Evening star., 1934-02-19

definitely at the head of the An
The Giants STAIR" which won the
Columbians their medal with what
does the Community Center Depart
meut reward its junior Booths and
Cornells?) is not the sort of light,
flip play that most groups would
prefer to handle. 1t is somber, eerie
and psychological and it seems to
depend great deal on the blank and
petrifed expression on Ills face as
to whether it is going to go over or
not.
Fortunately. Lii was played by
Dorothy White Saturday night and
she was backed up IN her screams
and visions by cast including Lois
Alexander. Steele Kennedy. Harold
Norton and a telephone that rang
at the right moments-so that she
obviously didn't have to worry about
getting over. There was great sanity
In Miss Whites insane musings. and
when she let out her debutante
shrieks. the audiences blood jumped
up more than a peg.
Mr.. Kennedy directed his players
Zone of them being himself) with an
eye for the necessary suspense and
with fine sense of timing. His
dramatic progressions. as the classi-
cists say, were something to write
home about, and his finale worked
UP to a splendid pitch.
As far es we could see the Colum-
bians were a league or two ahead OF
their nearest rivals. although Theo-
dore Tiller's prose in the Noel Coward
manner was extremely clever and con-
sistently amusing We agree. how
ever, with a learned contemporary
that "A Trio of Triangles," being a
bright and funny three sketches, in
stead of one. belongs in bright and
funny revue and not in a one-act play
tournament. 1t was, however, so well
done and so enthusiastically received
by the large audience, that it OBJ
viously deserved second hOnOrS, con-
sidering the fact that Mrs. Marie
Moore Forests committee had seen
fit to admit it within the tourna
ment'S gates.
The Cadoan Players of Silver
Spring, Md, deserve more than pass
ing mention for their amusing recita-
tionS in The Man From the Mutual"
an anonymous little play which un-
fortunately did not have much of
backbone. And the TrOuperS of East
Washington Community Center did
what they could with THE Chinese
Water Wheel" play with feeling and
poetry. which lacked, however, quite
the smoothness of the somewhat SIM
liar play Gn tempo only presented
by the Columbians
All oil Interesting cypri11C
In the amateur theater, and one which
proved the worth of the Community
Center's annual undertaking.
X y X X
THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS"
which brings Moliere (An-
glicisedD Osgood Perkins. and June
Walker (laSt seen here with FranChot
Tone in Green Grow the LilacsD
back to town. opens tonight at the
National This is the last and prob
ably one of the incest of this seasons
offerings by the Theater Guild and
American Theater Society.
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AT LAST We have seen Sally Rand's
fan dance! This occurred pho
togra phically speaking, Saturday at
noon, IN UHe mlOSG OF pTeNleW Ol Ille
new George Raft film, "Bolero." which
is probably the best thing Mr.. Raft
has ever done.
More important, however, at the
outset seemed that Rand dance
which we had missed by seconds in
Chicago last Summer (mainly be-
cause Miss Rand was being picketed
by police at the moment). In the
film she appears suddenly out of
nowhere, holding one fan Che size
of a house, in front of her, and an
other, also as big as house, behind
her Stepping neatly forward, max
ing sure that those fans remain
under complete control, she snatches
first one over her head, and then the
other, doing this so agily that you
could swear that they never really
had changed positions at all.
Whether this is disappointing or
not (and after seeing Fanny Brice
we are not at liberty to speak-before
the film opens, the film is red hot
with that "Bolero" which you have
heard Mr. Kinder and Mr.. Stokowski
play and which was written, as
matter of fact, more than half a