The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-20
YALE PLAY SUCCESSFUL.
NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES WELL
 RECEIVED.

Large Audience Applauds Amateur Ac- tors-CIever Work of Athletic stu- dents as Pretty GirIs--YaIe Dramatic Association to Repeat Production To- night.
 It was an audience representative of the university society that filled the floor of the theater and the first bal cony. President Hadley was in one of the lower boxes as were several parties of patronesses. Applause was freely given and several bouquets were sent to the actors.
 The two young women of the play were represented by Denman F. Fox and Buell. Hollister, and did remarkably well, although it seemed amusing to see such broad shouldered damsels the ob- jects of affection to two smaller men like Edgar Munson and Robert c. Dob son. who were rather good in the love scenes despite the laughter from the audience when marriage proposals were made Everett s. Hartwell was an ln- teresting Lady Vavasour and Judson Nj. Minor as the contrasting type Of Mrs. Bunter was fussy and nervous in very feminine way. The two hits of the ev- ening, however, were made by McLeane Brown and Sidney R. Burnap jr. Bur- nap as Blasenbalg, the German Jew financier, was good in dialect and ges- lures and did not overdo the part, thing that might have been easy enough McLeane Brown represented the unctuous hypocritical Bunter very cleverly. His low class English dialect, combined with his fitting gestures, add ed much to the success of the produc- ton. Robert c. Dobson as Bertie Fitz- Urse was another comedy character who increased the mirth. His proposal to Fanny Bunter was one of the de licious bits of humor in the play and the pair carried it off very well.
 The assignment of parts seemed well advised. As a whole the company did good work and, although now and then a laugh was heard that was not called for by the lines, the audience was anus ed by personal knowledge of the play CTS. and after all it was not easy to take seriously the love sighs of Messrs. Hollister and Fox in the role of blush ing maidens. The acting was good and the Dramatic association has added an- other success to it's list. A large audi ence is expected to attend the repetition of the performance tonight.
 s'New Men and Old Acres" deals with the troubles caused to an impoverished English family by an upstart contrac- tor, who is their neighbor. Lord and Lady Vavasour have taken life pretty easily. To be pinched for money was the last thing that ever sugfested itself to them. They have no idea of busi- ness, nor of the cost of maintaining their place in society. Their agent han dles all these prosaic matters. They will not listen to his prudent advice of economizing till they suddenly realize that they are at the end of their re- sources.
 Then it is that the crafty contractor, Butler, shows his hand. By the ruin of Brown, the fiance of Lillian Vacasour, and the man on whom Mrs Vavasoure had placed her hopes Of retrieving her fortune, the mortgage on the Vava- sours' home has fallen into Bunter's hands He gIoats over his triumph; he is anxious to get even for the many sights Lady Vavasour has put on him. Just as he is about to reap his triumph Brown comes to the rescue of the Vav- asours.
 Unknown to them, there are rich iron deposits on their land, a fact which was known to Bunter, and which made him all the more anxious to secure the property. Brown, unknown to Bunter, has also discovered the existence of the iron, and easily arranges with Lon don financiers that the Vavasours re- ceive the money needed to meet the claims of Bunter by giving only part of the land as a security. The results in the great discontinue of Bunter, in the happiness of the vavasours, and in the marriage of Lillian Vavasour to Brown. The play is more or less contrast be- tween the two families of Bunter and of Vavasour. One acts as a back ground for the other.
 The cast as finally decided on was as follows:
 vavasour. ..........J. A. Stevenson, 1906 Brown. .E. Munson 1904 Bunter. er................F. c. Brown, 1905 Fitz-U ....R. c. Dobson, Art School Blasenbaig. g..........S. R. Burnap 1905 Secker... R. Hopkins, 1907 Genty.. y...............H. W. Shelton, 1904 Trubit. S. Goodrich, 1904 Montmorency...... ..J. G. Rogers, 1905 Servant ..............C. K. Brooks, 1906 Messenger. w. Westcott, 1906 Lady Matilda..... B. s. Hartwell, 1904 Lilian.. .................B. Hollister, 1905 Mrs. Bunter. r..........J. M. Minor, 1sO4S Fanny. ...................D. F. Fox, 1904 Mrs. Brill. Ackert, 19O5
 The officers of the association are as follows: President, Edgar Munson, 1904; vice-president, Buell. Hollister, 1905; secretary, Everett Hartwell, 1904; treasurer, Frame Brown, 1905; mana ger, George w. Adams, 1904; assistant manager. J. J. Hogan, 1905.