The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-01-12
"THE SPANISH GYPSY"
A Play by George Eliot, to be Presented
by the Boston Wellesley College Club.

ny Tie DOStOn WeilSSley AONe2e NluD,
The Belfast graduates from Wellesley, and
their friends, will be interested in the following
announcement from the Boston Journal and in
the further fact that Nina Poor Mcclellan is in
the cast and will take the part of Lorenzo:
One of the most interesting dramatic novel;
ties ever produced in Boston by amateur talent
will be the two performances of George Eliot's
"The Spanish Gypsy" given by the Boston
Wellesley College Club under distinguished
patronage. in Jordan Hall on the evening of
January goth and the afternoon of January
21st
This is the first time, as far as is known.
that an attempt has been made to produce the
play, one of the best known of George Elliott
dramas, in Boston. The members of the club
have been busy on the play for months, re-
vising and adapting it to a practicable acting
version. The lengthy narrative passages of
the original have been transposed into rapidly
moving dialogue and the excessive repetitions
summarized. AS it stands, the adaptation is
the work OF Mrs. Christabel Kidder, who has
had charge of the last two senior plays at
Wellesley, Miss Mildred Robinson and Miss
Carol Sawyer.
There has been care exercised to retain the
distinctively Spanish atmosphere. The cos
tune committee has been benefited by the ex-
perience of the chairman, Miss katherine
Payne Jones, whose travels in Spain and whose
thorough study of old Spanish plates and
manuscripts have proved invaluable to the
setting of the play. The songs, which form a
charming part of the play, have been adapted
to Spanish folk music. Three of the songs
were written by club members.
A striking feature will be the dancing Miss
Lucille Easton Hill planned and coached the
dance of Fedalma in the Plaza, and Mrs. James
J. Storrow directed the preparation of the other
solo dances, well as the folk dances.
+ All of those who will play the principal
characters have figured prominently on the
coll ge stage. The cast will be as near "all
star" as an amateur production can be.
The financial success of the production
means much to Wellesley College, since the
proceeds of the play are to be given to the
Students Building Fund, which is being raised
that an undergraduate house, such as the
Union at Harvard, may be built at Wellesley
MORRILL,
Ernest E. Bowen is serving on the first
traverse jury in Belfast. Ernest Higgins is
teaching in Searsmont village. w. E. Jones
has crew at work chopping on the Merriam
lot. go. Herman Merriam and his crew are at
work on the Frye lot. He spent several days
in Belfast last week on the grand jury The
Ladies' Aid will hold an afternoon and evening
session at Mrs. Roy Gurney's today, Thursday
A picnic supper will be served and all are in
vited. So. Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Jones have re-
| turned from aweek's visit in Boston. -. Clar-
ence Paul went to Waterville last Monday tC
begin course in Shaw's Commercial College
Mrs. Ed. A. Richardson and daughter, Miss
Matte left Friday morning for Boston, where
they expect to pass the rest of the winter
Deer Isle Messenger.