Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1940 — Page 16
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_° High As a Kite' Will Be Presented
Tonight By Pennsylvania Students
. One of the most gala parties of the holiday season will be held tonight when the University of Pennsylvania Mask and Wig Club will present its 53d annual show, “High As a Kite.” A ball and supper at the Indianapolis ‘Athletic Club in-honor of the cast will follow the theater presentation. 2 Eo Mrs. Bowman Elder is chairman of the ball. The ballroom will be arranged with a lounge around the dance floor with bay trees and garlands of laurel. Other
holiday arrangements will brighten the scene. After the special train carrying the cast arrives, members will be greeted by a committee headed by Charles R. Weiss. The cast members then will be entertained at the club at a tea with a group i college girls as special guests. Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus is chairman of this party. . : : ~The girls to attend will include Misses Anne Elder, Virginia . Binford, Elizabeth Weiss, Barbara Smith, Annette Lange, Martha Rupel, Emmy Pantzer, Mildred Milliken, Ann Fox, Susanah Jameson, Nancy Goodrich, Margaret Jameson, Carolyn Culp, Letitia Sinclair, Jane Cox, Jane and Ann Johnston, Sylvia Griffith, Mary Scot Morse, Barbara Noel, Nancy Lockwood, Lucille Schaf, Florence Wolff and Jane Leasure. is © Among the large parties will be one arranged by John Sewell Ross, who was in the Mask and Wig shows before his graduation last June. . With him will be his mother, Mrs. Gladys S. Ross; Tipton S. Ross II, James Ross, Richard Jackson, Birmingham, Ala.; William - Smith, Zionsville; Misses Myra Jeanne Ross, | Vivian Petersen and Treva Berry. * Another group will include Misses Peggy Sweeney, Phyllis Miiler, Martha Moore, Jane Wynne, Emmy Gene Tucker, Dorothy Barlow and Leone Hartfelfer; Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Morrison Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wohlgemuth, John O'Connell, John Quinn, Daniel Kibler, David J. Cox, William J. Wright Jr, Alex M. Clark, Robert Mueller, Robert Collier and Victor Albright. ~
Mary Birch Ingram Is Engaged
THE ENGAGEMENT of Miss Mary Birch Ingram to First Lieut. Lawrence Coker Hays Jr. (U. S. M. C.) has been announced by her parents, Capt. Jonas H. Ingram (U. S. N) and Mrs. Ingram. The bride-to-be is the niece of Mrs. C. Harvey Bradley. Lieut. Hays’ parents are Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Coker Hays of Atlanta, Ga. The wedding will be in the early spring. Miss Ingram was graduated from Holton Arms School in Washington and attended Connecticut College for Women and Scripps College in Claremont, Cal. She is a member of the Service Society and the Indianapolis Junior League. : . "Lieut. Hays was graduated from the Boys’ High Sehool of Atlanta and received his bachelor of science degree from Georgia ‘School of Technology in 1937. He was an outstanding athlete while ‘in college, being alternate captain of the football team and receiving letters in basketball and track. * After graduation he accepted a commission as second lieutenant in the Marine Corps and in 1838 was graduated from the Marine Officers Basic School at Philadelphia. He is now stationed at the navy yard in Puget Sound.
LeRoy B. Millers to Give Bridal Dinner
MR. AND S. LEROY B. MILLER will entertain tonight at
ay the. Indianapolis Athletic Club with a bridal dinner for their
daughter, Fayette Ann, and Nathaniel Crew Hamilton Jr. of Chicago who are to be married tomorrow. The ceremony will be at 4:30 p.m. in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and will be followed by a reception at the Miller home. : : Guests tonight will include Mr. Hamilton’s mother, Mrs. Nathaniel C. Hamilton, Kokomo, and his sisters and brothers-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Trees and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Clifford, Kokomo, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward 'Wachs, Winnetka, Ill. . Mrs. Miller’s parents, Judge and Mrs. Fenton W. Booth, and her sister, Miss Virginia Booth, also will be guests. Judge and Mrs. Booth will have a cocktail party at their home before the dinner. Other guests at the dinner will be Mr. and Mrs. Cornell Ww. Acheson and H. R. Kylie, Washington; Mrs. Felix Geddes and Miss
Gloria Geddes, Los Angeles; Robert Stiegerwalt and William McElroy, .
Pittsburgh; William MacDairmad and Ray Southworth, Chicago and Gene L. Nesbitt, Bluffton. * Mrs. and Mrs. Donald Jameson and Mr. and Mrs. Burford nner will be among the dinner guests as will Misses Susanah ameson, Margaret Jameson, Susan Gatch, Nancy Goodrich, Cath-
erine Cunningham, Joan Taylor and Jane Axtell and Charles Breunig, Bates Johnson and Robert Axtell.
Junior Assembly Dance Is Tonight
Frank Johnson will entertain at dinner tonight at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bates Johnson, for several of his friends who will attend the Junior Assembly Christmas dance at the Marott Hotel later in the evening. : : Another dinner party preceding the dance will be that which Miss Dorothy and Simon Sheerin, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Doherty Sheerin, are to give at the Marott Hotel. Their guests will be Misses Townsend Eaglesfield, Elizabeth Harding and Virginia Thompson; Robert Stempfel, Robert Doeppers, Gilbert Browning and James Jefirey. _ Mrs. William Byram Gates, Assembly sponsor, will be assisted by a parent committee including Messrs. and Mesdames Clarence ~ _Alig, John H. Bookwalter, John L. Eaglesfield, Benjamin Hitz, Charles A. Nugent, Edward E. Stephenson and A. L. Taggart. ; The committee in charge of arrangements for the dance included Misses Agnes Alig, Ava Saunders Davis, Eaglesfield, Harding, Caroline Kiger and Margaret Nchle; Charles Bookwalter, William Fisher, John Miller, David Simpson, Alex Taggart and Richard West.
Personal Notes
- ‘MR. AND MRS. FREDERICK E. MATSON, who have been visiting in Pasadena. Cal, since mid-December, will go to the Monte Vista Ranch in Arizona after New Year's Day. They will return to Indianapolis about March 1. , , . Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bell and Robert Bell will come Sunday from Minneapolis to spend the New Year's holiday with Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Longsworth. . * Mr. and Mrs. Austin V. Clifford of Chicago are visiting Mrs. ‘Clifford's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Ropkey, until after New Year's Day. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M. DeVoe will hold open house ffom 3 to 6 p. m. Sunday at their home. : Mrs. Walter C. Holmes, her daughters Harriet Jane and Anne ‘and her .son, John Holmes, who are vacationing in Miami, Fla.,e will .go by clipper ship to Havana before they return early in January. Miss Anne Holmes will resume’ her studies at Vassar College, where she is a senior. : . Miss Margaret Simonds is among Propylaeum Club members who have made reservations for the monthly dinner-bridge tonight at the Propylaeum. . . . Mrs. Francis M. Fauvre Sr. also will have guests with her at the dinner-bridge. : : ; Miss Virginia Louise Robinson will entertain tomorrow with a holiday luncheon at the Columbia Club for Mrs. Wallace L. Hislop and the Misses Gene Clairmont, Ann Hereth, Beth Neibert, Alice Reid, Jeanne Smelser, Jean Wichser and Mary Helen Yates.
fiss Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Robinson, will ren Tuesday to the Vogue School in Chicago where she is a
dent.
* Miss Claribel Moore of the Spink Arms Hotel left last week-end
for Havana ‘to attend the Pan-American Educational Conference peing held there this week by the World Federation Educational _ Association. Miss Moore was to be gone two weeks.
Phi Mu Teals This Afternoon
A Christmas tea was to be given ‘this afternoon irom 3 to 5 o'clock for Phi Mu Sorority actives and pledges on vacation from Indiana University, Purdue University and Hanover College. Mothers of mempers also were to be guests. “The hostess, Mrs. William D. Ramsey, 2853 N. Talbott St. was t4 be assisted by Mrs. C. H. Glascock, Mrs. John V. Collins and the ‘Missés Caroline Battin, Betty Jean McKamey, Judith McTurnan and Patricia Roesch. ‘Mrs. H. D. Eberhart and Mrs. e P. Dennerlein were to be in charge of the tea table:
Phi Theta Phis Hold Annual Dinner
“Phi Theta Phi Sorority held its annual Christmas dinner recently at the Columbia Club.- The program included a gift exchange. ~ Guests were Dr. Thelma Cornell " and Mesdames Ralph Goss, Theoauser, John Gansman, John aun, Joseph Suding, Herbert &, James Green, Carl Suding y Thompson.
‘lor. minted cherries.
Omega Phi Tau Plans Rush Party
Alpha Chapter of Omega Phi Tau Sorority will hold its {first rush party tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the home of Mrs. Delores Barnard, 2634 E. 34th St. Rushees are the Misses Doris Fulton, Georgia Reiger, Virginia Fechtman, Reba Cornett, Mildred Hollingsworth, Charlotte Ilett and Marjorie Peters.
Decorative Cubes For festive iced drinks, fill ice cube trays half full of your favorite soft drink, freeze, then. add to each cube section flower-shaped slices
of orange or lemon peel, sprigs af.
fresh mint, or slices of maraschino Fill ice cube trays with the rest of the soft drink and continue freezing. The decoration will be in the center of tne clear, sparkling cube.
Wash Washing Utensil
Always wash and dry a washboard after using. Naturally, this is particularly important to the life of one not rustproof. All, however, remain in better condition if thoroughly cleansed of soapy, soiled water each time used.
Radcliffe Club Gives Tea for Students =
A luncheon; a tea and a dinner are among activities scheduled by local alumnae groups for today and tomorrow. Mrs. Austin V. Clifford of Chicago and Miss Charlotte Howe of Bryn Mawr, Pa. were to be out-of-town guests at a -tea given by the Indianapolis Radcliffe College Alumnae this. afternoon at the home of Mrs.- Evans Woollen Jr. Miss Howe is director of halls at Bryn Mawr College. The tea was to honor Indianapolis students at home from Radcliffe for the . Christmas holidays. They are Misses Betty, Hosmer, Mary Elizabeth Lewis, Marjorie Flickinger, Gloria Strashun, Helen Rudisell and Helen Griffith. Mrs. Wayne Ritter is alumnae president and Miss Gladys McColgin is secretary.
4 » ” Mrs. William W. Garstang and Miss Sally Reahard will be in
‘|charge of the luncheon which the
Indiana Sweet Briar Alumnae Association will give at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Woodstock Club. Dec. 28 is designated as Sweet Briar Day and observed each year by alumnae groups throughout the country. Among those attending the luncheon will be Miss Margaret Anne Becker, now a student of the school. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stidman Becker. : ” 2 2 Attending the dinner given by the Indianapolis Club of St. Mary’s-of-the-Woods College tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club will be Misses Clare Quinn, Marjorie O’Connor, Mary Ellen Sweeney, Betty Trimble, Marian Loughry, Dorothy Laughlin and Jean Devine, students of the college, and Miss Mary Jo Carton. Following the dinner, the girls will remain for the regular Friday night dance at the Athletic Club.
Mothers Honor Daughters
The Alpha Sigma Alpha Mothers’ Club will entertain daughters at a Christmas dinner Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. F. Emick, 2345 Central Ave. “The Blue Angel” (Elizabeth Goudge) will be reviewed by Mrs. E. M. Burge and Mrs. T. William Engle will sing “Jesu Bambino” (Petrivon), accompanied by Mrs. M. C. Didway.
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|Green Peppers
When purchasing peppers, select those that have a fresh, bright color, and yield slightly to pressure. Peppers that are soft, that looked shriveled, have surface blemishes and poor color, are not a good buy.
‘tonight at the Columbia Club.
The Misses Mildred Milliken, Emmy Pantzer and Martha Rupel (let to right), students at Smith College, are among the young women home from colleges for the holidays who were to be guests this
afternoon at the tea for the Mask and Wig Club Show cast. 3 arrive by train early this afternoon. The tea was to be at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, The Mask and Wig Club will present “High As a Kite” tonight at the Murat Theater. ol
Junior Group of Caroline Scott Harrison Chatter, D. A. R., To’ Assist at Reception
Members of the Junior Group of the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will serve as assistants at the tea following the chapter's New Year's reception Sunday at the
chapter house.
Mrs. Emsley Johnson Jr. and Mrs. Harry Kirkwood Yockey are chairman and vice chairman of the group. Serving with them will be Mrs.
Howard Allisbaugh, Mrs. Henry E. Todd and the Misses Anna Belle Irelan, Margaret Anne Millikan, Marjorie Joy Northrup and Margaret Eleanor Semans. The regular chapter meeting will be Thursday at the chapter house. Appearing on the program at 2:30 p. m. following a 2 p. m. business meeting will be Mrs. Clyde E. Titus. She will present “Four Epochs of American Music,” in costume, and will be accompanied by Mrs. Neal Ireland. Hostesses at the 4 p. m. tea will be Mrs. Alexander G. Cavins, chairman, Mrs. Hugh McGibeny, vice chairman, Mesdames Jesse Baldwin, Melissa. J. Cornish, Bertram Day, Edgar Joseph Ellsworth, Walter H. Hiatt, Frank W. Lewis, James A. Moag, Edgar Y. Pattison, Charles A. Pfafflin and Henry I. Raymond Jr., Misses Ginevra McCoy, Ethel M. Moore and Ruth Stone, Mrs. Leo M. Faller, Roachdale, and Miss Minta D. Hinkle, Logansport. New members will ‘be welcomed at. the meeting. Mrs. Gustavus B. Taylor, chapter regent, will preside.
Alpha Phi Tea Is Today
Mrs. T. O. Philpott, 5206 Grandview Drive, was to be hostess this
afternoon at a Christmas tea given|.
by the Indianapolis Alumnae Circle of Alpha Phi Sorority. High school seniors planning to attend DePauw University, where Alpha Phi’s only Indiana chapter is located, and their mothers were to be guests. Presiding at the tea tables were to be Mrs. Richard Boatman, president of the local circle; Mrs. Edward Zink and Mrs. Wendell P. Coler. Mrs, Philpott was to be assisted by Mesdames Thomas Jenkins, Robert Horn, Mason King, Robert Seward, Charles L. Jose, Wood C. Moll and John H. Clymer and Miss Halcyon Mendenhall.
Knightstown Home Girls Entertained
Girls from Division 6 at the Knightstown Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home were to be entertained this afternoon with a theater party at the Lyric Theater by the Federal Unit 62, American Legion Auxiliary. The girls will be taken to WIRE to watch a broadcast_and later to the Russet Cafeteria for dinner. The unit presented . gifts to the girls Christmas.
Vary Cooked Cereals
If | the family tires of cooked cereals; dress them up a bit by adding chopped raisins, dates, figs,
prunes or apricots.
Stephens College Dance Tonight
Miss Louise Canny (left) and Mrs. Ben Stokes (right) are among the alumnae of Stephens College who are making last-minute prep- {you have a set of arations today for the dinner dance to be held by the alumnae club )
The University of Pensylvania group was to
| president;
Have Cleaner Handy
Le *. iy 9 Lutefisk’ Is on Dinner Menu
' The traditional Norwegian “lute-
Park Alumni
Hold Annual Luncheon
Alumni of Park School wer: to hold their annual luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club today. Among those making reservafions were Jack McCloud, William Mooney, William B. Gates Jr, Géorge Mahoney, Ralph Reahard Jr., John Lathrop, William Elder, Arnold Sanders, George Kuhn Jr., Howard
Behringer and Pierre and Ward Hackleman. | Others who were to be at the luncheon included Robert Swaim, Walter Kuhn Jr, Harry Hanna, Jack Rauch, Allan Beck, Allan and George Clowes, Richard and Chirles Sommers, Robert Rhoads Jr., Irving Lemaux Jr., Jack Mertz, [Reily Adams, Richard and Frederick Cline, Joseph Wallace, C. Hervey Bradley Jr., Woods Caperton, Ealph Heath of Muncie and John Lgsher of New York. Hi Alex S. Carroll, Detroit, is alumni president. He is spending A the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Carroll of Golden ill. Mr. Rhoads is vice president and Donald Modrall is secrefarytreasurer of the group. ay
To Remove Paint Spots
To remove paint spots from glass easily, use a strong washing [soda solution. If the paint stains are stubborn, soak them with the splu-
Miner Jr., Walter Milliken, .Jack,
G. A. B. Club Lunche At Canary Cottage The second annual Christmas party of the G. A. B. Club of Shorte ridge High School was to be a
lunchegn today at the Canary Cote
tage and a theater party. Members of.the club who were
Dienhart, Carol M. Meyer, Pauline Thau, Johnnie Temple, Vivian and
Vera Hopkins, Lois Weaver, Peggy Wilhite and Eve Hommel. :
Chi Omegas Are Party Guests
Chi Omega Sorority, home from
Ralston Drive. Miss Reiter is president of the of Chi Omega. She was assisted
Willis B. Lincoln Jr.
To Keep Hair Clean
Both should be washed frequently. mild, soapy bath to which a few
rinsed thoroughly and hung to dry— never over or near heat. Combs may be washed in warm water and mild soap. If soil clings persistently, serub with a small brush, rinse and
tion several times, then scrape [with a razor blade. |
dry.
fisk,” which has been hard to obtain since the war, will be served tomorrow night at 6:30 o'clock at,
the Norway Club’s Christmas din-| ner in the D. A. R. Chapter House. !
Chicago here. | dishes will be served.
“Kensington Rune Stone.”
decorated with | small flags, multi-colored chains, braided baskets, gilded nuts and white lights in the Norwegian tradtion. The Julenisse, the Norwegian Santa Claus, will appear to distribute gifts. Hostesses for the dinner will be the Mesdames J. Olaf Gunvaldsen. Houston T. Cory and Sigurd Peterson. The decorations committee includes Mrs, H. C. Aamot, Mr. Cory, Mr. Peterson and Mr. Aamot. { :
Personals
Miss Rosemary Louise Cruzan, 2138 N. New Jersey St., art teacher in the Indianapclis public schools, is visiting for a week in the home of Miss Esther McAllister in New ‘Carlisle. 2
Lawrence D. Reedy, editor of the national Sigma Nu magazine, The
Dr. G. J. Laing Speaks Here
will have an informal dinner tonight at the Business and Professional Women’s Club, 1101 N. Delaware St.
Dr. Gordon J. Laing. ‘professor Emeritus of Latin and dean of the University’s alumni, will speak on “What Everybody Reads.” Dr. Laing was formerly dean of the University’s division of Humanities and general editor of the Chicago Press.
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Theater Party
Members of the H. A. L. F. Club will hold a dinner and theater party Thursday evening. Plans are being made by the new president,
Miss Helen Brinkworth. Other new officers of the club are Miss Kathleen Deery, vice Miss | Virginia Huabig, secretary, and Miss Dorothy Barnes, treasurer. Additional members are the Misses Sylvia Luley, Lois Haffner, Margaret Fitzgerald and Mary Louise McManus,
Bring Plants Inside
Plant tables make it posisiie to have plants indoors and still have useful table space. A smart addition to any room, they are designed. in a variety of sizes, shapes and styles. At the present the most popular are in the 18th Century mode, in mahogany. Some have a copper lined trough holding ‘the planis at each end while others have just one trough in the center or at one end. Others have the plant well taking up all of the top with a shelf underneath to hold bric-a-brac, magazines or books. | .
You'll save yourself lots of steps and fatigue from 1 cleaning
The fish will be shipped from |: Other Norwegian Mrs. Bjorn Winger will speak on|i Ker Talks, | singing and folk dancing. will fol-|#
low. A tall Christmas tree will be|i Norwegian |:
C. Hackleman,|:
Delta, is in New York for the holi-
The alumni of Chicago University
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CLEARANCE -
CHILDREN’S
Sizes 7 to 14,
13.90
Here are warm-as-a-blanket, featherlight coats at prices to delight mothers and The fabric, fine wool, mohair and angora—the styles—the colors have been
fathers!
Special Purchase Sale! Girls’ Warm Fleece Coals
Sizes 10 to 186,
19.90
(19)
(12)
best sellers at far higher prices.
1/> Price! Flannel Jumpers, now 2.00
Children's Snow Suits and Coats
(15) All-Wool 3-Piece Snow Suits, originally 8.98
(3) Boys’ Better 1/4 Off Original Price
SHOP,
FOURTH FLOOR,
Boy
1 Off
attend are the Misses Martha Lee
college for the holidays, were guests at a breakfast this morning at the home of Miss Louise Reiter, 6010
Indianapolis Alumnae Association
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Active members and pledges of
at this morning’s breakfast by Mrs.
To keep hair perfectly clean, clean : brushes and combs must be used,
Brushes may be cleansed in a warm,
drops of ammonia have been added,
3? %
WEAR
All Items Subject to Previous Day’s Selling
Toddlers’ Winter Outfits, } to } Off
( 8 ) Boys’ Knitted Snow Suits, 4p
dark colors, sizes 2-3____4.,85
Girls’ Knitted Snow Suits,
Aplece ~--4.45
Baby Knitted Snow Suits, 3-pes imported wool knits with feet,
originally 1.98
: —TODDLERS’ SHOP, FOURTH FLOOR,
oys' Knicker Suits Reduced to . . . 9.85 Knlloker Suits, were 14.95____(0.85 Knicker Suits, were 16.95____12.85
‘Long Pants Suits, were 18.95__14.85 |
‘Juvenile Suits, reduced 1.85, 10.85, 12.85
Boys’
reduced to
Snow Suits,
—BOYS' FURNISHINGS, FOURTH FLOOR,
(10) Girls’ All-Wool Chinchilla Coat
Sets with Hood, orig. 10.95, 8.21 (8) Girls’ Three-Piece Coat Sets,
PREP
AND STUDENT SUITS—
H. A. L. F. Club Plans |
with: the. cleaner,
equipment up and down. stairs if} cleaning - }
originally 16.95-19.95__12.71
( 3) Girls’ 3-Piece Coat Sets, originally 29.95 22.50
Jackets, Skirts V4 OFF!
Special group of fine knitted plaids; some velvets. Rare values. Broken oui size range from 2 to 6.
—CHILDREN’S SHOP, FOURTH FLOOR.
Young Girls’ Shoes
i101 Pairs for Immediate ranges.
Clearance
Driginally 35.00 Driginally 21.50 Originally ‘22,50 Prop Overcoats, Reduced
28.85 and 16.
Incomplete assortments; broken s
.Outing Pajamas, with
119 Pairs “Young Casuals,” originally 3.95 _
197 Pairs Growing Girl Shoes, originally 4.75, 5.00, 5.50__3.90
32 Pairs Children’s and Growing Girl House Slippers__1/, Price
—GIRLS' SHOES, FOURTH FLOOR.
loot warmers 2-lliece Balbriggan Pajamas____89¢ Sain Slip and Panty Sets______1.50
Va and Va OFF
Long Pants Suits, were 22.50__11.85