Evening star., 1932-06-05
Washington s
Players
What Various Organizations Are
Doing and Propose to Do.
"LAFF THAT OFF'-Friday.

"LAFF THAT OFF"-Friday.
TINE East Washington Community
Players will present their final
production Of the season, at
i Eastern High School Audi
torium, Seventeenth and East
Capitol streets, Friday evening. at $40
o'clock, when Don Mullally's three-act
comedy success, "Laff That on" will
be offered In honor of the graduating
class and faculty Of Eastern High
School.
These players have been presenting
series Of plays throughout the season
under the auspices of the East Wash
tngton Community Center.
The players achieved second honors
In the 1882 one-act play tournament,
which was held at East Washington
Community Center, with their one-act
drama, Fog" under the direction Of
George Finger
The cast for "Iaff That OF" will in
clude popular players who have been
successful In previous plays In this and
other groups, among them Laura Bar
rett. Mary Walters. Janet Walther.
Hazen Shea, EdvaZ6 F1nlayson and
George Finger
Admission to this final play Of the
present season Is by invitation. which
may be secured by application to Mrs.
Frances Wilson, 633 Maryland avenue
northeast.
Bartfield Players
A MONG the local organizations which
"A recently have acquitted themselves
with distinction in the smooth and
clever presentation of drama in Wash
ington are the Bartfield PLAYERS, now
in their third season and formerly
known as the Whitfield Players.
Organized three years ago by Howard
Whitfield, Barry Stuart and Weddell
Hart, with the assistance. in their early
days of Betty Bradley Edith Bruce and
Frances Vaughan, under the direction
of A. j. Bier, a local business man with
a dramatic yen. the Bartfield Players
aspire to fame In the professional field
and earnestly look forward to the time
when no one will consider them In any
sense amateur.
This company for some time has done
exceptional work in dramatic presenta-
ton over the radio and even now may
be heard over VOL at $50 O'Clock on
Friday evenings. Messrs. Whitfield and
with the National Theater Players.
Recent work by the company includes
q series Of four plays presented at the
Powell Junior High School, under the
auspices of the Community Center. All
Of the players, except Barry Stuart. who
is now taking a course in dramatic art
at Carnegie Tech, at Pittsburgh, are
drama students at Central High School,
under Miss Bessie Whitford.
The company includes Virginia Jones,
Maxine Kahn. Romaine Stevens, Frank
Abeel. Charles Collingwood, Gus George
Weddell Hart, John Won Sikken, Will
liam Wallace. Theodore Ward and
Howard Whitfield.
MT. PLEASANT PLAYERS.
THE Mount Pleasant Players of the
Mount Pleasant Congregations
Church have elected the following Of
flcers to serve during the ensuing year
President, Miss Carolyn Sebastian; vice
president, Elroy. La Cross; secretary
Miss Beatrice r. Marzolf; treasurer
William P. Kilgore; production advisor
DR.. F. v. Rand; chairman Casting Com
mittee; Mrs. Sarah Morrison Smith;
chairman Stage Management Commit
tee, Casson Crittenden; chairman Play
Committee, Mrs. F. v. Rand; chairman
Property Committee, Miss Maxine
Nicholson; chairman Costume Commit
tee, Miss Dorothy Goloday: chairman
Publicity Committee. Miss Verna Volz.
The players are now centering their
efforts on preparations for the presen-
tation, the afternoon Of June ~, Of q
religious drama, He Is the Son Of
God" by Linwood Taft, as the closing
feature Of the Mount Pleasant Church
school week end Of religious education.