The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-14
CHARMING PLAY FOR
 B, H, s. SENIOR GLASS;
Annual Production to Be One of Rare Merit-The Story and the Plot-The Performers.

Class of Bridgeport High School mas given play, partly for pleasure. 10 means entirely financial. Each suc- ceeding class has attempted to pro- duce something of intrinsic value, equalling, if not exceeding the efforts of their predecessors.
 When the present class began dis cussing the pros and cons of a play, it became early evident that their point of view was decidedly original. Profit they were not unwilling to have, for did they not wish to leave a finer class memorial behind them than dear old B. H. s. had ever yet received and profit for themselves in dividually they were sure they would Clarke, but pleasure-that was to be the keynote of the performance, the deciding point in every question rel ative to the production and profit well-profit was of secondary impor- tance.
 This idea was at once made use of in the selection of play. Some thing of more recent date, the Sen iors believed, would please their friends and incidentally themselves better than classic.
 With this thought in mind they de- cided upon comedy of still living American author, "A Russian Honey moon," by the well-known and popu- lar writer Mrs. Burton Harrison.
 This play which was given its first production at the hands of amateurs was such an unqualified success, that it was soon staged at Madison Square Theatre, where it had large and nes Booth, w. J. LeMoyne and Edwin Arden. The story is, in way, modern version of "The Tanning of the Shrew." It affords much opportunity for contrasting pictures. as nobility and peasantry in it are continually the Critic" said of it's original pro- duction. "a pretty play" Life and color abound in it. Peasant work men sing, pretty peasant girls show their skill in folk dances, a French baroness brings all her train of maids and footmen, to say nothing of her lap dogs, and to crown all we have a touch of the military, with the gleam of Hussar's uniform. All in all, a pretty play-that is why the Class of 1911 chose it.
 But a pretty play must have fine accessories, and very fortunate the class has been in securing them. Ewes the well-known costumer of so many Yale and Amherst plays, whose work on the High School productions of "She Stoops to Conquer" and '"The Rivals was so satisfactory, will again assure to the High School sue cess in this direction.
 The music which is largely Russian, is to be by Bentley's orchestra. The peasant dances are under the direc- ton of Miss Frances B. Coggswell, who is winning for herself an envia- ble reputation in the study of folk dancing.
 The play is being coached and stag ed by Miss Grace Dalrymple Clarke,
 fvf0 of the Seniors in dramatics, is the moving spirit of the whole .produc- tion.
 As usual the play is to be given at Warner Hall. Because of the great demand in previous years for evening seats two evening performances will be given, but no matinee, the dates being Thursday and Friday, Jan. 19 and 20. The full cast, which in cludes upwards of fifty members of the Senior class, is as follows:
 Cast of Characters.
 Alexis Petrovitch, and Gustave, Count Woroffski-Earl S. Fenelon.
 Ivan-Clarence O. Lister.
 Koulikoff Demetrovitch Elliott France.
 Osip-Frank J. Linehan.
 Groom, Michael-J. Waldo Grum- man.
 Journeymen-Benjar Nebenzahl, w IllIdIu OOuIl, <aICuOI oOIlIlSOh
 Peasants-Albert L. Rakatzky, John E. HalIen, Herbert E. Brown. Guards-Radford Smith, Howard Smith Ira D. Beebe, Harold Owens. Lackeys-James Meltzer, Isaac B. Schine.
 Doctor-Warren Cowles. Page-Herbert D. Brown.
 Poleska-Edna M. Williams. Baroness Uladimir-Ruth N. Barnes. Micheline--Roselyn Barkey.
 Bride, Olga-Sarah l.. Forsyth.
 Peasant girls-Ethel Buchanan, Bes- sic O. Wortman, Ethel M. Drouve. Nathalie L. Rosen. Rachel, Pickett, Emma F. solari, Mabel H.. Ravens. Charlotte G. Butts, Harriet, B. Bas- sett, Helen H. Plumb, Claribel M. Lewis, Ruth B. Benton, Evelyn M. Greeley, Grace L. Fitzgerald, Evelyn S. Flames. Mabel l.. Munich. French Maids-Elizabeth Y. Muir head, Grace L. West, Margaret M. Gleeson. Attendants-Alice F. Collins, Mildred A. Stoddard, May L.. McKenney. Cath. erine M. Hearn.