Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-18
Foreword by Mrs. Neigh.

Mrs. j. l.. =. Neigh, chairman of the
Junior amateur department of the Wash
ington Center. spoke a 'foreword," in
which She mentioned the purpose of her
department to develop the love for the
beautiful Mrs. Neigh was also i'm charge
OF the first child play of the evening
The. Tongue-Cut Sparrow" a beauti-
fully allegor:cal Japanese fable enacted
by the children of the kindergarten of
Neighborhood House.
Small children whose thin voices caused
delight among the audience took the
parts or japanese men and women and
spafrows and animals i'm the play 1t
was the old, old fable of the kind man
and woman who treated a sparrow kind
~ and the bad woman who cut out it's
tongue.
The kind couple called on the SPAR
row and, on being offered choice of
two baskets. one small and one large,
when they returned home that it was
nlled with silks and gold The bad
woman saw the riches and called on
the sparrow, too. She took the large
lures which finally carried her away
up in the air.
Those Presenting Play.
Ethel Owens was the 'tongue-cut
sparrow. Katherine Koehler was
mother sparrow" Helen Mills was
little sparrow" Ora Perkins was
baby sparrow" Arthur Clark was the
Japanese man, Mabel Donaldson was
the Japanese wife. Helen Carraghan
was cross old woman" Marion YER
non was a bat and Rhoda Mothers
head was a field mouse"
THE Fisherman Wife," dramatized
version of Grimm's fairy tale of the
same name, was the second play. Four
small children dressed as elves skipped
about the stage 10 the music furnished.
by a piper" and furnished great deal
Of fun. The fisherman was content to
live in his comfortable howell. but his
wife was more ambitious. and insisted
on her husband asking his friend the
founder" to give them a cottage. a cas-
tie and make her first king and then en-
peror. Each of her wishes Were fulfilled
until she asked for power over the sun
and moon. and then she was put back in
her howell again.
Miss Kathryn Drain took the part of the
wife and J. Lewis Moneyway was the
fisherman. The elves were Motter Gun
bingham. Helen Decker Margaret Thorn
son and Hubert Mcneil. all members of
the Thomas Welles Society, Children OF
the American Revolution.
Newman Writer of Plays.
AFTER tne second play Mr.. Newman
spoke on behalf of the city fathers
mentioning himself as 1.-THE greatest
writer of unpublished plays in Amer
ica." and then Percy MacKaye, who
had much to do with the founding of the
Washington Center of the Drama
League, spoke of the Importance of
play. saying it helps in creating and
stimulating the imagination. This educa-
tional theater idea. he said. leads to-
ward cooperation in all walks of life.
and is living democracy"
Mrs. Glenna Smith Tinnin. director of
junior plays of the league. closed the
program with n short talk OH the ambi-
tons OF the members of the league, and
the ways in which the public can be Of
assistance. Ii is planned, she said, to
have enough junior chapters to include
every child in the District. and TO great
ly improve the House of Play building,
by installing stage and other addi-
tons.
The officers are Mrs. Neigh, chairman
of the junior amateur department; Miss
Hazel Mackaye. chairman of the senior
amateur department.; Mrs. Tinnin, di-
rector of junior plays, and staff COM
posed of Mrs. Florence Louise Lyon
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Walton, Mrs. Maud
Howell Smith. Miss Kathryn Dunkhorst
Miss Leonora De Grange, Miss Alberta
Walker. Miss Mildred Anderson and Miss
Efie Baker. Mrs. ellison Gardner is
a staff made up of Miss Ruth Astor
Noyes, secretary; u. s. Tinnin. treas
urer. and Mrs. Neigh, John Herbert
Corning and Harry +. Cunningham.