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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1937
Page
18
Local notes share Cedar Rapids happenings from notable residents to school antics. Effie and Addie Cherry Sisters plan vaudeville after settling property litigation near Marion. Health, sports, and social quirks mingle with city pride and familiar faces in town chatter.
Edward A. Wright, artist and entertainer, will present a dramatic program at a College club meeting Saturday at 2 30 pm. at Mrs. Royal Holbrook 1420 Second Avenue SE. Wright, a native of New London and Marshalltown high school dramatic instructor, has lectured before 1500 audiences in 32 states as a chautauqua and lyceum performer. His program is The Unknown Soldier Speaks by John H. Holmes. Mrs. Russell W. Lemley will chair hostesses.
Y W C A annual meeting Tuesday at 6 30 p m in the Y building will replace verbal reports with motion and still pictures of Y W C A activities. Dean C Harve Geiger of Coe College will speak on the social agency and the community. The Rev Nelson C Dreier will offer the invocation. Industial girls will lead group singing under Mrs E E Fisher. Officers will be elected and new board members named.
Miss Elizabeth Carey will play the leading feminine role in The Devil Passes the next Community Play to be given Monday Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. She previously starred in Michael and Mary and The Late Christopher Bean and was active in dramatic work at Emma Willard School and Vassar College.
Miss Selma Rose and Miss Amelia Bracha hosted a dessert bridge Friday evening at 1942 Washington Avenue SE to honor Mrs W Russell Deatherage formerly Miss Carmelia Anderson who married on December 26. Guests included Mrs Deatherage, Mrs Byron Anderson, Wendell D Barrett, and others. Blossom Kirk leaves for Chicago and Indianapolis for an indefinite stay. A A U W reading groups meet with Miss Gayle Giblin and Miss Lucille Pogge will review River House by Barrett Willoughby.
Dr. W S Dysinger of Iowa will discuss the effects of motion pictures on children at a Wednesday 8 p.m. meeting of the local A A U W branch. The event at Mrs H C Ring 2508 Bever Ave SE includes committee members and several attendees. Also notes listed include an art group meeting at the library and a family departure to Kansas City with local ties, plus a Louise Leibert circle meeting at 1 p.m for dessert luncheon.
Miss Jean Elizabeth Stout daughter of Dr and Mrs C A Stout of Cedar Rapids wed Kiam H Brown son of Dr and Mrs W Frank Brown of Keokuk Saturday at 11 in the library of Iowa Union Iowa City Rev Jon T Jones officiated before an arch of ferns and white chrysanthemums The bride wore a green rabbit hair suit trimmed with mink tail They left for New Orleans and will reside at 1009 Avenue NE Cedar Rapids after Feb 10 Mrs Brown a graduate of Washington high school Cedar Rapids Business college and the University of Iowa worked as a radio station continuity writer in Davenport Mr Brown employed at a local radio station
Silver Cross circle of the King's Daughters will meet Wednesday at 1pm at the home of Mrs. L. L. Owen, 311 Nineteenth street SE, for a picnic luncheon. Members are asked to take a covered dish, silver and dishes. The Ladies Aid birthday tea Tuesday at 2 pm at the home of Mrs. Alexander Sampson, 1551 Sixth avenue SE. Mrs. S. G. Smith and Mrs. R. L. Jasper assisting.
About 200 P E O members from Mount Vernon Estherville Marion and other Iowa towns attended the P E O Founders Day luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel. Mrs Jewell Bothwell Tull presented original writings including They That Mourn and poems like The River and Seven Ages. Mrs Moray L Eby reviewed projects as a memorial candle service honored P E O chapters across Iowa.
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