The San Francisco call., 1899-12-10
JUNIORS FARCE
MAC A nIcTILlnT
WH0 H UI0HNUI
ARTISTIC PLAY
Great Gathering at This
Annual Event.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
COS Broadway Dec


sos Broadway. Dec.
From half-past l to o'clock this after
noon several hundred students. accom-
panied by relatives or friends, passed by
little groups into the Macdonough Theater,
where a cluster OF ushers awaited them.
Every one went In smilingly expectant.
At o'clock those hundreds streamed out.
satisfied and beaming. The farce had been
good-splendid-a triumph. And the cur
tain raiser no less commendable.
1T began at the beginning" For the
orchestra, with cunning art, won the le-
gions as they were directed 10 their seats
or trod each others toes on the stand
ing ROOM" by playing tunes dear 10 col
lege hearts. And from the time that
Palms of Victory fioated out from tho
fOotlights TO rebound where verdant
freshman or stately senior mingled In the
gallery regions OF the gods. 10 that clcs-
ing moment when a falling curtain meant
palms OF victory for the playwright OF ths
day, Richard W. Tully and Milton
Schwartz. there was Fun with a capital.
The audience was the typical audience
that junior farce invites. The president
and his wife and an attending faculty
member in one box. distinguished menl-
bers OF the press and a pretty girl or
two in another. third box with faculty
ladies' as appreciative as the jOliiest junior;
other boxes lined and trimmed with girls
in bewitehing frocks and hats that at
the orchestra and dress circles a sea OF
faces, with a foyer background OF men
and maids that extended 10 the boxes
again; the balcony as bright as the pit;
the gallery ultra for once
The opening numbers were an introduc-
ton to Laurence l.. Greene. president OF
pleasant fashion spoke for ten minutes on
his class.
The curtain raiser followed and carried
in It's cast It's author, Milton II. Schwartz.
| DrOVad himself rIa
personator, but an equally clever writer
From beginning TO end the skit was A
round Of fun. all hinging on the compli-
cations OF the arrival Of a football coach
and coachman at once and the same
time at a suburban home In the college
town OF Berkeley. Henry Clinton Melons
was first TO be mixed up. John w s.
Butler. who was Barrett Henran, the real
coach from Princeton, was tangled next,
and then the coachman. Thomas Thomp.
son. who on the junior rolls Is Elmer II
Harris. Mr.. Schwartz sustained the rols
OF retired capitalist and Miss Rubv
Morse that Of his daughter, a profound
admirer OF football men.
Then came the farce. which. while local.
was not so much so as TO debar II from
other audiences, and certainly in eve,
way-characters, lines. situations ana
compllcations-it was distinctly above the
line of farces.
II would be difficult to say 10 whom m.
/ honors. htstrtonically, belonged. for from
Mr. Southard 10 Miss Godin the actino
was exceptionally good. Mr.. d. A. Cor
denker as the good. honest. Intelligent
Japanese schoolboy' who tries at the
same time 10 be house servant. created
part that should live. Rea Hanna was
loyal and Apollo-like enough to win
other hearts than Ruth ThOrntOn's Mr.
Schwartz. who had a role In the farce.
too, was a rushed prof" without 4
/ flaw. Ralph Fisher. John Butler aud
Charles Cobb each deserve encomiums
The young ladies In the play We're well
I cast. Miss Ella PattIani sustained the In
! genue and was the daintiest OF apple
/ checked girls. Miss Isabella Godin won
\ praise for stately cOyness But special
/ commendation should be given Mis-
/ Holmes ("Mrs. WiggintOn Wiggins'D and
I Miss Bohall. 'the daughter OF her
father" Miss Holmes was free from the
| faults Of stage novices. Miss BohaIi in
troduced gown worthy Of Mary Van
Buren, and displayed a beautiful voice I'm
a song prettily introduced
Mr.. Tully. who held the title role.
James Wobberts. l. s. s.. Boston," de-
serves paragraph. and won the theater
from the start.
Flowers galore poured over the foot
lights at sundry and appropriate times
during the afternoon. And. indeed there
seemed TO have been nothing forgotten
or missing. and the assembly Waz
devoid OF disappointment.