Evening star., 1940-12-02

of despair, no matter how able the
cast, how enthusiastic the audience.
1t is, as you should know by this
time, the Blackfriars Guild which
will stage tomorrow, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings at st. PauPs
auditorium MI. Savage'S new play,
in which he deals with racketeering
in religion. The cast OF Safe
Crossing" which has been diligently
rehearsing these several weeks now
and finds itself fortified by having
a pair of preview performances be-
hind it, is headed by Robert and
Cleone Pollard, Nell Fleming and
Tony MesSuri. Others involved are
Edith Reynolds. Barbara Won Wald,
Eleanore Mitchell, Thomas Mark
ham, Henry Domioni, Hubert Lup-
ton, Roland Fitzpatrick, Leon j.
Norris and Frank McDevitt.
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Somewhere hereabouts should be
a pair of photographs which should
demonstrate the lengths to which
an actress will go to appear au-
thentic in a role she wants to play.
Emily Curtis Wall will add some
thing like rs years to her own %
to follow Ethel Barrymore's foot
steps as the Ouma of Farm of
Three Echoes" when the Mont
gomery Players stage it Saturday
evening at Leland Junior High
School in Chevy Chase. Miss Wall,
who halls from WinSton-Salem
came up from North Carolina eSpe-
cially to appear in the play. She is
known locally, however, having at
tended Marjorie Webster, taught at
Friends School and done a bit of
work with the Civic Theater. Others
of the Montgomery group in Farm
of Three Echoes" will be Jane
Plummer Rice, Jack Ferguson. Cliff
Whyte, Edward Wilkinson, Shirley
Lynne, George Mathews. Sue Cooper
and Dave Wollhaupter, Frederick
M. Kerby is directing.
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Several drama activities occupy
the Community Center and Play
grounds Department this week. First
there is the meeting tomorrow after
noon at 5 o'clock of the One-Act
Play Tournament Committee, head
ed by L. Zaff Rogers. at the Force
Building, 1740 Massachusetts, ave-
nue.. Fifteen groups already have
entered the list and others are in
vited.
Thursday and Friday nights the
Columbia Opera Co. will stage
"Floradora, under the direction of
Mrs. Ethyl Manning, at Roosevelt
High School auditorium. Mrs. Man.
ming also is the director of the new
ly organized Community Operetta
Group, in which membership is
open Meetings are held each Tues
day evening at 7:30 o'clock at Roose-
velt High and would-be members
will be auditioned at any meeting
Rehearsal Room Scene: Mildred
Beitz huddleS in corner trying to
warm her hands with flaming little
matches and learn her lines at the
same time; Gordon Gray practices
over and over on the softest rug he
can find the technique of falling
dead on a stage; Bob Coren, Stanis-
lavsky exponent, quietly absorbs
background music which will be with
him when "Winterset" reaches the
stage. Miss Beitz will be Marianne,
Mr.. Gray is to play Mic and Mr..
Coren will be otherwise Importantly
involved in the Maxwell Anderson
drama when the D'Artagnan Club
stages it at Immaculate Conception
Theater, Eighth and N streets NV,
starting next Sunday night.
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John White of 13 Wilson avenue,
Brentwood, Md, is playing an i'm
portant role in Sutton Vane's out
ward Bound" being presented next
week by the theater group of Notre
Dame University.
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Next week:
The Drama Workshop of the Jew
ish Community Center will inaug-
urate its season next Sunday night,