Evening star., 1922-05-07

partments may do in the matter Of
opening up an hour earlier sofas to
bring about daylight saving" lead
ers of the Senate said last night they
did not expect the Senate to change
it's habits. The Senate will operate
under standard time, as usual. 1t was
pointed out, however, that the Senate
already Is meeting at II am. each
day instead of 12 noon. the regular
meeting time. so as to expedite con-
sideration of the tariff bill.
Some time during the week, prob
ably tomorrow or next day, an
| nouncement Is expected to the effect
that the public schools in Washing
ton will advance one hour their daily
opening and closing. Intimation to
intendent Ballou. and the issuance of
such an order awaits conferences
with the board of education.
Car Schedules to Shift.
1t was stated at the offices of the
Capital Traction Company last night
that the matter of revising schedules
had not been considered yet. but that
1t would undoubtedly be taken up as
soon as the plan was positively
known to be going into effect.
1T means a decided Encouragement
of our schedules" 1t was stated, but,
Of course. We will do it. 1t means
pushing the peak load forward
al hOuI cdCu anu Tie dll~
ernoon peak an hour ahead, thus
leaving an interval between the aft
ernoon peak load and midnight just
one hour longer than before. A great
deal depends. too. upon what the
theaters decide to do"
The office of the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company declared
that checkers would be put to work
figuring up needed changes. but that
the service already had nearly as
many cars running between Z and
o'clock each morning as between 8
and o'clock.
Theater Hours Unchanged.
Change in working hours In all
probability will not. affect the hours
of performances at the local the
aters. according to the views Of man.
ayers expressed last night. The Shu-
bert-Garrick Theater is the only one
running dramatic attractions now. ex-
cepting the operate benefit perform
ances this week at the Shubert-B Be
lasco
l.. Stoddard Taylor. house manager
of the Garrick, said he was unable
at this time to make a definite state
ment on the subject. but that in all
probability the hours Of the perform
ances at the Garrick would remain
as they now are. unless something
unexpected should develop.
Roland Robbins. manager at B. F.
keith's, stated that there would be
no change in the hours of perform
ances at that house. certainly not un-
less stronger necessity for it than
now appeared should arise. He said
in other cities where the daylight
saving law had been put in opera
ton 1t had proved disastrous to the
theaters. a great many of them being
obliged to close entirely.
He was not sanguine that the new
hours in Washington would prove
beneficial either to the theaters or to
the merchants. although they might
be helpful to the summer parks and
out-of-town entertainments.
!. General Manager A. Brylawski Of
the Cosmos Theater Company said
there would be no change whatever
In the hours at his theater.
The representative of Harry Gran
dalrs chain OF moving picture thea
ters In Washington said there would
be no changes in the Crandall thea
teEs, at least for the present. He
could not say what reasons might
subsequently develop that would re-
quire such changes, but could think
Of none at present. The same opinion
was expressed practically by the rep
resentative Of Tom Moore's Rialto
Theater.