Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-25
EILEEN OGE.
Successful Presentation Before I've
 Good Houses At City Hill.

SuCCessaui Ffesentetton -hef0fe Two
 Good fioasss At City Hill. After weeks of weary waiting and
 working, the drama .EIieen Oge' was presented i'll City hall yesterday after
 noon and evening under the auspices of the Second division, A. Q. H., and the presentation was one of the most successful that has been attuined by amateurs in this city. That success is all the more to be enjoyed by those di rectly connected with the production, l can De truthfully stated because never has drama been put on under so many adverse circumstances. proba. ply the public did not realize it last night that acting before them on the stage was Il cast of characters that had ill reality been rehearsing but two weeks, and some of the cast less thah that. 1t looked at one time as though the play would have to be droppea, but the indomitable will of those who had the matter ill charge forced the play to successful presentation. | Right here it should be stated that oh the shoulders of John +. Calvin, the manager of the drama, deyolved ai>. most all the anxiety and care. He worked night ana day to keep the cast of characters filled up and it was only two weeks ago that he felt satisfied the drama would be produced. Then when the cast was completed how the members did work. Night after night they spent hours at rehearsals, ana how we'll they did at rehearsals was evidenced last night in the very smooth production.
 The stage was well looked after bs | capable corps of stage hands, with | py.pd dn1rts oufx T E Calvin, manager, and NJ. !. Shanahan, property manager. One scene alone in the play called for words of praise It happened in the third act when Eileen Ill u dream saw her absent lover, Pat rick O'Donnell. wrecked at sea and signalling to a passing vessel. The scene was vividly portrayed. AS to the cast of characters, all did well.
 John F.. Sheehan, state secretary of the 40. H., was cast for the charac ter of Patrick 0'Donnell, who was banished from Ireland on false charge, and he filled the role to per lection and was strong and earnest Ill every passage.
 James M. Caldwell never did better work than in the character of Thad- deus Moriarty, father of Eileen, and i'll every feature of his character brought out all that was in 1t.
 Thomas A. Maher as Bryan O'Far4 rell made the hit of the production. With but two,weeks to prepare himself he gave as clever a representation Of the rOllicking Irish gossoon as has eyer been witnessed on any stage pr any amateur. As was predicted. he es- 'tablished a new name for himselr as all amateur actor. ttk;ts
 Edward J. Flanagan as Henry Lof- tus, the gentlemanly villain of the pro- duction, enacted his role Awith ease and with clever conception of. his part.
 William J. Shannahan as Father Mahoney had little over one week in which to prepare himself for the part and those who were present last night will say without dissenting voice that it was the most gennineN bit of acting done by an amateur In this city.
 Thomas F. Kennedy as John Thom- as, F. j. Kendrick as Tim the Penman, Patrick Fitzgerald as Peter McCann, T. J.4Donahue as John Nolan, Luke Henderson, with his bagpipes, which, created a big hit in the haymaking scene, J. F. Cove as the Sergeant and D. l.. Maloney as Mclean all : filled their respective parts with every suc- cess.
 Of the ladies in the cast too much cannot be saM. Miss Mollie Lord as Eileen Moriarty made an individual hit in her part and she was charming in every one of the trying situations which she was forced to undertake
 Miss Mamie Daley as Bridget Nc Guire carried the house by storm and as most of her business was enacted with Bryan praise should be equally divided. Her singing, too, was sweet and most pleasing to those present.
 Miss Lizzie Delaney as Nora O'Don- nell Miss Mary Martell, who by the way also sang nicely, as lKittie 0'Fla- herty, and Miss Myra Haight as Mrs O'Donnelf were each fully alive to the various parts assigned them. The La dies auxiliary and the Hibernian Ri- fies helped out in the various scenes and everybody left the hall we'll satis- fled with the production.
 Edward T. Lyons, state treasurer ot | the A. o. H.. A. F. McQuade, David l Wallace. William Hassett, John O'Cal. 1 lahan. F. H. Birmingham and F. ]. Claffey, all of Hartford. came down yesterday to be present at the presen, tation of the drama and congratulated l the members of the cast and the man. [ agers for the very satisfactory produc- ton.