Cedar Rapids notes on The Magnificent Yankee and town anecdotes
The Palm Beach style notes recount Louis Calhern visiting Grant Wood art in Cedar Rapids with five secretary aides, plus Calhern’s praise for the turnout of about 1,600 at the Magnificent Yankee and audience reactions. It also lists local milestones and light vignettes including Edward J. McGuire’s lunch counter opening, a Detroit license plate joke, and a Forbes cover story highlighting John S. Coleman of Burroughs.
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Louis Calhern
Grant Wood
Cedar Rapids
Wood
Mr. Calhern
Justice Holmes
Turner Chapel
David Turner
Dave
Grant
Calhern
Spangler
Spengler
Philospher
Holmes
Chicago
Des Moines
Forbes Business
John S. Coleman
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Coleman
Elsie Hudson
Walker
Harrison E. Spangler
James W. Good
Congress
Painting Demonstration Planned for Cedar Rapids College Club
Barbara Nassif will demonstrate a live painting session titled Painting is Fun for Cedar Rapids College Club members at 2 15 p m in the Woman's club. Superintendent Clyde Parker will speak on school legislation after the demonstration. Nassif has taught art at Schick General Hospital and Jane Boyd under Red Cross auspices and will display several of her works. Hostesses include Mrs R B Sherman Mrs R A Greenawalt and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Nassif
Cedar Rapids College Club
Woman’s Club
Clyde Parker
R. B. Sherman
R. A. Greenawalt
Victor Olson
D. L. Reid
R. H. Weldhouse
Marjorie Bywater
Katherine Stone
Miriamne
Garden Club To Meet Wednesday
The Cedar Rapids Garden club will hold its first meeting of the year Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Cedar Rapids Country club. Mrs. R. E. Howerton of Davenport will speak on Correlating Interior Decoration and Landscaping. Garden club members may bring guests. special invitations issued to local interior decorators and nursery men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Garden Club
Cedar Rapids Country Club
R. E. Howerton
Davenport
Arden Club
Eight PEO Chapters Elect 47 Officers for Term
Eight P E O chapters report officer elections across meetings last week. Chapter DE names Helen Dunn secretary and Cleta Wellborn treasurer among others. Chapter GM lists Arthur Loepp president and James Prouty guard. Chapter H1 names David Pugh president and Bern treasurer. Chapter IF notes Dawson Grim pres and Turre as treasurer. Chapter IH lists Irving Churchill pres and Hill vice president with several secretaries. Chapter II records W H Bailey pres and Toms vice president. Chapter II naming Kindig pres and Lynch vice president with Galloway treasurer and Wodtke guard.
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P.E.O
Helen Dunn
David A. Stofler
Cleta Wellborn
Arthur C. Loepp
Ben H. Peterson
Charles
J. M
J. Pet‘ranek
John H. Rieniers
Ates James V. Prouty
David R. Pugh
W. C. Bern
E. T. Gough
J. Richard Wagner
Dawson Grim
G. E. Tur
Ralph Whitlock
Thomas F. Lange
Irving Churchill
H. M. Hill
Burton H. Day
W. G. Bailer
George F. Dilger
P. W. Jacobson
W. H. Bailey
Robert C. Toms
C. Ward Macy
Wade Patterson
John Randall
Joseph W. Stenner
J. Morrish
Paul Kindig
J. Lynch, Jr
Harry
R. F. Galloway
N. W. Whelpley
F. P. Hagan
G. K. Wodtke
Two Courtesies Honor Miss Sheryl Zalesky Bride-Elect
Mrs. Fred W. Smith and Mrs. Lester C. Chadima hosted a lunch at Cedar Rapids Country Club honoring Sheryl Zalesky, who will marry Jack Ware of Tulsa on April 2. Twenty four attended the event after a Friday dinner at the Sette hotel in Iowa City hosted by Miss Joyce Schragle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred W. Smith
Bever Avenue
Lester C. Chadima
Washington Avenue
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Sheryl Zalesky
Zalesky
Jack Ware
Tulsa
Oklo
Sette
Iowa City
Joyce Schragle
Sioux City
New Life of Mr. Martin review mixed on Briffault work
A mixed critique of Robert Briffault’s New Life of Mr. Martin notes its wide sweep from Limehouse to nobility and Asia and finds the novel implausible yet the author’s breadth of knowledge impressive. Critics debate the book’s thesis on democracy and civilization and question the credibility of its cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Martin
Robert Briffault
Scribner's $3
Martin
England
Briffault
Limehouse
Anthony Whitford
Elizabeth North Hoyt
This World Is Mine by Luigi Creatore review note
A critical note on Luigi Creatore's novel This World Is Mine, calling it a late arrival in personal experience fiction. The reviewer cites a navy corpsman protagonist who emerges from amnesia after a wartime hospital stay, describing the work as readable but lacking fresh insight.
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Luigi Creatore
The Quarry by Mildred Walker
Review of Mildred Walker's Vermont family saga The Quarry tracing four generations from Civil War to World War I. The Converse family parallels hard stone work with steady life and warmth while Easy Williams, a Black man, escapes to shelter on Converse land, forming a deep friendship with Lyman Converse.
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Lyman
Easy Williams
Painesville
Easy
Mrs. Emery To Address B P W March Meeting
Mrs. Imogene Emery will discuss Women In Unusual Vacations at the Business and Professional Women's club March meeting. Dinner at 6 30 p.m. Roosevelt hotel routine room. Educational committee chair Miss Elizabeth Bell with Miss Bernice Feller and other members plan the program. Also notes: box shipments to Czechoslovakia and the Linge family return from travel.
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Imogene Emery
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Elizabeth Bell
Bernice Feller
Ruby McCloskey
Mildred Wallace
Alice Brown
Mines
Merle Harris
Frances Anderson
Czechoslovakia
Harold Millhiser Hosts Farewell Dinner for Duttweilers
Mr and Mrs Harold Millhiser of 223 Twenty-sixth Street Drive SE hosted a farewell dinner Saturday honoring Mr and Mrs Henry S Duttweiler of 1131 First Avenue SE They will share leave Monday for their new home in Orlando Florida.
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E. C. Hoover
Forest Drive
McAllen
Texas
Everett Chandler
Memorial Drive
Percy Keehn
Glenway Drive
Saltillo
Keehns
Warren Ackley
Charles Bode
Mt. Vernon Avenue
William Tyler
Sherman Watson
William Crissman
John Locher
Ackley
William O. Grays
William O. Gray
C. M. Daniels
Chicago
Garden Drive
Harold Millhiser
Twenty-sixth Street Drive
Henry S. Duttweiler
First Avenue SE
Orlando
Fla
Exhibit of 20 Portraits at Cedar Rapids Art Gallery
An exhibit of 20 portraits by American painters is on display at the Cedar Rapids public library gallery, brought by the Cedar Rapids Art Association and assembled by Portraits Inc of New York City. Artists include Wayman Adams Sidney Dickinson Louis Betts and more. The show runs through March 31 with weekday and weekend hours, free to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Art Gallery
Cedar Rapids Art Association
Portraits, Inc
New York City
Wayman Adams
Sidney Dickinson
Louis Betts
Robert Brackman
Gerald Brockhurst
John Carroll
Paul
Miss Doris Garner to Wed in Dessert Bridge Shower
Mrs Byron K Anderson and Mrs Wallace Boyson hosted a dessert bridge and shower at the Boyson home honoring Miss Doris Garner bride elect. Spring flowers adorned the scenes as a list of guests from area addresses attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byron K. Anderson
Twenty-second Street
Wallace Boyson
Country Club Parkway
Boyson
Doris Garner
R. W. Merserpy
Cletus Schnoebelen
Roy Loudermilk
Kenneth Myers
Tl Skinner
Edwin Nel
de Shoemaker
Jance
A. J. Barth
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Pacific
Linn County
Arlene Burger
Okinawa
Fifth Avenue
Marion
McGuire
Second Avenue
Second Street
Detroit
Michigan
Charlie Campbell
Union Station
Henry Achter
Burlington
Henry
H. J. Jones
Wayne J. Foster
Wayne
Warren Foster
Clinton
Morgan J. Foster
John
University of Iowa Medical School
Jones
Richard
Coe College
Foster
Burrell C. Foster
Wellman Farm
Ellery Foster
Mayfecrest Turkey Farms
New York
Hollywood
J. Arthur Rank
Razor's Edge
Garden Club
E. C. Hoovers
Russia
Poland
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Buchenwald
Dachau
London
Wladyslaw Sikorski
U.S.S.R
Dean
Samuel
Adams
Erie
Canal
Erie Canal
Beardsley
12Th Street
Anthony
Whitford
Europe
Asia
North Africa
Besore
T. S. Elliot
Lou Breuer
Paris
Mildred Walker
E.N
Ida Bailey Allen
Mary Miles
Newmans
Iowa
Chee
Vermont
Harcourt, Brace
Mrs. Emery
B.P.W
Carl K. Linges
Gladys Linge
Carl K. Linge
Fourteenth Street
Miss Ih
Los Angeles
Japan
Red Cross
Tucson
Ariz
Harold Millhisers
Henry S. Dutiweilers
Montieur Studio
First Ave
Roosevelt Ph
Bezdek Florists
Johnson Avenue
Marion Blvd
Garner
F. S
Sandra Armstrong
Centerville
Sandra
E. W. LaPlante
Blake Boulevard
All America
John Steinbeck
Paul Wellman
Taylor Caldwell
Maurice Samuel
Oswald Wynd
Russell Janney
Joshua Liebman
Egg Andi
Betty MacDonald
Pere Antoine Edward F. Murphy
Eliza Hickok
Eric Sevareid
E. Stanley Jones
Sanford
Revion
May's Drug Store
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