Evening star., 1941-01-27

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Civic Theater's production Of Irwin
Shaw's Gentle People" scheduled
to open this coming Friday night
at the Wardman Park Theater.
The Civic seems to have assem-
bled an "all-star" cast of its own
for this play about the two gentle
people" who find themselves in
volved with a gangSter, through no
fault of their own. The gangster,
for instance. is played by Robert
Langley, veteran of seven CIVIC
Theater plays, plus three produc-
tions at the Cross Roads Theater
and a number of plays with the
University of Florida Players and
the Daytona Beach fla Little
Theater.
The others:
Lansing Hall. leading lady in
Civics "Petrified Forest Arms and
the Man. Johnny Johnson" AT
Mrs. Beams" plus half dozen sea-
sons as a Roadside Theater heroine.
Ted Tenley, considerably praised
for his role last season in st
Joan" veteran of many other Civic
productions, number of radio
shows emanating from Washington,
plays at the Mount KiSco summer
theater and with Eva lie Gallienne
at the old Fourteenth Street Play
house.
Dick Walsh, whose principal ex-
perience has been gained in some
IA local plays in the last four years.
whose most narrowing experience
must have been that scene in the
Civic's George and Margaret" with
a chap don't point this way who
could never remember what the
heck he was doing on stage any
how, except that F. Cowles Strick-
land. then directing the group
thought it would be a fine joke on
the customers
Natalie Core, veteran of Carnegie
Techs noted drama department,
the Wharf Theater at Province
town. the Roadside. many Civic
Theater plays and currently busy
with her own radio program, on
which she window shops as Steph-
anie.
And completing the cast are Ed
SteylingSon, Benny Schwarz Rachel
Sewall. Edgar Faris. William Zuck-
ert, Zack Waters and Gerald War
then.
Moon Over Mulberry Street"
next on the Montgomery Players
schedule. has been cast and will be
presented February IS at Leland
Junior High School in Chevy Chase.
Md The players selected by Jane
Plummer Rice, who is directing. are
Charles Grunwell, Harrison Hatha-
way. Mabel Lukens, Margaret Day,
Frederick Kerby. Doris Day, Leora
Sanford Hill, Melba Street, George
Mathews and Ray Gingell.
Arch Macdonald, the radio base
| ball expert, whose last great dra-
matte triumph was in the Cross
Roads Theater's production of The
Old Soak" will again be presented
by the same group come February
5 and in THE Show Off," The
George Kelly comedy is being pre-
sented that evening by Charles
Hohein, Neil Linger and George
Hohein, Cross Roads producers, at
George Washington High School in
Alexandria, Va, under the sponsor
ship of the American Legion. How
| ard Wentworth is directing and
Mr.. MacDonald's dramatic support
(the phrase is used advisedly) will
be provided by Carolyn Rogers,
Buel Patch. Josephine OrendortI
Sidney Bassler, Peggy O'Brien, Le-
roy Gaintner, Gordon Gray the
Mo Of l940) and Charles Hohein.
The Heart of England" one-act
comedy, in which Elizabeth Davis
Soderberg sums up the Briton' s
character, will be presented tonight
at Madison School in Falls Church,
Va, having won last week the orig
inal manuscript contest of the Falls
Church Community Theater. It's
the third of Mrs. Soderberg's works
the group has produced, following
her twenty-five Years After" and
Lost and Found" and the players
have selected it as their entry in
this years one-act play tourney
The Heart of England" is being di-
rected by William Clayton Pryor
and the cast includes Helen Lane
Albert Ware, Raymond Soderburg
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