Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1926, Page 12

12 * RUDOLPH IS FETED - BY CITY WORKERS -300 Officials and Employes Gather at Testimonial Luncheon. Cuno H. Rudolph, retiring president d of District Commission- | ars, was honc at a testimonial | luncheon ye afternoon at the Wardman I by more than | Is of the Dis to the him on employes phed by 300 of the off and em- bouquet of anthe- | presented to Mrs. Rudolph, i husband's side the pres. | nd Bell I qualities of | Mr. Rudolph’ has displayed during the nearly three terms he has served on the Board of Commission- and expressed regret at his resig- | ation. { Replying to the cong Mr. Rudolph ng his relation with great re to the muni ton, deelaring of municipal than in ary to mums wz who throu; entation Comn ceremonies ssioners Dough to_the hi; ty tulatory ad- | aid he was | with | Iresses seve tr tribute s no ints in the National | > vou will gi al support you my successor tiring Commissioner also ex his appreciation of the | friendly attitude of the newspapers of Washington. Commissioner Doughe to the friendly relations isted between the Commissioners, and | <aid that neve Mr. Rudolph'’s | eadership has there been any dissen. | ston among them. Commissioner Bell | referred to Mr. Rudolph as “the bal- ance wheel of the District Building.” A program of entertulnment was furnished by Jack Smith, the “whis- pering” baritone, appearing at Keith's | Theater, and Ambrose Durkin, bass, who was accompanied by Christopher Tenley. Dancing, which followed the lunch- eon, was featured by toe dancing by lin. Music for the dancing | rnished by Trving Boernstein's | ty referred that have ex- DINNER IS DISCUSSED. Sponsors of Rudolph Testimonial Name Committees. | iinner and | 1 in honor of Cuno Plans for the testimonia reception to be giv Board of Commi lard Hotel, Decemb at a meeting Friday soring the movement Following this meeting committees | were announced: Robert V. Fleming president of Riggs Natlonal zeneral chajrman committee, John Hay chairman, Rov Neuhauser v chair- man, Victor B. Deyber treasurer and Roberts secretary. The person nel of the several sub-committees fol ows | Invitation-——Gen. Anton Stephan, chairman; D. J. Callahan > chair- man; M. A. Leese, vice chairman; John Oliver LaGorce, Harry Cun- ninghum Reception—Frederick Theodore W foners, nt the Wil ere discus of those spon of the testimonial | ys Hammond vice Delano, | vice Finance Ma d Moran, chafrman ce chairman; Mor- s P. Andrews: Thotr W | Bra- | Edgar C. Snyder, chair- Yalrman; r itv—Frank P | ederic William vice J. Russell Younz. Maj. F.| €. Marks, John Morse, W John Phi F H ips, chair- wairman. | man. | Rocken- Oscar Coolican, vice W e m; » chairman; | chairman W. Spaid. | | ) W GERMANY WILL BUILD i 9.000 MILES OF ROADS | Government Has $20.000.000 High- | way Plan to Bid for American Tourist Business. | which | the seventeenth century. sand miles of im; o be built in any next five or six years. ment has sanct! du The north ind_east of im from to south . connecting every city many o we sortanc The object of the nounced by the government make Germany u paradise for and to capture more of tourist business which comes to rope from America an- | to auto- | he | project is i the H. Rudolph, retiring president of the | Bank, is |/ | family | the p of Cuno Il. Rudolph, retiring as District Commissioner, receives book con- taining the autographs of more than 500 oflicials and employes of the Dis-| trict government. EWASHINGTON GIRL SUCCEEDS | i the W IN BROWNING DRAMATIZATION| . 1, “Caponsach Caponsachi, *“my soldler priest,” sometimes has been described as the greatest human character in English ture -sreater than Hamlet, or n Adams or Becky Sharpe. creator, Robert Browning, like- quite frequently has been held ext only to Shakespeare, the | writer in the F sh lan Y, wise n be staff of the Smithsonlan | Institution, to do for Browning what | at Victorian poet, without | tion one of the greatest intellects could do for him- :de him a success on “Caponsachi,” oung plaved by Walter Hampden, is ne of the big hits of the season on Br y and Miss Palmer is receiv- xpected royalties from the pro Moreover, she has revived 'ning cult and booksellers are ; the greatest sale of his duc Is Student of Browning. Miss T on the pl rich, H estly d product student of his 1o t Ring ago she ¢ Imer, whose name appear: with that of Arthur broth much Chr > Hause.” | idea came to he said, that n was an actor made-to-order First she wrote a letter to Hs but never mailed it, fearing would receive no attention. she to work, with knov that of himself r ng requi act an th rowning | e stage tech- | ctable dram. | he mailed to| idy sug | Palmer ni Hampden then turned the revised manuseript to Mr. Goud- rich who aguin rewrote it, still pre- serving considerable of Miss Palmer" worke The evidences of her own work, she says, geadually h tisappenred | the piece has been hammered down | for the stage until there is little I except her original idea of star Caponsachi. The magnitude of her original task is easily appreciable to those fa- miliar with that enormous, cumber- some lumber chest packed full of | old blankets, price broken flat irons and old masters, with the diamonds s scat- | tered among them, The | I nd the Bool est | poem in th It is the story took which is It is the lon ze. murder | Rome early in | Each per- with the murder or ch followed. telis his | how it all happened, book to do so. Some | re hardly readable to | enegation, but the hooks | iponsachi, the Pope, Pompilia ido are like so many lightuing | on wearisome Summer It is hard to imagine any- more difficult than such ma- for moulding into a stage pl: »whing himself tried in vain to for the stage, met with re- h of a gruesome place in concerned wl of son #h the trial, own story each taking of the books « and G storms 11 Sesdenw wesessmEmmEnn Drawn From MRing} ana The Book,” Is Hit of Season—Miss Rose Palmer Sees Future for Poet’s plays. | “Americ | Return ot hold | the peated failure, and finally gave it up in dlsgust, although he was essen- tially a dramatic genius. Some of his plays did zet on the boards, but they failed to attract much at- tention.” He save up in dis- the rest of his life 1f to dramatic mono- “The Ring and the! bulk of which were and there | hich doe: not have s sages in English away in it somew] In the verse of r as poss it the ne eritics a iture packed | on the! preserved as arranged to the stage. New compared this | with “C: > de Theodors Drei As a_work of | “The Ring and ! ater than cither ! g is have D! and literature, the Bos !of the cabin, which in the da: ponsachi,” Miss | Palmer believes, will bring about the | adaptation of other Browning mate- | bly the revival of some fer plays, such as “The the just as he| wrote them without much retouch- Even more than in the roval- she is receiving, Miss Palmer interested in the new prospect of | g Browning back to the people, : that this essentially robust poet” will have a real appeal Americans once he tood. his ear “man to present-d better unde ADVERTISING OF ADS | AIDS NEWSBOY AIM | | Women Are Apathetic Over Hall- Mills Case, But Buy Papers for Bargains. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, 13.—“Read about the T “Death Jury selected.” “All about the big divorce.” A San Antonio newshoy ecried his| wares lustily, but in vain this morn-| ing to a crowd of hurried women | shoppers, buying “their supplies for | week-end. Business w: The newshoy course in sales November poor, and profits nil. had never taken a nanship, but he was| shrewd, and cast about for a new| elling talk. Hastily scanning the in- ide sheets of the paper, he opened it | in the middle, burying the front page, with its black-face screamers against the want-ad section on the back page. “Bargain — bargain — bargain,” he shouted. “All abolit the big partment store slashes pri S at cut rdtes — buy ing goods today in adv: ot them cheap. The feminine shoppers paused, they tened, they opened purses, in search | when they couldn’t | find «pennies they bought papers with | of pennies, and nickels and dimes as the newshoy face: Thus the art of advertising adver- tising was created. 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The meetings will ers of many organizations for di of wide range, including reli- edueation, immigration, social and similar top bring together Jewish women’s o n_of prob- ator Borah Speaker. r Borah of Idaho is on the speaker's program Tuesday night. while tomorrow night the convention s to hear W. V! Secret. lap, ture. Mrs. William Dick Sporborg of Port Chester, N. Y., the national president, will preside tonight, and will memorial tributes to leaders who hav died since the 1z athering ahd also deliver the presidential address. The visitors will he welcomed by Mrs. Leonard B. president of shington fon. Mrs, nah G. Solomon of Chicngo, founder and honorary president of the coun- cil, will respond to the greeting. of Labor, and R. W. Dun- Assistant. Secretary of Agricul - Dr. Simon on Program. Dr. Abram Simon of Eighth Street Temple will give an address, and other Capital rabbi§ on tonight's pro- gram will be Dr. J. T. Loeb of Ohev Sholom Synagogue, who will give the invocation, and Dr. Louis Schwefel of Adas Israel, who will give the Lene dictfon. There will be greetings from varlous Jewish women's organizations, a musical program, and aiter thé meeting, a reception at which rhe Sis- ses- | . Husband, Assistant | Han- | CREDIT MEN TO MEET | Washington Contingent, Headed | by Frank W. White, to Go. t Haynes to Speak. | Credit men of the District of Co- lumbia, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina will meet next Thursday at orfolk in annual conference for the consider: the year. The Washington Assoclation of Credit Men, headed by Frank W. White, a former president of the as- sociation and now ional councillor, is expected to send the largest delega- tion it s ever sent to the annual conference Harry V. 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