Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
Washington Stage Society
Gives Entertainment at Be-
Iasco Tomorrow Night.
BLIND FRENCH SOLDIERS
ARE TO BE BENEFICIARIE
Three One-Act Productions Are to
Be Enacted by City's Most Prom
inent Amateurs.

The Washington Stage Society. COM
| posed of actors. artists and authors
prominent in Washington social ME,
whose ambition is to promote broad
e. interest in the drama and to en-
courage meritoriouS work OF local
! playwrights is to produce three one-ac:
plays at the Belasco Theater tomor-
\ row evening.
| The proceeds are to ne contributed
| in support of the society in Paris called
| Les Amis des Soldats Aveugle, which
| has founded an institution whereby
| blind French soldiers can learn new
| trades in order to become self-sup-
porting.
The sad story of the blind soldiers sent
| back from the front to Paris is told by
Richard Harding Davis in an article pub
lshed today in The Star.
| The casts include some Of she most
popular amateur actors and enter
tanners in the capital. among them
Mrs G. L. Hubbard. Mrs. Maud Howell
Smith Mrs. John W. Thompson. Misses
Frances Carpenter, Lena Hitchcock,
Catherine Hill. Dorothea Denys. Mil
bred Brown. Alice Brice and Judith
Ives and Morven Thompson, Charles
weston. Robert DAILY. John J. Cum
ningham, jr. John W. Thompson ana
Or. A. F. Hopkins.
The Three Plays.
The three pieces to be presented are
Miles,, The Master Parent and
The Death of TintaSilcs
| Allies" is play of revolutionary
days. An officer of WashinGton's army
steals through the British lines in
British uniform. He meets his wife
| at a diapidated house which at one
| time they used to live in. The officer
has been seen and followed by British
| officer and a file of soldiers. The OF
| fcer. finding a very pretty woman in
| the house, decides that he Will make
love to her and capture the spy later.
He orders his sergeant to send Tor
the capture The Hessian troops enter
| some time later. and the woman. by
/ clever ruse, induces them to take the
English officer prisoner, ne BENG 100
! drunk to make himself understood.
/ 1.-The Master Parent'-the nane of
this play tells just about what it is
an irate father. who believes that he
knows it all. and that women were
made only to be bossed by men. any
way. He refuses to allow his daugh-
F.; ter to marry young man whom he
knows nothing about and has never
seen simply because he tthe young
steals into the house to see his sweet
heart and the father finds him there
and takes him for a butler has
come to answer an advertiser. The
young lover falls into the role but
| Ter and does his work well that the
father. in zone of his RACES tells his
daughter that he would rather see her
married to the butler-who does
| WORKMAN to this lover of hers who
| does not work. The playlet ends in
! the usual happy way.
The Death of Tinta giles" is one of
Maeterlinck's most horrible Tragedies.
1t is grewsome from the moment the
curtain goes up until it falls. 1t is,
| however, to be we'll produced, as Mrs.
| Hubbard, who has acted before with
Sir tombstone Forbes Robertson, has
| the leading part. The rest of the cast
| of this play includes some of the best
talent in the city. among whom are
Mrs. John W. Thompson. Miss Lena
Hitchcock. Miss Catherine Hill, Miss
Dorothea Denys and }. j. Cunning
| ham, jr