Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1938 — Page 4

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Mrs. Nolan Dexterously Combines Double Role

Of Author and Wife

In Hubbub of Home Life She Finds Inspiration

For Her Literary Effort; Women’s Symphony Unit's Aids Named

Being an author, wife, mother and competent manager of a rather large and “gll-over-the-place” family is no mean job. And to do that job well is an accomplishment. * Mrs. Val Nolan, wife of the U. S. District Attorney, is all those things with a verve that is hard to equal. She has been writing on and off most of her life, but her first professional experience was in Evansville when she

worked on a newspaper. ] Writing was in her blood, and, as has been said often, one thing leads to another. The next move in this fascinating game of putting pen (or typewriter) to paper was the short story. Time entered into the equation to some extent when she married and became actively engaged in her own home tasks. With babies needing sunshine, th Nolans went to Florida, and there “Jeannette” found the time add inspiration really te start writing. : : LL When asked, in a rather sepulchral whisper, how and when she wrote, Mrs. Nolan was amused. Her sole retort was that she wrote “when she could and where she could.” On being questioned as to the difficulty of absolute concentration in a house filled with young voices at high pitch, ringing telephones, and all the multitude of annoyances besetting a housewife she mentioned the comment of another author. Mrs. B——, having spent many months and many unavailing pages among the Howls of her brood, decided to do the thing in the right way. If she was to be an author why not be temperamental? She left, bag and baggage, for a “quiet place.” She abandoned all the dear familiar surroundings in which she had written book after book. She was, at last, alone.

Heroic Gesture Proves Futile

For the first few hours she gloried in it. “This,” she thought, “will give me the creative incentive that I must have.” But slowly the mood faded and the renowned Mrs. B— found herself at a loss. No noise. No vacuum sweeper to interrupt the stream of creative thought. No horde of youngsters playing “cops and robbers” over the pages of her manuscript. After a few hours of this beautiful peace she packed up and returned to the bedlam that since has been the background of many successful books. This, perhaps,.is the secret of Mrs. Nolan’s success. She is indomitable. During the first few years short stories for the very young were her forte. Then came a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine, “The

- Mystery at Craycroft,” later translated into braille by the New

York School for the Blind. Inspiration reached a high tide and in successive years, “Barry Barton's Mystery,” “Second Best” and “The Young Douglas” appeared. The last two were tremendously popular in England and the latter, a history of the ill-starred Mary; Queen of Scots, was the Junior Literary Guild Book of the Month. Mrs. Nolan’s only book for adults so far has 'been “New Days, New Ways,” which also won acclaim in England. One of her literary superstitions is to use a first name twice. That is, if the name was primarily incorporated into a successful book. It has always brought her luck. > Next fall “Where Secrecy Begins” is to be published, and in the late summer an adventurous history of Red Hugh O’Donnell will be displayed on the book stalls. Mrs. Nolan is despairing of ever finding the right title for the story of Red Hugh and announced rather wanly that so far “about 40” had been considered, Behind every success story there is another story. How it all came to be! The qualities of mind, heart and persistence that have caused a mere someone to be “somebody.” The answer probably is simplicity and strength of purpose added to talent. She loves writing books for children because their popularity never dies. The field for the child mind is, in a way, smaller and more specialized. The child mind is immortal beyond the reach of literary trends, phases and fads. It can always be touched and is usually responsive. :

Women Symphony Aids Announced :

Mrs. Frederic M. Ayres, Indiana State Symphony Society women’s committee president, announces the executive committee members who are to serve as standing committee chairmen for the coming

ar. They are to include Mrs. Charles Latham, women’s committee memberships; Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, finance; Mrs. Philip R. MalJory, concert subscriptions; Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, state activities; Mrs. Frank Hoke, children’s concerts; Mrs. Herman C. Wolff, special funds; Mrs. Herbert M. Woollen, promotion; Mrs. Elsa Pantzer Test, social, and Mrs. Thomas Harvey Cox, programs. Clifton M. Utley, director of the Chicago Council of International Relations, will speak on in Relation to World Affairs Today” at his final lecture before the Indianapolis League of Women Voters’ Wednesday night meeting at Caleb Mills Hall. Mrs. E. Mark Ferree, leader of captains, heads the committee to promote sales for this meeting. Her assistants are to be Mesdames John K. Goodwin, Alfred W. Noling, Richard M. Fairbanks Jr, Thomas Carver, Joseph A. Miner, H. Foster Clippinger, Ludwell Denny, Edwin Ferree, Joseph R. Todd, Frank T. Cox, Lester Smith, N. Chambers, William Allen Moore, Frank Streightoff, Horace Shonle, Ernest Rupel and Guy H. Shadinger. : «Government’s Role in Labor Disputes” will be the topic of Dr. Earl R. Beckner of Butler University at the 1:45 p. m. Monday of the economic welfare group’s final meeting. Mrs. Sylvester Johnson will entertain the child welfare committee Tuesday. Mrs. William H. Morrison will talk on “Problems

-of A the final program.

Government and its operation committee is to meet at 10

“The United States’ Foreign Policy

Personals

Mr. and Mrs. A. R. McComb, San Marino, Cal., are house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley R. Gallahue, 4404 N. Meridian St. Mrs. Charles Brossman, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Frank Parrish, and ‘Mr. Parrish at their home in New York, has left with them and their children on 2 motor trip to Texas. : Mrs. Otis Cooper has gone to Hollywood, Fla., to vsit Miss Alice Cooper and Miss Adelaide Conte, formerly of Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs, Ralph Boozer and their daughters, Misses Alice and Joan Boozer, have returned from Biloxi, Miss., and New Orleans.

Music and Play Scenes Feature Sorority Party

| Mrs. W. Finley Wright presented scenes from Maxwell Anderson’s “High Tor” at the annual guest day program by Indianapolis alumnae, Alpha Chi Omega sorority, today at the American United Life Insurance auditorium. [| Mrs. Howard L. Clippinger played impromptu organ numbers throughout the afternoon and Mrs. Albert M. Campbell, pianist, played several selections. Miss Edith Allen is general chairman of the event, assisted by Mrs. Hilda Kreft. On the hospitality committee are Mrs. John W. Burkhart, chairman, Mrs. George R. Jeffrey, organization president, and Mesdames Ellis W. Hay, H. K. Weirick, G. D. Quinn and Miss Rea Bauer. o 3 Assisting at the tea tg follow the program were be *' Mesdames George L. Clark, Kenneth E, Lancet, E. T. Small, Richard H. Oberreich, James W. Young, Robert L. Mason and Misses Mildred Blacklidge, Charlotte ainwright, Virginia Sawyer, Elinore Young, Esther Yancey and Mary Margaret Hill, Mesdames Charles E. Thomas, Fred C. Tucker, Fermor S. Cannon and James M. Ogden presided at the

tea table. Students Plan

Play at Tudor Hall Open House ——

Tudor Hall School will hold its annual open house, beginning at 2 p. m. Monday. | A program of representative activities is to be presented. Student council members| will describe work in the upper school and a chorus of high school students will present excerpts from the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, “Iolanthe.” A rhythm band, composed of pupils from Class 1 and 2, will play. Classes 3 and will present two playlets and Classes 5 and 6 -will offer a group of Danish dances. A Professor Quiz contest based on

social studies will be staged by pupils from Classes 7 and 8.

Zeta Tau Alpha Field Secretary Will Be Honored

Miss Marion Mayer, Birmingham, Ala., Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority national field secretary, is the weekend guest of Butler University chapter and Indianapolis alumnae chapter. al Miss Mayer is to be honored at a tea given at 3 p. m. tomorrow by the Butler chapter at the house, 329 W. Hampton Dr. Receiving with her will be Miss Ina Stanley, chapter president; Mrs. Jean Mills, chapter hostess; Miss Louise Berndi, alumnae adviser; Miss Thelma Haworth, alumnae president, and Mrs, Leland R. Smith, faculty ally. Mrs. . Karl S. Means, chapter

-| sponsor, will serve. The tea table is to be decorated with spring flowers |.

and white violets, the sorority flower. Mrs. Robert B. Miller will play piano selections. Miss Dorothea Craft is genera arrangements chairman, assisted by Miss Rosemary Johnston and Miss Faye Mendenhall, invitations; Miss

| Frances Luichinger and Miss Marg-

ery Scarborough, decorations; Miss Elnora Hartman, publicity; Miss Rosemary Leslie and Miss Neoral Flack, refreshments. Guests will be faculty members, sorority presidents’ council members, alumnae and friends of the chapter. Miss Mayer is to be honored guest at the alumnae chapter meeting Monday night at the home of Mrs. T. R. Lyda, 4037 Guilford Ave. Officers for the coming year are to be elected. Announcement is to be made of the Epsilon province convention April 22-23 at James Millikan University, Decatur, Ill. Assisting Mrs. Lyda will be Misses Esther Renfrew, Louise Kerr, Helen Light, Geneva Miller and Mrs. John Lyman.

N. Delaware, hostess. Phi Gamma Rho. 8 p. m. Wed. W. 15th, hostess. Sigma Delta

cie guests of local Alpha chapt,

National F Fletcher

Janet Ada.

EVENTS

SORORITIES

treian. 2 p. m. Tues. Mrs. Murray DeArmand, 5662 Mrs. E. E. McLaren, assistant hostess. Seraph Ashjian to speak on “Oriental Rugs.”

geil meeting. bo u. 2 p. m. Sun. Canary Cottage. Quarterly meet- _ ing. Delta chapt. from Anderson and Gamma chapt. from Mune-

LODGES

Catherine Merrill Tent.'D. U. V. C. W. 1 p. m. Mon. Ft. Friendly. ration Postoffice Clerks, aux. 130. 1:30 p. m. Tues. Election of state convention delegates.

CLUBS

p. m. Tues. Cifaldi’s. Luncheon. 21st anniversary. Indianapolis Roller. 8:15 p. m. Wed. Hotel Lincoln. Arrangements - to be completed for private skating party April 15.

CARD PARTY Pp. m. Sun. Hall

Mrs. Eugene P. Saltmarsh, 5013

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were to provide music at the annual Guest Day program American United Life Insurance auditorium by Indianapolis alumnae of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. organ selections during the afternoon and Mrs. Campbell was to play several piano solos. :

tickets for the United States Olympic May 8 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds under auspices of the Indiana Saddle Horse Association.

of Dr. fore the legislation diana

p. m. Tuesday at the Hotel Wash-

o— : ra Times Photos. 1. Mrs. G. H. A. Clowes (center) meets often these days with Mrs.

H. H. Arnholter (left) and Mrs. Jacob Mueller to discuss arrangements for the Indisna State Symphony Society Women’s Committee card party a general chairman. Mrs. Arnholter heads the telephone committee and Mrs. Mueller is literature chairman, ”

p. m. Monday, April 25, at the Marott Hotel. Mrs. Clowes is

and Mrs. Albert M. Campbell

2. Mrs. Howard L. Clippinger (left) today at the

Mrs. Clippinger was to play impromptu 3. Mrs. John Bertermann II is a member of the committee selling Equestrian Team’s appearance

(W. Hurley Ashby Photo.) 4. In private life, romantic Maid Marion is Miss Elizabeth Weiss,

who stopped amid props at the Civic Theater recently for a moment's chat with Robin Hood, played by William Shirley. Phyllis Bell (right) rested nearby. “Robin Hood” is being presented. three times this weekend by the Children’s Civic Theater. :

5. “Tiptoe through the tulips”—hums little Susan Gastineau (left),

daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Gastineau, as she peeps over some decorations for the Indianapons Athletic Club’s fourth annual Tulip Time Ball next Saturday night. Nancy Owen, L. S. Owen, is more interested in exploring the huge posy.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

6. Mrs. H. C. Briles, 3709 Uentral Ave, has announced the en-

gagement of her daughter, Mary Louise, to Dr. Hugh K. Thatcher Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh K. Thatcher. 3:30 p. m., May 14, at the Third Christian Church.

Dr. Morgan to Speak

The wedding is to be at (Bretzman Photo.)

maries” Mrs. Carl J. Manthel, legislation chairman, will preside at the meeting.

‘Miss Welling to Speak Mrs. Robert Drum, 5740 Oak Ave, is to be hostess at 12:30 p. m. Tuesday at a covered dish luncheon for members of the Australian chapter, | International Travel

On Marriage Laws

Revision of Indiana's Laws” will be the subject erman G. Morgan’s talk bestudy group, Inpolis Council P.-T. A., at 1:30

Prenuptial Parties Planned To Fete Grace Warren Abbett

A series of prenuptial parties has been planned for Miss ‘Grace Warren Abbett, whose marriage to Harry Hearsey Colburn at 2:30 p. m. April 23 at the Church of the Advent is to be one of the more attractive

Miss Abbett is a daughter of Mrs. Frank E. Abbett, 47 W. 32d St. Mr. Colburn is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Colburn. Mrs. B. E. Lapenta is to entertain with a shower Wednesday at her home. A breakfast Tuesday, April 19, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club is to be given by Mrs. F. R. Buck and her daughter, Miss Shirley. Miss Courtenay Whitaker is to entertain Wednesday, April 20. A luncheon-bridge is to be given Thursday, April 21, by Mrs. Conlin Alexander at her home. Miss Mary Jane Hamerstadt, who is to entertain also, has not announced a date. Mr. and Mrs. George Q. Biegler will be host and hostess at a dinner party the week of the wedding. Mrs. Frank E. Abbett Jr. is to be matron of honor at the wedding, and Charles Harrison Abbett, a brother of the bride-to-be, is to be best man.

Mary B. Gilson Dinner Speaker For A.A.U.W.

versity of Chicago economics department, will discuss “Men, Women and Controversial Subjects” at the American Association for University Women’s dinner meeting Tuesday Bight at the Woman’s Department

invited to attend. Twelve years be« fore she joined the university faculty; Miss Gilson worked in contact with department stores, trade schools and factories. She later joined the staff of the Industrial Relations Council, New York. Miss Gilson made a two-year study of British unemployment insurance, and has published a book on the subject. She is also joint author of a book on unemployment compensation plans in the United States. : She is a member of the American Association for Labor Legislation advisory board, a member of the Society for the Advancement of Management, the League of Nations Association, Friends of Europe, and tional Institute of In-

Miss Mary B. Gilson of the Uni-

Husbands of members have been.

Dis- | take place

Committees Plan Olympic Riders’ Exhibition Here

U. S. Olympic Equestrian Team riders and horses are in training at Ft. Riley, Kas., in preparation for their exhibition tour to include a show at the Indiana State Fair Grounds Coliseum, May 8. Riders train as rigorously for the tour as they do for Olympic Games, according to Maj. Frank L. White taker, office of Chief of Cavalry, Washington. Records of performe ances are kept to determine each rider's status for the games, he said. "Adj. Gen. Elmer F. Straub, president of the Indiana Saddle Horse Association, sponsoring the local exhibition, and Robert B. Rhoads are being assisted in preparation for the event by an executive committee. : Members include Col. Joseph H. Pafidson, Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, Maj. Frank J. Billeter, Maj. Harry E. Willet; Mesdames Rosamond Van Camp Hill, George Q. Zieg , Helen York, Urban K. Wilde J; Miss Ann Ayres; Messrs. Alex Metzger, M. H. Fuller, Frank J. Haight, Gordon Sutton, John Royse, J. R. McNutt, William H. Wemmer, Wile liam E. Sayre, Wallace O. Lee, Posey B. Deming, W. H. Bevington, Horace F. Hill II1 and Don Bose. Groups co-operating with the ase sociation are the regular establishe ment at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Officers’ Reserve Corps, National Guard, American Legion and state and local saddle clubs. .

Dinner Is Arranged By Women Florists

Women’s Society of Indianapolis Florists will meet a{ 6:30 p. m. Monday at Canary Cottage for ‘dinner. Hostesses are Mesdames Charles Pahud, Harry Pahud, Esther Mendel, Louise Asperger, Colin Fulle and Oliver Steinkamp. am —————— Mary Lazenby to Wed Mr, and Mrs. Charles B. : have announced the engagement of their daughter Frances, to J.

James Sullivan. The wedding will