St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 78

GRACE mETHODIST CHURCH GROUP GIVES COLOfllflL COSTURIE PARTY "-V 1 ills, ill iU MRS. JOHN HAROLD R. COLBERT, LEFT, AND MRS. WILLIAM SONNENDAY. IN ELABORATE COSTUMES OF THE BUSTLE ERA.

MRS. RAY A. BURNS (PAULINE JONES), WHO SAVE A BOOK REVJEW AFTER LUNCH-EON, IN HER MOTHER'S YELLOW AND WHITE SATIN LACE-TRIMMED SOWN. COLONIAL COSTUMES, SOME OF THEM WITH HISTORIC INTEREST, WERE WORN TUESDAY BY THE LADIES OF GRACE METHODIST CHURCH. IN THE MUSIC TRIO ARE MRS.

FRED H. HERMANN, AT PIANO; MRS. M. I. HOIFLIN, VOCALIST AND MRS.

HENRY MILLER, VIOLINIST. MRS. WENDELL E. DAVIS. LEFT, AND MRS.

BREWSTER HARRINGTON. DRESSED FOR AFTERNOON CALLING, MRS. DAVIS IN A YELLOW QUILTED SATIN PETTICOAT AND PAISLEY SHAWL, MRS. HARRINGTON IN OUAINT BONNET. -Photograplu By Lster REACHING back in old trunks for suitable attire, members of the Miller Circle of Grace Methodist Church were decked in colonial costumes Tues- I 9 a 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Z.

Open Monday ISighl Till 8:30 P.M. is Arm I 3 ht- v-fO r-. a H-sr K-H 3 I'M-Ml till B.V'.,'n'i,':J I ft' -J i uay i or a party in ine I church recreation rooms. In the above photographs Mrs. Colli bert wears a wine-col- I ored taffeta basque and bustle dress made lor her husband's grand- I mother in 1870, with a I matching plumed bon I net! Mrs.

Sonnenday's i 1 gown is a 100-year-old wedding dress, hand made of changeable as js 1 a lare nPl tischu, and a hrown VV- year-old shawl, I Mrs. V. James Rosen green, not shown, pres- ident of the Women'sr I Society of the church, 1 wore a loely black i Brussels lace coat, and i Mrs. Byron Moser, a i former president, was enveloped in a 100-1 year-old black embroi-f dered shawl over an I embroidered linen i Fi dress. INVENTORY Sak- ONI WEEK ONLY FURNITURI DRESDEN FIGURINIS JEWELRY GALLERIES 4721 Mcpherson 0232 EASONA8LR PRICES II SILVER I CHINA I COPPER I IftASS In 'JV.

ir 'fufiV Dorothy Straub, J.J. Bertram Jr. Are Engaged Mi R. AND MRS. ALEXANDER STRAUB have an nounced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dorothy Lincoln Straub, to John Joseph Bertram Jr.

The wedding will take place at 8 o'clock the night of Wednesday, April 21, at Grace Episcopal Church, Kirkwood. Miss Straub was graduated from Mary Institute and Stephens College. Granddaughter of Albert G. Lincoln, retired business manager of the Post-Dispatch, and William A. Straub, she has two sisters.

Mrs. Robert August Winkel of Paducah, and Miss Sandra Straub, and one broth- er, William A. Straub II. Her fiance, son of Mr. and Mrs.

John J. Bertram of Sparta, 111., lives at 8405 Colonial lane, Clayton. A former stu- dent at the University of Chicago, he was graduated from Washington University. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. From 1943 to 1945 he served in Germany witlx the Army.

The bride-elect has asked Mrs. Winkel to serve as matron of honor and Miss San- dra to be maid of honor. Lynn Straub Winkel, niece of the prosective bride, will be flower girl. Robert Whitaker Bertram, Kansas City, Mo will be his brother's best man and ushers will be Miss Straub's brother and Joseph Roger Lowery, Belleville, and Patrick Joseph Birmingham. The Rev.

Edward T. Adkins will perform the ceremony after which there will be a reception at the Straub home, 443 East Argonne drive, Kirkwood. The bride and bridegroom will live at 1321 Mc-Cutcheon drive, Richmond Heights. ST.L0UI5 POST'DISPATEH "The loveliest fabrics are here" Spring ook it's WOOLEN Morning fWedding At Chapel 1MPLICITY was the key- i note for the wedding of Oliss Katherine Forster Hoff- KlSnn and Lt. G.

Taylor Gam-felin, U.S.A., yesterday morning in Our Lady's Chapel of the St. Louis Cathedral. The bride, a debutante of the current season, is the daughter of Mrs. Briggs A. Hoffmann of tfaS St.

Regis Apartments, 4954 Llndell boulevard, and the late i Wc Hoffmann, Chapel decorations were limited to standing bouquets of. S'Jjite spring flowers at either 1 Side of the white Carrara mar-Jjie altar, which was illuminat-f4 with white candles in gold candelabra. The Rev. Thomas f. Durkin officiated at the 11 clock ceremony.

Briggs A. Hoffmann Jr. gave nis "sister In marriage. Miss Patience Richards was her only Attendant. The bride wore a white chantllly lace gown styled.

With a scoop neckline, short sleeves and a ballerina skirt falling from a wide white taffeta girdle. Her short illusion veil was gathered to a wreath of orange blossoms, and her bouquet was a cascade of lilies of the valley. Miss Richards I Was in a short pale blue or-jzanza frock and a brief matching tulle veil tied in back with tlue velvet ribbon. She held a bouquet of pink roses. Rodgers Gamblin came from Princeton University to be his best man.

They are leons of Mr. and Mrs. Gran-Mile L. Gamblin, 10 Westmore- place. Another brother, Bradford Gamblin, and jjqhn Richardson Thomas Jr.

Vere ushers. After the wedding the families and a few friends of the inewly married pair were entertained at breakfast aMhe ContiivuedronaTe8rColumn 1. 2H Feb. 23, 'eietc DOWNTOWN CLAYTOM the new fashion $01 111 Linck, Pot-Diptch Photosraptier. S99 93 5 $39.95 to $69.95 77 3 a Miss Dowling Is Married to J.F.McCarthy Mi ISS KATHERINE BOW LING of the St.

Regis Apartments, 4954 Lindell boulevard, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Dowling, was married yesterday morning to John F. McCarthy, 3630 Utah place.

The ceremony Mas performed by the bride's cousin, the Rev. Edward P. Dowling, S.J., in Our Lady's Chapel of the St. Louis Cathedral. Miss Mary Dowling was her sister's only attendant; Mr.

McCarthy had his brother-in-law, Dr. David B. Ouellet, as best man. The bride wore a gray costume suit and a blush pink hat. She carried a small bouquet of orchids.

After the marriage a breakfast for the wedding party was given at the Missouri Athletic Club. The bride, an alumna the Academy of the Visitation, attended Maryville College. In addition to Miss Mary Dowling, she is a sister of Mrs. McLiney of Mission Hills, and Edward Dowling. Her grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Dowling, and Mr. and Mrs. Redmond Cleary, none of them living, came to Si Louis more than 100 years ago. Mr.

McCarthy Is the son of Mrs. Joseph A. McCarthy. 5826 Waterman avenue, and the late Mr. McCarthy.

He is a Kiauuaie ox vnnsiian aroin-ers College Military High School and St. Louis Univer-; sity School of Law. In World War II he served with the Army Air Force in the Pacific for three years. A widower, he is the father of five children. A rare SALE! 1 1 I otJmxaf Giessow-Gooch EngagementTold THE engagement of Miss Regina Gooch, daughter of Emory L.

Gooch, 7035 Horner avenue, to Fred J. Giessow was announced recently at an open house at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Giessow, 7140 Washington avenue, University City.

invited to see a telescope built by the prospective bridegroom, learned the news when they looked through a make-believe telescope at a picture of the engaged pair sitting on a crescent moon. The bride-to-be, whose father Is principal of Mark Twain School, teaches at Daniel Boone School in University acnuui iu university City. Her fiance, head of the science department at Mary Institute, teaches night school at Washington University and Hadley Technical High School. They are planning a June wedding and a subsequent honeymoon tour of Europe. Miss Gooch was graduated from Christian College and the University of Missouri and for one year was an air line stewardess.

Mr. Giessow received his A. B. degree from Washington University and his B.S. in medicine from the University of Missouri, returning to Washington for his master's and Ph.D degrees.

Luncheon Meeting. Zeta Tau Alpha Mothers' Club luncheon meeting will be tomorrow at the home of Mrs. V. B. Wilfley, 525 Clark avenue, Webster Groves.

Wc'r Moving Soon! but wt'r riody right now In ouc pmtnt tor te new car NEW SPRING SHOES "find" for now and next window 815 Locust movinssoon I 'l Ann' I i drcssmaker IU Walmsley-Chapin Engagement Told; June Wedding ANNOUNCEMENT was made yesterday at a tea at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Malcolm Mac-Millan, 6007 Cates avenue, of the -engagement of Miss Roberta Brownell Chapin to the Rev. Arthur Edward Walms-ley. The wedding will take place June 19 at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension with Bishop Arthur C.

Lichtenber-ger of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri and the Rev. Mr. MacMtllan, rector of the church, officiating. The prospective bridegroom is associate rector of the church. Miss Chapin is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Arnett Chapin, 816 Hamilton avenue, and the sister of Miss Carol Trent Chapin. A junior at Washington University where she is majoring in music, she is a member of Mu Phi Epsi-lon, professional music sorority, American Guild of Organists and Delta Gamma social sorority. The Rev. Mr.

Walmsley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barlow Walmsley of Ayer, was graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, and cum laude from the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, At Trinity he became a member of St. Anthony Hall and Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic society. He serves as priest-in-charge of Trinity Episcopal Church in addition to his duties at the Church of the Ascension.

Douglas Walmsley, a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy.N.Y., is his brother. Speaks at College. Peter Robertson, son of Mrs. A. Sproule Love, 14 Oakleigh lane, Ladue, was one of the speakers recently at a discussion group on the Bricker Amendment sponsored by the Oberlin college chapter of United World Federalist.

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