Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1937, Page 7

PRESIDENT SEES FORT MYER CIRCUS Distinguished Crowd Pres- ent at Opening of Colorful Charity Pageant. (Pictures on Page B-3.) Fort Myer's annual Soclety Circus, | which in recent years has traveled | the long road from modest obscurity | to the status of a big-time entertain- | ment, opered a four-day run last| night before a distinguished audience including President and Mrs. Roose- velt. More lavish in costume and concept than any of the previous charity | pageants staged in the post riding| hall, the 1937 “Hoof Beats” covered almost every phase of horsemanship in history, from the boyhood feats of | Alexander the Great, through the especial equestrian practices of Lady Godiva, up to the bareback whoop- | and-holler riding of the American In- dians. Many Tmpersonations. Impersonated by more than 100 gociety girls and Army officers, virt- ually every historic figure that ever climbed aboard a saddle paraded | through the evening. Joan of Arc.| Achilles and his chariot, Napoleon | and his artillery, foxhunters of old England, Spaniards of early Cali- fornia. Southern planters (who used to have their mounts equipped with hot and cold runhing mint juleps), cowboys and even Genghis Khan marched out in the introductory number entitled “Men and Horses Through the Ages.” Before the program was ended, each | group had participated in some spe- cial act of its own, and the spectators | also had met some of the more famous | horses of history, including Pagasus. | Bucephalus and the wooden horse of | Troy. |Mrs. Roosevelt With Ex- | gressmen, military men and diplomats. President ‘Passes’ Cigars Presented By Ft. Myer Clown ecutive in Big Society Circus Crowd. BY the Associated Press. President Roosevelt passed on the cigars a clown gave him on April fool's day—but they didn't explode, after all. The Chief Executive, with Mrs. Roosevelt and friends, attended the opening last night of the Fort Myer Cavalry's annual soclety circus. A mounted buffoon rode up to their box and handed the President a brown paper bag. Laughing, Mr. Roosevelt opened the sack and took out two cigars. He handed them both to other men in the box—and nothing happened when they lighted up. ‘The spectacle “Hoofprints—the Saga of Horses and Riders Through the Ages” drew a first-night audience of high Government officials, Con- U. S. WORKER TOTAL HERE SHIFTS LITTLE February Changes Show Net Gain | of but One Employe, Civil Service Reports. An unusual twist kept Government employment here practically on an un- | changed level in February, the month- | ly Civil Service Commission report | today showed, there being a net gain | of but one worker—the difference be- | tween 3,263 additions and 3,262 sep- | arations. | At the end of the month the force | in the executive agencies totaled | 115,871 person. Outside the District, however, there | Typical of the shrewd showmanship with which Capt. John Reybold and Mm George Milholland, the moving spirits behind the production, had de- vised their scenes was the enactment | of the legend of Alexander and BuAi cephalus. When Alexander undertook | to ride the unmanageable Eu(ephalllSJ without a bridle, all the other soldiers | of King Philip of Macedon were ordered to do likewise with their | mounts—and thereupon swung into one of the “bridleless drills” for which the Fort Myer soldiers are famous. Show to Be Repeated. Apropos of nothing particularly his- | toric, the circus this year also features *“The Great American Circus,” which {ncludes everything from a trained lion (police dog to you) to Bonzo, the human cannon ball “Hoof Beats” will be repeated to- | night, tomorrow night and Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock, and there will be a matinee tomorrow afternoon. AllL proceeds from the show are turned over to Fort Myer relief and recrea- tional funds. RABBI METZ TO SPEAK Rabbi Solomon Metz will preach on “The Turbulence of the Red Sea” at special Passover services at the Adas Israel Synagogue at 8 o'clock tonight. The Yizkor memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, with Rabbi Metz delivering the sermon, *The Song of the Future.” was a sharp decrease—3,462—to bring the force there to 710,462. War, La- bor and Works Progress cuts were re- sponsible for this showing. There was a large shift of workers in the Department of Agriculture, several hundred going from temporary to permanent basis The pay roll for the total of 826,333 employes was $126,536,301, compared to $129,453,718 in Januar)‘ | Fillmore College Listed. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 2 (#).—Mil- | lard Fillmore College took its place in the ranks of institutions of higher edu- | cation yesterday. Chancellor Samuel P. 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State legislatures considering the passage of minimum wage laws on the heels of the recent Supreme Court decision. removing “the constitutional ban” on such legislation should re- vise the bills to include men as well as women, Elsie Hill of Redding, Conn., former national chairman of the National Women'’s Party and pres- ent member of the party’s Connecti= cut State Committee, stated yester- day in joining her party's dissatis- faction over the court's decision. “Unless minimum wages are set for men, all males out of work will.be left legally free to ‘scab’ on the wages and hours set up by compulsion of laws governing female workers,” she commented. Meanwhile the District of Columbia branch of the party has scheduled a lecture on “Women and the Minimum Wage” to be delivered by Mrs. Helen PLANS LADIES’ NIGHT Cosmopolitan Club Wil Spring Fete Thuraday. 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