The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-02-01 00:00:00

POOLE AMATEUR DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Thia chili, which has only just risen into existence,
furnished a couple of evenings very pleasurable seta' tale-
menu on Turaday and Wednesday sat;l and in spite of the
wretched weather out of doom, the members were enabled
to congratulate themselves that the lit iriot of the Antelope
A•settedultoom was comparatively free of all traces of".
frost. The pries de eminence was oot an ineppropilete
on- ft • seamirt,b eine the great neutioal plat of the
oEd ',moue Kit, or the Fiend of the Lisfituse —" per.
formed for tie first time in Thie eof the old
school resiodratom—the T. P. Ceske style, who, by the
way, figured in it when it way played at the li.irrey in IL
It is the prediction of a play •risht named George Ditairn
p,is. who wrote, &mama other like classic il drama., those
mimed "Th. Jermy Girl," The Lest Nail,' "Whittier."
" The Lord Mayor'. To .1." dm, which were very accept.ble
with playgoer. half a dilutor, ago. That there ii Plenty
of musetiou and plenty of •ituation in the piece may be
gathered from the following brief outline of the plot. The
RI( Is an outraged husband, who, haying failed to overtake
hie faithless spouse in consequence of ehipwreck takes
refuge na cave. The lighthouse is built over biro, and
me •
_pleasing by way of occupying his lelsore hours,
be frighten, the inmates out of their wit/. Teo being
met to an untimely grave, and others to the madhouse
through his agency, it becomes difficult to obtain keepers
foe the building. At length one, whom an impudent
marriage has reduced to Nigger', offers his services,
and another, who has quarrelled with the world volunteers
to be his companion to look after the lantern. These two
emitiewen go torough a variety of adventures, in which
Lucy Clifton, the only female personage in the mice, hags
months/int share, and the whole ends happly for the good
people of the play, while the fiend comes to an untimely
eed through the lighthouse taking Ore and • "horning
rafter laying him penetrate In death.' 'The following was
the cast :—Mark Traverson (a retired merchant). Mr W
Tingle: Richard Clifton (his sotpin•law), Kr. C. Stephens,
jon.; Captain Brilliant (agent for government). Mr. A.
)(ar•hell ; Metrical Mat (his coxswain). Mr. Thompson ;
li•ter Partktt Most of the Run Inn), Kr. C. Stephens :
Tb• Elf of the Idyst me. Kr. James Mitt; Harry
Grapeell (a sailor), Mr. C. Gutheridge, jun. ; Jerry Jowl (a
Plyinouth sauna-boi), Kr. J. C. Ottaritou ; Servant,
_Kr.
J. W. Andrews Lucy Clifton (daughter of Mark
Trseerson), Kiss. Stephen, ; Bailors. Waterman, èc , by
the rest of the company. The acting throughout wag so
',gig even that it I. hard to select anyone player for special
notice, but • word ought to be said in favour of Mr. C.
Steemese, who threw a great deal of humour into the part
of "Peter Parleit ;" and Kr. James Hart who made as
fieedi-le rut " Rif "as could be wished for. Miss Stembeus
opened quite at home upon the boards, and we
moat congratulate her upon the eery *wine sevearance
presented when attired in garments somewhat foreign to
her Plc On Tuesday evening the farce "Tbe village in an
Irmo .r. ' and on Wednesday that of "Mike's Boys" con-
she programme, and on each OCWIOO kept the
lintme in a state of constant merriment, The pekes were
y,y,,e.p(selay mounted, and an efficient. Abolish small
orchestra, helped to enliven theproceediop. Considerable
errdit is doe to Mr. C. Stephens, the stem manager, for
hid direction of the affair, and Kr. J. W. Andrews is to
compllmeated upon the etteeente which has attended the
firrt epoearsece of the club, of which he le the energetic
cud obliging secretary.