Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-06-21
HITS for MRS
By Dorothy B. Waleski
Garden 4-8SS9

On
the annual picnic Montgomery Couns citizens
friends sponsored by the Committee on Aging.
Please note that the time Monday night $50 and the place
Is the Ag Center Bring box and beverages will
be served wingding program is also planned
Promised Miss Lucy" Barnesley weeks ago to tell
ABOUT this picnic but did somehow please youan
or Miss Lucys going to get after
Because Lloyd Thomases are leaving town. Rocvles
tie Theater will have Thomas
has directed most of the Little Theaer productions for the past
five years.
This Mrs Thomas her fine
recng but special debt always portrayal
the alcoholic Mrs Hoadey production
THE Silver Whistle"
We an alcoholic and we can testify that
Mrs Hoadley was the real thing Alcoholics are
themselves families but they certainly
fascinating neighbors moment There the
good neighbor tried to get our particular
conoAc committed Ganger and
that's story.
The ThOmases leaving lovely West MOntgOm
Avenue house Sunday for Melvin Village
pesaulee H. where they will reside permanently
has been their summer home for the past 10 years.
Mrs Thomas born and raised in Diego
tended Lawrence College Appleton later majored
speech Southern Cal n Los Angeles.
After her marriage she took the life of Navy wife
saw the world Rear Admiral Thomas retired stationed
in many countries including Guam Japan the Philippines China
Panama and England and of course many home ports.
In almost all of these places Harriet Thomas
in little eater groups Although Hoadey first
in Rockville in other she has acted in Romeo
The Tanning OF the Shrew and Broken Bachelor but directing
is her first love.
outstanding production the directing
of Mr.. Roberts which Rockville
to attempt and which she is the only
direct.
Aside from the theater Mrs Thomas main hobby collecting
and the showing of her collections hobby Her list of
lections is impressive including famous bulldogs old
particularly present
day. STEMS demtasse first editions FANS old Jumbo chowder
miniature silver and pitchers and pressed glass
She inherited both the start of her collections and her interest
from her mother and added them until hobby hobby
shows Among the organizations this she
exhibited the Womens clubs Chevy Silver Spring
Fort Meyer the Colonial Danes and the Daughters Colonial Wars
When we interviewed her the confusion of packing
she still upset by accident that happened three weeks
bulldog demolished returning
from hobby show for the Daughters of Colonial Wars.
Nervous she is she is still driving and admire her spun
Weakened driver that if bumps like
that we'll never stop running
Thomas Cross in which
years Republican
Thomases bought their house in Rockville in 1919 and mme
date transferred to London this has been their home for only
the last five years.
In that time Thomas of vol
uneers for the Red Cross and for the chairman
of the speakers and Montgomery County chairman of the
Gray Ladies.
During program chairman Mongom-
County Federation of Republican Women she originated
the idea Valentine February Of Your
Heart in sc and Win" which picked and used the
theme of the Lincoln Day
spite the that is the mother only Mrs
Thomas has Girl leader One of the Thomas
boys studying at Harvard Law School and the other teaches
at RandolphMacon Academy in Front Royal Va.
Her plans for her New England life include Red Cross
the Republicans and she hopes little theaer activity
would expect Thomases wined dned and
eted for the months by their friends the
One of her farewell gifts that Mrs Thomas treasures highly is
copper etched with the all the people worked
with her in Rockvines Little Theater
gift appreciation Raymond Black
Christ Episcopal stage curtain
green antique satin furnished the material
and with the assistance of the WomanS Guild made the curtain
in and a half days.
who struggled for months sewing four yellow sheets to
gether of Twnbroo picture windows find this just
the impressive of all Mrs Thomas varied activities
you the size of that curtain what