Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1950 — Page 29
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A PREXY WHO'S always willing to roll up her sleeves. when the going. gets
rough. That's Miss Josephine Madden, head of the Women's Committee, State Sym-
phony Society.
She is a leader, her executive board, com-
Section Three
Symphony Prexy's An Inspiring Leader
Miss Josephine Madden. . . she never fails to roll up her sleeves.
By JEAN TABBERT
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doing it for her own pleasure, describes her-
self simply as a “good listener.” The blue-eyed, blonde executive has a sincere interest in the children’s concerts, too, believes they're an important introduction to mere serious music.
She's in favor of the
radio, for as a youngster she spent many
mittee heads and co-workers say is inspiring,
8 “chief” who works the calendar ’round for the Indianapolis Symphony
the benefit of Orchestra.
A behind the scenes worker almost at the formation of the society, “Jo” Madden served on the office staff from 1939-1940. Because the organization needed topnotch personriel at the very beginning, she was appointed treasurer For. six years the books of the Women's Committee were handled by the
in 1940, capable Miss Madden. . When Mrs. vice presidency in 1947,
year.
Her sense of responsibility didn’t end when she was elected president of the committee. Last year she masterminded the fashion shows sponsored. by the group. Currently she's taking a special interest in the seasgn ticket Thursday and lasts
campaign. that begins through Oct. 5. State Trips THE LATTER “interest”
tive members. The
“treat.” she says.
She attends regional board meetings, too, .and does the endless planning necessary to co-ordinate the entire committee's jobs. ‘Guiding the collections of the small and special gifts divisions of the Symphony, she oversees the children’s concerts and the season She also sits on the men's board
ticket sales.
—of- the -seciety: . "Is music a vital interest in her life? As a child she took piano lessons, but found pracNow, appreciating what “Jo” is. making up for lost time. She's an enthusiastic student of Edwin Biltciiffe, pianist with the symphony. -about..playing.-before-an-.audience, she. enjoys
tice sessions a chore. she missed,
Jack Goodman gave her -the the two-year job became a prelude to the one she accepted last
) involves much trekking to the “nice” events various the state organization give for their prospec-. parties are always a
“JO” M
Sunday afternoons listening to the New York Philharmonic broadcasts, :
Civic-Minded
MADDEN has a loyal interest in civie matters, was vice chairman of the Community Fund one year, once was Junior League chairman of the Riley Hospital occupational therapy department. She's a vitally interested member of the Traveler's Aid Society board, the only post she failed to drop when she assumed ‘the Symphony Committee's leadership, When she isn’t living and breathing sym-
phony, Miss Madden likes to listen to records
of play duplicate bridge with her vice president, Mrs. Easley Blackwood, wife of The Indianapolis Times bridge columnist. ‘She plays a
solid game,” Mrs. Blackwood comments.
Club,
Former golf chairman of the Woodstock the indefatigable committee president says she's playing very well when she hits the 90's. In the winter she joins the Gay Blades and skates at the Coliseum. For four years ‘she’s -beena member of the Great Books group
at Butler University.
Musical Loyalty »
units of
LOYAL TO her musiéal interest, “Jo” Madden pursued that tack when she motored in Europe this summer with her mother, John J, Madden. She stood for an hour and a
Mrs.
“half to buy tickets for a concert by Wilhelm
Still shy
Furtwangler and the Concertge Bouw Orchestra at the Holland. Festival The festival celebrated the 500th anniversary of the country's freedom. All through the Netherlands, embourg and Scandinavia, she attended every church choir performance that was scheduled. —In-her-mother's-home; 4621 N. Meridian St, she plays errand boy, subs as cook when it's necessary. Famous cakes and cookies, she also likes to arrange the flowers her mother grows. dener,” Josephine Madden emphasizes. “Mother does that; I just like to putter and nurse the house plants along -in-the winter.”
in Amsterdam.
Belgium, Iux-
for her mouthwatering
“I'm no gar-
~ .honor for that class. took first on Diamond. Lake
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1950
‘Two-Level’ Party Is Post-Summer
Get-Together
en ore’ Around Ee
And Goings of Local Society
By KATY ATKINS. ; HOSE OF US IN TOWN last week-end ertainty
found: plenty of amusement.
The State Fair, “big-
ger and better” than ever, wasn't even as exhausting as usual with the wonderful new bus to get around in.
Along with the mammoth melons, the horse show and the fascination
cattle and sheep and hogs,
the handwork, the
of the midway there was a poignant note in the astounding number of young couples taking in" the sights with their arms
wound around each other
It was not according to Emily Post
but it was a- stark reminder of imminent separations,
td » Monday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Edwin McNally entertained in their lovely house and gardeén. The party was on two levels.
Friends of their sons, downstairs.
Dan and Sandy, It is an attractive spot with red-and-white striped
used the playroom
valances at the windows and travel posters on the walls. It is at ground level and opens on a brick terrace, on which was a “blister” from a plane supported by a white iron stand filled
with ice and “Cokes.” container. Small tables were scat-
tered on the lawn, some with garden umbrellas over them. All were covered with yellow cloths, while a huge arrangement of gladioli stood on the longest table at the far. end. Candles on the tables and lanterns in the trees were lit as dusk fell, The older guests stayed in the house and on the screened porch high above the : garden. Yel- ; low flowers made a bright note in the living room. Mrs. McNallyused, in the dining room, the colors I. alWays asso-
Mrs. Atkins
ciate with her. Pink and red carnations, pale sweetheart roses
and lavender spikes made a charmingly shaded center bouquet. As in any gathering, the talk was much of coming and
going. Alix ‘Thomson and Mary Boyd Higgins, both there, are going to Paris:
Alix on the Liberte this week and Mary on the Coronia. Bob ‘Hendrickson had just come down from Leland and left ‘Monday for New York where he lives,
Wawasee News MR. AND MRS. Gedorge Home spent the week-end with the Oren Ragsdales in Wawasee, getting in just in time for the party. They were
full of sailing news since the .
Ragsdales had won two cups. They gained permanent possession of the lightning class
trophy, having won for the
third successive year. They also got the Cynthia
“cup for piling up the highest
number of points for the season... This award has “been handed down since 1903 and was originated by the Lilly family. Indianapolis people are doing well in Wawasee. E. E. McLaren has just been-elect: ed Commodore of the Yacht Club and Harry and Frank
Levinson have taken all kinds
of honors in the snipe class. Harry won the Upper Great IL.akes Championship, the top He also
while Frank won on Eagle Lake. ) Merry Mixture IT WAS so chilly on Monday that from the fashion angle the McNally party was
a merry mixture. Pale pink
It, was. an ornamental and interesting
linen chatted witn black velvet. White pique and fall tweeds stood side by side.
Mrs, Howard J. lacy II wore dark clothes -a black dress. and squashy black
beret that had a brilliant big safety pin for ornament, Among the guests were the
Howard Griffiths, the Marsha!l Dales, Pete Daggett, Walter Bruetsch, Dr. and Mrs. James Collins, Mrs. Gilbert Hurty and Mr, and Mrs. Charles Culp. Mrs. Culp had
recently returned from Castle Park where she and her son spent six weeks. Mary Landers wore a soft mixed tweed dress with a small velvet collar. Her sister, Lucy, was hostess at a luncheon Wednesday to Kathy Nolan, Charlotte Colby, Rosanna Hall, Valerie Philpot(, Marianna Roberts, Peggy Stout, Mary Carolyn Swariz, Claire Wilkinson and Katharine Daniels. The party was for Katharine who leaves next week for Farmington,
Woodstock Dance STILL on the holiday: The Woodstock Club's dance Saturday was a pleasant, intimate affair, probably because the tables were in the ballroom and living room instead of off in the dining room. Marty Fortune wore an especially attractive red-and-white print with red shoes. She and Russ were at a large table with the Bill Fortunes, Pete Fortunes, Bob Bohlens, Bogardus Mitchells, Jack Weldons, Wells Hamptons and a number of others. The Jim Hutchinsons and Eldon Aligs were in a party with Mrs. Caroline Hargitt. The Don Kellers, Hobson Wilsons and John Geupels were in various groups.
As You Were
TWO WEEKS ago today
at abput 9:30 o'clock in the morning, some of us had telegrams from Caroline Peirce saylhg “come as you are” to a surprise party for her husband. Last night was the night. It proved that there are no lazy people in the group. Everyone was at least dressed and was -(or-claimed tobe) pretty well organized, There were some grass cutters in shorts -and some cooks with no lipstick, Deede and Louis Nie had just: got into" their swimming togs when the wire reached, them. They were good sports and didn't cheat for the party. It was a hilarious evening and a real surprise for the birthday boy.
A Woman Lends Hand To Women In Search Of Jobs
‘By AGNES H. OSTROM “YOUR FUTURE Is Our Business.” With that slogan directed to members of her own sex, a local young woman opened the glass paneled door of new offices
to trade Sept. 1. The. business with the
“for women only”
slant is the
Boettcher Employment Service and Employee Procurement
Service located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. Manager and innovator of the licensed agency is attractive,
blonde Betty Jane Boettcher. .
The idea of an agency to assist women in finding employment and to help employers hire them is strictly a “Boettcherism.” It grew gradually and persistently out of her own expérience in the field of personnel, 2 » » - “WOMEN HAVE more personnel problems than men ever do,” declares Betty in explaining her selection of the specialized approach toh profession. Too, her exveiience has been primarily in handling women, Because she is a woman herself she feels. she ean understandingly cope with their situations. A “Fair City” native and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John — E. Boettcher, 6386 Broadway, Betty entered the “BG” ranks after two years in Butler University. 8he discovered her real niche eight years ago when she joined the state's first employment agency, the Brown Efficiency Bureau, as placement manager of women, Boon she became assistani secretary of that agency. g r = ” "A CERTIFICATE in advanced personnel management in Indiana University Extension whetted her en-
management in University. Shortly before the Korean War she resolved to try her wings in the executive role. Advisedly and with some qualms she left Brown's July 1. The next two months were devoted to finding A office space, equipping and decorating it, ordering supplies, sending out 1000 signed letters to prospective employers establishing a secure beachhead. Nor did Betty's ingenuity end with starting a business
Columbia
“with a distinctively feminine —
angle. She's trying display advertising, something brand new. for an employment agency, She's also designed a new type of introductory card. Simple and brief it combines the applicant's record with’ the introduction to the ‘employer, is. small enough to slip conveniently into a woman's purse. ‘= = a AT THE END of the first day in her flower-filled headquartérs, including a recep-
- tion room and an inner-office — for private interviews and - telephone conversations, she had tallied 50 orders
employers and had placed one applicant. Job requests are sifted carefully. If there is anything
© questionable about them
Betty will make a check in person. Her main objective
is “to fit the job to the per-
son guided by the employer's specifications and the
- ployee's desires.”
5
from .
en em-
Betty's ‘experience with
women has included the sn-
cial as well as the business
scene. From 1947-49 she sue- :
; ~Phote by Bill Ostes, Times Stat Photographer. ~~ Miss Betty Jane Booticher ‘es Indianapolis’ newest feminine executive,
Alumnae Club of Kappa
- Alpha Theta Sorority. Last
Year on vocations days in the
- high schools she advised g gira Interested in business
A past secretary of the As- - sociation of Personnel Women, she also 1s ‘A member of the Indianapolis Chamber Commerce and ita Women's Council,
In.a Personal Vein—
Clubs. 31, 3, 37 Fashions es] Food ....34,35 Teens cainne 40
Brown County Sef Has Busy Social Schedule
Brown County bridge party . . , (at table, left and clockwise) Mesdames Claude Burch L.|
Times photos by
Walker, Eleanor E. Snodgrass and Myron Rees (in rear, left to right) Mesdames Dale Bessie, 5
ert Gregg, Leota Loop and E. F. Raider.
By MARJORIE TURK REPUTATIONS are deceiving. Those who think of Brown County as a rustic artists’ colony and a resort for roughing it have the wrong idea. There's a social set-up in those southern Indiana hills which the ladies of Newport might envy and the matron of Indianapolis find exhausting. Most of the residents In and. around Nashville are former Indianapolis householders. And they are a very gregarious group. nw ~ ~ MEMBERS of Bridge Club 1 farm the nucleus of the socjety. They started meeting for luncheon and cards 15 years ago. Ever since they: have been gathering on alternate Wednesdays with willing substitutes to fill in for traveling absentees. In fact, the original group became so popular that last vear Bridge Club 2 was organized to ‘fill ih the free Wednesdays, » ~ . AT THE LAST session of Bridge Club 1, Mrs. Leota Loop was hostess. Mrs. Loop, who has been painting cate flowerpieces Shia Brown County SR or over 30 years, has her work day arranged to fit the social. pattern, The artist paints in the mornings, leaving her afternoons free for partying and callers, 5 Highlight event was the hostess’ centerpiece the Meissen figurine pictured. Mrs. Loop purchased the china group on her
recent Kuropean trip. Indirectly it was a gift from Bridge Clubs 1 and 2. (Mrs.
‘Loop belongs to both.) “ - ~ ~ EACH WOMAN in the organization gave $1 and asked the artist to bring back an object all could enjoy. Mrs. Toop, besides readying her gallery home for the party, prepared the meal It's a anh rule that only two dishes be served. The flower-painter
chose chicken salad and Eng- By
Heh triffles: The two-dish rule didn't prevent the hostess from including extras. On the main course plate she had her own pickled crabapples and watermelon. preserves, Members and guests represented a typic al cross-section of the colony. A practicing
, attorney and the wives of an
artist, a newspaperman, an engineer, businessmen and retired businessmen were present,
In Manhattan—.
‘of Wednesday's -
Meissen figurine
decorates table for luncheon. The art object ‘was brought back from a European
sojourn,
Gould Heiress Faces a Love Suit in Vermont
By CHARLES VENTURA Times Special Writer EW YORK, Sept. 9 - Stagnant playwrights and cinema hacks who are
tired of rewriting the same
plot —baeckdrops might listen to the latest in
the life of Gould heiress, Mrs.
» Ernst Hdefer Jr; for a differ-
ent twist, The former Silvia Gould
finds herself a defendant in
an alienation of affections suit over her second husband, despite the fact that she has long since divorced him and married a third mate.
Lorraine Jackson Parker, _
party of the first part, didn’t take two years to get mad at Silvia for marrying novelist — Bob Parkar less than a mouth after she and Bob were d1vorced. It took that long to catch: Silvia in Vermont and serve the papers. - Mr. Parker was very: much
_ married to the brunet Gould
heiress on Aug. 10. of 1948, when his- first wife started
"suit in Windsor, Vt., accusing * Bilvig of plifering her hus- - band and gsking for $30,000 4 :
amages. When Silvia ducked serves,
“signed-{t-over-to-his rich wife
the court attached the Woodstock, Vt. property, Where she and Bob had been living. Ironic twist to the tale is that the property originally belonged to Mr. Parker, who
as a wedding present,
Hush-Hush
LAST July 12, over a year:
after she and Bob Parker had been legally freed via a Virgin Islands’ decree, and a short seven months after she wed Ernst Hoefer Jr, Silvid made the mistake af dropping around to Vermont, That did it. Now that Silvia has been served with the papers, It looks as though she will have to face a Vermont jury some-
time in December. Despite the
a
wealth and prominence of the descendant of Jay Gould. not a line of the legal proceed“ings In Vermont appeared in
metropolitan newspapers,
‘until ‘now, It's all been very hush hush but thiere are likely to be headlines im December, when a .lady goss to court tn ste another lady for allenating the affections of a hwa-
rn fr
band who is no longer mas ried to either of them. More legal clouds loom for the Gould _heiress. Novelist Bob Parker, who is an apparently disinterested party in alienation
suit, is waxing both wroth and legal because Silvia refuses to allow him to see their cute 3%-year-old little girl,
Reverse Cinderella
A COUPLE more charac ters looking for a playwright are a young fisherman named ‘Frank Laiser and Gracia (Topsy) Rinehart, heiress to a plate-glass fortune through her late grandfather, ‘Arthur
~—Amory Houghton,
Topsy's chi-chi friends wt be startled to ledrn that she has been married for twe weeks to a young fellow whose fishing - boat she used te charter in Palm Beach. Topsy's servants alse were startled when the nice young fellow who used to drop inte the kitchen for a cup of coffes and a pleasant chat, while
of affections