The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-12-07
House Enchanted bY
a Beautiful Opera
sweet and Enrapturing Play Is Given
At Opera House BY the
Iarcato Climb.
..DR. sYNTAxg q HUGE &C.
Large Audience Highly Delighted by
Splendid Production Given BY
Local Ladies and Gentlemen.

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The most beautiful and exceIle1tIy
rendered musical comedy ever given
on the stage of the Grand opera
house by artists or amateurs was pre-
sented to a large and highly enthnsi-
astlc audience Thursday night when
a company OF Clarksburg ladies' and
gentlemen produced DIR. Synta.:,''
as the second annual grand perform
ance of the Marcato Musical Club.
Enhancing
The play Is in itself sweet and
dainty entertainment. but given as 1t
was Thursday night by company
of handsome and charming young
ladies' and gentlemen representing
the typical feminine beauty, grace
and culture and the manly puIchri-
tude of our own city which is famed
far and wide, it was something that
carried those who saw it into rap
lures of delight, into realms of en-
chantment. No boy ever had more
beautiful dreams of a fairy land
than the experience of all those who
saw this production Thursday night
The Cast.
The cast was as follows:
DR.. syntax. .Mr. John Saunders
Prof. Scowles e.. Mr.. Hal NJ. Rapp
Lord Lawntennis Mr.. S. R. Bentley
Jack Alden. Mr. Frank MINIS
Arthur harrington. Mr.. Gus Smith
Bobs. ... Mr.. Fleming Holden
NarnDa NaIIOw
....... Miss Pauline Stewart
Niobe Marsh Miss Lois Simmons
Miss Zenobia Tropics ..-.....
Mrs. John F. Estill
Psyche Mrs. C. E. LamDeru
Pansy. Miss Roszelle Estill
saIlie. Miss Bessie Borgess.
Gree, leader of chorus. -....
........M Miss Lillian CoTman
School Girls in Miss Tropics Young
Ladies' Seminary:
Miss Gay Estill. Miss Hazel Frost,
Miss Lillian Osborne. Miss Edith
Heinze. Miss Mabel Shinn, Miss Allie
Travers, Miss Martha Basel. Miss
Lena Bartlett, Miss Jean salzman,
Miss Lena Ruttencutter, Miss Leona
Creighton.
Hunters and Students:
Messrs. Francois, John and James
Boyle, Boughner and Camp.
The play opens up a woodland
scene near Miss Zenobia Tropics's
Academy. A bevy of girl students
are singing a chorus and Niobe
Marsh, a young orphan who is par
taking of the charity of the insti-
tuition. is introduced in solo.
She tells a
story of Cinderella
which is very Interesting to the
other girl students. Then Miss
Tropics. the principal of the acad-
envy comes on the scene and in their
proper turn are introduced DR..
Syntax, an instructor in the acad-
envy who is much infatuated with /
Miss Tropics; Lord Lawntennts, who |
with his nephew, Arthur Barring
ton and the Iatter's friend Jack AL
den. are touring America; Prof.
Scowles, a teacher who holds mort
gage on the academy and who is
The Cowardly William;
Merope Mallow, Psyche, Pansy and
Sallie, udents who are always up
to more or less mIscief.
Arthur harrington while out
hunting finds a slipper belonging to
Miss Niobe. This brings about a
Cinderella kind OF an introduction
and he falls in love with her. Jack
becomes smitten with Miss Mallow
and the love affair of Miss Tropics +,
and DR.. Syntax progress about as
rapidly as those of the others.
Scowles, the william, also becomes
smitten with Miss Niobe and each
time he endeavors to humilate and
insult her for repulsing him, he is
Called to Account
by DR., syntax, Darlington or Jack.
Catching Niobe and Darlington
making love. scowles prefers
charges against the young woman
and she is expelled
Scowles carries his villiany far
ther and is scheming to coreclose the
mortgage on the academy so he
will have absolute CONTROL. All
prepare to go to the boat race of
Harvard and Columbia. but Scowles
locks Miss MalIow Psyche. Pansy,
Gree and Sallie up in the school
but
They are Rescued
by Jack and DR.. syntax who bring
them down a ladder from a second
story window in time to go to the
boat race. At the boat race Scowles
and Dr. Syntax wager about all they
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