Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1940 — Page 4

Indiana Artists Club Exhibit Will Open Oct, 19 With Dinner

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C. J. BULLIET, art critic of the Chicago Daily News, will be guest speaker at the dinner given in connection with the preview of the ninth annual exhibition of the Indiana Artists Club, Saturday} Oct. 19.

The exhibition will be in Ayres’ Tearoom foyer and will open to the public Oct. 21. The gallery will open at! 6 p. m. for the preview and dinuer is to be served at 6:30 p.m. in Ayres’ Tearoom. Officers of the club are Frederick Paley, president; Mrs. Katherine Groh Blasingham, first vice president;. Floyd D. Hopper, second. vice president; Hill Sharp, Muncie, Ind. third vice president; Miss Batty Foster, secretary, and Damien J. Lyman, treasurer, Mrs. Paul T. Rochford is chairman for {the dinner and Mrs. Paul T. Payne, co-chairman. Mrs. Wendell (P. Coler is purchase prize chairman and Mrs. Helen M. Woodward chairman of associate and sustaining members. i : ‘

Civic Theater Production Committees Named

TAKING its cue from the opening play, “Of Thee I Sing,” and the forthcoming general election, the Civic | Theater will assume the atmosphere of an election celebration on {the night of Oct. 18. “Of Thee I Sing,” musical comedy by George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, awarded a Pulitzer prize and running on Broadway for two years. bases its plot on a presidential election. Richard Hoover, director, is being assisted in the production by Mrs. William G. Sparks, music director, and Johnny'Sweet, dance director. Mr. Hoover has appointed production committee chairmen to assist” with backstage arrangements. Mrs. E. Hardey Adriance is scene production chairman; Mrs. E. S. O'Neill, costume chairman, and Mrs. F. W. Ahrbecker, properties chairman, They will be assisted by individual committees. ; Among those looking forward to the theater’s opening, traditionally a gala event of the winter social season, are the Theater directors; J. Perry Meek, president; Frank | J. Hoke, first vice president; Norman Green, second vice president; Miss Helen Coffey, secretary; Harlan Livengood, treasurer; Miss Sara Lauter, Mesdames Rosamond Van Camp Hill, Chauncey H. Eno II, E. E. Whitehill and Russel S. Williamy; Miss Betty Tharp, C. Hollis Hull, Mortimer C. Furscott, Wallace O. Lee, William Macgregor Morris, Thomas L. Neal, Toner M. Overley, Harold B. Tharp, Ronald S. Skyrme, R. Kirby Whyte, DeWitt Morgan and Harry V. Wade. Tickets for the production will be on sale at the Theater Friday.

Southern Club Party Is Oct. 19

ANNOUNCEMENTS of the “Pot o’ Gold” party which will open the Southern Club's season Oct. 19 at the Propylaesum have been received by memkers. The invitations to the informal dinner party at 6:30 p. m. are in the form of gold bonds. Committee members for the event are Messrs. and -Mesdames A. Glenn Shoptaugh, George T. Landis, T. M. Riddick, E. W. Harris and W. B. FPreihofer. | The committee will meet with club officers Monday night at the home of the president, A. Lee Rice and Mrs. Rice, to complete final arrangements for the party. Mrs. Charles Stephens is vice president; William H. Book, secretary, and T. M. Foley, treasurer.

Literary Club to Open Season The Indianapolis Literary Club will open its 1640-41 season Monday with a Ladies’ Night meeting. Ernest R. Baltzell will speak on “The Functioning of the University in Higher Education.” Fletcher Hodges is| president of the club. k

Mayflower Descendants Board to Meet

MRS. TILDEN F. GREER, governor of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, has called a meeting of the organization's hoard of assistants for noon Monday. A luncheon will be served in Ayres’ tearoom.

Comings and Goings MRS. THOMAS R. MARSHALL returned yesterday from a trip to New York. . Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Sexton and their daughter, Mary Catherine, are visiting the Sextons’ son, John Pp. Sexton, and his family in ‘Tucson, Ariz, where they are spending the winter. . . . John E. Messick Jr. and Ronald A. Foster spent last week-end at French Lick Springs. Another visitor there this week was Arthur Buckley.

Meridian Hills Bridge Is Tonight Among parties | planned for the dinner bridge opening the fall season of Meridian Hills Country Club tonight will be that of Mr: and Mrs. George S. Olive. Their guests will be Messrs. and Mesdames Lawrence V. Sheridan. John Burch and Lawrence Remey. Among others who will enterain are Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Weller and. Messrs. and Mesdames Marshall G. Knox, J. S. Marlowe, A. A. Zinn, James BE. Bingham, M. Speers MacCollum and John N.. Ott. The committee arranging the event is composed of Mr. and Mrs. Bingham, chairmen, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. MacCollum and Mr. and Mrs, E, A. Peterson. Fall flowers will form the decorative scheme.

: | Breakfast to Honor heon Pt D-H Guild Luncheon I To Be Monday

The Sunnyside Guild will meet Monday at the Columbia Club for a 12:30 luncheon. |[Mrs. Irving D.

Miss Betty Jo Roberts, who has | {chosen Oct. 26 as the date of her | marriage to Dr. George M. Baldwin, | will be guest of honor tomorrow | morning at a breakfast given hy

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McLeod-Lloyd Rite Is Performed

Mrs, Carrie H. Lloyd; 1434 N. Delaware St., and Ralph A. McLeod, 4540 Allisonville Road, were married yesterday morning at the residence of Dr. W. C. Hartinger, 36 W. Hampton Drive. Dr. Hartinger officiated. Mrs, Lloyd was given in marriage by her son, Joe E. Lloyd. She wore a brown costume suit with matching | squirrel cape, hunter's green accessories land a corsage of gardenias! and sweetheart roses. Mr. and Mrs. McLeod left for a trip south and will be at home after Oct. 25 at the Delaware St. address.

Rev. Mueller

Reads Service

‘Miss Ruby Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Miller, 836 College Ave. will hecome the bride of Howard B. McTagertt, son of Mrs. Vern McCoy, 4402 E. 16th St., in a ceremony at the Wallace Street Presbyterian Church at 2:30. p. m. today. The Rev. Roy E. Mueller is to officiate. Mrs. Price Garland, organist, will play for the ceremony and accompany Miss Clara Mae Masterson who will sing a group of bridal airs. The church will be decorated with palms, ferns and candelabra. The bride's attendants will wear frocks fashioned in southern colonial style, with tight bodices and full skirts, Rows of black lace will outline the sleeves, the sweetheart necklines and the full skirts, They

will wear "Juliet caps of -velvet rib-|

bon matching the shades of their gowns. . Mrs. Vernal Sheridan, matron of honor, will wear aqua and will carry a sheaf of Talisman roses and yellow pompon chrysanthemums tied with Talisman ribbon. The bridesmaids’ bouquets will be. of yellow pompon chrysanthemums and deep pink roses, tied with pink and gold ribbon. Miss Marjorie Miller, sister

Couple to Wed On Parents’ Anniversary

The wedding of Miss Estella Hartman to Lawrence Von Willer, at 8 p. m. today in St, John’s Lutheran Church at Five Points, Ind, will occur on the 51st wedding anniversary of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Hartman, of Five Points, who were married in the same congregation. The Rev. Louis Wambsganss will officiate hefore an altar banked

{with palms and interspersed with

candelabra and autumn flowers. Virgil Schachtsiek, organist, will play the wedding music and Miss Carolyn Louise Schwomeyer will

sing “O Perfect Love.” Miss Gertrude Hartman, sister of the bride and maid of honor, will wear a rose moire taffeta gown made with a short, puffed sleeve jacket and. full skirt. Her flowers will be Happy Day roses. Mrs. Esther Hartman and Miss Ruth Kleinschmidt, bridesmaids, will be gowned in aquamarine taffeta fashioned on princess lines with sweetheart necklines and short, | puffed sleeves. They will carry Talisman roses. The junior bridesmaid, Miss Carolyn Louis Schwomeyer, will have {a rose taffeta frock with shirred bodice and side panels. She is to carry a hymnal decorated with valley lilies and satin streamers. Betty Joyce Powers, flower girl, will be in a floor length frock of rose taffeta and will carry a nosegay or pink gladioli and pompon chrysanthemums. All ‘of the attendants will wear gold lockets given them by the bride. Ronald | Eugene Hartman, ring bearer, will carry the two rings on a white satin pilow. In deference to the wish of her parents and in honor of their anniversary, the bride and bridegroom

of the bride, will wear pink, Miss Ruth O'Neill, rose, and Miss Juanita O'Neill, turquoise. The flower girl, Judith Miller, will wear pale blue in the same style and will carry a

Hamilton will announce the date for | the Misses Charlene and Catharine basket of rose petals.

the annual year's committee chairmen.

card party and the Heard, 3945 Park Ave. Miss Roberts lis! the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.

«Ms. E. Park Akin, chairman ih Roberts, 4801 Central Ave.

hostesses, will be assisted by Mesdames Myron J. Austin, G. J. Book) walter, Thomas Booth, Daniel L. Bowef, Edward B. Boyer, N. E. Boy- | er, E. J. Braman, [Donald Brodie] and Ethel B. Bromert. On Tuesday at 3 ip. m. the guild will entertain the patients at Sun-| nyside with a program from the Burroughs School ef Music. Mrs. Alonzo B. Chapman, general chairman for . entertainment at the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital, has turned the meeting over to Mrs. A. C. Crandall and Mrs. C. V. Sorenson. Mrs. E| L. Burnett and Mrs. Gustav Schmidt are in charge of refreshments. The program will include two dramatic skits by Miss Evelyn Steffan and Miss Eileen Fink and accordion numbers by Miss Helen Maloney and Miss Mary Jane |Tucker. Miss Norma Louck, soloist, will be accompanied by Miss Elaine Patterson.

Mrs. Jack I. Robinson of Alexandria, -Ind., a cousin of Miss Roberts who will be her only attendant, and Mrs. Roberts will be special guests at the breakfast. Other guests will James Roberts, Edgar H. Baum and Carl W. Piel Jr, and the Misses

| Barbara Baumgartner, Helen Clever

and Alice Auerbach.

Steak Fry Is Tonight A steak fry will be given tonight by members of Alpha Chapter, Zeta Chi Theta Sorority, and their guests at Shady Rest Farm. Members who will! attend are Misses Glenn Broden, Louise Cohee, Martha Dickson, Dorothy Fisher, Luana Hill, Betty Lou | Homsler, Dorothy Korn, Mary

Mesdames | . be Sum Sheridan, Elmer Vahle and John

The bride's gown is of chenille brocaded white satin made in princess style with V neckline and long leg-o’-mutton sleeves. Her fingertip length veil will have a tiara of orange blossoms and she will carry Johanna Hill roses. The bridegroom's. attendants will he William Clift, best man, and Mr.

Gardner, ushers. Mrs. Miller, mother of the bride, has chosen a soldier blue dress with which she will wear navy accessories. Mrs. McCoy will wear black accessories with her black costume. Both will wear corsages of yellow pompon chrysanthemums, Talisman roses and red oak foliage. The wedding reception will be held at the home of the bridegroom's sister, Mrs. John Gardner, 1625 N. Euclid Ave. After a short wedding trip the couple will be at

home with the bridegroom's mother.

LaMasters, Ruth Ann Lett, Pauline|For traveling the bride will wear a

Matthews, Kathleen Spence, Martha Sturm and Ruth Vinson.

soldier blue dress with matching accessories, =.

will enter together. The bridal |gown is of white slipper satin styled jon old-fashioned lines with a sweet{heart mnecklne and short, puffed | sleeves. The full skirt, with shirred |side panels headed with tiny ruf{fles at the hipline, forms a slight train. To Carry Prayer Book Her fingertip length veil of illu{sion will fall from a crown of pearlized blossoms and she will wear a {cameo necklace worn by her mothler at her wedding. The prayer book she is to carry will be decorated wth; an orchid, sweetheart roses and a cascade of satin streamers. Vernon Markins will be best man and ushers are to be Edward Hartman, brother of the bride, and Donald Poffenberger, nephew of the bridegroom. -The mothers of the couple, Mrs. Hartman and Mrs. Laura Von Miller, will wear black crepe frocks trimmed in white, and corsages of Johanna Hill roses. An informal reception at the home of the bride's parents will follow the ceremony. The couple is to leave for a motor trip through the Middle West, and will be at home with the bride's parents upon their return, 2

Church Groups Set Meetings

Indianapolis churches will hold a reception and special meetings next week.

The Woman’¢ Society of Christian Service of the IRVINGTON METHODIST CHURCH will give a reception tomorrow evening for the pastor, Dr. Ezra L. Hutchens, and Mrs. Hutchens, and for all new members of the church. The receiving line will include Dr. and Mrs. Hutchens, Mrs. Marie Parker, Dr. and Mrs. Guy O. Carpenter, Messts. and Mesdames Paul Mozingo, E. C. Ropkey, W. R. Kirickenberger and Derrill Reed, Miss Ruth Anne Duncan and John Crail.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Donnelly, rector of West Baden College, will be guest speaker atthe fall quarterly meeting of the INDIANAPOLIS DISTRICT COUNCIL OF THE INDIANAPOLIS DIOCESAN COUNCIL, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN, at 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Catholic Center, 1004 N. Pennsylvania St. “Catholic Action through the National Council of Catholic Women and the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine” will be Msgr. Donnelly’s topic. The Rev. Fr. August R. Fussenegger, diocesan spiritual director, will also speak and the Rev. Fr. Francis Roell, pastor of St. Andrew’s Church in Richmond, Ind., will give the invocation, Mrs. Catherine - Monarch, vice president of the Richmond Center of the council, will :preside at an election of officers. A district board meeting at 11 a. m. and a registration of delegates at 1 p. m. will precede the open meeting.

The INDIANAPOLIS FEDERATION OF EVANGELICAL CHURCH WOMEN will meet Friday at the Broadway Evangelical Church, 56th and Broadway. A 12:30 luncheon will follow a business meeting at 11 o'clock. The afternoon session will include special music and a talk by Mrs. J. H. Smiley, of the women’s service group of the Methodist churches.

Tea Is Tomorrow The Indianapolis Lodge of the American Theosophical Society will open its fall season with a tea at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow at the lodge rooms, 38'z N. Pennsylvania St., Studio 411. Mrs. Emma Lou Murray, vice president, will pour, Music and a talk by Fred William Renz, pres-

ident, will follow the tea. The public is invithd,

1. Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Mayer their niece, Betty Jean MacDonald, to Richard Thompson, son of Mi. R. W. Thompson. The wedding will be Nov. 30 at the Propylaeust 2. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Kelleher announce the engdgement «Ff their daughter, Alice Jean Kelleher, to Harold G. Huse, son ‘of Mr. ah Mrs. Roy L. Huse. The wedding will be Thanksgiving Day. (Dex: heimer-Carlon Photo.) |‘ . 3. Miss Barbara Ballinger’s engagement to Robert J. Clay, son oa Mr. and Mrs. George H. Clay of Logansport, Ind., has been announcec. by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Ballinger. The wedding wil be Oct. 23 at the Broadway Methodist Church. (W. Hurley Ashby, Photo.) 4. Mrs. Ralph E. Triller was Miss Mary Koehler, daughter of MF and Mrs. John P. Koehler, before her marriage Sept. 28 at the Propylaeum. Mr. and Mrs, Triller will be at home at 57 E. Maple Road after Oct. 15. (Photo Craft Photo.) ir? 5. Mr. and Mrs, Walter J. Cook announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Mabel Lucille, to Ward Bunker, son of Mrs. Mary Bunker of Pendleton, Ind. The ‘wedding will be Oct. 19 at 4:30 p. m. in the couple’s new home in Pendleton, (Voorhis Photo.) : 6. Mrs. Harold E. Miller was Miss Patricia Kervan, daughter of: Mr. and Mrs. William Kervan, before her marriage Sept. 28! (Ramos-" Porter Photo.) 3 7. Miss Marguerite Bowland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David I. Bowland, will be married to Frederick H. Minger Oct. 12.a% the First Presbyterian Church. (Dexheimer-Carlon Photo.)

. . | : wr 1) x I-Hall Rite St- Vincent's Guild Mag 1 ~ |To Meet Monday Is Performed

The St. Vincent's Hospital Guild will%hold its monthly meeting MonFollowing their marriage at 8:30 o'clock this morning in St. Math-

day in the nurses’ home. from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. - Mrs. Walter A. thew’s Episcopal Church, Mr. and Brant will be ilie officer df the day, | Mrs. Robert Magill are on a Wedding trip to Northern Ontario. Mrs. Magill, the former Miss Mary Isabel

Hail, is the daughter of Mr. and

assisted by Mrs, Norman. S. Loomis | and Mrs. M. V. Kahler. . Mrs. C. Edgar Hall, N, Shortridge Road.

Mrs. Russell L. White and Mrs. Ellard B. Duane will be hostesses at | . The Rev. J. Willard Yoder officiated at the wedding service, per-

a luncheon during the meeting, formed before an altar decorated

with Mrs. George H. Lilly, Mrs. George F. Knue and Miss Ruth H. with palms and flowers. Mrs. Roberst Roesner, organist, played a pro-

Casey as assistants. gram of bridal music. Party Honors

The bride, who was given in mar- ;

riage by her father, wore a Cadet blue costume suit with mink trim-

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ming and a blue hat with black accessories. Her corsage was of orchids. : : Mrs. Richard Trusty was her sister’s only attendant. Her costume was a black dress trimmed with gold sequins and worn with black accessories. She carried a corsage of rubrum lilies. Mr. Trusty was Mr. Magill’'s best man. The couple left for their rip immediately following the ceremony and will be at home after Oct. 26 at 7718 Marquette Ave., Chicago, Il. Mrs. Magill is a graduate of the St. Vincent's School of Nurses’ Trairfing and Mr. Magill attended Indiana University. ;

‘Begin Season

Alumnae of St. John’s Academy will hold their first meeting of the

season at 7:45 p. my, Monday at the Academy, :

Miss Speicher ¥

A miscellaneous shower was given last night by Miss Imogene Pierson at her home, ‘3542 College [Ave.,, for Miss Alberta Speicher (whose marriage to Dr. Lyman D. Eaton will be at 8 p. m. :Oct. 12 in the First Evangelical Church. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Speicher, 2337 N. Delaware St. Dr. Eaton's parents are Mr. and Mrs, Ora Eaton, 1202 W. 35th St. { . Decorations were carried out in the bridal colors of pink and blue. Guests in addition to Miss Speicher and her mother were Mesdames Bruce McConnell, S. E. Runyan, Lee Rickman, J. L. Wagner, Bennett Lewis, Beldon Leonard and Louise Schilling and the Misses Lois Buskirk, Ann Schaeffer, Helen Quig, Bernice VanSickle and Mary Gottman, Li A

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R. H. Hockett Takes Bride

The Rev. Errol T. Elliott will per=

‘|form the marriage ceremony, at 3

p. m. today in the First. Friends Church, for Miss Rosemary Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W,

Bell, Sheridan, Ind., and R. Howard ;

Hyckett, son of W. B. Hockett, 428

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William Jackwitz, organist, will

pl¥v for the ceremony which is to

| be read before an altar decorated with palms and candelabra. bride is.to be given in marriage by |

her ‘ifather. She will wear an autumn green costume suit trimmed with beaver, a, brown velvet pompadour hat, brown accessories and an orchid corsage. Her only attendant will be her sister, Miss Katharine Bell, who will wear a smoke blue costume suit with a navy felt pompadour hat, navy accessories and a corsage of Talisman roses. She will wear a single strand of pearls given her by the bride. Eugene Dawes is to be best man and Daniel . Penrod and John Burch, ushers. Mrs. Bell, mother of the bride, will wear a military blue crepe and blue accessories and Mrs. Hockett is to be in a blue dress with black accessories. ' Both will wear corsages of fall flowers. The couple will receive informally at the rear of the church after the ceremony before leaving on a motor trip. They will be at home after Oct, 15 at 816 N. Sherman Drive.

| Mr. Hockett attended Earlham Cole

lege.

Riley Program to Be Broadcast

Guests attending the Indianapolis Public Library's ‘radio broadcast from the Riley Memorial Hospital Monday in observance of Riley’s birthday will be entertained at a tea in the Central Library dining room following the program. Those who will attend are Mra Clayton Ridge, Miss Helen Humphrey, Mayor Reginald Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Luther L. Dickerson, Hugh - McK. Landon, Dr. Willis Gatch, C. D. Alexander, William Book, James Carr, DeWitt Morgan, P. C. Reilly, J. B. Martin, Val Nolan and members of the Riley Cheer Guild. : . Miss Cerepe Ohr and Miss Carrie Scott will act as hostesses and Miss Helen Barber will pour. Miss Lucile Dickman, city librarian as-

signed to Riley Hospital, is in charge of arrangements. : :

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