Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1938 — Page 4

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Final Players Club Titles Pile Satire on Menace and Mystery

Diverting Theatrical Fare to Be Offered at Civic May 7; Prenuptial Parties to Honor Eleanor Lindgren.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON A suggestion of menace, mystery and waggish satire ‘surrounds the titles for the three one-act plays selected by the Players Club for the last performance of the year. “Vengeance in Leka” by Wycliffe McCracken, “The Purple Doorknob” by Walter Pritchard Eaton and “Culture Comes to the TVA” by James Duke compose -the diverting fare to be offered at the Civic Theater the evening of May 7 preceding the dance at the Woodstock Club.

Principals in the cast of “Vengeance in Leka,” which Mrs. Austin Bruce is directing, include Kurt Vonnegut, George Fotheringham and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce. Jack Harding and Dr. John Ray Newcomb are sharing honors in the direction of the all-feminine cast of “The Purple Doorknob.” Appearing in the production will be Mrs. Orland . Church, Mrs. Altred S. Etcheverry and Mrs. William G. Sparks. e gentlemen whose gracious task is to see that “Culture Comes to ‘the TVA” are Herman Kothe, Horace R. McClure, Perry W. Lesh, Frank J. Hoke and Percy H. Weer, who is also directing the opus. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Rockwood, chairmen of the committee for the performance, are being assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Elder Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Lesh and Mr. and Mrs, Bruce. ® 2 # ” ne »

Parties to Fete Eleanor Lindgren

A busy week lies ahead for Miss Eleanor Lindgren whose marriage to Thomas J. Umphrey is to take place next Saturday morning at St. Joan of Arc Church. The wedding will be followed by a breakfast and reception at the Highland Golf and Country Club. J. Albert Smith and Robert L. Langsenkamp are to entertain for Miss Lindgren and Mr. Umphrey from 4 to 6 o'clock this afternoon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, and Mr. and Mrs. R. Michael Fox will entertain informally tomorrow afternoon at their home. Miss Elizabeth Bertermann will give a luncheon Wednesday at the Woodstock Club and Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lindgren will give a bridal dinner for their daughter, Mr. Umphrey and members of the bridal party Friday evening at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mrs. Sterling Dockson, who is to be Miss Lindgren’s matron of honor. arrived last night from Detroit and Miss Alice Gilhooly, who is to be maid of honor, will come by plane tomorrow night from Boston. Arriving Thursday from the University of Michigan will be Miss Lindgren’s brother, Robert D. Lindgren, and Miss Shirley Krue and Dale Hornug of Detroit. : ss = = ® a = Charles and Mary Lamb, “who had a genuine old china, old plate, bright black mahogany air about them,” were the subject of a paper written by Mrs. William H. Insley and read by Mrs. Victor R. Jose Jr. at the Indianapolis Woman's Club guest day meeting yesterday at the Propylaeum. Mrs. Thomas Garber’s discussion of “Best Sellers of Yesteryear” was a relentless revelation of the literary hungers of the past 60 years. Widely circulated and talked about (but not necessarily read) best sellers’ sugar content is apt to be fairly high. The majority of their readers are women, she said. Delphinium, pink roses, and cornflowers in a large crystal bowl encircled by small vases filled with lilies of the valley and pansies and linked by a crystal chain formed the centerpiece for the tea table. Members of the room committee who assisted Mrs. Herbert Yoltz, chairman, included Mesdames Walker W. Winslow, Fisk Landers, Harvey J. Elam and Mrs. Daniel I. Glossbrenner. Mrs. Thor G. Wesenberg, president, presided at the meeting. :

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Quintet to Attend Kappa Dance

The Misses Jane Gray Freihofer, Claire Patten, Jean Shirk, Peggy Hussey and Madeline Pugh are to go to Bloomington today to attend the Kappa Kappa Gamma spring dance this evening. The Wabash College Glee Club is to give a concert May 4 at the American United Life Building. Miss Lois McCaskey has returned to DePauw University after spending the spring vacation with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. H.

McCaskey.

New officers of the Indiana Artists’ Club, announced yesterday,

are Gordon B. Mess, president; Miss Marie C. Todd, first vice president; Louis W. Bonsib, second vice president; Mrs. Helen M. Woodward, third vice president; Miss Flora Lauter, secretary, and Damien J. Lyman, treasurer. New directors are Floyd D. Hopper, Miss Bells Schofield, Ernest C. Ropkey and William F. Kaeser. Mrs. Emma Sangernebo, Edward K. Williams and Frederick. Polley are holdover

directors. Missions to Be Topic of Parley

Miss Grace McGavran, will instruct a course for leaders of .- benners, primary and junior courses at the ninth annual Missionary Edycation Institute to be held in the Third Christian Church May 2, 3 and 4. Het course is to deal with mis-

gions for children and materials

and methods to be used. Texts are to include teachers’ manuals on the themes of “The City,” “The Golden Sparrow” and “Bhaskar and His Friends.”

Miss McGavian was formerly di-

rector of children’s work of the United Ohristian Missionary Society’s missionary education department. \ Other instructors are to he Stephen J. Corey, who will deliver a series of lectures on “The Wider Range of World Missions” in the general assemblies; Mrs. William F. Rothenburger, presenting a course for adult groups, and Dr: John C. Irwin and Dr. Samuel Kincheloe, Chicago, who are to hold classes for young peaple’s leaders and adult leaders respectively. The institute is being sponsored by the Missionary Education move ment of New York City in con-

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Spear-Lavrenz Wedding Rites Are Set Today

Before an altar of roses and palms lighted by candles in candelabra, Miss Thelma Lavrenz will become the bride of Max M. Spear, at 7:45 p. m. today in the Emmaus Evangelical Lutheran Church. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Lavrenz, 2156 Singleton St. Mr, Spear is a son of William Homer Spear. The Rev. William C. Meinzen will read the ceremony. The bride, who is to be given in marriage by her father, will wear a white satin gown fashioned on princess lines with a long train. Her long tulle veil will be caught with orange blossoms, and she will carry a shower of bridal roses. Miss Doris Brabender, maid-of-honor, will wear a blue embroidered marquisette gown with a tight bodice and a full skirt. Her arm boquet will be pastel-shaded roses. Miss Elizabeth Hansing and Mrs. Esther Miller, bridesmaids, will wear similar gowns of peach embroidered marquisette and will carry contrasting bouquets. Robert Dorrah will be best man and Eugene Eitel and Carl Hagemeier will usher. Gilbert Echtenkamp, organist, will play a medley of bridal airs, and Miss Mildred Baumgardt will sing “O Perfect Love.” Mrs. Lavrenz will wear a blue lace gown with peach accessories and a corsage of gardenias. : A reception at the home of the bride’s parents for more than 100 guests will follow the ceremony. The bridal table is to be laid in white, lighted with tapers and centered

miniature bride and bridegroom. The couple will return from a motor trip East about May 1. They will live in Indianapolis. Miss Lavrenz attended Butler University where she was a member of Trianon.

Bomar Cramer To Give Program

Bomar Cramer will be guest artist at the monthly program meeting of Kappa Chapter, Mu Phi Epsilon, national music honor sorority, at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday in the home of Miss Louise Swan. Mr, Cramer will speak on “The Idiom of Brahms,” and will illustrate his falk with Brahms’ selections. Miss Mary Zimmerly, program chairman, arranged the program. Mrs. James LIL. Wagner and Miss Imogene Pierson, will play a twopiano arrangement of Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme of Haydn.” Mrs. Lenore Ivey Frederickson, contralto, will sing “O wusst’ ich doch den Weg zuruck” and “Feldeinsamkeit” by Brahms. Mr. Cramer will conclude the program with the SOMpOSer's F minor Sonata, Op. 2 0

junction with the denominational Assisting the hostess will be Mrs.

and interdenominational agencies in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky,

Michigan and Wisconsin, }

Irwin Luessow, Mrs. Bennett Lewis and Misses Frances Wishard, Ruth

Wagener and Virginis Van Arman.

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Mrs. Robert H. Colburn.

The Rev. George 8S. Southworth was to read the ceremony against a background of white flowers, palms and greenery lighted by cathedral candles. Only the immediate families and a few intimate friends were to be present. e Mrs. Russell Sanders, organist, was to play a medley of bridal airs. The bride, who was to be given in marriage by her brother, Frank Edward Abbett, was to wear a floor length princess-styled gown of white lace over taffeta with a short Eten jacket. Her cap of real lace, an heirloom in her family, was to be caught at each side with tiny gardenias., She was to carry an oldfashioned bouquet of gardenias and lilies of the valley. : Mrs. Frank Edward Abbett Jr. who is a sister-in-law of the bride and also a sister of the bridegroom, is to wear ocean-greéen embroidered net gown, shirtwaist style with short

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Miss Grace Abbett to Become Bride of Harry Colburn Today

One of the more important spring weddings was to take place at 2:30 p. m. today atthe Church of the Advent when Miss Grace Warren Abbett becomes the bride of Harry Hearsey Colburn, Milwaukee, W.

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is. Mrs. Frank E. Abbett, 47 W. 32d St.

caught at intervals with roseberry ribbon bows, Her slippers and net poke-bonnet - were to match her gown. Charles H. Abhett, a younger brother of the bride, was to be best man. : ,

Mrs. Abbett was to wear a navy sheer suit with a white vestee, navy accessories and a corsage of violets and lilies of the valley, Mrs. Colburn was to wear tan. silk with copper accessories and a corsage of gardenias. .

The couple was to leave immediately after the ceremony for a short wedding trip. The brides travel habit was to be beige sheer wool. with black ¢ trim and black patent leather accessories. They are to live at Fond-du-Lac, S. : Out-of-town guests at the ceremony. were to include Mr, and Murs. William J. Long and their son, J. William Long and Robert Buck, Lafayette, and Mr. and Mrs. James

Erwin and son Jimmy, Mount

Times Photos. 1. Miss Betty Reed is a member of the patrons and patronesses

committee arranging for performances by the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus here May 8. The Indianapolis Orphans Home Auxiliary is sponsoring the event for the third consecutive year. (W. Hurley Ashby Photo.) ;

2. Mrs. Paul E. Fisher (left) and Mrs. T, H. Cox (second from right)

were So surprised by a photographer recently during a practice bridge session that they were set four tricks by Mrs. Maxwell Coppock (right) and Mrs, Addison Parry. They will be among the many bridge enthusiasts attending a card party Monday at the Marott Hotel. The event is sponsored by the Indiana State Symphony Society’s Women's Committee for the orchestra’s benefit.

38. Mrs. George T. Parry (left) and Mrs, Meredith Ncholson Jr.

are directing the general ticket sales for the celebration in honor of

Cole Porter, Hoosier composer, May 23 by the Civic Theater. 4. This trio of comely young women will be in charge of booths

selling spring nosegays at the Stansfield Circle dance tonight at Woodstock Club. They are (left to right) the Misses Katherine Armstrong, Ann Cantwell and Nancy Taggart. \ 5. Miss Esther Jane Throckmorton is assisting with ticket sales for , the United States Olympic Equestrian Team exhibition at the State Fair Grounds Colissum May 8 under auspices of the Indiana Saddle Horse Association. Y

6. Mrs. Bert McCammon is cochairman of the St. Vincent’s Hospital

Guild annual supper dance May 14 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Proceeds will go to the hospital's maternity ward and the children’s ward. Mrs. McCammon directs occupational work in the children’s ward, where guild members have provided library, toys, and other recreational facilities for the patients. : :

CLUBS Business and Professional Women. 6 p. m. Thurs. Clubhouse. 8 p. m.

New members to present program. Miss Elvera Kerz, chairman. Philomesian Ladies Soc. Dinner on Wed. eve. indefinitely post-

poried. : St. Christopher’s Young People. Mon. Hall. Dance. i Townsend Club 8. Mon, Hall, Cottage and Olive. Entertainment from Bunker Hill, covered dish supper. Public invited. Et Cetera. 12:30 p. m. Mon. Business and Professional Women’s Stubhouse. Luncheon. Mrs. Leroy Eakin and Mrs. J. D. Smith, ostesses.

LODGES

Englewood O. E. 8, 6:30 p. m. Mon. Masonic Hall, 4714 E. Washingtion. Regular meeting at 8 p. m. 15th anniversary. Pitchin supper.

RD PARTIES - Myrtle Temple, Pythian Sisters. 6:30 p. m. Tues. 612 E. 13th, Mrs. Stella Means, chairman, assisted by Mrs. Nettie Harmon. Drill Team, Capitol City Circle 176, Protected Home Circle. 8:15 p. m. Mon. Castle Hall. Pitchin supper 6:30-7:30 p. m. Benefit for drill team. Mrs. Goldie Dailey, chairman. I. O. O. F. Hall,

Cottage and Olive. Tonight.

SORORITIES

Chi Delta Chi. 7 p. m. Tues. Lincoln Hotel. Phi Gamma Rho. 8 p.m. Wed: Miss Ruth Koehler, 1220 Oxford, hostess.

Wellesley Club Aides Selected

Mrs. Thomas 8. Garber, Indiana Wellesley Club advisory group chairman, today named a committee to assist the school's national promotion committee in arranging a Summer Institute for Social Progress at Wellesley College. Lad The committee includes Mesdames Karl Koons, Maxwell Coppock, Marlow Manion, B. R. Turner, George Dailey, Arthur Medlicott, F. W. Dunn and Alfred W. Noling.

than 200 iE aie ex-

pected to attend the sixth annual institute meeting in July, according to Miss Dorothy P. Hill, institute director. Plans are being made for a luncheon at the Columbia Club in May to acquaint local persons with institute activities. : Martin M. Clinton who attended

the first institute, is chairman of.

the local promotion committee and is co-operating with the Wellesley Club in securing delegates.

Mothers’ Club Party Set The Mothers’ Club of St. Joseph School will hold a card party Tuesday afternoon and evening at St.

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Nelson-Haines Nuptials Set

For Tomorrow

The Rev. Errol K. Elliott will read the marriage ceremony for Miss Lois Louise Haines and William G. Nelson at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow at First Friends Church. : Miss Haines is a daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Stafford M. Haines, 5136 Schofield Ave. Mr. Nelson is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Frank H,

Nelson. The altar is to be banked with spring flowers ‘and palms and lighted by tapers. The bride, who is to enter with her father, will wear a princess= styled white bridal satin gown with a bolero and a long train. Her two-tiered veil is to be hip-length and she is to carry a shower of lilies-of-the-valley and gardenias. Miss Sara Wright, maid-of-honor, will wear a gown of periwinkle blue

of the bride and carry token roses and delphinium. Miss Geraldine Jackman, bridesmaid, will wear melon mousseline de soie and carry tailsman roses. The flower girl, Charlene Windefeld, will wear nile« green taffeta and carry rose petals. Edward Nelson, will be his brother's best man. Virgil Haines and Russell Rauch will usher. Bridal airs will be played by Dessa Byrd, organist. Mrs. Nelson, the bridegroom’s mother, will sing “At Dawning” and “I Love You Truly.” Mrs. Haines will wear a black bolero mousseline de soie gown with white accents, a large black fclt hat and a corsage of red roses. Mrs, Nelson will wear a blue gown of the same material with matching ace cessories and a corsage of pink roses and forget-me-nots. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson will entertain the bridal party and the ime mediate families at dinner after the ceremony at their home, 4847 College Ave. : The couple will be at home at 5143 Schofield Ave. after May 15.

First Baptist Group To Elect Officers

The Martha Hawkins $ociety of the First Baptist Church will elect

dish luncheon Thursday at the home of Mrs. Noble Dean, 4520 Broadway. Mrs. C. G. Jacquart and Miss Bell Masterson are arranging the

J. A. Warrender and J. W.

will be assistant hostesses.

Events

mousseline de soie similar to that .

officers at a 12:30 p. m. covered

program. Mesdames G. T. Wheldon, Sovine :