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Evening star., 1940-12-15
News of Alexandria
Social Activities of Week
Mrs. Joseph Crockett Entertains
At Tea in Honor of Debutante;
Hoxtons to Be Hosts Today

ALEXANDRIA, va Dec Joseph Crockett entertained at
Miss Phyllis Wake Richardson
daughter Frederick Richardson
Mary Belts, daughter
Washington table
lively decorated in red and silver Assisting Mrs Crockett Mrs
Richardson Graham Fairfax
Harrison Cruickshank William
Mrs Thomas seb H. Mrs Slater L1mond Mrs Clarence Lead
Mason Alexandria, Robert
Lee Mrs Lewis Randolph Watson and Mrs. Wallace Collins Of
Washington.
o'clock in their Belle
afternoon Horace having
mother
recently Alexandria to live Mrs
Williams sister Of Mrs. Cooke
Parkinson Keyes who most Of the
travelling Tuesday
n days
to the Christmas season at Col Alto Lexington
Evening star., 1940-12-15

MIR. and Mrs. william Layton
Return From Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Layton
have returned to their home in
Braddock after spending a week
with relatives in Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Mosser Of
Belle Haven have as their guest
for the winter Mrs. Jacob Mosser
Of Maine.
Mrs. William Mcclellan and her
niece, Miss Jeannette Francis, have
returned to Burgundy Farm after
spending a week in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Simpson
were tea hosts last Sunday after
noon at their home on Braddock
road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darrell D. Dawson
have returned from Staunton,
where they were the guests Of Mrs.
N. K. Edison.
Mr.. and Mrs. David c. Book had
As their guests last week end their
son and daughter-inlaw, Mr.. and
Mrs. David Randall Book Of Baltl-
more.
Mrs. Thomas Pullman has re-
turned from Atlanta, where she has
been visiting for some weeks.
Mrs. C. w. Abingdon Of Beverly
Hills will leave next week by motor
for New Orleans, where she will
spend the winter.
Mrs. Janet Washington, who has
been the guest of DR.. and Mrs.
Henry A. Lanate, has returned to
her home in Westmoreland County.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hulfish are
in Marion, S. c., where they are
spending several weeks with rela-
tives.
Mr.. William Adam Host
At Dinner for Friends.
Mr.. William Robert Adam enter
tanned at dinner Tuesday evening
for Miss Lucille Hooff, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Fontaine Hooft OF
Chevy Chase; Mr.. Peter Beauregard
Duke and Miss Louise McNutt,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul V.
McNutt.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. l.. Rawlings are
spending this week in Charlottes-
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Woodrnen Circle


Willow Grove No. 3 met December
6, with Mrs. Henrietta Snider,
guardian protein. presiding. The
following officers were elected:
Past guardian, Minnie Ogden;
guardian, Ella Smith; adviser, Ruth
Drish; attendant, Pearl Thompson;
assistant attendant, Lille Porter;
chaplain, Sadie Major; outer senti-
mel, Laura Anderson; inner sentinel,
Elinor De Lawter; banker, Ruth
King; first auditor, Myrtle Webb;
second auditor, Mary Cavileer; third
auditor, Ruth Pyles; grove reporter,
Evelyn Hunter; correspondent to
tidings, Miss Carolyn Gentner; mu-
sician, Arleen DodSon; correspond
ing and recording secretary, Naomi
Kidwell; drill captain, Catherine
Thomas; Junior counselor, Willie
Kehr. Gifts were exchanged and
refreshments served.
The Imps Club will meet Decem-
ber 18 at the home of Mrs. Edith
Mavars, 655 South Carolina avenue
Sc. at 8 pm. Mrs. Alice Gibbons
will assist the hostess.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Rupert Home to Have
Christmas Party Sunduy

The Ladies Aid Society Of the
Rupert Home for the Aged will
stage Christmas party at the in
stitution, 2100 Good Hope road Sc.
at 3 pm. next Sunday. Entertain
ment will precede a benefit supper
Ofhcers Of the society arranging
the program are Mrs. Babette
Krumke, president: Mrs. Ernest w.
Brown, vice president; Mrs. George
Diener, second vice president; Mrs.
Oscar Dietz, secretary; Mrs. Alfred
Gould, financial secretary, and Miss
Mary Widmayer, treasurer.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Carries No WEIGHT

NEW BRIGHTON, Pa, Dec. IA
R.-Being councilman hasn't
helped Frank Harding get repairs
for street adjoining his property.
He warned the council that unless
action was forthcoming he'd move
his home and business out Of the
borough.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Social News of Interest
In Arlington County
Hillmans Are Hosts at Supper;
Kelloggs Give Dinner at
Home in BallstOn
Home in Ballston

Mr. and Mrs W. Oh Hman hosts last night bridge
followed by supper Hilmans brother
Hlman
spending the week with Additional
guests Mr. and Mrs William Stokes
Walter Rogers, Abeiter
Weborn.
Mr. Gordon Kellogg last night
bridge party their Balston guests
Evening star., 1940-12-15

Nikiforoff are spending 10 days in
Florida.
Mrs. George G. Thompson of At
lanta, Ga, and her daughter, Elois
Ann Thompson, are visiting Mrs.
Thompson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. D. Topley.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Hawkins and
their son, Curtis Hawkins, formerly
Of Bancroft, have moved to 4e08
Fourteenth street North.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Three Sisters Wed Soldiers

LEXINGTON, s. c., Dec. IA R-
Three sister-aged is, II, 18-wers
married here this week, each to a
soldier stationed at Fort Jackson,
Each soldier is from New England.
The licenses were issued on the
twenty sixth wedding anniversary Of
the sisters parents.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Holiday Parties Planned
For Bethesda College Set
Students Returning to Homes in
Lower Montgomery County
Also to Gather Friends

Christmas week. the girls who have been at school
the holidays always time with its uncheons and
dinners that the between Christmas
schedule already full
breakfast
Normandy Farm still remembered the pssantest parties
the holiday will the hosteses brother
dinner
ooke will jointly
the Vice Presidenteect Henry A. Wallace Catherine
Compton Miss Miss Wallace
College
Miss Gray is student at Wellesley
brothers who will with
Walaces Comptons
Pynchon and her brother, Mr.. Wilson Compton.
will
friends of the young hosts and hostesses.
Evening star., 1940-12-15

Both the suicide and homicide
rate in the United States declined
in 1910.
Evening star., 1940-12-15

Some stores use soda to brighten
the color Of fruits and vegetables.
Evening star., 1940-12-15

Visit esr "Gift Room" wkers yoS
wiu find hundreds Of ssstsi and m.
GsaaI suggestions in glass, brassss, brio.
a.brnc, reproductions Of Sheffield Hi.
usr--is addition to or com mplste dis.
play Of handmade authentic Colonial
RebrodmcfioS Furniture.
Evening star., 1940-10-03
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showinx

Capitol-"Strike Up the Band
with Mickey Rooney as its drummer
boy: 10:15 am, los, 3:55. 6:45 and
s:35 pm. Stage shows: 1925, $40,
$40 and 8 pm.
Palaee-"Fureign Correspondent,
melodrama and adventure by Mr.
Hitchcock: 1l:l0 am, 1:50, 4:30,
tbs and 9:55 pm.
Earle-"Sporting Blood" romance
among the horsy set: 9:30, 11:30
am, 2:20, 4:45, 7 and $50 pm. Stage
shows, with Glenn Miller: HOS
am, lbs. 4, Sis, s:45 and II: 10 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Howards of
Virginia." Martha Scott and Cary
Grant in a romantic drama of the
beginnings of freedom: 11:20 am,
l:55, 4:30, 7:05 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Hired Wife" romantic
comedy with Rosalind Russell: HIS
am, 1;20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and $40
pm. March of Time: !, sos, $40,
tbs and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Boom Town" Gable,
Tracy, Colbert and Lamar strike
oil: 1880 am, 2, 4:30, 7:05 and
9:35 pm.
Little-"The Story of a Cheat.
with and by the expert Sacha Gui-
try: II am. 12:45, 2:35, 4:10, 6, 7:5O
and $40 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts:
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-10-03

the Immediately subsequent one. he
had to make a living for himself,
Mrs. Brennan and the three attend
ant Brennans.
so" he says, Il got into the
movies. That I came in on the
ground floor is evident in the fact
that it took me IL years to get above
it. It's only for the last four years.
if you remember, that I began to get
ahead in the business"
Once he began to demonstrate
that a chap from the real estate
business had something the movies
needed. Brennan was in another
kind of jam. the reverse of the one
which drove him into pictures. He
couldn't stop working. For three
straight years, ending with his per-
formance in The Westerner, he
was steadily occupied with screen
work. Nothing could have been
more enviable from the viewpoint
of the average picture actor-and
think Brennan is protesung-but he
did begin to feel the need of va
cation.
Among the major reasons for
clamoring for the vacation were
the younger Brennans. The three Of
them had reached that stage of de-
velopment when they were showing
positive characteristics, the oldest
son as a stock farmer, the second
son as q mechanical genius and the
single daughter as girl Of Is who
might 60 into the movies. Father
and Mother Brennan thought they
merited the closest possible parental
Evening star., 1940-10-03

in Hollywood have not altered their
opinion that f1rst things come first.
They are pretty convincing
about 1t.
No one to be awed by reputa-
tions is Rosalind Russell. 1t is the
same thing be the reputation that
Of Hollywood or Miss Katharine
Cornell For years. a polite number
of years, Miss Russell has refused
to believe that Hollywood is some
thing to be taken as serir' - =
takes itself. In mo Time for
Comedy" which was Sc, -. y.s-
terday, and which comes TO the
Earle tomorrow. she manifestly Is
no actress TO believe a part once
played by Katharine Cornell can
be played by no other person. She
plays it to a little bit closer than
inch of the parts life, a thing
that turns out to be the best fea-
ture of S. H. Behrman's comedy as
adapted for the screen.
Evening star., 1940-10-03
Nal Hallett to Play
At Dance Tomorrow

Nal Hallett and his orchestra ar
rive tomorrow night to inaugurate
a series of dances at Portner's Arena
in Alexandria. With the Hallett
musical aggregation, coming from a
recent engagement at the Trianon
Ballroom in Chicago. are Singers
Madeleine Greye and Jerry Perkins.
The Hallett Orchestra is the first
of a series of name bands scheduled
for dance appearances here by
James Frattone, who last year was
busy locally with midget auto racing.
Larry Clinton and Blue Barron are
slated for the near future
Evening star., 1940-10-03

attention and encouragement for a
while.
Brennan. accordingly, took . va
cation.
What has he been doing since?
Travelingl In the last two weeks
he has covered thousands of miles
by airplane. He has made personal
appearances all the way from Dallas
for The Westerner") to New York,
with incidental side trips to Wash
ington, Philadelphia, Cleveland
Richmond and several other places.
1t is all right with him. That's
the life Of motion picture player
He feels that he is lucky in having
Mrs. Brennan around to rear the
children and run the Brennan
ranch (which grows everything, in
cluding livestock while he func-
tions as the actor in the family.
About the Brennan daughter who
would like to be an actress. the
Academy Award winner does not
know what he will do. He has no
objection to her trying for job.
In fact. he might even 60 so far
as to help her get one. That. how
ever, will not be until she has fin-
ished her education
Both Brennans. after all. are from
New England. Almost two decades
Evening star., 1940-10-03
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k.E9'l[|ell|Iap5!I111

METRONOME ROOM, Wardman Park Hotel.
Conn. Ave. at WeodIey Rd. Grant Thomp-
sons Orchestra. Dancing 10 to .. Sat,
9:30-1:3O Min. 81 Sats Sl.50. CO. 1000.
LOTUS RESTAURANT. 18th At n. Y. Ave.
3 shows daily. ! 1:30 and II 80 , or
chestras. Ball Strickland's. The Continental
Trio. Dancing and entertainment pm.
10 / 30 am.
sHOREHAM BLUEROOM, Connecticut at
Calvert Dining and dsncins. Two floor
cluding cover. Supper cover soc. AID. U7OO.
MADRILON RESTAURANT. WashinEton
Building. 18th and New York Ave. The
favorite place TO dine. the popular place
to dance.
ROOM, Hamilton Hotel, 14th
at X. Cocktail and dinner dancing. SO.
supper dancing to Milt Davis Orchestra.
10-l. Min Saturday only 81. DI. 1880.
HAY-ADAMS HOUSE-Ovsrisoking White
House at 18th and II SITS. Dining in an
a atmosphere of charm. dignity and gen
tility. Luncheon. S5c; dinner from SI.a5.
Organ music nightly during dinner.
CARLTON HOTEL, New Cosmos Rsem, 9Th
and SITS NE. :626. Music by Ben Young
and his NJ. c. A. Orch. Dancing So and 10
10 2. Min. 81 so after 10 pm. except Sat. s..
Evening star., 1940-10-03

The bespectacled Brennan, who
does not look like an actor. and yet
cannot think just what he does look
like, has been in the movies is
years.
With impressive honesty, he ad-
mitS that he is a circumstantial
member Of the movie colony. He
really had thought to make a for
tune out OF the Los Angeles real
estate boom of a decade and a half
ago. When the boom collapsed. a
Evening star., 1940-10-03
Tone in Western

Franchot Tone has been signed
by Universal for one of the top
roles in Trail of the vigilantes,"
new super Western with q Montana
locale. 1t will be the actors first
film since Past and Furious"
year ago. Tone returns to the West
Coast shortly to begin the new pic
ture. He recently completed q long
run engagement on Broadway in
the stage hit, Fifth Column"
Evening star., 1940-10-03

that he wins an
Academy award.
while in the case
Of Joe and
Ethel Turp Call
on the Presi-
dent" they write
l e tiers to the
S I u d 10 asking
what the heck.
1t was in the
latter that Bren-
nan was him.
self, say middle
aged. or almost
that. The indig-
nant letters
t a u 6 h t him
Evening star., 1940-10-03
Nancy Kelly Sings

Nancy Kelly, in Caribbean Hoh-
day" with Allan Jones. will sing her
first screen song. The actress will
introduce "Our Dream" ono ct five
original Jerome Kern numbers.
Evening star., 1940-10-03
Walter Brennan Forsakes
His Youth-in Films
From Now on He'll Play Any Role
That Comes Along, After That
Reaction to His Natural Self
BY JAY CARMODY.

ncipien rather act
villain amiable nothing
Walter Brennan Take from afternoon
the Carlton chat with the
character player from the character
will play it for the
simple that
:tha audiences like
ADJUSTMENTS as a goateed colonel Kentucky
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-25
Cooper's Announcement r
Garry Challenge For Join;
Debate Of Ali Candidates
,Iunllnued Frum I7age Onel

the same time as the candidacy ara
the challenge will be among tAc
shorter writings Of state. Cooper is
usually Snappy in his comlncnt ana
he plans 10 live up to his reputation
this time, your reporter IS informed.
Among the things to be advocated
by Cooper will be: CD s. fec for
passenger automobile tags, instead
of the present sliding scale which lie
gins at figure we'll above that: GU
general increases in ali teachers sal
cries; CD retirement plan and fund
for teachers: (4) repeal of the recent
legislation which increased salaries
of Supreme court Justices by Sl,5CC
year: and 60 annual reduction OF
one-half Of one percent in the sales
| tax rate.
There will probably be other items
in the Cooper platform. but the five
mentioned are the plankS upon which
he has put most stress in his active.
though unofficial, campaigning up
to this time.
Mayor Cooper undoubtedly has no
idea that his rivals will accept his
challenge to join him in series Of
debates: though he would be tickled
pink if by a miracle they should do
so. There hasn't been amy such thins
in North Carolina in years and years
and it is practically certainty that
! there will be no joint debating this
/ time
Just the same the Cooper campaign
! is going to inject 4 bit of color into
this years goings-on which would
otherwise be about as drab and
dreary as can be imagined. The othe:
candidates run to the conservative,
carefully planned type Of political
strategy; but the Wilmington mayor
has a marked gift for finding just en-
actly the right words to make his
points perfectly clear and at the same
time pungent enough to bring smiles
from his readers OF listeners.
Word from Wilmington last week
was to the effect that Tom has al
ready made all arrangements for the
sound truck in which he plans TO
make "crOss-roadS" speaking tour
of North Carolina. The exact type
of musical entertainment he will Of
fer along with his own Cratorjcal ef-
forts hasn't yet Lcen announced; but
its safe to predict that it will be
something to attract and hold inter
est
rho wire bows who lay odds on
Mnlitical campaigns can't sec Cooper
with SOY glass. They may be right.
though they have been known to
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-25
Pettengill Heads
Committee After
Gannett Resigns

New York. Jan. 25.--Frank Gam
nett's resignation rs chairman Of the
National Committee to Uphold Con-
stitutional Government. Tor the an
nounced purpose Of giving his entire
time to his campaign for the Revubli-
can nomination FOR president. and
to maintain the non-partiSan char
actcr of the committee which he
founded was announced today by
Summer Gerard. it$ treasurer.
Former Congressman Samuel B.
Pettcngill. Democrat Of South Bend,
Ind, who has boon vice chairman
Of the committee. takes Mr.. Gannett'S
place.
in d letter going t0 all who have
given moral and finarciai support
to the committee since Mr. Gannett
organized il in February. 1887, to
oppose President Eoosevelt's bill to
expand the Supreme court, Mr.. Can
nett said in part
"YOur committees work is not
finished. The struggle between free
dom and Gcuda!Sm is world wide.
IN cur OWN country. 1870 will wit
ness the maxim" OF lar-reaching de-
cisionS. Tnc immediate question is
whether J"Ii"rSuuian Democrats and
Lincoln Republicans. both devoted TO
ire. Institutions. will De able TO eX-
crCi." controlling influence in the
shaping Of party programs. or Wheth-
- ! 4.p!r
foudo!i&n shall proceed.
in my Judgment members of the
two greet parties who arc loyal TO
the american Constitution should
each make themselves felt within
their own party circles. During the
no.. few m"nti?s, ] believe / can
Wor!, more effectively within my
,Nn party
MIR. pcttcnGIN, referring 10 his be-
NJ d Democrat and Mr.. Gannett u
Republican, wrote the committee sup
pUrt@rS: Il refer 10 this because |
consider our country TO be fortunate
among the nations because on the
most basic issues, men and women
of Doth parties have united and can
unite with equal loyalty to defend
our way Of lie against the returning
Caesars" He added the assurance
that the National Committee to Up
hold Constitutional Government will
as committee, remain wholly non
partisan.
Mr.. Gerard, as treasurer, notified
the members that the committees
immediate program calls for con-
tinuing 10 mobilize public opinion
on these issues: "D Revocation If
the Presidents dangerous blank
check powers: on this we have reach
cd by letter in the last eight weeks
100000 individuals: GU Qualification
Of the issue OF free speech on the
radio: (3) opposition to Secretary
Wallace's seizure and political con-
troll Of the farm credit system; (4
protection of the independence Of all
professions, and opposition to state
medicine"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-25
Emile Baum DISPLAYS
His Mastery OF Piano

Emile Baume, pianist, was pre-
Sented in 4 program last night in
the Henderson high school audi
concerts offered oy the Henderson
Cooperative Concert Association.
The audience generally shared the
feeling of the sponsors that the
season was given 4 magnificent start
oy the work Of this talented French
man
Baume appeared alone and Of
tered 4 variety OF numbers. en-
bracing some of the best known
composers. The artist came by his
excellence OF work us the third gen.
GRAFTON OF pianStS. his father and
grandfather before him having
gained position by their talent and
abilities III that field. They had
taught him until he was II and
before he studied in the National
Conservatory Of Music in Paris.
If it can be said OF L piani,; that
he possesses musical personality.
then the description It's Emile
Baume. II he erred in the slightest
N his performance, no one in the
audience was keen enough to sense
it. For musicians, he revealed 4
orilliance that is rare in the art.
Not only training but talent and
native ability briStled in his per-
teCt command Of the worries. He did
all but make them talk. and came
cry close 10 that in some of the
he presented.
Batme'S selections included III
'ernationally famous composers Of
several centuries. with two choral
preludeS from BaCh-BuSoni and Il
sonata from Beethoven. There were
three numbers by Frederic Chopin,
enc each by DebuSSy, Mompou and
Ravel. and the familiar Hungarian
by Franz List.
The pianist lived up to the rcpu-
,ation he made for himself in APP
pearanceS in music centerS OF New
York. He made it clear that he
lad an affinity for the piano" said
the New York Times of Baume'S
work. adding that ''he played with
thrust, power and technical bril-
lance" with some of the first eS-
sentialS Of piano mastery in evil
ience"
The program was the first Of the
series in the third year of the Hen
der>on Cooperative Concert tASso-
citation. Two other programs will be
given during the current season,
the next one being Mildred billing
on Friday. March 30, to be followed
May by Norman Gordon. North
rarolinian who has made himself
ANGUS by his singing in Metro
)olitan Opera.
In spite of the extremely cold
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-25

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he skirt beneath. The front boo-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-25
House Makes Appro-
priation For Navy
CONTINUED From Eage One)

Continued From I2ge One)
for an additional 81, 100000 for sub
Sidizing cotton exports.
Without debate tho House mp
proved a $75,n00 approximation 20
continue the Dies cOrnynittec mes
legations for another year.
The president Of the American
FARM Bureau Federation. Edward
A. ONcal, told the House ways and
means committee that the reciprocal
trade program had resulted in mo
measurable injury 10 farmers. His
argument ran squarcly into that Of
L. j. Tabcr, master Of the National
Grange, who condemned the pro-
gram as international altr''sin.' nj
the expense of American agrlcul-
tlIrc.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-01-25
Tourists Ship
Autos North

Route / between Norlina and
South Hill was opened this af-
ternoon to light traffic after
being congestcd the better part
of two days by the heavy snow
that fell Tuesday night, accord
ing to traffic officers.
Meantime, tourists stranded
here and unable to drive
through to their homes in
northern states, were shipping
their automobiles by freight
and then going home themselves
by train. The SeabOard this af-
ternOon took seven cars for
shipment as their owners board
ed nOrthb0und trains as way
of beating the snow and The
icy highways.