Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1950 — Page 29

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Photos by Henry BE. Glesing Jr. Times Staff Photographer. Nancy Todd . , . yard man and company actress in the Maxinkuckee Playhouse, Culver.

Alumna Returns from East: Tells of Vassar Reunion

Wedding, Reception, Pool Party Top Week's Social Events By KATY ATKINS COMING FROM New York not long ago it was pleasant to find Mrs. Frederic Krull on the train. She “had been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bebain Moore

and other cousins on Long Island after attending the 50th re-

union of her class at Vassar,

It was the end of an interesting trip on which she had started and she was wearing a beautiful corsage sent by the

Indiana Vassar Club of which Mrs. Krull was the first president. The club was started by her mother, Mrs. Henry Pierce. Of the 126 members of the class of 1900, 57 were at the class supper, a majority of those living. ‘Mrs. Krull had the

Mrs. Atkins

same room in Strong Hall ~

at reunion that she had ocupied in her junior year and it looked out on the class tree. Members came from as far away as Alaska.

In a Personal Vein—

In 1926 she had accompanied her mother for the 50th reunion of Mrs. Pierce's class. It was amusing to hear her tell how the year before that, at her own 25th reunion, she had been deferred to by other classes but at her mother’s 50th she was considered just a child and permitted to run all the errands for the older woman, A much smaller group met for their 50th in 1826. Mrs. Krull pointed out that the high average of health and strength of the class of 1800 showed the increased stamina of American womanhood, liberated from whale bones and profiting by modern living.

Herron Artists Don't Go Far From Paint Box and Linseed

There's one group of people who never take a vacation. That's the colony of artists who work in and around the Herron Art Museum, Like the sailor on leave goes out in a rowboat, so the artist away from school or studio sets up a makeshift workroom with his pallet and easel. About as frivolous as he gets is taking time off for a trip

through a museum to see both old and contemporary masterpieces, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Brucker have gone to Provincetown, Mass., on Cape Cod. Mr. Brucker is instructor in drawing and painting at Herron. This colony is a favorite with Indiana artists because Charles Hawthorne, noted portrait and landscape teacher, had his school there for many years.

Cajun Country

HEATTRACTED such painters as Miss Anna Hasselman, Miss Lucy Taggart, Miss Blanche Stillson, Clifton Wheeler and William Forsyth.

Lionel Bernloehr and Neel Davis, New Castle, have returned from a fishing trip in the bayou section of Louisiana. Both are Herron students and combined fishing with painting the Cajun coun-

Junetta Hunter is spending the entire summer in the Escuela Universitaria de Belles Artes, San Miguel de rently studying the Mexican muralists, Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. Miss Hunter holds a Milliken Award for travel from Herron. Visiting museums and private collections in the east is Miss Janette Smith; winner of the Louise Vonnegut Peirce Memorial Award for summer travel. The award is given each year by Mr. and Mrs. Anton Vonnegut to an outstanding undergraduate in the sculpture department in Herron.

Studio Hienna

IN SOUTH Cummington, Mass, she will be’ the guest of a former Vonnegut Award winner, Franciszka Wronowska and her husband, Charles Morey, a former Herron student.

‘While in Pittsburgh, Miss Smith will visit another alumina, Miss Anne Ellis. Miss

Mexico. She is cur.

. daughter,

Ellis is studying ceramic sculpture in Carnegie Tech. Rinaldo Paluzzi, who has finished two years in Herron, will study this winter in the Studio Hienna, Rome. He will sail Sept. 15. His brother, Guerino, who was graduated in June from the Indianapolis school, is leaving for Arizona where he will do art work.

On Aug. 1 Miss June Woodworth and Miss: Lavonne Whitmire, local art teachers, will go to Estes Park, Colo. It's an annuai trip for the two women.

Motor Trip

MALCOLM DASHIELL has returned from Paris where he studied in the Grande Chaumiere and L'Ecole des Beaux-Artes. In September he will go to Maryville, Tenn, to head the art department of Maryville College there. Going east will be Miss Grace Speer, executive secretary of the Herron Art Association, and Miss Nancy Bryan. They will visit their nephew. and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Bryan, and daughter, Nancy, in Schenectady, N.Y.

The art supervisor for the Franklin public schools, Miss Claire Williams, is on a motor trip to Florida. E The Donald M. Mattisons have returned from the east where they visited thelr Georgia. Georgia, who was graduated in June from Sarah Lawrence College, is in the photographie department of the biological station, Woods Hole, Mass, Mr. Mattison, director of Her-

ron, is working on portrait .

commissions which he hopes to complete before the next

“semester,

Richard Genders, fifth year student in Herron, has won a prize in the eighth annual Ohio Valley Exhibition in the Chubb Art Gallery, Ohio State University, (By MT) 3

A SERIES OF parties last week preceded yesterday's marriage of the former Dr. Mary Alice Norris and Col. Joe Free Surratt. The bridal dinner was at the Indianapolis Athletic Club Thursday night. The Tri Delt colors of silver, gold and blue were used in the table decorations,

Mrs. Surratt wore a tie silk dress that had sentimental association because she had it on when she first met the colonel. Friday night Mr. and Mrs. Walter Huehl entertained at the buffet supper in the club. The wedding was in the bride's home. She carried a lace handkerchief that had belonged to the groom's mother and wore a stunning cameo given to her by Col. Surratt’'s daughter, Stephanie, which she got in Italy during the war. The couple will live in Washington where the colonel has been Stationed in the Pentagon Building for the past three years.

Linen Shower

WHITE WEDDING bells in the dining room furnished a suitable note at the informal linen shower given for Betsy Barth by Mrs, Cornelius Feichter of Ft. Wayne in the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles A. Wilson, last week. Friends of Kiefer Mayer were happy to meet Mrs. Mayer at a party given for them by Doris. and Scott Moxley, David Moxley’ and Irving Diven at Irving's home late the other afternoon.

Pink seemed to be the dominant color -note, not only in the flowers but in the guests’ dresses though Irving wore turquoise blue with a draped skirt and a band of white lace at the square neckline. Doris’ pink dress’ was topped by a gold embroidered pink cardigan and her shoes were pink linen. Mrs, Ralph Lockwood wore pink pique with cut-out embroidery on both skirt and blouse.

Linen Dress

MRS. WILLIAM C. Babbs, who recently returned from Northport Point, wore a pink linen dress with matching jacket. Mrs. Mayer's green and white check silk frock was especially cool looking. Punch and Ed Harris had a guest with them, Betty Cooper of California. Mrs. Eugene Pulliam’s hat was a huge red cartwheel. I had a moment's chat with Mrs. Frederic Ayres Sr. and with Mr. and Mrs. James Rogan. An accordion player on the attractive porch entertained = the guests, A stunning arrangement of pink and red carnations was In the entrance hall and an equally lovely one, done in paler tones, was on the mantel in the drawing-room. Many of us spent most of last week watching the Western Championstiip matches at Woodstock and hope for perfect weather for the finals this rs.fternoon. With the thrill of tennis goes the fan of visiting with friends and seeing pretty clothes.

Yellow Frock

GRETCHEN Schmidt Gorski, formerly of Indianapolis, was there one day in an attractive pale yellow frock and straw hat bound in narrow green velvet with white flowers and green veiling. Nell Becherer, just (Cont. on Page 34—Col. 7)

Jim Hoeffler and Ralph Hilt . . . set builders and prop men for the 11.week summer season.

Viea Messham . . . "Ah Wilderness" temptress.

Paul Lamar and Mary Francs; Rank . . . leads in Fehaersal

Martin Tose and Paul Rutledge , <.. directors.

Margit Friedlander, Herb Johnson, Miss Rank, Burt Lane and Thomas Bruback (left to right)

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Mike Protests Loudly at His Christening;

Post- Natal Eerie Help Whittle Figure

By ELSYE MAHERN LOUIE JR., Eddie Mac and Kevin didn't seem to -mind the necessity of looking at their new brother through a window. They thought it was a new kind of game, Each time they'd “Oh” and “Ah,” kiss his feet through the glass and run off, after asking the time of the next showing.

There probably will be plenty of times in the future, when he gets big enough to grab their little cars and puzzles, when they wish ‘they could again have a window

between Mike and themselves.

Between the “showings” Eddie made frequent trips to Ella’s door. Sometimes he brought me clever “fliurs” from the backyard, and other times he called me to the door. “What.is it, Eddie?” I'd ask. “I just want to look at you,” he’d say, and each ‘time I'd be ready to grab Mike and his paraphernalia and go home.

Christening Dress MONDAY WE took Mike to St. Catherine of Sienna Church to be christened. I dressed him in the same

—dress; trimmed-with- my wed=

ding satin, which all four of the other boys had worn for their baptisms. Concetta and Anthony Corsaro, his cousin and uncle, were his godpdrents. The Rev. Fr. A. A. Barthel administered the sacrament. There is a theory which says that a child who criés at his baptism will be strong in the faith. If there is anything to it, Mike should be a pillar of the church. His godparents were asked to recite the Apostles’ Creed in his stead. But Mike spoke for himself in syllables which had nc resemblance to English. His recitation lasted just as long as that of his godparents, so I'm sure it was just a different language, Fr. Barthel poured the wa-

My son screamed long and loud. Thus Mike became a child of God.

Special Ceremony

AFTER THE baptism, we went to the altar for the ceremony known as the Churching of Women. It is a special blessing for the mother and child. The mother, in turn, offers thanks for a safe de-

livery, and asks the grace of God for herself and her child, The first time I put my feet on the floor and stood up after Mike was born, I felt as slim as Katharine Hepburn. I floated around the room on a pink cloud, enjoying my new figure, Then I got a side view in a mirror and the pink cloud evaporated. I'd have a little work to do before my new suit would fit the way I wanted it. I have three postnatal exercises which I've always found to be good. If you limit

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Ardyth Lahrman and Miss Todd . . + players on stage.

By MARJORIE TURK In Medieval times strolling players moved right in on the ruling baron using his castle for the season’s

performances.

PREP

The Maxinkuckee Playhouse in Culver is following the . troubadour’s lead. While they have their own castle, formerly a barn and girls’ vacation club, their livelihood is provided

by the ladies and gentlemen of the lake.

And it's not just financial support which the new summer company of 13 young people receive. They are invited into the summer gardens of the community to pick fruits and vegetables, into the cellars for set construction materials and into

the attics for costumes,

For the actors and actresses are a living unit. ‘They do all their own work from lawn mowing to dish washing. At the

same time they are putting on a play a week. And it's serious theater with such favorites as “Born Yesterday,” “The Glass Menagerie,” and “All My Sons” among the offerings between

now and Sept, 10.

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The Shows are in the loft of the converted barn which

seats 130 people.

The hard-working 13 average about 20-years-old. All are college students or just out and they are drawn from six states, Tom Burback lives in Elkhart, and Ralph Hilt of Long Beach,

Cal, is a former Tech student.

The entire group is pictured in some phase of the operation which begins at 8 o'clock in the morning and ends when the curtain falls after the evening show. Except for free time from 1 to 3 p. p. which many use for memorizing lines in later productions, it's continuous play work combined with the chores of

communal Hving.

Back Yard Cottages

The boys and girls, who are housed in and two back . NT a Heinz Pabst. The Pabsts were formerly

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