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THE INDEX, Saturday, February 25, 1928
tf' S O C I E T Y
W I T H Ash Wednesday here and gone,
the days of Lent hold even less in the
way of social affairs than have the preceding
few weeks. Everyone who can get out of
town for a few weeks or months has either
gone or is about to leave the city. Miss Mary
A. Robinson, daughter of Mr. William H.
Robinson, of Beechwood Boulevard, went to
New York this week and sails today on the
Paris for France. She is accompanied by
Miss Marguerite Ayers of Boston. Both
Miss Robinson and Miss Ayers expect to
spend three or four months in Paris.
Miss Margaret Wright Stewart, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Lincoln Stewart, of
Aylesboro Avenue, will leave for Louisville
in a few days where she will make a short
visit with Miss Mary Park Kaye.
Mrs. H. D. W. English, of Fair Oaks Avenue,
and her daughter, Mrs. Charles S. Wunder,
of Kipling Road, are in Pasadena where
they are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pitcairn
and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Rutherford Mc-
Comb. Mrs. English expects to remain in
California four or five months but Mrs. Wunder
probably will return about the last of
March.
Mrs. Alfred E. Jenkins and her small
daughter, Eleanor, who have been at Palm
Beach since the first of February, have gone
to Havanna where they joined Mrs. T. Clifton
Jenkins, of Morewood Avenue.
Mrs. Harry W. Gleffer, of the Negley
Apartments, South Negley Avenue, has an­
nounced the engagement of her daughter,
Miss Martha Converse Gleffer, to Mr. John
Murdoch Clarke, of Philadelphia, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert S. Clarke, of the North Side.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Fleming Fell, of Howe
Street, have gone to Palm Beach where they
will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
R. B. Townsend, of Sewickley Heights, at
their cottage for several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Wasson, Jr., after a
short Eastern wedding trip, are now at home
in the Center Court Apartments, Center
Avenue. Mrs. Wasson, before her marriage
January twenty-fourth, was Miss Sara Jane
Whiteman, daughter of Mrs. J. A. Whiteman,
of Indiana, Pennsylvania. Miss Helen Hawman,
Mr. Wasson's step-sister; Miss Catherine
Blair, of Indiana, and Mr. Alexander
Verner Wasson, who served as his brother's
best man, were the only attendants. The
only Pittsburgh guests at the wedding, which
took place in the home of the bride with only
the two families and a few friends present,
were Miss Marion Beeson, Mr. David McClay
and Mr. Creswell Shumaker.
Mrs. Glenn T. Braden, of Woodland Road,
Sewickley, went to Reading this week to visit
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Allan M. Cullum. From Reading Mrs. Braden
will go to New York for a month.
"Tarentella," the fortieth annual produc­
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence P. Byrnes and Miss
Martha Byrnes, of Academy Avenue, and
tion of the Mask and Wig Club of the Uni­ Mrs. John B. Semple, Jr., of Chestnut Street,
versity of Pennsylvania will appear at Syria Sewickley, are in Cocoanut Grove, Florida,
Mosque Thursday evening, March twentyninth.
for several weeks.
The story of this year's production deals Mr. Alexander C. Robinson, of Academy
with the adventures of a New York moving Avenue, Sewickley, sails today on the Paris
picture company, The Instigation Films, Inc., from New York, for France and Italy. His
who go "on location" in Sicily. Opportunity plans include a motor trip through Northern
for local color is thus afforded and the ''Tar­ Africa.
entella" will be featured throughout the play.
While establishing themselves in Sicily, the
Mrs. C. Bernard Shea, II., of Tennyson
movie company find they have encroached on
Avenue, Schenley Farms, has gone to Brent­
the preserves of Wolfstep, a notorious local
wood Height, California, where she will re­
bandit, who accordingly kidnaps the entire
main until the first of April.
party to revenge himself for the insult. From
this point the plot rapidly works out to a
Tuesday, February twenty-eighth, the
surprising and unusual ending.
Mrs. George B. Motheral, of South Negley
usual bi-weekly luncheon-bridge will be given
Mr. H. Stewart Dunn is chairman of the
Avenue, has gone to Atlantic City, where she
in the Country Club of Allegheny County at
local committee, assisted by Mr. C. C. Kohne,
is a guest at the President Hotel.
one o'clock. Hostesses for this month are
Jr., Mr. T. K. Heselbarth, Mr. J. D. Mattern,
Mrs. C. M. Yohe, Mrs. R. W. Riser, Mrs. J.
Mr. K. C. Witherow, Mr. R. H. Alexander, Pittsburghers are much in evidence at the
0. Horning, Mrs. Alexander Dunbar, Mrs.
Mr. C. H. Armstrong, Mr. J. W. Shaw, Mr. Bath and Tennis Club at Palm Beach, which
Robert J. Coyle, Jr., Mrs. C. W. Bennett, Mrs.
J. M. Titzel and Mr. B. C. Millar.
opened formally last week with a dinner
H. A. Gidney, Mrs. L. H. Burnett and Mrs.
dance. Mr. and Mrs. James Francis Burke
Clark Hammond, chairman.
Among those sponsoring the last of the
were among the dinner hosts that evening,
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. George Arm­ Yost String Quartet chamber music evenings,
entertaining a number of friends with Mrs.
strong Kelly, Mrs. Remsen V. Messier, of in the Hotel Schenley ball-room Saturday,
W. Harry Brown, who has just come from
Pembroke Place, entertained forty guests at March seventeenth, are Mrs. Oliver S. Hersh-
London, as guest of honor.
dinner in the Pittsburgh Golf Club the evenman, Mrs. Ambrose N. Diehl, Mrs. William Mrs. Henry R. Rea is giving a series of
ing of February eighteenth. Pink begonias, Thaw, Jr., Mrs. Harry Wherrett, Mrs. S. D. small affairs at the Bath and Tennis Club;
in gilt baskets, were the decorations. Fol­ Foster, Mrs. J. Frederick Haworth, Mrs. Ed­ Dr. and Mrs. Maitland Alexander gave a
lowing the dinner Mrs. Messler's guests reward J. Frauenheim, Mrs. Albert A. Ger- luncheon there in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmained
for the usual Saturday night dance maine and Mrs. John Stevenson Patterson. liam C. Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. James H.
at the club.
Much interest is being manifested in this Childs.
last concert in the present series, at which Among the arrivals at Palm Beach recently
Mr. and Mrs. George Hubbard Clapp and Mr. Norman Frauenheim, pianist, recently were Mr. Richard K. Mellon, Mr. and Mrs.
their daughter, Mrs. William W. Collin, Jr., returned from five years of studying and Thomas M. Jones, III., and Mr. and Mrs. Her­
of Edgeworth, are in Savannah for a few playing on the Continent and in England, will bert A. May.
weeks.
be the guest soloist.
President Cora Helen Coolidge and Dean
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Laughlin, III., of
Helen Marks, of Pennsylvania College for
Edgerton Avenue, sailed yesterday to join
Women, leave today to attend the National
the numerous Pittsburghers already at
Educational Association which meets in Bos­
Nassau.
ton February twenty-seventh to March
second.
Mr. and Mrs. William McConway, Jr., of
South Linden Avenue, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Miss Louise
McConway, to Mr. Stanley Overholt Law, of
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl C. Law, of South Graham Street.
No date has been decided on for the wedding.