Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1942 — Page 24
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By HELEN WORDEN Times Special Writer NEW YORK, April 17—For nearly 25 years Mrs. Wayman Adams has been telling her painter-husband that his work was actually play. At last she's having a chance to prove it. She has turned painter herself. An exhibition of her colorful flower subjects is now being held at the Keppel Gallerles on Fifth Avenue. A native of Muncie, Mr. Adams maintained studio on the Circle in Indianapolis for many ears. Among his many sitters has been Wendell Willkie, another Hoosier. “Wayman seems to approve of adding another artist to the family,” Mrs. Adams told me. “On the night that the show opened, he hurried out in the pouring rain to buy the first editions of the papers. He was more anxious to see the critics’ reviews than I was.” She had on a becoming crepe dress of airforce blue trimmed at the neck with a ruffled
swept up in a smart hair-do that featured soft bangs in front. “When I began dabbling in water colors, I signed everything ‘Wayman’s Wife,’” she went on. “Now the people who bought those early paintings are insisting that I put a proper signature on them. That's what all these pictures are doing here.” . = = = THE CARNEGIE HALL studio where the Adamses live and work was filled with priceless antiques, portraits done by Mr. Adams and the floral water colors by his wife. There were paintings of the Mexican wisteria, the Bird of Paradise, the Sacred Flower of the Aztec, and the Texas magnolia. “I'm particularly fond of painting white flowers,” said Mrs. Adams glancing at her picture of the large white blossoms with their shiny,
green foliage. Mrs. Adams took up painting again in Mexico
In fact it was in a portrait painting class in Florence, Italy, that she first met Wayman Adams. They had both gone abroad before the last war to study with William Chase. In 1918 they were married. “After that I took out my longing for art through watching Wayman paint,” said Mrs. Adams. “Our son, Wayman Jr, kept me busy. Then being married to Mr. Adams is just like having another child. He'll never admit it, but he's very artistic and absent-minded.” = ” »
IN MEXICO Mrs. Adams found herself for the first time with leisure on her hands. They lived in an old Spanish palace in Taxco. The front of the building opened on the town plaza filled with colorful flowers. She decided to paint. “I used to get up in the morning, have a cup of coffee, and then paint in my nightgown until noon,” she told me. “I enjoyed my work so much that I was furious if someone came to see
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sold chickens and eggs would bring me bouquets of flowers each morning.” All of Mrs. Adams’ Mexican pictures are mounted in stunning wide frames of hammered tin. She designed them herself. One day in Taxco she happened to pass a store where tin candlesticks and trays were sold. Above the door hung a sign with a hammered tin border around it. “I knew very little Spanish,” she related. “Mr. Adams says I know absolutely no verbs. But I managed to make the shopkeeper understand that I wanted him to make me some frames. I had to draw a picture to explain.” The floral paintings range in price from $50 to $100, depending on their size. Some favorites sell for considerably more. Because she is dealing with flowers, she has to work against time. A small picture can be finished in a morning. A large one requires a full day. “I like to listen to music when I work,” said
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by other sounds. Unlike Wayman, I don’t like to have anyone in the room while I'm painting. I'd rather finish a picture, then let people criticize it. Wayman doesn’t mind criticism as he works. He accepts it or not as he wants to!” ” 2 2 MRS. ADAMS’ OTHER HOBBY is collecting antiques and unusual inkwells. “Antique” was the first word that Wayman Jr. learned to spell. He used to point out the signs when the family was out driving. “I have over 250 inkwells,” Mrs. Adams told me. “I started collecting them on account of Mr. Adams. He never answers g letter. Each time his desk gets filled with unanswered ones, he buys a new desk. Now he has 17. I have to keep them supplied with inkwells! “Seventeen-year-old Wayman Jr. is in his last year at Culver Military academy. He has no in-
clination to paint. Instead he wants to write novels.”
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white organdie collar. Her white hair was five years ago.
Society—
Party Tomorrow Afternoon Honors Mary Jane Hamerstadt and Fiance
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MR. AND MRS. PAUL W. SCHEURING and Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hamerstadt will entertain late tomorrow afternoon at the Indianapolis Athletic club with a cocktail party for Miss Mary Jane Hammerstadt and George E. Bardwell who are to be married in a 4:30 p. m. ceremony, Saturday, April 25, in the Advent Episcopal church. There will be approximately 60 guests. On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. William B. Stokely Jr. will give a luncheon at their home for the bertothed couple and members of the bridal party: Mrs. Scheuring, her sister's matron of honor; Mrs. Nelson F. Howard, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Mrs, Leonard Murray, Atlanta. Ga. and Mrs. William S. Hall, Ft. Worth, Tex, bridesmaids; Ralph Bardwell Jr., best man, and Mr. Stokely Jr., John B, Stokely an illiam J. Hamerstadt, ushers. : Thursday evening Mrs. Howard will entertain at dinner in the Propyvlaeum and on Friday night, Mr. and Mrs. William Diehl Ham-
erstadt, the bride-to-be’s parents, will give the bridal dinner at the
Give Shower for Ann Chapman
HONOR GUEST at a linen shower given this evening by Mrs. P. L. Burford and her daughter, Mrs. Robert K. Foust, will be Miss nn Chapman, who is to be married this month to Pvt. John G. Egger Jr. of the 113th observation squadron. Mothers of the couple, Mrs. Arthur R. Chapman and Mrs. John G. Egger, will be among guests at the party in Mrs, Burford's home. ; Others attending will be Mesdames Karl Kayser, Russell White, Rov W. Johnson, A. D. Conner and Marvin Williams, Mrs. Elmer Schloot of Franklin, Misses Janet Chapman, Margaret Louise Kayser and Martha Egger. Tomorrow night Mrs. Egger and her daughter, Martha, will be hostesses at a miscellaneous shower in their home for the bride-to-be. Attending will be Mesdames Chapman, Donn Rudd, Harry Alberty, Alberty, Gladys S. Chapman, William Kellermeler, Charles Thomas Grinslade, John C. Campbell and Harry W. Campbell of Ft. Thomas, Ky Also Mesdames Wilbur H. Robertson, Harry Smith, Robert Smelser, Frank J. Billeter, Robert H. Merrill, Clinton Ringenberg, Albert Hirschman, Paul Isley, Ralph Scheidler and Jack O'Malley, Mrs. William Wooley of Bloomington, Misses Janet and Emmajean Ch-oman, Minna Kraft. Corrine and Jeannine Grinslade, Frances Smith, Jean Smelser and Mrs. John Fuller,
Mcllwain-McGaughey Bridal Supper Is Tonight
A BUFFET SUPPER will follow the rehearsal, held this evening at the Alpha Chi Omega sorority house at Butler university, for the wedding of Miss Mary Jane McGaughey and Ermest A. McIlwain of Gary. The ceremony is to be read there at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow. Mrs. Martha McGaughey, the bride-to-be’s mother, will give the supper at her home. Guests will be Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Cotter, Chicago; Mrs. Bert Mcllwain, the prospective bridegroom's mother, and Franklin McIlwain, Rushville; William H. McGaughey and Chalmer Schlosser Jr., Detroit; Kermit Arnold, Ft. Wayne; Mrs. John Metcalf, Anderson; Miss Blanche Kernel, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Howard, Mrs. John McGaughey and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Finch, = = r ® = 2 Mrs. Walther S. Jensen entertained 18 guests last night at 8 spinster dinner for her daughter, Lillian, who 1s being married tomorrow morning to Thornton A. Bardach, son of Mr. and Mrs, Max Bardach of Westfield. The ceremony will be at 11:30 o'clock in St. Pauls Episcopal church with the Rev, William Burrows officiating.
As a girl she had studied art.
Alpha Xi Deltas Hold Convention
And Founders’ Day Observance
ALPHA XI DELTA alumnae and actives are celebrating the sorority's day at Purdue university today and tomorrow in conjunction | Mrs
founders’ with the province VI convention.
In 34 colleges and universities as well as in leading cities, similar groups of Alpha Xi Deltas are assembling to honor their founders. | 7, 1893, and now has 16,000 members. |
The fraternity was established April
Alpha Eta chapter will be hostess! at the banquet following initiation services at 6 o'clock this evening.|
G. Williams of St. Louis.
Hedges, Barbara Johnson and Mil-
members of the active chapter in charge of dinner arrangements. A unique feature of all the 1942 banquets will be the one cent levy for the birthdays of each member, who will contribute to a fund which the national council will present in the name of the sorority to the national Red Cross for a mobile
by a dance will close activities.
the convention.
| Addresses will be made by Dr. The Misses Rose Malcom, Martha Dorothy Stratton, Purdue dean of | women, and Prof. Philena Palmer. | tients at the Flower Mission hosdred Kitley, all of Indianapolis, are| A dinner in the chestnut room of | pital. There it has furnished a sixthe Purdue Union building followed | hed ward.
Mrs. Ralph L. McKay is repre- pooks to help them occupy leisure senting the Indianapolis alumnae |¢ime, chapter and is courtesy chairman of 'holidays. One of the services for Others attending which the patients are most grate= re Mesdames David Moore, James fy] js the remembering of their M. Hedges, Hugh Barnes, C. G. families as weil. .
me and interrupted it. The Mexican woman who
Mrs. T. B. Booth (left) and Mrs. A. C. Crandall, members of Sunnyside guild, call on Mrs. Evelyn Bader (right), a patient at the Flower Mission hospital.
Raises Funds Announce Patrons’ | Piano Teachers | List for Dance | Through Dance Plan Guest Day
| Patrons and patronesses for So And Card Party mse Guild's annual dance, April] An American composers’ program J 25 at the Columbia club, include: his been arranged by the Indian- | i { a , : : Among the busiest women in| oe NEWT and Ipighaaiies os Ph ine ey town these days are members of ang: J. K. Lilly, Benjamin D. Sr a vies oy ig Gi®: unday a Sunnyside guild. They are pushing Silas B. Reagan, John 8. Wright, | Om: In Vien f tickets for thei nna | Caries Field, Stanley Shipnes,| house. the sale of tickets for thelr afimial! Nicholas H. Noyes, Walter Hubbard, , selection entitled “Reflection,” in . 3] 9% $335 : ’ dinner dance, April 25, at the Co- william Rockwood, Booth Tarking- | Iumbia club. {ton, H. C. Aamot, Conrad Ruckels-| But their sales talk isn’t so much | haus, J. A. Goodman, Louis BorinCi ; stein, Seth Ward, Richard Fairof dining and dancing.
me | banks, Frank Flanner, H. F. Antibus story of the why and wherefore of an3 Floyd Christian of Noblesville. such a dance. Others are the Mesdames George It begins way back in March of| Philip Meier, Frederic M. Ayres, 1901 with the organization of a cor-| William H. Coleman, Tnomas C. companied by Mrs. Octavia Green | poration “not for pecuniary profit.” | ITowe, William A. Zumpfe, Henry Lander and Miss Rose Ellen Gray, | Its purpose? As it still stands, its H Hornbrook; Misses Lucy Taggart, (will appear on the program. aim reads: “To promote and ad- Mary A. Meyers, Emma Claypool;| Other pupils who will participate vance through recreation and Dr. and Mrs. Simon Kiser, Dr. and {are the Misses Charlotte Dobbs, amusements. the welfare of the Mrs. Louis Segar, Dr. and Mrs. Joanne Reed, Martha Mills, Betsy patients of the Marion County Tu-|R. A. Solomon, Dr. and Mrs. Charles| Gaines, Janet O'Hara, Flo Mary berculosis hospital and to do such |F. Voyles, Dr. Carleton B. McCul-|Foreman, Margaret Jensen, Lillian benevolent work as the corporation |lough, Patrick Sullivan, Rabbi Mor- | Bluestein, Ellen Sagalowsky, Ann Kahn, Opal Moran, Marilyn Thom-
may from time to time determine! ris Feuerlicht, F. L. Fisher and to 46.” | Warren H. Monk. as and Bob Smith and Bob Bevis.
Although the major portion of the group's work is still carried on at the sanatorium, it has gone afield too for its philanthropies. Funds {to carry on this work are raised i through two major events: An an{nual card party and a dinner dance. Mrs. Edward V. Mitchell heads the {committee for the latter this year. Gus G. Meyer will serve as chairman of hostesses, assisted by | past presidents of the organization.
Theme Is ‘Somebody Cares’
The theme of the guild's work is | “Somebody Cares.” It is that point
{ that it tries to get across to pa-
will be played by her pupil, Miss Lois Duncan. Miss Joanne Landers, cellist, and
NEXT WEEK-=April 20th
dedicated to
It provides Christmas | gifts for patients and the radios and
There are special treats on
Mrs. Adams. “It keeps me from being distracted
js Bloomington as part of the ob-
hep’ Mother-Daughter
composed by Mrs. Francis McClure | Light, treasurer of the association, | ters’ banquet of the Athenaeum
(Miss Juanita Caldwell, soprano. ac-| In the receiving line will be Mes-
Voters League |Clubs—
Hears Foreign Policy Lecture
Today Mrs. Louise Wright, national chairman of the League of Women Voters’ department of government and foreign policy, was to address a general meeting of the Indianapolis league at 2 p. m. in the D. A. R, chapter house. Her subject was to be the program. Mrs. Trevor R. Geddes new league broadside on foreign! Forgotten Race.” policy, “Two Fronts: War and Post- Mrs War.” 2 Mrs. Ralph Showalter
clubs.
talk. They were to be assisted in| wilson, the dining room by Mrs. Donald|
Virgil Geboner,
Gerking and Mrs. Robert Sinclair, | : Seid chairmen of the Indianapolis for- Brockman, Cedric Lyons and Wini-
: : field Wood. eign policy groups. Assisting at the tea were to be Omiears recently elected are Mrs: members of the foreign policy | Edward C. .Gravde, president; Mrs. groups including Mesdames Harry | D. Richardson and Mis, Fred Kellam, first and second vice presi-
A. Adams, C. E. Berry, Merwyn | : Bridenstine, Leland Crawford, Roy] Senn oy ore Helly oti Mp T. Dilley, Chauncey Eno, Paull X° ert Parke, recording and corre-
Miss Cecelia Conway, auditors. Mrs.
D. Roberts, O. H. Rudy and James) D. Richardson was named fed-
P. Wason. Mrs. Roy A. Coats |. ...: chairman of the foreign policy| TT2tion felegsie orientation group, was to pour. COLUMBIAN, CHEROKEE, HAFollowing her talk here, Mrs. WAIIAN and MT. VERNON chapWright was to leave for Indiana|ters will entertain guests with a university to talk on “Pan-Ameri-|program on Mexico Monday aftercanism and the Post-War World” noon at 2 o'clock in the west room at a meeting in the Indiana Union!of the War Memorial building. building. Her lecture will be given| Mrs. Martha Martin in Mexican costume will discuss the natives,
servance of Pan-American week, { April 13-20. Her lecture will be illustrated by musical selections.
Ancker will introduce the speaker.
J. Harman Bjorklund was to speak on “Mexico” following a 12:30 p. m. luncheon of VICTORIAN chapter today. Mrs. Ralph Thornburg was to be hostess to the club in her home, 124 W. 224 st.
Banquet Tonight
{ The annual mothers and daugh-
{ Turners will be held at 6:30 p. m. {today with Mrs. Carl B. Sputh as chairman assisted by Mrs. John
| Heidenreich and Mrs. Olga Birk. At a meeting in the Children's
club will hear Mrs. Grace Golden, the museum's executive secretary, discuss “Around the World in In-
dames Ernest Pflumm, Andrew B. Bickel, George Beckerich, Gertrude |Schissel, Elizabeth Steinecker, Chris dianapolis.” Hostesses will be Mrs.
9: Royle; 16h Paes snd Bix R. L. Pierce, Mrs. R. A. Nowlan and Miss Ruth Cochrane.
Miss Collier Hostess
Miss Bernice Collier, 615 Madison | ave., will be hostess to Alpha chap- Red Cross sewing at 8 p. m. today ter, Chi Phi Gamma, for a business in the home of Mrs. Foster Parsons, meeting Monday. 12037 Parker ave.
to the 25th
“ITS HOME WEEK AT AYRES”
Noble Vernon is chairman and Mis. of the committee in charge of the
R. M. Loomis were to be in charge Party. Other hostesses will be Mesof the tea following Mrs. Wright's dames Robert Thompson, Howard Robert
|Clegg, George Lesman, Charles | Honor guest at a surprise bridal
customs and government of Mexico.
Mrs. Clinton J. |
museum tomorrow, the MAGAZINE
The VICTORY BOOSTERS’ club will meet for a business session and
_ FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1942
orgets
Wayman Adams . . . “being married to Mr. Adams is just like having another child.”
Travel-Study Chapters Schedule Dinner and Guest Day Program; reonara Magazine Club to Visit Museum
Club notes today feature meetings of six International Trayel-Study
ADELIA chapter members will entertain their husbands with a chicken dinner at the Riviera club Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock. Miss Betty Lesman and Miss Betty May will provide music for the
will lecture on ‘“Mexico—Home of a
Shower Honors
Lucille Lucid
| shower given recently by Mrs. Eimer Marien, 944 Albany st., was | Miss Lucille Lucid. The hostess was assisted by her mother, Mrs, | Thiodure L. Adolay, 40 E. Hanna ave, mother of Leonard J. Adolay {to whom Miss Lucid will be married
Fouts, Erwin C. Kleiderer, Howard | ponding secretaries, and Mrs. Ma- at 9 3. m. April 25 in St. Philip |G. Lytle, William Allen Moore, W.|P¢! Vernon, Mrs. Oscar Lyons and Neri church. The bride-to-be is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis E. Lucid, 610 N.. Keystone ave. Guests at last night's shower were |Mesdames Edward Adolay, Fred Adolay, William Ittenbach, Walter | Kennedy, Frank P. Marien, Pauline | Worley, Edward Gallagher, Robert | Kraeszig and Helen Young and the bride-to-be’s mother and her aunt, Mrs. John Lucid. Misses Margaret and Marie Gallagher, Ruth Ittenbach, Louise Worley, Ruth and Helen Adolay, Doris |Deem, Virginia Sullivan, Evelyn Pruitt and Catherine Donnelly also were guests.
Service Guild Dinner Is This Evening
The annual spring dinner of the Indianapolis District Wesleyan Service guild will be held at 6:15 p. m. today in the Broadway Methlodist church, Miss Anna B. Chaffin of Scarrett College, Tenn. will be guest speaker, Among the guests will be Dr. and Mrs. John F, Edwards, Mrs. Orien W. Fifer and Mrs. M. O. Robbins. Miss Alice Krause will preside. Appearing on the program will be Miss Mary Evelyn Daniels and Mrs. William Vos.
Yager, Lewis Meier Jr, James E.| bi ahi skit Clark, K. G. Baker and the Misses | A hishight of the guilds Work
|was the realization of one of its
Martha and Charlotte Engle, Mary |, ® & : Armington, Jane Katherine Justice | dreams” in June of last year. With
blood donor unit. Tomorrow morning the convention will be formally opened by the
province president, Mrs. William! and Catherine G. Lewis.
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That's the tory behind Sunnyside Juss dinnes-dance,
funds, raised through projects like (the dance and card party, the or|ganization was able to erect a brick recreation building on the grounds at Sunnyside. In it is housed a motion picture machine which provides movies for the patients once ,a week. There also is a public address system. Each bed patient has a set of earphones so that he can listen to the programs, too, and through this system, Dr. Frank | Jennings, the superintendent, can reach all patients. Once a month, the guild arranges for a special | program for the patients.
| Sponsors Greenhouse
| The guild members also point | with pride to the greenhouse which |is an adjunct to the rehabilitation | program it carries on. Interested {patients are given an opportunity | to learn the forisis’ trade. Among its other contributions is {lawn furniture, playground equip‘ment and a loan closet where |clothing and other essentials are provided for needy patients. When ‘necessary, the guild also finances /dental work, optical work and ad- | ditional hospitalization. | After the patients leave the sana|torium, the guild also helps and during their confinement there, the organization looks after the families |of patients which need help. Food, 'clothing and toys go to them at | Christmas time. Special entertain‘ment 2° 1 gifts are provided for the patients. The guild also has a Red Cross sewing unit and a class in first aid ‘in which a large part of the mem- | bership is enrolled.
® Monday at 2:30 in our 8th Floor Auditorium Mr. Thomas A. Williams, “The Old Dirt Dobber,” heard every Saturday morning over the Columbia Broadcasting System, will present an illustrated lecture, with 800 feet of colored movie, “Through the Year in the Old Dirt Dobber’s Garden.”
® Tuesday at 2:30, our 8th Floor Auditorium Mr. Ross Lockridge, Sr., eminent his-
the New Harmony res= toration committee, will
Stephen Foster tette will entertain with background music.
incidents in our State's development.
@ A special display of Hoosier antiques will be shown in
consultation each afternoon in our china department.
L. ES &
April 25
in
torian and director of
lecture on “Great Epics in Hoosier History.” The quar-
® Wednesday at 2:30, in our 8th Floor Auditorium, Mrs. Helen Sprackling, noted New York authority and author of “Setting Your Table,” will present a new “Live Buffet in Honor of the Boys in the Service,” using 3 men from the services among our guests.
eo L. S. Ayres and tion of Marion Purdue Univers cedures
@ See our windows built around Indiana's historical background and related to outstanding
thé Decorator's foyer, sixth floor—=
including early costumes, floor coverings, lamps, dishes and MeGuffey’s readers.
@ Mrs. Helen Sprackling will have set up on our fifth feor specially executed tables inspired by the traditions of Hoosier Homes and Hospitality. Mrs, Sprackling will be available for
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