The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-28

/ The following is the complete pro-
gram for the amateur play to be gwen
for the public play grounds at the
Gennett, Saturday, November 3.
The scene for THE Happy Pair" is
laid in England at the present time.
| Mr.. Honeyton-Mr J. d. Taylor, Jr
| Mrs Honeyton-Mrs- Guy S. Nc
| Cabc.
| The scene for "a Box of Monkeys"
takes place in the drawing room of
Mrs. Ondego Jones, 900 Fifth ave
nue., New York City, present time.
Edward Ralston Ga promising young
American and half owner in the Sier-
ra Gold Mine. ... Frank Watt.
Chauncey Oglethrope( his partner,
second son of Lord DaFcaster) Mr.. j.
d. Taylor, Jr.
Mrs. Ondego Jones, (admirer of
rank. :. -. Miss Edith Tallant.
Sirra Beugaline her niece, prairie
rose) J.. . .. Mrs. Guy S. McCabe.
Lady Guiniveve Sandpore Can En-
glish Primrose, only daughter of Earl
of Paynaught) Miss Mary v. Shive-
ley.
1.-THE Happy Pair" by S. They're
Smith. produced in England over
forty years ago at the ST. James
Theatre and used by Mr.. Ferren and
Maude Adams, Annie Russell and
Joseph Holland and by the Kendalls.
1.-The Box of Monkeys" that inimit-
able little one act play has held its
own for so long, was written by
Grace Livingston Furniss whose
dramatization of "The Man of the
Box was one of the most attractive
productions of the past spring. Miss
Furniss is now dramatizing THE De
LUCE" while her new play, being pro
duced this fall, is named Honor |
Bright" the title role being by Alice
Fisher.
None of the festivities appropriate
to the harvest season is more eager |
" looked forward to by some OF US
not so old as to have become indiff-
erent to certain possibilities and
probabilities than Halloween, which |
bids a merry farewell to old October
and ushers in the last of the autumn
months The methods of celebrating |
this special holiday have been culled
from far and near and one may make
an excellent selection from the vast
number of tricks and games that
have afforded fun since SO long ago
that no one quite knowns when.
A curious festival is this of Halo
we'en on the vigil of all Saints Day.
OF course, every one knows that wit
ches and elves and all the stranger
people of the land of superstition
dear to the young and the ignorant
are wandering about this prosaic old
earth, glad to shake off the sleep OF
the twelve month and shoI their
pointed caps and hoary boards. Just
why the little people consent to lift
for us the mysterious veil on that
night it is hard to tell. Perhaps
they, too, are playing tricks" and
hat true love" seen in the mirror
1r betrayed in the whirling apple
peel or foretold by the Pickering can
lie is but hoax, and not really the
lucky man after all. But whether or
10 the playing of the tricks is uni
voted great larks" and no
we'll observed household of young
people would permit the thirty-first
IF October to pass unnoticed.
To an ideal Halloween party a
Fery necessary setting is an old fash t
oned barn with lofts and stalls, and Y
Jerchance at the back an orchard of t
apple trees castii.t, weird shadows in 1
he moonlight; but if this is impossi- t
Die, the Kitchens the place. Candles z
lpples and nuts are undoubtedly the i
most favorable media through which v
he witches may acquaint us with L
,ur future fates. This is one of a i
voung girls favorite methods of S
earning the name of her future hus- Y
,and. She selects as many candles y
# equal length as there are men in
Ter acquaintance whom she considers I
Lmong the probabilities. and after
laming each one, she lights them,
md allows them to burn five minutes n
The candle that is the shortest at the il
nd of the stipulated time indicates V
he chosen lover. Actually to see the
nan whose fate you are to share is
certainly worth attempting, and it T
5 said on good authority that this
esult has really been brought about
" the following method: You must "
inter- a dark room backward. bearing o
lighted candle, find your way to a
Mirror and just as you reach it,
lance over your shoulder at its sur