Evening star., 1935-08-18
6 SUMMER FETES
BEING ARRANGED
Music and Drama Staged
in Open to End Season
by September IS.

Six Summer festival programs Of
interest 30 lovers Of spectacular music
and drama in the out-of-doors are
being arranged by the Community
Center Department and the Office Of
National Capital Parks. Four Of the
events are to take place this month
and two in early September, the sea-
son closing by September IS at the
Sylvan Theater.
Dividing this week into drama on
Tuesday night, when Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet" will be played by
the Bartfield Group, and music on
Thursday night, when the United
States Marine Band and assisting
soloists will be heard in the annual
festival concert Of grand opera. con-
Quoted by Capt. Taylor Branson, the
week following will see the Washing
ton Community Players in the comedy
satire, "Androcles and the Lion" di-
rected by Robert Halsted. with a cast
including John Sikken, Paul Murphy,
Howard Whitfield, Herman Riess, Ed
ward Eberly, Ted Freter. Wade Robin
son, Robert Walton, Terry McPhear-
son, William Gochenour, Carl Brad
ley, Andrew Dent, Hugh Smith, A. l..
Diket, John Brasil and many others.
The two leading women's parts will
be played by Dorothy Riess and Adele
Whiteside and large group of popu-
lar girls of Washington. including the
lexington Community Players, will
participate in the comedy. There will
be more than so players in the festival
event, which will be preceded by a
concert by one of the Capital City's
important musical organizations, the
Washington Gas Light Co. Band.
Another important dramatic fes-
tival in which the Washington Com
munity Players will appear will be
Shakespeare's Tanning Of the Shrew,'
September S, under the direction Of
Arthur Rhodes, in which another
group Of the Washington Community
Players will take part, including
Yerby Pannill, Edythe Lazarof Gold
man, James M. Rawls, H. Stanley Pro-
theroe. George harrington, Richard
Mdgley, as well as Paul Murphy, Ted
Freter, Howard Whitfield, John Six
ken, Wade Robinson. Andrew Dent
and others.
The final event will be the presenta-
ton of Gilbert and Sullivan's PA
tience," under the direction of Anne
Yago McGuffey. with Kenneth Frisbie
as conductor and Dorothy Hobley,
Kathryn Latimer and Gertrude McRae
Nash. accompanies. The Community
Players are also staging this per-
formance, with Kent Dyer, In charge
Of settings and Alma Fizaz as de-
signer Of costumes. A large chorus
has been organized in the past four
weeks, and the group includes such
well-known Community Players as
J. Edmond Veitch, Richard Midgley.
Christine Irish, Shirley Rowe, Alice
Louise Hunter, Mildred Baitz, Jean
Mum, Marjorie Wilson and others.
Because 1t Is a musical production,
munity Players have given, number
Of new and important additions have
been made to the personnel of the
group appearing in Patience" and
well-known singers of Washington will
appear in the leading roles Of this
outstanding Gilbert and Sullivan
operetta.
The Community Center Civic Sym
phony Orchestra will be heard in a
brief musical program preceding one
of the drama festivals before the end
Of the present season, and early in
September the Civic Symphony will be
heard in concert in Central High
School auditorium, with a number OF
assisting artists.