Evening star., 1936-01-11
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

~ RED e. nAND, LldlidSAlS ol-
rector of Constitution Hall
and one of the country's lead
Il ing authorities on one-act
plays-having been with the Keith
circuit when there was vaudeville,
presenting stage and screen stars on
the four-a-day in one-stanza dramas
is the chap who will bring cheer to
the hearts and gladness to the souls
OF certain local players next month.
For Mr. Hand is the donor of S100,
not small amount of pretty pennies
to give away, to be awarded to the
drama groups making the finals of
the 1886 one-act play tournament.
The winner of the tourney will get
$50, the group in second place will
get s25 and s1250 each will be
awarded to those standing third and
fourth.
There's still a chance to enter the
competition, too, since several OF the
applicants have disqualified them
selves by failing to observe some OF
the tournament rules. Applications
should be sent to the Community
Center Department.
You remember her particularly, no
doubt, for her gay rompings about
the stage in many of the Roadside
Theater's melodramaS, but Janet
Coon, now rehearsing with the Capt.
tai Players for Noel Coward's, THE
Young Idea," already has had her
self neat beginning of an inter-
esting career. She is a graduate Of
the Marjorie Webster School of Drama
mere and the Alviene School of
Theater Arts in New York. She is a
: She also is a grand person. She won
the Mary Pickford popularity contest
and trip to Hollywood in 1929 and
the R-K-O radio contest in 1882, fol-
lowing this with two seasons spent
touring the R-K-O circuits.
Roxy, who knows thing or three
about show business and the people
who perform in it, took a look at
Janet and said: She's got it and
she whistles, and I have hunch
that this little girl will make good.'
While she doesn't whistle in THE
Young Idea," which incidentally is to
be presented at Pierce Hall January
% and %, it is safe to predict that
she will make good.
It's head hanging in shame time
again. All because We believed the
Drama Guilds press release which
announced that the guilds production
of Tobias and the Angel January
2 and 3 was the first local show of
1896, and, believing, passed the word
along to an eager and waiting world
The guild, however, seems to have
missed the honor by some % hours,
since the Triangle Club of the Y. M.
c. A. presented Dust of the Road
at 4:30 pm. New Year day as a part
of the Y. M. c. AS open house pro-
gram.
A letter from Don Bolton, business
manager of the Willard Players, ad-
dressed Ito the cast of yellow Jack &"
announces the postponement of the
play. Several illnesses, graduation
activities at Roosevelt, where the play
was to be given, and other unavoid-
able circumstances seem to have
ganged up on the boys and they feel
they would rather take little more
time than do the show without proper
preparation. Rehearsals will be re-
sumed In a few weeks, says Mr.. Boil
tons announcement. Further, it says
that all lines must be memorized by
Plat time. Okay, Don, but we've had
Ear line pat for years.
The Columbia Players have worked
themselves up into veritable frenzy
over their imminent production of
"Uncle Vanya" January is and 16,
which will mark the beginnings of
their repertory. The players have
reversed the process this year and
invited the Soviet Ambassador to the
play, instead of taking the play to
the Ambassador: a party of show
shoppers Is planning to tool over here
from Baltimore especially to see the