Evening star., 1939-01-16

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and the afternoon and night of
February at the Belasco Theater.
it is to be benefit for the leagues
Social Service Bureau and Chill
drens Hospital.
Everything about the revue is pro-
fessional but the talent. the Junior
League reports. And Harlan Dixon.
who is directing the show, says that
when he is finished with the talent
it will look professional Or else.
Mr.. Dixon has made quite a thing
Of turning out Junior League shows
with sleek veneer of showmanship.
Right now he is doubling between
here and Baltimore. putting the
Junior League lassies up there
through their PAGES for a show to be
staged just week before the local
one. Before he went into the Junior
League business Mr.. Dixon spent
three years as dance director at
Warner Bros. Before that there
were New York revues and Vaude-
vile. (That, Junior, is something
they used to have instead of those
fiat actors on that white sheet)
Mr.. Dixon is being assisted in his
labors by Ray Walsh, whose immedi-
ate charge is the dancing of the
Junior Leaguers. He halls right now
from a dance directing chore for the
Junior League Follies in Seattle,
in that other Washington, and long
before that from dancing in such
things as Lady Be Good" Hit the
Deck and The Girl Friend"
We do not want to become in
volved in any international COM
plications about it, so we will not
comment on the note of the week.
Helen Herbert Peck, advising about
three one-act plays to be done by
the Players Club of Central Com
munity Center, claims Celia Carney
is "all dolled up in Chinese outfit
and looks like geisha GAL
Miss Carney is all dolled up in
Chinese outfit and looks like a
geisha gal because she is playing
the lead in one of the playlets,
'"The Gooseberry Mandarin" Chi
nese fantasy which has also in its
cast Hugh M Smythe and John
Pearce. The other items on the bill
are THE Mennonite" to be played
by Nick Vitale, Mildred Hope. Will
liam Sheaffer, Manlio de Angels,
Ermalee Korte and Frederic Cole,
and The Mad Hatters," comedy,
with Ethel McKeon, James Carroll,
Marian Leigh, Jack Rollins, John
Jossleyn and Helen Herbert Peck,
who is not all dolled up in a Chinese
outfit and does not look like geisha
gal.
Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock is
the time, and Roosevelt High School
auditorium the place.
The Troupers of East Washing
ton Community Center are busy this
week, too. staging Barry Connors'
comedy, THE Patsy" Wednesday
night at Eastern High School audi
torium. Carolyn Rogers, winner of
the Maude Howell Smith Award for
the best individual performance at
the last one-act play tournament,
has one of the leading roles.
Others in the cast are Ethel Selby,
AL Muehlhaus, Ted Freter, Patricia
Davis, Gus Wildt, Mildred Muehl-
haus, George Thibault and Martin
Muker. L. Zaff Rogers is directing
"The Patsy"
Addenda:
The National Youth Administra-
ton drama project will present up
From the Cotton Field" tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock at Garnet-Patter-
son Junior High School auditorium.
And why did we have to say audi
torium again, when we always get
our fingers tangled writing audi
torium on the typewriter? up
From the Cotton Fields" is q
dramatization of the life of Mrs.
Mary McLeon Bethune, written by
Mrs. Claudia Mcconnell, who also is
directing.
Interference" by Roland Pertwee
and Harold Dearden, is next on the
Montgomery Players schedule, to be
staged February II at Leland Junior
High School in Bethesda. Denis
Connel is directing and his cast in
cludes Ray Greely, Gail Richard
son, Edmund Soper, Peg Buckley,