Evening star., 1933-01-29
Community Centers

Events in the 1888 D. c. basket ball
tournament. sponsored by the Com
munity Center Basket Ball League, will
take place this week at community
centerS. Also at Central Community
Center, Tuesday and Thursday eve
nings, will be rehearsalS of the Lisa
Gardiner Dancers and the Alice Louise
| Hunter dance group, in preparation for
the Bal Boheme of the Arts Club early
in February
At Bancroft School tomorrow Tues
day and Friday, at 3:l5 O'Clock. Miss
Ivy Randall Will conduct Children'S
groups In rhythmic dancing. in prepara-
ton for the annual children's festival
of the Community Center Department,
in which more than 500 boys and girls
in the city's community centerS will
participate. Mrs. Catherine Otterman
is in charge Of community work in
Bancroft Center
At Columbia Heights Friday evening
will be rehearsal Of the Bartfield
Players, in preparation for the D. c.
one-act play tournament. which opens
February IA at East Washington Com
munity Center Twenty-four one-act
plays are entered.
At Chevy Chase Center. in Ben
Murch School Building Edward Mel
cher. dramatic editor of The Evening
Star, will speak en- The New Ameri-
can Drama" Thursday evening, to be
followed by reading of Rachel
Crothers play, What They Think" by
the Troupers Of East Washington Com
munity Center Also Saturday evening,
the Boy Scouts of Troop will pre-
sent program in conjunction with the
center featuring an original skit THE
Pen Is Mighter Than the Sword" and
other events.
At East Washington Center Wednes-
day evening the Troupers will hold q
rehearsal of THE Welt at the Door"
to be entered in the D. C. one-act play
tournament In February Week end
community program of sound pictures
and music. followed by a community
dance from $50 to IL o'clock, in the
armory Saturday night.
New members are invited to join the
Contract Bridge Club directed by Mrs
Mirabel Lindsay Saturday evening at
Langley Community Center Mrs. D. E.
Middleton, community secretary, an
nounces an afternoon bridge club,
which will meet Monday at 3:15 in
Burroughs School. which new members
are invited to join.
The District of Columbia Play In
stitute will open its 1888 season of six
evening sessions at Roosevelt Center,
beginning Tuesday. The sessions will
be from to 10 o'clock each Tuesday
evening for six weeks.
The comic opera. THE Mikado." will
be featured at Roosevelt Friday eve
ming, to be presented by the Estelle
Wentworth opera group. Other activi-
ties will be held Monday and Tuesday
nights.
Southeast Center announces the con-
tinuation Of the public speaking course
under the direction of Mrs. H. c. Tay-
lor on Wednesday evenings in Hine
Junior High branch Of the center
At Thomson Center, Mrs. Marie
Moore Forrest will reorganize the Play
Makers, former well known drama
group of this center, Tuesday evening.
Men and women are invited. A series
of one-act plays will be rehearsed at
once. On Thursday evening an ath-
of and IA years will be organized,
under the direction of Winfree E.
Johnson. All boys are invited to attend.
Featured activities at the colored
centers include: Preparation at Birney
and Garfield Centers for the forth
coming Negro History Week; type
writing classes at Burryville Center,
Tuesday at 7 O'Clock, open to all per-
sons desiring instruction; radio class
for adults and an aviation class for
young people, from to o'clock on
Friday evening at Dunbar Center; the
Amphion Glee Club, under the direc-
tion of j. Henry Lewis, at Garnet-Pat-
terson Center Thursday evening from
to 1890, and at Lovejoy Center, on
Monday afternoon at 3:l5, Children's
<Hf- m
E. Bradshaw, to which all boys and
girls are invited