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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-09-24
Falls Church Club
Maps First Show

Any one interested in viewing or
exhibiting the beauties of fall
gardens may do so October Z and
8 when the Falls Church Garden
Club holds its first flower show.
The place is Madison School audi
forum which may be reached by
coming out Lee highway to Great
Falls street.
Show hours are from 8 pm. to
10 pm. on Saturday and from
2 until 9 on Sunday.
Exhibits will include roses,
danlias, garden flowers, canned
fruits, vegetables. herbs and flow
er and foliage arrangements.
There will be special prizes in each
division to be awarded by Mayor
Albert M. Orme at 8 pm, Octo-
Der 8.
Mrs. Ellis F. Price at Falls
Church 0313 has schedules. Judg-
ing will take place at pm. Octo-
Der z.
Some of the judges are Mr.. L. v,
Perry and Robert E. Scanned of
the Potomac Rose Society for
roses; Mrs. Lomox Tayloe of
Vienna, Va, and Mrs. Charles
Pozer of Fairfax, Va, for arrange
ments and garden flowers; F. l..
Gray OF Washington and C. O.
Hatfield of Silver Spring, of the
National Capitol Dahlia Society.
for dahlias.
Robert M. johnson is general
chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-09-24
Fall Rose Show
Comedies With
Society Meetinq

The fall show of the Potomac
Rose Society comedies this yeal
with the annual meeting of the
American Rose Society and will
be held in the foyer OF. the Ma
tional Museum. Tenth street and
Constitution avenue NV, Satur-
day and Sunday.
The show Is in three sections
one for gardens containing 35 or
fewer plants; one from So to 100
plants and third for those grow
ing more than 100 plants. CLASH
f1cations include most popular
roses in the Potomac area. En-
tries will be made from 8 to II
am. Saturday and must be In
place by noon when Judging be-
gins. The show opens at 4 pm.
running to 10. On Sunday, hours
are 10 am. to 8 pm.
The American Rose Society will
conduct it's sessions at the
Shoreham Hotel, starting with
registration Saturday at 8 am
DR.. William L. Ayres, president
Will lay a wreath on the tomb OF
the Unknown Soldier in Arlington
National Cemetery during a tour
OF Washington in the afternoon
A school for apprentice Judges will
be held in the evening.
On Sunday, several excursions
VIII take place including one to
the rose show at the museum
Shoreham rose gardens will he
oeolcated at 5:45 pm. On Mon
day and Tuesday. experts will dis.
cuss various topics concernins
rose culture and on Tuesday 3
tour OF the Beltsville plant in
oustry station is scheduled The
Potomac Rose Society test garder
and some home gardens will he
visited before the windup bano,,et
at the hotel at z pm Sneake,
VIII be Norman J. o. Maxim, Am.
bassador from Australia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-09-24
Piedmont Clubs
Fl our and Show
Set for Saturday

The Piedmont Garden Club of
Marshall. Fauquier County. Va,
holds a tour and farm flower show
Saturday from 2 to pm. Flower
arrangements will be shown in
five country homes in the Mar
shall Delaplane section. All class
es are open to the public. Elk
hibits will be placed between 8
and IL am. Saturday and may
mot be removed before 5 pm.
Lunch will be served to visiting
exhibitors at Granville, the home
Of Mrs. Hargrave Cunningham,
2 miles west of Marshall on route
SIS. The tour will start at Clan
vile and guides will be provided.
At Granville, arrangements for
a mantel and for a deep window
sill will be shown: at Rutledge,
home Of Mrs. G. r. Thompson, ar
arrangements featuring strong coll
lors on occasional tables: at Wood
| side, home of Mrs. j. H. Herbert,
a composition-fruits, vegetables,
grains, grasses, vines, with one or
more farm or garden implements
as accessories, also an arrange
ment of ANIMALS in a wood con-
tainer; at Ashleigh, home of Mrs.
Edmund Morgan, an inter-club
class A formal arrangement suit
able for a Georgian drawing
room: at Cobbler Mt. Farms, home
of Mrs. John Tyssowski. a minia-
ture arrangement not over 8
inches in any dimension.
Tea will be served at Cobbler
Mt. Farms from 4 to 6 pm. Mrs,
Lloyd Gold, Delaplane, is presi-
dent of the club. Mrs. John Tys-
sowski is chairman of the show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-09-24

easiest of shrubs to propagate
Cutting may be taken in the early
spring and rooted in a sand peat
moss mixture. More commonly,
cuttings of the new growth are
taken during the summer and
rooted under fruit jars in a sand
,peatmoss mixture. Or. one may
peg a branch to the soil where it
will soon root. The weeping for
sythia frequently tip-layers. i.e.,
the ends of the dropping branches
coming in contact with the soil
form roots and the new plant
starts to develop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-09-24

Branch road NV. Hours are from
2:30 pm. to 8 pm. Saturday and
2 pm. to 1880 pm. Sunday.
Charles H. Kennedy of the Falls
Church Azalea Gardens will dis
cuss "How to Have Success With
Azaleas" at the next meeting of
the Falls Church Garden Club,
October 3 at 8 pm. in Madison
School Auditorium.
Mr.. Kennedy has been growing
azaleas for some 20 years and will
show color slides of many Of the
IS varieties including some of his
new introductions. He will dis
cuss the culture and the varieties
recommended for best success in
this area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-09-24
Garden Club Activities

The Bethesda Community Gar
den Club will hold it's first meet
ing of the Fall, Wednesday at the
Battery Park Clubhouse at 1890
am. Anthony Gould of the
Mems Garden Club will talk on
Propagation" Hostesses for the
luncheon are Mrs. Charles Vogt,
chairman, Mrs. Henry Allen, Mrs.
c. D. Curtiss, Miss Anna r. Grit
fifth and Mrs. Howard Kany. Mrs.
James Robinson will make the
table decoration.
The Takoma Horticultural Club
will hold dahlia and fall flower
show october z and 8 at the Ia
koma Elementary School Audi
forum, Dahlia street and Piney
Evening star., 1950-05-14

Brazil has issued a new 65-cen-
tavos, red brown stamp for the
18th anniversary of the Italian
settlement in the State of Rio
Grande Do Sol.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings, sculptures by masters.
Gulbenkian collection Of Egyptian
sculpture and French. 18th century
art Additions to the Rosenwald
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col
lection Of Fine Arts. Constitution
aveni:e and Tenth street-Ameri-
can paintings and old masters.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
of Graphic Arts, Independence ave-
nue. and Tenth street. Prints by
Hubert Davis, through May 21.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
tai and Far Eastern arts. Paint
ings and etchings BY whistler and
other American artists; chanEing
CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART. sev-
enteenth street between New York
paintings and sculpture and the
w. A. Clark collection.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
1900 Twenty-frst street-Paint-
ings and prints. Drawings by
yirsinia Patterson. through next
ARTS CLUB, 2017 I Istreet-Religious
Art exhibition. through Friday.
Water colors By Warren Ferris.
DUMBARTON OAKS COLLECTION.
1903 Thirty second street NV
Byzantine art.
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and K
streets N.W.-Exhibition Of paint
,pgs ipzsugS and as1 Cravings BY Peter Blanc
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Cap.
itol and First streets--Pennsli
show and two Susquicentennials.
TEXTILE MUSEUM, $3.50 8 street
Rugs; tapestries and other textiles
Of the Near and Far East and
sd sep rr,ass 2Dsn mo1doz u s wsGnssdiss
Hewitt Myers. 75o Fifteenth street
PAN AMERICAN UNION. Seventeenth
sEst nd c0nFtisasioa Fisneloa igsas: psoso
GEGffE s2FS LrsksHH EssR,NaTes 6as gsIyrs ssrsss
N.W.-Trio exhibition, by Hedin.
Lewis and Sickman.
UNITED NATIONS CLUE, 1901 Nine
tsenth street N.W.-Work by Jules
Pascin.
DUPONT TMEAIER TERI: sAkLERY !Ss2
ings by Mary Driven.
Randolph place N.W.-James L.
Wells, paintings and prints, through
May.
FOUR HILLYER COURT GALLERY
Exhibition by Trois and Hobbs.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY
OF ART, university campus
Graphic Arts.
WHYTE GALLERY, 1918 Connecticut
avenue N.W.-Paintings Of Wash
ington BY local artists.
WATKINS GALLERY, Massachusetts,
and Nebraska avenues N.W.-Group
show by faculty and students.
CHEQUIRE HOUSE, 202 King street.
Alexandria-Paintin by Mary
Snow, through May 20.
WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGRE-
CATION, S22 Eighth street NV.
Contemporary artists OF Israel,
through June 4.
URSELL'S. 3243 @ street NV
Ceramics by the Stills. to open
May 21.
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Corner
OnCoiins
By Ted Hommer

librorion, American Numismotie Association
Two coin dealers at a recent
convention were playing catch
with two gold coins known as
"slugs."
Slugs are $50 gold pieces, round
or octagonal, and they are sold
by dealers at $275 upward. 1t is
seldom that one can be bought for
less than $500. and some of the
scarer varieties bring $1,000 or
more.
With one exception, slugs are
among the so-called pioneer gold
pieces Of the mid-1800s. They
were made by assayers and pri-
vate firms with special permis-
sion of the United States Treas
ury.
In far-flung areas of America,
money was scarce century ago
in fact, it often was virtually un-
known. This was true in Cali
fornia when the influx of gold
seekers rushed there on foot,
horseback, by rig and ship. Gold
dust and nuggets had been used
as a medium of exchange, but
obviously any media that had to
be weighed at every transaction
had it's drawbacks.
Thus the pioneer gold came into
use. Bars, 25 and so cent pieces,
and coins of varying denomina-
tionS were issued for use of the
pioneers. The $50 pieces have a
special appeal to collectors.
If the price of slugs were based
on scarcity. as is true with most
numismatic items, the starting
price might be $1,000 to $500.
But there are not too many people
SO flush they can pay even $500
to own one of these items.
Yet, they're common enough
that the dealers tossing them
around on a hotel mezzanine
barely got q laugh.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Symington on the Job

nearby cities can help each other
in event Of an attack or sabotage
and to build up stockpiles of med
icines required after an atomic
explosion.
Another difficult problem Is the
drafting of legislation needed In
the event of an emergency. The
NSRB has made several detailed
drafts for freezing of wages and
prices and rents so that no one
can profit from war and for allo-
cations Of materials. One Of the
subsidiary questions Is whether to
ask Congress to enact general leg
islation now. as strongly recon-
mended by Mr.. Baruch. to give
the President power to act imme-
diately on these items In the event
of an emergency, or whether to
have the detailed bill acted on at
the serious threat or the actual
outbreak of the emergency.
Mr.. Symington belongs to the
White House school that believes
the tentative drafts should be
continuously under revision for
immediate introduction in the
event Of an emergency. He says
that even general legislation would
arouse special interest groups such
as farmers. labor organizations,
property owners and other busi-
nessmen who would combine to
defeat the measure.
Under Acting Chairman Steel
man. the draft for the mobilization
was classified confidential" and
not submitted to the cabinet
members on the board for their
rejection or approval. Mr.. Syming-
ton promises that the latest draft
will be circulating at the cabinet
level within two weeks and that
after practical revisions he will
have an approved copy by July /.
Symington is not daunted by the
size or the complexities of his new
challenge. After all. he handled
billions of dollars worth of pro-
perty In the Surplus Property
Board and supervised the spend
ing of billions for the Air Force.
He says the job is like the long
range budgeting and selling sur
veys Of a gigantic business firm,
such as Sears, Roebuck. where
there must be planning of facto-
ries. transportation, acquisition of
materials. consumer markets and
continuous sales over long periods.
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before congressional committees,
and has a global viewpoint Of de-
fense planning.
He has another Intangible quail
ity in greater degree than his
predecessors-his ability to get
along with people and make a
favorable impression. Although
he did not get along so well with
Defense Secretary johnson per-
sonally. he carried his fight for the
Air Force to Congress and the
public. He is on familiar terms
with almost every high official In
Washington.
AS the functional head of the
NSRB he will have far more au-
thority than his predecessors but
probably will need more tact and
salesmanship than they exercised.
The problems of the job are tre-
mendouS and intricate. One of his
first objectives will be to get a
definite war plan" from the Joint
Chiefs of Staff to enable him to
plan the maximums and mini
NUNS for civilian and industrial
mobilization. Here, because Of his
service in the Pentagon, he can
talk the language Of the military
and make them be specific where,
IN the past. they have been gen.
eral.
There is also the civilian de-
tense program. which has recently
been put in charge of Paul j. Lar
sen. formerly head of the Atomic
Energy Commission laboratories
in New Mexico. This program
has been languishing and only a
few Of the Governors, upon whom
the responsibility has been placed
for civilian defense, have done
anything in their own localities to
prepare for war. Mr.. Symington
promises to have a full-scale pro-
gram drafted by September /.
AS examples of the details of
coordination needed for civilian
defense are the discoveries by the
NSRB that various cities and
towns have varying sizes Of fire
hoses and connections and that
one atomic explosion over a single
city would require all of certain
medicines that are now available
throughout the entire country.
The problem will be to simplify
fire hoses and connections 50
Evening star., 1950-05-14
Stamp News
BY jones Waldo Fowcett

A stamp to publicize Grand
Coulee Dam may be authorized
as the result of President Tru-
mans visit last week. If a prec-
edent is wanted, it will be found
in the Boulder Dam stamp of
1885, which, parenthetically,
might be reissued with its proper
title.
Assistant Postmaster General
Osborne Pearson visited Annapo-
lis Wednesday in company with
Deputy Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Robert e. Fellers, toured the
Naval Academy and was enter
tanned at supper at the Officers
Club by a group of stamp and
cover collectors connected with
the school.
Former King Carol of Romania
was in London for the Interna-
tional Stamp Exhibition. He car
ried some of his valuable stamps
with him in a small handgrip.
He was met by Sir John Wilson
and other philatelic friends on
his arrival.
Prestonburg, KY, has a new
slogan cancellation die reading:
Floyd County, Kentucky, Sesqui-
centennial-July to 4, 1885,"
Harmer, Rookie g. Co., $50 Fifth
avenue. New York City. are selling
the 67-volume collection of the
late Rear Admiral Frederic r.
Harris at auction. The property
is especially strong in Italian
states, Lombardy- -Venetia, Ceylon
and Victoria.
Israel has issued two "propa-
ganda" stamps for the second an
niversary of independence. One
shows a small boat filled with
prosecuted immigrants approach
Evening star., 1950-05-14

ing a barbed-wire guarded shore
20p. red brown. The other illus
trates the free flow of immigra-
ton by sea and air-40p. dark
green.
The Scent Executive Depart
ment District of Columbia Sesqui-
centennial commemorative was
designed by William K. Schrage
and engraved by Matthew D. Fen
ton and Edward H. Helmuth.
New members of the Pentagon
Philatelic Society include: 1t. Jo-
seph H. Babyak, Jean j. Mercier,
SIC Gilbert v. Smith, Billy B.
wilkinson. DKl; j. B. Bien, Harold
F. Sipe, 1t. Comdr. Creath Smiley
and Col. George o. Hanford.
Surinam will issue four semi
postals to help the crusade against
cancer.
William j. Barton will be the
guest speaker at meeting Of
the Pentagon Philatelic Society,
Thursday evening. He will exhibit
and discuss the postal issues of the
Danish West Indies and kicking
mule" cancels on the Scent U. S.
green of the sos.
The postal authorities of Aus
tria are bringing out a handsome
l-shilling commemorative to mark
the centennial Of the first postage
stamp issued by the Austrian gov
ernment-the 2-kreuzer black of
1850. A facsimile of the original
adhesive is incorporated into the
design. The date of release is
May is but the new commemora-
tive will not be valid for use until
Saturday.
Japan has a new philatelic
agency for the sale of all war;
time stamps as well as more re-
cent issues. Address: Care Min
istry of Postal Services, Tokyo.
John S. Costello, secretary of
the Collectors Club of Washing
ton, will speak at a meeting of the
Government Printing Office Stamp
Club in Conference Room c Thurs
Evening star., 1950-05-14

American Pointing 1850
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art. New York City, is sending an
nouncements to $4,000 artists in
the United States concerning a
nationwide competitive exhibition
to be held at the museum next
December.
Evening star., 1950-05-14
By John Closett Proctor

The west intersection OF Ninth
street, Pennsylvania avenue, c
street and Louisiana avenue, In
It's day. was one Of the most in
teresting and popular localities
in the city. Few today realize
that between what was once c
street and Louisiana. stood Ford's
Opera House, and Immediately to
the north was the famous Marble
Saloon.
During the early sos. when this
theater was being run by John
T. Ford. the writer frequently re-
ceived passes from H. Clay Ford
the manager, with the words
Admit two" filled in by that gen.
tleman. At times he also acted
as program boy. On one of these
occasions he saw President Ches-
ter A. Arthur.
The land on which the theatel
building stood was owned by Da-
vid Burnes at the time the IL
miles square hereabout was Sc
lected for the Nations Capital
Thomas Law. who married Mrs
Wa sh in 6 toms granddaughter
and w. H. Dorsey early became
owners in this block. James
Croggon, in writing for The Star
a number of years ago. has this
to say of the theater site:
James Moore. who was a
prominent dealer in bacon and
lard as early as 1910, owned the
eastern portion of the square on
which was located the theater
building, and several years after,
the west end of the square. In 1924
the value of the ground was from
10 to Is cents square foot. The
theater site was then owned by
Col. Peter Force, who had on it a
brick building valued at $500. The
lower portion was used in part for
shoemaking, and other shops, and
here Mr.. James johnson, an ex-
lieutenant of police. was employed
about the year 1880. The upper
portion was the coach shop of Mr..
Peck for a long period.
Later the original building
made way for a large structure,
which in the late '40s became the
coach factory of Haslup & Wee
don, and a portion of the
ground floor was given to the
manufacture Of horseshoe nails.
Subsequently the upper portion
became a gymnasium, first under
the management of Prof. Shar-
retts and next Prof. Jardine, both
Of New York. and for a few sea-
sons it was well patronized by the
lovers Of athletic sports. Then
William Marshall had a carriage
repository there. and later it be-
came theater. Immediately in
front of this building was the IA
vorite ground for the circus per-
formances in the sos and '40s
when circuSeS consisted of a dozen
or so performers and horses, with
a small band"
Hoy Market Site
Louisiana avenue between Ninth
and Tenth streets was in Civil
War days perhaps the liveliest
part Of Washington. The Hay
Market then occupied the center
of the avenue but was subsequent
ly removed to about one block
west at the time the wholesale
market was established. For a
time during the war the upper
parts of the buildings along
Louisiana avenue from Ninth
street to the old Central Guard
House were occupied by embalm-
ers who cared for the bodies of
soldiers who died in Army hospi-
tails.
At the corner Of Ninth and
Louisiana avenue was the Canter-
Evening star., 1950-05-14

bury Theater. a variety house. All
kinds Of liquid refreshments were
served here during the perform
ances.
From the available sources OF
information. it would appear that
the site was first used for theatri-
cal purposes in 1863, when it
opened its doors under the name
of Varieties Concert Saloon. In
1865 we find it called the Oxford
Hall of Music, with Fox. Curran
& Norris as the proprietors and
managers. The next year, George
Lea was running the place under
the name of Canterbury Hall
But this did not continue long, for
in 1867 it became Walls Opera
House with Berry & Wall listed
as proprietorS. From that time or
until the building was DESTROYED
by fire, December s, 1871. Berry
81 Wall continued to run it with
more or less success. The Star OF
the same date, after telling OF
the fire. gives the following ac-
count OF the theater up to that
time:
"The opera house, a three
story brick building, was originally
built by Messrs. Haslup g.
Weldon, about the year 1850, as
coach factory and subsequently
as a gymnasium. About Is years
ago the building was purchased by
MesSrs. Thomas Berry and Fran
els Mohun. and after the gym
nasium had diSbanded it was used
for several years as a storeroom
and for other purposes. During
the war it was fitted up and run
as a varieties theater, but was
closed after the war, and MesSrs.
Berry and Wall, the latter gentle
man having secured Mr.. Mohun S
interest in the premises, used it
as a storeroom for furniture.
About six years ago these gentle
men. thinking it could be used to
better advantage. made certain
necessary Improvements and re-
pairs and it was opened under the
name of Walls Opera House. The
theater was leased to H. B. Phil
lips, who opened the place with
Rosetta" and a full dramatic
company. Wallach and Daven-
port came next, and under the
management of Humphrey Bland,
now dead. a round of the charac-
ters peculiar to those eminent &C
tors. assisted by Rose Eytinge,
was played. It was leased to San
derson & Barton during the sea-
son of 1869, and after that Mr..
Thaddeus Barton was. up to the
close of the season of 1901, the
principal lessee. While he was
manager. very eminent histrionlc
names appeared upon the boards
of Wallis Opera House. among
them Nine. Marie Seebach, Mrs.
Scott Siddons and Mrs. Fred w.
Lander; also the Mrs. James
Oates and Lisa Lever burlesque
operate companies. Kelly and
Leon, the Walhalia troupe, Bry-
ants minstrels. etc. At the be-
ginning of this season it was
leased by Mr.. j. c. Saville. lessee
of the National, and has only been
occupied about three weeks in
that time. Arrangements, how
ever, had been completed be-
tween Mr.. Saville and Manager
Risley for reopening next Mon
day"
Opero House Reopened
Thomas Berry, who was w. L.
Wallis father-in-la and partner
in operating the theater. was the
owner of the theater property at
the time it was destroyed. He was
an early stone cutter and we'll
known contractor and builder Of
his day. and it is said it was under
his direction that the Patent Of