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Evening star., 1920-01-25
Greater Penn Gardens.

Wednesday night is party" night at
the Greater Penn Gardens dance audi
torium This large marble-fioored hall
will be decorated and illuminated Tor
the occasion. The gardens are open
from $3.50 pm. to II.
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Central Coliseum.

The Central Coliseum. at 9th and
Pennsylvania avenue northwest. offers
a program for roller skaters the cur
rent week Tuesday night series OF
races will be featured and for Thurs
day night the management announces
a merry-making carnival, with Mardi
Gras features. Confetti. streamers and
noise makers will be distributed
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AlluyQnlQntS
Music and Drama
BELASCO-"Somebody's Sweet
heart"

\ picturesque Spanish setting, a
haunting melody, the spell of moon
light and story of unrestrained
joviaIity are com bined in Some
body's Sweetheart" the Hammerst elm
musical play with the original cast,
including William Kent. which will
come TO the Shubert-Belasco Theater
tonight.
Somebody's Sweetheart" was writ
ten by Alonzo Price and Antonio
Bafunno. The cast, in addition to
MIR Kent. includes Louise Allen. John
Dunsnure Eva Fallon. Ardelle
CIeaves Veronica. HoHard Marsh.
Albert SaCkett. Edith Benjed. Eugene
Redding. Mabel Taylor. Royal Cut
ter. Joseph Bernello and chester
Brown.
The scenes. set in Spanish Seville.
give opportunity for picturesque dis
play. with bizarre and variegated
costumes
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than twenty of 'enl-each fair to look
on and each contributing her share
to the effect of the ensembles and
concerted numbers.
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Florence Nash will be seen in a
new crook play, on the order of
within the Law" under the direc-
tion of Henry w. Savage.
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Porter Emerson Browne has written
a satire called The Bandit" which
will be produced in the spring.
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A young Irish tenor named Talbot
O'Farrell, who has made a success in
London. is coming to this country
for a vaudeville tour.
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play. Dark Rosaleen." which David
Belasco staged last season. Mr.. Kane
was a member of the Irish Players.
That happy band of disseminators
of American dramatic art, headed by
Warda Howard, is presenting Up in
Mabel's Room and other bedroom and
typical Broadway plays IN shanghai,
China. at present. with Japan and In
dia to follow The Celestials seem to
like our native drama.
Langden Mccormack, whose stage
inventions in The Storm are the
most gripping New York has seen in
a decade. is completing a play which
tits said will contain sensations even
more startling than his snowstorm
and forest fire scenes in his present
play. 1t will be a landslide and tor
nadO.
Hale Hamilton and Grace La Rue
will star in Dear Me-" by Hamilton
and Luther Reed. The show had a
successful start opening at Stamford,
conn. last week
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Frances Nordstrom. and a substan
tial success is reported.

William Harris, jr., stimulated by
the success of Drinkwater's abraham
Lincoln VIII produce other bio
graphical dramas, two by Mr.. Drink
water with Robert r. Lee and Mary
Queen of Scots as the principal per-
Sonages.
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BrieuX 1t deals with the law and
politics. and the scenes and characters
are French.
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Billie Burke will end her engage
ment soon in Caesars Wife" and
then is to devote herself to a prepara-
tion of The School for Scandal" with
a star cast
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Cyril Keightley and his wife. Ethal
Dane, have written comedy. which is
under consideration by the Shuberts
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| The revival of Gilbert and SulH-
vans "Ruddygore," by the Society
of American Singers. in New York,
was marked success.
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Marry the Poor Girl" a comedy by
Owen Davis. will be tried out by Oil
yer Morosco in Los Angeles in the
near future.
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Rose Coghlan is going into vaude-
willie and is taking Ethel Wright with
her. Miss Wright is regarded as one
of the youngest and most promising
dramatic players.
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F.. Lynn Swete returned to New
York last week from London. where
he went to confer with Oscar Ashe
regarding the forthcoming produc-
don of Ashes Mecca" in New York
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WhitfOrd Kane. the Irish actor
playwright. contemplate returning
to Dublin next season TO produce his
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In the Spotlight.

John Barrymore is to appear under
the management of Arthur Hopkins
in Richard Ill"
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Georgia ORamey Will make her
vaudeville debut as single" in New
York February .. in n revue arrange
ment by Victor Herbert and jerome
Kern of her song hits.
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Harryf Beresford has been engaged
TO play the leading role in SHAW
ings," by Joseph c. Lincoln.
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f. H. Sothern spoke at a st. Louis
high school recently. telling his hear
ers that those who achieve the great
est results in the theater lead an al
most ideal existence, although their
labors are arduous.
Grace George appeared in New York
last week in THE Ruined Lady" by
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The Department of Agriculture is
thinking OF placing quarantine
2aEainst all fruit stocks from tho
9sient.
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ASSESSOR DAVIS
ISAB|TUNCERTAN
Can Not Determine Where
to Head in on the Po-
litical Game.

Many habitues Of the court house
have wondered from time to time Of
late, abou. the arrange actions o.
James Davis, count, assessor. when.
eyf. he has had occasion to use the
Madison street entrance to the county
building. On several such occasions,
Jim has been seen to stop, look at the
entrance OF the county clerks office,
then turn and indulge in contempla:
ton OF the sherifs office. Once he was
heard to exclatm, with bitter intona.
ton, And they stripped Joseph OF his
coat. MS coat OF many colors" On
another occasion he was heard to NUT.
ter, Thou art weighed In the balances
and art found wanting" and pass on
with a heavy sigh.
Yesterday, the reasons for his &C.
tons became clear through the state.
ment OF one OF the ring candidates.
who divulgcd the information that re
Gently the rest Of the gang had de.
etded that the present incumbent has
4 had his feet In the assessors end of
the trousts long enough and that its
apout time for another member to take
that seat at the pie counter. This. OF
conrSe, .ts some mixture of metaphors
hut nothing to he compared to Jim's
mixed feelings OF vacillation between
Hose two doors.
There Is said to be some criticism
Of the ungentle way in which the gang
have sought to lay hands on Jims per.
quisttes. In fact, their ruthless meth.
DDS have been compared to those OF
the Walrus and the Carpenter after
they had enticed all the little oysters
ar away from their natural element.
We feel for you the Walrus said.
We deeply sympathize.'
With tears and sobs he sorted 'out,
Those OF the largest size,
Holding his pocket handkerchief,
Before his streaming eyes.
Another horn OF Jim's dilemma is
the question of whether a man with
his spperabundance of adipose It's
rue ought to go after Job requiring
the ceaseless activity that is expect.
ed Of the sheriff. whether he would
hetter have the more sedentary one OF
county clerk.
And then there's the queztion, can
he get either one? Aye, there's the
The Department of Agriculture is
thinking OF placing n quarantine
- |MNL Ill
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WANTED Girls over siytSon year.
OF age, steady work, good vsr..
American Laundry Co s-is-io. 75Il.
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nEl.t ViASi EEb.- Enl1 I'E

WANTED White maids. Room md
board In house. Good pay Apply
Housekeeper. Fairmont Hotel
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Evening Chat
Calm as the Night,

A woman know well came to me
last week to have q heart to heart
talk about the trials, tribuiations and
temptations of young people. She
was so very dependent that said to
her: why worry SO? It won't do
you a bit OF good. You've got to. de
pend on the character OF your boy or
girl and the quality of that should by
now be OF such nature that 1t viii
stand the test put upon it."
isn't theer thing a person can
do to prevent the sowing OF wild oats
Ito stop the fearful waste Of good en-
ergy going on over the. country" she
almost sobbed. Must our young
sters go blindly on wasting their
hours and days in frivolity and
worse7 Can't anything teach them
but bitter experience and regret for
ever after? Sometimes lose every
ounce OF heart and courage / pos
sess!"
This woman isn't the only mother
who is suffering tonight because pi
the persistent waywardness of her
child, and from the depths Of my
own experiences. which are not very
different from the experiences OF
many others. can only say that
something bigger than fathers and
mothers is back of the actions of boys
and girls during the difficult age. II
won't do much good to work and
worry now; the time for that was
long, long before the boys and girls
of today were born. when character
was made in your great-great-grand-
father and all who came afterwards.
so you're fatalist-a believer in
heredity," can hear you say. most
certainly am. Though 1 realize that
the present generation training helps
Ia mighty lot, In addition to the les
sons learned hundred years ago
lessons which were stamped on the
hearts and brains OF those who were
born and have died. leaving you and
I and our children and In time their
children to bear the impress Of their
personalities. How else can YOU OK
plain that one child never causes a
parent moments anxiety and comes
through life unscathed. noble. wor-
thy. While another drives a father
almost to suicide and mother to hcr
grave in many instances? Certain
traits arc Just as surely born in your
child and in mine as they were born
in you and in mo. And just as you
can't help being you, SO your child
can't help being what he Is more or
less.
If training is TO count at all be-
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If training is to count at all l be-
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realize that something bigger than
Ne are knows what Is best for our
children. As long As we're doing IL is
me know how to DO We can remain,
calm as the quiet sthrlit night. It's
hard 10 do sometimes. but let's try II.
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I'had been staring at fof IN hour and
went 10 the Yictrola and put on he
record calm Is the Nigh, sung By.
Christine Miller. If you have Il. Try
IL. hope II will do for yon what II
did for me. Irealized IS you wiz
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liere Il must be planted during tho
first seven years Of 4 child's life. A.
ter that your wee Tower viii grow
according to the sun and atmosphere;
with its roots never thereafter chang
ed. You can't make q sweet-pea out.
of a sunfiower. You can't turn
cabbage into q rose. Neither can you
by worry and fretting make your boy,
and girl q pattern of virtue and no
bility unless something within your
child reaches out hungrily for that
sort Of thing.
II did not realize until recently"
wrote a friend OF mine to me not long
ago, how stern and relentless life Is.
! suddenly awoke to the fact that the
only real teacher we have in this uni
verse is Father Time himself"
How true that is. Parents may
fume and complain and worry and
work in an endeavor to cut their chill
dren into round shapes when they
were made square. 1t can't be done.
But wait a moment! Timefwill whip
them into shape in most instances.
even though 1t may be too late to do
any good in this world. Time will
not fret. Life will not humcr or pun
ish wrongly or scofd pettishly or i'm
patiently. Instead life is harshly,
wonderfully exact in every punish
ment and every pain it, inflicts. For
every sorrow there is so much happi-
ness. For every sin there is so much
remorsc. For every regret there is a.
measure OF something beautiful born
something which goes to the MAX
ing OF that character which had bet
ter come too late than not at all. For
life here on earth is but small por-
! tion Of existence.
You're wondering why put Calm
as the Night" at tho beginning of this
cffusion. I'm going to tell you. 1
have child of my own, dear readers.
/; and was thinking very hard about
her tonight and wondering II some
how, some way. couldn't make her
life more beautiful than any life was
ever made before-wondering if 1t
were possible for just one woman 10
bring into a carcfrec, thoughtless.
star-eyed girls precious life all that
1T should rightfully have, and as all
mothers have a habit OF doing, grew
rather frightened at the intensity of
my thoughts. laid aside magazine
The Washington herald., 1920-07-11

Following another list of users of ELK GROVE.
which representatives had the pleasure of handing
one ($lOO dollar bill when they called:
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the cure. They were among the
colonists attending the Horse Show.
which was, by the way, a decided
success. Mr.. and Mrs: Archibald
McCrea had in their box their house
guests. John HemphiH and Ballard
Moore, of Washington; Miss Le-'
Moine Dunlop, Mrs. McCrea's daush-.
ter. made a spectacular success in
the hurdles. Mrs. Terah !: HaRgifr
who was a successful. exhibitor,
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Campbell Graef, who are her house
guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Graef have
been motoring in South Carolina.
DR.. Mead Moore passed the holidays
there with Mrs. Moore, returning
to Washington early in the week.
Commander Frank B. Freyer and
Mrs. Freyer have taken the Meade
cottage for the summer and have
as guests DR.. and Mrs. S. Middleton
Elliott, of New York. They have
postponed their departure to Peru
until the middle of September.
The Women's Press Club which
will hold its weekly luncheonS
at the League of American Pen
'Women's coffee house, the 'Hoot O
iht O"l, VIII UdNc Ol +.
honor this Thursday afternoon, Mis-
Julia Lathrop, head of the Chill
dren's Bureau. and Miss Eva Cos
son. of London, the representative.
in Paris of the Paris edition of the
Chicago Tribune. Miss Lathrop. who
has just returned from a visit To-
Czecho- -Slovakia where she was tlIr
guest of the President and his
daughter, Miss Alice Masaryk. viii
make an address on the child well
fare situation and of conditions gen
orally in CZecho- -Slovakia. Miss
Cosson will talk of the foreign Held.
for newspaper women. The mem
bers of the club can bring guests to-
the luncheon Thursday.
Miss Cryder has closed her house
on o street and after paying several
visits has sailed for Europe, where
she will spend the summer.
Miss Lucille Lewis who has spent
the past winter in the Capital. is
now returning to her home in Mis-
souri, for a rest before making an
extended tour through the West
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HOROSCOPE.
SUNDAY, JULY II, 1920.
(CopyriEht. 1870. by The Mcclure Newspaper
SyndicateD

Copyright. 1870. by The Mcclure Newspaper
syDdicAteD
While Mercury. Jupiter, the Sun
and Venus arc all In benefic aspect
today, there arc adverse influences,
according 10 astrology.
Trade will seem uncertain where
future problems are involved and
commercial plans made during this
c0nfigursti0b may not work out sat
IEfactoFity,
Speakers are we'll directed while
this aspect rules and sermons or
Lectures are likely to take a sensa-
tionai trend, since the stars encour
age stress on whatever causes sur
prise or disapprovaI
Reforms will be hailed enthusias
tiesliy ~ this time, the planets that
skhgssfats the human sense of other
persons fault being powerful.
Associations with friends are most
faVorabiy Influenced at this time,
sympathies being quickened and i'm
pulses OF helpfulness being awak-
ened.
The entrance OF the Sun into
Libra for the summer quarter is
read as presaging a disorderly
state or the country during the en-
tire warm season.
Following the late spring intense
heat will prevail far into Septem-
Der, owing to the power of the
planet which Is held to affect the
seasons.
Forest fires again are indicated,
astrologers announce, and there
may be extraordinarily heavy losses
OF timber.
Persons whose birthdate II is
have the augury of a busy. sue
cessful year. The young will have
much romance.
Children born on this day are
likely to be sweet-tempered. kind
and generous. These subjects of
cancer have the Moon as their
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SOCIETY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO.

I'm glad to hear she hasn't given
up her dancing even though she is
acting. 1 ran across this account
OF her in a New York paper recent
;iy. which. think, will interest you:
{ "Melanie Gordon feared she
wouldn't qualify for the role OF
Philomena Rose, the girl reporter
! in Martin Browns IAN Innocent
Idea" at the Fulton Theater. 1;
wasn't because she had never beer
inside a newspaper office and haC
never written so much as a para
graph for . newspaper. That sort
OF experience isn't necessary on the
stage. No, II wasn't that.
Meianie thought she was not
goodlooking enough to be a report
er. When a good many of the women
reporters in the profession read this,
they Will, no doubt. turn to a con-
Venient mirror and discover traces
OF beauty which they had never not
ed before. Such is Miss Gordon's
conception of the woman in news
paper work. All of the reporters
bhdl SHc mas met, ana She mas me Z
many. she says, have been attrac-
tive looking as well as capable. But
Meianie underestimated herself o.
this score. II city editors chose
their STAFF on the basis of physical
beauty instead of ability to gather
and write news, Melanie would have
little trouble in finding employme mt.
In her dressing room, waiting for
her cue go on and prove Henry
Bird, played by Robert Emmett
keane. the most immoral man in
Michigan" and to gain evidence of
the escapades of Ernest Geer, her
aspiring fiance, sought technical in
formation to aid her in her stage
calling. She wanted to know about
note taking. how to cover murder
assignments, who killed Elwer, how
10 approach the city editor and how
10 turn in copy. oh, as far as the
instinct of curiosity is concerned,
helanie would qualify as a reporter
on the staff of any newspaper.
These are my shorthand notes"
she explained. hIUsting forward a
shect of copy paper covered with
c u r o Shocking hieroslyphics.
luckily. I 90 net have to tran
scribe them" she added, and all
agreed that she was indeed for
tGnatc
IL 1 were on a newspaper i should
love to write about murder nys-
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or more ago but they have not been
able to get away yet. Their daugh-
ter. Miss Dorothy bennett, who re-
Gently took her degree in music at
the University Of Michigan, is now
summeriag at Camp Minnewava.
Tomahawkt Lake, Oneida County,
Wisconsin. Miss bennett. who. made
her debut here and who Is well
known in Washington society, took
the leading role in The Testers"
presented by one of the numerous
arts clubs connected with the uni
versity of which she is a member
She was delightful in the role of
Solange," the part taken by Maud
ADAMS when she was seen in that
play some time ago. Miss bennett
VINO gave her recital in music a
snort time before her graduation. is
a member of the following organiza-
tions Of the university: Red Domino
Club. Clef Club, Girls Glee Club and
Union Vodvil" and has served on
both the junior and senior play COM
mittees of the University. She will
leave camp early to visit her par
cnts in Washington in September
during the time her brother, Rodney
val Academy, will be home on Sep
leave.
HOT SPRINGS
SEASON Is ON.
Early summer at the Virginia Hot
springs is finding the noted Ameri-
can cure a place of much amiability
and very delightful weather. Mrs.
Joseph Letter has returned there
Tor visit of several weeks. accom-
panied by Mrs. Charles O'Donnell
Lee. who remained with her a few
days. Mrs. Letters young son,
Joseph Letter. tr.. is an exceedingly
active rider and. is daily on the
trails. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter S.
Hutchins arc prominent figures in
the colony. Mrs. Hutchins is daily
the center of an animated group on
the Casino lawn, while Mr.. Hutchins
finds the golf course a place of de-
light.
Mrs. John Sidney webb and Miss
Sidney Webb have arrived for an
early summer visit. Mrs. T. O'Don-
nell Hillen and Miss Mary E.
Reed went there last week by auto
mobile and Mrs. Hillen is taking
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SOCIETY

Mrs. r. King Kaufman, Mr.. and Mrs
James e. Smith.
TWO WASHINGTON
BOYS QUALIFY.
Two Washington boys, and army
officers have qualified already for
the Olympic games-Lieut. T.. @.
] Donaldson, who will play tennis
! in the singles and the doubles at
the games, and his brother-in- law.
Capt David Rumbough, who will
play polo. T. Q.'s mother, Mrs. T.
| O., ST., will sail for Europe the
/ end of this month to join her
| daughter. Miss Maysue Donaldson.
who is visiting Lieut.. and Mrs.
Donaldson in Coblentz. They all
plan to go together to the Olympic
games in Antwerp, and then Mrs.
Donaldson and Miss Donaldson will
return here in September.
Did ! tell you about the party
which Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Bradley
gave last Monday in celebration of
the Fourth, an annual custom OF
theirs? They have perfect
home, a large farm of about 1000
| acres, near Rockville, with all the
comforts and luxuries that one
COulu poSsiUiy ueSlfe IN suCH
place. The house is. large and
roomy and usually full of COM
pany. Last Monday IL was full 10
| overlooking with company men,
women and children, who rambled
over the sweeping lawns, in the
gardens and through the house.
There was an elaborate spread, and
play OF fireworks, for which
number of the soldiers from Wal
ter Reed Hospital were asked.
Really. there was everything
in that display OF fire.
! works: Balloons galore-just every
thing and in enormous quantities.
Suddenly in some way a huge box
full of fireworks began to explode
in the midst of the guests; had
caught fire in some manner-and eX-
ploded in every direction. 1t was
quite thrilling and a bit dangerous!
The children began just to. tumble
over high fence near them and
the women to scream. 1t was really
most amusing. Some of the soldiers
shouted to the guests to lie down
on their faces. whereupon most of
them, including the women. dropped
to the ground, some of them rolling
about and few were hit by the sky
rockets or some such fire works. 1t
was too funny. really to describe!
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terIcs," said the young actress. "I
.hink that they are the most in
tercsting things a reporter has to
write about"
Miss Gordon started on the stage
as dancer and her present role