Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15

w YITH eight companies having
n | completed the preliminary
wv contests in the fifth annual
District of Columbia one-act
play tournament, sponsored
by the Community Drama Guild OF
Washington, the remaining eight will
be seen this week, four on Tuesday
night at East Washington Community
Center, Seventeenth and East Capitol
streets, and four at Wilson Teachers
College. Harvard and Eleventh streets
northwest. Friday. all at 8 o'clock.
The plays to be given Tuesday in
clude: THE House Cat by the Arts
Club of Washington; The Wonder
Hat" by the Comus Club; Sos Your
and "A Hint of Hyacinths," by the
Southeast Community Center.
Friday night the plays will be: e
Cristo," by the Towne Players; THE
Bishops Candlesticks," by the Stellar
Dramatic Players; Finders Keepers, "
by the Mackin Club, and Fourteen,
by the drama section of the Womens
Club of Chevy Chase.
Following the Friday night program
the five judges of the preliminary con-
tests. Marion Alcott Ballou. William F,
Baker, Hugh Stewart Smith, Grace
Vale and Rhoda watkins, will announce
the two outstanding serious plays and
the two outstanding comedies in the
entire tournament. These four plays
will be given at Mckinley auditorium
March 4, when the dramatic critics OF
the five Washington daily papers will
choose the winning play OF the 1881
tournament
Smiths, A. A. A. headquarters and
Franklin Administration Building, Thir-
teenth and K streets
PAYING THE FIDDLER" Tuesday.
THE Builders Class of Luther Place
Memorial Church. Fourteenth and
N streets northwest, will present COM
eday-drama in three acts, Paying the
Fiddler" in the church parlors Tuesday
at BIS pm.
1t is described as an amusingly dra-
matized story of the most familiar phe-
nomenon in American life-the family
that lived recklessIy beyond its income
The Castle family is plainly headed
for disaster, in spite of the warnings
of wise old Grandma Castle. The crash
comes when the spoiled son of the
household all but kills child with
his speeding motor car, thereby bring
ing about his fathers physical and
financial collapse. But the younger
Castles, having good stuff in them
DraVely Snoulder the heaviest FANNY
burdens and in the end they give a
heart-warming exhibition of strength
under the stress of adversely. Two love
stories are interviewer in the plot and
furnish a good share of the plays
humor
In the cast are the butterfly wife,
Mrs. Helen Castle, played by Margaret
Eberly; the ultra modern daughter,
Iris, by Pauline Sager; the wealthy
young man on whom these two have
designs, Bob Eaton, by Hazel Dusing;
the patient, Cinderella-like poor rela-
ton, Indy Craig. by Ann Lyon; Grand
ma Castle, by Violet Carlson; Henry
Castle, ST., an overburdened business
man, by Eda Olsen; Henry Castle, jr.,
the pampered son, Clarece Bland,
and Mr.. Brown, an officer of the law,
by Pearl Nelson.
PIERCE HALL PLAYERS-Wednesda
TRYOUTS for parts in THE Romantic
Young Lady" by G.. Martinez Sierra,
will be held by the Pierce Hall Players,
Sixteenth and Harvard streets, Wednes-
day evening.
This play, which is by the author of
THE Kingdom of God,' recently played
by Ethel Barrymore, will be given in
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