Evening star., 1933-02-12
Community Centers

The outstanding events in community
centers this week will be three of the
preliminary contests of the 1888 one-act
play tournament to be held Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday nights at East
Washington Community Center. Four
plays will be offered each night.
Community. Center Basket Ball
League games will be played at Central
High Wednesday evening. The Della
-Hudsons will play the Miller Fur
niture team, an the Mount Vernons will
play the Anacostia Business Mems team.
Columbia Heights Center announces
its mid-year fete, featuring dancing and
drama by various rhythmic and tap
dancing groups from johnson and Oys-
ter Centers, Saturday night at Powell
Junior High School.
Chevy Chase Center is featuring So
cial dancing for adults Saturday eve
| ming in Ben Murch School.
At Langdon School Building Monday
at l: lis and again at 3:15 o'clock there
Will be contract bridge groups under ex-
perienced leadership. At 3:15 the chill
orens rhythm, tap and drama groups
are open to new members
At Langley Center Saturday evening
| tnere VIII be ball room dancing in
struction and practice.
0aeAlcooe NcAtcI duuOuuceS the S1Xtn
| Tree lecture on health and home nurs-
ing by Florence Garrett Turner, r. N.
| Monday evening in Hine Junior High
Branch, when the special subject will
oe "Children's Diseases; also on We'd
nesday at o'clock, free public speaking
| instruction by Hazel Clark Taylor. At
| 6uchanan Branch of this center, Tues
day evening, the Southeast Citizens
association viii present "A Tribute to
the Genius Of John Philip Sousa," In
music and story, in which the United
states Marine Band, the Southeast Glee
CLUB, and the Estelle Wentworth group
Will play prominent parts.
Two meetings for boys will be held at
Ihomson Center to which all bows in
tne mldclty section are invited. On
tuesday evening boys from 16 to 20
years OF age are invited to be present
70 form club for boys. Thursday eve
ming the Young Boys Athletic Club. re-
Gently formed, win meet.
Park View Center announces special
classes Monday at o'clock for chill
dren wishing to take up rhythmic dane
ing and at 4 o'clock for those wishing
| 10 take tap dancing. These CLOUDS will
take part In the Children's Fairy Tale
FESTIVAL OF the Community Center De-
partment scheduled to occur in May.
AT Roosevelt Center the Play Insti-
tute OF the District of Columbia is
tuesday evening, and the Community
Center Basket Ball League game be-
tween Olmsted Grill and Congress
Heights teams. Monday evening there
VIII be league game between Griffith
Consumers and Delaware & Hudson
teams.
Negro history week VIII be celebrated
IN the various colored community CEN
ters beginning at Birney Center, Mon
day, when the speakers will be Repre-
sentative Oscar de Priest, Assistant
Supt. OF Schools Garnet Wilkinson and
w: H. c. Brown, president of the Indus
trial Savings Bank. Music will be rem
ney Choral Society, Dunbar High School
orchestra and the Columbia Quartet.
AT Burrville Center Tuesday night a
second Negro history program will be
held, with Mrs. Rose S. Netherland,
principal OF Burrville School, and Mrs.
Gabrielle Palham, general secretary of
the Community Center Department, as
speakers, and with an entertainment
program OF solos. readings and COM
munity singing
At Dunbar Center Friday night there
Will be match game between the Dun
bar basket ball team and the Armstrong
| Night School basket ball team. Regis
tration will take place for talented chill
dren for radio broadcasting rehearsals.
Negro history week will be continued
at Garfield Center Wednesday at 8
o'clock, when Prof. Kelley Miller of
Howard University will be the speaker
and the music will be rendered by the
Berry Sisters and other entertainers.
Lovejoy Center announces a class in
cooking at 3:15 o'clock Monday.
West Washington Center will hold a
dsg evenina % ,satrrg @ssn p1ogam spa singing Of
spirituals directed by Edward NJ Sy-
phax and an address by Rev. Herbert
King, pastor of Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church.