Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1936 — Page 11
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30, 1936
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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MRS. OVID BUTLER JAMESON TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE
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Traditional Event Set New Year's
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Booth Tarkington, Noted
Author, to Receive With Sister.
BY BEATRICE BURGAN
Society Editor
RS. OVID BUTLER JAME-
SON'S New Year's Day open house is an Indianapolis tradition. In her historic home, Barley Bright | II, she receives her friends nually
Her brother, Booth Tarkington, the famous author, is to receive with her for a short while, and Mrs. Tarkington is to be among the assistants. They came here after
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spending Christmas in Philadelphia. |
An orchestra is to play for dancing in the hall while tea is being | served In the dining room with its | mahogany Gothic arches and the | fireplace designed after the First | Presbyterian Church choirbox.
Traditionally the huge Christmas |
tree—16 feet tall this year—stands | in the bow window in the library. | Twelve smaller trees surrounding it | represent each month of the year. | When Mr. Tarkington stops for | his call, Mrs. Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks “Christmas Is the Best Time,” written by the author. Mrs. Jameson included the poem in her book, “The Pennsylvania Street Car,” a Christmas carol, published recently and sold out at the book stores. Songs are to be sung, too, as the guests gather around the tree. “Sweet Genevieve,” a favorite of Mr. Tarkington's, is to be one of them “My brother mentioned it in seven of his plays,” Mrs. Jameson explained as she described her plans for the party uw
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“I have invited several {friends and relatives to assist me. With Mrs. Tarkington those who are to greet my callers include Mrs. Samuel Runnels Harrell, Mrs. Arthur V. Brown, Mrs. Edgar H. Evans, Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, Mrs. John | N. Carey, Mrs. Booth Tarkington | Jameson, Mrs, John Tarkington | Jameson, Mrs. Demarchus Brown, | Mrs. Donald Jameson, Mrs. Charles | N. Williams and Miss Nora Doll. | Chief Justice Fenton Booth, of the | Court of Pleas in Washington, and | Mrs. Booth, and young Sussanah, | Patricia and Margaret Jameson are | to help me, too.” Mrs. Jameson always has a Twelfth night rite. The boughs of | the Christmas trees are offered as | a sacrifice to the Twelfth night | bonfire in a ceremony at her home. | Mrs, Jameson has a box for “Take | It Away,” the Princeton Triangle | Club presentation at the Murat on | New Year's Eve. Her brother was identified with the club in his stu- | dent days. Her guests are to be Mrs. Wil- | liams, Miss Doll, John Blacklidge, | Chicago; Mrs. Emmet Hollings- | worth, Rennsalaer, and Howard | Wiggins.
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Open House Set For Civic Club
The Old Settlers Civic and Social Club is to hold open house from 4 to 7T p m. New Year's Day at the home of Mrs. Lucas B. Willis, 512 N. West-st. The public is invited. Mrs. Rhoda
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Hanley is club president. Mrs. Lillie Brown is reception committee | chairman, assisted by Mesdames | Cora Franklin, Stella Fisher, Su- | san Jones, and Nona Thomas. Mrs. Rosa Ferguson heads the | refreshment committee, assisted bv Mesdames Clara Davis, Julia Wal- | ton, Anna Dickerson and Nancy | Walker,
Legion Auxiliary |
Gives Luncheon |
The Bruce P. Robison Unit, Amer- | ican Legion Auxiliary, gave covered-dish luncheon at 12:30 p. m. yesterday at the home of Mrs. | Harold C. Pursel, 4175 E. 34th-st. The hostess was assisted by Mrs. E. | H. Pursel. Following luncheon there was an | exchange of gifts. Christmas gifts of two billiard | tables were presented recently to | Divisions 29 and 30 of the Kni |
post and unit. Magazines, jelly and | candy were also among the gifts. |
Gelarden-Davis
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i Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Davis, 37 N.| Sherman-dr, announce the engage- | ment of their daughter, Miss Mary | Elizabeth Davis, to Robert Gelarden, son of Mrs. Mae Gelarden. The weddmg is to take place in the spring. Miss Davis was graduated from St. Vincent's Hospital School of Nurs- | ing and Mr. Gelarden is a graduate | cof Indiana Law School. Both Miss | Davis and her fiance attended But- | ler University. |
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Miss Madeline Shields (left) is visiting her father, Frank Shields, and Mrs. Shields (right), Martinsville, during the holidays before entering the Finch Sckool in New York next month.
Athletic Club To Have Dance New Year'sEve
Hoosier Athletic Club members and guests are to celebrate the
club’s fifty-eighth year with an an- |
nual New Year's Eve frolic in the new ballroom.
Thomas W. Kercheval, entertainment committee chairman, is to be assisted by Wilbur L. Noll, Charles Wheat, Glen Goeke, Harold Geisel, Vernon Miller, Bernard McGinty, Edward Rose, Leander King, Leo Steffen, Grover Ott, Russell Fletcher and Frank P. Huse. Pat Clinton's Purdue University Black and Gold band is to provide the dance music, and a floor show is to be a feature of the program.
Announce Table Parties
Several table parties have been announced. Dr. and Mrs. Paul S. Kernel are to have as their guests, Messrs. and Mesdames Joseph Sexton, Edward Miller, Clarence Schneider, Louis Peaster, Howard Phillips, L. A. Glieson, Misses May Sullivan, Bertha Lorraine, Gladys Sullivan, Helen Reidy; James Welch, Joseph Kirkhoff, John Sauer and Raymond Weldon. Others who are to entertain at table parties are Messrs. and Mesdames John A, Lyons, Charles Maddux, Merle Bennett, R. F. Wilcox, J. K. Zinkan, J. E. Swango, Otto Roos, J. B. Marsh, Mark Shaw, J. Marshall, William Cronin,
n Prank P. Huse, Thomas W. Kerche-
val, J. R. Goeke, Russell Moon, Robert Allison, J. Forest Davis, E. O. Winning, Joseph Farmer, Roy O'Brien, L. O. Nicholson, R. E. Keys, G. I. Young, Kenneth WVandivier, John Callahan, Thomas Sheridan, Paul B. Forrest, W. F. Glossbrenner, Wilbur Watts, Chauncey Taylor, Leroy Potter,
Kramer, John Maxon, Paul M. Cook,
Fred C. Weber, W. A, Smith, Richard O'Connell and Messrs. Wilbur L.
| Noll and Arthur Link.
Fetes Classmates
Helen Marie Hadley entertained & group of classmates at St. Agnes Academy at a holiday party yesterday at her home. Guests were Mary Blanche Bailey, Mary Ruth Budenz, Helen Duennes, Norma Zapp and Mary Margaret Speaker. decorations were used.
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Yesterday the Shields entertained with a tea dance at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Miss Josephine Mayer (center), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mayer, assisted in receiving the guests.
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Mrs. Edward Jackson, chairman.
EVENTS
SORORITIES Alpha Tau Chapter, Alpha Zeta Beta. 8 p. m. Today. Warren Hotel. Beta Chi Theta. 8 p. m. Today. Miss Marjorie West, 1918 Parker, CARD PARTY Women of the Moose. 2:30 p. m. Thurs. Hall, 135 N. Delaware-st.
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Red Men's Lodge 190. 8:30 p. m. Thurs. Plumbers’ Hall, Alabama-Washington-sts. New Year's Eve party.
Wellesley Club Arranges Fete To Swell Fund
The Indiana Wellesley Club's project for the benefit of its schol- | arship fund is to be a supper party at the Indianapolis Athletic Club Jan. 23. Announcement of the committees was made at the annual holiday
Society Gasps as Hope Diamond Owner Announces Ball Revival
By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the fabulous Hope diamond, will welcome 1937 by reviving her famous New Year's ball—an event so dazzling that Washington society already is gasping in anticipation. It will be the first New Year's ball to be given by the muitimillionaire social arbiter of ihe Harding era in nearly 10 years, Here are a few statistics: Number of guests: For dinner, 300; for ball, 500. Cost: =~ Mrs. McLean: “I really haven't any idea.” Other estimates: Upwards of $50,000. Scene: Friendship, 300-acre McLean estate beyond the national cathedral on outskirts of the District of Columbia. Mrs. McLean said she was reviving her New Year's eve ball as a “sort of coming out party for Jack.” Jack is her eldest son, who will be 21 next month. She has two other children, Edward B. McLean Jr., 18, and Evalyn, 16. Mrs. McLean, who last year wrote of her adventurous life in “Father Struck It Rich,” will wear the famous Hope diamond.
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McLean paid about $300,000 for it.
The Hope necklace now
luncheon for vacationing students in the Marott Hotel yesterday. Mrs. A. W. Noling, president, appointed Mrs. Dudley Pfaff and Francis Dunn, co-chairmen. Other chairmen are Mrs. John Roberts Jr., invitations; Mrs. William Krieg, tickets; Mrs. Karl T. Nessler, arrangements, and Mrs. Walton Wheeler, publicity.
history and is credited with bringing ill fortune to each successive possessor. Mrs. McLean's son was killed by an automobile shortly after she acquired the gem and only three is valued | years ago she placed the diamond in
at about $2,000,000. First owner of | pawn to obtain funds in an unsucthe gem was Louis XIV of France. | cessful effort to retain The WashSince then it has had a famous ington Post. She later redeemed it.
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Plan Parties |
For Triangle
Club's Show
Two Dances Arranged for | Cast Members
Tomorrow.
: While the Princeton Triangle | is making appearances in “Take It Away” on its route to In-. dianapolis, numerous parties are being arranged for the showing here New Year's Eve at the Murat. The cast members are to be entertained ai a tea dance tomorrow afternoon ~nd another dance at the Woodstock Club following the performance Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ogle are to entertain their guests at dinner preceding the show. In the party are to be Mr. and Mrs. Alex Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. David Allerdice and James Minor. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harvey
i | Bradley's theater guests are to be
| Miss Mary Birch Ingram, Coronoda, | Cal, and her brother, Midshipman | William T. Ingram, Annapolis, Md., | who are visiting the Bradleys during the holidays. Also in the party are to be Miss Jane Adams, Joseph Miner, Gordon Hall and Byron Hollett. Mr. and Mrs. George S. Olive’s guests in two boxes are to be Drs. and Mesdames Ralph Chappell, E. E. Voyles, Messrs. and Mesdames L. V. Sheridan, George L. Ramey and Jamos Nichols, Kankakee. The Olives’ son, Scott, home from Harvard University, is to attend with Shubrick Kothe, a classmate, and Charles Huston, a Princeton student, and a group of friends. Box Occupants Listed With Mr. and Mrs. Harlan J. Hadley in their box are to be their daughters, Misses Kathryn and Barbara Hadley, Richard Mertz and Richard Savidge. In another party are to be Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howland Bond, Misses Jeanne Bugbee, Betty Fulton, Alfred Coffin and Jack MeCoy. They are to attend the Columbia Club dance following the show, Mr. and Mrs. Austin H. Brown's box party is to be in honor of their daughter, Miss Virginia Brown. Guests are to include Misses Ann Sayles, Georgiana Dedaker and Margaret Stevenson. The Donald Morrisons’ party is to include their sons, Donald and Lewis Morrison, Miss Mary Wynne, Miss Judith Preston, Ralph Abbott and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Glossbrenner. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Rhodehamel are to have with them Mr. and Mrs. Earl Retter, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cunning, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Showalter and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wohlgemuth. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lockwood are to entertain with a dinner party before the show. The guests are to | include Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius O. Alig and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Culp. Another party is to include Messrs. and Mesdames Norman Kevers, Henry Todd, Otto W. Eisenlohr, Samuel Griffith, Richard Knox, Miss Betty Reed and Guernsey Van Riper.
Cashman-Kidd Rites Scheduled for June
Mrs. John J. Roberts, 969 W. 30thst, announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Bernice Kidd, to Robert James Cashman, son of Mrs. Roger Marshall. The wedding is to take place in
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Guild Worker 'Propylaeum ad Books Talk By Traveler
Van Wyk Is to Discuss ‘Land of Vikings and Midnight Sun.’
At the Propylaeum Club's monthe ly buffet supper Monday night,
Eugene C. van Wyk of the Swedish American steamship line is to give an illustrated talk. His topic is to be “Land of the Vikings and the | Midnight Sun.” The speaker, a world-wide travel er, is to be a guest of the club dure ing his stay here, On the menu for the supper is to be smorgosbrod, a native Norwegian | dish. Mrs. Frederick Matson, entertain- | ment committee chairman, and her |assistants are arranging the meet- | ing, which is to take the place of | the usual Sunday night programs | and suppers,
Mrs. Wayne O. Stone is assistant chairman of reservations for the Sunnyside Guild dinnerdance to be held Jan. 16.
Asks Friends cm i Tri Kappa Alumnae To Reception To Meet on Friday
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{ The Indianapolis Tri Kappa So-
| rority Aumnae Club is to meet at . { Moomaw, 3736 N. Meridian-st. College, Notre Dame, to spend the | The luncheon is to be followed by holidays with her parents, Mr. and | a business meeting. Assisting hos« Mrs. Timothy P. Sexton, is to hold | tesses are to be Medames Edward open house New Year's Day. Bik, Soe Beattey and Charles Miss Sexton has as her bouse —
guest Miss Marion Vodicka, Glen |
| . Y gh are being invited to call | Juniors Name Dance Guests
from 4 to 7 p. m. Friday at the Sex- | ton home, 4444 Washington-blvd. The hostess is to be assisted by these classmates at St. Mary's: a, ize Ea Betty Reed, | At the ‘Columbia Club tea dance Virginia Fraim, Mary Ellen Fluher- | his afternoon for the junior set,
ty, Joanne Hall, Katherine Gart-| joins BArtoe MWR is to enters land, Julia Murphy, Mary Loutse | Her guests are to be Misses Marie
y and Mary Ann Keach. lyn Whitaker, Mary Elizabeth Jones,
. | Virginia Smith and Joan Mick; Holiday Visitor [2 Nester. Richard Zimmer, Guest at Party
Charles Van Tassel, Fred Jones and Richard Pinkam. John E, Stegg, who is home from Wabash College, is to entertain Misses Betty Black, Mary Fink, Joan Eccles and Ruth Burton; Fugene Johnson, Phillip Wolford and Gore don Nefford, Auburn.
Mrs. John Heidt Jr. was hostess today at a luncheon honoring Miss Alline Driscoll, New York, who is visiting here, Covers also were laid for Mesdames Claude Jones, John Wardrope, Robert Kirby, William McGowan, Harrison Eiteljorg, Joseph Hamaker and Herbert Pinnell and Misses Marjorie McDuffee and Nancy Ballinger. |
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