D.C. melody
Contributors: Askin, Leon; Ley-Piscator, Maria, 1905-; Washington Civic Theater (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Wardman Park Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1940
Language: eng
Other titles: Lets sing a D.C. melody
Description: [The Repertory Club of the Washington Theater], "D.C. Melody," a satirical revue featuring songs, dances and skits from the Washington scene, a production by Maria Ley Piscator, starring Ethel Barrymore Colt, directed by Leon Askin, book by Maria Ley Piscator, Harold Anderson, Jay Williams and John Arbor, settings by William M. Girvan, ballet numbers by Trudy Goth, costumes by Dorothy Croissant, Catherine Vagnoni and Margery Rice, music and lyrics by Jimmy Berg, Freda Berla, Harry Harper, Herbert Herzfeld, Bernice Isaacson, Amalie Sharmon, Harald Bromberg, Elsie Mae Gordon and Leon Pearson, incidental music by Herbert Herzfeld.
Notes: Wardman Park Theater, opening night, Sunday evening, December 8, 1940.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Virginia Barry, Mimi Norton, Larry Lawrence, Bibby Osterwald, Ted Projector, Robert Langley, Doris McWhirt, Edna Evans, Betty Leaf, Ethel Barrymore Colt, Austin Gattis, Lucille Hogan, Neal Frizell, William Zuckert, Doris Cooper, Mary Chorba, Bob Langley, William Forester, Ruth Selznick, Jean Miller. Glamour girls: Elise Melton, Elizabeth Carlson, Marlene Briskin, Jean Miller, Ruth Selznick, Dorothy Dyar, June Collins, Mary Vagnoni. Glamour boys: Ted Projector, William Zuckert, George Burge, Robert Langley, Larry Lawrence, William Forester, Neal Fritzell, Jack Mandell, Jack Arnold. Moving men: William Zuckert, William Forester, Bob Willing, Jack Arnold, Gerald Warthen. Tap girls: Opal Petry, Dolly Scheuttler, Ann O'Connor, Jayne New, Patsy King, Betty Jean Boyd. Ballet girls: Pat Leigh, Jean Hoke, Phyllis Frank, Mercedes Barry, Dorthy Barry, Bevan Schnebly.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).