Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-11


Shakespearean heroines. The pro-
duction is staged by Andrew Leigh,
noted Shakespearean actor and pro-
Queer from London. 1t Is distin-
guished by novel scenic sets suggested
by Miss Cowl and designed by Ray
mond Sovey, and Macklin Marrow has
arranged and composed music which
will be played by a special orchestra.
Leon Quartermaine will play NAL
cheek; Walter Kingsford. Sir Toby
Belch; Maren Evensen, Olivia; Jessie
Ralph, Maria, and Lewis Martin, the
clown. The cast also includes Harry
Sothern, Royal Beal, Kirk Henty,
Jerry Bowman, Henry Richards, Rob-
ert Lowe and jerome Coray.
"Strictly DishonOrabIe'
At the National Sunday Night.
sec TRICTLY DIsHONORABLE,"
Brock Pemberton's production Of
an outstanding comedy hit Of the 1929
80 Broadway season. will be the next
attraction at the National Theater, be-
ginning Sunday evening. Concluding
this week a record-making run of rs
weeks in Manhattan, playing into three
calendar years, this play, by Preston
Sturges, will be given by a specially
selected cast of stage and screen no
tables.
The play, incidentally, was unani-
mously voted by Gotham critics as
zone of the years 10 best plays" in the
customary annual selection by Man.
haitian reviewers last spring. Later
1t was awarded the coveted Roi Cooper
Megrue prize as being "the play that
provided the greatest entertainment
value of any attraction during the
year."
The Alay was staged by Antoinette
Perry and Mr. Pemberton, and the
company presenting it is the same that
has been giving it with marked success
throughout the United States since last
March. In the cast will be F1obelle
Fairbanks, Limo Manzoni, Lee Baker,
Ralph Locke, George Meeker, Jerome
Daley, Guido Alexander and John Robb.
Strictly Dishonorable" is described
as an adroitly written comedy with
shrewd character drawings and the at
moSpheric touches of Gotham
speakeasy in the wet forties." The
play has a wealth of alert and inteli-
gent humor, intriguing romance and
sprightly buoyancy. A romantic tenor
of the operate stage, an innocent but
naively adventurous girl from Missis-
sippi, curious about love; an overbear-
ing and Equatorial lover from small
town. judge who is given to friendly
imbibing during ex-ohicio moments
and a wise-cracking policeman people
this divertihg comedy.
One-Act Play Contests
At Wilson Normal College Tonight.
THE District of Columbia one-act
play tournament will start tonight
ct Wilson Normal College at o'clock
under the auspices of the Community
Drama Guild of Washington. Three
plays viii be presented in the prelimi-
nary contests Mary Carolyn Davies,
1.-THE Slave With Two Faces" by the
Marjorie Webster Alumnae, with Lor-
etto Murphy, Olga Lofgren and Phyllis
Wilson leading a group of players;
Dawn" by Percival Wilde, will be
presented by the Jewish Community
Center Dramatic Society, with a cast
including Sophie Baynard, Morris Ar
kin and Milton norman, and SHAM"
by the UniversaliSt Players, with cast
including Harry A. Westcott, Merle A.
Thurlby, Paul Alexander and Stanley
Thurlby.
The second series of preliminary
contests will take place Friday evening
of this week at 8 o'clock at Wilson
Teachers College, when the East
Washington Community Players will
present "Toscana Tavern" by Wilbur
s. Upper, with a cast including
George Finger, Newell Lusby, Frances
Wilson and S. Eldred Wilson; Jazz
and Minuet." by Ruth Giorloff, pre-
sented by The Masks, with a cast of
seven players; THE Kelley Kid" by
Kathleen Norris and Dan TotherOh
presented by the Orange and Blue
Players, also with a cast of seven play
ers; THE Under Dog" by Robert Mid
dlemass, presented by the Wood
lothians with cast headed by Brad
w. Holmes: and 1.-TWO Crooks and a
Lady" by Eugene Pilot, with a cast
including Gladys A. Middlemiss, Wal
ter e. Thorne, Ida Garrett Mattingley,
Nell v. Price and Arthur B. White.
Tickets for the contests may be had
at the Drama Guild Office, T. Arthur
Smiths, A. A. A.. and at the door of
Wilson Normal College.
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