Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

WaSntngt0n1S Et0yerB In
"Pygmalion" NJ Arts Club.
YGMALIoN," the ive-act
81 drama by George Bernard
Shaw, viii be presented by
i the Arts Club Players at the
Arts Club Of Washington,
Tuesday and Wednesday Of this week,
under the auspices of the Dramatic
Committee, with j. Minor DOrey direct
ing the production.
Those taking part win be Anne Ives,
as Eliza, the cockney flower girl;
Murray Sheehan, rs Henry Higgins,
the specialist in phoneticS, who is
tempted by q bet to act the part OF
Pygmalion and create . Lady out Of
the slatternly girl from the sluEns,
whose vowelS are torture to the upper
class ear; Maud Howell Smith, as MRS.
Higgins. his mother; Grace Peters
Johnson. J. Martin Scranage. Marjorie
r. Webster, James Otis Porter, John A.
Hillman, Marguerite Young, Helen
Carter and Harold A. Long.
A program of One-act plays viii be
presented at the club early in December
by the Dramatic Committee.
G. w. U. DRAMA CLUB.
THE DRAMA CLUB of George Wash
4 ington University will present as
its first production Of the season the
Robert e. Sherwood comedy, THE
Queens Husband" at the Wardman
Park Little Theater Friday, Novem-
Der Is, at SIS pm. Frank Westbrook,
star of two previous Drama Club pro-
auctions, will have the role Of the
King and Ada Green that Of the
Queen. Amanda Chittum and Karl
Gay wills be princess and the Kings
secretary, who find love amid the rev.
nh,ff0raa and taFunaet1aoa1G n uaflv sranAS
which characterize the play. All the
featured players have been prominent
In local and university dramatics.
ST. JAMES PLAYERS.
T Asst Tuesday evening the St
~ James Dramatic Club presented q
delightful comedy, Take My Ad-
vice." by Elliott Lester. In st. Stephens
Parish Hall for the rebuilding fund OF
st. James Church.
Curtis Draper, IT,, the best work of the
evening probably being that of William
Davis in the role OF Bud Weaver, 9
17-year-older who wanted to quit
school so that he might marry an
actress seven years older than himself
THE PIECE HALL PLAYERS.
THE Pierce Hall Players win present
Ott tic evenings u NOfck1tDcE ID
and IS the following one-act plays
The Lover" by c. Martinez Sierra,
directed by Katherine Palmer Mitch
ell; 1.-THE Lost Elevator" by Percival
Wilde. directed by Frank b. Steele
and "The Stoker," by Harold Brig
house, directed by Ina b. Halves.
WHEELER CLUB.
THE oficers of the newly organized
= Wheeler Club. q social organiza-
ton Of men and women of the Church
Of the Holy Comforter, have an
nounced q return engagement of 'The
| Isle Of Gazam' for presentation No
vember 16 and IL in The school audi
forum, Fifteenth, and East Capitol
| streets.
This play. which Is an elaborate
minstrel revue Of the old type, will
feature two well known blackfaee
comedians. Johnny Baldwin and Billy
Kelly, supported by an excellent cast
and chorus. A. J.. Oehmann viii be
| the musical director.
PLAY FOR UNEMPLOYED.
THE washington Federation o.
Churches, it is reported. Is Il
sponsor play to be produced. probably
around the first week of December, by
! the unemployed of the city for the un'
/ employed" A tentative title Of Greater
| Love" has been chosen. but this, 1t Il
stated. win probably be changed be-
fore the play is produced. 1t will have
a cast OF approximately l5O.