Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 21

N opama LEAGUE'S CIRCUS ' 15 HELD SUCCESS Capacity Crowds Greet| Opening Performances of . Event to Aid Needy. | The Junior League Circus, held yes- | terday afternoon and last night at the | Washington Auditorium to raise funds | for charities to which the league has | been a constant contributor, was a bril- liant social affair and direc of the | ay pronounced it-a financial success. Social Washington gathered | en mass last night, while the ers went through their antics to the crack of the whip of Ring ster John Philip Hill, former Representative from Maryland The basement of the Auditorium, where the show was heid, was packed to overflowing for the even: form- | ance. Dancing followed the The afternoon performance, particularly for children, likewise drew a large crowd. | Mrs. Calvin Coolidge led the list of | patronesses for the circus and the list of boxholders for both the afternoon and evening shows presented an im- pressive array of Washington social | leaders. Clowns, bands, animals, dancing girls, | . acrobats and the usual midway | hows comprised the cir The | »d when doors of the side- ere opened at 9 o'clock. With | show opening there was a long procession of the performers, led by | Prof. Bumplayer (Harmer Reeside) and | his clown band, followed by the Sixteen | Happy Hollanders, a Dutch number; Maj. Walton Green as Crackem and his musical ecuine: the international jock- cys, Mille. Petite, Mrs. Winslow Van | Deovanter and Spark Plug; the biue- | ribbon, cducated ponies: fthe skating | bears, Fang the leopard, Jumbo the | elephant, gypsies Alabama Jubll!‘(‘i Singers and still more clowns. | Miss Virginia Peters appeared in_ the | Tol: of circus ballerine. Mrs. Van De- vanter took care of the more dangerous of the wild animals in an act as M Zorabella. Leonard Block did the “bark- ing” for the sideshows. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. The Washington Highlands ‘Citizens’ {' Association will meet, 8 o'clock, n Congress Heights® School. ‘The United States War Veterans' Home for Widows and Orphans’ As- soclation will -meet, 8 o'clock, at G. A R. Hall. Rev. Helen A. Davis, evangelist, will hold a service tonight at 1502 S street All welcome. The Conduit Road Citizens’ "Associa- tion will meet, 8 o'clock, in the parish hall of St. David’s, Conduit road and Chain Bridge road. Dr. G. F. Bower- man, librarian of the D. C. Public Li- brary, will speak. ‘The local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will meet, 8 o'clock, at the Phyllis | Wheatley Y. W. C. A Neval H. Thomas will preside. Speakers from New York. ‘The Society of - American Foresters will meet, 8 o'clock, at the Cosmos Club. Subject: “Deforested America,” by E. N. Munns and other prominent for- | for treating the rheumatic illness which [sized in his mind the growing need for | while remaining in the ray, a party -i | in ediately vanished from sight.” | " t is S s great | || | ot et e | Willard | will be brought before medical societies | | for comment and criticism. “Artificial Sun” CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Usedl to Pierce GIVEN $1,500,000 Fogs of London! | Belief Legal-Trained Mind Is Best | Fitted for Leadership | Rays Relieve Rheumat Prompts Donation. | | and Build Up Tissues l | By the Associated Press. ITHACA, N. Y., December 20.—A be- |lief that the legal-trained mind is best By Cable to The Star and the New York | Heral Tribane. | Conyrichi. Joss. . |fitted for leadership has. prompted | My: . Taylor, chairman of the LONDON, December 20.—A new form | M¥fon C. Tas . tal ki finance committee of the United States | of artificial light, which to all intents | s 16 o : . 0TS | Steel Corporation, to give Cornell Uni- and purposes cannot be distinguished | verisity $1,500,000 for the erection of a | from sunlight, has been invented by a | pew building to house its law school. London physicist, who is tired of erawl- | Mr. Taylor was graduated from the ing through the well known “pea soup” |law school in 1894 and is a member of fogs, the Morning Post's scientific cor- |the university’s board of trustees. | respondent will announce tomorrow Thirty years' expericnces as a_mem- If all that is asserted for this inven- [ber of the New York bar, he said in a tion comes true, it also will be valuable | letter conveying the gift. has empha- | | | of Body. the London climate seems to engender. | competent and well trained lawyers to Motion pictures, too, appear to offer a |guide in tle handling of the larger af-| considerable field for exploitation of the | fairs of the country. artificial sunlight as a substitute for| Plans and sketches for Myron Taylor Kleig lights Hall, as the building will be knewn _The new light is produced by im- have already been prepared. pinging a mixture of oxygen and special | = hydrocarbong on pastilles of thorium | oxide. The rcsuiting illumination, the Morning Post sa s, is “like a blaze of | Examined spectroscopically, | ight shows a thick band in the yellow segment of the spectrum. By‘ means of a parabolic reflector, the ray | | is emitted as a parallel beam, therefore | | undispersed or dissipated. When the lamp wa: perimental stage, it was tried in a dense | fog, the Mornng Post’s correspondent || writers. “At a distance of 100 yards, | During Intermission of the Play “Strange Interlude” the earlier ex- | have observers was able to note the color «nd . texture of clothing of individuals, but | | D t t e of ey o i o 1§ SONST 6L e are transformed into heat. The energy is said to be ab- sorbed in the tissues and utilized as a life force, improving the heart action, producing a sense of warmth and stim- ulating the normal defenses of the body | | against “this beastly climate.” | There is said to be on record a con- || siderable number of cases in which good esults have been obtained, and these || Table d’hote dinner IN CRYSTAL ROOM $3 per person (Christmas Day, $3.50) IN COFFEE SHOP $1.50 per person | (Christmas Day, $2) The town of Bath, a few miles from || Bethlehem, Pa., takes pride in a horse | | chestnut tree planted by Gen. Robert | | wn. It was one of a number given || Col. “Lighthorse Harry” Lee to Gen. | Washington, from whom Gen. 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