, 1903-12-10
DOWN IN MAINE"
Remarkable Success Of the Home Talent
Company Of Encampment In the Eendi-
ton Of the Playa Crowded House
ereets the Psrformanes-Evsrybody
Pleased.

Sreets the Psrforrnanee-Everyeod
Pleased.
Down in Maine," a play given
with much success by the home
talent of Encumpment recently,
was placed on the boards here
last Saturday night. The hall
was filed with an appreciative
audience and every point made
was heartily applauded. 1t would
be hard to do the play credit in
an article of this character, for it
deserves extended mention. The
characters were all up in their
parts and any of them you'd have
done credit to pretentious
plays than Down IN Maine
Zeph Cummings, the old Hard
scrabble farmer, from way down
in Maine was taken by G. 4.
Winter, the talented lawyer of
Encampment. There is nothing
to be said of his performance, ex-
-crpt that it was perfect. Yon
forgot all but the great hearted
old farmer who believed in, and
practiced, the golden rule.
Ralph, his brother. the New
York Millionaire. was represented
by Z. $. Drury. Mr.. Drury made
Il typical aristocrat and played
the part with such skill that you
forgot that he was only an anna
teur performer. w. a Forest, as
the young inventor and the lover
of Susie Cummings, the daughter
of the millionaire. was real and
Ii std the part clear through.
Frof. J. l.. Jones as "Bingle." the
old fisherman aud 5. j. Brawley,
as "Tomps," the hired man CARR
ed their parts, difficult as they
were, without apparent effort and
made many excellent hits. DR..
Wade took the part of mir. Hol-
den,"a lawyer, and Carl Ashley
was II ''fresh air kid" who gave
comforting advice to Neil, be-
cause he'd "been troo de mill
himself" Lawyer w. L. Sill, as
Nose Gossin" the suffering low.
err, WAS an immense success, and
his every appearance on the stage
met with a ready response from
the audience.
Miss Minnie Walker, as the
wife of Uncle Zeph, was just such
a staid motherly old lady as Un-
Gle Zeph's wife should have been.
Her face, during Uncle Zeph's
recital of their experience at the
Black Crook, in Boston, would
have been worth any stage setting
Miss Maytie Root as Susie was a
sweet loveable young woman,
whom Neil was determined to car
ry off, and she was substantially
consenting thereto. Miss Jones,
the daughter of Prof. Jones, made
one of the most unsophistocated
country girls yer seen, and she
did her share of the counting
which her suffering lover found
such a task.
Miss Zaidee Smith took the
part of "keziah," whom Uncle
Zeph mentioned as ~'forty-three
and desperate" and made II of
the most inquisitive old maids
ever seen. The makeup of the
characters was excellent, showing
great skill and discrimination.
During the evening the state
song, Wyoming" was sung by
Earle Il. Clemens, editor of the
Encampment Herald, who CON-
posed the music, accompanied by
G. +. Winter, the author of the
words, and W. l.. Sill and w. A.
Forest. Mr.. Clemens is a musi-
clan of considerable talent and
has a most excellent voice. The
song was a great C and the
audience called the quartette back
three times before they were sat
istied,
The players came down from
Encampment Saturday on an ex-
ira coach and were the guests of
the Hotel Wolf. the bill being de-
frayed by the children of the pub
lie school, for whose benefit the