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IN DETROIT SOCIETY Rambling with Roberta 12 THE DETROIT FREE PRESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1943 Making Arrangements for Open House at Old Mariners Church WWW'' JlfV "mjms.jK HELLO JUNE! You're just the month that makes us want to play hookey, to tramp FOR LEG LOVELINESS'. LIQOH STOCKINGS! Conserve your hose, gals. Keep your legs cooler than a brook trout all summer with MAURICE'S (he's Detroit's original powder blender, remember?) Le Make-up. Won't run and it's "I Nl I. i 4 r- 4 I jlrrw iff'riM Open now to all sea-faring men of this war is Old Mariners Mission.

Above some of the women planning the open house are Sirs. Jervis E. Schultz, Mrs. Chester E. Elliott, Mrs.

Maurice S. Marr and Mrs. William B. Taylor. The women are entertaining so that everybody may view the famous landmark.

Tree Press Fhotoa Sirs. Kohert L. Stimson I chairman of the open house being planned by the Episcopal City Missions for June 11 at Old Mariners Church. A4 sE WOMEN'S CLUBS FTA Unit to Discuss Gardening BY GRACE V. SHARRITT IN SPITE OF wet weather and the general discouragement to gardeners, members of Hol-comb PTA will discuss the merits of "Victory Gardening" with Ralph Peterson, assistant city forester, at their meeting June 3, at 8 o'clock, in the school auditorium.

Another feature will be a talk on the "Health of the School Child." There will be installation of officers and refreshments are to be served At a special session for parents of kindergarteners and preschool children the First Grade mothers will act as hostesses. MISS EMMA M. Gavitt, who has been executive of the Girl Reserve Department at Central Branch YWCA for the past four years, has resigned to study at the Y'3 National Training School in the HTy- iumD off tall all- i buildings, take lone vacation then hnrn our 3i hriflp'ps behind us. Maybe it'slll Wl, Jf- Spring fever Jfa Knf ira Art ViflV 1 A uie impulse iu uu uc. we can ao that but we can do something as exciting! We can get all "hepped" over this crop of new things the stores are showing.

They'll give our morale a real Whoops! It must be Spring fever season is here! ROBERTA. AT LAST WE'VE GOT TO THEM! These unrationed "CRUIS play shoes, we mean here are the play shoes that will help you in the Victory garden to romp in the park and turn up afternoons looking as a pin! Just super for your active summer davs. White! Blue! Brown! Wheat! SPECIAL, Sizes 4 to 9. Urn! Better see them! MAIL ORDERS. FRANK SEDER, 1437 Wood ward.

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MARY ANN HAT SHOP IS ready with an exciting collection of cool white hats! Fabrics, straws, felts! Sh ones, tiny ones! All with clever details Prices $1.95 to 515 Park. Entrance Tuller i-iotel. "CURVETTES" ideal gar ment for defense and home work ers! Sizes 25 to 40! Won derful values. Open Monday eve nings 'til 7:30. SMART FORM SHOP, 408 Metropolitan CH.

6058. AWAY WITH UNWANTED HAIR! Safely, permanently. Electric Needle. Arches, hairline. CELIA NOVICK, 604 Empire Bldg.

Clifford at Wash. Blvd. CA. 2915. MEN ARE FEW THESE DAYS But a woman needn't go to great lengths to lure a man not when she can hold him captive with a dress from FRANCIXE FROCKS Annual vacation dress sale hundreds of new Spring dresses All esneeiall They're continuing a clearance of imiiieu numoer of seasonable coats! suits! costume suits! Lay-away plan available, ah husoes stop at or transfer to FRANCINE zoba w.

Grand corner 12th. OUT-OF-T6WNERS or IN-TOWNERS for that matter, will De as nappy as we were when we found Hugo Solomon, our favorite lockti-cian, has EVERY KIND OF KEY you need. They're scarcer than hen's teeth, you know. Locks and keys for automobiles, boats, trunks, suit cases, houses, filing cabinets. Padlocks, night latches, door locks, very kind and description.

MAIL ORDERS FILLED. 25c per key postage included! Call Columbia 1895. 70 E. Warren Drive-in space. BABIES MUST PLAY! And here are all the play togs for tiny tots' enjoyment! for the tiny prices of 79c! Cute, cunning and correct playsuits that are hit successes for the children and mothers, too! The summer clothes that keep small ones cool and comfy while they play.

Easy to launder and keep fresh crisp. It's a great collection of adorably styled brother and sister play suits. Sizes 1 to 3 and 3 to FRANK SEDER, Children's Department, 6th floor. 1437 Woodward. CH.

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Open evening during sale! FOWLER'S, 19164 Livernois, 7 Mile at Liver nois. HERE'S A BABY SHOP brim ming with clothes 'n' accessories! Layettes, play clothes, dresses, gifts! Van S. Children's Shop. 301 David Whitney Bldg. CA.

5773. FRESH, YOUNG, WASHABLE uniforms! Perfect choices foi nurses Red Wvvorkers. a workers! This won derful collection at AGNES FALSHAW'i? (RX) Uniform Shop? 7637 a i 1 ton. TR 2-9727 or 705 Davi. Whitney CA.

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PESKY MOTHS? Fur storag $5. Cleaned, glazed, insured to $100 Bonded pick-up. Repairing, remod eling, reasonable. GREEN'S FUR SHOP, 70S Empire Bldg. CA.

6764 MINT-JULIP FROCKS! Swishy cool, and heady a your favorite drink A. 1 4 pasieis or spiasne. colorful flowers butcher linens Thr tariffs are amazing Just $8.95, $10.95 $14.95 Look ovei this charming collec tion of vibrant sum mer fashions! APPAREL SHOP 7366 Grand River a Lothrop. Open eve nings. One block north of Grand Blvd MAKE YOUR FOUNTAIN TE LAST! Step into Schal-denbrand's.

Dime Bank for a bottle of I K. Preserves your pen cleans as it writes, 15c-25c. Old pens repaired, too! HAIR GONE FOREVER! Short Wave Method removes hair fastei No pain. No scars. Guaranteec Edith Eckstat, 1309 Eaton Tower CHerry 3047.

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GARLICK SONS It's their special field. They hav a Diamond Imperfection Detecto a microscope with special light ing arrangement which makes i possible for anyone to see that diamond is perfect, or, if flawe! the nature of the fkvvs! And there a Diamonte a specially cor trolled lighting arrangement unde which diamonds whose color hav been definitely determined in th laboratories of the Gemological Ir. stitute of America by means of th Colorimeter. See this glorious col lection first! J. H.

GARLICK SONS. 1126 Gnswold. Member the American Gem Society. Sine 1885. LEE AND CLAYTON CONLAM have a talent for making peopl look their Dest.

'N you'd agree i you could see the new Safety-Ha: Do they've drummed up especiall for girls who work in defens plants or for those who'd love be cool! One sweep of the brus and you're ready for any kind work or play! Haircuts, $1 Permanents, $10 to $20. CON LAN'S, 360 Book CA. 092H For further information concerning this column, call RAn-, dolph 8900, Line 239. Advertisement, ft Jk Mi Ml' 111 'A Mc Leave Compensates for Cancelled Plans BY MARY ELLEN MENARD COMPENSATING AS MUCH as possible for the fact' that his mother, Mrs. Wallace S.

MacKenzie, was unable to attend his wedding on May 29 down at Annapolis, Lieut. Edward P. MacKenzie brought his pretty little bride, the former Shirley Johnson, up to Detroit on Sunday for an all-too-brief leave. Mrs. MacKenzie had thought, up until the very last moment, that she would definitely be among those present at the ceremony even had her dress all packed but it was a rather nasty attack of the flu which kept her confined to the house and sent Mr.

MacKenzie down to Annapolis by himself. Shirley and Edward left on Monday, but that didn't mean a cessation of excitement out at the MacKenzie home, for on Tuesday Mrs. MacKenzie's brother and sister-in-law. Col. and Sirs.

W. T. Hersee, who are stationed at Woodstock, dropped in to spend a few hours. They left later in the day to return to Canada. First Visit Home AND SPEAKING of our young marrieds, it's been a first-visit-home since their marriage in Boston last November that Ensign and Mrs.

Floyd K. Yeomans have been enjoying since Sunday. The former Angie Frazer and her young husband, who had been living out in Hutchinson, have been the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley G.

Frazer, of the Indian Village Manor. They're planning to leave sometime today, however, for the East Coast, where he'll report for duty. Romance in the air as far as Virginia Smith is concerned, for today she's leaving to spend three weeks in the East, highlight of the trip to be the wedding on June 10 of her cousin, Lucille Musser, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harvey H.

Musser, of Akron, to Midshipman Robert Lee Wilcox. The ceremony, in which Ginnj' will be a bridesmaid, will be solemnized at the Naval Chapel at Annapolis, but preceding her arrival there (and afterwards, as a matter of fact) Virginia will visit relatives in Baltimore and Washington. She's going to be at Annapolis, by the way, for June week, a thrill for any young lady. Prettv Guest in Town ONE OF OUR prettier visitors in town at this point is Anne D'Esterre Pratt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick Theodore Personal Mr. and Mrs. James B. Wilkie (Evelyn McDonald, of Hartford, formerly of Detroit, now of Hartford, announce the birth of a daughter, Patricia Ann, on May 26. Mrs.

Otto H. Baetz, of Cadillac left Thursday for Alton, 111., to see her daughter Kathleen be graduated from Monticello College. They will spend a few days in Chicago and return home today, Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles LaMonte Coe (Virginia Koestlin), of University Place, announce the birth of a son, Charles Koestlin, on May 28. Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Berlin, of Cherrylawn will have an open house on June 6 from 2:30 to 5:30 o'clock in honor of the confirmation of their son, Jean David.

Mr. and Mrs. V. V. McBride and their daughter Valerie, of Warrington Drive, are leaving today, Wednesday, to attend the graduating exercises of their son Edward from St.

John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wis. They will be gone a week. Miss Trimble Will Be Married to Dr. Smith MARGARET TRIMBLE, of Washington Road, has set June 19 as her wedding day when she will become the bride of Dr. Richmond W.

Smith, of Detroit, formerly of Walpole, Mass. His parents are the Richmond W. Smiths, of Walpole, and Miss Trimble is the daughter of Mrs. Arthur Trimble, of Evansville, Ind. The bride-elect was graduated from Swarthmore College and received her master's degree from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Smith is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Yale Medical School. They will be married in Christ Church Chapel. Engaged to 4-4JK A yttj's Mention Mrs. Charles B.

Gorey, who is living at the Whittier temporarily, will entertain for Betty Jane Jacobs on Friday at a tea with a cocktail accessories shower for 15 guests. Ensign Edward J. Hickey, of Edgemont Park, who is home from Midshipmen's School at Notre Dame, was the guest of honor at an open house given Monday for 40 guests by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.

J. Hickey. Gerry Marcoux Lists Attendants for Wedding GERRY MARCOUX, who will be married to Boatswain's Mate 1-C Tom Fisher, on June 26, has named the members of her wedding party. Shirleyan Gibbs will be matron of honor with Pat Hill. Eleanor Kelyle.

Betty Dick and Mrs. W. E. Anderman, as the bridesmaids. Lieut.

Everell Fisher, who is at, the pre-flight school at Iowa City, will be the best man. Charles T. William Fisher, Norbert Wiesler, a cousin of Tom Fisher, AC Lee Marcoux, stationed at Athens, and Lieut W. S. Patterson, in naval training school at Dearborn, will be the ushers.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Fisher will give the rehearsal dinner in their home on Boston on June 25. Among those who are planning pre-nuptial parties for the bride-elect are Mrs.

Sam Keller, who will give a personal shower and luncheon in her home on Six Mile Road, and Mrs. John Hanna, who will give a kitchen shower and tea in her home in Birmingham on June 20. Eleanor Kelyle will entertain at a luncheon at the City Club. Shirleyan Gibbs and Pat Hill are planning a luncheon and linen shower at the Golf Club and Mrs. W.

E. Anderman, will give a luncheon and miscellaneous shower at the Detroit Athletic Club. Betty Dick and her mother, Mrs. Florence Dick, will give a cocktail party and bathroom shower in their home. Lieutenant 9 i 'fir Jtt Brown Thoto CHATTERBOX Detroiters to Return from School BY NANCY DYGERT THIS SCHOOL BUSINESS will be all over in a week or two and then the time to play will start.

It will be swell when the final count of noses is completed after the kids come home for a minute or two (well, a week, maybe) before skipping off to cooler climes for the summer. Some of the newest graduates of Principia are Mary Handy and Barbara Beeman. Bob Roberts got his diploma from the Upper School at Principia. After today Ann Dorothy Lennane will be an alumnae of the Junior College at Georgetown Visitation Convent. Not among the graduates but finishing the year with a pocket full of honors is Ann Hartman, president of next year's senior class at Bradford Junior College.

Elsie Mae Crone came back last week-end from Duke where she has been elected the new president of the Pan-Hellenic Council. She was the co-ed business manager of the Duke Chronicle and editor of the freshman year book. Her pockets are really full! Elizabeth Ann Cross, Mho was a freshman at Albion this year, Is well stocked with campus distinctions. She was elected president of Alpha Lambda Delta, women's honorary for the freshmen, and she helped write "Big Three," the freshman skit which won the silver loving cup for the freshmen from the sophomores. THE WALLS WILL BE shaking and the beams will be quaking tonight, Wednesday, at Adrian Cotter's Inn.

Reason for the reverberations will be the big shin-dig Doris Gleason is having for her pals who are closing their high school books for good. The neatest trick of the week will be pulled by Doris. On the table will be a huge cake decorated like a telegram with congratulations for the class. Then at each place there'll be place-cards of girls in mortar boards. Some of the 14 guests will he Patti Stack, Giny Christie, Fran Kruse, Pris Oswald, Marg Slevin, Penny Bowman and Gert Hasse.

LAST WEEK-END was a whopper in the lives of the Tri Kappas (both Alpha and Beta Chapters) because they had their semi-annual initiation dinner for the pledges at-the Book-Cadillac. At the candlelight ceremony Pat Smith came up to get the sorority pin for being the A-l pledge. After the dinner the girls had a slumber party minus the slumber. Some of the girls at the party were Shirley Nyhus, Betty Ann Weaver, Grace Cunnings. Valerie Alford, Carol Johnson, Mary Worley, Winnie Graham, Virginia Park, Jane Aller-ton, Lois Amsbary, Mari Lyn Hufman, Erm'a Scupholin, Bobbie Jameson.

Betty and Pat Smith and Peggy Wallace. In the morning there was breakfast in bed with waffles. The party was also in honor of Peggy Wallace, prexy of the Alpha Chapter, who'll be pack-ine her bags pretty soon to move to Cedar Rapids, la. BOX LUNCHEON Mrs. Frederick Jones, of Yorkshire Road, will entertain members of the Women's Alliance of the Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church today, Wednesday, be-gining at 1 o'clock.

The affair will be a garden box luncheon. "V- -A is if 9 0 MMMfev' ''JtSMbuMuUuC-ur-- I WSf 'Silk 'SB' 1 4 4 'i Vllllllllll! EMMA M. GAVITT To study in East in New York City this summer. She is preparing for a general secretaryship in the Association. A graduate of the University of Rochester, N.

Miss Gavitt has had a wide experience in secretarial and club work. She has been associated with the Toledo Community House and served as industrial secretary in the Evansville, YWCA. ELIZABETH CASS CHAPTER DAR will meet for luncheon at 12:30 Friday, June 4, at the home of Mrs. Donald E. Jones, near Plymouth.

The re- gent, Mrs. Dwight T. Randall, will preside and the afternoon will be devoted to the study of the Code of Wartime Conversation and the Flag Code of the United States of America as amended by the Congress of the United States of America, Dec. 22, 1942. Officers of the chapter for the ensuing year are: Mrs.

Dwight T. Randall, regent; Mrs. Arthur E. Wells, vice regent; Mrs. R.

Fruit, chaplain; Mrs. William F. Rossiter, recording secretary; Mrs. Bernard J. Riordan, corresponding secretary; Mrs Myers L.

Booth, treasurer; Mrs. Frederic A. Fairbrother, registrar, and Mrs. Marcus O. Bond, historian-librarian.

AT THE 6 O'CLOCK dinner of the Soroptomists on Wednesday Lucia Lyons, of the Cum-mings Student Children's Hospital of Mt. Clemens, will speak on her experiences as a missionary in China. The dinner will be at Mee Chums. ANNE PRATT Visiting fiance Pratt, of Boston, whose engagement to Richard LeBaron Goodwin, of Seyburn was announced last week. Anne and Richard, accompanied by his parents, returned Tuesday night from Harvard University, where Richard was graduated last week.

Anne will remain in Detroit for about 10 days. Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Julien, of Nottingham Road, announce the engagement of their daughter Frances Lucille to Lieut.

Henry J. Milleville, of New Orleans, son of Mrs. C. M. Milleville, of Montclair Ave..

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