Evening star., 1925-01-03
PETER PAM BRINGS
Joy TO CHILDREN
EeWSboyS and Wards of
Three Homes Guests of Star
and Theater Today.

The tnal episode of a four-day the
ater party. undertaken by The Star
and the Columbia Theater for the
boys and girls in the various chill
drens institutions in Washington.
was held this morning, augmented by
more than $50 boisterous Star news
'7t iIerS' Peter Pam in its original
nook form, has delighted millions of
little hearts, but the Peter Pan as
portrayed by Betty Bronson in the
Famous Players-Lasky production.
which closes most eventfuI week at
inc Columbia tonight, has endeared
|, himself in the hearts of more than
600 OF The Stars little friends, who
nave peen It's guests on annual out
lngs TO Marshall Hall in the past.
The institutions represented TODAY
were the Baptist Home for Children.
So4 Newton street northeast; S5vart-
zen Methodist Home for Children. POI
flttenhouse street, and German Or
phan Asy ylum, Anacostia, D. c.
Cars Unable TO Run.
The outlook for the day was not
bright in the Baptist Home, which
was scheduled to see Peter Pan" YES
iefday, but was prevented by the in
. clement weather. There were about
40 children wild with authorization
Tor the time to start, but in the minds
or the more experienced it was not
known how they ever would reach
the theater.
1t previously had been planned to
nave the children come down on the
brookland street car line and return
III d special car over the same route
but the company could not get any
street cars running beyond North
Capltol street and Michigan avenue.
Automobile traffic in that oulving
nut The Star chartered a tremendous
car OF the Red Star Line, whose Off
cials promised they would do their
pest TO get out to the home and also
cali for the children at the theater
when the performance was over.
with the admonition from The Star
ringing In their ears that they would
be guilty of the greatest crime ever
perpetrated if they disappointed these
children after they had been promised
the entertainment, they dispatched
thelr largest and what appeared their
best bus on the uncomfortable iour-
ney. To make a long story short, it
arrived with it's happy passengers at
the door of the Columbia right on
time.
Reach Theater on Time.
street car riding was far more ex-
peoltlous than automobile traffic out
TO RIttenhouse street and over to
Anacostia, and the children from the
SWartZell Home and the German Asy-
Ium had no difficulty in making the
theater on time. Owing to the large
number from the latter institution, a
special street car of the Washington,
Railway and Electric Co. was engaged
TO pick them up at Eleventh and F
streets at l o'clock and convey them
right through to Anacostia
Candy from Brownley's and bal
looms from Chapin-Sacks Ice Cream
Co have been sent to the inst Itutions
represented at the four-day party for
distribution there, it having been i'm
possible to give the souvenirs out at
the theater owing to congestion
The Star carriers under command of
Gait Burns, circulation manager, as
sisted by the various route agents, as
sembled on the Eleventh street side
of the building at 9:45 and then the
staff photographer did his hardest
days job of the week in trying to
photograph the rdgety mob of boys
who are just at the age where it is
d1n1cult to keep them still and also
quiet. The task finally accomplished,
the order to proceed was given and a
mad rush was made for the Columbia
The boys bore down on the theater
and were tagged to the Twelfth
street emergency exit for admission
to the theater, thereby insuring the
prevention OF CONGESTION In tho al