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At the left is Jean Baptist Chardin’s “Boy Blowing Bubbles.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ART ASSOCIATION PRESENTS LIVING PICTURES . . MEMBERS PROVIDE OWN BACKSTAGE STAFF . . . .

. Times Photos. Art Association members were given a real treat last night when several of their group

presented masterpieces of art posed by living persons at Herron Art Museum.

That is Edward B. Tag-

gart doing the blowing and that little boy who is simply bubbling over with delight at the

exhibition is David Peat.

Reginald Garstang was among the busiest of persons backstage as the actors were

“made up.” Here he applies a bit of powder to the face of Mrs. Henry Atkins.

Jr. awaits his turn.

Noble Dean

Mrs. Sylvester Johnson (right) posed for “Miss Farren, Countess of Derby,” by Sir Thomas

Lawrence.

SOCIETY—

Traders Point Hunt Facing Busy Saturday—Ride, Dinners and Dance.

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Many Parties Arranged tor Marott Dance

Art Association Members Fill John Herron Sculpture Court To See Second Living Art Show

By ROSEMARY REDDING

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6, 1930 AMONG PORTRAITS WAS ‘COUNTESS OF DERBY’. ,

Voters’ Group Hears Review Of Merit Work

Dinner, Luncheon Meeting and Address on Today's Program For Local Sorority Chapters

A dinner party, luncheon meeting and a guest speaker are included in program plans for today’s meetings of local sororities. Many Greek letter societies will hold regular business and social meetings.

Mrs. John W. Hillman reviewed the League of Women Voters’ part|

Edward Taggart today is the city’s uncrowned champion bubble

Theron Miners Entertain blower. All because he figures there might be many a slip twixt the]

Saturday will be a busy day for Traders Point Hunt

In Honor of Guests [cup and the lip.

|in working for a merit system this

Members of GAMMA CHAPTER, OMEGA NU TAU SORORITY,

members, many of whom will ride in the hunt that afternoon, change for dinner parties that evening and go on to the annual Hunt Ball in the Indianapolis Athletic Club that night. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sutphin will entertain at their home with a dinner preceding the dance. Their guests will be Messrs. and

Mesdames Cornelius Alig, Fred Appel, Austin Brown, Robert Scott and Otto N. Frenzel.

Mayers to Give Dinner

Members of the Art Association of Indianapolis last night saw him hold that bubble to end all bubbles for two minutes as he posed in “Boy Blowing Bubbles” by Jean Baptiste Chardin. The living masterpiece was

one of 17 presth ed at Join Herron 100 Expected At Club Party

From Danville.

The many reservations made for the Pre-Holiday Dinner and Dance

bers. The show will be repeated

tomorrow night at the Marott Hotel | 'OR8ht, Tor ite polis. sad with Mr

indicate that Indianapolis residents| Taggart as the little boy admiring already are getting into that festive| the bubble blower gave every indimood which accompanies the Christ- cation of joining in the audience

morning at the Indianapolis League program in the American United Life building. The merit system has been a league project for 20 years. Mrs. Hillman pointed out how the league became interested in the merit system years ago and has worked toward better personnel in government service and proper administration of law. Department chairmen explained the relationship of the merit system

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mayer will give a dinner preceding the ball. Their guests will include Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zoller, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ball, Muncie; Comm. and Mrs. O. F. Heslar, Mrs, Hortense Rauh Burpee, Mrs. Roy H. Coles, Paul Robertson and Louis Schwitzer Sr. n

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Herbert M. Woollen's dinner will be Mr. and Mrs. George M. Bailey, Cincinnati; Miss Barbara Bullitt and Lowry Watkins, Louisville; Gordon Mendelssohn, Millbrook, N. Y.: Mr. and Mrs. August C. Bohlen, Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Adams and Miss Julia Brink. Miss Bullitt and Mr. Watkins are among the out-of-town guests who will ride in the Hunt Saturday afternoon,

Guests at Mr

Herringtons to Entertain Another dinner party is the one Col. and Mrs. A. W. Herrington will give. Their guests will be Col. and Mrs. William Guy Wall and Dr. and Mrs. Harry C. Kahlo. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Miller will give a dinner as will Mr. and Mrs. Earl Barnes and Louis Schwitzer Jr. The Donald N. Tests have planned a dinner party also. ‘Harvest’ Shows Tonight Filmarte Guild members and their guests will attend the showing of the French film, “Harvest,” at the Athenaeum tonight. Guests will be greeted by Mrs. Ralph Chappell, chairman of the reception committee, and her assistants, including Mesdames Carlos Recker, Frank W. Cregor, Charles C. Martin, F. B. McKibbin, Augustus Coburn and Erwin Coburn. Arrangements committee members will stand at the door of the ballroom receiving guests. Mrs. Edna Kuhn Martin is chairman, assisted by Mesdames Ralph Spaan, Harry Weaver, C. H. Wallerich, Ernest Krutzsch, Herman Kothe and Clemens O. Mueller. 2 ” 2 Last minute reservations have been made by Messrs. and Mesdames A. C. Miller, Volnev M. Brown and R. Norman Baxter, who will attend together. Messrs. and Mesdames Wallerich, Mueller, John Sloane Kittle, Mervin J. Hammell and Mr. Uz McMurtrie will go in a party. In another group will be Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Smith, Mrs. T. A. Sapia-Bosch and Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Corcoran. Theater Parties Are Formed Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holt will attend with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F. Crom. Miss Helen Coffey and Mrs. J. W. Coffey and Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Wright Jr. will form another party. Mr. and Mrs. Max J. de Vietien, Miss Marie Blackwell and Mrs. Grover B. Turner will attend together. M. and Mme. Dimitrie Chamilovitch will sit with Miss Martha Gill and Mrs. Thomas J. Gray. = n n Guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Failey will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Adams. Miss Eldena and Miss Sara Lauter will be in the audience as will Miss I. Hilda Stewart and Mme. Marie Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Kurt F. Pantzer and Mr. and Ms. Robert Ferriday Jr. have reserved seats together as have Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Dayan and Dr. and Mrs. I. J. Kwitny. Dr. Walter Bruetsch and Mrs. William Bobbs have made reservations. Mrs. Albert Shouse and Mrs. Bert McCammon will sit together and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. E. Webber and Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Travis will make up a small party. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Wohlgemuth and Mr. and Mrs. Harley W. Rhodehamel’s seats will be together, while in another party will be George C. Calvert, Dr. and Mrs. Harold C. Oehsner and Mr. and Mrs. James Q. Thrasher. Mrs. Philip Adler, Julian Kiser and Robert Marks will be seated together and Miss Jane Hampson will attend with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Lazarus. Miss Beatrice Gerrin and Miss Hazel Swain have reserved adjacent seats. Other reservations have been made by Messrs. and Mesdames B. M. Angell, W. D. Hamerstadt, Edward P. Dean, Francis Wells, Dr. and Mrs. P. E. McCown, Norman Titus, Mrs. Allen W. Kahn and Harry Blasingham Jr.

D. A. R. Plans Yule Party

Members of the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will hold their Christmas party at 3 p. m. tomorrow in the Propylaeum. The Ogden Junior Chorale will present a musical program. Hostesses will be Mesdames Newton Todd, Henry C. Atkins, Edwin H. Forry, William H. Coleman, Frank D. Stalnaker and Miss Emma Claypool

Musenwm Guild Meets Friday The Children’s Museum Guild will meet at 1 p. m. Friday for a

dessert luncheon at the home of Mrs. R. Norman Baxter. Mrs. John Wardrope and Mrs. Sam W. Simpson will be assistant hostesses.

|admiration. But he and a few others mas Season. {knew how Mr. Taggart felt about this slip twixt the cup and lip busiI ness.

Mr. and Mrs. Theron Miner will entertain in honor of Mr. and Mrs.

W. N. Rogers of Danville, Ther| You ses, Mr Taggars could blow 5 .,__|a soap bubble but to hold it the guests will be Dr. and Mrs. Miles same size, shape, etc. for two minBarton, the Messrs. and Mesdames| utes was just asking too much. So H. H. Wells, Charles B. Crist, Wil- | the production committee produced liam Lewis and Gilbert Scott of & balloon tied to the end of a stick. Kirklin { Mr. Newell C. Munson solved the : {problem of “foxing” the stray drafts Mrs. S. T. Nichols will have in her| which wafted it about by sticking party the Mesdames A. H. Stein- chewing gum to the bottom of the brecher, Harry Murphy, Samuel | Palloon and attaching it to the wall. Cornell Carey, Carolyn Atherton, : Picture One of Best William Kuhn, W. W. Critchlow SeriotsV. ne Jiclitre was ghe of ) : : ‘/the best received by the audience. O. D. Bohlen, Dr. and Mrs. N. The spectators filled all of Sculpture Wilford VanOsdal and Mr. and Mrs. Court and even perched. on steps Edward Zink. Elders to Entertain {end of the court. At a table reserved by Mr. and and Mesdames Robert Stillman, association did not allow guests in Frank Smith and L. C. Pfeffer. Mr.| order that members might have and Mrs. J. Edward Keller and Mr.|choice seats. The pictures were well and Mrs. Herbert Hartman will have received by the group and such a table together. Mr. and Mrs.|comments as one by Mrs. James W. Herman C. Tuttle and Mrs. Jeffer-|Fesler that “the show was even betson H. Claypool will have dinner |ter than last year’s,” could be heard together. Mr. and Mrs. Urban V.|following the performance. Plum and Mr. and Mrs. Norman | Members of the committee have Stanley will have a tabie. {been at work for three weeks arMiss Mary Baer will entertain |ranging the tableaux. Bougets go to |Mrs. Theodore Abel and Miss Doro-| Miss Anna Hasselman and her com(thy Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Robert mittee for their work on scenery and |Rearden will have as their guests | properties. Mrs. Charles Pfafilin Mr. and Mrs. William Cannicott. and Mrs. Clarence Coffin superIn the party of Dr. and Mrs. J. W.|vised recorded music accompaniHuckelberry will be Messrs. and|ments to the tableaux from the Mesdames Harold W. Merritt, Doug- [landing on the stairs to the second las T. Reid and Edward G. Toms. | floor. David Vawter Burns

Guests of Leonard Roys

of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard H. Roy. chairmen. Mrs. Thomas L. Green will peers ‘Le Billet Doux’ Is First {tain Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Lugar.] When Miss Ann Browning and {With Mr. and Mrs. Walter Behmer, Miss Barbara Jones, pages, first

| will be Mr. and Mrs. Percy O. Jones.| drew hack the curtain before the|mittee chairman, will be assisted saw Mrs. |by Mesdames John Patton, Howard

| Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Jackson large members

irame,

|Mrs. T. M. Overley.

|Doux” (Fragonard).

(Mrs. M. A. Ryan, Mrs. Ethel M.| School principal, timed the posing

| Hemenway, Richard Pattison, the from the back of the room and re- |

| Messrs. and Mesdames Wendell | ported the poses were held more Rynerson, Richard Dye, Don Hart than one minute and many for two and Thompson Kurrie. or more. Reservations for tables have been| Frederic L. Walker appeared next made by Mrs. C. A. McLaughlin, Olven Bowe, Mr. | of a Man.” and Mrs. H. C. Kirby and Mr. and | Daughter” Mrs. L. H. Noble. | Dining room music will be pro-| formance was scheduled for vided by Consuelo Couchman Dun-| meyer, cellist; Frances pianist; Martha Foreman, violinist; | cancellation necessary. Victoria Montani, harpist, and Lil-| The other repeat {lian Snyder, contralto soloist. “The from last year was that of “Amer-

Last year “Artist and (Marie Vigee-LeBrun)

the dance.

Honor Guest |

only American artist's work included in the tableaux. Mrs. John Paul

the picture and drew one of the

[largest rounds of applause. Mrs.

| Noble Dean Jr. as “The Man Wit | the Hoe”

Busy Fingers Club

Methodist Te:

Will Exhibit Work!

The Busy Fingers Club will ex- |

also were outstanding. Mary Grubbs Stars | The last picture posed added the | most human touch to the tableaux. | In “Adoration” (Moroni), Mrs. Dan-

jel Grubbs posed with baby Mary

and balustrades to view the pictures|iyeen the Hoosier Athletic Club and | shown in a large goid frame at the the Indianapolis Athletic Club will

This year's audience was not the|y; i ’ i i : : ¥ | Kinder, Hoosier swimming coach, is . Ww a - re 'h , a Mrs. W. R. Elder will be the Messrs. overflowing one of last year, as the|j, charge of arrangements.

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and | Mrs. Max Wall. {John I. Kautz supervised lighting| Matinee Musicale, and Reginald Garstang, makeup. dames Oliver Servier, Pgul Wycoff, Miss Marcella Topmiller and Dr.|Mrs. Frederick H. Sterling and Mrs. Harry Ankney, J. M. Bryant, George Adrian C. Stipher will be the guests| Noble Dean were arrangements co-| Dunn, Herbert Grimes, S. H. Nel-

Millie K. Joseph,|in Bartholommeo Veneto's “Portrait |g), Chapter of the Sub-Deb Club

was so popular that a repeat per-| last |

Inight by Mrs. Kurt Pantzer and | Wishard, | daughter. Kitzi. Kitzi's illness made |

performance |

Dictators of Rythm” will play for|ican Gothic” by Grant Wood, the] Ragsdale and Percy Weer posed for|

Guy Shadinger in “Isabella of Por- |

» ran der Weyden) and | : tugal® (Roger va . . nh! Marie Gall Sayles, “The Milkmaid”

(Jean Francois Millet) |

More than 100 persons are ex-|to their individual groups. Chairpected to attend the second Hoosier men who took part were Mrs. Frank Athletic Club Guild bridge party to- Cox, Governinent and Its Operation;

[mann, Robert Hopkins, Charle§ R.

morrow night in the Pheasant] Room. Arrangements are being made by the Mesdames Thomas W. Kercheval, Richard Hill and R. B. Wallace. Reservations include those of the Mesdames J. I. Liebert, Frank Huse, R. C. Prall, Lyndon Eberly, Sidney Houck, W. J. Grady, Albert Herr-

Ettinger, William Andrus, Glen Bertels, George Bechtolt, Thal Hollenbeck, Theodore Klippel, H. R. Huey, J. Herbert Hartmann, Julius A. Caesar, Carl Lich, Leo Steffen and | C. L. Young. The annual swimming meet be-

be held Saturday, Dec. 16. Mrs. Flora

Monday Club Marks Yule

Mrs. Clarence Kittle has arranged the program for the annual Christmas party for members of the Monday Club and their guests at 2 p. m. Monday at Ayres’ auditorium. Mrs. W. D. Keenan will talk on “Historic Churches of America.” Miss Ruth McVey and Mrs. Arthur Madison will sing, accompanied by A group from the including Mes-

O. E. Steinkamp and John Tea will

son, Schneider will sing carols. be served.

Mrs. William Pearl, social com-

Mrs. O.

Party Tonight for New Sub-Deb Unit

The newly organized Les Belles

| will give a “backward party” tonight at the home of Miss Mary Montgomery, 521 Bosart Ave. Miss Mary Katherihe Pritchard recently was elected president of the club. Other officers are vice | | president, Jeanette Flowers; secre- | tary, Betty Hargrave, and treasurer, Agnes Lostutter. {

| Radcliff, “Portrait of Michele Oli-| veri”, Mrs. David Vawter Burns land Miss Patricia Eaglesfield, | | “The Linen Cupboard” (Pieter de| Hoogh); Mrs. Henry Atkins, “Lady Townshend” (Romney); Mrs. Anna | (Vermeer); E. H. Kemper McComb, | “Self Portrait” (Rembrandt van Rijn); Miss Betty Carter, “Woman ! Arranging Flowers” (Gustave Cour- | bet), and Mrs. James Rose, “Por-| trait of Edward VI as a Boy” (Hans | | Holbein, the Younger).

Mrs. Stanley Hayes, Government and Economic Welfare; Mrs. James Bawden, Government and Education; Mrs. Austin Clifford, Government and Child Welfare; Mrs. F. E. Gifford, Government and Legal Status, and Mrs. John Fuller, Gov= ernment and Foreign Policy. Hostesses were Mesdames E. B. Cracraft, William Allen Moore, Richard Fairbanks Jr., Harry H. Hood, Kenneth Keegan and Gifford, all members of the personnel committee. Mrs. Richard W. Bunch is committee chairman.

Legion Post Maps Series of Dances

The first of a series of dinner dances to be held by Indianapolis Post 4 of the American Legion will be a Christmas dance and dinner 6:30 p. m. Saturday at the Women's Department Club. Lee M. Ingling is dance chairman. Other. committee members are Charles B. Crist, Lester Cope and R. P. Jewett.

will meet at 7:30 p. m. today in the

been given tonight by BETA TAU SIGMA SORORITY has been postponed.

Mrs. Lawrence Wood, 1668 Park Ave., will entertain members of SIGMA PHI DELTA SORORITY this evening at a business meeting.

DELTA ZETA PSI SORORITY will meet tonight at the home of Mrs. Samuel Blum, 440 Harvard Place.

Prof. George Schumacher, director of ALPHA CHAPTER, ZETA BETA CHI SORORITY, will talk on “My Winter Garden” at the unit's meeting at 7:30 p. m. today in the Hotel Lincoln. He will illustrate his talk with motion pictures.

ALPHA CHAPTER, SIGMA DEL|TA TAU SORORITY, will meet at |8 p. m, today in the Y. W. C. A,

ALPHA AND BETA CHAPTERS, PHI GAMMA TAU SORORITY, will hold a dinner and party tonight in Catherine's Tearoom. Committee members for the event are Mes- | dames Maurice Healy, Sam Fried{man and Miss Edna Bleakney, Alpha Chapter; Mrs. Theodore Sawyer and Miss Alice Watson, Beta Chapter.

Miss Leona Rau, 5345 E. Washington St., will be hostess tonight at a social meeting of SIGMA PHI [KAPPA SORORITY.

The dinner which was to have |

Woman's Athletic Club.

ITY, will meet this evening at the home of Miss Margaret Mitchell, 2035 N. Meridian St.

The regular meeting of ALPHA CHAPTER, PHI THETA DELTA, {will be held this evening at the {home of Mrs. John Bumgardner, 4426 Guilford Ave.

ALPHA TAU CHAPTER, ALPHA ZETA BETA SORORITY, will meet at 8 o'clock tonight in the Hoosier Athletic Club.

CHI BETA KAPPA SORORITY will conduct a business meeting at 7:30 p. m. today in the Y. W. C. A,

Maennerchor Unit Party Set Friday

The Maennerchor Ladies’ Auxe iliary of the Athenaeum-Turners will hold a Christmas luncheon and musical program at 12:30 o’oclock Friday at the club parlors. The tables will be decorated with poinsettias and holly, A miniature lighted Christmas tree will be the center piece. Small candle trees will be favors. Mrs. Clarence Elbert has arranged the musical program. Mrs. Ger= trude Keller is chairman of the hostesses, assisted by Mrs. George Grabhorn. Members of the auxiliary will sing

Members of ALPHA CHAPTER, | Christmas carols before the lunch-

| KAPPA KAPPA SIGMA SOROR-

eon and hold a gift exchange.

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Notes: “You will be able to just |

hibit articles made by members to-| morrow and Friday at club head-! quarters, the home of Mrs. Mary Pickard, 1824 Southeastern Ave. The | exhibit will be open from 10 a. m. to9 p.m After the exhibit the articles will be given to needy families, hospitals | and children’s homes. The club was| organized to make quilts, toys and | other articles for distribution to the | poor. Materials for the articles are purchased through the sale of glass and paper collected by the members. |

Sub-Debs to Elect Nu Beta Nu Chapter of the Sub-! Deb Club will mest tonight at the home of Miss Betty Cardenas. 1005 | N. Oxford St. to elect new officers. | Plans for a Christmas party will be | discussed. l

Planned Today

Women at the Meridian Street Methodist Church were to give a tea this afternon in the church parlors. Mrs. Titus Lowe was to talk! on “Methodist Work in Malaya.” Ocie Higgins accompanied by Mrs. Myron G. Clippinger, was to sing. Mrs. Alfred P. Conklin is program committee chairman, Mrs. Albert P. Smith and Mrs. william R. Young were to pour.| Mrs. H. Foster Cilippinger, tea chairman, was to be assisted by! Mesdames Leonard L. Campbell, Fred C. Tucker, Llovd A. Bowers, Felix M. McWhirter, Theron] SmasMey, Clyde E. Whitehill an Edward B. Taggart.

Mrs. Maude Foxworthy, state inside sentinel of the Daughters of America, will be honor guest at a reception to be held at 8 p. m. tomorrow at 512 N. Illinois St. by Capitol City Council.

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| Grubbs in her arms and Allen] : i} y | Clowes kneeling in adoration at her | pL Siekng bp over the| feet. The hour was way past Mary's pat iicia before the performance. | bedtime so she had been kept sleeb-| ye understand from her that he | | ing backstage until she made her|,e,;y ooes in for bubble blowing | stage debut. When the curtains|a,g ‘so was just “acting” that adwere drawn she was held in her| mother’s arms looking out at the| prederick H. Sterling, general chairaudience just as a Pidure hy man, took voluminous notes planned. Then suddenly she turned | thrq " and clutched her mother about the | less i She performance, duit neck and finally back again to al-| ments in tonight's performance— most take a curtain call from her! if improvements could be made . . .| audience. Out in the lobby after-|interest of Indianapolis children in | ward she was wide-eyed, receiving art was evidenced in the large the plaudits of her “fans.” | number in attendance . -their | The following persons, pictures | knowledge of the background of | and their artists were included in| the pictures and the musicale ac-| the tableaux: Mrs. Wilbur D. Peat, | companiments kept popping out in | “Angel: Linaiuoli Altarpiece” (Fra|comments. .. the tableaux featured! Angelico); Mrs. Sylvester Johnson,| paintings shown at New York | “Miss Farren, Countess of Derby”| World's Fair and the Golden Gate | (Sir Thomas Lawrence); William! Exposition.

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