Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1937 — Page 4

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“Twas the Night Before Christmas —-a

Jane Adams to Make Her Debut Tonight at - I. A. C. Ball, Breakfast

Cast of Cornell Musical Show Will Attend; Party, One of Season’s Outstanding Affairs, ' Climaxes Week-Long Program.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON While Kris Kringle’s holiday is always a pretty sparkling affair, Miss Jane Adams’ debut tonight will add extra verve to this year’s celebration. Indianapolis society is to welcome a very charming young woman when Miss Adams is presented by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ray Adams, at a ball in the Indianapoiis Athletic Club.

The party, which is to climax a week-long round of festivity, is one of the notable events of the winter season. More than 500 guests, including many from out of town, are to be entertained at the dance and breakfast to follow. A number of the guests will attend the Cornell Musical Clubs show, “Oh, What a Night,” in English’s Theater earlier in the evening. Members of the cast also have been invited to the ball. Receiving with Mrs. Adams and Miss Adams will be Mr. and Mrs. Adams’ other daughter, Mrs. Louis McClennen, Boston. Prior to Miss Adams’ arrival in Indianapolis last Saturday from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N. Y., she had a busy fall, and attended a football game every week-end. | When a troupe of Arthur Murray dancers demonstrated the Big Apple at the Snow-Prom at Sarah Lawrence Dec. 4, Life magazine took pictures of the prom trotters learning the Charleston swing %nd Suzy-Q. Miss Adams and Jack Appel of Indianapolis appear in one picture just behind the dancers. -

Graduated From Tudor Hall in June Miss Adams was graduated from Tudor Hall last June. At Sarah Lawrence she is majoring in natural science, with mathematics as a favorite sideline. With a group from Indianapolis she is to attend a New Year's house-party at the Maxinkuckee Inn next week-end before returning to school Jan. 5. : ‘Among the young men who are to serve as ushers at the ball this evening are Midshipman William T. Ingram II, Annapolis; Louis McClennen, Boston; Alan Appel, John Appel, Burford Danner, Arthur Lathrop, Robert Patrick Fortune, Josiah K. Lilly III, Sylvester Johnson Jr., Alex Carroll, Allen Carroll, George Clowes, Allen Clowes, George E. Home Jr., Jerome Noel. Nicholas H. Noyes Jr, Evan Noyes, Harley W. Rhodehamel Jr. and John Masters. 8 8 = : 2 nr = Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Kackley have invited a number of friends to meet Miss Adams at a tea-dance tomorrow afternoon in the Venetian Room of the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Among the out-of-town guests will be Mr. and Mrs. McClennen. Mrs. Kackley, who with Kackley and Miss Adams will receive the guests, is to wear a Gwan Farley gown of Chinese silk with a taiJored waist of Chinese red-and a long, very full skirt of chartreuse. Miss Adams will wear a blac velvet gown girdled with pink lame. 8 s 2 # » ” “= wo floor shows made things lively at the Bachelors’ Ball last night in the Columbia Club. A troupe of colored dancers did the Big Apple as it hasn't been done in Indianapolis before. Splits, eccentric dancing and unusual steps by suspendered gentlemen and graceful young women brought down the house. The second floor show featured all kinds of dancing and a child accordion player who was up so late she must have missed Sani5 Claus The orchestra was seated before a scree of white fur boughs amid which colored lights flickered. Lighted Christmas trees and Santa Claus figures decorated the walls. Between dances, strolling musicians entertained the guests. The Bachelors and their guests were seated at a T-shaped table at one end of the room. Club members are Russell Langsenkamp, president; Louis Rainier, Edward F. Gallahue, William Ramey, Robert Armstrong, William B. Ansted, Raymond D. Brown, Carl Fechtman, Richard T. Miskimen, Paul White Jr., Robert Stafford and R. Stewart Bailey. Glimpsed on the dance floor were Mrs. Harlan Hadley in a black lace gown with a clip of brilliants, Miss Dorothy Johnstone in gold lame and Miss Louise Vonnegut in‘ deep rose chiffon with a belt of silver. Mrs. Bon Aspy wore black velvet with fuschia flowers in her hair. Mrs. Edson T. Wood's black chiffon gown was cut in a deep V in the back. Mrs. Dillon Huder’s gown was white lace studded with brilliants. Mrs. Max Recker wore silver lame. Mrs. Don Hawkins wore 'a sappliire sequins jacket with her flowered satin gown. » ” 2 2 ” ” Mrs. Robert Ferriday Jr. wore black chiffon studded with rhinestones and Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks’ gown was burgundy moire

2 . with a belt of gold. Mrs. Carl R. Vonnegut wore a black velvet bow

black crepe dress had gold embroidery across the Erwin G. Vonnegut wore emerald satin with tiny ostrich feathers in her hair Mrs. rge Fotheringham chose gaily printed satin and Mrs. Roemler Kinnaird’s silver lame gown was bordered with mink. Mrs. A. R. Coffin wore black velvet and Mrs. Paul G. Bigler wore a blue crepe Carnegie gown with sable shoulder straps. : Mrs. John Gordon Kinghan’s black satin gown was set off by emerald velvet shoulder straps and black feath in her hair. Mrs, Dudley Gallahue was lovely in turquoise crepe. Mrs. Joseph E. Cain wore black butterflies in her hair and orchids with her black gown. Miss Julia Freyn’s white satin gown was studded with brilliants. : ‘8 8 .® 8 = = Mr. and Mrs. Barry S. Shepard and their sons, Peter and Tommy, went to Cincinnati yesterday to spend Christmas with Mrs. Shepard's

father, B. H. Thoman. | Miss Shirley Buck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, F. R. Buck, will leave visit in St. Paul, Minn.

tomorrow for a week's Mr. and Mrs. James R. French, Oil City, Pa., are the holiday

guests of Mrs. French's mother, Mrs. Albert Lieber. >

jn her hair. Her shoulders and sleeves. Mrs.

Personals

Among holiday visitors to Indianapolis is to be Miss Edith West, | Pittsburgh. She is to be the house | guest of Miss Harriet Fatterson,! daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell H. Patterson, 1220 College Ave. | Mr. and Mrs. Ray H. Gustetter, | Nashville, Tenn., formerly of Indi- | anapolis, are to spend Christmas as

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guests of Mr. and Mrs, Frank A. |

Wintz, 329 E. 37th St. : Mr. and Mis. Harry Meyer, 2339 | Gale St, are to have open house from 3 to 5 p. m. tomorrow in honor of their son, H. Lilburn Meyer, and Mrs. Meyer, New York. The couple was married in July. Mrs. Meyer was formerly Miss Marcia Duncan of Indianapolis and Franklin, During the holidays Mr. and Mrs Meyer are to be the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Duncan, the bride's parents.

Mr. and Mrs. William Garrigues, New York, arrived yesterday to spend Christmas with Mrs. Garrigues’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Danner, 1030 W. 42d St.

Mr. and Mrs. George R. Cain, Winnetka, Ill, are spending Christmas week-end with Mrs. Cain’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Browning Gent. Mrs. Cain is the former Miss Jane ! Gent. William H. Stafford Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Stafford, 3522 Central Ave, has returned from! England, where he has spent six weeks. | Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell C. Lang and Mrs. May Thornton have as their holiday guests Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Morrison and their son Robert, Winnetka, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Harris Philip Wetsell, 1321 N. Meridian St., have gone to Lake Placid for the holidays.

Holiday Party Set by Indiana University Club

The Indiana University Women's Club is to hold a tes at 2 p. m. Dec. 30 in the L. S. Ayres & Co. auditorium. ir : Following a reception and short business meeting Mrs. Sanford F. Teter, I. U. trustee to talk on “Behind the Scenes at I. U.” Mrs. Walter S. Greenough is to discuss the work and plans of the alumni association, and a style show is to be featured. Etchings of campus scenes are to be displayed by the “University Book Store, and the recently published book of Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president emeritus, is to be shown. Hostesses are to be Mesdames William Hutchison, Albert Stump, Daniel Weir, R. R. Hightower, Merman Gray, Gordon PRatman, War-ren-Oakes, C. J. McCormick, Stuart Wilson and Homer Eberhart and the Misses. Ruby Be¢ll, Ruth Gorman, Mary Kervan aiid Hazel Force. All graduates and former students, as well as coeds home for the holidays, are invited. Mrs. William B. Wilcox is president. |

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Mrs. Larsh Head Of Federal Club

Mrs. Ward Larsh is newly-elected president of the Federal Club. Other officers wer: named recently at a meeting held in the Colonial Tea Room. Gifts were exchanged. Mrs. William P. Foote was elected vice president, Mrs. John Larner, secretary; Mrs. Lowell Wadsworth, treasurer, and Mrs. John Stettler, Sower treasurer. e President's Day luncheon is 0! be Dela dan. § in the home of . C. A. elby, 1 r - Salle St. mt

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1. “The stockings Collett (left) and Jane Collett;

Times Photos. Anne

were hung by the chimney with care—”" small daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John

P. Collett, 3663 Spring Hollow Road, can reach the mantel this year

without standing og their tip-toes.

2. “And sister in her ’kerchief and I in my cap—well, nightie—"

chants Jerry Andrews to his sister Mollie, the fireplace a final pat. They are the children of

P. Andrews, New Augusta. 3. Even dolly is Longworth’s lap. Mary Eell’s

expect to give Santa Claus a warm reception when he arrives. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Longworth, 1256 Golden Hill Dr,

are the children of

as she gives the stockings at Mr. and Mrs. David

aglow with anticipation as she sits on Mary Bell twin sister Susan Bell, and brother Nicky

They

4. The world through a Christmas wreath is especially rosy accord-

ing to Nancy Vonnegut, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Carl R. Vonnegut,

Golden Hill. Her brother George, is awaiting his turn to see the mag-

ical change wrought by Christmas.

5. Cynthia Byrne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert W. Byrne, 5742

N. New Jersey St., finds big sister Anne’s process of wrapping Christ-

mas presents a bit tedious.

She would much rather play. Jenepher

smiles when she finds it is time for dolly’s nap.

6. James Gordon:

to pass the time until Christmas. smiles to himself because he knows the‘book are the children of Dr. and Mrs, Gordon Batman, 320 W.

(Dexheimer-Carlon Photo.)

Batman finds a book about dogs

the easiest way Brother Robert Hauss Batman is upside down. They 44th St—

Students, Alumnae Arrange

Christrnas Holiday

Graduates and students in vari-

ous schools are planning their last

reunions this week before spring vacations. College colors of gray and pink are to predominate at the Indiana Vassar Club’s annual Christmas breakfast at noon Wednesday in the Fropylaeum. The program is to include shart talks by students now in Vassar. Miss Mary Louise Merrell and Miss Marynette Hiatt are to speak for the seniors; Miss Helen ‘Taggart and Miss Carolyn Stelck for the juniors; Miss Nancy McNerny for the sophomores and Miss Helen Griffith and Miss Elizabeth Sandy for the freshmen. Misses Marie J. Weiss, Frances G. Wick, Mary Evelyn wells, Elizabeth Butler and Dorothy Davis of the Vassar faculty are expected to attend. More than 100 alumnae, students and guests are to be present, Mrs. Mortimer C. Furscott is club president. Arranging the event are Mrs. Wendell C. Taylor, chairman; Mrs. Jeremiah L. Cadick, Mrs. Russell Sullivan and Mrs. Edwin McNally. * Mrs. Karl Stegmeier, Miss Margaret Clippinger and Miss Jane Rauch are the Wellesley Alumnae Club luncheon at 1 p. m.

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Zonta Club to Hold

Christmas Dinner

The annual Christmas dinner for Zonta Club members is to be held at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday in the Co- | Jumbia Club. Miss Floro Torrence, program chairman, is to present - Mrs. Lenore Coffin, who is to 8 on “The History of the Christmas Carol.” Miss May Shields is club president. In accordance with instructions ters in Chicago, the Indianapolis chapter is to take action Tuesday on the Marian DeForrest. organizajon fund. At this time every year, ach club in the international or-

foreign lands.

wood, 116 E. 47th St. Dr. Si Heights read the P Mr. Aird

in the United States, Canada and Airds Begin Trip After Marriage

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Aird left today for Decatur, Ill.,éwhere they are

riage ‘home of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Black-

Blair Harry, Meridian

CLUBS

Bremen Current Events. Tues. Mrs. Fred Schlemmer, hostess. Dr J. Arthur Brock, Saginaw, Mich., speaker. Round table discussion. Chapt. 8, P. E. O. Sisterhood. Tues. Mrs. Edward B. Crowell, 5230 EW, 1, hostess. a Chapt. W, P. E. O. Sisterhood. Tues. Mrs. E. C. Hall, 3510 N. Pennsylvania St. hostess. Mrs. W. F. Mitchell, program. : Marion County Chapt., American War Mothers. Tues. Mrs. Martha Sells, 1256 Reisner St., hostess. Christmas party, gift exchange. PROGRAM :

St. John’s Lutketan Church. 6:30 Pp. m. today. Church. Christmas service. Rev. Louis Wamsganss, pastor.

LODGE

Joy Lodge 5, \V. W. M. and B, Tonight. Woodmen’s Hall, 3: New York St. Guest dance, card party. J oodmen bers, 22 =

SORORITY

Children’s

; and: LNTiS the

Reunions

Tuesday in the Marott Hotel Hunter’s Lodge. Seven undergraduates are to be present. They. are Miss Marjorie McCullough of Anderson and Misses Susan Gatch, Priscilla Johnson, Marjorie Northrup, Marie Stegmeier, Jean Van Riper and Jacqueline Wolfg of Indianapolis. Miss Gatch is to speak for the freshmen, Miss Stegmeier * for the juniors and Miss Wolfe for the seniors. Three Wellesley College members are to attend the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Indianapolis Monday. They are Prof. Mabel Young, mathematics department chairman; Prof. Louise McDowell, physics department chairman and Miss Helen Dodson, assistant professor of astronomy.

Plan Smith Luncheon

Prof. Howard Meyerhoff, geology professor at Smith College, is to speak at a luncheon Thursday given by the smith College Club in Woodstock Club. Gs

Alumnae, students, and prospective students are to attend. Mrs. David P. Williams Jr. and Mrs. John Pearson Jr. are in charge of arrangements. ° Members of the Purdue University Women’s Club of Indianapolis are to hear Dr. Kathryn McHale, Washington, in a meeting at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday in the home of Mrs. George Herman Boots, 4239 Boulevard Place. . Dr. McHale’s talk on Purdue University is to follow a buffet supper. A trustee of Purdue University, Dr. McHale also is a director of the American Association of University Women. She is a former instruc-

tor in psychology at Columbia Uni- |,

versity and Vassar College. Frank Moorman, of the Purdue Alumni Association of Indianapolis, is to’ represent the men’s o tion. Dean and Mrs. Stanley M.

| Coulter are to be" honored guests.

Monday Guild to Meet Mrs. H. K. Bachelder is to be hostas party for members of

Dinner Planned

After Wedding This Morning

The marriage of Miss Clara Poggemeyer, daught> of Mr. and Mrs. Poggemeyer, 92s ‘Wright St., to Robert E. Schaub, son of Mr. and Mis. Albert Schaub, 5264 Pleasant Run Blvd. took place at 10 a. m. today in the Third Christian Church.

Dr. William F. Rothenburger read the ceremony before. an altar decorated with tapers, ferns and palms.

The bride, whb entered with her father, wore a gown of white bridal satin fashioned on old-fashioned lines with a shirred bodice. Her short veil fell from a matching Juliet cap, and she carried an arm bouquet of red roses and white chrysanthemums. Miss Myrtle Short, maid of honor, wore aquamarine moire with a silver sequin cap. Her arm bouquet was pink roses and white .chrysanthemums. Miss Marie Coghill’s gown of dubonnet was fashioned similarly to that of Miss Short. She wore 8 silver sequin cap, and carried yellow: roses and white chrysanthe-

mums. : The best man was Clifford Maloy. Hugh Snyder and Thomas Osborn ushered.

e The bride-to-be’s mother wore a gown of wine-red crepe and the bridegroom’s mother wore dubonnet velvet. Both had corsages of pink roses. Fololwing the ceremony a dinner was held in the Kopper Kettle.

Mrs. Dux Is Chairman

For Sorority Dance

Mrs. Francis Dux is arrangements chairman for the annual Christmas. formal dance to be given by the Phi Theta Ohi Sorority Monday night in the Hotel Lincoln Travertine Room. : _. Assisting her are the Mesdames Trueman Rembusch and Edward Dux and Miss Betty Haley. Patrons _patronesses are the Messrs.

. SATURDAY, DEC. 25, 1937

nd Indianapolis Children Were Ready for St. Nick's Annual Visit

Mothers of Pennsylvania Alumni To Be Patronesses for Show

Mothers of local University of Pennsylvania alumni have been ahe nounced as paironesses for the university Mask and Wig Club show, “Pifty-Fifty,” to be presented Tuesday night at English’s Theater. refi

Couple Is W ed In Quiet Rites

A quiet cercinony at 10:30 a. m. today in the First Baptist Church united Miss Kathryn Elizabeth Moreland and Raymond W. Esarey, Lima, O. : Miss Moreland is a daughter of Mrs. Freda Moreland, 2142 Avondale Place. Mr. Esarey is a son of Mr. and Mis. W. H. Esarey, Indianapolis. Dr. Carleton W. Atwater read the ceremony in the presence of the immediate families. ‘The bride wore a royal blue velvet gown, with gabardine accessories, a veiled paibox hat of braided ribbon and a corsage of Jonathan rosehuds. :

Brother Is Best Man

Miss Mary Faust was maid of honor. She wore dubonnet satin gown with black suede accessories and a similar corsage. Bernard

‘Esarey was his brother's best man.

. Mrs. Moreland ‘wore brown with gold accessories, end Mrs, Esarey wore slate blue with black accessories. Bota were hand rose carsages. ? . A wedding breakfast in the Seville Tavern followed the ceremony. The couple left immediately following the breskfast for Lima where they are to be at home after Jan. 15.

Alumnae to Give Dance The annus! holiday dance of the Methodist Hespital Alumnae Association is to re held in the Columbia Club Thurscay night. Amos

The names as announced by Ralph

| Vonnegut and Russell Langsenkamp,

patroness committee members, are: . Mrs. Vivian V. Harrell, Noblesville; Mrs. Ida M. Bollinger, Seymour; Visstates William L. Elder, Henry . Thornton, Albert E. Metzger, Robert Frost Daggett, George Vone negut, Newton Todd, Frank M. Fauvre, Oscar F. Frenzel, C. BE. Whitehill, J. R. Townsend Sr., Ida Langsenkamp, F. T. Bryson, Bert McBride, A. M. Mendenhall, Earl E, Stafford and J. F. Rainier. Wives included are Mesdames J. Kent Leasure, O. N. Torian, Harold V. West and Theodore D. Rhodes. Additional parties have been are ranged for the theater and the supe per dance in honor of the cast at the Columbia Club after the show. One arranged by Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Runnels Havrell is to ine clude Messrs. and Mesdames Her-. bert Woollen, Julian Babbs, Donald Mattison, Henrik Mayer, Wilson Mothershead, Joseph Cain, Erwin Stout; Dr. William McClellan, Phil adelphia, university vice president; Ferguson Mohr, club manager, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shields, Martinsville. Mr. and Mrs. John Collett will join the group at'the dance. Messrs. and Mesdames Harry V, Wade, A. H. Schedenhelm and Hugh Carpenter are to attend together. Mr. and Mrs. John Kinghan and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stempfel are to be in another party. Dan Kibler, a former Penn stu= dent, has arranged a party for the theater and dance, to include Misses ° Mildred Thiesing, Ramona Winefield, Betty Ann Bashore, Mary Wynne and Helen Root; John 0O’Connell, James Stalker, David Fox, - James O'Connor, Thomas and John

Quinn. 3 One party is to include Messrs,

‘and Mesdames John Bookwalter, John B. Stokely and Oriand Church,

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Adler’s party is to include Mr. and Mrs. J. A, Goodman and Mr. and Mrs, Wilf;