Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-12
No Dull Moments With the
Dixie Ministries Oecem- },
Der 20.
TWO TEAMS OF END MEN
WILL HAVE NEW "STUNTS"
Ghost of William Jennings Bryan
Will Complicate Matters in Cabi-
net Classroom Scene.

Members of the National Press Club
expect to make their bows as actors to
fellow members and the women OF their
families Monday night. December 20,
in the most elaborate entertainment
ever undertaken by the club. Styling
themselves the Dixie" Ministries they
will present at Polls Theater that
night an "all-star" performance. in
which the talent will be confined
strictly to club members. Not a single
outsider" is to take part in what is to
be a big show.
Seats for the performance are to be
obtained at the National Press Club
tomorrow morning by members of the
club only. and a limited number to
each. Ralph A. Graves. business man
ager of the show, announces that
orders obtainable at the club will be
exchangeable at the theater box Offices
for the seat coupons. The seats will be
furnished at the theater beginning
Wednesday morning. First come, best
served"
Two Teams of End Men,
AS an added attraction the cIubrooms
VIII be thrown open to members and
the women of their families. for the
alter parties. after the performance.
When the first curtain goes up Mon
day night the audience will be greeted
by a chorus of seventy voices Playing
tambos will be c. s. n. Goodwin, Carl
H. Butman and f. b. Johns. Tine
bones side will reveal Morton NJ. Mil
ford. Leonard F. Ormerod and LaBert
St Clair. The second edition of end
men will introduce L. +. Andres, tam
DO, and A. Angus Erly. bones. Frank
b. Lord, club president, will be tho
interlocutor
In addition to the opening chorus.
In the Land of Cotton" there will be
eight vocal solos. four of which have
been written by club members. One OF
the latter will be "Da Place Where l
was Bon" written and sung by Mr..
Butman. The other three are the work
of James Hay, jr., with the music
by Howard l. Acton. One of these
songs will be the grand finale. Since
Edison's Gone to Work for Uncle Sam"
The olio is to be under the direction
of George T. Oden. Rufe Andres. this
time Darktown Belle. will oblige
with few songs having to do with
the characteristics of prominent club
members Austin Cunningham. Uncle
Joseph Jefferson Jackson. and his ST.
berian fieahound will come as n FORE
runner to the Press Club quartet,
Elisha Hanson, Stanley NJ. Reynolds.
Grafton s. Wilcox and Edwin Callow.
A colored paperhanger. LaBert st.
Clair. will be atten ling to a fancy Job
of decorating. Theodore H. Tiller 10
down for a surprise" action written
by William A Crawford.
cTake-of on the Cabinet.
with the Banjos in Ole Virginny"
will introduce Robert D. Heinl. Ray
mond B. Morgan and Jefferson Jones.
Here will be contest between the old
time plantation banjo and the kind Of
| instrument used in a modern cabaret.
Concluding the olio will be Mutt and
JEFF of the club. Dudley Harmon and
B. a. Mattingly. 1t promises to be
humorous slapstick sketch, Bin and
Stiff according to the program.
The afterpiece will be a classroom,
with members of the cabinet present
and President Wilson as the teacher.
The matter under discussion when the
curtain goes up is whether or not Sec
rotary Redfield should be sent to tropi
cal Morocco to establish an internA-
tional exchange for fur overcoats and
snowshoes. However upon the appear
ance of the ca binet ghost of William
Jennings Bryan the debate on the mo-
rocco question is forgotten and anus
ing complications follow. The piece
was written by James Hay, jr. In the
grand finale, James d. Preston will
make his debut as Uncle Sam"