Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-26
THE MASK AND WIG CLUB

A Large Audience Delighted at the
 Success.
 Very seldom is the capacity of the Hy- perion tested so thoroughly as it was last
 evening at the performance of "Mr. and
 Mrs. Cleopatra" by the Mask and Wig club
 of the University of Pennsylvania, given for the benefit of the Yale inirmary.
 There was scarcely standing room to be had and at an early hour the upper gallery
 was filled. The boxes were filled with the patronesses of the production and with
 New Haven's fairest society ladies. The play reflects great credit upon the author,
 MT. F. B. Nelson, '93 L., who also com
 posed the music, which was rendered by
 an orchestra enlarged to twice it's usual
 size. The time of the play is 31 B. C., the
 year of tho battle of Actium, and while the
 battle is in progress, Michael J. Mageraty of Chicago appears and falls in love with Cleopatra and marries her. William
 teri al for a new play. The play abounds the "Comic Trio," written and composed by MT. Nelson especially for Miss Co., lumbia" and introduced into "Mr. and Mrs. Cleopatra by particular request. The dances were very pretty and unique and these as well as the songs were sncored again and again. The tableau dances met wiih great ap- plause and had to be repeated twice
 before audience was satisfied. The club carries it's own scenery, which is very ap- propriate and very effective. The cos tunes are elegant. Of the principals it is difficult to choose the one who excelled ,as all the leading parts were so excellently taken. They seem to be rid of that bane of amateur performanoes-stiffn ffness-and perform their parts with the freedom of professionals. The leading members of the club were presented with flowers and at the close of the performance the cur. tain rose for Antony and Cleopatra to receive crowns of evergreens. Very hand some souvenir programs were presented to the ladies present tastefully bound in blue cardboard and bearing "The Mask and Wig Club, University of Pennsylva- mia, Season 1992," on it in red letters. At the close the University of Pennsylva- mia cheered for Yale, which was a very neat indication of the cordial relations which exist between Yale and University of Pennsylvania.
 The following prominent New Haven ladies acted as patronesses: Mrs. Timothy Dwight, Mrs. B. J. Phelps, Mrs. w. D. Whitney, Mrs. J. M. Hoppin, Mrs. Henry Farnam, Mrs. J. G. Brush, Mrs. A. M. Wheeler, Mrs. s. Hartwen Chapman, Mrs. Francis Bacon, Mrs. Leonard Sanford, Mrs. Charles White, Mrs. E. Hayes Trow- | bridge, Mrs. B. L Richards, Mra Knight ! Dsxter Cheney, Mrs. Drayton Hillyer, Mrs. E. M. Bunce, Mrs. c. Nichols Beach, Mrs. D. Dady Eaton, Mrs. Thomas Ben | nett, Mrs. F. Wayland Fellowes, Mrs. J. P. c. Foster, Mrs. o. R. Ingersoll, Mrs. l Pie1ce Welsh, Mrs. G. B. Martin, Mrs. Eli Whitney, jr., Mrs. J. B. Sargent, Mrs. Arthur T. Hadley, Mrs. G. B. Farnam, Mrs. Henry L. Hotchkiss, Mrs. O. Fl. | Townshend, Mrs. B. H. Cheney, Mrs. Mac Rae Ingersoll, Mrs. J. K. Beach, Mrs. E. F. Mersick, | Mrs. c. H. DeForest, Mrs. Rutherford Trowbridge, Mrs. Henry B. Sargent, Mrs. Lewis English, Mrs. Brinley Morgan, Mrs. Walter Camp, Mrs. Wilbur F. Day, Mrs. N. G. Osborn, Mrs. Fl. Grant Thompson, | Mrs. Stephen Whitney, Mrs. John B. Fitch, Mrs. 8. L. Cady, Mrs. W. ". Far. nam, Hrs. Barnes, Mrs. Weld, Mrs. s. A. York; Mrs. Treat.