Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1938 — Page 14
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Stage Fright Ofttimes
~~ Afflicts Even Veteran,
Civic Actors Confide
Professional Talent Aids Theater’s Current ‘Goodbye Again’; a Secret Is Told on the Art of Learning Lines.
By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON An imposing array of professional talent, unsurpassed in-Civic Theater annals, is at your service tonight in-the opening performance of “Goodbye Again.” Leading roles are divided among an erstwhile London musical comedy star, an actress with three seasons on Broadway to her credit and a former stock and Theater Guild player.
The ofttimes dolorous business of learning lines is no bugbear to the feminine.leads of the production. Dorothy Jay Robinson, English revue star, and Mary Fletcher, the local girl who made good in New York, admit they “just absorb them like a sponge.” Mrs. Robinson’s technique is to learn as she goes at rehearsals, identifying the script with movements and actions. great help to have someone in the family hear her, she says. She likes musical productions with a plot better then revues, but “the perfect part is a dramatic role in a show with music.” 3 Miss Fletcher hardly ever has sat down and studied. lines— at least the absorption process during rehearsals has worked so far, she says. Her dramatic career began at the age of 10 when she spent the first of nine seasons with the Stuart Walker Co. She's not at ‘all nervous if she’s on stage when the curtain rises, but she acknowl-
edges “a funny little feeling in her stomach” when she makes her
“first entrance. Mrs. Robinson usually experiences a little nervous “tension that is mostly a matter of “dying to get on with it and wishing it were over.” ,
Even a Director-Can Feel Nervous
Alfred Etcheverry, director, who in Osgood Perkins’ former role is playing his first important dramatic part since he came to Indianapolis, says his wife “does the dirty work” when it comes to learn«ing his lines. In the small hours after rehearsals they sit down over a glass of milk and she “cues” him. Despite two seasons with the Matunick, R. I.. Stock Co. and association with the Theater Guild ‘production, “As Stars Remain,” he admits a better than nodding acquaintance with stage fright.
- =. The single setting of the Civic’s seventh and next to last per-
formance of the season is Room 2031 ($4 a day double) in the Statler Hotel in Cleveland. Authentic 20th Century hotel furnishings were secured through the co-operation of a downtown hostelry. The . properties are complete “hotel” down to the key, Gideon Bible and “pin cushion with the customary buttons, needles, thread and
safety pins.
Copies of “The Cleveland Press” are numbered among the props, since the audience easily can read the names of newspapers in the “Civic auditorium. A Cleveland telephone directory will not be necessary since the players don’t bother to look up numbers. a Ned LeFevre cast as “the lawyer who never had a case,” is a ‘former member of the Federal Players and is now senior announcer ‘with WFBM. Mrs. Richard W. Coons helps provide the love interest, -and R. Blayne McCurry is “just a husband.” Gladys Hawkins plays the hotel maid; Jack Helm, the bellhop; James Muller, a chauffeur, ‘and Robert Long doubles as waiter and stage manager. George Haight, who with Alan Scott is co-author of “Goodbye
~~ ~Again,” is now one of the producers for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The
summer following the play’s New York opening, Mr. Haight visited Indianapolis to see one of the productions of his old friend, Hale ‘McKeen, then Civic Theater director. > Fl #
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Dr. and Mrs. McCormick to Visit Europe
Dr. and Mrs. C. O. McCormick and Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Reagan of New York, formerly of Indianapolis, will sail ‘Wednesday on the S. S. Manhattan for a two-months’ stay abroad. Dr. McCormick is to read a paper at the International Congress of Obstetricians to be held May 5, 6 and 7 in Amsterdam. The group
* will visit London, Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Budapest, Italy and
Switzerland. Their itinerary includes a trip down the Rhine and a visit in Holland at tulip time. They are to return on the S. S. Queen Mary sailing June 1 from Cherbourg.
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Mrs. Walter S. Greenough will go to St. Louis next Thursday to .attend the three-day meeting of the board of directors of the National * League of Women Voters which precedes the convention to. be held + April 25 to 29 at the Hotel Jefferson. , : ; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Keeney who have been spending the winter :in the South are visiting Mrs. Keeney’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. : Craig Fisher, for a few days.
Ushers and Ticket Takers N amed For Civic Theater’s Production
A partial list of ushers and ticket takers for the Civic Theater's pro-
duction of “Goodbye Again” was announced today.
The list always includes men and women who have been active in all fields of theater work—from selling in the campaign and acting to back-
stage activity.
On long speeches it's a®
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Shafer are to
Women Advised To Concentrate On Appearance
The average American woman “spends too much money on her hair, creams and silk stockings, Elizabeth McDonald Osborne, New York, wellknown consultant on appearance, told Business and Professional =Women last night. . The former magazine fashion edi“tor stated that good grooming could _be achieved with the far cheaper brush, iron and soap. The attractive woman, she said, is a combination of liabilities and «assets, with the liabilities hidden by good grooming. Upon four points she advised the professional woman to concentrate—features, clothes, .voice and poise. Not separately! See yourself, she said, not with bad nose, poor legs or an unsightly figure, but &s a whole when looking in the mirror. Choose your ensemble for the reflection you see there. There is not a homely woman, she
a emphasized, only women who have
forgotten how to be pretty. In this =country, the statuesque Miss Os“borne said, ‘American women have gone farther in the knowledge of how to dress than in other parts of the world. Forget your liabilities! Be ageless, that's-the secret of an attractive woman. : Miss Osborne is to address the “Indiana Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association at a luncheon meeting tomorrow at the Propylaeum. She - was graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1917. She wil: be the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Archer Sinclair, Golden Hill. Miss Elsie Sinclair, who was delegated to a Mount Holyoke Alumnae Council in South Hadley, Mass., will give a report. . Miss Helen Thornton is alumnae president. Announcements at last night's meeting included a card party, April 18 at the Murat, a breakfast, May 1 at Noblesville Park and arrangements for the state convention May .13-15 at Terre Haute. Several new members were initiated in services conducted by Mrs. Nell Merrick Thomas, president.
Butler Debaters
Arrange Banquet
: Miss Jean Knowlton, president of Alpha, honorary debattoday announced that alentine Williams is chairman of speech banquet May 9 at the
Fajretta |is to
be in charge of tonight’s opening performance, assisted by Edward Gaumer, who will be at the door, and Misses Dorothy Morris, Anne Tennant, Betty VanDerbilt, Leunice Horne and Mildred Bldcklidge. Saturday night's assistants are:to be Mr. and Mrs. William Over, Edward Green and Misses Mary Beatrice Whiteman, Priscilla Lombard, Mary Alice Oval, Mary Margaret Ruddell and Winifred Smith. . Mr. and Mrs. Harold Victor will be in charge Sunday night and for Monday's performance Mrs. Lawrence Shappert and Mrs. John Bruhn are chairmen. Ushers for those and ensuing performances have not yet been named. x
Party to Be Held By Hospital Guild
The St. Francis Hospital Guild will entertain new members with a luncheon and card party Tuesday
-at the hospital.
Mrs. Lafe Lockwood, chairman, will be assisted by Mrs, N. L. MecCormick. Captains of the membership drive are Mrs. Henry Gardner and Mrs. Richard Tubbs. On the entertainment committee for the event are Mesdames Edward Trimpe, J. P. Mugivan, Fred Koch, Henry Wachtel, A, P. Lauck, Ada Roth, Gus. Gatto, Bernard Weimer, Ed Heidenreich, Ray Boehm; -Herb Roeder A. W. Heidenreich, Alma Schulsky, Joseph Klaiber, Thomas Quill, William Nyffeler, John Gedig, J. L. Johnson, William McKinne and Al Casse.
Officers Are Elected
- By Women’s Council
The Council of Administrative Women in Education held an election recently at the Indiana World War Memorial Bldg. Officers for the year are to be Miss Belle Ramey, School 76 principal, president; Miss Maud Price of School 178, secretary; Miss Vivian Ely of Washington High School, treasurer, and Mrs. Ruth Shull of Manual and Miss Jeanette Riker, special education directors. Re-elected officers are to be Miss
{ Floro Torrence, Miss Augusta Ness-
ler and Mrs. Alice Wesenberg : of Butler University.: Miss Helen Loeper, former president, will ‘become vice-president, Se 0. E. 8. to Sponsor Sale: Brightwood chapter 399, O. E. 8,
~Sponsor a bake-day sale at & Co, Saturdaj
Among the chorus directors who
the 16th annual Easter Sunrise Carol Service are (left to right) Mrs. Mildred Jarvis, First Baptist Church; Mrs. Chester W. Spencer, Home Presby-
are preparing for | Place Methodist
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terian Church, and Mrs. Charles T. Coy, Fletcher
READY FOR KINDERGARTEN LUNCHE
Church. .The event, sponsored by
the Ogden Junior Chorale, will be held on the north . steps of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument.
F Personals
Miss Martha Nell Plopper, a student at Stephens Junior College, Columbia, Mo., recently was elected Civic Association president for 1938-39. The association makes all rules for the students and regulations governing the extra-curricular life on the campus. It controls student election procedure, approves budgets and makes all money assessments affecting the campus at large. Mrs. W. A. Caperton is stopping at the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel while visiting in New York. Mrs. Paul Bernard Hoffman, Birmingham, Mich., and her scns, Peter and Paul, will arrive tomerrow to spend a week with Mrs. Hoffman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cameron Moore, 1821 N. Pennsylvania St. Miss Patricia Eaglesfield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davy Eaglesfield, will be among the students at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va., who will participate in the school’s May Day celebration. The students are to take part in a Pan-American [Festival Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Noel have left with their daughters, Misses Barbara and Carol Noel, for a motor trip East. They will visit Mr. Noel's mother, Mrs. Edward Noel; at her home in Wilmington, -Mass., and prospective schools for their daughters. tr ‘ Mrs. Minnie Gemmer, Los Angeles, is a guest of Mrs. Robert C. Elliott of the Spink-Arms Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Smith are among passengers sailing for Europe from Baltimore recently on the S. S. City of Baltimore. . Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dithmer are to leave soon for a trip to Hot Springs, “Ark. Cy . Dr. and Mrs. Frank Gastineau will entertain informally at their home, 5344 N. Pennsylvania St., before attending the Indianapolis Athletic Club’s annual Tulip Time Ball tomorrow night. Guests are to include Drs. and Mesdames R. V. Myers, B. E. Ellis, D. N. Goode and Messrs. and Mesdames J. G. Wood, W. B. McCaw, O. W. Bridgford, J. C. Schoenlaub, M. W. Rhoads and
Institute to Hear Religious Talk By Dr. Kincheloe
Dr. Samuel C. Kincheloe, associaate professor of the sociology of religion at Chicago University, will lead the adult course on “The City” in the coming Missionary Education Institute to be held at the Third Christian Church May 2, 3 and 4. “The American City and its Church,” the textbook to be. used, was written by Dr. Kincheloe, an authority on city church problems. Other faculty members for the institute are to be Dr. Stephen J. Corey, United Christian ‘Missionary Society president: Dr. John C. Irwin, Chicago; Mrs. William FPF.
Gavran. Dr. Cory is to present a series of lectures on “The Wider Range of World Missions.” The institute is to be sponsored by the New York Missionary Education movement in conjunction with denominational and interdenominational agericies in Indiana, Ohio, Iilinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Wisconsin,
Missionary Unit to Dine on Tuesday
The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Central Avenue Methodist Church will entertain with a 1 p. m. Tuesday spring luncheon at the church. Miss Laura May Robinson, Oak Park, Ill, bureau secretary of the society’s Southwestern and Mexican work, is to be guest speaker. : Devotions will be led by Mrs. T. A. Sperry. Mrs. Guy O. Carpenter, accompanied by Mrs. H. L. Sunder-
songs. Luncheon is to be served by Mrs. M. B. Stratton, luncheon chairman; Miss Emma Buschman, ticket chairman, and Mrs. Warren Oakes, leader of group eight. Mrs. E. W. Stockdale, president, will preside.
P-T.. A. to Meet : The Southport Grade. Schoo} P.T. A. is to hold ‘an open. house at 7:30 p. m. Thursday. Walter G. Kellan, principal, is to speak and
are:
Mrs. Roy Fleener, president;
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F. X. Kern. .
Rothenburger and Miss. Grace Me-. | dent-general.:
‘land, will present a group of]
officers are to be installed. They |
Delegation Named for D. A.R. Meet
Mrs. Stilz to Head Group Off for Washington This Week-End.
Mrs. Frederick D. Stilz will head a delegation leaving this week-end for Washington to attend the Daughters of the American’ Revolu~ tion 47th Continental Congress, April 18-23 in Constitution Hall.
Mrs. Stilz is regent of Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter. Others who will go are. delegates and alternates, including Mesdames Walter H. Green, James A. Sutherland, Alexander L. Taggart, Giles Smith, Harry Wade, John Downing Johnson, Frank C. Groninger, Luther S. Rose, William Dobson, Jasper Paul Scott, James L. Gavin, Joel Whitaker, G. B. Taylor, E. H. K. McComb and Charles Tarpenning. Members of the national house committee, Mrs. Waldo B. Rossetter and Mrs. William C. Bartholomew, who also is Indiana box chairman, and Miss Margaret Eleanor Semans, who will act as flower page for the chapter, will also attend.
Leaves by Plane
Sunday for Washington. Mrs. Frank Baker, past chapter regent, Irvington Chapter, also will leave Sunday for the convention to represent the Irvington group. Mrs. William H. Schlosser, Frank-
1 1in, state regent, left yesterday. She
will stay at the Mayflower Hotel. The Indiana dinner is to be held in the Mayflower Italian Garden beginning at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday. A social half-hour will precede the dinner. Local delegates are to receive their seat tickets at the Indiana room which will be open from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. Monday. Registration will open today at 2 p. m. and continue until 5 p. m. Tomorrow, registration will be from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. and the morning until 4:30 p. m. Preconvention events will include dedication of the tablet honoring Mrs. Russell William Magna, Saturday, at the 18th St. -corridor of the hall; meeting of the house committee at 11 a. m. and pages’ meeting at 1:30 p. m. Monday.
Sessions Begin Monday
Sessions are to begin officially at 8:30 p. m. Monday. Immediately following the meeting, a reception for delegates will be given by Mrs. Henry M. Roberts Jr. and associate candidates for election in the Mayflower ballroom. At 3 p. m. Sunday, memorial services will be held at Memorial Continental Hall. : ~ Nominations will be made at the ‘evening session. ‘Mrs. Schlosser is to second the nomination of Mrs. Harper D. Sheppard, Pennsylvania state regent, for office of vice presi-
Election of president-general, seven vice presidents-general and four honorary vice presidents-general is to be held next Thursday. =A pil= grimage to Arlington and Mount | Vernon will start at 2 p. m,, April 22. The White House reception is to begin at 3 p. m. Saturday, April 23. The annual banquet at the Mayflower Saturday night will conclude
the Congress program. Juvenile Auxiliary
Mrs. E. Earl Robbins, 2039 Carrollton Ave. is to be hostess Monday at a covered dish luncheon for Juvenile Home A ary members. On the committee in charge of arrangements are Mesdames Charles Thomas, Irvin Ganerdinger, Harry Coyner, W. F. Holmes, William Jester and Walter Geisel. - : Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter will speak on “The American Home.”
Miss Semans will leave by plane
on Monday from the same hour in
To Attend Luncheon
Mrs. Harry B. Perkins (left). Irvington Auxiliary to the Publi
.* A series of membership teas will Mrs. Othniel Hitch, chairman
ing yesterday in the Majestic Building. Mrs. Hitch stated that ParentTeacher Associations of Schools 70 and 76 have become sustaining ‘members of the organization. Mrs. Hitch said auxiliaries will be
obtain a new member. members were asked to each obtain five members. ? = . ‘Mrs: J. K. Lilly Jr, chairman of the Anniversary Day Fund, reported a recent bequest by Mrs. Catherine
patients. . Miss Beatrice Short, superintendent, reported an increase in hourly nursing service. In March, 201 visits were made in this branch. of service, a gain of 49 over February. ‘A total of 6887 visits were made in March. Measles patients brought ‘an increase in the communicable disease branch, she said. Mrs. Charles F. Meyer Jr. will be hostess for an all day meeting of the board May 12 at her home, 136 E. 43d St.
Temple Sisters To Hear Address By Mrs. Ancker
Mrs. C. J. Ancker is to be speaker at the 2:15 p. m. Monday meeting of the Temple Sisterhood at Delaware Street Temple. : -"Mrs..Ancker lived for years in the ‘Philippine Islands ‘where her husband, Capt. Ancker, served with the United States Army. She will describe people and customs and relate sidelights on old and new governments. Her talk also will include descriptions of two
ports in China and ‘Japan. Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs will sing, accompanied by: Walter Whitworth. Mrs. Sydney Romer, sisterhood president, will preside.
hostess. of #763 Bolton, hostess. | Women's Assn. Fletcher Place © «MotheF atthe” Throne
EVENTS SORORITIES i Alpha chapt., Xi Delta Xi. Today. Mrs. Peter Frick, 309 N. LaSalle, Alpha chapt, Sigma Delta Sigma. 8 p. m. Mon. Mrs, John Rickel, Church. Good Friday Sine Modi aa, ii Irvington aux: P. HSN. A. Wed. Mrs. W. J. Palmer,
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Nursing Association Plans ‘Teas in Drive for Members
ing Association membership campaign.
set a goal of 1000 members before Jan. campaign were made at a meet-¢
asked to follow the example of the Woman’s Department Club auxiliary, and pledge themselves each to! Board
"E. Stolte will be placed in a fund for |
of the Hawaiian Islands, Guam, and
¥ : hd 333 N. Audubon, assistants. 7
The Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society will
hold its spring luncheon May 4 at
dist Church. Members of mothers’ clubs affiliated
with 21 kindergartens will attend.
president of the Health Nursing
Ld
be a part of the Public Health Nurs-
of
Kettleborough Tribute Paid by
of Copies
‘to Governor Townsend. The copies read: “In the death of Dr. Charles Kettleborough of the Indiana Legisla-
replaced. : is “From its beginning, the League turned constantly to Dr.. Kettleborough for Its members many citizens of the State of Indiana who depended upon the resources of his tremendous store knowledge and his generosity in
sharing it. : : ‘Service Lauded :
«Those of our members Who were so fortunate as to come into close
from the service he performed.
tions to the League, he prepared and
“The Indiana Voters’ Handbook,’
vision of the. handbook’ sembly since its publication. outstanding authorities on: govern=
ably and faithfully. “The League of
pays ly death”
tional League convention Louis, April 25 to 29, are: =: Ci.
Mrs. Ralph Olmstead, Miller, Mrs. Ashburn Emil Weil and Mrs. William rich, Evansville; Mrs. J. B. and Mrs, Frank Pennell, Kg Mrs. Charles N, Teetor an | Ray Small, Hagerstown; Mrs. € Peters, Hammond; Se i Gary; Mrs. Leonard Clarence Merrell,
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the membership committee, has 1. ‘Reports on the progress of the
Women Voters
The executive committee of the Indiana League of Women Voters today paid tribute to the memory Dr. Charles Kettleborough. of the tribute are to be sent to. Dr. Kettleborough’s family and
tive Reference Bureau, the executive committee of the Indiana League of Women Voters feels that the League has lost a kind friend and councilor who can hardly be
advice and information. have been among those
of |
personal: contact with, him felt his keen and: genuine love of his work} and realized how truly great was the | benefit to Indiana and its citizens «
“Among his many other contribuwrote a large part of the: pamphlet, working with the League 3» he i session of the Indiana General As«He was recognized as one of the ‘ment in our state and had served it
Women Voters : tribute to his memory and is grieved and saddened at his untime-
: to attend the nas |< Those planning m st.
Miss Dorothy Misericr an ak bh Richard C. Norton, Michigan CIiy; |
werlen (left) of the North MethoFountain Square Mrs. Leo J. Land-
¢ MAPPING MEMBERSHIP DRIVE . . . « .
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Association, confers: with Mrs. Othniel Hitch, membership : committee - chairman. : wi
Patron List for | St. Mary’s First Prom Announced
Patrons and patronesses for St. Mary's Academy first annual Junior Prom next Thursday at Cathedral
nounced today. They are: Messrs. and Mesdames A. J. Wade, W. M. Ittenbach, J. D. Mahan, J. E. Nelson, V. R. Carri- | gan, J. C. State, B. M. McConahay, and Mesdames Margaret Carson, Edna McGinley, Mary Glennon and Helen Murray. Miss Mary Elizabeth Scheibelhut and Miss Helen Codarmaz are coOchairmen of the event. Assisting them are Misses Mary Elizabeth Matthews, Mary Ann Mahan, Mary Kathryn Grothaus and Marjorie Murray. 2 ! : Dancing to music by the Cathedral High School Band is to be from 8:30 to 11:30 p. m, Easter decorations Will ‘be: displayed throughout the auditorium. i
Mrs. Wands to Be Hostess
Mrs. Robert Wands was hostess at 2 p. m. today to members of the Hoosier Athletic Club's ‘woman's auction bridge section. ‘Mrs. Thomas Hanika is president of the group. : ’
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{| Circuit Court is to be
High School auditorium were an-.
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the Garfield Park School is direct
ing the ticket sales. Mrs. Carl F. Schwomeyer, from
K:ndergarten, is in charge of tables
and chairs. Mrs. Victor Deitch (right) is chairman,
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J udge Cox To Address Welfare Unit
Annual Reports to Be Made by Committee Heads at Meeting.
The Community Welfare Departe ment of the Woman’s Department Club will close its year’s program Wednesday with a luncheon meet= ing at the clubhouse, 1702 N. Meri~ dian St.
Judge Earl R. Cox of the Marion guest speaker. He will discuss “The Court’s Meaning to the Layman.” A luncheon at 12:30 p. m. will precede Judge Cox’s talk. Mrs, Charles H. Smith, department chaire | man, will preside. : Mrs. George A. Bowers, hospitality chairman, will use spring flowers in decorating luncheon tables. Mrs. Robert Shingler and Mrs. E., A, Car= son are luncheon cochairmen. Reservations may be made with Mesdames Robert E. Creighton, Clyde V. Montgomery - and George M. Dickson. Th During the business session fol lowirg the program, annual reports
‘| will be made by the following com=
mittee chairmen: Mrs. John Berns, courtesy; Mrs. Clyde V. Montgom= ery, door; Mrs. Bowen, hospitality. Other committee chairmen ree porting will be Mrs. Shingler, lunche eon; Mrs. Creighton, telephone; Mrs. Ora Maud Hardie, tours; Mrs. E. A. Carson, City Hospital; Miss Janet: Shaw, League for the Hard of Hearing; Mrs. Horace G. Casady, Woman’s Prison programs; Mrs. W, A. Eshbach, legislative; Mrs. Clay= ton H. Ridge, municipal affairs; Mrs. Everett E. Lett, Public Health Nursing auxiliary; Mrs. Charles 8. Crawford, sale of handicraft for the blind; Mrs. George A. VanDyke, smoke abatement; Mrs. Claude T. Hoover, welfare, and Mrs. Harold K, Bachelder, Monday Guild.
St. Mary-of:Woods’ Students Plan Party,
Indianapolis students at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Mary-of« the-Woods, Ind. are assisting with plans for a card party and style show the afternoon and night of
May 3 at LeFer Hall. Among them are Misses Helen Connor, Mary Jeanne Smith,
‘| Martha Louise Smith, Mary Kernel,
Clare Quinn, Margaret Dowd, Mary Louise Burkhart, Frances Scanlon, Jane Connor, Joan Beeler and Rose= mary Odiet. : ¥ Proceeds are to go toward tuition scholarships donated annually to high school students attaining the
highest scholastic standards.