Evening star., 1932-03-15
FESTIVAL DRILLS
HELD BY CHILDREN
Final Preparation Being
Made for Annual Event
Saturday Afternoon.

Final rehearsals are being held every
afternoon this week at Community
Centers throughout the city for the an
nual Children's Festival of Washing
ton to be staged in Central High School
auditorium at 3 O'Clock Saturday aft
ernoon. This years offering will be a
dance pantomime based on the legend
of rip Van Winkle'
Special stage and lighting effects
have been arranged by Harold Snyder
of the Community Center department
in cooperation with Bess D. Schreiner
who wrote the scenario for the festival.
The main action of the legend is in
two parts of three scenes each, with a
dream interlude.
Committee to Greet Audience.
The various episodes will be super
vised by dance and drama directors OF
the Community Center department. A
Hospitality Committee of mothers of
the young performers will greet the au-
dience and assist in marshaling group
scenes on the stage.
Children from Chevy Chase and
Thomson Community CenterS under
direction Of Mrs. ]. P. Tolford will ap-
pear in THE Frolic of the Autumn
Leaves" In the opening episode.
The cast includes:
Rose Strong Hellman, Jean Saper-
stein, June Schrage, Faye Griffith, Patsy
Griffith, Doris Jean Griffith, Frances
Anne Haller, Lila Shannon, Isabel Shan
non, Patricia Smith, Barbara Smith,
Betty Jane Meggers, Alice Nix, Betty
Shields, Annette Muller, Dorothy Wood
ruff, Virginia Shearer, Betty Shearer,
Nancy Faesch, Anne Bergman, Adele
Stern and Grace Cohan. Children from
the Thomson group: Margaret Wardle,
Codelle Lushbough, Elizabeth Garrison,
Edith Lewis, Delorus Wickert, Louise
Odor, Margaret Hatton, Alma Rose
Mason, Mary Carpenter, Beulah Lewis,
Annette Burroughs, Airline Malone,
Vivian Crow, Louise Coffery, Pauline
Avery and Marjorie Garner.
Appear as Katydids.
Children from the Chevy Chase group
to appear as "katydids," under the di-
rection of Ivy Randall: Virginia Denit,
Betty Blair Denit, Regina lavish, Jen-
sine Johannsen, Ada Darne Miller, Au-
drey Hanse, Marian Monohan, Carol
Jean Bauman, Jane Anderson, Peggy
Smith, Janet Tilman and Margaret
Welden. Village children, also under
the direction of Miss Randall They
are: Anne Henderson, Mary Babcock,
Mary Whitsell, Helen Trott, Dorothy
Smithson, Mary Louise Hall, Constance
Hem, Barbara Henderson, Leon S.
Gold, Jack Easily Smith, Patricia Cox,
Charles Kniffin, Robert Knifin, Han
nah May Dooling, Patricia McWilliams,
Elizabeth Lacey, La Preal Mouson,
Frank Bond and Billy Bond. Children
to appear as Sailors" under the di-
rection of Margaret Carmody: Margery
Hensley, Richard Read, Mary Jean Bur-
dick, Carol Cromelin, Pauline Cam
mack, Phyllis Cook, Jean Barnes, Jean
Stoner, Patsy McKenna, Muriel Cor
don, Francine Gordon, Edith Davis,
Jane Wells, 10 Wells, Grace Cohan,
Jane Simon and Robert Nye.
Among the children in the festival
from the La Fayette School branch Of
the Chevy Chase Community Center
are: Village group-Dorothy Primm,
Margery Primm, Martha Ella Lauder,
Elizabeth Reidy, Jean Reidy, Mary
Louise Jensen, Joan Wheatley, Barbara
Elizabeth Brown, Mary Catharine Hoo
yer, Margaret Uelsmann, Betty Uels-
mann, Mary Alice Fulton, Elaine Tur-
vile, Virginia Miller, Regina Leutz,
Patsy Montgomery and Ruth Swanson;
firefiies-Alice Crenshaw, Louise Clark,
Betty Preston, Margaret Hemple, Mar
ian Wheeler, Jean Maxwell, Lenore
Throckmorton, Ruth Yohe, Martha
Jane Etheridge, Nancy Jane Tucker,
Fayne Reed, Elizabeth Logan, Marian
Bracket and Mary Wynkoop boy and
girl dance (village children)
Roman, Betty Lorraine Smith, Mary
Eleanor Bedwell, Anne Larrimer. Janet
Young, Hilda Stein, Margaret Jane
LAUDER, Lucille Bracket, Virginia Clark
and Nancy Early. These dances are
directed by Mrs. Donna Taggart.