Evening star., 1936-03-23
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

JUDGING from all the reports
drifting in from the hill coun-
try it would be much more fun
~ to sit in on Columbia Players
rehearsal than to wait for the regular
production Of Nellie, the Beautiful
Cloak Modal" Even tne ushers con-
5rlDute 20 the panoemonium in re-
hearoal hall. Usually quiet, dignineo
young ladies, content to say nothing
more than polite "Inis way, please" +"
they now stand about in corners prac-
ticing various ways of shouting, pea
nuts! PeanutS!" Seems there's to be a
peanut concession at the performance,
SO the audience will have something
light to throw at the villains and will
not bring their own vegetables, which
might be heavier and therefore more
dangerous than peanuts.
And while the ushers shout, the
members Of the cast merrily knock
themselves out for dear old c. P.
Nellie Marjorie Rice) has to wear
her Oldest clothes to rehearsals on
account she is continually being
thrown about-under an elevator, in
front of train, or some equally de-
Ightful place. Jack CA. E. Dubber)
has taken to lifting kegs of nails so
he will, when the time comes, be able
to lift the gay COS ladies he has to
rescue from gay COS villains, and Hill
ton (Walter Bucher) spends all his
spare time developing the nastiest pos
sible twist of the wrist for his mus
tache twirling.
II anything develops from all of
this madness 1t will be unveiled to a
waiting world April l and 2 at Pierce
Hail.
The Bartfield Players production of
ShakeSpeare's Romeo and Juliet" is
scheduled for Wednesday night Of
this week at 8:15 o'clock at Roosevelt
High School auditorium. The PLAYERS
will be Robert Duke, James M. Rawls,
A. l.. Diket, Hugh C. Smith, Jean
Smith, Harry Grove, jeanne Adams,
Kent Dyer, Howard Whitfield, Ray
mond Wannall, Hymen Kipnis, Mabel
Owens Wilcox Edythe Goldman, Fred
Haskin, jr.; Jack Robinson, William
Austin Davis, Thomas M. Cahill, Ted
Tenley, Marjorie Beall, Jean Duke.
Lansing Hall and Dorothy Manning.
Settings for the play, which will be
done In 19 scenes in three acts, have
been designed and executed by How
ard Whitfield. The drama is to be
staged in the Elizabethan manner,
with fore stage and an inner stage.
Costumes have been done by Christine
Stewart.
Wednesday night also will find the
st. Stephens Players busy with the
presentation of their third play of
the season, "The Rosary" The four
act drama will be staged at st.
Stephens auditorium, Twenty fourth
and K streets, both Wednesday and
Thursday night.
William C. Mccarthy, Robert w.
O'Connor, Claude Haren, John O'Con-
nell, Francis o. Panneton, Mary Re-
petit, Mabel Mccarthy and Bernie
Haren are in the cast.
After three weeks OF strenuous re-
hearsal, Director Angela Kier of the
Blackfriars' Guild has announced the
complete cast for the guilds repertory
play, Catherine the Valiant" which
opens an extended run March 80.
Mary Crowley. whose performance
as st. Catherine was one of the
high lights Of the guilds first pre-
sentation of the play. again has the
title role, and Clarence Wittler, re-
membered for his work as the rebel
hous Jesuit in 1.-THE First Legion"
will portray Louis, Duke Of Anjou,
with whom Catherine has all her
troubles.
Others In the cast are Elinor Sgueo,
Margaret M. Myers, Anne Ojala
Jeanne Bateman, Hazel Boyce. Julian
zeir, William j. Calnan, Thomas
Bentley, Stephen Trodden, John J.
Wilson. Edgar M. Ford, Roy Bate
man, Gerald Gregg and kmes Kelly.