Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1935, Page 37

DRAMA GROUP STAGES ODETS’ STRIKING PLAY ‘W daiting for Lefty” Pre- sented by New Organiza- tion at Pierce Hall. ‘The most powerful drema to shout its strident sermon from a Washing- ton stage in many a moon—Clifford Odets’ one-act diatribe against eapi- “Waiting for Lefty”—last night its local premiere at Pierce Hall, inaugural production of Theater group, before a . Odets does not pull his punches. the cause of a labor by the forces which it, and whether you believe not, whether you agree with not, whether the condition is the basis for “Waiting' for " exists in the degree he says or will have to listen. e cannot ignore Clifford Odets and his play, which is one of the three which boosted him to sudden promi- nence when staged this past season by the Group Theater of New York. He takes up labor’s battle in the cur- rent instance by pointing at New York’s taxi drivers and their plight, by decrying their mean wages of $6 and $7 a week, by showing their unions as tools of the employers. He also gets in & few telling shots at the munitions makers and at class con- sciousness. In the end, when Hacker Keller rises in the union meeting to incite his co-workers to strike, you will be almost ready to join the cry, “Strike! Strike!” . Por “Waiting for Lefty” is a play which will hold you in a firm grasp. Colé-blooded murder and starving, half-clothed babies cannot be passed over lightly. And they are presented here in a play which has 8 maximum of dramatic intensity, and which wastes no time on pretty folderol. It gets right down to brass tacks and bangs away in a staccato fashion. Certain of tfle players in the pro- duction of the drama by the New Theater Group, which is an affiliate with the New York Group, give their roles & good bit of the intensity they demand. David Goldfarb is especially : ik ] i or 9§§§ Hazel Farnham Gerbich presents her pupils in a final violin and piano recital tonight at 8 o'clock in her studio, 3907 McKinley street, Chevy Chase, D. C. Those playing tonight are Barbara Helen and Dorothy Drake, Mary Bogley, Donald Duval, Virginia and John Clark, Betty Clark, Elizabeth Fiery, Katheryn and Josepha Fuller, Mary Fulton, George Kandzie, Connie Little; Florence and Betty Konigsberg, Joan and Marjorie Monroe, Eileen and Ann Paxton, Nancy Ralls, Bobbie Schaeffer, Shir- ley Kauffman, Gene Stevenson, Jean and Connie Pratt, Elizabeth and Margaret Smith, Mary Durkin, Ralph Wilson, Joan Wheatley, Virginia Powell, Fayne Reed, Mary Wilbur, Betty Price, Betty June Uelsmann and Helen, Margaret and Mary Beth Sheppard. A recital by first-year students of the Ellen Waller School of Dance will be held at the Wardman Park Thea- ter Tuesday evening, June 25. Ballet, interpretive, national, tap and musi- cal comedy dancing will be presented. Several baby numbers are also fea- tured. Solo dances will be given by Juanita Thigpen, Evelyn Clements and Geraldine Griffis. Albert Nelson, assisted by Ellen Waller, will give vo- cal selections. Tickets may be pro- cured through the Ellen Waller School of Dance or at the theater the evening of the performance. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Potter will pre- sent their pupils in recital tomorrow | evening at 8 o'clock at the Calvary M. E. Church auditorium, Columbia road near Fifteenth street northwest. The program will be devoted to piano, organ and vocal solos and ensemble. The public is cordially invited. Lillian Harmon Burke is presenting the following pupils in a piano re- cital tomorrow evening at 8:15 at her studio, 5004 Pifth street northwest: Julia Marie Riddle, Donald and Bar- | bara Streeter, Jean Burtis, Norman | and Ruby Lee Williams, Betty Jeanne | | Gimmer, Billy Freas, Betty Ann Coop- ier. Marjorie Pledger, Cornelia Malle- nayx, Mary Claire Maloy and Belmont Farley. The students will be assisted by Ruth Gary, reader. The Harmony Music Club will re- | Officers | flume meetings in September. |are Belmont Farley, president; Mar- | jorie Pledger, vice president, and Mary Claire Maloy, secretary-treasurer. PUPILS GIVE RECITAL AT BARKER HALL Young Pianists Heard in a Number of Classical and Modern Selzctions. Phila Belle Burk and Jessie Blais- dell, artist pupils of La Salle Spier, gave a piano recital last evening at Barker Hall before an appreciative audience. The program included the classics and moderns. Miss Burk’s opening number, the “Allegro glusto” of Bach’s “Italian Concerto,” was played with exuberance and expression and with clearress in the contrapuntal intracacies. Her next number was the “Allegro,” first movement of Beethovem’s ‘“Sonata Op. 81, No. 3, sometimes called the “Cerberus Sonata,” which was played with insight into the poetic content of the work. Chopin’s lovely “Etude in C Sharp Minor of Opus 25, left- hand part of which might seem to have been conceived as a cello solo, was rendered with true Chopinesque poetry. The four modern pieces which fol- lowed, “Tango in D,” by Albeniz; “Allegro de Concierto,” by Granados; “Alborada,” by Albeinz, and the “Fire Ritual Dance” of de Falla, showed Miss Burk at her best and were delivered with fire and charm. She showed much understanding of the dramatic content and national color portrayed in this bizarre and exotic music. The Granados number was s technical feat and the little known “Alborada” proved to be a piece of exquisite beauty. Miss Burk’s most ambitious number was the lengthy first movement of the Saint-Saens “G Minor Concerto.” This work, in which the composer in its introductory por- tion freely developed the classical fantasia form of Bach, presents many dangerous places for the performer, which however were met with skill Mrs. Blaisdell rendered first a Chopin group consisting of two mazurkas, | “B Minor” and “B Flat Minor,” and the “Revolutionary Etude, Opus 10, No. 12.” sense of Polish national color, and the pieces were played with light and The difficult art of mazurka | playing was here mastered with a fine | with a performance of the second and fascinating MacDowel D Minor” The poetic MacDowell work received a splendid reading; its technical difficulties, often startling, were well handled by this artist. Mr. Spier, played the orchestral accom- paniments to the Saint-Saens and MacDowell concertos with his ecus- tomary musicianship, D. E B, —_— RECEPTION IS PLANNED FOR KAPPA DELTA PHI Ninth Annual Convention Here Tomorrow, With Thirteen States Represented. The Nu Alpha and Nu Beta chap- | K ters of the Kappa Delta Phi Sorority will be hostesses at the sorority’s ninth annual convention, which opens tomorrow at the Washington Hotel. | until next | The sessions will Monday. last The sorority is s non-scholastic | K organization founded for social and civic welfare. In less than 10 years the group has expanded until at pres- ent 13 States and the District of Columbia are represented by 50 chapters. ‘The Nu Alpha Chapter was organ- ized June 5, 1934, by Miss Mary Emory, president. The Nu Beta Chapter was installed in January. BAND CONCERTS. By the Soldiers’ Home Band, at the bandstand at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, associate leader. By the United States Marine Band | at the District War Memorial in Po- | tomac Park at 7:30 pam, Capt. Taylor | K Branson, leader; Arthur S. Whitcomb, second leader, conducting. Lansing Prison Official Says Con- viots Resent Activities of Jus- tice Department. By the Assoclated Press. LANSING, Kans, June 20.—The relentless drive of Department. of Justice and other agencies of the law against the lawless was presented to- day as a contributing reason for the 21-hour mutiny of 348 Kansas con- victs in the prison coal mine here ‘Tuesday. Dr. James M. Scott, vice chairman Board of Administra- ening up outside as well as inside the prison.” ‘Warden Lacey Simpson, who led his 43 ringleaders in solitary confine- ment, on & bread-and-water diet for an indefinite period. ‘Where they are held they get no newspapers or magasines, no tobacco, no means Typhus Breaks Out. ‘Typhus fever recently broke out in the jail at Vereeniging, South Africa. 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Others whme‘ work is notable are Rose Skopp, | Valerie Deane, Jack Bowden, Max | Milton, Sam El and Robert Levins. | The players would have gained more | of Mr. Odets’ effect, possibly, had they been guided by surer direction. The Theater Group's first program | also includes a recitation by Rita Cas- | tille of “Upsurge,” a powerful %‘:‘yu (m“r the case of the depression’s “I of | | the open road,” and & very odd and | Community secretary, and Misses Ivy very modernistic “Dance of the Blue | Randall, Margaret Reed, Adelaide Eagle” created and presented by}courtney and Amalie Preische. Harry Skopp. The play will be re- Included among the 22 numbers on | peated tonight. H.M, |the program ars two plays by the Sock HITS CONSTITUTION |:hilaen wai poriipate o . ad- CHANGE BY ‘IMPIOUS’ shade and great tonal charm. 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