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Labor Day Marks End of Summer's Long, Lazy Days
Pre-Nuptial Parties Have Major Spot In the Late-August Social Scene
By KATY ATKINS
THIS LAST WEEK-END of summer brings a mild nostalgia for the long stretch of lazy days. Labor Day is almost more of a beginning than New Year's,
with the closing of summer cottages
for school and college, and a host of worthy Mr. and Mrs.
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the packing of trunks
younger children ready for the books projects about to get into high gear. William R. Higgins, Er
among the early re-
turnees, are already home from their cottage at Burt Lake. They welcomed their daughter, Mary Boyd, who arrived from
the East on Wednesday for a visit.
BR ' * & 8 MR. AND MRS. HARRY REID had a small party recently
for Mr. and Mrs. (
! ieorge Munce who are moving to Orangeburg, 8S. C,. The Reids are now living in an apartment in thes
Winter where Mrs. Reid's deft touch has created a charming
atmosphere. Family portraits and charming old fur-
niture have a background of '
gay colors, a happy blending of modern decoration and cherished possessions. Mrs. Reid wore a becoming chartreuse dress at her party while her «
Margaret, chose a print. Mrs, Munce was smart in a black sheer, always perfect for late summer . . . Barbara Klein had a party for 3 Eileen O'Connell and her Mrs. Atkins fiance, Joseph "Michaud, at Dandy Trail Farm last Sunday. Barbara manages the farm, The party was in the “little house” which was the original farm house and is almost 100 years old. One of its most attractive rooms is the enormous kitchen across the back where the buffet table was arranged. Barbara wore a yellow suit with a navy blouse. ; Along with the younger people, guests included Mr. and Mrs. George W. Klein; Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. O'Connell, parents of the bride-to-be, and .Mr. and Mrs. George A. Kuhn Sr. The Kuhns and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wolff had just returned from Europe. Union City Rite MARGARET and Jack Behringer were married in Union City last Sunday. The wedding was in the home of Margaret's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haber. This is another 100-year-old house. It is of red brick with a quaint cupola and contains much of its original furniture. Mrs. Haber wore a gown of light blue lace while Mrs. Behringer’s navy - chiffon. Jack's sister, Phyllis Holliday, assisted at thé reception, looking very pretty in white and green embroidered organdy. Margaret's dress of white waffle pique and organdy was beautiful for a summer wedding. Lots of Indianapolis people went to the ceremony.
“Among them were Mr. and
Mrs, Marvin Curle, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin =~ Smith, Mrs. Homer Lathrop, Mrs. Ralph Spann, Frank Binford and A. D. Lange and his son. One group of young people tried unsuccessfully to be on
,. hand, Mary Lee and Herman
Kothe and Fred Holliday started but their car broke down in New Castle so all they could do was wire congratulations and regrets and wait until the John Hollidays picked them up on the way home. ‘
Raub Parties
MARILYN RAUB had a +
gay whirl before her marriage to Richard. Creedon Friday night. The bridal dinner given by her parents at thie ‘Tndianapolis Athletic Club Thursday night was a ‘lovely affair: eT x Marilyn was pretty in a white and green printed chiffon frock with a cerise belt. flowers decorated the table. The wedding party's places were marked by miniature. ushers and” bridesmaids, with each bridesmaid’s. doll matching
dress was of ~
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the color she was to wear in
the wedding. - All four of Marilyn's grandparents were at the dinner which added a very happy note.
WHEN Mrs. Grover C, Hollings - entertained for the bride last Tuesday evening, her table was decorated with a wedding procession of tiny dolls; "including pageboy and. flowergirl, arranged before a centerpiece of pink and white gladioli. Ice cream molds were slippers, bells and hearts sporting little cupida. This party was a personal shower. The hostess’ gift was a plaid umbrella. which she dressed up in a novel way by tying a gift to each rib. These included articles like a powder puff, needle case, thread, a shower cap—all so useful in themselves and adding up to a very gay effect. - Ann -Parry just got home in time to be a bridesmaid as she and her mother landed from a summer in Europe on Thursday. Among their many interesting. experiences was seeing the Passion Play at Oberammergau.
Two in Europe
TWO OF Mr. and Mrs.
' Ralph Lockwood's daughters
went abroad late last month. Nina landed in Scotland and
~ Peggy at Southampton. They
are planning to meet in London. } The third daughter, Nancy Spalding, and her baby have been at Leland with the Lockwoods for a month. They and John come home today. . ” - » KATHARINE DANIELS had .a fun party at home for her young friends Wednesday night. The weather was sketchy but kind in the end, so they were able to have a swim before dinner, and to
" dance on a wooden platform
out-of-doors afterward. The small tables in the dining room were covered with pink scalloped cloths. In the center of each was a wicker basket containing pots of pink African violets surrounded by pink paper frills. The turquoise plates Mrs. Daniels used were lovely on the pink cloths. Enormous Japanese lan -
"terns hung from the trees
around the pool and in_the greenhouse. One with dangling’ tassels was in the porte cochere. Some were shaped like pagodas and some like balloons. They were in turquoise and yellow and made the garden look: like fairyland.
lanterns always bring memories of garden parties, especially on the Fourth of July, 30 years ago. .
Finding ‘Success’
A PROMINENT Indianapolis businessman and his equally well-known - daugh-
“ter are motoring east this
week and have included attendance at a session of the United Nations in their plans.
In discussing it they found _
“that neither had a very clear
“idea as to where Lake Suc-
cess is, except that it is “just “outside” New York. !
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They were a little embar- .
rassed ‘but thought it would
he easy enough to find out. The gentleman called two In-
dianapolis daily papers and:
the Chamber of Commerce
withqut getting the informa-’
tion. Then he thought of someone who was sure to know. ‘Who was it? Fred Thomas. He knew. Do you?
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Horses—and Fans— ‘Hoof It’ to State Fair
More Than $1 Million-Worth of Entries Here for Show Opening Tonight
By MARJORIE TURK THERE'S more than a million dollars worth of horse flesh
at the State Fair Grounds.
Five hundred and two of the prize creatures are in regular stalls in the 3-acre horse barn—18 are in temporary quarters. When the annual $50,000 Horse Show begins tonight in the Coliseum, horse fanciers and local society patrons will see the
largest number of equine bluebloods in the history of the event. The show ends Friday. There are nine more exhibitors than ever before and a 40 per cent increase in Indiana entries. The Fair is ready for the bigger show. A quarter mil-lion-dollar addition has been put on the barn, Inside the barn, besides the animals, is $100,000 in silver gear stacked in improvised tack rooms. Taking care of the horses and their equipment are 150 grooms who are sleeping in quarters above the stalls . .. while each entry has its trainer and owner nearby to oversee the operation.
Straw and Bunting FIVE HUNDRED and two
bales of straw were distrib-
uted to the stalls by State Fair employees before the arrival of the animals. The
“‘barn ‘was opened two weeks
ago for cleaning and each of the 70 water spigots was checked. . Biggest headache was the traffic problem—what to do
+~ ~when 500 horses (and 2000
cows) week. Owners are responsible for
come to spend the
providing -their-own—feed.—A—
concessionaire trucks in hay daily to the stall doors. “The owners do their own interior decorating. The bunting, in the colors of the various stables, amounts to an outlay of $15 per stall or $7530 worth of cheesecloth.
New Shoes Quick
ALSO SET UP. in the barn
* is a blacksmith’s shop with " four farriers
in attendance. With luck they will have only 1800 shoes to. put on. The smithies have to be experts—they are allowed seven minutes to shoe a horse while the classes are going on. ‘And Dobbin has three vets to look at his nose if he starts to sneeze, . # Even with this quantity of
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ART WORK: Pat Hall, Nancy Campbell and Janie Johnson (left to right) work on posters ~ which will an- ’ : nounce the Euvola Club's
golden anniver-
sary dance.
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equipment and manpower, 35 of the local exhibitors are keeping their horses in home stables and trucking them in for their “classes. Many from this “vicinity have vacated their places in the bara to make
room for the out-of-towners.
Local Exhibitors THE END result for the state is a good show and improvements in breeding and training. ‘The exhibitors, besides having a chance at the $50,000 in cash prizes, have a “crack “at 1200 ‘satin ribbons and 186 silver trophies. . Among the local exhibitors, who are showing this year and who have become regulars at the Indiana. classic, are Jim Aikman, Dorothy Thomas, Mrs. M. H. Fuller, Bob Brown Dr. P. 0. Bonham, Bill Kuhn, Janet Sage, Col. Harold Johnson, Ethel Miller, Mrs. William E. Munk, John Riggs Jr., R. A. Trimble, Marcia
‘Wheeler; Hildegarde and Bar- "~~"
bara Wemmer, Walt Melton * and Mr. and Mrs, Carter Dillman.
Back Again "OTHER popular favorites who have returned for the shows are Elizabeth Rariden, Greencastle; “Fred - Sharp, Franklin, and Mrs. A.C,
Thompson, ~~ Chicago. MT 8"
Thompson who {is remembered for the furs and plumes she wears while riding in her buggy. . Mrs. Jimmie Mitchell has brought up a string from Hill Point; N.C. and Mrs. A. D. Fillatrault, who is making her annual sojourn in the Marott Hotel, has entries from her stables in Fon du Lac, Wis. Mary Kay Holt is showing horses from the Argyll Stables of Mr. and Mrs. 8. J. Campbell, Mount Carroll, Ill. More Exhibitors OTHER young women known both in horse show circles and in the social world, who. are showing, in-
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anniversary dance.
provide the dance rhythms.
- ” » In its 50 years the club has played a distinctive role in the social life of North Bide -high-school-age young people. The membership has been drawn primarily from students in Shortridge High School and in Tudor Hall. It was a subdeb organization long before
subdeb clubs becarne the rage.
Five hundred bids have gone out to squires Graduate members 5 feted just before at a punch party in the home of the current president, Miss Judy Hanna, - 4456 Park Ave. . : T The exact. date of the club's founding has the subsequent years. But it beas the Phi 8igma National Sorority. In 1917 the name was changed to Euvola. Colors are gold and black and members proudly wear = simple coffin-shaped bar high-
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Photos by Bob Wallace, Times Staff Photographer,
Mrs. Robert A, Hoover " x = = ® no» By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor EMBERS OF THE Children’s Museum Guild are
fashion shows. A number of them, busy now on com-
‘mittees for the events, will find themselves on Sept. 12 and 13
serving as models for the shows. Fashions to be paraded in the Indianapolis Athletic Club, following 1 p, m. luncheons, ‘will be from Strauss’, '
Mrs, William Berg and Mrs. Tim Blakley are two of the members now working on the ticket committee who will become
fashion models for the shows. One of the new members who will be modeling=tg~Mrs. Robert A. Hoover. : ] . . » < » » » THE THREE ARE shown in costumes they'll wear down the IAC runway, Mrs. Berg, pictured at the ¢lub entrance; wears a French monotone. featherweight tweed town suit. The fabric, containing rabbitshalr, is in soft ‘copper tone and the boxy coat is collared and lined with black broadtail, The slim-skirted outfit is $189.95, bo An antique gold slipper satin evening gown - strapless is modeled by ‘Mrs. Blakley. Top of the bodice 1s accented by self-fabric cord loops and- more of the cording goes into scroll detailing on bodice and skirt top. The gown is $39.95. Double-woven fabric (tweed, again) ‘makes the fleecy coat ‘worn by Mrs. Hoover. Navy on one side, the fabric's reverse face is orchid-and-navy checks. The checks come out in the open at collar and cuffs. Price tag on the coat reads $98.50.
b Will Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary Friday
By AGNES H. OSTROM “ - .r LY IDAY IS CIRCLED in red on the calendars of Euvola Club members. It's a very special day to which they have been looking forward for months, It will be celebrated with the club's golden The “scene will be Westlake, The time, 9 p. m. to midnight, and Nick Craciunofu’s orchestra has been signed up t
During the school year the girls meet weekly on’ Friday nights in - each other's homes. There are such special events during the. year as an early spring pledge tea, a fall initiation dinner, dances, picnics in co-opera-tion with other subdeb clubs. At Christmas’ time they give baskets to the poor or support some Community Fund agency. Present officers with Judy are Nancl, Browning, vice president; Lynne Adams, secre--tary; Linda McLain, treasurer, and Beverly Lewis, candidate mistress. Judy is also general chairman for the gala anniversary event. Her committees include Nanci, chairman, Linda Woods, Janice Waterman, Sally DeVaney, Joy Gwen, Pat Hall, Ann Jones, Joy Northrup and Mary Jane Vandiver, punch party, and Lynne, invitations. - -
¥ ” . » ~ Janie Johnson, chairman, Dottie Gaskins, Sue. Teeters, Marjorie Becherer, Mary Ellen Burton, Flo Redding, Jane Owens, Susie Fall and Sandy ‘Allen, publicity, ; Beverly, Ginger Clark and Caroline Al: drich, chairmen, - Elaine Brannen, Nancy Campbell, Alice Graham, Judy Hottel, Barbara Jett and Marilyn Shaw, art and posters; Lindy, finances, and Bev Bryan, chairman, Nancy Buhr, Arleen Clifton, Barbara Nourse, Loretta
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"“doiibling in brass” for their second annual pair of
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Mrs. Tim Blakley In Manhattan—
nd 13 Style Shows
No Blows or Crockery In 5th Ave. fracas
Vanderbilt Brother and Sister Disagree
On Pensioning of Family Domestics
By CHARLES VENTURA ! NEW YORK, Sept. 2--It was a genteel fracas. No blows were struck, no crockery tossed, no loud voices leaked through
the gold-plated keyholes.
But the battle that raged in Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt's upper Fifth Ave. mansion may have’ repercussions in many a plush American parlor. Principals in the muted melee were Mrs. Vanderbilt's vage~
bond son, Neil, and his sister, Mrs. Robert Stevens Jr. The skirmish was fought over the famous dowager's will, Nail started eve by telling his sister he wanted their mother's will altered to provide bequests to all her servants, based on - their length of service. Mrs. Stevens counter-attacked by contending the Vanderbilt servants always had been wellpaid and should have saved up enough dough for their declining years. Neil begged to call his sister's attention to’ the fact that domestics had not been covered by Social Security until this year. Invoking the “Beatitudes and the Constitution, he thundered. that -it was only common degency to take care of people who have devoted their lives to one's service. There was, sald Neil, the case of the retired watchman,
now over 90, who recelvesno
pension” despite the fact he worked for the Vanderbilt family for nearly 70 years. He spoke touchingly of his mother's maid, who served the dowager queen more than 40 years;~of the chauffeur, a retainer for 44 years; of the butler, a veteran of 40 years with the silver salver, and of
~an-upstaire-maid-—who has
made the Vanderbilt beds during 38 long and cold win ters.
Legal Beagles Call
SISTER Grace listened with, _
impatience, then poo-poo'd
< Neil's lofty sentiments with =
the cynical crack that every one of the Vanderbilt servants could walk into a cushy job with any wealthy family in New .York, merely becatise they'd once toiled for the Vanderbiits. Besides, she said, Neil was nothing but a Socialist, “the. result of his long association with the hoi-pollofl during “his travels. The legal beagles were called in, the dowager Mrs. Vanderbilt's attorney, Ma}. Harry Hooker, - and .Sister
SECOND generation: Mrs, Albert Ellig (right), 520 N. Central Court, -Euvola member in her Shortridge High School days, looks over the group's : scrapbook with daughter, Patty, a Shortridge. graduate last
Grace's . mouthpiece both turned thumbs down on Neil's generous scheme, Said they didn't think the surrogate would okay any change in the mater's will at this time. Neil's lawyer, Col. Henry Joe seph, naturally begged to dif er—he sald it would be easy to slip in a provision gi each servant several h bucks for each year's service.
Bet on Reflexes
SEVERAL sons of riches are mad at Dan
steel heir and part-owner of
the New York Yankees, for stalling on a wager he made last May, eR Dan's bet, at 10 to 1, was that Earl E. T. Smith, a tall, slim pillar of the Union Club with a fat seat on the Stock Exchange, couldn't hit a baseball out of the infield if
into , argument about physi reflexes after 40. Mr. Topping said neither he
in that department and had aL Apiment. 4d .
Mr. Topping wheel Mr. Page onto the pitching mound so" he could show the world his prowess. But ever since, Mr. Topping has shown great reluctance about - getting on with the bet. At first he suggested the fans wouldn't like the idea - of him wasting the time and energy of his famous relief pitcher in the middle of a pennant race. Then he switched to solicitude for Mr, Smith— he said it would be awful if Mr. Page accidentally tossed
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