Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1937 — Page 4

Dinner Reservations Preceding Lambs Club Frolic Set New Record

200 To Join in Parties at Columbia Club Tonight; Others Invite Guests to Homes; Play’s Last Line Forceful.

Arrange Local Clubs’ Social A fairs on Dec ember Ca

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON With the arrival of gusty winter the Lambs are skipping to the fold to dine. Two hundred reservations for ~qinner in the Columbia Club this evening mark the alltime high for parties preceding a Lambs Club frolic. Still other dinner parties are to be given in members’ homes,

with holiday visitors included. On the program for the “Lambs College Night,” to be presented at 11 p. m. are to be a parade and “Working Our Way Through College,” by the entire company and a football game between the Lambs and the Rams. Mrs. Frank Hoke, prima donna, is to sing «Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.” Robert D. Robinson is to be featured in “Sweet Varsity Sue” and Michael J. Duffecy Jr. and Macy O. Teetor are billed as the “Wizards of the Piano.” A medley of college songs and the Big Apple danced by the entire company are to round off the program. The floor show is being presented by a committee composed of Mr. and Mrs. J. Perry Meek, chairmen; Dr. and Mrs. G. B. Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. George H. Denny. Included in the company are Messrs. and Mesdames Frank Hoke, M. J. Duffecy, Harrison Eiteljorg, Thomas A. Hendricks, Hiram W. McKee, Wilson Mothershead, Robert D. Robinson, Thomas Ruckelshaus, Robert S. Stempfel, John B. Washburn, Meek and Denny, Dr. and Mrs. Jackson, Mrs, John R.

Brant, Mrs. Viola Recker, Albert O. Deluse and Paul Starrett.

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Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roger G. Wolcott, who will entertain

with a dinner

in their home in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F.

Scott Jr. are to be Messrs. and Mesdames Samuel B. Sutphin, Charles Harvey Bradley, Frederick T. Holliday and Burch Ijams and

Anton Hullman, Terre Haute. Dining at the home of Mr. and

Messrs. and Mesdames Frank Hoke,

Mrs. William E. Munk will be Perry Lesh, Charles Culp, J.

Landon Davis, Francis W. Dunn and Thomas A. Hendricks. Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Vonnegut are to entertain informally for

Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon Kinghan guests are to

before the frolic. Among their

be Messrs. and Mesdames A. Ewing Sinclair, George

Ziegler, George T. Parry, Joseph E. Cain, Erwin G. Vonnegut, Robert

Stempfel, Mrs. Rosamond Van Camp verry and Ben Coburn. In Oscar FP.

Hill, Messrs. Alfred EtcheFrenzel Jr.s party will be Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond B. Nicholson, Richmond. Dining with Mr. and

Mrs. Ralph W. Lieber. will be Mr.

and Mrs. Walter J. Stuhldreher

and Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Bobbitt, Kokomo. Messrs. and Mesdames “David P. Andrews, Charles W. Moores and George Fotheringham are,

also to give dinner parties at home. } 2 #2 = 1

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Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gaston's guests will meet informally in their

home before dining in the Columbia

meet with Mr. and Mrs. Caleb York, Mr. and

Club. Still other groups are to Mrs. Harrison Eitel-

jorg and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davy Eaglesfield before dining-at the

club. Mr. and Mrs. James S. Rogan party. Others having dinner parties Walker W. Winslow, John B. Stokely, Ferriday Jr. Henry Jr., Henry E. Todd, John R.

are to be entertained at one include Messrs. and Mesdames william Henley Mooney, Robert

C. Atkins Jr., James PF. Frenzel, Theodore Stein Brant and Macy Teetor, Hagérstown,

and Col. and Mrs. William Guy Wall. : Among the out-of-town guests are to be Mr. and Mrs. Julian

Fauvre, Decatur, Ill; Miss Gertr Edward T. Schele, Ft. Wayne; Mr.

ris, Jackson, Mich.; Mrs. Caleb Lodge McKee,

ude Jones, Alfred Randall and and Mrs. Frank Rockwell Mor-

Columbus, O.; Mr.

and Mrs. John Graham and Clarence Jones, Piqua, O.; Mr. and Mrs;

William H. Ball, Muncie; ' Joseph W. Strayer, Lafayette. 8 8 @

Richard Schaaf, Gary, and Mr. and Mrs.

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Civic Theater patrons were treated last night to a play which

| ent-da blems—Trac géal wis res yp a bit about the last line, “We're all

» and feeling very much enamored

ual. They came away thinking shut in behind our little fences, with Marjorie Ropkey’s charm. In the: i Ty were 20 g as a good many re r foyer were Messrs. and Mesdames R. ham, R. Kirby Whyte, V. Wade, Booth T. Jameson,

Samuel Runnels Harrell, Edward Emer

Miss Helen Thornton, Noble Ropkey ® = = The younger set will m

ial, governmental and individ-

irls from Ladywood School as well first nighters. Araong those chatting in the

Ralston Jones, James E. Bing-

Allen V. Stackhouse, Walter I. Hess, Harry Henrik Mayer, A. K. Scheidenheim,

y, Mrs. Henry C. Thornton, and Horace F. Hill IIL

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arch gaily through the holidays as each

day the list of parties grows. The Misses Josephine Mayer and Mary

Sheerin Kuhn have issued Club Dec. 27 at 10 o'clock.

invitations for a dance at Woodstock’

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harvey Bradley are to give a tea dance Dec. 24 in the Indianapolis Athletic Club in honor of Capt. and

Mrs. Jones Ingram, their daughter,

son, Midshipman William

Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson are to entertain with a dinner and their house this evening f

team. Honor guests are to he Coach captain of this year’s team, and Robert Shade,

year’s team. ” ” ”

The “If” club, composed of nine

Mary Birch Ingram, and their

T. Ingram of the U. S. Naval Academy, who will be their guests for the holidays.

and their son, Nelson Johnson,

dance in the Wyoming room of or the Shortridge High School football

Robert Nipper, George Pike, captain of next

2 2 ” girls who are seniors in Short-

ridge, has issued invitations for a dance to be held in the Columbia

Club Dec. 20. The club, organized three years ago, is

giving its sec-

ond Christmas dance for Shortridge classmates and friends returning from college for the holidays. Members are the Misses Jane Gray Freihofer, Virginia Burkholder, Doris Jones, Norma Overbay,

Jeanne Shirk, Patty Hill, Margaret Huffey,

Mary Marott and

Nancy Hurt. This group and the young gentlemen who are to

be their guests are to meet in Miss Chaperones are

|Hurt’s home before the party.

to be Messrs. and Mesdames W. B. Freihofer, Ar-

thur F. Overbay; William A. Huffey 3nd Dr. and Mrs. Paul T. Hurt. Alumnae Club of Mu Phi Epsilon To Hold Annual Christmas Party

Two groups of Mu Pi Epsilon, national music sorority, are to meet Tuesday night for their annual Christmas parties. Hostesses are to be

Mrs. Max H. Wall and Mrs. Norman L. Schneider. Mrs. Wall, 3242 N. Capitol Ave. ¢ :

is to be ‘hostess at the party given by the Indianapolis Alumnae Club of the sorority at 6 p. m. Assisting the hostess with dinner arrangements are to be Misses Helen Dirks, chairman; Lulu Brown, . Zetta Byers and Mesdames John A. Sink and Acel Spellman Stitt. Mrs. Helen Louise Quig is the program - ‘chairman. Mrs. Agnes Warriner Helgesson, pianist, is to play, and Miss Mary Moorman, contralto, is to sing aceompanied by Miss Quig. “Juanita’s Christmas Tree,” an original story of a South American Christmas, is to be read by Mrs. Neal Ireland. Featured on the program are to b> a Christmas tree, an appearance of Santa Claus, and the singing of Christmas carols. : » ” o Kappa chapter and the Patroness Club of the sorority," are to hold their annual party at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday in the home of Mrs. Schneider. 1 Assisting the hostess are to be Misses Louise Swan, Marguerite Billo, Mary Gottman, Lois LeSaulRebecca Shields and Mrs.

Gifts are to be exchanged during the evening. Miss Adrienne Schmedel is to direct the guests in singing Christmas carols. has announced the entertainment, which is to include a whistling solo by Mrs. William P. Anderson III,

man, pianist, amd Mrs. Lenore Ivey

Frederickson, contralto. ~ Mrs. Schneider is to tell a

Tri Delta to Hold Christmas Fete

The Delta Delta Delta chapter house, 809 Hampton Drive, is to be the scene of the annual Christmas party Wednesday night, sponsored by the Indianapolis Alliance and Butler chapter active members. Dinner is to be served at 6:30 p. m. followed by an exchange of gifts and a Christmas program. Proceeds from a jelly shower are to go to the Indianapolis Day Nursery. The active chapter is to have charge of the program, assisted by the Tri Delta Trio, composed of Misses Marjorie Pyke, Betty Parker and Ruth Duckwall. On the active chapter committee are Misses Georgia Fesler, Martha Finney, Dorothy Jones and Martha McHatton. The committee from the alliance is composed of Mrs. David F. Cass, chairman: Mrs. Don Hopping and’ Misses Sarah Baird, Mary Elizabeth Wagner, Louise Padou land Ruth Stultz.

Women’s Society Sets

Annual Yule Party |®%

‘The annual Christmas party of the National Association of Women is to be held at 8 p. m. Monday in the Washington Hotel audiforium. A special Christmas program featuring a Santa Claus is to be presented. The Rev. Daisy Douglas

Barr is to appear in a Yuletide

drama. Members are urged to at-

Dental Aids to Elect

Officers are to be elected by the Indianapolis Dental Assistan to Association at 7:30 p. m. the offices of ASH

Monday in|by

Hospital Guild To Complete Holiday Plans

The White Cross Guild executive board is to meet at 10 a. m. Wednesday - in the White Cross headquarters in the Methodist Hospital Nurses’ home. ) Mrs, Isaac Born, president, is to preside. Christmas plans for entertairiment of nurses and patients are to be completed. The Meridian Heights unit is fo work Monday on red tarlatan stockings fo be filled with candy for student nurses and members of the hospital personnel. They are to be presented at the hospital's annual Christmas parties. Mrs, Charles T. Coy has announced that the party for patients on the Thomas Taggart Memorial Children’s floor of the. hospital is to be held Dec. 22 in the solarium.

Guild sponsors a party each year and arranges also for placing and trimming of Christmas trees in the solarium. Regular guild meetings in the headquarters next week are to be as follows: Meridian Heights, Monday; (Grace Church, Tuesday; Mary Hans¢n Carey Research and St. Paul, Wednesday; Mother Guild, Thursday, and the Unity and River-

"| side Giuilds Friday.

Phi Delta Theta Party Scheduled

Fathers and sons of the active chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity are to meet with the Mother’s Club at 8 p. m. Thursday for the annual Christmas party at the chapter house, 705 W. Hampton Drive. The program is to include Christmas music by the Kappa Alpha Theta double quartet and a reading by Mrs. FP. A. Symmes, to be followed by games and a gift exchanjze. Mrs. J. W. Atherton, general chairman of arrangements, is to be assisted by Mesdames Edgar Hart, James Bailey and Chester Miller. Thi committee on games and hospitality is to include Mesdames N. E. Foyer, C. V. Sorenson, A. J. Lauth, George Diener, A. L. Thurston and Mrs. Lucile Leech, house hostess.

I Personals

Mz. and Mrs. James F. Carroll, Golden Hill, are to entertain with a buffet supper, Sunday night, Dec. 26, for their sons, Allen and Alex. The former is a senior in Hamilton Collége and the latter a junior in Williams College. ; Miss Florence Harrison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Harrison, 4731 N. Pennsylvania St., has been elected to membership in the Freshman, Players, Ohio Wesleyan Universily dramatic group. She is a Shoriridge High School graduate. Mis. Charles O. Roemler was to return. today after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Horace Barry, Stamford, Conn. Mrs. Barry was the former Miss Jane Roemler of this

Arnong those who are to leave soon for Florida is Mrs. William H. Coburn. Mrs. Coburn is to leave on Tuesday for winter residence in

her home at Sunny Isles, North |D

Miaini Beach. M;. and Mrs. William H. Thompson, 5140 N. Meridian St., have recurned after an extended visit in New York.

Chapel Mothers to Meet The Mothers’ Club of the Mayer

the Chapel. ‘program Rupart and Mrs

Ransome & Ran-

Mrs. : Homer CR Goéns is |

The White Cross Children’s Cheer|

urday. : | Mrs, Ewing Cox, 5130 ‘Carrollton

Chanel is to meet on Wednesday at

to include a ChristMrs. |

Times Photos.

1. Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus is general chairman of the supper dance to be held in the Columbia Club following the University of Pennsylvania Mask and Wig Club show on Dec. 28. Many Pennsylvania alumni and their wives are planning for the presentation of . “Fifty-Fifty” at English’s Theater.

2. Sn Vincent's Hospifal Guild members ‘are arranging a -CGhriste mas: party for 200 Underprivileged children to be held Dec. 22 in the nurses’ home. Left to right are Mesdames = William Ittenbach, Emil Rassmann Jr. and I. N. Ogle, general arrangements committee members.

3. Founders of the Woman's Contract Club of Indianapolis are to be honored with a luncheon bridge Thursday in the Indian apolis Athletic Club. Assisting with arrangements are Mrs. Dale Lentz (left) and Mrs. Frederick A. Gallagher, new members. 4. Mrs. Robert Ray Bunch (left), Tudor Hall ticket sales group chairman, is assisting with arrangements for the benefit skating party to be held in the Riverside Skating Rink on Dec. 29 by the Tudor Hall Alumnae Association. Ticket sales at Park School are under the direction of Mrs, William Simpson. 5. Mrs. Horace E. Storer is chairman of the Indianapolis Athletic Club’s luncheon bridge to be held Tuesday for wives and daughters of members. Luncheon at 12:30 p. m. is to precede bridge play in the Green Room.

Sororities to Sponsor Dances

. And Benefits

Christmas luncheons, programs

Before Holidays|

and dances and preparations and

benefit parties for local philanthropies are to keep sorority chapter

The Christmas luncheon of the Kappa Alpha Theta Mothers’ club is to be held in the chapter house Tuesday. : Dr. Elmer Harvey, Broadway Methodist Church assistant pastor, is to read “The Christmas Story” by VanDyke. ° Mrs. Walter Holt, chairman, is to be assisted by Mesdames Charles Rau, C. B. Hamilton, L. .J. Foley, Fred Case, K. K. Wooling, Paul Kilby, J. E. Boettcher and W. H. Diddel. ” 8 = The Butler University Pi Beta Phi Mothers’ Club is to entertain with a Christmas party at 12:30 p. m, Monday for daughters in the chapter house, 831 W. Hampton Dr. The luncheon and program are in charge of Mrs. Oscar Ludwig and Mrs. A. B. Weyl, assisted by Mesdames Allen Lewis, Bert Beasley, R. D. Jackson, E. N. Gimbel, E. R. Brown, H. B. McMahan, George Bowman, H. J. Baker and H. D. Willcutts. The program is to include music by the Arsenal Technical High School Madrigal Singers and Christmas readings by Miss Gwendolyn | Schort. »

» - A Christmas party and gift exchange is to be featured at the monthly luncheon and bridge party of the Delta Upsilon Auxiliary at

1 p. m. Tuesday in the home of Mrs. ||

Milton. J. Smith, 4623 Broadway. Mrs. Vera Meub and Mrs. Earl Blakeley are to be assistant ostesses. : s

" Members of the Indianapolis Alumnae chapter of Phi Omega Pi sorority are to bring toys for underpriveleged children to their annual Christmas party at 2:30.p. m. Sat-

Ave, is to be assisted as hostess by

A benefit bridge party is to be|| sored by Mu Chapter, Phi Chi

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in the Banner-Whitehill auditorium. Mrs. Glen V. Ryan is general chairman, assisted by Mesdames G. T. Browning, Immer Welsh, J. W. Fleener, G. R. Knapp, Marion Grieb and Miss Mary Orton. Tr * la» Pledges are to be initiated at a meeting of Kappa Alpha Gamma sorority Tuesday night in the home

o Mrs. H. E. Singer, 3230 Graceland ve. :

A Christmas program is to follow. Music is to be provided by a group of singers from the Edith Jane Fish studio. = Also appearing on the program are to be Mesdames Gladys McColgin, Lora Gillespie, Mildred King and Leona Day; Misses Grace Yates, Ruth and Esther Miller and Beulah Bailey. 2 x = Miss Ann Lee, a member of Alpha Delta Tau sorority, is chairman of arrangements for the darce in Hotel Antlers tonight. Assisting her are to be Misses Katherine Bland and | Pauline Heidt. ; : e event is being sponsored by the Evadne Club, Alpha Upsilon chapter, Delta Sigma, Chi Tau Alpha and Alpha Zeta Beta Sororities.

Children to Give Yule Program at ‘Harmonie Group

Mrs. James Pearson, 4250 N. Illinois St., is to be hostess at the Christmas meeting of the Harmonie Club at 2:30 p. m. Monday. Mrs. Clair F. Cox and Miss Emma J. Doeppers have arranged the program which is to be presented by Members | young sons and daughI'S.

numbers are to be presented Dy Susan Pearson, Carl Lieber Jr. Robert Blake, Carolyn, Billy and Buddy Bi tz, Bloomington; Jo Ellen Burroughs, Alice Greene, Joan Devin, Rosemary Jones, Sally and Susan ;Sharpless and Bobby Stark. Each club member is to bring a toy for children at the Wheeler City Mission. .| At the social hour to follow the program, the hostess is to be assisted by Mesdames Robert Bonner,

James Lowry, James Moag, William |

E. E. Voyles, Louise S.

Devin, uline Schells-

Koehne and Miss chmidt.

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St. Guest dance and card

worthy patron. Phi Chapt, lege Ave. hostess.

Leo L. Neargardner, h S. Dela. St. i

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| LODGES | Joy 5, W. W. M. and B. Tonight. Woodman’s Hall, 322 E. New York

Englewood Chapt. O. E. S. 8 p. m. Mon. Masonic Temple, 2714 E.

Wash. St. Mrs. Lillian Stratman, worthy matron, Ralph Stratman,

Fray SORORITIES = Delta Chi Sigma. 8:15 p. m. Mon. Y. W. C. A. Theta Sigma Delta. 8 p. m. Mon. Mrs. Henry Chatfelter, 4235 Colae cLuBs |. | Newman ‘Mothers Club, Butler University. 1 0 L. N ostess. Christmas program. nd Ladies Soc. 7:30 p. m. Sun. Hall, 491% Robert's Parliamentary Law Club. Tues. noon. Colonial Tea Room. ~ Mrs. M. E, Armel and Mrs. R. J. Roller, hostesses. Ra EO CARD PARTY

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p. m. Thurs. Mrs. program ;

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Vocal, instrumental and dancing

City Zonta Club To Hold Dinner At 6:30 Tuesday

The Zonta Club of Indianapolis is to have a dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday in the Colonial Tearoom. Miss May Shields, president, has announced that a board meeting is to precede the event at 5:30 p. m. and that all directors are requested to be present. Following the dinner, there is to be a short business meeting of .the entire membership, with reports from all committee chairmen. Miss Lillie Kerz, service committee chairman in’ charge of Christmas collection of books for the Indianapolis Day Nursery, has announced that all members are to bring one or more books. They are to be presented to the nursery on Dec. 15. Miss Elizabeth Bettcher of the local club is to lead a round-table discussion on “Goodwill and Friendship.” She is chairman this year of the constitution and by-laws committee for the local club. -

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