Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
In Capital Theaters

are James x. Francis, straight man;
Eddie Aiken, Juvenile straight, and Car
rigan and DeMuth, youthful dancers.
Special features are presented Monday,
Wednesday and Friday nights.
SOUSA'S BAND, Thursday.
GENERAL months ago Col. U. 8.
- Grant, Sd, and Representative Sol
Bloom of the George washington BIZ
centennial Commission invited John
Philip Sousa to write q march COM
memorating the 20Oth birth anniversary
of the first President of the United
States. After mulling over the idea,
Lieut.. Comdr. Sousa came forth with a
march that is said to equal any he
has ever written, and this he handed
to the Bicentennial Commission.
1t Is planned to have every band in
the United States play the George
Washington Bicentennial March" dur
ing the year 1932-the 200th anniver-
sary Of Washington's birth-and when
SouSa and his band appear for two
concerts in the Auditorium, Thursday
afternoon and night of this week, this
march will be featured. More, 1t will
be heard for the first time by many
members of the Bicentennial Commits
sion
Sousa, finishing his thirty-eighth an
nual tour of the United States, will
play his last public concerts of the tour
here at the Auditorium. Aside from the
"Bicentennial March" he will also play
many of his older marches His return
to Washington will be in the nature OF
a home coming, and it Is limited that
a grand celebration will be staged in
old-timers will gather to see the noted
bandmaster after the final concert next
Thursday night.
The United States Marine Corps will
be represented at one Of the concerts
when Sousa plays the march he wrote
in honor of the Devil Dogs; also an
other march, which is attracting at
tention, THE Royal Fusiliers," COM
posed in honor of the WEIGH regiment
that fought with the Marines in the
Boxer rebellion in China. A recent
order from the King Of England in
structed every military bandmaSter in
march in its repertoire.
JANET RICHARDS, Tomorrow
MISS JANET RICHARDS, who has
- Just returned from an extensive
European trip in the interest of her
lectures on Public Questions, has an
nounced the resumption Of her Mon
day talks on History in the Making"
tomorrow morning In the Masonic
Temple, New York avenue and Thir-
teenth street, at 1850 o'clock.
In addition to attending the Sep
TENDER sessions of the League of Ma
lions at Geneva and visiting the Inter-
national Bank at Basic, Miss Richards
revisited the devastated regions" OF
Belgium, now largely restored, and was
much impressed with the beautiful new
library at Louvain, built by American
generosity"
OF her interesting motor trip in
Spain, Miss Richards will speak briefly
from time to time on the Surprises OF
Modern SPAIN"
The. aftermath of the elections and
unsettled world conditions will claim
special attention at tomorrow's talk.
QUESTION OF THE HOUR, Friday.
MISS CLARA w. McQUOWN will
IA give her weekly talk on Questions
of the Hour in National and T1terna-
tional Affairs, Friday morniI.g at IL
O'Clock in the assembly rosm Of the
Washington Club. 1910 Seventeenth
street.
She will review briefly important
home matters and the progress OF the
Preparatory Commission in Naval Dis
armament now meeting at Geneva.
Her principal subject viii be Pales-
tine-a discussion Of the Balfour Dec
laration, the report of the Mandates
Commission and the recent declaration
Of British policy, experimenting her
analysis of the various documents with
her personal observations in Palestine
last April
These talks are given under the
auspices Of the Washington Club, but
are open to the public.