Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1939 — Page 4

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Frolickers Looking to 10-Day House Party at Ponte Vedra in Florida

Group’s Annual, Vacation in South Starts March 20; Propylaeum to See ‘Susan and God’ Skit / Tomorrow; Riding Winners Named.

: By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON .

The Frolickers are planning their annual vacation in the South where the club is to meet March 20 for a 10day house party at Ponte Vedra near Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond D. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Madden and Mitchell P. Crist will go

from Indianapolis to meet several othep members who have been

spending the winter in Florida. Expecting to join them for the frolic are Mrs. Crist, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Law, Mr. and Mrs. Lucius French and Mr. and Mrs. William A. Umphrey, who are af Miami, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lathrop, who are at Naples, and Mr. end Mrs. George K. Jones, who have been spending several week: at Ft. Lauderdale. . The club, organized a number of years ago, holds a summer golf tournament at the Highland Golf and Country Club and has spring and fall outings at French Lick. Last year’s house party was

“held at the Gulf Hills Country Club near Biloxi, Miss.

Vassar Club Tea Friday

The first hint of spring brings renewed activity among women’s groups. The Indiana Vassar Club will give a tea at 3 p, m. Friday at the home of Mrs. Eugene C. Miller in honor of Miss Christine Ramsey, Vassar College faculty member, who will be in Indianapolis for the day. Miss Ramsey is a member of the English department, associate secretary of the committee on admission and head resident of Cushing Hall. For the past year and a half she has had charge of radio broadcasting at Vassar. A group of Vassar Club members also will entertain Miss Ramsey for luncheon Friday. Mrs. Julius Birge is club president.

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Mrs. John R. Curry will be hostess for a luncheon meeting of the Indiana Wellesley Club at 1 p. m. Monday when final plans will be made for the ciub’s luncheon-bridge party and style show April 3 at Ayres’ auditorium. The benefit party will be given to raise funds

- for the scholarship given annually by the club to an Indianapolis

- second tourney of the series.

girl who enters Wellesley College in the falp as a freshman. Mrs. Thomas Chappell and Mrs. G. B. Taylor will assist Mrs. Curry. Mrs. Karl M. Koons is ciub president. : Mrs. John K. Goodwin and Mrs. Richard Edwards of Peru went to Chicago yesterday to attend the National League of Women Voters’ midwestern conference on membership and finance, Local league leaders met with Mrs. George Gellhorn, St. Louis, national board member; Mrs. Walter Fisher, Winnetka, national treasurer, and Mrs. William S. Hibbard, Winnetka, national finance chairman. A number of reservations have been made for the Propylaeum Club’s buffet supper tomorrow evening when Mrs. Alice Baxter Mitchell of Cincinnati is to give a dramatic recital of Rachel CrotHers’ comedy, “Susan anc God.” Mrs. Mitchell, who is to be guest at the Propylaeum during her stay here, will dine with Mrs. Ethel Woodard Wright and Mrs. C. G. Richie. Guests of Mrs. Edson T. Wood. and Mrs. John A. Butler will be Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Matson, Mr. 3nd 1 Mrs. Gaylord A. Wood, Mrs. John W. Kern and Mrs. Benjamin 2.

Everett Brooks Arlington Winner

Among popular indoor equestrian events are the monthly tournaments at the Arlington Stables where parents and friends of the : young riders gather to view the classes in the tanbark ring. Everett Brooks took the blue ribbon in the junior class last night | in the Jane Eaglesfield was second: Hoke, third, and Jacqueline Canfield, fourth, 4; Nancy Evaline Hitz was winner in the intermediate class; Marlou Hyatt, second; Ann Kennedy, third, and Ab Metzger, fourth. Hazel Jane Abraham was first in the senior event: Bill McCollough, second; Ann Cantwell, third, and Beth Anderson, fourth, The blue in thie Shortridge High School Riding Club competition went to Martha Jo Cantwell; Patty Goode was second; Evelyn Maraist, third, and Beatrice West, fourth. Mrs. A. Hastings

Women’s Clubs Are Ready for . Full Schedule

Varied programs including two screen story reviews and discussions of art and parliamentary law, are scheduled for women’s organizations next week. A patriotic society is planning for an annual state convention the latter part of the month and a club will entertain at a guest tea next week-end.

Reviews of the screen stories of two current motion pictures will be presented at the meeting of the Indianapolis Photoplay $hdorsers in their rooms at the Claypool Hotel Tuesday at 10 a. m. Mrs. Julia Belle Tutewiler will review “Pygmalion” and Miss Mabel West will discuss the screen story of “Yes, My Darling Daughter.” The storytelling program will begin at 11 o'clock.

Representatives of Indiana chapters of the Daughters of the Union will elect five state officers at the annual state convention Saturday morning, March 25, at the Woman’s Department Club. Miss Mildred Murray, Columbus, state regent, will presice at the meeting and luncheon following. Mrs. Walter N. Winkler is chairman of the nominating committee for the election. Positions to be filled are first vice president, recording secretary, .corresponding secretary, treasurer and historian,

Mrs, C. J. Finch is general chairman of convention arrangements. Mrs. Louis E. Kruger is music chairman and Mrs. A. B. Glick is in charge of publicity. Chapters of ithe organization in Indiana are at {| Columbus, Franklin, Madison, Terre

ton O. Mogg, ringmaster. 8 8 =»

Miss Mary Elizabeth Fletcher, daughter of Mrs. will give a dinner party this evening

who are members of Mrs. dancing class.

six weeks at Aiken, S. C., where hunting and polo season.

Lawrence-Landers Nuptials To Be Solemnized Tomorrow

Miss Ruth Janet Landers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Landers,

bride of Richar ; of Mr. and Mrs. A. LeRoy Lawrence, d Edward Lawrence,

p. m. tomorrow at the Landers’ home.

320 Poplar Road, will become the

Dr, John Ferguson, pastor of the Irvington Presbyterian Church, will officiate -at the ceremony before an improvised altar in front of the fireplace. The mantel will be decorated with tapers and white spring flowers

and banked with greenery. Spring

flowers will adorn the newel posts at the foot of the stairway, which will be entwined with greenery. Preceding and during the ceremony, Pasquale Montani, harpist, will play bridal airs. . . Miss Landers will be given in marriage by her father. Her gown will be of pale pink net fashioned with a fitted bodice, bouffant skirt with lace insets and short sleeves. She will wear a matching pink vel-

. vet cap from which a shoulder-

Jength veil of pale pink net will fall. Her only ornament will be a seed 1 necklace and she will carry a Victorian bouquet of shell pink spring flowers with a pink camellia ner. 3 Miss Mary Evelyn Ellis, bridesd, will wear a net gown of forpt blue made with a fitted

William Byram Gates’ Saturday evening

Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus they have taken a house for the

Indiana University, wher member of Theta Chi

Fiske was judge and ClayTey" |Haute, Liberty, Winchester and In- | dianapolis. N Mrs. W. D, Keenan, president of the ‘Seventh District Federation of Clubs, and Elmer Steffen will speak at the guest tea of the Cheer Broadcasters Friday afternoon in| the World War Memorial. Members of the organization will elect offi-

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Jesse Fletcher, for a group of young friends

will leave tomorrow to spend

cers during the business meeting at}

11 p.m, before the program and tea. Mrs. Keenan's subject will be “Old Cathedrals” and Mr. Steffen will discuss “Cathedral Music.” Mesjames C. FPF. Dillenbeck, W. PF. Holmes and Jerome H. Prochaska are in charge of the program.

Mrs. John Downing Johnson will discuss “Amendments to the ByA son: | Laws” before members of the in a single ring service at 2:30 |Artman . Council Monday at 7:45 p. m. Mrs. Fred Fate, 342 N. Bosart Ave., will be hostess, Officers bodice, full skirt and short-sleeved Will be elected during the business

1 fitted jacket. A half circlet of nat-|**Mu E. O. Rumpler Will address ural roses will be worn in her hair,

members of the Seventh Ward from which a tiny veil will cascade, | Woman’s Republican Club at the Her bouquet will be similar to Miss

bome of Mrs. Audrey Cook, 1913 Landers’ in a deeper shade of pink. N. Delaware St., at 2 p. m. Tuesday. A. Robert, Lawrence, the bride-

groom-to-be’s brother, will be best April Fool’s Theme

BE | Due at Annual Ball g ceremony, the cou- An April Fool's theme has been

ple will receive friends at the Lan- selected for the annual Ball of the ders home. A two-tiered wedding |Civic ‘Theater which will be held cake will be arranged on a plateau [this year on April 1 at the Indianof white flowers and greenery. apolis Athletic Club. The costume Following a wedding trip, the cou- |dance has been one of the theater's ple will be at home after April 1 in (traditional activities for several Greencastle. Miss Landers’ travel- years, : ing outfit will be a two-piece suit| George Fotheringham heads the of dusty pink tweed with which she genera! arrangements committee. will wear navy blue accessories. Mrs. William G. Sparks will be The bride-to-be attended Western College and Butler University, where [include Mrs. she was a member of Pi Beta Phi rations; Mrs. Howard J. Lacy II, Sorority. Mr. Lawrence attended reception; Miss Betty Tharp, ticke was alets, and Frank Hoke, theater { ‘ ‘Pr He 3 In

Monday Election Day For Sunnyside Guild

Officers will be elected Monday at 12:30 p. m. at the luncheon meeting of the Sunnyside Guiid in the Columbia Club. Mrs. Erwin McComb heads the hostess committee, assisted by Mesdames Jesse G. Marshall, Attia Martin, LeRoy Martin, Ralph L. Martin, Floyd J. Mattice, Gus G. Meyer,

Leader of Girl

Reserves Is Due At Conference

Miss Bernice Bridges, New York City, Girl Reserve secretary of the

National ¥, W. C. A. staff, will be

: ’ Times Photos. 1. Members of the Christamore Aid Society are busy these days with plans to sponsor the opening performance of Clare Boothe’s comedy, “Kiss the Boys Goodby,” the evening of March 23 at English’s Theater. Assisting with the arrangements are (left to right) the Mesdames Ernest Baltzell, R. Kirby Whyte and H. Foster Clippinger, Proceeds will .go to the Christamore summer camp at Traders Point. 2. The Indianapolis Day Nursery Junior Auxiliary is sponsoring a “World of Tomorrow” dance March 18 at the Woodstock Club for the benefit of the Day Nursery. Mrs. Thomas Henderson (left) and Mrs. David Vawter Burns, auxiliary members, are shown with ‘three youngsters at the nursery, 7 3. Mrs. Robert Sloan (left) and Mrs. Walter S. Porter look over the Indiana Saddle Horse Association’s autographed canvas nose bag which is always on hand at the Nose Baggers’ luncheon meetings, Mrs. Sloan and Mrs. Porter represent the association on the ticket So mittee for the Wild Oats Ball set for March 25 at the Columbia ub. 4. Mrs. George S. Olive (left) and Mrs. Ralph Colby leave the Meridian Hills Country Club following a ladies’ luncheon-bridge. The two members are assisting with plans for a St. Patrick’s dinner and bridge party next Saturday night at the club. 5. A series of lectures on “Radio” is being sponsored for Indianapolis Girl Scouts at Cropsey auditorium. The senior scouts meet at 3:30 p. m. on Thursday for the talks arranged by the public relations committee, Miss Dorothy Booth (left) and Miss Martha Lou Sunderland are shown perusing a Radio Glossary.

Detroit Writer Will Be Honor Guest of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Miss Helen Bower, Detroit, a national officer of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, will’ be guest of honor at the meeting of the Indianapolis Alumnae Association of the organization at the Butler University Chapter House Wednesday at 6:30 p. m. Committees for the annual state luncheon and dance will be announced. ®

Miss Bower, literary editor of the Detroit Free Press and editor of the Key, Kappa national magazine, will speak on “Interviews with Famous People.” Sp Mrs. P. M. Fifer, president of the association, hasinamed Mrs. Ronald R. Scott general chairman of the annual state luncheon. The Kappa

Hal C. Meyer and Edward V. Mitch-|the special guest of Indiana Girl|State Day will be Saturday, March

ell.

B.P. W. Tickets Are Announced

Candidates. for office in the In-

Reserve advisers and secretaries at the four-day conference opening this afternoon. The meeting is at Turkey Run State Park, Marshall. Sessions for Girl Reserve club advisers are to be today and tomorrow. Secretaries will meet Monday and Tuesday.

18, at the Indianapolis Athletic Members of assisting committees to be announced at the meeting include Mesdames Louis R. Lowe, Harold Wright, Allan W. Boyd, Robert Clark, Herschel E. Davis, Miss Mary Ellen Voyles and Mrs. John Mitchell Jr., Greenfield, luncheon, and Mrs. Robert R. Blackburn,

diana Federation of Business and| Miss Bridges will address th® dance chairman, assisted by Mrs.

Professional Women's Club were announced today.

groups Sunday morning. Aft the

Harry E. Elliott, Mrs. M. Stanley

Officers will be close of the conference she will be| McComas and Miss Joan Stedfield.

elected at the annual convention at honored at a dinner Wednesday Mrs, George R. Gilbert will have

French Lick Springs May 19-21 from the two tickets nominated. Miss Sally Butler, Indianapolis, is the nominee for president on one ticket. Others named are :[iss Pearl Lee Vernon, Martinsville, first vice president; Miss Floy Carlson, Lafayette, second vice president; Mrs. Alta E. Pruitt, Indianapolis, corresponding secretary; Miss Catherine Kessel, New Albany, treasurer, and Miss Ruth Giver, Wabash, recording secretary. Mrs. Lottie Kirby, Bloomington, heads the second ticket. Others are Miss Tella C. Haines, Indianapolis, first vice president; Miss Mabel Engstrom, Michigan City, second vice president; Miss Vesiie Burks, Bloomington, corresponding secretary; Miss Martha Babb, Mation, treasurer, and Miss Grace Sale, Evansville, recording secretary. /

Art Talk Due Tomorrow

“Chartres and Other Gothic Cathedrals” will be ‘the subject of

Robert Tschaegle. His series of “Re-

examination of Well-Known Mas terpieces” will be continue ou

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evening at the Y. W. C.(A. The conference is planhed around the theme “To Build a Fellowship of Women and Girls” and is preliminary to organizing a summer conference for all Girl Reserves of the state. Members of the program planning committee . include Miss Harriet Bowe and Miss Marie Ehle, Ft. Wayne; Miss Irma Powell, Kendalville; Miss Katherine Myers, Angola, and Mrs. Arthur Potts and Miss Helen Haggard, Indianapolis. Other committee chairmen are Mrs. Mildred Simmons, Terre Haute, registration; Mrs. Paul Batteis, Indianapolis, and Miss Louise Wagener, Pt. Wayne, recreation; Mrs, Potts, bookshop exhibits; Miss Kay Carpenter, Evansville, group singing; Miss Louise Clark, Lafayette, worship, and Miss Eleanor Dunlap, Terre Haute, hostess for the conference. do

Meeting Postpone

music committee head. Other aids|a gallery talk at 4 p. m. tomorrow| The meeting of members of the E. E. Whitehill, deco-|at John Herron Art Museum by |St. John’s Alumnae Association has

been postponed from Monday aftérnoon to the following 4 C J ¥

Monday,

charge of decorations and Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Blackburn will be in charge of reservations.

ette Kissinger, Anida Cassidy, Virginia Carter and Lois Meyers. The sorority will meet Monday at 8 p. m. at the Hotel Lincoln. Alpha Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi Sorority will entertain at dinner at the Colonial Tearoom Monday evening. Miss Marjorie Ford is in charge of arrangements. . Members of Phi Omega Kappa Sorority will meet at tha home of Mrs. Norma Grimm, 204 N. LaSalle St., Monday at 8 p. m. Mrs. T. O. McCleaster, 982 Leslie St., will be hostess for the howery party of Kappa Gamma Alpha Sorority Tuesday evening at her home. Mrs. George Miller will be assistant hostess.

Nominated for P.-T. A. Office

‘Mrs. Fifer will be toastmaster for |

the luncheon and Mrs. Elliott will present an original poem concerning state day activities. A scholarship award will be made to a representative of each of the active chapters at Purdue, Butler, Indiana and DePauw Universities. Chapter presidents will speak briefly. A prize will be offered in a chapter singing contest. : Mrs. Everett M. Schofield is chairman of the committee in charge of the supper meeting. Mrs. Emil E. Linegar and Mrs. Robert Throckmorton will assist her. Reservations are to be made with Mrs. Linegar. . Mrs, Thomas Cisco, delegate, and Mrs. William Ruscher, president, will represent Lambda Chapter of Omega Nu Tau Sorority at the grand council meeting of the soror-

ity at the Hotel Robert, Muncie,

tomorrow morning. Miss Faith E. Apple, grand president, will preside, Luncheon follow thé business session. Other members from the local chapter who will attend the meet-

- Mrs. Logan G. Hughes, president of the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers, has been nominated for vice president of Region 4, National Congress of Parents and

Teachers, according to an announcement made today. Mrs. Hughes is the first nominee the state organization has had for an office in the national organization. Region 4 includes Wisconsin, Michigan, ® Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Election will be at the national convention, May 1 to:4 at Cincinnati. ; Mrs. Hughes has just returned from the annual midwinter conference of School Administration Section, National Education Association. ; Three other officers have been nominated for election at the convention. They are Dr. William McKinley Robinson of the Michigan congress, second. vice president; Mrs. 8. C. Cox, Virginia Congress, second region vice president, and M. A. Taylor, Texas congress,

Vote Group Will Debate

Recreation

Women’s League to Hear Boys’ Worker Here On March 15.

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. Charles E. Hendry, program and personnel training director, Boys Clubs of America, will be guest speaker March 15 at a meeting of the Indianapolis League of Womsen Voters at the American United Life Building. Six group meetings are included among the organiza=tion’s activities for, March. Mrs. Joseph Miner will present the layman's views as opposed to those of the expert, Mr. Hendry, at the March 15 session. Mr. Hendry’s topic will be| “Recreation, a Municipal~ Responsibility.” We Are Interested in Recreation and What We Are Doing About It” will be discussed by Mrs. Miner, The Department of Government and Child Welfare is to be in charge. Mrs. Miner heads the department’s slibcommittee on recreation. Another in the league's series of lectures on current world affairs will be sponsored at|8 p. m, Friday at Caleb Mills Hall. Dr. Quincy Wright, professor “of international law, University of A Chicago, will speak on “The Role of Neutrality in World Politics.” The Fundamentals of Government group will meet March 22 and March 29 ‘at the Rauh Memorial Library. Mrs. Keegan Hostess

Mrs. Kenneth Keegan, 541 S. Central Court, will be hostess to members of the Department of Government and Its Operation Wednesday. Members will discuss “Study of State Legislature Kit” and “Problems of State Legislae tures.” The Economic Welfare Department is to have “U. SB. Experience in Low Cost Housing’ as its topie at the 10:15 o'clock meeting March 14 at the Propylaeum.| The discus=sion will be continued at a meeting scheduled for March 28. “Neiitrality Act as Part of the U. S. Foreign Policy” will be the theme of the Foreign Policy Department's meeting at 2 p. m. Monday at the American United Life Building. The subject on March 20 will be “Possible Changes in the Neutrality, Act to Improve U, S, Poreigh Pole icy.” | Two discussion periods will be held by the Legal Stalus Departe ment at the home of (Mrs. I. W, Sturgeon, 5641 N. Delaware St, “Equal Rights” will be the subject at both the March 9 and March 23 meetings. Mrs. Thomas Sheerin, 2330 Central Ave., will be hostess Wednesday to Child Welfare Department members for a discussion of a general meeting on March 15,

Women’s Council To Study Street Cleanup Demand

A resolution asking that City offi= cials make a “thorough cleanup of City streets, sidewalks and alleys” will be presented Tuesday morning to members of the Indianapolis Council of Women for action. The council will hold its monthly meet= ing at Ayres’ auditorium. Mrs. D. T. Weir, chairman of the public health’ committee, will pre sent the resolution. Special emphasis is to be placed on conditions on and near the Circle. : Dr. I. J. Good, president of Indiana Central College, will speak on “Present Day Character Problems” following the noon@uncheon. The business session will open at 10

a. m. Dr. J. Jerome Littell will speak on “Acute Upper Respiratory Diseases” at the morning sessions. Among committee heads who will report are Mrs. Hugh J. Scudder, legislation; Mrs. J. H. Armington, world peace; Mrs. George P. Ruth, municipal affairs; Mrs. E. E. Padgett, extension, and Mrs. Charles E. Smith, education. Mrs. W. H, Meuser, welfare committee chairman, will report on the recommendations of Alice Scott Nutt of the United States Children’s Bureau for the Marion County Juvenile Court. : Mrs. Isaac Born, commander of the Indiana division of the Women's Field Army Against Cancer, will on “Cause and Cure of Cancer."

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