Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 98

At Community Centers Of the Public Schools. Community Center Department, Franklin Administration Building. Main 6036 The children’s festival will be held at Central Center- May 11. 2 pm. Music. dancing. pantomime. model air- cratt flying and other-delightful doings | will make up the program. | There will be an outdoor meet of the | District_of Columbia Model Aircraft | Zeague May 11. at 9:30 a.m.. at Bolling | Field. HL Scientificc, ROG Fuselage. and HL Scientific for Distance (if the | air is calm) will be featured. | Central Center, Thirteenth and Clif- ton streets: ‘Monday—7:30 p.m.. rehearsal of ‘Washingion Church Music Council and Federation of Music Clubs for massed chorus. Wednesday—8:15 p.m.. Spring con- cert of Washington Church Music and Federations of Music Olubs. ‘Thursday—4 -p.m., rehearsal for chil- dren’s festival. Saturday—1 to 4 p.m., George Wash- ington University interclass track meet: 2 p.m.. children’s festival. East Washington Center, Seventeenth and East Cabpitol streets: ‘Tuesday—8 p.m.. Boys' Independent Band: 8:30 p.m.. community dance. ‘Wednesday—8 p.m., drill team of De Molay Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar. ‘Thursday—7 p.m., girls' basket ball team of Trinity: 7:30 p.m., dressmak- ing, basketry, Columbia Troubadours. | the Uniform Rank, Woodmen of the World: 8:30 p.m., Bethlehem drill team, Bethlehem Chapter, No. 7. O. E. S. Saturday—8 p.m. community gram, moving pictures. Chevy Chase Center, avenue and McKinley street: ‘The Dramatic Club will give three one-act plays May 10, at 8 pm. in the auditorium of E. V. Brown School Activities for children from 3 to 5 pm. are music and French instruc- | tion on Monday: instruction in music, rhythmic dancing and airplane con- struction on Tuesday and French. rhythmic dancing and carpentry on ‘Thursday. Columbia Heights Center, Wilson Normal School, Eleventh and Harvard | streets: i Tuesday—7:30 p.m.. Columbians Or- | chestra, rhythmic dancing: 8 pm, Choral Club, Welch Society. | Thursday—3:30 p.m., rhythmic danc- | ing for beginners; 8 p.m.. Community | Orchestra, Columbia Players, self-de- fense group, Capital City Orchestra, Ye | Tyme Dancing Club; 0 p.m., “Watch Your Weight Club”: 9 pm., gymnasium group for men and women. | Friday—3:15 p.m., violin instruction, | first group; 3:30 p.m., rhythmic danc- ing, advanced group; 4:15 p.m., violin | instruction, second group: 7:30 pm. | Boy Scouts, Troops 40 and 41, Girl Scouts, Troop 2; 8 p.m.. young people’s | dance, Political Study- Club. | Saturday—9:30 a.m., plano instruc-| tion; 10:15 a.m., piano instruction, 11| am. piano -and _violin _instruction, | ;‘h;v!hm dancing for small boys and ls. pro- Connecticut Georgetown, Addison School, Wiscon- sin avenue and P street. y—3 p.m., expression group, rhythm D. Th y—3 p.m., rhythm group. Macfarland Center, Iowa avenue and ‘Webster street: The community dance, with music by the “Nomads,” will be given May 10, from 8 pm., to 10:30 pm. A bridge | "be at the tim | + - Park View Center, Warder and New- | .ae“-ia 15 Monday—3:15 pam., violin group. PFriday—7.p.m., Boy Scouts; 7:15 p.m., Drum and Corps; 7:30 p.m., Girl Scouts, Children's Game Club, boys' painting, Den- Southeast Seventh and C | streets southeast: As some. of ‘the parents of the chil- dren of the. center and their friends lessons in social dancing an in- structor has been assigned for Wednes- ‘night, - at . 8:15 o'clock. Any interested adult is invited to attend. | | | | from 8 to 10 p.m. Adults are invited | to attend. Previous registration is not| necessary. 3 | Thursday at 3:15 p.m., the children of the Friday night groups taking part | in the children’s festival will meet in front of the Hine Junior High School | to go by bus to Central High School for rehearsal The activities are scheduled for Fri.| day night, inciuding the children’s | dancing groups and community dance. | The Jolly Junior Club and the music groups will meet on Saturday morning | from 9 to 12 a.m. Volley ball will be played Monday and Wednesday, from 7 to 9 p.m | All children of this center taking part in the children’s festival will gather at May 11, at 12 noon, to go by bus to| Central. Thomson Center, streets Monday—8 p.m., | Twelfth and L| nstruction and ad- vanced bridge groups, French, advanced group. dramatic rehearsal | Tuesday—T7:30 p.m. Scout Master train- ing group, shorthand dictation, physical training for women and giris; 8:30 | p.m. social dancing instruction and | practice, Lyric Orchestra rehearsal, | piano_instruction for adults. | Wednesday—3:15_p.m.. dramatic re- | hearsal, children’s Spring play, rehea sal of community instrumental orches- | tre, instruction in violin, clarinet and | cornet; 7:30 p.m., Boy Scout Court of | Honor and Court of Review. Thursday—7 p.m. women's drill | team: 7:30 p.m.. shorthand dictation | group, Spanish beginners group: 8 p.m.. | talian group. | Friday—3:15 p.m.. rhythm group, | dramatic group: 4:15 p.m.. tap-danc-| ing group: 8 p.m., young people’s social dancing group. Writers' League. French advaniced group, Washington Coin Club. Saturday—8:45 to 12 noon, Sroups | in violin. saxophone, drums, trombone and piano. Birney Center, Nichols avenue and Howard street_southeast: Monday—7:30 p.m., Campfire Girls, boys' basket ball, boys' handicraft. in- dustrial art. dramatic group; 8 p.m., Choral Society, Men's Club, study group, boys' games, A. C. base bail group, A. C. junior base ball group, jarry Farm Citizens' Association. ‘Wednesday—3:15 .p.m., Little Sun- ams. | Thursday—Piano instructions iday—Paradise of Childhood, boys'| and girls’ game group. Burrville Center, Division avenue and Corcoran street: Tuesday—3:15 p.m., music, children’s classics; 7:30 p.m., Boy Scout Troop No. 506; 8 p.m.. Burrville Women’s Club, Burrville Athletic Club, Boys' game group, Dramatic Club, toy shop. Cleveland Center, Eighth and T streets: Tuesday—7:15 pm., Amphion Glee Club, Dennison art, first-aid group, lampshade making, Phi Delta Kappa Sorority, Washington Concert Orchestra, 8. Coleridge Taylor Choral Society. ‘Thursday- 5 pm, adult piano group, _basketry, Dennison art, John's Military Band, lampshade msk-’ ing. Asburian Dramatic Club. 3 Priday—3:15 p.m., music extension plano group. Saturday—10 a.m., rhythmic group. © Dunbar Center, Pirst and N street: ‘Thursday—6 p.m., Silver Leaf Social Club, Elite Social Club, boys’ game roup, girls' hockey team, swimming for girls; 8 p.m., boys’ swimming, Co- lumbia Temple drill team, American ‘Woodmen meeting, Birney Chorus re- hearzal. Friday—7 pm., Dunbar Junior Dra- matic Club, Silver Leaf social hour; 8 pm.. Sigma Lambda Club, Columbia Temple nurses unit, Morning Star drill team, Forest Temple drill team. Garfield Center, Alabama avenue and Twenty-fifth street southeast: Wednesday—3 p.m., dramatics for children; 3:30 p.m., Toy Symphony Orchestra; 4 p.m., music group: 7:30 pm., arts and craft group, Thimble Club, shoemaking group, athletic groups, | ie_Public Speaking Club will ha evening of aehn'e! on wednud:ye” Cjfifioflanl Foster Ideal Springs are not buy something alleged to be perior” to a F i proper spine support and: and you'll buy a Trade Mark. in every furniture or department store and you may be urged to Dramatic Club; 8 p.m., Citizens’ Asso- ciation. Start T]’xem th‘n Systematic SPine SuPPort RESH air, good food and exercise are fine. But, don’t overlook the most important thing of all. See that your children get a generous share of sleep, for sleep is nerve food. Start them off early in life with a Foster Ideal Spring and its scientific spine support. Give those energetic little bodies plenty of their nerve reserve. 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The primitive musician and his mascot have vanished with a past that knew not oranges for breakfast, but the other day. for one time, when some bright, chummy women were airing memories that each of us keep tucked away in mind- attics, one of them gave a bit of remi- niscence that went Iike this: One Spring morning. as the / family sat at the breakfast table, her mother gave her a | nickel and told her bread for 5 cents seems another ar- chaic custom. - v hurry c| called the mother. as she opened the door to with hiswhen I told her I was lost, she said. all right, to come home with her for some- thing nice and hot with her boys and girls, and after that she would take me to the police station and they would find my home right away. “So that's all, but I did have the beautifulest day, only I'm sorry there was nothing left but the crust. father, you wouldn't really mind—be- cause you told me I might follow the organ grinder, didn’t you?" The woman said to her friends: “After that, my family had it that I was cut out for a life of adventure, but T have traveled a bee line of convention ever since.” X The bright, chummy woman said it in a tone streaked with disappointment —which is just another proof that you never know what will happen—be- forehand. s % s ; IN side streets where many children live in small homes, the games of yesterday still linger—though fashion- able Washington knows them no more. Street rings, with girls and boys singing out old-time legends about, -say, King James' Son.” or, Green Gravel, the Grass T knew, | King | D. Cu MAY 5, Is So Green.,” still survive, along with the “fittest,” though not popular, of course, as in the generations following the old Colonists from England—and rarely played by children whose nts had modern amusements to make them forget the handed-down ones. It is in such neighborhoods that the good old fun of picking eggs thrives, along with the new Spring when hens are laying plentifully. For one time, two street tads were picking eggs after school. The one who was colored had won four eggs from the boy who was matching him. Everything was perfectly fair and above board, and as the usual youngster is as honest as sunlight. it was with good-natured irri- tation that the white boy asked, as he turned over his last picker: | “Say, Link, that egg of yours is sure one winner. Lemme see her. Looks like every other picker but she cert'’n'y |1s a prize fighter. How you come to | get her, hun?” | The victor's laugh was of the rich, | unstudied melody that Mother Nature | has put into the brown man's voice, and | his eyes sparkled with humorous brag: | “Just the same as any other egg, | only T always biles my pick-eggs so they | won’t mess me up if they breaks. And | I biles 'em in hard water.” 3l 'HIS column's good friend tells an- | | other little yarn about organ grind- ers, which happened to a beloved prima donna whom Washington and Baltimore audiences of ihe past vied with each 1929-PART 6. other in lionizing—and who has mlded\‘ here for years. “It was when I was a wee thing, away up in the north of Scotland, where my mother and brother and I lived in Aberdeen. My little brothér Livingston and I were inseparable, and organ grinders and monkeys were our special delight. “One morning an organ was playing along our street, and we were starting to move on with the player when mother called after me: “Don’t go too far after that organ grinder. and keep tight hold of Livingston's hand every step of the way.’ “I called back an obedient ‘Yes, mother,’ and along with other children | we followed in the wake of the music. | It was well on toward supper time when we turned homeward, the child in my grasp legging wearily behind me. Once when he pulled away from me, remem- | bering mother's command, I had blindly | clutched at a little hand and gone on again, led by the wheezy melodies and | the capers of the frisky monkey. “As 1 reached home, there stood | mother in the doorway with sternly | accusing eyes “‘What have you done with your little brother?’ ‘Here he is, safe and sound.’ And with a triumphant twist I brought the | lagging youngster well to the fore. “To this day I can remember the shock of surprise and horror when, in- stead of my curly-headed little brother, I looked down at a perfectly strange child, whose hand I firmly grasped in| my own. “‘That child! Where did you pick him up? Who is he?’ | “My mother's voice was streaked with & day-of-judgment wrath that I knew too well preceded condign punishment. | But_all's well that ends well, for just| as I broke into loud lamentations of | real grief at having lost my brother the dear little curly head peeped out from behind mother’s skirts, and with a joy- ous shout I was encircled by his arms, hugging up to me and patting my wet cheeks as he crooned, ‘Don't cry, Janet. I got home all right by myself a long time ago. Don't cry, Janet.' " “Brings the tears to think of it after all these years!” | You will notice that old-time mem- ories are apt to be damp. 1928 the Illinois “In motor _ car registration fees totaled $15,521.531." |Mr. |Keaton and Norma Talmadge, another said James Simpson, chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission. “With Chi- cago having one-third of these ma- chines, it means that Chicagoans paid more than $5,000,000 in fees to the State. This, plus the $7,500,000 which Chicago motorists would pay in the form of the proposed 3-cent gasoline tax, would increase Chicago’s contri- butions to $12,000,000, practically all of which would be spent building downstate roads, and little, if any, used in the improvement of Chicago's streets. which the motorists use practically every day in the week.” | CONSTANCE TALMADGE WILL WED THIRD TIME Twice Divorced, Will Marry Chicago Merchant Next Wednesday. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 4.—Constance ‘Talmadge, motion picture actress, ex- pects to embark upon her third matri- monial voyage next Wednesday. Miss Talmadge and Townsend Netcher, Chicago merchant, yesterday filed notice of intention to wed. The ceremony will be at the Beverly Hills home of Miss Talmadge's brother-in-law and sister, and Mrs. Buster Keaton. M Screen Actress, sister. will be matrons of honor. Miss Talmadge gave her age as 28, She has been married and divorced twice. She declared she “simply couldn't get along” with John Pialoglou, tobacco magnate, her first husband. Her mar- riage to Capt. Alastair Mackintosh of England was dissolved on similar grounds. Netcher gave his age as 35. He has been married once. Gertrude Selby, an actress, recently divorced him in Chi- cago. He and Miss Talmadge will live at Santa Monica, Calif. speed on the errand. “Unless you meet an organ grinder,” laughingly added the father. i As the fates ordained it. the break- fast hour passed and the lunch hour, and, finally, the supper hour, but neither child nor loaf showed up. No trace of her could be found, until the | distracted parents invoked the aid of the police, when the child, blmsfully‘;“ sleeping, with the hollow shell of what ||/ had been a loaf of bread, was restored | o the frantic household. So soundly | t did she sleep, while her mother put|| her to bed, that the family had to wait until next morning to hear of the delights of the day that had gone before: “I met an organ grinder.” she beamed at her father, “just as you said. So I knew I needn't hurry back with the bread, and I followed him and I fol- lowed him—and I danced everywhere ||| we went—and the monkey was so nice and tame he sat on my shoulder—and when I took off my hat and passed it ([ around, you just ought to have heard the pennies jingle—heaps and heaps of } i them. “Ses, of course, I was hungry, and so was the monkey, and we pinched and pinched at the loaf until only the left. Then, when *night came, the organ grinder pulled at the | monkey, put him on his shoulder, and said good night. 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