Evening star., 1935-10-26
TINE Drama Guild is getting a
lot Of new blood this year. 1t
is getting away from the old
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lot Of new blood this year. It
is getting away from the old
Il closed corporation" method OF
casting and opening the ranks to any
local player who has what it takes TO
win role in the try-outs. The guilds
first show of the season, Shaw's You
Never Can Tell" has lot OF Road
side favorites in the cast.
There's Eugene Kressin, always a
villain heretofore, playing rather
nice chap in the G. B. S. piece. It's
the first time he has reformed" here
in town, though he has been on the
right side of the law in several Mary
land U. plays. Tony Hardt, the Road
sides melodrama director, also is In
the cast, and Lansing Hall, the baby
of last seasons Roadside troupe, plays
his twin sister. Tom Cahill is another
vet Roadsider in you Never Can
Tell"
There also is at least one member
of the Montgomery Players present in
the person of Irving Day, and the ros-
ter also includes such well-knoWn
Guild players as Maude Howell Smith
and Maurice Jarvis. Dennis E. Con-
nell IS directing.
Frank Baer has written another
play. It's a farce titled THAT Guy
Winkler," and it is to be tried out by
the Pierce Hall Players as the next
production on their schedule.
Marvin Beers, production manager
of the Drama Guild, will direct the
first offering of the Cue and Curtain
Club of George Washington Univer-
sity. The play Is "She Loves Me Not,
adapted by Howard Lindsay from Ed
ward Hopes novel. The story of Curly
FIagg, night club dancer who wit
messed a murder and took refuge IN
q Princeton dorm so she wouldn't have
to testify, has been somewhat simpli-
fed for the Cue and Curtain produc-
ton. because the original Broadway
version offers some problems in ex-
tensive staging beyond the reach OF a
non professional company. The ex-
act date has not been set yet, but
it is expected the play will be gwen
the first week in December.
Cue and Curtain, in addition to the
three regular plays on its schedule, Is
stepping into the experimental field
and producing manuscript play
1.-THE Editor Strikes" is the title; 1t was
written by Donald o. John and will
be presented at the George Washing
ton Scholastic Press Convention No
vember Is and 16.
Carl Christianson, who made ms
local acting debut at the Arts Club
Tuesday in apron Strings" is one
of those rare birds like Movie Star
Johnny Mack Brown-a combination
foot ball player and actor. Carl IS
said to have Stayed 'em at South
Bend, both acting in Notre Dame
shows and pig-skinning under Knute
Rockne.
The Columbia Players are sending
out frantic S o S. RanSack the at
tic and clean the cellar. they plead.
Uncover any and all old clothes, old
furniture, old bric-a-brac, old any
thing with a nineteenth century date
on it and Immediately phone Jane
Iasater Rubey. She'll send wagon
and YOU will have the undying graft
tude of the Columbia Players for pro-
yiding props and raiment.
The reason for all this Scurry to
obtain antique garb IS schedule
which includes three period plays
''The Inheritors," with its first act
laid in 1879; "Uncle Vanya," set in
the 1880's, and Nellie, the Beautiful
Cloak Model" The group is doing
"Sailors of Catarro," too, so If you
happen to have an Austrian navy uni
form about the house it will be more
than welcome.
Norman Rose, who recently won a
scholarship to the Studio of Theater
Arts, is cast in the first Columbia
play, "Candlelight," to be given No
vember and 7. Others to take part
are Robert M. Miller, Dorothea Lewis,
Eileen Fowler, Juliet Edes Alves, Wade
Robinson, Joe Bourne and Elwood
Godsall. Orris Holland Is directing.
Dramat, the American University
Dramatic Club, will present els Life
Worth Living?" an Irish comedy by
Lennox Robinson, some. time next
month. The group now is holding
tryouts and early rehearsals to select
the cast for the play, which was given
last season, under a different name,
by the Abbey Theater Players. The
Dramat director Is VIII Hutchins.
A piece Of news which should arouse
considerable interest Is the announce
ment by Constance Connor Brown
that she has obtained producing rights