Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1930, Page 5

Vabh G V.M. ALUMNIPLAN TOPAYBYRD HONOR Capital May Be Represented Officially at Reception in New York. The National Capital may be offi- clally represented at the celebration in New York in connection with the return of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, the | intrepid polar explorer, whose arrival in | the United States is scheduled for the middle of next month, according to ten- tative plans made at the luncheon of the Washington Chapter of the Virginia Military Institute Alumni Association, 2;1% yesterday at the Army and Navy ub. Although their school curriculum s | up June 13, the cadets of V. M. I., of | which Admiral Byrd is an honor gradu- ats, recently voted unanimously to add sufficlent time to participate in the ceremonies in Gotham and act as a guard of honor. It, therefore, is being planned for| members of the local alumni assocation | to lend their support in the celebration now being arranged in New York, by making a trip there and take their places in the welcoming program. Further arrangements will be made by Washington members of the V. M. 1. Association at their t luncheon, ‘which will be held Ju at the Army and Navy Club at 12:30 o'clock Final arrangements for the celebra- tion of New Market day (May 15) were made yesterday. It was announced that L. W. H. Peyion, president of the Na- tional Alumni Association, and member ©f the board of visitors, will be the guest of honor and principal speaker at the informal smoker which will be held at the Army and Navy Club at 8 o'clock in the evening. E. H. Russell is president of the local chapter, Gen. N. D. Hawkins, vice pres- ident, and J. C. Noell, secretary- treasurer, Stuart B. Marshall is chairman of the smoker committee, which includes James Greene, Col. Harry N. Cootes, Col. C. C. Collins, W. Roberts, Col. Ed- ward Hickman and G. Adams Howard. GEORGETOWN CHURCH PASTOR INSTALLED Rev. Frank S. Niles, Former Mis- sionary to China, Inducted at Presbyterian Exercises. Rev. Prank S. Niles, recently re- turned from 14 years’ missionary work in China, was installed last night as pastor of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church, Thirty-first and P streets. The installation service was held at the church. The sermon was preached by Dr.| Charles Wood, pastor emeritus of the Church of the Covenant. Chester R. Smith, moderator of the Washington Presbytery, made a statement regard- ing church activities. Rev. Albert Evans, former pastor of the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, delivered the charge to the pastor and the charge to the people was delivered by Rev. James H. Miers, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. Rev. W. P. Eagleson, pastor of the Sherwood Presbyterian Church, delivered the in- stallation prayer, while benediction was pronounced by Dr. Niles. Musical selections were given by Sadie E. Gibson, soprano; Mary Belle Beckham, contralto, and Kamy@: Hill Rawls, organist. JEWISH GROUPS PLAN $5,000 FUND CAMPAIGN Movement by Five Societies in Pro- motion of Homeland Movement Boon to Be Inaugurated. A campaign for $5,000 to further the Jewish homeland movement will be launched by five Zionist societies with 8 mass meeting Sunday night at the Jewish Community Center. The organizations to unite in the two-week drive are the Poale Zion So- clety, the Junior Poale Zion, the Pioneer Women's Organization, the Jewish National Fund Council and the District Zionist Organization, All of the societies are interested primarily in establishing colonists on the soil of Palestine, providing them with tools and machiney and in form- ing co-operatives and labor organiza- tions. ‘The drive will be directed by Louis E. Spiegler, president of the District Zionist Organization, the parent soclety in the Jewish homeland movement. Drive teams will be organized by campaign leaders at a meeting tomor- row night at the Jewish Community Center, Leaders of the Zionist movemefi® will address the mass meeting Sunday night, including Dr. Chalm Greenberg of New York and Prof. Chaim Fineman of Philadelphia. _— MISS SHERMAN ON LEAVE President of Women Voters to Be Absent Eight Months. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 6 (#).—Mrs. Roscoe Anderson, St. Louis, and Miss Marguerite M. Wells, Minneapolis, vice presidents of the National League of Women Voters, will share the duties of Miss Belle Sherman, president, while she takes an eight-month leave of absence, the board of directors deciged here yesterday in & post-convention meeting. Mrs. Anderson will take up the duties of the presidency immediately. She will be relieved at the Washington lwlld’qull'url in September by Miss ells. bz LI Hechinger Always Saves You Money on Your Building Needs /GET OUR ESTIMATE! 3—Branches—3 THE EVENING From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. “Wooden Kimono” A Whoopee of Horror. HILE pistol shots last night were bursting in air, while lightning flashed, thunder growled and the elements were generally upset, nothing on the stage was quite as hysterical as the audience which was assembled at the National to see “Wooden Kimono.” Certainly, half of the eve- ning's fun came from the throats of the specta- tors, who let loose such a string of hyena- like calls as must have wak- ened the most sandy-eyed her- mits at the Wil- lard Hotel. The noise, in fact, was such as has seldom, been heard at any mystery farce, and gave every indication that this “rib-tick- ling” mystery play hit the high mark of popular approval, The National Players were really gravitating at top speed. Certainly the author of this blood-curdling concoction of hysteria and comedy— whoever he may be—the program kept that fact as much of a mystery as the rest of the play—would have been more than satisfied. Never were coffins more unpleasantly coffinlike, daggers more realistically ominous, hands more horribly sinister, shrieks more provocatively horrible, groans done with such agonized misery. If the audience was prepared to be bold and sat up manfully in the seats, saying that nothing could frighten them. certainly by the end of those first 10 minutes they were crying “liars” down their own throats. The sinister actions of this murder yarn take place in the Red Owl Tavern, a_deserted hostelry at the edge of a lake, which hasn't been so popular since three men vanished from room No. 1. On this particular night comes a collection of humanity to this funereal “hoose” and turns it into a neo-Grand Central Station. Two men who call themselves by the same name arrive, and two young women arrive and find within this wind-swept tavern a mysterious lady-owner and her insane husband, who has a predilection for making coffins for ghosts. After one of the visitors is shot, after weird hands have popped out from the innocent grandfather’s clock, after there have been screams, catcalls, hooded spirits and pins, needles, stethoscopes and pistols floating around. after a carrier pigeon has flapped its wings against the window gratings, after a cellar has unearthed several more mysteries, including the clever young detective, drugs and the foul fiend who was re- sponsible for it all, you may know what its all about. Or you may not. In any case it doesn’t matter. The solution, meager as meager can be, does not detract from the fact that you have been shivering on the edge of your seat all evening. It seemed as if Edith Gresham was the most luminous of the performers last night, her comedy role assuming the proportions of & young riot. Preddie Sherman, as the bewhiskered sheriff, and Romaine Callender in a longer and more ominous role reaped well-deserved honors. Adelaide Hib- bard. too, was quite her better self— which is always better. Marion Wells did what she could with a luke-warm role, and Forrest Orr was excellent throughout. All of which is indicative of a good show, a show that even the tepid weather should not keep you from seeing. E.de 8. M. Edith Gresham. William de Morgan, the English novelist, did not start writing till he when his first novel, “Joseph appeared. He was a manu- facturer of stained glass and colored tiles. “Abie’s Irish Rose” At Its Old Tricks at Poli's. TH! spirit of posy seems to be mysteriously entering into the passing of the historic old Albaugh's Grand Opera House, afterwards Chase’s, but now, and only for a short while at most, Poli's, where “Able's Irish Rose,” that immortal of the stage, reappears, as it were, to impart to the theater itself a touch of its own immortality, or at least to prolong its existencs. If, as it has been facetiously insinuated, “Abie’s Irish Rose” is indeed immor- tal, who will say that its reappear- ance at Poli's, after formal and positive announcement that Poli's would pass out with the last per- formance of Walter Hampden, may not supply enough life blood to keep it going even after its demise. “Abie’s Irish Rose,” in its day, has done almost anything it pleasea with audiences. It is said to have made its author, Anne Nichols. a million- aire lady, and after it had apparently cleaned up the earth as a stage at- traction, it swooped down from the movies and added still more to its financial fame. And now “Abie’s Irish Rose” is back with us again on the stage articulate and human, more familiar perhaps than it used to be, but nevertheless possessed of sufficient mystic power to resurrect Poli's at least for a week and certainly to charm those who have never set seen it and those who, having seen it, may wish to feel again the strange power of its attraction when first, seen. All the world knows its romance of the Jewish boy and the Irish girl, which ultimately leveled racial dif- ferences and opened the vista to the Brotherhood of Man. William Mec- Fadden, who was the Ab'e with The Chicago company, and Kathleen Robinson, who was the Rosemary Murphy in Boston, impersonate the Abie and the “Rose” in the Poli per- formance. They are well supported by a cosmopolitan company that in- cludes players of the original com- pany and others gathered from the four corners of the earth It is an adequate _collection—and, ~“Abie’s Irish Rose” being immortal, no com- pany could make it otherwise. ‘There is nothing for the amuse- ment seeker to do but go to see the play and Able, unless it be to “Give the Little Girl nd,” as Texas Guinan might say—and that every- body does. W. H. L. INbIANA PRIMARY VOTE BEING RECORDED TODAY Both Political Parties at Polls to Nominate for Congress and State Offices. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 6.—Indi- ana’s primary election was held today to nominate Republican and Dem: cratic candidates for Congress, the State Legislature and for county offices. Delegates to the State conventions to be held next month also were to be elected. Each of the State's 13 congressmen seeks renomination. LINER LEA\;ES CALLAO CALLAO, Peru, May 6 (#).—The new Grace Liner Santa Clara left here dur- ing the night for Valparaiso, Chile, in completion of its maiden voyage begun at New York 10 days ago. The steamer broke all commercial ship records from New York to Callao by 2 days, 23 hours, 3 minutes. 5 Among the passengers aboard the Santa Clara is Jack Flynn, one of the pioneer engineers in the construction of the Panama Canal. He saw the canal filled with water for the first time when he passed through a few days ago. He is going to Antofagasta on personal engineering business. STAR, POLE S CHISEN CHEST PRESDENT Report Prepared by Chair- man of Budget Committee Is Presented. John Poole, president of the Federal- American National Bank, was elected president of the Community Chest yes- terday afternoon at a meeting of the board of trustees in the Young Women's Christian Association Building. A report, prepared by Corcoran Thom, chairman of the budget committee, stating that it will be necessary to use the entire surplus of $89,000 from 1929 and to raise still another $25,000 from givers of last year who failed to sub- scribe this year, was presented. The_report, which was read by El- wood Street, director of the Chest, de- clared that it would take “close figur- ing” if the organizations affiliated with the Chest are to be provided with funds sufficient for their minimum needs dur- ing 1930. The revised budgets of the member agencies were included in the report. Mr. Thom explained that the unem- ployment situation has exerted a tre- mendous influence in the affairs of the Chest, not only redueing by a large amount the probable gifts as based on past _experience, but presenting a much increased demand for relief, which has taxed the organizations in the Chest far beyond their normal capacity. He expressed the hope that the people of Washington who failed to renew their subscriptions this year would yet con- tribute and that “the present deficit wo;lld be made up before the year is out. Poole Succeeds Delano. Mr. Poole succeeds Frederic A. De- lano, first president of the Chest, who completed his second term as head of the organization yesterday and was named as honorary president by the trustees. All the elections were unanimous, fol- lowing the suggestions of the nominat- ing committee, headed by Frank R. Jel- leff. New vice presidents are Mrs. Frederick Brooke, E. C. Graham, Simon Lyon, Arthur May, Dr. Kelly Miller and George Hewitt Myers. Arthur Hellen was named secretary and Robert V. Fleming, treasurer. Eugene Meyer, George A. B. Wood, Maj. Jullus 1. Pey- ser, Lloyd B. Wilson and Roy A. Young were elected to fill vacancies on the board of trustees. In presenting the new president, Mr. Delano said: “I am retiring from the presidency at my own insistence because I believe that the principle of rotation in office should be observed in the Community Chest as in other fields of administration. I served the last year, my second term as president, under protest and because I believed we were getting the new Com- munity Chest under way. “In the two years that I have served, the Community Chest has advanced from being merely an idea in which op- timists believed to an actuality which in its first campaign, over a year ago, exceeded all of the expectations of the rosiest optimist: while the second cam- paign of this last Winter, in the face of severe unemployment, exceeded its pre- vious number of givers by 5 per cent and the previous amount subscribed by 10 per cent. ‘This result has been pos- sible only because of the devoted service of thousands of volunteer workers, in- cluding the officers, the executive com- mittee and the board of trustees with whom I have so much enjoyed working. Feels Stable Basis Gained. “I feel now that the Community Chest is on a stable basis and look for- ward to an assured future of usefulness, not merely as an economical and ef- fective means of distributing the gifts of generous and thoughtful Washing- tonlans in the places of greatest need in our community, but also as a great uniter of the citizens of all races and creeds in common cause so that we may make a city worthy in human terms of the beauty which we are now Bond Ten Payment Budget Service costs nothing extra 25 - 35 - *45 MAIN OFFICE-6% & C.Sts. S.wW. CAMP MEIGS-S1 & Fla. Ave.N.E. GHTWOOD-592! These are our established cash prices. They are also our Ten Payment prices. We have not added one cent to our cash prices of 16 years standing. Thés is a thrifty service! We exact no interest or carrying charges of any kind. This is a friendly service! We do away with expensive old-fash. ioned charge and credit accounts. This s @ modern service! When you buy your new Suit and Top- coat, pay $10 at purchase, the balance in ten equal weekly payments. It's smart to “pay as you get paid”’— at Bond’s. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUEBDAY, Heads Chest JOHN POOLE. building in physical terms.” He con- cluded with a tribute to Mg. Poole. In accepting the presidency, Poole said: “In your election of me to the presi- dency of the Community Chest I feel quite sincerely that you have confer- red upon me the highest honor which lies* within the power of the citizens of Washington to grant and that before me lies the greatest opportunity for use- fulness by which Washingtonians in their organized activity may elect a citizen. “It will be my purpose to so conduct the Community Chest as its president and with the help of the executive committee, the board of trustees and the thousands of board members, social workers and_volunteers who serve the Community Chest and member organ- izations, that we may to the highest possible degree live up to the ideals of a community united for a thorough- going, economical and adequate atten- tion to the cause of human welfare in the Natfon's Capital.” ‘The executive committee was named as follows: John Poole, president; Frederic A. Delano, E. C. Graham, Simon Lyon, Dwight Clark, Robert V. Fleming, Dr. Kelly Miller, Arthur Hellen, Newbold Noyes, Corcoran Thom, Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, Mrs. Frederick Brooke, Rev. Dr. John O'Grady, George Hewitt Myers, Clarence A. Aspinwall, Arthur J. May, W. S. Ufford, Maurice Bisgyer, Mrs. Louisa S. Roberts, Willlam F. Ham and Lloyd B. Wilson. Revised Budgets Presented. The revised budgets as presented at yesterday's meeting follow: American Legion, $18,012; Associated Charities, $119,392.92; Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, $4,125; Boy Scouts, $36,259.82; Boys' Club, $19,125.42; Bureau of Rehabilitation, $9,875.43; Catholic Charities, $62,993.68; Child Welfare Soclety, $3419.46; Chil- dren’s Country Home, $13,622; Chil- dren’s Hospital, $68,951.96; Christ Child Soclety, $35,118.77; Citizens’ Relief So- clety, $86,985; Columbia Hospital, $45.- 914.07; Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, $4,234.60; Community Chest, $04,856.41; Congress of Parents and Teacher, $754.85; Council of Social Agencies, $20,445.80; Disabled American Veterans, $8,602.90; Emergency Hospi- tal, $59,940.52; Episcopal Home for Children, $14,382.75; Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, $38,454.23; Flor- ence Crittenton Home, $17,863.85; Priendship House, $13,596.74; Garfleld Hospital, $26,581.80: Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital, $25,755.14; George Washington University Hospital, $24,- 635.05; Girl Scouts, $12,960.45; Hebrew Free Loan, $3,545.63; Hebrew Home for Mr MAY 6, 1930. ' A-S, 0. WONA WINS CUSTODY OF CHLD Cleveland Court Decision| Precipitates Outburst of Cheering and Derision. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 6.—A judge’s decision awarding 4-year-old Dolores | | June Curran to her mother, Mrs. Lucille | | Statler of Washington, precipitated an | | outburst of cheering and derision, weep- | ing and even physical encounters yes- terday. Judge Samuel E. Kramer announced his decision after four days of bickering, | in which Mrs. Nettie Haury, the child" maternal grandmother, sought to retain custody. It was greeted by shrieks of | joy and despair, while many partisans wept and several exchanged blows. | Just as Dolores was getting ready to | d-mart for Washington with her mother, word came to the judge’s ante-room, | where they had taken refuge from the hubbub, that Mrs. Hafiry had filed no- tice of appeal. So Dolores’ dream of a train ride to her new home in the coun- try's Capital was burst, at least tem- pororily. | The girl has been in custody of the | grandmother for some time. Judge | Kramer agreed that “Mrs. Haury has been wonderfully kind and has done everything for her,” but ruled “that docsn't alter the mother's right to have custody of her child. ““Unless you can prove that she is un- fit to care for her child, that she is not | a proper person for'the child to live | with, then she is_entitled to custody | and there is no alternative in this or any other court.” 405 Residents in Riverdale Heights RIVERDALE HEIGHTS, Md., May 6 (Speeial) —Riverdale Heights, for which no_census report was made in 1920, has 405 residents, according to the census enumerations, made public at the of- fice at Annapolis of Joseph Allen Wil- mer, supervisor of the census in South- ern Maryland. the Aged, $26,974.01; Holiday House, $2,626.65; Holy Family Day Nursery, $8.331; Instructive Visiting Nurse So- Jewish Community Jewish Foster Home, .036. sh Welfare Federation, $5,821.60; Juanita K. Nye Council House, $6,793.42; Juvenile Protective Association, $11,865; Mother Child Cen- ter, $2.905; National Capital Civic Fund, $5,700: National Homeopathic Hospi- tal, $16,609.79; Neighborhood House, $18,868.50; Noel Community House, $6,660; Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A, $8,652.29; Providence Hospital and Providence Hospital Outpatient Depart- ment, $25.425.50; Social Hygiene So- ciety, $9,032; Social Service Exchange, $7,413; St. Anna's Home, $1,939.47; St. ; Salvation Army, $80,856.8 Southern Relief Society, $3,829.70; Star- mont Aid Soclety, $1,106.07; Stoddard Baptist Old Folks Home, $6,818.0 Summer Outings Committee, $23,27 Travelers’ Aid _ Society, $19,057.5 Twelfth Street Branch, Y. M. C. A., $10,008.83; United Hebrew Rglief So- clety, $37,309.55; Washington{ Animal Rescue League, $9,819.60; Washington Co-operative Society, $2,500; Washing- ton Institute for Mental Hygiene, $11,000; Washington Home for Foun: lings, $9,684; Washington Welfare As- sociation, $3,803.95; Young Men's Chri: tian Association, $43,158.75; Young Women's Christian Association, $69,244; total, $1,641,942.21. MUSIC GUILD OF ORGANISTS' PROGRAM. An enjoyable and inspiring service, In which the Chesapeake, Virginia and District of Columbia Chapters of the American Guild of Organists partici- pated, was given at the Universalist National Memorial Church’ last night. Preceding the service, a_demonstra- | toin of the new four-manual organ was given by Dr. Albert W. Harned, organ- ist and choir director of the church with the assistance of the builder of this organ. Between the demonstration and the | served. Following an address Lewis Atwater, dean of the local chap- ter, talks were presented by Dr, Harned, Dr. Perkins, minister of the church; and A. Gottfried of Erie, Pa. In the service three groups of organ numbers were heard. The first was of- fered by John Elterman, dean-of the Chesapeake Chapter, A. G. O.. his numbers being the “Grand Choeur Dialogue,” by Gigout, which he played unhurriedly and with dignity, and the “Reverie,” by De Pauw, in which some very lovely flute and string voices were brought out. The second group was given by Mr. Atwater. He chose compositions of the modern” school, playing “Corte Vierne; “Three Short Pieces, y Schoenberg, which were admirably brief. In the “Prayer,” by Ernest Bloch, Mr. Atwater seemed to be fully in ac- cord with the spirit of sincerity which permeates this work. The third group was played by Louis E. Weitzell, subdean of the Virginia Chapter, A.'G. O. He gave the “Allegro Moderato” from the “Fourth Concerto” of Handel; the typically Spanish “Pan- tomime,” of De Falla, and the “Ballet,” of Debussy. Mr. Weitzell was at his best. in the Debussy. He played it with evident enjoyment. The choir of the church sang_two numbers with excellent effect. They were: “O God, Say Once Again ‘Let There Be Light,” by Spross, in which work appear some passages Sung & capella, and the “150th Psalm.” by Cesar Franck. Dr. Harned was at the organ for these numbers. He also played the three hymns sung at this service. EFFENBACH-CAROW RECITAL. Leah Effenbach and Glenn Carow, the two youngest of the ten advanced student members, featured in the eighth annual festival of the Washington Pianists’ Club, offered the second joint recital of the series last night at Co- lumbia Heights Christian Church before a capacity audience. Mrs. Martin A. Morrison, organizer and head of the club, again presided and after briefly sketching the origin of the organization, introduced Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt, the guest speak- er, who told of her appreciation of clas- sical music and mentioned the benefit of such a festival as this to all who could hear it. Miss Effenbach, presented in her sec- ond recital by Arthur D. Mayo, Wash- ington teacher, attempted an ambitious program. She began with Bach's “Pre. lude in G Minor” and then introduc the difficult and rarely played “Fugi), in E Minor,” by Handal, which she masterfully sustained. Beethoven's in- frequently heard “Sonata, Opus 78" of GRACEFUL SOFA MODESTLY PRICED TVIE, comfort, splendid workmanship, fair price — four qualities you should expect in buying upholstered furni- ture — combine to make this Sofa a desirable piece in the living room. { welcome by | which the first movement was intelll~ gently interpreted by the young pianist, effectively her first’ group. ¥ Versatility marked the second trio, which was opened with the fragile beauty of the Gluck-Sgambati “Melody,®. followed by the delicate-nuanced “Wals§ desrauschen” of Liszt, and closed Wit Chopin’s “Bolero,” The player's per= formance was so consistently admirable that it is difficult to select a peak, un less in Mendelssohn's “Capriccio Bril- liante, Ops 22,” in which the orchestral part was played by Mr. Mayo. Young Carow, still in knee breeches, captivated not alone with his facile technique. but with the seriousness he seemed to feel so thoroughly toward his task. He, too, was excellent in his renditions ‘of Bach and Beethoven. His execution of Reinecke's cadenza in Beethoven's “Concerto, C Major, No 1" was well done, and of the second and third movements in which the orches- tral part was maturely interpreted by | his teacher, B. Frank Gebest, was hard- Iy less so Carow's artistic and high). finished offering seemed Chopin’s *“Noc- turne No. 1." This was Glenn Carow’s second recital, also. The next two members. to be featured tomorrow evening, are Helene Finna- com, presented by La Salle Spire, and Edward Dawson, & student of the Pea- body Conservatory, Baltimore, studying under Charles Cooper. K. P. MEXICAN BANK ROBBERY PLOT LAID TO AMERICAN Attempt to Reach $725,000 Vaults Is Frustrated by Em- ploye—86 Suspects Held. By the Associated Pre MEXICO CITY, May 6.—Mexico City police yesterday investigated reports that an attempted robbery on the downtown branch of the National Bank of Mexico last Saturday night was planned by an American. Six Mexicans were arrested in gimmee. tion with the attempt. The police refused to disclose the name of the sus- pected American. They said the attempted robbery bore signs of having been planned by an expert safe- cracker, a number of whom are said to have come from the United States re- cently. About 1,500,000 pesos (about $725,000) was in the bank's vaults at the time. ‘The cool-headedness of an employe was credited with frustation of the plot. HOICE PIANOS FOR_ EN FREE TUNING UNDER RENTAL CONTRACT WORCHS 1110 G EST1879 in We suggestdamask, tapestry or needlepoint asthe bestfabrics for the cover and have chosen a wide range of these for your selection. The reversible cushions are of down and the arms and back of first grade hair. It is now marked $265 W.&]. SLOANE 709 TWELFTH STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C.