Evening star., 1935-12-14
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

'NHE Drama Gullu SLdTIS OIL ueAI
weeks activities Tuesday with
its second play of the current
Il season, James Brides Tobias
and the Angel" and three groups will
follow WedneSday-the Columbia
Players with "Inheritors," the Little
Theater of Alexandria with Another
Language" and American Universitys
Dramat with us Life Worth Living?"
The Drama Guild play is based on
the biblical story of Tobit and the
angel and is written in modern dialect.
John Rappolt, jr.; Harry WeStcott,
Anne Ives, Dorothy Howard, Harold
Weinberger and Marvin T. Herrick
are in the cast and Dr. De Witt Crois-
SAINT, head of George Washington Uni
versity's English Department, is di-
recting.
The play will be done Tuesday and
Wednesday nights at Wardman Park
Theater.
The Columbia Players passed up
Susan Glaspell'S "Inheritors" for a
number of years, discussing it mildly
but never getting around to reading
1t, until last year, when some one
mentioned the play at meeting of
the Play Reading Committee where a
copy happened to be handy. They
opened the book, read few pages and
mentally kicked themselves for not
having done so sooner.
Only three members of the cast
of "Candlelight" will reappear in
the production of the Glaspen play
Wednesday and Thursday nights at
Pierce Hall, the others having been
assigned backstage duties this time.
They are Wade Robinson, Elwood
Goodsall and Robert M. Miller. The
other IL players in the cast of the
current play, who worked backstage
on "Candlelight," are G.. De Witt Mil
Ter, Aline Wharton, Richard Kreuz-
burg, Betty Clark, Elizabeth Dyer,
Peggy Gusack, Edgar Kloten, Wayne
Bobst, Edward Stansbury, Oliver An
derson, B. A. P. Doehrer and George
Edwards.
The play to be done Wednesday by
Dramat, "Is Life Worth Living?" was
done here last year by the Abbey
Theater Players under the title
''Drama at Inish" and has to do with
the effects of continued bad weather
and a steady diet of morbid drama
on the good folk of small Irish
town. This is thought to be the first
amateur performance of the Lennox
Robinson play. Leading roles will be
played by Margaret Johnston, Homer
Patton and William Thompson and
others in the cast are Virginia ONO,
Nellie Strong, Catherine Knockey, Ed
ward Thrasher, Albert Cooper, Winnie
Wolfe and Rowland Roberts. Prof.
Will Hutchins is directing. The COL
1ege paper announces that heart
throbs will be furnished by Hummer
and Applegate, oh. boy!" if that
means anything to you.
Mary Ellen Cato, Jared Rolston,
Winifred G. Greenleaf and Marshall
Baggett have leading roles in Rose
Franken's play of family conflict,
another Language" to be presented
Wednesday only by the Little Theater
of Alexandria in the groups play
house Keith Wade, Harry B. Cation,
Katherine L. Bloomer, Elizabeth True
blood, Ethel Jane Bunting, c. Fred
Schreiner and U. S. Lambert, jr.,
have supporting parts. Bess Davis
Schreiner is directing the play and
the sets are being done by Joseph
H. Orendorff.
Ruth Perrott is going to present
four plays this year under the auspices
Of the Bekefi-Deleporte Institute,
where she is irstructing in various
phases of the drama. The group is
tentatively titled the Capital Players
and its first play will be Noel Coward's S
1.-The Young Idea" to be. presented
January % and % at Pierce Hall.
John Mann, who wanted to do the
play last Summer out at the Odeon
Theater, is directing and playing one
of the leading roles. Mrs. Perrott
also has one of the leads and the
cast includes Dick Stringfellow, Janet
Coon, Francis Koonce. Elinor Cox
Karsten, Harry Westcott, Arthur
Westover, Clarence Moore, Ronaine
Stevens, Carlisle Smith and Crystal
Tardy. all well known in local acting
circles.
Mrs. Perrott also has -Four Walls,
"Private Lives" and Madame x" on
this years production schedule for
the group.