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Evening star., 1945-05-06
A Note to the NeighbOrs

when the boy next door practiced at
his music? Weep no more. For at
7:30 pm. Friday, at Central High
Schools spring carnival, all the tai
ent in the neighborhood is going to
get together and prove just how good
it really is.
Victor Penso owns trumpet. He
took lessons for three months and
then taught himself for the rest of
the three years that he's been play
ing. Sure, he. practices round the
house, but he also practices with the
school band and the swing band.
For more active recreation he Joined
the track team.
Perhaps you've heard Tom Lang
ley beating the drums. "All his life"
he wanted to be a drummer; start
ed out beating on fence railings and
ash cans" and now, after taking
lessons for two years, he's playing at
the Elks Club, Arlington Farms and
at USO dances at the YWCA.
Then there's James Boyce, who
took lessons on the piano and the
organ for eight years. Maybe you've
heard him play the organ at st.
Stephens Episcopal Church. He's
played over station WWDC, in school
assemblies and at Pierce Hall. For
a hobby he keeps the neighbors
guessing with an accordion.
Shirley Heine has taken dancing
lessons for IL years and Is now
teaching. Her speciality Is toe ballet,
although she goes in for tap, regular
ballet and acrobatic dancing. She
has danced for the Eastern Star, the
American Legion and in benefit
show for wounded soldiers at Walter
Reed.
There they are, neighbors-not
all Of them, but Just q few OF Gen.
trails aspirants to fame in the music
world. And they'll be looking to see
. friendly face or two In the carnival
audience.
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urated especially for Montgomery
Blair's ninth and tenth grade boys.
Ordinarily this course is not offered
in junior high school, but because
the boys are near-draft age the
school introduced the course at the
suggestion of w. C. Feddeman, di-
rector Of vocational education in
Montgomery County, Md, and Mrs.
Fern Snyder, county supervisor of
education. They feel that this
training, which includes not only
carpentry work but Welding and
mechanics, will better equip the
boys for postwar employment How
ever. the ninth-grade boys are
eligible only for the carpentry
course, which includes 16 hours of
practical work a week, with 4 hours
spent in other courses. such as Eng
ish, sociology, physical education,
math and science.
The students work on a produc-
ton basis, making equipment for
county schools at cost, if not sup
piled with raw materials. To sup
plement county funds allotted to
them for shop use the students
make extra things, like toys, cab
network and decorative trays, to
sell to private individuals and job
bers. The added proceeds go toward
the students special shop fund.
Leonard T. Oass, teacher of the
group. explains it as a revolving
fund" upon which the class may
draw at any time to finance extra
supplies. He feels that the more
projects the students have to work
on the better for their experience
And they like the idea, too. While
Bill Barney, Is; Bobby Abel, IA, and
James Timmis, Is, were putting met
al hinges on tool boxes, they enthu-
siastically told how they had sold $50
hobby horses and 800 toy trucks at
Christmas time.
In another part of the room, Earl
Barnett, Is, and Larry Boggs, 16,
were hard at work constructing
miniature ironing boards. The rest
of the class was either cutting ply
wood for wall cabinets or putting
touches of varnish or shellac to
bookcases and repaired furniture.
The toys 60 to the Jessup Blair
Child Day Care Center, just few
blocks from the school. Practically
all the equipment, like sleeping cot
racks, lockers and shelves, was
made by the Blair ninth and tenth
graders. The lockers themselves
show bit Of ingenuity. The top
part of the locker has shelves for
headwear and changes of clothes:
the main part is for coats and at
Evening star., 1945-05-06
II Meetings Are Scheduled

Progressive Citizens of George
town-Curtis School, Thirty third
and o streets NV, 8 pm: DR.. Mel
vim Isaminger, director Of Bureau
Of Public Health Instruction, and
Mai. william Gary of Bureau Of
Sanitation, guest speakers.
Tuesday.
Benning-Benning School, 4100
block of Minnesota avenue NE,
8 pm.
Cathedral Heights Cleveland Park
Guild Hall of st. Adams, Wis
consin and Massachusetts, avenues
NV, 8 pm.
: Logan Thomas Circle-l536 Six
teenth street NV, 8 pm.
Summit Park - Beers School,
Thirty sixth place and Alabama
avenue Sc, 8 pm.
Wednesday. ..-
North Randle Community-Kim-
ball School, Minnesota avenue and
Ely place Sc, 8 PM; election
of officers.
Rhode Island Avenue-Sherwood
Presbyterian Church Hall, Twenty
second street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE, 8 p.m.; 37th anniversary,
featuring Representative Hairless,
Democrat, of Arizona, guest speaker
Thursday.
Congress Heights - Congress
Heights Field House, Randle place
and Alabama avenue Sc, 8 pm.
Park View-Park View School
Newton and Warder streets NV.
g pm.
Friday.
Brightwood - Paul Junior High
School, Eighth street and Concord
avenue NV, 8 pm.
Washingtonians-Eighlands, Cali
fornia street and Connecticut ave.
nue NV. . pm.
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Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
stitutlon avenue and Sixth street
Works by the old masters; loan
pantnp chinese fsa'h porssans sna selssn spe
cial exhibition old and modern
prints illustrating Passion of Our
Lord" May 13-June 20.
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Col
lection Of Fine Arts, Constitution
can paintings, works by old mas
ters, miniatures, etc. Special ex-
bib hieitio1, s T. p gFitish arts and crafts.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, Division
of nue erspa' and entb As
June 3.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
and 3 streets S.W;-Oriental and
Far Eastern art; draTinss, .pd paint, int
Room" by Whistler.
CoRCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street. between New York
avenue and E streets N.W.-Amer-
lean. paintings and sculpture. w.
essFk o0e'siSa spseia Drn'saR tHss
pices War Department.. May i3-
June 3; Latin Latin, AMERICAN watey Msr
20 to June 10
rH5h5rs nJ5d Tv.nsy mHMSs1As 2ss stres aAttER1 fW
Painting by, old and modern mas
tiers. Special exhibition. Paint
aw nss ana Wsk1ns dpswinsT plnt BY yoo 5hs ,e May
to os Exhibition Of paintings by
Bonnard extended temporarily.
WHYTE GALLERY, 1920 Connecti-
cut avenue-Paintings by Prentiss
Taylor, May 10 to 81.
cAREssE CROSBY GALLERY. 1906
Drew Bear Of Phiiadeiphia. May J.
IS. Paintings by Pietro Las1ari'
DAVID PORTER GALLERY. e1s G
place NwGPainsinnes c-psd nssn OF VAS Wsshinsso F.
May sGns li Iy Grace morn NeAS' 10
THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON.
2Oi7 street N.W.-Paintine in oil
and water color by Corpl; Gustav
Trois. y; g. A.. to May IL: sum
open May 1a. continuing to Sep
tember.
OAR MUSEUM, Continental Memor-
al, Seventeenth and D streets NV.
Exhibition. recent accessions-
the arts and crafts OF early days
May to September.
PAN AMERICAN UNION; Nood ssysnsesnsh sysrtSinss
By Leopoldo. Mendez OF Mexico
May l to 21.
THE WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL,
Mount st. Alban-Special exhibit
ton ecelssi.stie.l art; paintings paintings
printing, books, stained glass,
Carvings. wrought iron. etc. May
1918. inclusive.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Cap
itol and First streets-Dtyision OF
Prints, third annual exhibition OF
prints by contemporary print
makers entered in competition for
the Pennell awards. May to
July 81 Also, Music Division, por-
traits and caricatures Of Pas gsnini
from the sreat violinist's own col
lection.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Safety Chalk Talks
Bv Dick Mansfield

Inspector Dick Mansfield, director
of The Stars school safety program
and former chief of detectives, is
giving a series Of chalk talks on
safety to pupils of elementary, jun
ior and senior high schools. The
talks are presented under sponsor
ship Of The Junior Star, in Coop
Grafton with school authorities Of
the District and nearby Maryland
and Virginia. This weeks schedule:
Monday, 1910 pm, Hine Junior
High (9th grade); Tuesday, 1910
pm, Hine Junior High 9th and
9th grades; Wednesday, IL am,
Woodward Schol for Boys; Thurs
day 2 pm, Bell Junior High; Fri
day. II am, Gwynn Park (Md.)
High.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
lust Between
Ourselves
BY Philip Fl. Love =

Thomas Edward Miller went back
to his old school recently to tell Of
some Of the things shat had hap
pened to him since his graduation
in 1895.
In his Eastern High days Eddie
Miller was first-string basket ball
player and a champion high
jumper. And at the University of
Maryland, to which he won q
scholarship, he established an East
Coast record-still upbroken, Incl
|dentally-for pole-vatlting.
But those aren't the things Eddie
went back to Eastern to talk about.
High school and college days seem
remote to him now, SO much has
happened since the United States
has been at war.
A lieutenant in the lst Ranger
Battalion, Eddie was captured by
the Germans on the Anzio Beach
head. He was sent to a prison
camp at Posen, Poland, and there
he remained until the Russians
snatched him away from the Nazis
last January.
That particular camp wasn't so
bad, Tommy said. All the rules
were made by the prisoners them
selves-by the of1cers-and the
YMCA provided equipment for en-
tertainment, which included play
ing baseball, playing in or listening
to the camp orchestra and reading
in the library.
After their release the prisoners
travelled in twos and threes toward
the Russian border. Poles along
the way gave them food and shell
ter. At the frontier Eddie was
taken in hand by the Soviet gov
ernment and sent to Egypt, where
he remained until his return home
several weeks ago.
Another fastener back from the
war is Joe Paravati, who is finishing
his high school course after II
months in the Navy. After his
graduation next month he plans
to attend college under the G1
Bill of Rights. "The Navy was
fine" he declared. But it's great
to be back In school,"
| Carroll Lawrence of Woodrow
Wilson High School spends his Sun
days working as sort of general
assistant" to the physicians at
Casualty Hospital. He volunteered
for service more than two years ago
after reading Of the hospital work
being done by the AWVS. If women
and girls could make themselves
useful to a hospital, he decided, he
could, too. And he has found the
work so interesting that he's de-
cided on surgery as his lifework.
Janet Ralph, editor Of the Roose-
welt High School Reporter and oc-
casional contributor to The Junior
Star. will take part in the ID. c
Dateline" program on WTOP at GLE
am. today. Ernest V. Connolly
Washington Area director, Wal
Manpower Commission, will discus.
vacation jobs for boys and girl:
and Janet will tell of some Of hel
experiences as vacation worker.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Ecclesiastical Art
At the Cathedral

success.
Ecclesiastical Art
At the Cathedral
In the art exhibition to be held in
the Washington Cathedral on Mount
Saint Alban the last of this week
will be triptychs by experienced
American artists to be used in con-
nection with services held by the
Army and the Navy in all manner
Of places, similar to those previously
shown in the Corcoran Gallery of
Art. but not the same; also etchings
and other prints OF cathedrals
abroad the beauty OF which has in
spired artists for generations, be-
sides books beautifully designed and
printed in those days when art was
still religion, beautiful and spiritual
as well.
These and other reminders Of the
past will be OF great interest, but
it cannot be forgotten that when all
is said and shown the Cathedral it
self is the greatest exhibit of all
and the most reassuring. The build
ing itself is exemplary Gothic with
all that implies, designed by a
British architect Of distinction, car
ried on toward completion through
a period of change and develop
ment by an American firm Of archi-
tects Of Boston and Washington
working together in harmony and
like enthusiasm. It's windows have
been designed and executed by the
foremost makers of stained glass
here or abroad-craftsmen who have
reclaimed their craft as an art and
employed it fittingly and beauti-
fully. era --.. -'--
There are also in the Cathedral
some beautiful iron grills, the work
of the late Samuel Yellin, master
craftsman and truly great artist.
When John Taylor Arms made an
etching of the facade of one of the
most beautifully ornamented ca
thedrals in France he called it Lace
in Stone" In the same way. Mr..
Yellin's grills might well be called
LACE in iron"-and not inappro-
priately. The secret of this is as
Ralph Adams Cram once pointed
out, that the Gothic builders knew
that art meant not something added
to something else, but doing things
right, making them beautiful and
perfect in craftsmanship. The great
art of the past, before which all men
stand today with uncovered heads,
was the gift of Christianity-pro-
duced with reverence and sincerity
to the glory of God. 1t is this gift
that the exhibition at the Cathedral
will emphasize.
Phillips Gallery
The Phillips Memorial Gallery
announces an exhibition, opening
today, of paintings and drawings of
the late Charles Law Watkins, for
many years assistant director of the
Evening star., 1945-05-06

forts, houses and the cathedral OF
st. Augustine as well as other CO.
lonial sites in Florida, include some
taken from the files of the His
toric American Buildings Survey,
now housed in the Library of Con-
gress.
Many other exhibits outside the
scope of this review help to give
the visitor q comprehensive and
dignifled mental concept Of Florida.
Even those whose knowledge Of the
State is now bounded by the bath
ing beaches and race tracks Of Mi
ami will inevitably have their men
tai horizons extended, II they visit
this excellent show.
Evening star., 1945-05-06

the foot of the locker is o small,
gaily painted shoebox. Often Mr..
Oass will send two or three boys
over to the nursery to install new
doors or bins for storing vegetables
and other foodstuffs, used in pre-
pairing the children's lunches.
The boys also have a chance to
work on projects for themselves.
Bill Barney. for instance, is making
a night table for his Room, while
Willard Norwood jr.. 16, is working
on a new gunstock for his rifle.
They drew their own guide plans,
which gave them opportunity for
originality,
Evening star., 1945-05-06
The Dandelions
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Lois II. ManSeI, II
Taft Junior Hish schoo,

TAFT Junior High School
The danelions are spri1eing up
Over hill and dale:
They're marching like a golden band
Their heads an ungroomed veil.
All about are signs of spring:
Days are long, birds on the wing.
And all about life springs anew,
AS natures beauty comes to view.
But soon these yellow soldier gay
Will wear helmet turned to gray;
Then, scattered by the zephyr breeze,
They'll float away with graceful ease.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Women of the Moose

The following committees will
meet Tuesday at the Moose Home:
Friendship, publicity, library, social
service, hospital guild and home
nursing. The College Of Regents
will meet at 8:15 pm. at the home
of Mrs. Frances Mitchell.
Meeting Of Columbia Chapter on
Friday at the Moose Home.
Evening star., 1945-05-06

gallery and in charge of its educa-
tional activities. These works will
be shown in the print room. The
Bonnard exhibition having closed
with the 1st of May, the main gal
lery above stairs is now showing
modern paintings of note in the
gallery's permanent collection.
OAR Museum
The OAR Museum, Memorial
Continental Hall, is showing now
and for an indefinite period recent
accessions - ceramics, textiles. ETC.,
produced during the early days Of
our Republic. designed and wrought
by accomplished crafts men and
women. Miss Rosalind Wright, the
director, reports much interest
shown in and large attendance at
the Steiegal type glass exhibit i'm
mediately preceding.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Eight ct Forty

Memorial service will be held at
the next meeting of Eight ct Forty,
commemorating the passing Of
Emma P. Belt. Maude Warner,
Bernadette Carley, Willette L.
Preston, Margaret Garry, Emma
Warren, Catherine Waters and
Viola Hines Fones. Mrs. Mae Hart,
memorial chairman, will conduct the
services.
The salon will meet at the Wash
ington Hotel at 7:30 pm, May 16.
A special tribute will be paid to all
mothers on Mothers Day.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Inaugural Exhibition of New Washington
Artists Group Opens NJ Street Gallery

| the most decorative paintings on
view. Alexander Clayton, who a
few years ago was we'll known for
his competent work in the tradi-
tional manner has experimental
since then In modern idioms. He
is represented by broadly handled
still life. I liked Elizabeth Heint-
zen's Little White Bowl" and ia
cob Kainen's Street Breakers" both
semiabstract; also Doris Hilton's
Gift Horse" a ceramic sculpture
with a dark green-blue glaze.
I'm Transit" Is a professional
artists group, not connected with
any other organization.
Florida Anniversary
Foridas centennial as a State i
signalized by the Library of Con.
gress, with a large exhibition, pre-.
dominantly historical, but having
esthetic aspects. 1t was opened ir
March, with special ceremonies, ano
remains on view until June 1. Hav.
ing many facets Of interest, history
geography, art, ethnography, litera.
ture, cartography and economics, II
should appeal to varied tastes.
Maps, manuscripts, books, print:
and photographs comprise the ex.
hibition, which occupies cases or
the first floor and screens in the
basement. Drawn from the Libra
ry's collections, 1t is thought to be
the most complete showing assem-.
bled to date, Of rare documentary
material on the State Of Florida
It begins only 16 years after Co.
lumbus' discovery of America, with
map of the world in 1903, show.
ing the territory now known al
Florida. Other 18th century anc
later maps make up in decorativ,
effects what they lack in accuracy
A colossal map made in 1774 BY
Bernard Romans, who engraved thu
Battle of Bunker Hill, is one of ths
Library's rarest treasures.
Many of the ola books tracine
the history Of Florida are illustrated
with prints, including engraving
and woodcuts, a good proportion II
colors. The Seminole wars Of thu
1830s are represented In q partic.
ularly vivid series OF prints, car.
toons and colored hthographic por.
traits of Indian chieftains.
Photomurals in the group-nool
gallery include studies Of early ar
chitecture, particularly at st. Au'
gustine, established in 1865. Ok
| and modern views Of the Spanisl
Evening star., 1945-05-06
War Correspondents American Legion
Organize VFW Post To Participate at
In D. C. Department D. c. War Memorial

A group Of World War II cor
respondents, with overseas service
met Wednesday night at the Statler
Hotel and signed petition for q
post in the District of Columbia
Department, Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States. Mem
bership will be limited to members
of the press having such service.
The national organization wa
represented by Omar Ketchum, nas
tional legislative representative, and
the District Department by Comdr
Leolin Neville Miller and Adjutant
and National Council Member
Charles B. Jennings.
Those signing the charter follow
William S. Frank, jeremiah A
OLeary, Robert N. Davis, Samuel E
Stavasky, Earl J. Wilson, James w
Heulbut, James w. McYamara, Rob-
ert r. Bunner, Eugene C. Amey
T. Otis Black, Samuel Schaefer
Matt Tighe, Wess Rowland, Byrd F
Fermeyhough, Joseph Heibeyer ano
Andy Knight. Upon receipt Of the
charter from national headquarters
the post will be named and officers
elected.
Potomac Post held its annual in
stallation of officers at the North
east Masonic Temple last Saturday
night. Department Comdr. Neville.
Thompson acted as installing officer
Those installed: Commander, Lee
S. Dove; senior vice commander
Frank Carr; junior vice commander
Robert Fhal; chaplain. Harry v
Krichton; quartermaster- -adjutant
Frank r. Heise; officer of the day
Mckinley Cunningham; trustee, re
firing commander, Wilson Jones.
Preceding the installation th'
combined colors of the post ane
auxiliary were presented by The
guard Of honor.
Frank r. Heise, chairman of re.
cruiting, announced an immediate
drive with awards going to post
members bringing in the most re.
cruits before the date set for the
national encampment.
The VFW will participate with
the District of Columbia World Wal
Memorial and May Day Corporation
and the American Legion in cere-
monies to be held May 13 at the
District World War Memorial a.
was at the annual massing Of the
colors at the National Cathedra
on Sunday, May ~.
Department Senior Vice Comdr
Lloyd B. Fields installed the
officers of All-American Post, as
follows: Commander, Thomas E
Murphy; senior vice commander
Carlin c. Poland; junior vice COM
mander, Arnold v. Hughes; quar-
termaster, Edgar 8. Campbell; post
advocate, William A. Downs; chap
lain, Joseph L. Russell; surgeon
Sumner Perry, and trustee, Oscar
w. Torrens.
Past Department Comdr. Leon
Lambert installed officers of In
ternal Revenue Post last Friday
at the Gold Chevron Club quar-
tiers. Those installed: Commander
John j. Saunders; senior vice COM
mander. Edward Pagan: junior vice
commander. Mckinley w. Kriegh;
quartermaster, John E. jenkins;
Judge advocate. Joe N. McCollum;
chaplain, Thacker " Walker; sur
geon, DR.. Walter B. Vogel.
Meetings for week:
Monday-Council of Administra-
ton, District Building.
Observation-Disclosures and Wash
ington Posts, 1919 K street NV;
Follow-Me Defense Post, 1909 Rhode
Island avenue NE.
/ Thursday-Potomac Post, 1919 z
street NV.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Guide to New Books

Ihe Room ben1nd the Mantle,
by Harriet E. Convey Dorrance:
$1.5O-Mystery for both boys and
girls, about Dixie and Donald Paige,
14-year-old twins, who find a secret
room in an English manor house.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By June Sickels, II,

Neighbors, take notice! Remember
how you've stuffed your ears with
cotton, banged the windows shut and
wished you were million miles away
Evening star., 1945-05-06
By Ruth Dean
Junior Star Photos.

The Wr OF lathes the Of hammers
"Sanas workshop"
Schools shop oyand with
piles
blue doll corners
Evening star., 1945-05-06

Meetings for week:
Monday-Council of Administra-
ton, District Building ~
Wednesday-Columbia and WASH
| ington Posts, 1919 K street NV;
Follow-Me Defense Post, 1909 Rhode
Island avenue NE.
Thursday-Potomac Post. 1919 K
street NV.
Evening star., 1945-05-06

+ achievement. The inherent charm
in some of these paintings-both
oil and water-gives guarantee of
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y represents the vocational experiment recently naug-
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OAR Museum

nediately preceding.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Phillips Gallery

The Phillips Memorial Gallery
announces an exhibition, opening
today, of paintings and drawings Of
the late Charles Law Watkins, for
many years assistant director of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-03
Movie Actress Allowed
To Prosecute Divorce

HOLLYWOOD, July 2-lP)-Mar-
tina O'Driscoll, blonde movie ac-
tress, today was granted court
permission to prosecute her divorce
sit against Commander R chard
Adams, who had blocked the trial
under the Soldiers and Sailors Act
by refusing to give his consent.
Miss O'Driscoll's lawyers argrsd
Adams had been in California more
than a year, had been served with
"a copy of the complaint, which
charged cruelty, and that no prop
erty is involved.
The couple were married in 1943
and separated March "a, 1914. Miss
ODriscoll field her suit last Janu-
ary,