Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1938 — Page 4

Winter Season Starts; Dramatic Club to Give Its First Play of Year

Performance at English’s Tonight to Be Preceded By Numerous Private Dinner Parties; Bennetts Will Entertain.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON Despite a week of deceptive weather, it seems safe to report the winter season has begun. Lending a fillip to what promises to be a particularly gay evening are the numerous dinner parties to be given tonight preceding the initial Dramatic Club presentation of the season, “Three Men on a Horse,” at English’s. A supper-dance

is to follow at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mr. and Mrs. Blaine H. Miller Jr., chairmen of the committee for the club production, are being assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fortune Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Willis Adams Jr., Miss Betty Reed and Robert E. Sweeney Jr. The cast includes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ruckelshaus, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bertermann, the Misses Nina Brown and Anne Tyndall, Thomas G. Sinclair, David P. Andrews, John Elam, Edward A. Ogle, Robert L. Smith, John Rockwood and Frank J. Hoke. Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Bennett, who will ene tertain at their country home near Carmel, will be Messrs. and Mes= dame C. Harvey Bradley, William C. Griffith, Julian Bobbs, John Li. Eaglesfield, Francis W. Dunn and Dr. and Mrs. Dudley A. Pfafi.

Mr. and Mrs. Adams to Entertain

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Adams are to entertain Messrs. and Mesdames Eugene C. Miller, Cornelius O. Alig, Herbert M. Woollen, Garvin M. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ball of Muncie. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Cory Stout will be Messrs. and Mesdames Orland A. Church, Samuel Runnels Harrell, Robert A. Hendrickson, Forest Blanton, Danville, and Dr. and Mrs. J. Jerome Littell.

Dining with Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gould will be Messrs. and Mesdames Frederick T. Holliday, W. Hathaway Simmons, Bowman Elder and Russell Ryan. Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper Kern’s guests at their home in Golden Hill will be Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Madden, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Wasson McKee and Mr. and Mrs. George A. Denny. Mr. and Mrs. Miller Jr., Mr. and Mrs. A. Ewing Sinclair and Mr. and Mrs. John Strayer will dine with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Sinclair. Mrs. Jesse Fletcher's guests will include Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Hitz, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Higgins and Joseph J. Daniels, Mrs. William C. Bobbs will’ entertain Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Robert H. Tyndall, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Sheerin and Herbert J. Reade.

Johnstons Plan Party

Dining at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Ray Adams will be Messrs. and Mesdames Earl B. Barnes, August C. Bohlen, Perry O'Neal, W. I. Longsworth and James Frenzel. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Mothershead will entertain Mr. and Mrs. John P. Collett, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Atkins Jr., Miss Eunice Dissette and John Gamble.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Adams Johnston's guests are to be Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hollett Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Henderson, Miss Dorothy Johnston and Garver Wheeler. Others who are to entertain include Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Sutphin, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Shipnes, Mr. and Mrs. Booth Tarkington Jameson and Mr. and Mrs. J. Landon Davis. Among the cut-of-town guests will be Mrs. Alfred Stuart of New York, who is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frost Daggett, and Mrs. Harry Inge Johnstone of Mobile, Ala., who will be with Mr. and Mrs. Jameson.

Mary Johnson to Give Dinner

Preceding Mrs. William Byram Gates’ dancing class this evening, Miss Mary Johnson will entertain a few friends for dinner at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, and Miss Margaret Stevenson will give a dinner party at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Stevenson. Mrs. Lafayette Page will be hostess at a box party for Bomar Cramer’s concert tomorrow afternoon at the English Theater and at a supper following at the Woodstock Club. Guests will include Dr. and Mrs. G. H. A. Clowes, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McGibeny and Dr. Irvine Page. Fabien Sevitzky, conductor for the Indianapolis Syn:‘phony Orchestra, and Mrs. Sevitzky, Mr. Cramer and Miss Ocie Higgins will join the party at supper. Miss Lucy Taggart will give a dinner Thursday evening in honor of Miss Evelyn Chambers and Julius Birge, whose marriage is to be Friday at the home of Miss Chamber's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Laurance Chambers. The party will include members of the family and out-of-town guests. A capacity audience will hear Dr. John J. Haramy speak on “Which Way America?” following the Propylaeum’s monthly buffet supper tomorrow evening. Reservations have been closed for several -- days. ~ Mrs. Fred Sims, chairman for the morning bridge party at the Propylaeum at 10 a. m. Wednesday, is to be assisted by Mrs. C. P. Lesh and Mrs. J. Emmett Hall.

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Mrs. Randolph Compton of Scarsdale, N. Y., is the guest of Mr. , and Mrs. Edwin M. McNally. Mrs. Compton and Mrs. McNally were Vassar College classmates. Mr. and Mrs. John K. Goodwin and their daughter, Betsy, are spending the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Holden at Harbert, Mich. Mrs. Jack Adams has returned from a trip to New York and a visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Head, formerly of Indianapolis, at Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. John Alban Adams returned today to their home in Lansdowne, Pa., after a visit with Mr, Adams’ mother, Mrs. J. Otis Adams. Mrse Irma Rombauer of St. Louis is spending a few days with Mrs. George Haerle. Mrs. Jack Harding is to return today from a trip through the South. :

Alumnae Club to Hear Guest

Describe Settlement School

Mrs. Francis A. Rugg, Newton Highlands, Mass., formerly a member of the board of the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School, Gatlinburg, Tenn. will speak here next Saturday afternoon. The occasion will be the Indianapolis Alumnae Club’s annual guest tea at the Butler University

chapter house, 831 W. Hampton Drive,

| of Pennsylvania.

National college sororities in In-4

dianapolis and members of the Pijin Which it is located. Products of

‘‘Beta- Phi Mothers’ Club will be guests. Mrs. Gino Ratti, who is entertaining Mrs. Rugg during her visit in Indianapolis, also will be a guest. ’ Mrs. Rugg, formerly editor of the ‘Arrow, national publication, will talk on “American Highlands and ders,” telling of the school

the Arrow Craft Shop at the school will be - displayed. Proceeds from their sale will go toward the club's annual contribution to the school. Mrs. Irving W. Palmer, president, today named Mrs. Wayne Kimmel and Mrs, S. O. Brewer as chairmen of the tea. Mrs. Edith Wright Calhoun, house mother at the chapter house, and Mrs. Dorothy Ardnt

‘and the Great Smoky Mountains) Teddlie, vice president, will pour. : pt :

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Supper-Dance Planned With Mask and Wig Show Dec. 27

The 51st annual production of the Mask and Wig Club, “All Around the Town,” will be presented in Indianapolis Dec. 27 at the Murat Theater under the sponsorship of the local alumni of the University

A supper-dance will follow at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Plans for the performance were begun yesterday at a meeting of alumni at the Athletic Club. Perry Meek, president of the alumni club, today had named Mrs. Bowman Elder as chairman of the executive committee and Harry S. Shepard as cochairman. Other committee heads named include Conrad Ruckelshaus, boxes; Irving Fauvre, invitations; Norman Metzger finance; Mrs. William C. Griffith, dance; Mrs, Conrad Ruckelshaus, tea dance in honor of cast; Maurice Harrell, publicity; Charles L.. Weiss reception; Robert Stafford, printing; Ronald B. Woodard, schools; E. E. Bollinger, tickets; Walter Davis, Richmond, out-of-town alumni, and Jack Anthony, advertising. G. Elliott Hess is coauthor of the play and the musical score is by Clay A. Boland, who wrote “I Live the Life I Love,” “Gypsy In My Soul” and other popular tunes. The Indianapolis appearance will be made on the western road trip scheduled for the Christmas holidays. Other towns included on the itinerary will include Pittsburgh, Chicago, Warren, Pa., Rochester, N. Y., and Hartford, Conn. A week’s opening in Philadelphia and engagements in seven other eastern cities will precede the western tour. Samuel R. Harrell is in Richmond Va., this week attending the 25th meeting of the Associated Pennsylvania Clubs. He is chairman of the national alumni committee and member of the local group. He will go to Philadelphia to see the show before returning here.

Rev. Mr. Yoder and Wife to Be Honored

The Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Nelson will entertain the Episcopal clergy of Indianapolis at a dinner Monday evening at their home in honor of the Rev. and Mrs. J. Willard Yoder. The Rev. Mr. Yoder, deacon serving at St. Matthews Episcopal Church, is to be ordained priest tomorrow morning at All Saints Cathedral. The Auxiliary Guild of St. Matthews will serve a dinner tomorrow in the parish house in honor of the Rev. and Mrs. Yoder.

Davidsons to Speak Mr. and Mrs. Homer Davidson will speak and exhibit art work at a tea to be held Dec. 4 by the Business and Professional Women’s Club at the clubhouse. At a recent

meeting it was reported that the organization contributed 300 garments and a sum of money to the annual garment roundup of the Indianapolis Branch, Needlework

Guild of America. The card party planned for Nov. 11 has been postponed. .

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Junior League Will Present Puppet Shows

The Indianapolis Junior League will present a marionette production, “Marco Pclo,” at 2:30 p. m. and again at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow afternoon at John Herron Art Museum. The league's theater committee this week was awarded the blue ribbon at the Association of Junior Leagues’ Children’s Theater and Puppetry Conference at Dayton, O. The local group presented “Marco Polo” as a laboratory experiment at the conference, The award was won in competition with other marionette and puppetry work. The cast of characters and their manipulators include Marco Polo, Mrs. Irving M. Fauvre; Benvuccio, his servant, Mrs. W. Hathaway Simmons; Chi Chang, the mariner, and Ahmed, the Saracen, Miss Betty Brown; Princess Kakachin, Mrs. Stanley Shipnes; Li Po, the poet, Mrs. Maxwell Coppock; Senang, the magician, Miss Louise Vonnegut, and Kublai, the Great Kahn, Mrs. Albert Lang. Mrs. James Rose will handle the properties and Mrs. A. Ewing Sinclair will be wardrobe mistress. Mrs. Rosamond Vancamp Hill and Mrs. Maxwell Coppock collaborated on the script. Mrs. George Ziegler is in charge of lights and Miss Vonnegut heads the stage crew. Miss Helen Fleischer and Miss Eunice Dissette are the crew and Mrs. William Jungclaus stage manager. The scenery was designed by Mrs. Henrik Mayer. y

Musical Society To Hear Review

Mrs. Jessamine Barkley Fitch will review ‘Ballet Profile” (Deakin) Monday night at a meeting of the Alumnae Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music honor society. Miss Ruth Beals, 518 E. 28th St. will be hostess. Mrs. Nell Kemper McMurtrey will give a brief resume of ballet music recordings from Deakin’s “To The Ballet.” Playing of the orchestral records will follow. Assisting the hostess with the 6 o'clock dinner arrangements are Mrs. Asel Spellman Stitt, chairman, D. E. Bloodgood, Mrs, McMurtrey and Miss Elsa Reyer.

Meeting Time Changed The Jewish Women’s Federation of Clubs will meet at Beth-El Temple at noon Tuesday. The

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1. Miss Irving Moxley will play a leading role in the Civic The-

ater’s coming production, “Spring Dance,” which opens Nov. 11 at the & 3) 2. This foursome of Stephens College Club members is busy these days arranging for the club’s annual Snow Ball Dec. 27 at the Columbia Club and a book review Dec. 15 by Mrs. Frank A, Symmes -at Banner-Whitehill auditorium. Plans for the events will be discussed at a Nov. 17 business meeting. New officers include (left to right) Miss Jean Bonner Meek, vice president; Miss Sue Ammerman, Miss Kitty Lou Fitzgerald, treasurer, and Miss Ione

theater. (Dexheimer-Carlon Photo

president; Louise Schlueter, secretary.

3. Members of the Children’s Museum Guild are planning a Dutc exhibit at the Children’s Museum. Assisting the exhibit committee are

(left to right) Mrs. Henry Todd,

William Coleman Atkins, transportation chairman, and Mrs. Otto

Eisenlohr, host chairman. 4. Mrs. Frederick H. Schmitt

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franz Binninger, before her marriage Oct. 8 at the Athenaeum. Mr. and Mrs. Schmitt are at home in

Indianapolis. (Photo-Craft Photo.)

5. (Left to right) Mesdames H. Leedy are assisting with plans for the annual Settlement School gift tea which the alumnae of Pi Beta Phi Sorority will hold Nov, 12

at the Butler University chapter Gatlinburg, Tenn,

6. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Lewis announce the engagement of their daughter, Kathryn Grace, to Ralph Waldo Stout, Lincoln, Neb. The wedding will be Dec. 18 at the McKee Chapel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. (Photo-Craft Photo.)

Invitations Are Issued for

Erler-Bond Wedding Nov. 25

Invitations had been issued today for one Indianapolis bride-to-be’s parties honoring future fall brides

wedding while the round of continues. Mr. and Mrs, Frank D. Bond,

for the wedding Nov. 25 of their daughter, Dorothy Jean, to Edward

James Erler, son of Mr. and Mrs. The ceremony will be read at the

ways and means chairman; Mrs.

was Miss Josephine Binninger,

L. Ross, Max Lewis and E. Hollis

house, The school is located at

55 W. 36th St. issued invitations Edward F. Erler, 3828 Byram Ave.

Tabernacle Presbyterian -Church with a reception following at the Bond home.

Mrs. John Wall, 3353 Kenwood

Ave., entertained with a Kkitchen}

shower last night in honor of the bride-to-be. Miss Harriet Orr, who will be maid of honor at Miss Bond's wedding, will honor her with a personal shower. Mrs. Earl Schull, matron of honor, will entertain with a miscellaneous shower. Dates for the parties have not yet been announced.

® 2 8 Mr. and Mrs. Hobson Wilson will entertain with a buffet supper thmorrow night for Miss Betty Reed,

daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Jewett V. Reed, and Robert E. Sweeney Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Sweeney, who will be married Nov. 22 at the Reed home.

Next Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kevers will be hosts at a dinner party in the couple’s honor. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lanville Brown will entertain informally for Miss Reed and Mr. Sweeney Nov. 13. Invitations for a dinner dance have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. John Frenzel and Mr. and Mrs. Otto N. Frenzel Jr. for a dinner dance honoring the couple Nov, 16 at Woodstock Club.

Mrs. Eugene C. Miller will enter tain with a small dinner Nov. 14 and Robert Langenskamp and Albert Smith, one of Mr. Sweeney's ushers, will entertain informally at the Athletic Club Nov. 19. On Nov. 20 Mr. and Mrs, Wallace Jim Roberts will honor Miss Reed and Mr. Sweeney with a party and Dr. and Mrs. Reed will give a bridal dinner for their daughter and her fiance Nov. 21 at Woodstock.

Dr. Hill, Poet, Will Speak on Native Culture

Dr. Frank Ernest Hill, poet and journalist, will speak at 3:45 p. m. Monday at Caleb Mills Hall under auspices of the Indianapolis branch of the Council of Administrative Women in Education. Dr. Hill, who will talk on “Making an American Culture,” is field representative for the American Association of Adult Education. The lecture is scheduled as a feature of American Education Week in Indianapolis. Mrs. Della Thompson, dean of girls at Shortridge High School, today named members of the Greenwich Club, who will usher at the lecture. They are Josephine Smith, Betty Hosmer, Barbara Smith, Joan Mick, Betty Jeanne Jackson, Doris Tuttle, Katy Lou Matlock, Betty Hayes, Martha Jane Ketchum, Mary Shadinger, Sue Mellet, Doris Wilson, Nina Harvey, Catharine Peet, Loraine Bean, Helen Rudesill, Alice Riegner, Mildred Roberts, Lucille Harshman, Arleen Coffman, Ruth Yount, Barbie Frederickson, Sylvia Pittman, Joan Scott, Elizabeth Marshall, Martha Jo Runyan and Elizabeth Peet.

Liederkranz Party Set

Mrs. Armin Doerschel is chairman of a card party to be held at 8:15 p. m. tomorrow by the Liederkrang

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Club Activities Increasing; Mrs. Clarke Will Entertain

The datebooks of Indianapolis clubwomen are filled these days with organization and committee meetings as the tempo of the winter club

season increases.

Mrs. John Clarke will entertain members of the Wellesley Club at 1 p. m. Monday at her home, 4045 Carrollton Ave.

Mrs. John W. Thornburgh will speak on “Handicraft of Yesterday”

at a meeting Monday of the Trans-®

Jordan Chapter of the International Travel Study Club, Inc, at the Hotel Antlers,

Members of the Zelotai Club of the Butler College of Religion will

be entertained Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Arthur Holmes, 423 W. 43d St. Mrs. Lester Ford, president, will preside at the meeting and will conduct an open forum at the afternoon program.

The Clifton Mothers’ Club of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society will entertain at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday with a card party gt the kindergarten. Mrs, Cecil erry, Mrs. Ruskin Bunnell and Mrs. Glen Parks are members of the arrangements committee.

A musical program will be presented at a meeting Thursday of the Indianapolis Current Events Club at the home of Mrs. C. M. Raber, 3033 Washington Blvd. Mrs. Raber will talk on “Good Book Week” and Mrs. C. J. Finch will discuss a world-famous library. Miss Elizabeth Peet will play a group of piano selections and Mrs. R. J. McLandress will sing, accompanied by Mrs. Frank Lackey.

Mrs. Rose Marie Cruzan, president of the Roberts Parliamentary Law Club, Inc., will speak on “Committees, Committee of the Whole and Informal Consideration” at the group’s meeting at 12:15 p. m. Tuesday at the Colonial Tearoom. Hostesses at the luncheon will include Mesdames S. V. Kirazian, E. C. Wakeland and R. J. Worthington.

The Woodruff Place Women’s Clubs will entertain at 8 p. m. Tuesday at the clubhouse with the first of two November bridge parties. Hostesses will include Mesdames Arthur Kelly, Laura Fredericks, Thomas Fisher and Arthur Fisher. The second party will be held Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 16. Hostesses will include Mesdames Orris Stanfield, J. E. Tucker and C. L. Fergason.

The Senior Girls’ Club of Gamma Phi Sorority, Woman’s Benefit Association, will entertain at 8:15 tonight at the Canary Cottage with open house and a rush party. Music and entertainment will be provided by pupils of Miss Helen Walls.

George A Fisher will be guest speaker Tuesday at the 6:30 o'clock dinner meeting of the Martha M. Society of the First United Lutheran Church. Mrs. C. E. Palmer will entertain the group at her home, 3008 Cold Spring Road. Mrs. O. J. Briedenbaugh will be assistant

Mrs. DoerChar-

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Cheer Broadcasters, Inc., at the home of Mrs. Walter Geisel, 373¢ Ruckle St. Mrs. Chauncey Buck, luncheon chairman, will be assisted by Mes dames Wolf Sussman, Rufus O'Hare row and Eva Fleming. Mrs. W. PF. Holmes is program chairman,

Senior Dance Is Set Tonight At Tudor Hall

Tudor Hall School Students and their guests will view a large city from a lofty penthouse at the senior dance tonight at the school. The decorations committee, head ed by Miss Elizabeth Weiss, has transformed the school auditorium into a penthouse replica, with outlines of tall buildings against the walls and a deep night sky overe head. Colors will be blue and silver. Lighting effects will come from multi-colored spotlights from the corners of the auditorium.

Miss Weiss is assisted in the dec= orations by Misses Albertine Palme er, Mary Elizabeth Jones, Florence Wolff; Clair Morris, Virginia Smith, Thelma Sachs, Lucy Kaufman, Nancy Lockwood and Nancy Mc Cown. Miss Mary Eleanor Fernstermaker is general chairman of the dance, Other committees include Miss Jane Johnston, invitations and programs; Miss Mary Lou Follett, chairman of the room committee, assisted by Misses Elizabeth Merker, Helene Borinstein, - Ann Johnston and Catherine Cunningham; Miss Judy Hamer, chairman of refreshments, assisted by Misses Marilyn Whit= aker and Barbara Martin; Miss Peggy Winslow, properties, assisted by Miss Marian Taggert; Miss Phoebe Carman, chairman of the finishing committee, assisted - by Misses Carolyn Culp, Hamer and Polly Smith. In the receiving line will be Miss I. Hilda Stewart, principal; Mrs, J. R. Fenstermaker, Mrs. Charles C. Culp, Miss Helen Rowe, Miss Culp, class president, and Miss Fenstermaker, class vice president and dance chairman, rn

Bridge Tea Booked By Athletic Club

The Woman's Athletic Club will entertain from 3 until 5 p. m. tomorrow with a chrysanthemum bridge tea at the clubrooms.

Miss Laverne Phillips is general

chairman of the affair. Mrs. J. 8.