The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-30
HARVEY I. WARREN ENTE2TAINS SNOW
 BOUND TRAVELLERS
YALE PLAYERS, TOURING IN LONDON ASSURANCE" HAVE LIVELY BLIZZARD Ex-
 TERRENCE.

One of the students who nranage the business end of the Yale University Dramatic Association. reached this city to5ay with a story of the haps and mishaps encountered when the un- dergraduate players were snowbound on their way to Washington. The Yale Association has risen rapidly in importance at the New Haven Univer- sity and its holiday tour has grown with each year of its -ex .stence. This year. the management arranged for the initial debut of the examination south of the Mason and Dixon line. Baltimore and Washington were the two towns selected and on Christmas night a body of thirty-two students teTan to wend their way to the Penn sylvania station. A special sleeper had been attached to the midnight train for them. and also an extra bag gage car. made necessary by the fact that the Yale Club carries with 1t its own special scenery which this year has all been painted especially for London Assurance. the play which Is the present vehicle of undergraduate talent.
 At that time the railroad officials had no thought that the snow storm would ultimately tie up the whole Pennsylvania system. so the Yale boys retired To StumDerland hnSSruily De- lieving that they were being taken on to Washington on schedule time. When they awoke, however. a great gloom descended over the party, Instead of resting in the Washington station they were on the outskirts of Wilmington with the engines nose poked into a snow drift that looked as large as the Rock of Gibraltar.
 Manager Pa<cal Franchot. commonly known as "Fach" was the first to be -N Al. l. NaI for a great fund of good nature and his supply of that commodity was suf- icient to preserve his equanimity.
 "Too bad fellows" said he. but the conductor says we'll be in Washing ton fy noon."
 Well, what about breakrast 7'- said E. NJ. woolley. a New Yorker. who plays 'tSi- Harcourt'' in the show.
 There was a dead silence to this query. and a careful cross-examination of attendants on the train revealed the fact that there was no commissary de- partment- Hour followed hour and the train seered to move only a few inches at a time. Towards noon foraging expedition was organized which ploughed through the snow for half a mile till a farm house was reached There. a good hes ted house. wife consented to make large pan of Maryland bsscuits- These were re- turned in triumph to the train
 T A. Hartwell. Yale's Heading lady"
 In order to deaeen the bangs of hunger, an irppromptu entertainment was organized to which other occu- pants of the tra'n were invited. Lau-- ason Riggs. president of the associa- ton, who halls from Washington. made a. hit with his limitations of Maude Adams and Ethel Barrymore; and Harvey T. Warren impersonated some Yale educators cleveriy. The -H -r.x<s- tions and the program was concluded with Fright College Years"
 Another exploring expedition discov- cred a country store. with a small stock of supplies After these had been consumed. the berths were made up early. Things looked slightly bet ter the next morning. but the road was cleared at a sna '5s pace; at Il o'clock morning the heiated train pulled into Union Station. the total time required for the journey being thsrty-flve hours. There were some of the properties lacking when the curtain was raised on the matinee per- formance In Washington. but Frank Lea Short who directs the production explained things to the audience and the performance went along smoothly. The press comments from these cities seem to indicate that this years show Is well up to the average. On Tues day night the show was given at Bal
  5ience. The company Is now touring They come to th.s city tonight
 The men in the cast are:
 Sir Harcourt Courtly. F. M. woolley. II. New York city.
 Charles Cou-tly. w. Der. Manice. II. New York city.
 Dazzle. H. IT. Warren, 1910. Bridge port. Conn.
 Max Hathaway. H. obernauer. 1910. Pa
 Solomon -Isaacs. D. E.. Chantler. 1910. Pa
 Martin. L. Havemeyer Iolo S.. Hart ford. Conn.
 Cool, M G. Ely. 1910 S.. New York .ity.
 Dolly spanker. T. L. Riggs. 1910. D. C.
 Lady Gay Spanker. ". c. Bullitt. 1912. Philadelphia. Pa
 Grace. A M. Hartwell. 1911, Albany. N. Y
 Pert. J. E. Brown. 1913. Brooklyn. N. Y.
 simpson. D. J. Ely. 1910. New York ,ity-