The Washington times., 1924-01-29
Play s PLEASE
ALEXANDRIA
PATRONS
Columbia Players Are Hit OF
Fairgrounds Association
Entertainment.
By SYLVIA SEDGEWICK.


The Columbia Players, in ''The
Gilded Brick" headlined the bill
and scored q decided hit last night
at the entertainment given for the
Playground Association in the
Westminster building, Alexandria,
Va. Marion Griffith gave an ex-
cellent performance, marked by a
clearness Of enunciation worthy Of
professional. Marion Griffith
ran a close second in a performances
Of merit. May Cavanaugh gave a
realistic Interpretation Of her part. 2
Antony Conlon brought many,
laughs. The others in the cast
gave excellent performances. They
were Harry Belts, Frank Heisley.
Dorothy Nugent, Raymond Lash,
Marcus Jaeger, Margaret Shuman.
Dolly Themer. Melvin Tesh, Robert
Whitestone, Frank Newland, Ber-
nard Seipier, Elmo Whitestone,
Helen 6weeley Ruby D, Haley,
Mary Armstrong, Lillian Downy,
Hildegarde Jaeger, Everett De-
Vaughn.
With the aid Of a victrola the
o. e. S. players gave shadow pic
lures Of "Uncle Josh at the Den
tist," "Uncle Josh Puts Up the
Kitchen Stove" and Hula dance.
Frank Latham, J. Fred Brill and
Mrs. e. D. Stone moved in perfect
Ico-ordination with the victrola rec.
ord and made the Uncle Josh pic
lures a real success. Mr.. Clark as
! the Hawaiian dancer undu1ated be-
hind the curtain, but no one thought
he was a girl: The business WON
ems council put on 'The March Of
the Wooden Soldiers" from the
Chauve Souris. Seven soldiers were
in the performance. They were
Florence Taylor, Elizabeth Ramey,
Miss L. Hawkins, Eddie Dickert.
Hilda Newman, Leslie Cox and
Club put on a fake ventriloquist
act. Irwin Diener was the ven
triloquist and Harry B. Cation was
the dummy"
THE Golden Ingot" was played
by DR.. w. o. Cation, Frank Steele
and Virginia Steele.
Two excellent dancing numbers
were part Of the evenings enter
tainment. Miss Katherine Powell
gave Russian dance and Miss
Margaret Conlon played the dancer
In "The Gilded Brick" and gave a
pas seul number. The plays were
ATTENDED by more than 200 people
last night. The entertainment will
be repeated tonight.
The children's class in Dramatic
! art of Southeast Community Center
met in the Hine Junior High School
| for their last meeting. Parts for a
play soon to be given were assign
ed to the children. A new group
| Of officers was elected, with Miss
Carmel Randolph, president; Miss
Verdery Forsythe, secretary-treas-
urer; Miss Minnie Schourank, vice
president; Miss Mae Henshaw,
guardian, and Miss Helena Canter,
second vice president. Miss Helen
Keister, dramatic instructress of
the center reports that added en-
| thusiasm is being shown by the
pare their pantomimes and recita-
tons with more interest and look
forward to their next production.
The Senior Dramaic Club of the
Southeast Community Center are
working hard on their two plays. Ap.
! titude in their work Is being shown,
and Miss Keister is sure that all
the parts are well suited to the
players. Miss Evelyn Davis is doing
particularly we'll In a flapper, role.
Others in the plays are portraying
parts well, especially those who
have the character roles Of which
there are many. Those whose ap-
pearance was handicapped by ILL
ness, had their roles filled by under
studies, who interpreted the roles
with fine understanding.