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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Zero Hour Near

II dispatches from Berne are correct in their
deductions, the hour Of Britain's supreme test
Is approaching. And the surprising aspect OF
the reports is that Hitler apparently plans an
invasion of the British Isles. In light Of events
during the last month it was supposed that he
would continue his air bombings until he had
succeeded in reducing Britain and the British
people to complete detection and then proceed
.sither with an attempt to land troops tor a
mopping-up campaign or for a blockade. To
find that he is about to launch an expedition
sry force SO soon must mean either that he
Is satisfied his bonbers have finished their
task or that he is ready to stake all on a
blitzkreig. In either case. Britain obviously
must prove her superior fighting power or 80
the way Of so many European countries since
the Norwegian fiasco.
It is interesting to note that the Nazi fuehrer
has consented to Mussolini's participation in
the forthcoming effort, although in a minor
role. Token landings are to be made by Italian
troops; if they can do II, but for the main part
irDuce's forces will be used to protect the in
Vaders at sea with naval and air conveys. But
the Italian dictator is to have a hand in the
battle, if only in feeble imitation OF Caesar.
4taly's principal part is in the Mediterranean,
where she viii be expected to engage the
British fleet attack Gibraltar and other Brit
tsh strongholds In that area, and continue her
nuisance campaign a. best she can. Thus far
ataly's best has been bad, for the Axis. Musso-
lini must display much more fighting power
than he has thus far exhibited, if he is to be
q potent force in the Battle Of England.
AZ the zero hour approaches the eye Of the
world is on the tight little isle. Everybody out
side the war zone will watch the battle, not
only to see il the British channel IL still a
barrier and if the British defenses are ade.
-4date. but to plan for the future according to
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Man About

By George Tucker

NEW YORK, July 31.-Being ev-
er vigilant to do its duty by its
customers, this department here
with commends to your attention
he whimsical antics of a trio OF
humorists who, after seven years
Of shutting their art between bar
gain Easements and county fairs,
have come into some belated and
deserved recognition.
They are known professionally
as the Three Pitchmen. Their in
dividual names are Al CAM, AL
Meyers, and Vince Lapolla. Their
forte is mimicking band leaders
and musical instruments with ka.
ZOOS, and in our opinion they are
every bit the equal of the -Four
Radio Rogues.
CAM is the tallest one, and while
he plays the kazoo he mimics with
a collapsible phoney trombone that
he keeps to his nose. Al Meyers,
his brother-in-law, has a collapse
BILE fiddle, and does all the talking.
Lapolla is the pianist. So adept at
kazoos are they that they can du-
plisate the tona1 extremeties OF Ha-
waiian orchestras and brass bands.
Their pantomime is exquisite.
caught them in the Rainbow Room,
which is the first big league club
they have ever played. ITS the
first roof they ever had over their
heads" explained Ed Seay
(rhy1nes with teal Of Texas.
CAM explained that he and his
friends we're doing a pitch in
one Of the Manhattan stores. That
is to say, they we're putting on their
act and playing their kazoos for
the benefit Of the customers one
day when a stranger suggested
they 60 and see MI. Roy, WIN
handles the Rainbow Room for Mi.
Rockefeller. This stranger o o k
them to see Mr.. Roy himself: an
addition was arranged; and pres
emily the Three Pitchmen were I'm.
der the lush mazdas Of that 65thr
floor rendezvous, which must have
seemed like the contamination al
an unreal but very pleasant dream
after all the thin, lonely years at
state fairs and on bleak, wind.
swept corners, waiting for some
thing good to happen.
You can't describe these fellows.
because real comedy Is something
intangible, not to be transcribed
into sentences and paragraphs. The
only way you can ever begin TO nm
derstand their worth is to see them.
They r not new. because they
have been doing this for seven
years, but no one knew ANYTHING
about them because they have on.
1y now been discovered.
Their income at times has come
from the sales Of kazoos. those
sraan "mouth-organs'' that amnli.
~ the, human voice. Now thew rive
those same kazoos away 10 The
audiences which ring the floor show
af MI. Rockefeller night cl,h,
and the audience shares In the
Ifettfvities.
Not long ago the three volun-
F.. -
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ARRIVES

MIAMI, Fla, July 3l'-u' y
court Haugwitz Reven'iu" ,.t
husband of Heiress nsys
Hutton, arrived in Miami w. "
the same steamer that brou7nS
rotary Hull from the Ha'a"'
ferenca.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01

apy have been instituted for states
of nervous i~rritability.
Physiotherapy in the forms OF
massage and applications of heat
has been used with considerable
relief.
Beyond these measures, the med
ical profession accepts rest as the
great restorative. Many Of its drugs
are to facilitate rest. Yet physi-
clans seek natures substitutes for
drugs whenever possible. In all
forms of illness where nervous
symptoms are prominent, they are
seeking means for reducing mus
cular tension and nerve irritability.
In diseases Of the pulmonary and
circulatory systems rest is the pri-
mary form Of treatment.
In affections of the heart, rest is
OF greatest importance. If the in
volvement Is an easily diagnosed
organic one, the patient has to be
taught to conserve his energy gen.
orally. and also to give the heart
muscle itself periods of recupera-
tive rest.
Arthritis is another disease con-
dtion for which physicians demand
rest. Many workers in this field.
have recognized a relationship be,
tween the symptoms Of chronic ar
thrills and nervousness" and they
List neuromuscular, tenseness as a
symptom OF arthritis.
These simple methods which the
uses as cures for grave
car be. used, also, to
keep the body in such good condi-
ton that it will not suffer early
from degenerative d S e S e S. O.
course, n cannot avoid infections
diseases by such measures, but
barring such accidents, one can
keep vigorous and healthy by eat
ing the right things and by bal
aneing> activity and rest proper
". 2
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over is noticeab1y oornphish. Al
ter the steal, however, Annie's
just the nice girl in the back
ground.
'aThe Man I Married" Joan
Bennett, Francis Lederer,
Lloyd Nolan.
The man she married was an
agreeable, almost = n~aturalized
American of German birth, but in
1888 they went to Germany on bust
ness. The two of them saw Nazi
Germany, with its growing power
and social progress" through diff
ferent eyes. Husband {Ledererl fl
nally became such an enthusiastic
Nazi that he planned to divorce his
wife to marry a Naxi blonde (Anna
Stem. The wife (Bennett), seeing
the revolution through American
eyes, is sickened. It remains for
the husbands father lotto Kruger)
to pin back his Nazi ears, for a
pleasant foreign correspondent
Nolan to aid the wife and child
(Johnny RusseD to escape to
America.
young People," Shirley
Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte
Greenwood.
Shirley's last for Goth Century is
a pleasant dish of the old reliable
hoke, the more palatable because
Shirley is aided by the happily
teamed Oakie and Greenwood.
It's about a couple of vaudevil-
lains who retire to a neat, self
conferred New England town in or
der to give their adopted child,
erstwhile of their act, a normal
life. They get the cold shoulder,
there's that hurricane again, and
the hearts of gold triumph. Shirley,
no longer a goldilocks, sings and
dances and emotes with her usual
charm, demonstrating that there's
plenty of life in the old girl yet. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
THE CHIEF

AA4A3
Dear Sir:
This man will never know the SELF
ish way,
Nor understand the reason or the
rhyme
OF those who claim to keep 4 ma
ton free
So men may walk the street with
out a dime.
So calm, he stands, through all their
s%landerous spite,
Through all their lies that hide their
filthy greed.
He stands, a sun, that rose amid
the night,
A night that human lust for profit
bred.
No gold can pay this man = just
return,
Nor fame bestow on him 4 worthy
prize.
He soothed the pain in human
hearts that burn.
He reaped his harvest from their
happy eyes.
Now let his critics cry in weakling
fright.
His smile discounts their every word
Of sccrn
He led us bravely through the black
est night,
And no one stayed his hand until
the morn.
3: I, M. JONES.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01

The sociable and the solitary, and extravert
and introvert, rave the same excellent oppor-
[t,nity for happy welded life II they select
mates With opposite personalities.-Ernest W.
Burgess. University of Chicago sociologist.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
IMPROVED

Dear Sir:
There was so much criticism OF
the library when the City hall was
to the public, and the
criticism taken in such good part
by the committee in charge. who
Immediately rectified the condition
of the floors and obtained steel
stacks, that I feel some n should
ask for space in your paper to ex-
press appreciation of the library
now.
1t is a splendid. well'lighted place,
with the added comfort Of an cleo
trio elevator which makes it pos.
sible for 20 many more Of the peo'
pie who have time to read to OBJ
tain books. Certainly the general
plublic' should be grateful to Mr..
Wade and his committee for their
fine achievement
Yours truly,
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Mrs. Noble Moore
EntertainS at
Falls Church

FALLS CHURCH, Va, April g.
Mrs. Noble Moore entertained yes
terday at large bridge luncheon.
She was assisted by her daughters,
Miss Doris Moore and Miss Mar
garet Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Harrington
were hosts last evening at card
party. Thursday afternoon Mrs.
Harrington entertained II at dessert
bridge.
DR.. and Mrs. C. L. Penney of
Rangeley, Me, are guests of the
latter's sister, Mrs. Howard Middle
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Fenwick,
accompanied by Mr.. Philip Talbot
and Mr.. Frank Brown, are spending
the week end at the University of
Virginia. Mr.. James Brown is in
Fredericksburg, Va, attending the
German at Mary Washington Col
lege.
1t. William B. Moore, U. S. NJ,
executive officer of the U. S. S. Bu-
chanan, will arrive from New York
this week to be the guest of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Moore,
for few days.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Fall and Winter Plans
Already Under Way.

Even the fall and winter debut
plans are well under way, and Miss
Ann Huidekoper, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Reginald S. Huidekoper,
has already named November 8 as
the date at which she will bow at
tea at her home on Edgevale Ter
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Benefit Tea Planned
By Kappa Beta Pi
Next Sunday

A Cherry Blossom tea for the
benefit of the Kappa Beta Pi Prov
ince Chapter House fund will be
held by members OF Province next
Sunday from to pm. at the
home of Mrs. Anna Moulton, prov
ince dean, "A Fairview road, Wynne-
wood Park, Silver Spring, Md.
Members and guests will be re-
ceived by Mrs. Moulton, Mrs. Grace
Dawson, dean of Eta Alumnae Chap
ter; Mrs. Anna Nacrelli, dean of
Epsilon Chapter at Washington
College of Law; Miss Marilla Smith,
dean of Nu Chapter at George
Washington University; Miss Marion
Poole, dean of Omicron Chapter at
National University: Mrs. Helena D.
Reed, president of the Women's Bar
Association; Miss Marguerite Ra-
walt, province director, and Mrs
Grace Brown Stiles, grand registrar
The committee on arrangements
includes Miss Elizabeth Salisbury,
province secretary; Miss Mary Can
non, Miss Edith Cooper, Miss Grace
Kincare, Mrs. Verna Parsons Young,
Miss Mary Chadwick, Miss Mildred
Gooden, Miss Norma Windsor, Miss
Beauford Bradley, Miss Ruth Cleve-
land, Miss Carolyn Just, Mrs. Evelyn
Lincoln, Miss Madeleine Alber, Miss
Luella All, Mrs. Clara Roache Davis
and Mrs. Wanda HobhS
Assisting at the tea tables will be
Mrs. Edwina Avery, Miss Beatrice
A. Clephane, Miss Elizabeth Freud
enreich, Miss Helen Goodner, Mrs.
Violet Pollard, Mrs. Frances Rat
cliff, Miss Wilma Van Deman, Mrs.
Clare Willison and Mrs. Mary
Wittenmyer.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Virginia Governor
And Mrs. Price
Banquet Guests

The Governor OF Virginia and Mrs.
James H. Price will be honor guests
at the Jefferson birthday banquet
of the Society of Virginia, which will
be held at the Willard Hotel Thurs
day evening. Senator Barkley, ma
jority leader of the Senate, will de-
liver the main address. The BAN
quet will begin at o'clock and the
ball will begin at 10.
All alumni of the University of
Virginia are especially invited to
attend.
Reservations must be made
through Mr.. I. Chance Buchanan,
secretary of the society, who lives
in Arlington, Va.
All those attending the banquet
may remain for the ball, and men,
bers of the society will be admitted
to the ball upon the showing of
membership card.
The university quartet will render
selections and Prof. Edmund S.
Campbell of the architecture de-
partment will explain so technicolor
views of the university.
Evening star., 1940-04-07

race. A dinner dance at the Grass
lands Country Club will be given
December 20 in honor of this debu-
tante. Others who will come out
the latter part of the year include
Miss Kathleen Bell, daughter of
the Undersecretary Of the Treasury
and Mrs. Daniel w. Bell; Miss Peggy
Burke, daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
John w. Burke; Miss Kitty Hill,
daughter of Mrs. Hiram Bingham
and former Representative John
Philip Hill; Miss Mary Ann Fer
randou, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred H. Ferrandou, who also will
make her bow in New Orleans;
Miss Courtney Owens, daughter Of
DR.. and Mrs. s. Logan Owens; Miss
Nancy Strong, daughter of Col.
Alden G. Strong, U. S. A., and Mrs.
Strong; Miss Barbara Beale, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. William Lewis
Beale; Miss Mildred Dunn, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. William Mckee
Dunn; Miss Edith Huntington,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Chaplin Huntington, and Miss
Phoebe Cary Lewis, daughter of the
Director of the Bureau of Valuation
OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and Mrs E. I. Lewis.
Miss June Noble, daughter of the
Undersecretary of Commerce and
Mrs. Edward j. Noble, will make
her debut in September in Green
wich, Conn. The graceful Holton-
Arms student may be introduced
formally here. also. but even If not
she will take an active part in local
debutante activities.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Ladies' Board of G. u.
Hospital to Hold
Benefit April 10

The Ladies' Board of Georgetown
University Hospital is sponsoring q
benefit card party and dance at the
Willard Hotel Friday evening, April
10. Proceeds will be used to pur-
chase an additional incubator for
the maternity department Of the
hospital. Mrs. Henry I. Quinn is
president of the board.
A list Of patrons and patronesses
for the benefit party includes the
Chief Justice and Mrs Charles
Evans Hughes, Representative and
Mrs. Foster StearnS, Princess Mar
garet Boncompagni, DR.. and Mrs.
A. Scott Avery, DR.. E. H. Aschen-
bach, DR.. and Mrs. Garnet w. Ault,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chaplin Baunian, Mr.
and Mrs. Philip Buettner, Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris Cafritz, Mr.. and Mrs.
James H. Councillor, DR.. and Mrs.
j. F. Crowley, DR.. and Mrs. James
A. Cahill. jr; DR.. and Mrs. j. R.
Costello, DR.. and Mrs. Fred o. Col,
DR.. and Mrs. w. j. Cusack, DR.. and
Mrs P. A. Caulfield, DR.. and Mrs
v. ]. Dordinski, DR.. and Mrs. F
E. Duehring, Mrs. William Corcoran
Eustis, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas r
Fitzgerald. Mr. Hugh ] Fegan, Mr.
and Mrs. D. R. Forbes, Mr.. and Mrs
Herbert Guggenheim, Miss Kathe-
rine A. Gaegler, Mr.. Frank J.
Hogan, DR. j. Thomas Kelley, jr.;
Mrs.. Joseph Letter, Mrs. Annie
Murray. Mrs. George j. May, Mr.
and Mrs. Leo c. May, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank B. Noyes, Mr.. and Mrs
Henry I. Quinn, Mr.. and Mrs
Charles H. Tompkins. DR.. George
Tully Vaughan and Mr.. and Mrs
William D. Willcoxon.
Honorary patrons of the benefit
include the Very Rev. Arthur A.
OLeary. S. j.: president of George
town University; the Rev. Edmund
A Walsh. S. j., vice president; the
Rev. Walter Cunningham, S. j.;
the Rev James M. Duff, S. j.; the
Rev. John E. Grattan. S. j.: the
Rev. Francis E. Lucey. S. j.; the
Rev David V. McCauley, S. j., and
the Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S. J.
Evening star., 1940-04-07

from all parts of the world. She
loves music the Cincinnati Or
cheStra is q connoiSseur of
etchings and engravings, Of which
she has a fine collection. partly in
herited from her father.
Mrs. Taft Is Farmer
OF Wide Experience.
The Taft farm is about 4 miles
from Cincinnati and Mrs. Taft Is
an honest-to-goodness farmer, who
knows all about crop rotation, ami
mails and those gadgets and crop
worries Secretary Wallace troubles
over an experienced campaign
er, said to have good deal of the
analytical mind and quick reason
ing power of her father quick
at retort :. enjoys people gives
the heckler better than he sends
systematic housekeeper
and what have we-nay be the
next mistress OF the White House
if her husband follows the precedent
set by the Adams, father and son.
Two steps forward on the White
House doorstep is that accom-
plished Mrs. Dewey from down in
Vice President Garner's State
musician appealing vote-getter
believes absolutely in her hus-
bands success =. practical house.
wife and we only know what
we read in the papers, but if one
sixteenth part is true she might
easily be a winner and all the
world loves youth and the Deweys
have it.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Deb Season
Opens Here
This Week
Record Number
Expected to Be
Introduced

Continued From First Page.)
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time, Of course, Miss Andrews will
have to forego her Washington de-
but, at least for the time being,
But II she remains here she prob
| ably will bow at June garden
party at her home on Seminary Hill
in Alexandria.
June 8 Promises
To Be Busy Day.
Members Of the diplomatic and
official society will be especially
busy June 8, for they will 20 in
the afternoon to attend the re-
ception at which the Argentine
Ambassador and Sonora de Espil
will introduce the latters daughter,
Miss Louise Courtney Stillwell, and
then will 60 to the dance which
Senator and Mrs. w. Warren Bar
hour will give for their daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Barbour.
June 6 IS the date attractive Miss
Sita Finkenstaedt will be intro
duced at an afternoon tea given
by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward r. Finkenstaedt, and June II
Is the date on which lovely Miss
Muriel Maddox will be introduced
by her parents, Capt. Charles
Hamilton Maddox, U. S. NJ, and
Mrs. Maddox. She also will be
honored August 16 at Newport, r. l.,
and again here at the Sulgrave Club
November %.
Miss Patsy McKnew, piquant
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
Harrison McKnew, who is a student
at Bryn Mawr, and who was grad
uated from Madeira last year, will
bow June Is, as will Miss Louisa
Catherine Adams Clements, also a
freshman at Bryn Mawr. Miss
Clements mother, Mrs. Donald c.
Bingham will introduce her daugh-
ter, at q reception and dance at
the Chevy Chase Club and the
debutante's aunt, Miss Mary Louisa
Adams Clement of Boston will en-
tertain December "a at the Sui
grave Club for her niece.
Miss Elizabeth Fish
To Make Debut May 1.
May, although not the most
popular debut month, will find a
number of attractive buds making
their bow. Representative and Mrs.
Hamilton Fish will entertain May
at the beautiful old Larz An
derson home, the headquarters of
the Society of Cincinnati, where
they will introduce their daugh-
ter, Miss Elizabeth Stuyvasant Fish.
May Is Is the date chosen by Miss
Katherine Compton, the dark and
attractive daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilson Compton, for her debut,
which will be in the form Of a large
tea at the Compton home on
Cathedral avenue. The debutante
will go to Wooster College in Ohio
next term. Her late grandfather,
Elias Compton, was dean of that
college for so years.
Closing the May debut parties will
be the one for Miss Margaret Cary
Tuckerman. A tea, followed by a
dinner dance on that date, is being
planned by her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman. This
debutante also will bow in Baltimore
at the Bachelors Cotillion in Dec
ember, and in January at the junior
dinner dance in Philadelphia.
Fall and Winter Plans
Already Under Way.
Even the fall and winter debut
plans are well under way, and Miss
Ann Huidekoper, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Reginald S. Huidekoper,
has already named November 8 as
the date at which she will bow at
tea at her home on Edgevale Ter
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Phi Mu Meeting

The Washington Alumnae Asso-
citation Of Phi Mu Sorority will meet
at pm. Tuesday with Mrs. Donald
F. Christy, 4709 Langdrum lane,
Chevy Chase, Md. Election of on
GERS will be held and plans for a
progressive dinner party later this
month will be discussed.
Evening star., 1940-04-07

ana ln1OrmaClOn ABOUT government
procedure and business generally
Is at her finger tips. She likes peo-
pie not society in the fashion
able sense a gracious hostess
with an old-fashioned handshake
-. daily brews her husbands morn
ing coffee-they boil it down in
Texas-and at 7 of the clock goes
with him to the Capitol, where they
look over the mail together and
decide the program for the day. II
Mr.. Garner were elected, Jacksonian
democracy undoubtedly would reign
in the White House.
Mrs. Vandenberg
Popular in Capital.
If Senator Vandenberg of Mich
igan should be the Lockinvar to
come out of the West and lead the
Republican party to victory in 1910,
that sparkling social-minded Mrs.
Vandenberg would make a jolly
Presidents wife who would keep
open house she is almost as
popular in the Capital as she is in
her home State . . experienced
newspaper woman graceful
writer prides herself on her
menage and like her distinguished
husband is for some of the New
Deal all the time, but not all Of the
Deal at any time.
Mrs. Farley, wife of the Post
master General, who is definitely in
the running for 1910, is immensely
interested in her husbands career
80. her house and her children and
active where child welfare is con-
cerned .. is convent bred with the
old-fashioned accomplishments such
an education brings and comes
to Washington whenever it is nee
essary to perform her official duties
-. is a delightful hostess :. but
evidently feels she must be in New
York near her children's schools.
Back to Scenes
OF Childhood Days.
When Mrs. Taft came to Wash
ington as the wife of the junior
Senator from Ohio, she was just re-
turning to her old stamping ground
where she spent happy girlhood
days as Martha Bowers, when her
father, the late Lloyd Bowers, was
solicitor general in the Taft admin
istration, and she was popular
debutante.
We remember that it was on a
lovely day in May about three years
ago when we were sitting on the
roof garden of the Washington
Hotel looking out across the Treas
ury lawn that Mrs. Taft remarked
about the charm of the White
House-a comfortable old mansion.
"A fountain was playing in the
sunlight down on the south lawn
and the flower beds were gay with
spring tulips; the tennis courts were
In fine shape and she laughed as she
recalled the hard fought games she
and Bob Taft, the Presidents son
had played there. They were good
pals and both were inclined to make
q good job of any undertaking.
Mrs. Taft early became an active
suffragist, but did not think much
of politics in those days when she
was at the fashionable Rosemary
Hall School in Connecticut and Bob
Taft was at Yale-nearby. Then
there were days at the Sorbonne, in
Paris, where she specialized in his
tory and literature and where she
got her first taste of international
affairs, meeting as she did students