Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1928, Page 44

COMMUNITY CHEST GETS FIRST GIFT Government Pensioner at Soldiers” Home Sends in $3. Others Praise Move. The first cash gift to the Washing- ton Community Chest has been re- ceived from Alfred E. Simond, a Gov: ernment pensioner now living at Sol- diers’ Home, it was announced last night bysClarence A. Aspinwall, secre- tary of the organization committee. Mr. Aspinwall made public a number of letters received from Washington- ians in response to the committee’s re- cent circular letter asking advice re- garding the conduct of the campaign for funds. Most of these. letters heartily indorse the community chest plan. The Washington Community Chest has been formally opened and the first annual fund raising campaign will be- gin in January, Mr. Aspinwall pointed out. In acknowledging the contribution from Mr. Simond, Mr. Aspinwall said that the circular letter had not been intended as a request for contributions, but accepted the gift and told Mr. Si- mond he had been recorded as the first contributor. In his letter to Mr. Aspmwil, in which he inclosed a check for $3, Mr. Simond said: : “I have received your letter circular in which you give me some details concerning an organization of a Com- munity Chest of associate charities in the District. I have not the least doubt that this move is well intended and the committee well chosen for the work. It could not be a better one. “I am, as you know, a pensioner of the United States Army, with just enough funds to see me through. In what benevolent action I may subscribe to, therefore, I have no preference how worthy it may be. I have perhaps a leaning toward the Salvation Army and the Red Cross, so long as you have been so agreeable to know my prefer- ence. And if this small contribution will help one or the other, you are welcome to it. I only wish I could make it larger.” Many of the letters received by the Community Chest committee are en- thusiastic to a degree, as typified by one woman, who wrote: “Hurrah! That is my first reaction to the form letter about the Community Chest.” Another woman detlared the Com- munity Chest plan “appeals to me strongly as the most serviceable way of helping.” “The organization of a Community Chest for this city has been too long delayed in the light of the undeniaple success of similar organizations “in Cincinnati, Baltimore and other cities,” one man wrote. “I am heartily in favor of such an organization, which will give us a single channel through which to make our contributions where they will be applied properly.” WwW. C. T. U. | Cleveland Park Union will hold its first meeting of the season tomorrow, 2 pm, in the Sunday school room of the Cleveland Park Congregational Church. A large attendance is urged to plan the year's work, transact important business and elect officers. An inter- esting program is being prepared. Friends and neighbors are cordially invited. The Mount Pleasant Union held its opening meeting of the year at the Friends’ Church, Thirteenth and Irving streets, Tuesday at 2 p.m. ‘The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. James\M.»Doran; first vice president, Mrs.” Lihdley D. Clark; second vice president, Mrs. J. W. Gregg; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Burt W. Andrews; recording secretary, Mrs. Charles H. Hall; treasurer, Mrs. M. C. Bennett. Reports of the year's work were given by the directors of the va- rious departments. Several new mem- bers were received. It was decided to hold the annual luncheon in October. Miss Rebecca Rhoads, in charge of the young people’s branch of the Dis- trict Union, distributed comfort bags to be filled for soldiers in Nicaragua. The Gullible Public. ‘The Government has done much in the direction of routing spurious nos- trums from the market, but its agents acknowledge that there is yet a con- siderable field for operations, but they have as opposition the gullibility of the public, insufficient power to cope with Ynmflt by the deceit of this nature, and sufficient funds to carry on this work and secure the punishment of the offenders. No sooner is the fake medi- cine routed under one name than it appears under another. Progress is be- ing made. In one class the percentage of cases outside the law a few years ago was 34 per cent; now it is but 8.3 per cent. THE SUXDAY STAR.” WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 2 THEATER "“JUST FOR CHILDREN™ . BEING OPERATED IN LONDON Adults Also Admitted. but Wee Folk Prin- cipal Guests—Playhouse Founded Year Ago by Pretty Actress. BY JOAN LITTLEFIELD. Special Correspondence of The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. LONDON, England, September 22— In the heart of London's theaterland, in a narrow street off Shaftesbury avenue, stands what is probably the smallest “professional” theater in the world. I was once a magneto shop, a narrow, ugly building in a dull Victorian street. Now it has a brightly painted “foyer,” pale gray walls and brown plush cur- tains, while a brilliant blue and gold sign over the street bears the magic words “Children’s Theater.’ About a year ago Miss Joan Luxton, a pretty young West End actress, set herself the task of supplying a long- needed want—a permanent place of en- tertainment, open all the year round, that should cater exclusively to chil- dren. “My ideal,” Miss Luxton told me, “‘was to produce an entertainment, col- orful, tuneful and humorous, that would appeal to children’s imaginations with- out striving to be consciously educa- tional or highbrow. Uphill Work, She Says. “It was uphill work at first, but when once the theater was ready a number of professional actors and actresses ral- lied to my help and we have never suf- tered through lack of players. All my company are professionals, mostly young, and they are glad to do the work for an expenses fee only. As our performances begin at 5:45 each eve- ning, the players are able to fit into this work with their appearances at the regular -‘grown-up' theaters. “We do everything ourselves—seene painting, scene shifting, lighting and dressmaking. This enables us to keep the overhead expenses remarkably low. The theater is run on ordinary business lines, however. It is licensed by the lord chamberlain and the London County Council, just as the larger West- End theaters are, and it is completely equipped with stage lighting, etc.” The little theater seats 115 people. and the prices range from 5 shillings 9 pence to 1 shilling 2 pence, children half price. A certain number of poor children in the neighborhood are al- lowed in for 3 pence, however, and it is whispered that some of the very Poor occasionally get seats for nothing. Explains Business Program. I asked Miss Luxton how it was pos- sible to carry on at such low prices. “We have to rely, of course, on the higher priced seats being filled,” she replied. “Luckily, the grown-ups seem to find our entertainment as amusing as the children do. But we always in- tend to have a certain number of seats available at really cheap prices, because we believe the spoken drama has a very definite place in education as well as in the amusement of chil- dren, and should be accessible to them, however slender their resources.” The young actress then ran away to dress for the performance, and I went “in front” to my stall. The house was full and the air tense with excitement. When the footlights went up there was & roar of applause, and when the “orchestra,” in the form of a very pretty young pianist, arrived, she was nearly mobbed. Opens With Typical Play. The entertainment began with a typ- ical children's play with a witch and her cat (as comic relief) and two young men seeking their fortune—and a moral. ~After it followed the most de- lightful dramatizations of old songs and sea chanties, all beautifully deco- rative in the modern manner, some of them reminiscent of the famous ke STATES North Capitol St Near Union Stati Ample Parking ‘Washington' d wil newest restaurant, modern labor-saving r beaut] ‘monstrate to you our policy of serving excellent food properly pre- pared, faultlessly serve ant surroundings at rease DINNER, 75¢ - 11 AM. to 9 PM. Soup Chicken Gumbo ~ Consomme Princess Choice o Cream Fresh Spinach au Gratin with Country Ha Fricassee of Chicken, Family Style Veal Chop. 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Finally came the piece de resistance, a fair play in three scenes, entitled “Half Past Thirteen,” and dealing with the adventures of a small boy—no, a man—called Tony, who visited Fairy- land via the grandfather clock, had amazing adventures, and brought back to earth with him a fairy princess to be his baby_sister. When I left the theater some time after the show had ended the small clients were being forcibly ejected by firm but kind attendants, while a little band of admirers clustered around the stage door to catch a last glimpse of the lovely Joan, who makes such an ex- quisite heroine in all the plays, and who has brought color and joy into drab little lives and added one more diversion to the blase existence of their more fortunate brothers and sisters. (Copyright. 1928, by North American News- Daper Alliance.) MEXICO SPECULATES ON CALLES’ RETURN May Accept Post in Gil Cabinet or Head New Political Party. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, September 22— With Emilio Portes Gil scheduled by the majority blocs of both houses to be selected as provisional president, political circles are speculating on whether President Calles will accept a cabinet post or become head of a pro- posed new political party. Naturally President Calles could have any portfolio he cared for in the cabi- net of Portes Gil, who now is secretary of the interior. A movement has been started to the effect that he could render valuable service by heading a new political party to guide the people in evolving a system of real parties and democratic elections and government. In his farewell message to Congress, President Calles said that he was will- ing to continue in the service of the country in any capacity except that of his present office. . Every one visiting the fair this year comments on the cleanness of the cir- cus people. They should see the clothes lines on the circus lot every morning. A new Antelope Bag that presents the mew shell top as sponsored by Patou. From our collection at— Distinguish folds and flares ...a sheer velvet in lace on its neckline. . cular fullness on the and printed velvet. . OTHER NEW MISS LUCILE RUTH BROWNE, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Browne of Memphis, Tenn., who has arrived to spend the Winter and has taken an apartment at Stoneleigh Court. AMERIAN COLLEGE FOUNDED N FRANCE Three Hundred Students En- rolled.in Institution Housed in Noted Chateau. larly during August. When the easels were set up men and women donned bathing suits and went for a plunge in the Loing. They worked a while in their dripping costumes and then, tired of work, jumped into the Loing again. SPANISH M6NKS MEND BREACH WITH MADRID | Geronimos Are Given Back Their 0ld Monastery Near Segovia. SEGOVIA, Spain (#).—The number in Spain has just been increased by the re-establishment of the Geronimos. The latter were expelled some time ago and were not included in the con- cordat with the Vatican. Recently. however, the monks have taken fresh vows which are unusually strict. The fraternity has received not only official permission to open houses in Spain, but has been presented with an old monastery, which formerly was its property, El Parral, situated near Sego- via and founded in the middle of the fifteenth century by the Marquis of Villena. Many Havana storekeepers use snakes of the boa species instead of cats as FONTAINEBLEAU (#). — Napoleon's favorite palace this Summer was an American college town. Three hundred students were at the American Con- servatory of Music, housed in the Louis XV wing of the chateau and in the Pavillon du Titre. Villagers of Fontainebleau and the little hamlets bordering the forest look forward every year to the coming of the Americans. It makes a little “sea mates the streets. 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