Evening star., 1940-12-09

sons complaints against miscarriage
and Juliet" which has l4-year-
old Juliet, just as Shakespeare
planned. The musical revue 'the
Repertory clubs ID. C. Melody
and Mr.. Anderson's "7Vinterset'
CDArtagnan clv'ob ope: ed last
night, so further comment en- them
should be elsewhere obout TIL page.
OF the other attractions i'll the
immediate offing. the play about
Mary Todd Lincoln seems dems nd
ing of first attention. This is Edith
Miricks Storm" to be staged by
the speech and drama department
of Catholic University. opening
Wednesday night Storm which
the Washington poet wrote last year
as part of her work in playwriting
class at Catholic University, ex-
amines Mrs. Lincoln's story rather
more from her viewpoint than from
that of those who have contended
she was one of the trials Of Presi-
dent Lincolns life.
Mrs. Lincoln will be played by
Isabel Molloy, graduate of Mundelein
College. formerly prominent in
amateur dramatics in Chicago. now
active at c. U. Hugh Franklin will
be the Abraham Lincoln of the
biogra phical drama and others i'm
portant in the cast are Connie
Alonzi, Alfred Loritsch, Albert Siga-
foose, Elyse Michel. Betty Bull
lock, Scott Kirkpatrick. Catherine
Knockey. Danette Small and Pericles
MacDuffie storm" is being directed
by Father Gilbert v. Hartke. head
Of the c. U. speech and drama de-
partment, and DR.. Josephine Callan.
It is scheduled for five performances
at the University Theater.
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Also opening Wednesday night is
the King Smith Studios production
of Elmer Rice's Two on an Island. a"
to be presented six evenings mot
including next Sunday at the King
Smith Playhouse in Rock Creek Park.
It will be Washington first look at
Mr. Rice's play about couple Of
youngsters from the hinterlands who
battle for their niche in the Broad
way scene. Keinert Wolff is direct
ing and the important roles are to
be played by Patricia Irwin, Jean
Shugert, Ellen Moore, Marion Norris,
Allen Andrews. Gurnar Jagdmann
and Arthur de HUFF
The MasQuers will be busy Thurs
day night, staging Ian Hays comedy
OF British school life. Bachelor
Born" at Roosevelt High School
auditorium. Prominent in the cast
are Robert Peters, Mary Sanders,
Herbert Miller, Lee Pentz, Helen
johnson, Fred Peters, Dorothy
O'Shura, Adelaide Hummer and
Charles Shoemaker Pauline Oak is
directing.
THE Cuckoos Nest" first three
act play by H. Stuart Cottman and
lie Vergne Shaw. whose Sub
merged" you must have seen in
some one-act play contest or an
other. will be presented Friday night
at Eastern High School by the
Troupers of East Washington Com
munity Center. The cast, under
the direction of L. Zaff Rogers, in
cludes Austin Brannen, Ernest
Johnson, Ruth Learn, Sylvia Leavitt,
Margaret Morrison. Dick Sykes,
George Thibault. Wilhelmina Van
Slyke. Grace Ware, Harry Whiting
and Gus Wildt.
The 14-year-old Juliet. who fol-
lows the illustrious footsteps OF
Norma Shearer and all those other
Juhets, is Miss Phyllis Rands, also
known in local drama circles as the
Virgin Mary in her mothers, Minnie
Frost Rands', Prince of Peace"
Phyllis will be playing Juliet tonight
in the eight scenes from Romeo and
Juliet to be presented at the meet
ing of the Shakespeare Society at
Perkins Hall of Universalist Church,
Sixteenth and S streets NV. Her
Romeo will be Paul Yinger and
others involved are John James
Reddy, Helen Holton Wills, Mabel