Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1938 — Page 6
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. Katharine Myers.
‘Honors at Smith and Players’ Club Dances
Mrs. George H. Denny Gets Prize or Perionmance In 1881 Gym Drill; Dramatic Group Opens Season With Two One-Act Skits.
By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON
A change has swept the local ballroom scene and the ‘waltz and foxtrot are passe as yesterday’s salad. That
divinely simple promenade—the Lambeth Walk—with its
hitchhiking gesture and audible nasal finale has taken
its place in the local picture.
It spread like an epidemic of measles at the Smith Club dance
at. Woodstock Club and the Players’ Club party at the Athenaeum Saturday night.
So if you expect to swim with the holiday tide ~ you'll take 30 seconds to master the artless routine that typifies the
: fo ke conceptidn of great abandon.
At the Smith Club affair nine alumnae clad in authentic gym cos-
_ tumes of the Eighties, with hands on padded hips, marched in white
~ tennis shoes through the duck walk, deep-breathing, percussion and To the strains of “Marching Through Georgia,” “Yankee Doodle” and “The Mosquitoes’ Parade” (Mrs. James FR Carroll at the piano) Mrs. George H. Denny, drill instructor, di- ~ rected her suddenly buxom “girls” in a “Gymnastic Drill of 1881.” The class included Mesdames Theodore B. Griffith, Gordon
| Frederick T. Holliday, A. K. Scheidenhelm, John S. Pearson
Jr. and Wilson Mothershead and the Misses Betty Tharp and For excellent performance a jury composed of . Mesdames William: H. Stafford, William J. Young, William H, Coleman, Walter C. Marmon, John W. Kern, Robert A. Adams, D, Laur-
i ance Chambers, Sylvester Johnson and ‘William C. Bobbs awarded : the prize, a Smith College recipe book, to Mrs. Denny. Miss Myers, who performed a solo dance with the aid of a wreath of tiger lilies
and a few loose poppies, received honorable mention. Mr. Denny was
‘announcer.
- Skits Presented at Civic Theater
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The Players’ Club opened its season with two one-act plays— ~ “Quiet, Please,” a murky Ozark Mountain opus built around an intra- | family feud that made the Montagues and Capulets look like a bunch sissies, and a bit of froth entitled “If the Shoe Pinches.” ey were presented at the Civic Theater prior to the party at the Athenaeum. ~~ In the first play Mrs. Perry Lesh was an attractive foil for Dr.
UE John Ray Newcomb and Percy Weer, the farmer brothers who dwelt
in silence in a cabin divided by a chalk line partition. Howard J.
- Lacy II was the sanctimonious person and Miss Helen Osborne added
"her bit to the comedy as a leader of the Christian Society. Mrs. William E. Munk and Mrs. John H. Bookwalter composed the “mob.” As the rattle-brained leading lady, who nonchalantly tossed aside
Ei pair after pair of shoes, Mrs. F. Noble Ropkey added another leaf to
her Thespian laurels in the second skit.
Ralph W. Lieber, the Russian princess with an accent thick as caviar;
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Mrs: William G. Sparks, the matter-of-fact sister, and Mrs. Herbert: Foltz, the even more matter-of-fact woman physician. . Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stokely, Mr. and Mrs. Munk and Mr. and - Mrs. Bookwalter assisted Mr. and Mrs. Sparks, committee chairmen for the production.
League Theater Aid Opens Lecture Series
- Miss Gloria Chandler is demonstrating her talent for reducing the mechanics of amateur dramatic producticn to the lowest common denominator at the directional institute at the Marott Hotel. Lectures are scheduled at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. for four days. : Her lectures, open to all interested persons, are sponsored by the Indianapolis Junior League whose financial support of the occupational therapy department at James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children has been assured for another year from approximately $4000 proceeds of last week’s Junior League “Gaieties.” Miss Chandler is | field representative of the Children’s Theater department of the Associated Junior Leagues of America.
She was assisted by ‘Mrs. :
Organizations on the Butler University campus have adopted jackets with the emblem of their group on the back. The coats selected by members of
Scarlet Quill are worn by (left to rignt) the Misses Martha Finney, Mary Anna Butz, Elizabeth Henderson, Carolyn Varin and Chloris Bell.
EVENTS
Gamma Chapter, Omega Chi. Tonight.
hostess. Election of officers. Phi Omega Kappa. 8 p. m. today. A Mrs. Jack Kingsbury, 425 N.
LaSalle, hostess. Theta Mu Rho. 8 p. m. Wed. Mrs. Brice Baldwin, 642'N. LaSalle, Miss Sally Cox,
Miss Helen Brabender,
hostess. Beta Chapter, Beta Chi Theta. 7:30 p. m. today. ~~ 615 N. Jefferson Ave., hostess. Beta Chapter, Phi Theta Delta. Tues. eve. Mrs. Lee Hollingsworth, . 15 S. Linwood Ave., Apt. 23, hostess. Tau Delta Tau. Tonight. Mrs. Paul Ziegler, hostess. Election of officers. Delta Sigma Chi. hostess.
8 p. m. today. Miss Jean Joslin, 1542 Dawson,
CLUBS
S. & C. 1 p. m. Tues. Mrs. S. L. Schubach, 5334 Hill, todtats Woman's Rotary. 12:30 p. m. today. Columbia Club. Mrs. Fran= ces Morrison Rabb, “Farming Is a Business.” Thursday Afternoon. 1 p. m. Thurs. Mrs. Dana Webster, 131 N. Bosart, hostess. Luncheon.
CARD PARTIES
Christmas Reflected
By A.A.U.W.
|December Activities Will
Include Series of Talks, Teas
December activities of the Indianapolis branch of the American Association of University Women will reflect the Christmas holiday spirit in the series of teas and
| | talks.
. The philosophy behind her-children’s theater work is summarized
“In everyone there's just as much aptitude to
y-operate as to compete. It is because dramatic experience is great cIor co-operating that more and more children’s theater programs are
being tied with school curricula.”
She will lecture today on “Blocking Out of Action Pattern” and
' “Business” (pantomimic dramatization).
Subsequent talks will cover
~ “Designing of Group Action,” “Mob Action,” “Interpretation and Character Development, » “Knitting Production” and “Co-ordinating . and Polishing.’
Preview of Art Students’
Exhibits
Set for Saturday
~A preview of the second annual exhibit by the Indianapolis Art Students League will be held at 7:30 p. m. Saturday at Block’s Audiforium. The exhibit opens Dec. 5 and will continue through Dec. 16.
“Famous living pictures of children, &—
under the direction of Miss Claire Williams, will be presented as a preview feature. Ruthven Byrum will demonstrate landscape painting. : Awards for exhibits have been announced. Pictures were judged by
- Damien Lyman and Miss Gladys A. Denny.
In the portrait division, any me-
« dium, Stella Coler was awarded first
prize for her pastel,
“Reed.” Second ‘award went to Charlotte Sidman for ther “First Violin,” an oil painting. Luella C. Clark won first prize in
the still life oil class with her picture,
“Harvest Hat,” with second going to * Thomas Bernhardt for his “Ge- ~ ranium and Lemons.” Lotta K. Horst
. was awarded third for her “Treas-
* ure Chest.” In the still life class, watercolor
and pastel, Ethel Dawson won first
. water color.
with her “Charming Disarray,” a Martha E. Wilson's
- “The Old Lantern,” a pastel, was
“awarded second and the pastel, “A Little Brown Jug,” by Nellie Me“Math, won third prize.
~ Bess Carlile won first in the oil
landscape division with her “Sunny- © brook Farm” and Cloradel D. Sal-
“Watchman’s Shack” took Osa Gambrel won third “In the
mon’s second. «prize with her picture,
Valley.”
In the water color and pastel landscapes, Virginia Layman’s water color “Watchman's House,” was awarded first prize. A water color
by Claire Williams, “Color in Our
“Alley,” was given second, and Tes-
sie Dixon's water color, “Silhouette,”
8 was awarded third.
2 Psychologist at ~ B.P. W. Meeting
Dr. Harriet E. O'Shea, associate professor of education psychology at ‘Purdue University, will speak at 8 ~m. Thursday at a meeting of the usiness and Professional Women’s Club at the B. P. W. clubhouse, Miss O’Shea’s subject will be What Can One Do for One's Own ‘Mental Health?” Miss Ruth Lew- , chairman of the program com- , will introduce the speaker. Mrs. Nell Merrick Thomas, presient, , will preside at the 6 p. m, dinpr ogram. Reservations for din-
© University Chapter of , professional jour- , Dec. 15 at| Alumni
fit second in respo to wide interest in work. Shel was connected with zine for 16 years, but her books becam
Committee Heads To Get Report on Home for Aged
_ Committee chairmen of the Joseph and Anna Borinstein Home for the Jewish Aged will report on the progress of the new home at a meeting at 2 p. m. tomorrow at Kirshbaum Center. Mrs. Samuel Dorfman, president, will preside. A book review and style show have been arranged by Mrs. Max Kaplan, program chairman, and members of her committee. Miss Ann Kaufman. will review “Neighbor and Crusader” (R. -L. Duffus), the biography of Lillian Wald, a leader in social service work. Miss Kaufman is a consultant: on the staff of the Child Welfare Division of the Indiana Department of Public Welfare. Organization members who will model at the style show to follow includes Mesdames Lewis J. Levy, Lou Leventhal, Wilfred Borinstein, Samuel Yaver, Jack Mueller, B. X. Cohen, David Berman, Richard Effroymson, William Schloss, Sam Goldberg, Ted Medias and Joseph Bernstein. Mrs. Philbren Levan will be piano accompanist and Miss Florence Slutsky commentator. Committee chairmen of the new home include Mesdames David Lurvey, Wilfred Borinstein and Paul Scharffin. Assistant program committee members are Mrs. L. L. Goodman and Mrs. Sol Glick. Mrs. Stanley W. Rammelsberg will present the invocation. The committee in charge of the social hour to follow the meeting includes Mesdames Charles Larman, Jack Dee, Ben Shalansky and Irving Rice. Mrs. Lewis Needleman will preside at the tea table.
Purdue Choir Head Speaks Here Friday
Albert P. Stewart, Lafayette, choral director of Purdue University, will speak Friday at a luncheon sponsored by the Indiana State Symphony Society’s women’s committee at the Athenaeum. The
, | Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s
second afternoon concert at the Murat Theater will follow. Friday will be “Lafayette Day” at the concert. Miss Edith Mills, chairman of the Lafayette Symphony unit, has made reservations for 13 of her group. The unit will sponsor a children’s concert by the orchestra at Lafayette March 9; and the orchestra will play at Purdue University that night. Friday's luncheon will be at noon, followed by Mr. Stewart’s lecture at 1:30 p. m.’ Reservations will be
a at Symphony headquarters
Prospect.
Roast beef dinner, noon. Mrs.
Fidelity Rebekah Lodge 227. 8 p. m. today. November Circle, St. Philip Neri Altar Society, 2:30 p. m. Wed.
Lodge hall, 16092
Emma Vaughn, chairman.
and a variety of programs set for
Pledge services have been scheduled by Lambda Chapter, Omega Nu Tau Sorority for Wednesday - evening at the home of Mrs, Hartzell Boren. Those who will be: inducted into the organization include Misses Marie Hartley, Lorene Aikens, Florence Fry, Victoria Marsh, Phoebe Marsh and Mrs. Jack Heffleman. A social party will follow the services. Mrs. Boren will be assisted by Mrs. Leroy Applaud. The organization will vegin its philanthropic work for the. year in the near future. A committee to head the project has been appointed by Mrs. William Ruscher, president of the local chapter. Committee members include Mrs. Eldred Lee and Miss Edith Pake and Miss Anida Cassidy.
Mrs. R. Melvyn Thompson, Rushville, will review “Listen! The Wind” (Ann Lindbergh) at a benefit tea at 2 o'clock tomorrow afteroon at Banner-Whitehill Auditorium, sponsored by Tri Psi Sorority, mothers’ organization of Delta Delta Delta Sorority at Butler University.
- Mrs. Floyd Bell will head the committee in charge of the event. She will be assisted by Mesdames Ora Butz, Raymond Cashon, J. B. Stalker, W. L. Jones and W. I. James. Earl Breech will sing. The public is invited to attend.
Gamma Delta Chapter, Kappa Delta Psi Sorority, will entertain at 8 o'clock tonight with a rush party at the home of Mrs. Hazel Korby, 607 E. Southern Ave. Assistant hostesses will be Miss Ann Christman, Miss Kate Mullican and Mrs. Margaret Lutz.
Mrs. Taylor Ford will entertain members of Delta Chapter, Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority Alumnae, at her home, 30 E. 37th St, at a covered dish supper at 6:30 p. m tomorrow. Assistant hostesses will be Miss Mary Jane Pate and Mrs. Paul Rhoadarmer.
Mrs. W. G. Cline, Miss Frances Luichinger and Miss Ethel Merrick are assisting with plans Yor the annual benefit bridge party at 8
dianapolis Alumnae Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority at the Columbia Club. Mrs. Cline is chairman of the refreshments committee, assisted by Miss Luichinger and Miss Merrick, president: of the alumnae group.
A Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan party at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday will begin the fall rush season of Alpha Chapter, Phi Delta Pi Sorority. Miss Althea L. Reid, 4039 College Ave. will be hostess at the party.
Mrs. Bernice O’Haver will entertain at the second party of the series at her home, 5232 English Ave. The date has not been announced. A formal dance at the Hoosier Athletic Club, preceded by a party at Miss Reid's home, will conclude the series. The committee in charge of the parties includes Mrs. Vérsa Benner, chairman and rush captain; Miss Betty Fouts and Miss Alice Goodnight, assistants. ,
Kappa Beta Gamma Sotetity will entertain at 8 o'clock tonight with a card a, at the dlp and
Murat, Theater ‘until 5. p.m m. Booed
Sororities, Affiliated Groups = Plan Benefit, Pledge Service
Indianapolis sororities and affiliated groups are busy with luncheons
the next few days. Among events
scheduled are pledge services, a benefit tea and a rush party. One group is making plans for launching its philanthropic program for the year.
p. m. Friday sponsored by the In-
Freeman sisters, Misses Christina Kyle, Janet Conard and Betty Seiwert. Mrs. Helen Seiwert is in charge of the entertainment.
Prof. John J. Haramy will lecture on “France” at the meeting tonight of the Alumnae Chapter, Pi Omicron Sorority, at the Indiana World War Memorial. Miss Ruth Snethers, president of Beta Beta Chapter, will preside.
Aids Announced For Shortridge ‘F arhily Frolic
Committees which will assist in Shortridge High School “Family Frolic” Friday night, under auspices of the Shortridge Parent-Teacher Association, were announced today by Mrs. Hugh M. Knippenberg, general chairman.’ Proceeds from the frolic will'go to the student aid fund. Mrs. Knippenberg is chairman of the ways and means committee of the school’s Parent-Teacher group. Mrs. Florence Porter, faculty member, Mrs. Stuart A. Bishop and Mrs. Fred Rassman are cochairmen of the food committee. They will be assisted by Messrs. and _Mesdames Harold Plummer, Kenn&h Lancet, Clay Gullion, W. G. Webber, Harold Weinman, William R. Evans, George Deck, Ray Fatout, Byron Wright and W. D. Niman, Dr. and Mrs. William R. Bolen, Mesdames O. K. Enzor, F. W. Marschke and E. Kirk McKinney. Chairmen of the beverage committee are Mrs. Opal Conrad, faculty, and Mrs. George L. Clark. Their m. | assistants include Mesdames Robert Bracken, C. Dolly Gray, Dan Hackerd, L. Hal Plummer and Max Tuttle. J.C. McLauchlan, faculty member, and Mrs. Hattie Lou Winslow are cochairmen of the bagpipes committee. They will be assisted by Mesdames Paul Kilby, H. H. Ochiltree, W. H. Reynolds and C. H. Scull. Included in the 15 Shortridge senior girls who will model in the style show are Misses Betty Richards, Katy Lou Matlock, Bernice West, Martha Jo Runyan, Margaret Ann Murphy, Suzanne Queisser, Betty Jean Miller, Irma Berry, Judy Robinette and Sue Ann Knippenberg. Five models already have been named. -
Daughters of the Nile
{Plan Party Tomorrow
Members of Koran Temple '30, Daughters of the Nile, will entertain with a benefit card party at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at Ayres’ auditorium. Proceeds from the party
ities of the organization. Mrs. D. Ray Higgins is general chairman of the event and will have charge of ticket sales. . Mrs. John Schoenholtz is vice chairman. Candy sales will be under the direction of Mrs. Fred Uhl. Assistants will include Mesdames Daisy CarIisle, : Francine Fletcher, Catherine Nicodemus ‘and Sarah Graham, Mrs.
[Miss Judy Hamer. Members of the
|Nancy Goodrich, Borinstein, Cath-
will be used for philanthropic activ-
Tudor Hall Cast Will Give ‘Pride And Prejudice’
“Pride and Prejudice” (Helen Jerome), a dramatization of Jane Austen’s novel, will be presented at 8:15 o'clock Friday night by the senior class at Tudor Hall School at the school auditorium. Members of the cast will include Misses Nancy Lockwood, Margaret Winslow, Polly Smith, Mary Elizabeth Jones, Elizabeth Weiss, Clair Morris, Carolyn Culp, Florence Wolff, Albertine Palmer, Phoebe Carman, Ann Jackson, Thelma Sachs, Elizabeth Meeker, Helaine Borinstein, Virginia Smith, Marilyn Whitaker, Barbara Martin and Lucy Kaufman. The play is under the direction of Miss Nellie McCaslin, assisted by
production staff include Misses Polly Fifer, Mary Eleanor Fenstermaker,
erine Cunningham, Marian Taggart and Nancy McCown. Art adviser is Miss Mildred Fischer and music is
' Christmas music by the Brass
| Choir of Tech High School will
be played at the general meeting Tuesday night, Dec. 13, at the Woman's Department Club. Dinner will be served at 6:15 p., m. _ “Did You Know That” will be the subject of a talk to be presented by Mrs. N. Taylor Todd, who will review information on fellowship and other organization activities. Aus-
{trian art and Christmas festivities
will be described by Miss Helen Hartinger in a talk on ‘Viennese Viewpoints.” A discussion of politi-
| [cal problems in Austria will follow
Miss Hartinger’s talk. The talk will be illustrated by slides of the Austrian country and Vienna. The speaker, a former art teacher at Tudor Hall School, was studying in Vienna at the time of the anschluss and lived with a Viennese family for 13 months. Christmas teas will follow meetings of the Contemporary Literature groups on Dec. 6 and Dec. 12. Mrs. John Paul Lahr will review “All This and Heaven Too” (Rachel Field) at the meeting at 1:30 p. m.
Dec. 12. Mrs. Paul Kilby will re--
view a seasonal book at the Dec. 6 meeting. A talk on the selection and buying of glassware, silver and china will be the program feature of the meeting of the Consumers’ Research Group for December. The Creative |/ ‘Writing group will meet Dec. 8 and 922. short story technique instruction will be continued and original manuscripts read. Two books on guidance will be discussed Thursday at a meeting of the Education Study group. Mrs. N. Taylor Todd will entertain group members at her home, 5147 Kenwood Ave. The meeting will begin at 9:45 a. m. Books to be considered are “Principles Guidance” (Arthur Jones) and “Educational and Vocational Guidance” (William M. Proctor). “Are >You Training Your Child to Be Happy?” is the subject for the meeting at 2 p. m. Friday, Dec. 16, of the Parental Education group for pre-school children. Mrs. S. Walker Downing, 3373. Colorado Ave., will be hostess. : The adolescent Parental Education group will meet next Monday at 1:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Paul R. Summers, 44 E. 46th St. The topic for the meeting is “The Standing of an Adolescent Before the Law.” Mrs. R. W. Holmstedt, state chairman of social studies, will meet with the Social Welfare group at. 9:45 a. m. Thursday, Dec.
under the direction of Miss Gladys Heathcock.
15, at the home of Mrs. Lester A. Smith, 126 Berkley Road. :
Mary Pasmore, San Francisco, Cal., violinist, will appear Sunday night at the Propylaeum Club following the ‘monthly buffet supper. She is a member of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. She is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H. Evans, and will be their guest * while in Indianapolis.
B. Bennet-Alder
Art and Romance of the Miniature”
which it passed. The lecture will world famous miniatures. The art department will entertain members of the general organization. Tea will be served following the lecture. Mrs. Clarence J. Finch and Mrs. William L. Sharp are cochairmen of the door committee. They will be assisted by Mesdames Horace G. Casady, W. Presley Morton and Albert H. Off. Mrs. Harold M. Trusler, courtesy chairman, will be assisted by Mesdames Ralph E. Suits, Harold O. Warren, C. Eugene Wolcott, Merritt EB. Woolf and Miss Mary Beatrice Whiteman. Mrs. Herman H. Sielken and Mrs. George A. Bowen, hospitality cochairmen, will be assisted by Mesdames H. Hanson Anderson, K. E. Lancet, H. C. Ryker and Miss Dorothy Phillips. Mrs. James T. Hamill and Mrs. Paul T. Hurt, tea chairmen, will he assisted by members of their committee. Art Exhibit Planned
An art exhibit by Gordon B. Mess, president of the Indiana Artists Club, will be shown in the Mary Quick Burnet Exhibit Room. 6 Tea hostesses for the afternoon will include Mesdames H. Alden Adams, Harold K. Batchelder, Mabel F. Bibler, Charles A. Breece, Charlton N. Carter, Charles M. Clayton, John FP. Engelke, Charles W. Field, C. D. Funk, Frank E. Gates, Thomas L.
Green, Alvin G. Jose, Howard J.
Will Discuss
Miniature Painting Next Week
B. Bennet-Alder, English miniature portrait artist, will discuss “The
at a meeting at 2 p. m. next Mon-
day of the art department of the Woman’s Department Club. The artist will trace miniature history from its earliest stages and will describe the growth of ideas and mediums of expression through
be illustrated with color slides of
Lacy, Everett E. Lett and Malcolm Lucas. : Additional tea hostesses will be Mesdames Charles M. Maley, Arley Ember McNeeley, T. J. Moll, George S. Olive, Hugh L. Raynor, W. A. Reddick, Victor H. Rothley, Herman H. Sielken, Walter J. Slate, Myron J. Spring, Howard D. Spurgeon, Guy L. Stayman, George P. Steinmetz, O. R. Sumner, J. M. Thistlethwaite, Edgar V. Thomas, W. W. Thornton, Franklin Vonnegut, Harry E. Voshell, Martha E. Wilson and Edwin J. Young. The 10 o’clock study group of the art depArtment will mee{ Wednesday morning, Dec. 7, at the home of Mrs. Edward A. Brown, 5420 Central Ave.
Art Group to Hear Last Talk in Series
Wilbur D. Peat, director of the John Heiron Art Institute, will speak tomorrow afternoon at the Museum on “Modernism Versus Old Traditions.” This will be the last of a series of five weekly talks for members of the Art Association of Indianapolis on the understanding and enjoyment of a work of art. Mrs. Paul Rochford, chairman of hostesses, will be assisted by Mes= dames Henry F. Beckman, R. O. McAlexander, Edward L. Pedlow and Ernest Rupel. A tea in the gallery .
‘will follow the lecture.