Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-31
SHERWOOD" WILL
! Be GIVEN TODAY
Montclair Maids and Matrons
viii Recall the Days of
Robin Hood.


presentation of Sherwood" by the
College Women's Club of Montclair,
on the lawn of Edmund B. Osborne,
Stonebridge road, Montclair. this
afternoon. Those in the cast have
attended rehearsals mornings, after
Moons and evenings, wearing a fresh
beaten path on the Osborne estate,
while the Faithful have carried books
around with them in trains and auto
mobiles, muttering tragically between
household duties, until their parts
have become habit as one of them
describes it. Now they feel as much
at home in Sherwood Forest as in
Montclair.
The Complete Cast.
Following is the complete cast:
Robin, Earl of Huntington, known
as Robin Hood, Mrs. H. A. Brown;
Little John, the chief lieutenant, Miss
Anna Harris; Friar Tuck. Miss Helen
Doremus; Will Scarlet, Mrs. A. C.
Aborn; Reynold Greenleaf Miss Les
lie Brewer; Much, the millers son,
Mrs. Chauncey Marsh; Alan-a- Dale,
Miss Mary c. Smith; Prince John,
Miss Winifred Jewell; King Rich
ard, Mrs. f. c. H. Bull; Blondel, the
minstrel, Mrs. Thomas Conyngton;
oberon, king of fairies, Miss Doro-
thea Marston; Titania, his queen,
Miss Margaret Murphy; Puck. Miss
Dorothea Caster; the sheriff of Not
tingham. Mrs. w. S. Brayton; Fitz-
water, father of maid Marian, Mrs.
CT. .
fool, Mrs. ]. A. Chard; Arthur Plan
tagenet, Mrs. w. L. Axt; queen Eli
nor, Mrs. Irving Parker Mills.
Also Maid Marian, Mrs. Edward ID.
Farmer; Jenny, maid to Marian, Mrs.
M. T. Baldwin; widow Scarlet, Mrs.
John Pratt; princess of Kirklee, Mrs.
T. A. Painter; the blind man, Mrs. ].
A. Jackson; th6 abbott Mrs. w. S.
Brayton; a serf, Mrs. d. c. Knowl-
ton; the baron, Miss Louise X.
Greene; a messenger, Miss Elsie Par
kins; a novice, Miss Mary lie Cocq;
first old man, Mrs. H. W. Dutch; sec
ond old man, Mrs. ]. w. Hubbell;
first woman, Miss Catherine Hazel
tine; second woman, Mrs. Martin r.
Baldwin; first rustic, Mrs. j. A. Jack
son; second rustic, Mrs. Thomas A.
Painter; third rustic, Mrs j. w.
Hubbell; fourth rustic, Mrs. Storms;
child, Miss Janet Lloyd.
Foresters-Mrs. Herbert w. Dutch.
Miss Mary Carter, Miss Julia Wat,
kins. Miss Elsie C. Perkins, Miss
Florence Reeves, Miss Mariana
Packer, Mrs. William winton, Mrs.
Charles A. Austin.
cJ1.e u, ID
Miss Florence Behr, Miss Isabel
James, Miss Louise K. Greene, Miss
Marion Terhune, Miss Ellen Cush-
man, Miss Margaret l. Hall.
Peasants-Mrs. Arthur H. Bissell.
jr., Mrs. John B. Milliken, Miss
Stryker
Fairies-Miss Bella Coale. Miss
Susan Dickson, Miss Olga Hoff, Mrs.
Samuel j. Holmes. Mrs. Benjamin
Carter, Miss Margaret Nash, Mrs.
w, I. Axt. Miss Beatrice Gordon
Smith, Miss Gwendolyn Durbridge.
Mrs. Henry C. Cleave1and, Mrs. Henry
j. Porter.
Courtiers-Miss Terhune, Miss
Greene. Mrs. Alder Miss Cushman,
Miss Agnes Brown, Miss Florence
stryker, Mrs. N. I. Steers.
Court Dance-Mrs. Walter Howell,
Miss Evelyn Smith, Miss Elizabeth
Young, Mrs. Harold H. Bowman,
Mrs. Roy E. Tomlinson, Miss Leila
Knox, Miss Maragret Nash, Miss
Olga Hoff, Mrs. Holmes.
Mrs. Bates, Manager.
Mrs. Edgar A. Bates is manager of
the affair, assisted by the Misses
Murphy. daughters of Starr ]. Muir
ply A feature of the production
will be the music arranged by Miss
Arabella Coale, who has carefully
worked out the themes, For the mo-
tiff which will run throughout the
play Miss Coale has selected Mac
Dowells I'm the Deep Woods" AS
the fairies appear this theme will
burst into their song. 1.-THE Forest
Shall Conquer" Other music chosen
is the prelude to the third act of
"Parsifal," an old Norman folk song.
known as %BlondePs Song" This is
set to the "Blondel Song in the book
of the opera. The music for the con-
vent service was written by Miss
Coale herself in the Gregorian chant.
The conductor of the orchestra will