Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1939 — Page 24

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SOCIETY—

Southern Ball Jan. 27 Is Project Of Day Nursery's Junior Group

The Indianapolis Day Nursery's Junior Auxiliary will give a Southern Ball Jan. 27 in Woodstock Club as their year’s project. Their inspiration came from “Gone With the Wind,” which, the Auxiliary hopes, will come to Indianapolis on the screen about the time of their dance.

Auxiliary members plan to go in costumes of the period but they can’t predict what their respective “Rhetts” will wear. Decorations and a floor show will be carried out in the general theme. Mrs. Paul B. Payne is general chairman. Members of the ways and means committee of the group worked out the plans at a recent meeting. They include Mrs. Raiph B. Coble, chairman; Mesdames Marvin L. Lugar, Walter C. Hiser, Addison A. Howe and Miss Betty Tharp.

Propylaeum Club Lecture is Sunday

Mrs, Arletta Ahrens, traveler, lecturer and authority on LatinAmerica, will talk on a Caribbean cruise and will show 1600 feet of colored motion pictures at a Starlight lecture and tea Sunday afternoon in the Propylaecum for Propylaeum Club members and their guests. The lecture was arranged through Mrs. Wilbur Johnson. Mrs. Ahrens will begin her talk at 4:30 p. m., followed by a tea. Invitations have been issued for 4 p. m. and members have been asked to make reservations. Mrs. Berkely Duck and Mrs. George Lilly will preside at the tea table. Mrs. Frederick E. Matson is general chairman, assisted bv members of the entertainment committee and Mesdames Edward Lynn, W. R. Ibler, Ethel M. Rathert and the Misses Josephine and Lucille Herron and Helen Coffey.

Mrg Frank Riggs Jr. will entertain Saturday with a luncheon and bridge party at the Marott Hotel for Mrs. G. M. Pamphilon, Berkeley, Cal. Her guests will include Mesdames Thomas Scanlon, George Buskirk and Edmond Horst and the Misses Jane Briggs, Doris Schoen, Helen Riggins, Margaret Cunningham, Catherine Moore, Martha Karns and Lucy Ann Balch.

Cocktail Party to Precede Lambs’ Show Among parties to precede the Lambs Club show at the Columbia Club Saturday night is a cocktail party Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dithmer Jr. will give at their home. Their guests will include Messrs. and Mesdames Herbert Pinnell, Rudolph Stempfel, Caleb York, William Wells and Mrs. Alfred Rodecker. The group will go on to the club for a Dutch treat dinner after the cocktail party. 5 = = The Indianapolis Ward-Belmont Alumnae Club will be enter. tained at a dessert luncheon at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the home of Mrs. John B. Moriarty. A short business meeting and exchange of gifts will be held after the luncheon. Members will bring donations for a club Christmas basket. Students home from Ward-Belmont will be honor guests at the luncheon.

Plans for Triangle Club Reception Grow

If cast members in the Princeton Triangle Club's show, “Any Moment Now,” don't have a good time when they come to Indianapolis Dec. 23, it won't be the fault of local alumni. Another committee has been appointed to see the boys have a good time—a reception group of Princeton undergraduates who will be home for the holidays. The committee is headed by Donald V. Test Jr, photographie editor of his class yearbook, assisted by Alan C. Appel, David W. Allerdice, Robert Fortune, Cornelius O. Alig Jr. and Nelson Johnson. Alan Appel heads the Junior Prom committee and is on the junior varsity basketball squad, while Dave Allerdice is known for his brilliant passing as quarterback on this season's football team. After the show, the Triangle Club members will be guests at a dance given by the Monkey Club.

Take Roles in “Stage Door”

Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus, Julius Birge and David Laurance Chambers Jr. will take leading parts in the Dramatic Club presentation of “Stage Door” Friday night, Dec. 22, at the Murat Theater. Others in the cast will be Mesdames Lyman S. Ayres, Chambers, Frank Hoke, David Andrews, Richard Fairbanks Jr., Misses Alice Vonnegut, Jeanette Tarkington, Prudence Brown, Josephine Madden, Jane Adams, Irving Moxley, Messrs. and Mesdames Robert E. Sweeney Jr., Thomas Ruckelshaus and Bingham Booker and Messrs, Burford Danner, Robert Smith, Noble Dean and Joseph Wallace. After the play there will be a dance at the Athenaeum. Miss Betsy Home is chairman of the committee for the play.

Alpha Gamma Delta to Trade Gifts at Carmel Next Monday; Chi Tau Alpha Frolic Saturday

Several Christmas parties and a holiday frolic are planned for this week and early next by sorority groups. Miss Elizabeth Roberts is to entertain the ALPHA GAMMA DELTA ALUMNAE CLUB at 7:45 p. m. Monday at her home near Carmel. Miss Mary Ann Tall will assist. Games, carol singing and a gift exchange will be included on the program.

Wooden Actors Will Bring Opera to City Monday.

Seventy-five soldiers, slaves, camels and elephants marching across the stage of Ayres’ auditorium on Monday night may be a bit incredible to youngsters and their elders alike.

More wonderful, perhaps, will be the voice of Dusolina Gianina coming from (what appears to be) the mouth of a little 13-inch woman as she sings in “Aida.” Yes, “Aida” it is with that great group parading in the second act. It is all a part of the puppet opera being sponsored at the auditorium next week, with “Aida” set for the formal opening night Monday; a repetition of that melodic opera set for Tuesday; “La Traviata,” Wednesday; “Carmen” on Thursday; “I Pagliacci” and “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Friday, and “Rigoletto” Saturday. Guild Sponsors Show

They are abridged versions, of course. Performances are set for 12:15 p. m,, 2 p. m, and 3:30 p. m. The Sunnyside Guild is sponsoring the performance. There really is a troupe of ten persons and not a single one of them appears in the scenes. They operate what is claimed to be the only stringless “puppet” show in the country. Six persons from below stage operate the miniature figures, watching and directing their movements through touch and “peeping” through cracks in the stage floor (you can’t see them). Four more persons help to make the many changes in scenery necessary during the opera performances, These six below stage each knows three languages and are familiar with every part of the operas in order that no little puppet misses his or her cue, Who would dare to be slow in having the old whitebearded Faust be late in that transformation that makes him into the beardless young man, the suitor for the fair Marguerite?

La Scala Music Used

Where does Dusolina Gianina enter the picture? Or Galli-Curci or Lawrence Tibbett or any of the others who are scheduled to “appear” during the week, This is off the record but—they are on the records. Re-

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cut into recordings of operas from La Scala of Milan. So they sing those choice roles with the La Scala recordings used for the other portions of the opera.

The 40-piece puppet orchestra does its preliminary tuning up out front. The maestro looks like the great Toscanini. The house lights are dimmed and the puppet leader raises his baton. Every violinist begins to fiddle in perfect tempo. And what is more these mites of musicans keep up that perfect co-ordina-tion with the recorded music until] the overture is ended and the great red curtain falls. {

The settings are coples of scenery

used by the La Scala Opera, the

Metropolitan of New York and the] Chicago Opera. Even rocks and trees as well as all the miniature furni-|,

ture are there.

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liput? Several years ago in Chicago | a 12-year-old lad took to carving)

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annual holiday frolic Saturday night | at the Severin Roof Garden. Jack | Berry's Orchestra will play. Mrs. Bernard Kunkel has charge of) tickets. The general arrangements | committee includes Miss Roxie Der- | anian, Miss Josephine Russo and | Mrs. John R. Hawes. The annual Christmas dinner party and gift exchange will be Tuesday evening.

BETA BETA BETA SORORITY will entertain with a Christmas] Cheer at the home of Mrs. Laura Grayson on Sunday from 2 to 4 p. m. Dolls dressed by members will be donated to underprivileged children. Mrs. Grayson and Mrs. Bee Pohlman will preside at the tea table. Assisting hostesses will be Miss Maxine Lydick, Greencastle; Miss Ruth Washburn, Central Station, W. Va. Miss Margaret Graham, Terre Haute; Miss Alice Freije and Miss Doris Newby, Indianapolis, and Miss Billie Fullem of Hugo, Okla.

ALPHA CHAPTER OF OMEGA NU TAU will hold its annual Christmas dinner party Saturday night at the Severin Hotel. Dinner will be followed by a dance.

ALPHA TAU CHAPTER OF ALPHA ZETA BETA will have a card party at 8 p. m. tomorrow night at the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. Miss Katheryn Downey is chairman, assisted by Mrs. Violet McDonough.

Mrs. C. E. Weisenauer will have the Christmas party for members of THETA CHAPTER, ALPHA OMICRON ALPHA, tomorrow afternoon. |

ALPHA CHAPTER, PHI TAU DELTA, will meet today with Miss | Marguerite Blackwell.

EPSILON PI CHAPTER OF DELTA THETA TAU, national philanthropic sorority, will hold its annual Christmas party at the Hotel Washington this evening. Members and guests will meet for | dinner at 7° o'clock. Later, an oldfashioned Christmas pasty will be held with members exchanging gifts. Foodstuffs donated by each memper will be distributed to needy famjlies following the party.

Miss Merle Kelly, 2013 Hoyt Ave. will be hostess this evening at a Christmas party for members of | ALPHA CHAPTER, GAMMA PHI | ALPHA SORORITY. Rushees will entertain members with a Christmas playlet. Gifts will be distributed by a Santa Claus.

Mrs. Ralph A. Shinkle, 4218 Ruckle St, was hostess last night for a Christmas party given by GAMMA KAPPA CHAPTER, ALPHA ZETA BETA SORORITY. Guests included the Misses Josephine Dillon, Betty Barry, Mil- . dred and Mendenhall and Ann Millard. Miss Margaret and Miss Alice Deal were assistant hostesses.

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puppets and with encouragement by his mother made entire opera troupes. If you were over to the New York World's Fair last summer perhaps you were one of the 300,000 persons which the Victor Puppet Opera says saw their performance there. The company now is on a tour of American and Canadian cities.

Incidentally, 90 per cent of the audience who saw the World's Fair Shows were adults. The operas, however, are designed for children,

Tomorrow's Club Meetings Note Yuletide

Irvington Group to Sing Carols at Home of Mrs. Williams.

Christmas parties continue to be favorites with local women's clubs meeting tomorrow.

Mrs. E. A. Williams will be hostess at the IRVINGTON FORTNIGHTLY CLUB'S Christmas party at her home, 270 S. Ritter Ave. Mrs. Charles BE. Teeters and Mrs. Carl L. Withner will lead carol singing.

Mrs. Virgil A. Sly will be assistant hostess.

The CULTURE CLUB'S Christmas party will be held at the home of Mrs. William H. Remy, 44 E. 54th St. Mrs. Norman L. Schneider will be in charge of the program,

Mrs. C. V. Montgomery will entertain members of the FRIDAY AFTERNOON READING CLUB at her home, 1622 N. Meridian St. Mrs. Isaac Carter and Mrs. Kate Conder will be assistant hostesses. Mesdames A. G. Small, Elizabeth Spahr and C. W. Sommers will have charge of a program.

Another Christmas party planned is the one the FRIDAY AFTERNOON LITERARY CLUB will hold at the home of Mrs. H. P. Roesch, 2302 N. LaSalle St. Mrs. W. M. Clark and Mrs. E. G. Prosch will be assistant hostesses. Mrs. W. C. Oldridge and Mrs. E. A. Trittipo will present a Christmas program.

Members of the IRVINGTON GARDEN CLUB will hold their Christmas party at the home of Mrs. H. B. Tilman, 970 N. Campbell Ave,

Gifts will be exchanged at the Christmas meeting of the LAMBDA CHI ALPHA MOTHERS’ CLUB at 2 p. m. at the chapter house, 4721 Sunset Ave. Mrs. Frank L. Boles will sing carols, accompanied by Mrs. M. D. McDonald. Hostesses will include Mesdames C. H. Taylor, R. B. Straughn, W. F. Wagner and Walter F. Dean.

Mrs. C. W. Compton, 25 W. 49th St., will entertain members of the MOTHERS’ CLUB OF BOY SCOUT TROOP 72 at a meeting. Assistant hostesses will be Mesdames F. O. Wiley, H. L. Plummer and C. C. Hargreaves.

The IRVINGTON CHAPTER OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION will have a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Joe G. Curry, 21 8. Irvington Ave. Mrs. Roy V. Copple will be assistant hostess.

‘Messiah’ Tickets Ready

Tickets for the presentation of the “Messiah” at 8:30 p. m., Wednesday in the Murat Theater, may be obtained at Ayres’ sixth floor. There is no charge for tickets, but reservations must be made. The “Messiah” will be presented by the

Indianapolis Matinee Musicale.

Better Footing

Kappa Sigma Chi Swells Funds for Shoes At Cripple School.

THE KAPPA SIGMA CHI Fund at Roberts School for crippled children will be increased tomorrow through another check from the sorority, The fund

keeps the children’s shoes in repair, Here's how it started. In past years, the sorority, a small group of 11 members, gave card parties and held white elephant sales throughout the year, At Christmas they gave the proceeds to some needy family. But the sorority wasn't quite satisfied with this arrangement. Not enough persons benefited. About three years ago they saw a picture in The Times of a room at Roberts School that had been furnished by an organization similar to theirs. They went to the school, located on the Technical High School campus, and after investigating, decided to put their money in a shoe repair fund for the children. Mrs. Bernice Weaver is president of the sorority this year and Mrs. Mark H. Bottema is chairman of the ways and means committee.

Rail Auxiliary Has Yule Fete

Christmas parties and a bazaar are among women's lodge organization activities today and tomorrow. The SOCIAL CLUB OF MONUMENTAL DIVISION 128, Grand International Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, will hold its annual Christmas party today at the home of Mrs. C. C. Livingstone, 301 N. Temple Ave. A covered dish luncheon was to be served at noon, followed by an exchange of gifts and a Christmas program.

Members of NAOMI CHAPTER 131, ORDER OF EASTERN STAR, will hold a Christmas party and dance following a stated meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Masonic Temple, North and Illinois Sts. Mrs. Ida Wilson is worthy matron.

Members of PROSPECT AUXILIARY, O. E. S,, will meet at 2 p. m. tomorrow to complete arrangements for a bazaar to be held all day Saturday in their hall, Prospect and State Sts. Luncheon and dinner will be served at the bazaar. Mrs. Roy Faries, retiring president, will preside at the meeting Friday.

Going to Hartford City The Major Harold C. Megrew Auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans, will go to Hartford City Sunday to assist with initiatory work for an auxiliary there. Mrs. Luella D. Porter will be in charge. Mrs. Nora Heindrich will direct a floor drill by Indianapolis persons. Mrs. Josephine Hanna, president of the Megrew auxiliary, will be in charge

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THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1989

Garden Group Will Hear of “Three Marys’

Mrs. Conner to Speak and Jordan Group to Appear Tomorrow.

Mrs. Erastus B. Conner will speak on “The Three Marys of the New Testament” tomorrow afternoon before members of the Garden Dee partment of the Woman's Departe ment Club at the club house, A musical program will be given by students from Jordan Conservatory of Music. The session will begin at 2 p. m. with Mrs. Merritt E. Woolf, chairman, presiding. Guests will be members of the Garden Club of Meyer Chapel. Mrs. Carl J. Weinhardt and Mrs, John M. Thornburgh are co-chair-men, Mrs. Paul T. Hurt is vice chairman. The rollowing are their assistants: Mesdames Samuel Ashby, Stephen T. Bogert, C. T, Buchanan, J. K. Cooper, Walter S. Grow, Charles L. Hartman, Willis K. Miller, Paul T. Rochford, Everett M. Schofield, W. C. Smith and John M. Williams. Members of the music committee include Miss Pearl Kiefer, chairman, Mesdames Jerome K. Trunkey, Charles A. Breece, S. Harry Clen= denin, Frank C. Daily and Luther J. Shirley. A tea will follow the program, Mrs. Charles T. Hanna and Mrs, Leonidas F. Smith, chairman, will be assisted by Mesdames H. Alden Adams, George A. Bowen, Robert Bryce, Robert E. Craighton, Edward E. Files, Clarence J. Fitch, Eva Bitz, Jerome EB. Hilman, Augusta S. Hueb=ner, Alvin G. Jose, Perry E. Powell, F. Frances Rumple and Guy L. Stayman.

Eight and Forty Salon to Meet

Members of Marion County Salon 126, Eight and Forty, will be entertained at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow with a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. William S. Hauge. Mrs. George B. Poppa and Mrs. William P. Weimar will be assistant hostesses. Mrs. Victor Salb, le petit chapeau, will preside. Mrs. Pauline Rairdon, la secree taire nationale, will give the obligation to new members. Mrs. Jack ©. Meyers, general chairman of the Tuberculosis Christmas seal booths downtown, will report. Christmas baskets will be prepared for needy veterans’ families with Mrs. Weimar, child welfare chairman, in charge. Members will - exchange Christmas gifts.

Casady-Carlson Rite Sunday Is Announced

Mr. and Mrs. O. R, Carlson, 3555 Salem St., announce the marriage of their daughter, Florence, to George Murphy Casady of Indians apolis. The ceremony was per-

of the initiatory work by the auxiliary.

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