The Pleasantville press., 1913-11-05
HUNKERs' CORNERS.
This Pleasing Performance to be Civ
en- Nov. 13.-Tickets Now Selling.

1t is rather blessing that Pleas
antville had an election during the
week; it served to relieve the tedium
of waiting for Hunkers' Corners
Thursday, November 13, at the Peo-
ple's Theatre.
Hunkers' Corners is already famous,
but it will be famouser (as one of
Dickens characters might phrase it)
after the fall of the last curtain on
the night of the performance. The
something real-and will not be disap-
pointed.
Indeed, even now, from the far
away "meshes" of Absecon, to the riv-
erside hamlet of Somerses Pint, the
cry of the clammer, the farmland
and the squab-raiser is heard in the
land,-for tickets. Let Huerta boss
Mexico all he wants to, for the pres
ent at least. Pleasantville has no
time to bother setting him back in the
cactus until Hunkers' Corners is dis
posed of.
The scheming Edna Dean will be
on hand with her plots and her UNI
brella. This difficult role will be ham
died by Mrs. G. w. Smith, and will be
handled well-umbrella too. Edna's
heart is in the right place even if the
audience does gain different i'm
preston at the off-go.
Sally Greenwood miss Gladys
Stebbins) is shy, shyer, shyest. She
and her mamma (Mrs. Charles Allen
as Mrs. Olivia Greenwood, also shy)
are afraid of tramp and avow to
Bill Hunkers that the aforesaid hobo
is surely beneath their bed at home.
The thing is so realistic that they
hunt up a Pleasantville cop to shoe
the tramp. It's an easy guess where
the Weary Willy winds up.
Rail Jackson, chronic complainer
who lives on scenery and "bitters", is
played by Mr. Thomas Green. If
Rails physical ailments do not win
the audiences lifelong sympathy,
why, the audience is, temporarily at
least, entirely out of sympathy. Rail
too adds to the gaiety of the nations
(including the store and P. o. loafers)
by inventing new kind of flour All
great inventions, It's said, come unex-
pectedly Rails does. Watch for it.
Then there's little Jimmy Drake,-a
flip kid. Jimmy is quite Peck's Bad
DOH III way, d1OliOQSh llC oOCol Y
run to meanness; only to slang and
boyish buoyancy. This juvenile char
acter is portrayed to the life by Mas
ter Charles Griffiths Bowen,-who has
already won his spurs on the stage by
his fine work in limitations of Harry
Lauder, the Scotch comedian. Watch
for Jimmy Drake and his excitement
when he discovers Nathan Kings
bury's barn to be on fire.
Regina, the gypsy girl violinist, is
played by Mrs. Anna B. Somerville.
The gypsy's violin is heard in the far
distance by the storekeeper land his
customers on Bargain Day. The
strains come nearer, and Bill sends
the colored boy Tom out to invite the
violinist in, feeling that she will draw
trade to his emporium. She does, for
when she enters the whole country
side is at her heels. Of course she
plays-a selection on the G.. string
and shortly afterward the show ends,
with everybody, including the audi
ence, happy.
It is assuredly worthwhile attrac-
ton, this Hunkers' Corners affair, and
even now wherever a knot of two or
three are gathered together on the
street the talk is of this coming play.
Even the CLAIMS down at Cap'n. Hill
tons landing, that are being trained
for their part in the Squidder Song,
are eager and anxious for the show;
and this too Notwithstanding the great
probability of their being compounded
into chowder by the hungry actors
and actresses Immediately after the
curtain drops.
Get your reserved seat tickets at
the Weaver Store: they're going like
new buckwheat cakes at carpenters
breakfast table.
Some writer advises you to see
some place or other, and then die.
Don't do it. See Hunkers' Corners
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