Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1939 — Page 6

- Times Photos. r Mrs. George Fotheringham (seated), Children’s Theater Shahan, is busy with plans for the performance of “Haensel and Gretel,” Junior program production, on Feb. 11 at Caleb Mills Hall, Mrs. Wilbur Carter is a ticket committee member.

- Miller: Photo. . Miss Irving Moxley, stage manager, coaches (Alice Gates in preparation for the Children’s Theater presentation of “Ivanhoe” this weekend at the Civic Theater. Alice will play Rebecca. Performances are to be at 10 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. Saturday and 3 p. m. Sunday. fa

Miss Betty Tharp (right) heads the costume committee for the Theater’s second Section of the season. Among her assistants are Mrs. Hardey Adriance (left) and Mrs. G. L. Small (center). - Other committee members are Mesdames LaRue Byron, Wilbur Carter and C. Willis Adams Jr. The Sir Walter Scott classic was adapled for the theater group by Mrs. H. H. Arnholter. Edward Green is directing the production.

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Civic Leaders Praise County Girl Scouts At Annual Banquet

200 Workers and Friend$ Hear Tributes: to 10 Fields of Endeavor; Vacationists Continue Trek to South. Eo.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON : Seven Indianapolis business and professional men last night lauded the 10 fields of Girl Scout work in making “a well-rounded woman of tomorrow from the girl of today.” They spoke at the annual dinner meeting of Indianapolis and Marion County Girl Scout executives:and leaders at L. S. Ayres auditorium. More than 200 work-

~ ers and friends of scouting were present.

Ten tableaux were staged by Girl Scouts with Miss Helen Rogers, Brownie; Miss Martha Hutchman, intermediate scout, and Miss Mary Jane Hess, senior scout, acting as announcers. Speakers were Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board Secretary; James E. Deery, City Controller; Frank N. Wallace, State ‘entomologist; Dr. Matthew Winter, Hugh McGibeny, Arthur Carr, curator of the Children’s Museum; C. M. Davis of L. S. Ayres and Dr. F. S. C. Wicks. Mrs. Horace R. McClure, commissioner, gave an inaugural-address and reports were made by Mrs. Arthur Medlicott, secretary; Mrs. E. Starling Pearce, treasurer; Miss Lucille Cannon, director, and “Mrs. J. Dwight Peterson, nominating committee chairnian. Mrs. William R. Higgins was in charge of the program.

Plan Southern Cruises

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Butler Clifford are to sail Feb. 11 on the S. S. Nieuw Amsterdam for a 46-day cruise around South America. Mrs. Clifford was Miss Virginia Ziegler of St. Louis before her recent marriage. Mr, and Mrs. Austin H. Brown, who have been spending a few days in New York, are to sail today on the S. S. Britannic for a two weeks’ cruise to Havana. Dr. and Mrs. D, O. Kearby. and their daughter, Miss Frances Kearby, will leave next week for Ft. Lauder-

dale, Fla. Dr. and Mrs. Chester A. Stayton are in Hollywood for two

weeks. Mrs. James B. Nelson is spending several weeks at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York before going to Miami. Mrs. A. Hastings Fiske entertained a small luncheon party at the Indianapolis Athletic Club yesterday in honor of Mrs. Donaid N. Test. Mrs. Test and Miss Katharine Kenney, who planned to sail for South America Saturday, have postponed their trip. Slides depicting stately Southern mansions surrounded by azalea and camellia japonica shrubs will be used to illustrate Mrs. Balfour Miller’s lecture on “Natchez, Where the Old South Begins” at 2 p. m., Feb. 3, at L. S. Ayres’ Auditorium. The garden department of the Woman's Department Club is to sponsor the lecture and style show afterward. Mrs, Miller is’ director of the annual pilgrimage to historic Southern homes which the Pilgrimage Garden

Club of Natchez, Miss., will sponsor March 4 through 19 this year. 8 ” » ® » o

Propylaeum Dinner-Bridge Set

Miss Marjorie Jean Mueller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clemens O. Mueller, left yesterday with her uncle, Donald L. Stone of Hanover, N. H, to spena a few days in New York before ‘going to Hanover for a 10-day visit with Mr. and Mrs. Stone. Mr. Stone has been visiting relatives here for several days. Miss Mueller will return to attend DePauw University during the spring term. Mrs. Fletcher Hodges, chairman of the Propylaeum Club’s. monthly dinner-bridge party to be held at 7 p.m. Friday, will be assisted by Mrs. Thomas F. Hudgins, Mrs. James Cunning and Mrs. Jacob P, Dunn. Among the members who have made reservations are Mesdames Harry R. Fitton, J. Raymond Lynn, Benjamin A. Richardson, Walter C. Marmon, Samuel M. Deal ‘and Joseph J. Conner. The committee arranging the Junior Assembly supper-dance to be held at 9 o'clock Friday evening in the Green Room of ‘the Indianapolis Athletic Club includes the Misses Florence Wolff, Elizabeth Weiss, Marjorie Geupel, Lucile Schaf and Joan Buschmann and Messrs. Charles Rockwood Jr., Sheldon Sayles, Thomas Bair, Severin Buschmann Jr. and Robert Cusack. Mrs. William Byram Gates is sponsor for the party. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Sparks are chairmen for the Lambs Club’s Valentine Frolic Feb. 11 at the Columbia Club. Committee

- members who will assist in the presentation of the floor show,

“Sweethearts on Parade,” will be Mr. and Mrs. Kurt F. Pantzer and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Pinnell.

On-Ea-Otas to Dance

Holds Benefit For Child Work

Proceeds of the Carnelian Club’s |

annual benefit card party will support the organization’s child welfare work. The party was to be held this afternoon at Ayres’ auditorium. The group’s welfare activities include donations to the Potter Fresh Air School, Julia Jameson Nutrition Camp and the Children’s Museum. The organization also aids the Flower Mission Hospital, Red Cross, Community Fund and radium fund of the Seventh District Federation

‘of Clubs.

Mrs. Frank M. Ebert is club presjdent. Mrs. H. L. Sunderland heads the ways and means committee, assisted by Mrs. Elwood Ramsey. Mrs. Robert Elliott was arrangements chairman for the party.

Mothers Fete Tomorrow

The Ketchum Kindergarten Mothers’ Club will hold a covered

dish luncheon at’ noon tomorrow at

Members of the On-Ea-Ota Club will hold a dance at 9 p. m. Saturday at the Woodruff Place clubhouse. Mrs. E. F. Burke and Mrs. Fred Hite will be in charge.

On Schedule of W.C.T. U. Unit

all-day meetings for today. One W. Friday afternoon.

Memorial Group Of New Harmony Sets Fete on Feb. 1

Presidents of various state women’s organizations and members of the State Assembly Women’s Club will be guests Feb. 17at a luncheon in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel. Mrs. Edmund Burke Bail, Muncie, and Mrs. Frederick G. Balz, members of the New Harmony Memorial Commission, are to be hostesses. Mrs. Balz is to talk on “Why Wonien Should Be Interested in the Preservation of New Harmony as a Memorial.” Miss M. E. Fauntleroy, New Harmony, will speak briefly of “Famous Women of New Harmony’s Community Days.” Heads of women’s organizations

|who will attend include Mrs. Wil-

liam H, Schlosser, Franklin, Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution; Mrs. Edwin I. Poston, Martinsville, Indiana Federation of Clubs;

i Mes: Clarence F. Merrell, IndianapLolis,

Indiana League of Women Voters; Dr. Agnes Wells, Bloomington, Business and Professional Women’s Clyb; Mrs. Joseph MecCord, Greencastle, Indiana branch, American Association of University Women; Mrs. R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, Indiana Council of Women; Mrs. O. N. Torian, Indianapolis, Colonial Dames; Mrs. Logan 'G. Hughes, Indianapolis, Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers. Mrs. M. Clifford Townsend also will be a special guest. Speaker’s Table

Guests at the speaker’s table will be Miss Fauntleroy, Mrs. Lewis Taylor, Evansville, and Miss Helen Elliott of New Harmony and Indianapolis. Clubwomen may make reservations by calling Mesdames Charles H. Smith, A. J. Hueber, W. C. Bartholomew, William Hyde Pearl, J. W. Thornburgh or W. L. Sharpe. Hostesses for the guest tables will be Mesdames Felix T. McWhirter, John G. Benson, William C. Hartinger, Paul T. Hurt, R. O. McAlexander, Charles H. Smith, J. W. Moore, Clayton H. Ridge, W. D. Keenan, George A. Van Dyke, E. C. Rumpler, Rudolph Grosskoph, Everett M. Schofield, George S. Olive,

‘|Frank Symms, R. Earl Cox, W. C.

Bartholomew, Robert Elliott, John E. Messick, Harry J. Berry, Edward W. Harris, Charles B. Dyer, John T. Wheeler, Louis Wolf, Robert Moorehead, A. J. Hueber, Walter Grow, David Ross, Isaac Born; Leonard Murchison, William Hyde Pearl,

PF. L. Pettijohn, H. H. Arnholter, E.

|H. Soufflot, C. J. Finch, Robert

Shank, Othneil Hitch, Alvin T.

*|Coate, Hugh J. Baker, E. A. Brown,

Arthur E. Krick, John R. Curry, H.

Whiting; Mrs. George R. Dillinger, French Lick, and Mrs. George Ww.

Jacqua, Winchester.

Carl J. Weinhardt, Paul Rochford,

P. Willwerth, Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren, :

Church Groups; to Hear Lecture

A number of Indianapolis women’s church organizations have} planned card parties and luncheons, while two groups have scheduled

C.T.U. unit will meet for a lecture

Mrs. C. G. Jacquart will speak at the meeting tomorrow of the Martha Hawkins Society of the First Baptist Church at the home of Mrs. E. B. Cracraft, 4473- Washington Blvd. Mrs. Jesse Cameron Moore will have charge of the devotional period opening the all-day meeting.

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Miss Helen Hartinger will speak this afternoon on “Viennese Viewpoints” at the all-day meeting at the church of the Woman's Association and the Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary societies of the Meridian Street Methodist Church. A prayer meeting at 10:30 o'clock this morning opened the Association Day exercises, under the direction of Mrs. Edgar G. Henderson. A business meeting at 11 a. m. preceded a 12:30 p. m. luncheon, with Mrs. Hugh Carpenter and Mrs. Leonard L. Campbell as cochairmen. Mrs. O. R. Sumner will conduct devotions at 1:20 p. m.

Members of the Altar Society of the St. Philip Neri Catholic Church sponsored a luncheon and card party today at the parish hall, with Mrs. Fred Wehlage and Mrs. Edward Gorman as cochairmen. Assisting in arrangements are the newly elected officers, including Mrs. Hugh Escott, president; Mrs George Randall, vice president; Mrs. John Griffin, treasurer; Mrs. Louis Layton, financial secretary, and Mrs. Janet Brennan, recording secretary.

Members of the, January Circle of the Christian thers’ Society of the Sacred Hearth Catholic Church entertained at 12:15 p. m. today with a luncheon and card party at the church hall on South Meridian St.

A card party tomorrow afternoon and evening will be sponsored by the women of the Holy Cross Parish at the school hall, 1421 E. Ohio St. Committee members in charge will be Mesdames Bernard Burkart, John Moriarty and Charles Donovan.

Mrs. Hubert Jordan, director of the department of Christian Citizenship of the Marion County W. C. T. U. will speak Friday afternoon at a meeting of the Mary E. Balch unit, W. C. T. U. Mrs. Grace Newby will entertain members of the group at her home, 617 W. 30th St. Topics for discussion will include Christian citizenship and law enforcement. Mrs. Newby and Mrs. Joel Lee Jones will sing a duet. Mrs. Elbert Moore, president, will preside.

13 Pledges Ready for Initiation

Tri Chi Induction Tonight; Business and Social Meetings Set.

Sorority meetings scheduled for today and the remainder of the week include routine business and social gatherings and an initiation for 13 pledges tonight. Showers are planned for two recent brides.

Tri Chi Sorority will initiate 13 tonight in - services to be held at

the home of Miss Virginia Buddenbaum, 5135 Maple Lane.

Theta Chapter, Delta Sigma Kappa Sorority, will be entertained tonight at the home of Mrs. Herbert Mutch, 3719 Boulevard Place. Members of the Bonae Amicae Chapter, Verus Cordis Sorority,

will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Frances Lawhorn, 1621 N. Broadway.

Mrs. Willlam Willoughby will be entertained with a linen shower and buffet supper by members of Lambda Chapter, Delta Sigma Kappa Sorority tonight at the home of Miss Bernadine Scherer, 108 8. Audubon Road.

Members of Alpha Chapter, Omega Kappa Sorority, will entertain at 8 o’clock tonight at’ the home of Miss Jeanette Garrett, 1720 Woodlawn Ave, for Mrs. Paul Lowry. Miss Emalee Palmer will entertain tonight at her home, 135 E. 30th St., for members of Alpha Chapter, Phi Theta Delta.

Alpha Chapter of Alpha Beta Phi

‘| Sorority, will meet tonight at the

home of Mrs. Walter Lindley, 2137 E. Garfield Drive. Miss Barbara Gisler will entertain members and pledges of Phi Theta Delta Sorority onighs at her home, 432 Randolph

Beta Chapter, Delta Phi Beta Sorority, will meet tonight at the home of Miss Elizabeth Duncan, 1041. Te‘cumseh St. Miss Nellie Given will be hostess tonight at her home, 982

Middle Drive, Woodruff Place, for

Jeon and an afternoon

Monitor Temple, Pythian Sisters. 8 p. m. tomorrow. 523% N Belle

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Alpha Chapter. Phi Delta Pi. 8 p. m. tonight. Mrs. Elsie McLaughlin, 2241 N. Talbott, hostess. Business. CLUBS On-Ea-Ota, 1p, m. tomorrow. Mrs. Robert L. Frame, 221°S. 6th, Beech Grove, hostess. Luncheon, business and bridge. 20th Century. 1 Pp. m. Fri. Mrs. Robert T. Ramsay, 5726 Central, “hostess. Luncheon, : LODGES

Cumberland. Chapter 515, O. E. 8..8 p. m. tonight. Masonic Hall, Cumberland. Mrs. Carrie Spilker and Christian Brinkman, worthy matron and patron. Millersville Chapter. 300, O. E. S. 8 p. m. tomorrow. Hall. Friends’ night and conferring of degrees. Mrs. Marie Harm and Homer L. “Wiseman, worthy matron and patron.

CARD PARTIES

Vieu. Pillowslips for prizes. Women of the Moose. 3p J, SOmOrtow. Moose Temple. Mrs. Helen . Wolsifer, mem] m in

KEEP SPAREBULBS ON HAND, TOO! Have better light for better sight. Make sure every socket has a good bulb—the right size. Be sure you have a. supply of the sight-saving sizes—75, 100 and 150-

ciations. The morning session’ began at| 9:45 a. m. followed by Ilunchsession at 12:45 o'clock. Mrs. Matthew Winter, P.-T.. A. health chairman, and Mrs. Witt W. Hadley, council president, were in charge. Roundtable discussions of five minutes following each talk extended the speaker’s services to individual problems Morning speakers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and their topics were. included “Our Ancestors,” Dr. Willis

|D. Gatch, dean of the Indiana Uni-

versity School of Medicine; “Skin Infectionsyand Diseases,” Dr. Frank M. Gastineau, assistant prefessor of dermatology; “Heart Disease in Children,” Dr. Edgar F. Kiser, professor of cardiovascular-renal diseases, and “Defective Hearing,” Dr. J. Kent Leasure, associate professor of rhinology, otology and laryngology. Miss Estelle Nesbitt, director of the nutrition division, Bureau of Maternal and Child, spoke following the luncheon on “Foods and Diets.” “Mind and Body Growth” was. the subject of Dr. Chauncey M.: Louttit, director of the Indiana 41University Psychological Clinics.

Virginia L. Shewalter Zo Be Married Feb. 11

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Shewalter, 5414 N. Illinois St. today announced the engagement of their daughter, Virginia Louise, to Russell ‘L. Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy L. Roberts, 3220 E Fall Creek Blvd. The wedding will be at 3:30 p. m. Feb. 11 at the Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church. Miss Shewalter was graduated at Indiana University where she was

‘|a member of Delta Gamma Soror-

ity. Mr. Roberts attended Purdue.

members of Kappa Delta Theta Sorority.

Beta Chapter, Phi Delta Pi Sorority, will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the home of Miss Annabell Cox, 430 Massachusetts Ave. ‘Omega Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the Indiana War Memorial. Miss Yvonne Patterson will be hostess at 8 o'clock tonight at

Child Development Is Theme Of P.-T.A. Health, €onference; L U. Medical Men Speakers

; # “The Child's Heritage and Development” was the theme of the sixth annual health Conference held today at Block’s auditorium under the auspices of the Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher Asso-

Series of Book Reviews Planned Beginning Feb. 5

Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt will present a series of book reviews beginning Feb. 5 under the auspices of the Sisterhood of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. Y ‘The reviews will be given at 10: 15 on Friday mornings and will be open

to the public without charge. Rabbi Goldblatt of the Indianapolis Temple was associated with the Temple Emanuel of Roanoke, Va. before coming here. Mrs. Arthur A. Fairbanks is president of the Sisterhood. Dates and subjects for the reviews are “My Son, My Son” (Howard -Spring), Feb. 3; “Going Home” (Ernst Harthern), Feb. 10; “Edward Arlington Robinson” (Hermann Hagedorn), Feb, 17, and “Roots in the Sky” (Sidney Meller). Mrs. Louis Trinz is chairman. of

‘|the committee for the series, as-

sisted by Mesdames Samuel Hahn, Harry Cooker, Harry B. Jacobs, William Rosenthal, Fairbanks, Lawrence Lapinska, Jacob Hayes, Albert Dannin and David Lurvey. b

Sub-Deb Group Plans Party Saturday Night

The Aurora Chapter of the SubDeb Club will be host to a party Saturday night at the Christian Park Community House. A business meeting is scheduled for Sunday at

4923 Carrollton Ave. Assisting with arrangements are the Misses Lenora Brown, Annabelle John, Lois Jean Ferguson, Christine Tucker, Dorothy Baker and Colleen Laseter.

P.-T. A. to Meet

Miss Miriam Hoss will present a program of ‘songs and dances at the meeting of the Ben Davis Parent-Teacher Association at 8 o'clock tonight at the school. Mervin Louden will be master of ceremonies. Stephen Fullen is general

her home, 1903 Ruckle St., for members of Theta Mu Sorority.

chairman.

Clubwomen Will Listen To Lectures

Two Talks Set for Tomorrow Will Have Religion “As Subject.

Lectures and - luncheons are on deck for meetings tomorrow of Indianapolis women’s clubs while one group meeting Friday evening will hear a speaker. Another organization held a guest meeting yesterday.

Two talks have been planned for the meeting tomorrow of the Beta Delphian Club at the directors’ room

in the Indiana National Bank. The meeting’s theme will be “Insure Domestic Tranquility.” Mrs. Charles Men Muir will-talk on “Modern Religious Trends” and :Mrs. W. O. Cheesman’s topic will be “Return to Religion.”

Mrs. O. T. Wingfield will entertain members of the North Side Study Club at her home 4840 Guilford Ave., tomorrow. - Papers on “John, the Baptist” ‘and “Peter, the Ime pulsive” will be presented by Mrs, E. H. Enners and Mrs. #red Hallett,

Thursday Afternoon Club members will be entertained at a 12:30 p. m. luncheon tomorrow at the home of Mrs. . Fred T. Heal, 403 N. Gladstone Ave.’

The North Side, Mothers’ Club will meet at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the home of Mrs. L. M. Maroney, 4468 Guilford Ave. .

Mrs. Johh W. Thornburgh will lec ture on “Outstanding Writers” at the meeting Friday evening of the: Erin Isle. Chapter, International

Travel-Study Club, at the home of

the home of Miss Betty Kerbox, | MIS: Donald Stroud, 1418 Somerset

Ave. Mrs. H. R. Milburn and Mrs. Harold Plymate will be assistant hostesses. Prof. John J. Haramy spoke on “America and the Next War” at the guest. day meeting yesterday of the Late Book Club. Mrs. Herbert Sawyer entertained the group at hep: home on Maple Road, assisted by Mrs. J. T. Sawyer. Mrs. Lowell S. Fisher, president of the Indianapolis Council of Women, was a) guest at the meeting. The serving table was decorated with roses and tapers and Mrs. Laura E. Ray and Mrs. Carl Semans presided at the tea table.

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