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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 07, 1940

Page

18

Cedar Rapids Community Players cast for Both Your Houses

The Cedar Rapids Community Players announce the cast for Maxwell Andersons Both Your Houses to be staged April 15 to 17. Newcomer Walter Dennis is Dell with Gene Haight as Sweden and Hazel Brown as Miss McMurtry.

Community Players Cedar Rapids Maxwell Anderson Jack E. Durin Marjorie Gray Arminta Davidson Daughter Levering Lloyd Lowe Merton Walter Dennis Dell Gene Haight Sweden Hazel Brown Miss McMurtry Harry Doolittle Gerald Stevens Peebles Sam Hedges Farnum Jim Echlin Alan

Redecorated Cedar Rapids Club House Hosts Spring Dinner Dance

Cedar Rapids Country Club completes a two month refurbishing of the lounge and ballroom ahead of next Thursday's opening spring dinner dance. A seven member committee led by Thomas L. Crabbe oversaw new walls draperies slip covers and floor finishes. Jack McLean and his orchestra from Chicago will provide music.

Cedar Rapids Thomas L. Crabbe Jack McLean Trianon Ballroom Chicago

Fryer Moore Nuptials Set For April Twenty Seventh

Initations were issued for the wedding of Doris Fryer and Lieut Robert Brice Moore to take place Saturday evening April 27 at 8 30 at the Moray L Eby residence. The bridal party includes niece Miss Jane Fryer as maid of honor and Frank Davis of Des Moines as best man.

O. Franklin Fryer Packwood Doris Robert Brice Moore Quantico Ernest R. Moore Knollwood Drive Moray L. Eby First Avenue E Jane Fryer Des Moines Moore Frank Davis James Carruthers Robert Maresh Miss Fryer Johnson C. Greedy Juanita Jordan L. M. Fryer Thomas Glass

Breakfast Honors Bridal Couple in Cedar Rapids Club

The Cedar Rapids Country club hosts a morning breakfast for Miss Edith Knox and Dr. Kenneth Bogaard before their April 24 wedding. Mr and Mrs Wallace D Lyon host at 1 o clock with bridal party and several guests from local families and clubs.

Don Hines Forest Drive James Critton Madison Wis Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids Country Club Wallace D. Lyon Park Avenue SE Edith Knox Kenneth Bogaard Lyon Bernice Knickerbocker Virginia Knox Harriett Sw

Cedar Rapids Travelers Return From Warm Climates

Cedar Rapids residents come home from vacations in Delray Beach Florida Brownsville Texas Rockport near Corpus Christi and Tucson Arizona among others. Mrs Howard Cherry Mrs Howard Hall Norvall Crawford Mr and Mrs E M Scott Mr and Mrs Glenn C Wheeler Mr and Mrs Eugene M Pinney returned from trips lasting six weeks to three months and city streets.

Cedar Rapids Howard Cherry Nassau Street Delray Beach Fla Howard Hall Brucemore Florida Norvall Crawford Fifth Avenue SE Rio Grande Valley Crawford Eugene Pinneys Chicago

Attending Ninth Festival of Chamber Music in DC

Professor Trouise Crawford of Coe College will travel to Washington DC to attend the ninth Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress under the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge foundation. About 200 invitations were issued for musicians nationwide as the festival marks its fifteenth anniversary with daily concerts April 9 to 14 featuring renowned artists and new works.

Trouise Crawford Coe College Washington, D. C Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Coolidge Library of Congress Music World Miss Crawford Archibald MacLeish Harold Spivacke Music Division Mary Howe Washington Mrs. Howe MacDowell Colony Peterborugh N. H Hans Kindler National Symphony Orchestra of Washington E. Power Biggs Olga Averina Yves Tinayre Joseph Szigeti Bela Bartok Marcel Grandjany Ethel Bartlet Rae Robertson Eudice Shapiro William Primrose Harriet Cohen

Godey Program Promises Fashion Lectures For Cedar Rapids Club

The 17E COLLEGE CLUB of Cedar Rapids invites guests to a Wednesday 8 p.m. program at the Cedar Rapids Woman's Club House titled Mr. Godey Presents. Norma Harrison Thrower and Idalia Wright of Cleveland will present lectures fashions chitchat and songs from Godey's Lady's Book. The act portrays Sarah Josepha Hale with period costumes and runs from 1837 to 1879 in an artistic humorous production.

College Club of Cedar Rapids Woman's Club Mr. Godey Norma Harrison Thrower Idalia Wright Cleveland Ture Godey

Young Folk Enjoy Timber Ride and Steak Fry Outing

Equestrian group from Ely featured the timber ride and steak fry with participants Miss Barbara Rogers Donna Jeanne Johnson Mary Zuercher Kathryn Claassen Kathryn Wandel Marion Reiff Louise Flaherty and others including Robert Taylor Horace Hedges Jr David Keehn Gordon McKay Martin Hanson Murray Markley guest from Fort Dodge James Battin John Jacobs. Miss Margaret Anne Foster left with the Women’s Glee club for its spring tour after a Claremont home concert. The club, a repeat southwestern champion, will cover about 1000 miles ending in San Francisco with a ten day schedule.

Ely Barbara Rogers Donna Jeanne Johnson Mary Zuercher Kathryn Claassen Kathryn Wandel Marion Reiff Louise Flaherty Robert Taylor Horace Hedges, Jr David Keehn Gordon McKay Martin Hanson Murray Markley Fort Dodge Chester S. Johnson James Battin John Jacobs Margaret Anne Foster Wayne J. Foster Hillcrest Drive Pomona College Claremont Calif Women's Glee Club San Francisco

Penelope Jones Birthday fete with animal themes

Penelope Jones gefeat on her fifth birthday as animals in the ice cream and as centerpieces marked the party. Guests included Connie Mc Clary Bobbys Moorman Ronald Moore Sally Files and others. Mrs Gage will review Flowing Stream by Florence Linch Kelly for the Junior Art club Monday at 2 45 p m at 517 Knollwood drive SE.

Hudson Swiler Burlington City E. J. Larimer Fifth Avenue SE Helen Larimer Wendell M. Delzell Swiler Penelope Jones H. M. Gage Florence Linch Kelly James Knox Knollwood Drive

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