Evening star., 1934-12-02
Local Players.

THE Pierce Hall Players are prepar-
ing for production Candida"
by George Bernard Shaw, on Decem-
ber 10 and 20 at Pierce Hall, Fifteenth
and Harvard streets northwest.
Miss Ina L. Hawes is directing this
second production of the season. Art
work is being executed under the di-
rection of Mary Foley Benson. The
set is under the supervision Of Allen
NJ. Stephens and Miss Mabel Van
Dyke is stage manager.
With dates for presentation set for
December and Z. "The Torchbear-
ers," first play of the season Of Cue
and Curtain Of George Washington
University is rapidly being whipped
into shape by Anton Hardt, director.
Meanwhile the production department.
headed by Karl Gay, production man.
ager. is putting the finishing touches
on the two settings required in the
play, which were designed for Cue and
Curtain by Katherine Cutler of the
university's Division of Fine Arts.
Tickets for the play or subscriptions
to the clubs three plays of the season
may be obtained from Floyd Sparks,
business manager, Cue and Curtain.
George Washington University.
"Alison's House." the Susan Glaspell
play which was a Pulitzer prize win
ner in 1881, will be presented at Pierce
Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets
northwest, December II and 13, as the
Columbia Players second production
Of the year. The play is based on the
life of Emily Dickinson. In the Colum-
bia Players production, Eileen Fowler
will play Elsa. supposedly the niece Of
Emily, and the part made famous by
Eva LIE Galliene when she presented
the play at the Civic Repertory Thea
ter. Virginia True Is cast in the role
played by Josephine Hutchinson in the
lie Galliene production.
Stellar roles in Death Takes a
Holiday" to be presented December
1914 by the Footlight Club, student
dramatic organization of the Univer-
sity of Maryland, will be taken by
Washingtonians. Eugene Kressin,
president Of the club and well known
for his work with the Roadside Thea
ter group during the Summer and the
City Theater of Washington, will por-
tray Death. Playing opposite Kressin
as Grazia. the girl with whom Death
falls in love during his three-day holi-
day in mortal guiSe, is Miss Mary
Stallings, charming coed, who took
first place in one of the campus beauty
contests. Other Washingtonians in
cluded in the cast are Fred Haskin,
jr., who has also played with the
Roadside and City Theaters and will
take the role of Baron Cesarea; Miss
Mary Worthen, as Duchess Stephanie; !;
Miss Marguerite Norris as Aida; and
Samuel Leishear, as Maj. Whitread.
At the next meeting of the Little
Theater of Takoma Park. which will
be held at the Takoma grade school on
Philadelphia avenue on Wednesday
night at 8 O'Clock, two one-act plays
will be presented: "The Violin Maker
Of Cremona," by Francois Coppee,
Clara Mae Tarbett and P. L. Greaves,
and THE Slamatan." an original play
written by a member of the Little
Theater, Mrs. Minnie Frost Rands,
who is also chairman of drama in
the District of Columbia branch of
the League of American Pen Women.
'The Slamatan" is an unusual play,
based on life in the colonial East
Indies, where Mrs. Rands lived for
several years. The cast includes Mrs
Carl Hartley, Mrs. Byron M. Coon,
Mrs. Paul Burk, w. M. Green, Will
Carleton, Guy Goodman and Phyllis
Audrey and Robert Rands, jr.