Evening star., 1936-04-04
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.
II AIRY BOLAND had the lead
III inp role in Meet the Wife"

K AIRY BOLAND nad the lead
M ing role in Meet the Wife"
V when the play was first done
4 L on Broadway, back in 1928.
and Laura La Plante played 1t for
Hollywood some eight years later,
which should give you some loea OF
the general tenor of the Lynn STAR
ling comedy to be done here April 13
and IA by the Pierce Hall Players.
Elinor Cox Karsten, one OF the towns
better character actresses, is following
In the Boland-La Plante footsteps to
become a wife who gets all tangled
up with a pair of husbands, possibly
bieamy charges and other such trifies,
on the Pierce Hall stage.
Nell Childs and Clarence Moore will
provide young love in the roles which
started Joan Marsh and William jan
ney to whatever film success they have
achieved, and F. Ellwood Allen and
Arthur Morley will be the husbands.
Margaret Osterwald, Milford Clark
and Jack Aracy are others in the cast.
Howard Wentworth, who staged
"The Foor' for the Pierce Hall Play
ers, is telling all these people what to
do and when and how to do 1t, and
the setting has been designed and
constructed under the direction OF K.
Hiding Beij.
The Montgomery Players are ready
ing their last offering of the current
seasonal. A. Mines ITO Have the
Honour"-to be presented Saturday,
April 18, at Leland Junior High School,
Chevy Chase, Md.
Margaret Buckley has the leading
role and Maxine Mitchell is directing.
Others In the cast are Margaret B.
Keyhoe, Emile Bishop, Burgess LIE
Sourd, Jean Smith, Irving M. Day,
Fred M. Kerby, j. A. Bishop, Russell
Nicholson and Howard Bandy.
They're rehearsing their Spring play
up at Roosevelt High School. The
piece chosen is comedy by Lindsay
Robinson, Tommy" and Frances
Dewey, Albert Coleman, Dorothy
Beach, Kalmon Mariner, Phillip Evans
and Wayne Hill have been cast in
the leading roles.
There's to be a prologue of dances
and choral singing as curtain
raiser to Tommy" participated in
by Marian Wolberg, Ruth Hoberger,
Jane Blackburn, Peggy Plantz, Alice
Ebert, Martha Dodge, Kitty Collins,
Spence Montgomery, Eddie Vesvary,
Anthony Pisciotta, Robert Lowe, Billy
Smith, Donald Smith and Herbert
Mingin.
Tommy" is being directed by Mrs.
10 Mace.
John Mann is going to be busy
lad for the next few weeks. Right
now he's doing the one-act play,
Hospital Romance" to be presented
q week from Monday night and after
that he goes into rehearsal with the
Pierce Hall Players for their next
production, The Scarecrow," to be
done the middle of May. Then he's
going to do three one-act plays for
Rose Robinson Cohen, to be played
at the Penwomen's Club some time
In May.
Tht Pierce Hall Players, inciden-
tally, have started in working double
time and begun rehearsals of Percy
MacKaye's poetic drama even before
their current offering has been per-
formed. Frank S. Koonce has the
lead In "The Scarecrow" and others
In important parts are Felice Lloyd,
Joane Adams, william Austin Davis
and Robert Merrill. Ina L. Hawes Is
directing.
Best line of the week from publicity
irom local groups: There are many
absurd attempts at love making, and
the cast, as chosen, represents those
most adept"
The Spring term at the National
Academy of Stage Training starts
Monday. This will be the eleventh ses-
sion at the school, which was founded
three years ago by Steve Cochran.
The dancing department of the acad- |
emy enters its third term under |
Marian Venable and the new fencing |
continues under the direc-
ton of Maj. Edward L. Dyer.
II your vacation this Summer takes |
you as far as California you might
have Q chance to look in upon the
second Midsummer Drama Festival
Of the country's name" little thea
ter. the Pasadena Community Play.
house. It opens June Is and con-
tinues through August ! and this