Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1936, Page 2

PULEOBANDTOAID INTOY CAMPAIGN Harmonica Champion to Or- . ganize Boys for Broad- cast Next Week. Johnny Pules, world’s champion Barmonica player, returned yesterday trom a tour of Europe and immediately announced his intention of organiz- ing the largest boys’ harmonica band in the world to be placed at the dis- posal of The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B, C. Christmas toy campaign. 80, all boy harmonica players in ‘Washington are invited to get in touch with Johnny Puleo at his home, 1525 North Capitol street—telephone North | 0062-J—and be taught by the greatest harmonica player that ever graced the stage. Johnny is going to devote three days of his time to the perfection of a Band that will be featured in the floor show at the Raleigh in the pell mell room next Wednesday night, and on & broadcast over Station WRC at 10:30 the same night. * As his guest in Washington, Johnny Puleo has the song-writer, Leo Dia- mond, who is a member also of the celebrated Borrah Minevitch's “Ras- €als,” of which Johnny is the featured romedian. Leo Diamond will direct the band that Johnny Puleo hopes to as- semble. Also featured on the program ‘will be Josephine Puleo, Johnny's comely sister, who made her radio debut last year on WRC when The Star tey campaign first joined forces with the National Broadcasting Co. Miss Puleo, & blues singer, will do & special number now being arranged for her by Leo Diamond, who will accom- pany her on the piano. Played Before Edward VIIL In London this season Johnny Puleo and his pal, Leo Diamond, played & two - and - a - half - hour concert at| Queen’s Hall with the Rascals. It was the longest harmonica band concert | ever given in England. - The troupe‘ played at the Palladium, that old vau- deville house on Piccadilly Circus, but | best of all they were featured at the Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesiing Events and Things. SLIPPERY. ARRY WELLS, deputy United States marshal at Police Court, admits he never has been able to understand the ways and whims of women. He got newer and more convincing proof of their many accomplishments this week when he handcuffed two women members of the jury together for good, clean fun. The two handcuffed ladies—the most attractive on the panel—were led into the court room and up to the bench for a farcial trial. Before the clerk had read the charge —failing to fight to save & man from prison—one of them had slipped her hand through the “cuffs” and walked, | free, from the room. =x k% SAFE. If you were even slightly con- cerned at the jate of those rare books of the Library of Congress mentioned here recently as of seeming importance to & young lady visitor than the fate of her umbrella, just get it out of your mind, No crown jewels were ever more carefully guarded and preserved. TRe books, as the other item inti- mated, may have seemed of small consequence to the giwrl—who was, after all that kind of girl—dut all the umbrellas in the world could not induce the Library's staf to relax its vigilance over the least valuable volume. * % x x PAST AND PRESENT. A MRS. BABINE, late of Boston but more recently of Washington, got the fright of her life while looking | over the greatest mummy collection | in town recently. THE EVENING STAR, Police Christmas party and the Standing there, solemn and alone | | among the remains of ancient life, she | Cafe de Paris when the present King | ro)t oyt off from everything that be- | f England, Edward VIII, was Prince | D Weles. At that time these boys had | /026 10 this dar. $he honor of playing before the pres- ent King and his American-born | Jriend, Wallis Warfield Simpson. Puleo went on, “only those in high so- s S bout it. So the man on the street was | ‘¥L—¥' every night had an inkling that ro-| “Lady,” it said, “would you give me She METHOD. | =P + Johnny claims she is one of the| w®i .w* Imost beautiful women 1n the world. | “% we®% < “While we were in England,” Johnny | >~ Ziety circles, and some of the night Flub habitues, knew about the royal ‘womance. The papers printed nothing total ignorance. Naturally, those | She was not, however. Of a sudden, ho frequented the Cafe de Paris| from somewhere behind her, there “Where the then Prince of Wales visited | came a deep and appealing voice: Jnance was in the air. No one, how- s dime? wver, was prepared for the present Mrs. Babine did not answer. Zrisis.” couldn't—frightened. 4 Visits Parents Here. AYBE this really belongs on the woman's page. Charles and Mable Johnston, 8 and 3 While in Washington, Johnny Puleo’ 4s visiting with his parents, Mr. and pictures. almost ready to believe in him, to St. Nicholas this year. saying. children on his beat how Washington wi “Only one ball between the four of us,” these infants at St. Ann’s Hospital Nursery seem to be WASHINGTON The Star-Warner Bros-N. B. C. Christmas toy campaign, run in co-operation with the sirteenth annual Metropolitan Parent-Teacher Association, is designed for skeptical-looking children like the ones in these Santa Claus is doing his best with a young miss who looks while a fialice officer is telling lend a helping hand 1.5 WORKERSION I YOLECANPAEGN Individuals, Groups 'Assist Campaign to Assure All of Remembrance. Federal employes, individually and ' Mrs. Charles C. Puleo, at their North | apitol street home. It is the plan o(; uleo to assemble his first batch of Poys Monday night at a place later to | ‘e announced—and then teach them | “ne of his favorite numbers, “The Bolero.” He will rehearse them again on Tuesday and Wednesday. | Johnny hopes to choose about 50| boys from those who wish to have first- | hand instruction—and to play with | them as part of the band. Also as soloist. They will broadcast Wednes- day night. | “Now is the time to get on the band | wagon,” Johnny said last night, “and | 1 hope all the boys in Washington who want to put the finishing touches to | the art of harmonica playing will give | me & ring—at North 0062-J.” ‘When last here, a year ago, Johnny 10 years old, didn’t like asparagus until | in groups, were joining forces today recently One day their mother, out | With The Evening Star, the Warner Connecticut avenue way, found s | Bros. theaters, the National Broad- simple but tempting salad recipe. She | casting Co., the Metropolitan Police decided to let the children prepare it, | Department and the Parent-Teachers “just for mother and daddy, if you ' Association to make sure that no one wish.” in Washington will be forgotten this After they made two pretty salads | Christmas. there was some asparagus left. So| In response to numerous requests they decided to make two for them- | which have come to The Evening Star selves—just to look at. from large numbers of Government Wisely nonchalant, mother said workers who wish to lend their aid ! nothing. Curiosity had its way and in the campaign to provide Christmas the children ate their salads to sam- | cheer for every one in the District ple their own cooking. Since then they = not otherwise cared for, arrangements have liked asparagus. | have been made for these employes to | congribute. PERFECT. ONI nearby Virginia teacher had s method all her own. David Porter, an educational officer Each Federal Bureau will collect | toys, food and clothing to be kept on | hand until called for by the agencies organized the North Capitol Street now in Washington, tells of the times working with The Evening Star for Harmonica Band, of nine pieces. He ' will use this as the nucleus of his she asked & question every pupil held ington. organization. i Today Johnny will call on Superin- | tendent of Police Brown in the hope : of enlisting the Police Boys’ Band as part of the mammoth ornnl-;lon} planned for participation in the toy | campaign. Elkton Pc;licemen Start Picket Line At Marriage Mart Latest Move in Battle o/‘ Council and Former “Marrying Parson.” WY the Assoclated Press. I ELKTON, Md. December 5.—The | eonflict between Elkion Town Council and Edward Minor, former “marrying parson” here, was stirred to new ac- tivity today with stationing of police- men in front of the two “marriage marts” Minor still maintains. Minor himself was deprived of his Ministerial power some time ago, and hired another clergyman to perform the actual ceremonies. When the Town Council pessed an ordinance forbidding ministers to advertise “marriage licenses information,” Minor won a test case in Circuit Court, which held the ordinance un- constitutional. Since then, a number of ministers in the town have used small sigus on their homes, advertising the fact they could perform marriage ceremonies. Late yesterday, Minor put up two large signs, each about 5 feet long and 4 feet wide, in front of his two offices. The signs are about 3 feet from the sidewalk and, residents said, “real showy.” Early today, & town policeman was ordered stationed in front of each building, with orders to wave away any couples who indicated they plan- ned to stop there. ‘The former clergyman took no im- mediate action, but friends said he planned to “go to eourt about it." 'Night Final Deliveredy Carrier he used to visit her classes. When up his hand and, when one was called upon, he always answered correctly. Porter was impressed the first few times and congratulated the teacher. delivery to needy families in Wash- One person will be appointed as co- ordinator for the Government agencies | in this campaign. General informa- tion will be cleared through his office, | |and arrangements will be made | through him to contaet every Federal bureau in the interest of the cam- ! | palgn. Working with the chief co-ordinator, ! > | however, will be one person or ‘When the same thing happened on repeated visits, however, he grew curious. What he discovered was that she had & class room rule which required those who did not know to raise their left hands, while those who did raised their right. She called only on the latter group. OUSTED. Our man wasn’t there for the grand finale, but the play itself was amusing. The proprietor of a downtown antique store was greatly irate one recent wmorning ' when he emerged from his shop to find a very trampishslooking individual, very much the worse for wear al- coholically, lolling asleep in an armchair. That chair, the pro- prietor ezplained, was for sale and not -on the sidewalk for the com- fort of passersby. ' The dum, he said, had better move along before police were summoned. The sleeper said he would, He did, too. When we passed again & few moments later the proprietor had re-entered his shop and the itinerant had moved along —about 10 feet. He was sleeping p‘uu]uuy, full length, on a neardby divan, Would Stop “Horrific” Films. LONDON (#).—The London County Council is considering legislation to prevent fiims classed by the Board of Censors as “horrific” from being shown to children under 16. ‘Two pictures recently classed as “horrific” were “Draculs’s Daughter” and “The Walking Dead. Anywhere in the City Full Sports Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. Whatever it is, you'll ind t in The Night Final Sports Edition. NIGHT FINAL S8PORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered carrier—70c a month, Call National 6000 and service start at once, group of persons in each Pederal bureau. These will be designated by Ithe individual bureaus and public an- | nouncement will be made of their ap- pointment. { One by one as Federal employes en- list in the campaign, the names of their groups will be placed in a roll of honor | Anticipating a spirit of rivalry among | the various departments, The Star has | also urranged an award to be given | to the bureau collecting the largest number of gifts. .. Professors Puzzled. Women make higher grades than do men during the Winter term of school at Kansas State Teachers’ College of Emporia, but in the Symmer session | scholastic honors go to the men. cials can't figure why. = DOLL HOUSE OPENS WITH CEREMONY 14th and F Corner Is Trans- formed Into Holiday Spot. ‘The southwest corner of Fourteenth and F streets was transformed today from just one of many busy down- town corners into the exact spot where small girls’ dreams come true. ‘There, at 9 a.m. Gordon Hitten- mark, “Your Timekeeper” of Station WRC., opened his Doll House with a broadcast and accompanying cere- monies. Immediately the threshold was heaped with dolls for Washing- ton’s needyv children as the first con- tributors stepped up with tangible evi- | dence of their remembrance of the forgotten child. Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superin- tendent of police, was presented by Hittenmark with the kev to the Doll House, opening it for the reception of gifts at any time from now until Christmas. The Police Boys’ Club Band plaved lively airs, and the major's wife presented the first doll. As & workman applied a fresh coat of orange paint to the Doll House chimney Hittenmark, on the sidewalk below, gave a rapid-fire, play-by-play broadcast of the ceremonies, and intro- duced this person and that connected with the undertaking. “Let's all get together and make this a good Christmas for every one.” Maj. Brown said in his appeal for gifts for needy youngsters. Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, fifth pre- cinct, chairman of the sixteenth an- nual Metropolitan Police Christmas party, spoke of how the police are working to thwart gloom in any household on Christmas day. The dolls collected at tho Doll House will be distributed by police. Mrs, Brown's gift was a 2-foot-tall doll and a toy. As she spoke over the radio a small colored man, his knees sagging, shuffied up with an enormous cardboard box of dolls. Hittenmark beckoned him to the microphone. “Oh—oh,” the overburdened col- ored man said. Hittenmark asked who was the donor. The other mumbled inds- tinctly. “Loans and currency,” prompted a woman in the crowd of bystanders. She handed Hittenmark a letter from suggestion is made: Designate one person, or Federal Star's award. JOIN THIS WORTHY ureau to collect .toys, kept on hand until called for by the agencies working with The Star for delivery to needy families in Washington. An Honor' Roll Call will be kept and the bureau col- lecting the largest number of such gifts will receive The Federal Bureau Christmas 'HONOR ROLL ;. Numerous requests have come to The Eve from groups of Federal émployes who wish to len aid to The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Toy Matinees being held -in co-operation with the Sixteenth Annual Metro- politan Police Party and the Parent-Teachers’ Association, and to these generous Government workers the following Star their a rsons, in each clothing, to be “food an CAUSE. HELP THE POOR AND THE NEEDY IN YOUR ADOPTED CITY.” MAKE "THIS A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL WASHINGTON. Direct AUl Inquiries to NATIONAL, 5000, BRANCHES 260, 418 AND 385, Christmas Campaign Headquarters, THE EVENING STAR. D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936. <« | the loans and currency division of J. Payette, Warner Bros. general zone the Treasury Department. It told manager. Mickey Mouse, Pop Eye how. the employes of this division.|and other cartoon favorites are in- touched by the Christmas appeal, had ' cluded in the short subjects, while united to purchase the dolls. Laurel and Hardy, Richard Dix. Fred- As the scarlet-coated young mu- die Bartholomew and Joe E. Brown sicians of the Boys' Club Band blared 'are among the stars featured. another tune, a fleet of taxi cabs from the Union Taxi Cab Association rolled up with their cargo of contributors | who had taken advantage of the com- pany’s offer of a free ride to the doll house. Some passengers left the cabs and brought their gifts to the brightly- painted little house. Others handed dolls through the windows to persons on the sidewalk who brought them to Hittenmark. Louis Brueninger, who gave the doll house: George Ford, who equipped it. .and Harry Sommerville, manager of the Willard Hotel, which donated the space. were among those who spoke on Hittenmark’s broadcast. Mrs. The screen attractions booked will be presented through the courtesy of film companies and their local ex- changes. A new toy or some new arti- | cle of clothing will be the only admis- sion prices, and those who come are re- quested not to bring food to the thea- ters. Food is being gathered at police | precinct station houses and the Na- | tional Guard Armory. | List of Toy Matinees. | The toy matinees will be held at the following theaters: | Earle—Jane Withers in the Twen- tieth Century-Fox production, “Paddy O'Day.” Metropolitan—Joe E. Brown in Walter B Fry, president of the Dis- warner Bros. “Earthworm Tractors.” trict Congress of the Parent-Teach- | Tjvoli—Freddie Bartholomew in ers Association, engaged in locating | United Artists' “Little Lord Fauntle- needy cases throughout the city, also! roy.” spoke. Ambassador—Harold Lloyd in the Hittenmark will broadcast from the | Paramount picture, “The Milky Way.” doll house each morning. His drive| Uptown—Laurel and Hardy is allied with The Star-Warner Bros.- | M-G-M's “Bonnie Scotland.” N. B. C. Christmas toy campaign. Penn—Laurel and Hardy in M-G- M's “Bohemian Girl.” Apollo—Eleanor Whitney in the Paramount picture, “Timothy's Quest.” Home—Joe E. Brown in Warner ! Bros.” “Sons o' Guns.” York—Buster Crabbe in the moumt production, “Desert Gold.” Colony—Jane Withers in the Twen- in VETERAN’S WIDOW DIES Mrs, Margaret Josepnine Manning, 79, widow of William Joseph Man- ning, Union Army veteran, died Thurs- day night at her home, 1826 Calvert street. She had been seriously ill several weeks. Mrs. Manning hla lived here for the last 24 years. She is survived by two sons, James 8. Manning of New |Orleans, and Emmett B. Manning, | this city, and two daughters, Miss Mary Ellen Manning and Mrs. Mar- garet Manning Perkins, both of this |city. She leaves also five grand- | children. Funeral services and burial will be {in Richmond Monday. oys (Continued Prom Frst Page) is sick in the hospita? and has not been able to work for two years. Iam A- B—— in the sixth grade and am twelve years old my brothers are R—— six years old who would | like & wagon and C four wants !a trycycle U- fourteen and I | would be happy to. get some clothes | and mother says she wants something | to eat. Please don't forget the little | | ones.” | "Both Miss Patricia Morss, chiet of the division of child welfare, and Miss M. Alice Hill, chief of the public assistance division for the District, related stories about poor families to- day. Miss Morss has under her juris- diction orphans in foster homes and others whose parents have disappeared or are financially unable to care for them. Miss Hill's division is turning away between 1,000 and 1,500 persons monthly who apply for relief, District appropriations no longer being avail- able to those well enough to be em- ployed, whether or not they have jobs. Both executives call attention to the numerous large families maintaining existence on W. P. A. work at & '$45 monthly wage. Miss Morss says not only toys but other gifts are needed for children past the toy age, girls and boys from 12 years on, who, al- though they may no longer believe in Santa Claus for numerous reasons, like to recelve remembrances at Christmas time — handkerchiefs, pocketbooks, Audrey Sieber, present that popu Sieber and friend are s over the forthcoming Bring a gtft for some ne other Warner Bros.’ thea weeks from today hown in Bros.-N. B. C. Christmas toy campaign. tieth Century-Fox picture, “Little Miss Nobody.” Savoy—Richard Dix in R-K-O's “Yellow Dust.” Five dancing spots are celebrating with toy parties for the campaign, the Shoreham Hotel the night of Fri- day, December 18; the new pall mall room of the Raleigh Hotel, Wednesday, December 9; the Russian Club Troika, Monday, December 14. and the Heigh- Ho and Volga Boatman, Wednesday, December 16. All guests are invited to bring toys to be distributed later by the Parent-Teacher Association to the ! city’s needy in co-operation with The Star-Warner Bros."-N. B. C. campaign. At the Shoreham and Raleigh gifts to the poor will replace the usual cover charge. Their programs may be heard over WRC and WMAL, or both. For the | toy campaign the National Broadcast- ing Co. is presenting an hour broad- | cast at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Matur- ing not only the Raleigh toy party, but | headliners from the Earle Theater, and | another hour at 10:30 pm. the Wed- nesday night before Christmas. At the Shoreham toy hall December 18, where Santa Claus will be the guest of honor, Santa’s arrival at the airport will be described over N. B. C., as well as his trip through town with a motor cycle escort provided by Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police. The Shoreham floor show, with enter- tainment supplied by the Earle The- ater, will be broadcast by N. B. C, | beginning 10:30 p.m. until the ball |1s over. In-tro-ducing—Santa Claus! = , ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,” says o nwmu‘t’rm of ceremonies at the Earle Theater, “we lar star of fact and jancy, Santa Claus!” Miss the Earle Theater lobby talkin, toy matinees to be held December 19. edy child to the Earle or one of the 10 ters, where the shows will be given two as the concluding event in The Star-Warner =~Star Staff Photo. A N PUBLIC AIDS POLICE IN FINDING NEEDY Woman Sees Boy in Cold, Telephones, and Entire Family Benefits. From the window of her home she saw him pass and was touched. Many children passed along the street. She would not have noticed him, except that there was about him something that set him apart from the rest. The other children usually came by in groups;, shouting, capering, giving nolsy evidence of their care-free spirit. He walked alone, errand-bent, too se- rious for his ysars. His stature, too, drew attention. It was slight in com- parison with the other boys of his age, and his clothing was thin and woefully ragged. He wore no coat. His feet were bare—all right for Summer, yes, but for December— Here was some child, she thought, whose youth was blighted by poverty: who, a few weeks hence, might hang & stocking by some cold stove, hoping against hope that it would not be as empty on Christmas morning as it was when he hung it there. She would thwart his grief if she could. She wrote Capt. Joseph C. Mor= | gan, chairman of the Metropolitan Po- | lice Christmas party: “Would it be possible for one of vour men to find out if a certain family is in need. Twice lately a boy about 5 | years old has passed my home, without any kind of coat, and barefooted. He passed about an hour and a half ago with & thin suit of overalls, no coat or sweater, a small package in his hand. I think he lives in an spartment in the 600 block of D street. It doesn't seem possible that people would send their children coatless to the store if | they had one. Let me know if I can help.” Family Found in Need. Fortunately, police were able to lo- cate the family. All were in desperate circumstances. Food and clothes were | provided immediately. And on Christ- mas they will receive other gifts pro- vided by contributions to the sixteenth annual police Christmas party, allied with The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Christmas Toy Campaign, to prevent the unhappiness that surely would oc- cur without these means of locating 1and helping the needy. The 5-year- old noticed by the kindly letver writer | will get a warm coat and shoes as well ! &S & toy or two or three. His brothers and sisters also will be remembered. ‘;l‘he family will be given a basket of | Tood. | At headquarters for collection of jfood baskets, the National Guard ar- mory at Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth | street, clothing and other gift. to be | distributed through the police was | illustrated yesterday—the spirit of sac- { rifice which manifests itself at this time of year, when there are always needy people who will give to those whose need is greater. A modestly dressed woman walked in and pre- sented to Officer John O'Connell, su- pervisor of distribution, & pair of women’s shoes. Haven’t Much, Says Contributer. “I haven't got much,” she whisper. to O'Connor. “I have been out of wo. for two years. But I'd like you to hav. these if you think you can use them.” O’Connell told her the shoes wou!c be given to some woman who genuinely deserved a gift given in that spirit. To the staff of volunteers at the po- lice gift collection center has been added Melvin Garner, a jobless youth, who has offered to work to help make Christmas joyous for others until he can find regular employment. CONTEMPORARY PRINTS | EXHIBITED AT LIBRARY Prints by contemporary artists will be on exhibition in the second-floor lobby of the central building of the Public Library &t Eighth and K streets during December, Dr. George P. Bowerman, librarian, announced Lithographs of Winter scenes by A. G. Arnold, block prints by Olin | Dows, brilliantly plumaged pheasants | by Benson B. Moore, bright modern | scenes by Marguerite C. Munn and | prints by Rowland Lyon, Robert F. Gates, Harold Weston, Prentiss Ta lor and Alfred Bendiner make up the collection. Miss Elizabeth Ray Lewis, chief of the art division of the library, says the exhibition was undertaken to ac- quaint the public with the work bee ing done by contemporary artists. THE SIXTH ANNUAL STAR-WARNER BROS.- N.B. C. TOY MATINEES and THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL METROPOLITAN POLICE PARTY in co-operation with THE PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION have joined forces to provide food, new toys and new clothing for needy children and poor families this Christmas. New toys and new clothing will be received at all Warner Bros. theaters and wi'l be taken as the price of admission at 11 theaters on Saturday morning, December 19. Nonm-perishable food or any other gifts will be received at any police precinct in Washington. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PHONE NATIONAL 5000 Branches 260, 293 end 418 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT ‘17 SKATES, SLEDS | AND SK1S e