Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1939 — Page 4

Chopin's Etudes to Be Played Thursday by Bomar Cramer

In Propylaeum Club Program

Mrs. Frederick E. Matson Is Chairman for Recital;

Virtuoso to Repeat Performance at DePauw April 27.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON Bomar Cramer is to give a piano recital of Chopin's 27 Etudes at 2:30 p. m. Thursday afternoon at the Propylaesum Club. The local virtuoso will open the Spring Music Festival April 27 at De Pauw University with the same program. Mrs. Frederick E. Matson heads the Propylaesum’s entertainment committee which is to present Mr. Cramer on its April . Ase sistants will be Mesdames William J. Hogan, Rudolph Aufderheide, E. Rogers Smith, Edward B. Raub, William J. Shafer, Henry R. Danner, Harry J. Berry, Frank F. Hutchins and Hal R. Keeling. . Others are the Misses Emma Claypool, Anne Fraser, Gertrude Taggart and Blanche Stillson, Mesdames Louis Burckhardt, Horace F. Wood Harry R. Wilson, Albert L. Rabb, Samuel E. Perkins III, Josiah K. Lilly, Marion Ward, John J. Weldon, Edna F. Vajen, C. E. Whitehill, Irving M. Fauvre, Frances P. Huston, Roy Elder Adams, Frank J. Hoke and Oscar A. Jose Jr. Also assisting will be Mesdames Earl B. Barnes, Gideon W. Blain, John J. Madden, C. J. Prentiss, R. R. Shiel. Herbert S. Wood, Thor G. Wesenberg, William H. Thompson, Paul W. Simpson, Winfield Miller, Robert E. Sweeney, Frank D. Stalnaker, Carl F. Walk, Demarchus C. Brown, Alfred P. Conklin, Russell Fortune and C. Augustus Harms.

Tea Arranged for Lunts

Mrs. Booth Tarkington is to be a special guest at the tea for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne to be given by the Civic Theater affairs committee at 4 p. m. tomorrow at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mr. and Mrs. Lunt are to appear at English’s tonight and tomorrow in their Broadway success, “Amphytrion 38,” and Wednesday in “Seagull.” Mr. and Mrs. Tarkington have been friends of the stage stars since Mr. Lunt’s first success in a play written by Mr. Tarkington and Mr. and Mrs. Lunt have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tarkington here on several occasions. Hostesses for the afternoon will be Mrs. William MacGregor Morris, affairs committee chairman, Mesdames Hoke, William H. Mooney, Chauncey H. Eno, Myron J. McKee, Charles E. Weiss, Perry W. Lesh, Maxwell Coppock, George Ziegler, Charles C. Martin, Mortimer C. Furscott. Edward J. Elliott, H. H. Arnholter, George Fotheringham, Wallace O. Lee. R. G. Lazarus, the Misses Eldena and Sara Lauter, Betty Tharp, Jaqueline Wolf and Helen Coffey. Mrs. Kurt F. Pantzer, acting chairman of the hospitality committee arranging the party, will be assisted by Miss Anne Ayres, Mesdames Morris. Arnholter, Herbert M. Woollen, Wayne Ritter, R. Kirby Whyte, C. C. Robinson, William G. Sparks and Rosamond Van Camp Hill.

Art Lecture Tonight

Dr. and Mrs. G. H. A. Clowes are lending twe oil paintings by J. M. W. Turner and Mr. and Mrs. Pantzer are sending two water colors by the great 15th Century English landscape painter for the exhibit Wilbur D. Peat. John Herron Art Museum director, is arranging in connection with Dr. Paul Ganz’ lecture at 8:30 tonight at the museum. Dr. Ganz,

who is professor of art

history at the University of Basle, Switzerland,

is to discuss “Turner's Romantic Vision of Switzerland” before members of the Art Association of Indianapolis.

= 2 = Mrs. Robert T. Miller and her

Ottawa, Ill, will be home today afte

ville, Mo., where Miss Follette also of Ottawa. at the Kemper

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niece, Miss Virginia Follette of

r spending the week-end at Boonwas the guest of Cadet Emil Lockwood, Military Academy spring hop Saturday

night. Miss Follette, who is the daughter of Mrs. Albert G. Blair, formerly of Indianapolis, is a resident student at Tudor Hall. Dr. and Mrs. Francis T. Hodges who spent a few days here following their wedding trip to Mexico with Dr. Hodges’ parents, Dr. and

Mrs. Fletcher Hodges, have

returned to

their home in San Francisco.

Before her marriage last month Mrs. Francis T. Hedges was Mrs. Alice

Lyon Malloch of San Francisco. Mrs. John Sloane Kittle is

week with her sister, Mrs. O. B. Iles.

Florence Kittle and Mrs. Iles will N. J. where they attended the

Sloane Kittle Jr., and Miss Elizabeth

to motor to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. this

Mr. and Mrs. Kittle, Miss return tomorrow from Montclair,

wedding Saturday evening of John

Richmond Mills.

Mrs. Jack E. Harding who returned yesterday from a month’s trip

to California and the Southwest is to Mrs. Walter J. Lehmann and her son,

in Wilmette, Ill, yesterday after a

leave this week for New England. Walter, returned to their home week’s visit with Mrs. Lehmann’s

arents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Field. Mrs. G. E. Strite of St. Louis R the guest of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles

Gardner. Miss Edith Robertson

is home from Milwaukee where she

visited Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Richason.

Daughters of America to Hold Good Fellowship Event Today

A monthly good fellowship meeting,

a musicale and an initiation will

be featured at women's lodge meetings today, tomorrow and Wednesday.

Several committee luncheons are to New Hope Council, Daughters of America, will be hostess for the monthly good fellowship meeting of District 5 today in the hall at Morris and Lee Sts. Mrs. Daisy Hunter, Beech Grove, junior past state councilor and district deputy, will preside. Lunch is to be served.

Members of Prospect Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will initiate candidates at 7:45 o'clock tonight at the Prospect Masonic Temple, State and Prospects Sts. Mrs. Mary Mayo and Edward L. Bennett, worthy matron and patron, will preside.

Brookside Chapter 481, O. E. S. will hold a stated meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow in Brookside Masonic Temple, E. 10th and Gray Sts. Mrs. Grace Bowers and William R. Riley are worthy matron and patron.

New officers of the Brightwood Chapter, 0. E. S, will officiate at their first initiation at 8 o'clock tonight in the Veritas Masonic Temple, 3350 Roosevelt Ave.

A musical program will be presented following the business meeting of the Sahara Grotto Auxiliary at 8 p. m. Wednesday in the Grotto Home, E. 13th St. and Park Ave. Those who will present the program are Misses Mary Anna Blessing, Marion Blakeslee, Joan Ann Fox, Martha McHaffa, Evelyn Sprow, Martha Miller, Virginia Keiser, Betty Jane Sweetman, Lucille Harshman, Frances Silverman, Betty Jane Dawson, Shirley Wilkerson, Phyllis Cecil and Dorothy Evans, soloist. Miss Lillian Starost will be director. Accordion selections will be played by Billy Brisco and Jimmy Winkle. Mrs. F. E. Spratt and Mrs. Virgil Breedlove are in charge.

Mrs. Russell A. Abdon, 67 Jenny Lane, will entertain members of the general house committee of the auxiliary at a luncheon at 12:30 p. m. Wednesday at her home. Members of the ways and means committee will have luncheon at 12:30 p. m. Friday at the Hamilton Food Shop. Mesdames Ollie Wilson, J. A. Ammon, Theodore Mittendorf and Earl Gaston will be in charge.

Review of 2 Books On P.-T. A. Program

Members of the Parent-Teacher Association of School 77 will present Mrs. Bjorn Winger in two book reviews at 2 o'clock Thursday afternocn in Banner-Whitehill auditorium., Mrs. Winger will discuss “Tree of Liberty” (Page) and “Apache Gold” (Dobie). Music will be provided by the Girls’ Sextet of Tech High School. Mrs. O. A. Pressler is general chairman, assisted by Mesdames Harry Ware, E. S. Joslin, W. M. Haine and Fred Butler, president.

Girls’ Club to Meet The Olive Branch Girls’ Club is to meet at the home of Mrs. Glada Wiese, 749 E. Morris St, Wednesday

be held Wednesday and Friday.

D. A. R. Studies Federal Policy

WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P). — National defense and foreign policy held the attention today of several thousand members of the Daughters of the American Revolution as the organization convened for its 48th Continental Congress. Delegates representing more than 140,000 members of the society will hear Chairman Key Pittman (D.

Nev.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.), of the House Committee on un-American activities, and Maj. George Fielding Elliott, U. S. Army, retired, in a national defense symposium this afternoon.

Senator Pittman will review U. S. foreign policy; Rep. Dies will talk on “Un-American Activities,” and Maj. Elliott, author and authority on continental defense, will discuss “The Defense of the Americas.”

The convention is expected to adopt resolutions indorsing President Roosevelt's armament program, but proposals to support revision of the Neutrality Act were expected to encounter opposition. National defense also will be the theme of Secretary of War Harry Woodring when he addresses the convention tonight.

Convention delegates will attend a White House reception Friday atternoon, customarily given by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The first lady will not be present. She resigned from the organization in protest of its barring of Marian Anderson, Negro contralto, from its auditorium here.

Women to Inaugurate

Meridian Hills Season

Luncheon bridge and golf activities for women of the Meridian Hills Country Club during the 1939 season will start this month. Mrs. J. T. Lippincott will be chairman of the opening bridge event at 1 p. m. tomorrow at the clubhouse. Mrs. Frank S. O'Neil will assist. Mrs. Alan Sweetser is chairman of the women’s golf committee, which will sponsor its first tournament of the season Wednesday, April 26.

Tudor Hall to Hold Open House Today

The annual open house with visits to classrooms, a program by the pupils and a tea is to be held this afternoon at Tudor Hall School under the sponsorship of the Parents’ Association of the school. Tea will be served in the residence at the close of the activities. Included in the program will be

at 8 p. m,

demonstrations of representative class activities, :

Personals

Two Indianapolis young women were to take part in the ninth annual Connecticut Valley Student Scientific Conference Saturday at Williams College. Miss Barbara Ann Frantz. daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. George Arthur Frantz, 3616 Watson Road, was in charge of the physiology exhibit of Mt. Holynke College. Miss Barbara Jean Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Johnson, 417 N. Arsenal Ave, and Miss Alice Lewis, La Porte, attended the conference. The three voung women are students at Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.

A group of Indianapolis girls were guests Saturday at the annual Campus Day of Western College, Oxford, O. A program cf campus activities was arranged for the visitors from surrounding states. Indianapolis visitors were Misses Claire June Bosson, Adeline Lewis, Charlotte Frazier and Mary Anne Perry.

Mrs. Pauline H. Kahn returned recently to her home in the Columbia Club after spending a few days in New York.

Mrs. Ferdinand W. Adams and daughter, Miss Vera Adams, Saginaw, Mich., and Gulf Port, Miss, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Badger Williamson, 1855 N. Pennsylvania St. Mrs. Adams is Mr. Williamson’s niece.

Summer Camp Movies Slated

Moving pictures of the Alpha Gamma Delta Summer Camp for underprivileged children will be shown at the meeting of the Alumnae Club of the sorority at 7:30 p. m. today at the home of Mrs. Earl H. Conway, 225 Blue Ridge Road. The camp is at Jackson, Mich. Mrs. J. Paul Lahr will report on distribution of tickets for a lecture by R. P. Valtier which the club will sponsor April 25. The lecture will concern Mr. Valtier's experiences as an employee of the Russian Soviet Government and will be given in the Indiana World War Memorial. Miss Mary Ann Tall and Mrs. Kenneth L. Dotterer will have charge of the program at the meetings.

Church Group to Hear Review by Mrs. Grubb

Members of the Woman's Auxiliary of St. Paul's Episcopal Church will hear a review of “Moving Millions” at their 1 o'clock luncheon meeting today. Mrs. M. B. Hedges, 1929 Talbott Ave., will be hostess. Mrs. J. K. Grubb is to review the book. Assisting the hostess will be Mrs. Albert McGuire and Mrs. Dar Robinson. Mrs. 8. May Hahn will preside.

Times-Acme Photo. The Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow (left), the former Barbara Hutton, arrived in New, York last week on the liner Aquitania on her first visit to her native land since she relinquished her American citizenship in 1937. In the picture above she graciously answers the questions of ship reporters who surround her. She was accompanied by her 3-year-old son, Lance, whose custody she has for nine months of each year since her separation from her Danish nobleman husband.

Rush Parties Top Program Of Sororities

Four Phi Theta Delta Groups Will Be Dinner Guests of Alpha Unit.

A series of rush parties, a dessert ||

bridge, an informal dinner and several routine business meetings are included in activities of Greek

letter organizations for tonight, to-||

morrow and Wednesday. Members of the Alpha, Beta, Zeta and Eta Chapters of Phi Theta Sorority are to be entertained at an

informal dinner tomorrow evening:

at the home of the Misses Alice and Betty Kelly, 3355 Graceland Ave. The hostesses are members of Alpha Chapter.

Mrs. Malcolm Seward will discuss “Textiles, Fabrics and Human Frailties” before members of the Sigma Nu Mothers’ Club at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Butler University chapter house. Alfred Zimmerman, violinist, will play several selections.

Members of the Board of Directors of Alpha Chapter, Phi Delta Pi Sorority are to meet at 8:30 p. m. tonight at the home of Miss Alethea L. Ried, president, 4039 College Ave.

Miss Bertha Burris, 2023 Langley Ave. will entertain members of Epsilon Chapter, Rho Delta Sorority at 8 o'clock tonight at her home.

Gamma Chapter of Theta Delta Sigma Sorority will meet at 8:15 p. m. tonight at the home of Miss Juanita Leonard, 1341 N. Olney Ave.

Members of Alpha Delta Omega Sorority are to hold their regular meeting at 7 o'clock tomorrow eve-

Dinner Honoring Mary Kirkhoff

One of Many Parties Arranged For Brides-to-Be of Spring

Friends and relatives of a number of Indianapolis brides-to-be are busy shopping for shower gifts for the parties planned for the young

women this week. A number of informal parties will be held and one bride-to-be was feted at a luncheon and bridge party Saturday.

Mrs. John F. McCool will entertain with a dinner party and miscellaneous shower tomorrow evening in the Gold Room of the Marott Hotel for Miss Mary Kirkhofi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman P. Kirkhoff, whose marriage to Victor L. Hellmer Jr. will be April 29. Dinner will be served at small tables, with a table for the bridal party and their mothers in the center. A large low bowl of spring flowers in the bridal colors of aqua and yellow will form the centerpiece. Streamers of the same colors will extend from the flowers to individual places with corsages tied to the ends. :

Guests with the bride-to-be and her mother will include Mesdames G. F. Kirkhoff Sr., G. F. Kirkhoff Jr., Leonard Kernel, Joseph E. Kernel, Agnes Rogers, Lawrence E. Mc-

Mahon, Charles Kirkhoff, Thomas Tiernan, Frank Duffy Sr. John J. Blackwell, John Harold Blackwell, Victor Hellmer Sr. and Louis Mohlenkamp and the Misses Blanche, Virginia and Jorita Kernel, Eileen Rocap, Mary Margaret Flaherty, Martha Jane Foederer, Marie and Marguerite Blackwell, Dorothy Welsh and Mary Louise Keach. The bride-to-be was honor guest Saturday at a luncheon and bridge given for her by her sister, Mrs. McMahon, at Catherine's Tearoom. ” 2 2 Miss Elizabeth Conder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Croel P. Conder, whose marriage to George Q. Biegler Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Q. Biegler, will be Saturday, will be entertained at a party tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs. T. G. Crawford, 5140 N. Keystone Ave. The centerpiece on the serving table will be a large gold wedding ring encircling a miniature bridal party. Favors will be miniature brides and bridegrooms. Guests at the party, with the bride-to-be and the mothers of the engaged couple, will include Mesdames James Nicolai, Thomas Blackwell Jr.,, H. M. Cumberworth, Richard Conder, Kate Conder, Earl Conder, Joe Scott and Miss Martine

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The Butler University and Indianapolis Alumnae Chapters of Theta Sigma Phi Borority will sponsor their ninth annual Matrix Table dinner tomorrow night at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. committee members are (left to right)

Among | present Dr.

Arrange Theta Sigma Phi Dinner

Times Photo.

Miss Mary Glenn Hamilton, Mrs. Eugene York and Mrs. Floyd R.'Mannon. The organization, national honorary and professional journalistic society, 0 Telkes, Budapest talk on “Europe's Political 8h

Karns. Mrs. Bert J. Sowers will assist the hostess. Miss Virginia Fosler will entertain Wednesday evening in Miss Conder’s honor with a crystal shower at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. = ” 2 Miss June Danford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Danford, Shortridge Road, whose marriage to William A. Matthews will be May 7 at the Memorial Presbyterian Church, was entertained Saturday evening with a kitchen shower at the home of Miss Marion Sones, 3845 Kenwood Ave. Assistant hostesses were Mrs. Kenneth Harker and Miss Audrey Joslyn. Decorations were carried out in green and white, the bridal colors. Guests included the Mesdames Danford, Ed Joslyn, F. J. Beckman, C. M. Sones, Charles Wright, Wayne McMahan, Don Leukhardt, John Bolyard, Randall Lawson, H. R. Fuller, William Boice, Harold Worth, William T. Chafee, Norman Peine, Douglas Elwood, and the Misses Florence Griffey, Carolyn Kendall, Dorothy Hoff, Ellen Robinson, Mildred Langdon, Ruth Marie Price and Maurine Campbell.

” 2 ” Mrs. Charles Harvey and Mrs. M. L. Aston entertained Saturday evening at the latter's home, 6800 Michigan Road, with a bridal shower in honor of Miss Laura Ann Power, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Power, 7900 Michigan Road. Miss Power's mairiage to Carl K. Glass will be early next month. Mr. Glass is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Glass, Kingsport, Tenn.

St. Cecelia Players

Present ‘Rebecca’

Members of the St. Cecelia Dramatic Club of Sacred Heart Church presented “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” last night at the St. Cecelia Hall, under direction of Norbert Brinkman. Cast members included Misses Rita Gantner, Gertrude Kunkel, Louise Koesters, Agnes Riegel, Anna Louise Reibel, Helen Cafouros, Joan Niehoff, Lucille Schaefer, Mrs. F. C. Felske, Charles Williams, James Muller, George Cafouros and George Lauck.

Porcelain Is Subject

For Newman Club

Mrs. Laura Steffen New will speak on “The Romance of Porcelain” be= fore members of the Newman Mothers’ Club of Butler University fol lowing their covered dish luncheon at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow. Mrs. W. H. Rohr, 5510 Broadway, will be host ess. Members of the committee in charge include Mesdames F. B. Slupesky, D. R. McMillen, A. H. Kahler, J. ©. Stipher, M. J. Healy and Edward Kraeszig.

Lecture on Houston

Set for Tomorrow

Mrs. Mary E. Sharp will lecture on “Sam Houston and the Texas Revolution” at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Central Library under auspices of the Indianapolis Indorsers of

‘|Photoplays.

The lecture is a review of the motion picture, “A Man of Cone quest.” The public is invited. Mrs. Roscoe Williams is chairman.

Mothers’ Club to Meet Members of the Christian Park Mothers’ Club will have a covered dish luncheon at 12:30 tomorrow at the Christian Park Community House. Games and a business session will follow the luncheon. Miss Ruth McVey and an all-girl orchestra provided music for a Young People’s dance recently at the Community House.

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their families at a spring pa 8 o'clock tonight in the

cratic Women's Club will entertain|

ning in the Hotel Riley.

Members of Sigma Delta Sigma Sorority will conduct a social meeting at 8 p. m. Monday at the home of Miss Myrtle Perkins, 5128 W. 15th St., Speedway City.

Members of Kappa Delta Theta Sorority will hold the first of a series of parties with a buffet supper Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. J. R. Boyle. Other parties will include a campfire breakfast April 23 at Christian Park, and a progressive dinner April 26 at the home of Mrs. Leonard Pavey. Guests at the parties will include Misses Betty Mae Laughlin, Nora Mattingly, Margorie Burgett; Mrs. Harlan Livengood and Mrs. George Moore. The committee in charge of arrangements is composed of Miss Mary Bean, Miss Margaret Dunkin and Mrs. Ernest Charron.

Members of Alpha Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi Sorority are to be entertained with a dessert bridge this evening at the home of Mrs. John M. DaVie, 3115 Graceland Ave. Miss Olive Breisch and Mrs. Ruby Rogers.

Mrs. Mark Huffman, 209 N. Rural St., will be hostess to members of Beta Chapter of Phi Gamma Tau Sorority this evening at her home.

Members of Phi Omega Kappa Sorority will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the home of Mrs. Michael Garvey, 1037 N. Temple St.

Kirkpatrick Photo. Mrs. Carl Vandivier

Women’s Unit of Hoosier Athletic Club Plans Party

The Hoosier Athletic Club Wome en’s Guild will be hostess at 8 p. m. Wednesday at a card party for wives of new members. Dancing in the grille will follow the women’s party. Mrs. Carl Vandivier is general chairman and Mrs. Herman Harte man heads the organization. Assisting with plans are Mrs. G. L. Young and her ticket committee, Mesdames Bernard Miller, Chauncey Taylor and Edward Kohr. Mrs. Frank Huse is favors chairman, ase sisted by Mesdames Leo Steffin, Thomas Kercheval, Robert Hopkins, Glen Bertels and T. J. Schifferdecker. The candy committee ine cludes Mrs. Wilbur Thayer, chairs man, and Mesdames George Bechtolt Julius Caesar and Theo Klippel.

M. F. Harmons On Wedding Trip

Mr. and Mrs. Marion F. Harmon are on a wedding trip to Chicago following their marriage Saturday morning in the rectory of the St. Philip Neri Church. The Rev. Bere nard Girden officiated. Mrs. Harmon was Miss Patricia Alice McGinley, daughter of Mrs, Margaret McGinley, and the bride grooms parents are Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Harmon, Whitestown. The couple will be at home after May 1 in South Bend. A wedding breakfast was served at Cifaldi’s and a reception was held Saturday afternoon at the bride's home.

Tuesday Quest Club Will Hold Guest Day,

The Tuesday Quest Club will observe guest day at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the American Life Insurance au ditorium. Mrs. R. C. Fielding will review “Grandma Called It Carnal” and a program of special music will be presented. Hostesses will include Mesdames O. O. Johnson, B. H.

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