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Community Centers

Central High School Community
Center will organize a players club
Wednesday night This new drama
group, which is open to beginners, as
well as to the more experienced players,
will be conducted each Wednesday
night under the direction of Miss Bess
Davis Schreiner, assisted by well-known
authorities on voice and diction and
pantomime.
Another innovation will be the or
ganization of two art classes under the
direction of Russell C. Par, formerly
of the American College at Athens,
Greece, and a well-known American
artist. He will conduct a class in
"stagecraft" on Tuesday evenings be-
ginning November Z, at 7:3O, and a
class in practical design" on Monday
evening at 7:3o. beginning November G..
Members Of all basket ball teams
and spectators at the games scheduled
at Roosevelt Center are asked to make
use OF the gymnasium entrance at
Thirteenth and Upshur streets and not
to use the entrance to the main aca-
demic building opposite Webster street,
as this entrance Is reserved for the
use OF night school students exclusively.
Events this week at Mckinley High
School Community Center include the
Jobs Daughters drill team, wednesday,
both at 7:30 pm.
The usual schedule of activities will
obtain at Langley Center, with the
lexington Players holding a rehearsal
under the direction Of Mrs. Marie Moore
Forrest on Wednesday, and the forma-
ton OF a new class in Esperanto the
same evening. New activities on Friday
evening include class in ball room
dancing directed by Mrs. Margaret Reed
Klncannon at z; class in contract
bridge directed by Mrs. Maribel Lind
say at 7:30; public speaking and
parliamentary law class taught by Mrs.
Rose Arnold Powell at 745. and
community dance with orchestra music
at $50.
Mrs. Gladys Bennion will conduct a
junior drama group Wednesday at 3:15;
Miss Sara Bergling a class in rhythm
and tap dancing in Burroughs Center,
and at Langdon Center on Friday at
BIS Mrs. Forrest will conduct a juve-
nile group in drama, to be later trans
ferred to the new Taft School when
it opens. A tap class is also being
conducted for Taft Junior High School
pupils at Langdon Center on Fridays
at 3:15.
At Southeast Center first-aid group
for athletic boys and others will be
formed in the near future in Hine
Junior High branch of this center. Mrs.
NJ. w. Davis Is receiving registrations
for classes in parliamentary law and
public speaking, contract bridge and
the new drama group being conducted
by Mrs. Forrest at this center. The
Esperanto study group meets Wednesday
evening. with Carl H. Vartia as In
structor. Social evening will be held
Thursday from $50 to II o'clock in
Buchanan Auditorium.
Birney Center is open Monday eve
ming at 7:30; also Wednesday and
Thursday afternoons at 3:15. Garfield
Center has community night Wednesday
at 7:30. This week Halloween dance
will be held at this center that eve
ming at o'clock.
A Halloween party will also take place
at Burrville Center, sponsored by the
Burrville Women's Club, Tuesday eve
ming. West Washington Center will
be open Wednesday evening for ath-
letics, and Friday evening at o'clock
for women'S arts and crafts class.
Both these centers and Dunbar Center
are unoer the o1recClon OF MRS. carrie
j. Knox. The weekly schedule at Dun
bar Center includes playground activi-
ties each afternoon, and evening events
for adults and Juniors on Thursday and
Friday, when athletics, drama. games,
music and dancing are available to all
corners.
Four evenings each week Garnet
Patterson Center is open to the public.
Music, drama, first aid, home hygiene,
practical nursing and other study
groups are being formed for Tuesday
to Friday evenings, inclusive. Mrs.
Forrest is conducting course Of dra-
matte lectures at this center Thursdays
from $3.50 to o'clock.