Vandenberg's First

When Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan saw his Presidential possibilities explode in Cleveland last June he kept on joking about the New Deal, hoped for better luck in 1940. Month ago this cheery Republican decided on a "political vacation" so as not to interfere with his daughter's public ambitions. Last week his vacation came dramatically to an end when he sat in Grand Rapids' Civic Auditorium and heard 4,400 others applaud pretty, 24-year-old Pianist Elizabeth ("Betty") Vandenberg. Said Sena tor Vandenberg: "This is the biggest thrill of my life. She played beautifully."

The most serious musician of a musicianly family,* Betty Vandenberg has studied piano since early childhood, specialized in music at Marywood Academy in Grand Rapids. When she got her diploma from Rockford (Ill.) College, her father gave the commencement ad dress. For the last two years she has studied under Lee Pattison in Manhattan, three weeks ago played there for the Beethoven Association. After the Christmas holidays she plans to resume her studies with Teacher Pattison.

* The first Mrs. Yandenberg, now deceased, played the piano adroitly, never publicly. Brother Arthur, 31, and Sister Barbara, 29, are both talented amateur pianists. The Senator, who remarried in 1920, plays nothing, just sits, smokes, listens.

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