Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1939 — Page 4

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~ Play to Be Sponsored By Christamore Aid ~ Society at English’s

Organization’s Summer Camp at Traders Point #:To Share Receipts of Opening .of Clare Boothe’s ‘Kiss the Boys Goodby.’

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON

The Chfistamore Aid Society is to sponsor the opening performance of Clare Boothe’s comedy, “Kiss the Boys Goodby,” the evening of March 23 at English’s ‘Theater. Proceeds will be devoted to the Christamore summer camp at Traders Point which the organization

has supported for two years. Advance reports indicate Miss Boothe’s barbed pen, which established an impressive record with “The Women,” lost none of its sharpness in handling the theme of the current drama which centers on who was to play Scarlett O'Hara in the movie version of “Gone With the Wind.” : Mrs. Edward E. Gates Jr., ways and means committee chairman, has been named general chairman of the undertaking by Mrs. George T. Parry, president. Assisting Mrs. Gates will be Mrsg W. 1. Longsworth, publicity chairman, and Mesdames William C. Griffith, Dudley A. Pfaff and R. Kirby Whyte, who will act as treasurers. ‘" The patroness committee Includes Mesdames H. Foster Clippinger, Julian Bobbs, John L. Eaglesfield, Russell Fortune Jr. and Robert E. Sweeney Jr. Telephone committee members are Mrs. Ernest Baltzell, Mrs. Philip B. Reed and Mrs. Frederick S. Boone Jr. . # ® 8 8

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The Players Club will present two one-act plays starting at 8 o'clock tonight at the Civic Theater. Appearing in ‘The Perfect Ending” (Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements) will be Mrs. Thomas Harvey Cox, Mrs. John B. Stokely and Mrs. F. Noble Ropkey. Dr. John Ray Newcomb is director. The cast of “The Washerwoman Duchess” (Louis K. Anspacher) includes Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Hoke, Walton Wheeler Jr. and Thornton Sterrett. Mrs. Newell Coyt Munson is director. Ss Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Tharp, chairmen of the committeé in charge of the production, have been assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Erwin G. Vonnegut, Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Haerle and Mr. and Mrs. Mun-

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Players Await

Several .dinner parties will pretede the performance and aftertheater dance at Woodstock Club. Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Meeker will entertain Mr. and Mrs. Austin V. Clifford, Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Montgomery and Mr. and Mrs. C. Fred Davis. Mr. and Mrs. ' Ralph C. Vonnegut’s dinner guests will include Messrs, and Mesdames Cox, Paul E. Fisher, William Henley Mooney and Dr. and Mrs. Cleon Nafe. In a group dining at the Propylaeum will be Messrs. and Mesdames Walker W. Winsiow, Paul Richey, Carl Wilde, Russell Willson and J. Emmett Hall. : Others who will entertain are Messrs. and Mesdames Kurt F. Pantzer, Joseph T. McDermott; Harry V. Wade, Maxwell Coppock, Thomas S. Hood, Horace R. McClure and Jack E. Harding. Out-of-town guests will include Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brady of Anderson, who 'will*be with Mr. and Mrs. McClure, and Edward B. Raub Jr. of Lafayette, who will be a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hood. Rehearsals will begin next week for “Whistling in the Dark,” ' the club’s final spring production to be presented Mdich 31 at the _ Civic Theater. Mrs. Coppock is to direct the three-act mystery play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter. The production , committee includes Mr. and Mrs. Hood, chairmen; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Loftin, Mrs. Helen Kirtland Dean, Dr. Irvine ‘H. Page and Dr. Frederic W. Taylor. : . 2 = 2

'Come-a-Croppers to Dine

; Another gala event this evening will be the Come-a-Croppers Club's dinner-dance at the Indianapolis Country Club. A. Kiefer Mayer will be host for the party, whose exclusive guest list is limited to Traders Point Hunt members who have fallen, off their horses in ‘the field and their wives or husbands. Mrs. William H. Wemmer, wife of the hunt president, has assisted Mr. Mayer is arranging the affair for which a number of novel entertainment features are planned. : As “first one off at the first hunt of the season,” Mr. Mayer automatically became host for the party. His eligibility was established by 2000 witnesses when he took a spill in the lowlands at the hunt’s annual all-day community party in September at the Hunt Kennels ‘at Royalton. a Mr. Mayer and Mrs. Wemmer; who issued invitations in the form of “collect” telegrams, insured themselves against receiving lengthy “collect” replies by stating that responses must be sent to Ralph Lockwood, hunt secretary.

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Catholic Forum Opens Monday! Other Church Events Booked

A number of Catholic leaders and officers of+national Catholic organizations will address a conference on industrial problems Monday and Tuesday. A returned missionary to Siam will speak to a woman's missionary group. Miss Agnes G. Reagan, Washing- -

ton, executive secretary of the Na- of sociology at Ohio State Univer-

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i Arthur Broeking,

Paul Skinner and Dorothy Swain| ‘Dusty’ Miller

| Miss Dorothy Louise Swain, daughter of Mrs. W. M. Swain, and Paul | W. Skinner, son of Mrs. Ella Skinner, will be married at 2:30 p. m. today lat the McKee Chapel of ‘the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. The Rev. ee ———————————————————————

Leaders of Girl ~ Scouts Planning

‘Birthday Party’

Plans for the “birthday party” of the Leaders’ Association of the Indianapolis and Marion County Girl Scouts, a schedule of programs outlined for the radio study course and a three-day leaders’ institute are among future activities on the Girl

All intermediate and senior Scouts, their mothers, fathers and grandparents are invited to attend the birthday party on Saturday, March 11, at the Y. W. C. A. The event will begin at 2 p. m. = Members of thé committee in charge include Mesdames Henry Langsenkamp Jr., K. W. Kistner, Norman Beatty, Arthur Medlicott, Robert Staley, James Small and Thomas Tressler. Frederick Overman of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music will conduct the second meeting of the series of lectures on radio being sponsored for the Girl Scouts. Mr. Overman will speak gn “Radio Speech” _at 3:30 p. m.' Thursday at Cropsey auditorium. . Forty-eight senior Scouts have enrolled in the course following the first meeting last Thursday. Walter Hickman, chairman of the “Collegiate Workshop for Radio” at Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, is assisting members of the Girl

tional Council of Catholic Women, |sity. Miss Reagan will talk on “Re- [Scout Public Relations committee

. and Miss Helen Phelan, Cleveland, director of Merrick Settlement House, will be among the speakers at the Catholic Conference on Industrial Relations Monday and Tuesday. Sessions will open at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. at the Roof Garden of the Hotel Severin, A banquet at 6:30 "Pp. m. Tuesday will close the conJerenca, which will be open to the public. The Monday evening session will begin at 8 o'clock.

Address Is on Security Miss. Phelan will. address’ the

sponsibility of Lsity to the Social Program.” fis A reception for Miss Reagan will be held on the mezzanine floor of the hotel Tuesday afternoon after the conference session. Mrs. Charles Barry, president of the Indianapolis Diocesan Cquncil of the N. C. C. W is a member of the entertainmer committee. Arrangements for the conference are under the direction of Miss Linna E. Bresette, field secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Canference and consultant on industrial

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with arrangements for the course. Subjects to be discussed will be “Radio Script Writing,” “The Microphone and the Speaking Voice,” “We Make Our Own Programs” and “Music on’ the Radio Program.” At the. close of the course a com{mittee of three leaders and advisers will select the groups of girls who will take part on several broadcasts, : A three-day leaders’ institute will begin Tuesday at McCormick's Creek Inn, near Spencer. Instructors will be Miss Dorothy Hande, field captain; Miss Jenny Lind, Ev«

Tuesday afternoon meeting on “The (problems for the N. C. C. Ww. [ansville director, and Miss Sally

Wed in Church Today| Will Talk Here

At Tea Monday

Thurman (Dusty) Miller, humorist and newspaperman, will speak

seven = branch candelabra and at 3 p.m. Monosy oh Forks 1 banked with palms and ferns. White Like” at the musical tea in celebrastandards of white stock and snap- [tion of the 44th anniversary of the dragons will decorate each side of Monday Club. The tea and prothe altar. Miss Donna Alles, organ- gram will be in the auditorium of

ist, will play bridal music including . the Lohengrin Wedding March and the American Central Life Build-

Miss Patra Kennedy, vocalist, will ing. sing “O, Promise Me” and “I You Truly.” : : Z + The bride will wear a white satin soloist, Will Sipe. Sohsanies by gown fashioned on princess lines|Mrs- T. M. Rybolt an stn 12, with a gored skirt sweeping into a[Didway will play a program of pipe Jone train. f The Yound neckline > organ music during the reception. e gown encrus with se T w . pearls and the long, tight sleeves pe ihe Seeing ne FO) a are banded in the same seed pearl|y;.s Edwin I. Poston, Martinsville, trim. She will wear a long white il-|,,.oijent of the Indiana Federation lusion veil cascading from a Crown |oe cups. Mrs, W. D. Keenan, presiof lilies of the valley with a shoul-|5.¢ of the : Seventh T District of der length face veil. Her bridal bou- | he. Mrs Clayton Ridge, presi-quet-will be of bride’s roses, freesias dent of the Woman's Department and lilies of the valley, Club, and Mesdames E. V. Mitchell, .Miss Swain Is Attendant Ollah Toph, George [Warmouth, Miss. Charlotte Swain, the bride’s Charles SV ods, Robert Mallock . : wning_ Johnson, past sister, will, be maid-of-honor. She presidents of the Monday . Club. will wear a floor-length gown of (Mrs. Keenan and Mrs. Ridge also pink starched net fashioned with |are past presidents. : short puffed sleeves, square neckline Mrs. William C. Ellery, hospitality

and bouffant skirt. A multicolored A = hu ye

girdle of crushed silk will adorn the Badger Williamson, L. E. Schultz, waistline of the skirt and she will |C. A. Hilgenberg, F. W. Schulmyer, wear a wreath of spring flowers in M. E. Heiner, W. E. Swinford and

her hair and carry a shower bouquet Fussell V. Sigler. oe L Beans of wine red roses. S in ¢

5 chairman, are in charge lof the proThe bridesmaids, Mrs. Walter |

gram. ; Wingenroth and Mrs. Richard Tibbs, | Mesdames Isaac Born, W. W. will wear identically styled gowns in Srackion, C. H. Kistner and W. D. raspberry colored starched net with |Fyle preside at the tea table. bouffant skirts and short puffed Ms: Mary Hendren, chairman, and sleeves. They will wear garlands of | o 15: ¥ am H. Pearl, cochairman, spring flowers in thelr hair and will il, PE JRE, 108, committee, ae carry cliff roses. - 1 3% , , Gilbert Meyer, a cousin of the Gerald Sustain end. J, Ray legroom, best man and| he Monda a y Club was organized ushers will be Walter Wingenroth |in 1895 by a group of women from and Leonard Duncan. A reception ithe Central Christian Church with will be held following the ceremony Mrs. P. H. Jamison as first presiat the home of Mrs. Ray Blauvell,/dent. Mrs. P. M. Dill, Mrs. Henry 915 N. Hamilton St. Long, Cleveland, and Mrs. James The couple will leave on a short |Parkhurst, Miami, are the only livnly liv wedding trip after the reception and {ing founders. |

will be .at home after March 1 in " —t Spring Party Planned

Indianapolis. The bride will travel in a navy blue sheer alpaca jacket For Dance Classes The annual Spring Party for all

J. Ambrose Dunkel will officiate. The altar will be lighted with two

dress with navy accessories and will wear a corsage of white carnations and freesias. ’

Talks on Whistler Art |Ga Robert Tschaegle, assistant cura-|Saturday, April 8, at the Murat

Love| Mrs. Robert W. Blake, contralto]

Department Unit To Hear Hickman On ‘Radio Today’

“Radio Today and Tomorrow” will be the subject of a talk and radio demonstration by Walter D. Hickman at 2:45 p. m. Wednesday before members of the Literature and Drama . Department of the Woman's Department Club. Officers will be elected at the meeting to be held at the clubhouse. Mr. Hickman, who will be introduced by Mrs. Everett E. Lett, is in charge of broadcasting at the Jordan Conservatory of Music. Mrs. C. E. Wolcott, chairman, will preside at a business meeting at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. John M. Williams will

present a report of the nominating :

committee and officers will be elected to serve for the next two years. The Book Hour Study Class program at 1:30 p. m. will be on old and new poetry, under the direction of Mrs. Hezzie B. Pike. Mrs. Edward A. Brown will talk on “Leaves of Grass” (Walt Whitman) and

Mrs. E. H Katterhenry, Martinsville, poet laureate of the Indiana Federation of Clubs, will discuss “Modern Poets.” :

members of Mrs. William Byram| Mrs. Ralph Drybrough will be|Mrs. * dancing classes will be held [chairman of a tea following the|Mrs. Assistant

program. hostesses will include Mesdames J. E. Barcus,

ro Times Photos. | 1. Mrs. Samuel J. Mantel (center) heads the Schools Committees assisting with arrangements for the Children’s Concert by the Indie anapolis Symphony Orchestra March 25 at the Murat Theater. Her aids [neinde Mrs. D. Laurance Chambers (left) and Mrs. H. Maurice Angell. : * 2. Mrs. Joseph, H. Thompson Jr. was Miss Gretchen Mary Yeazel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Dryden Yeazel, before her marriage Feb. 18. Following a wedding trip South, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will be at home at 2010 N. Meridian St. on March 1. (Dexheimer-Care lon Photo.) 3. Alpha Phi. Sorority will hold its annual State Day next Sature day at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Alumnae assisting with arrangements include (left to right) Miss Halcyon Mendenhall, Mrs. Richard Boatman and Mrs. Donald H. Walker. : 4. Mrs. R. P. Burkle (left) and Mrs. R. B. Staley are assisting with plans for ithe Illini Founder's Day banquet Thursday at the Canary Cottage. The local celebration will be held in conjunction with the Founder's Day observance at the University of Illinois. * 5. The Indianapolis Day Nursery Junior Auxiliary will sponsor a “World of Tomorrow” dance March 18 at the Woodstock Club. Miss Ruth Noblitt (left) heads the sales committee; Miss Betty Hamer» stadt (cgnter) is chairman of the decorations committee, and Miss Jane Hoimes is in charge of finances. e White Cross Music Guild will sponsor a book review by

Turney Garten Friday at the World War Memorial. Among + _ °®-

rtee aids are (left to right) Mesdames H. W. Seaman, Leonard and Laurence Hayes,

{ev. Mr. Southworth to Show Travelog to Mayflower Unit

William

The Rev. George S. Southworth will present a motion picture travelog of England on the guest day program at 8 p. m. Tuesday of the

Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants at the Propylaeum. / The Rev.

Mr. Southworth spent last summer traveling through guest preacher at Immanual/Church in London. Out-of-town guests will include

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Walter, Lafa- / vette: Mrs. John Meredith, Mr. and|Dr- and Mrs. Fletcher Hodges, Dr,

Mrs. Farr Wagner and Mr. and Mrs. |and Mrs. Sidney J. Hatfield and the John Williams, Franklin: Mr. and |Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Southworth. Mr. J. H. Pennington, Greenfield; |and Mrs. Charles Albert Gall and Edmund Burke “Ball dnd Mrs.{Mr. and Mrs. F. H Evans also will Raymond Allen, Muncie; Mr. and (be in the line. : Mrs. Williams Fobes, Elkhart, and| Mrs. Gall and Mrs. Hoke will pre-

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Significance of Social Security.” She | Thomas Sheerin is _|Stickney of the national field staff. general chair tor at the John Herron Art Mu- I A children’s cotillion a special {Harry J. Berry, Stephen T. Bogert,

is president FL Foi Cleveland io. man. on Dot UV. io ee T.v ; cesan Council of the N.C. C. W._ Mrs. Gaylord Knox, a \ 0 to Meet in Assem| chanan arter, \ ; , 8 missionary . VY, ee seum, will present an illustrated |feqture : : Miss Reagan Will share speaking|to Siam since 1920 and now home on| Members of Catherine Merrill|talk on the art of James McNeil |dance — be Joni sembly Sr M. Ran 1a ar speak at 2:30 p. nm. Tent 9, Daughters of Union Vet-|Whistler at 4 p. m. tomorrow at|United Ballroom. Members of the|Hamilton, Frank B. Hunter, E. A. Mrs.

honors at the'banquet with the Most furlough, will Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, Bishop of the Wednesday at the meeting of the|erans of the Civil War, will spon-|the museum. Mr. Tschaegle will|committee assisting . ‘Gates|Kelly, Frank E. Malott, C. H. Maswere Jane Johnston, Carolyn Culp, |ton, T. J. Moll, Luther J. Shirley, |line will be past governors and their |John Templeton. Members of the

- Djocese of Indianapolis; the Rt. Rev. Women's Missionary Society of the|sor a dinner at noo and Mesdames program. committee Mrs. : i : n Monday at|give special emphasis to Whistler's Msgr. J. E. Ryan, of Catholic Uni-|Second Presbyterian Church. Mrs. |Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois St. A |“Mother,” the only picture by an|Ann Browning, Barbara Alec, Tom |Leonidas F. Smith, Ralph E. Suits, | wives, Messrs. M Jo- ttee are Mrs. J. E.

versity, Washington, and Dr. J. E.|Berkley W. Buck will be hostess & iness ing conducted | American artist the vin Heaton Rock-|Miss Cynthia Maus ‘and Miss|seph Minturn, W Fred and ag Columbus, O, professor'her home, 5111 N. Meridian St. ot Ee a Ni be conde Louvre, ; = - od pa J lo : As Be epic, : mi on EM EY S 4 a 5 - Ass pT > AG 5 ah 3 Gi rh \ iE Aug SE o = 2 : Sh gi ee ;

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Cummings, side at the tea table. Mrs. Sidney Brownstown. : Scarborough, hospitality chairman, “Governor Halford Howland of the|will be in charge of the dining room, Society and Mrs. Howland will head [assisted by Mesdames Jess Pritchett, the receiving line. Others in the|Morris Brown, W. M. Taylor and

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