Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1943 — Page 11

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Civic Theater Committee ls Busy Choosing Plays for Next Season

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J HARRY V. WADE is succeeding Mrs. George Fothringham as head of the Civic Theater play reading committee this year. The eight productions to be given will be selected probably by Labor day. Decisions will be based on the membership poll, on what is available and what is suitable. Assisting Mr. Wade are Jack Welch, LeRoy Gordner, Toner Overley, Judge Herbert Wilson, Homer Capehart, Mortimer Furscott and Norman Green, Mrs. Welch, Mrs. Kurt Pantzer and Miss Sara Ruler Miss Lauter and Mr. Furscott are on the committee for their third consecutive year. The fare, according to popular poil, will place the emphasis on comedy. Members have selected “The Man Who Came to Dinner” by George 8S. Kaufman and Moss Hart as one of their three choices for No. 1 place among their favorite plays. Included in Burns Mantle's “Best Plays of 1939-40" the comedy ran for 288 performances on Broadway, with Monty Woolley as the lead.

Consider 'Arsenic and Old Lace'

Arsenic and Old Lace” and “Life With Father” are the two other first favorites. By Joseph Kesserling, “Arsenic and Old Lace” was one of the best productions of 1940-41 season in New York. It ags0 was one of the most popular recent plays at English's. i Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse’s “Life With Father” was rated one of the best in the 1939-40 season in, Manhattan, with author Lindsay in_the lead role I'wo other comedies being read are “Claudio” and “My Sister Eileen.” The former by Rose Franken, author of “Another Language.” is the one in which Dorothy McGuire, former Ladywood School student, received about as much acclaim for her portraval of he naive wife as did the play itself and Jerome Chodorov, based on the stories of Ruth McKenney. It had its New York premiere during the 1940-41 season,

thers on the Tentative List

enough, two of the most popular plays, according to the poll, are “Hamlet” and “Abbie's Irish Rose.” The latter stands next to “Tobacco Road” in the longest run on Broadway list, It is in second place with 2327 performances. A play popular in Chicago 18 years ago and another long runner on Broadway with 1291 performances is “Lightnin. Both it and The Bat,” also a favorite, may be produced “Lady in Waiting” (Margery Sharp) though not high on the poll may be selected because of merit Adopted from “The Nutmeg Tree” was produced by Brock Pemberton at the Martin Bech theater, New York, 1940. and ran for 87 performances. The committee would have liked to produce “Blythe Spirit” (Noel Coward) and “Angel Street” (Patrick Hamilton), but they have not yet been released } Most popular plavs of last season at the Civie, according to the poil, were “It Never Rains.” “Suspect,” second, “Skylark.” “Eve of St. Mark” and “Boy Meets Girl.”

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Hunters at Home in California egion News— Robison Group

Plans Picnic "Tomorrow

Among activities arranged by auxiliaries to the American Legion ‘are a picnic and a luncheon. | The picnic will be given by {BRUCE P. ROBISON unit 133, | American Legion auxiliary, at 11:30 ‘a. m, tomorrow. Members will bring 4 their own picnic lunches and lemonlade will be provided by the hostess- | es, Mesdames Ida Mae Shulse, Fred | Hasselbring, Horace Kemper and | Fred Wolf. | Yesterday, members of the post "unit, Sons of the Legion and Junior {group attended memorial services | for Lt. John Paul Ragsdale Jr. at (10:45 a. m. in the Central Christian (church. Lt. Ragsdale, son of Capt. ‘and Mrs. John Paul Ragsdale, is {unofficially reported to have been (killed in a raid over Emden and | Wilhelmshaven, Germany, May 21. At a recent meeting the auxiliary [named delegates to the state con-

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Harvey Hunter Jr. are at home at 738 Orange ave. San Carlos, Cal, following their marriage June 8 in the Broadway Methodist church. Mrs. Hunter was Miss Jean Elizabeth McKee, granddaughter of Mrs. W. J. Bethard, and Mr. Hunter is the son of Mrs. Eunice Chamberlain Hunter of Indianapolis and H. H. Hunter of Grand Rapids, Mich.

“Clothing in Wartime Britain’

Is Theme of New Exhibit Opening at Brooklyn Museum

Times Special { NEW YORK. July 19.-—Clothes rationing in Britain has not only | released men and material for the war effort, but for the first time has made it possible for the average woman to buy a dress designed by one of the top-flight fashion creators of the day.

ence Knipp, Leona B. M. Ross and Albert Schrand with Mesdames James Sertell, Donald Smith and Hasselbring as alternates, Arrangements also are being made for the annual post picnic July 25 at Ellenberger park.

Retiring and incoming officers of ROBERT E. KENNINGTON unit, American Legion auxiliary, will be {honored at a covered dish luncheon at 12:30 p. m. Wednesday in the

post home, Mrs. Maurice L. Hayes, chairman,

{will be assisted by Mesdames | Thomas Lenahan, Albert Ewbank, | Hubert MecShay, Clarence Lapp and | Louis Beebe. Mrs. J. T. Couchman, president of {the Auxiliary to POST 4, Amer-

ican Legion, has announced that

Two Sisters Are Brides

{there will be no meetings of the &

unit during July and August. {Couchman and Mrs. Dale White {have been named alternate dele{gates for the auxiliary’s state con- | vention next month,

WAYNE unit 64, American legion | post and auxiliary, will have a | pitch-in supper at 6:30 p. m.

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| Wednesday at the post home. Mrs. | | William Niese is chairman as-|

{sisted by Mrs. Walter Hief and |

| vention including Mesdames Clar-| Mrs. Scott Bange.

The marriages of two sisters have been announced by the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs, Bernie B. Bartlett, Mrs, David Bocock (left) was Miss Geraldine L. Bartlett before her wedding April 3 in the Cens tenary Christian church and Mrs. Homer Manuel (right) was Miss Her wedding was read Feb. 27 in the Wood« ruff Place Methodist church parsonage. (Kindred photo.)

Rosalyn Louise Bartlett.

TOMORROW is the LAST DAY!

Ayres’ Semi-Annual REMNANT

The Bridal Scene—

Norma Prentice

and John Price

Announce The Attendants For Their Wedding Friday Evening

inouncements of attendants bridal news. tendants have been announc Jaa Prentice and John W in the Second Evangelical church. Miss Katherine Strois be Miss Virginia Price, oe prospective bridegroom Prentice, sister of

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Jean to-be. felvin Gough will be best man arki one of the ushers will be William ‘Speichel The Rev, Manno Shatto will officiate A shower was given recently for Miss Prentice by Miss Katherine Strols at her home, 964 S. Alabama st. Guests included Mesdames Margaret Blacketer, Selma Heirman and W. D. Prentice, Misses Virginia Price, Jean Prentice, Betty Ss Ruth and Mary Fritichie, Dorothy Speicher, Mildred Delk and Lela Boone Miss Prentice is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Waiter D, Prentice, 1439 S. Illinois st. The prospective bridegroom is the son of Thomas R. Price, 2502 N. Harding st. »

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ceremony united Miss Barbara Ann Williams and . Cadet Vance A. Wilkinson Jr. in marriage at 7:30 p. m. Saturday in the Hotel Netherlands cinnati fiss Williams is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Williams, Evanston, and Cadet Wilkinson's parents are Mr and Mrs. Vance Wilkinson, 6033 Rosslyn st. The bride, who entered with her father, wore a pastel summer print with a feather and veil hat Mr. Wilkinson was his son's Lest man. A family dinner at the hotel followed the ceremony The couple X. make their home in Cincinnat: here Cadet Wilkinson is taking an

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Catholic Group Participates in Stamp Drive

The Indianapolis Diocesan ecounil. National Council of Catholic Women, is participating in a nationwide war stamp campaign throughout July and until Aug. 15. Its two-fold purpose is to aid the government by supplying funds and to aid the National Council School of Social Service, affiliated with the Catholic University of America. It is honed that the campaign will raise the necessary funds to enable the school to liquidate its debt.

The quota for the drive has been |

set at one million 25-cent stamps. Members of the N. C. C. W. and the board of trustees of the school are sponsoring the campaign jointly. “Give a Stamp—Get a Stamp” is the slogan.

Paiish presidents of the N. C.

C. W. affiliated organization presi- |

dents and the campaign chairmen

are promoting the program so as|

to urge every Catholic woman to

participate in the plan of individ- |

ually giving a stamp and getting another person to give a stamp. Arrangements for the drive have been made by the national commitee on diocesan councils, composed of all diocescan council presidents. This committee is responsible for the stamp drive within each diocese. Mrs. J. Frank Bateman of West Baden Springs is president of the Indianapolis Diocesan council and Mrs. Elmer Johnson is the Indianapolis council president.

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Both of these aspects ate illustrated in a new traveling exhibition, which will open tomorrow at the

| “Clothing in Wartime Britain”

| Brooklyn museum. The exhibit Is;

‘being prepared in co-operation with {the British Information service in

|New York and its opening will be! attended by clothes and fashion ex-

| perts as well as representatives of | the Designers’ guild. i All-inclusive, the display consists {of nine panels which, by means of life-size models, photographs, diagrams—even actual swatches of utility materials now in use in England—show just what clothes ra-

Price, which will be at 8:30 p. m. Friday tioning means, and what it has

‘achieved, Form Society

The designs for Britain's “utility | clothing” were made by a group of |

first-rank fashion designers—among | them Molyneux, Peter Russell, Dig- ! by Morton and Elspeth Champcom-munal-—-who formed themselves, at

{the request of the British govern- | ment, into the Incorporated Society

of London Fashion Designers, This marked the first time a government had ever commissioned

designers, and also the first time | designers | who formerly catered exclusively to |

(that styies created by the wealthy were made available, at moderate prices, to every purchaser. | None of the new clothes models is associated with anv individual designer, but each style will be known as a creation of the society. { Each desigh was created with en

eye to simplicity, so as to use less |

material and make econcmic manu- | facture possible,

500,000 Workers Shifted

| Among the panels are several showing how evening dresses were [converted into barrage balloons, jand silk stockings into parachutes. It takes 162 pairs of silk stockings, {the equivalent of a five years

come surgical Kits, shoes have turned into army boots, and girdles rand garter belts have changed into | caterpillar treads for tanks. Clothes rationing has switched 500,000 workers from the clothes industry into war plant obs; has shipping space, and has made

OPA Urges Planting of Fall Crops

| Times Special | WASHINGTON, July 10.—~In answer to numerous inquiries occasioned by an announcement from the office of price administration on

{July 6 concerning the use of gaso{line by victory gardeners, the de{partment of agriculture and the

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| OPA have issued the following joint! | statement : { The statement that “. . . gardens

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|late to produce enough food to war- | it has been found necessary to form ! ‘rant extra use of tires and gasoline,” | 8 second one. The latter plays for

referred to gardens where ground not been broken before that

courage the planting of fall crops in gardens already established.

| Garden authorities in the agri- from the first WAC band at Des (cultural research administration of | Moines, which was organized in Au- | {the department say that in the| Bust, 1942. The bands at Ft. Devens,

(eastern half of the country south (of the Great Lakes fall crops of | beets, carrots, cabbage, kale, po'tatoes, turnips and other cool

i cessfully. The department has urged victory gardeners to keep their gardens planted, by seeding these fall crops ‘where early crops have been harvested. There is still time to plant ‘these crops in most of the area mentioned, and some of them may August in the

stocking supply for one woman, to! make one ‘chute. Purses have be-|

saved 500.000 tons of!

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available 65,000000 square feet of factory space for the production of war materials, Enough money has been saved to make possible the construction of an entire navy, while statistics | show that if each Briton were to get one extra clothing coupon above | the present allowance of 48 per vear, it would take 8000 workers off essential jobs and use up 5000 tons of material—enough to sup-! ply 500,000 soldiers,

Clothes Price-Controlled

To insure equality of clothes distribution. a consumer needs branch | of the board of trade was estab- | lished, with a field staff regulating supplies so as to avoid shortages and correct individual hardships. { All clothes were put under price control, | Faced with a fact, the women of England proceeded to make the best of it. Women's publications prepared clothes coupon budgets, gave hints on the care of clothes, and patterns for makeovers. A national “mend and make-do” campaign was instituted. Examples of make-overs at the museum's exhibit include a woman's jacket, recreated from a man's old sport coat: good dresses made from old | stage costumes, and a smart street dress fashioned from an outworn evening gown.

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‘WAC Bands Are Formed

At Daytona

Times Special i DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., July 19.! | —One of the busiest units at the! , second training center of the women's army auxiliary training corps ‘at Daytona Beach, Fla, is the band, ‘composed of WAC musicians and | directed by Warrant Officer Peter ' Berg. | The calls on their time are many ‘and varied. In addition to rehears- | Ing two to three hours every day, | they play at all ceremonies and parades, There the girls can forget “Hut, two, three, four” and step jout with new spirit as they keep, | time with the beat of the drum as the band. plays one of the stirring | WAC march tunes. Proof of their popularity in the {community is shown by the many calls made upon them by such organizations as the American Legion, Elks club and Chamber of Commerce. No worthy request has ever been refused, even though granting (it often means that the girls have | to give up some of their free time. | | Dance Bands | So popular was the first dance band organized by members of this group, with both officers and enlisted personnel at the post, that

rare held at the service club on the |

The band at Daytona Beach ine | ‘cludes a number of the personnel |

Mass, and the two at Ft. Ogle- | thorpe were trained by Mr, Berg, and are directed by former mem- | bers of the Daytona Beach band. | The WACs of the band are quar{tered in an army barracks in the | jcantonment area, subject to army | routine and regulations just as are (the other WACs on the post. Its members enjoy their work ‘m- | mensely, even though it differs | greatly from their civilian life. Several have played with Ina Ray

REDUCTIONS OF

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Just one more day to shop in our twice-a-year cleanup of odds and ends,

broken sizes, colors, patterns and assortments.

Because of Monday's selling we cannot quarantee stocks of Remnant

items previously advertised BUT THERE ARE STILL MANY BARGAINS

in every department.

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