Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1937 — Page 5

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INDIANAPOLI

Groups and | Play Prominent Roles in Coming Club Parties, Performances and Romances

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Numerous Parties Being Arranged by Clubs For Fans.

Indianapolis’ major social achievement of the year is occasioned by the annual Speedway 500-mile race May 31. Race day is red lettered on everyone’s calendar, for friends, relatives, celebrities and business associates from all parts of the country come for visits incidental to attending the races. Town and country clubs arrange special parties before and after the classic, and informal parties are given at homes. Everyone has his favorite mode of attending. Some prefer viewing the race from boxes, while others like parking spaces and the convenience of having along a lunch hamper. Many local fans who have boxes will complete their guest lists during the next two weeks. Engage Speedway Boxes

Among them are M. E. Graves, William H.' Arthur, Louis M. Huesmann, Carl R. York, L. D. Foster, R. T. Byers, James S. Marlowe, R. M. Snyder, M. L. Sullivan, R. E. Moonshower, Raymond Grider, Otto W. Eisenlohr, William B. Burford, Eli Lilly, Meyer Efroymson, John E. Hollett Jr., Frederic M. Ayres Jr., William C. Smith, J. M. Hare, Mrs. Nicholas Noyes, Herbert D. Tope, A. H. Moore, R. Bruce Fogle, H. A. Gift, FP. W. Wilson, John R. Surber, Peter Lambertus, Melvin E. Robbins, F. B. Slupesky, Patrick Moriarty and O. L. Keeler. Others are Steve Harder, E. L, Baker Jr., Grover B. Turner, C. B. McConnell, Bowman Elder, A. W. Rohlwing, A. L. Taggart, Earl ‘M. Hunker, Arthur Dixon, J. W. Hayes, D. Howard Cadle, | L. W. Hully, William O. Young, J. S. Woods, George Henry, W. PF. Fleidner, H. F. Stroop, John Martindale, Robert E. Stafford, George C. O’Connor, Mrs. H. A. Deputy, R. N. Stall, J. W. Jordan. Also, Mrs. Paul Biegler, F. D. Gardner, W. W, White, H. H. Pleasance, J. W. Piper, T. D. Todd, Mrs. William H. Coleman, Preston Tucker, Carl H. Wallerich, William Ansted,, P. R. Mallory, C. J. Pearson, George DeSautels, Floyd Summers, G. B. Ely, Paul G. Davis, M. A. Williams, A. R. Coffin, R. D. Wanglin, J. C. Consodine, Robert Bowers -and H. A. Little. Messrs. and Mesdames William H. Krieg, Newell C.| Munson and Mayburn F. Landgraf are to be in a box together. Stuart Blish, Seymour, is among the out-of-town box holders.

Delegates From Women’s Clubs Invited to Tea

Representatives of 97 women’s clubs have been invited to a tea to be given Monday by the Art Association membership committee in John Herron Art Museum Sculpture Court. Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge Jr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Griffith are to pour at the tea, arranged by Mrs. Noble Dean. Mrs. A. Dickinson Smith, membership chairman, is to address the guests, who also are to visit the Indiana Artists’ Exhibit. Students from the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music are to entertain with a program. Other membership committee members are Mesdames Benjamin Hitz, Fred Appel, Lee Burns, Frederic H. Sterling, Lyman Ayres, Edwin Ash, Guy H. Shadinger, Neal Thurston, William J. Lochhead, F. H. Streightoff, William Allen Moore, Harry Barnard, Edgar Kiser and Walter Grow.

Orchard Parents Sponsor Game

Orchard School parents and patrons are forming box parties to attend the Indianapolis-St. Paul baseball game on May 22 under sponsorship of the School's Parents’ Association. Among them are Mrs. Jesse Fletcher and Mrs. Benjamin Hitz, Dr. and Mrs. G. H. A. Clowes, Messrs. and Mesdames Thomas D. Sheerin, H. V. Kobin, William Ray Adams, wright, John Bookwalter, J. Dwight Peterson and Ewing Sinclair. Mrs. Frederick T. Holliday is to be hostess for an association meeting Monday morning when committee chairmen are to make reports. Mrs. Sylvester Johnson is box sale committee chairman and Mrs. J. Landon Davis, general chairman. Others are Mesdames Thomas Harvey Cox, Perry W. Lesh and Thomas Hendricks, downtown general sales committee; Mrs. John D. Gould, Mrs. Elias C. Atkins and Mrs. Holliday, arrangements assistants.

Shower Given for Catherine Leppert

Miss. Anna Catherine Leppert, a bride-to-be, received linen gifts at a luncheon and bridge party given today by Mrs. J. Barton Griffin and her sister, Miss Claire Quinn. The party was at the home of the hostesses’ mother, Mrs. T. M. Quinn. Miss Leppert’s marriage to Clyde Thomas Bowers is to [take place June 5 in the St. Joan of Arc Church. Guests at the party were Mrs. E. B. Leppert, Miss Leppert’s mother; Mrs. Clyde A. Bowers, Mr. Bowers’ mother; Misses Helen, Marie and Edith Leppert; Mary Kathryn Markey, Helen Geiger, Martha Shepperd, Reégina Fleury, uis Schmitt and Margaret Koes-

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By BEATRICE BURGAN

INDIANAPOLIS Country Club forecasts for the summer: Balmy evenings and sweet music for dahcing, cool breezes fluttering dainty summer frocks and moonlight for members who simply enjoy sitting on the terrace. The official opening of this social season will be at a formal dance tonight, and members are welcoming it with dinner parties. Mr. and Mrs. John Wardrope are entertaining informally at their home for a group to include Messrs. and Mesdames Harrison Eiteljorg, John Heidt Jr., Charles Rogers, Talbott#Denny and J. Irwin Cummings. Mr. and: Mrs. Verner Ray have invited Messrs. and Mesdames Claude Jones Jr., Roy C. Bain, Sheldon R. Sayles, John J. Kennedy and Frank Dowling to dine with them. Mercer Home to Be Visited

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sparrows’ guests are to stop at Mr. and Mrs. George Mercer's home before going to the club. The Sparrow party will include Dr. and Mrs. Lyman Pearson,

hard and Glenn Carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer have invited Dr.

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and Mra. Russell Sage, Dr. and Mus,

Messrs. and Mesdames Harry Geb-

Robert Hensel, Mrs. C. C. Coffey, William Topmiller, Messrs. and Mesdames Marvin Nulsen and Paul Grubbs. Mrs. Sparrow is to wear a black marquisette gown, with a billowing full skirt. White embroidered net insertions add a summery note to the skirt. Mrs. Pearson’s choice for the evening is a black chiffon gown, with a white lace yoke. Mrs. E. P. Dean returned from ga visit to Cincinnati yesterday and with Mr. Dean is to attend the club opening in a Dutch-treat party to include Mrs. Grace Debruton, Hurst Sargent,Messrs. and Mesdames

Howard Griffith,* Fred Jungclaus, Richard Mead and C. E. Whitehill. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wemmer, entertainment. committee chairmen, are to be with Mr. and Mrs. Otto Eisenlohr and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Todd. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kevers are to share a table with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Griffith. Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Hadley’s party is to be in honor of Miss Evelyn Carr, Richmond, and Dr. Joseph

Strayer, Lafayette, who are to be married on May 22.

Great bunches of lilacs are to be garlanded on the walls of the club

Alpha Chapter, hostess.

{. Mon. Mrs. Martha Reynolds,

EVENTS

SORORITIES Xi Delta Xi. Mon. p. m. Miss Lois Myers,

Alpha Chapter, Omega Kappa. 2 to 4 Pp. m. Sun. Hotel Time rush tea. Miss Eleanor Maris, piano apa: Lijec Hk dance pupils, program. Carolyn and ceiving line: Misses Jeanette Garrett, Doroth Brautigan, Mrs. Emily, Hawks, Mrs. y Rahm, Masine Sigma Phi Gamma. 8 p. m. today.

LODGE

Sahara Grotto Women's Auxiliary Telephone Committee. 125 S. Emerson Ave,

Carmel,

Janet Heller, dances.

Warren Hoy, Hotel Lincoln,

8 p.m hostess.

the convention

Balmy Breezes, Soft Music and Moonlight on Order as Indianapolis Country Club Opens Its Season Tonight

house, and dinner tables are to be centered with bouquets of spring” flowers." » ” ”

When The Players present their last show -of the season at the Woodstock Club tonight, members will move from the dining room to the ballroom to witness the performance. . Among diners will be a group composed of Dr. and Mrs. Charles McNaull, Messrs. and Mesdames Henry I. Raymond, Howard S. Young, Robert Frost Daggett and George Knowles. Mrs. Thomas Harvey Cox's oneact play, “Elphine, the Farmer's Filly,” is to be presented before a dance.

Needlework Guild May Meet Here

Indianapolis is one of the cities to be considered for the 1938 national convention of the Needlework Guild of America. - Decision is to be made at the national convention in Philadelphia, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Invitation has been extended by Mrs. R. Hartley Sherwood, Indianapolis branch president, and the Indianapolis Convention Bureau, for next year,

1. The final party of the year of the American Revolution, is to

for the Old Glory Society, Children be a dinner-dance in the D. A: R.

chapter house on May 22. Miss Margaret Wohlgemuth is a member of

the party music committee..

2. The Woman's Department Club Little Club is to hold a garden party at the home of Mrs. Hal L. Purdy, Beech Acres, Carmel, on Friday. Woman’s Department Club founders are to be honor guests. 3. The engagement of Miss Mary Louise Woodard to David Macdonald, New York, has been announced by her ‘parents, the Rev. and

Mrs. Abram S. Woodard.

(Photo by Dexheimer-Carlon.)

4. Mrs. Maurice Block and (6) Mrs. Laurens Henderson are dressed in the Flemish costumes which they wear while selling tickets to the film, “Carnival in Flanders,” to be presented Monday through Wednes-

day at Keith's. Indiana State Symphony Society.

The project is sponsored by the women’s committee,

(Times Photos.)

5. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Stewart have announced the engage= ment of their daughter, Dorothy, to James Wesley Young, son of Mr. and’'Mrs. H. G. Young. The wedding is to take place June 26 in the

Episcopal Church of the Advent.

greduate and a member of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority.

Miss Stewart is a Butler University

Mr. Young

attended Butler and Indiana Universities and is & member of Delta

Chi Fraternity.

7. A group of Orchard School mothers discusses the progress of plans for their sponsorship of the Indians-St. Paul baseball game May 22 in Perry Stadium. They are (left to right) Mesdames Pearson

. Smith, Gilbert Inman, Maurice Angell and Robert Robinson

by W. Hurley Ashby, F. R. P.'S)) &

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Times Special

national president, is to be among the speakers. On Tuesday they will attend a publicity conference, to be led by Mrs. Cyrus L. Philipp, Milwaukee, and Miss Pauline E. Mandigo, New York, and meetings directed by Mrs, William Ellery Bright Worcester, ‘Mass.; Miss Mary Louise Breen, Dayton, O., and Mrs. Joseph W. Seacrest, Lincoln, Neb. They will discuss the pros and cons of the league’s support of controversial movements and participation in state and local social legislation and political activity. In the afternoon Mrs. Harvie is to preside at an open forum on association policies on these questions.

Direct Conference Mrs. Faxon Saunders, Junior League Magazine editor, New York, and Miss Helen Leovy, Pittsburgh, are to direct-a magazine conference Wednesday morning. The same

Chicago Historical Society, where

the association’s art exhibition is to be on display. It will include prize winning entries of the year’s regional exhibits. The league staff is to conduct a panel discussion of league problems in the afternoon, and that evening the nine regions’ representatives are to attend dinners. : “Plan of Nominations,” “A. J. L. A. Bylaws” and “Recommendations for Regional Meetings” ‘are to be the topics of an open forum on Thursday morning. Mesdames Billy Shaw Howell, Charlotte, N. C.; John IL. Hutcheson Jr. Lookout Mountain, Tenn, and Arthur St. Julian Simons, Columbia, S. C., are to be leaders. > Mrs. Leighton McWhinney, Toronto, Canada, will head the lunch-

Junior League Leaders of City to Attend Chicago Meet

CHICAGO, May 15.—-Mrs. Frank Hoke, Indianapolis Junior League president, and Mrs. Henry C. Atkins Jr. are to be delegates to the 17th annual conference of the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, | Inc., opening Monday in the Drake Hotel. _ Following consultations with staff members on local problems on Monday, they will attend the opening banquet in the Palmer

House.

Mrs. Peter L. Harvie, Troy, N. Y.$

i Leagues on Thursday, when the Arts Club dinner is to be held.

To Vote on Measures

At the annuzl meeting Friday morning delegates will vote on measures presented, elect a vice president and secretary and direc-

tors for regions 1 to 5 and hear reports by officers and department heads. A luncheon is to be held at the Casino Club. Other national leaders to attend include Mrs. Edward L. Voorhees, Plainfield, N. J.; Miss Emily 8S. Thomason, Richmond, Va.; Miss Mollie Bennett, San Antonio; Tex.; Mrs. Bradner W. Lee Jr., Los An-

day a luncheon is te be held at the

geles, directors, and from New York, Mrs. DeForest Van Slyck, executive secretary; Miss Jean T. Palmer, business manager; Miss Virginia Howlett, welfare department secretary; Miss Margaret Woodson, Miss Lettie Witherspoon, Mrs. Russell Lipscomb, Miss Helen Eastman, welfare department field representatives; Miss Agnes C. Grant, children’s theater department secretary; Miss Gloria Chandler, field representative; Miss Virginia Lee Comer, department technician; Miss Helen T. Findlay, arts department secretary; Mrs. Robert E. Dingham, finance department secretary. Members of the Chicago and Evanston Leagues will be hostesses.

Four Win Vacations As Bridge Awards

Mrs. Pearl A. Cook, Mrs. Louise McIntire, Rudolph Stumpp and Harold Erner have been awarded a week's vacation at Hackensack, Minn,, as winners of the King Bridge Studio’s section of the World Bridge Olympic. The party left

today for Minnesota,

‘the marriage of Mrs.

Margaret H. Winslow and W. M. Coppock Wed Today.

A wedding breakfast for the families at the Propylaecum followed Margaret

Hornbrook Winslow to William Maxwell Coppock at noon today in

Dr. Logan Hall officiated. | The ceremony was witnessed by intimate friends and relatives. The. bride is the daughter of; Mrs. Henry Hallam Hornbrook, and’

'| Mr. Coppock’s parents are Mr. and

Mrs. McClellen Coppock. Mrs. Myra Clippinger, played.

organist,

Bride Unattended

Mrs. Winslow was unattended. Her periwinkle blue crepe grown was designed with matching blue lace insertions on the waist and puff sleeves. At the waistline she wore a loose arrangement of jasmine fleurettes, Finch roses, forget-me-nots and pansies. Her large, natural straw hat had an open crown. After the breakfast the couple left on a short wedding trip, the bride wearing a beige Bermuda tweed three-piece suit and dark brown accessories. They will return to live at 3224 N. Pennsylvania St. On June 19 they are to sail with Mrs. Hornbrook and the bride's daughe ters, Margaret and Barbara, for a 10 weeks’ trip abroad. The bride is a member of the Junior League, Indiana Wellesley Club, Players and Dramatic Clubs and has been active in’ the Civi¢

Theater. :

Lane-O’Donnell Wedding to Be This Afternoon

Hillcrest Country Club is to he decorated with smilax and spring flowers this afternoon for the wedding of Miss Kathryn O’Donnell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. J, O’Donnell, and L. O. Lane Jr., Boga« lusa, La., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. O, Lane, Bogalusa. 3 The Rev. Fr. Francis Hickey, SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral rector, is to perform the double-ring ceremony in front of a fireplace banked with flowers and lighted by cathedral tapers. The bride is to wear a powder blue marquisette gown, trimmed with panels and a train of chantilly lace. Her blue maline turban has a short veil. She is to carry sweet= heart roses and lilies of the valley. Bridesmaid Is Named Miss Jane O'Brien, bridesmaid, is to wear a shell pink mousseline de soie shirtwaist gown with a Juliet cap and will carry delphinium. William S. Richardson, Bogalusa, is to be best man, Miss Rose Dowd, harpist, is to play bridal music before and dur= ing the ceremony. Miss Mary Rose Owen, Bedford, is to play during a reception for 75 guests. Misses Marie Bennett, Sanoma Craig, Katherine Heathecotte, Alice O’Brien, Ruth Wasson, Helen Riedy, Harriet Terry and Mrs. Edward Mil= ler are to assist. Out-of-town guests will include ‘Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Emory Lane, Les Gould, O, H. Campbell, P. P. Carter, all of Bogalusa; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allen, Louisville; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ul= rich, Columbus, O.; D. Y. Johnston, Al Reagor, H. J. Warnken, Cincinnati. After a wedding trip in the East, the couple ig to live at Bogalusa.

Women Voters To Hear Senning

Dr. John P. Senning, University of Nebraska, is to speak on-“New Styles in Legislatures” at the dinner meeting of the Indiana League of Women Voters’ biennial council meeting Tuesday in Elkhart. Dr. Senning, chairman bof the University’s political science department, recently published “The OneHouse Legislature,” an account of Nebraska's fight for a unicameral lawmaking body. Mrs. Walter S. Greenough, Indianapolis, will be the principal luncheon speaker. Mrs. Greenough, chairman of the department of government and its operation for the National League, recently returned from New Haven, Conn., where she addressed the Connecticut league's

convention.

Indianapolis league members to go to Elkhart include Mesdames S. N. Campbell, John Goodwin, Leonard Smith, Lester Smith, Tristram Coffin, Grosvenor Shirk, Ralph Showalter, James L. Murray, Clarence F. Merrell, Leonard Ensminger, Oliver W. Greer, Virginia Moorhead Mannon and William Snethen.

Ashceroft-Ferren | Wedding Is Tonight

A reception at Mr. and Mrs. Clyde R. Ashcroft’s home is to follow the marriage of their son, Charles OC, Ashcroft, and Miss Margaret Fere ren at 7:30 p. m. today in the Tux edo Park Baptist Church. The bride is a daughter of Lewis PF, Ferren. : ‘The chutch is to be decorated with palms, spring flowers and light ed tapers in candelabra. Mrs, Fred

:Crosireet, organist, is to play bridal

music and Paul Crabb is to sing *'I Love You Truly” and “Sweetest Story Ever Told.” : The bride, te be given in marriage by her father, is to wear a peach lace gown with a brown straw hat and carry bride’s roses. Miss Phyllis Mitchell, maid of honor, is to attend in a brown net suit, a brown straw hat and carry pink roses. Edward T. Rees Jr. is to be

Gene Gill, ushers.

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The couple is to make a short

the Meridian Street M. E. Church. -

best man, and Ebret Poarch and -

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