Evening star., 1937-12-22
CAPITAL RUSHING
PREPARATIONS FOR
JOYOUS YULETIDE
Church and Lay Groups
Schedule Celebrations
for Holy Holiday.
NEEDY WILL SHARE
CHRISTMAS BOUNTY
Carol Voices to Ring in Prelude.
Child and Adult Parties En-
phasize Gay Season.

Washington today went into the
final stages of its Christmas prepara-
tlons, with only two more shopping
days remaining and with the deadline
for even local Christmas mailing
drawing close
The Washington City Post Office has
called into action the final detach-
ments of an army of $500 additional
temporary employees to handle the flood
OF Christmas mail and expected to
have the situation well in hand before
closing time on Christmas Eve.
The Church of the Epiphany will
hold its annual candlelight service
from 5 to 6 pm. tomorrow as its
Christmas gift to the people of Wash
ington. The church choir, under di-
rection of Adolf Torovsky, will sing
HaWleys cantata, The Christ Child,
and the program will close with a
carol composed by Mr.. Torovsky, Soft
ly the Stars Were Shining" There
will be half-hour organ recital pre-
ceding the cantata for the benefit of
those who come early to obtain seats.
Party for Boys Club.
Members of the Boys Club of Wash
ington will be guests of the Washing
ton Rotary Club at Christmas party
at 730 O'Clock tonight in the Central
High School auditorium The guests
will be boys between 6 and 16 who are
members OF the Police Boys Club,
Washington Boys Club, Georgetown
Boys Club, Merrick Boys Club and
Northeast Boys Club. Buses and pri-
vate cars will be used to transport
more than 1900 boys from their clubs
to the school
The Rev. Peter Marshall, pastor of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, will be guest speaker at the
Rotary Club party. The program will
include vaudeville acts furnished by
Carter Barron, manager of Loew's
Theaters, and music by the Police
Boys Club Band j. B. Luttes is
chairman of the committee in charge
of arrangements.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is to be
among those present at the annual
Central Union Mission Christmas
party to be given at am tomorrow
at Loew's Capitol Theater. Mrs.
Roosevelt will be introduced by Mrs.
John S. Bennett, superintendent of
the mission.
Between 1900 and LOO Christmas
bags. containing clothing and toys, will
be distributed. Music will be fur
nished by the Marine Band Orchestra,
under direction of Capt. Taylor Bran
son.
Pupils of the John Burroughs
School, Eighteenth and Monroe streets
NE, will present a pageant of the
flrst Christmas at 8 pm tomorrow.
The Glee Club. directed by Miss Mar
garet Davis, will sing and the pageant
will be directed by Miss Marie Turner
and Mrs. Florence Lawson. Among
members of the cast will be Virginia
Sherman, Preston Smith, June Hen
messy, Billy Scott, Dick Mattingly,
Frank Ralston and Wilfred Hopkins.
A school assembly was held this morn
ing, at which children of the school
presented toys, clothing and food they
have collected for the needy of Wash
ington.
Celebration at Randall Center.
The Randall Community Center will
hold a community Christmas celebra-
ton at 9 pm. toda. in the Randall
Junior High School, First and I
streets S.W. A community tree will be
lighted and there will be candlelight
procession and pageant, with music
by groups of colored choral singers.
The annual Christmas play of the
Holy Name School will be given at
$3.50 O'Clock tonight in the new school
hail. West Virginia avenue and Neal
street NE
Carolers or strolling minstrels will
sing Christmas songs aboard some of
the principal ,-ains of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad tomorrow. The sing
ers are members of the B. & o.
Women's Music Club, which for more
than 10 years has sung Christmas
carols in shops, stations and Office
buildings of the railroad in Baltimore
at Christmas time Following a
precedent established 13 years ago,
the B. & o. will have Christmas trees
on the Capitol Limited and National
Limited. Candies and toys will be
given to children travelling on these
trains.
The Wonder Club of Barney Neigh
borhood House, 470 N street S.W., will
hold its annual Christmas party at
7:30 O'Clock tonight. The club is
composed of girls from Is to 10.
The kindergarten Christmas program
will be held at 7:30 pm. tomorrow
Parents of the children will be ad-
dressed by Coleman Jennings. former
Community Chest campaign chairman.
Children's Chorus to Sing.
The annual Christmas carol program
OF the Children's Chorus, under the
auspices of the Washington Council
of Social Agencies, was scheduled for
AIS pm. today in the main exhibit
hall of the Library of Congress. The
chorus of $50 voices was to be ac-
companied by members of the Marine
Band
The Sixth International Christmas
Broadcast by children of diplomats
representing Is foreign countries was
to be held from to 4:3O pm. today
from the Carlton Hotel, under the
sponsorship of the Greater National
Capital Committee of the Washington
Board of Trade Members. of the
Marine Band also were to participate
At Georgetown University Hospital
a Christmas tree party was to be helo
in the dispensary at 3:l5 pm. today
The program included motion pic.
lures for children Of the neighbor.
hood Santa Claus was to present
gifts of toys and clothing to so boys
and girls Christmas Eve, from tt
10 pm. the Georgetown nurses will
sing carols in the corridors.
A living Christmas tree, given By
an anonymous donor to the Washing.
ton Federation of Churches, has beer