Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-10

alOng us STORY OF DfleIly required ser.
wants love (the lover being a boy of
I'D with sufficient gusto to make the
evening for the most part entertain
ing, and the play is also helped con-
siderably by young Leon Janney, a
very young film star. who seems sud-
denly and successfully to have grown
up. Mr.. Janney's stage future should
be very bright.
The only other member of the cast
whom you will want to remember is
Sheila Trent, who plays the role Of
Florence Amelia Elizabeth Lowell.
Florence is definitely not Lowell.
THE screen has done a splendid job
with Men in White" This filp'
previewed yesterday by the local
dramatic desks at the Fox Film Ex-
change, is gripping and absorbing
chronicle clarifying humanity" as
we'll as a genuinely honest tribute to
the medical profession.
Although the role of the doctor, as
played on Broadway by Mr.. Brom-
berg, has been unfortunately mini
mixed in order to give added footage
to Clark Gable, the spirit of the play
has been kept very much alive-and
it will leave you unquestionably a
wiser and a better person, as also
generally shaken by the fortitude of
those who work darn sight harder
than you do. Even If you have no
faith in the medical boys, you will
want to be sure not to miss this pic
ture. 1t is fine story. clearly cut
and acted with great power by all
concerned.
RELIEVE it or not, Catherine the
Great" will definitely open at
R-K-O Keith's this Thursday. Hardie
Meak1n says that no one Is going to
say no" to him this time.
THE GoNDOLIERS" will be re-
peated by the Tech Opera Club
at Mckinley auditorium on April 20.
Announcement of this was made yes
terday by the Mckinley High School
Parent Teacher Association. The
operetta is under the general direc-
ton OF Mrs. Coe of the school fac
ulty, and Mr.. Walten and Miss Keene
are in charge of the music. Due to
the fact that a March blizzard did
much toward dampening the original
production, the powers that be have
decided that those who missed out
shall be given another opportunity.
So. remember the day-April 20.
Time, 8 pm. And no seats reserved
which Is, Of course, nuisance.
OTHER local dramatic news in
" cludes:
The Montgomery Players last Offer
Ing of the season, "Good-by Again, "
at the Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School on Saturday evening, with a
cast including Martha Williams, Mary
Daub, Harrison Hathaway, Ralph
Fowler, Stanley True, Helen Hath
away. Dan Pollock, Donald Bolton.
Irving Day, jr.; Thomas Dowd and
Edan Westwood.
Mrs. Briggs Of the Poultry Yard"
to be presented Friday night by the
Fellowship class Of Foundry M. E.
Church at 8 pm. in the dramatic hall
OF the church by cast composed of
Fern Duey Schneider, Mary Whitson,
Edna Young, Dora Redeker, Helen
and Pauline Duey. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Hunter, Robert Hill, Max Hunt
and Charles Walther.
Paul Alexander will play the lead in
THE First Mrs. Fraser'i-the male
lead that is-which the Pierce Hall
Players will present April II and 10.
And "a professional Summer the
alter in the New England manner"
has been announced by a new local
dramatic group under the direction
Of Elizabeth Sypher, Margaret Yard
and Charles Turner, with Anton
Hardt, formerly of the Hedgerow The
alter and the Jitney Players as pro-
duction director. . The theater will
be located in Virginia along the banks
Of the Potomac" Not, however, in a
barn.