Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1941 — Page 11
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CELEBRATON OF THE FOURTH will begin tonight with an Independence Eve dance at the Woodstock Club. : One of the larger groups at the dance will be com-
posed of Miss Mary Sheerin Kuhn's guests.
In the party will be Messrs. and Mesdames Reily G. Adams, Thomas Taggart Sinclair, John Bassel Watson, Thomas B. Henderson,
Gordon E. Hall, Byron P. Hollett
and Warren T. Ruddell, Mrs.
George E. Home Jr., Misses Alice Vonnegut, Prudence Brown, Irving Moxley and Anne Elliott, Alfred Stokely, C. Otto Janus Jr., James Adams, Andre F. Rhoads, John Gamble, Robert Smith and Sylvester Johnson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Hickam will have a party
of seven at the dance.
Tomorrow's activities at the club will include a buffet luncheon, golf tournaments and a buffet supper followed by a fireworks display. Three golf matches at the Indianapolis Country Club will pre-
cede a buffet supper and fireworks
display. An 18-hole Flag Day
handicap tournament and the annual Jillson Cup 36-hole match
will share honors with the opening
of Pro Jimmie Lawson’s three-
On ‘Monday the club will hold
its caddie tournament and a caddie-member tournament is sched-
uled to begin at 10 a. m. Tuesday.
Both Hillcrest Country Club and Highland Golf and Country. Club plan tournaments during the day and buffet suppers and fireworks displays in the evening. A capacity crowd is expected at
Highland where tennis as well as a
36-hole golf tournament will be
features of the day. The one-hour fireworks display will start at 8 p. m. and the buffet dinner will be served: from 6 to 9 p. m. Crosby Bartlett heads the entertainment committee and Mrs. Ben Olson will be in charge of ladies’ golf.
Parties Planned for Meridian
Hills Buffet Supper
AMONG SPECIAL PARTIES at the Meridian Hills Country Club’s Fourth of July buffet supper tomorrow night will be that
of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Evans.
Their guests will be Mr, and
Mrs. J. Frank Cantwell and daughters, Martha Jo and Ann, Mr.
. and Mrs. T. Harlan Montgomery of Seymour and their two sons.
Thomas Terrett of Cleveland will be a guest of his sister, Mrs. Andrew H. Hutchison, Mr. Hutchison and their sons, Thomas,
Richard and James. With Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur G. Wilson will be
their sons, Arthur Jr., Robert and Marion, Miss Rosemary Wilmoth .and Harry Emerson. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Montgomery will entertain Mrs. Montgomery's father, Robert Hall, and Mr. and Mrs.. F.
E. Glass and daughter Marjorie.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Summers
will attend with their daughters, Jean and Joan. Other reservations for special parties have been made by Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Harrison, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Lochry, Messrs. and Mesdames Francis P. Huston, Donald W. Alexander, Frederick W. Nichols, J. E. Cady and Vernon C. MacNzabb. During the day there will be a morning flag tournament for men golfers and an informal afternoon of bridge for women arranged by Mrs. William E. Gabe. Fireworks in the evening will be displayed by Wilbur L. Appel and Noble L. Biddinger. On Wednesday the high school and college members of the club will hold a moonlight swimming party and wiener roast at the club. Richard Stackhouse is chairman of the young people’s com- ‘ mittee and Alvin Baer, swimming instructor, will be in charge of
arrangements.
Entertain for Evelyn Maraist
ONE OF THE SEASON'’S much-entertained out-of-town visitors
is Miss Evelyn Maraist, Ft. Knox,
Ky., daughter of Col. and Mrs.
R. V. Maraist, formerly of Indianapolis. She is here visiting her Hollins College roommate, Miss Peggy Trusler, daughter of Dr. and
- Mrs. Harold M. Trusler.
This evening she will be honor guest at a supper given by Miss Ann Browning at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L.
Browning.
Guests with Misses Maraist and Trusler will be Misses Joan Buschmann, Virginia Mason, Joan Cross, Jean Sims, Barbara
Jones, Barbara Wells, Mary Glossbrenner, Sally Walker, Ann and Martha Jo Cantwell, Sylvia Pittman and Peggy Gray. Yesterday Miss Cross, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold -S. Cross,
gave a luncheon bridge for Miss Marais.
Also attending were Misses
Sally Evans, Joanne Mumford, Margot Brown, Mason, Sims, Browning, Jones, Gray, Trusler and Walker. Forty guests were entertained last night at a “Record Hop” given at Riley Park in Greenfield by Misses Wells and Walker for the visitor. Among the guests was Miss Lucille Flanigan of Thorntown, a Kappa Alpha Theta sorority sister of Miss Walker at
Indiana University,
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by Helen Worden
NEW YORK, July 3.—William Saroyan, California’s rebel dramatist, .and his play, “The Beautiful People,” are New York’s current bone of
contention. Next to the European
war and Lindbergh, they form the
There are no shadings to the arguments.
You are either entirely for Saroyan or completely against him. One group calls him a genius, the other, a conceited imitation of Gertrude
Stein. The first lot think his latest
‘seen in years. The opposition de-
Three Acts and even more dumb. Its trust-in-fate-and-the-Lord-will-provide theme revolves around t. 2 Webster family who lives in a ‘rickety, roofless house on the outskirts ‘of San Francisco. A visionary father, a trumpet-playing elder son, his ‘15-year-old poet brother and a dreamy young sister
“The play has no form,” the carpers cry. “No beginning and end. It’s crazy.” Recently, I asked Mr. Saroyan what he thought of these comments. : “The form of my play is very good,” he snapped back. “Plot is beside the point. You have to make magic on the stage. You can’t do things in an ABC order. No character should ever be explained biographically, that’s on a low level.
icharacter to say a single word, that word should reveal his whole life.”
~ ® 2 HE RAN his fingers through his Ong, black hair, “Certainly my play S no end. Life has no end. In autiful People, it's a cinch it doesn’t end. Why, the boy’s just come home when the curtain goes Sewn, ‘THats the :
erman Draper's interior-decorated suites at fashionable Hampshire House. If Mrs. Draper could have foreseen that Mr. Saroyan might occupy this English Victorian suite, I am sure she would have hastily switched periods. Its Edwardian daintiness was not in keeping with his dynamic personality, coloring or
of black hair, a white skin, direct black eyes and a deep voice. The severity of an Egyptian decor, with its solid black and whites and somber reds, would better suit his temperament. “I find a compulsion to insist on the best in myself,” he continued. “In my opinion, all good American writers should produce their plays. The theater isn’t writing, it’s another medium. The author should work with his actors on the stage. Then, he is facing his characters in terms of the stage.”
8 2 » HE SWUNG a leg over the arm of his chair. “Fortunately, I made some extra money so that I could experiment. I've founds that producers are useless. They exist only because the average playwright is lazy. He writes badly. If he wrote well he wouldn't let anyone else tamper with his work. When more authors realize this, there will be a renewal of life in the American
size. He’s a big man, with a shock]
2. Mrs. Joseph G. Riley was Miss Ruth Meyer, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Meyer of Fairmount, before her marriage recently.
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War Refugee
Is Counselor
At Camp
. Junior High Girls Are At Camp Friendly
Miss Lilli Unger of Vienna, an Austrian war refugee, is serving as foreign counselor at the Y. W.C. A’s Camp Friendly for Girl Reserves at McCormick’s Creek State Park this summer. Junior high school girls are now attending the first weeklong session and a similar group will follow them Sunday to stay until July 13. Senior high school girls will be at the camp July 13 to 20. This is the camp’s seventh year. After her evacuation from Austria in 1939, Miss Unger went to England, where she\helped to care for refugee children and completed her high school course. Last winter she attended the University of Chicago. She was signed as counselor by a Y. W. committee headed by Mrs. Charles Smuck. Directors of the camp periods are Miss Malvin Morton, local Girl Reserve secretary, and Miss Margery Dudley, assistant secretary. On their staff are Miss Elizabeth Baumgartel, a Tudor Hall School graduate, junior sports and music counselor; Miss Gwendolyn McCormick, Indiana Central College student, sports and handicrafts; Miss Betty Wulfman, Indiana University student, riding counselor; Miss Betty Wildman, I. U. student, sports and camp crafts, and Miss Helen Sission, student at the I. U. Medical Center, medical assistant. The 40 or 45 girls in camp each period will participate in a program that includes swimming, horseback riding, tennis, volleyball, archery, ping-pong, hiking, classes in singing, nature study, dancing, dramatics, crafts and worship. Special features this summer are hayrides, outdoor cooking, plays, hikes over secluded paths in the park and visits to nearby historic spots. Campers live in cabins accommodating six or seven girls and a counselor. The registration fee, payable at the Central Y. W. C. A, 329 N. Pennsylvania St., includes a week’s room, board and transportation. Buses will leave the “Y” at 2 p. m. July 6 and 13 for the camp and will return at 4 p. m. July 6 and 13 and 10 a. m. July 20. Each camper must have a medical examination, either free at the Y. W, or by her own physician.
Austin Kasslers
Note Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Austin J. Kassler, 314 N. Addison St. were honor guests Monday night at a dinner
|given at Holly Hock Hill by Mrs.
Kassler’s sisters, Mrs. W. L. Simpson, Mrs. William Jamison and Miss Jessie Sims. The dinner celebrated the Kasslers’ 25th wedding anniversary. Others attending the party were their son, Joe, Mr. Simpson and Mr. Jamison. :
Legion Unit to Name Delegates Monday
Delegates to the American Legion Auxiliary state convention next month in South Bend will be elected at a meeting of Bruce P. Robison Unit 133 Monday night at 8 o’clock in the Central Christian Church. Mrs. Homer C. Asher, president, will have charge of the business meeting. :
Mrs. Duncan H ostess
Phi Delta Beta Sorority members will meet tonight at the home of Mrs. Scott Duncan, 2314 Brookside
Ave. Bride
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“| sistant; Miss Olive Inez Downing, enter-
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after July 15. (Voorhis Photo.)
Barbara Jeanne Wed to Edward
Wins Prize
Mrs. Sembower
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Poetry Center Lists Contest Winners
Mrs. Alta Brunt- Sembower of Bloomington has been announced as the winner of the Indiana Poetry Center’s prize of $5 offered recently for the best poem on either Indiana or Indianapolis. Her winning entry concerning Abraham Lincoln's her-
itage from his years in Indiana was chosen from a field of 76 poems submitted. Honorable mention went to Mrs. Margaret E. Brurer, New Castle; Walter S. Fort, Shelbyville; Mrs. Grace Ellis Fowler, Wabash; Mesdames Lelia Karns Stair, Josephine Duke Motley and Ruth M. Coffin, the Misses Anna Hosea, Margaret Stearns Reese and Cleta Clemmer, all ‘of Indianapolis. Judges were T. S. Elrod, John W. Hillman and Mrs. Glen Diddel. Wife of Charles J. Sembower, retiring professor of English and dean of men at Indiana University, Mrs. Sembower is a member of the Indiana Press Club, the Indiana League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women, - Phi -Beta Kappa, Theta Sigma Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta. She has contributed fiction to national magazines and has written many book reviews.. Mrs. Sembower is recording secretary of the Indiana Federation of Poetry Clubs. Under the direction of Miss June Winona Snyder, chairman, the Indiana Poetry Center will offer a prize of $10 to the Hoosier author submitting by May 1, 1942, the best lyric or song for all the nations. It should express international reconstruction and the hope of a lasting peace. : : Miss Snyder is also president of the Indiana Federation of Poetry Clubs and will serve a two-year
| term following her election at a | spring luncheon meeting. Other of-
ficers for two years are Mrs. Hurley Lee Regon of Lowell, first vice president; Mrs. Mary Hagler LeMasters of Franklin, third vice
| president; Mrs. Sembower and as
directors Mrs. E. H. Katterhenry of Martinsville, Mrs. Anna Vernon of Pendleton and Mrs. Kathryn Mc-
"| Pherson of Indianapolis.
One-year officers chosen are Miss Florence Marie Taylor, second vice president; Miss Anna Hosea, fourth vice president; Mrs. Katherine Maurine Haaff, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Mable Laut, asMrs. Motley, treasurer;
tainment and press chairman; Ben Freeland of Bluffton,’ Lieber and Mrs. Schmutte, directors.
Mrs. Mrs. Jane
‘| Mrs. Carl A. Taylor is honorary
president and Miss Margaret Scott general counsellor. Other appointive officers’ are Mrs. Emma Jane Craig, auditor; Mrs. Rudolph Grosskopf, parliamentarian; Mrs. Ruth Coffin, historian; Miss Violet
3 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A; Bunch will be at 8161 Rosemeade Lane Mrs. Bunch was Miss Gwendolyn Schort, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Perry Schort, before her marriage Sunday.
Laseter to Be Bennett Jr.
In Service Tonight
The Community Congregational Church in Whiteland will be the scene tonight of the marriage of Miss Barbara Jeanne Laseter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Laseter, 3007 N. Delaware St, to Edward M. Bennett Jr. son of Mr, and Mrs. E. M. Bennett, 4822 E. Michigan St. The Rev. Harry G. Rowe wiil read the 8 o'clock service before an altar decorated with summer flowers and candelabra.
Preceding the ceremony, William Schaffer will sing “At Dawning” and “Because.” “Intermezzo” and “Liebestraum” will be on the program of organ music. The bride’s sister, Miss Colleen Laseter, will be her maid of honor and Mr. Bennett’s attendants will be Ted Warden as best man and Robert Page and Harold Manship, ushers. Miss Laseter will be given in marringe by her father. Her costume will be a street-length dress of periwinkle blue and bolero jacket, a matching pompadour hat with a long veil and pale yellow and blue accessories. She will have a corsage of orchids. Her attendant’s frock of navy blue silk will be accented with white lace at the neckline and in a bow in her hair. Her flowers will be pink roses, baby’s breath and larkspur. With a navy blue crepe. dress trimmed in white mousseline de soie and pink ribbon, Mrs. Laseter will have pale pink and navy accessories and a corsage of pink roses. Aqua jersey will form Mrs. Bennett's gown. She will wear white accessories and a corsage of TOSes. Following a reception in the home of the Rev. and Mrs. Rowe, the couple will leave on a trip to Lake James. They will be at home in Indianapolis after Sunday. Out-of-town guests at the ceremony will be Mrs. Lena McKenzie of Los Angeles and Mrs. Nettie Mason of Madison.
I.T.S.C. Plans
Extension
Plans to enlarge the 1050 state.
membership of the International Travel-Study Club, Inc., will be furthered at a meeting tonight of the organization’s extension committee in the home of its president, Mrs.
Max Norris, 4116 E. Michigan St.{.
The meeting will open at 7:30 o'clock and will be followed by a social hour. Mrs. H. H. Esky is chairman of the committee, assisted by Mrs. Archie Chadd of Anderson, Mrs. Ernest Gregory of Muncie, Mrs. Joseph A. Fuchs of Richmond, Mrs. M. J. Vidya Lindsay of Colfax, Mesdames John R. Sentney, Burt Kimmel, R. L. Ramsey, John K. Wood, Horace Daugherty, John Nackenhorst and C. C. Byfield.
Mothers Sponsor Dancing Classes
Members of the Brookside Mothers’ Club have arranged a series of weekly tap dancing lessons for their children on a platform built outdoors near the Brookside Community House. Jac Broderick teaches. beginners of from 3 to 16 years each Thursday at 1 p. m, The club’s July meeting will be held next Thursday following a noon picnic.
Legion Group Will Elect Officers
Garfield Park Unit 88 of the American Legion Auxiliary will elect officers at an 8 p. m. meeting Tuesday in the World War Memorial, with Mrs. Robert Sponsel presiding. ) The nominating committee is composed of Mesdames Paul Gastineau, Max Gamp, Gladys Becker and Margaret Bright. :
System Saves Time
Planned routines will make housecleaning run more smoothly. Generally speaking, the best order for cleaning in a one-story home would be bedrooms, bathroom, tiving room, dining room and kitchen; in a home
two. or more stories, the upstairs}
rooms first and then the ground
floor, living room, dining room and].
kitchen. > Shapely Cottons
If you want your summer wash
dresses to keep their tailored look, be|
sure that you select material which will not shrink out of fit. Look for materials or garments that are iaheleq against that does
LIL 1IN
? 4, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Fletemeyer announce the engagement of their daughter, Rrih Lurie, to Robert T. Doerr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Doerr. .The wedding will be July 26. . (Photoreflex Photo).
Rev. Griffin Will Read Service Uniting Esther May Davis And D. W. Stilley Tonight
Garden flowers will bank the altar of the Seventh Christian Church tonight at 8:30 o'clock for the wedding ceremony of Miss Esther May Davis and David W. Stilley, to be performed by the Rev. Victor Griffin,
Clubs— Plan Party for Juvenile Home
Children
Auxiliary to Sponsor Event at Riverside
Riverside Amusement Park will be taken over next Thursday and Friday by children at the Marion County Juvenile Detention Home with the AUXILIARY TO THE DETENTION HOME in charge. Mrs. I. R. Yeagy, Auxiliary president, has appointed Mrs. Otto H. Lawrenz and Mrs. J. K. Guthrie co-chairmen for the annual outing. Assistants each evening will be Mesdames S. J. Bardsley, Walter Geisel, Elmer Beanblossom, John Carter, H. L. Coyner, John Geckler, W. H. Hodgson, W. F. Holmes, William Jester, George Maxwell, Merlin Mullane, A. E. Sullivan, Irwin Gamerdinger and Rex McConnell.
A 12:30 p. m. luncheon will be held by the ARTEMAS CLUB Tuesday at the home of Mrs. D. H. Campbell, 1451 Hoyt Ave.
The NORTHEASTERN HOMEMAKERS’ CLUB met for an 11 o'clock covered dish luncheon yesterday at the home of Mrs. Ben White. Mrs. Clem Palmer presented an afternoon program.
The ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH ALTAR SOCIETY was to give a card and bunco party at 2:30 p. m. today in the school basement, 1105 Blaine Ave.
Alpha Zeta Betas Meets
Members of Alpha Tau Chapter, Alpha Zeta Beta Sorority, met last
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Candles in two five-branch candela service. Miss Davis is the daughter of Mrs. Louise M. Davis, 1253 W. 30th St., and the bridegroom’s mother is Mrs. Nora Stilley of Memphis, Tenn. He is a nephew of Mrs. Allen Matthews of Indianapolis. Preceding the wedding, Mrs. Robert Whitham will sing “My Wonderful One” and “Because,” accompanied by Miss Betty Jane Noonan, who will play bridal airs. Mr, and Mrs. William Gullett will attend the couple and ushers will be Albert Rehling and James Forsythe, cousins of the bridegroom. Given in marriage by her brother, Earl B. Davis, the bride will enter wearing a white marquisette gown made with puffed: sleeves and a full skirt. Lace will trim the V-neckline and the tight waist and will form a panel down the front »f the bodice trimmed with a row of satincovered buttons. Miss Davis will wear a fingertip veil falling from a halo of orange blossoms and will carry a bouquet of Johanna Hill roses. Mrs. Gullett’s gown of blue marquisette and lace will be accented with a pink necklace and a bouquet of pink roses and blue delphinium. The mother of the bride will be in a powder blue lace gown, with which she will wear a silver clip, the gift of the bride, and a corsage of pink roses. Mrs. Matthews, aunt of the bridegroom, has‘ chosen an aqua dress with a corsage of yellow roses. Following a reception at the Davis home, Mr. and Mrs. Stilley will leave on a short wedding trip and will be at home later with the bride’s mother. Mr. Stilley is a graduate of Western Tennessee
night in the Warren Hotel.
5. Miss Anne Marie Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Smith, will be married tomorrow to George J. Okey, son of Mr. and Mrs. George B, Okey. (Dexheimer-Carlon Photo).
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a member of Sigma Kappa Omega
Fraternity and a Chevalier in the Order of De Molay.
Timmons- Vitz
Wedding Today:
Miss Norma Carman Vitz, daughe ter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vitz, 881 Fletcher Ave., will become the bride of Ralph Chester Timmons tonight at 8 o'clock in the home of the Rev, W. H. Knierim. The bridegroom is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Time« mons, 35 W. Morris St. . The couple will be attended by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beaman. Miss Vitz will wear a white pique and eyelet lace dress with white accese sories and a corsage of gardenias, delphinium and sweetheart roses, Her attendant will be in a pink suit, worn with white accessories and a corsage of delphinium and sweet heart roses. Mr. and Mrs. Timmons will leave on a northern wedding trip immedi« ately following the ceremony. They will ‘be ‘at home after July 10 with the bride’s parents for a short time,
Tres Artes Club Will - Have Garden Party
A garden party for Tres Artes Club members will be held next Thursday evening at the home of
Mrs. Roy Ott is president of th
State Teachers’ College in Memphis,
club.
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