The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 16

Sunday, March 3, 1935. PAGE SIXTEEN PEO Chapters '4 i 'Hedda Gabler' Stirs Interest Katharine Stadler Tho Has Title Role Saw Eva Le Galjienne in It. Art-Literature to Hear Talk on Trip in England Art and Literature division of Decatur Woman's club will heari Rodney E. Spangler speak Tuesday afternoon of "Bicycling Through England." Mr. and Mrs.

Spangler passed several months a few years ago in England, traveling on bicycles through the country. The program will begin at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. R.

S. Hoffer will discuss Cornelia Stratton Porter. Shakespeare division will continue its study of the play "All's Well That Ends Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. The women will read act four under the direction of Miss Honora Haly.

Miss Emma Miller will speak of Paris and the Bastille. Psalemas division will meet Tuesday night, and have a study of coal. Miss Alta A. Dawson will discuss "Coal and Its and Mrs. F.

P. Brintlinger will have the subject "Illinois Coal Miss Bessie Landram is program leader for March. Members are asked to come at 7:30 instead of 7:45, the meeting being called earlier because of the Y. M. C.

A. Glee club concert, which some wish to attend. 'win' .1 mgmmmm7rmmmmmm 5o Tcvii'- --v A 1 I -X Miss Norma Obermeyer, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Walter M.

Obermeyer, who was 19 years of age March 1, sent a copy of this new picture to her parents as a surprise on her anniversary. Miss Obermeyer, whose father is pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church, is a student nurse in Barnes hospital, St. Louis, where she went in September. MeetMonday Three Groups Elect Officers; BC Has Din.

ner, BW Plans Lunch, eon. BC chapter of PEO Sisterhood will elect officers following the buffet supper to be served Monday evening in the home of Mrs. A. Pownall, 1357 West Macon street Supper wil. be served at 6:30 p.

Hostesses assisting Mis. Pown- a.l will be Miss Minnie Dill, Mn. Lowell O. Gill, Miss Ella Boyer and Mrs. Carleton F.

Mattes. BW chapter members will have luncheon Monday at 1 p. in the home of Mrs. Forrest File, 413 West Decatur street. The chapter will elect officers also.

Those ar- ranging the luncheon are Mrs. H. Alsip, chairman, Miss Lillij Chadsey, Mrs. J. R.

Holt, Mrs. J. A. Melrose, Miss Janet Anderson and Mrs. J.

K. Stafford. CX chapter will meet Monday 7:45 p. with Mrs. Harold Clyde Hess, 330 Iorth Oakland avenue, Officers will be elected during tie business meeting.

The Judean sponsoring a club of Peoria 1 Purim masqueradt ball in the red room of the Jelfer- son hotel in Peoria on Sunday even. ing, March 10. Masking is option- I al. Red Deames and his wen known orchestra will piovide th I music for dancing. Costume prizes I and door prizes will be given.

An 1 invitation is extended to Decatur Jewry to attend this affair. Tick- ets are 50 cents a person. Alpha Chi Omega honored its initiates Saturday evening in the chapter house with a dance. Lee Homebrook's orchestra played for aancing nora to ii p. m.

prof. and Mrs. Earl C. Kiefer and Dr. i-and Mrs.

Don Baker were chap- erons. Miss Betty Bennett was in charge of the dance. Ha-rry Barber will speak on "Our Municipal Government'' in Civiw division meeting Thursday morning. The program was arranged by Mrs. E.

H. Smith and will begin at 9.30 a. m. Members of other divisions are invited to attend. Mrs.

Ross Cadwell, 1440 North Main street, her daughter, Ann, and Joan Thompson, an advanced dancing pupil of Mrs. Cadwell, are taking Jack Manning's course in tap dancing in St. Louis today. The three went to St. Louis Saturday evening and will return this eve ning.

Ludwig Lewisohn is scheduled to give a talk on "The Spirit of America and Its Literature" Monday evening at 8 o'clock in Springfield K. of C. auditorium, as a number on the winter lecture forum. Tickets are 75 cents at the door. A number of Decatur persons hold season tickets to this series.

Auxiliary to Railway Mail association will meet Wednesday at 2 p. m. in the home of Mrs. R. P-Tence, 1734 North Monroe street.

Mrs. Adolf Ernst will be assistant hostess. Demtllr'K Beautiful tuntectUtntTj CHOCOLATE SHOP 355 N. Water Phone 2-1697 EVERY SUNDAY ICE CREAM Our Delicious Velvet Vanilla QL'ART 19c Fruit Nut, Honeymoon and OHn Other Specials, quart will FRESH MADE CANDIES Pecan Roll lb. 15c Whipping Cream Caramel, lb.

l3c Peanut Clusters I.h. 25c Glace Candv 2 lb. 15c Miss Katherine Stadler is one of Decatur's best known amateur actors, and to her has been assigned the difficult and exacting title role in "Hedda Gabler," the Town and Gown Play to be given March 15 in Millikin. Miss Stadler was one of the group of Decatur enthusiasts who drove out to Kansas City one Saturday last year to see Eva Le Gallienne in the title role of this same play, and drove back after the play the same night. i i I.

PHI i Hid a Sit 4 Newcomers Have Stag Dinner in have been in only three tournaments are expected to enter this tournament in order to become eligible for the playoff in April. Keen interest is being taken in the Town and Gown Players' March 15 production of the famed play. "Hedda Tickets are now in the hands of a small special committee, and members report a vigorous advance sale. Tickets are 40 cents each, and may be reserved after March 11 at Haines Es-sick's or the college supply store al Millikin. To skillful Katherine Stadler hae been entrusted the title role in the play.

She was one of that small group that, with Prof. L. C. Mc-Kabb, Town and Gown director, and Mrs. McNabb, made a flying automobile trip out to Kansas City-one weekend last year, to see famous Eva Le Gallienne in the same part.

The party left Decatur Saturday morning, saw the play-that night, left immediately after for Decatur aga-in. is'o attempt will be made in the Town and Gown production to attain realism or period styles. Hangings, furniture, costumes and lighting will help carry out the mood of the play, which is serious but not heavily tragic. Rehearsals will be intensive from now until the time of production, with emphasis upon tempo, rhythm a-nd character delineation, as well as careful nuances in meaning. The cast, already announced, includes in addition to Miss Stadler the following: Margaret Clark, Otto R.

Kyle, Roger Sparks of Shel-byville, Lynn Woollen, Jessie Lock-ett, Emily Jane Wood. The production staff is as follows: Assistant Director Eueene Jonquet. Stage. Manaiier Eugene Carveth. Electrician Berkeley Kinnaman.

Assistant Electrician Max Klinghoffer. Art Director Alexander Weiss. Property Director Annabelle McKlnney. Property Assistant Laura Belle Scott. Costume Director Rita Kell.

Business Managers Don Brooks, Wil- "An Old Fashioned Mother," a comedy in three acts will be pre sented by eighth grade pupils of St. Patrick's school Monday evening in St. Patrick's hall at 8 p. m. The play is being prepared under the direction of Rev.

Fr. R. J. Eagear. The cast of characters will be as follows: Mrs.

Enderhill, the mother Frances Ward. Gloriana Perkins, the maid Bernadine Brcnnan. Miss Custard. Tillage gossip Jane Dns-coti. Wicder Bill, more gossip Frances Dunne Isabel Simpscot.

village belle Mary Hs-1 nst rite. SiiKey, the bidder's mite Mary F. Canty John Underhill prodigal son Bernard KiKolla. Charley Cnderhili another son Edward Mi-Key. Jonah Quakenbush, village parson Edward Skeliy.

Jerry Gosling, braseart Robert Bulger. Enoch Rone, a reformed tramp Jack iiicBins. Ouintus Todd, James Dougherty. Choir members will he Helen Levora, Betty Kurtz, Marguerite Canty, Audrey Schneider and Mary Ellen Watkins. Dorothy Ann Hayes will be pianist.

Tito Schipa, concert soloist for whom Joi-e Echaniz piano accompanist for three years, will be the soloist tonight on the symphony orchestra program at 7 p. Decatur time, over the NBC network. Eugene Ormandy of the Minneapolis symphony will direct the concert. The program will be as follows: Overture tc "The Flying Dutcnman Wagner Orchestra Os.sian's song trom "Werther" "Una Furtiva Lagrlnia'' Irom EllsIr D'Airore" Mr. Schipa Massenet Donizetti deb Gracioso Dance of the Nymphs and Satyrs Ravel Georg Schumann Orchestra Ninna.

Nanna a Liana Renato Bellini Sw ef Song of Long Ago Ernest Charles Torna-Valente Mr. Schipa Mrs. Sadie E. Welty of Peoria, state juvenile organizer of Illinois Royal Neighbors of reorganized the juveniles of Golden Crown Camp No. 12!) Friday evening.

She was assisted by district deputy, Miss Alice Yates of Decatur, juvenile director, Mrs. Opal Burt, assistant juvenile director, Mrs. Roxie Olsen. The next juvenile meeting will be Saturday at 2 p. m.

in the I. O. O. F. hall.

Officers are as follows: Junicr oracle Doromy Surtace. Junior vice-oracle -Edith Ridgley. Junicr past oracle Norma Kidttiey. Junior chiinct-llcr John Ean. Junior recorder Norma Jean Burt.

Junior receiver betty Hanks. Junior marshal Geneva Lewis. assistant marshal Marie Sur-lace. Junior patriotism Gerald Carder. Junior Inner sentinel Bernard Carder.

Junior outer sentinel Everett Olsen. Musician Mattie Graybcal. Owen Scott Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will have a dinner-dance in the Masonic temple Friday evening, the serving to be at 6:30 p. in the ballroom. Three hundred tickets already have been distributed for this party, which first was scheduled for March 1 and later was postponed to this week.

Crescy Turner's seven-piece orchestra will play for dancing. Mrs. Grover Jenkins is in charge of the program, and will furnish some Drink Elks Club Monday William M. Smothers, railway freight agent for the B. O.

rail way, will speak to members of the Newcomers club at their stag party- Monday evening in the Elks club. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p. m. The subject of Mr. Smothers' talk will be "Transportation, Past and Present." Charles L.

Shaffer is in charge of arrangements for the dinner. Thirty members are expected to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Rugh are passing the weekend with their daughter, Miss Virginia Rugh, in St.

Charles, Mo. Miss Rush is a student in Lindenwood college in St. Charles. Word has been received by friends of Mr. and Mrs.

George F. Hess, who passed several weeks in Miami and are now in St. Petersburg, that they will leave for Decatur Monday or Tuesday. Tast Matrons, club, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet at 2:30 p. m.

Tuesday with Mrs. Fred Gep-ford, 440 South Water street. Assistant hostesses will" be Mrs. M. Florence Eilers and Mrs.

Anna May Buffington. A. and A. club will have dinner March 15 in Mrs. Webb's tearoom with Mrs.

Clyde B. Shaw as hostess. Bridge was played last Friday night in the home of Miss Nelle Betts following dinner in the Spanish Inn. Prizes were won by Miss Mabel Shaw, Mrs. William Starks and Miss Evelyn Simonds.

Paul McKinney. who is living in the Delta Sigma Fht house and attending Millikin university this year, is passing the weekend with his parents in Cisco. Junior Woman's Club To Have Its First Meeting Thursday Decatur Junior Woman's club, organized Feb. 21 in' Decatur for young women between 18 and 35 years of age, will have its first meeting Thursday of this week at 7:30 p. m.

in the Decatur Woman's club, 308 West Main street. The club plans to meet the first and third Thursday evening of each month. The membership drive is still being conducted and charter members will be admitted at this meeting. The charter will be closed after Thursday. Programs will be planned and will begin March 21.

Mrs. H. Stuart Gebhart is president ol the junior club, which had 22 members at its organization meeting. Theta L'psilon sorority conducted initiation services at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon in Aston hall for Dora Hewitt, Kathryn Stacy, and Mary Wilson, all of Decatur, and Georgia Walton of Areola. The pledges were riven the iris and covenant degrees.

The girls had been observing silence period from Friday morning until initiation time. Following the services the young women went to the home of Marianne Williams for dinner. Bridge was played in the evening. Out of town guests were Chloa Walton and Modesta Scott of Areola, Bernadine Johnson of Tolono, and Irene Peck of Cerro Gordo. Decatur club on Thursday will start the last mixed bridge tournament of the season.

The mixed tournaments for men and women have been played in October, November, December and February. Players who become eligible through this tournament will play in the high score elimination playoff tournament April 4, 11 and 18. There will be the second play this month on March 14. Players who CURTIS' Looks Minerva club members will meet at 10 a. Monday in Decatur and Macon County hospital home for nurses to sew and have a potluck luncheon.

Mrs. Gavin Mitchell, president, will name her nominating committee at this time. Mrs. J. J.

Moran, Mrs. P. W. Finn, Mrs. J.

R. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Elizabeth Hegarty have sent cards back to Decatur from St. Petersburg, where they have been passing the last few days. They arrived there Friday making the trip by automobile.

They j)lan to remain in Florida six weeks and will stop in Miami and other places. Eta. chapter of Beta Sigma Ihi sorority will hear Mrs. Edward Buckner, who recently returned from a conference in Washington. D.

speak Wednesday evening on "Causes and Cures of War." Mrs. Buckner will give some phase of the conference. The program will begin at 7:30 p. m. in the Hotel Orlando.

Mrs. W. E. Gollings and Mrs. E.

F. Dunn have charge of cards and tallies. Tau Kappa Epsilon has set April 27 as the date for the fraternity's annual spring formal dinner-dance. I Definite arrangements have not been made. Complete Line of New Watches Clocks Jewelry Cook Son, 125 N.

Main CLEANED AND PRESSED CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED for a mm New Phone Number 5414 I Launderers, Inc. WOOD ST. A Week or More Away March 11 Playground institute. Panhellenic. March 15 Town and Gown Players give "Hedda Gabler." March 16 Decatur -club St.

Patrick's day dance. March 18 Business Women's dinner. March 19 Nathan Milstein on Springfield Community concert series. March 20 Centennial P-T. A.

minstrel show. March 21 Legion auxiliary district meeting in Monticello. March 22 Johns Hill operetta. D. H.

S. juniors "spring festival" dance. All-Millikin song fest. March 23 Millikin sophomore cotillon. March 25 W.

C. T. U. spring institute. March 27 Roosevelt operetta.

Cincinnati symphony orchestra in Urbana. matinee and night. March 28 Public school glee club concert. D. H.

S. gives "Mile. Modiste." Roosevelt operetta. March 29 D. H.

S. gives "Mile. Modiste." Millikin and public schools close for spring vacation. March 30 Flower show opens in St. Louis, continues through April 7.

dancing talent from the Bowman School of Dancing, for the floor show. A DeMolay quartet will sing, and there will be a voice solo by Mrs. John Fleming of Paxton. Mr. and Mrs.

Fleming will be weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. Roy Bar-trem, and will attend the party with them. Mr.

and Mrs. Roy A. Stewart en tertained members of their Satur day evening bridge club last evening in-their home, 468 South Boyd street. Mrs. Leonard R.

Wallace of Ravena, a suburb of Akron, attended as an out of town guest with her father-in-law J. Frank Wallace. She and her youngest son came from Ohio a few weeks ago to visit her mother, Mrs. Clara Hawkins. and her sister, Mrs.

C. W. Scott. She made the trip with her father--in-law. who stopped in Akron on the return from a winter vacation trip to Florida.

Mrs. J. Frank Wallace remained at Ravena to pass a few weeks with her son, Leonard, and will return to Decatur next weekend. Mrs. Leonard Wallace will return to her home at the same time.

Globe Theater Flayers are giving two performances of Shakespearean plays Wednesday at the University of Illinois, presented by the Star Course and the Illini Theater Guild. Shortened versions of "Comedy of Errors" and'Mulius Caesar" will be given at 3 o'clock in the univer Glasses of Mrs. T. F. McVey is returning to- day to her home in Mattoon following a two weeks visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Dr.

and Mrs. Fred G. Ferguson. Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Ferguson of Mattoon, parents of Dr. Ferguson, and Mrs. Frank Chamberlin and daughter, Margaret, of Charleston passed Friday in Decatur with Dr. and Mrs. Ferguson.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond O. Augur have returned from the South where thejr passed three months in New Orleans and Shreveport, Canton, N. Texarkana, and Memphis, Tenn.

They passed last week in St. Louis. Mrs. Joseph Gourley and Mrs. Fred Shell of Decatur and Mrs.

Walter Ellsworth of Champaign drove to Jacksonville Saturday to be guests at the senior tea given in the afternoon in Jane hall by seniors of McMurray college. Miss Kathryn Gourley, a senior in McMurray college, is a daughter of Mrs. Gourley. Everett Lewey of Nokomis, Elmer Fawley of Marshall, and Alvin Eubank of Hillsboro, who are attending Millikin university this year, are passing the weekend with their parents. They are members of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Delta Delta Delta scholarship ring will be presented to Miss Jessie Baldwin at the annual pansy-luncheon in May. The ring is awarded each year to the initiate with the scholastic average. Alpha Chi Omega mothers' club will give a dinner in the sorority-house at 6 p. Thursday, guests to be husbands of the women, and the sorority daughters. Mrs.

Harry-Wheeler, Mrs. Charles Bennett, and Mrs. R. C. Doake will be hostesses.

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