Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1929, Page 27

MEMORIAL TOD.C. INFANTRY SOUGHT Plan to Be Put Before Re- union of Surviving Members on November 23. A movement to have a memorial erected in honor of the 1st District of Columbia Volunteer 1Infantry, which| figured prominently in the Spanish-| American War, will be introduced at a| Teunion and dinner of the surviving| members in the Metropolitan Hotel, 615 | Pennsylvania avenue, November 23, the thirty-third anniversary of the disband- ing of the regiment. The regiment was the first volunteer| organization to respond to the call of the late President McKinley and was the first on the firing line in Cuba. ‘The unit was highly commended in the official records of the War Department for its part in the war. Former Members Called. A special committee has been ap- ted by the First District of Colum- Volunteer Infantry Association to communicate with former members of the Infantry and advise them of the reunion. The committee is com llam 8. Hodges, Sergt. Thomas | Jacobs. { vigorous campaign, claiming automatic of Il.&1 Pred S. Hodgson, chairman; Capt. Wil Ryan, John Watts, Uhe Joseph Harvey, Ra from it, the beauty of the console . . . are surpassingly superior. this special sale Sergt. John A. Gallagher, Jéhn holm, Capt. Charles S. Domer, William A. O'Brien, Willlam Ohm, Willilam A. Hickey, Jeremiah A. Costello, Sergt. Arthur B. Claxton, Willlam J. Brown, J. A. Helms, Capt. John Lewis Smith| and Lieut. Kenneth A. O'Connor. Officers of Infantry. ‘The officers of the Infantry were: Col. H. Harries, commanding; Lieut. Col. C. H, Heyl, regimental ad- jutant; Pirst Lieut. Willlam Edward Horton, Maj. M. Emmet Urell with Pirst Lieut. James L. Mock, battalion adjutant; Maj. D. L. Hine with PFirst Lieut. C. Pred Cook, battalion adjutant; Rev. George Fiske Dudley, chaplain: Maj. R. A. Pyles, surgeon; First Lieut. Clarence A. Weaver and Lieut. 5. Clf- | ford Cox, assistant surgeons; Capts.| Harry Walsh, William T. H. King,| Charles S. Damer, William 8. Hodges, | Frank L. Graham, Otto G. Simmon- son, Fred S. Hodgson, F. H. Looker, Richard D, Simms, Glendie B. Young, | George W. England and Sydney L.| Long-Distance Lines Open. By Cable to The Star. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, November 15. —This city was connected by telephone with 50 cities and 13 states in the rest of the republic when long-distance lines of the Mexican Telephone Co. were opened to public service today. Cuba Fights “Lighters.” By Cable to The Star. HAVANA, November 15.—Match fac- tory workers in Cuba have initiated & cgarette lighters, claiming the pop- ularity of the device is seriously threat~ enng their means of livelihood. More than 2,000 women are employed in this industry in Cuba. THE _EVENING GUILD SPARKLES IN ‘TORCHBEARERS' Second Season Is Opened Auspiciously by D. C. Players’ Group. The growing pains of art among the devotzes of Thespis were most amiably represented in last night's performance by the Community ma Guild of Washington of “The Torchbearers,” George Kelly's satirical comedy, upon an amateur drama theme. It was the first production of the Eufld'l second season, ably staged, acted by some of Washing- ton’s best known amateur talent, and met withal by the whole-hearted favor of a good audience at McKinley Audi- fosum. The performance is to be re- pisted this evening. Mr. Kelly’s play upon the notion of theatrical idealism, vastly overbalanced H by enthusiasm, is full of waggish fun, amply brought forth by last night's players under Denis Connell’s direction. The second act especially, hinged upan the ancient device of a play within a play, is pungent with lively gaucherie, a mildly clinical study of exhibitionalism. Strength Is Imparted. It was a strong second act in the guild's presentation, a fully stressed fh.” of the story’s evolution. It is the STAR, WASHINGTON, the first and the third acts, likewise dowered with comedy, but less relevant to the theme of ridicule, were just what they were written to be—the “howdy” and “so long” of a lightly spun yarn. ‘The players? Well, so handsomely did they act their strivings that the specta- tors gave them unstinted applause and laughter throughout. Grace Peters Johnson's gorgeously unctious Mrs. Pampinelli, minion of the muse at large, set the tempo of the whole piece - inf to its rmuirzmmu, a blithely splashed portrait in Mrs. Johnson's ex- tremely capable hands. H. R. Bauk- hage's wry, discerning Mr. Ritter, put- ting the stain of disillusion upon his wife’s rapidly incubating dramatic am- bitions, was offered with splendid feel- ing for the contrast the role offered to surrounding bedlam. Audience’s Favor Won. Maud Howeil Smith's ebullient, gar- rulous Nelly Fell won the audience to its broad humor. Jane Plummer Rice had the part of Mrs. Ritter, smitten with the joy of glory before the foot- lights, lampooned by the praise of all her friends and saved from catastro- glh:db’ the skeptical wisdom of her hus- Others, too, of high importance to the play were Gerald Flood, playing Mr. Spindler, the property man with a genius for mistake; Milton Korman as uxley Hossefrosse, with typical eu- phony of sarcasm in the very name; Dr. Clifton Clark’s Ralph Twiller, Kath- leen Carson’s Florence McCrickett, Willard Miller’s Teddy /Spearing, Betty Ridsdale’s piquant and wholly winning Jenny: Wilma Wright's Mrs. Shep- pard and Melvin Hildreth's bumptious || stage manager—that is the array, and a very adept group of players, in truth, to || act this bubbling composition. _Mr. Connell's appreciation of the light ‘comedy values was evident with- ndex, the essence of the whole play; | out mistake. The settings by William F. 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