Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19
COMMUNITY CHEST
SHOW CAST CHOSEN
RehearsaIs Are in Progress
for Pageant Featuring
Opening of Drive.

Mrs Marie Moore Forrest, director of
the Community Chest pageant, which is
to feature the opening of the 1880 cam
paign at the Mayflower Hotel on jan
uary %. has rallied about her an en-
thusiastic group of local talent who are
rehearsing just as hard as the campaign
teams are preparing for the zero hour.
ORGANIZATIONS connected with the
Chest have furnished practically all the
members Of the pageant cast, the per-
sonnet of which was announced yeSter-
day. Arranged to depict the service
given by the rs agencies in the 1880
Chest. the pageant has aroused consid-
cradle interest in local circles.
Mrs. Gertrude Lyons of the American
Legion is rehearsing the chorus and the
eight witches who are to take part in
one of the scenes are being trained at
the Caroline Mckinley Studio. Mrs.
Forrest is being assisted in directing the
elaborate production by Miss Donna
Taggart.
There will be a master of ceremonies
to introduce the various stunts and that
job is being entrusted to Orme L1bbey,
former star of the st. Patrick's Players.
"Old Man Moneybags," who will be
much sought after when the campaign
opens, will be impersonated by Melvin
D. Hildreth.
Mrs. Sarah Berglin and Miss Dorothy
Boyle of Friendship House will be the
trumpeters. David Wolf of the Boys
Club will be the office boy page, CheS-
ter Ring and Gordon wilkins OF the
Y. M. C. A. are the detectives, Miss
Yvonne Levy and Miss Ruth Keren Of
the Jewish Community Center take the
parts of social workers. Charles Knight
of the American Legion is cast as the
blind father, while Francis Miller of the
same organization represents an ex-
service man.
Mrs. Virginia Nickel of Neishborhood
House is the mother, Edwin Callow and
Ivan Lilijeroot are Tom and Bill, re-
spectively; George Palmer of the Christ
Child Society is Scout master; Mrs
Caroline Murray of Neighborhood
House is the girl, Mrs. Herman Hertz
berg of Juanita K. Nye Council House
is the singer, Helen Middleton and
Edith Spaulding of the Y. w. C. A.
represent Happiness and Enthusiasm,
respectively.
Girl Scouts will be enacted by mem
berS of that organization, while Boy
Scouts will be furnished from the Christ
Child Society troop, and the eight
witches will be furnished by the Caro-
line Mckinley Studio of the Dance.
Mrs. Edith Hunter will be the accom-
PIANIST.
The chorus of Community Chest
workers is composed of members of or
CARNATIONS affiliated with the Commu-
nifty Chest, as follows Miss Evelyn
Perry, Juvenile Protective Association;
Chauncey j. Gentzler, National Capital
Civic Fund; Mrs. William E. Chamber
lin, Social Hygiene Society; Miss Helen
Andruczkiewicz, Y. w. c. A.; Miss Ruth
NJ Noyes, Columbia Polytechnic Insti-
tute for the Blind; Miss Alma Stone,
Childrens Hospital; Miss Helen A. Kel-
ly. Georgetown University Hospital;
Mrs. George H. Price, Florence Crit
tenton Home; Charles Burton, Friend
ship House; Mrs. j. Harris Franklin,
Girl Scouts; Miss Rosa Brown, Asso.
ciated Charities: Miss Ann E. Loker
Episcopal Hospital; Ensign Dorothy
Guice, Salvation Army: Miss Mildred
Martz, Columbia Hospital for Women;
Mrs. May Ferns, Episcopal Home for
Children; Miss Marian <. Hartley, Girls
Friendly Society; George Woods, Boys
Club; Miss Gertrude Feldman, Jewish
Community Center; Miss Ruth Mar
shall, Council of Social Agencies; Edwin
8. Potter, Associated Charities, and Miss
Beatrice Cox, George Washington Uni
versity.
Mrs. Gertrude Lyons Of the Amcri-
can Legion is director of the chorus.