Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
A. j. CAST TO GIVE
|. COMEDY ON FRIDAY
Proceeds of "Importance of
Being Ernest" Will Go To-
ward Mems Lounge.

One of the principal dramatic offer
ings of the year at American University
will be 1.-The Importance of Being
Earnest" to be given next Friday night
at the gymnasium auditorium on the
campus, Massachusetts, and Nebraska
avenues, by the American University
Damatic Club.
Under direction of Will Hutchins,
professor of art, the student cast is ex-
peced to turn out finished production.
Sponsored by the Student Council, the
production will be a benefit for fund
to furnish the mems lounge adjacent to
the college dining hall.
The Student Council committee is
headed by Orrel Belle Claflin, with Jane
posters. Roger Craven, chairman Of the
committee on tickets, and E. Masincup,
In charge Of programs.
The comedy, which for years has been
popular with college players, will be
presented by the following: Algernon,
played by S. Carlton Ayers; Jack, Blake
B. Espey; Cecily, Rosalie Dimmette;
Gwendolyn, Dorothy Darby; Lady
Bracknell, Delsie Appel; Miss Prism,
Virginia Humphries; Canon Chasbule,
John Houston; Merriman, Henry Back
Discuss New DOrmitOry.
Further plans for the mems dormitory
to be erected early next year on the
campus were discussed by the building
committee of the board of trustees yes
terday at a meeting of the Battelle Me-
mortal. The 'dormitory is a pressing
need of the fast growing College Of
Liberal Arts, according to DR.. Lucius G.
Clark, chancellor of the university
The Christmas dinner for students at
the college will be held early this year,
it was announced by Miss Mary Louise
Brown, dean of women, who is super
viSing plans for this event next Friday
night preceding the play Importance
of Being Earnest" The chairman of
the student committee in charge is Ann
Mary Sanford
Phi Beta Zeta Fraternity held dance
last night at the Wesley Heights Club
house under direction of the social COM
mittee, consisting of Richard Jarvis,
Dudley Aist and Earl Masincup. 1t was
a pledge dance and pins were given to
the IL pledges, including the IL names
previously announced. and Robert Mar
Gus, the twelfth. The fraternity has
adopted maroon and orange for its
colors and fraternity pin consisting
of shield surmounted by a crown, the
Greek letters of the fraternity appear
upon the shield itself
The Faculty Women's Club met Fri
day night at the home of Mrs William
Lee Corbin, Tilden Garden Apartment.
Guild Meets December II.
The December meeting of the Wom-
ems Guild of American University will
be held at the Florentine room of the
New Willard Hotel December II, when
Miss Persons of Baltimore will deliver
an illustrated lecture on a tour of Eu-
rope. Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, preSi-
dent Of the guild, will preside.
Alpha Chi Sorority at the college has
announced the following pledges: Sarah
Marean, Mary Elizabeth Hartshorn,
Anne King, Elizabeth Brundage, Gene
We've Spence and Cornelia Kirby. The
pledge luncheon was recently held at
the Lotus.
The French Club, of which Miss Mary
Mears Gait is faculty adviser, will meet
Thursday afternoon.
DR.. James A. Tobey of New York,
who received the degree of master of
science in hygiene from American Uni
versity in 1923, is co-author of new