The Washington times., 1936-01-16

beth Sypher and Ben Smart con-
stitute the cast.
Dance Recital
Tomorrow evening the Phil
Hayden Studios of Dance will
present a recital of the various
types of modern dancing.
One-Act Plays
The Studio of Theater Arts will
amuse itself and a number of in
vited guests tomorrow evening
with the presentation of three
one-act plays.
The first is a tabloid version
of Little Women" arranged by
Mildred Allen Butler, director of
the Little Theater League of Rich.
mond. 1t will be directed by Con-
stance Conner Brown, head of
the studio, and in the cast will be
Barbara Schmitt, Vivian Yeager,
Marjorie RoSenthal, Verna Gu.
sack and Patsy Goldsmith, all
members of the junior class at the
studio.
The second play, "Alexander'S
Horse" has Betty Rice, Jean Nc
Clellan and James Kelley in the
cast and is directed by Miss Nc
Clellan. Wrong Numbers" which
completes the program, will be
played by Sally Human, Ethel
Gottlieb and Elinor Evans and
directed by Margery Rice.
Howard to Quit?
A Hollywood report has it that
Leslie Howard, English stage and
screen star, is ready to quit act.
ing. Mr.. Howard is quoted as
saying:
Il never liked it anyhow"
He explains this attitude, how
ever, by saying that he would
rather write and produce plays
"After I have played Hamlet
on the STAGE" the noted star
says, Il will have reached every
goal 1 ever hoped for"
The concluding sentence OF Mr..
Towards statement intrigueS me
me nightly. He declares he be-
came a player to escape being a
banker!
POetesSeS and Cupid
Contrary to what you might
have thought-or did your
women poets, when in the throes
Of the muse, sing not of love but
a variety of other subjects. A
compilation Of 1852 poems by
contemporary women poets, just
published, has only 81 poems
that deal primarily with love.
President Franklin D. RooSe-
welt. Bruno Hauptmann and
Christopher Columbus are among
the few men who inspired flights
into poesy.
Play Tournament
The directors of the local
drama groups that have been &C.
copied to enter the 1886 one-act
play tournament of the District
of Columbia will meet with the
executive committee having the
tournament in charge Sunday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock in Franklin
Administration Building, to COM
plete plans for the contests which
open Tuesday, February 4, at
Roosevelt High School auditorium,
and which continue February 6,
8. II and 10, with the finals on
Saturday, February Is.
A last call to all drama groups
proposing to enter this seasons
tournament is issued by Miss
Dorothea Lewis, chairman Of the
executive committee, who states
that today is the last opportunity
to enter the contests.
Short Bits
The Museum of Modern Art
Film Library, of New York, is
planning to put into circulation
some of the first motion pictures,
including of course that early
masterpiece, 1.-THE Great Train
Robbery" Ronald Colman
dreamed of playing Sydney Car
ton in The Tale of Two Cities"
for seven years before the oppor-
tunity was given him Sir
Guy Standing holds more than
100 trophies won in yacht rae
ing Night of January IT,"
the court room drama by A. H
Woods, now is playing simultane
ously in three cities: New York,
Los Angeles and Budapest .
Ann Harding is rehearsing for a
coming radio broadcast Bar
bara StanWyck is back on her
celery diet, seeking to lose a
pound or three for her forthcom-
ing role in Volcano" After
three years in Hollywood. Arthur
Byron will return to the legiti-
mate stage as the 1nquisitor in
Katharine Cornell's production OF
Bernard Shaw's saint joan.
Lewis stone has been forced by
illness to relinquiSh his role in
The Country Doctor" an opus
built around the Dionne quintup'
lets Ginger Rogers is an hon.
orary admiral in the Texas navy
Alan Baxter, who plays the
gangster in Mary Burns, Fugi'
tive" was once a wrestling
champ. w. B.
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