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Jlo0angcIe0Cfmcs NOV. 15, 1948-Part HI is 1 7 4 ft i Two Weddings Rate High i 4 f' I If On Week's Social Budget lis i 1 I 1 hi I 1 .,1 GETS THRILL HERE Ray Young Erlda Leaf Say Vows; Anderson-White Nuptials Celebrated 1 1 i BY CHRISTY FOX The extraordinary amount of social activity over the week end gives no reason to think that weddings failed to claim their rightful place. Far from it for the bridal parade rated high, with Erlda Leaf and Jacqueline White claiming 30, 3tf TO DESERT Erlda Vinette Leaf and her bridegroom, Ray Wheeler Young Jr. left for a desert honeymoon. Paul Kent photo.

BEVERLY BRIDE Pretty Jacqueline Jane White said her vows with Neal Bruce Anderson in Westwood. Lansdotvne top honors. Ralphs, Patricia Ruth Wright and Young Norse Matron Tells Impressions BY MARY ANN CALLAN Having babies in Sweden is no financial drain on parents, because the government since the '30s has encouraged married couples to save the country from an old-aged population. Ingrid Jaensen, a very pretty young mother visiting here from Stockholm, explained that maternity care is paid for by the government and each baby receives $50 for clothes and other essentials. Husband Tours With Her She and her husband, Willie, Mary Edrienne Davis were attendants.

They were growned alike in American Beauty velvet empire 4 JV PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS BV HUBBARD HOOVER and ISA BELLE MACRAE HOOVER models with matching period hats 1 and mitts. Little Lorna Leaf, daughter of the Gordon Leafs, was flower girl in a dress of white over Youthful Spirit Can Repel Old Age Newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wheeler Young Jr. (Erlda Vi-nette Leaf) are on a honeymoon today following their evening wedding in Shatto Chapel of First Congregational Church.

Heirloom Lace Worn The lovely Erlda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erie Mervin Leaf, 450 June chose a gown of ivory satin with long train. Her veil was edged with exquisite duchess lace from her mother's wedding gown and her cap pink. Norman Bing was his brother-in-law's best man and ushers were Richard Ralphs, Gordon Leaf, James Allen and Richard Clark.

left behind their 18-month-old daughter, Kitty, when they came to see America. They arrived was of the same lace. She carried philanopsis orchids, bouvar-dia and stephanotis. Mrs. Harriet Leaf Havas was Following a reception in the here for.

a week after a cross Leaf residence the newlyweds left country scan of the nation's other her sister's matron of honor and Miss Gene Moldenhauer was maid for their honeymoon in Arizona. They plan to make their home in big In Southern California Mrs. VISITORS FROM STOCKHOLMMr. and Mrs. WilUnm Jaensen from Sweden were enthusiastic visitors in the land.

Mrs. Jaensen saw her first big American drugstore in her explorations here. Moulin-Lindsay photo. of honor, while Mrs. Richard Jaensen saw three' things she had never seen before: palm trees, Oakland.

Anderson-White grapes and a big American drug When Jacqueline Jane White, SALON FRANC AIS store. The steak she had at her first dinner in this country daughter of Mrs. Floyd Garrison White of Beverly Hills and the late Mr. WTiite, recited vows with TO FETE CONSUL equaled a 14-day ration in Swed en. -How Her Man Got Her good success of what everyone considered a very hard way of INDEPENDENCE RETAINED.

"Clara was 70 when the couple she worked for moved to a distant city. Her -daughters were now sure that, their mother would come to live with one of them. But Clara had other ideas. summer she got herself a job as camp mother in a mountain camp for girls. When her daughters heard of her plans they got together and put.

on what Clara' called a 'stop mother But it did no good." Clara loved her camp job and held it for five summers. In the winter she kept house for the owners of the camp. GRANDSON AIDED "Durfng these ten years Clara-lived well but always managed to put something i aside. She was often amazed si the way her little bank account prospered. "When her oldest grandson was 18 and ready for college his father was unable -to foot the bill.

His family had had an unusual amount of expensive sickness and he had lost an important business account The boy "Here's an item In the paper I must read to you, Isabelle. It's about Bernard Baruch. He says, 'To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. "What a neat way of saying he'll never be old! And he won't, either. He has so many irons in the fire that he hasn't time to be impressed by the passing, years." "I know a woman something like that, Hubbard.

Her name is Clara' Holden. She's 75 if she's a day, but if anyone called her an old woman she'd be shocked and very angry. LIFE BEGAN AT 65 "Clara had to begin life all over again at 65, when her husband died. But she put a lot of zest into her second wind of living. Her income was very small but she refused to go and live with either of her married daughters.

She said she wasn't looking for a cozy corner where she could rock away her years. "She took a job as housekeeper for an elderly couple. The work paid well and she liked It. On her days off she enjoyed visiting her daughters and bringing gifts to her grandchildren. Her daughters came to have a new respect for their mother when they saw her making a Neal Bruce Anderson, son of Mr, by BRANDY BRENT and Mrs.

Neal Harvey Anderson of Long Beach, the setting was St. Alban's Episcopal Church, She met her husband in Stockholm during the war. He looked so much like an American that she offered to help him to be un Westwood Hills. had set his heart on taking advanced technical and gave great promise of making a Blond Jacqueline wore an ivory satin gown trimmed with Alencon lace, the full skirt fall derstood- in the store they both happened to be in. He appeared to understand English only.

The hoax ended when a friend of his met them and greeted him in Swedish. At any rate; the trick worked because she is "married to ing over a hoop. Her finger tip tulle veil fell from a tiara of seed pearls and she carried Salon Francais will have Max Pol Foucher of Paris as its speaker at tomorrow's meeting in the California Club. Hosts and hostesses will be Mr. and Mrs.

Grove C. Fiske, Mrs. Franklin Booth, Mrs. Herbert Howard, Miss Mary Abascal and George B. Gillson.

Alexandre de Manziarly, French Consul, will be guest of honor. Mrs. H. Self ridge Standish will introduce Mr. Foucher for his lecture on "The Best French' Literature The author is the official -lees' turer of the Federated French' Clubs in the United States and Canada.

He is associated, with the National; Museums, of France. a cascade of white roses, bou- him. They both commented upon the vardia and orcluds. Reception at Club Mrs. John W.

Findlater, ma increased socialization of life in! Sweden and that "it is going a little too far in that direction," according to their political views- tron of honor for her sister, was blue taffeta and carried a cas. cade of American Beauty 'roses. The other attendants, Mrs. Frank This is Mrs. Jaensen's first trip to America." Her husband was here twice before this year on Birbeck (sister of the bride NUPTIALS IN HOME groom), Polly Hanson, Marilyn business trips for American Over "Clara suggested, as 'tactfully as she could, that she be allowed to assume the responsibility of the boy's education for one year.

"Everyone protested, but in. "the end Clara had her way. She paid the whole cost of the boy's first jear and half the expenses of his remaining three years. He wa3 graduated with high honors, and Clara was very happy. She felt she had had her money's worth.

OLD NEED HER "Clara is now keeping house for two sisters. She describes them as 'a couple of old people who need me." As a matter of fact, these sisters, according to calendar age, are both somewhat younger than Clara, but for years they have sat around coddling every little ailment and waiting for the end. 'You see. Clara savs with an seas. Airlines.

Gross, Laura Ann Price and Mrs, Marvin Moffie, were in rose taf. feta. John C. Elliot served as best man. Ushers were Frank Birbeck, Stuart Ferguson, Robert Braly, Frederick Runyon, Sally Martin Wed George P.

Kading and Herbert Ivey. Little John W. Findlater Jr. was ring bearer. Wedding guests -congregated in Los Angeles Country Club for a reception before the newlyweds A week-end wedding of wide interest was that of Sally Jeffries Martin and Frederick Graham Runvon.

whose vows were said in left on their honeymoon. They will be at home at 501 Kelton Westwood Hills. the home of the bride's brother Rev. Max Morrison read the Presbyterian service. Five hundred guests attended the outdoor reception.

Buffet tables were set in the gardens of the Jeffries home where the wedding eakc was cut by the newly-weds. -The couple will live in Flint-ridge after a San Francisco honeymoon. WE'LL BE- hornswoggled If weknow what's happened suddenly to this town's night life. One week ago cabaret owners were -having' more ups and downs than the Berlin air lift. Now, With practically every ma-' jor night club in town blossoming forth with a new show and practically every night.

it seems to you can't get into one of 'em with a shoe horn. i NO WONDER our dinner Jacket Is beginning to look like a fugitive an undertaking establishment. and pur dancing shoes like 'the last stages of cure! One night it's Spike Jones at Slapsy Maxie's, the Florence Desmond at the Grove, couple of sessions later Gene. Baylos. at the.Mc-cambo, Kay Thompson's sive shadow reflecting the Beverly Wilshtre's new May-fair Room and, finally," Friday night's bow of Morton Downey at Ciro's.

Amen! IT IS about the latter we will discourse this ayem. For while most of the town's top-drawer social figures regaled, themselves at the Assembly Ball, guiltily forsook the tie for the black and snuck.off to hear the world's outstanding Irish tenor. DURABLE IS the word for Downey. He seems impervious to time not only in appearance but to the demands that it must of necessity make on one's yo- cal cords. that lilting, sll-, very voice is little different, to-' day from the time It bufst upon the American public in all its Irish fervor nearly three dec-.

ades ago. ALTOGETHER THE evening' jwas'c a jam-packed reaffirmation of the indestructibility of true artistry, whether in the concert the laboratory or a night club. And the audience that shared an appreciative one. HARVEY AND Alma Allen were at a ringside, applauding such gems of the past as "More Than You -Know," "Who" and "You Made. Me Love You." The Aliens accompanied by Frank and Lillian Burnaby (celebrating their 16th year of mar- understanding smile, 'they need someone to keep their spirits up.

I may have use for a rocking chair in the corner someday, but I'm not ready for. it yet not by a long ital bliss) and Sacramento's Gene and Katie Boyd. OGDEN GOELET was there, squiring lovely Marjorie Stone-ridge while among others at the large table we noticed Elizabeth Firestone, Harry Cush-ing, Vasco Bonini and the Dick Powells. FRANK GAY, another" of those personable young gents i from Atlanta, hosted a' large; group, among whom we. no-' -ticed the T.

Carl Thompsons (just back from Gotham), poro-'r thy Shay (the Park Avenue Hillbilly who seems never to miss an opening the Ed Sher-rys from New York and Toronto's Mrs. Ernest G. Pathy. EMMY AND Will Burling-ham also have come home from the East and we allow it's mighty good to have 'em back. With them dreaming over Downey's, renditions of "Falling in Love With Love" and "Where or When" were the Tommy Joyces and lovely Babs Beckwith.

HART AND Josephine Isaacs formed a foursome with George Hyam and Ann Miller, while close by were Marguerite Chapman with Bentley Ryan (is this an every night the Speed Posts, Edith Gwynn with Ken-ne Duncan, the Tom Sewards another Inveterate first nighter, Carlton Alsop. Mike Romanoff was on hand with his lovely Gloria. JUST A FEW others out of a brilliant opening night audience were Louis Shurr with Adele Jergens, Dan Dailey, glamorous Estelle Taylor with Max Marks, Belmonte San Chez with Selene Walters and the Col. M. P.

Pauls, Arlene Dahl doing some spritely dancing with Carl Otte, Barbara Lawrence ditto with Turhan Bey and good-looking Chuck Bradstreet a deux with blond Mary Lewis. AND WHILE we're on singers, let's report an interesting sidelight on Igor Gorin's concert on the 23rd. Included in his songs that night will be one by our own Blanche Ebert (Mrs. Frank Rogers Seaver). titled "Remember Me." Blanche, incidentally, has published 24 songs, the most famous being "Just for Today," sung by John McCormack, famed Irish tenor, in every concert of his last two years' .1 I I CODTTleht.

14R TTuhhlird Hoover and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Allerton Jeffries of Rimpau Blvd. Newlywed Mrs. Runyon is the daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. William Parish Jeffries. Her husband is the son of Mrs. F. F.

Runyon of Altadena and the late Mr. Runyon. A gray suit with a moleskin band trimming the skirt was chosen by the bride for the ceremony. Her hat was of gray lace and she wore a moleskin jacket Mrs. Jeffries was matron of honor, and Jack Runyon was his brother's best man.

Stephen Jeffries led his sister to the chrysanthemum-banked altar where the Miss Welch Says Vows at A Itar St. Gregory's Catholic Church was thescene of a week-end nuptial mass, when Gloria Catherine Welch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jefferson Welch, said marriage vows with John Robert Hau-penthal Jr. The bride chose a princess style dress of ivory satin with deep lace yoke.

Mrs. J. Paul Mads en, matron of honor, and Sandra Pe-rino, junior bridesmaid, were gowned alike in Victorian-cut rose satin. Bridesmaids, in ice blue, were. Sally Anne Johnson, Kathleen Daze, Chonita Lantz, Patricia Haupenthal, Margaret Evans and Patricia Shea.

The bridegroom, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Haupenthal of Genesee had Roy Steward as his best man. Bud and Karl TAKING A PEEK Looking jor a surprise is this small boy as he greets his mother. She has to work but manages never' theless to bring added happiness into her son's life by caching away little packages for him.

SURPRISE! SURPRISE! pf VVv'- i. A ii I fjv -J x-- Let Jack Horner Pie Add Holiday Gaiety Wertz, Fred Earl, Homer Wessen-dorf, Robert Power, Erwin Taylor and Fred Watson ushered. Guild Meets Tomorroiv St. Anne's Hospital Guild will hold its quarterly general membership meeting tomorrow at St Anne's Maternity Hospital. Mrs.

Byron Ferris Story, guild president, will present final plans for the approaching annual Christmas gift sale and tea. Dec. 1 is the date of the holiday event and marks its eighth year. The Postwar House at Wilshire Blvd. and Highland Ave.

will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. for the benefit party. Mrs. Story has announced that many innovations have been made for this year's sale.

Mrs. Robert Jardine, Thrift Shop chairman for the group, has requested that members take bundles for the shop to tomorrow's meeting. HOSPITAL UNIT PLANS SUPPER BY GLADYS BEVAXS "A t'prize, Mommie a t'prize?" Each evenine a small boy, whose mother has to work, asks her that question after first giving her a hug. Then, when she oroduces the surprise from her purse, or hands it to him in a little package, his voice grows soft with happiness and he sighs with satisfaction: "Oh, Mommie Opera Devotees List Program The, senior study section of the Opera Reading Club of Holly-wood will' meet at 1 p.m. tomor row with Mrs.

John M. Leipold, 218 Highland hostess. Mrs. Smith will presented1 in "The Love Song of the Taj Mahal" with rnvsic written by. Radle Britain and poetry by Alma Halff.

Mrs. C. Thlel SuUl-van play harp accompaniment Other program numbers will be given by Mrs. Bert Von Aspe, and- Mrs. John McNeice.

Harry Gibson is social chairman and Mrs. Theodore Blakeslee -will assist. a t'prize for Billy!" for this Thanksgiving how would you like to have a surprise for them, right on Jhe festive table? Pie Suggested Do you know what a "Jack Horner pie" is? If you don't, let me tell you. First briefly the pie consists of some sort of container, decoratively covered, holding invisible, inexpensive presents for everyone at the dinner table. I'm sure you know how families "rib" each other.

The gifts are hidden from sight, and from each runs a cord or ribbon, to the right place at the table to be pulled at the proper signal. The container may be anything your inventiveness dictates or which you may buy a Tiat box, a small basket, a wire ball or one of those baskets the grocer receives tomatoes in. It may be only a cookie, or a DeoDermint patty in waxed paper, Hollywood Auxiliary Juniors to the Children's Hospital will hold a buffet supper meeting tomorrow evening in the home of Marie Ann Zieg-ler, 4048 Farmouth Drive. Provisionals who will be presented at the gathering are Flora Mae Bigelow, Mrs. William Boyett, Dorothy Bur-rell, Wilma Carusi, Evelyn Collins, Cynthia Fulton, Jean LaBrucherie, Diana Meeks, Meredith Meeks, Mrs.

William McGee, Marymar Newton, Mary Alice Peterson, Teresa Smith, Joan Warren, Mrs. Homer Wessendorf and Lauragene Wood. Bruin Women, Bid Grads to Luncheon Talk "Russia's Children" is the subject chosen by Mrs. Malbone Graham who will be guest speaker at the Bruin Women's Club luncheon Friday noon in Westwood House, 1097 Glendon Westwood Hills. Mrs.

Chester W. Schaeffer, club chairman, invites UCLA alumnae and friends to attend this meeting. Kuhn is reservations a i a n. Mrs. Scott Russeli and Mrs.

Charles Doane have charge of table decorations. Author Will Speak Before Cosmos Club Eleanor York, author, will speak at tomorrow's luncheon of the Cosmos Club at 743 Lucerne Blvd. The afternoon program of music and other entertainment will be presented by Evelyn and Ranee Valentine. Mrs. Katherine K.

Garbutt will speak at 10:30 a.m. or a little 2-cent pad and a new pencil or it may be a more expensive object; but the surprise is what intrigues him. Try It on Holiday Anyone who is with children much knows how they love surprises and that includes hoys and girls of almost any age. So WEEK-END RITE Sally Jeffries Martin recited vows with Frederick Graham Runyon. Garden reception for 500 guests followed informal wedding.

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