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The Washington times., 1938-12-06

Sigma Phi Gamma Inter
national Sorority Delta
Sigma chapter, meeting, 8 p.
m, home Of Miss Mabel Zim-
norman, 100 block of c. st.
N. E.
Y. w. C. A.-Tuesday Eve
ming Dinner Group Of the
Business and Professional
W0men's Department, annual
Christmas dinner, $3.50 p. m;
Public Affairs Committee,
forum tea, 4:30 p. M, head
quarters, Seventeenth and X
Streets N. w.
Beta Sigma Phi Interna-
tional Sorority &C a m m a
chapter, meeting, 8 p. m,
1900 block Of New Hampshire
Ave. N. w.
Opport u nifty House
Luncheon, 1880 p. M, first
block Of 1 Street N. w.
Women's City Club
French class, IL a. M;
French luncheon, IL noon;
afternoon bridge, 1:15 p. M;
evening bridge, Z p. M, club
house, 700 block of Jackson
Pl.
National League of Ameri-
can Pen WOmen-D. O.
Branch, radio group, meet
ing, 8 p. M, studio, Grafton
Hotel.
Catholic Daughters of
America-C0urt District Of
Columbia, meeting, 1880 p.
M, Willard Hotel.
AmericaniZatiOn school
Association of the District Of
COlumbia-InternatiOnaI ba-
Zaar, 10 a. m. to 10 p. M.
Webster School, Tenth and
H Streets N. w.
Washington League of
Women ShOppers-SpOnSOr-
ing play, "Pins and Needles"
at National Theater; teas, at
home of six members, 4 to 6
p. m.
PIT. A. Henry, School
luncheon; PetwOrth meeting,
The Washington times., 1938-12-06
Women in Business
Washington SOrOptirniStS

Born and raised In OttumWa,
Iowa, Mrs. Stach graduated from
high school there and then took
a business course and studied
voice and piano She OBJ
tanned employment in a ready
to-wear section of a store and
her first salary was $3.50 a
week She thought she was
living in clover" with all that
money to spend on herself :. I.
Her next business venture took
her to Marshall Fields store in
Chicago where she gained addi-
tional eXperience-and better
salary. After her marriage in
1915, she went to Iowa City,
where her husband was in the
shoe business at the time
They came to the District of
Columbia in 1924 and estab-
lished their work mere In
addition to working, Mrs. Stach
enjoys keeping her own home
She enjoys cooking and
other domestic duties She
has been a member of the
Soroptimist Club since 1926 and
has served as a treasurer
She also is a member of the
Ladies Of the Maccabee {.
Making a striking appearance,
she is prematurely grey. and has
a gorgeous. crown Of naturally
curly white hair She has
clark hazel eyes, accentuated
with dark eyebrows Her
lovely youthful complexion
makes many a woman envious
=. Her sense Of humor has
come to her rescue many a time
She loves people and has
hosts of friends During the
summer she does much enter
tanning at her cottage on Chesa-
peake Bay At a party she
joins Fundamentally in all the
funmaking She and her
husband attend as many foot
ball and baseball games and
races as they can.
The Washington times., 1938-12-06
Daughters Open Session

Jones at the piano, will sing
Confederate Requiem" which
was written especially for the
U. D. C, by Virginia Frazier
Boyle.
After the services, the after
noon will be devoted to reports
of officers and of standing COM
mittee chairmen.
The evening program will be-
gin at 8 o'clock with a process
sional of color bearers, Division
ex-presidents, and present Of.
ficers. The invocation will be
given by Mrs. w. o. Owen,
chaplain.
Presidents of the chapters
will make their reports. A re-
port about the general conven-
tion held last month in Tulsa,
Okla, will also be given by the
delegates who attended. Elec-
ton of officers will conclude
the business for the evening.
The Washington times., 1938-12-06

Mrs. r. Stevens Pendexter,
president of the District of Co
lumbia Division, United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, was to
call to order the thirty-fifth an
nual local convention, this after
noon at 3 o'clock in Confederate
Memorial Hall, 1900 block Yer
mont Ave. N. w.
A memorial service for mem
bers who have died during the
past IL months will be con-
Quoted this afternoon by Mrs.
Maude Howell Smith, a past
Division president, assisted by
Mrs. Richard A. Allen, the i'm
mediate past president. This
service will be opened by
prayer by the Rev. John w.
Rustin, Of the Mt. Vernon
Memorial Church.
Mrs. Fannie Shreve Heartsill.
accompanied by Mrs. Vance
The Washington times., 1938-12-06

Someone with special knack of knowing
just what you like, and how to give it to you!
No one else could produce Car that's quite
so much fun as this slightly, spriehty Buick
quite so eye-gladdening thing to see, or
so prideful carriage to drive!
Step on the waiting treadle and you feel
like Johnny, when he first throws the
switch on his new electric train! Sit back
in its deep cushions -revel in its steady,
fluid, flowing gait and you wouldn't
The Washington times., 1938-12-06
Sunshine Society Maps Christmas Cheer Program
TOddu'S Club Calendar

8 p. m, preceded by execu-
tive meeting at Z p. m;
Buchanan, executive meeting,
1880 p. m; TruesdeII, study
group meeting, 1880 p. M;
Janney, fathers night, 8 p. m.
SOdality of St. Thomas
Apostle Church-Card party,
$3.50 p. m, Wardman Park
Hotel.
M. Eleanor Breckenridge
Club of the District of Co
Misunderstanding, home of
Mrs. E. w. Schwartze.
SisterhoOd of the Washing
ton Hebrew Congregation
Luncheon meeting, 1880 p.
M, Eighth and / Streets
N. w.
The WOman's Clinic-FirSt
of a series of bridge parties,
home of Mrs. Edward wit
man, 14OO block Of Kennedy
st. N. w.
p. E. 0. SisterhOOd-Meet-
ing Of Chapter H, 8 p. M,
home of president, Mrs. Rush
B. Lincoln, 310O block Of
Hawthorne st. N. w.
Marietta Park WOman's
Club-Meeting, home of Mrs.
Walter A. Neel, 200 block of
RittenhOuse st. N. w.
Columbia WOme of
George Washington Univer-
sity-BusinesS meeting and
tea, 4 p. M, Columbia House,
1000 block of G st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-12-06


MRS. CELIA M. STACH, CO.
A'A owner with her husband Of
Stach's, Inc, a shoe concern, is
proud of women's progress in
the world of industry She
is proud that she was able to
work shoulder to shoulder with
her husband and thinks it "a
pity" that more women do not
assume their place in business
She likes everything about
her work, but she gets special
thrill when she is allowed to
design shoes for someone
She accompanies her husband
to all the shoe conventions and
is planning to attend the Ma
tional Shoe Convention in Chi
cago next month :. Her great
grandfather was a pioneer in
Iowa He took his family
there in q covered wagon
The Washington times., 1938-12-06
Mrs. Charles Bdir
PrcSideS at
Meeting
BY MARY PADGETT

Enthusiastic plans for the
dispensing Of Christmas cheer
to the less fortunate were made
by members of the Sunshine
and Community Society yester-
day afternoon at the annual
Christmas meeting held at The
Henderson, on Sixteenth Street,
N. w.
Mrs. Charles H. Bair con-
Quoted the meeting. A gay
Yuletide spirit prevailed as the
assemblage Joined in the sing
ing of Christmas carols, led by
Mrs. Marie c. Deal, and Mrs.
William T. Reed played the
piano.
Every member brought a gift
TO the meeting, which will be
presented to the Old Ladies
Home in Georgetown at Christ
mas. In addition, the club voted
money to provide Christmas
party for the old folks. Mrs
e. H. FairleSS, chairman Of the
Old Ladies Home committee,
reported on these plans.
GARMENTS NEEDED
Mrs. E. B. Johns, chairman
Of the child welfare and school
committee, announced that the
Sunshine Club had outfitted 64S
children with clothing during
the past month, and that $50
children had been turned away
because of lack of clothing. Mrs.
John appealed to the member
ship for additional clothes and
materials to be made up into
children's garments by the club
members.
Mrs. John Mulford, chairman
of benevolence, revealed that 10
needy families had been pro-
Vided with food and clothing
during the last month. In add1-
ton to the provisions and
clothes which the club plans to
give these families for Christ
mas, the women also voted $25
to be spent for gifts for the indi-
Viduals.
The club also voted to pay the
cost of supplying 165 pounds Of
candy as its share Of providing
q Christmas for the forgotten
boys" at st. Elizabeths Hospital.
Mrs. r. F. Danforth made this
report.
PARTY FOR CHILDREN
A holiday party will also be
given for the children at the
Central Union Missions Emer"
gency Home, as reported by Mrs.
Archie T. Reid, chairman Of Cos
pei Mission. The club voted $25
to buy articles Of clothing for
these children.
At the present time members
are also engaged in making
ScrapbookS for Children'S Hos
pital.
Mrs. j. Edwin Reid and Mrs.
jefferson Davis presided at the
tea table following the meeting.
Among those attending the
meeting were Mrs. H. Stuart
Boyer, second vice president;
Mrs. H. A. MatSon, recording
secretary; Mrs. M. H. UelSmann.
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
r. Claude Wright, treasurer;
Mrs. Samuel G. Keery. auditor;
Mrs. Worthington Bean. Mrs.
Henry F. Sawtelle, Mrs. Edward
Stevens, Mrs. j. Noble Hoover,
Mrs. John B. Morrey, Mrs.
Charles P. Grandfield, Mrs. H.
Z. HuntSberry, Mrs. Lewis e.
Ryan. Mrs. B. C. Kennedy and
Mrs. c. M. johnson, jr.
The Washington times., 1938-12-06
First Lady
At Bridge-Ted

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
heads the list of patronesses for
the benefit bridge-tea to be
given by the Washington Unit
of the Women's overseas Serv-
ice League Saturday at the Sui
grave Club.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Washington times., 1938-12-06

MRS. WILLIAM MORRIS,
who will supervise the kitchen
committee for the annual tur-
key dinner to be given at the
Shrine of the Sacred Heart
tomorrow and Thursday
nights, in the parish hall, Six
teenth Street and Park Road
Northwest, is planning to cook
more than $500 pounds of tur-
key for the event. Mrs. Nor
riS has directed this phase of
the annual dinner for a num-
ber Of years.
The Washington times., 1938-03-19
By ED SULLIVAN

HOLLYWOOD, March 19.
ORETTA YOUNG with hairdress, the hair all frzzed
II up in front Gene Aury, in breathcatchng green
t hoe cowboy stars of the movies quiet dressers
Duncan MacMartin, South African millionaire, leading
the band the Glover Club MacMartn is we'll liked by
musicians sending them dozen bottles of champagne when
he enjoys their music half buried in mud Sunset
Boulevard souvenir Of the storm Prince Mike Romanof
gazing curouy the Ashley crest Mrs Douglas Fairbanks
car Only other in with crest Connie Bennetts
bearing the armoral legends of the Marquis de la Faase
Gilbert Roland dancing the rhumba and chewing gum Very
difficult to chew gum time to the off beat of the rhumba
SHIRLEY TEMPLE, her plump legs indicating that she
won't be baby much longer Tyrone Power between
camera shots asks one of the helpers the Alexander
Ragtme Band to find out what horse won the second
Jack Haley the drummer IN the band calls out to
Director Henry King and betays his Boston background by
slurring his s Bostonans never lose their accent no
matter how far away they wander from State Street Una
Mek distressed because her legs broken IN the
Storm hit by dislodged boulder At Warmers, Enrol
Flynn, Walter Connolly, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G.
Robinson play with miniature trains They haven't gone
daffy; it's publicity eup with "Fours Crowd" in
which Connolly eccentric millionaire has toy trains in
Of his house Seems that Robert Young had
toy train in one picture which served salt and pepper
THLEANOR POWELL and her ma . :. Mrs Bob Hope and
- her ma -. Ethel Norman and her ma Pat OBren
Hollywood Robert Taylor in his dressing reading
brochure Arab stations trying to learn something about
horses because his Barbara them Billy Baecher and
Meredith Wilson in hudde at the Brown Derby Terry
de Lapp and Bob Gham Paramount advertising head eat
ing spaghetti at Luceys The broadshouldersd Glham
The Washington times., 1938-03-19

asks for autograph The town using Make Roenbooms
squech 'I don't think it's funny" Groucho Marx refus
to go to Santa Anita because he's afraid he'll find the
director still shooting "a Day at the Races"
TNvERETT JACOBS, wealthy New Yorker with Joe
~ Schenck and Billie Seward Charlie Mccarthy, the
only guy in town who safe during the storm While
the storm raging Bob Tapnger Warner publicity chief
stopped at North Hollywood place for supper and started
off his order with request for soup Cant have soup,
the startling answer "The cook amt got water
The cook the only in town with that complaint
Bette Davis and Joel McCrea exiting from their radio
broadcast Dean Markham and his bride, Ruth Clark
noted ciggie model The town startled at Mae Vests
recordcrackg vaude appearances The broadcast that
supposed to be her song worked with reverse
English . =. Anna May Wong in the Warner commissary
=. What ever happened to Sessue HayakawaH LYDIA
Robert who started auspcousy in ckers and then
faded out Curious that Eddie Cantor has made lot
of stars via his radio program but that performers who
in his pictures rarely places Peter Sisters are the
only exception the rule Autograph fans mobbng Glenn
Mccarthy after the good news" broadcast "My, my,
says Glenn. You'd think glamour girl"
A LETTER from girl who eyeglasses protesting
that every time the movemakers wish to characterize
trump the SCREEN they show her wearing glasses
"There thousands upon thousands of girls who
glasses protests the letterwriter land feel sensitive
enough about it without going to the movies and seeing
selves rdicued Every time the movies want to suggest
that girl impossibly dowdy they attach eyeglasses to
her. You ympahize with the protestant and the girls
for whom she speaks. Glasses generally token of
sudious incnaons the naive theory that guy girl
who glasses out the eyes studying Harold
Lloyd suppose responsible for turning glasses into
comedy prop and probably the movies realized they
hurting fans feelings by putting specs on actresses
The Washington times., 1938-03-19
jane Withers, Soon II, Plan!
Birthday Party in Air

offer, but the child finally won
her over.
Jane reported back to Twen-
tieth Century,Fox yesterday for
the first time since she returned
from the Eastern tour. She was
helping Director Richard Leeds
testing other little girls for her
next picture, Hello, Hollywood"
tentatively scheduled to go into
production April !.
The incest thing about Mrs.
Withers and jamie is they both
make every effort to get parts
for those little girls who were
generous to Jane when they
were hard up and she was only
an extra at s. to $3.50 a day.
James birthday comes Just II
days before Shirley Temple 1t
9. Those two birthdays in
one month mean tremendously
heavy work at the studio. Since
Shirley rates No. / at the box
office there will be thousands
Of presents, from every corner
Of the globe. Christmas presents
still are coming IN for both Of
them.
The Washington times., 1938-03-19
'JezebeI' Due
March Is

Bette Davis comes to the
Earle Theater Friday In "Jeze-
bel," dramatic story of the Old
South before the Civil War, in
which she is said to have her
finest role. On the stage, the
Lawn Party Revue" will be
presented with a host Of enter
tainers.
"Jezebel" presents Bette Davis
as beautiful Southerner, spoiled
and Selfish-a young woman
who was "meanest when she
was loving most" Two leading
men appear with her-Henry
Fonda and George Brent.
William Wyler produced and
directed this Warner Bros pic
ture, based on the stage play by
Owen Davis, sr. In the talented
The Washington times., 1938-03-19
Jim my Stern
Rotes 'Jezebel'
As First Class
"JezebeI"
Rating: Excellent

Produced by warner Brothers.
Starring Bette Davis with Henry
Fonda and George Brent. Directed
by william .WyleT. From the play By
Owen Davis, or. Screen play by
john Huston. Photographed By
Ernest Haller. Special musical score
by Max Steiner. Henry Blanke, as
sOCiate producer. Hal Wallis, sxecu-
tive producer.
Just as Katharine Cornell and
Helen Hayes are first ladies"
of the footlighte and have long
held that enviable position, so
does Bette Davis prove, once
and for all and conclusively. that
she is q first lady" of the
cinema.
Through some awkward slip
up, Bette once missed winning
an academy award. That mis-
hap will never occur again.
And she might, II given such
excellent material as Warmers
"Jezebel," win it many years in
succession.
There has been considerable
Hollywood talk to the effect
that Gone With the Wind" and
"Jezebel' were similar in theme.
They resemble one another only
in locale and the fact that the
heroine Of "Jezebel" is a selfish,
flighty, spoiled, fiery and often
temperamental Southern belle.
This slight similarity certainly
shouldn't cause Producer David
o. Selznick any worry, except,
perhaps that he can't have
Bette Davis for his Scarlet
O'Hara. If there ever was an
actress for Scarlett, it is de-
finitely Bette Davis!
But to return to "Jezebel," Q
thrilling drama of the South. .
New Orleans during the yellow
fever epidemic of 1853. honor.
bound, traditional ladies and
gentlemen of the South. q
spunky, selfish belle who toyed
dangerously with mems hearts,
caused many a duel "for the
fun Of it," thoughtlessly hurt
many a person, ended UP by
running her own love, redeemed
herself IN a last minute sacri-
flee.
To adequately descrjSe Bette
Davis in this brilliant portrayal
there is but one superlative, su-
perb! There isn't a moment that
she Is on the screen that she
isn't entirely histrionically fas-
cinating.
Long an admirer Of youthful
megaphonist, William Wyler, it
is indeed a pleasure to write that
this Is by far his best produc-
tion. A notewhorthy job!
The cast Is headed by such
sterling performers as Henry
Fonda, George Brent, Margaret
Lindsay. Donald Crisp, Fay
BANTER Richard Cromwell,
Henry O'Neill, Spring Byington,
Margaret Early and others.
Headman Jack Warner, Asso,
ciates Hal Wallis and Henry
Blanke, the writer's, Musical Di.
rector Max Steiner, and all
others connected with the pro.
duction deserve a rousing cheer
for e production of par-excel.
lenceI
The Washington times., 1938-03-19
By MILTON HARKER
Copyright, 1881

HOLLYWOOD March 10
Q.N.sO-First movie star to-
go up In the air on her birth
day, Jane Withers, just IL on
April IL. will hold her party in
a giant 21.passenger transport
plane.
Jane and her little guests
won't get as far off the ground
as she would like to go. Her
mother, Mrs. Ruth Withers, de-
creed today an altitude Of five
or six feet would be sufficient
and that most Of the time the
plane would just taxi around
Grand Central Airport at nearby
Glendale.
The plane has been put at
command Of the little star, now
ranked sixth In the industry in
box office appeal, by American
Airlines.
Mrs. Withers, knowing Janie'S
propensity Of excitement, at
first was Ioath to accept the
The Washington times., 1938-03-19

used grid star at Williams when Joe Brooks coached
at wlliamstown and Fritz Pollard at Brown Bill
Corum showing Warren Brown his ticket Pompoon in
men helping four old ladies in black satin out of one the
local gaming houses Once week. the eight oldsers
rive play roulette for hour and then exit the old ladies
resting the old gentlemens and the old gentlemen
supporting themselves startling sight in
America but Monte Carlo the bulk Of the patrons
whehared veterans still confident that day their
System" will click.
At the Rolerdrome Edgar Kennedy YEARLY doing "sow
burns for the crowd really burning because Of them
The Washington times., 1938-03-19

cast are such well-known per-
formers as Margaret Lindsay,
Donald crisp, Fay BANTER, Rich
ard Cromwell, Henry O'Neill,
Spring Byington and John Litel.
On the stage, the Lawn
Party Revue will feature the
original Aunt Jemima (TesS
Gardella), a well-known person
atty on stage, screen and radio.
The Radio RogueS, Lathrop
Brothers and Virginia Lee, the
BalabanoWs in their accordion
revue, and the Reddingtons COM
plete the program.
The Washington times., 1938-03-19

Town, at his unique community
near Omaha. I think I'll be
playing one of the part in the
picture, Boys Town." when it
goes into production. Mickey
Rooney e also set for q big part.
And all the luck in the world
10 you.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Airport is made as safe and adequate
as possible. And yet, Congress, year
after year, bangles over the heads Of
Washington Airport owners the threat
that some day, possibly, the Federal
Government will construct here an air
port which will put the present airport
out Of business
In the face of this continuous threat,
it is impossible for private capital to
undertake the large-scale land acquisi-
ton and development program necessary
to improve the local airport, even to the
possible limits.
In way, it would be mercy if Con-
gress were to confess frankly:
1T is impossible for the great and
powerful Congress OF the United States
to solve so small problem as the selec-
ton of an airport site for the city of
Washington. For twelve years we have
grappled with this great problem and are
baffled. But we will no longer stand in
the way Of private capital which through
the years has given Washington an air.
port-of sorts-where Congress has
failed. We can't cope with the problem
so we will step aside and no longer
threaten you. We relinquish to private
enterprise task too great for the
National Congress. Garry on, with our
blessings"
Evening star., 1938-04-20
The Truck Peril.

When ten-ton concrete mixer truck
jumped the curb in Pennsylvania avenue
at Third street yesterday and ran down
j. Leroy Stem of Vigo Park, Texas, the
people of Washington were afforded
tragic dramatization of the need for
more drastic control of the operation of
heavy motor vehicles. The weight of
such Juggernauts, manifestly, makes
them particular peril in traffic Run
ming wild, they create havoc in propor-
tion to the power represented in them.
OF course, the problem is not new.
Thoughtful citizens have been conscious
Of it for years. What is wanted for its
correction, it seems, is a speed regula-
ton rigid enough to govern such
machines. A ten-ton vehicle simply
should not be driven at a pace as
hazardous as that responsible for Mr..
Stems death. The operator of the truck
admitted that "his brakes failed him
when he tried to stop suddenly behind
bus loaded with school children"
Obviously, the basic fault was haste.
Moving cautiously and reasonably in the
city's most important thoroughfare, the
driver would not have been obliged to
attempt sudden stop. He blsmes his
brakes, yet they probably would not have
failed" under normal strain. The fact
is that in the emergency he expected
more OF them than they could do.
TWenty-seven fatalities in the Nations
Capital since January l prompt con-
sideration of revision of prevailing
speed regulations downward. Especially
Tor heavy trucks, there ought to be
law" definite enough to stop such
slaughter as that of yesterday,
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Wage-Hour Legislation
Would React on Congress


1t seems strange that those Govern
ment officials who are so anxious to pass
wage and hour law, to win labor union
approval, don't realize that they will
make many enemies If they do. It is
very unfair to pass such law without
including all workers, and there will be
many hundreds of thousands of the un-
derprivileged classes not in it, farm
workers, those in domestic service etc.,
who must work from Is to 18 hours q
day when their employers demand it at
times.
If this bill should pass, then we can
show our disapproval of such injustice
by voting against those ambitious poll
ticians in Congress at election time. It
is all the more amazing that this bill
is actually being pushed along by q
woman member of the House of Repre-
sentatives, for woman knows only too
well the long hours, and in many cases
low wages, of those in domestic service
at least As all House members are up
for election in November, we can re-
member this injustice and make our
votes count against them then.
If it is not possible to pass legislation
helping us, then none should be passed
at all. In the midst of such a severe
depression as we are in now, everybody
should be treated with equal fairness.
AGNES DQSRR.