Evening star., 1939-10-01
Dramatic Club Plans
For Busy Season at
Georgetown u.
Prof. PIessner
To Direct Group
In One-Act PIoys

Under the incentive Of q new dra-
matte coach, the Mask and Bauble
Club of Georgetown University is
planning to keep busy with series
Of one-act plays during the flrst
half of the year. Only one featured
production will be given, it was an
nounced, as the club intends to en-
bark on a new policy of profess
Eonal plays.
Prof. Theodore w. Plessner, s. j.,
who joined the college faculty this
summer as teacher OF sophomore
English and public speaker. has TAX
en- over the task of directing and
coaching the dramatic club. He
succeeds the late Arthur Behrens,
who had directed the club through
several successful seasons. Mr..
Behrens died soon after the June
commencement.
The Mask and Bauble Club is or
ganized this year under the leader
ship of Carl H. Watson, 40. student
president, and Prof. John s. Greag-
han, S. j., who is continuing as fac
ulty moderator and manager. Mr..
Watson performed in the title role
Of Drinkwater' Abraham Lincoln"
last winter. Other officers of the
club are James G. Foley, vice presi-
dent; Dexter L. Hanley, treasurer;
Raymond A. Doran, business man
ager; William Campo, publicity di-
rector; and Albert w. McGrath,
production manager and technician.
Many Holdovers.
There are many holdovers in the
club which supplied many of the
leading actors in the sesquicenten-
NAL pageant of $50 years of George
town history written and staged by
Mr.. Behrens during the recent cele-
bration. At the fall convocation on
Thursday, Howard s. Madigan, AZ,
of Washington, one of its best known
members, was awarded the Dixon
Medal for his contributions to dra-
matics
The new dramatic coach received
his degree in philosophy at George
town last June He was member
OF the graduating class Of Wood
stock College, the Jesuit novitiate
affiliated with Georgetown, and has
been a member of the Society OF
Jesus for seven years.
Discussing plans for the first
semester, he said the club will swing
back to one-act plays and depend
in part on its own members for pro-
ductions. Students will be en-
couraged to write short plays, he
said, and only one drama by pro-
fessional playwright will be pre-
sented before the Christmas holi-
days. In the Spring, he said,
Georgetown will enter the Jesuit
one-act play contest in competition
with F'ordham University, Loyola,
st. Peters and st. Joseph's Colleges.
Other Activities Start.
Other activities, such as meetings
Of the Washington Club and the
various debating societies, started
last week. The Hoya, student news
weekly. has been placed under the
supervision Of the Rev. John E.
Wise. S. j., dean Of freshmen. John
E. Dwyer of the senior class was
appointed editor in chief last week.
Thomas J. Ross. commodore of
the Georgetown Sailing Club. has
called out all dinghies. With mild
weather still prevailing, the club
members will take to the Potomac
River in preparation for intramural
races and the intercollegiate race in
the spring.
DR.. James S. Ruby, jr.. executive
alumni secretary. announced that
services will be held Tuesday morn
ing at Holy Trinity Church in men,
ory of the Rev. Vincent S. Nc
Donough, S. j.. student counselor
and former moderator of athletics
who died September 3. The serv-
ice at 8 o'clock, to which all alumni
and the student body have been
invited, will be months mind mass.
Also to be remembered st the mass
are the late Rev. Richard Martin,
s. j., retired professor of chemistry;
Arthur Behrens, former dramatic
coach. and John r. McSweeney, jr..
of Chicago, who was graduated last
June. Mr.. McSweeney was killed in
an automobile accident on Septem-
Der 7, near his home in Chicago.
Father Martin died the same day