The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-26
In Presenting Shakespeare's
Loves Labor Lost"
AN ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE
Presentation Considered Finest Home
Talent Entertainment Ever Given
In Bennington.


ever given in Bennington. 1t was seen
by an audience that filed the hall and
every one was enthusiastic In praise
of the work of the young women who
have devoted the hardest kind of effort
for many weeks to the success of the
presentation. The cast was us fol-
lows:
Ferdinand, King of Navarro,
Miss Lila Krogman
Biron. Longaville, Dumain-Lords at.
tending on the King
Miss Fanny Woodbury.
Miss Mary Walbridge
Miss Florence Mattison
Boyet, Lord attending on Princess of
France, Miss Nellie Coffey
Don Adriano de Armada, a fantastical
Spaniard, Miss Maud Belden
Sir Nathaniel, curate,
Miss Cecil Powers
Holofernes, schoolmaster.
Miss Phyllis Schuyler
Dull, constable.
Miss Marjory Shurtleff
Costard, a clown
Miss jeanette Perkins
Moth, page to Armada,
Miss Adella Endress
Forester, Miss Imogen Norton
The Princess of France.
Miss Maude Galusha
Rosaline. Maria, Katherine--Ladies at
tending on the Princess,
Miss Grace Livingston
Miss Florence Potter
Miss Kathryn Jenney
Jaquenetta, country Wench,
Miss Fannie Fillmore
Spring, Winter-Persons in the Mas
que, Miss Georgiana Austin
Miss Bessie Hudson
There was not one in the cast who
does not deserve praise. Not only
were the lines perfectly committed but
the expression and pose We're caught
to higher degree than by many pro
1essionals. The girls taking the male
parts which is the hardest kind of test
for amateurs, succeeded in acquiring
naturalness that was proof conclu.
sive not only of their brightness and
native ability but of the painstaking
work OF preparation which they must
have done.
So far as known IL was the first
time that Shakespeare was ever un.
| dertaken by amateurs in Bennington
but so successful and praiseworthy
was the presentation that 1t Is to be
hoped that 1t will be made an annual
| feature of the Fortnightly.
Miss Fannie Woodbury. of Frances
town. n. H., now student in Emer-
son school of Oratory at Boston had
the leading male part as Biron. She
had previously taken this part at Brad
| ford academy where she was room
mate of Miss jeanette Perkins, whose
guest she is here. She was the only
one of the cast not a resident OF Ben.
nington. Her work in every detail
| was perfect and her confidence and
| spirit greatly strengthened the others,
some of whom were wholly new to
work of the kind.
Requiring fewer lines were the parts
assigned Misses Maude Belden, Phyl.
lis Schuyler Marjory Shurtleff and
Jeanette Perkins but they were more
difficult in requiring assumed and fan.
tastic expression and giving life and
swing to the whole. The makeup of
all was remarkably effective and, in
the opinion of many. all four pressed
Miss Woodbury. hard for first honors
The other young ladies taking male
parts were Misses Lila Krogman
Mary Walbridge, Florence Mattison
Adella Endress, Cecil Powers and I'm
ogen Norton. In any ordinary cast
any one of them would have been hail
ed as a star and the only reason the
| Banner does not say more of their
work is because of the dearth of ad
Jectives in the English language. Mis-
SEES Nellie Coffey and Imogen Norton
made the best looking men in the en-
tire all star cast.
The female parts in the main, re
quired rather less than the male but
the young ladies who filed them were
not secondary in any particular OF
one whit behind In skill of interpreta
ton, In enunciation or expression
Miss Maude Galusha as the princess
and Miss Livingston as Lady Rosa
line had the leading parts and of the
two the latter was somewhat more diff
hcult. Both were worthy of the prais,
showered upon them. Misses Flor
ence Potter and Kathryn Jenney al
ladies' OF France were most charming
in these beautiful parts while Mis-
Fannie Fillmore in the difficult role o
Jaquenetta, an ignorant country wench
left nothing to be desired
Not the least beautiful and effectiv
scene Of the entire presentation wa
the closing in which Miss Georgian
Austin and Miss Bessie Hudson a