Evening star., 1939-04-17

The Cross Roads Theater raise
to be held every evening from May
l through May at the barn thea
ter. That's down at Baileys Cross
Roads. Va, and if you take the right
road to the left you can't miss it..
The Virginia group announces some
of the plays being considered. too,
for the coming summer session.
The season opens June S with
"Abie's Irish Rose" that play Bob
Benchley is probably still trying to
run out of business Other items
the boys and girls have in mind are
Candle Light" Biography" and
Apron Strings"
The group will have two direc-
tors this year. C. Adolph Glass
gold, who directed last years sea-
son. is returning and he will be
assisted by Howard Wentworth.
They will alternate on plays.
The Cross Roads people have done
some rejuvenation work on their
theater, too. Fifty additional seats
have been added to the auditorium,
a new lighting system has been
installed and there's now ventilat-
ing system, which, the group guar
antees. will coax up a breeze on
the hottest August evening.
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News from the Roadside Theater
is that the group has lost its direc-
tor to the New York World Fair,
Anton Hardt having been recruited
to help project the World of Tomor-
row. But the Roadside has gained
a director, too, to replace him.
Ralph Fowler, who has won con-
siderable local renown during five
summers as Roadside's most versa
tile actor, playing hero, comic, de-
tective and villain with equal ease,
turns now from acting to the guild
ance of the other members Of the
group.
AS the new director, Mr.. Fowler
will conduct the theater's annual
spring tryouts, which are to be
held Wednesday and Thursday eve
nings in Room pol of the School
of Government Building at George
Washington University.
There's another bit Of summer
theater news in the mail, too. Comes
a card from Bernard M. Stephenson
announcing that the Little Theater
Guild is seeking all drama groups
for the purpose Of presenting
them in the Little Theater during
the summer" That can't be the
Little Theater which is now dedi-
Gated to THE Lady Vanishes," but
Little Theater is what the card says.
1t says further that groups inter-
ested are asked to write Mr.. Steph-
enson at 2218 Virginia avenue NV
And postscript says groups will
be paid for services rendered" And
now you know as much as we dc
about it.
The week:
Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday and
Friday. The Mount Vernon Players
will present "Anne of Green Gables
at Undercroft Auditorium Of Mount
Vernon Place M. E. Church at BIS
o'clock. The cast will include Ra-
chael Reid, In the title role; Alice
Moore, Florence johnson, Zelda
Evans, Evert Bennett, v. v. Mills,
Isabel Bennett, Jeanette Vaught,
Nadine johnson, Jane Allan, Sallie
Smith, Talma Smith, Harry Brescia
and Delma Smith. Edward Man.
gum is the director.
Tuesday and Wednesday. The
Greenbelt Players present their pro-
duction of Maxwell Anderson's satire
on certain Washington affairs,
Both Your Houses at the COM
munity's Greenbelt Theater at BIS
o'clock. The groups most preten-
tious effort to date, Both Your
Houses" is being directed by Sher-
rod East.
Tuesday and Wednesday. The
Emory Players will stage "Her In
cubator Husband" at 8:15 o'clock at
the Fellowship Hall of Emory NJ. E.
Church, 6100 Georgia avenue. The
cast includes Margaret Killings
worth, Alva Smith, Ira Krider, By
ron Fields, Christine Mullenberg.
Loretta Edgar, Gerald Keene and
Richard Flanders and the director
Is Mrs. Catherine Tracy.
Thursday and Friday. That lively
and experimenting Dramatics Club
at Hyattsville High School now tries
its talents on r.. U. r." Karel
Capek's fantastic melodrama Of the
future with its robots and other
items out of tomorrow. Dennis
Brown. as usual, has directed and
the leading roles will be played by
Edith Simmons and William Nc