The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-27
lily CAIRO BULLETIN WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE o. 1893


lookers.on, Amateur performances are gen
orally well attended, but those who attend
them, do 80, nearly always, purely from
considerations of personal friendship and
pity for the would.be actors and actresses,
expecting tosacrifcc several hours of com.
fort to the vanity of their ambitions young
friends, and their expectations are usually
realized this ia the rule, we say, and
with rare exceptions, 1t holds good every
where, always, But this rule did not hold
good last night, at least not in so far as the
performance was concerned, Whatever
may have been the motives that led the
hundreds of our best society people to the
Opera House. it is certain that they were
well entertained; and if they expected to
be bored, they were very much and very
agreeably disappointed. The play itself was
much above the average; it was light
comedy, very amusing throughout IN i,s
situations and though unusually long for m
amateur play and quite complicated at
times, there were few bitches by the per
formers and the audience gave it close at
tention from beginning to end.
The cast of characters was as follows;
Cheviot Hill, "a young man Of property,
Geo. Parsons, Jr.
Belvawney (his friend, Max Black
Mr.. Sympersou, w. +. Korsmeyer
Angus Macslister, "a Lowland Peasant
Lad), G. T. Carnes.
Major McGillicuddy, L. Y. Crowell.
Belinda Treherne, NJ. Adella Gordon.
Minnie, (Symperson's Dauehter), Maud
Rittenhouse.
Mrs. Macfarane, "a Lowland Widow,
Effie Coleman.
Maggie, Cher daughter; a Lowland
Lassie) Katie Howard.
Parker, (Minnie's Maid. Bette Kors-
meyer.
Attendants, &c, by members of the
League.
Massrs. Parsons, and Carnes and Misses
Adela Gordon, Maud Rittenhouse and
Katie Howard took leading parts in the
play, Mr.. Parsons is dashing young man
OF means who recognizes in every pretty
girl he meets land he meets only pretty
ones in the play the tree upon which the
fruit Of his heart doth grow, and he makes
love to them all, one after another, with the
naturalness and effectiveness Of an expert
enced wooer. Mr.. Carnes plays the poor,
self-sacri6cing lover, who gives up his Low
land lasse to the frivolous but wealthy
"Cheviot," in order that she may live in
luxury, thought it breaks his honest heart to
do so. Mr. Carnes did this with
an earnestness and a display Of feeling
that aroused the genuine sympathy of look
ers-on generally. Misses Gordon, Ritten-
house and Howard possess much dramatic
talent and their renditions were uniformly
correct and effective. A calliope song by
the former was one OF the musical gems OF
the performance and elected merited ap-
plause; Miss Rittenhouse displayed enough
| GOODNESS and presence of mind for half
dozen and her delivery and movements
betokened a complete sinking of self IN
| the character she took while Miss Howard
| left no reason to doubt that she was really
the sweet, gentle, loving, trusting, little
Scottish lass, unacquainted with the world
| and its receptions, that the play made of
her, Even to the mastery of the Scottish
dialect, she was next to perfect, and her ex-
hibitions Of feeling, as those Of Miss Cor
| don, were most realistic.
But those who took the minor parts ac-
| quilted themselves none the less creditably.
Miss Effie Coleman made a splendid Low
land Widow" her correct rendition of this
part, the part Of SOBER middle aged ma
iron, is the more remarkable 10 view of tn
fact that it required the utter suppression Of
aniunusually vivacious nature. Miss Bette
Korsmeyer performed the part of "Minnie's
Maid very nicely indeed A sweet face and
easy graceful motion, characteristics which
one naturally connects with an ideal wait.
ing maid" and with which nature has en-
dowed Miss Bette, gave her part special
charm for the audience Mr.. w. +. Kors.
meyer made a very fatherly father for
"Minnie;" Mr.. Lowell, as the angry and
discarded betrothed of belinda" gave a
fine exhibition of rage and epilepsy when
he found the faithless belinda" in the en-
brace of the tickle "Cheviot" and heard her
announcement that she was married. Mr.
Max Black had part of minor importance,
but he acquitted himself creditably.
Half dozen baskets and bouquets OF
beautiful flowers were presented to the
young ladies at different times by messen.
gers from some of their admirers IN the
audience.
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