Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
GEORGETOWN CLUB
WILL OFFER PLAYS
Mask and BaubIe Group to
Give First Production
February z.

/ An ambitious program is being map
ped out for the Mask and Bauble
Club Of Georgetown University dur.
ing the remainder of the academic
year and members of the George
town Glee Club also are planning for
their annual Mi-Careme concert.
Beginning next month, the Mask
and Bauble Club will take a greater
hold on the life of the university
and a number of plays already are
being rehearsed. The Dramatic Club.
it was announced. has been divided
into eight groups. Every two weeks
a onAact play. In this way it is
Of actors at the Hilltop as we'll as
stimulate greater interest in dra-
MATES.
The first presentation will take
place the evening of February ..
when three one-act plays will be
given. One of these will be the play
which is to be selected for the award
offered by the College Journal in a
recent student contest The selection
has not yet been announced.
The Game of Chess" by Kenneth
S. Goodman, in which Walter Hamp-
den starred few years ago. and
Poets All" new play by Conrad
Seller, are the others to be staged at
this first presentation.
Soon after its Inauguration several
years ago, the Mask and Bauble Club
found the small Stage in Castor Hall
inadequate for the presentation of
any play on an elaborate scale. In
recent years the performances have
been given in Trinity Church Hall.
This enabled the dramatic club to
plan its own special scenery and or
ganize force of it's own stage hands.
May Enlarge CASTOR Stage.
Realizing the tremendous interest
that is being taken in the Dramatic
Club by the student body, the
Georgetown authorities are consider
ing plans to make extensive altera
tons to the stage in CASTOR Hall. so
the club may give Its performances
at the college. CASTOR Hall has the
capacity for a large audience and be
sides, 1t is conceded to be one OF the
most beautiful halls In the Capital
The Glee Club held its first meet
ing of the new year last week and
arrangements are being made to give
its Mi-Careme concert in CASTOR Hall
toward the end of February. Other
concerts also are being considered
though the Mi-Careme program usu.
ally has been the only one of the
wear
Many requests have been received
by the club to render programs at
some of the schools and colleges in
the District, as well as at other insti-
tutions. 1t has usually been the Gus.
tom to give at least one concert each
year at Walter Reed Hospital for the
benefit of wounded ex-service men.
Unusual interest was taken In the
first of series of prize debates at
the School of Law last Tuesday night
when Charles Fl. Quirk of Milwaukee.
Wis., a third-vesr student in the after.
noon school, was selected as the best
individual debater. These contests
are being held between the Morris
and Gould Debating Societies, sue
cessors to the senior and Junior so
cieties. Mr.. Quirk was member OF
the Gould team, the other member
being Matthew H. Mclaughlin, ir
Their opponents We're John f.
Thomas and George ]. Williams.
Three other contests are to be held
and the winners of the four debates
VIII compete against each other for
final honors. Mr.. Quirk lis a graduate
of Marquette University and has
taken a prominent part in student
affairs since coming to Georgetown.
With Alabama's scalp already hang.
ing to it's belt, the r. o. T. c. rife
team fired four other matches last
week. AS the scores of each match
have to he checked and exchanged
between the universities; the Hilton
markSmen~ will not know the results
of the matches for.several days.
Alabama University proved an easy
victim for the Georgetown team. los
ing by SO points. Matches fred last
week were the University of Cincin-
natl. Iowa State University and Deni.
son University. In addition the men
who have not had an opportunity to
qualify for a craftsmanship medal
participated In the Tyro team match.
Other matches scheduled this sea
son are with George Washington Unit
versity, Western Maryland, Nebraska.
California, Lehigh, Virginia Military
Institute. Cornell, Washington. Kan
sas State, Michigan State, West Vir.
GINA. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Tech.
illinois University. Columbia, Tennes.
see. AS member of the League A
Intercollegiate competition, George.
town will be required also to meet
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Penn
sylvania State, Norwich University
University of Pennsylvania, George