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Evening star., 1941-08-08
Caldwell Kept Busy
.Dunking Fire Bombs
In Wafer Atop Roof
Chuuffeur's Directions
In Russian Tongue
CompIicote Situation
By ERSKINE CALDWELL.


MOSCOW, Aug. 8.-Weathering
demolition bombs is one thing but
coming through shower of fire
bombs while standing on rooftop
and holding a bucket of sand in
one hand and a bucket of water in
the other is something else. When
the boys from Berlin decided to
concentrate on the district of the
city where I was, 1t was like being
caught in q northeaster off the
Grand Banks without oilskins.
Fire bombs whistled downward,
growing louder and louder all the
time until you thought it was Flor
ida hurricane coming toward you,
My chauffeur, who can speak rea-
sonable wordage of English under
most circumstances, began shouting
at me In Russian. That took my
mind OF the FIRE bombs for q few
moments and I yelled back at him to
talk in English.
Par Anglisky, par Anglisky," he
yelled back at me, indicating, I sup
pose, that it was purely a Russian
situation and no time to practice
English.
Explains Later.
Several hours afterward, when
things had returned to normal, he
told me that he was trying to tell
me to dunk the fire bombs in q
bucket of water If possible and Use
sand only as last resort.
Shrapnel was all this time zing-
ing down, hitting the tin roof anc
making you wonder where mex
spinner of steel would land. I hac
on a tin hat, and I had ordered m,
chauffeur to wear a small sandbas
on top Of his head. He had tiec
bag on top of his head with bis
strip of white cloth and looked a.
if he were suffering from misplaced
toothache.
All this time impending arriva
of fire bombs didn't go unnoticed
Whistles by then would have wakec
up Rip Van Wrinkle. We had no tim.
then to see what was happenins
elsewhere, because two fire bombs
had landed on roof and one in tn,
garden four stories below. VIZ
dunked bombs in water buckets anc
scampered over the roof, looking t.
zee II we had missed any. My chauf.
feur, shouting in Russian. dashed
down to the garden and buried Z
bomb under bucket Of sand.
I had a chance then to lool
around me. 1t seemed other peo.
Pile were doing the same thing W,
had been doing. The white glar.
OF bombs was pinched of by score.
all around on rooftops, in street.
and elsewhere. Some were hard tt
get to and took several minutes t.
put out. In the meantime some Of
the white brilliant glows turned tt
orange. Then after a few moment.
red flames shot upward. We coulc
hear people clanking over tin roof,
all around us. Several times som,
shouts were heard as fire brigades
were given orders. Shrapnel begar
coming down in q renewed shower
as anti-aircraft guns let go at Ger.
man planes cruising overhead. try
ing to pick spots for demolition
bombs.
The bang Of guns drowned out al
Evening star., 1941-08-08
Weather Report
{ FURNISHED by the q


ColumbiaFar
tonight about SO degrees gentle southerly winds
VirginiaFar tonight
SOUTH with scattered afternoon hunderstorms
southwest portion.
moderately hundersoms
Evening star., 1941-08-08
Cubo Detuins Germans

HAVANA, Aug. 8 (P,.-The ma
tional police announced last night
they had detained eight Germans
said to be members of a German
American bund and had seized
movies believed taken at the United
States Naval Base at Guantanamo
and showing several United States
Navy vessels during maneuvers.
Evening star., 1941-08-08

JuSJ competed VoydSe deAooo tiAo
Pacific.
Mr.. Scott, according to the Asso-
mittee. The plants 1900 employees
will return to work Monday. The
contract provides a 10-cent increase
in the hourly minimum wage,
blanket scent hourly raise in other
pay rates, paid vacations and a
union maintenance clause.
NEW LONDON, Gonna. F. l..
painters employed on private jobs
and Government projects quit work
ing and announced their intention
of remaining away from work until
their pay was increased from 81 to
S1.25 an hour. About $50 of them
had been employed at the Groton
Submarine Base.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio.-After
sit-down by some c. 1. o. workers
yesterday at the International Har-
vester Co.. the union decided at q
night meeting to return to work to-
day and resume negotiations with
the company for a contract en-
Evening star., 1941-08-08

Otl ., 40 1Co NiitS
Washington to-
day for h e r
home in Dutch
ess County, N.
Y, where within
a few days she
will have a fam
lily reunion with
her son John
Scott, form e r
Moscow CORE
spondent of the
London News
Chronicle, h Is
Russian W l t e
and two chill
dren, who have
Evening star., 1941-08-08
Greek Ship Survivors
Reach Canary Islands
By the Associated Press.

LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands,
Aug. 8.-Thirteen survivors of the
3.576-ton Greek freighter Nikoklis
who had spent 20 days in ifeboat
were landed in this island port
from Spanish ship today.
The survivors said their ship, in
British service since the Axis con-
quest Of Greece, had been torpedoed
by German submarine off the
Azores
Evening star., 1941-08-08
l3 Killed in Air Roid

CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. (P.-Thir-
teen pearsons were killed and %
injured during an Axis air raid last
night on Alexandria. an official an
nouncemet said today. Some prop
erty damage was ackowledged.
Evening star., 1941-08-08
Congress in Brief
TO-DAY.

Senate:
In recess.
House:
Begins debate on extension of
service Of selectees. National Guards
men and Reserve officers.
Evening star., 1941-08-08
Record for Last "A Hours.

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 100 on July %.
Lowest, Is on March Is.
River Report
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today
Humidity for Last "A Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todsy)
Highest. SIS per cent. at IL pm. yester-
day.
Lowest. SO Der cent. at 1 pm. yesterday.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey)
Evening star., 1941-08-08
D. 6. Woman Soon to See Son
And Family, Ousted by Soviets

Mrs. Nellie Seeds, educational
consultant at w. P. A. headquar-
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Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
Capital lcurrent month to datel:
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just completed a voyage across the
Pacific.
Mr.. Scott, according to the Asso-
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The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
Nv HARRY MACARTHUR.

With the craze for slapstick full
upon us these many months now, 1t
is no surprise to find Stan Laurel
and Oliver Hardy emerging from
their involuntary retirement 10
frolic before the cameras once more.
Nor is it surprising, service pictures
being in vogue, too, to find that the
vehicle of the pairs return is a
bouncing Army "jeep." So here we
have Mr.. Laurel and Mr.. HARDY
rather thoroughly disrupting the
quiet life of a cavalry post In some
thing called Great Guns" which
opened yesterday at the Metro
politan.
Altogether this is quite happy
frolic for admirers of the buffoonlsh
duo. Short on plot, as is to be eX-
pected of Laurel-Hardy film,
Great Guns" is, however, long on
gags. Among these are several OF
the most whimsically loony devices
you have seen in a long time, in
GLIDING at the top of the list an
electric light bulb which gives light
only when Stan Laurel is holding it,
but not when it is screwed in Its
socket.
More strenuous is the comedy OF
those sequences wherein Stan and
Oliver make life miserable for their
officers and Illustrate their top SER
geant at every turn. They Chamber
aboard a moving target on a ma
chine gun range. thinking to hitch
an easy ride back to camp. They
60 for a wild jaunt in "jeep'
during the course of which they're
bombed from the air with bags of
-four and miraculously cross field
of exploding mines. And they in
dulge in many another familiar
slapstick gesture.
The boys seem to have toned tteir
comedy down to something less Wig
orous than it used to be. however, or
perhaps it is just that absence
makes the heart grow fonder. These
two always were something more
than just opponents of slapstick,
OF course. Mr.. Hardy can manage
TO be quite a caricature of the
pOmpouS and clustering knoW-it-a all.
And Mr.. Laurel, in addition to own
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
Oracle Fields
Show Gets
More Stars
Fred Heating Joins
British Benefit
Revue Cast

Fred Heating, the actor and So
ciety magician, is the latest star to
join the cast of the Oracle Fields
show TO be presented at Constitu-
ton Hall week from tonight. Miss
Fields. the outstanding British
Coincidence, now touring the Unit
ed States, is being presented by the
Variety Club, proceeds of the ticket
sale going to the British War Re-
lief Society.
Harriet Hector, the ballerina. Is
another who will appear in the spe-
cial show. The program also will
feature Harrison and Fisher, the
noted ballroom dance duo; Sam
Jack kaufman and the Loews Capt.
tol orchestra, and the Capitolians,
24-voice male chorus.
The telegram announcing that
Mr.. Heating would appear also con-
tanned the advice that there would
be more to come" A noted screen
star has been invited to act as mas
ter of ceremonies, but it is not
known yet whether or not he will
be able to accept.
Tickets for the Oracle Fields
headlined revue are on sale at the
box Office at Kits music store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25

Seems Mr.. WelleS is scared the Ma
tons ladies will think he is fat
if they hear he is being contem-
plated for part as Babe Ruth. The
result is this bleat from the Welles
mimeograph machine: There is no
truth to the rumor that Orson
Welles is trying to hire Sam Gold
wyn to play a bloodhound in a
revival Of Uncle Toms Cabin"
My Goodness, people, you never
did see such excitement as we are
having here. Wait till Mr.. Welles
hears that Mickey Rooney has
named the dog given him by Norma
Shearer "Orson Welles."
Ginger Rogers has been made the
highest priced actress in Holly
wood by Howard Hughes. getting
sl75,OOO for a single picture to be
directed by Leo McCarey. The deal
makes Mr. McCarey the towns
highest priced director, he getting
SIPS 900 for work that should be a
pleasure.
Anyway, Mr.. McCarey looks
pleased already, although shooting
will not start for several weeks
However, he declined to discuss the
deal. Bother me about something
important" he said, like this great
story I've got for you-Something
that happened to me when I was
last in New York. early this month.
Il went into '2l' for dinner with
the wife of a friend of mine and
when 1 am in the place where the
medicine chest is, fellow I hardly
know comes up to me and says,
Who is that beautiful with
your I asked him, please do not
use such language about girl I
am with.
And he got sore! What do you
think Of that He starts tapping me
him tapping melon the chest
with one finger. Don't censor me,
he says and taps. You're in my
town now. You can't censor mel
Il thought he was a little con-
fused and doubled up my fists to
straighten him out. But he got
the point and went away"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25

CODllld wight, il, WIleH dShcu WHY
she was going to New York. replied,
ITO buy some clothes" And be-
cause Betty Cradle, when asked why
she brought SO much baggage back
from New York, replied, why, 1
bought lot of clothes in New York.
the kind of thing you can't get out
here"
The least the girls are being called
by the dreSsmakers is "assassin!"-a
word that can be Missed for nine
seconds. We spoke to the girls
about the uproar. Each is troubled
by her innocent blurt. mo more
discounts for me, I guess" Miss
Cradle said Il never did get dis
counts" the junior Wright said.
But now, I suppose, the price will
go up so high it will be out of
reach"
The Orson WelleS- Samuel Gold
wynn battle of words is quite as
businesslike. 1t seems that Mr.
Goldwyn, who is floundering around
for characters for the picture he
will make about Lou Gehrig, is hav-
ing trouble getting Babe Ruth to
play the part of Babe Ruth for less
than s25 5000.
So Mr.. Goldwyn, a shrewd trader,
said he would have Babe Ruth writ
ten out of the picture Mr.: Ruth
replied, "Ha! Hal" spelling it, nuts"
Sipce writing Raha Ruth ont Of a
picture about Gehrig would be like
not making sounds when talking,
Mr. Goldwyn had to come up with
another traders idea. He came up
with an innocent notion about get
ting OrSon Welles to play the part
of Babe Ruth.
Mr.. Ruth did not have time to
answer before Mr.. Welles interrupted
him and went believing into battle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
NatiOnal-"The Land Is Bright"
new play by Edna Ferber and George
S. kaufman: 230 and $3.50 pm.
Wardman Park-"The American
Way" produced by the Washington
Civic Theater: 8:45 pm.
Screen.
capitalization Barbara" Wendy
Hitler in the screen version Of the
Shaw play: 10:45 am, 100. APO,
7:05 and 955 pm. Stage shows:
1880, $40, $50 and Oils pm.
Earle-"Ladies in Retirement
screen version of the stage melo-
drama: 1890 am, 1888, 800, 5:45,
BIS and 10:4O pm. Stage shows:
1910, 2:35, sos, 7:3O and 10 pm.
Keith's - Unfinished Business -
Irene Dunno in romantic comedy:
l1:l5 am, l:20, 1925, $50, 7:35 and
$40 pm. March of Time: l, sos,
$40, tbs and 800 pm.
"Honky Tonk," Clark
Gable kisses Lana Turner: Hiss
am, 2:2O, 4:45, tbs and $40 pm.
Metropolitan "Grea t Guns,
Laurel and Hardy in the Army: 1l:3(
am, 100, 3:35. 5:35, TAO ane
Gas pm.
Little-"I Met a Murderer" sus.
pense- packed and different: II am.
1880, 2:4O, 4:3O, 6:l5, sos ane
9:55 pm.
Pix-"Quiet Wedding" with Mar
garet Lockwood as the bride: 1
am. 1855, 2:45, ABS, 6:25, BIS ant
1905 pm.
! COlumbia-"Sun Valley Sere.
made" with Sonia Henie and Glenn
Miller music: 11:45 am, las, 3:45
545, TAO and $40 pm.
/ Trans-Lux - News and shorts
/ continuous from 10 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25

with which Flora Robson played it
on the stage, a younger actress can
endoW it with additionally fascinat-
ing qualities. Hayward, playing OPP
posite his wife for the first time, is
excellent as the crafty, criminally
disposed young nephew, and so are
Miss Barrett and Miss Manchester,
who play the lunatic sisters with
proper blend of tragedy and comedy.
The screen adaptation follows very
closely the line and the dialogue of
the original and the quality Of pro-
duction leaves nothing to be desired.
X X
A 37-minute stage show, snappy
affair of music, comedy and dancing,
supplements the Earle's attractive
screen feature. The comedy assign
ment goes to Jackie Miles, who does
a pair of 5-minute intervals; the
musical novelty interlude to Frayne
and Foster, and the dancing to the
Four Samuels. whose tap routines
are intricate and novel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25

ing one Of the five most melancholy
faces in the world, can make a
wonderful thing Of his lack Of COM
prehension, as in the case OF the
light bulb here AS he fools around
with it, befuddled but not amazed,
his confusion increases slowly to the
point where he just shrugs of the
whole phenomenon as If 1t were the
most logical thing in the world.
It's q fine moment.
There are, Of course, number OF
other people In the picture, but
mostly they stay out Of the way OF
the antics of Laurel and Hardy as
much as possible. Fellow named
Dick Nelson does seem to be an
agreeable young man as he makes
his screen debut, and there is a
pretty girl named Sheila Ryan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
Ships in the News

Ships, as they have been in the
newspapers lately, are considerably
in the news as it is pictorially re-
ported at the Trans-Lux this week.
The news reels discuss the U-boat
attacks, see the S. S. Bristol COM
missioned at Brooklyn. the Aircraft
Carrier Hornet commissioned at
Norfolk, the Submarine Haddock
launched at Portsmouth, battleships
speeded at other shipyards. Air
planes are in the news, too, both
in the matter of new plants here
and that of Hurricanes in action
against Nazi ships. Football battles
on the new Trans-Lux program in
clude the Navy-Cornell, Michigan
Northwestern, Georgia Columbia,
Texas Aggies-Texas Christian and
Army-Yale games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
British Film STAYS

Quiet wedding" latest charm
ing little tale to come out OF the
British studios during wartime, con-
tinues for q second week at the
Pix Theater, starting today. Marg-
aret Lockwood is the heroine OF the
happily humorous yarn about a
nice young couple whose wedding
plans were taken out of their hands
with almost, but not quite, distress
ing results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25

off as an intelligent piece OF work.
It's intelligence is most wildly mani
tested in the selection of Ida Lupino
as the innocent girl who has it in
loving heart to commit a violent
murder when that seems to be the
only way to spare her lunatlc sis
tiers from a life of confinement. 1t
is role requiring a deal of delicacy
to give it its full meaning and Miss
Lupino proves that she is just the
girl to do it. If she does not come
off with an Academy Award for it
the winner will have been in one
of the fiercest competitions of her
life.
Its essentially grim theme-the
murder of a nice old lady and tuck
ing her away in an unused brick
oven is essentially grim-cannot keep
Ladies in Retirement" always on
gloomy level. Some wicked things
happen in the misty light on that
bleak and eerie moor, but so also do
many humorous ones. Miss Luplno
is aided in their creation not only
by her talented husband, but by an
extraordinarily capable cast, which
includes Edith Barrett, Isobel Elsom,
Elsa Manchester and Evelyn Reyes.
A lively lot of psychopaths they
make reaching for a normally that
always eludes them.
Ladies in Retirement" is the story
Of a nice, intelligent girl, pretty, 100,
who is cursed with a pair of looney
elder sisters. One spends all her
time looking through a spyglass for
a sailor lover lost at sea years before.
She isn't sad that he never appears
within the range of vision, leaving
sadness for the other sister the one
whose passion is for saving every
thing from driftwood to the car
cases of dead birds. The sane
younger sister must provide home
for the others to keep them out Of
the hands of the state. The only
way she can do it is to pull a nice
piece Of strangulation on her mod
estly wealthy employer, a good
hearted elderly woman who achieved
spinsterhood by default. That is a
suspenSeful process, but it is not
nearly up to the suspense of the
subsequent passages in which the
craven nephew Of the poor muir
deress is trying to uncover just
what has gone on in the strange
menage. A cunning and evil lad he
is. light-fingered, tippler, and
brightly gifted with a dishonorable
way with women. 1t is thrilling,
chilling conflict he wages with the
aunt over the secret of whatever
happened to the ole. lady and why
the old bake oven suddenly should
have been bricked up that way.
X X X X
The acting standard of Ladies in
Retirement" is altogether admirable
and so is the quality of the direction
which was done by Charles V1dor.
1t is to the pictures advantage that
It has these qualities, for there are
moments when attention needs to be
diverted from the artiflciality OF the
eerie miStiness of the moor and its
gnarled and stunted vegetation.
Miss Lupino's performance, OF
course, is the outstanding bit OF act
ing in the screen drama. 1t fully
bears out the contention of Producer
Cowan that, for all the excellence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
'Serenade' Back

"Sun Valley Serenade," the grace
full musical in which Sonia Henie
proves she is a capable comedienne
as we'll as skilled figure skater,
has moved now to the Columbia for
a second week on F street. There's
a lot of gay fun on the ski slopes
at Sun Valley and when Miss Henie
does step out on the ice she does it
in time to Glenn Miller music.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
Cables Third Term

"Honky- Tonk," in which Clark
Gable kisses Lana Turner, and often,
continues for a third week at Loew's
Palace. Mr.. Gable Is a handsome
bandit of the old west, who would
put crime on a paying basis by run
ming a town, and Miss Turner is a
lass from New England, whose be-
lief in marriage as an institution
is a definite handicap to at least one
of Mr.. Gables projects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25

Louis Hayward,
is h e easiest
thing of the year
to recommend.
Produced by Les
ter Cowan in as
ISOLATION W i t h
Gilbert Miller, it
marks the lat
ter's first identi-
fcation with the
movies. 1t is a
safe bet that it
won't be his last.
Cowan's adap-
alton of t h e
highly successful
stage NAV comes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
New Gayety Show

"Swingtime' is the title of the new
burlesque revue which starts at the
Gayety Theater tomorrow afternoon
with Mary Joyce as the headline
feminine entertainer. Others in the
cast are Bob Carney and AL Golden,
jr., comedians; Gypsy Nina, Wynette,
Bob Ridley and Cosmo and Anita
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
Hollyw0od's Dressmakers
Are So Terribly Hurt
BY IRA WOLFERT.
HOLLYWOOD.

Out of the notebook into the PAN The latest hks and means TO
assorted folk as
jockeys riding to fame
hand Samuel Godwyn the other Oson
Weles
gushing in pet because
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
Superthriller at Earle
Also Has Its Outlaws
Ladies in Retirement Keeps Excellence
AS Film Starring Ida Lupino,
Supported by Superb Cast
BY JAY CARMODY.

Give halfway skilled English dramaist lonely pretty
girl either similar the
occasionally did miss in Ladies
Retirement which yesterday Earle rOung
curdle of the blood, properly reHevedI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25
One More
Comic Duo
In the Army
Laurel and Hardy
Return as Stars
OF Great Guns

GREAT GUNS" . goth Century Fox
picture with Stan Laurel and Oliver
Hardy; produced by Sol M Wurtzel
directed by Monty Banks; screen play by
Lou BreSlow. At the Metropolitan.
The Cast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25

LADIES IN RETIREMENT" . Lester
Cowan- Gilbert Miller production starring
Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward, directed
by Charles Vidor. screen play by Garrett
Fort and Reginald Denham. the latter CO.
author of the original stage play released
through Columbia pictures. AT the Earle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-10-25

ches of merry laughter, this
anna, starring Ida Lupino and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-05-08
Higgins Wachter

A pretty wedding was solemn
lied in Mt. Carmel church at Sun
shine on Saturday, April IL at
2:30 p. m, when Miss Ida Belle
Wachter, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William E. Wachter of Unity, be-
came the bride of Mr.. Carroll M.
Higgins, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard M. Higgins of Frederick.
The ring ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. C. w. Jordan.
Preceding the ceremony an organ
recital was given by Miss Ellen
Nash of Brookeville. Mrs. Benja-
min Slagle of Lisbon, sang IL Love
You Truly"
The bride was attired in gown
of white satin and lace and wore
finger tip veil held in place by
a coronet of pearls, carrying a
bouquet of white carnations and
sweet peas. Miss Emily L.
Wachter was her sisters maid of
honor, her only attendant. She
wore a dress of aqua blue sugar
mist and carried bouquet of pink
carnations and sweet peas.
Mr.. Dyson Burns of Etchison
was best man. The ushers were
Mr.. Kenneth Howes of Laytons-
vile and Mr.. William E. Wachter,
Jr., of Unity, brother of the bride.
Following the ceremony small
reception for the immediate fami-
lies and a few friends was held at
the home of the bride.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-05-08

roses. Her maid of honor, Miss
Ella Elder of Shady Grove, wore
pink crepe with mathcing accesso-
reis and a pink corsage. The best
man was the groom's brother, Mr..
Sterling Hawkins.
Following the ceremony, which
was witnessed by a number of
friends of the bride from Baltimore
and members Of the two families,
the bridal party and other friends
were entertained at supper by Mr..
and Mrs. Bradley Hawkins.