Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
Shakespeare Comedy
Listed for Two Dates
At the Sylvan Theater
Community Drama Guild
Cast to Prevent The Tenn
pest" the Evenings of June
19 and 90.

The Capital City's yearly. June spec
tacle, to be presented at the National
Sylvan Theater on the grassy slopes Of
the Monument Grounds, is creating
rather more than the usual amount Of
keen anticipation. not only because of
the brilliant success of last seasons play
Sherwood" but because this Summer
the Community Drama Guild has
chosen one of the most alluring OF VIII
liam ShakeSpeare'S comedies, The
Tempest" and invested it with the
charm of instrumental music and lovely
dancing figures weaving in and out,
through the fantastic story of the ship
wrecked kings and courtiers and their
adventures on Prospero's enchanted
isle.
Two performances will be given Of
this outdoor idyl Thursday evening,
June 10, and Friday evening, June 20,
the hour being set at $50 o'clock in
order that the moon may play part.
With Mrs. Edward Everett Gam head
ing the list of distinguished sponsors
for the play, the vast audience will
doubtless include many prominent
Washingtonians as we'll as those in high
official and diplomatic life, who will
entertain box parties for one or the
other performance of the spectacle. Mrs.
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THE Tempest's" leading sponsors, as
is Mrs. William D d. Mitchell, Mrs.
Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Charles
Summerall, Mrs. Hamilton Fish and
Mrs. Ernest Lee Jshncke.
Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, although in
Europe, has accepted the invitation of
the Community Drama Guild to be a
sponsor, and Mrs. David H. Blair and
Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong are likewise
absentee" sponsors for the play.
The list of patrons includes Mrs.
Minnigerode Andrews, Mrs. Richard
Wilmer Boiling, Mrs. George Bowerman,
Mrs. Whitman Cross, Mrs. Wade Hamp-
ton Ellis, Mrs. William Fitch Kelley,
Mrs. Robert E. Lee, Mrs. Edward A.
Reyes, Mrs. Alexander Buel Trowbridge
ana Mrs. Walter Taylor Wheatley.
Prominent men of the Capital also
| are taking an especial interest in the
presentation of line Tempest" as being
along the lines of civic development IN
the art of the drama here in WASH
ington, and committee, including Mr..
w. w. Everett, MI. Robert v. Fleming,
Mr.. E. G. Graham, MIR. Frank r. Jel-
left, Mr.. Mark LanSburgh, Mr.. Newbold
Noyes and Mr.. Melvin Sharpe, are serv-
ing as an advisory committee to the
standlng committee on publicity for the
Drama Guild, of which Miss BeSS Davis
Schrelner is chairman.
Mrs. Fulton Lewis and Mrs. William
Wheatley are joint chairmen nof boxes
for the event, and pending the return
of Mrs. Lewis from West Point, where
she has gone to attend the graduation
OF her son, Mrs. Wheatley will receive
| orders for box reservations to be filled
in the order of their receipt.
AS the number of boxes for both
nights is very limited it is possible to
obtain blocks of reserved chairs for
either performance from the Commu-
nifty Drama Guild in Franklin Admin
istration Building beginning Wednes-
day of this week.
The Drama Guild business commit
tee, headed by Mrs. Philip Sidney
Smith, asks that holders of season
| tickets of the Guild exchange their
coupons for reserved chair tickets on
ana after that date.
The Guild also announces that those
who may not desire to take either boxes
or reserved seats for the presentation
OF THE Tempest" will be amply accom-
modated with seats on the grassy slopes
of the Monument Grounds leading down
to the stage of the Sylvan Theater.