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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1937

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SOCIET

Two Groups | Delta Gamma Alumnae to Boost Charity Fund

Prepare for Productions

The Players to Present Double Bill at Civie Saturday.

By BEATRICE BURGAN Society Editor

OCIETY is to take

the boards |

\2? during the next few weeks. Both The Players and Dramatic Club are in the midst of rehearsals for plays. |

The Players’

entertainment is |

booked first, and Dr. John Ray New- |

comb is double-timing as a director. He is supervising production of two of his own plays, “The Curse of Jakarof” and “The Second.” to be given Saturday at the Civic Theater.

Dramatic Club members are being |

cast for “Petticoat Fever,” scheduled for April 17 at English’'s. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Lesh are directing the selection of properties and sets. Their committee includes Messrs. and Mesdames William ATunrk. Fisk Landers Woollen Jr. Mrs. will work out decorations for the supper-dance to follow the performance, the last of the season. Players Prepare

The women on The Players’ committee now have an accurate idea of the Persian fashions. Mrs. Wilbur D. Peat invaded the John Herron Art Museum, where her husband is director, to make a serious study of authentic Persian costumes. She brought back her report to Mesdames Howard Meeker, J. Emmett Hall, Stuart Dean and Carl Wilde, who turned designers. Mr. and Meeker are the chairmen for the program, and Mr. Hall, Mr. Wilde and Mr. are assisting. Dr. Newcomb has a large cast to rehearse for “The Curse,” as the members have shortened the title. Mrs. Peat, Dr. J. Jerome Littell, president; have roles with Messrs. and Mesdames Robert Ferriday, Clifford Arrick, Reginald Garstang and Frank Hoke. Others Jack E. Harding, Dr. G. B. Jackson. Raymond Jackson, Clemens Mueller, C. Otto Janus, Albert O. Deluse, William J. Kothe and Charles M. Wells

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Director to Appear Frederick Burleigh, Civic Theater director, is to appear with Mr. and Mrs. Noble Ropkey, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Henderson and Mrs. Thomas Hood in “The Second.” A dance at the Woodstock Club will ring down the curtain for the evening's entertainment The Players will have one more party this season. The committee. headed by Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Bammes, will set the date Their assistants will be Messrs. and Mesdames Edwin McNally, Howard Young, Evans Woollen Jr. and Thomas Harvey Cox.

Travel Club Meets Mrs, William F. Rothenburger talked on “Finland” at a meeting of the Hawaiian Chapter, International Travel-Study lab, Inc. today in the Colonial Tea Room. The hostess committee included Mesdames E. H. Bucher, Olin Hardy and Carl Smith.

Mind Your Manners

Test vour knowledge of correct social usages by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. Are the first and last dances the only ones that a person is obligated to have with his partner? 2. Is it a man's privilege to suggest not finishing a dance? 3. If there is no one serving punch, does the girl serve her partner and herself? 4. If a man is introduced to a girl who has no partner, is he expected to ask her to dance? 5. Should a girl ask her partner to excuse her when another man comes up to the two of them and asks her to dance?

What would you do if— Someone with whom you do not care to dance says, “May I have this dance, please?” and vou do not have the dance taken— A. Say, “I have this taken”? B. Say, “Thank you, but I'm not dancing now.” C. Refuse him and if you are asked for the same dance by someone else, accept.

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1. No, he also has the ones before and after intermission. 2. No. 3. No, the man serves her and then himself. 4. Yes. 5. Yes.

Best “What Would You Do” solution—B. It is inexcusable rudeness to refuse to dance with one man, then give that same dance to another.

(Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.)

Peat also

include |

in May. |

and Evans | Elias ‘C. AtKins |

Proceeds from a book review and style show at 2 p. m. tomorrow in

the William H. Block Co. Auditorium are to be added to the philan=

thropic and scholarship funds of the Indianapolis Delta Gamma So-

| rority Alumnae.

Three committee members arranging the event are

~Times Photo.

(left to right) Mrs. Alfred Guyot, Mrs. Nathan T. Washburn Jr. and

Mrs. William F. Kegley. review of

a book and Times.”

Research

May Clear Mystery Ot Archduke Rudolf’s Child!

By HELEN WORDEN

Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, March 24.—I am piecing together slowly certain frag- | a possible son of the Archduke Rudolf of is not At the siart the existence of the man was apparently a myth. A

ments of the story about Austria and Marie Vetsera. It

week ago I found him, but before

I have to substantiate various European angles. While I am waiting for

replies to cables, I've been chasing 1 saw Rudolph Messereich, New Railways and Tourist Bureau. He made a statement which squashed a rumor that Marie Vetsera had not been Killed in the Mayerling tragedy. | “The old man who dug Marie | Vetsera's grave is in Vienna,” he said. “For two pfennings he will show you the spot where she is | buried and repeat the story of May- | erling. {did Rudolf. shooting are alive in Vienna today.”

Bg Others Think Differently

Henry W. Lanier thinks different- |

{ ly. | “But | “He went to South America and became a rancher with his cousin { Johann.” “On what do you base your story?” (I inquired.

today. He saw his father cently as 1913.” “Was his son by Marie Vetsera™? “No. It was a morganatic marriage, a boy and girl affair, you might say, that ended when Rudolf married Stephanie. The son was born before Rudolf was 20, sent to America when he was 4 months old.” “Does the son live in New York?" “No. on the Atlantic seaboard. He goes under an assumed name and is a successful business man.” According to Henry Lanier, son has spent 20 years piecing together the story which he has helped him write. The man I've found, if he proves to be the son of Rudolf by Marie | Vetsera, could never have ruled Austria-Hungary under the old re-

as re-

married. His father was a Crown Prince, but his mother was only a baroness, and it was the rule of the | Hapsburgs that royalty must beget royalty, At that, he would be the grandson of Emperor Franz Josef, while Otto, son of the ambitious Zita, is only a grand-nephew, Evidence Destroyed, Report | According to Mrs. Ernest Hutcheson, whose father was a friend of |the Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef | ordered every scrap of evidence concerning the Mayerling tragedy des|troyed. Which rather spikes

|at Mayerling. | On the other hand, Bertita Hard-

{dolf wrote shortly after

|can sway me from my purpose.”

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Rudolf didn't die,” he said. | y . : { Mrs. John Edwin Krieg, 560 High- |

“On the word of Rudolf’s son,” he | said, “who lives in the United States |

But I can say that he lives |

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gime, even if his parents had been |

the | story Count Josef Hoyos wrote at and Marie at 17 when they were the time that the romance between [found dead at Mayerling, on that the Archduke and Vetsera began 16 | fatal Jan. 30, 1389. days before they committed suicide |

Mrs. Harding puts Rudolf at 30 |

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Tea Scheduled FFor Monday in

of the Austrian State

+ 9 | - Cousin’'s Honor She died all right, and so | Three witnesses to the |

| Miss Betsy Winterrowd is to enter | tain with a tea Monday in honor of

her cousin, Miss Katherine Kargis, | Evansville. The party will be at the home of Miss Winterrowd's sister,

| land Drive.

The guests include Misses Anne |

Jackson, Betty Distler, Patricia Mc- | Kean, Joan Sharp, Patricia Failing, Mary Jane Metzer, June Duffey, | Betty Barton, Henryet Mosier, Bar- | bara Krieg, Anne Hereth, Mary Fur-

| scott, Miriam Commons and Nancy |

| Suitor.

Pink and green colors will be used |

for the tea table decorations.

Invitations for Nuptial Received

Invitations to the wedding of Miss Melissa Jane Wadley, New

ceived by Indianapolis friends.

in New York. of Mrs.

IP. m., May 9, |'Childs is a son

| Mr, and Mrs. Scott C. Wadley, The {invitations were issued by

| ley, and Mrs. Wadley.

Club Federation Aids

| Mrs. Frederick G. | called a meeting of the executive | committee for April 6 and 7 in the | Claypool Hotel.

The middle-aged man supposed to | be their son says he was born in | 1888, and barely a year old when he

ing, in the Golden Fleece, says Ru- was given to a peasant family in his first | 1889 to be reared. | encounter with Marie, “I have just | . ‘begun to live, and no earthly power

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Miss | | Wadley's brother, Morris Scott Wad-

Called for Meeting

Balz, Indiana | | Federation of Clubs’ president, has |

is to give His Life

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Mrs. McNutt Ends Easter Buying Tour

High Commissioner’s Wife Finishes Shopping With Blue Veil.

| By MARJORIE BINFORD WOODS |

| “A blue veil” . .. the final item on [ Mrs. Paul V. McNutt's Easter shop- { ping list was scratched off today. | “That completes the traveling | preliminaries,” she said. “Mr. Mc- | Nutt is arriving from Washington | today and we plan to spend the | week-end with our families in | Bloomington and Martinsville.” Trunks are racked and everything lis in readiness for their trip to the Philippines where Mr. McNutt will take up his office of High Commi sioner. They are to leave here Mon | day, with their daughter, Louise, for | San Francisco to set sail. “It is all very exciting,” Mrs. McNutt said. “I am just now catching my breath after my two weeks in | Washington and the whirl of get[ting ready to go . . . now I suddenlv realize we really are leaving.”

Not Saying “Goodby”

Bon voyage messages, telephone calls and personal chats with her {many friends are keeping Mrs. MecNutt busy during these last few days. She isn't going to say a real | “goodby” to anyone, she says, mere- | ly “au revoir.” Practically every friend who has | visited the islands has advised the | McNutts of life in the tropics. Much | of the information has been very { valuable, Mrs. McNutt said, for, | although they have traveled abroad

| at various times, they never have |

| visited the islands. | Trips to China are inevitable | when one lives in Manila, Mrs. Mc-

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Parties today compliment two young women who are to be married in ceremonies next month, Mrs. Paul Bessire was hostess at a personal shower and luncheon honoring Miss Margaret Godfrey, daughter of Mrs. J. T. Godfrey, whose marriage to Oscar M. Kaelin Jr., is to take place April 17. Mr, Kaelin is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar M. Kaelin Sr. A bridge party tonight with Miss

Miss Elizabeth Stanley (above) is chairman of the Easter dance, which Alpha Chapter, Pi Gamma |Agnes Calvert and Mrs. Charles Sorority is to give Saturday | Wilcox, hostesses, is occasioned by night in the Murat Temple Egyp- |the approaching marriage of Miss lan Room Her assistants include | Elise Schmidt to Richard K. Law, Misses Mabel Everson, Ruth White, | Chicago, on April 10. Jean Vorley and Rhea Harmeson. Mrs. Bessire’s guests included Jimmie Cathcart and his Indi- |Mrs. Godfrey, Mrs. Kaelin and Mes ana University Orchestra are to |dames George Hilgemeier, L. D, Fos provide music. ter, William Wiggins, Ellison Fadely, - -,ds it (J. A. Warrender and William TT. : | Bisenlohr and Miss Bertha Jane pared with a full trunk of dark | prueller and Miss Margaret Deiner. clothes, Their boat docks at a The Juncheon table was laid Chinese port and they expect to re=- with a blue taffeta rloth, with a ° turn there when possible for a more | centerpiece of white flowers and | lighted white tapers, extended vour. | Green and white colors are to ape “They say that China is about a |pnoint the kitchen shower for Miss vear behind the times in fashions, | Schmidt, Twelve guests with Miss so my dark clothes probably will be | Schmidt and her mother, Mrs. J, just in style when we get there,” | Lorenz Schmidt, are (0 be enters

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