The Washington herald., 1922-12-04
5000 VISIT SHRINE
CIRCUS FIRST NIGHT
Benefit Show Will Continue
Except Sundays Until
December 49,
TWO CONTESTS STARTED
Proceeds Will Be Used at I'm.
perial Council Next
June.

Good fellowship prevailed at
Convention Hall. Fifth and X
streets. northwest. Saturday night,
at the opening of the Almas
Temple Shrine Circus. 1t was es.
timated 5000 persons visited the
hall on the opening night.
The circus will continue every
night. except Sunday nights. until
December 16. New attractions will
be featured each night. The pro.
ceeds will be used at the national
convention next June.
The popularity contests for girls
started off with bang" Candi-
dates, with their campaign man.
ayers. lined the hall seeking votes.
The votes will be counted on the
closing night when the three most
popular girls will be presented with
diamond rings. Their campaign
managers will be presented with
gold watches.
LIST OF CANDIDATES.
Among the contestants are:
Misses Ruth Ayler, 81 Quincy place
northeast: Leila B. Angleberger, 1881
K street northwest; Gladys c. Aber-
nathy. 1923 Tenth street northeast;
Thelma /. Balm, 1880 Massachusetts,
avenue northwest: Barbara Cla-
baugh. 713 d street northeast; Lu-
cretia Carr. 312 A street northeast;
Roberta F. Craven, 1914 Twelfth
street northwest: Beulah Carter. e
Quincy place northeast; Corinne
Everitt. 1907 Eleventh street north
west; Lillian Guckert, 1701 Park
road northwest; Mary Pearl Hag-
gerty, 224 Eleventh street south
east; Vera X. Hauff. 1716 Pennsyl-
vania avenue northwest; Mary j.
kohler, 1927 Hiatt place northwest:
Flora E. Laughton. Government
Printing Office: Pauline Long. 909
Monroe street northwest; Margaret
Lindsay, 325 A stree. northeast;
Helen Marston, 1909 North Capitol
street; Fieta L. Motherwell. 1903
Massachusetts avenue northwest;
Helen Martin. 1905 Fourth street
northeast; Marian Rider. 5ls H
street northwest: Lucie V. Riley,
Alabama apartments: Jessie Simp.
son. 3060 Q street northwest: Gladys
NJ. Smoot. 143S Chaplin street north.
west: Charlotte Snowden, Thirty-fif.h
street. Mt. Rainier. Md: Margaret
Toole. 2513 Seventeenth street
northwest: Mary Wampler, Southern
Railway Company, and Sadie 81.
mons, 1917 Franklin street north
east.
The popularity contest for babies
caused considerable amusement
Rambling and tumbl:ng about the
floor, they had little trouble in get
mill
be presented with diamond rings.
IN BABY CONTEST.
The contestants are: Helen Irene
Bedell. 624 E street northwest: Rich
ard Burr. 11l9 B street northeast
Robert NJ. Buck. 504 Twelfth stree,
northeast; Lloyd Carter, 1919 Otis
place northwest; Nancy ]. Cramer
| 140S Fourteenth street northwest
| Ruth Hughes, 624 Thirteenth street
northeast; Jane Ellen High, 1926
Hamilton street northwest: Edward
NJ. Jones, 1881 Emerson street
northwest: Francis NJ. Jenkins, 614
street southeast: John Freeman
Lines. 404 Aspen street northwest
Mindred NJ. Mark, 723 Fifth street
northeast: Valette Schmidt, 20t
Fourteenth street southwest; Myror
| l.. loot ~ c1iCCl couNh
east. and Wilfred E. Vincent, Wash
| ington Barracks.
The committee in charge Of ar
rangements consisted Of Roy L
Neuhauser, general chairman; L. r
| Corbin, executive officer; Or. ]. T
Prendergast, parade; Maurice Hop
kins, contests: r. p. Andrews, win
dows and decorations; George Fishe
and w. H.. Hart, floor, and Andrew
Loeffler. concessions.
Others who assisted were: Wis
dom d. Brown, Joseph Shevlin, J
L. Zimmerman, Augustus Cooke,
A. Watzman. w. e. McReynolds
John H. Ireland, George c. Whit
ing, Bernard 8. Judd. Albert A
Hartley, Barron c. Sheriff., Samue
NJ. Marlborough, Charles Gates, An
dew F. Baullie. Peter Barrett, Rot
ert w. Mathaney, Edmund o. Carl
w. C. Daniel. George Commus
George ]. Chaillet, Robert w. Wolt7
Edward A. Thomas. NJ. K. Epperly
l.Samuel T. Farmer, Frank w. Co
lier. Schuyler c. Pliler, Walter W
Deal, Hyman Garfinkle. ]. Howar
Hixson, Samuel A. Swiggett, Wi
I'ar, Pleasant Wood. and Louie F
Lane.