Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1942 — Page 23

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FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 1042

Attendance at Civic Play Indicates All the Family Likes Mysteries

MURDER MYSTERIES APPARENTLY are subjects of interest to the whole family, from mother and father to the young “fry.” At least, that would be indicated by a number of the parties pianned to attend the first performance of “Mr. and Mrs. North,” opening

tonight at the Civic Theater. Tomorrow night Mr. and Mrs. G. Vance Smith and their children, Harriet and Vance Jr. will be at the Playhouse with Mrs. Harry V. Wade and her children, Elizabeth and Harry Jr. Mr. Wade is a member of the mystery-comedy's cast. Another group attending tomorrow night will include Dr. and Mrs. Jonn W. Graves, their daughters, Katherine and Georgia Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Walton L. Cloud and their daughters, Shirley and Patty.

L. V. Hamiltons to Entertain

TONIGHT Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Neal will attend with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hahn and Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Dunn. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lukers party wili include Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeWitt and their daughter, Sally, Miss Eleanor Rodgers and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gilman of Brownsburg. After a cocktail party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul F Jock, the Jocks and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rimp will attend the opening performance. Theater guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon Kinghan will be Mr. and Mrs. Alfred IL. Hartridge Jr. and Mrs. Hartridge Sr. of New York. A supper party following tomorrow night's performance will be given by Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Hamilton for the guests attending the theater with them—Messrs. and Mesdames Wendell Barrett, Gilbert I. Small and Charles F. Arensman and Dr. and Mrs. Lyman R. Pearson. Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Holman have planned a dinner tomorrow night after which their guests will attend the Civic. In the party will be Dr. and Mrs. Allan K. Harcourt, Messrs. and Mesdames Carleton B. Edwards, John J. Haramy and Jerome E. Holman II, Miss Rosalie Holman and William Ferguson. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Clark will entertain with a buffet supper tomorrow night after the show for their guests, Messrs. and Mesdames G. T. Osborne. John Heidenreich, Lyle Hyland and Albert Dupies. Miss Julia Dwyer will entertain a party of six at tomorrow's performance.

S. W. Cochrans to Give Party

ANOTHER GROUP attending a buffet supper after tomorrow night's show will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Cochran. They are Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Cunningham and Mr. and Mrs. John Volkman. In one party at tonight's performance will be Mrs. E. H. Bingham, Mrs. Josephine Vetter, Miss Agnes Tynan and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bingham Jr. A group attending tomorrow night will include Mrs. Robert Bowes and her son, Robert M. Bowes II. Mrs. Ethel V. Morrison, Mrs. Blanche Harrington. Miss Hazel Johnson and Louis P. Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. James Ford Monroe of Glendale, O., house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dillon R. Huder, will be at the theater tomorrow with the Huders, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Wolfe and Dewey Sisk. With the Walter Sormanes will be Mr. and Mrs. George Buskirk and Mrs. Paul S. McNamara. whose husband appears in the play. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Powers will give a buffet supper tomorrow night at their home for ‘their theater guests, Mr. and Mrs. Don Zimmerman and Mr. and Mrs. Jean R. Nelson. Others holding reservations for parties tomorrow night are E. J. McDowell. Dale R. Rickert, Gerald Wilson and Mrs. Preston Woolf.

Isabel Morris and Fiance Honored

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Arranging Valentine Dance

The Prop-ers Club, an organization of girl office workers at the Curtiss-Wright plant, will sponsor a Valentine's Day dance tomorrow night in the Travertine Room of the Hotel Lincoln. Assisting with plans for the event, at which 275 couples are expected, are (seated on floor) Miss Rovena L. Smith (left) and Miss Doris McDermid (right) and Miss Doris Deem (seated on the chair arm) and Miss Charlotte Engle. Miss Norma Zapp and Miss Mary Ellen Sullivan are the dance

co-chairmen.

Church News—

Mrs. John E. Hollett Will Be Hostess to Episcopal Auxiliary; Choir Guild to Sponsor Luncheon

The Rev. William Burrows, rector of ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, will speak Monday at a 1 o'clock meeting of the Women's Auxiliary of the church in the home of Mrs. John E. Hollett, 340 E. Maple Road. His subject will be “Christian Roots of Democracy” (Part ID. Assisting the hostess will be the Mesdames D. S. Hutchison, A. R.

Charles Greathou-e aud) Juvenile Home Miss May Louthan. Mrs. E. May + Auxiliary Plans

MRS. J. EDWARD MCRRIS will entertain tonight at the Marott Hotel with a bridal dinner for her daughter, Isabel. and Parker | Pengilly of Chattanooga, Tenn. Their wedding will be at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Broadway Methodist Church. At the dinner will be the bridegroom's parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Richard Pengilly of Medaryville, and his sisters, Miss Ellen Pengilly, also of Medaryville, and Miss Elizabeth Pengilly, Nocona, Tex. Others will be Mr. and Mrs. Judson J. McKim. Cincinnati; Mrs. Arthur Moor. Riverside, Ill; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Keller, Corning, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Straitn-Miller, South Bend: Mr. and Mrs. Sexson E. Humphreys, Dr. and Mrs. John F. Edwards and Mrs. Loren M. Edwards, Denver. Colo

When the choir of Western College, Oxford. O.. sings Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock (Indianapolis Time) over radio station WLW in Cincinnati, four Indianapolis girls will be with the group. They are Miss Elizabeth Ann Baumgartel, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Howard J. Baumgartei; Miss Phoebe Carman. the C. Ford Carmans’ daughter: Mr. and Mrs. Ray T. Fatout's daughter. Miss Miriam E. Fatout, and Miss Jean Mutz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mutz

Mrs. A. C. Steger, tickets and tal-

eon, and Mrs,

Hahn will preside. Silver Tea

The CHOIR GUILD OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE Following a 12:30 p. m. board meeting, members of the Auxiliary

ADVENT will sponsor its annual lies; . Mesdames George Pittman, to the Juvenile Detention Home Richard Fairbanks Jr. and Charles will give their annual public Patri-

[Shrove Tuesday dessert bridge at 1 p. m. Tuesday at the church.

Assisting with arrangements are

Reid, table settings; Mrs. C. Dolly tic Silver Te y i Gray and Mrs. W. B. Peterson, dec- Sonat elin rn

orations:

the Home, 538 W. New York St.

Mrs. Lucius Wainwright Mrs. Elm : " A i . er Beanblossom, general and Mrs. Frederick D. Payne, candy: | chairman, will be assisted by the

Mesdames William C. Harbison, | gnhance committee. Mrs. John T Yoillinm Li ung, Arie MeGeoch| ecider will be in charge of the int and Howard H. Phillips, lunch-| program and Mrs. James W. Costin

W. B. Conner Jr. wil sing. Mrs. Howard Paddock is the! . guild's president. Parley Will Sew for A panel discussion on “Guidance| Lhe Red Cross

in Indianapolis Schools” will be a feature of the meeting held next

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An all-day meeting to sew for the

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Harmonie Club Will Study Opera Monday

A study of the opera “Cendrillon” (Massenet) has been arranged by Mrs, Arthur G. Monninger and Mrs. Norman L. Schneider for the February meeting of the Harmonie| Club Monday at 2:30 p. m. in the home of Mrs. William Morrison. Mrs. Louis D, Belden will review the opera and have charge of the program. Appearing on the program will be Mrs. William J. Stark, pianist; Mesdames Charles G. Fitch, Clare PF. Cox, Robert Orbison, Eugene Van Sickle, Merriam Graves, Arthur Madison and O. M. Jones, soloists, | with Mesdames S. K. Ruick, Ray| Patterson, Monninger and Stark,| accompanists. | Mrs. Clark Assistant hostesses Will be Mes-| Tne Indianapolis Alumnae of Phi dames OC. A. Brockway, Mae Parr, pp, Sorority will give a benefit Frank R. Edenharter, Attia M. Mar- | hridge party tomorrow at 2 p. m. tin, A. E. Ingersoll and Miss Leona jn the Columbia Club ballroom. Wright, Mrs. K. F. Hufford, chairman, will

mm TT be assisted by Mrs. O. L. VanHorn Miss Wesp to Talk

and Mrs. Eugene Garrison. Miss Helen A. Wesp will tell of| Proceeds will go to the sorority’s her ten years of work in the Smoky

Health Mobile charity and to buy Mountains of Tenessee following a|defense bonds. Mrs. Lawrence L. 1 p. m. luncheon meeting of the

Clark is alumnae president. 1908 Club next Thursday with Mrs. C. O. Warnock entertaining. Miss Wesp worked there under the general board of the Methodist Church.

Board to Meet

A board meeting of the Federation of Mothers’ Choruses of Indians apolis public schools will be held at 10 a. m. Monday in Banner-White-hill auditorium.

Return From Ohio

Mesdames Byron H, Woods, Samuel Runnels Harrell, Harry J. Guion and Miss Dorothy A. Brown have returned from Columbus, O., where they attended the Ohic premiere of the patriotic picture, “You Can Defend America,” a dramatization of the handbook by the same name.

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Sororities Kappa Alpha Theta to Celebrate Its Founding on Feb. 28; Alpha Delta Omegas Plan Review

Members of KAPPA ALPHA THETA will celebrate the 72d anniversary of the sorority’s founding, Feb. 28, in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel. The INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNAE CHAPTER will be

- [hostess at the annual state luncheon which will be attended by members

of the four active chapters in the district and alumnae of the state.

Speaker at the luncheon will be Mrs. Robert J. McCutchan of Lebanon, president of District 1. Others on the program include Mrs. Karl T. Nessler, harpist, Seymour. and Miss Ocie Higgins, Lebanon, who will sing. Mrs. Edwin Dugal Cree, president of the Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter, has announced committees for the luncheon. Mrs. Francis H. Insley will be program chairman and Mrs. John A. Mueller is chairman of luncheon arrangements. Assisting will be Mesdames Frank Dunn, Charles Wilson, Emsley W. Johnson Jr., Edgar K. Goss, Hall H. Cochrane, John W, Little Jr., Ralph L. Nessler, C. B. Dyer, P. Paul Willis, Paul Y. Davis and the Misses Louise and Jean Wills.

Mrs. Frieda S. Robinson of the Wm. H. Block Co. will give a “Forecast for Spring Fashions” following a 6:30 p. m. dinner meeting of GAMMA ALUMNAE Monday at the Butler University chapter house, 825 W. Hampton Drive. Mrs. Mary Keegan, house-mother will be in charge of the dinner.

Mrs. R. V. Rodkey will be hoste ess to KAPPA SIGMA CHI at 6:45 p- m. today at Central Y. W. C. A,

ALPHA and KAPPA CHAPTERS, ALPHA DELTA OMEGA, will hear Mrs. Bjorn Winger review “The Soong Sisters” (Emily Hahn) in connection with “A Leaf in the Storm” (Lin Yu Tang) Tuesday evening at Hotel Washington.

A Valentine party for members of CHI SIGMA SORORITY will be given Tuesday evening by Mrs. D, A, Harding, 4540 Marcy Lane, ase sisted by Miss Gladys Sullivan.

Victory Dance

Miss Josephine Hider, president of the Al-Hoda Club, has. announced that the club will sponsor a Victory Dance from 10 p. m. to 1 a. m. in the American-Syrian Lebanon Brotherhood Hall, 2245 E. Riverside Drive, tomorrow. Nick Craciunoiu and his orchestra will play.

To Play Cards

The Auxiliary to the Indianapolis Singers will sponsor a public card party at 7:30 p. m. Sunday in the hall at 49% S. Delaware St.

A benefit bridge will be given tonight by SIGMA PHI GAMMA at the Woman's Department Club, 1702 N. Meridian St.

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Thursday at the home of Mrs. | Rod Oross Will be held by the Past Ernest R. Jones, 5007 N. Pennsyl- | residents “Parley of Hayward Bar-

vania St, by the three groups of | CUS Auxiliary to the American

SECTION 2 WOMEN'S FEDERA. Legion Tuesday at the home of Mrs. TION, MERIDIAN HEIGHTS William Stanley Hague. Mrs. Carlos PRESBYTER:AN CHURCH. Morris, parley chairman, will preside The discussion will be presented at the afterr:oon business session. by members of a committee or the ‘Indianapolis Branch, American As-| sociation of University Women: | Mesdames C. L. Harkness, N. Taylor Todd and Karl M. Koons. The! committee for several years has

studied the curriculum of the city | schools, particularly in relation to special needs of children. { Reservations for the dessert

Their program will include sacred and secular songs. The choir also will sing at vespers in the Christ Church at Cincinnati Sunday afternoon and will make two appearances in Cincinnati schools Monday.

BUDGET SHOP, THIRD FLOOR.

Clits Mrs. Mary Perine to Be Honored By the Magazine Club; Sunshine Club Plans Benefit

At a guest meeting of the MAGAZINE CLUB. honoring Mrs. Mary E. Perine, tomorrow in Banner-Whitehill auditorium. Mrs. Jessica Brown Mannon of the Bobbs-Merrill Co. will talk on “Behind the Scenes.”

luncheon at 12:45 p. m. may be made with Mrs. Charles L. Per-

Music will be provided by Mrs. J

A. R. Tomlin.

The RADCLIFFE ALUMNAE CLUB will meet at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday at the home of its president, Mrs. Wayne L. Ritter, 3055 N. Me-| ridian St.

Proceeds from the annual spring card party of the CHILDREN'S SUNSHINE CLUB, INC. Tuesday] at 2 p. m. in Ayres’ auditorium will} be used for the benefit of the Julia Jameson Nutrition Camp at Bridgeport Committees include Mrs. Harry Kenneth, president, Mesdames Walter Zimmerman, William Weber, George Livingston, H. D. Kramm, R. O. Griswold, B. B. Howell and T. E. Hanika. hospitality; Mrs. W. B. Peake, chairman, and Mrs. Harry B. Mahan, tickets; Mrs. W. J. Overmire, chairman, and Mrs. John Connor, table prizes. Also, Mrs. David C. Jolly, chairman. Mesdames George Newton, William Eich, W. R. Beck, A. L. Marshall and Harry Herrell, candy; Mrs. B. L.. Byrket, chairman, Mesdames Ure Frazer, Clifford J. Richter, Alva Cradick and Raymond Smith, donations; Mrs. Frank Bird, chairman, Mrs. Harry German and Miss Margaret Murray, special prizes; Mrs. A. J. Clark, chairman. and Mrs. C. L. Bogert, cards and tallies, and Mrs. J. W. Fraim, publicity. The club works for the U. 8. O. and sews once a month for the Red Cross. At a recent meeting, members voted to give $100 for defense bonds and $50 to the Red Cross.

Miss Sara Ewing will discuss “Machiavelli—The Prince” at a meeting of the CATHARINE MERRILL CLUB with Mrs. David F. Smith, 642 Berkeley Road, tomorrow.

Members of the UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS BOOK REVIEW CLUR will hear Mrs. Hubert Jordan review “Genesee Fever” (Carl Car-

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. B. Vandaworker, event will be Mesdames Harry W. Dragoo, Frank C. Yarling and | Section president.

dew or with Mrs. Frank A. White, Mrs. John K | Lang will be co-hostess, assisted by |other members of Group 1 of mer) Monday at 7:45 p. m. in the Which Mrs. Jones is chairman. home of Mrs. LaRue Larrison, 4116| Heads of the other two groups Otterbein Ave. are Mrs. R. C. McCullough and Mrs. John F. Vehling. Mrs. John A rush meeting to be held in|A :Cejnar is program chairman. March will be discussed at the home! The meeting wHl be open to all of Miss Marguerite Downey tonight members of the church and comby members of the REVLIS ETON munity. LUB.

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i | The annual public Valentine Sil- | ST.@MARY'S ALUMNAE ASSO- ver Tea of the Helen Schmitz CIATION will meet at the academy WORLD WIDE GUILD CHAPTER Sunday at 2:30 p. m. to make plans|of the EMERSON AVENUE BAPfor a card party. | TIST CHURCH will be held in the Dr. Clement T. Malan, state su- ar of Givers is Drisesl perintendent of public instruction, oo > bm will discuss “Every Citizen's Respon- | iohs v “ns sibility to Education in Times of! dint eh SE Lx Nes Emergency” at a public meeting of | ” AE Frans. Nh the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION oF | Corbett, John Coyle, Frank Morton,

> “© | William Schmitz and the Misses WOMEN Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. in Vg ics ; he Gold Room of Hotel Washing- Esther O'Key, Mary McBeth, Betty

ton. {Lou Smock and Mary Lou Slater. | Counsellors for "the group are Mrs. A public Defense Stamp card Driskell and Mrs. Geerge T. King. | party will be sponsored by the! TTT

SIGMA NU MOTHERS' CLUB. a \ Tuesday at 1:30 p. m. in the chapter) Fetes Sect etar y of

house, 655 W. Hampton Drive. A Camp Fire Girls business meeting will precede the! party. | Camp Fire Girls will give a ValThe club recently voted to have|entine Tea in honor of Miss Virginia several small card parties in place Samsell, new executive secretary, toof the annual spring card party and /morrow afternoon from 2 to 4 in keeping with war conditions to/0clock in Parlors A and B of the give defense stamps for table prizes. Young Women's Christian AssociaMrs. C. E. Endicott will be chair- tion Building, 329 N. Pennsylvania man for the party and Mrs. H. D.|St. Howensteine will have charge of Miss Samsell comes from the the tea. Camp Fire Girl's Council of Cin-

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