Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-04-20
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

~ are preparing to take to the
~ fields, booted from their happy
4 a homes by people who need
those barns for play-acting purposes,
whether the cows are interested in
keeping alive the barely living stage
or not. Summer is just around the
corner. Washington's only barn
theater, the Roadside, hasn't been
turned over to the cows for the
Winter, but it is being busted of,
swept out and spruced up preparatory
to gay opening ere many weeks have
passed.
The first play on the Roadside
schedule is Around the World in
80 Days" and the cast both for this
initial production and for those to
follow will be selected at tryouts to
be held tonight, tomorrow and Thurs
day nights at pm. in room 200,
Building H, George Washington Uni
versity. Address, 2029 G street.
Roadside Directors Tony Hardt and
Harold Weinberger will have charge
of the tryouts. assisted by other men,
bers of the board, Edith I. Allen,
Catherine Prichard, Richard Creyke
and Edwin H. Etz. All you good
people who want to emote in red
barn this Summer are advised to
turn up on one of these nights, pre-
pared to toss off with your customary
elan a scene or lines from some
familiar production.
The drama event Of the week will
be the production Wednesday evening
at Pierce Hall by the Russian Dra-
matte Society of Who's Who" a new
play in Russian and English by Ma
thalie Scheffer. The company and
the author will be remembered for
How Do You Like This Country?"
another bi-lingual play which they
presented last Spring.
Miss Scheffer, Virginia True, Lila
La Garde, Norah Offutt, Elizabeth
Sypher and Ben Smart have the
English-speaking roles, and Vladimir
Kolesnikoff, Eugenia Galtsoff, Paul
Galtsoff, Irene Mishtowt, Olga Grini-
off, Prince Dmitri Wolkonsky. Alex
ander Piankoff, Vladimir Grinioff and
Leonid Strakhovsky do the Russian
parts. Even If you can't understand
one Of the languages you still can
follow the plot. There'll be gypsy
songs, too, by popular Contralto Maru-
STA Sava.
There's q Gilbert and Sullivan piece
on the weeks bill Of fare, too-"The
Gondoliers' be presented Thurs
day night at Roosevelt High School
by the Estelle Wentworth Opera
Group, under the auspices of the
Community Center Department. Forty
singers are in the cast and the lead
ing roles are in the hands Of Ira
Meyer, Richard Hill, Walter Perry,
Ray Baine, Eugene Kressin, Harry
Yeide, Walter Snellings, Melville
veitch, Maxine De Silvia, Margaret
Horn, Virginia Weldon, Nina Norman,
Ruth Barnhardt, Agnes Williamson,
Margaret Phillips and Helen Perry.
Tickets are at the A. A. A. Ticket
Bureau, the Willard Ticket Bureau
and the Hotel Washington newsstand.
The largest advance sale in the his
tory of the group is reported for the
comic opera.
Dorothy Bolton, who holds schol-
arship at the Studio of Theater Arts,
has replaced Ethel Gottlieb. who is
Ill, in the cast of Sidney Towards
1.-The Late Christopher Beam" to be
played by the studio next Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings, April % and
20, at Wardman Park Theater. Betty
Rice, Elinor Evans, Louise Shaw,
Frank Westbrook, Ralph Howenstein,
James Kelley, Karl Gay and Robert
Duke are others In the cast and right
now all of them are struggling with
the intricacies of New England rural
speech. Constance Conner Brown is
The Drama Guild has selected 'De-
tour" one Of the most popular plays
by Owen Davis, who advanced from
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model"
to the Pulitzer prize winning "1ce-
bound" as its next production, to be
staged April 20, 80 and May l at
Pierce Hall Helena Cook. Marvin
Beers, Virginia Rand, Clarence Moore
and Frederick v. Rand already are
cast in "Detour."
"Is Life Worth Living?" three-act
satire on the effects Of steady diet
Of heavy drama on the residents Of
the little town Of Inish, written by
Lennox Robinson, will be played May
and 9 by Cue and Curtain, dramatic
hub ut George Warrington Univer-