Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 9

JONOR LEAGLE CRCLS REHEARSES Three-Ring Show to Be Given Wednesday to Aid Chari- table Work. With the performers, both man and beast, going smoothly through their acts after weeks of rehearsal, the finish- ing touches are being administered to the Junior League Circus, which will be presented Wednesday afternoon and evening at the Washington Auditorium, under the direction of Mrs. Walter E. Edge, president of the league in Wash- ington, and Mrs. Sidney Thomas, vice president. The proceeds of the circus will be distributed among the charities to the support of which the league has contributed several years. The last of the costumes arrived yes- terday morning and yesterday afternoon and last night the first dress rehearsals ‘were held at the Auditorium. The direc- tors of the various acts expressed them- selves as highly pleased with the show- ing of the performers. Performance For Children. Special attention has been paid to the afternoon performance features. | This performance, which will begin at 3 o'clock, has been arranged especially for children. Arrangements have been. made by the committee in-charge also, for taking care of the children while they are attending the evening show will begin at 10:30 o'clock. While Mrs. Edge and Mrs. Thomas have had general direction of the circus. | the actual work of training the per- | formers has been under the direction | of Lehr Knowles, of Fostoria, Ohio, a professional charity show director. More | than 100 socially prominent young men | and women of the District are taking | part in the circus. | The circus will be a regular, three- ring affair, with all the features of the | regular circus and some innovations in the matter of circus production that P. T. Barnum missed, according to the directors. A clown band will lead the entrance procession and horses and ponies will bear other performers in the parade. Former Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland will be the ring- master and Leonard Block will be the barker. A complete midway of side- shows has been arranged, with exhibi- tions of many strange creatures, in- cluding many as yet not known to science, such as goofs, what-nots, why- fores and what-have-yous, according to the program. Boxholders Listed. Boxholders for the afternoon per- formance, registered up to yesterday included: Mrs, Edge, Mrs. George Hewett Myers, Mrs. Irving Laughlin, Mrs. McCook Knox, Mrs. Walter R. ‘Tuckerman, Mrs. F. Trubee Davison, Mrs. Ridgeley Hunt, Mrs. C. C. Glover, Mrs. S. Btokes Halkett, Mrs. Donald Mc- Knew and Mrs. Robert Ransdell. Miss Virginia Hunt, who has charge of the boxes, reports that there are a few left which can be obtained from her. ‘The Junior League has contributed to a long list of charities, including sup- port of one nurse of the Instructive Visiting Nurses’ Society, maintenance | Lizette, the | Claytor; Double-Jointed circus. The |7 Corrin Strong, Ruth Stoddard, Mrs. Samuel Beach. Musical Equines—The professor, Maj. Walton Green, and Marshall M. Mar- ston, Reber Littlehales, Henri De Si- bour, Donald McKnew, Charles Hume, William C. Hill. Animals—Zorabella the Trainer, Mrs. Winslow Van Devanter; Jumbo the Elephant, Corrin Strong and Howland Chase; skating bears, Frederick Le Clercq and George Abell; Fang, the Leopard, Griffith Warfleld. The Circus Ballerina—Margaret Zol- nay. Sypark Plug—Samuel Beach and Wil- liam Mackall IV. Jubilee Songsters—Mrs. A. Victor Cherbonnier, Mrs. Peter R. Stuyvesant, Charlotte Childress, Mrs. Carroll Mor- gan, Mrs. James Crawford, Mrs. Chaun- cey Parker, jr.; Elizabeth Hume, Mrs. Vinton Chapin, Anne Covington, Mrs. Robert Pell, Chauncey Parker, jr. Julius Wadsworth, Richard P. David- son, Marshall Exnicios, Edwin O'Don- nell, John Davidson, Henry Suydam. Prof. Bunk and His Side Show Won- ders—Professor, Leonard Block; Pow- erful Eppie, Henry P. Wright. Lieut. P. P. Powell and Lieut. Scott V. Mac- Farlane; Mme. Herpicide, the Bearded Lady, Comdr. John Powers; Princess Snake Charmer, Louise Al, the Eel Man, Price Wright; Mr. Would Be Small, the Glant, Lieut. Comdr. John H. Magruder; Ivan Snagle-Tooth, Comdr. C. C. Hartigan; the Strong Man, Lieut. Comdr. J. Beresford Waller; the Fortune Teller, Mme. Marcie. The _Gypsy _Romance—Esmerelda, Gypsy Princess, Virginia Peters; Don her sweetheart, Jasper Du Bose; an undesirable suitor, Count Pio- de Cellere; Gypsy Girl, Enos| Valcino, chieftain of the tribe, Ba'n-.! Talbot; Mona' Via, Fortune Teller, Mary Montgomery; men of the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 16, 1928—PART 1 tribe, Senors Don Jose, Sinares and Rivas, Eugene Roberts, Hopewell Dar- neflle and A. R. Dew; women of the tribe, Mrs. Leander McCormick-Good- hart, Mlle. Reine Claudel, Mile. Jeanne eno, Helen Gray, Senorita Maria Padil uypsy dancing girls, Nancy Beale, Elizabeth P. Dunlop, Rahel Davies, Mrs. Chester Snow, Mrs. Mar- chall Exnicios, Mrs. Lawrence Er i Winifred West, Mrs. Owen Albright and Mrs. William Sturtevant. Blue Ribbon Educated Ponies—Black Team, Anne Devereux, Mary Devereux, Katherine Dunlop, Mrs. Pierre Gaillard; White Team—Eleanor Snyder, ~Mrs. John Parker, Frances Gore and Mrs. J. Ewell; Brown Team, Sophie Snyder, Mrs. George Summerlin, Mrs. Ruth But- ler, Helen Clifford. The ponies will be driven by Mrs. Chauncey Parker, Jeanette Hume, Mrs. Courtland Parker. b CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. The Wanderlusters’ hike will start from the end of the Brookland car line, lBl’(’afiklnnd, D. C. Miss Kennedy will ead. The Red Triangle Outing Club will meet at Chevy Chase Seminary at 3 o'clock. Take Kensington or Chevy | Chase Lake line. Hike will be through Rock Creek Park to Connecticut |avenue and Chapell road. Waldburg Hewitt will lead. Mr. Hewitt will also conduct an inspection of some historic landmarks this morning, the hikers to meet, 7:30 o'clock, at Seventeenth and Pennsylvania avenue. An exhibition representing results of research activities of the Carnegie In- | stitution of Washington will be open | to visitors from 2 to 5:30 o'clock and from 7 to 10 o'clock at the adminis- EISEMAN’S SEVENTH & F STS. ON LIBERAL TERMS Redueed from $30, $35, $40 All wool materials, finely tration building, Sixteenth and P streets. To be repeated tomorrow. ‘The College Alumnae Club will give a tea in honor of Mrs. Laura Wheeler Waring, together with a free exhibit of her paintings, at Miner Normal School from 4 to 7 o'clock, when Mrs. Waring will be pleased to meet those interested in her work. There will be a candle light proces- sion and a reading of Van Dyke's “Other Wise Man” by Eliza A. Coppage, under auspices of the Church Aid Circle, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church at 4:30 o'clock. The National Museum announces an exhibition of etchings and drypoints by Margery Austen Ryerson this afternoon, to continue daily to December 30, in the division of graphic arts, Smith- sonian Building. FUTURE. Federal Auxiliary, No. 824, will meet tomorrow for the election of officers at the Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massa- chusetts avenue. The P. E. O. Sisterhood will meet for luncheon Tuesday noon in Woodward & Lothrop's tes room. 1. S. Zalph will re sd view “Zola and His 8:30 pm., at the 9 Center Forum, Jewish Community BA'L leED AT 32,000 Center, Sixteenth and Q streets. REGISTERS MOISTURE. HOUGHTON, N. Y. (#)—A machine designed to register minute amounts of moisture in any substance has been perfected by Arnold Pitt, a graduate of Houghton College, while doing research work at Toronto University. One of the possible applications is for determining the amount of moisture in grains, woods and other substances| used in manufactures. FOR FISHER'S NURSE Complicity Charge in Death of Girl at Keyser, W. Va. Special Dispatch to The Star. December 15— | KEYSER, W. Va, Bond was today fixed at $2,000 by Judge A. Jay Valentine for the release from jail of Miss Luella Wetsel, Harrisonburg, office nurse of Dr. Otto Fisher, who Miss Luella Wetsel to Answer ad accomplice, was in Dr. | death of Miss Lonnie Muriel Beckone, student nurse of Harrisonburg, Va., by an operation in his office here in Sep- tember. Miss Wetsel, who has been indicted as T's of- fice when Miss Beckone died. She ap- peared as the principal witness for the State at the trial, which concluded the first of this week. The petition for her release on bond was filed by H. R. Athey, attorney, who is hopeful of se- curing bail early next week. Bt g i Recent additions of new beds in Lon- don hospitals have brought the total to convicted of having caused the'15,000. 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