Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1923, Page 55

AROUND THE CITY By Nannie F you shut your eyes and turn around three times you will come to & vast room where biue peéncils flash like blue lightning, ‘Where yellow filmsies fiy around like yellow butterflios. and where type- Wwriters slzzle out news every minute of every hour of every day untll a newspaper gets on the street. If you didn't know better you might suppose that the swarm of, workers—young, middlin’ and gray- haired—likewise bald—rushing things with pencils, shears and paste po with pipes and cigs, shirtslecves and & dally apple from the basket man. to help the whirl along, were just %0 many ordinary men wrapped up fn the work that was going on, with the fat little envelope it stood for— and the rest of the world §o hang! but you were never more mistaken in your life—for why? In the vast room there {s a post office, with its pigeonholes stulfed with ‘matl from all over everywhere —except for one empty box that Is pathetically neat—because a news room box should never, never look that way. It has been like that fo: two vears now-—and you would think that the boy whose name still tops It would have gone out of the 1ivos of his once-was fellow workers —which would be another blg mis- take—for: There Iy a bulletin board. Some- thnes it shows a letter from a gal- lant buddle who ls fighting u dragon more cruel (han the one St George had to deal with, being the difference between myth and the real thiv And always, and alw there letters. magazines and the like, go- ing from the vaxt roomn to a health- giving place in the south A little while ago, this huddle, once with every nerve on trigger for the first breath of news, wrote the boys & whimsical mention that he had never geen or heard a radio—= And In about a mwitch of that ram's tall you know about the vas room had provided a st with an extra “loud speaker,” so that ail the shut-ins might also enjoy the fun They knew it would please thel buddie to give pleasure to others The whole lot of them are that way As to the box itself, while it may e empty and loncsome looking, tan’t & hopeless box, undersiand. be- cause it kno it positively knows —that some day It Ix going to be choked up again with mail from al over everywhere—because: Ita owner will be back again, with & typewriter before him, and a story to teil. * was fringed with la- hunched back comfort- eraw mang men, * % DITCH borers ably while a track. laukhing, a sprinkle foreign eyes. wizen-faced a sircet car Most of the Jesting hrown of lighter fac One of these voungster, with bla curis mopped und his rag cap. He had taken from th folded bit of newspaper looking st the picture of u star lady with love-hunger e The rhapsodic expression appealid to a fat man who stood waltlng (o cross the track “Heilo, Iady friend?" He was such Pt the vounzs waved it Then = I I I = I = O el = I = D e e e D = N == i e O =11 a est o o cap n was movie was a o8 Hamlet, whose vour fat the hae in a friendly took off nd_put it n - answe: lish with an «nt that -maieur readers fondly belleve they can im- | ftatc, and that no one on earth could i man cap '3 ure on the theen pee sweethea looka 1'ke m in Naple s A pows show snow Amie rful magician 1 teeth of the heaks and the | midnight suns. 1 and the 1 to du things | t man who i denma s | A for Remeo fased the roped xes iin the Craric: t and put it and— t bein to be "Ap. all, there is nothing . xR x WO women were confabbing in a street car. They were nice, everyday women with honest red hands that showed for housework and a general air of being entirely 1 with themselves and all helon:ihies. The one with the | bar stuffed un with buvings hot of the bundles to | siimpe of blu i pdvertised house m town from to omer—Hts more. 1) Ir 1 one 1an $1.95 one show E dresses | 2.45— | me | are lucky. Mame! | all my money to keep the table | zolng—just think, when we were Married you could get all the pork | chops you wanted for 8§ cents a pound and now look at ‘em.” “Dreadful, ain't it? Say, did you know Sue's got married at last? I'm | real glad, honest I am, but I'm afraid | it won't stick. My 'husband says | Bob's awful gay and he only married | Sue on the bounce because his girl | turned him down—How old do you guess Sue is I “On, five, anyhow, but, Lor, age d t count. Look at how men treat wives that are heap younger than what they are—Look &t poor littie Im, wasa't cold In her grave | before her husband married that old | widow that made ail the trouble.| And they ket aiong srand.” hive you seen Mag since | Satday? She's worked up something | awful about having to be a witness 3t the Dlank trial—I tell her 1 wouldn't go If 1 was her.” ou gotta.” All 1 got to do s mind and says, and 1 ain't bindin’ myself down to that—But it they dragged me there I'd spite ‘em by tellin' stories right along— Nobody can't get nothing out of little Mame. Say, ase, whyn't you COmE, Around and see our mew porch? It's grand to be buyin’ your own home, ou take such pride in fixin' It up— Funny you don't buy steader rentin’.” “Well, Lou says Its cheaper on accounter the intrust eatin’ into you all the time. LNot at all. We planked down §400 _and pay 360 a month into the bulldin’ ussociation for twelve years—" "My land, you might be dead by that time—stlil we might try it some time—if you get good nelghbors—" “That's so, Mame. We got the cranklest woman next door—nice You know, when it comes to any Yody ‘around gettn' sick, but, don't you know, she's oner them 'kinder Women that thinks she's got as much right to be President as a ma Lats of 'em like that—still, I don 1 bame ‘em 'for wantin’ to be & senarer—1I'd love to Do one my ownself, on accounter the prosents they get for nothin'—pocke a 2 but yon thirty ooks, and scissors and perfumery 1 know: my husband had a friend who worked for a senator — my land, woman, we are passing our stop! That basket of yours looks like your husband’s goin' to have a mighty fine dinner tomorrow. You sure are a good provider, Mame. “No better'n you—Hurry up, hon. Then they got out, leaving one pas- senger, anyhow, to mourn her loss. Notbing to pass on, of course, ex- cept to snap the type held up by a wise man of France as “the salt-of- the-earth women, who work for homes and husbands and who are really running t’.c earth. And maybe its true—seeing we can’t get along without salt. * K k% CRUMB of a boy at a vaudeville matinee was watching a trapese lady swinging on bars to and from & center ring. As she hurled herself from bar to bar the small boy clapped pudgy hands and gurgled excited comments to_the elderly lady with him. When the lady in the air vaused Lancaster——-- | after each stupendous whirl to bluw; kisses to the audience the small boy | accepted 1t as his excluslve greeting | and blew kisses in turn. Then he nudged his elderly lady to blow kisses with him. She was not re- | nonxive elderly lady, but it didn't | cause just then a roll of fo accompany the And as the performer start- | ed to descend from the ceiling by a | rope, with her head downward, the | boy clutched at the elderly ladv, and | shrilled out In excited treble: “Look, gram'ma, don't you vou were up there doin’ that?” Maybe grandma did, and maybe, | zain, she alan’t. You couldn’t tell, | hecnuse the only pose she manifested | was a studied disregard of graceless, boyish laughter from the next chair —in which was keated a very stout | and exceedingly bald-headed man, ! wish EfiEEEEEE THE SUNDAY ADVISES TEACHERS FIGHT EVIL FORCES President of National Education Association Speaks at Dunbar High School. School teachers were admonished | by Mias Olive M. Jones, president of the Natlonal Education Assoefation, to “align themseives with the forces: of gocd against the forces of evil| and conspiracy” at a _meeting Tues- day afternoon of the Columbian Fdu- catlon Asoclation in Dunbar High| 8chool. Min1 Joncs emphasized the value of organized efforts in bringing about derirable progress in the field of edu- cat'€1 and outlined the evolution of teacherg’ associations. Sha alwo ex- | plained the terms of afliation with the Natlonal Education Assoviatlon, @E@Eflfi.@?b Silks, STAR, WASHINGTON, showing the need of universal co- operation. Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant suporintendent in charge of colored chools, urged the teachers to affiliate with the national organization. M. Grant Lucas, president of the Colum- bian Association, presided. Cards were distributed giving the alms of the Columblan Association, which inctude the promotion of pro- fessional spirit, publishing a journal of the teachers’ institute and work- ing for the teachers’ salary bill e Rl NEW SAXOPHONE CLASS. A new class for saxophone players is being organized by the Knights of Columbus Evening Bchool of Music, as well as others, being a free to ex-service men. Francis Anthony McCann s charge of registration. Frank J. Weber 18 in charge of the school in- structors and is teaching the brass ts claxs. The various music classes are being held Tuesday evenings at 8 o'clock at 600 G street northwest. 608 to 614 LISTS “THE MESSIAH” FOR PRESENTATION Washington Choral Society An- nounces Handel’s Popular Ora- torio for December 4. Announcement has been made by Robert C. Starr, president of the Washington Choral Boclety, that the organization will present’ Handel's popular oratorlo, “The Messia Tuesday evening. December 4. in the auditorium of Central High School. The solo parts will be sung by Netta Cralg, soprano; Theresa K Hubner, contralto; _John Wilborn, tenor, and Charles Trowbridge Titt- mann, bass. Charles 8. Wengerd will | be_the conductor. | “The chorus is composed of some of the best volces in Washington, and | has been commended upon previous { ozcastons for {ts fine work as a unit | Although it Is the pollcy of the so- ilipsb or ELEVENTH ST. .. C, NOVEMBER 25, 1923—PART 2 e —————— ————— clety always to utilize the services of local singers and musicians in every capacity for the presentation of musical works, it was found necossary to ask Mr. Wilborn, a Baltimore singer, to take the ténor solos, During the season two other ora- torlos will be presented by the so- Thuy are Menddlssohn's “St. which will be given on Febru: ary 5, and the “The Four Wind unusual work by Carl Busch, which based upon the text of Longfellow's ‘SBong of Hiuwatha." Tickets for the concert next week | 13th and G streets. —_—— | SEEKS VICE PRESIDENCY. LINCOLN, Neb,, November 24.—C. C. Countryman, New York lecturer, has written to Secretary of State W. C. Pool, asking the requirements for fling as a candidate for Vice Presi- dent In Nebraska. The letter, received |today, states Mr. Countryman fs & | republican. l! The Frocks presented in this Annual Event come from designers whose fame is world-wide—and where modelling sets the fashion for the season. Each Dress has its individual characteristics which will make personal appeal—winning your favor with its intrinsic merit no less than with its arti Cloths and Velvets for Street, After- noon flfld Formll wear. [} stic effect. are on sale 4t Arthur Jordan's store, | MISS COWL STARS | IN ROLE OF JULIET With Emotion, Warm With Intellectuality. The popular event in the engage- ment of - Miss Jane Cowl at I'oli's Theater wap her appearance yester- dny afternoon and night as Jullet The fame of her success in this rol= left nothing to be doubted as to her proficiencies; yet hearsay could not convey the impression of complete- ness which distinguishes her por- trayal of perhaps the most difficult role In all the English-speaking | drama, The productinn Was & crea- tion of pictorial beauty rivaling even | that of “Pelleas and Mellisande * The theater was crowded at both per- | formances, and the appreclation of | | the poetry greater than that of Mae- | Reading of Famous Part Vibrant! ™ 19 terlinck, because it had no need of the services of a translator in the preparation of the dialogue. . Admir- ably cast throughout, the perform- ance left no jarring note of medloc- rity to disturb the symmetry of ex- pression. The Romeo of Mr. Rollo ters would of itself have ranked a stellar demonstration had the adiines on the bill announced him Av the player of first responsibility. LAs it was, the interest in Miss Cowl's Juliet' was the supreme cou- sideration. She ix unusual, without & trace of eccentricity. No hint of mannerivm s apparcnt in her read- ing or action. Her grace I8 the more appealing because of 1ts naturalnces, nd her specch the more convincing ccause of its freedom from anv suy- on o i« elocution. Her reading iv of the modernistic ty a'most col'oquial in its disregard of artificial pause or emphasis in ordcr to impress points of rhetorical b2au- ty: yet it is warm with intellectial- ity ax well ag vibrant with emotion. It would have been a distinet loes to playgoing Washington had “Romcu and Juliet” been eliminated from the week's engagenient P.J studled fl fl g! | fl The =i is most excellent, mak- ing selections available for misses and matrons —even up to the larger sizes. 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