Evening star., 1922-03-05
600 At BANQUET
Of .TRADE;BOARD
Membership Committee A.
fair One of Most Enjoy
able in Years.
MANY NOVEL FEATURES
Entertainment Combines Music
Iancing and Other Talent in
Round of Merriment.

Round OF MeTTlment.
"Hail. Hail. the Gangs All Here"
sang members of the Washington
Board of Trade-siX hundred strong
at the annual mdwinter dinner of the
membership committee of that organ
ization last night at the Willard
Hotel. The gang" was all there. all
right, FROM President Bradley. and the
surviving charter members to the
local favorites in the entertainment
line. Estelle Murray and George
VConnor.
Walls of anguish and gnashing of
teeth will he heard when members
of the board who did not get to the
dinner hear all the details of this
fourth annual entertainment of the
hard-wOrking membership committee.
Ii was dinner, dinner spelt with all
capitals. From the crabbe flake epi-
cure. whatever that is. to The mouses
a iananiaS chantilly. which was some
sort of an ice cream concoction, there
was no tagging behind on the part of
the gang excepting. of course. to
gaze on the bevy of beautiful dancers
and singers who figured prominently
in the affair.
One Figure Lacking.
IHeTe s"dS only one 1dUlflldT uS HFc
lacking in the show. and that was
popular Charlie Waters, who has been
the directing head of SO many of the
boards entertainments. William Ga
baugh. however, proved a capable
toastmaster and everything went
smoothly.
The only serious few minutes of the
evening were spent listening to
Representative J. y. Tincher of
Kansas. who made himself immedi-
ately popular by announcing at the
beginning of his address that he
would only speak a few words.
1T is Congress-. said Mr.. Tincher.
that makes Washington drink water.
SO that l am heartily in favor OF
providing an adequate amount of
good drinking water for the people
of the District. l shall support the
amendment offered to the appropria-
tion bill for the construction of ad
ditional water supply for Washing
ton. While l am in favor of water
supply. ] am not in favor of harness.
ing the Potomac to furnish water
power at government expense to ad-
jaceHt territory"
The representative. made a decided
hit with the business men of Wash
iugton when he said that as long as
he had been here he had never been
unfairly treated by one of them.
He touched briefly on the recent
conference of the limitation of arma>
ment and said that in his opinion
the agreements reached at that con-
ference were a step forward in Eo,d
government and good civilization.
Taxpayers of the United States. he
said. should not be compelled to sup-
port a large standing military force.
And now TO get back to dancers,
singers and talent. OF course. all the
singers. Honey Boy" Evans led them
in several popular songs and several
embryo Carusos were noticed.
"Niss Washington" Present.
Margaret German. christened Miss
Washington" after she had swept the
boards in several local and national
beauty contests. was there as an as
Gated his song "Your Smile" to the
''prettiest' girl in the United States
Miss German smiled throughout the
veil rendered song and speedily woE
the hearts of all concerned. Several
of the members carried home roses
thrown to them by Miss Washing
ton; however. it is believed that the
only ones who did this were those
whose wives were in the balcony and
were therefore perfectly cognizant OF
how they came by the flowers. Sort
of hard to explain otherwise.
Taking matters in their natural Sc
Quence, it is best to go back to the be-
ginning, when MY Country. 'Tis of
Thee" asssung by the entire assem-
blage. with Mrs. NJ. Robey as Miss
Columbia in the spotlight.
Mr.. Clabaugh, chairman of the din
ner committee and presiding genius
of the evening, then said few words;
introductory remarks is what they
were termed by the elaborate pro-
gram.
PresidentaRradiey made a short ad
dsess of welcome and introduced three
charter members of the board-Isa-
dore Saks. Col. Myron Parker and
SG Hhsn a to sak1 sas ,ass Iissfisa sss
thei reas&8 they got SO much applause
was because they didn't attempt to
make speech.
Dance Charms Guests.
The Washington Quartet. a familiar
and well y,liked act, rendered several
songs to be followed. as soon as Mr.
ClabaaEh could ge: them ready, by
serpeAtine tango dance.
"Selections' by the Simpson sisters
five ofthem. sisters. not selections. We're
nexA on the program. After Mrs. Anna
gRrett, stfnnmy, Mrs. Robey and Maurice
Hopkins had sung number of delight =
ful9old songs who should appear on the
scene but George O'Connor who needs
no introduction to the local business
men. 70
Well, George" and Matt Horn. his
the house. When the applause final
ly died away both of them looked
pretty tired from responding to so
many encoreS. Where Did Tosca Go
When He Said Goodbye" and My
Cousin Carus drew yociferous ap-
plauSe from the gang
Next came Miss Murray. previously
mentioned. this time assisted by a
corps of particularly able ballet
dancers. This act also WAS accorded
prolonged applause.
Other acts We're an operatic solo by
Mile. PiccoIini, late of the Italian Opera
Company: the national dance by mem
bers of Miss Mxrray's ballet. and the
grand finale, Girls. Here, There and
E.verywhere."
That's all. out It was enough to afford
an enjoyable evening TO quite a number
Of T. b. Ms. Those who did not get
there ought to feel pretty blue this
morning