New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-07
COLLEGE STUDENTS As AMATEUR ACTORS.
PRESENTING CAPTAIN KIDD. OR fEERLESs
PEERLESS AND AN IA. GHTY PIRATE'


falrer or fashionable audience 1t would be dih
cult to find which graced the pretty little
Berkeley Lyceum In FOrtyfOurthst last night when th'
Columbia College Dramatic Club showed Its many friena'
college boys do in the line OF amateur thesri
Gals The theatre crowded to It's utmost capacity
The box ON the right OF the stage occupied by Mrs
Bcaes and her daughter; Miss Frazier Miss Goo1ridge
Miss Patson and Mr.. Reign id In the box on the left
were Mr. and Mrs. BoStwlck Miss Fanny Bostwck. Mr..
and Mr& Morrell, HeTbers Sldde and Clarence Page
Among those in the audience Mrs. i. ID. Adams.
Mrs d. F. Culver Mrs. J. w. Ellis. Mrs. T. A.
Havemeyer Mrs X. II. Hoadley Mrs. Robert Hoe lr.'
Mrs. A. NJ. Hoyt Mrs. Eugene Kelly, Mrs John Law
renee Mrs. II. A. Bogert Mrs. Edward Mitchell. Mrs
Thomas Morrell, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Morrison Mrs
H. A. " Post, Mrs. c. Peham-Clnton. Mrs. f. Lon
Sstterlee Mrs George Ii. Warren IT,, Mrs J. D.
White, Mrs John zerega, Dr. H. A. Short MIS- snort
Miss Edith Lawrence, Miss Elsie Mitchell, Miss May
Rodgers Miss Adde Loomls. the Misses Stewart MISS
Bessie Ives Miss May White, Mr. and Mrs Lawrence
f. Smith, Arthur White. Miss Pansey Muller Miss
Blagenburgh MI Qustayia. Thornton Woodbury. Miss
Pomeroy and Miss Herman.
The play, which written expressly for the club
by one Of It's members George A. Morrison, was Cap
tain Kidd or a Peerless Princess and an Hsughty
Pirate" and burlesQue early New-fork society
The first represented village green at kocka"Ay
where Farmer CauliinOwer' wishes his daughter
81 Eoser 70 marry a country swain, Richard Both
Rose and Marian" the daughter OF ODonoehue"
Duke OF Rockaway. love certain Billy" the son OF
"Dr Kidd" the schoolmaster Billy" loves both. and
covered no becomes pirate, Captain Kidd while
Rose is adopted by uncle. Derrick Won Beck
man." who is alderman In New Amsterdam Marian
the meanwhile. the with OF her father. marr!es
Lord Kerosene" the light villain OF the piece. A
brings all the characters tog ether
in humorous situations Manhattan Island and a
result Columbia College is founded in New-York By
u. Kidd the father the pirate captain
The piece Is bright and witty throughout although
the tendency rried a wesrisome length.
The hits readily appreciated and bouquets
literally bestowed upon the youthful actors I'd
ward f. Coward SO Thomas II. Keely 49, Robert l..
Morrel, 's9 H. D. Culver, 30; and George A. Morri-
son achieved marked in their nauralness in
acting Nj Kelly Rose and later as Katrina
being for anything" one lady In the audi
ence declared The other T. c. Sands 80.
S. Of L. Z. NJ. Post '91 F. c. Warren, 's9; r. H..
Harris SO S OF L. J. q. Buckley $50 s. OF L. and t. j.
OSulIivan Choru-es OF Dutch madens pirates dudes
debutan.es with a baetdanccr. mllkmads and academy
boys was taken by twenty-five college stui~nts
The object Of the entertainment for the benefit OF
CLUB aud the list OF p1tro1eses Of the entertain
contained almost hun lred names Of prominent
New-York ladies. AmoLs them were: Mrs. Francis NJ
Bacon. Mrs. F. A p. Barnard. Mrs. Henry Clews, Mrs
Robert c. Cornell, Mrs. d. +. Culver, Mrs william Bay
ari Cutting Mrs Julien Dawes F. j. de Pey
Mrs John W. Ellis. Mrs Cyrus W. Field Mrs NJ. Au-
gustus Field Mrs Nicholas Fish, Mrs. Robert E. Living
ston, Mrs. Edward L. Ludlow Mrs William Starr Miller
Mrs Edward MITCHELL Mrs Thomas MoTel, Mrs A.
Newbod Mo7ss Mrs Stuyyesant Fish Morris. Mrs
George Austin Morrison. Mrs. III. Victor
NewcomJ, Mrs Charles Pelham Clinton. Mrs
George Il Post, Mrs. Percy T. Pyne
Mrs Elbridge I. Gerry. MrS Walter S. Gurnee Mrs
Theodore A. Havemeyer, Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt Mrs
Thomas Titchcock. Mrs Robert Hoe IT,, Mrs Henry j.
Hoiuau. RS. Alfred NJ. Hoy, Mrs Richard Irwin. IT,
MIS- c. oliver Iselin Mrs. Eastman johnson, Mrs
Eugene Kelly. Mrs. Frederick Kernoehsn, Mrs Joseph
Larocque, MIS-. Alexander ]. Leth, Mrs. Archibald
Alexander Mrs Henry A. Bogert Flushing
Long Island. Mrs Ssh Low, Brooklyn :;
Edmund Randolph, Mrs w. Henry
ProOklyn: MIS- Edmund b Randolph Mrs w. Henry
Reese. MIS- William 8hIncIandcF, Ms. f. lie Roy Sat
teslee Mrs Thomas i. Satterthwaite, Mrs. William c.
Schermerhorn, MIS-. Samuel Sloan, Mrs. John j. Town
send, Mrs Barrett II. Van Auken. Mrs Ames Van Wart
Mrs Alex. s. Webb, Mrs william Seward Webb, Mrs
NJ. Orme Wilson Mrs John Zerega, Mrs. Edwin A.
Stevens College Point" Hjboken, New Jersey; Mrs
Oliver sumner Teall Orange, n. j.; Mrs. Edward H.
Wright. Newark, ". j.