Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1923, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ) NOEL HOUSE FETE IN BIG DENAND Diplomatic and Social Folk Seek Reservations for Cabaret Fantastique. The entertainment committee of Noel House, a social settlement in Northeast Washington, which tomor- o ht at the Hamliton Iotel will present a “Cabaret Fantastique” for \ the benefit of the institution, was toduy literally swamped with requests from diplomats and social folk for table reservations. Although the seating capacity for the “Cabaret 'Yantastique has been limited to 400 e , muny over that number have cxpressed a strong desire to attend. As to the entertainment itself, & final s rehearsal will be held in the hotel tonight and last-minute touches will be given the production, expected to equal if not sur- the best performance of this type ever given for a worll cause. The guests will as i liotel at 10 ock tomorrow night and the ca et entertain nt will begin an hour late Signor Renato e] third secretary of the ltallan y is he auhc of the revue, is composed of 8. The entrees first will be red in a prologue by Mrs. William Reyvarn and Willmott Lewls in original verse, composed by Mr. Lewis and Signor Immediate following the first entrce will It will depict a marriage r which will be Silenz, prologue tha stage. ceremony participated phine leyl, Eliza 1 MacDougall, Zilla nslow deplet lowing wi : Schneider, Robert rett, J John_ Fhilip Hili, Mr. Dunancesco, . Spencer, Miss Govin, Col. Louis Little, Mrs. "Howard, : s. Wyle, Mrs. Cassard, Miss Beck, Baron_ Plessen, Ar. Sokolosk Mr. Law- Ralph Hill drs Sand Tiss side from the foregoing there will oth enterta nt, consisting nd in e and Mme na- will of Allen will ap- and four-year 1l do_some faney e. Miss Louisa a’ dance number the revue Mrs. M. de Lagerberg Noel House Beneficiary. Noel House is to be the sole bene- ; of this novel production tions for which have occupied e interested for sev- icl twenty - n doing its work quietly bri «nd sunshice into » live arly 4,000 women and Vldren who are its beneficiarles. The tique will do much ing the necessities of as the demand from per- it, has evidenced. proceeds are in there be a margin to be flled House requests private and contributions. They may be sent either in checks, money orders or cash to Miss Helen S. Jon. at 1622 Rhode Island avenue north west, and recelpt will be gratefully nowledged. Behind this extensive effort to ¢ neaded funds is the entertaln- home, the sons to witn After will still and Noel donal the committee composed . Newbold Noves, chalrnian lon Pitne Mme. de Sibou: gon Peri Mrs. Richard A. Emmet, Mrs. Christian Her Mre. Howard Diakineon, Mrs. Herbert Howard, Miss Louisa Hoar, Miss Katharino Wile; nd M Patricia Herron. CYCLIST 1S KILLED INCRASHINTOAUTO, T. Morris, old, 1 4th street d at the intersection of Mas- husetts enue and 7th street >rtheast about 5:30 o'clock yester- cay afternoon when he drove his motor cle awainst the side of the mobile of Dr. Eugene T. Stephen- 208 Maryland avenue northeast. forris, the police were told, was g his motor cvcle rapidly north on 7th street and his view of Dr. Stephenson's car going east on Mas- 'sachusetts avenue was obsecured by automobile. Picked Up Dead. Force of the impact was great enough to seriously damage the mo- tor cycle and automobile. Morris was thrown violently to the roadway and died almost Instantly. He was dead when Policemen Walters and Bridges of the ninth precinct took him to Casualty Hospital, only a few tect from the scene of the acci- dont. Coroner Nevitt arranged to hold an inquest this afternoon. James_S." Kerr, thirty-eight years old, 68 Elllott strest, received pain- ful cuts and bruises to his head and face last night as a result of an sutomobile collision in front of 106 Benning road northeast. He was treated at Casualty Hospital, and George T. Kerr, 802 10th street north- twenty-three t northeast, . &n east, driver of the car, was charged with responsibility for the accident. . Knocked Down by Auto. Harvey Gibson, colored, twenty- three years old, 616 50th street north- east, was knocked down by an auto- moblile near his home last night and brulsed about the head and body. He was taken to Casualty Hospital. The driver of the machine is unblamed. A collision between the automobiles of Samue! L. Tabb, 1109 Buchanan street, and Robert C. Higgins, 3018 O stréet, occurred at Sherman avenue and Columbla -road about 11:45 o'clock yesterday morning. _Higgins' oar was overturned and badly dam- 8ged, and Miss Rose L. Clark, Clar- endon, Va., was injured. She was taken home. Oollides With Street Car. H. M. Stout, 316 S street northeast, eras driver of an automobile that col- Uided with a street car at Pennsylvania enue and 1st street last night about 30 o'clock. Mrs. Bessle Stout, oc- aupant of the automoblle, received an fnjury to her head. In an effort to avold a collision with an automobile at 1st and M ptreets vesterday afternoonm, Joseph Romm, 232% 12 place, mwade a quick turn, overturning his motor cycle , #nd Injuring his back. He was taken to Sibley Hospital, where physicians sald he was not serlously hurt. yMrs. J. T. Bassford, 1434 Madison ptreet, yesterday morning wa knocked “down by an_automobile driven by David Curtis, 1244 Carroll- burg street southwest, in front of Cofirmbis Helghts Christian Church. was not dangerously hurt, a T the | »umnd dollars are | Noel House base ball team. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. John Ihlder, president of the Mon- day Evening Club and manager of the civic development department of the United States Chamber of Com- merce, will give an iliustrated lecture on “The Housing Sltuation in W ington” tomorrow _evening at % to'clock at the Church of Our Father }13th and L street The lectu under the auspices of the Or Club, A joint meeting of the Washington Society of I and the Ameri- n Society of Mechanical Engineers, Washington section, will be held at the Cosmos Club Wednesday evening, at 8.15 o'clock. Frank B. Gilbreth of New Jersey will give an {llustrated lecture on “The One Best Way to Do Work." ? Central Committee on hold a meeting for per- manent organization and election of officers at the Franklin School, 13th and K streets, Wednesday evening at 8 c'clock. The Citizes Schools will An Easter_reception will be =iven e Hol me Guild of St. Augu s Church at Conventic Wednesday. The District of Columbia Dietetics Association will hold a busl meeting at Mt. Alto Hospital to: {row cvening at 8 o'clock. The Takoma Park Clvée Study Club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock the Takoma Park rary. Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle will speak. General Nelson . Miles Camp, United Spanish War Vetera: w HII meet tomorrow evening a 30 o'clock &t 1lth and streets. D partment Commander Harry L. Pat- terson and staff and department band will be pre he Dramatic Club of Company A, Di strict of Columbia present the military iend the Enemy,” by nark, the .Armory, L street northwest. F v and turday evenings. Those in tl | play include Miss Katherine Orrison, | Lieut. Roy W. Keesee, Lieut Willla | 3. Buechler, Sergt. William Gormle Corp. Charles Colller and Priva Kelvin T. Orrison. Dancing will fol- low cach performance. Ulysses Simmx, colored, twenty- four years old, 1703 13th street, was overcome by gas vesterday morning while asleep in his home. The gas |escaped from a heater, a fixture of bes 1 ie fully closed. Emergency Hos: ns said he prob- which had not Simms was tak pital, where phy ably will recover. “Real Estate and Housing” will be {the main subject discussed at the meeting_tomorrow night of the Iowa Circle Citizens' Association in the lecture room of the Northminister Church, Rhode Island avenue and 11th street, at 8 o'clock. Joneph 1. Breen, international jour- nalist, will lecture tomorrow evening before the St Paul's Council of Cath- olic Men In the Parish School Hall at 8 o'clock. Matters of parochial inter- est also will be discussed the breaking of a winshield of an automobile in which she was riding near Four Mile Run, Va. The acci- dent happened when Mrs. Hall at- tempted to change her, seat and fell against the winshield. he was given surgical aid at Emergency Hospital, ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TODAY. Former Representative Frank W. Mondell will discues “District Legis- lation” at a meeting of the Dupont Circle Citizens' Assoclation, at 4:45 o'clock at Rauscher’s. The assoclation also will consider a resolution indors- ing traffic regulations suggested by Willfam P. Eno. TONIGHT. Stanton Park Citizens' Assoclation will meet, 8 o'clock, at Peabody School. Public discussion by members of “The Question of Prohibition.” North Washington Citizens' Associ- ation will meet, 8 o'clock, in Sunday school house of United Brethren Church. W. H. Haycook, assistant postmaster, will speak. Brief dem- onstration of Boy Scout work by { Troop 35. Mrs. J. S. Stimson, violin selections. 5 Benefit performance at the Presi- dent Theater, “Six Cylinder Love,” for Stormont Aid for Consumptives, Meeting of the Sixteenth Street Highlands Citizens’ Assoclation at 8 o'clock in Sixth Presbyterian Church, 16th and Kennedy streets northwest “Carnival Dance” under auspices Carroll Council, Knights of Columbus, at Knights of Columbus Hall, 918 10th street northwest, beginning at 9 o'clock. Meeting of the Washington Model Yacht Club, 8 p.m., in club headquar- ters, 624 10th street, second floor. Non-members interested in model yachts are invited to attend. {PLEDGE FAILS T GIVE LIBERTY TO FUGITIVE NEW YORK, April 2—His word “as a gentleman and o soldler” that he would not attempt to escape today falled to gain freedom for Remsen de Roode of Baltimore. He was cap- tured Saturday in a Riverside drive |apartment diszuised as an old man, and held for extradition to Baltimore 'on a charge of grand larceny His counsel, informing the court that de Roode had been a major in | the marines during the war, made the plea for his release pending the arrival of extradition papers. “As a gentleman and and a soldier my client gives his word he will go back to Baltimore and face his accusers,” the lawyer said. He has already returned $25,000 in cash and $10,000 in bonds of the alleged larceny, and the indictment only charges thefts of the sum of $6,300.” Magistrate Corrigan h he had no _power to release a held as & fugitive from justioa | Daughter of Mrs. Frederick Gillett, lw Club Members Will Render Three Numbers at Annual Gathering. SINGING TO FEATURE |(:: MISS LOUISA HOAR, RENATO SILENZI, Originutor of cabaret fantastigue to ife of the Speaker, who will dance. be given for the benefit of Noel House. small ballroom. d in the large with music Harris or- hun , in the £ will be enjc until 1 d Ly the loc . lirc furnish chestra. Part of tl entertainment RUBINSTEIN PARTY s proceeds raised by this will be turned over to educationul fund of the ? tional F cration of Music Clubs, | with which the Rublnstein Club be- | afliliated in 189. This fund is in educa g and promotng s f Amerlcan music KLAN ISSUE RULES MUNICIPAL ELECTION { East St. Louis, TIL, to Choose Be- | tween Ku Klux Candidates and “Antis.” EAST ST. LOUIS, . April S.—In- {tense fecling and keen rivalry be-| tween Ku Klux Klan and anti-klan | | forces marks the closing hours of the | municipal election campalgn here, | said a news printed today by | the Three cight candidates for city com- | missioner are sald to have reccived, | the indorsement of the klan, with | Lln(\ understanding that should lheyi | be elected none but klansmen and Protestants would be appointed to city offices. A mayor and four com- missioners are to be elected to- morrow. The klan fof t CLAUDE ROBESON. said to have commit- The feature of the annual card|teemen in each of the sixty-one pre- party and dance of the Rubi SinststoCE seiely & SEvIEns Tof ke ¢ o iieh. Wedneadss o anti-klan forces call for the station- Giib, o bepElyen Wednesiiey ing of at least ten workers at each in the Willard Iitel, will be the | precinct Tuesda singing of three numbers by tho| Police and voluntecrs have patrolled members of the club under the di-|the streets for the past few nights ' : 5 - .~ [to prevent distribution of anonymous ! rection of Claude Robeson. The|cympaign literature, which, by a city, songs will be “Maidens, Remembe ordinanc not permitted. Several (Weckerlin), (vidal), This musical program will be given men were_arrested campaign for d ter. The “Little in the primary tributing such mat- | True Brown Heart Bear. and e in .h‘.\ l\nurm-;sl n between cards He rably discharged world war and dancing veterans in Ohio are admitted free| The program w start promptly | to any school or university support- | at 9 lock with ca bridge or ed state funds. 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