Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1938 — Page 4

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Testimonial Dinner for Hospital Trustee and Presentation by

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SATURDAY, JAN. 22, 1938

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Rare Pewter Collection,

On Display at Ball State, Dates From 17th Century

Sheen and Feel of Historic Metal Are So Attractive Connoisseurs ‘Go Without Shoes to Buy It,” Says Miss Johnson.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON It’s the sheen, it’s the feel, it’s the shape that makes old pewter so attractive that “collectors will go without

shoes to buy it.” Miss Anna May Johnson's fine private collection of old pewter, which has been stored in the strong rooms of the John Herron Art Institute since 1920, was shipped this week to Ball State Teachers’ College in Muncie, where it has been placed on display. Miss Johnson, who has been collecting for 35 years, says fine pewter is just like velvet. “There's no silver that compares with it. Everyone instinctively picks up one little teapot just to feel its graceful curves.” ” " " ® ® »

Among the more than 200 pieces in Miss Johnson's collection are a number of 18th Century French and German origin. An old charger, probably Scotch, is dated 1675. Each piece of pewter was “touched” with the maker's mark, often with an added rose or X, topped by a crown, as a guarantee of excellence. Among the pieces in Miss Johnson's collection bearing the rose and crown is a 17th Century English mustard pot. Her Calder-marked American communion service is prized by connoisseurs, Many countries are represented in the display. There are three coffee pots from the collection of James E. Harvey, U. S. minister to Portugal during President Lincoln’s administration. A one-fifth liter measure was brought from Bruges, Belgium, by Charles Dudley Warner. : Miss Johnson began collecting pewter when she was living in Gloucester, Mass., in 1903. Most pewter is found around New England and most private collections of value are to be found around Boston, chief seat of the manufacture and distribution of English pewter, she said, She aiso has collected in Germany, England and

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Aside from the beauty of the metal, its history is picturesque. In China and Japan it goes far into the past. Greatly valued in Europe during the middle ages, it was used first by royalty, nobility and wealthy ecclesiastics, then found its way to less pretentious homes. > In America pewter commonly was used from about 1650 to 1780 for domestic purposes to an extent even greater than in England, for few of the wealthier people could efford silverplate, Miss Johnson revealed. She looked up one plate in the library of the Metropolitan Museum and found all the references in German. King Augustus Adolphus of Sweden stands out in relief on a raised megallion in the center, his archbishops and generals surrounding him. A lamp with a glass reservoir and a divided band indicating the hour's consumption of oil for night use is one of the collection’s most fascinating pieces. And there's an altar lamp in which the original red bohemian glass is in perfect condition. Lamps rarely are found in good condition nowadays, Miss Johnson declared.

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Among her small pieces are a pair of church candlesticks, a pair of French candlesticks and an urn. A gallon measure, probably English, of the type used for measuring in old mills came from Hamilton-Wenham, Mass. A gallon wine-carrier with a spout was used in an Austrian monastery to bring up wine from the cellars and replenish the goblets at table. Also in the collection are porringers, frequently called “bleeding bowls.” Among the valued small pieces are pairs of peppers and salts, snuff boxes and a little fiute from ah old Ipswich, Mass, home. The inkpots, with their tiny drawers and sandboxes and inkwells at the top, are rare. ‘A Dutch one with a divided top cover has a place for quills at the side. Collectors spend much time getting their pieces into good condition, Miss Johnson said. She has her own method of cleaning pewter and she definitely does not like it buffed—a process used to remove oxidization. She especially enjoys talking to collectors who buy for museums. One seldom picks up fine pieces, nowadays, she said, except out from collections. ® = = : »

Mrs. Lenore Coffin prefaced her explanation of the “Love Death” from Wagner's “Tristan and Isolde” yesterday in the Athenaeum by saying that Mme. Lotte Lehmann, symphony guest artist, wept after her rehearsal of the aria. The Friday afternoon lectures of the Indiana State Symphony Society Women's Committee are a great boon to dilettante enjoyment of the concerts. Love, joy, sorrow and longing are all included in the Prelude which is to precede the “Love Death.” Kirsten Flagstad has made the opera a great drawing card in the Metropolitan, Mrs. Coffin said. The “Fire Bird,” the ballet which made Stravinsky famous, was first played in Paris in 1910. Mrs. Coffin contrasted the instrumentation of Kalinnikov’s Symphony No. 1 in G Minor and its great blocks of chords with the instrumental solos characteristic of Stravinsky’s work. One hundred and twenty-five women attended the luncheon and lecture which preceded the fifth pair of concerts.

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Mrs. Frederic M. Ayres, Women's Committee president, and Mr. Ayres are to give an informal party after the concert in the Murat this evening for Mme. Lehmann and Mr. and Mrs. Fabien Sevitzky. Guests will include members of the board of directors of the Indiana State Symphony Society and their wives and members of the executive board of the Women’s Committee and their husbands.

Personal Notes

Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Fairbanks Jr., 5301 Central Ave. have left for Miami Beach, Fla., where they plan to spend several weeks. Mrs. Woods A. Caperton, Mrs. Fairbanks’ mother, is to occupy the Fairbanks’ home in their absence. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Weldon and their small son, Peter, are to return soon from Irvington-on-the-Hudson, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Weldon have been the guests, since before Christmas, of Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Dinwiddie, Mrs. Weldon’s parents. Mrs. Nathan P. Graham, Mrs, Alfred Duggan, Bethlehem, Pa. Mrs. Hortense Rauh Burpee and Miss Estelle Rauh Burpee are to leave next week for Los Angeles, Cal. They are to sail Feb. 2 on the 8. S. Mariposa for Honolulu, the Fiji Islands, New Zealand and Australia. After spending two weeks in the interior of Australia they embark for Auckland, New Zealand, where they will stay for 10 days. From there they will board the S. S.

Aorangi as far as Honolulu and at Honolulu they will sail home on the S. 8. Lurline, landing April 16 in San Francisco.

Miss Joan Metzger left last night for Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where she is to be the guest for two weeks of Miss Evelyn Lilly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly, Crow's Nest. In one box at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra concert tonight are to be Mesdames Samuel Lewis Shank, John W. Kern, Charles Pfafflin, Harry Kahlo, Carlos Recker and John H. Shaw and Miss Clara Gilbert. In Mr. and ‘Mrs. Theodore Griffith’s box are to be Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zoller, Miss I. Hilda Stewart, Miss Sylvia Griffith and William Sullivan. With Dr. and Mrs. G. H. A, Clowes are to be Mr. and Mrs. William R. Higgins and Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Elder. Mrs. Harry D. Hartley, 4051 Washington Blvd, is spending a few days in New York at the Hotel Bilt-

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board meeting is to be held on

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Music Festival For Composers Set for April

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1. Miss Anna May Johnson's pewter collection was shipped this week to Ball State Teachers’ College, where it has been placed on dis-

play.

2. This threesome discusses arrangements for the testimonial din-

ner to be held by Methodist Hospital medical staff for Arthur V.

Brown, hospital trustee, on Wednesday night. Mesdames Robert Clegg, E. J. Bayer and James E. Perry.

They are (left to right) White Cross

Guild presidents are to act as hostesses. 3. Miss Suzanne Brown (left) and Mrs. Katherine Lemcke Enos, New York and Westport, Conn, are to leave Tuesday for LadJolla, Cal., to visit Mrs. Elsie Frazee. Miss Brown and Mrs. Enos are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Russert Fortune, 4. The Indianapolis Branch of the American Association of University Women is to sponsor the opening performance of “Room Serv-

Plans for a composers musical fes- | tival were outlined by Mrs. D. D. | Nye, Bloomington, at a meeting of | the Indiana Federation of Music | Clubs executive board yesterday in | the Hotel Severin. The event will be held April 3 in the Indiana University Music Building, Bloomington. Eight prizes are to be awarded for manuscripts, which must be submitted before Feb. 10. Entrants may receive detailed information by writing Mrs. Nye, state chairman of the Composers Guild. The winning manuscripts are to be played at the festival.

Folk Lore Society

Members are expected to attend sessions of the Folk Lore Society of Indiana meeting on the Bloomington campus at the same time. Five new board members were introduced at yesterday's meeting. They are Mrs. Dillon Geiger, Bloomington, contest chairman, Miss Mary Louise Norton, Bedford, state junior counsellor; Mrs. R. L. Michaels, North Manchester, American folk music chairman; Mrs. George Eggers, Evansville, music in motion pictutes, and Mrs. Dudley Campbell, Rushville, president of District 10. Fund for Artists

Board members decided to take a special collection to support the McDowell Colony, Peterboro, N. H. for American creative artists. Plans were made for the state convention to be held in Muncie on April 20 and 21. Mrs. Lloyd Billman, state president, appointed a committee to select nominees for the offices of president, second vice president and secretary. Reporting at the convention are to be Mrs. Frank Cregor and the district presidents. Twenty seven members attended yesterday's meeting. The next

March 25.

Sunshine Club to Meet

The Children’s Sunshine Club of Sunnyside is to hold its regular monthly meeting at 12:30 p. m. in the L. S. Ayres & Co. auditorium. Each member is to bring jelly for the children. Mrs. B. L. Byrket, chairman, is to be assisted by Mesdames H. B. Mahan, C. P. Barrett,

W. B. Peake, Willlam Weber and William Otto, i

ice,” a comedy, at English’s Theater on Feb. 3.

Assisting with the ar-

rangements are (left to right) Mesdames R. R. Hippensteel, Kenneth

Baker and J. P. Lanr, 5. Mrs. Ralph McKay

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presided at a Founders’ Day

luncheon of Indanapolis Council of the P. E. O. Sisterhood today in

the Lincoln Hotel.

She was assisted by Mrs. V. C. Dougherty.

Jessie Fisher to Become Bride Of William J. Millikan Tonight

One of the season’s attractive weddings is to take place at 8:30 tonight when Miss Jessie Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Fisher, becomes the bride of William J. Millikan, son of Mrs. Harry Boyd Millikan, at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Dr. J. Ambrose

Dunkel will officiate. ¢

The bride-to-be will enter with her father. The ceremony is to be read before an altar banked with cibotium ferns, candelabra and standards filled with white acadia. The pews also will be decorated with acadia. Miss Fisher is to be gowned in old ivory bridal satin, cut on directoire lines. The draped bodice is to be accented by a twisted satin girdle. The neck comes to a low V and long molded sleeves come to a point over the hands. The fitted skirt forms a long train in back. Her veil of old ivory illusion will fall from a Juliet cap of orange blossoms and braided satin.

Miss Fisher's bridal bouquet is to be orchids, gardenias, maidenhair fern, lilies of the valley and narrow satin ribbons with sweetheart roses tied in them. Miss Margaret Branaman, maid of honor, is to wear a shepherdess gown of rose moire taffeta, fashjoned with a square neckline, and matching velvet bows separating the shoulders from the ruffled sleeves. The fitted bodice is to be shirred to the full skirt and she will wear a Juliet cap of the same mategial as the dress. Her cascade bouqilet is to be of gerbera, yellow and pink rununclus and iris, tied with a wide satin bow and streamers. Miss Marion Gearen and Mrs. Benjamin T. Carter, bridesmaids, are to wear gowns similar to Miss Branaman’s in heavenly blue, and their Dresden flower bouquets are to

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be of yellow and pink and persian lilies, tied with contrasting streamers. Mrs. Robert Pruyn and Miss Jane Beasley, also bridesmaids, are to wear identical dresses in Windsor Rose Pink, with Dresden flower

bouquets in yellow and blue with Wedgewood iris and contrasting streamers. Little Nancy Lewis, flower girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lewis, Ft. Wayne, will wear a replica of the bridesmaids’ dresses in Sweetheart rose taffeta and she will carry a natural weave French basket edged in pink and filled with Dresden flowers combining all the wedding colors. Organist to Play Frank M. Millikan is to be his brother's best man and the groomsmen are to include Thomas E. Millikan, a cousin; Pickett Miles, Miami, Fla.; Don E. Fobes, Detroit, and Riley Adams Jr. The couple plans to leave for a 10-day wedding trip to Miami Beach, Fla. They are to be at home in Indianapolis. Miss Fisher's go-ing-away costume is to be a mixed brown woolen suit, trimmed with cross fox and worn with brown accessories. Miss Fisher is a graduate of Butler University and a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Mr. Millikan was graduated from Wabash College and is a member of Beta Theta, Pi fraternity,

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Two Woman's Department

Club Units Map Meetings

Two divisions of the Woman's Department Club, the Garden Department and the American Home Department, are to meet next week

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in the clubhouse. Miss Margaret March-Mount of the United States Forestry Department, is to speak on the subject “Beauty From Ashes,” at the Garden Department's meeting Friday. Miss March-Mount is also educational director for the Federal Government’s central states’ conservation program. Garden club presidents of Indianapolis are to be guests. Honored guests are to be Mrs. M. Clifford Townsend and Mrs. Edwin I. Poston, Martinsville, Indiana Federation of Clubs president,

Show Plans to Be Discussed

Plans for the Home Show exhibit and the garden party to be held in April are to be discussed. Mrs. Willard N. Clute and Mrs. Howard Painter have arranged a tea to conclude the afternoon’s program. Assisting them are to be Mesdames C. H. Augstein, Frank E, Gates, Tilden PF, Greer, Oliver S. Guio, Albert J. Hueber, Rolland Maurice Pettit, G. H. Shadinger, Emil "H. Soufflot, Boyd Templeton and Miss Mary May Bryce and Miss Carrie M. Hoag. Reservations for the luncheon are to be made with Mrs. Mary Hedges or Mrs. Frank O. Downs. Dr. John G. Benson, superine

tendent of the Meth Hospital, is to speak on ‘From “ dgwem to

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Penthouse” at the annual luncheonmeeting of the American home department of the Woman's Department Club at 12:45 p. m. Wednesday. Mrs. E. C. Rumpler is to discuss “Books, Art and Music Essentials in the Home” before the Applied Education section of the club at 12 p. m, and Mrs. Kathleen Somers Wallace, soloist, is to sing, accompanied by Mrs, Lenore Ivy Frederickson. Mrs. Robert Shingler is arrangements chairman for the luncheon, assisted by Mrs. Claude T. Hoover. Decorations are to be wigwam place cards and a penthouse.

Assistants Announced

Mrs. Clyde V. Montgomery, dining room chairman, is to be assisted by Mrs. Myron Jay Spring, vice chairman, and Mesdames Albert M. Adair, Robert M. Bryce, Frank O. Downs, Alvin G. Jose, Lillian R. Lewis, C. H. Maston, Charles F. Miller, Lawrence McTurnan, John Fhippe, Frank C. Walker, Martin H. Wallick and J. M. Whitehead. Mrs. John F. Engelke and Mrs, W. C. Royer at the door are to be assisted by Mrs. C. J. Finch and Mrs. Paul T. Rochford, cochairmen of hospitality. A brief business session is to be held at 2:15 p. m. with Mrs. Carl J.

Sunnyside Guild To Hold Benefit Dance on Feb. 26

The annual Sunnyside Guild dine

ner dance will be held Feb, 26 in | the

Columbia Club, under the direction of Mrs. Howard Linkert, it was announced today. The dance is given each year to help tubercular patients. Mrs. G. J. Bookwalter is reservations chair man. Mrs. Irving D. Hamilton is guild president. Other officers are Mrs, Wallace O. Lee, first vice president; Mrs. Bookwalter, second vice presi= dent: Mrs. William H. Hanning, sec= retary; Mrs. Theodore E. Root, assistant secretary; Mrs. Wayne O. Stone, treasurer; Mrs. LeRoy Mars tin, corresponding secretary, Directors are Mesdames Oliver P, Fauchier, G. G. Schmidt, Robert Sturm. Mrs, Floyd Mattice is pare liamentarian.

Kappa Chapter

Schedules First Brahms Recital

The first program of the year’s series on “The Living Brahms” by Kappa chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music honor sorority, is to be presented Tyesday evening in the home of Mrs. William N. Fleme ing Jr. Miss Helen Somers will discuss “Nineteenth Century Social Forces and their Effects on German Thought.” A program devoted to the music of the versatile Brahms will follow. A covered dish dinner is to be served at 6:30 o'clock. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs, C. J. Gaunt and the Misses Mary Gottman, Virginia Hitchcock, Margaret Kapp and Mae Engle. The Brahms program will be presented by Miss Dorothy Woods, violinist, and Miss Mae Engle, pianist; Miss Ruth Wagener, soprano, and Mrs. Lenore Ivey Predrickson, pianist; Miss Sara Miller, pianist, and a string quintet, including Miss Jean Orloff, Woods, Charlotte Reeves, Harriette Payne and Mrs. Saul Bernat.

Miss Bryan Heads Aged Home Board

Miss Juliette Bryan is to head the board of the Indianapolis Home for the Aged Inc. during the nex year, according to announcement today. Other officers elected recently are Mrs. Fred Hoke, vice president. Mrs. Gerry M. Sanborn, recording secre tary; Mrs. Berkley Duck, corresponds ing secretary, Mrs. Charles P. Lesh, treasurer; Mrs. Ralph K. Smith, ase sistant treasurer. Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Duck and Miss Bryan were re-elected to the board of directors. Three new directors named were Mrs, C. Harvey Brade

Weinhardt, chairman, in charge, §

ley, Mrs. Orland Church and Mrs, Sanborn, .