tonight. Masonic Temple, East 10th

Tonight. Mrs. Myrtle Krack, 645

Mesdames 8. O. Sharp, Edward

Girls’ League Is to Hold Tea

Manual Training High School Girls’ League honored executive committee members and guests at a tea and program today after school. Special guests invited were Ruth Hale, Alice Westra, Stumpf, Mrs. Verna G. Magee, Miss Eve M. Thornton, Mrs. Mary J. Spiegel, Miss Dorothy Siling and Mrs. Ruth H. Schull. Miss Violet K. Beck, program chairman, arranged the entertain ment, including a guitar .solo by Wilmar Kuehrmann, Christmas selections sung by glee club, accordion solo by Mary Spaulding and reading, Marjorie Skaags.

P.-T. A. Notes

School 1. 2 p. m. Wed. The Rev. |

William Lee Spratt, “Holy Land.” String ensemble, music. School 8. 3:15 p. m. Wed. Lawrence Stafford, - principal, “The Right

Choice of High School Subjects.”

Elden Blair, violin numbers. Violet Flaharty, ‘Marionettes.”” Thelma Hunter, entertainment chairmaa. Social hour.

School 10, 3:15 p. m. Wed. XK. V. Ammerman, Broad Ripple High School principal, “Character EducaSon 2 Girls Glee Club, Christmas carols.

School 12. 3:15 p. m. Wed. Primary

grades, program. School "17. 3:15 p. m. Wed. Mrs. Clayton Ridge, board of school comHilssioners member, speaker. Pupils, music. :

School 30. 2:45 Wed. Irvington

Sextet, music and readings.

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‘CARR-MODLIN RITES

SET FOR DEC. 12

Miss Edna Lamkin is to be maid of honor at the wedding of Miss Nellie Modlin and L. Thompson Carr, which is to take place at 2:30 p. m, Dec. 12, at McKee Chapel, Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Lawrence Brafford is to be best man. Mrs. Dorothy Moore is to enter-

tain with a luncheon-bridge for the bride-to-be Saturday at the Sheffield Inn.

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Many Parties Arranged for Victory Dance

Several parties have been arranged to attend a Democratic Victory dance tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, oie Miss Mary Louise Walpole is to have an informal gathering at her home before the ‘dance. She’is to entertain Messrs. and Mesdames

| Francis A. McGlinchey, Mark Rod-

enbeck, H. Kenneth Whitsett, C. Edward Reed, Miss Frances Garaghan, Ray Thompson Jr. and William Sheehan.

Miss Marjorie Hindman is to have

a supper party at her home after the dance. Her guests are to be Russell -Hubbert, Huntington; Capitola Hindman and Bud Buchheit, Fort Wayne; Misses Mary Louise Upton, Marjorie Stone, Dorothy Dillehay, Henrietta Jonas, Kathryn Marren; Robert Sailor, Allen Beckett “Otto Schoellkopf and Norbert Keller.

Urges Public Management

Private Firms’ Profit - Leaves City, Mrs. P. J. Minck Tells Council.

“A utility is essentially a public business, and should be managed by a city,” Mrs. P. J. Minck,® co-

pal League, Inc, told Indianapolis Council of Women members today ‘in the Wm. H. Block Co. auditorium.

competitor to the privately owned utility,” she said. “The electric evaluation in Indianapolis is too high, but I believe we are having the first fair investigation of rates we have had, and some schedules of our rates are going fo be reduced.” “When city owned,” Mrs. Minck continued, “the profits revert to the city treasury and thus help the tax payers as well as the consumers. In a privately owned utility, the revenue leaves the city to go to holding

holders. . “In order to carry the bond or stock. issues .and io pay highsalaried holding company executives, the rates are boosted. This doesn’t mean that all privately owned companies are in that category, for some of them offer “low rates and economic management.” Donald DuShane, Columbus (Ind.) school superintendent and Indiana Society for Mental Hygiene presi-

munity and Delinquency.” : ~ DuShane Talks ; This ‘morning, Mrs. George Bradshaw, -Butler - University Campus Club director; presented a series of household budgeting charts and explained how their use can make saving intetesting instead of drudgery. “You can make life easier by planning how you will save your money rather than spend it, and then trying to account for it afterward,” she said. Mrs. O. E. Mehring, economics - committee chairman, presented Mrs. Bradshaw. = = Mrs. D. T. Weir, health committee chairman, submitted form letters fo be sent to colleges, high schools and. P.-T. A. units and all large business houses handling food products, re questing their co-pperation in preventing the spread of social diseases. This project follows the council’s recent adoption of a resolution to fight the spread of such diseases. The letter chosen is to be submitted to the council’s speakers’ bureau which is to provide affiliated clubs with physicians as speakers. Seal Appeal Made Russell I. Richardson of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association made a Christmas seal appeal and the choral clubs of the James Whitcomb Riley School and School 69 sang Christmas tarols under Kelton Whitside’s direction. Mrs. E. J. Unruh, international relations - world peace committes chairman, reported on the recently formed speakers’ bureau. Mrs. Unruh and other committee members have chosen topics on which they are to base their talks. Mrs. Unruh also called attention to radio programs, to be broadcast from Buenos Aires during the InterAmerican Peace Conference. Other speakers today included the Rev. E. G. Homrighausen, Carrollton Avenue Reformed Church pastor, whose topic was “Religion in the World Community”; and Mrs. Flora

reciprocity plan for club programs. The Indianapolis Section, Nation‘al Council of Jewish Women, was

admitted to membership.

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.C. R. Hitch, 3702 N. Illinois-st, has announced the engage‘ment of his daughter, Miss Helen ‘Janice Hitech, ~ to Robert McFadden Menaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Menaugh. The wedding 18 to take place Dec. 18.

Six local chapters. of Pi Omicron Sorority are to sponsor a benefit bridge party and dance Saturday night at the Lincoln Hotel. Sponsors include Zeta Kappa, Theta XI, Beta Alpha and Beta Beta Chapters. . Members of Nu, Iota Alpha and Beta. Nu Chapters of Fort Wayne, Iota. Beta Chapter of Marion, Gamma Chapter of Muncie and Delta Chapter of South Bend also are to attend, Miss Ruth . Castle, Fort Wayne, sorority state president, and Mrs. Bjorn Winger, Indianapolis, director, are to be special guests. The sorority colors of blue and gold are to appoint the tables. Mrs. Herbert Y. Massie, bridge chairman, is being aided by the following gommittees: Table prizes, Mrs. Thomas Selmier, chairman, Mrs. Albert Miller and Mrs. Paul F. McDaniels; .door prizes, Mrs. Herbert Woodruff, chairman; cards, Miss Eva Mae Lynch; tallies, Miss Louise Keyler; candy, Misses Anna Lydia Carter and Maida Johnson; bridge tickets, Miss Hazel Peacock and Mrs. Albert Miller; decorations, Miss Jeanette Knight. ? ‘Mrs. Massie, also dance general chairman, has as assistants: Tickets, Mrs. J. S. Barth; music, Miss Mab=1 Summers, and publicity, Miss Neva Deere. | ‘Table reservations are to be made

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Pi Omicron Chapters Plan Benefit Bridge Saturday|,

with Miss Hazel Peacock, Zeta; Miss Clara Wulzen, Theta; Mrs. McDaniels, XI; Mrs. Barth, Beta Alpha; Miss Lynch, Beta Beta, and Mrs. Massie, Kappa. .

"Tudor Seniors

To Give Play On Saturday

The Tudor Hall senior class is to present ‘Mrs. Moonlight,” by Benn W. Levy at 8:15 p. m. Saturday night in the school auditorium.

The cast members are Barbara Prentice, Ann Crume, Marjorie McCullough, Anne Davis, Jean Long, Norma Ballard, Rosalind Barskin and Dorothea Urbahns. Miss Katrine Bucher, dramatic coach, is in charge, assisted by Elizabeth Kadel, student director. The production staff includes Mimi Goldfarb, business manager; Jane Adams, technical dir:ctor; Catherine Kemp, assistant technical director; Harriet Patterson, props erty and costume manager; Ruth Fishback, school publicity director; Jane Rottger, poster manager..

Party Series

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Two Weddings

Events Open This Week For Brides-to-Be in December Rites.

Two December brides-to-be are to have the holiday rush intensified by series of parties in their honor, preceding their weddings. Miss Carolyn Richardson, who is to be married to Albert Lang on Dec. 20 at the Second Presbyterian Church, attended.a luncheon, which Mrs. Edgar Kiser gave today. On Friday, Miss Jane Finley Moore, is to have a party for Miss Richardson at the home of her mother, Mrs. Josephine Smith

Moore. Dr. and Mrs. D. O. Kearby are to have a dinner Thursday for Miss Richardson and Mr. Lang. Miss Richardson’s sister, Mrs. G. T. Lorance. Chautauqua, N. Y., and Mr. Lorance, are to arrive in New York on Dec. 9 after a trip to Enge land. Later they are to come here for the pre-nuptial activities and are to be guests of Mrs. Lorance’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Riche ardson. * No formal invitations are to be ise sued to the wedding, to be attends ed by friends and relatives.

Parties Beginning

Following the recent announcee ment of Miss Harriett McGaughey’s engagement to Paul R. Woody, pare ties for the bride-to-be are begine ning. The first one tomorrow night

is to be given by Miss Mary Paxton Young and Miss Magdalene Adams. On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Wile liam Chapin and Mrs. Robert Camp= bell, Anderson, are to entertain, Sunday morning, Mrs. Harry Sars geant is to be hostess for a break fast. Miss Rosalyn Reed’s party is to be held Dec. 11. Mrs.. Robert Behrman, Anderson, is to give her party on Dec. 12 at home of her mother, Mrs. Walter Krull. Mrs. Erwin Schaefer's and Mrs. Herman Brecht’s breakfast is to be held Dec. 13. Miss McGaughey, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. J. E. McGaughey, and Mr. Woody, son of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Woody, are to be married on Dec. 19 at the McGaughey home. There are to be no attendants. The bride-to-be is a Butler University graduate and member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. Mr, Woody was graduated from Indiana University and is a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity.

Director‘to Speak Mrs. George Bradshaw, Butler University Campus Club director, is to talk on “Where Does Your Money Go?” tomorrow before the

Technical High School civic classes. :

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