Evening star. [volume], April 12, 1936, Page A-8, Image 8

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■ EASTERDANCES
Other Events'Also Listed in
Week—Operetta to Be
Staged Wednesday.
Easter week dances and other events
mill be held in the community centers.
The Children's Community Center
Choruses of Thomson. John Burroughs
and Wheatley Schools will present an
operetta, "The Nightingale,” composed
by Dorothy Radde Emery, with libretto
by Alden Hayes Emery. Wednesday
evening for the Pen Women's conven
tion at the Willard Hotel. The
choruses will be assisted by members of
Mrs. Emery’s Accelerando Music Club
and Miss Linkins' Voice Students’
Club.
There will be a dance at Taft Junior
High School Wednesday night and a
dance at Langley Junior High School
Friday at 8:30. Also on Friday at
Langley Center, the Boys' Clown Class
will meet with Frank Portillo at 6:30
o’clock.
Roosevelt Community Center an
nounces on Wednesday a new class in
Interpretative dancing at 6:30 o'clock,
and at 8 o'clock, a new class in con
tract bridge.
The District of Columbia Recreation
Institution will offer a "sight-seeing
tour” Wednesday evening. The group
will visit the Jewish Community
Center. The members will also visit
Thursday at 1 p.m. the Marionette
Exhibit of the Federal Theater Project,
held that day in Roosevelt High School.
Thursday night at Buchanan Branch
of Southeast Center, a dance will be
held at 8 30. On Thursday and Fri
day nights the Southeast Community
Players will meet in Hme Branch for
preparation for a three-act play and
1 un onp-act nlavs.
Boys of the southeast will begin
Saturday to practice for the Children's
Fertiial Circus to be held in May.
East Washington Center will pre
gent a program of movies and talkies
Saturday night in Eastern High
School. There will be a dance in the
armory.
In Divisions 10-13. the Recreation
Institute, which has been meeting
sine* March 3 in Garnet-Patterson
Center, will hold its final session Tues.
day evening, when ' a social evening”
Is scheduled.
PARADE TO BE LED
BYD.C DEMOCRATS
2,000 Reservations Have Been
Made to Hear Roosevelt
Open Campaign.
District Democrats will constitute
the first section of a large torchlight
parade on their arrival in Baltimore
tomorrow night to attend the Jefferson
day address of President Roosevelt tc
the Young Democratic Clubs ol
America.
Washingtonians have made reserva
tions for 2.000 seats in the Fifth Regi
ment Armory, where the affair will be
held. Local delegations will represem
all of the Young Democratic Clubs anc
practically every other Democratii
organization in the city. They wil
leave Union Station at 6:15 p.m. on i
special train and return from the
Mount Royal station in Baltimore ai
32:30 a.m.
Following the parade, there will be
a grand ball before and after the
President's speech, which will be de
livered at 10:30 p.m.
Preceding the rally and ball, a din
ner will be given by Senator Radcliffe
at the Maryland Club for Vice Presi
dent Garner, members of the cabinet
and Democratic members of the
Senate.
BRIDGE LECTURE FREE
Maxwell L. Johnson, bridge author
ity from the Culbertson studios, will
deliver the first of four free lectures
on the fundamentals of contract
bridge Tuesday, at 2 p.m., in the
auditorium of the Electric Institute
on the fourth floor of the Pepco
Building. Tenth and E streets.
The same lecture will be repeated
Wednesday at 8 p.m. for those unable
to attend in the daytime.
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Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.
UNHAPPY EASTER.
A CHAP with a poetic voice (it is
one of those things you feel
but cannot define) called up
yesterday to say how indig
nant he was about the hats women
will be wearing today.
"Can you imagine imitation carrots
and turnips as hat ornaments?” he
asked.
We told him that having seen such
hats, it was not necessary to imagine
them.
"Do you know what they remind me
of?” was his next question.
We couldn't guess.
"That women once wore roses in
their hair." he fairly screamed in a
voice that implied the sex has wilfully
abandoned its hold upon the poetic
imagination.
* * * *
RESPONSE.
A sardonic professor of mathe
I maftes at a university just a few
minutes away from here found
himself taken pretty literally when
he bawled out the class the other
| day.
I "If you must copy the answers"
he told the group, “at least get
the correct ones.”
The class did. but not with an
ticipations of getting grades of 100.
< It did, however, get the professor
j pretty indignant.
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RETREAT.
IT HAPPENED in the press room at
i 1 police headquarters and it differs
I from other and more violent events
that have taken place there in that a
man high in the Police Department
was forced to hoist the white flag and
retreat without argument.
Two playful reporters were hurling
1 telephone directories at each other.
: One stood near the door, which is sep
arated from the rest of the room by a
i short offset. The other had taken
refuge in a telephone booth in the
main room in such a position he
could not see the door when he
emerged to hurl his books.
Needless to say. the battle created
considerable noise, so much so in fact
that Inspector William E. Holmes,
night supervisor of police, stepped in
to see what the fun was about.
A directory missed his nose by a
bare two inches and he displayed more
agility in retreat than at any time
since he walked a beat.
The slamming of the door to his
office brought a sudden stop to the
battle. Somehow, It did not seem so
funny as it did before.
* * * *
PROOF.
15 EMEMBER the item a couple of
weeks ago about Stephen Charles
Andrews, the baby who has been
taught the wrong gestures for the
right words? Such as shaking his
head from side to side for bye-bye
and waving his hand for "no-no?”
Just to test the accuracy of Way
side reporting, having read the item,
the nurse in the office of Stephen’s
diet specialist thought she would try
him out when he paid his most recent
visit to the doctor.
“Bye-bye,” she waved when Stephen
was leaving.
Steve smiled and shook his head
frc^n side to side in vigorous adieu.
*t * * *
BOYS.
Six local young mci\ were visiting
a small Southern town recently.
To top off a big evening they chose
up sides for a 6 a.m. foot ball game.
One young man’s hat was used for
the ball, and the town's main street
served as the gridiron. After a few
weary stragglers joined up. the
game was off to a good start.
They were not arrested for dis
turbing the peace because the ref
eree was none other than a town
policeman, whistle and all.
* * * *
CHECK-UP.
C COOMBES, guard at the gen
eral accounting office, has been
told that he is the image of Robert
j Woolsey, the cinema loon. The re
semblance seers always have pointed
I out that take-off is perfect, down
to the cigar and the gesture.
It's no take-off, at least not on
Coombes- part. He doesn’t know about
Woolsey and the possibility that the
latter is the copy-cat. One of our
operatives found that out when he
noted the resemblance aloud in
Coombes' presence the other day.
"Everybody tells me that,” said
Coombcs. I'll have to go see that guy
some day."
* * * *
COMMUTERS. .
T IEUT. JOHN BROWN JACOB, en
gineering officer of VO-3MR. lo
cal Marine Corps Reserve Squadron,
Is a commuter. Every week he comes
from his home in Baltimore to at
tend drills at the Anacostia Naval
Air Station and for flight training.
During some weeks he makes several
trips. He began to roll up consider
able mileage.
Lieut. Jacob, a native Washing
tonian and graduate of McKinley
High School, however, has been in
formed that his commuting is mere
child’s play. The newly organized
Marine Corps Reserve Squadron at
Kansas City, Mo., claims that one of
its officers is based in Los Angeles
and another in Newark, N. J. They
are airline pilots and have so ar
ranged their schedules that they can
attend squadron drill in Kansas
City—unless the weather is zero-zero
the day before.
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Gotham Salaries Highest.
New York City teachers get better
salaries than do teachers in any other
city.
TO FORTIFY STRAIT
Pleads for Permission to Re
militarize the Darda
nelles.
By the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Turkey, April 11—Turkey
pleaded today for permission to remili
tarize the Dardanelles Strait, coupling
her plea that the nation’s existence
was at stake with a promise rearma
ment would be carried out only after
formal negotiations.
To Geneva and the League of Na
tions went a copy of the note the for
eign minister, Tevfik Rustu Aras,
handed representatives of the signa
tories to the Lausanne treaty.
Unless her demands are met, the
note said, “the government of the re
public may be compelled to take before
the nation the responsibility incum
bent upon It by adopting measures dic
tated by the imperious necessity of
circumstances.”
The note complained "the present
machinery for collective guarantee is
too slow. • • • Turkey cannot be asked
to remain Indifferent to the possibility
of dangerous failure to act.”
It pointed to Germany's action in
remilitarizing the Rhineland as an
example of possible delay by appeal tc
the League of Nations if the Darda
nelles were endanger^.
The Lausanne treaty was signed in
1923 by Great Britain, France. Italy
Japan, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and
Yugoslavia after the conclusion of the
Greco-Turkish war.
Paris official circles quickly said
they thought reaction to the plea
would be favorable. Turkey and Rus
sia, they said, now were on friendly
terms and the question lay primarily
between them.
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