Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1949 — Page 23

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Clubs Don Halloween Decorations

Members Prepare For Gay Parties

By KATY ATKINS HALLOWEEN got started a bit ahead of time for grownups as well as .youngsters. Several of the clubs gave their members a chance to dress up and make merry last night. At the W oo dstock Club the “1800 Silver Dollar Jamboree” was in full swing. The diningroom, so often the scene of beautli ful, dignified Mrs. Atkins parties, was transformed with sawdust on the floor and red and white checked cloths, on: the tables. The drawing‘rooms looked much like that favorite scene of song and story of the old days and its occupants were a collection of dudes (a bit modern for the period), wranglers and their ladies. It was unfortunate ‘that Woodstock and the University Club choose the same night for costume parties, but the latter had an excellent crowd, too, and some people managed to make both, The Country Club put on a wonderful’ show, “The I.C.C.T.V.,” successor to the “Sarsparilla Follies” of several Years ago. Like all good musicals, this one had a chorus with “boys” as well as girls. For the Hucklebuck number the girls wore circular skirts of black velvet splattered with huge polka dots, colored blouses and colored beanies. The men were in peg-topped trousers, loud jackets, with big watch chains across their vests apd pork pie hats:

‘Museum's Dolls SO OFTEN when I mention costumes I think of the lovely ones on dolls at the Children’s Museum. At this time of year the Museum's Committee of One Hundred is very busy. Mrs, Berkley Duck heads this group of 100 men and women who have each agreed to secure five new museum

Somehow I had never got around to sesing the new wing of the Muspum and it is worth a trip in itself. It is called the

This exhibit alone is permanent and wisely so, as the children enjoy having one pi that stays put. They not only can go ox it them-

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Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer.

By JEAN TABBERT TOPPING IRVINGTON’S Wallace Lane Apartments is the C. Wilbur Foster Penthouse, 4774 E. Pleasant Run Pkwy., N. Drive. Unusual for an Indianapolis community, the sky apartment is. a masterpiece of engineering and decorative skill. Yet it was built for practical rather than esthetic reasons.

Mr, Foster, chairman of the Foster Engineering Co., Ltd., a

local architectural, engineering and building firm, likes privacy after his busy day. It’s easier to find in the fourth-floor penthouse than in an ordinary house. The Fosters travel a great deal so they designed an easily maintained abode. With the “enthusiastic help of the experts in his company, Mr. Foster included the most streamlined devices for modern living, The planning was all done scientifically, beginning with a thorough family discussion and ending with g scale model of the apartment, Since he doesn’t have time for gardening, a favorite hobby, Mr, Foster substituted gréenery wherever possible inside the house, Mrs. Foster puts her green thumb to good advantage raising red geraniums which she sets out on the terrace in warm weather. “We simply decided to go modern,” Mr. Foster explains the contemporary furnishings. They moved from a bungalow, disposed of their old furniture by dividing * between two married chilen.

Brilliant Colors

Vivid south-of-the-border colors brighten the foyer and large living room. The hallway is done in emerald green, bright brown and chartreuse. These colors are used on the unusual doors, a metal one shielding the elevator, and a wooden one leading to the stairs, Mr. Foster’s assistants created the design, a block pattern which gives a three-di-mensional effect. In the entrance hall, too, is a wide closet which opens from two sides. There's room to store the clothes of a large party

gathering. An

emerald green leather couch is built into the wall.

The Dorothy, Draper | priat,

theme of the living room. Te

colors, chartreuse, geranium red, pink and white, were the pivot from which the chartreuse and hickory brown walls grew. And they were the cue, too, for the chartreuse, coffee brown and copper lounge and occasional chairs.

The twin lounge arrangement, composed of two facing chairs and two divans, is covered in light green textured fabric trimmed in beige. A narrow mahogany coffee table separates the duo. The Draper print accents the fireplace wall, too. The material is stretched over plywood paneling. The fireplace itself is a fabulous affair, made of black marble. Running over the opening is a black carrara glass ledge which ties together the living and dining room built-ins.

Extensive Storage Space

These, constructed of primavera wood, start at the foyer door, run under the Draper wall, stop at the: fireplace, resume again to curve into the dining “L.” The built-ins are a homemaker's dream. Harriet Foster, utilizing all the experience she’s gained as a housewife, planned every functional inch of the storage space. In the dining room, tablecloths are kept on rollers; there's a specially built holder for the pumeh bowl. Sectioned drawers hold silverware. In the living room, the built-ins harbor card tables and games. Windows are designed to keep dirt out and regulate the temperature. A window wall in ) room looks out on a brief balcony, over Pleasant

Fosters relax in the summer. Unlike Indianapolis, traffic lanes in the Spartment are

noncongested. But, then, they were planned that way,

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The foyer leads into the bedroom hall. Opening off it are the study-guest room, two bedrooms and a bath. The study has more utilitarian built-ins, made of a grayed birchwood to blend with the Wedgwood blues used lavishly here.

Carpeting Is Lush

Twin studio couches are on wheels for cleanability’s sake, The oyster curtains under the plaid drapes match the curtains over the rest of the house.

Another decoration point

which gives the home a lush’

look is the way the carpet flows through the ' house. Beige is used in the living and dining rooms and the foyer; a warm rose covers the bedroom hall and the two bedroom floors. The master bedroom has a soft pink color scheme. Carnation pink, white and gray print forms the window draperies, the bed skirt and the upholstered panel behind the bed. A plain geranium red

"wall serves as backdrop for

the original Garo Antreasian prints over the bed. Actually the Fosters have hinged together twin beds, treating them as a single one from a decofative point of view.

Serving Built-Ins Mrs. Foster made the oyster bedspread and the dressing table stool cover to match of quilted rayon sectioned with soutache braid and lined with cotton sheet‘draperies

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along one wall is storage space for all her paraphernalia, her machine and a cutting board that extends almost across the room. Along another wall are her own storage units for cloth-

ing. Here she keeps in orderly array, hats, bags, dresses, all hung in especially designed compartments. Mr. Foster has a similar layout on a third wall.

The Foster son, Glenn, a Junior in Purdue University, owns the extra bedroom. Its twin beds are covered in green corduroy, the furnishings selected for durability.

Electric Kitchen

The combination 'laundrykitchen is electrically run. Its cherry red linoleum and red embroidered curtains eliminate the hospital look. Mrs. Foster keeps three place settings in the drawers under the breakfast bar. Most practical of the custom designed “gadgets” in the kitchen is the grease catcher attached above the stove burners. The apartment has a 90 per cent efficient electrostatic air cleaner to take out the dirt and impurities. Built-in and valance lighting keeps the living room bright. The in-built arrangement shows up in the ceiling block pattern. Here there are

outlets for the lights and 15 :

radio speakers. The radio setup is also distinctive. There's a main speaker in the living room with the 15 outlets. In each room of the apartment is another one, two in the halls and three in the dining room.

Sound can be modulated by

adjusting the dials anywhere e house.

When Bers the lights and

radios are on together, the g flooded as und as with

Grease catcher

Counter-Spy— You Might as Well Baby the Babies

By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor PERSONALLY, THE TINY TOTS have us buffaloed.

We don’t understand kids;

but we keep trying.

That's why we welcome some newly acquired informa-

tion from L. Strauss . .

. from Strauss’ sixth floor, to be exact.

That's where they doll up the little boys and girls, The information is that little boys, sizes 2 to 6, don’t go for snow suits with knitted bands at the ankles. Those things, say the two-by-sixers, are “for babies.”

Who's going to argue with them? Not us. And not Strauss’,

either. . They hike out and find some suits with straight, he-man pants legs for the kids. They're called Ski-Slax and they're as wide at the ankle as they are at the knee. Some of them have the trouser crease stitched in so the young fry can retain that well-groomed look. The Ski-Slax, held up by self-fabric suspenders, still provide the warmth expected from such overpants. They are suede-cloth lined, and hidden up inside the leg there's an elastic band to baffle the breezes of a chilly outdoors. A kid can climb into the Ski-Slax more easily than into the usual snow suit. With straight box coats the outfits (wool gabardine, covert or novelty weaves) are $22.95 to $29.95. These are for dressup wear. Other and more sporty styles have zipper-front jackets, Water-repellent poplin with mouton collar is $19.95; melton cloth slacks and wooly blanket plaid jacket are $18.95.

Joan of Arc

ANYONE can feel a little bit like Joan of Arc if she wears a jew-

elry innovation of the year ~Coro’s romantic ‘“chainmail” mantelet which can be

* a necklet, a collar or a bib,

Made of shimmering golden mesh, the mantelet is as flexible as fine fabric. And it goes with all types of clothes

from sweaters to satin, bur.

lap to brocade, tweed tulle. The one shown, a dob

costume jewelry department this week — $7.50 plus tax,

Sheer Beauty N HUMAN beings, it's usually the delicate~ looking ones who have the most stamina, But in women’s hosiery, up to now, there’s been a pretty close relationship between ance and wearing quality. The more delicate hose looked, the more delicate they WERE! Some new Gotham hosiery at Wasson’s seem to be changing that state of affairs, Called Fashion Fives, they ne’ diaphanous sheerness with sturdy wearing quality. Their name comes from five fashion features: A crimp twist yarn to provide both sheerness and strength; a “secret = toe” reinforcement practically invisible but most effective; a shadowy but strong heel reinforment; narrow, almost invisible, sole, and a very fine darkened seam to emphasize sheerness. The “nyisibler reinforce ments make the hose wear able with open Jandsla yet sturdy enough to a shoes