Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-01
CONVENTION HALL
FORD. c. FOSTERED
] BY THREE WOMEN
Building to Also House Thea
: ter and Offices play Is
5 Beinq Rehearsed.

The long desired convention nan
for the National Capital, three audi
forums under one roof, with a mag
nificent foyer and $50 offices above
one Of which auditoriums will be a
:house of play" or childrens thea
ter, and a play-producing organiza-
tion--is becoming practical business
enterprise as the result of nine
months work by three women.
:, These three women-Miss kath-
arine S. Brown, Mrs. Mary Holland
Kinkaid and Mrs. dilemma Smith Tin
nin-have gathered about them 100
Washington business women, hfty-
seven Of whom have already paid IN
their money for stock. is founders
association" and have organized the
Washington Theater Productions. Inc.
They have picked the site. centrally
located, for their big concert nall
Office building, the erection of winch
viii, take wen over two million dol
lars.
Washington is to see the first test
of their business enterprise on No
yember %. when their first play.
"Heigh Ho," a musical satire, Will be
presented at the Shubert -Garrick
Theater. This play is now being re-
hearsed in New York, with profess
sional talent, but .the costumes and
scenery are being made here, and the
effort is as far as possible to make 1t
q Washington enterprise, illustrative
of what Washington can do theatri-
caIly on business basis and profit
able scale.
To show in Three Towns.
This play is being offered in proof
TO the Washington public and the
en- are not merely playing with new
toy.
{ The play will be presented for the
first time in Baltimore. November Is,
and then in Richmond. the third per-
zoFmance being in Washington. No
yember 90. for a weeks rum
: The plans for the future structure
provide for three auditoriums, the
largest of which will seat 5000 per-
sons, 500 of them on the stage. The
second auditorium will seat 1900 and
the third, which is to be the chill
dren's theater, or house of play" will
seat 1000.
s The children's theater is to be
strictly professional. as the incor
porators and founders have no .inten-
ton of organizing children players.
The idea is to present plays which
such as Blue Bird" "Polyanna," etc.
Several original fairy-story plays are
all ready for production. This theater
knl@catery to boys and girls up to
eighteen years of age.
VIII Hold Conventions.
s It will be possible to use the entire
concert hall space for big conventions
sgreen room" above the foyer for
committee meetings. small concerts
and a private ballroom.
S The three women who are behind
this big enterprise already have ac-
somplished much in professional, the
strical and artistic circles. Miss
Brown has devoted her talents to the
businees side of theatricals since she
was graduated from college. She has
been producing director for the .Shu-
beFt,s Western Theatrical Productions,
INC, 1or the Bush Temple Stock Com
gany. and for thu, Victoria Players, a
8fbnert- stock s. company, which she
later owned. Mrs. Kincaid is news
pRper woman of broad experience in
national politics in the middle west,
New York and California, and has al
ways devoted her talents particularly
% theatrical criticism and direction.
Mrs. Tinnfn has been known. in the
atricals and artistic circles in Wash
fugton for many years. She has been
particularly successful in her work of
training children in dramatic and art
work.
Fsnaders Of Project.
Those Washington business women
who have associated themselves as
founders represent many professions
and businesses. and include:
Mrs. G. Erlebacher, Wayfarers' Book
Shop, Miss Louise W. Daugherty, Mrs.
Minnie Brooke. Mrs. Isabelle G. Smith,
Miss Elizabeth Schreiner, Mrs. Leo
pore b. Fuller, Miss Mary O'Toole
Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, Miss Kath-
crime Grace, Miss Ethel Smith, Mrs
Anna X. Bowker, Miss Mary airline
Zurhofst,i Nine. Ash, Mrs. Mary We
tAti. Mrs. Lolita L. Kimball, Miss Mary
Sumner, Mrs. Theodosia Bell, Mrs
Josephine W. Breckons, Miss Mary
Anderson, Mrs. Edith Pichon, Mrs
Margaretta Neal. Mrs. Emma L
Sitter, Miss Olive Davis, Gertrude
Richardson Brigham, Phi. D.: Miss
Mary Kounselar Brookes, Miss Mamie
r. Street, Miss Gertrude Van Hoesen
Miss. Rosalie Johns, Mrs. Franci:
Hancock, Mrs. Helen H. Gardener
Miss Mary Sibley Evans. Mrs. CLYDE
Hartman. Mrs. r. G. Quick. Miss Olive
Susan Baker, Miss Florence L. Gill
Milan, Miss Henrietta S. Addition
Miss r. L. Bear. Mrs. Laura Puffel
Morgan, Miss Anne v. Lally. Miss
fline Solomons. Miss Edna ]. Sheehy
Miss, Alice Deal, Mrs. Isabel Rives
Wolfe, Miss Sheldon Jackson, Miss
Eleanor Nolan, Miss Janet Richards
Miss Florence Ward, Miss Ivy Fuller
Miss Harriet Shepherd. DR.. A. Fran
ces Frye, Dr. Lulu j. Waters, Mis-:
Elmer c. Mayberry and Delphint
Force.
Impressed by the. opportunity in
Washington for such an enterprise