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

LLEGE CLUB'S DANCE SKIT , . .

Appearing in the Smith College Club’s “Gymnastic Drill of 1881” Saturday night at the Wood-

“stock Club will be (left to right) Mesdames Wilson Mothershead, John Pearson Jr. A. K. Scheiden-

helm and Frederick Holliday.

| Parties to Precede T onight’s Opening of Junior League Show

Proceeds to Aid Work in Occupational Therapy Department at Riley Hospital; Wemmers| to Entertain at Naval Armory.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON The Junior League promises an enticing coalition of melodrama, carnival and dancing tonight at the opening of the “Gaieties of 1883—With 50 Beautiful Chorus Girls 50”—and that stirring dramatic production, “Every Inch a Sailor,” or “Adrift on the Ocean of Life.” The show will begin at 8:30 o'clock at the Naval Reserve Armory. :

.Of course it’s impossible to foresee the results of a show with such a shining array of.falent, but Arthur Seelig, director, reported that several New York debutantes landed professional engagements after appearing in the Eastern production. Several dinner parties will precede the affair, proceeds from * which will be used to maintain the occupational therapy department at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children.

Guest From New York to Be Honored

Mr. and Mrs. Perry Lesh will entertain at dinner in honor of Miss Gloria Chandler of New York. Guests will include Mrs. Frank J. Hoke, Junier League president, and Mr. Hoke, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Munk, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Culp, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Home, Miss Eunice Dissette, Edward Steinmetz Jr. and Garver Wheeler. ~ Mr. and Mrs. W. Hathaway Simmons’ dinner guests will be Messrs. and Mesdames Sylvester Johnson, Garvin M. Brown, John D. Gould, W. Richardson Sinclair, Roger Wolcott, Cornelius O. Alig and Mr. Edward L. Mayer. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wemmer will entertain at dinner in the Armory officers’ quarters. Their party will include their house guest, . Evelyn Dowaliby of Roswell, N. M., Mr, and Mrs, Irving M. Fauvre, Mr. and Mrs. Norman R. Kevers, Mrs. Billie Teel Tappan, Oscar F. Frenzel Jr. and Raymond Clapp. Nicholas H. Noyes Jr. will have as dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. Frederic (IM. Ayres Jr. the Misses Barbara Haines and Estelle Raun Burpee and Mr. David L. Chambers. They will join Miss Irving Moxley, Miss Alice Vonnegut, Sampson B. Moxley and Warman Welliver at the “Gaieties.” Miss! Eloise Gall will entertain informally for a group including Dr. and Mrs. Philip Reed, Dr. and Mrs. Marlow W. Manion, Dr. and Mrs. M. |E. Krahl, Mr. ana Mrs. Fred S. Boone Jr., Mr. and, Mrs. Robert D. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Shepard, the Misses Ruth and Helen Sheerin, Messrs. Gilbert Ogle, Francis D. Brosnan and verin. Mr. and Mrs. Evans Woollen Jr. will entertain Col. and Mrs. AW. Herrington and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F. Mead at dinner at Woodstock Club. Also dining at Woodstock will be Messrs. and Mesdames ‘Morris Lanville Brown, Hobson Wilson, John J. Cooper, Jeremiah L. Cadick, Robert I. Blakeman Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. William Macomber

of Kendallville. Partie Arranged for Production

Onel/group attending the “Gaieties” will include Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lochhead, Mr. and Mrs.. Gurney Mann of. Richmond, Judge and Mrs. Michael L. Fansler, Mr. and Mrs. Elder Blackledge, Mr. and | Mrs. Henry A. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Randle of San Antonio, | Tex., the Misses Betsy Byram and Helen Shepard, Messrs. Joseph Wallace, R. Niven Stall and Dryden Eberhart of Wilmette, Il, who will spend the Thansgiving holiday with Dr. and Mrs. . Pfafflin. Te other table will be Messrs. and Mesdames Harry V. Wade, G. Vance Smith, Erwin Cory Stout, Volney M. Brown, Carl H. Mote, Pr. and/|Mrs. J. Carlton Daniel, Mrs. Gustav A. Recker and Paul Starrett, Another group will include Messrs. and Mesdames Alex Metzger,| Robert Ray Bunch, Clayton O. Mogg and Mr. and Mrs. LuHamilton. : : ous Mrs. Wallace C. Tomy, chairman of the Junior League ways committee which is sponsoring the entertainment, and Mr. Tomy will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert Churchmann, Mr. and Mrs. Louis R.,| Thomas, Dr. and Mrs, William Woods and Mrs. Edna Kuhn

y nd Mrs. Russell Fortune will entertain 18 guests for dinner e “Gaieties” in nonor of Miss Jane Hennessy and their son,

ly 1. Fortune, who are to be married Saturday afternoon at the

janapolis Athletic Club. : : Ia parties within the next 10 days will honor Miss Peggy Fear-

: er of Mr. and Mrs. Jonn S. Pearson, who is to marry cn on Dickson Jr. Dec. 10. Mrs, William H. Coleman will give a luncheon at Woodstock Club Dec. 1 and Mrs. Elijah B. Mar- * tindale will give a tea at ner home Dec. 2. Miss Pearson and Mr. Dickson | Jr. will attend the “Gaieties” with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas #w Menkle, Miss Katherine ‘Fulton and Peter Larson of Chicago.

Propylacum Will Be Scene Of Holiday Dinner Parties

Thanksgiving Day and Christmas always are occasions for family ders or get-togethers for close friends. The Propylaeum will be the scene’ of several of these parties tomorrow, when more than 100 guests

will attend dinner parties. ©- \mong the hosts and hostesses| A j . ’ will b be Mrs. R. Mallott Fleicher and Aid Delivers Holiday, r. and Mrs. Fletcher Hodges, who oh entertain a family group. An- Baskets to Families . other family gathering will be that| wrs Fred Noerr, visitor for the at which Mrs. Samuel M. Deal and |rndianapolis Flower Mission, is busy this week delivering baskets of fruit and vegetables to 163 persons as a Thanksgiving gift.

Mrs. Jacob B. Dunn will be host- _ ® Other parties will be the guests of | Messrs. and Mesdames Herbert S.| op yo aned on 36 homes in which tuberculosis is present and has left a basket full of oranges,

Wood, J. Raymond Lynn, James Neff and Leroy Kahler. ; apples, vegetables and a dozen fresh eggs at each household.

Dr. and Mrs. Clarke Rogers have Phi Tau Sorority assisted. in the

project by donating canned fruit and a gift of money to a family of five.

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and x Mrs. James H. Taylor. : br es Bertha Balke, John A Edson T. Wood, Edith : Butler : Harry R. Fitton and R. R. Shiel and Miss Anna Spann are to be hostesses for groups. The monthly contract dinner will

Mrs. Burton Beville, has presented

beculosis patient. Mrs, Noerr has

herself and her family by sewing. Bryan. :

Beckett to Entertain ymond J. Beckett will entertain a group of friends at noon today an annual duck luncheon. Mr. raises the ducks on his own on Dandy Trail, southwest of

Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Clay are on a motor trip to Detroit and Windsor, Canada, following their marriage Nov. 9 at the parsonage of the Columbus Methodist Church, Columbus, Ind. The Rev. R. O.

| Bevan, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Budd,

Newlyweds Visit Canada :

Dinners and

Indianapolis brides-to-be, whose and Friday, will be guests of honor

and buffet suppers tonight. ” Mrs. Herbert Schmitt will entertain informally tonight at her home,

4229 Central Ave. for her daughter,

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The skit will be presented at the club’s annual dance. In gym costumes of the period are (left to right) Miss Kitty Myers, Mrs.

Suppers Tonight

weddings will be Thanksgiving Day with their fiances at bridal dinners

Kathryn Louise, whose marriage to

o'clock Thanksgiving morning at the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church. Members of the bridal party and guests who will be entertained will include Mr. and Mrs. Jack Devine, Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Schmitt, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Schmitt, Miss Mary Kathryn Sexton, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sexton, Miss Grace Huffman, Richard Schmitt, William J. Greener, Joseph H. Argus and J. Robert Hilger, Columbus, Ind. Mrs. Frederick Schmitt entertained recently with a crystal shower for the bride-to-be at the Athenaeum. The table was decorated in pink candles in prismatic crystal holders with a centerpiece of white chrysanthemums. Placecards were minature bouquets, and favors were carnations tied with bells. Guests included Mrs. Schmitt and Mrs. Timothy Sexton, mothers of the couple; Mesdames Devine, Francis J. Schmitt, John Durnin, Joseph Leikhim, Thomas Farrell, G. Ii*Heinrich, Barton Griffin, Robert Minta, Charles McVey, Leonard Schmitt, Clyde Bowers, Buri Darnell; Misses Hazel McCollum, Arlene Williams, Grace Hoffman, Lavina Steinke, Helen Lepert, Mary Frances Terry, Regina Fleury and Mary Rosalie Beck. The hostess was assisted by her mother, Mrs. Franz Binninger. y zs 8 = Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mootz entertained at a bridal buffet supper last night at their home, 1958 Carrollton Ave. following the wedding rehearsal for their daughter, Catherine, whose marriage to Joseph Mazelin will be 9 o’clock Thanksgiving morning. Guests with Miss Mootz and Mr. Mazelin were Mr. and Mrs. Gene Krackenfels, Mr. and Mrs. William

Miss Clara Mootz, Miss Ann Mootz, John Donnelly and Hillard Francis.

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Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Bond will be hostess tonight at a bridal dinner at the Canary Cottage preceding rehearsal for the wedding of their daughter, Dorothy Jean, and Edward James Erler, Friday at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Chrysanthemums - in autumn shades, yellow tapers and oak leaves will form table decorations. Guests will include Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Erler, parents of the bridegroom-to-be; Mrs. Earl A. Schull, matron of hondr; Misses Betty Finch, Rosalind Barrows and Ruth Chenoweth, bridesmaids, and Miss Mary Olive Borcherding, junior bridesmaid. Other guests will be Richard Lewis, best man; Jack Brown, James Carson, Clyde Garver and Donald Erler, ushers; Mrs. Herbert T. Welborn and Miss Helen Phinney, Ft. Wayne.

Mrs. Frank Symmes Will Give Review

Mrs. Frank A. Symmes will review “Listen! The Wind” (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) Thursday, Dec. 15, at .Banner-Whitehill auditorium. The review is being sponsored by jhe Indiana Club of Stephens Colege.

W. Lawrence Sexton will be at 10&— ;

Jewish Juniors Observe Annual Sabbath Service

The traditional Council of the Sabbath Service will be observed Friday evening by the Indianapolis Council of Jewish Juniors at the Temple, 10th and Delaware Sts. The local observance will be con-

ducted in conjunction with an annual program held throughout the U. S. and Canada. All council members are to participate in the services and will have charge of the pulpit. Miss Florence Slutzky, president of the local Council, will introduce the speakers. Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation will deliver the prayer. Readers of the service include Misses Esther Katz, Mildred Cohen, Annette Herman, Miriam Sicanoff and Edna Weissman. Ushers will include Misses Jane Halpbern, Ethel Kaplin, Florence Jaffe and Phyllis Cooler. Services will be followed by a reception and tea. Miss Lillian Kamlot and Miss Betty Lapinski are in charge. The annual formal membership dance for council members and their guests will be held at 9:30 p. m. Saturday at the Travertine Room of the Hotel Lincoln. Miss Sicanoff and

Hank Henry and his orchestra will play and a floor show will be presented.

Women’s Garden Club Plans Card Party and Dance

A dance on Thanksgiving Day evening and a card party on Nov. 28 are being arranged by members of the Municipal Gardens Women’s Department Club. Mrs. David Thomas and Mrs.

Louis Trager are in charge of the dance at the clubhouse. Assisting them are the following committees: ‘Mrs. Paul Hubbell, candy chairman, Mrs. Charles Yarbrough and Mrs. Cadman Star; Mrs. Horace Dougherty, registration chairman, Mrs. Robert Clegg; Mrs. Lat Gateman, decorations chairman, Mrs. Loomis Jennings and Mrs. Gaylord Lutz; Mrs. Thomas M. McGuire, refreshments chairman, Mrs. J. B. Kaufman and Mrs. J. C. Nelson; Mrs. Albert Off, door prizes chairman, Mrs. D. B. Phillips and Mrs. T. B. Roberts. ‘ Hostesses will include Mesdames Tony - Flack, Charles and George Smith. Bud Stone and his orchestra will play. The annual card party will be held at Blocks’ Auditorium.” Mesdames A. J. Harlen, Clyde Johnson and Joseph Walpole are in charge of the party.

The Coreopsis Club, through| Mrs. John Routier, secretary, and|:

$10 for a special diet for one tu-| : asked for a sewing machine for a| @

deserving woman who is able to| earn at least a partial living for|.

Scholarship Dance Chairman

Mrs. Robert Berner is

dance which he Indianapolis Panhellenic Association will give Saturday night : at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Proceeds will go to the Panhellenic scholarship fund,

Miss Thelma Levy are cochairmen.|

| Gordon Piercy and Miss Betty Tharp.

Holiday Wedding Principals Will Be Honored at Bridal

Post-Holiday Affairs Set For Groups

Week-End Club Sessions Include Book Reviews, Card Party.

Indianapolis club women will renew organization activities Friday and Saturday after a brief Thanksgiving respite. An illustrated travelog will be presented at a Friday meeting while Saturday sessions include book reviews, papers, a musical program, luncheon and a benefit card party.

Mrs. A. F. Henley will entertain members of the Friday Afternoon Reading Club at her home, 5808 E.

New York St. Miss Irene Duncan will present an illustrated travelog on “Palestine, Past and Present.” Mrs. R. W. Hogle will sing, accompanied by Mrs. Robert C. Roesner. Catherine and Robert Henley will play piano numbers. Mrs. J. L. Jackson will assist the hostess.

Mrs. Samuel O. Brewer, Mrs. Samuel M. Myers and Miss Ruth B. Carter will review books at a meeting Saturday of the Butler Alumnae Literary Club. Mrs. Arthur

Beal will entertain the group at her home, 3262 Broadway. : Mrs. Brewer will present a series of brief reviews of recent books. Mrs. Myers will review “The House That Hitler Built” (Stephen Henry Roberts) and Miss Carter will review “Red Star Over China” (Edgar Shaw). The theme of the meeting will be “World Affairs.” ;

Pulitzer Day will be observed Saturday at a meeting of the Magazine Club at the home of Mrs. Ed-

|ward J. Wolfarth, R. R. 4. Assistant

hostesses will be Mrs. J. B. Phillips and Mrs. Henry Knudson. Papers to be read include “Poetry,” Mrs. C. T. Austin; “Biography,” Mrs. R. A. Nowlan; “Fiction,” Mrs. R. L. Pierce, and “Play,” Mrs. W. J. Parvis.

The Indiana Poetry Society will meet at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Portfolio Room of the Propylaeum. Hostesses will include Miss Eleanor Gerrard and Miss Florence M. Taylor. Mrs. Josephine Duke Motley and Mrs, John Keller will present a musical program. Sam Solkes will sing minstrel songs.

The Mothers’ Club of Garfield Park, Free Kindergarten Society of Indianapolis, will sponsor g benefit card party Saturday at the Foodcraft Shop.

Members of the Late Book Club were entertained yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Stowell C. Wasson. Mrs. C. J. Renard was assistant hostess. Mrs. W. L. Meyers, Chicago, former member of the club, was a guest at the luncheon. Mrs. E. W. Hunter presided.

The Lady Aberdeen Artist Chapter of the International Travel-| Study Club will have its monthly meeting Saturday at the Colonial Tearoom. Luncheon will be served. Mrs. John Thornburg will discuss “Handicraft of Yesterday and Today.” Hostesses will be Mesdames Noble J. Smallwood, Merrill M. Waltman and Helen Sedwick. Mrs. Doris Anderson will preside. :

Art Teachers Named Judges

Francis Focer Brown, director of the Ball State Teachers’ College museum and teacher of painting at the college, and Miss Gladys A. Denny, art teacher at Manual Training High School, will judge the annual exhibit of the In-

Dec. 5-16. The pictures will be judged at 11 a. m. today at Block’s auditorium. Mr. Brown has exhibited his own paintings at the John Herron Art Museum, the Hansier Salon sand other galleries in the U. S. Miss Denny is graduate of the John Herron Art Institute and has exhibited at Philadelphia, the Indiana State Fair and the John Herron

known for her work in jewelry,

90th Birthday Honored

Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Houze entertained recently at their home, 5235 Madison Ave. in honor of the 90th birthday of Mrs. Houze’s mother, Mrs. Eliza J, Sturgeon. - Mrs. C. E. Oldham and Mrs. J. A. Koss presided at the tea table. Assisting were Miss | Beatrice Houze, granddaughter of Mrs. Sturgeon; Mesdames John Scott and

dianapolis Art Students League,|

Art Museum. Miss Denny is well

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The precision exercises to be shown come from Lucy Hunt’s “Handbook of Light Gymnastics” (for

ladies) published in 1881. a routine of the old days.

Annual ‘Fami

The annual “Family Frolic” of Shortridge High School will be held Friday, Dec. 2, at the school for the benefit of the Student Aid Pund. A style show, musical entertainment, dancing, carnival booths and an educational exhfbit will be features. James C. McLauchlan, Shortridge exchange teacher from Scotland, will appear in the plaid of his clan and play tunes of his native land on the bagpipes. Miss Jane Messick, teacher of figure drawing at Shortridge, Miss Elinore Hopwood, Louis Stockman and George Lipps have selected 15 girls to model in a style show. The seniors include the Misses Mary Janet Mummert, Mary Roberts, Suzann Queisser, Martha Jo Runyan, Dorothy Beem, Mary Jane Hess, Betty Jane Miller, Bernice West, Nancy Trimble, Katy Lou Matlock, Irma Berry, Sue Ann Knippenberg, Judith Robbinet, Betty Richards and Margaret Ann Murphy. The Baton Club,

sponsored by

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ly Frolic’ for

Benefit of Student Aid Fund

Miss Geraldine Trotter of the music department, will present a stage show in Caleb -Mills Hall. Billy Shirley will be master of ceremonies. A voice ensemble, the Baton Club orchestra, a vocal trio including Misses Lucy Peterson, Betty White and Ruth Schlaegel, and a harp ensemble including Misses Martha Burns, Joan Miller, Barbara Strickler and Evelyn Gullion, will be included on the program. Dick Carson and Martin Marks will give marimba and piano offerings, and an accordian trio will appear, including Misses Mary Elizabeth Miller, Natalie Ratliff and Marjorie Little. Orville Stone and his 10-piece orchestra will play for dancing in the school gymnasium from 9 p. m. until midnight. The second floor will be used for booths, with displays on the third floor. A hobby show will be under the direction of Colin Lett, instructor of mechanical drawing and mathematics. The home economics and physics departments will have exhibits on the third floor.

Mr. ar 1 Mrs. Robert V. Lutz and daughter, Carol Sue, Princeton, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Lutz and daughter, Sharron, Cincinnati, and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Greuling, Bloomington, will spend Thanksgiving with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Lutz, 1454 E, 46th St.

Miss Peggy Ann Sturgis will arrive today from Indiana University at Bloomington to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James D. Sturgis, 2816 N. Delaware St.

Miss Mary Catherine Funkhouser, who is a student at the Library School of George Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn., will spend Thanksgiving with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Funkhouser, 21 E. 37th St.

Miss Doris Belzer will spend the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Belzer, 3314 Kenwocd Ave. She will have as her guest Miss Janet Graham, Mount Vernon, O. Miss Belzer and Miss Graham are students at Western College, Oxford, O.

Mrs. Frankziska L. Hinze enter-

Personal Notes

tained recently with a reunion and house party at her home, 2366 College Ave., in honor of the birthday of her son-in-law, Homer M. MecCandless.

Miss Ruth Duffy entertained with a dinner. party at “Catherine’s” recently in honor of Mrs. D. R. Brosnan. Guests were Mesdames George Hulsman, Philip Early, I. A. Hagerman, A. W. Leeb; Misses Hazel Monce, Katherine Sweeney, Mary Sweeney, Madeline Cornet, Louise Lawson, Mildred Gallagher, Marietta O’Brien and Eileen Moran.

Dance Date Changed By Bachelors Club

The Bachelors Club will break its annual precedent of a Christmas ball this year by entertaining Dec. 23 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club with a dinner dance. Members will be limited to 12 guests each. Plans are being made by the bachelors for special decorations, a “name” band and a buffet dinner.

Mrs. George H. Denny (right), drill instructor, shows Mrs. Theodore Griffith

‘Once Over Lightly’ Is Due in City

Princeton Triangle Club Show Set for . Dee. 23.

Two dances will be held in cone nection with the presentation of the Princeton Triangle Club’s 50th ane niversary musical show at the Murat Theater. Dec. 23. The production, “Once Over Lightly,” will be preceded by a tea dance in the afternoon, and a dance is to be planned to follow the performance in the evening. John Gordon Kinghan, president of the Indianapolis Princeton Alumni Association, recently concluded arrangements for the show to appear here. William H. Stafford Jr. will head the entertainment committee. Wile liam H. Wemmer and Ralph G. Lockwood ‘are cochairmen of the committee sponsoring the production and in charge of arrangements. Mr. Wemmer is secretary-treasurer of the association. . Sylvester Johnson Jr. is transe portation chairman and Donald McLeod is in charge of tickets. The publicity committee will be headed by Miss Barbara Stafford, who is now visiting a friend in Buffalo, N. Y,, after spending last week in Princeton, N. J. Miss Nina Brown and Miss Josephine Mayer will be other members of the committee. Charles Latham Jr. of Indiane apolis is property manager of the production, which will be on tour during the Christmas holidays. He appeared in last year’s production.

Mary Carr Will Head

St. Vincent’s Alumnae Miss Mary Carr will serve as president of the St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing alumnae for the coming year. She was elected ree cently at the annual home-coming, Other officers chosen include Miss Esther Royce, first vice president; Miss Constance Batzman, second vice president; Miss Margaret Borst, secretary, and Miss Ann Kilfoil, treasurer. New directors are Misses Helen Klore, Helen Leich, Bernice Cain and Anne Dugan. ;

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