Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-19
TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM.
Two Excellent Performances Given By the St Joseph's Temperance Society Dramatic Club.

Two Excellent Performances Given By the St Joseph's Temperance Society Dramatic Club.
 A large audience attended the matinee of Ten Nights in Barroom" given by | the St Josephs Dramatic club in the opera
 house Saturday afternoon, and it would seem from the crowd of people that filled
 the seats and occupied every available
 standing place at the evening performance that the children must have assisted Tn spreading the news of the rare treat in
 store for all who might attend. Bergen's | orchestra opened the performance with several excellent Irish selections. The Ideal Banjo club and the Acme quartette were in attendance and delighted the audi ence. both being enthusiastically encored. Miss Rose T. Mcdonald, the popular so- prano singer, with Mrs William ]. Bergen | as accompaniSt, sang in her usual accept able manner and received tumultuous ap- plause. D. J. Casey. as Sample Switchell,
 was success from the commencement, and proved as the DEMOCRAT predicted, that he still possesses all the histrionic talent that made him q favorite on the stage nearly quarter of century ago. John Somerville, as Mir Romaine, was one of the best characters in the play. His appearance and address were in keeping with the high purpose of his aim-to show the evil of intemperance-and his visits were hailed with great applause. Matthew Watts, Simon Shade, showed a thorough conception of the role in which he figured and acted it in an excellent manner. Miss M. McInnerney, as Mrs Shade, gave her husband some wholesome advice and warned him of his impending ruin, but he despised her admonitions and rushed on to his fate regardless of her timely warn ings. James Fox, as Frank Slade, Paul Schultze, Harvey Green, and P. H. Shields, as Willie Hammond, assumed diff cult parts and filled them to the entire satisfaction of the audience. James H. Freney impersonated Joe Morgan, the drunkard. in clever manner, acting out every phase of the character with touching effect Miss NJ. J. Russell has always been a favorite with Waterbury audiences, and her heroic fortitude as Mrs Morgan
 was an excellent object lesson to those who have to do with unruly husbands
 Little Nellie Freney, as Mary Morgan, was decided success, the death bed scene, as the little one rose to commend her father to the protection of the angels and the counsel of her mamma, and the sol emn promise of her father over the fleet ing spirit of his child, being the most touching and dramatic scene of the whole performance. Miss Lizzie Delaney, as Mehitable Cartwright, the vivacious maiden, was one of the most interesting characters in the cast, but it did not take Sample Switehell long to induce the love sick madden to change her name and at the end of the performance she was Mrs Mehitable Switchell. But at this time old Switchell had learned lesson from the fate of Simon Slade, and had given up his futile efforts to empty all the whiskey kegs in the Sickle and Sheaf. The affair was conducted under the management of John J. Mcdonald with Thomas M. Freney as stage manager, aud the manner in which every detail of the business was carried out, and the success that attended their labors is the best evidence we could adduce of the fitness of these gentlemen to push such work to a successful termination.