The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-05
Co0Iidges Give
Mayflover
Party
nv ,IEAN EIL0T.
NREsIDENT AND MRS. COOL.

aboard the M&yL1OW0E. Ing he~A -
set sail In the early afternoon and
dinner will be served aboard. They
have with them an interesting lit
tie company of guests, including
Mrs. Hoover, wife Of the Secre-
tary of Commerce; Senator Selden
p. Spencer, Senator and Mrs. Lynn
Frazier, Senator William B. Nc
Kinley and his niece, Miss Julia
Maths; Congressman and Mrs.
Samuel e. Winslow, Congressman
and Mrs. Dickinson, Congressman
George Graham, former Senator
and Mrs. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Meyer. jr.,
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Mr.. and
Mrs. James B. Reynolds, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank w. Staarns, r. w.
Frazier. OF Crosby, N. D.. and John
and Calvin Coolidge, jr., sons Of
President and Mrs. Coolidge.
The return Of the Coolidge boys
to Mercersburg Academy, where
they are students, has been de-
layed owing to damage by fire to
the dormitories of the school, and 1t
is probable that their holiday will
be continued until January IA.
DIR. John C. Allan, Of Northamp-
ton, Mass. an old friend Of Presi-
dent Coolidge, was a guest at
luncheon at the White House on
Thursday. He is spending a few
days in Washington and is staying
at the White House.
s.
lust as the horrors Of Holly
- wood" are being again played
up in the newspapers. there comes
a visitor to Washington who rep
resents quite another develop
ment of this mushroom city of
the movies-the Hollywood of the
Bowl and the Pilgrimage Play.
She is Mrs. j. ]. Carter, young,
pretty, dynamic and whole-sOuled
in her devotion to the great COM
munity music movement in Holly
woodland nearby Los Angeles
of which the Hollywood Bowl,
where symphony concerts are
given to $1,000 OF 10000 people,
is the fine flower.
Mrs. Carter. who has been at
the Willard for a few days, made
the trip East to study community
music activities in various cities
of this part of the world. and is
preparing to make many stops
Ell route home. She was in New
York for two or three weeks and
during her brief stay here has
been having profitable discussions
with Robert Lawrence. who has
our own community music in
charge.
THO a traveller from the East,
Il fed up with tales Of the de-
hatchery and devilment on foot
in Hollywood, it was a revelation
to be taken to the Hollywood
Bowl, to sit out under the stars
in this natural amphitheater,
ringed about by the hills. with
10000 others, so silent that one
could hear pin drop and that
not a note was lost Of the sonor-
GUS symphony music.
Out in Los Angeles when any
one says Bowl" someone else
Immediately chimes in MRS.
Carter" For this little lady il
the driving force behind the Or
ganization. She it is who SELLS"
the symphonies to the people of
Los Angeles, so that the bowl
concerts actually make money
with an admission fee Of 80 cents,
which is reduced to Is, I believe,
when season tickets are sold.
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TN the Pilgrimage Play, which is
4 the American Passion Play,
Los Angeles offers another great
measure Of inspiration. This is
presented in a beautiful little
canyon, just over the way from
the bowl, with the auditorium
open to the sky, the everlasting
hills for the back drop and much
of the action taking place on the
narrow trails passing up and down
the mountain which walls in the
tiny canyon. The moving story
OF Christ's ministry and passion
is presented in most reverend
fashion; and not even the irrev-
erent can see it without a genuine
thrill.
The Pilgrimage Play, which rep
resents the life work of the late
Christine Wetherill Stevens, is
being carried on az q memorial
to her--and memorial cross. out
lined in light, looks down from
the rim of the canyon. Mrs.
Carter is a member Of the board
or committee and is almost as
much interested in the success
of this undertaking as in the
bowl.
s.
Major and Mrs. Parker West will
a dinner company of four
teen this evening at their quarter
at the Soldiers Home when tn,
guests of honor will be the Score
tary Of the Interior and Mrs. Work