Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1938 — Page 4

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New Culver Pos office ‘Mural by Local Artist Depicts Hoosier Scene

~Mrs.; Henrik Mayer Completes Federal Art Project for Upstate City, Plans Vacation of ‘Domesticity.’

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By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON When the inhabitants of Culver and its environs saunter into their neat little postoffice today they'll find a startling change in the hitherto blank wall space over the postmaster’ s door. Adding considerably to the Federal decor is a colorful mural depicting “The Arrival of the Mail,” the work of Mrs. Henrik Mayer, young Indianapolis artist. Mrs. Mayer, who was commissioned to do the painting as a U. S. Treasury Department art project, ‘rolled up the canvas and took it by truck to Culver yes-

terday. The mural, which is 10% feet long and 4% feet high, ‘consists of a large center panel with smaller panels at either d. The center figures, two-thirds life size, include two cadets redding letters, two postal employees bending over the mail bags and a farmer and summer resident calling for mail. Six smaller studies picturing activities around tne lake—agriculture, camping, SHimmenE: Culver Military Academy, sailing and riding—are represented in the narrow side panels. The coloring of the canvas is designed to blend with the creamcolored wall, the pinky-gray marble wainscoting and dark brown woodwork of the postoffice interior. The warm gray running «athrough the study harmonizes with the blue-gray of the mailmen’s attire and the absolute gray of the cadet uniforms. Mrs. Mayer was commissioned to paint the mural as the result of submitting a sketch for another postoffice in 1936. Both she and her husband entered drawings which were identified only by numbers. Treasury officials were amused to find that first and second place winners in the competition had the same address. While Mr. Mayer was winner, Mrs. Mayer, as runnerup, was given the appointment for the next available space. “The Arrival of the Mail” is the. first mural pdinted by the young artist, who received her B. F. A. at Yale in 19832. It represents a year’s work with steady painting from 10 a. m. to 5. p. m. daily during the past two months. Her earlier pictures have been principally flower studies and water colors. She has exhibited in the Pennsylvania Water olor Show, Indiana Artists’ Club exhibits and has had shows at Louisville and the John Herron Art Museum. : After such a concentrated period of labor Mrs. Mayer is eager to catch up on all the things she’s had no time for during the past months. As she waited for the last paint strokes to dry before setting out for Culver yesterday the charming young artist said she felt a wave of domesticity SweSping over her “apparently in the form of making cookies and cleaning closets

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Mrs. William G. Sparks’ rare combination of talent and practical experience with things musical is responsible for a large of the success of “Dollars to Doughnuts,” the revue which opened last night in the Civic Theater. She composes lyrics and music practically any - time and anywhere. When Jac Broderick, dance director, suggested a current events ballet during a rehearsal of Mrs. Sparks’ composition, “I Heard a Waltz in Vienna,” the young musician said it couldn't be done. But before she knew it she was improvising as Mr. Broderick called out performers to take the parts; and Bob Stewart was writing it all down. The very successful number was thus pieced together with dances and music composed at the same time. Themes just pop into her head as she’s doing things around the house. She composed the Viennese waltz in 15 or 20 minutes, she said. Mrs. Sparks, who with Charles Gaynor played the double piano accompaniment for the show, did the vocal and piano arrangements for the revue and a considerable part of the staging of the musical numbers. Far from being a novice at this kind of work, while living in New York a few years ago she did all the arranging, coaching and playing for Gertrude Lawrence in Lew Leslie's “International Revue.” She also played for Anton Dolin, former dance partner of Anna Ludmila, in the “International Revue.” For a year and a half she was vocal arranger for Warner Bros. and was one of the y and sing over Station WOR in New York. Since 1831 she on the staff of both local radio stajions. - Mr Frank J. Hoke, Mr. and Mrs. Joh P. Collett and ames Patterson, Crawfordsville, attended the opening I oy T. Parry and Mr. and Mrs. Otto N. Frenzel were together as were 2 Dr, and Mrs. Dudley Pfaff and Mr. and Mrs. Irving M. Fauvre. ' In one group were Mesdames Raymond P. Van Camp, Rosamond Van Camp Hil, Stanley M. Timberlake, George Ziegler and Mrs. Chauncy Eno." Other first nighters included Messrs. and Mesdames Mortimer C. Furscott, Harold B. Tharp, Robert S. Wild, Paul Richey, C. C. Robinson, Joseph T. McDermott and Theodore B. Griffith. Others were Mesdames William Henley Mooney, Raymond F. Mead, W. D. Gatch and the Misses Anne Sayles and Craigie Gunn.

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In Ernest Bloch’s epic , “America,” four Civil War songs are played at the same time: on different instruments, Mrs. Lenore Coffin explained to members of the Women’s Committee of the Indiana State Symphony Society yesterday. “Dixie” is carried by the woodwinds, “John Brown’s Body” by the strings, “Battle Cry of Freedom” by ‘the horns and “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp” by the trombones and tubas. The score also calls for a steel plate, a heavy fammer 304 4 desp huss aitomebile hor. The jpriaay aterm ncert lecture at the Athenaeum.

Personals

Dr. and Mrs. Clark W. Day, 29 W. 42d St., who have been visiting in

Florida for.the last two weeks, have -

returned home. Mrs. Waldo FP. Blievernicht’ left today for St. Louis, where she will meet her three .sisters, Mrs. W. F. Grantges and Miss Margaret Rohan, both of Minneapolis, and Miss Celeste Rohan, Joplin, Mo. They are to motor to New Orleans and Miami, and will visit in Cuba and Key West. Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson, New York, was honored guest at an informal dinner last night at Canary Cottage. Guests included Mesdames Henry W. Ker, J. H. Armington, Arthur S. Brown, Fred J. Brown, Lowell S. Fisher, Ernest

W. Fullenwider, E. B. Thompson, C. W. Foltz, J. Malcolm Dunn, O. E. Mehring, E. J. Unruh, Hugh J. Scudder, Frank E. Weimer and Frank Streightoff. Mrs. Richardson, who is connected with the Crowell Publishing Co., was to have been speaker at the February Council of Women, meeting, but was unable to appear because of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Josiah K. Lilly and Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly, Crow’s Nest, have returned from a South Amer-

]ican cruise and are staying in New

York at the Hotel Ambassador. Mrs. William H., Stafford, 3522 Central Ave, ‘has returned from Boca Raton, ’ Fla., where she was the guest of Mrs. Nicholas H. Noyes of Indianapolis. Mrs. Noyes is stay=ing at the Boca Raton Club. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Greathouse Jr. will return today after a 10 days’ motor trip to Florida. Mrs. Charles Peddle has returned from St. Louis where she has been visiting. Mrs. Peddle is staying here with her sister, Mrs. Frank Bopp. Mrs. Frederic M. Ayres, Crow's Nest, will return the first of next week from a New York trip. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Kotteman, 3121 N. Pennsylvania St., have left for Hollywood, Fla., for the remainder of the season.

‘Art in Medicine’ To Be Talk Topic

Dr. Edgar F. Kiser is to speak on “Art in Medicine” at John Herron Art Museum at 4 p. m. tomorrow. The lecture will mark the closing day of the Indianapolis Art Association’s Hobby Fair. Mrs. James Wason and Mrs. J. H. Toy of the association will be hostesses. Mrs. G. H. Shadinger will speak over WFBM at 6 p. m. Tuesday on “Roman Painting in Pompeii.” The lecture is one of a series arranged by Mrs. Noble Dean on subjects related to works of art owned by the Museum. Mrs. Fredric H. Sterling, chairman of the membership committee, has announced the addition of Mrs. Henri Lane Bruner and Mrs. Paul Smith to the telephone committee. The membership committee is to meet at 10230 a. m. Monday at the

Review Will Be Given By Mrs. E. C. Rumpler

Mrs. E. C. Rumpler is’ tp review “Trumpets Calling,” by Dora Aydelotte, at a colonial tea and style show 2 p.m. Thursday at the William H. Block & Co. auditorium. The Governor: Oliver P. Morton Chapter, Daughters of the Union, is sponsoring the event. Mrs. M. D. Didway will play a program of organ music. Mrs. Alma Robertson and Mrs. Besse Hermann are to sing, accompanied by Mrs. Didway. The arrangements committee includes Mesdames Walter Baxter, A.

Spiegel, Robert A. Waterbury, Thomas Larkin, Grover Workman, Hosp Fred Worl, James’ Hails William ford. and )

Mu Phi Epsilon To Give Brahms Recital Tuesday

Music by Brahms is to be presented at a meeting of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music honor society,

at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday at the home of a patroness, Mrs. Harry Sidrow, 3492 E. Fall Creek Blvd. Miss Sarah Miller arranged the program, which is to be built about the theme “Contemporary Culture of the B Period.” Assisting the hostess will be Misses Helen Myers, Lucille Pritchard, Imogene Pierson, Ramona Wilson, Alice Rayburn, Adrienne Schmedel, Margaret Kapp ¢nd Mesdames R. D. Howell, Saul Bernat and A. L. Hicks. Miss Ruth Wagener, soprano, is to sing Von Ewige Liebe Op. 43 No. 1, Wiegenlied Op. 49 No. 4 and Vergebliches Standchen, accompanied by Mrs. Lenore Frederickson. Miss Miller, pianist, is to follow with four waltzes. Mrs. Frederickson is to play “Der Tod das ist die Kuhle Nacht,” “Am Sonntag Morgen,” “O Kuhle Wald,” and “Der Sc¢hmied.” Miss. Mary Gottman, pianist, is to conclude the program with Sonata Op. 1.

‘W. H. Book to Speak

William H, Book, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, will address members of the Woman’s Rotary Club at 12:30 p. m.- Monday at Columbia Club on “New Fashions in Taxes.” Members have been invited to bring guests.

Times Photos.

‘1. Mothers of Orchard School pupils are holding a series of meetings to discuss Winifred Bain’s “Parents Look at Modern Education.” . Three of the group’s enthusiastic members are (left to right) Mesdames Raymond Mead, L. Landon Davis and Thomas Hendricks. 2. Mrs. E. E. Whitehill (left) and Mrs. Taylor E. Land sedrched for everything from “Dollars to Doughnuts” in a “quest for properties used in the Civic Theater's musical revue which opened yesterday. © 3.-Mrs., Marcus A. Feinberg was Miss Barbara Jean Barskin,

daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Abraham J. Barskin, before her marriage

Thursday night in the Broadmoor Country Club. Mr. and Mrs. Feinberg are on a wedding trip to California and Honolulu and will be at

home in Indianapolis after April 1.

4, Mrs. Mason King (center), alumnae president, is arrangi

(W. Hurley Ashby, F. R. P. 8.) Indianapolis Alpha Phi Sorority

g for the organization’s state day lunch-

eon and dance to be held next Saturday in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mrs. H. A. McColly (left) and Miss Lucille McDonald are assisting, 5. Mrs. Gus Meyer is a member of the Sunnyside Guild’s program committee for the annual ball next Saturday night in the Columbia Club. Program advertising and dance proceeds furnish revenue to carry on the guild's philanthropic activities for the care of tubercular

patients. (W. Hurley Ashby, F F. R.

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Alpha Chi Omegas Will Close Annual State Day With Dance

Observance of Alpha Chi Omega’s 38th annual State Day will close tonight with a formal dance at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

More than 200 sorority members and their guests are to attend. Highlighted on the evening’s program will be a group of dances illuminated by a large bronze electrically lighted lyre while the orchestra plays Alpha Chi songs. Patrons and patronesses are Messrs. and Mesdames George R. Jeffrey, Earl W. Kiger, Fred C. Tucker, L. R. Zapf, Kenneth E. Lancet, T. W. Ayton, Claus H. Best, T. M. Rybolt, Robert L. Mason, Charles W. Jones and Robert Wolfe, Dayton, O “Alpha Chi Omega on Parade” was the. theme of the luncheon held at the club at noon. Indi-

tion ‘of officers. love, 204 N. Randolph, hostess. hostess.

luncheon. Late Book. 1 p

Renard.

Odyssey.” - St. Philip Neri Altar Soc. 8:30 p.

Newman 4610 N. Jinois. Margaret. Eberhardt, president.

‘Queen Marguerite. 2 p. m. hostess.

EVENTS SORORITIES Alpha Chapt, Omega Chi. 8 p. m. Wed. Miss Frances Patterson, en Delta Chi Sigma. 8p. m. tonight. Y. W. C. A. NominaAlpha Chapt., Sigma Delta Sigma. Mon. night. Miss Mildred ManLambda Kappa Rho. 8 p. m. Mon. Mrs. E. J. Johnson, 1711 College,

CLUBS - Mothers’ Club, Alpha Omicron Pi. Wed. Chapter House, Regular

. m. Tues. Marott Hotel. Mrs. C. V. Bule, Rostess, assisted by Nesaaine Stowell Watson, J. D. Peterson and C.

Irvington Woman’s. Mon. Mrs. J. L. Schell, 5510 ‘Washington Blvd, hostess. Mrs. John Atherton to review “An American Doctor’s

Arabian Chapt., International Travel-Study Club Inc. Noon Tues. Hamilton Food Shop. Mrs. Jennie W. Barnes, charter member, to review club's history. Mis, Joh Thorburgh fo speak on

< CARD PARTIES : Mothers’ Club, Butler University. 3 p. m. Tues. man, |

8. George's Episcopal Church. 8.30.9. m. Mon. Parish Hall, Mis LODGES . Sun. Castle Hall. Mrs, Nicholas Tacobellt ‘agmona, Grove, Woadmen's Olle, 61. x Jim, S18. Yooh,

m. Mon. Church.

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anapolis alumnae chapter, hostess to alumnae and active members from all parts of the state, were represented by Mrs. Jeffrey, who presided.

Founders Attended

Seated with her were two founders of the sorority, Mrs, Scobey Cunningham and Miss Estelle Leonard and alumnae chapter presidents from Ff. Wayne and Lafayette, alumnae club presidents from Greencastle, Richmond, Bloomington, Evansville, = South Bend and Greensburg and presi=dents of four active chapters at Butler, DePauw, Indiana and Purdue Universities. The speakers’ table was decorated with three large silver bowls filled with spring flowers and silver candelabra. Place cards depicted painted figures wearing costumes of silk in pastel shades and carrying parade banners. Smaller tables throughout the room were decorated with candles in pastel shades and boutonnieres of spring flowers.

Dressed as Drum Major

Preceding the - luncheon, Mrs.

| Jeffrey extended a formal wel-

come. and introduced the founders. Following the luncheon, the pro-

gram opened with the appear-|

ance of Mrs. J. C. Fix dressed in drum major’s costume of white

| flannel trousers, white satin blouse

and white hat. She was accompanied by two drummers dressed in white satin with white flannel capes lined with red satin. They paraded to the speakers’ table, where the drum major introduced visiting representatives. Music was provided by Mrs. G. D.

White Cross Guild Will Hear

Talk by Methodist Pastor '

Central “Avenue Methodist Church -

The Rev. Guy- O. Carpenter,

pastor, will speak on “Books and Life” at a White Cross Guild meeting

at 2:15 p. m. Wednesday at the Auditorium. Following the lecture, tea will be served in the Ernst Burford Hospital library, which has been relocated, enlarged and redecorated.

The Second Presbyterian Church Guild library unit is in charge of the tea. Mrs. Louise D. Dixon, president, has appointed Mrs. Howard Maxwell, arrangements chairman, assisted by Miss Julia Walk, Mrs. Royce B. Stokes and Mrs, Earle Poling. Donations Requested

Each of 31 White Cross units has been requested to bring a new book or donate a magazine subscription to the library at the tea. Members of unit guilds have been invited to bring guests. The executive board will meet in Nurses’ Home headquarters at 10 a. m. and remain for a pitchin dinner. Mrs. C. H. Castor is in charge, assisted by Mesdames H. L. Coyner, Gilbert Kidd, L. 8. Strong, H. A. Schad and Charles Green. - The Plainfield Guild, newest unit,

Sptodish Hospital Nurses’ Home

Frances Wysong,

Norman Warren Will Wed Today

Miss Frances Wysong, daughter of, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin G. Wysong will become the bride of Norman D, Warren, son of Mr. and

today. Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel will read the ceremony at the home of the bride’s parents before an altar banked with palms and ferns and lighted with seven-branch candelae

bra. Members of the immediate families are to attend. ; Preceding the ceremony -Miss Viola Cochran is to sing “Because” and “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,” accompanied by - Miss Gertrude

will hold its second all-day meet-| ree

ing Monday in headquarters and |

work on “hospital suplies. | The business women’s auxiliary of Grace Church Guild will meet Monday night. North Church and Berean Guilds will meet Tuesday; Quaker unit, Wednesday; Irvington and Broad Ripple Guilds, Thursday, and Alpha Omicron Alpha Guild on Friday.

‘Club Wil Hear

Mrs. A. H. Vestal

Mrs. Albert H. Vestal, Anderson, will speak on “Life in Washington Today and Yesterday” at Indiana Woman’s Republican Club meeting at 2 p. m. Thursday at Columbia

Club. Mrs. Delbert O. Wilmeth, néwly elected president, will preside. Mrs. Frank L. Boles will sing, accompanied by Mrs. M. B. McDonald. Mrs. Max Norris, hostess chairman, will be assisted by Mesdames Elmer Johnson, Lee Reed, Roy Steb- | na bing, Clarence R. Martin, Jack Tilson, Charles A. Mann, Indianapolis, Verle Cooper and A. E. Springer of

Miss Anderson; Charles Combs, Bloom-

Plan Prelenten Dance. The St. Joan of Aro and Cathe ‘High School Clubs are to s

field, and Roy Dunnington, Muncie.

| Las Amigas Election Held

Mrs. Jack Matthews is newly elected president of the Las Amigas

Club. Other officers named recently {at a meeting in the home of Mrs. | Walter Luenking are: Mrs. Jeanne | Hotel

The bride will enter with her ‘father. She will wear a gown of white net with tafieta applique on the bodice. An illusion shoulder length veil will fall from her seed

a bouquet of gardenias and freesias. Miss Nelle Hollingsworth, her cousin’s only attendant, will be gowned in coral rose chiffon, fashe joned on flowing lines, with a quilted : jacket. Her bouquet will be mixed spring flowers. James C. Warren is to be his brother’s best man and Samuel AB Watson will usher. Mrs. Wysong’s gown is to be of blue lace with a gardenia ‘corsage and the bridegroom’s mother will wear blue crepe and lace with a gardenia’ corsage. A reception for 40 guests will be held following the ceremony. Watson, Mrs. William McClennon

assist in the dining room. The couple is to leave on a short motor trip and is to be at home after March 1 at 3546 Balsam Ave. Apt. 1. The bride's travelling costume will be of navy sheer worn er a gray Persian lamb coat Ww ith

The bride Fi graduated Butler University, where she Ww a member of Zeta Tau Alphs sorority.

Club History to Be Redd Mrs, Daisy Voyles and Mrs, F | Thompson, president, are to read

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the 10th anniversary dinner. toibe

Held gt 6:30 p.m. m. Tuesday in he Lincoln, Mrs, ]

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Mrs. James A. Warrerct 3:30 p.m.

pearl Juliet cap and she will carry .

and Miss Lucile Hollingsworth will :

the history of the Sorrelle Club at

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