Evening star., 1935-11-02

U1lC 4Ol IOIdl y-o(llll6 PSO-
pie, what with some half
L dozen different productions,
offering everything from Lennox
Robinson to a juvenile version of
Shakespeare making their bows.
One newcomer, the Theater Group
of the Federal Bureau of 1nvestiga-
ton Athletic Association ca title
which. no doubt. would be too much
of burden for any one but sturdy
G-men) offers its first play tonight
at the Wardman Park Theater. Muir
ray Hill is the title and it was done
here just once, by Leslie Howard at
the National under the title, Eliza
beth Steps Out"
Don Mars, formerly with the Uni
verSity of Montana MasquerS; Carlisle
Smith. last Summer with the Girls
void Players at New London. Conn:
Dorothy Hair, Margaret Lynch, Lu-
cille Borschke, Judy Draper, Clayton
Braathen and Robert Davis are in the
cast.
Catherine McCord (Studio of The
ater Arts and Odeon Players) in
creases by one the washington colony
In New York some time next week.
When Jeanne Bateman, John
Mann, Teresa Wilson, Clarence Wit
tier. Margaret Myers, David Keogh,
Mary Lamb. John Donnelly, Margue-
reta NordStrom and the other Black
friars Guild players undertake Len
nox Robinson's THE Whiteheaded
Boy" next Monday and Tuesday, it
will be the first presentation of the
play by an amateur group.
The play is one of the Abbey The
ater Players favorites and was done
in Washington the last time they were
here. The Blackfriars will present the
drama at st. Paul's Auditorium and
the curtain is scheduled for $3.50 p.p.
The st. Stephens Players also open
their season Monday and Tuesday,
with a three-act comedy, ut Hap
pened in Hollywood" to be given in
the auditorium of st. Stephens
School at Twenty-fourth and K
streets.
Inez Fox and Charles Parrott have
been added to the. cast since the play
went into rehearsal six weeks ago.
Bill Phillips, who did a lot OF
clever things out at the Roadside
Theater last Summer, is back with
Eva LeGallienne's repertory company.
He can be seen next week in Balti-
more, where the group plays three
day engagement at Ford's, starting
November T. It's rumored that the
first play will be Women Have Their
Way" in which Bill has appeared
before.
The Children's Community Theater
offers its own version of Shake
speare's Tanning of the Shrew" Tues
Gay night at 8:15 at Roosevelt High
School. The play will be performed
by 81 boys and girls between the
ages of 10 and l3, and the lines of
their five-act, 12-scene "Shrew" have
been worked out by the children
themselves. They are under the di-
rection of Miss Helen Burton.
The first issue of B. E. Prescott's
new Dramatic Review is due today.
Intended to be a 20-page book, the
editor had to increase his space to %
cages when contributions overflowed.
There's another local dramatic pub
ication in the offing, too, though this
one will be confined to one group,
the Blackfriars' Guild,
Robert M. Miller, president of the
Columbia Players. was in New York
last week concluding negotiations
having to do with "Candlelight, first
Offering by the players. The play
will be done Wednesday and Thurs
day at Pierce Hall with a cast in
cluding Mr.. Miller, Dorothea Lewis,
Norman Rose, Eileen Fowler, Juliet
Edes Alves, Joe Bourne, Wade Rob-
inson and Elwood Godsall. Orris
Holland is directing.
The Columbia president also got
together with people from the Thea
ter Union to go over some of the
production details of Sailors of Ca
tarro," played by the Union last year
and scheduled by the Columbia group
this season.
Jeanne Bateman of the Blackfriars'
"White- Headed Boy" cast, is in no
end of to-do. trying to rehearSe and
get through her exams at G. w. at
one and the same time.
Janet Coon, Ralph Fowler. Hugh M.
Smythe, DR.. E. Clyde Shade and Will
Carleton have the leading roles in the
production Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday by the Little Theater of Ia
koma Park of THE Three Wise
Fools" Others of the group taking
part are Agnes Carleton, H. J. Ste