Evening star., 1936-04-26

social ana eQucatlOnal advancement.
She was also the first woman to be-
come executive secretary of the board.
As executive secretary of the Research
Commission of her State and member
ship on tn State Board of Public We'll
fare, she became identified with relief
work from its inception in Mississippi.
She was also q delegate to President
Hoover's child welfare conferences.
Hence, by experience and practice, she
came to Washington well equipped for
the national work.
She seemed particularly pleased
with the whooping cough immuniza-
tion work which the Grand Rapids,
Mich, Health Department Is con-
Quoting with w. p. A. in the interest
Of controlling childhood disease
which some medical men consider
more destructive to children than
diptheria, tuberculosis, measles or
scarlet fever. Mrs. Woodward claims
that some 403,4 women, many of
them on relief rolls who were eco
nomic heads Of families or had no
other support, have been put to work
on industrial, professional and edu-
cational projects. The Library of
Congress has had valuable and much
needed assistance in the work of re-
storing manuscripts and books. The
blind have received assistance in
Braille. Sewing and manual work
among women have perhaps received
the largest share Of guiding assistance.
Owing to ready-made wearing apparel,
dressmakers and seamstresses in small
as well as large towns found them
selves utterly out of work.
Out in Senator Champ Clarks State,
where they have to be shown, briefiess
female Portias were put to work on
helping to codify the laws. Mrs. Wood
ward says it has been most difiicult
to assist professional women during
the depression.
Junior Leaguers Puppeteers
In Intriguing Studio.
In q two-story brick stable and
carriage house in an alley back of
one of Washington's oldest and most
fashionable avenues Is the most in
triguing, most amazing, sportiest
studio in town. The eyes Of the Bo-
hemian artist colony of Mont Marie
would turn green with envy if they
saw that studio where those Junior
Leaguers, De Graffenreid Woolley-
Kentucky Woolleys, Prestons and
Wickliffs-and Mrs. H. L. Rust, jr.,
and others of the ilk work hours a
day making wonderful little puppets
and stage properties for their marion
cite shows, which they give for charity
and some times for worthy benefits.
Miss Woolley is bit puffed up Just
now over that first prize she recently
won for her bow-legged dwarf puppet
at the Baltimore Children's Theater
Conference, and Mrs. Rust Is a bit
elated over q property case which can
also be used as part Of the stage
scenery. It's a complicated gadget
and most ingenious. These young
women are proud of the good they
have been able to do with their
marionette shows. besides the interest
they have excited among children in
the public schools and elsewhere In
the artistic as well as the mechanical
side Of the art Of puppeteer!ng. They
say their puppets and stage have after
three years surpassed those used by
many Of the professional troupes. You
may have seen q dream walking, but
to see one Of these little figures walk
ing and dancing just like humans Is
almost eerie.
Coming from long line of states
men and lawyers as Miss Woolley did,
she thinks q thing out from its in
ception to its finish. The manipula-
ton of puppet is the most difficult
part Of the stage business. After
much research into anatomy she has
overcome much of this difficulty and
her improved designs are being used
by q number of marionette troupes
throughout the country. The stable
studio Is methodically arranged, the
stalls serving as small workshops for
the different arts and industries that
60 into the making Of puppet. For
instance, ballet dancers have q stall
to themselveS-by the way the pre-
miere danseuse Is simply bewitching,
with even me-hither-look in her
eyes-and think of it, she is made Of
a sort of wet-newspaper- -papier mache.