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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1940
Page
38
The Dwarf Cup flower Nierembergia Hippomanita is highlighted as a new low growing perennial with lavender blue cup shaped blossoms and yellow centers. It thrives in rock gardens, needs mild protection, and benefits from seasonal pruning and careful cultivation including soil moisture and pest control.
The fourth annual garden pilgrimage by Christ Episcopal Church features the Edgar G Tobin garden at dusk. On April 13 and 14 afternoons, ten notable San Antonio gardens will be shown with Mrs Lewis Turner as general chair and Mrs Curtis Vaughan as co chair. A dramatization of Heidi and Held Grave Up was presented by Ruth Guit School pupils on Friday at 12 34.
Geeta Bennet hosted the Palette and Chisel club meeting at her home on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Bennet presided over the session and officers were elected with Mrs Sthyl Kingston as president, Mrs Allee Naylor as vice president, Mrs Grace Allard as secretary treasurer, Miss Eunice Wintpress reporter, and Mrs Lola Mueller historian.
The Southwest Festival chorus directed by Dr. Otto Wieck will rehearse Monday at 8 pm at the Broadway and Fifth streets location. Anthems and hymns will be used for the nationwide Sunrise Service. The festival committee meets Tuesday at 7:30 pm in the conference room of M C Ay Marin and Navarra streets.
Mrs William Wurzbach and Mrs Creston King are noted gardeners helping at the Wille Museum Garden Center. Nesbit Parker and Walker seek work there, exchanging plants for one penny and trees for five cents. Mrs Everett Johnson tends pink geraniums and other blooms amid a colorful batch.
Alamo chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meets at the Alamo Memorial with Mrs S R Knight presiding. Mrs H R Wofford reported on a figurine exhibit of wives of Texas governors and a project placing replicas at Texas State College for Women. New members were introduced and 546 magazines distributed to Army M C A and local institutions.
The final of four Tuesday musical teas will be at San Pedro Playhouse on March 26 afternoon, featuring Abram Chasins, famed concert pianist and composer. Chasins, acclaimed internationally, has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Boston Symphony, and worked with conductors Toscanini and Barbirolli. He studied with Hutchinson and Hoffmann among others, joined Curtis Institute staff as the youngest faculty member, and recently played Gerahwin concertos with major orchestras as part of a festival celebrating American composers. Tickets are now at the Municipal and Town Hall box offices.
The late Maury Bonner's work is on display at Shawl for two weeks ending April 1. Bonner was renowned as a pioneer American etcher with works in the British Museum and Luxembourg gallery.
Spring activities surge at the Witte Museum with a first School of Art exhibit planned, an Art League ball moved to May 11, a cactus garden for the reptiles, a musical instruments show, and a lecture by Janis Chillman. Curator Elemhor Ondérdonk leads preparations as volunteers map out desert and garden displays while models are sought for life class.
The St Louis Symphony led by Vladimr Golschmann will perform at the Auditorium on March 30 as the sixth annual Friends of Music fundraiser nears its end. Notable soloists Scipione Guldt and Max Breindel join the program, which follows a recent Chicago ovation for the orchestra. The Phosphor fraternity meets Sunday at Beaver Kinsell’s home.
The Philanthropic department of the Woman's club hosts a Wednesday meeting at 3 p.m. with sewing for orphans, service to the blind, and youth interest on the program. Little girls from Protestant Orphans home will model dresses, Asthrea will be presented, and a boy skit plus musical numbers are planned.
An ad touts Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin as a twin function remedy. It claims Pepsin dissolves undigested protein in the stomach while Senna laxative stimulates bowel movements. The copy emphasizes stomach comfort and easy use for families and children.
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