Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
Washington Players
What Various Dramatic Organisations Are Doing
and Propose to Do.

day and Friday nights Of next week,
April % and "a, at Mckinley Audi
torium, under the direction Of Ruth
HarSha Mckenzie. Important roles In
the comedy win be played by Gideon A.
Lyon as sGeoffrey March, Edna Ellis
Hilton as Joan March, DorotlIea Lewis
as Faith bly,, Robert Miller, jr., as
Johnny, wilma wright as Mary March,
Helen Sheckell as Cook, Eldred Wilson
as Blunter, George Finger as Mr.. Bly,
the window washer, and James II. Ron
aid as Mr.. Barnabas.
Windows" is the story Of Faith Bly,,
the product Of two years in prison, for
smothering her child She comes to
the March home, at the instigation of
her father, the window washer" and at
the insistance Of Godfrey March and
his son Johnny, q poet at heart, upon
whom the war has left its mark.
Through two amusing acts, father and
son try to help Faith find herself, but
at the end 1t is the mother who dis
covers that what Faith needed was to
be loved, not saved"
Reserved seats are on sale 70 the
public at r. Arthur Smiths, the A. A. A.
and the Drama Guild once in Franklin
Administration Building The play
starts on both evenings at $3.50 O'Clock.
COLUMBIA PLAYERS.
THE COLUMBIA PLAYERS win re-
peat their success Of two years ago.
"Helena's Boys" in special perform
ances for two outside organizations
which have requested them. A number
of the old cast including Elizabeth Dyer,
Paul Alexander, Theodore Bartlett and
George Edwards will take part. This
play will take the place of the one-acts
originally announced.
Hell Bent for Heaven" the next play
on the regular program Of the Players,
Is now in rehearsal and will be given on
May II and Is.
G. w. U. Drama Club, April Is.
"T'HE CASsILIs ENGAGEMENT"
u by ST. John Rankin, win be pre-.
sented by the George washington Uni
verS1ty Drama Club Saturday evening,
April rs, at the Wardman Park Theater
under the direction of j. Miner Dorey,
lecturer on play production in the UNI
versity.
Termed by the playwright "a comedy
for mothers" the story concerns a titled
English woman who adroitly DESTROYS
an affair between her son, Godfrey
CaSsilis and Ethel Borridge, q girl OF
the lower classes, achieving the dis
enchantment by posing the girl, under
the guise of friendly invitation, against
the background Of an aristocratic home,
where Ethels crudities are exposed and
she, in turn, Is overpowered by the
'stuffy" routine of English country life.
In the cast will be Florence Jacobs
and Kingsland Prender in the parts Of
Ethel and Geoffrey; Phyllis Mills, as
Geonrey's mother, Mrs. CaSsilis; Vir-
ginia Barrett as Lady Mabel Venning
who is intended for Geoffrey; Hannah
Stolar as Mrs. Borricge, Ethel's trnpossi-
BILE mother; Lillian Spector as Lady
Marchmont: Mary Davis as the Coun-
tess OF Remenham; Frank Westbrook
es Maj. warrington; Jack Vivian as the
Rev. Hildebrand Herrfes; Ethel Hartley
as Mrs. Herriss; John Swartwout as the
butler and Robert Wright as the maid.
"THE ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY"
AURA STOCKTON VOORHEES,
will appear In the leading role, Ro-
sario, in "The Romantic Young Lady"
by q. Martinez-Sierra, which viii be
presented May ! and 2, by the Pierce
| Hall Players.
Miss VOORHEES, was very active IN dra-
mates at Goucl1er College and wAs a
member of the Guild Theater Of Bal
| timcre, the Oldest amateur dramatic or
ganization In the country.
The leading man win be Roy Gezelius,
and another important actor In the play,
Felix Schwartz, Is well known IN artis-
tic circles.
Rosario's three charming young
brothers win be played by Arthur
Rohrer, Edward Northrup and Dulan
Sellers; the grandmother, Dona Bar
barita, by Catherine Palmer Mitchell;
Maria Pepa, by Naomi Trotter, and the
man-servant, Guillermo, by William
i, Carrigan, while the colorful part of the
| dancer will be taken by Anne Dondrup.
Mrs. Rowland S. H. Dyer heads the
! list Of sponsors. Arrangements are be.
| ing made to have dancing and refresh
ments after the play on the terrace Of
All Souls Church.