Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY-TomOrrow.
THE Shakespeare Society has invited
the washington Readers Club to pre-
sent condensed version of "The
Comedy of Errors" at its monthly meet
ing tomorrow at the Coreoran Art Cal
lery. The condensed arrangement,
adapted and directed by Ada Louise
Townsend, omits secondary plot, but
gives the complete story Of the confu--
sion caused by the two pairs OF identical
twins. The play has not been pre-
scented In washington for about IS
years. The costumes are ancient Greek
and the time Of the story set when
Ephesus, in Asia Minor, and Syracuse,
in Sicily, were Greek colonies.
The players are as follows: SIolinus,
Leslie Waudby: Antipholus of Ephesus
and Antipholus Of Syracuse, twin
brothers, Thomas Cahill and Eldridge
Monroe: Dromio Of Ephesus and
Dromio Of Syracuse, twin brothers,
Dorothy A. Lawrence and Clarence E.
Ruebsam; Angelo, William e. Bryant;
an offcer, Walter i. Thorne; the
abbess, Emma w. Anderson; Adriana,
Virginia B. Blassingham; Luciano,
Esther Waldron. Clarence E. Ruebsam
is chairman for the Readers Club.
Y.W. C. A. Enthusiastically.
COsMo HAMILTON utilized the
servant problem in America as the
basis Of his farcical comedy "The New
Poor" which the business and profess
sional women Of the Young Women's
Christian Association win present as
their annual drama Offering Tuesday
evening at o'clock in Barker Hall,
| Seventeenth and K streets.
The play has been directed by Alice
| Sigworth Morse, who has contributed
her wide experience in play direction to
Cosmo Hamilton's laughter provoking
situations, up-to-the-minute lines and
the dozen or more characters, who are
delightful mixture Of Russian grand
] dukes, counts, princes and whatnot,
! hired out as servants to q rich Ameri-
can family named Wellby.
The cast will include Dorothy Seaton
as the grand duke, Georgia Sawyer as
Count Ivan, Louise Danforth as Prince
Vladimir, Ruby Collins as Princess
1rena, Mary O'Connor as Amos Wellby,
Alma Southworth as Mr.. Guttridge,
Helen Monar as Mrs. Wellby, Louise
KirchgesSner as Alice Wellby, Vivien
Witt as Constance Wellby, Margaret
as Mary Maudsley and Flora Buchanan
as Kirk OFarrell.
Tickes are on sale at the z. w. G. A.
oNE-ACT PLAY FINALs-Wednesday.
THE finals Of the Community Drama
4 Guild 1881 one-act play tournament
viii be held Wednesday night at 8:15
o'clock at Mckinley Auditorium, Sec
ond and T streets northeast. Reserved
seats are now on sale at the T. Arthur
Smith Bureau, 1880 q street, and at
A. A. A. headquarters, as well as at
the Drama Guild, In Franklin Admin
fatTaffr4r paYfI6fxYa Fr11fw%oax14h oVNA II
streets.
The Arts Club Players who win pre-
sent "The House Cat" are: Maj. r..
3. Lawrence, Anne Ives, Andrew Dent,
Mary Ellen Wager and Edna Ellis Hill
ton. Players Of the Chevy Chase Wom-
ans Club who viii appear in -Four
teen" are: Mrs. Frederick NJ. Kerby,
Virginia Wilson and Joseph T. Mcguire.
The Orange and Blue Players who viii
appear IN THE Kelly Kid" are: Bella
Shapiro, Alberta Cissel, Esther Hunt
ington, Margaret Ryan, Joe Weitz,
Marvin Browne and Boyd Willard.
The Woodlothians playing THE Under
Dog" will be: Brad w. Holmes, Lucille
H. Cohan, Herbert H. Street, Charlotte
Stedman and Joseph F. Swain.
Awards will be announced for the
best individual performance during the
entire tournament 81 ne players ex-
ceiling In voice I'D diction. These
awards were decided upon by the pre-
liminary judges. The judges of the
finals viii rate the four plays pre-
sented wednesday night, announcing
the winner and the runner-up for 1881
honors, Immediately following the con-
clusion Of the four plays, two of which
are comedies and two serious plays.
COLUMBIA PLAYERS-"NeIIie. the
Beautiful Cloak Model"
IN preparing the musical program in
connection with Nellie, the Beauti-
ful Cloak Model" the Columbia Play
ers' next production, more than rs
musical numbers, all cleaned from the
popular hits Of the gay COS, have been
secured by the Music Committee, under
the craftsmanship Of Helen Burton.
Minor Ellis and Stanley Rayfield have
begun rehearsing the quartet which,
along with members of the cast who
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