Birthday
Parties Slated
Two birthday parties ar oh
the calendar for the coming week '
In honor of members ol the very
young set
Mrs. Parker Gies has invited
guests to her , home on North
23rd street Tuesday afternoon in
honor of the first birthday of
her daughter, Martha. The little
girl's father, Major Gies, is now
in Belgium.
;. A pink and white color scheme
"Will be carried out in the ap
pointments and a lighted birth
day cake will center the table.
Honoring Martha will be her
two grandmothers and aunts,
Mrs. M. E. Branch of Indepen
dence, Mrs. C A. Gies, Miss
Beverly Branch and lr- mr n
Morrison, Mrs. Boyd Walker and
Judy, Mrs. Peter Hoffert and Pe
ter John, Mrs. John Dietz and
Gwendolyn, Mrs. Gordon Black
and Diane, Mrs. Harry Clark and
Balph, Mrs. Et trick Stinnett
and Jimmy, I Mrs. Eric Allen, Jr.
and Kathie, Mrs. John Gallagher
and Patrick, and Mrs. Stanley
Wilt and Billy and Mrs. John
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Jimmy Weodry's Farty
Jimmy. Woodry, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Woodry, will
celebrate his fourth birthday on
Tuesday afternoon at an infor
mal party at the Woodry home.
Guests have been invited to
come between 2:30 and 5 o'clock.
After several hours of games a
.iier several nours 01 games a
birthday cake and refreshmenU
niaces for the ZtI JUSt
dils will provide the decorative .
note.
Jimmy's guests win be Patty
Claggett, Bobby Janice, Joy and
Tommy Herberger, Larry John
son, Carol and Gary Ramsden,
Conie Collins, Suzanne Johnson
and Delbert Isaacson.
Other guests will be Jimmy's
grandmothers, Mrs. Robert Mills
and Mrs. Jack Hyett, Mrs. Percjj
Meier, Mrs. Charles Claggett,
Mrs. Joseph Herberger, Mrs. Ro
, bert Ramsden and Mrs. Carl G.
Collins.
List Events .
Of Music
Week.
The dates of the National
Music week have been set as May
f through 13, but Salem's cele
bration of the annual event will
extend over almost two weeks.
Officially, Music Week will
open with a concert by the Wil
lamette university band under
the direction of Maurice Brennen,
at Waller hall, on Sunday, May
8. Ralph Dobbs will be piano
soloist. ;
Churches will have special
musical programs during their
regular services the opening day.
On Tuesday night the Business
and Professional Women's club
vocal ensemble wiU appear at
' Waller hall. Sacred Heart acad
emy will hold hold its annual
Junior and senior Tecitals on
Wednesday and Friday nights at
St. Joseph's hall. !
Friday's.Jrogram is the annual
presentation of an operetta by
children of Leslie Junior high -school.
A program of siJecial interest,
the date for which has not been
set, is " the recital of Prof, and
Mrs. Ralph Dobbs, who will give
a piano and organ concert.
A pre-Music week event will
be the Parrish junior high
school music festival to be held
at the high school Tuesday, May
2. The program to be" presented
by the Camp Fire Girls and the '
Tri-Y choruses under the direc- -tion
of Virginia Ward Elliott is .
another for which the date is in
definite. Mrs. Walter Denton is chair
man of music week.
Private and Bin. Walter L. Me
Dougal, Jr, are s p e n d i n g the
weekend at th country home of
bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
McDougaL Private McDougal has
been transferred from Camp Ro- -berts
to Seattle. His wife came
north from Hollywood to meet
him and together they will go to ;
Seattle. '
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Patricia
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LOCOl ACCOrdlOniSt
Tour With USO Entertainment. Troon
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By Maxioc Bores
Now we know that there is something in a name.
The little girl who grew up behind a big aocordion, is going to
take her instrument, pleasant personality and exceptional talent, and
go overseas with a USO entertainment unit. ' "
And about the name well, the name is Patricia Meisinger and
according to the family, meisinger means "strolling musician".
Last week Pat passed her
USO auditions in Chicago and
was assigned to USO. unit number-1,
soon to be sent to enter
tain "working" soldiers in tha
front line. If all goes well with
final physicals, "she's headed for
a globe tour:
After taking a four-weeks
course in theatrics in New York,
Pat will pack up exactly six
evening dresses, three dressing
short gowns and her accordion,
will don a WAC officer's uniform
and catch the. boat for overseas.
Work 4s exacting, and for all
the loads of numbers she knows,
there's nine or more hours of
daily practice to prepare for the
show. The program has been
laid out, although she had some
choice of numbers. In many
cases the Tcey had to be changed,
and a routine introduction learn
ed for group singing.
Entertainment will be in var
ious places, under many condi
tions. The group will entertain
the sick, the fighting soldiers, in
trains, planes, boats, huts and
open fields. The musician must
be prepared for all eventualities.
She even has to learn to drive
a jeep.
It wasn't just happenstance
that Patricia won her place in
the USO entertainment unit
she had to go out and work for
it.
Professionals warned that USO
entertainers are always "stars".
But Pat got herself an appoint
ment for an audition in Chicago
last week. She gave out with all
the personality, music and danc
ing she knew and only drew
a blank expression from the
judge. Then she asked if he'd
like "something classic and then
he smiled and she was in.
Being a professional ' music
teacher's daughter didn't mean
that Pat Meisinger would take
to music from the very start. Her
mother, Pricilla Meisinger (now
Mrs. J. A. Wiltsey) had to in
still music interest in her child
by constant prodding, just as oth
er mothers. ' First the mother
tried the piano, then marimba.
and guitar, but the future USO
entertainer just wasn't interest
ed, until she took up the accor
dion when 12 years old. Accord
ing to Mrs. Wiltsey, "I didn't care
for the accordion at first, and it
was a case of the teacher learn
ing the instrument for the sake
of the pupil."
; Since then, Pricilla Meisinger
Thons (751
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Meisinger
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Preparing For
has taught many Salem young
sters to play : the accordion, do
ing much to prove ifs potential
ities as an, instrument for better
type music.
Credit goes o the mother for
her daughter's Success, for ex
cept for one' summer's instruc
tion form Galli Rini in Los
Angeles, Pat's only accordion
teacher has been her mother.
When "Mrs Wiltsey told her to
"take a year- and see what you
can do, then go to college" Pat
knew it was up to her to ac
complish a ; lot in that year.
Last October, Pat almost 20, set
out for Minnesota.-
First she contacted booking
agents and got several small jobs,
then became a "stroller" in the
famous Niccolet hotel in Minn
eapolis. Here her talent for
playing by ear came to lier as
sistance, because her job was to
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Pat's next job was with the
International Harvesters on a six
weeks tour in theatres. Here she 4
did vaudeville acts,' was soloist
and piano accompinist for a vo
cal' trio. i ;
Then came the audition. if
And that brings us up to this'
very week,;; when Patricia slip-'
ped home for a few days before!;
starting out again. Of courser
nine hours practice a day would-?
n't be considered a vacation by
everyone but it's different when, -you
are a musician with dreams
of a wonderful future. ' f " I
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Relief .Corps at 1
Dinner Meeting
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The Woman's Belief corps ,
auxiliary to- the. GAR, observed
army day, April 6, with a din-
ner given by the Rebekahs at!
the lOOF hall. Justina Kildee!
. was toastmistress A meeting
.followed. Honors were given to
Commander Theodore A. Pen
land of Uie GAR; Ellenore M4
Zeller, national senior vice pres-
ident; Agnes E. Lndahl, depart
ment . pr e s i d e n t ; Gertrude;
Washburn, department treasur-
er; Zella H. Bartmess, depart-
ment secretary, all of Portland
Goldia Kyle, department, sen-:
ior vice president, and Bertha;
Loveland, department counsel-'
lor of Salem. Nellie M. lleck
Benscheidt, i Diva Rounds, Cora
: McBride, all past department7
presidents of Portland, and
other past idepartment officers;
Minda Slattery, of Eugene, Tlor-
ence E. Shipp, Ha.ttie B. Came-;
'. sarahiPeterson, iiieiia y
Engstrom, Rose B. Hagedorn,
Rose Voris, all of Salem..
Those initiated ; were Mes
dames Bessie W. Edwards, Ma
bel Gardner, Rhoda Nagle, Co-"
ral McNeill and Alta M. Scott!
At the next meeting fifteen
candidates will be Initiated. - f-
The Past Presidents club will
meet April! 10 at the home of
Florence E. Shipp, 1880 Nebras
ka street. There will be election
of officers.! A. card party is to
be held April 12 at the home of
Mrs. Goldia Kyle, 965 North
16th streetj - i I
Mr., and Mrs. H. L Standley;
formerly of Salem but now
residents, of Col ton, near Lot
Angeles, were surprised by i a
group of friends n their 49th
wedding anniversary. Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth C. Rose were din
ner hosts for the Standleys. Mr!
Standley was in the insurance
business here until they left for
the south last November. !
Mrs. Cari Emmons and Mrs.
Oscar L Paulson, sr., will enterj
tain members of chapter BC
PEO Tuesday afternoon at a one
o'clock luncheon at the former's
home on Fawk street. i
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You'yo seen a lew of theso Hadticm mahocjcLny
Mrring trays in! expensive little gift shops.
You've seen a few In department stores. You've
admired their rich rosy heen, you'vo touched
them and inarveled at their fine smooth texture.
But why haven't you soon a big display of them
In newspapers and znagaslnee? Bocauso no
store ever had enough Hcdflaa mahogany trays
to dare adveruso them that Is, no store untH
now, - j 1
Why Hot -here been so few? Bocauso Haltlan
mahogany trays are not masa-made on a pro
ducfloxt line.' Evory log is cut with a handsaw
high In fho Haitian hlUs and carried to bo tropi
cal towns below. These logs are carredL scrap
ed, smoothed, and polished by handto be
come the lovely: serving pieces youll ses at
Brown's. -
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' Only tha simplest tools or used and no two
trays are exactly alik. Just as xtotwo snaho
: gany logs ars alike. But all of them are Snt-
grained and hard. This is thai scan zBC-hogcary
-.that goes ' into heLdoom caUnets. cdeaming
k-bi top Unl rtsilly.yc4i4coiild only buy
thsM. trays If yoa vtaxted HcdtL Now voo can
buy 20 different styles at Brown's. Write or
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By Jeryme
AU REYOIR TEA on Friday :
for Mrs. John L. Rand, who
leaves in May for Portland to
live, given by Mrs. Henry A.
Cornoyer and daughter, Jose
phine (Mrs. James Clay Mobley)
at their north Summer street
home . . . Mrs. Rand, who will
be missed by her many Salem ,
friends, wore a becoming spring
print peplum dress in" shades of
red, green and blue on a "white.
background . . . Mrs.: Cornoyer' .
wore black with a white pleated
ruffle around the low neckline
and Josephine wore red silk jer
sey with a red and white- print
top and gold belt . . . Jo was
busy chatting with friends whom
she hadnt seen since her return
from Mississippi and Texas.
Several came from out-of-town
. . . Mrs. T. J. Rederich and
daughter, Mrs. George McShat
ko, (Margaret Louise Rederich)
were up from Vancouver, Wash.
. . they formerly made their
home - here and were enjoying
greeting their old , friends ...
Mrs. Rederich was smart in black
with a flamenco rose sailor . . .
: her tall brunette daughter was
stunning in black silk crepe en
hanced with Victorian rose flow
ers, long rose suede gloves and
a black straw picture hat wits,
coolie brim and black veil . . .
Margaret recently returned from
New -York City- where she has
been with her lieutenant colonel
husband . . . Mrs. Rand's daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Irving Rand,
wearing all black with Mrs.
Claude McCulloch, both from
Portland . . . the latter in a
brown suit and pert brown hat
with moss green trim . . . Mrs.
George A. White, who poured,
had a busy day socially as she
had been to a luncheon in Van
couver before coming to Salem
. . . Coming in later were her
daughter Mrs. George Elmer
Emigh and young daughter,
Diane . . . Dorothy tells us that,
her husband has been discharged
from the marines . . . the past
two months he has been in Cali
fornia coaching the Portland
Beavers ... Also here from
Portland was Mrs. Hall S. Lusk.
Beautiful arrangements of ca
mellias in shades of pink and
rose on the mantle and smaller
tables about the rooms ... a
low centerpiece of camellias on
the tea table and more on the
buffet ... A lovely vase of
quince on a table before the bay
windows . . Good to see Mrs.
Frank Snedecor and Mrs. .Walter
Stolz out again . . . the latter
with her daughter, Mrs. Willard
Marshall, stunning in a black
and white pin stripe skirt with
black jacket, off the face black
hat and silver fox furs . . .
Spring hats have certainly been
pretty this year and we love to
write about them ... Especially
liked Mrs. C. B. McCullough's
pink sailor . . . Mrs. Breyman's
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a big juicy
Shis one!
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Englishi
Boise's ny straw hat of golden
beige Yj Mrs. Max Buren's
lareg red cherries, around the
navy blue sailor embellished with
brim r Mrs. J. T. Whittig's
purple hat and" gloves . . . . Mrs.
Karl iKugel's shiny black straw
George H. Swift's red straw hat
sailor - with" aqua trim, Mrs.
and Miss Mabel P. Robertson's
white sailor. . : . . J
CHIC SPRING COSTUMES
glimpsed at the Girl Scout des- :
sert bridge "oenefit ' on Monday
... Two young matrons playing
together . . . Mrs. William Speirs,
who looked smart in a turquise
blue ' wool -' saHleur with which
she wore Kolinsky furs and a
tiny- blue straw hat with blue
flowers '. . and . Mrs. Douglas
Chambers wearing a pretty
heaven pink suit and matching
top coat with white square
cherks and small pink hat . . .
At another table noted Mrs.
Glenn Woodry distinctive- in a
grey suit with small wine stripe
and a large brown straw hat with
coolie brim and Kolinsky furs
. . . and Mrs. Charles Claggett
in a good-looking brown cardi
gan suit .with soft blue pin stripe
and a fsmalV hat embellished
with pink flowers ...
Seen arriving ". Mrs. F. W
Lehmer in a tailored grey three
piece suit with white stripe and
small blue flowered hat . . . -Mrs.
! Thomas E. Rilea in all
black and for a touch of color"
soft pink feathers on her black
'hat . i Mrs. R, D. Woodrow
wearing! a black suit with large
black straw hat and a bright red
topper . . Mrs. Charles A.
Sprague arriving with her
daughter, Mrs. Melvin T. Hurley,
. home from San Francisco, where
she has been living . . . the lat
ter wearing a black ensmeble
with black straw hat with white
trim and corsage of orchids sent
by her navy lieutenant husband.
Two new nurses aides who
bridge . v Mrs. A. D. Wood
took time off for a game off
mansee wearing a wide brimmed
orown straw sailor . . . and Mrs.
Edward A. Lebold attractive in'
navy blue and matching straw
cloche . i . Mrs. A. L. Adolphson
was smart in her all black out
fit and matching straw hat . . .
Mrs.; Ronald Jones was stunning
in her black cape ensemble with
blouse and lining of eape of black
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( Ty Spring orev even pure white. AM those Ugh, pretty
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with many Salem families thfe
spring ... and Mrs. Arthur Hay
moved last week into their newly
purchased home on South Lib
erty street . . . and at the same
time Mrs. Velma Farmer moved
back into her home on North
Summer street, which the Hays!
have been occupying . . . Mr.
and Mrs. Roy H. Mills will be
moving later in the spring to
their new home on South Winter! "
street . . With them will be
their daughter and . grandson, h
Mrs. Kenneth Hanson and
Mrs. Kenneth Hanson and Chart -Charles,
who are here until Cor
poral Hanson returns from Eur- .
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in Salem for a short while . .
' BRIEF NOTES . . . Visiting
Major and Mrs. Louis Schoel and
daughter, Jeanne( who were ;
here last week one day from:
Carmel where he is stationel '
nearby at Fort Ord . . . Gail:
looked her usual smart self in a
grey taffleur with matching hat
and grey feather trim . .
" Mrs. "Melvin Goodeof Albany
has been here visiting a .few
days and was all smiles as she
Is expecting her navy lieutenant
husband home soon from Hawaii
. he has been away nearly !
two and a half years . . . She!
looked smart in a beige taDleur, ?
"bloomer girl" sailor.
brown topper and brown - felt k
Two charming visitors In the I
capital this week . . . -Mrs. EmU I
Sick and Mrs. William Mulligan l
of Seattle, who were guests of f
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Shepard . . v
At the dinner the Shepards gave i
for their guests Tuesday night
Mrs. Sick; an attractive brunette, f
wore a stunning, black "5 o'clock
dress" enhanced with designs of
colored beads and a white dressy
sailor ... Mrs. Mulligan wore a
smart black frock and hat
her only ornament a brilliant pin j
at the neck.
Mr. H. M. D a d entrained
Monday for Montgomery,' Ala
bama to visit with his son-in-law
and daughter, Lt and Mrs. John
Kolb (Genevieve Doud) and his
grandsons, Patrick and MichaeL;
Lt Kolb was recently promoted!
to first lieutenant. S
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Mrs. Harry H. Weinsteln Is hv
Portland this weekend visiting?
with her sister, Miss BerniceJ
Hochfeld, yeoman first class,!
WAVE, who is home on leave
from Washington, DC.
Morten Prboram
is Today ;;
. Betty Jean Merten, Mezzo so
prano, a pupil of Lena Belle Tax
tar will sing in recital this after
noon at 320 at the Roberts tu- .
dio., Jewell Gueffroy will be her
accompanist. " ;
The following program will be
given: (
Spesso vibra per suo gioco Scarlatti
Plalalr d'amour Martini
An dim NachtigaU
An dw Velichen , ,
Der Schmted -
Nocturne F Minor
Fantasut Impromptu
The Little French Clock
Brahms
. Brahms
. Brahms
Chopin
Chopin
Kounts
Edwards
Into the Night
Pack Clouds Away McCollia
a spirit r lower cainpoeu-Tiptoa
Vala Russell
The Bird of the Wilderness Horsman
The Coming of Spring Rachmanlnotf
The AATJW afternoon liters-'
ture group will meet on Wednes
day vat tha home of Urs. W. E.
Kinsey, 940 North 15th street
The speaker will be Mrs. E. F.
Carleton, who will review "Im
mortal Wife by Irving Stone.
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