Brilliant Stage Benefit Nets $4,000 for Actors Fund
Washington theater audiences stepped up for the Actors Fund of America as Daniel Frohman and notable performers starred in an annual benefit at the National. Under Cyril Maude and a large cast, the program combined dramatic sketches, song, and comedy, with box office receipts and contributions nearing $4,000. Notables included Nora Bayes, Jack Benny, Estelle Wentworth, and Jeffress Lloyd, among others, with Meyer Davis’ Le Paradis band opening the show.
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Daniel Frohman
Actors’ Fund of America
Washington
Jack Hazzard
New York
Mr. Maude
Meyer Davis
le Paradis
Estelle Wentworth
Opera
Martha
Elizabeth Thornsberry
Nina Norman
Russell Cordrey
Blus
Worth Condron
Woodruff Youngs
Albert Parr
John Harrington
William” Henry Drummond
Laula Mann
Four Diamonds
Ryan
Iee
Nora Bayes
London
Keith’s
Jack
Benny
Gladys Baxter
John Hundley
James 'Boya
Jessie Dames
PoH’s
Phyliss Penn Wag
Siher
Meira Corcoran
Darid Gary
Zelda Horowitz
Thelma Nevitt
Frances ‘Nelte
Marie Magrath
Agnes Oulahan
Mary Tarbell
Helen Warfiald
Washington Theater
Lawrence Beatus
J. Brylawski
Harry Crandall
L. J. Fosse
John Lyons
Leo Leavitt
Charles Linkins
Charles Raymond
W. H. Rapley
Roland
Robbins
L. Stoddard Taylor
Officers Assigned To New Army Posts
Brig. Gen. George 8. Simonds, commander of the tank school at Camp Meade, is relieved to command the Twentieth Infantry Brigade in Panama with a sailing date around January 8. Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur is relieved from his Philippine Islands assignment and will join the First Division, with transfer date set at the end of his current foreign tour.
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George 8. Simonds
Camp Meade
Panama Canal
War Department
Simonds
Panama
Douglas. MacArthur
Philippine Islands
Gen. MacArthur
Missouri Pacific Announces New Sunshine Special Section
A second section of the Sunshine Special will operate from St Louis to Hot Springs starting tomorrow. The through sleeper runs from St Louis to Hot Springs with 6:45 p m departure and morning arrival. Double-Deck Bus Plan Filed for four more buses with utilities commission. Company pledges to cut officer salaries by 4000 yearly to total 8000.
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St. Louis
Memphis, Tenn
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Hot Springs
Ark
Washington Rapid Transit Company
Sergt Miller to Talk Over WRC Tonight
Sergt David B Miller of Walter Reed hospital will discuss the need for a hospital chapel on WRC at 8 26 PM tonight The talk precedes a benefit performance at Poli theater Wednesday at 4 PM by Walter Reed players led by Miller in Believe Me Xanthippe The event supports the chapel fund despite no mortuary at the hospital.
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David B. Miller
Walter Reed Hospital
WRC
Poli
Miller
Xanthippe
Walter Reed Players
Walter Reed
Army and Navy Service Orders list dozens of officer assignments
First Lieut Himer D Pangburn and First Lieut Arthur N Ziegler receive Fort Benning postings, Capt Richard Trumbull Gibson is promoted to major, Maj Allan F Melean sent to Fort D A Russell Wyoming, Capt William B Holmes assigned to Camp Alfred Vail NJ, Will V Parker to Camp Alfred Vail, Lt Philip Schneeberger to Burwailen Department, Maj Paul English to First Gas Regiment, Vice Admiral Newton A McCalty named head of naval mission Brazil, Captain Louis C Richardson relieved, many lieutenants and ensigns reassigned between Navy and Army posts, including medical corps, Asiatic Station, Philadelphia Navy Yard, and U S S vessels.
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ARMY
Himer D. Pangburn
Fort Benning
Arthur N. Ziegler
24Th Infantry
Coast Artillery
Richard Trumbull Gibson
Cavalry
Allan F. Me.Lean
Fort
D. A. Russell
Wyoming
Signal Corps
William Ff
B.holmes
Camp Alfred Vail
N. J
Will V. Parker
AIR Service
Philip Schneeberger
Burwailen Department
Chemical Warfare
Paul. X. English
First Gas Regiment
NAVY
Newton A. ‘feCalty
Misson
Brazil
Louis C. Richardson
Phn D. Manchester
Medical Corps
Navy Department
Glenn A. Smith
Seatay Cuthbertson
J. S. & Arkansas
Alfred BE. Montgomery
Navail Air Station
Sanego
Calif
Robert 8
Robitson, Jr
Naval
Washington
Maurice A. Bérge
Asiatic Station
George A. Pillmore
James M. Conway
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Clarence H. Fogg
Florida
Conrad W. Ljundquist
Philadelphia
James H. McTwiggan
Savannah
Alfred K
Taylor
Seattle
George Ale Jr
McFarlan
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Ern
Paillis Cascara & Quinine
Gare
National Theater
Esc
Ori Pacific
Sunshine
THE
Washington Post
Abingdon Books
Harry R. Caldwell
Roy Chapman Andrews
Mongolia
William L. Stidger
China
Java
Borneo
Sumatra
Philippines
F. W. Boreham
Mary
George MacAdam
Mother of
Jesus
William F. McDowell
George Clarke Peck
Nat
Clough A. Waterfield
George Whitefield
Edward 5
Ninde
Whitefield
Moon Gate
Werthy Housinger
Young
Abingdon Press
Fifth Avenue
Wen
Sergt. Miller
Benne Howard
Curtis D. Whibur
Tennessee State Society
Wardmen Park
William C. Fowler
Fowler
I F. P
Les Geta O. R
Frederic. Paddock Lee
Judge Advocate General's Department
Clegelol
Golele Et
Madras
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