Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-15
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Opening Theatrical to Be Given in the
New st. Josephs Hall on
Next Wednesday
Night

Next wednesday evening will marx
the brilliant opening of the new St.
Joseph's hall, when the Young Ladies
sodality of the parish, under the direc-
ton of Rev. Raphael Fuhr, o. f. NJ
will present four-act religious DRAMA
'Pontia, Daughter of Plate"
The hall will seat more than 100 ana
is one of the best arranged In the CITY.
1t has every convenience of theater
and the scenery Is worthy any pay
house in the city. 1t lacks much OF the
glaring defects of stage scenery ana
carries with it a feeling that 1t is taken
from some painting. There are over
dozen sets of scenery, which were all
made in the east and recently sent
here.
The electrical effects are all that
could be asked of regular theater ana
altogether st. Joseph's hall will prove
a fit setting for the plays presented
by the sodality.
A feature of the play is the music
which is to be rendered under the d.
rection of Father Raphael, who Is
we'll known musician.
The play opens at the time OF tne
birth of the Christian era. Pontia, the
daughter of PLATE, who is the heroine
of the play, Is discovered seated In her
reception room in the palace Of her
father, when Dimonan, the daughter
of Herod, announces that the Gooo
Nazarene is captured. AT this the
daughter of Jairus relates the miracle
of her being raised to life by the Naza-
rene. Claudia, the mother of Pontia
and the wife of PLATE, has terrible
dream; tells her daughter and pleads
with her husband for. the life of the
Christ.
Pontia and her mother, with Pc
tronilla, who afterwards becomes a
saint, all become Christians. The EN-
press Agrippina wishes Pontia to be-
come the spouse of her son, which she
refuses to do. Petronilla and Pontia
are cast into the Palatine prison for
being Christians Here the empress
visits Pontia, becomes angry and at
tempts to stab her. Petronilla feeling
fast approaching death, baptizes Pontia
as the latter drops forward dead.
Has Large Cast
The play allows large cast of char
acterS in the vestal virgins, slave girls,
bower girls and court of the empress.
The consuming will be. elaborate ana
in keeping with the luxuriant ties OF
the Roman court, which will be pre-
sented on the stage.
Following is the cast of characters:
d,
ence Dick; Corina, smaller sister of
Pontia, Miss Clara Travert; Claudia
Procela, mother of Pontia, Miss Mary
Schumacher; Agrippina, empress of
Rome, Miss Josephine Jedofsky;
Flavia, noble Roman lady, Miss Chris
tina Mueller; Petronilla, Jewish
maiden, Miss Catherine Greed; Tullia.
daughter of Jairus, Miss Martha
Lange; Dimonan daughter of He
rodias, Miss Sophie Stepan; Miranda
and Octavia, daughters of the empress,
Misses Agnes Scholl and Lola Buhr;
Miriam and Ruth, Jewish girls, Misses
Ella Topper and Mary Lammerson;
Cornelia, Roman augur's wife, Miss
Ida Kraft; slave girls. Cassandra.
Greek, Miss Ruby Herman; Tabitha,
Syrian, Miss Jennie Schools; Roxana,
Persian, Miss Carrie Meyers; Eu-
phemia, Roman, Miss Elizabeth Hen
sen; Caecilia, Roman, Miss Il. Lange;
Ethelinda, British, Miss Lizzie Smith;
Flamentina, vestal virgin, Miss An
tionette Hagen; Uriel, an angel, Miss
Helen Johnston; Pamphilia, keeper of
Palatine prison, Miss Carrie Hagen;
Numedia, queen of Gypsies, Miss Ma
thilda Singer; vestal virgins, Leontina,
Miss Katherine Meier; Servilia, Miss
Margaret Preininger; Patricia, Miss
Eliza beth Richards; Juditha, Miss
Eliza beth Mauch; Nina, Miss Anna
Trabert; Quintana, Miss Eleanor Buhr;
Virdiana. Miss Marue Breunig; Lac
titia, Miss Mathilda Rolling; Henarcha,
Miss ROME Trabert; Ossiana, Miss Ce-
ella Ellery; Massanita, Miss Angela
Eimers; Juliana, Miss Margareth Orth.
Flower girls of the empress: Virginia,
Miss Dorothy Vogel; Lucretia, Miss
Katherine Moss; Marcella, Miss Bessie
Baierski Sybilla, Miss Anna Hacket;
Urania, Miss Mary Trabert; Daphinis,
Miss Elizabeth Baerski; Valeria, Miss
Margaret Lawler; Euphrasa, Miss
Marie Lindeken. Court of the empress:
Misses Margaret Baierski, Leah
Bauman, Mary Knauff, Mary La Coste
Mary Elmers and Catherine Glotzback;
ghosts slaves anpalG etc