Nestor the Talking Horse Tale of Entertainers in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids, Betty Soboda’s spectacle for the Junior League includes a male voice window routine amid school shows. The piece features a backstage boy’s quip as Betty dons men’s attire for the role. Also noted are varied local vignettes from voting quirks to theatre travel and a late ambulance ride for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne after a Friday Iowa theater performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etty Soboda
Nestor
Betty
Alfred Lunt
Lynn Fontanne
Lawrence Farrell
Iowa Theater
Davenport
Plans for Girl Reserve Conference in Cedar Rapids
Plans are complete for the annual high school Girl Reserve neighborhood conference sponsored by Waterloo and Cedar Rapids YWCA. The event in Cedar Rapids next Saturday and Sunday will welcome about 200 out of town girls from Waterloo Dubuque Davenport Burlington Iowa City Middle Amana Keokuk Orange Township Muscatine Ackley and Independence. The program centers on Y s View of Youth promoting international understanding with speakers Akiko Hino Jaroslava Holubova Alice Fay Coward and leaders from Cornell College and Cedar Rapids YWCA. The Saturday program includes workshops a Dutch treat luncheon a style show and tea by the Girl Reserve committee followed by a 6 30 p.m. banquet at the First Presbyterian Church. Sunday features a worship service and talks on Religion and Democracy in Crises before closing at 10 30 a.m. Cedar Rapids guests attend a party Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Davenport
Burlington
Iowa City
Middle Amana
Keokuk
Orange Township
Muscatine
Ackley
Independence
Akiko Hino
Hawaii
Jaroslava Holubova
Czechoslovakia
Alice Fay Coward
Uruguay
South America
Russell Cooper
Cornell College
Mary Jane Melsa
Wilson Hi-Y-Ette
Girl Reserve Committee
First Presbyterian Church
Business Girls’ Club
Y. W
Mary Ellen Reece
Roosevelt Hi-Y-Ette
McKinley Girls’ Glee Club
Maurine Hamblin
Nelson C. Dreier
Lois Wessale
McKinley Hi-Y-Ette
Coe Military Plan Musical Program At Cedar Rapids Club
A special musical program by the Coe College music department and the Woman’s club chorus is set for Monday at 2 30 p m in the Crystal room of the Montrose hotel as part of the Cedar Rapids Woman’s club general meeting. Directors and sponsors are listed with performances by the chorus, marimba numbers, and Edward Melcher tenor. The article also outlines related club meetings and events across departments through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Woman's Club
Music Department
Crystal Room
Montrose Hotel
W. E. Goreham
T. H. de Wees
Helen Kacena Stark
Mendelssohn
Landon Ronald
Charles Repper
Frederick Knight Logan
Grace Gordon
Coe Music Department
Edward Melcher
Mayflower Chapter to Meet with Mrs Henry
Mayflower chapter of the D A R will hold an Emerald Green luncheon Friday at 12 at the home of Mrs L E ry 119 Nineteenth Street SE Assisting hostesses include Mesdames Arthur Barlow Ralph Walker Fred Kluss W A Cash and B L Sheldon The program on the national history magazine will be given by Mrs Ethel Mahon with state convention reports read
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. M. Jairways
Robert Vesely
H. J. Odegaard
A. O D. Holbrook
Mary Norbert
Mount Mercy
Mildred Pelzer
Iowa City
Pierce
Memorial Union
Henry J. Hromek
R. T. Lubbock
Mayflower
D.A.R
L. E.ry
Nineteenth Street SE
Arthur Barlow
Ralph Walker
Fred Kluss
W. A. Cash
B. L. Sheldon
National History Magazine
Ethel Mahon
Alpha Xi Delta Visitor Joins Coe College Chapter
Miss Bonnie O. Pickard of Berkeley California national deputy visitor of Alpha Xi Delta is guest of Alpha Gamma chapter at Coe College this week. Activities include dinners with alumnae, conferences with active members, model meeting, a formal dinner hosted by Alpha Xi mothers club, and model initiation. She arrives from Vermilion South Dakota and will visit other Iowa chapters after Cedar Rapids stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnie O. Pickard
Berkley, Calif
Alpha Xi Delta Sorority
Alpha Gamma
Coe College
Miss Pickard
E. Harold Skinner
Russell Knapp
Frances McLaughlin
Voorhees Hall
Alpha Xi Mothers Club
Elks Club
D.A.R. State Conference Attendees Named
Delegates and alternates from multiple chapters attend Iowa D A R state conference. The program includes teas, luncheons, and awards, with Mrs. Harry E. Nare presiding. Special guests include Mrs. Emery and Mrs. Samuel J. Campbell, while Miss Mary Ann Sanders sails to Washington for the Continental Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayflower
Carl D. Thomas
J. C. Lick
W. A Cash
J. C. Milner
George W. Smith
Charles M. Fisher
Frank O. Storrs
Liek
Carl Schlotterbeck
Spirit Lake
Hoyt Sherman Place
Robert
Harry E. Nare
Sons of the American Revolution
Mary Ann Sanders
Waterloo
Iowa
Continental Congress
Washington, D. C
Uesday
Emery
National Defense
Samuel J. Campbell
Mount Carroll
Toms
Cedar Rapids
Arion
Ashley
Betty Kitterman to be honored at breakfast event
Betty Kitterman, engaged to William Burl James of Boulder, Colo, will be honored with a breakfast today hosted by sorority sisters Phoebe Nemecek Elizabeth Jackson and Elizabeth Focht at Focht home. Guest list includes numerous sisters and associates. Easter motif decor and yellow jonquil centerpiece planned. Also announced are tryouts for Community Players production Kind by Edward Chodorov next Monday at 7 30 in Y de building with six men and seven women. Mervin Severance directs. Glanville and Getz on tryout committee. Mrs George Liddie will entertain P E O chapter III dessert luncheon Tuesday at 1 pm. Mrs Foster to review Ian Irish play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Kitterman
William Burl James
Boulder
Colo
Phoebe Jane Nemecek
Fourth Avenue SE
Elizabeth Jackson
Elizabeth Focht
Eighteenth Street SE
Miss Focht
Margaret French
Betty French
Maxine Culbertson
Mary Jane McBaith
Bernice Mieras
Janetta Merritt
Pauline Frederikson
Peggie Bode
Dorothea Dolson
Cora Hampton
Jeanette Focht
Mary Nelson
Helen Burt
Juanita Jordan
Russell Wayre
Robert Hyde
George Hallenbeck
Edward Chodorov
Hugh Walpole
Mervin Severance
Frederick 8
Glanville
Gladyce Getz
George R. Liddie
Bever Avenue
C. S. Foster
Ian Irish
Coe Men Plan Military Ball Before ROTC Drill
Three advanced military students at Coe college Stanley Smith Springville Charles Garberson Sibley and Clifford Hellman Paullina met after a regular ROTC drill to map the year’s Military ball plans. The event is sponsored by Scabbard and Blade with Garberson as cadet lieutenant colonel Smith a company captain and Hellman on the planning committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.O.T.C
Coe College
Stanley Smith
Springville
Charles Garberson
Sibley
Clifford Hellman
Paullina
Military Department
Scabbard and Blade
Memorial Coliseum
Garberson
Coe
Smith
Hellman
Dance Opens Season At Country Club
The article lists memberships and guests at a season opening dance at the Country Club. It names Tama and Dr. Lawrence J. Halpin, multiple couples at a no host dinner, a Dutch treat table, cocktails at the Dunn home, and a no host foursome. It also notes Owen T. Barry and Barbara Barry visiting Illinois with family in Oak Park and Evanston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tama
Lawrence J. Halpin
D. M. Taylor
Allen Nash
George F. Miller
Guy E. Hillier
Carl K. Linge
A. L. Taylor
Robert W. Black
Harrington Buck
R. ©. Booth
Marion
Homer C. Maxwell
Dunn
L. P. Boudreaux
T. M. Ingersoll
Owen T. Barry
Ridgeway Drive
Owen T. Barry II
Barbara Barry
Illinois
Mrs. Barry
Mr. Barry
Sidney Boyden
Mr. Boyden
Oak Park
David
Northwestern University
Evanston
Elizabeth Stuart Attends Wah-Mu Show With Peddies
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart, Roosevelt hotel, traveled Friday to join Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Peddie of Fort Wayne, Indiana, to see Northwestern University's Wah-Mu show. Franklin Peddie Jr. led the romantic role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Stuart
Roosevelt Hotel
Monew
A. F. Peddie
Fort Wayne
Ind
Northwestern University
Peddies
Franklin Peddie, Jr
Blauls Plan Rock Island Visit To See Daughter Frances
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F. Blauls of 345 Woodland Drive SE will travel Monday to Rock Island to spend two days with their daughter Frances, a Villa de Chantal student, and attend her senior class play. The Wednesday Shakespeare club meets at 2 15 PM with Mrs J D Wardle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore F. Blaul
Woodland Drive
Rock Island
Frances
Villa de Chantal
Shakespeare Club
J. D. Wardle
Second Avenue SE
W. C. Bernstorf
Eader
Ladies Literary Club Meeting Review Preview
The Ladies Literary Club meets Monday at 2 30 p m with Mrs Robert Little 2166 Blake Boulevard SE. Mrs Haven Y Simmons will review The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Literary Club
Robert Little
Blake Boulevard
Haven Y. Simmons
Senor
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Military Ball Illuminates Coe College Decorations
Scabbard and Blade at Coe College hosts a military ball from 8 to 12 with machine guns mortars and rifles on display. Honorary cadet colonel and captains are announced during intermission while a Roosevelt Military Academy exhibition drill and an Alledo team perform. Notables include General Bishop and Governor Wilson among guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coe College
Elizabeth Ann Coe
Gertrude Illen
Kappa Delta
Wilfreda Hauser
Chi Omega
Margaret Wilson
Alpha Gamma Delta
Elizabeth Buckingham
Delta Delta Delta
Jane Huston
Alpha Xi Delta
Charles Garberson
Seaboard
Blade
Roosevelt Military Academy
Aledo
Jackson von Yeast
Hogan
Oriental Gardens
Chicago
Bruce Dougan
Carl Wilson
Darrel Costello
P. P. Bishop
Omaha
Seventh Corps
C. H. Grahl
George A. Wilson
B. B. Hickenlooper
Harry M. Gage
C. Harve Geiger
Dean
Myron L. Koenig
College Club To Hear Boys Court Judge Address
The College Club will host Judge Braude who will discuss juvenile delinquency and a plan to employ youths to curb crime. A musical prelude by Plantation Singers from Ellsworth college Iowa Falls precedes the talk with a long list of committee members helping host the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Braude
Plantation Singers
Ellsworth College
Iowa Falls
Wilma Cooley
Eleanor Pohorsky
Jessie Averill
Mary Bell
May Frick
Grace Lambert
Nanna Nelson
Ethel R. Outland
Nevah Prior
Elsie Propst
Julia Tow
Mary A. Woitishek
Ethel Ryan
Lucille Gove
Margaret McCall
Isabella McCall
Agnes Hibbs
Ruth Horner
Bernus Pirks
Gretchen Mullins
Sara Ann Brown
Cecelia Levin
Helen McCleary
Lillian Serbousek
Helen McFarlane
Eleanor Houts
Y Pritchett
Inga Tapper
Olya Tapper
Jenna Strahan
C. Peck
B. E. Ruston
Gerald A. Gage
Iva Towner
Roy Eurray
W. H. Linden
Shellsburg
C. C. Flodin
M.H. Morrison
Thomas Hayden
Burton Byer
Karl Kainz
Irma Lowe
H. B. Adkins
Daniel Kerr
Robert J. Rogers
Irish Items Hunt Celebrates St Patrick’s Day For 24 Guests
Twenty four people joined a scavenger hunt at Miss Cynthia Daly’s home on Twentieth Street NE to find St Patrick’s Day themed articles. The party included a list of ten people deemed “50 per cent Irish” and ended with green hats, carna tions, and a green candle decorated table at supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Patrick’s Day
Cynthia Daly
R. C. Mullen
Twentieth Street
Mullen
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Charles T. Hickok
Sir Charles Morgan-Webb
Knife and Fork Club
Bever Park
Hickoks
Sir Charles
Phillip Cummins
Tait Cummins
Yter
Phillip
Cedar Rapids Woman's Club
Health Education Department
George
Bernice Zavoral
Zavorals
Bernice
Beverly Meyers
Keokuk V. W
Dar Rapids Y. W. C. A
Ray Birkholz
Betty Leaper
Franklin Hi-Y-Ette Club
Roberta Randolph
Franklin Hi-Y-Ette
Longueville
Oliver Longueville
Wenn Hotel
Coe Military
Porgy and
Bess
George Gershwin
R. J. Allen
John T. Hecker
Gordon Bareer
Nature and Garden Department
Henry L. Schlesselman
Health Education
Fred Farrell
Seventh Avenue SE
Farrell
John Heins
Dial
Maddigan School
Mrs. Henry
Eleanor Taylor
Mary Howe DeWolfe
First Avenue E
Paderewski
Miss Taylor
Douglas Kirk
Cha FO
A. L. Kan
Vernon Drive
L. D. Dennis
Grace Scarff
Devere Smith
Forest Rutgers
cOo Mes
Currie
F. M. Currie
Indianapolis
E. D. Trimble
Eighth Street
National
Executive Housekeepers’ Association
The
Commonwealth
Kate Loomis
Alpha Xi Delta Vistor
D.a.r.'s
Liddle
Owen Barry
J. S. Skien
College Club
Dc. R. MecCalley
V. Oate
Srr
Irene Kuhn
Lange
Caldwell
Missouri
Thomas F. Lange
C Avenue NE
Vergil E. Caldwell
Bever Avenue SE
Lancaster, Mo
Friendship Circle of the King’s Daughters
V.E. Lichtenstein
B Avenue NE
T. F. Blauls
Mrs. Pratt
Everett C. Pratt
Allan &. Thurman
China
Japan
Evelyn Northcott
Mrs. Little
C. M. Westerfields
C. M. Westerfield
Ill
Tom Moore
Mrs. Helscher
George H. Helscher
Washington Avenue SE
Kenneth Ottsen
Mrs. Carrithers
Ira Carrithers
Forest Drive
Mildred Hunt
Linn County
W. B. Ives
Lasswell Studio
Third Avenue Paramount Theater
Zoric
Zoric Dry Cleaners
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