Evening star., 1938-04-04


it to yourself to get out to Wardman
Park Theater Thursday night to see
the Civic Theater's final performance
of Johnny Johnson" to see how
deeply Mr.. Green felt about war.
The author soaked his typewriter
ribbon in vitriol before he set to
work on this piece and he jabs at
the powers that carry on wars with
biting satire. No play, Of course, is
going to make a pscifist Of any one
who isn't already a pacifist, nor is il
going to lay restraining hand on
the shoulder of brushing dictator,
drunk on gunpoWder, but you still
owe it to yourself to see Johnny
Johnson"
1t will make you stop and think for
moment, at least. 1t also will give
you thoroughly satisfying evening
in the theater, for Mr.. Green has
woven his diatribe against bloodshed
into rousing and exciting show. And
/ the Civic Theater Players, headed by
Harrison Libbey, Marvin Beers,
Lansing Hall, Harry Wescott, Milton
Freedman, Larry Beckerman, Mimi
Norton and raft of other able peo-
pie, play it with all the honesty and
sincerity it deserves.
The Thursday performance, you
know, is an additional one, not orig
inally scheduled, but added because
Of the number of persons who tried
tn hllV Saotc loSf nd
face to face with the S. r. o. sign.
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TRYOUTS for the summer season
of the Crossroads Theater at
Baileys Crossroads, Va, will be held
at the barn playhouse tonight and
tomorrow night at o'clock. The
schedule the boys and girls have set
up for themselves out there includes
plays which demand a number of diff
ferent types, so there should be plenty
of opportunity for the towns thes-
plans to find roles to their liking.
Directions for reaching the Cross
roads Theater, if that is an item you
have not heretofore run across in
your required reading, sound simple,
| though one reviewer dispatched there
| last Summer did not return for three
weeks. 1t, in fact, Is as simple as
| this: Cross the Fourteenth street
bridge, pass the airport to the first
traffic light, turn right and follow
Columbia pike five miles to Bailey's
| Crossroads. (The reviewers trouble
apparently was that he couldn't re-
member right from left and maybe
that is why he wound up at the fair
| grounds in Richmond.)
THE week:
Harry James Smiths comedy,
Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh," will be pre-
sented by the lexington Players at
Langley Junior High School tomorrow
night at BIS o'clock. The produc-
ton, sponsored by the Mckinley
Langley Community Center and the
North Capitol Citizens Association.
has been staged by Pauline Eaton
Oak. Miss Oak also plays the leading
role, and will be supported by Charles
Grunwell, Herbert Seversmith. Rhodes
Scherer, Mary Sanders, Elinor Cahill,
Fred Horton, Vinton Higbie, Florence
Harper, Gretchen Greer, Gertrude
| Higbie and Jack Wallace.
The Footlight Club of MARYLAND
University will present, as its third
production Of the year, Ayn Rand's
The Night Of January 49, at the
school, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday nights.
Sheridan's comedy, "The Rivals"
will be staged Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights at Roosevelt High
School auditorium at the schools
spring play. The players include Dor
| othy Jones, Frances KreSsin, Grace
Linkins, Josephine Merelman, Giles
Wilkinson, Frederick Butt, Jane Wyatt.
Elizabeth Hall, James Lupton. Wilton
Mendelson. Don Hopkins, William
Warner and Thornton Wood. The
Rivals" has been directed by Esther
Galbraith and Mrs. Maude Horne.
The Pierce Hall Players haven't told
us any more about it. but we remem-
Der like an elephant or something
| SO here's reminder that the group s
production of Three -Cornered Moon
| Is scheduled for Wednesday and
Thursday at Pierce Hall. Nell Childs
and Ellen Scholze play the leading
roles. and others contributing to the
lunacy of the piece are Burke Ed
wards, William Austin Davis. Gordon
Backus, David Kaigler, jr.; Tom
| Enzor, Elizabeth Smallman and Char
| lotte Tilley.
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FUTURE weeks:
The Theater Group of the Fed
| eral Bureau of Investigation Athletic
| Association. to be known henceforth
and forevermore in these columns as
the F. B. l. Players, on account of
the high expense of typewriter rib
bons, will present that same Three
Cornered Moon" at Wardman Park
Theater April 10. Bill Coleman, who
directed the groups prize-winning
effort in the last play tourney, is di-
recting the comedy.
Which brings us neatly around to
tho of