Evening star., 1932-03-27
Washington's S
Players
What Various Organizations Are
Doing and Propose to Do.
DRAMA GUILD-"Berkeley Square" !"

square, at Wardman PARK
Il Theater, Friday and Saturday
evenings, for which seats are
now on sale at Guild headquarters, 1916
H street, and T Arthur Smiths.
OF all the Guilds productions this
promise the richest combination of rare
theatrical fare with a setting that de-
lights the eye.
Those who saw the Leslie Howard
production in Washington recall the ir-
restible fascination of witnessing time
destroyed. The notion that any one, by
the power Of will and Imagination, can
transfer himself into another day and
period and effectually live a personality
OF that age, Is unique and gripping.
Those who did not see that play will
now have the opportunity in the Drama
Guild production.
Following is the cast: Mrs. Barwick,
Mrs Miriam B. Hilton; the American
Ambassador, James Otis Porter: Peter
Standish. Bernard Barton: Marjorie
Frant, Hester Walker Beall the maid,
Lenore la Fount Romney; Tom Petit
grew Eldred Wilson Kate Pettigrew,
Dorothy Crosby; Lady Anne Pettigrew,
Grace Peters johnson; Mr.. Throstle,
Murray Sheehan; Helen Pettigrew,
Eleanor Wells; Maj. Clinton, Maurice
jarvis; Miss Barrymore, Helen /. Bur-
ton; the Duchess OF Devonshire, Caro-
line Mckinley; Lord Stanley. Capt Ray
Z. Montgomery: II. r. H. the Duke of
Cumberland, Thomas M. Cahil.
PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN."
JOSEPH w. CLOKEY'S three-act op-
eretta. THE Pied Piper of Hamelin,"
VIII be presented for three performances
by the Girl Reserves Of the Young
Women's Christian Association in
Barker Hall, Seventeenth and x streets
thursday afternoon, by invitation only,
when children Of the city's orphanages
and the missions will be the guests, and
Friday evening and Saturday afternoon
for the general public, with a cast COM
prising more than 80 high, junior high
and grade school girls Of Washington,
Following closely the Robert Brown
ing poem, the Piper clears the town of
Hamelin of rats; and when the mayor
refuses to pay him. he entices the chill
dren away to mysterious mountain
called Land Of Dreams, where they are
kept amused and delighted by the songs
and dances Of the most fascinating sort
of toys. The pleadings of little lame
boy, however, who is left at home and
is terribly lonesome for his former play
mates, melts the heart of the Piper and
he sends the children back.
All Girl Reserves have tickets for sale,
as well as the Girl Reserve ONCE in the
Y. M. C. A. Building.
STELLAR PLAYERS, Tomorrow.
THE Stellar Dramatic Players will
present as their Spring offering
Second Childhood" on Easter Monday
and Tuesday at $40 pm. at Holy Trim
ity auditorium Thirty-siXth and o
streets northwest
Second Childhood" is q farce dealing
with the adventures of two amateur
scientists who believe they have discov-
cred the elixer of youth. But that is
not all-they are implicated in several
serious offenses, including thefts, and
get almost in the clutches of the law
The play is under the direction of Miss
s. H. Murray.
Those in the cast are Kathryn Dono-
van, Ruth Popkins, Marion DuFief,
Mary v. Murray, Lawrence Duvall, Jo-
Seph Kearney, Ed Lane, Bill Chamber
lain and Paul Kinnahan.
"THE EYE OF NAGA"
p EHEARSAI4S are in progress by the
~ st. Gabriel's Players of the Stella
Maris Club for their usual Spring play,
THE Eye of Naga, mystery comedy
COnpdIhulc WIN Inc Ndt anu lue
Canary"
The cast includes Miss Kathleen
Baker, Eleanor Hopkins, Betty Sparshot,
Helen Stuart, Lillian Winter and the
Messrs. Frank Lesquin, Joseph ODon-
nell, Francis Schwoerer, Arthur Van
Heuckeroth and Justin Wrinkle.
The dates set for performances are
April II and IL in st. Paul's Audito-
rum, Fifteenth and V streets. All pro-
ceeds are for the benefit of the st.
Gabriels Church at Grant Circle
REHEARSING HOLIDAY"
THE Columbia Players, who with
their recent victory in this years
city-wide one-act. play tournament
brought their record to three first places
in five contests, are now busily at work
rehearsing Philip Barry's three-act play
Holiday" to be presented some time in
April
The players won the one-act tourna-
ment with The Monkeys Paw" in
1929; repeated their victory in 1890 with
When the Ship Goes Down" and this
year scored with Paul Green's "Quare
Medicine"
The cast Of Holiday will include
Willard Miller of the "Quare Medicine"
cast, Dorothy Lewis and Robert Miller,
who, with another group were members
Of the cast of the 1928 one-act winner,
THE Valiant; George Odell, Orabelle
(N1na G