Evening star., 1933-02-05
BAL BOHEME DRESS
REHEARSAL today
"CastIes in the Air." Feature
Entertainment, Will
Be Staged.

Dress rehearsal for the pageant,
"Casties in the Air." feature entertain
ment-' of the Bal Boheme tomorrow
night will be held this afternoon at
workers under direction Of Frank ME-
polds~and Hugo linden install in the
hotel ball room settings for the annual
1roliEpf the Washington Arts Club.
Under the guidance of j. Milnor
Dorey,. director Of the 1888 Bal Bohene,
and Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest and Mrs.
Maude Howell Smith, co-directors of
the pageant, numerous committees have
bsen engaged in recent weeks in prepa-
ration for the carnival. which will be-
gin at 10 pm. and continue into the
early hours Tuesday morning.
Awards to Be Made.
As climax to the costume ball.
Cesare Bernaldo Quiros, Argentine
artist; Frederick Murphy, prominent
architect, and Miss Fanny Sabastof
will select the most beautiful. most origi-
nal and most amusing costumes in the
crowd Mrs Luther NJ Leisenring is
chairman of judges and awards.
Striking figures in the pageant will
be Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn" i'm
personated by Ruth Harsha Mckenzie;
Prosperity" Mrs. Eliphalet Fraser An
dres; Success" Helen Goodhue;
Power" Leland Williams, and The
Eagle" Lisa Gardiner.
In-keeping with the idea that the
creative arts lift the soul of man up
into Castles in the Air." members of
the Arts Club in various groups will
represent literature, drama, painting,
sculpture, music and architecture.
Harold Allen. leader of the literature
will figure Inspiration" by Gertrude H.
Sherman: "Sappho" Emily S. Seymour;
Sonar Khayyam," Mabel S. Allen;
Dante" william Lincoln Brown;
shakespeare" Donald A. Bolton; Mil
ton," Harold Allen; Millions Daugh-
ter Anne" Gerald Sinclair Lavagnino;
Dickens" Joseph c. Fairbanks; Edgar
Allan Poe" Ross Wheat; Harriet
Beecher Stowe" Maud Burr Morris;
Louisa M. Alcott," Mrs Frank B.
Steele; "Longfellow," Frederick v. Co.
vile.
Painting Group.
The painting group will be directed
by Grant Code, and those taking part
will be Margaret Gates, as first patron;
Dorothy Watts, as second patron Grant
Code, artist; Russell Parr, palette;
George Rankin, oil; Norbert Reed, tur-
pentine; Kathleen johnson, Marion
Code. Mrs. George Rankin, Mary Code
and Mrs Russell Parr. as red, yellow.
green, blue and white paint; Sewell
Gates, second canvas stretch. and
Charles Val Clear, Difficult Subject"
Clifford Brooke is directing the
drama ero,lp in the pantomime it will
present. Those taking part include Ar
thur B. White. Tragedy" Clifford
Brooke, Comedy" Anne Ives, Maud
Howell Smith, Drama" Margaret
Yard, Lila La Garde, Mary Minnix,
Elizabeth Sypher, Mary Shinn, Maurice
Jarvis, Stanley Olmstead, Harold Allen
Long William ]. McManus, Rowland
Lyon, Robert Chase and William
Woodville.
In the sculpture" episode are Anna
Reinhardt. leader; Kathleen Dorr, Mrs.
Frederick v. Coville, Washington 1rv-
ing Cleveland, Jack Perry and George
Hoffman.
Music Group.
In the music group of which Miss
Marjorie Lowe is chairman, will ap-
pear Julia Schelling as Parsifal IN
quest of the holy grail. Margaret
Tfann- Schmidt as Brunhilde, Halle
tine Dunn as Juliet and also Mrs.
Frank Staley, Mrs. Miriam B. Hilton,
Clelia Fioravanti, Mrs. Joseph Fair
banks, Christine Levine, Mrs. H. A.
Brooks, Clara Stack, Helen Belt, Frances
Gutelius and Mrs. Mabel Linton Will
Iams.
The architectural group, under direc-
ton of M. L. Leisenring, will present
From Temples to Towers" in which
the characters are: Ictinus, Volney o.
Chase; Columbus from the Parthenon.
John F. Wolfe, j. NJ Berry, jr.; Frank
w. Mccarthy. Charles j. Jumper; the
spirit of modernism. Keith SchWlnley,
modern architects, Ben H. Dyer, B. E.
Loshbough great modern, Felix Ma
hony.
Dance Episode1
Six dance episodes will also be given
during the pageant. They are: CLOUD
Dance" directed by Alice Louise Hun
ter; The Storm" directed by Evelyn
Davis; AIn Rainbow Land" directed by
Marian Chace and Lester Shafer; "The
Bluebirds," directed by Lisa Gardiner;
Dance Of the Ogres," directed by
Donna Taggart, and 1.-The Passing
Hours" directed by Lois Balcom, rep
resenting the Ten O'Clock Club.
The four winds will be Charles Farrar,
Teddy Tenley, Ross Wheat and Pettus
Kincannon and attendants on Aurora
will be Malcolm Wood, Stephen Hay
cock. Theodore Tiller, I'd, and Irwin
Wolloch.
Those taking part in the cabaret per-
formances. which will be given at mid
night and at l o'clock in the small ball
room, will be well known singers, in
strumentalists and dancers, with Don
aid Macdonald. Sd, acting as master of
ceremonies. Recent additions to the
program are dance numbers by Kitty
Reese, who has danced with the Martha
Graham group and the Philadelphia
Orchestra; Ruth Walker, pianist for the
American Opera Co., and Hazletine
Dunn, soloist