Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
COLUMBIA PLAYERs-ruesday.

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The Columbia Players of the Column
bia Community Center will present
three one-act plays and capsule
comedy under the direction OF Aurora
M. Poston, Tuesday at 8:15 PM, as
follows:
1.-THE Medicine Show" by Stuart
Walker, with Paul Alexander, Harry
WeStcott and Charles Gilman in the
cast; The Baby Carriage by Bosworth
Croker, with Edith Dresden, H. r.
Baukhage, Harry Westcott and Sarah
Donoghue; The Monkeys Paw by
Louis N. Parker, with George Odell,
Elizabeth Dyer, Paul Alexander, Harry
Westcott and Charles Gilman, and
THE Boor" by Anton Tchekoh, with
Grace Meyer, Edith Sears and H. r.
Baukhage.
SYDNEY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
An entertainment of rare quality is
promised at Central Community Center,
Thirteenth and Clifton streets, WedneS-
day night by Sydney Thompson, charm
ing and talented dramatist, who made
a name in recent years by her clever
presentation of one-act plays, in which
she fills all the parts without leaY~
ing the stage to adopt disguise. TheSt
plays are written by herself, for Miss
Thompson, in addition to being gifted
actress, is also a successful playwright.
Miss Thompson'S program will in
clude two original plays. THE Missing
Years" and "a Proposal of Marriage,
also interpretations of the French poets
of the Middle Ages, including works by
the famous troubadours, Pierre de
Ronsard and Marie de France, as well
as a number of old English ballads.
Miss Thompson will be presented as
"the third event" in the present sea-
son of the Community Institute course.
Tickets may be. had at the Willard
newsstand and at the American Auto
mobile Association. Season tickets for
the course, which includes Henry
zaley Quartet, Bruno Roselli. Harlow
Sharpley, Will Durant and Thornton
Wilder also are on sale now.
HOLMES, an SIAM'-Thursday:
novel travel experience is promised
by Burton Holmes at the National The
alter Thursday afternoon, under the
title "Siam, the Land of Chang" when
he is to reveal for the first time on any
screen one of the outermost fringes of
the earth-a land that has not yet be-
come a part of the globe trotter's rou-
tine. 1t is a story filled with native
drama and dripping with atmosphere
and local color.
Siam is part of the southeasterly
projection of Asia. 1t is reached By
rail from Singapore and by sea from
anywhere. Bangkok, its chief city and
seaport. Mr.. Holmes says, Is a place
to catch the eye and ear and nose A
large part of its SOC, 900 population lives
in mat huts or tiny river SampanS and
others in magnificent palaces set on
imposing avenues, and on all sides rise
the tapering, jeweled spires of the Bud
dhiSt temples, called "wats" It is one
of the few places of the changing East
that still, retain everything to stimu-
late travel imagination-the Temple of
the Emerald Buddah. called Wat Phra
Keo. with interior splendors that drug
the senses, and more interesting, per-
hapS, the wonderful pictures which the
Holmes cameras have searched out of
the primitive life of the jungle, where
the domesticated "Changs" of TODAY
carry on their diSproportionate share of
the labor.
CURRENT HISTORY-Friday.
The principal subject of Miss Clara