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Miss Rebecca George, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William D. George, of Sewickley, is in
Gautier, Mississippi, the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. William W. Grinstead and Miss Patricia
Grinstead, on their plantation.
Tuesday Mrs. W. Dickinson Shields was
hostess at a bridge tea at her home in Edgeworth.
Mrs. Arthur Wagner and Mrs. James
E. Umbstaetter were at the tea table.
Mr. John Kennedy Beeson, son of Mr.
Charles E. Beeson, of Morewood Avenue, led
the grand march of the annual Yale Junior
promenade, which closed Yale's social week
Monday night. Miss Carol McDonald, of St.
Louis, was Mr. Beeson's partner.
At half past five o'clock the afternoon of
Saturday, February fourth, the wedding of
Miss Frances Schoen, daughter of Mrs. William
Henry Schoen, and Mr. Lewis A. Park,
of Sewickley Heights and Pittsburgh, took
place in the Schoen home in Fifth Avenue.
The Rev. Dr. Edwin J. van Etten, rector of
Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, read
the service. The bride wore a gown of white
Callot satin, built with long close-fittingsleeves
and trimmed with point d'Alencon
lace. A panel of the same lace, bordered
with satin, formed the train and her tulle
veil fell from a cap of the lace. She carried
lilies of the valley, white lilacs and gardenias.
Miss Josephine Nicola, as the bride's only
attendant, wore a frock of beige marquisette,
S O C I E T Y
with matching hat, and carried American
Beauty roses. Mr. Alexander S. Hunter
served as Mr. Park's best man. Mrs. Schoen
wore a gown of grey satin, with black hat.
Upon returning from an Eastern weddingtrip
Mr. and Mrs. Park will make their home
on Sewickley Heights.
Miss Katherine Doming Clapp, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Hubbard Clapp, of
Woodland Road, Edgeworth, and Mr. William
Ayers Galbraith were married Saturday
afternoon, February fourth, the ceremony
taking place in the Clapp home witli the Rev.
Dr. Henry R. Browne, pastor of the Shields
Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. Dr. Alleyne
C. Howell, rector of St. Stephen's Protestant
Episcopal Church of Sewickley, as the
officiating clergymen. The bride wore a
gown of ivory satin, built with court train,
and a veil of rose point lace. Her flowers
were lilies of the valley and orchids. Marion
Collin and Mary-Lee Galbraith, as flower
girls, were the only attendants. They wore
frocks of peach-colored crepe de chine, with
matching bonnets. Mr. Hanson Thomas, of
Edgeworth, served as Mr. Galbraith's best
man.
Among the guests at the wedding were Mr.
and Mrs. Charles E. Clapp, of Bedford Hills,
New Jersey, and Mrs. Davenport Galbraith,
of Erie.
February fourteenth a series of every
other Tuesday luncheon-bridges will begin in
THE INDEX, Saturday, February 11, 1928
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the Pittsburgh Country Club for women
members and their friends. The Women's
Committee, which includes the wives of
directors, officers and committee members,
will be in charge and will serve as hostesses.
February hostesses are Mrs. C. M. Yohe, Mrs.
R. W. Riser, Mrs. J. 0. Horning, Mrs. Alexander
Dunbar, Mrs. Robert J. Coyle, Jr., Mrs.
C W. Bennett, Mrs. H. A. Gidney and Mrs.
Clark Hammond, chairman.
Mrs. B. F. Jones, Jr., of Sewickley Heights,
is at her Winter home in Augusta, Georgia.
Mrs. William Terrell Johnson and Miss
Mary Louise Johnson, of Forbes Street, accompanied
by Miss Margaret Wallick Mc-
Clintic, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Hale McClintic, of Beechwood Boulevard,
leave today, sailing from New York, for
abroad.
Among those who plan to go abroad in
early April are Miss Eleanor and Miss Martha
Chalfant, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Chalfant, of Ridge Avenue, North
Side, and Miss Martha Shields Brooks,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Faber
Brooks, of Shields.
Miss Romaine P. Clark, of Crafton, sailed
Saturday on the Empress of Scotland for a
Mediterranean cruise and will visit in Paris
before returning home the last of April.
C L U B S - P H I L A N T H R O P I E S - C I V I C S
MONDAY afternoon, February thirteenth,
the Pittsburgh Colony of New
England Women will meet at The Thurston
School, at half past two o'clock with Miss
Alice M. Thurston as hostess. Mrs. W. H.
Parrish will give a "Travel Talk" and a short
play, "Pioneer Life in Our Early Colonies,"
will be presented by the Primary Department
of The Thurston School. There will be solo
dances by Ruth Talbott. Following the program
tea will be served with Mrs. Irvin D.
Metzger as chairman for the day.
The Drama League Players, under the
direction of Mrs. Lane Thompson, will present
"A Comedy of Danger" by Richard
Hughes, over the Radio, Station KDKA, at
half past ten o'clock the evening of February
seventeenth in celebration of National Drama
Week. This is the first play ever written for
the new medium of the Radio. It is placed
in a coal mine where the lights have been
extinguished through an accident, and represents
a conversation carried on by ihree
people who are brought face to face with
death. The incident is based upon an actual
happening in a coal mine in Wales, and the
story has become a tradition in the neighborhood
where it happened.
The cast which will present the play for
the Pittsburgh Drama League will consist of
Mrs. Augusta Steele as Mary, Chester B.
Story as Jack, and Claude McNair as Mr.
Bax, a tourist. They will be assisted by a
quartet of Welsh singers under the direction
of Evan Lloyd.
Elbert R. Moses tomorrow will present his
own dramatization of the life of Abraham
Lincoln, and Mrs. Chester F. Johnston will
read an original Valentine play on February
fourteenth. Both these plays will also be
given from Station KDKA in observance of
National Drama Week.
The officers of the Pittsburgh Drama
League are: President, Elmer Kenyon; vicepresident,
Miss Elizabeth Howe; membership
secretary, Mrs. Philip H. Rinehart; treasurer,
Chester B. Story; recording secretary, Miss
Cecil H. Dean; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Albert Pettit. The board of directors consists
of Mrs. Lane Thompson, Miss Vanda
Kerst, Miss Alice T. McGirr, J. Benedict, Miss
Eliza T. Edwards, F. M. Wilmot, Wayne
Paulin, Miss Grace A. Croft, Mrs. Thomas C.
Clifford and Marvin T. Herrick.
Mrs. Lamont II. Button is chairman for the
meeting of the Woman's Alliance of the First
Unitarian Church, Morewood and Ellsworth
Avenues, at eleven o'clock Wednesday morning,
February fifteenth. Dr. Luba Robin
Goldsmith will speak on "The Art of Living
in the Light of Medical Science." There will
be the usual luncheon at one o'clock.
Mrs. Charles Orchard, of Hobart Street,
will be hostess at the meeting of the Epoch
Club February sixteenth. The following program
has been arranged: "Travel," Mrs. Edward
E. Phelps; "Nature," Mrs. Howard K.
Jones; "Rugs," Mrs. Fred W. Scott; "Letters
of Asa Gray," Mrs. Truman P. Gaylord.