The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-29
WESTINGHOUSE
LAMPOONED AS
BLUNDERLAND
New Version of Classic
"Alice" Shows Up
Foibles. of Capital
By JEAN ELIOT.

SEFTHdE time has come, the
Walrus said, ''to talk OF many
things. OF shoes and ships and
sealing wax, of cabbages and kings
and more especially of the new
version OF an old classic to which
Washington is to be treated.
Paraphrases of the 1nlmltaDle
Alice" are perennial, but in alice
in cumberland" to be produced on
the evening Of April 30 at the VA,
tional Theater by the wise ana
Uittv members of the Twentieth
century Club there's a fresh slant
on a familiar subject. Described as
"a modern morality play" Wash
ington is lampooned and all Its
works in a fashion which ought to
be interesting to all OF us who have
suffered in one way or another from
the Inconsistencies OF our form OF
government.
picture the .4mad tea party,
with the Senate as the March
Hare" and the House as the Mad
Hatter''-or vice versa, it really
doesn't matter-chief1y preoccupied
with doing crossword puzzles. And
little Alice contrasted with Alice
grown-up-up about six feet, in
the person Of Mrs. Herman Gasch.
It isn't fair to tell too much ABOUT
the seven episodes. which are from
the pens of various club members,
but it is dollars to doughnuts that
no one win be. spared from the
world of high politics or from the
social sphere.
Song and Satire to Prevail as
Respects Are. Paid to Political Heads.
Song and sati-e viii prevail.
There's q gorgeous lyric after the
familiar "GValrus and the Carpenter
dealing with the ,cver-crowding OF
the street cars. Respects are PAID
to the public schools, with their
present platoon system" And
there's a lovely dig at Congress and
its failure to make appropriations
for the up-keep Of the Public LII
brary because-"onoe back In the
dim ages somebody threw book
at Summers head, and since then
books have been regarded as dan
gerous missiles"
And so it goes. A strict ward
Is being kept on tongue and pen
10 prevent it leaking out just who
il responsible for which episode,
but the women who have con-
tributed to the glittering fantasy
are Mrs. George Bowerman, Mrs.
Frederick e. Harrington, Mrs. Gasch
Marie Manning) Mrs. Lyman b.
Swormstedt, Gertrude Stevens and
Lillian Heron. Mrs. Eugene Byrnes
(Alice Stier Byrnes) has arranged
the music adapted to the lyrics.
The play is being put on for the
benefit of the Juvenile Protective
Association and the Travellers Aid.
Yesterday Mrs. Harrington had a
luncheon at her home for the mem
bers Of the cast, among whom are
Mrs. Gasch, Mrs. George w. Morey,
Mrs. Eugene Stevens, Mrs. SWORN
stedt, Mrs. Philip Sydney Smith,
Mrs. Gerritt Miller, Mrs. Robert
Sterling Yard, Mrs Austin Clark
Mrs. Jeffrey Crayke. Mrs. Ernest
r. McComas, Mrs. Frank w. Bal
lou, Mrs. Rutland Beard, Mrs. Rich
ard d. Stimson. Mrs. Melville Bell
Grosvenor, Miss Margaret Yard,
Miss Betty GreenIees. Mrs. William
Mansfield Clark. Mrs. Abner II.
Ferguson and Mrs. BENJAMIN e.
Smith.
. The Secretary of agriculture
and Mrs. Jardine nave engaged an
apartment at the Mayflower, where
they will make their residence next
year.
The Minister of Finland, Axel
Leonard Astrom, will entertain a
company of eighteen at dinner this
evening at the legation on Sixteenth
street.