Evening star. [volume], April 02, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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PRESIDENT SEES
FORT MYER CIRCUS
Distinguished Crowd Pres
ent at Opening of Colorful
Charity Pageant.
(Pictures on Page B-3.)
Fort Myer’s annual Society Circus,
which in recent years has traveled
the long road from modest obscurity
to the status of a big-time entertain
ment, opened a four-day run last
night before a distinguished audience
including President and Mrs. Roose
velt.
More lavish in costume and concept
than any of the previous charity
pageants staged in the post riding
hall, the 1937 “Hoof Beats” covered
almost every phase of horsemanship in
history, from the boyhood feats of
Alexander the Great, through the
especial equestrian practices of Lady
Godiva, up to the bareback whoop
and-holler riding of the American In
dians.
Many Impersonations.
im personaiea dv more man ruu
society girls and Army officers, virt
ually every historic figure that ever
climbed aboard a saddle paraded
through the evening. Joan of Arc,
Achilles and his chariot, Napoleon
and his artillery, foxhunters of old
England. Spaniards of early Cali
fornia. Southern planters (who used
to have their mounts equipped with
hot and cold runhing mint juleps),
cowboys and even Genghis Khan
marched out in the introductory
number entitled “Men and Horses
Through the Ages.”
Before the program was ended, each
group had participated in some spe
cial act of its own, and the spectators
also had met some of the more famous
horses of history, including Pagasus,
Bucephalus and the wooden horse of
Troy.
Typical of the shrewd showmanship
with which Capt. John Reybold and
Maj. George Milholland, the moving
spirits behind the production, had de
vised their scenes was the enactment
of the legend of Alexander and Bu
cephalus. When Alexander undertook
to ride the unmanageable Bucephalus
without a bridle, all the other soldiers
of King Philip of Macedon were
ordered to do likewise w’ith their
mounts—and thereupon swung into
one of the “bridleless drills” for which
the Fort Myer soldiers are famous.
Show to Be Repeated.
Apropos of nothing particularly his
toric. the circus this year also features
"The Great American Circus," which
Includes everything from a trained lion
(police dog to you) to Bonzo, the
human cannon ball.
“Hoof Beats” will be repeated to
night. tomorrow night and Sunday
night at 8:30 o'clock, and there will
be a matinee tomorrow afternoon. All
proceeds from the show are turned
over to Fort Myer relief and recrea
tional funds.
RABBI METZ TO SPEAK
Rabbi Solomon Metz will preach on
"The Turbulence of the Red Sea" at
special Passover services at the Adas
Israel Synagogue at 8 o'clock tonight.
The Yizkor memorial services will
be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, with
Rabbi Metz delivering the sermon,
"The Song of the Future."
President6Passes’
Cigars Presented
By Ft. Myer Clown
Mrs. Roosevelt With Ex
ecutive in Big Society
Circus Crowd.
By the Associated Preas.
President Roosevelt passed on the
cigars a clown gave him on April
fool’s day—but they didn’t explode,
after all.
The Chief Executive, with Mrs.
Roosevelt and friends, attended the
opening last night of the Fort Myer
Cavalry’s annual society circus.
A mounted buffoon rode up to their
box and handed the President a brown
paper bag. Laughing, Mr. Roosevelt
opened the sack and took out two
cigars. He handed them both to
other men in the box—and nothing
happened when they lighted up.
The spectacle “Hoofprints—the
Saga of Horses and Riders Through
the Ages” drew a first-night audience
of high Government officials, Con
gressmen, military men and diplomats.
U. S. WORKER TOTAL
HERE SHIFTS LITTLE
February Changes Show Net Gain
of but One Employe, Civil
Service Reports.
An unusual twist kept Government
employment here practically on an un
changed level in February, the month
ly Civil Service Commission report
today showed, there being a net gain
of but one worker—the difference be
tween 3,263 additions and 3,262 sep
arations.
At the end of the month the force
in the executive agencies totaled
115.871 person.
Outside the District, however, there
was a sharp decrease—3,462—to bring
the force there to 710,462. War, La
bor and Works Progress cuts were re
sponsible for this showing.
There was a large shift of workers
In the Department of Agriculture,
several hundred going from temporary
to permanent basis.
The pay roll for the total of 826.333
employes was $126,536,301. compared
to $129,453,718 in January.
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Fillmore College Listed.
BUFFALO, N. Y„ April 2 UP).—Mil
lard Fillmore College took its place in
the ranks of institutions of higher edu
cation yesterday. Chancellor Samuel
P. Capen of the University of Buffalo
announced the school's 13-year-old
; evening session would henceforth
j carry the name of the thirteenth
President of the United States.
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MARINE AIR HEADS
TO TEST RESERVES
Squadron at Anacostia Will Be
Inspected by Officers at 2 P.M.
Tomorrow.
The results of the past year of work
by officers and men of VJ-3MR, local
Marine Corps Reserve squadron at the
Anacostia Naval Air Station, will be
put to the test at the annual inspec
tion by officers of Marine Corps head
quarters at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
The inspection will cover the mili
tary, technical and flight training of
the squadron and will be made by a
party composed to Col. Ross E. Row
ell, Maj. Harold C. Major, Maj. Byron
F. Johnson and Lieut. Robert M.
Haynes.
The program will include forma
tion flying, simulated dive bombing
an aerial combat. Grumman scout
planes will be used in the flying
demonstration.
Following a custom established at
the first annual inspection in 1933,
the squadron will entertain the in
spection party, other officers of Marine
Corps headquarters, officers of the
Anacostia Station and friends of the
squadron at a banquet and dance
tomorrow evening at Griffith Farms
Club. Representative Melvin J. Maas
of Minnesota, a lieutenant colonel in
the Marine Corps Aviation Reserve,
will speak.
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w'hen a Brazilian tortoise laid five eggs.
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MINIMUM WAGE LAWS
URGED TO INCLUDE MEN
Bevision of Pending Measures
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Asked by Former Head of
National Woman’s Party.
State legislatures considering the
passage of minimum wage laws on
the heels of the recent Supreme Court
decision removing "the constitutional
ban" on such legislation should re
vise the bills to include men as well
as women, Elsie Hill of Redding,
Conn., former national chairman of
the National Women's Party and pres
ent member of the party’s Connecti
cut State Committee, stated yester
day in joining her party's dissatis
faction over the court’s decision.
“Unless minimum wages are set for
men, all males out of work will .be
left legally free to ’scab’ on the wages
and hours set up by compulsion of
laws governing female workers,” she
commented.
Meanwhile the District of Columbia
branch of the party has scheduled a
lecture on "Women and the Minimum
Wage" to be delivered by Mrs. Helen
Robbins Bittermann, chairman of the
Ohio State branch, at 4 p.m. Sunday
at the national headquarters building.
PLANS LADIES’ NIGHT
Cosmopolitan Club Will Hold
Spring Pete Thursday.
Plans for annual Spring ladies'
night of the Cosmopolitan Club, to be
held Thursday night at the Carlton
Hotel, were announced at yesterday’s
meeting of the club by Edmund O.
Carl, chairman of the Entertainment
Committee.
Dinner will be followed by dancing
and a floor show given by Washington
night club entertainers.
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Stradivarius Awarded.
The Soviet government has awarded
a Stradivarius violin to 18-year-old
Marina Kozolupova, who took second
prize in a musical festival at Lenin
grad and is entering contests in other
countries.
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