Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-18
DRAMA LEAGUE SCORES
IN 0R|G|NAL OFFERINGS
Three Playlets and a Pantomime
Produced at the Wilson Nor
NAL School.

Whether they wished to show that
they, too, could be entirely self-de-
pendent in times like these, or merely
planned an old home week adventure
in the drama, the Drama League Play
ers made a marked success of their
experiment in originality. disclosed at
the Wilson Normal School last even
ing.
Three amateur playwrights of wash
ingtop and two "pantomimew
If Noah Webster will permit the term
wrote the four one-act pieces. The
players acted them. fashioned the
scenery. designed the costumes and di-
rected their production.
In Trains" Miss Evelyn Won Emie
wrote a compact and appealing play
dealing with the ages-old struggle of
youth to gain knowledge among simple
folk who questioned the utility of any
effort which did not pay immediate div
idends In higher wages. Stephen, boy
of the mines. weathered, this lack OF
understanding, only to have the train
pass on to the big city, and oppor-
tunity, while he stayed behind to keep
his promise to marry a village maid
the next day. Elton Taylor. Laura
VESSELS and Dorothy Pasch were in
the cast.
Father Of Shrew Tanned.
whimsical folk tale. which might
have been called The Tanning of the
Father of the Shrew," was "Coranda' s
Wooing." by Miss Mary A. Kirkup.
which developed the ingenuity of Miss
Kathryn Drain in designing colorful
costumes. Other suitors for Helena s
h nd had foil lad 20
farmers shrewd contract, and by not
giving satisfaction had forfeited their
rights to his daughters hand. and, like
wise, their noses. Coranda, after nego-
tiating counter proposal of similar
import, first captured the farmers
goat" figuratively, and his sheep,
farm, daughter, and almost his nose
literally. The members in the ca st
were Arthur B. White, Alfred Harding,
Charles B. Shutterly, Bennett Mead.
Maurice Jarvis. Dorothy Wood. Louis
Howe, Ada Howell and Julia Chase.
A new variation of the Enoch Arden
theme, the story of an antarctic ex-
piorer, SO long away from home that
the TIDE OF circumstance upon his re-
turn led him to assume an incognito
and go back to polar solitude, where a
strange coincidence brought him face
to face with his son, and the test OF
carrying out his purpose to remain un
known, was the story of THE Brink OF
Il III.
scene, designed by Alice Z. Edwards
enhanced the suggestion of dreariness
and loneliness. G. A. Lyon, Frederic B.
Wright, Ralph Hayes and Edwin Lud-
wig acted the piece.
Right From Magazine Covers.
One unconsciously glanced to the
lower corners of the costumes in 81 e.
Fl, Fo, Fun the pantomime, joint
product of Bertram Bloch and Louis
Howe's efforts, to see the signature of
some well known magazine illustrators
There were the costumes, as If they
had stepped from the covers and pages
of our ultra-modern art periodicals
moving about in the tempo of early-day
screen productions. The suggestion OF
artificiality was enhanced by an &C.
compartment by Miss Dorothy Burch
and make-ups in which paint and char
coal were employed profusely and gro
tesquely. 1t was funny. every minute
of it. and auditors pronounced it one
of the most original and enjoyable bits
of a humorous kind produced BY the
players this season. Mrs. Mary Louise
futile is credited with the scenes and
costumes, and Victor Martin conceived
the make-ups.
Henry Dolan, Elsie Lancaster. Mary
Minnix, Frederic B. Wright, Detlow
Marthinson. John b. futile, A. X. Win
gate. jr., and Julia Chase composed the
cast
The productions of last evening will
ings, at the Wilson Normal School.