The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-07-08
LitChfield County.
WASHINGTON.
A DRAMATIC SUCCESS

A most successful dramatic perform
snce given in Washington in recent
years was the presentation of "The
Henrietta" st the hall on Was hingtOn
Green, last week Friday and Saturday
EVENING". The attendance on Friday
night was not large, but Saturday even
ing the hall was crowded. The play
was presented without hitch and with
the spirit and dash not to be expected of
amateurs. The play was we'll staged
In the second and fourth acts, the scene
was an interior parlor one, and was very
the stage management, and various
ladies assisted in the decorations. The
play, tine Henrietta" is a modern up
to- date production, the scene being in
and around Wall street. Many of the
situations are highly colored, and show
up how honesty and square dealing are
minus qualities in the transactions of
Wall street. The leading role, Nicholas
Van Alstyne," was ably taken by W. A.
Watts, the merchant, whose conception
of his part gave strength to the whole
play. A. w. Cotton as "Bertie Van
Alstyne" was decidedly coed, as was
also r. S. G. Clark as "Rev DR. Hilton"
w. Fl. Church as nicholas Van Alstyne,
Jr." gave a good rendering of he villain,
difficult part. NJ. W. Aspinwsll as
"Dr Wainwright" Gordon Mellen as
"Mr Musgrave," and Irving Sewall as
Lord Arthur Trelawney," all deserve a
strong word of praise. OF the ladies
Mrs W. G. Brinsmsde made charming
agnes Lockwood" while Mrs G. A.
Prindle, Miss Anna Watts and Miss F. e.
Hickox were all excellent. The contents
of small circular sent GU to advertise
the play Is worthy Of &c Lr3l reading.
The friends Of A. G. Baker re {. gnize his
facile pen in the production. Lire is a
part Of it:
MANY of you doubtless can recall the
long and tremendously successful run
this play had in New York, drawing
crowded houses, with interest undated,
up to the very last night. Now this
was wonderful when we realize that not
single member Of the Poquasset Club
was in it. But this time it will be differ
ent, and the members of the Poquasset
have at last been boosted to their proper
pedestal, and Messrs Crane & Robson
are out entirely. The Club has discover
ed that there has been lying dormant
some very talented talent outside of the
Club, and they have formed an alliance
with it for the purpose OF carrying this
thing to glorious and successful ending.
Now if you fall to order your tickets
early you are very liable to miss one of
the finest stage treats that ever reached
this altitude. This is, without doubt,
one of the best written plays ever copy
righted, and it is 80 good thai royalty
of $25 per night is still demanded for
every night it is acted. The play itself
we know to be all right, and are willing
to stake our personal reputation on it.,
and the reputation of the Poquasset
Club we are willing to stake, because we
have been appointed by them to boom it,
They wanted to have some real nice
things said about them but they are so
awfully modest they didn't want to say
them themselves, so they voted to APP
point us to exalted position of ''adver-
Using agent" (bill poster was all they
meant, but the other name sounded
better and they wanted to tickle our
vanity.) They insisted upon an immedi-
ate acceptance regardless of our golf and
other hnnInngu TNhav1
made no restrictions as to what we
should say and made no requests, bat we
could see that they thought we would
say something nice and introduce each
one personally, and then go and paste it
up on every round tree and fat rock in
the country, but we are going to do
nothing of the kind. First, because
that sort Of thing makes US tired, and
second, because we have discovered
family ties and bloody relationship
with some of the star actors, and we are
not going to boom members of our own
family. We will show them that when
necessary our sense Of modesty rises to
the occasion just as spasmodically and
modestly as theirs. We might, and
really in Justice ought to say something
complimentary about them In general,
and about their acting in this particular
play, but you just go and see for your
self. We want to have you go one night
at least, and both, if you can, because we
know you will enjoy it, and you will be
doing no damage elsewhere while in the
hall. You will come away better citi-
zens and you will go home and tell your
friends that if they want to zee star act
ing they must go to these high attitudes.
THE VACATION HOUSE GARDENS.
The garden which supplies vege abfes
for the vacation house never looked in q