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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, 'APRIL 12, 1936 Annual Events Given by Organization Members News of Holiday Entertaining RICH-MURPHY Announcement made of the engagement of Miss Irene Ruth Rich, of Mr. and Mrs. J. Herold 961 E. 7th to Leslie Marion Murphy, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Vandervosch Murphy of Davis, N. C. Miss Rich was graduated from the University of North Carolina. Mr.

Murphy is a graduate of Gilford College, Greensboro, N. C. Announcement was made at a dinper party last week. The engagement of Eleanor M. Browner, daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. William Browner, to Charles J. McLoughlin, son of Mrs. Henry McLoughlin and the late Mr. MeLoughlin, was announced by Miss Julia M.

Browner, aunt of the prospective bride, at a party recently held at 479 2d St. The marriage will take place in October. to MILLAR-ARMSTRONG Mr. and Mrs. David! Millar of Forest Hills and Amagansett announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Muriel Millar, to William B.

Armstrong, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Armstrong of Manhattan.

Miss Millar is a graduate of KewForest School and a senior in Wellesley College. Mr. Armstrong was educated in France and Italy. The wedding will take place in the Fall. POST AFFAIR Bill Brown Post, 507, American Legion, together with the Ladies Auxiliary and Memorial Club, will give a gala affair at their clubhouse, 3041 Ocean on Saturday evening, May 2.

The proceeds of this affair will be given to the building fund of the clubhouse. ST. ELIZABETH'S DANCE St. Elizabeth's Guild of St. Paul's Church, Clinton will have an Easter dance on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.

at Members the of Guild the Hallommittee in charge are the Misses Dorothy Yates, Katherine Jones, Grace Tumulty, Janet and Carolyn Coulter, Loretta Esposito, Mary Bornn, Adelaide and Grace Hart and Margaret Berganti. THREE SCORE AND TEN CLUB The regular weekly meeting of the Three Score and Ten Club of Brooklyn, Mrs. Emily Klein president, will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Central Y. M. C.

55 Hanson Place. MONTHLY BRIDGE The monthly bridge party, under of the Holy Name Mission of the the auspices of the Ladies on Auxiliary Bowery, will be held Friday eveat the mission rooms, 319' Bowery, Manhattan. The hostess for April is Miss Anna M. Cusack of Brooklyn. The committee in charge of the bridge is Mrs.

Owen Boyhan, Miss A. Quinian, Miss C. Dempsey, Mrs. M. E.

Uminger, Mrs. F. M. Pickles, Miss M. Morgan, Miss A.

Morgan, Miss Mary Gallagher, Miss E. C. Comeford, Mrs. J. P.

Moran, Mrs. J. P. Cunneen, Mrs. H.

Peters, Helen G. O'Connor, Mrs. Helen Kenny, Miss Mildred Cunneen, Miss Nan Cunneen, Mrs. Walter O'Loughlin, Mary E. De Coursey, Mrs.

Elizabeth McCabe, FOURTH ANNUAL PARTY The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Auxiliary, Mrs. Robert J. Hubbard president, will hold its fourth annual bridge and dance on Friday evening. May 1, in the school auditorium. The Rev.

Daniel A. Dwyer is moderator of the auxillary, Mrs. Bessie Sponagle, who has been appointed chairman of all arrangements, will be assisted by the following committees: ReceptionMrs. D. J.

chairman; Miss Julia McGowan, Mrs. Henry C. Milhard, Miss Clelia Balassi, Mrs. John Callahan and Mrs. James F.

X. O'Hea. Door--Mins Mae McGovern, chairman; Miss Lillian Caffrey, Mrs. Richard Kavanagh and Mrs. Edward Kearney.

Special prizes Mrs. Harold W. Dailey, chairman; Mrs. Edward Rossman. Miss Mae Bowen, Mrs.

Carl D. Schunck and Miss Florence Clancy. Books--Mrs. Thomas E. Russell, chairman, Bunco-Mrs.

A. Bunsteadt, chairman: Mrs. H. Verstraeten. Table prizes-Mrs.

Willlam Gilmartin, chairman; Miss Helen Clarke, Miss Mildred Nardotti, Mrs. Gerard Weber and Mrs. William A. Purcell. ance committee--Mrs.

Daniel J. Casey, chairman; Mrs. Robert E. Johnson, Miss Mildred O'Hea. Arrangements-Mrs.

Albert C. Prast. chairman: Mrs. James Bonar, Mrs. James E.

McEnerney. Refreshments Mrs. William E. Guerin, chairman; Mrs. Charles Skippon, Mrs.

Edward Greer. Mrs. Charles Englert, Mrs. Thomas Barry, Mrs. R.

Kennedy, Mrs. George Bennett, Mrs. T. Donohue and Mrs. D.

Callaban. Press-Mrs. Edward L. Langton. chairman.

Hat check--George Bennett, chairman: Charles Sponagle, Joseph Kavanagh and Thomas Barry, and social hostess, Mrs. Joseph C. O'Dea. A bridge and dance will be sponerred by the Brooklyn Prep Alumni A in Association the on Brooklyn Friday Prep evening, Audito- April cum. Y.

W. C. A. GIRL RESERVES Parties, all-day hikes and trips about town will feature the Easter Week program of Girl Reserves of the Young Women's Christian Assofiation of Brooklyn, Greenpoint Girl Reserves are planning an all-day hike on Tuesday; a bunco party at the branch on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and a motion picture party on Friday morning at 11 o'clock. Special parties also are planned by several clubs at the branch.

The Junior Tri-Y club will entertain guests at a party on Wednesday evening. The Joan of Arc Club will hold a club supper on Friday evening. Felicia Warsz a wlak is thairman, and assisting her on the rommittee are Shirley Bremer, Mary Liberda, Josephine Pelc and Catherine Gering. BRIDGE AND BUNCO PARTY The Ladies' Auxiliary of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Church will hold a bridge and bunco party in the parish hall on Friday evening, April: 24.

Dancing will follow. Brooklyn Community Chorus Brooklyn Community Chorus, under the direction of Prof. Frank Von Neer, will give a concert in the Bay Ridge Presbyterian Church on Tuesday evening. The guest artist will be Margot Bruce LeCompte, who will give a group of original monologues. Mrs.

Lester A. Beal is chairman. Mrs. H. Paul Frisch of 284 Gates Ave.

will entertain at a luncheon in the Hotel Bossert Tuesday. MISS WHITEFORD ENTERTAINS Miss Loraine Whiteford of 220 Westminster Road entertained last evening. Among those present were the Misses Jean Alexander, Frances Alexander, Jane Cooke, Hazel Bridgman, Katherine Davis, Marie Lutz, Catherine Mavino, Janet Banward, Mary Ann Plan, Marie Mandry and Marion Adams. The Saint Catherine of Genoa Social Club will hold its annual Spring dance Friday evening at the parish auditorium. WEBBER-POPE Mr.

and Mrs. George Webber of 2066 E. 72d St. will announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Gladys Evelyn Webber, to Henry Pope, son of Mr. and Mrs.

William Pope of Mill today at a dinner given in honor of her birthday. DAUGHTER BORN Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. 3201 Glenwood Road birth of A daughter, Anne Collins, on Wednesday, 25, at the Midwood Hospital.

Collins is the former Miss Anne Kelly. Collins of the Carol March Mrs. Frances ALTAR SOCIETY LUNCHEON The Altar Society of Our Lady of Refuge Church will hold its Spring luncheon and card party at the Lido Club, Long Beach, on Saturday, May 16. The Very Rev. Mons.

Francis P. Connolly is the honorary president of the society. Miss Emma Mary Bracken is the president. Mrs. John Duncan Laurie, general chairman, has announced the following committees: Tickets, Mrs.

James Dempsey, chairman; Mrs. Frank A. Grace, co-chairman; Miss Adah Alexander, Mrs. A. F.

R. Andresen, Mrs. John E. Biggins, Mrs. William C.

Bolton, Miss Marie Bridgetts, Mrs. Richard Brophy, Mrs. John B. Brown, Mrs. J.

T. Bullwinkel, Miss Henrietta Burdett, Mrs. Frank A. Conaty, Mrs. Anna Conway, Mrs.

David J. Daly, Mrs. James Donnellan, Mrs. Margaret Downer, Mrs. Charles J.

Druhan, Mrs. Rose Dumarest. Mrs. W. H.

Dunphy, Mrs. George Etzel, Mrs. Allan F. Fisher, Mrs. Anna M.

Gaffney, Miss Bessie Gibbons, Mrs. Robert M. Guie, Mrs. William C. Haley, Mrs.

Harold Healy, Mrs. Daniel C. Keefe, Mrs. Harry J. Kelly, Charles H.

Larson, Mrs. Joseph Laurie, Mrs. Leo Leddy, Mrs. Frederick Magiola, Mrs. Albert J.

McCall, Mrs. Harry L. McCotter, Mrs. John J. McDonald, Miss Lillian McKee, Miss Cecile McTernan, Mrs.

Raoul Menendez, Mrs. Frederick W. Meyer, Mrs. James Neylon, Mrs. Leo O'Neil, Miss Regina O'Shea, Herbert Parks, Mrs.

Frank Peloso, Miss Grace Riordan, Mrs. Helen Ryan, Mrs. Arthur Saunders, Mrs. Andrew J. Schmitz, Mrs.

Mary Schulmerich, Patrick J. Shelly, Mrs. Herman Tapke, Mrs. Philip Termini, Mrs. Joseph Tobin, Miss Mae Toner, Mrs.

Edward A. Toole and Mrs. Joseph H. Wise. Mrs.

Thomas J. Deegan is chairman of the arrangements committee, with Mrs. Thomas Pugh as cochairman. The door committee includes Mrs. Victor Dodsworth, chairman; Mrs.

Thomas McLoughlin, co-chairman; Mrs. William Canfield, Mrs. Francis X. and Miss Mae McKee. Those on the reception committee are: Mrs.

Laurence G. Bodkin, chairman; Mrs. William P. Oliver, co-chairman; Mrs. John Delany, Mrs.

John McMahon, Mrs. William J. McCurdy, Miss Catherine McTernan. Mrs. Evans G.

Olwell and Mrs. Michael O'Neil. Mrs. Cletus W. Bourke is chairman of publicity.

Those on the transportation committee are: Mrs. James J. Reynolds, chairman, and Mrs. Richard Bennett, co-chairman. Mrs.

Henry J. Nieland Jr. 1s chairman of the seating committee, with Mrs. Louis L. La Vine as co-chairman.

Miss Genevieve Connolly and Miss Margaret Reilly are also on the committee. The card committee of Mrs. John T. G. Finn, chairman; Mrs.

Martin J. Falion, co-chairman; Mrs. Thomas F. Alcott, Mrs. Cornelius J.

Behan and Mrs. Martin Noonan. Mrs. Charles J. Missack is chairman of the special prizes committee, with Mrs.

Hector McG. Curren as cochairman. Those on the shares committee are: Mrs. Sandford T. Reilly, chairman; Mrs.

William J. Hall, cochairman; Miss Catherine Canfield. Mrs. Dwyer, Miss Peggy Finn. Gallagher, Miss Thomas, Elizabeth McCaffrey, Mrs.

James J. Mullen, Mrs. Eugene R. O'Brien. Mrs.

Daniel Riordan, Mrs. Joseph Ryan, Mrs. James Stubenbord and Mrs. Michael F. Walsh, Miss Elizabeth Goodman is in charge of the music.

Those on the table prizes committee are: Mrs. James W. Cooley, chairman; Mrs. Paul A. Schmitt, co-chairman; Mrs.

Joseph F. Hanly and Mrs. George Treacy. The juniors on the candy and cigarette committee are the Misses Janice La Vine, chairman; Dorothy L. Bourke, Peg Lynch and Isabel King.

Miss Dorothy R. Millard of 30 Linden Boulevard entertained at a duplicate contract bridge yesterday. The guests were the Misses Mercedes Newman, Katherine Fleri, Evelyn Simonson, Ann Boniello, Elizabeth Shipman, Margaret Fuller, Dant, Alyse Murphy, Mrs. Frederick Nordenholz, Mrs. John Loughlin, Mrs.

Harry Riche, Mrs. George Hannan, Mrs. Clarence Wilcox and Mrs. Walter Millard. TRINITY MALE CHORUS The Trinity Male Chorus of Brooklyn will give a concert on Thursday, April 30, at 8 o'clock in the Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy of Music under the auspices of the Young People's Baptist Union of Brooklyn and Long Island for the benefit of "Sunshine Acres" -the fresh air home that has been maintained for 27 years at Commack, and also for work among the 55 Baptist Young People's Societies in the Union.

Miss Margaret Macoskey, who has served as chairman of the Union concert committee for three years, announces that the chorus directed by J. Ellsworth Olsen was organized in 1927 and since has won the permanent possession of the silver cup of the New York Music Week Association, having won it for three years in succession. Trinity Male Chorus was first place in the City of N. Y. Choral Competition and are featured on New York radio stations.

Miss Irene F. Hettrick will be the guest soloist. Miss Hettrick has taken the leading part in the operattas that have been produced by the Union for several years and is a member of the WEAF Midiaevelist Group. A. Edwin Odell, conductor of the Y.

P. B. U. orchestra will assist as associate chairman of the committee and Iver Iverson, third vice president of the union, will be in charge of advertising in the Concert Journal, while Miss Jean Scott will list patrons and patronesses. Miss Dorothy Hoefle heads the program girls; Miss Elizabeth Kunsman, candy; Alfred Toelle, society tickets; Niles Hesterberg, publicity, and Robert M.

Hubbard, press. Charles R. Strauss, president of the Brooklyn and Long Island Union, is ex-officio of the concert committee. MERCHANTS ANNUAL DINNER Merchants Lodge will hold its annual dinner dance in the Hotel Bossert Saturday. A number of events have been prepared by the dinner committee, which is headed by Frederick J.

Krauser. The new officers of the association will be presented as will past officials who come to affair each year from all parts of the world. YOUNG DEMOCRATS Young Democrats of the Flatbush Democratic Club will hold a dance in the Hotel Bossert Friday evening. George E. Braham is in charge of arrangements.

ART CLUB RECEPTION The Falanga Art Club of the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Art, Court Brooklyn, held a reception for its members and friends recently in the studios of the academy. In connection with the reception there was an exhibition of the work of club members and of academy students, as well as a special showing of some of the work of Michele Falanga, director of the academy. The guests were received by a reception committee composed of the chairman, Miss Julia Santoro, and the following club members: Miss Bernice Wolfe, Miss Carolyn Santoro, Miss Mary Melissa, Miss Maria Falanga, Mrs. Betsy Jaffe, Miss Clire Schwatzman and Mrs. Irene Ford.

The newly elected officers of the are: Morris Kivowitz, president; Mrs. Leonard J. Ford, vice president; Albert Kaufman. tary, and Miss treasurer. MUSICAL SHOW The Young People's Club of St.

Teresa's Church will present a sical show and comedy in mile church auditorium on Thursday. The musical is under the direction of Coach George Rafter and Edward Moebus. The Rev. William Mooney is moderator. The sketches will be enacted by the Misses Margaret B.

Sullivan, Lillian Dee, Ethel Foy, Beatrice Curry and Charles Alkens, S. L. Tuohy, Vincent Bocchicchio, Vincent Esposito, Arthur Hornnickel, William Molony, James Harrigan and Bill Smith. Those in the chorus are the Misses Gertrude Albert, Phyliss Amor, Grace Brown, Edith Becker, Mary Benson, Christine Coyne, Ann Coyne, Ann Corcoran, Mary T. Dugan, Marjorie D'Arcy, Lillian Easop, Irene Egan, Catherine Farrell, Genevieve Farrell, Florence Fanning, Betty Fanning, Eilleen Haaron.

Lorraine Huyek, Betty Hanley, Pat Kenevan, Margaret Keating, Carmen Menendez, Mary McCormack. Mary O'Brien, Janet Ready, Marion Ready, Catherine Stewart, Margaret Sullivan, Regina Sullivan and Helen Smith, "Also James Alessi, Vic Cocchicclio, Ray Coleman, James E. Donlon, Edward Flaherty, John Farrell, William Forgarty, Blaise Gaella, Frank B. Langley, Charles McNally, Edwin McAleer, James McDevitt, Phil Piccolo, David Powers, Paul Petterson, Neil Reid, William Rogers and James Caldwell. Those assisting in the business and off-stage work are T.

Connie McLoone, Thomas Foran, Thomas McDonald, Thomas Murphy, Jerry Hoffman, James O'Dugan, Artie Howitt and Francis Fanning. Dancing will follow the entertainment. JAMES-STRACK Mr. and Mrs. Edward P.

James Sr. announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Jeanie James, to George C. Strack, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Strack.

MISS SCOTT HONORED Miss Irene de Pellitier and Miss Mary Marsh entertained recently at the home of Miss Marsh, 376 Bergen at a shower in honor of Miss Alice Scott, who will be married to Vincent Kearny. Among the guests present were Mrs. Thomas Scott, David Marsh, Mrs. John Jones, Mrs. Henry Warnoek, Mrs.

Thomas Monohan, Mrs. James Reilly, Mrs. Peter Heinzinger, the Misses Peggy Flavin, Mary Finn, Margaret Pitcher, Irene Dervin, Virginia Ker, Anne Lowless, Katherine Hennessy, Ellen Rorke, Gertrude Gartland and Johanna Marsh, Y. W. C.

A. NEWS The library committee of the Central Branch of the Young Women's Christian of Brooklyn is sponsoring a tea on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the branch. Mrs. Richard Loomis is chairman of the tea. Mrs.

Edwin Eberman Mrs. Horace Callaghan, Miss Alice, Pendleton, Miss Adelaide Hart and Mrs. Horace L. Kent aro bers of the reception committee. Mrs.

Howard C. Wood, Mrs. Frank Parsons and Miss Ida L. Adams will preside at the tea table. Mrs.

Susan Woodruff will give an illustrated talk on Soviet life at the tea, her subject being "My Fourth Visit to Russia." Guests are asked to bring books to the tea to be added to the library shelves. According to the librarian, there is always a demand for fiction. There is also a special need for children's books, the library receiving an increasing number of requests from little children who attend dancing and swimming classes at the branch, and a need for text books, particularly those relating to industrial history, Colonial times and science, which are sought as reference material by students from the Brooklyn Continuation School at 3d Ave. and State St. A Spring luncheon will be held by the young married women's group of the Central Branch on Wednesday at the branch.

Two talks of special interest to young married women will be given: "Redecorating the Apartment for Summer," by R. A. McLaughlin, and "Spring Menus for the Limited Budget," presented by a member cf the staff of Pratt Institute. Mrs. Elmo Pope Brown will preside at the luncheon.

On the committee for the event are: Mrs. Philip L. Green, Huggins, Mrs. J. Stanley Journeay, Mrs.

Stanley Hargan, Mrs. H. E. Mattin, Mrs. William Short, Mrs.

Maso C. Yamamoto, Mrs. G. W. Woodcock, Mrs.

C. K. Mann, Mrs. Frederick C. Roberts, Mrs.

E. C. and Mrs. H. C.

Vance. Torbahn, -Knot Club of the Greenpoint Branch will hold its fourth annual dance on Saturday evening at St. Alphonsus Hall. Miss Jean Kewlicz, the club president, heads the committee in charge. A Spring sports night with demonstrations of tennis, badminton, archery and golf will be held on Friday evening at the Central Branch.

Mrs. William V. Hester nationally known tennis player. is chairman of program and will give a demonstration of tennis with three other well known players. Mrs.

Hester, the former Miss Lilian Scharman, was given fourth place in national tennis ranking in 1924 and seventh place in national ranking in 1925. She recently became a member of the health education committee of the Central Branch. Playing with her in the demonstration game will be Miss Caroline Roberts, who was seventh in Eastern tennis ranking in 1934, and Miss Florence Ballin, who formerly ranked among the first ten players nationally, who has been holder of numerous championships and is now teaching tennis in the vicinity of New York. The fourth player will be announced later. The tennis demonstration will take place at 9 o'clock.

The Spring sports night program will open at 7:45 o'clock with a talk on archery by Miss Adelaide Spikens, who formerly taught at the Sargent camp and is now a teacher at Adelphi Academy, and an archery demonstration by Miss Spikens' sister. Ruth Spikens, a st'1dent at Berkeley Institute. This will be followed at, 8:30 o'clock by a talk on badminton by Miss Bligh DesBrisay, Canadian coach, and a demonstration of badminton by Miss DesBrisay and other experienced players. Arrangements ing made for a talk and demonstration on golf by a professional, A bridge clinic, providing an opportunity, free of charge, for seasoned players to check up on the good and bad points of their game and serving to introduce the game to beginners, will be held tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock at the Central Branch. Miss E.

Mebane Hunt and Mrs. Victor Howard will be in charge. A free introductory talk on "Handicaps to Charm" will given by Mrs. Grace E. Gunn, president of the Women's Speaking Club of America, on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the branch.

The talk is planned as an introduction to the Spring series of Mrs. Gunn's lecture courses in Self Development, Public Speaking and Background of Culture, which will open on April 23 and extend over a period of eight weeks at the branch. Campaign Bridges A group of bridges will be held this evening throughout Brooklyn under the auspices of the Junior Federation of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities. The bridges are a part of the social functions committee's work in federation's Spring fund raising campaign. Ben Gise is chairman of the committee.

Hostesses this evening will be Sylvia Tannenbaum, 1096 Park Place; Barbara Kanoff, 9409 Avenue Edna Friedman, 427 Stockholm Janet Rose, 7201 4th and Pearl Adler of 802 Ocean Parkway. Thrift Week Sale Mrs. Adolph Elsas of Lawrence and Mrs. Harold Stonehill of Hewlett will head the committees of'ganized for Thrift Week, a rummage sale to be held at Cedarhurst during the week of May 11-16 under the auspices of South Shore Chapter of the Women's Division of the Federation for the support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City. Mrs.

Elsas is one of the co-chairmen of the South Shore Chapter of the Federation Women's Division. The Ladies Card Club of St. Joseph's Church, Hewlett, will resume its regular weekly games on Wednesday. Hostesses of the afternoon will include Mrs. Theodore Deardoff, president; Mrs.

John Reilly, vice president, and Mrs. Charles Miller, secretary, News of Women's Clubs Arts and Industries Sponsored by a committee of girls headed by Mrs. Bennett Bishop of Easthampton as consulting chairman, the first amateur collectors' tournament under the auspices of the Camp Fire organizations of the metropolitan area will be a new feature of the 15th annual Women's Exposition of Arts and Industries. The amateur collectors' tournament is being organized by the Brooklyn Council, Camp Fire Girls, of which Mrs, Catherine O. Morgan of Brooklyn is president and Mrs.

Sarah B. De Forerest, director. Camp Fire girls who are outstanding in their organizations serving on the committee are Frances Bissell, Staten Island; Jean McGuinn, the Bronx; Carole Roodenber, Manhattan; Shirley Martin, Queens; Janet Tee, Westchester, and Edna Knudsen, Brooklyn, The collectors tournament is open to all girls between 10 and 18 years of age throughout the metropolitan area and Westchester. Collections are to be taken to the local Camp Fire Girl's office in each borough where they will be judged by a committee of Camp Fire girls before being forwarded to the organization's exhibit at the Women's Exposition. The prizes will be ribbons for first, second and third prizes which will be presented following the final exhibit at the exposition which also will be judged by the Camp Fire Girls' Committee, The Girls Friendly Society of which Miss Helen C.

Brent is national president is co-operating with the exposition in the National Menu Recipe Competition, the committee sponsoring the competition Announces. Mrs. Charles W. Mulford, president of the Long Island Federation of Women's Clubs, is one of the members of this sponsoring committee. The society has reached national representatives of the organization to explain the new cooking contest, the first of its kind ever sponsored by the exposition, in which the title of 1936 national champion is being offered and a grand prize of $500.

Other prizes which will be given in competition are $250, 00 $200, $150 and two $100 prizes. To obtain these prizes, six sectional winners from various parts of the United States will be invited by the committee to come to New York with all expenses paid to compete in a final "cook-off" at the exposition. date entries in the competition have been received from women in 44 of the 48 States. Under the auspices of the beneft ticket committ of which Mrs. William Henry Pouch, national leader in patriotic societies, is chairman, more than 325 women's organizations in the metropolitan area, New Jersey and Westchester are taking part in the benefit ticket campaign in which the entire proceeds of the advance sale of exposition tickets is being turned over to these organizations.

In Brooklyn and Long Island 176 organizations already are participating in the benefit ticket sale. Serving on Brooklyn Committee for this sale are Mrs. John L. Bauer, Mrs. Theresa Fogarty, Miss Grace M.

Lease, Miss Helen P. McCormick, Mrs. Harry C. Palmer, Mrs. Hanassah Miller, Mrs.

Catherine Morgan, Mrs. Frank H. Parcells, Mrs. Francis J. Rigney, Mrs.

Harry M. Peyser, Mrs. Robert H. Stenhouse and Mrs. Herbert T.

Wikle. Hempstead Clubs Mrs. George Dresseley will preside at the meeting of the Prosperity Woman's Republican Club Tuesday evening at the Hempstead Y. W. C.

A. on Cathedral Ave. Mrs. John W. B.

Vandewater will open her home on Sunset Drive next Wednesday afternoon for a musicale to benefit the Nassau Philharmonic Society. Ethel Alexander, pianist, will be guest artist, with Marie Trickey, soprano, and Lora McCartney, contralto. The affair will be one of a series to be held during the Spring. The Fellowship Branch of Christ's First Presbyterian Church will meet tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs. Z.

P. Fuller. Mrs. Henry Bickmeyer of Hilbert St. will be hostess to the Glee Club of Morton Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Thursday evening.

Mrs. William A. Murray, president of the Auxiliary to St. Joseph's Villa, has announced a rummage sale to be held Wednesday in the Gillen Building on Franklin Ave. Mrs.

Stephen Piller is general chairman for the market sale and supper to be held Friday evening at the church parlors by the Organizers Club of the Hempstead M. E. Church. Mrs. J.

Eugene Geer was named for regent on a slate presented this week by the nominating committee of the Lord Stirling Chapter, D. A. R. Mrs. Albert N.

De Clue, chairman; Miss Genevieve Geer and Mrs. Evan Beech comprised the committee. Others named for election at the May meeting are Mrs. Ewald Terney, first vice regent; Mrs. Roy B.

Whitford, second vice regent; Mrs. R. Nelson Vandervoort, treasurer; Mrs. Claude N. Williams, recording secretary; Mrs.

Albert N. De Clue, corresponding secretary; Mrs. C. Reginald Many, the outgoing regent, chaplain; Miss Genevieve Geer, historian, and Mrs. R.

L. Jacobs, registrar. The Ladies Auxiliary to the Hempstead Elks hold a card party and social" Thursday evening at the clubhouse. Mrs. Ida Morigl is chairman.

The Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet Wednesday afternoon in the church hall. "World Peace and Missions" will be the subject of discussion, and a social hour will follow, with Mrs. E. L. Goldsmith as chairman of hostesses.

Priscilla Study Priscilla Study The Priscilla Study Club, Mrs. Marshall E. Stewart, president, will hold its next meeting at the Hotel St. George on Wednesday at 2 o'clock, Luncheon will be served at 12:30. I Week for the Blind Mixs Irene Rich, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Harold Rich of 961 E. 7th is engaged to Leslie M. Murphy of Davis, N.

C. MISS CONNELIE HONORED Miss Marita Connelie of 1221 St. John's Place was guest of honor at a linen and cotton shower given at the home of the Misses Eleanor and Alice Kane of 1201 St. John's Place recently. Miss Connelie will be married to F.

Ringwood of 120 Canton 'Court early in June. Among those present were the Misses Eleanor and Alice Kane, Joan and Grace Connelie, Bunty McKenzie, Peggy Gray, Sally Oliva, Betty McCarthy, Gert Farrell, Peggy O'Reilly, Mary Donegan and Muriel Hill. Mrs. W. J.

Connelie, Mrs. J. Kane, Mrs. B. Waas, Mrs.

M. O'Reilly and Mrs. J. Spollen. Supper and dancing followed.

Miss Elizabeth Ringwood of 120 Canton Court was the hostess at a dinner and miscellaneous shower in honor of Miss Connelie. Among those present were Mrs. C. Ringwood, Mrs. W.

Connelle, Mrs. M. Wallace, Mrs. J. Parell, Mrs.

J. Halperin, Mr. and Mrs. N. Plunkett, Mrs.

T. Flaherty, Mrs. E. Parell, Mrs. P.

Spollen, Mr. and Mrs. A. Olsen, Mr. and Mrs.

W. Parell, Mr. and Mrs. J. Spollen.

Misses Elizabeth Ringwood, Joan Connelie, Sissie Nugent, Ann ConGrace Connelie, Alice Spollen. Jean Askin, Evelyn Parell, Helen Conroy, Patsy Spollen and Dorothy Olsen. John F. Ringwood, Frank Fleming, Danny Dunphy, Stanley Thorsen, Bob Parell, Dick Fanell, Billy Connelie and Buddy wood. DEMOCRATIC DANCE The Thomas W.

Murphy Regular Democratic Club the 2d A. will hold a benefit dance on Saturday at their clubhouse. The proceeds of this dance will be given to the athletic committee to provide equipment for their baseball team. The first game of the season will be played on Sunday, April 14, at 2 o'clock, The members of the athletic committee are: Charles Franco, chairman; Joseph Flockheart, manager of team; Charles Ricken, Adolph Pagliaro and Irving Chezar. SAENGERBUND SOCIETY The Brooklyn Saengerbund Ladies Society will celebrate its golden jubilee Saturday at a banquet and dance at its clubhouse.

Mrs. B. Vogel, only charter member, will be the guest of honor. The president of the male chorus, Carl Mahler, will act as toastmaster. Mrs.

J. G. Roth is chairman of the affair. LADIES AUXILIARY PARTY Mrs. Cornelius O'Leary and Mrs.

A. M. Haskell will be hostesses at a card party and bunco to be given Wednesday evening by the Ladies Auxiliary of Cardinal Gibbons Council, 49., Knights of Columbus. The second annual communion breakfast will be held on Sunday, May 3, at the Bedford Plaza Restaurant. Miss Betty Murphy will be chairman and the committee will include Miss Florence Niklaus, Miss Marguerite Cooney, Mrs.

John McKeon and Mrs. Stephen Lee, publicity. The officers of the auxillary are: Mrs. Thomas F. Healey, president; Mrs.

Carroll A. Treacy, vice president; Mrs. Brassington, recorder; Mrs. A. M.

Haskell, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Edward Whiteside. treasurer. THEATER PARTY The Brooklyn League of the Hebrew National Orphan Home will hold a theater party Wednesday evening at the Guild Theater. They will see "End of Summer," starring Ina Claire and Osgood Perkins.

Mrs. N. Litwin and Mrs. J. Katzen are co-chairmen.

ACKLEY-MCCULLOUGH Miss Lillian Rhodes Ackley, daughter of Mrs. Sarah A. Ackley of Hempstead and the late William H. Ackley, will be married to James Wadsworth McCullough son of Mr. and Mrs.

James Wadsworth McCullough of Rockville Centre, on Saturday afternoon. The ceremony will he performed by the Rev. Dr. Frank M. Kerr in Christ's First Presovterian Church, Hempstead.

Miss Marion Hillary of Hempstead will be Miss Ackley's only attendant. John Russell McCullough will be his brother's best man. After a short wedding trip, the couple will make their home in Orange, N. J. Mrs.

David Henry of 236 86th assistant superintendent of Public School 185, left last night by airplane for Miami Beach, where she will join her sister, Miss Lois N. Jones, who has been spending the past two months as a guest at the Winter home of Mrs. Elizabeth McGinnis of 1482 1 E. 14th St. After the Easter holidays Mrs.

Henry and Miss Jones will return to Brooklyn, Miss Jones leaving a few days later for Huntington Cove to open up her Long Island residence for the Summer. Miss Elizabeth Michele McGieney, daughter of Mrs. William H. McGirney of 89 86th is engaged to Thomas Wylie Clegg, son of and Mrs. Thomas Harding Clegg of 37 82d St.

(Photo by Valeche.) A fashion show of blind-made articles, which will be one of the most unusual features ever held by the Week for the Blind, is being planned under the auspices of Mrs. Darwin R. James junior chairman of Club Day, of which Mrs. George E. Brower 1s chairman.

The show will be held on the opening day of the Week for the Blind at the Hotel St. George on April 27. Models will be Mrs. Charles Singleton, Miss Winifred Wise, Miss Louise Goetze, Mrs. Harold Weston and Mrs.

Edmond Drewsen. The shorts, slacks, aprons, beach pajamas and maid's uniforms made by the blind women workers in the shop of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities will be modeled. Mrs. James announces the following committees taking part in the Junior Club Day program: Mrs. Theodore Fitz Randolph, Mrs.

Ralph Lankler, Mrs. John D. Van Wagoner, Miss Marjorie MacDonald, Miss Barbara Allen and Miss Louise Goetze; and the following committee of program girls: the Misses Annie Lee Duncan, Marie Straukamp, Irene Chatterton, Clothilde Sinclair, Janet Little, Hester Faison, Jeanne Cotton, Gertrude gent, Dorothy Spence, Helen Tibbetts, Francis Trainer, Ann Waters, Janet Wise and Jane Broughton. First boxholders for the opening night dance for the Week for the of Blind, which is under the auspices the new men's division, of which Walter D. Ebinger is chairman, include: Mrs.

Harry Rice, general chairman of the Week for the Blind; the Lions Club, Mrs. Robert H. Stenhouse; Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, of which Darwin R. James is president; the Industrial Home for Wilson the Blind, of which Christopher is president, and the Brooklyn A. I.

C. of which Dr. Marcus C. Hankinson is president. who is According to F.

Edward Carter, serving with Mr. Ebinger as secretary of the men's division, men's clubs throughout the borough are being asked to appoint representatives on the men's division, the first ever to participate in a Week for the Blind. Serving on the committee for the men's division are the following J. prominent Curtin, Jacob Brooklyn C. leaders: John Klinck, Michael C.

O'Brien, Joseph W. Robert E. Blum, Henry V. Raymond, Catharine, Max Edwin P. Maynard, David T.

Leahy, Robert Kiss, Walter H. Bennett, Dr. M. Rogers, Gardiner Wood, Edward S. Molineaux, George B.

Case, and Peter J. Salmon. Mrs. Harry C. Palmer, chairman of Protestant Day, is cial holding a spemeeting of her groups on Thursday morning in the Hotel St.

George to complete plans for Protestant Day on April 30. According to Mrs. Albert L. Fuller, general chairman of sales, the total reported in advance sales to date is $2,281.55, which is well in advance of the amount of $1,303.63 received at this time last year even though the activities started month later this year. Mrs.

Peter a J. Lorang, chairman of advance sales for Catholic Day, of gave a report $1,059.40 so far obtained by the Catholic Day sales. At the present time the Catholic Day activities in the various sales are leading the other days. Sales, which will be held the coming week, include: Ladies during Benevolent Society of Union TemSt. ple; Bedford Presbyterian Church, Church Mark's Methodist Episcopal of Williamsburg, Arlington Avenue Presbyterian Church, Chiropean Club at the Towers Hotel.

Executives' Tour Mrs. Lowell J. Whiteford of 220 Westminster Road will entertain on Wednesday for the presidents and officers of several Brooklyn organizations. They will have luncheon and tour places of interest in the borough. guests will be Mrs.

Ella A. Boole, world president of the W. C. T. Miss Florence Boole Brooklyn Technical High School; Mrs.

James S. Graham, former president of Flatbush Union, W. C. Mrs. T.

William R. Hopkins of the Infants Hospital; Mrs. Oscar president of the W. Swift, Mrs. Marshall E.

Stewart, president Home; Consumptives Protestant Big Sister Council; Mrs. Warner James, president of Flatbush Visiting Nurse Association: Mrs. Elmer O'Donnell, president Story Tellers Club; Gordon K. to Smith, Goodwill president Women's Auxiliary L. Industries; Miss Annie Dickey, director of Flatbush Needlework Guild; Mrs.

Ella J. Stannard, president elect of Women's League of the Flatbush Congregational Church; Miss Minnie Hopkins and Mrs. Charles Lang. Packer A. Mrs.

Chase Going at the will be the guest speaker economist, Woodhouse, general meeting of the ent-Teachers Association of the Packer Collegiate Institute in the chapel of the Packer Institute, 170 Mrs. Joralemon tomorrow evening. Bradford Butler is chairman of the program committee, "A Parent's Approach to Vocational Guidance" will be the of Mrs. Woodhouse, who topic is professor of economics at Connecticut College, New London, managing director Relations of the Institute of Professional and president of the International Association of Altrusa clubs. Hostesses at the meeting will be Mrs.

Edwin P. Maynard presithe Parent-Teachers Association of the Packer Institute; Mrs, R. Latson Mrs. George E. Mrs.

Brockway John Mrs. Chester A. Peake, Blust, Mrs. Charles Chase and Mrs. Merrill N.

Foote. Lanerence A. Winners of the essay contest on "Good Citizenship and What It Means Lawrence to Me," sponsored by the will Grammar School read them and receive awards of the meeting on April 28. instead of April 14 as was originally scheduled. The classes competing are the 6th, 7th and 8th grades.

Mrs. Alexander Tulin is president,.

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