Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-05

20OOth anniversary Of vergils birth, will
give talk on "Play Reading Before
Audiences as an Aid to playwrights.n
This will be illustrated by one-act
play Of Ida Donnaily Peters, "Sauce
Tor the Goose" which win be read ac-
cording to the method known. as Play
Readers Incorporated. originated by
mrs: James Duane Livingstone OF New
York.
Washington society viii be well rep
resented at the presentation Of the
Stradiyarius Quartet by the Commu-
nifty Institute in Mckinley Auditorium.
at Second and r streets northeast,
Monday night at 8:15 o'clock. Among
the sponsors, members of the advisory
board and gtiarantors who expect to be
present.. are Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r.
Tuckerman, Mr.. Frederic A. Delanc.
Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, Mrs. Martin
Morrison, Mrs. Leander Mccormick
Goodhart, Mrs. Charles walker. DR.. Ed
win N. g. Barnes, Miss Leila Mechiin,
Mr.. Carl Engel, Miss Mary Brickenstein,
Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, Mrs. Avery Coon
ley, Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, Mrs.
Frederic =. harrington, DR.. A. Barrett
Learned, Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, Mrs.
Adolph G. Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. Gerritt
s. Miller, jr.; Miss Jeanne Sitter, Mr..
Charles Warren, Mrs. Ruby Stahl, Miss
Maude Sewall and Mrs. Filene Dodd.
This viii be the first public appear
ance OF the Stradivarius Quartet In
Washington. Successors to the famed
Flonzaley Quartet, two of its members
having been attached to that notable
group, 1t was felt but fitting that the
Community Institute, which sponsored
the last appearance of the FlonzaleyS
here, should be the first to publicly in
troduce their successors.
Monday nights event will be staged
In the Mckinley Auditorium because OF
better acoustics and stage arrangements
and the entire place of this municipal
theater will be thrown open that night,
Offering parking space for at least 800
Invitations have been issued for a
private opening Of the Sterling Silver
Fashion Show at the Willard Monday
evening at 3 o'clock, which will be pre-
sented by the Sterling Silversmiths'
Guild Of America.
A program of music will be given
during the evening by Mrs. Flora Nc
Gill Keefer. contralto, and Mr.. Charles
Wilfred Smith, tenor.
The graduate students of the Catho-
Az OAANChcayy Adct evening Il6Iu u mccC~
ing followed by dance in the garden
house of the Dodge Hotel. About so
were present.
Mr.. Maurice Colbourne. English actor
manager and author, who Is particu-
larry Identified with the plays of Ber-
nard Shaw. win be visitor in Wash
ington through the week Of November
II, when he win deliver a number of
addresses before clubs and schools on
the personality and works Of shaw,
with especial reference to "The Apple
Cart" which is soon to be presented
in this city BY the Theater Guild. Mr..
Colbourne Is an honor graduate of OK
ford is close friend of shaw, John Mase-
field and other literary celebrities and
is himself the author OF several books,
the latest Of which Is "The Real Ber-
nard Shaw" As an actor, Mr.. Col
bourne appeared in America in the
Theater Guilds production Of Saint
JOAN" Last season he toured Canada
and the Pacific Coast, with his own
company, in repertory Of Shaw plays.
His present visit to America is for the
sole purpose Of 1ecturing in behalf OF
the Theater Guild. The arrangements
for Mr.. Colbourne's appearances in