Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1940 — Page 15
MONDAY, DEC. 23, 1940
Society—
Tudor Hall Alumnae Dance Is One of High Spots On Holiday Calendar
ONE OF THE HIGH SPOTS of an activity-crowded week will be the annual dinner dance of the Tudor Hall Alumnae Association at the Woodstock Club Saturday
night. The Wabash Ambassadors will play for dancing.
Patrons and patronesses for the event have been announced. They include Messrs. and Mesdames Roy Elder Adams, Clarence Alig, Roy C. Bain, E. Arthur Ball, E. B. Ball, Frank L. Binford, E. . Clifford Barrett, John Blish, G. L. Canfield, William H. Coleman, John P. Collett, Fred Dickson, Dan Flickinger, Oscar F. Frenzel and Theodore B. Griffith. ! ? : Others are Messrs. and Mesdames William C. Griffith, Harlan Hadley, Samuel R. Harrell, J. "M. Hoadley, Harry W. Hobbs, Otto K. Jensen, J. A. Kramer, Montgomery Lewis, Ralph Lockwood, Howard R. Meeker, Howard B. Miner, J. B. Minor, Nicholas H. Noyes, Alvin M. Owsley, W. Richardson Sinclair, Leonard Swartz, Edward B. Taggart, Craig Van Meter and Albert Zoller. > Also appearing on the list are Dr. and Mrs. Willis D. Gatch, Dr. and Mrs. J. Kent Leasure, Dr. and¢Mrs. Clyde Wildman, Mes--dames Linnaes C. Boyd, B. H. Gardner, Jack Goldfarb, Stanley W. Hayes, Nellie Alford Hill, Henry H. Hornbrook, Ralph~Kemp, David Lurvey, H. E. Redding, Ernest Rupel, Robert Shinkle, Rollin Spiegel, H. G. Wall, William B. Wheelock and H. O. Wright, Messrs. Glenn R. Hillis, G. Barret Moxley, Edward Mayer and J. M. Ruby and ‘Misses Mary and Alice Dickey, Dorothy E. Kothe and Marjorie McCullough. oi?
Mrs. Danner Dessert-Bridge Hostess
MRS. BURFORD DANNER was to entertain this afternoon at her home with a dessert-bridge for Miss Fayette Ann Miller whose marriage to Nathaniel Crew Hamilton Jr., Chicago, will be at 4:30 D. m. Saturday in St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Guests in addition to Miss Miller's wedding attendants were to be Mrs. Elvan Y. Tarkington, mother of the hostess; Mrs. LeRoy B. Miller, the bride-to-be’'s mother, and Misses Jane Adams, Jean Light, Priscilla Johnson, Gloria Geddes and Susanah Jameson. The wedding attendants who were to attend the party are Mrs. Cornell W. Acheson, Washington, and the Misses Margaret Jameson, Susan Gatch, Nancy Goodrich, Catherine Cunningham, Joan Taylor and Jane Axtell. . ' Mrs. Clifton Taylor and her daughter Joan and Mrs. Robert Axtell and her daughter Jane will have a luncheon and kitchen shower tomorrow at the Taylors’ home for Miss Miller. Guests will be Mesdames Miller, Fenton Booth, Donald Jameson, Acheson, Felix R. Geddes, Louis Haerle, James T. Cunningham, Danner, Tarkington and Willis D. Gatch and Mrs. Nathaniel G. Hamilton, Kokomo, mother of the bridegroom-to-be. Misses Virginia Booth, Margaret Jameson, Goodrich, Geddes, Cunningham and Gatch also will be guests. !
Martha Jo Cantwell Entertains
ENTERTAINING Saturday at luncheon in the Indianapolis Athletic Club for a group of her friends who are home from schools and colleges for the holidays was Miss Martha Jo Cantwell, Miss Cantwell returned late last week from Hollins College to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Cantwell. | Guests were Miss Betty Smith, Anderson; Misses Judy Bosson, Peggy Winslow, Marion Sturm, Margaret Studebaker, : Marilyn - Whitaker, Mary Eleanor Fenstermaker, Mary Jane Hess, Peggy Trusler 219 Evelyn Maraist and the hostess’ sister, Miss Ann antwell. :
Mrs. Hubbard to Visit in Ohio
MRS. KIN HUBBARD will leave tomorrow for Bellefontaine, O., to spend the holidays with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hubbard, and their children, Susan and Bonnie Lee. . . . Miss Katherine Morris arrived by plane Saturday from New York to spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Fred Newell Morris. Joe Moon of New York also will spend Christmas with Mis. Morris and her daughters, Katherine and Dorothy. Richard Hoover, Civic Theater director, and Mrs. Hoover have gone to Pittsburgh to spend Christmas with Mrs. Hoover's father, Richard T. Eastell, and Mrs. Eastell. . .. Another of the Civic Theater staff spending the ‘holiday out of the city is Mrs. R. G. Bomgardner, theater business manager. She and Mr. Bomgardner are visiting relatives in Paris, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Rybolt left this week-end for Miami Beach where they were to join Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Noggle for the holidays. The Noggles have been in Florida for the past two weeks, . .. Mrs. Joseph F. Dixon will arrive tomorrow from Pittsburgh [to be the
house guest of Mr. of the year.
Hodges to Hold Open House
and Mrs. Harry C. Kahlo until after the first
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ON CHRISTMAS DAY, Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher Hodges will
entertain with an open house from 3
p. m. until midnight. The
Hodges’ daughter, Mrs. Jesse J. Garrison, left this week-end for her home in Lansing, Mich., after spending several weeks with her
parents. William Byram Gates Jr., son of
rived to spend the Christmas vacation is a student in the University of Chicago graduate school.
Miss Peggy Fatout, daughter of Mr.
Mrs. William B. Gafes, has arin Indianapolis. He
and Mrs. Ray Fatout, returned
by plane from Stephens College last week. Miss Sue Ann Knippenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Knippenberg, returned this
week-end
from the | University
ot Illinois, where. she is a sophomore and a member of Kappa
Kappa Gamma,
With her parents and Mrs. Knippenberg’s mother,
Mrs. Florence Stewart, she left yesterday for Ft. ‘Lauderdale, Fla., where the party will be the holiday guests of Mr. and Mis. Charles A. Stevens, Mrs. Knippenberg’s sister and brother-in-law. Indianapolis students at Western College, Oxford, 0., who arrived home this: week-end include the Misses Clara June Bosson, . Ruth Harry, Dorothy Chapin, Betsy Bowen, Aedline Lewis, Char=
lotte Frazier and Charlotte Kupferer.
Miss Bosson will have her
roommate, Miss Sarah Pratt, Bellefontaine, O., as her guest during
the holidays.
John S. Ross Lost His Shirt Literally—in 1938 Mask and Wig
By LOUISE
FLETCHER
The memory of a peripatetic shirt front will enliven John S. Ross’ view of “High as a Kite” when it is presented Friday night at the Murat Theater by the University of Pennsylvania Mask and Wig Club. The shirt front in question adorned Jack’s chest, briefly to be sure,
as he danced in the chorus of the it was presented here. half minutes to do a “quick change” from cowboy regalia to dress clothes. He made the change all right— but just as he stepped upon the stage, the white shirt front and Jack parted company. He—and the - show—went on with such favoir faire that most of the audience * thought the incident a part of the “business.”
Graduated Last June
Friday night will mark Jack’s first appearance on the “off side” of the footlights at a Mask and Wig presentation. He was graduated last June from the university, and is at home with his mother. Mrs. Gladys Sewell Ross, 5168 Kenwood Ave. When he was graduated, he received one of the coveted honors of the school in being elected to the Alumni Mask and Wig Club. Only students who have taken active parts in Mask and Wig productions are eligible for membership and only about 10 per cent of those eligible are elected. First nominated by popular vote of the undergraduate members, they must be approved by the graduate board of directors before being elected. He is the only local member of the alumni group.
‘Six to Be Guests
Six members of the “High as a Kite” cast will be Jack's guest while the show is here. The boys, his Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity brothers, are James P. Bird Jr, Youngstown, O.; Hugh W. Close Jr., Lansdowne, Pa.; Robert F. Dawson, Sherborn, Mass.; Robert H. Martitn, Rutherford, N..J.; Robert PF. Stengelin, Hartford, Conn, and Crzig D. Vail, West Orange, N. J. Mr. Bird is a graduate of Culver Liilitcry Academy. ; Sevoral 1522] Pennsylvania alumni who wl! s22 the thow Friday appeared in Mask ond Wig productions during their undergraduate
Mask and Wig show of 1938 when
At one point in the show, Jack had one and a
careers. Charles R.’ Weiss, reception committee chairman for this year’s appearance; of the club, was ud the dancing chords in 1907-'08-J. Elder Blackledge and James L. Daggett are other Mask and Wig alumni who will day. Harry S. Shepard, who was chair-
.|man for the club's local appear-
ance in 1938, was in Mask and Wig shows of 1919-’20-21 and J. Mason Gaston played the “leading lady” in “The Bridal Knot,” the run of which was curtailed by the World War.
Council Session Set By National League
Times Special ; WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.— Announcement that the 1941 biennial
General Council of the National]
League of Women Voters will be
held at the Hotel Washington here, May 6, 7 and 8 was made recently by Miss Marguerite M. Wells, president. The General Council, which is authorized to make general plans for the conduct of the League of Women Voters and in non-conven-tion years to make such modifications in program as are necessary to meet “altered conditions,” consists of the national board of directors, the president and one additional representative from each afiiliated state league. > Following its usual custom.the national board will hold. sessions in Washington for two days prior to the Couricil and for three days following the meeting.
Sub Debs to Meet
Bellaniare Chapter of the Sub-Deb Clubs will hold a Christmas party
tonight at the home of Miss Eliza-|’
beth Glodden, 131 S. Emerson Ave.
see the show Fri-|
Wed Recently
a.
Block Photo. Miss Thelma Morgan was married to Robert Whitaker Dec. 14. | The couple will be at home at 2815 N. New Jersey St. on their return from a wedding trip. Mrs. Whitaker is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morgan.
Two Here Win Honor Rating
Times Special COLUMBIA, Mo., Dec. 23.—As a Merry Christmas” from their professors, Miss Janet Sorenson and Miss Jacqueline Spalding of Indianapolis and Miss Julia ‘Ann McCorkle of
| Tipton recently were named on the
dean’s honor list at Stephens College here. : The girls were honored as being among the upper 10 per cent of the student body of more than 1700. Scholastic qualifications for = the dean’s list, which is announced : at the end of each semester, are of the
| highest, and all the girls are promi-
nent in campus activities. : Miss Sorenson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Sorenson, 5231 N. Delaware St. Miss Spalding’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Spalding, 6371 Washington Blvd. The three girls are juniors at the school. » ” ” Formality dignified the square dance when Miss Billie Jean Underwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Underwood of Noblesville, took part in a formal presentation of the quadrille with a faculty and student group at Stephens College recently. Miss Underwood, a junior and. a student of the waltz and quadrille classes at Stephens, demonstrated figures I and II of the standard quadrille to the accompaniment of a four-piece orchestra.
Advisory Board Aids Named
‘President D. S. Robinson of But-
‘|ler University has appointed three
women faculty members to the university’s new Women's Advisory Board, which will consider problems concerning the welfare of women on the Fairview campus. Faculty members will be Dr. Elizazeth B. Ward, dean of women; Prof. Florence I. Morrison, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Prof. Maria W. Hyde, College of Education. Two student members will be named later by the Student Council, governing organization of undergraduates. . Administrative activities’ of the, new board will be handled by the office of the dean of women. Miss Miriam Vollmer, secretary to Dr. M. O. Ross, dean of the Butler College of Business Administration, will represent women students in that college, and Mrs. Honta Hedger, secretary to Dr. Frederick D. Kershner, dean of the College of Religion, will be representative for co-eds in that school.
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Robert Claycombe is chairman of the annual Freshman Rose dance, Jan. 10 at Butler. The seven sororities on the campus and the independent associations are expected to have candidates for the title, “Freshman Rose.” Freshmen men will vote Jan. 9 to‘elect the co-ed who will be honored the next evening at the first formal dance of the new year. Program and tickets chairman for the dance is Robert Ratz, who will be assisted by the Misses Ann Browning, Ann Loser, Mary Elizabeth Gessert and Mary Marjorie Smead. Mr. Claycombe will announce the band selected and the place of the dance later.
Dilworth-White Wedding Today
A marriage ceremony in New Haven, Conn., at 4 o’clock this afternoon was to unite Miss Miriam White, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. William T. White, 1405 N. Hamilton Ave. and Dr. Robert P. Dilworth. Dr. Dilworth is a member of the teaching faculty at Yale University. Following the Christmas holidays, the couple will be at home in the Norton Apartments in New Haven.
: Bride
Miss Ruth Young, daughter of Mrs| Fannie Young, was married to Charles Brouhard, son of
Notre Dame Club Names Dance Aids
Chairman /
Committee for the Notre Dame Club buffet supper dance Thursday at the Indianapolis Athletic Club have been anndunced, by Richard O'Connor, general chairman. Mr. O’Connor is being assisted by John Fisher as vice chairman. ) John McNamara is special arrangements chairman. Other committees include: William Carson, chairman; Bernard McKay, John Gavin, Daniel Barton, John Blatz and Thomas Spencer, tickets. George O’Connor, chairman; Donald Potter, Thomas Reis, Thomas Sweeney, William Bergan and Robert Bowers, fioor show. | Giles Kelley, chairman; Robert Courtney, Paul Deery, William Kennedy and Robert Kasberg, hall decorations. Robert Fitzgerald, chairman; William Hurrle, Michael Kelley, Joseph Fitzgerald, Edgar McNamara and Stanley Pyritz, special decorations. Richard Everroad, chairman; Michael Carr, Harry Scott, Robert Shade, John Reis and Joseph Niehaus, publicity. John Mannon, chairman; James Worl, John Van Benton, Francis Quinn, Raymond McManus and John Morrison, out-of-town guests. John Sheedy, chairman, Robert Dinn, Paul Fisher, James Fitzgerald, Carol Klotz and Elmer Osterman, special music; chairman, Richard Owens, Frank Fox, Coleman McGuire, Thomas Maher and Charles Metzger, special
man, Anthony Donadio, Joseph Gillespie, Paul Larson and Robert Miller, music. Among those who will come from out of town to attend the dance are Wiliam Garvey, Robert Sasse and Bernard Crimmins, Louisville, Ky.; Henry Schrenker, Elwood; Thomas Murphy, Crawfordsville; Alfred Bergman, Peru; Bernard Fox, Columbus, O.; James Ferry, Brazil; Donald Figel, Chicago; Michael Hines, Rochester; Robert Loughery, Cleveland; Francis Wemhoff, Ft. Wayne; Urban Link, Shelbyville; Charles Del, Columbus, Ind., and Kenneth Collins, Fargo; N. D.
H. A. C. Plans Gala Party
It’s going to be a gay New Year's Eve Party at the Hoosier Athletic Club, if reservations are any indication. The club already has 280 reservations for the event, which club officials said is the biggest
advance registration they have ever had. For the dance, the club has hired a “name band”—Bob Sylvester and his CBS orchestra. The orchestra brings with it a floor show. Saturday the club held its Christmas Party Dance. A huge Christmas tree stood near the band stand and flanking the tree were two seven-foot illuminated candles. At the intermission, the orchestra led the dancers in singing Christmas carols, Doc Grayson’s orchestra played. . The annual Christmas party for children of members was held yesterday from 2 to 4 p. m. More than 200 attended the event which was under the direction of Miss Rosalyn Ludwig, club dancing instructor. The club donated small gifts to the children attending. Neither the Boosters nor. the Guild will hold any activities until after the holiday season. . The Boosters have scheduled their first meeting for Jan. 13 while the Guild will meet Jan. 8, at which time the expanded program mapped for 1941 will be inaugurated.
7.’F.A. Mothers Hold Luncheon
The ZETA TAU ALPHA MOTHERS’ CLUB held a. covered dish luncheon recently at the Butler University chapter house, 329 W. Hampton Drive. The luncheon for mothers and their daughters, was followed by a Christmas program. Hostesses were Mrs. Claud Lett and Mrs. John P. Robinson.
Members ‘of the CUMBERLAND HOMEMAKERS’ CLUB were en-
tertdined recently at a Christmas|.
party by Mrs. Chris Brinkman and Mrs. Doris Hitzman at Mrs, Brinkman’s home in Cumberland.
Prof. John J. Haramy of Indiana Central College spoke at the LATE BOOK CLUB'S Christmas luncheon recently. Hostesses' were Mesdames Laura E. Ray, Fred Sanders and Henry W. Ker.
Personals
Miss Margie Leonard came this week-end from Purdue University to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William I.eonard, 4516 E. Washington St. ;
Miss Margaret Beelle has returned from, Purdue University to spend the ‘Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Beelle, 226 E. 15th St., and her sister, Miss Judy Beelle.
Miss Charlot Retmier will return this week from the Studio School of Fashion Art in Cincinnati to spend
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Retmier, 5333 Guilford Ave.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Yeo of Normal, Ill, are the holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs: E. E. Kerner, 338 N. Hamilton Ave. Mrs, Yeo was Miss
before her marriage. :
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Preston Bailey of New York recently visited Mr. Bailey’s parents, Mr, and Mrs.
St,. and left by:motor for Hollywood, Cal.,, where they will visit for
Bailey accompanied them.
Coming Christmas morning from Ilion, N. Y., to spend the holiday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne W. Ridpath, 108 N. Colorado
Mr. .and Mrs. A. P. Brouhard,
recently. a»
Ave, will be Howard Ridpath. He
will return to Ilion Dac. 29.
. Richard O’Connor Is|
Robert Harrington, |
lighting; Thomas Gillespie, chair-|
the Christmas vacation with her|
Ada B. Robinson of Indianapolis |
James F. Bailey, 1815 N. Delaware |"
two months. Charles Vinnedge |
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Photoreflex Photo. Miss Bertha E. Harris, daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Harris, will be married to Glenn J. Ackerman Jan. 9 in St. Catherine’s. Church. Mr. Ackerman is the son of Mrs. Walter Michael.
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Annual Dinner
Christmas day will be celebrated at the Indianapolis Athletic Club with the annual dinner from noon to 9 p. m,, with dancing during evening dinner service, starting at 7p. m. 3 Reservation lists will close Monday, Dec. 30, for the annual New Year's eve frolic, which will be a supper dance in the fourth floor ballroom from 10 p. m. on Dec. 31. Louie Lowe’s orchestra will play for dancing and entertainment will feature a complete floor show. The clun’s annual New. Year’s day dinner will be served from noon to 9 p. m. Jan. 1, and there will be dancing from 7 to 9 p. m. : In addition to the special holida events, the club calendar includes dinner dancing Sunday evenings; dinner and supper dancing Friday evenings; cocktail hour and supper dancing on Saturdays.
Miss Jackson Hostess
Mrs. Neill D. McKinstray will give the constitutional quiz for members of Chapter W of the P. E. O. Sisterhood tomorrow. Miss Corlie
E. Jackson will be hostess.
I. A.C. to Hold
Turners Plan Dance - To Mark Year End
The departure of 1940 will be celebrated by the Athenaeum Turners with a lance and entertainment program beginning "at 9 p. m. Dec. 31 at the Athenaeum. M. Daugherty Wolfe will act as master of ceremonies for the event which will feature professional entertainers and an orchestra with two vocalists. Mr. Wolfe formerly was at Pierre’s Roof in Philadelphia, the Shoreham Hotel in Washington and the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore. A buffeb supper wil be served from 9 p. m. until midnight. Seservations must be made by Dec. 30.
Rho Delta Chapter Names New Officers
Miss Prginia Mitchell recently was named president of the new Kappa Chapter of Rho Delta Sorority at a Christmas party and election meéeting at the home of Miss Leona Thompson, 420 Collier St. J Other new officers are Miss Peggy Lynch, vice president and treasurer; Miss Loretta Ringle, secretary and society editor; Miss Thompson, sergeant-at-arms; Miss Charlotfe Moody, chaplain, and Miss Charlotte Mitchell, pledge
mistress and historian.
Sales of Holly Aid Children
Needy children were to be clothed with profits from the sale of holly
sprigs on the Butler University campus throughout the pre-vacation period by the Y. W. C. A, Miss ‘Mary Bell, president, has announced. Miss Janet Murphy, personality committee chairman, was in charge of the sale. I She was assisted by Misses Jayne Smalholz, Janet Murphy, Mildred Reimer, Margaret Jeanne Glascock, Esther Jane Hanson, Martha Anne
|Kirby, Marion Dailey, Jeanne Stein-
er and Janet Ann Johnson.
Mrs. Gladys Taylor Is Married
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hutchings have announced the marriage of their daughter, M Gladys Hutchings Taylor, to Abner J. Stilwell of Chicago. The wedding took place at noon yesterday in the First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. George Arthur Frantz reading the service. The bride is a member of the Junior League. Mr. Stilwell is vice president of the Continental-Illi-nois Bank and Trust Company of Chicago.
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