Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-13
FOODSTUFFS SHOW
WILL OPEN TONIGHT
Annual Display at Auditorium
to Get Under Way With
81 Booths.

It's 81 gaily decorated booths stocked
to overlooking with attractive displays
Of foodstuffs and the household equip
n1ent with which the preparation OF
most of them Is enhanced. Washington's
annual food show viii be opened In
the Auditoriunfat 1880 o'clock tonight.
Continuous demonstrations OF the lat
est developments in food uses and home
economics in general will be conducted
at many of the booths, while practically
all Of the exhibitors are prepared to give
away thousands of samples Of their
products.
An elaborate program Of entertain
ment and q schedule OF contests IN
which men and women and boys and
in CONT and artistic fields has been
prepared by the District Grocery So
ciety, sponsors Of the show. One daily
event which will be q feature Of the
matinee session will be the "happiest
baby contest, in which the youngster
between and years of are whom the
audience applauds most will IeSSsTS .:
present Of $3.50 in gold.
VeritabIe Food Exposition.
The show this year will be veritable
food exposition. Scores of carpenters
and decorators were busy late this
morning adding last-minute touches to
the booths around which thousands of
Washingtonians are expected to rnill
during the next 10 days. National man
ufacturers OF widely known products
have sent their representatives to the
Auditorium to show Washington house
wives the latest wrinkles in the appetite
ing preparation of Washington hus-
bands dinners. All the demonstrations
and displays of food products will be
seen against background OF pale green
and white, with which the booths are
latticed.
The first contest Of the show this
year will be an innovation, and all girls
with movie aspirations will have an
opportunity to try out for audience ap-
prevail and camera fitness. The compe-
tition will be q screen test, and the
audience will determine by the volume
Of its applause which of the contestants
introduced to 1t shall be photographed
tonight by motion picture cameras.
Only the girls who receive the approval
Of the audience will be given the actual
screen test, and all those whose pictures
are successful will be shown on Wash
ington theater screens before the end
Of the show, Saturday, November %.
The first matinee session of the food
show will be held tomorrow afternoon
from to 5 o'clock, and similar sessions
Of the show will be held each day there
aLter. Inc nappleSL DaDy contest Will
be feature each afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Dancers to Entertain.
The Six Carmody Dancers, troupe
Of Washington girls of high school age,
will entertain tomorrow night, while the
Masonic Glee Club Of so voices will be
heard Monday night.
After tonight the contest schedule
will include the following events:
Tomorrow night, the spaghetti eating
contest, for men and women; Friday
night, the women's long-hair contest;
Saturday night, solo dancing contest,
for girls more than 16 years of age;
Monday night, November 10, pie-eating
contest, for women, who will be required
to whistle after eating the pastry No
vefnber 10, syncopated fox-trot contest;
November 20, rolling-pin throwing con-
test, for women; November 81, solo
| dancing contest, for boys, and Noven1-
Der %, the red-hair contest, for girls.
The show Is under the supervision of
| the officers of the District Grocery So
ciety. including A. s. Kay. president:
| M. Vigderhouse, vice president: F. Ko-
god, treasurer; william Kessel. secre-
tary, and L. Denison, manager. w. p.
Mccain Is director of the show.