The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-13
1.-The School for Scandal'
Proves One of the Most
Pleasing Home Talent Plays
Ever Given in the City.
WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE
IS LEADING CHARACTER.
Others in the Cast However
Do Much to Make 1t the Ar
tistiC Success 1t Is Justly
Credited of Being.

One Of the most delightful home
talent productions ever given in Rich
,mond, was The School for Scandal"
Thursday evening at the Gennctt the
atre by members of the Dramatic club
under the auspices of the Ladies'
Guild Of ST. Pauls Episcopal church.
The production was artistic from ev-
cry standpoint and the large and rep
Tesentative audience, from the first
scene to the last was most agreeaby
surprised at the superior manne" in
which the cast produced this popular
old English play.
All Of the participants were practi-
cslly line perfect and there was no
discernible evidences of weakness in
the entire production. Mr.. William
Dudley Foulke as Sir Peter TeaZle,
portrayed the character admirably,
and his philosophical comments on the
scandals of society, the backbiting and
fogsiping. and the malignng Of char
acter, by select society folks. was es-
pecially appropriate. Sir Peter Teaz-
le. an old bache lOr, marries a bright,
yivacious, and dashing girl. from the
country. Lady TeaZlo soon becomes
q favorite in the gay whirl of society,
much to the chargin OF her husband,
Sir Peter Teazle. Her extrayaganCa
and flirtations soon cXcites the ieal-
opsly of Sir Peter Teazle and domestic
tfoubies are brewing in short time,
hil of which leads to numerous situa-
iions of an numerous nature. Mrs.
Guy McCabe. as Lady Teazle, was
bright and dashing and played the role
exceptionally well.
Mr.. Foulke had difficult part to
play, but he was at home at all times
and his portrayal of the role was un-
usually good. His constant appear
Rnce before the public played him
we'll in hand. and gave him familiar
ity with stage craft, that was not eX-
hibited by any of the others.
Mr.. s. e. Swayne. as Sir Oliver Sur
his part According to the story. Sir
Oliver who is the rich uncle of two
boys who have been under the guar
dianship of Sir Peter Teazle. suddenly
returns from the Indias to visit Sir
Peter Teazle. On discovering that
Sir Peter has been unhappily welded,
he has considerable sport with Sir
Reter. who in turn tries to veil the
t4ue facts of his jealousy. Sir Oliver
Surface is also informed that one of
his two nephews is quite wayward, ac-
cording TO Sir Peter and that he is
not worthy of any recognition by the
family. while on the other hand. the
nephew is said to be man of unusual
Sentimen mt and meritoriouS qualities
But Sir Oliver refuses to believe that
his nephew, Charles Surface is so bad
rs rumored. And likewise he is slow
TO believe that the other nephew,
Joseph Surface, is so good a lad as
Sir Peter believes him 10 be. Sir Oil
Yer Surface therefore proposes to test
The two boys and thus discover which
is the better of the two and which
should be the recipient of his great
fortune Joseph. the much vaunted
Young man, proves to be a hvpocrite
and a contriving gentleman while. the
other. Charles. although wreci5less
fellow, possesses far more sterline.
character than his brother.
Mr.. James MORRISON. as Joseph Sur
face, was exceptionally good i'm this
role and played the part of an overly
pfous lad i'll an excellent manner, MIR
MORRISON possesses soOd voice and
stage presence. The part of Charles
Surface, the wayward boy. as inner.
sonated by Walter Eggemever. was
Well drawn. Mr.. Eggemcver's ability
has been demonstrated many times in
former local productions and he made
great hit as a Wreckless young fel
low, out for good lime but after all
a man of noble character when nut
to the test Miss Juliet Robbins n
Maria, the sweetheart OF Charles was
pleasing in her role and PLAYED he,
part we'll M II. r Robinson rs
Rowley, friend of Sir Oliver anS~Si,
Peter, materially enhanced the pro
dcction, The other characters Mr.
Fed Lemon as Crahtree. Mr.. Guy Nc
Cabe as Sir BENJAMIN -Backbite, Mrs
James ". MORRISON as Mrs. Candour
Miss Edith Tallant as Lady SneerweIl
Miss Helm Nicholson as Annette and
Mr.. Geora Bell as William. constitut
ed the gssiping neiGhborhood. and
all were god in their parts. each con
tributing tt the scandalous reports OF
the town
The perid for The School fo,
Scandal" WIS during the reign ot
George III I England. and the cos
tunes were Appropriate. as we'll as the
furniture beis antique, The play is