Evening star., 1936-05-11
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

nounce the cast for The
Shining Hour" about which
- they've been doing much secre-
tive boasting for the last few weeks.
Eileen Fowler, Yvonne Kushner. Bum
ME Skinner, Walter Bucher, Charles
Grunwell and Arthur Westover are
the six who. will play the Keith Win
ter drama in washington for the f1rst
time.
Miss Fowler, a member of the Co.
lumbians' Governing Board and a
player and director Of many OF the
groups productions since she made
her debut in Midnight" in 1882, and
Westover, who has played in Moon
shine and Honeysuckle" and THE
Mask and the Face" will be remem-
bered particularly for their perform
ances in the groups first repertory
production, Uncle Vanya."
Mrs. Kushner is making her play
ing debut with the Players In The
Shining Hour" her past activities
having been confined to directing.
She guided the cast Of ''Inheritors,"
presented last February. Mrs. Kush-
ner also has appeared on the profess
sional stage in New York, playing
THE Dove" and THE Green Hat" for
Belasco and doing lot of stock work.
Miss Skinner. another member OF
the groups Board OF Governors, was
seen last in "Inheritors" Bucher was
the peanut -bombarded villain of Mel
lie, the Beautiful Cloak Model" and
Grunwell, making his Columbian de-
but, recently had an important role
in Central High Schools Capt. Ap-
plejack."
DR.. Boyd Carpenter will speak to-
night, discussing The Pedigree OF
Shakespeare's Four Caskets" at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Shakespeare Society of Washington,
to be held at the usual place, Whitby
Hall of Cathedral School, at Woodley
road and Wisconsin avenue.
Scenes from "As You Like 1t" also
will be featured on the program.
William Austin Davis, Milton Hirsh-
field, william Milton, E. A. LIE La
cheur, Carl Haardt, Samuel Light
man, william Zeller, Esther Marsh
man, Rosemary Arnold Elliott and
Geraldine Wells will take parts and
Arthur Rhodes is directing.
Frank s. Koonce will play the lead
in Percy MacKaye's significant drama,
1.-The Scarecrow." to be presented
May 27 and % at Pierce HAL by the
Pierce Hall Players, the first local
playing of the drama in number OF
years. Felice E. Lloyd has the lead
ing feminine role, playing the young
lady whose sympathy and under
standing bring the scarecrow to life.
and Robert P. Marshall, newcomer
to the group, will play Miss Loyd's
1ance.
Others in the cast are Dan Boddie,
with the Pierce Hall Players for the
first time; Arthur Morley, who was
one of the husbands in Meet the
Wife; Carl Pribek, who has done a
lot of work with the Pittsburgh Play
house and Experimental Theater; Vir-
ginia Christie, q member Of the fac
ulty at the Marjorie Webster School,
and Hildegarde Gray, who has ap-
peared in q number Of plays at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology.
'"The Scarecrow" is being directed
by Ina L. Hawes and the two sets
for the play are being designed by
X. Hiding Beij. Miss Gray Is In
charge Of costuming.
Another Of those interesting ex-
periments in the theater-the play
ing of Shakespearean drama, this
time THE Merchant Of Venice by
children In their own words-is
scheduled for Wednesday night at
Roosevelt High School auditorium.
The boys and girls of the Chill
dren's Community Theater, under the
direction of Helen I. Burton, who pre-
sented their first play, THE Tanning
Of the Shrew," last November, have
studied the present play for plot and
character Interpretation and will pre-
sent It in their own natural tongue