Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1938 — Page 18

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Indiana Artists Start

Gazing at Mirrors for

Self-Portrait Exhibit

Show Will Be Held at John Herron Nov. 1 to 13; Painters Seem Rather Serious About It; Elsa Maxwell Here Saturday.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON

When 50 local artists start peering from the corners of their eyes into 50 mirrors, the matter seems to call for more than casual investigation. The purpose of this sudden burst of narcissism is the Indiana artists’ selfportrait exhibit to be held at the John Herron Art Museum Nov. 1 through 183.

According to present indications the artists are taking the whole thing pretty seriously—the women trying to be ruggedly honest in producing likenesses at something approaching their chronological age and the men behaving stalwartly in depicting severe self-studies. Single exceptions, so far, is Donald Mattison’s threat to paint himself as he’s most familiar with his own reflection—in a foamy cloud of lather, razor in hand. Success of the mass venture doubtless will be determined by the number of models the spectators can identify from the canvases. Local brush wielders are merely following the precedent set in the 16th and 17th centuries by the old masters who first shyly introduced their own faces in mob scenes and later used themselves as models as a matter of convenience. Incidentally, they found they could take liberties with themselves they couldn't with most sitters, according to Wilbur D. Peat.

The Double Reverse Is Necessary

Renee Barnes, who's achieved fame with landscapes, still-life studies and toy pictures, is entering the show with her first portrait. From her we learned some of the problems of technique involved. Since everything is reversed in the mirror, in order to get a correct likeness it’s necessary to reverse again when painting. (Much easier _ to say than to do.) Most artists don’t bother with this detail which you probably won't notice anyway, unless you're very observing. If the artist paints herself in “dress up” clothes and ever wants to wear them again she ties an apron to catch the paint spatters over the part of the dress that don’t show in the picture. All the while she feels pretty silly as she assumes “that. melting smile” before the mirror. Mrs. Barnes selected for her portrait a black sheer dress with soft folds at the deep V neck and chose a dull gray-green background which brings out the reddish tints in her hair. Bomar Cramer, whose favorite medium is water color, is trying to get his portrait finished at odd moments at night when he’s not practicing for his recital Nov. 6, which is what might be termed being a slave to two Muses. He's not sure whether he’ll be wearing a light or dark suit, but he’s planning to use some sort of stage, lights, curtain or backstage setup for the background.

He's Been Painting for Eight Years

Mr. Cramer, more readily identified as a musician, has been doing water colors for eight years and has painted three summers in Mexico. Only recently has he taken up portrait work seriously. Gordon Mess, Indiana Artists’ Club president, is to exhibit his first self-portrait, painted in Fontainebleau, France, in 1930, which may be the masculine way of hedging on the age count. The background motif is a village scene with a little church and he’s followed the precept of the old masters in painting himself with his brushes, holding a palette and wearing a blue-green smock. While Mr. Mess considers self-portrait painting “rather simple because one knows one’s subject,” he says on the other hand “we don’t know ourselves as well as our friends know us and we are prone to overlook our own peculiarities.” For instance, he has a friend whose lack of stature worried him so much that when he did his self-portrait he depicted himself as a giant on top-of the world.

Mrs. Meek to Introduce Elsa Maxwell

Mrs. J. Perry Meek will introduce Elsa Maxwell, topflight party giver of the international set, who is to lecture at Town Hall Saturday morning at English’s. Mrs. Meek is also to preside at the discussion luncheon afterward at the Columbia Club. Seated with Miss Maxwell and Mrs. Meek at the speakers’ table will be Mesdames Robert B. Failey, Herbert M. Woollen, Philip B. Reed, Albert Sterne, Samuel Runnells Harrell, Cecil Altenbach, Howard J. Lacy II, Charles C. Martin, David Russell Winegarden and the latter's guests, Mrs. Eugene Hamilton and Miss Betty Miller of Muncie; Mrs. Macy Teetor, New Castle, and Mrs. George Keagy,

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Wedding Attendants Named; Showers and Parties Are Set

Two Indianapolis brides-to-be named attendants today for their weddings as relatives and friends of several others arranged showers and

parties in their honor. The parents with a bridal dinner tonight.

of one young woman will entertain

Miss Dorothea A. Hickey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hickey, 259 Hendricks Place. has announced attendants for her mar-

riage to James E. Conerty Thanksgiving morning at the Holy Cross Catholic Church. Miss Mary Margaret Hickey, sister of the bride-to-be, will be maid of honor. Bridesmaids will be Mrs. Raymond J. Monaghan and Miss Maxine Snyder. Miss Doloris Filcer, cousin of Miss Hickey, will act as flower girl and Billy Gootee will be ringbearer. Francis White will be Mr. Conerty’s best man and Charles McHale will usher. : os 2 2 Mr. and Mrs. Carroll J. Sherman will entertain tonight at their home, 105 Johnson Ave., at a bridal dinner for their daughter, Nina Ruth, whose marriage to Ralph M. Davis,

. son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver M. Davis,

Rome, N. Y., will be at 8:30 o’clock tomorrow night at the Irvington Methodist Church. Guests will include Miss Carol Sherman, sister of the bride-to-be, who will be maid of honor; Miss Lydia jane Cordrey and Mrs. Donald Leukhardt, bridesmaids; Robert A. Heidemann, Chicago, best man; Theodore Jones and Donald Leukhardt, Anderson, ushers; Mr. and Mrs. Davis, the pridegroom-to-be’s parents; Mrs. Paul Mozingo, 0"gan=ist: Mrs. Lewis Coyle, singer, and the Rev. and Mrs. Guy O. Tarpenter. Table decorations will be a miniature bridal party and individual favors and place cards will be carried out in the wedding-party theme. Lighted white tapers will be used as part of the senterpiece.

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Miss Virginia Goodwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Scott Goodwin, whose marriage to Philip H. Sweet, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome C. Sweet, will be Nov. 20 at the First Congregational Church, will be honor guest tomorrow night at a party at the home of Mrs. Robert Neale, 526 E. 59th St. The hostess will be assisted by Mrs. Robert Behrman, Anderson, and Miss Marjorie Krull. Mrs. Alvin Dorsey will entertain at her home for the bride-to-be Tuesday night. Miss Hannah Hadley and her brother, Kleiber Hadley, will honor the couple at a dinner party Nov. 4. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Fisher will be hosts at a party Nov. 12 and Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin will entertain with a bridal dinner for their daughter and Mr. Sweet Nov. 19. Miss Ann Arnold, Peru, will be Miss Goodwin’s only attendant.

Miss Julia Freyn will have her sister, Miss Alma Freyn, as her only ~ttendant at her wedding to Walter William Grear, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Grear, Chicago, Nov. 12. The ceremony will be read at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Freyn, 4925 N. Meridian St.

Mrs. Devon Wicks, formerly Miss Jean Elizabeth Moore, will be honer guest tonight at a party at the home of Mrs. Robert F. Anderson, 3606 N. Illinois St. Mrs. James R. Cook will assist the ostest, ik

mother. Mrs. Loren Moore, will include Mesdames Edward Baker, Harry G. Marshall, Ralph Hollifield, Edward Bryce; Misses Lou Garriott, Marion Carter, Rosemary Stout and Rosalind Bolser. 8 8 @» Misses Dorothy and Dolores Teipen, assisted by their mother, Mrs. J. PF. Teipen, entertained with a miscellaneous shower last night in honor of Miss Margaret Meadows, whose marriage to Joseph L. Teipen will be Thanksgiving. Guests were Mrs. S. P. Meadows, mother of the bride-to-be; Mesdames Alvin Yetter, Charles Dunn, Vincent Rolles, Peter Kesterson, Edward Shaughnessey, Al Michaelis; Misses Cecelia Okey, Rosemary Okey, Ida Pretti, Gertrude Eck, Pauline King, Margaret Killilea, Mildred Gottomoeller, Mary Gottomoeller, Monica Eder, Helen Busald, Loretta Busald, Betty Renner, Betty Cullings, Jacqueline Cullings, Margaret Bretthauer, Margaret Schmidt, Dorothy McFarland, Margaret D’Alton and Fanchon D’Alton. 2 8 8 Mrs. Frederick H. Schmitt was hostess last night at a crystal shower for Miss Norma Mack. whose marriage to Robert Noll Leppert will be Monday at the SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. She was assisted by her mother, Mrs. Franz Binninger. Appointments and decorations were carried out in gold and brown, the bridal colors. Mrs. Schmitt will be one of Miss Mack's attendants. Guests with the bride-to-be and her mother, Mrs. R. C. Griswold, included” Mesdames E. Bert Leppert, W. C. Hyde, C. P. Bowers, Fred B. Beck, Charles McVey, Fred L. Mack, Harry Kennett, G. C. Heinrich, Verl Whetstine; Misses Helen Leppert, Mary Rosalie Beck, Marie and Edith Leppert, Gwendolyn Beard, Nina Beaver, Betty Mackey, Sarah and Margaret Jordan and Maureen Campbell.

Entertains Alumnae Of Wilson College

Alumnae of Wilson College were entertained at luncheon today by Miss Genevieve Scoville, 2050 N. Delaware St. Guests included Mrs. Kate Hevner Mueller, Bloomington, new dean of women at Indiana University; Mrs. Russell Warren, La Porte, and Miss Mary Schultz, Logansport. Miss Scoville related incidents of her recent visit to the college, where the largest freshman class in the school’s history is enrolled this year.

Sevitzky to Speak Fabien Sevitzky, conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Franklin Miner, orchestra manager, will go to Ft. Wayne tomorrow to open a drive for funds to support

the Ft. Wayne Civic Symphony Or- . They will speak at a dinner

her GRFL. Wayne citizens.

Convention of Tau Phi Lambda To Open Sunday

Members of Indianapolis Grove 63 will be hostesses at a district convention Sunday of the Woodmen Circle, Tau Phi Lambda Sorority, which opens at 1 p. m. at Castle Hall, 230 E. Ohio St. Delegates from Frankfort, Lafayette, Marion, Elwood, Anderson and Logansport are expected to attend. Honor guests for the one-day meeting will include Mrs. May Beaver, national page and state manager; Mrs. Olive King, state assistant attendant; Miss Ruby Gene Beaver, national president of the sorority; Mrs, Ida Mae Rogers, past state president; Walter Rogers, state captain; Mrs. Florence Thorpe, state

past state president. Assisting with the ceremonies will including Mrs. Irene Scheuring, vice president;

Edna Dardaman, outer sentinel, and Mrs. Josephine Saylor, musician. Mrs. Georgiana Marshall will make the welcoming address, with a response by Mrs. Addie Braly, state vice president. Other events will include introduction of distinguished guests, seating of district officers and exemplification of the ritualistic work. A large class of candidates will be initiated with the Addie Braly Guards of Indianapolis assisting. A business session will be conducted and new district officers will be elected. Mrs. Holding will be toastmaster at a 6:30 o'clock banquet. Included on the evening program will be a demonstration of floor work and graduation ceremonies for juniors into the adult society. The Frankfort Chapter of the sorority will assist with the exercises. National and state officers will talk, and proficiency certificates will be presented to officers. Mrs. Holding is chairman of the arrangements committee, assisted hy Mesdames Sheuring, Gussie Johnson, Gladys Mills, Saylor, Myrtle Blankenship, Mary Miller, Ann Armstrong, Rose Green, Margaret Decker and Myrtle Umbanhower.

Labor Peace Urged By Catholic Womeh

BILOXI, Miss., Oct. 27 (U. P).— The National Council of Catholic Women today asked for labor peace in the United States. A resolution adopted at the closing session of the 18th annual convention expressed ‘“the sincere hope that labor leaders will lend their energies to bring their factions together and to restore peace so that in their united strength they may better support a program which will insure to every worker a full measure of social justice.” Delegates said any change in the National Labor Relations Act would be “unfortunate.” The Catholic women pledged themselves to support efforts to “insure asylum for those who because of race, creed or political conviction are compelled by physical and oral necessity to leave their native lands.”

Times Photos. Above, left: Mémbers of the Junior League and Trianon at Butler University yesterday presented a style show at Jordan Hall on the Fairview campus. Clothes from the League’s Next-to-New Shop were modeled. Miss Betsy Home (left) and Miss Mary Elam (right), league members, are shown in two of the ensembles given by members to the shop for sale. Proceeds go to maintain the league's civic program, the principal project of which is the maintenance of the occupational therapy department at Riley Hospital. Right: Trianon members who modeled included (left to right) the Misses Lucille Langley, Mary Louise Nugent and Betty Coyle.

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Mrs Geneva Holding, secretary; Mrs.

EVENTS

2 SORORITIES

Alpha Chapter, Alpha Beta Gamma. Fri. eve. Mrs, Maurice John"son, 414 E. Sumner, hostess. Beta Chapter, Phi Gamma Tau. Tues. eve. Miss Alice Watson, 29 W. 28th, hostess. Alpha Pi Omega. 8 p. m. tonight, Mrs. Thomas McCord, 955 N. Tibbs, hostess. Pledge services. Gamma Chapter, Omega Chi. 8:30 p. m. Sat. Miss Wilma Wellman, 2454 Madison Ave, ‘Ghost Party.”

CLUB

Sophisticate. Noon today. Miss Bobbie Bearhope, 5733 Carrollton

Ave. Luncheon. LODGES

Queen Esther Auxiliary, Progress Rebekah Lodge. Sat. eve. Mrs. Sarah Tomlinson, R. R. 18, hostess. Halloween party. Temple Sisterhood, 10 a. m. Tues. Vestry Room of the Temple, 10th and Delaware. Board meeting. Queen Esther Auxiliary, O. E. S. 2:30 p. m. Fri. Masonic Temple, North and Illinois. Mrs. Maude Huey, hostess.

CARD PARTIES

Union.

Lambda Chapter, Delta Sigma Kappa. Sat. afternoon. Banner _ Whitehill auditorium. Miss Mary Tegler; chairman. Sacred Heart Social Club. 2 p. m. today.

Frank T. Strayer Auxiliary, V. F. W. 1:30 p. m. Fri. Foodcraft Shop. Mrs. Rose Casto, chairman.

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Zeta Tau Alpha Prepares for

Anniversary Fete Tomorrow

The 40th anniversary of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority will be observed tomorrow night with a formal dinner at the Kopper Kettle. Mrs. Cecil Perry Krieg, grand historian, and Mrs. Dale Tomey, Bloomington, president of Epsilon province, will be special guests. Miss Ethel Merrick, president of the Indianapolis Alumnae Club, will be in charge of the dinner. She will be assisted by Misses Margaret

Schoen, Ruth Ann Lett and Fran-*

ces Luichinger, decorations; Misses Faye Irene Mendenhall, Mildred Haag and Paula McClurg, program; Misses Jane Worsham, Elaine Millholland and Margery Scarborough, reservations, and Misses Frances Durnell and Rose Ellen Grey, menu. A Founders’ Day greeting from Mrs. Ruby Leigh Orgain, national founder, will be read by Miss Dorothea Craft. Other program events will be the anniversary ritualistic service and singing of Zeta songs. The organization was founded in 1898 at Virginia State Teachers College, Farmville, Va. Tables will be decorated with crystal candelabra and turquoise candles. Flower centerpieces will be of pink and white chrysanthemums. Those who will take part in the ritual include Misses Scarborough, Gray, Mendenhall, Mary Frances Paul, Mary Virginia Ernst, Ann VanDorn, Pearl Richardson, Mary Jane Warren, Maribelle Foster and Elnora Hartman.

The annual Founder's Day dinner of Alpha and Beta Chapters, Gamma Phi Alpha Sorority, will be held at 7 o'clock tonight at the Kopper Kettle.

Decorations and favors will be in the sorority colors of peach and or-

chid. Arrangements are in charge of Miss Gertrude Dean and Miss Delia Spellman, Alpha Chapter, and Miss Elaine Foley and Miss Eleanor Karbor, Beta Chapter.

Alpha Chapter, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, will hold its 10th annual scholarship dance tomorrow evening at the Walker Casino. Decorations will be carried out in autumn and Halloween colors. Miss Margaret Smith is president of the local organization.

® 8 = The Indianapolis Alumnae of Chi Omega Sorority will hold a recep-

tion and buffet supper tonight at the Severin Hotel in honor of Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, international president of the Business and Professional Women’s Club and club editor of Pictorial Review. Miss Phillips was to speak today at the teachers’ convention. She was guest today at noon at a luncheon at the Severin which was attended by members of the Business and Professional Women’s Club. Prof. Amelia Peters, Indiana University, will speak tomorrow at the annual breakfast of Pi Lambda Theta, honorary educational sorority and members’ guests at the Lin-

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College Alumni To Meet During Teacher Parley

Three alumni and alumnae groups of colleges are holding luncheons and dinners today and tomorrow in conjunction with the Indiana State Teachers Association convention. The Hanover College Alumni Association will hold a harvest banquet at 6:15 p. m. tomorrow at the Canary Cottage. Indianapo.is residents and visiting alumni who are attending the convention will attend. George Burkert is president. The Earlham College dinner will

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are to speak. Dr. William C. Dennis, Earlham president, will extend greetings. Dr. Millard 8S. Markle, head of the college biology department, will show movies of a recent trip made by Earlham students. : - Miss Margaret Haviland, Michi gan City, national alumnae secretary of Western College, Oxford, O., will be guest speaker at a luncheon tomorrow at the Columbia Club.

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Clubs Take" Tips Fror y

Roast, Garden Talk Are Planned.

Halloween and brisk autumn

| weather are proving helpful to pros _¢ |gram

, chairmen "of Indianapolis women’s organizations in planning current social events. Among active

lustrated talk on window gardening.

| Members of the Artemus Club will -

entertain tonight at a Halloween and

{birthday party for the Day Nursery

A business meeting and 12:30 o'clock :~

Tuesday at the home of Mrs. John Balch, 112 S. Butler Ave,

bers of the Fireman’s Auxiliary to the Indiana Fireman's n will be honor guests at 8 o'clock .to~ night at a Halloween party at Kere . Mrs, James Renihan i$ chairman. :

o'clock tonight at Christian Park.

guests.

of the Veritas Foundation Club ag: the Veritas Temple, Roosevelt Ave. and Adams St. Miss Cromer will b& '’ assisted by Mrs. Mildred Walker, ©

Mrs. A. G. Stevenson will talk on :: “Window Gardening” and will pres : sent demonstrations at a meeting at 1:30 p. m. Friday, Nov. 4, of the Spade and Trowel Garden Club. Mrs.

home, 6446 Park Ave., meeting,

Plans for the annual bazaar of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Altenheim .-

at 2 p. m. tomorrow. musical program will be presented which will include Harold Bridewell, violin; Miss Irene Mendell, accore dion, and Mrs. Walter Mendell, voe : calist, accompanied by Miss Jean Adele Schaeffer. :

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ities ‘are two Halloween parties and . ° {a dancé, a wiener roast and an fle

luncheon have been planned for ,*

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The Crossroads of America, Lodge £1901, will hold a wiener roast at 7:30 '

‘Miss Helen Cromer is chairman <=

tomorrow night under the auspices

C. C. Stump will be hostess at her: . for the guest '-

will be made at a business meeting

Following .the business session, a

The Alfarata Council 5, Degree of =° "Muller Degree tomorrow evening at .