Evening star., 1941-05-05

one week OF tnicc NiSlcbu oi lilc u
though, Cross Roads will embark
ON all productions on Tuesday nights
this summer. starting June II.
Roadside opens its plays on Mon
days, as before. and opens It's season
Monday, June Is. This is a bit later
than the group has started things
of in past seasons, the later date
having been set to give technical
crews ample time to prepare sets.
The Roadside crew Is going 10 need
the tlrst production Is something
which stops at not one Of those SEN
sational Roadside trains, but re-
quires two locomotives.
The play is an item called The
Mountain Limited" dramatized es-
pecially for the group by Richard
P. Creyke, = founder and former
business manager OF Roadside. It's
q version of one OF those paper
backed thrillers OF nearly a half
century ago; was written in 1893
by Erwin l.. Coolidge. The words
revised and adapted by Richard
P. Creyke" are not new to Roadside
programs, OF course. He had his
literary hand In such items as
"Swsetbrier," Among the Moon
sinners" The Pioneers Daughter
and TO Die at Dawn" for instance,
whipping them into shape for mod
ern-day production.
This, II seems, is going to be q
busy week. to wit:
The Fo0tlight Club OF Maryland
University will present Paul Os-
born's The Vinegar Tree" Wednes-
day through Saturday evenings at
$50 o'clock each night at the Agri-
culture auditorium OF the university
Aria Guild will play the leading
role, the one Mary Boland played in
the original version, and others m
the cast are Jack Cherry, Walter
Neal, Edith Simmons. Jean Forbes
and Jerry Prentice. Saturday night
between the acts, this years win
ners OF the C. B. Hale award will be
announced: It's an annual honor
naming the outstanding girl and
man In dramatics at Maryland u.
Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thurs
day nights the Blackfriars Guild
will bring to the stage OF st. Pauls
auditorium its final play of the sea-
son, the daffy Damon Runyon-How-
ard Lindsay piece entitled "A Slight
Case of Murder" Ed Kloten Is di-
recting and the players are Padgett
Schall, William Draper. Helen john
son, Bud Hardwick. Gordon Gray
Tommy Shields, Henry Dominioni
Ray Maryman, Eleanore Mitchell
Rod Bacon. Leon Norris, Bob Dillon
Mildred Carroll. Richard Schall
Henry Merchant, William Lazarus
John Stapleton, Jerome Gallon
Margaret Brady, Eleanor Freund
Ann Baker. Tom McBreen, Rita Nc
Garry, Lowell Goad and Margaret
Stack. Mr.. Kloten Is the same Ed
Klotoen who directed Our Town
for the Blackfriars.
Two original one-act plays, WANT
ed. a Private Secretary" and "Nisbie
Walks Out" will be presented at the
Arts Club tomorrow. Wednesday
and Thursday nights. Zelda Branch
a member of the Arts Club, Is the
author of both the short dramas and
wrote them with particular players
of the group In mind for the various
roles. The plays are being di-
rected by Earl Hague.
Six short plays comprise the pro-
gram of the spring recital of Rose
Robson Cohen's Children's Studios
of Speech and Dramatic Art, sched-
uled for 230 Saturday afternoon al
the Wardman Park Theater,
The first of a series of plays spon-
sOred by the District Of C0lumbis
Defense Council, to be presented
first In Washington and then to bs
taken on a tour of nearby Army
camps, in the recreation program
guided by Miss j. Beryl LaWleSs
makes Its bow this week The Cen
sus Bureau Dramatic Club, in CO.
operation with the Drama Commit
tee of the Defense Council, viii
present "The Smiling Cow" three.
act comedy, Thursday and Friday
evenings at Jefferson Junior High
School. Eighth and H streets S.W
The Defense Council Orchestra, d.
rected by Lloyd N. Garrison, will
provide between -the-acts musica
diversion.