Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1931, Page 26

0LD THEATERWALL| * SOON WL CRSH Workmen Chiseling Founda- tions of Last Vestige of the Bijou. The sturdy back-stage wall of Wash- ! !ngton’s oldest theater, the Bilou, for-| merly fashionable Ford's Opera House, | will rome down With a roar w,thin the | next: 24 hours. | Workmen today were chiseling at the foundation of the curlous!: shagied structure, and it is to be pulled over,soon by a steel cable attached to the top. Rearing its height into the air far| above the crumbling buildings all around | it, this wall stands out as one of the| picturesque landmarks in the large area which is being cleared between Ninth and Tenth streets, Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues as a site for the new Department of Justice. It will be the second old tneater to| give: way befors the Government's public building pregram, Poll’s having| given way to a ievel parkway, socn to | be sbwn to grass. w Nothing now remains but one" wall of the ‘old Bijou Theater, which passed throdgh a kaleidoscopic career from its ' hey-8ay, when it was the ater of the National Capital, lesque house and bus station. Test of the building, which was erected | in 1850 as & carriage factory, has been | torn: down, leaving only the big back- stage wall. ‘The old theater was said to have been known by more different names than | any - other theatrical enterfrise in | Washington. At varlous times it was| called the Gymnasium, Washington Vaieties, Oxford Hall, the Canterbury, | ‘Wallis Opera. House, Ford's Opera House, | Empire, Majestic and Bijou. The next theater to fall before the Government's building program will be the President, at Eleventh street and Penmsylvania avenue. Mount Airy Home Destroyed. MOUNT AIRY, Md. Jun: 24 (Spe- cial) —Fire of undetermined origin de- stroyed the two-story, eight-room frame dwelling, owned by Richard Van Sant, on the National Highway, near Plane No. 4. The house had been unoccupied for some time. Damage was estimated at $5,000. | | zovernment for distinguished services THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JU [HOME INMATE SLEW IN DEFENSE, HE SAYS Stabbed Drinking Companion After Being Wounded, Ex-Soldier Declares. Heads Corps COL.: CARR IS PROMOTED TO MAJOR GENERAL. Bixty-year-old Oscar Johnson, eol- i| {ored, inmate of Soldiers’ Home, who | yesterday afterrioon stabbed and killed {Isaac Simmons, colored, 27, also an in- {'mate of tha home, was arrested late yes- terday while in the hospital at the in- | stitution getting treatmeni for cuts on {his band, yeceived in the fatal en- H r at 2437 M strent. nson unhesitatingly ‘confessed the and set up a plea of self defense. he had accompanied Simmons | Walter Williams, another inmate i rt Boldiers’ Home, to they pul three of pints. He said he and ‘Simmons became in- latter draw- itting his hand. He succeeded in taking the knife from his companion, he stated, and thinks he inflicted only one wound with it before it was taken from him. Leaving the scene of,the fatal encounter, he said, R — Col. Irving J. Carr, Signal Corps, now | serving as assistant director of the Army. Tndustrial College, today w2s ap- pointed by the President to be chief signal officer of the Army with the rank of major general. He succeeds Brig. | Gen. George S. Glbbs, who has served | 2s chief signal officer for three and one-half years, and will be retired June 30 at his own request. He has served more than 33 years, mostly in the Signal Corps. Gen. Gibbs has accepted | an offer to serve as vice presidefit of | the International Telephone & Tele- | aph Corporation, -with in New | ork City. Gen. Carr, the new head of the Signal Corps, is & native of Chippewa Falls, Wis, and n his military service as a second lieutenant of In- fantry in August, 1898. He served in the Philippine insurrection of the late nineties, in the Mexican border troubles, . = in the occupation of Cuba and in | A ‘quarter of a cen- France in the World War. He was tuiy”s experience awarded a silver star citation for per- | qualifies us-to do roof: sonal gallantry at Magalong, P. I, in | H % sHould. be 1899, and was decorated by the French S, Rl et Bih YYouw'll find our charges Jair and satisfactory. aurice J. Colbert Co. 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