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Saturday, Janffary 21, 1939 The Capital Journal, SatemJ Oregon Five SO CIE' By Rovena rf Reveals Betrolhnl Miss Barbara Porter, attractive daughter of Carl A. Porter, who it Announc ing her engagement to Russell McJury of Portland, son of Mrs. L. S. Mertweather of Portland. The wedding will be an event of the early Summer. (Jestcn-MUler Portrait) CORDIAL SOCIAL INTEREST Is being evoked In the announcement of the engagement of Miss Barbara Porter, daughter of Carl A. Por ter, and Russell McJury of Portland, son of Mrs. L. S. Meriweather of Portland. The announcement la being made this week-end and the wedding is ex pected to be an event of the early Summer. Miss Porter, who recently moved to Portland, has been a popular member of the capital's deb set. She attended Oregon State college, where she was affili ated with Pi Beta Phi, national social sorority. -She Is now connected with the First National bank of Portland. Mr. McJury is a prominent member of the Cas cade Ski and Y-East Ski clubs and the Multnomah Amateur Athetlc club. He is known throughout the state as an expert skier. He Is connected with the First National bank of Portland. One of the most brilliant concerts of the season will beheld next Wednesday night at Leslie auditor ium when the Salem Community Concert association sponsors the Kneisel-Alden-Turner trio. The trio, composed of violin, cello and piano, is one of the best-known playing groups in the states and much Interest is being evoked in their appearance in the capital. The program has been announced as follows: I Trio in G major. No. 1 Haydn Andante - Poco adngio cantabile - Rondo all 'Ongareae Kniesel-AIcien-Turner II Rondo Boccherini Arioso Bach Satyr Dance -John Alden John Aldcn Robert Turner at the piano III Nocturtne In D flat major, opus 27, No. 3 Chopin Waltz: "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauaa-Schulz-Evler Robert Turner Intermission. IV Praeludium and Allegro Pugnanl-K re idler Apres un reve Faure Polonaise brllllante In D major Wienlawski Frank Knlesel Robert Turner at the piano V Andante Beethoven Scherzo Mendelssohn Poeme romantlque Fourdratn Russian Sailor Dance Gllere Knlesel -Alden -Turner The Linns club auxiliary Is planning a Valentine's party honoring their husbands on February 9. Saturday night members of Beta Sigma Phi will nold their area meeting with members of the Salem chapter acting as hostesses. Delegates from the two Portland chapters, As toria, Albany end Salem will be In attendance and comprise district No. 1. A banquet will be held at Schneider's at 7 o'clock with Mrs. Oeorge Scales, president of the local chap ter, presiding. The district will be officially organized at this time and delegates will be elected to the state convention to be held in Portland this summer. Mrs. Thomas J. Drynan has been appointed by national headquarters of Beta Sigma Phi, national educational sorority, to organize the various chapters of the state into areas and plan the first state con ventlon. There are three area councils in Oregon. Miss Ida Jo Eaton Is making arrangements for the banquet and the table will be centered with Talisman roses carrying out the gold and black colors of the sorority. Hostesses are Mrs. Thomas J. Drynan, Mrs. Oeorge Scales, Mrs. Frank Sharer, Mrs. Leslie Whltehouse, Mrs. Lynn Heise, Mrs. Richard Devers, Mrs. Harry H. Weinstein, Miss Ida Jo Eaton, Miss Gwendolyn Hunt, Miss Betty Read, Miss Dorothy Blaisdell, Miss Mary White, Mlsa Cynthia Delano. Miss Hattie Bratzel. Miss Velma May, Mrs. William Busick and Mrs. Kenneth Bell. TY Eyre ) -RS. CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Oregon's first lady and a past state president of the P.E.O. . Sisterhood, will b3 honored with a large and beautifully arranged tea Saturday, February 4, when chapters G, AB and C, PjE.O. Sisterhood, composing the Salem P.E.O. council, entertain. The affair will be held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Burton Myers with calling hours from 2 until 4 o'clock. The guest list will include all Salem P.E.O. 's, visit ing members, representatives of the Willamette valley P.E.O. council, state past presidents and officers and members of the state P.E.O. board. Mrs. Arden A. Reed will introduce to the line, which will include Mrs. Charles A. Sprague, the hon ored guest, Mrs. Earl Cooley, Mrs. Lestle Sparks and Mrs. Carl Emmons. Mrs. E. C. Richards will be in charge of the dining room and officers of the P.E.O. chapters will assist in serving. Alternating at the urns will be Mrs. Walter B. Robinson, Mrs. W. W. Moore, Mrs. Mary Rauch, Mrs. R. J. Hendricks, Mrs. Jessie Calvert Singleton and Mrs, Louis Anderson. Visiting P.E.O.'s in the capital are asked to call Mrs. Gardner Knapp, 4558, in regard to the tea. Miss Constance King of San Diego, house guest of Mr. and Mrs. David King, will be honored with a buffet dinner this evening at 7 o'clock when the Kings entertain. Miss King is a sister of Mr. King and Mrs. Estea Snedecor of Portland. Rainbow, Order for Girls, will hold installation ceremonies in the Masonic temple Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock with the public invited to attend. A short business meeting will be held at 7:30 o'clock. Miss Clare Marshall will be crowned worthy advisor by the newly installed officers. Following the installation ceremonies a reception will be held on the seventh floor. Arranging the af fair are Mrs. C. C. Gabriel, Mrs. Albert Smith. Mrs. Harold Philippl, Mrs. Winifred R. Herrick and Wayne Henry. The white and gold color theme will be car ried out in the appointments. Installing officers are Barbara Lamb, Installing worthy advisor; Anna Mae Grabcnhorst, installing chaplain; Esther Vehrs, installing marshal; Helen Kcstly, installing recorder; Doris Taylor, installing organist; Patricia Niemyer will sing several numbers. Clare Marshall, worthy advisor; Marcelle Herb ster, worthy associate advisor; Carmen Jean Vehrs, charity; Elizabeth Anne Herrick, hope; Oeorge Cook, faith; Dorothy Barham, treasurer; Jean Holtzman, recorder. Appointed officers include Margaret Sehon, drill leader; Norma Hodge, chaplain; Betty Demarest, choir director; Doris Harold, musician; Peggy Jo Rein holdt, inner observer; Barbara Jean Vincent, outer observer; Ilene Paulson, love; Betty Wirth. religion; Civilla Keener, nature; Patricia Manning, Immortal ity; Mary Ellen Bywater, fidelity; Edrudell Boyd, pa triotism; Maybelle Frazer, service. The choir includes Patricia Riches, Betty Cooper, Betty Jane Thomas, Jeanette Graber, Lois Froland, Lucille Boehringer, Rosemary Bell. Marybell Yantis, Suzanne Wilson. Sally McLellan, Evelyn Collins and Margaret Prescott. Also installed for the coming year will be Mrs. Wayne Henry, mother advisor; advisory board: Harry Crawford, Larry Flagg. Mrs. C. C. Gabriel, Mrs. Wini fred Herrick. Mrs. Georgia Cook, Mrs. Nellie Reeher and Mrs. Emma Piece. Salem Junior Woman's club announces that it will entertain with its annual St. Valentine's ball Saturday, February 11. from 10 until 1 o'clock at Hazel Oreen. The 8e Rine band will play for dancing. Mrs. Oeorge Fletcher and Mrs. Ray Lafky are in charge of the decorations and arrangements. Mrs. John Ca (trail (Ruth Geer) Is chairman of the ticket committee. Tickets may be obtained by calling her at 9263. THE PAST WEEK has kept capital social! tea and their guests in a dizzy whirl of parties . . . and the weeks to come promise even mora affairs to be given in honor of the legislative contin gent. Stellar event of the week was the "at home given by Governor and Mrs. Charles A. Sprague in their North Fourteenth street residence Thursday evening honoring legislators and their wives. Friday afternoon Mrs. Douglas McKay and Mrs, Ronald Jones, wives of Marion county's senators, entertained with a beautifully arranged tea at the former's home in Jerris avenue complimenting mat rons who are in town with their husbands for the legislature. Informal luncheons, afternoons of bridge, teas and dinners take the focal point and the Tillicum club's . formal dance next Tuesday night is evoking interest of society folk Mrs. Charles A. Sprague has designated Tuesdays as her day "at home" and Salem women and wives of legislators are invited to call on Tuesday afternoons at the governor's home in North Fourteenth street. Mrs, George Rhoten, Mrs, Gardner Knapp and Mrs. Earl Cooley are planning a series of three dessert luncheons for next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the former's attractive home In South Church street. Royal Neighbors of America will meet In the Fra ternal temple Monday night at 8 o'clock. Installation of officers will be held. Councilors of this district of the Federated Musis clubs will meet for luncheon Wednesday at 12 o'clock at the Hotel Argo, preceded by a business meeting at 11:30 o'clock. Dr. J. F. San tee of Oregon Normal school at Monmouth will speak on "Preface to Soma Present Day Economic Problems." Another distin guished guest will be Mrs. K. D. Elliott, also from Monmouth. Town and Gown club will gather at Lausanne hall next Thursday at 2:30 o'clock to hear Charles Edward Wilson, former secretary of the Salem Cham ber of Commere speak on his tour of the continent. Hostesses ti the affair will be Mrs. A. F. Marcus, Mrs. J. F. Savage, Mrs. D. A. Hodge, Mrs. S. P. Kimball, Mrs. F. W. Power, Mrs. N. J. Undgren, Mrs. Fred Anunsen, Mrs. J. A. Mills, Mrs. Charles O. Wilson, Mrs. L O. Clement and Mrs. Ray Yocom. Dr. Bruce R. Baxter entertained a group of men at luncheon Friday at University House, following the chapel talk given by Dr. F. M. Davenport, president of the National Institute of Public Affairs in Wash ington, D. C. The luncheon was arranged in his honor. Present were Dr. Davenport and Richard Mont gomery of Portland, his classmate at Wesleyan uni versity, Governor Charles A. Sprague, Secretary of State Earl Snell, James Haziett, David Eccles, Earl Fisher, Daniel Fry, Professor William C. Jones and Dr. Baxter. At a meeting which was held at the home of Mrs. Glen Seeley an organization was formed by the mothers of members of Chemeketa chapter. Order of DeMolay, to assist the chapter in various undertakings. Officers elected are: President, Mrs. Glen Seeley; vice-president, Mrs. Larry Fletcher; secretary, Mrs. Herman Lafky; treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Van Wyngarden. Other members are Mrs. D. C. Roberts, Mrs. C, C. Blodgett, Mrs. Milton F. Hoyser, Mrs. Rex Putnam, Mrs. Earl Snell, Mrs. T. M. Hicks, Mrs. Oscar Paulson, Mrs. B. F. Pound, Mrs. J. W. Hansel, Mrs R. D, Bright. Mrs. R. D. Gibson, Mrs. Albert A, Siewert, Mrs. L. A. Scheeler, Mrs. Clifton Mudd, Mrs. J. N, Bishop, Mrs Charles Dolen Hatfield, Mrs. George Alex ander, Mrs. William Fillmore, Mrs. Dean Goodman, Mrs. F. J. A. Boehringer, Mrs. William Cottew, Mrs. L. M. Roach, Mrs. Clare A. Lee, Mrs. Wayne E. Green wood, Mrs. W. A. Johnson, Mrs. Jim Hatfield, The club will have charge of a luncheon for the district council of DeMolay, which will be held Sunday in the Masonic temple. Mrs. D. C. Roberts is chair man with other members of the club assisting. O. E. S. Social Afternoon club Is inviting all visiting Eastern Star members to attend the meeting to be held at the Masonic temple at 2:15 o'clock Tues day afternoon. A program is being arranged. Dr. Helen Pearce of Salem, president of Zonta International, who entrained Thursday evening for the middlewest to pay official visits to clubs there, will be extensively feted during her trip. In St. Paul Dr. Pearce will be honored at the annual winter sports carnival and presented with a "carnival coat," one of the honors paid distinguished folk during the festivities there. Leslie Farrington, chairman of the St. Paul Junior Chamber of Commerce and a past national president of the Junior Chamber, will make the presentation. He Is head of the carnival directorate. The coat will be presented at the ice palace, the scene of the sports carnival. Mrs. Clifton Ross entertained informally Thurs day in compliment to members of the K.C.K.T. club and several additional guests. At the tea hour Mrs. Fred Prince assisted the hostess. Narcissi and hea ther, guarded by tall yellow tapers, were combined to make an effective centerpiece. Present were Mrs. Harriet Prince, Mrs. Fred Prince, additional guests, Mrs. Ray Clark, Mrs. E. J. Donnell, Mrs. A. A. Graber, Mrs. Hattie Given, Mrs. Nellie Knox, Mrs. Mary Rogers, Mrs. Delia Schell bcrg, Mrs. Ralph Thompson, Mrs. Roy Wassam and the hostess, Mrs. Clifton Ross. Bib 'n Tucker f By Roby laughlin HATS .... foolish? Well, maybe they are, but what's life without a little fun? We're really irked today , , , about the male species' attitude toward women's hats Futhermore, we wish they'd quit complaining about them. . . . We're particularly Irked at a well-known male columnist who says "One of the more pathetic sights of the season Is that pre sented by those poor, docile females . , . who have permitted the milliners and the fashion magazines to crown them with a type of hat which not only makes them look absurd but makes husbands, suitors and other males ashamed to be seen with them in public places." . , . Well, we grant that present-day hats may be foolish. . they may even be idiotic . . they may be nothing but a farce. . . . But we still Insist that, when bought in good taste, they are artistic and becoming. , , , Women are "wowing" the men more today than ever before, and almost any where you'll hear men admit that women appear more attractive than they have for many years. . , . Why? Because now they show their personalities. . .'. , Their hair Is brushed away from their foreheads and up from their ears into interesting and soft, feminine coiffures. , . . The hair is artistically waved, curled and shining. . . . And these good points are allowed to show under the new hats. . . . They aren't covered1 up any longer. . . . Would men have us women go back to the days of "rats." when hair was messed ail over the (concluded on page 8, column It ORD WAS RECEIVED today by Mrs. Arnold A. Krueger, vice-president of the Salem MacDowell club, from John H. Patrick, lead ing American basso or the Chicago City Opera com pany, who is at present in Hollywood fulfilling engage ments there, that he has accepted the invitation of the MacDoweJl club to appear in Salem as soloist on Its winter concert Thursday evening, February 2. The club considers Itself particularly fortunate be cause he has one of the heaviest concert seasons booked from coast to coast. The concert next month will be given In Leslie auditorium. Mr. Patrick has made rapid strides in his art In recent Masons and has been acclaimed by critics and concert audiences from ocean to ocean and from Canada to the gulf. He is considered one of the out standing finds of the decade. Eugene Stinson, music critic of the Chicago Dally News, calls him "another Plancon, with a voice of phenomenal richness, sonority and depth." Gall Martin in the Salt Lake City Deseret News prophesies that he will develop "into one of Ameri ca's most distinguished oratorio singers a phenome nal voice linked to a gracious and likeable personality." Mary Garden, noted opera singer and authority, exclaimed when she heard him sing, "What a mag nificent voice I Three bassos have thrilled me. Plan con, Challapin, and now Mr. Patrick. When he sings in Russian, his voice takes on all the color and inter pretation of the great Challapin, and when he sings Handel and in English he reminds me so much of the beauty and smoothness of that greatest of all bassos, Plancon." In a letter she wrote, "John Patrick has a bass voice unique In its depth, color, and vlb rance of tone. I see for Mr. Patrick a very great operatic future." Mrs. J. A. Krebs entertained with a prettily ap pointed shower in her Saginaw street residence Thurs day afternoon honoring Mrs. Robert A. McFarland, who was Grace Clark before her marriage in early January. Spring flowers in pastel tones were used about the rooms where the afternoon was spent informally. Mrs. Richard Devers as&isted her mother at tea time. Bidden to honor Mrs. McFarland were Mrs. Paul Hauser, Mrs. Edwin Armstrong, Mrs. L. P. Aid rich, Mrs. Essie Hinkle, Mrs. Richard Devers, Mrs. Maud Armstrong, Mrs. Julius Grler, Mrs. Paul Smith of Eugene, Mrs. Van Valkenberg of Silverton and the hostess, Mrs. J. A. Krebs. Friends of Gretchen Spencer will be Interested to know she has been elected a member of the Alpha Tau Delta sorority, national sorority of nursing. Miss Spencer Is a senior at the University or Oregon medical school of nursing in Portland. Mrs. O. B. Allm of Brownsville Is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Purbrick, 900 North Commercial street. During her stay she has been entertained with luncheons and dinners given In her honor by Mrs. Kile Cook, Mrs. Harold Purbrick and Mrs. Maude Adams of Pr ingle, who entertained the Pringle Wom an's club. Prominent Matron Mrs. Vernon A. Douglas, wife of Or. Douglas, who la hciding the committee on ar rangements for the Preside nt's Birthday party, which will be held January 30 at the armory. (Jesten MUler Portrait). Reynolds -Newton In the presence of a few Intimate friends and members of the family. Miss Beryl Newton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Newton, formerly of Salem, became the bride of Wallace E. Reynolds of Winthrop, Wash., January sixth, it is being announced. The nuptials were read by Rev. Dr. Lash of the Hollywood Congregational church In the picturesque setting at the Wee Kirk O' the Heather in Olendale, Calif. The bride wore a becoming dressmaker suit of debutante blue with accessories of navy and a corsage of gardenias and lilies-of-the-valley. The bride's brother, Jerry Newton, served Mr. Reynolds as best man and James Tweedt served as usher. Mrs. Reynolds attended the University of Wash ington, where she was affiliated with Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Mr. Reynolds Is an electrical engineer and was on the Grand Coulee dam project In the northwest. The young couple will make their home In Bell, suburb of Los Angeles. The Artisans Woman's club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. John Shafer. The Salem Business and Professional Women's club will have Its monthly meeting Tuesday, January 24, at the Golden Pheasant. There will be a short meeting of the board prior to the dinner. Dr. Gussle A. Nilcs has secured C. C. Chapman, representative from Multnomah county, as the speaker. His topic will be "The Legislature." Mr. Chapman has been Interested In good govern ment since the "nineties when he held the position of political editor of the Chicago Dally News. He went to Colorado in 1903. He came to Portland in 1904 where he worked In the advertising business. He established the Oregon Voter In 1915. He has been active in all the civic clubs In Port land, having been president of many of them. He Is past state chairman of the Red Cross and Is known as the "Father of the Oasollne Tax." Mr. Chapman has attended 27 legislative sessions, 33 of them In Oregon, and in 43 years he has missed only one week of the legislature. r i w' i-N OUTSTANDING NOVELTY, a French horn 0J quartette, is to be an important feature of y-S -HL the next Philharmonic orchestra concert, which Is dated for Monday, February 0, at the high school auditorium. The quartette is composed of four boys, all members of the orchestra Hume Downs, soloist, William Laughlin, Alan Robertson and Billy King. They are to be heard In the ever-popular "Pilgrim's Chorus" from the Wagner opera "Tann hauser." Hume Downs, the son of Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Downs, Is a freshman at Willamette university. He is one of the most versatile of Salem's younger musl sians and a member of the university band in which he plays the baritone horn, a member of the municipal city band as a French horn player, a violinist of no ordinary talent and member of a stringed trio, and Is featured as French horn soloist with the Philhar monic Orchestra. In this concert he will also play the horn solo in the stirring Overture to "Mignon," which the orchestra Is to present. William Laughlin is the son of Professor and Mrs. S. B. Laughlin, and Alan Robertson Is the son of Mrs. Louise Robertson. Both are students at Salem high school. Billy King comes from Silverton to be a member of the Salem orchestra. Conductor Edouard Hurllmann feels fortunate to have such an excellent horn section in the orchestra and for this reason decided to feature it in this concert. Miss Kathleen Broer, talented young violinist. Is also to be heard in solo in the February concert. She will play a special arrangement of Saint Saens' "The Swan" with harp accompaniment played by Doris Helen Calkins, prominent harpist from the University of Oregon. Miss Broer is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Broer and is well known in the capital city for her exceptional musical ability. She has been a member of, the orchestra since she was 10 years old and is now assistant concert-master. She Is a member of the Crescendo club in high school and is studying the violin with Edouard Hurllmann. William Bush, baritone, who was scheduled to appear in this coming concert will not be heard due to the fact that he has accepted a position in Seattle and has gone there to make his home Mrs. James Campbell will return from Seattle Sunday, where she has been visiting, to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Campbell until next Friday when she will leave for her home in California. Alpha Mu Delphians will gather In the fireplace room of the Salem Public library Tuesday morning at 9:30 o'clock to discuss the dramas contributed by Stephen Phillips, 20th century English dramatist. Mrs. Stanley Kreuger will be the leader and taking topics will be Mrs. S. ' H. Thompson, Mrs. M. C. Findley, Mrs. Lloyd Relnholdt, Mrs. Oscar Hayter and Miss Antoinette White. The Salem Woman's club is announcing that H will sponsor Its annual Scholarship Loan Fund tea at the clubhouse in North Cottage street February 1 from 2:30 until 5 o'clock. The interested publio Is Invited to call informally. The committee arranging the affair Includes Mrs. E. E. Thomas, Mrs. E. L. Brunk, Mrs. Saul Janz, Mrs. George Rossman, Mrs. John D. Mlnto, Mrs. George A. Rhoten, Mrs. Henry Morris, Mrs. James H. Jennings, Miss Mildred Oleson and Miss Margaret Cosper. Mr. and Mrs. O. K. De Witt and Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Thielsen will entertain with an "at home" honoring Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fisher (Nancy Thiel sen) Sunday afternoon from 4 to 7 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are leaving early next week for Washington, D. C, after an extended visit in the capital. Mrs. James Mott and her three daughters, Frances Ann, Dorothy and Beverly, will entrain Thursday for Washington, D. C, where they will join Congressman Mott for the remainder of the season. Miss Ilene Paulson entertained at tea at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Paulson, Friday afternoon feting the Misses Frances Ann and Dorothy, This evening Miss Adele Say will entertain infor mally in compliment to the two popular sub-debs with a group of their friends bidden to say au revolr. Invitations are being issued for a formal weep tlon honoring Rep. Hannah Martin, for which members of the Salem Junior Woman's club will be hostesses Wednesday evening, February 1. Among the guests will be the wives of legislators who are In the capital, members of the Salem Wom an's club, friends of the honored guest, and special guests of Junior club members. The affair Is to be held at the Salem Woman's clubhouse in North Cottage street, between the hours of 8 and 10 o'clock, and Is being arranged by the club especially for Rep. Martin, who acts as club advisor. Miss Jessie Cooper will open the door and Miss Marcelle DeMytt will Introduce to the line, which will Include Rep. Martin, Mrs. Charles A. Sprague, Miss Irene Windsor, club president. Miss Eula Mc Cully, president of the Salem Woman's club, and Mrs. Joseph Felton. Members of the Junior Woman's club will assist In receiving the guests. Honorrrt fluent Represent 1 1 t Hannah Martin, who will be honored with a large reception by the Salem Junior Woman's club Wednesday, February 1. Repre (tentative Martin 1 advisor for the club. Westen Wilier Portrait). " 1 ' V- ' ' 4
