Show V 11 SO y by L L STEVENSON the junior emergency hell relief af society recently completed 30 years 0 of continuous service founded by mrs walter eyre lambert in 1914 it differs from similar organizations in many ways for instance it has passed through one war and is in another for three decades from to women have met every tuesday six months each year to make surgical dressings of various kinds also I 1 layettes lay ettes for wives of servicemen not only that but members actually pay for the privilege of operating sewing machines and using needles tor for the benefit of the armed forces no contributions are solicited the hotel biltmore Dilt more donates the large assembly room in which meetings are held and attends to the assembling of sewing machines and other equipment A department store provides trucks and another warehouse space all other expenses including materials are borne by members who pay 0 an initiation fee and make a stated contribution each year membership is by invitation during the year just closed articles were turned out by the members almost au all of whom are listed in the social register since its inception at first it was the junior war relief society the organization has made such articles one fourth goes to the united states army one fourth to the navy one fourth to england and one fourth to home charities A large beneficiary is halloran general hospital on staten island where patients are wounded men brought back from overseas at the beginning of the season mrs lambert was too in ill to make plans or attend the opening sessions A group of officers took over and the work continued never before in broadways history has ballet enjoyed such popularity as it does at present in the past broadway looked on ballet as strictly long hair or arty but a change came and now every hit show along the street has ballet in one form or another even billy rose who is said to know a good show when he sees one has signed the classical ballerina markova for a musical next fall so the man in the street knows something about ballet that brings me up to a story told the other evening by edwina seaver who is the dancing venus in the prologue of helen went to troy in addition to her stint as ballet dancer throughout the show during rehearsals oi of the musical getting a taxi to and from the theater was a task that taxed the intestinal tes fortitude of even experienced troupers troopers troup ers hence when miss seaver one rainy evening stepped out of her home in the east sixties and hailed a cab she did so listlessly less lying thinking it and many others would merely y pass by to her vast surprise the cab drew up to the curb no sooner had the elated miss seaver seated herself than the driver looked back and inquired you a ballet dancer miss seaver no end puzzled replied that she was and was bound for the theater with her answer the driver swung into high and passed through two rod red lights with all the ease of the daring young man on the you know what all ali alid way dohnt dow downtown nt the driver who informed her that he was a badet fan kept plying miss seaver with questions about dancing where she studied did she follow the clas or modern etc when they reached the theater he got out opened an umbrella with a flourish and convoyed his fare to the stage I 1 door then the question that had been burning within miss sea seaver vers s shy self finally burst forth how on earth did you know I 1 was a ballet dancer she asked that was easy answered the driver nobody but a ballet dancer would hail a cab on tiptoe tip toe when ashes holding an open umbrella I 1 yes broadway has come to know ballet I 1 fatherhood john ohn kieran and L owell lowell thomas were reminiscing about the time when they became fathers 1 I was in such a daze said kieran that I 1 went around asking people how old was our baby when it was born barn that s nothing returned thombs 1 I was so excited that when I 1 first saw the nurse nurs e I 1 asked her if the baby was a boy or a man I 1 beu syndicate features feature |