Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-04-05
VIII BE Made by Trinity v. NJ. 7,
Musical Club at Macau-
Iey's Theater.
Everything Ready For Present
tation of "Miss Dolly
Dollars"
Most Stupendous Production Yet
Undertaken by Local
Talent.
CHORUS DRILLED TO PERFECTION

Never in the history of Trinity
Council, Y. M. l., has there been any
thing so stupendous and difficult at
tempted as the production of the
popular comic opera, which will be
seen at Macauley's Theater on Mon
day. Tuesday and Wednesday nights
of next week. miss Dolly Dollars
was first presented to the public by
Lula Glaser at the Knickerbocker
Theater in New York and later by
Blanche Ring at the New York The
ater, where a great hit was scored.
Miss Glaser also appeared in the title
role in the opera in Louisville in
1906 with crowning success.
Trinity Council has been very for
tunate in securing the services of
some of Louisville's best talent, who
have been interested in comic opera
and musical comedy for the past six
or seven years. The cast of charac-
ters that will be seen in this produc-
tion is as follows:
Dorothy Gay. an American heiress
known as dolly Dollars"-Mrs.
Leo A. Schmitt.
Lord Birmingham. in favor of an
Anglo American alliance j. A.
Hehemann.s
Finney Doolittle, an educated
fool-P. Wellington Hager.
Samuel Gay, condensed soup
magnate-John Hodapp.
Mrs. Gay. his better SO per cent
Miss Renetta Blasi.
Guy Gay. who pays fellow to
study for him at Oxford-John Hem
messy.
Bertha Billings, Dorothy's maid,
with a fondness for romance-Miss
Grace Kirn.
Celeste-Miss Anna Burns.
Lieut.. Won Richter, of the German
army-Joseph Wettle.
Miggs, Lord Burlingham's valet
Louis Hoffman,. =ssfS--
Members of the Friendly Rivals
Club, consisting of one lord from
each nation with native country
brogue, will furnish much merrl-
ment and keep the audience in con-
tinual laughter. They include Hon.
Percy Fitzboodle, Albert DAILY; Mar
quis de Baccarat, Henry Dries;
Baron Won Rheinheister, Leo
Krebs; Count Runoffsky, Edward
Krebs; Count Chianti, Michael Fill
burn; Duke de Bolero, Louis
Schranz; Prince Umskyvitch, James
Perry; Capt. Sheridan Barry, Cole
man Ridge; Margery, an Elton girl,
Miss Catherine Ecker; First Elton
boy, Michael Filburn; Second Eton
boy, Edward Krebs.
The large chorus, which has been
rehearsed by Prof. Leo A. Schmitt
and Prof. p. Wellington and drilled
to perfection, will surpass any
chorus eyer seen on a Louisville
stage composed of our young maid
ems and men, who are Misses Ella
Corbett, Catherine Ecker, Mary
Sheehan. Margaret Sheehan, Mar
garet Winter, Elsie Burns, Ida NAV
Pilsen, Marie Speckert, Rosalie
Speckert, Olivia Silberg, Mary Reck-
tenwald, Josephine Lyons, Viola
Sexton, Corrine Jansen, Anna Burns,
Grace Kirn, Mrs. Ernest Otte, and
Messrs. James Perry, Louis Schranz,
Leo Krebs, Michael Filburn, Henry
Dries, Albert DAILY, Coleman Ridge,
Edward Krebs, Paul Bowling
Walter Pilsen, Ernest Otte, Louis
Hoffman, Dan Tivnan, Edward
Maloney, William Kirchdorfer, Louis
Eberle and Charles Galligan.
The scene of the play is laid in a
villa on the Thames at Henley, Eng
land, concluding in a cafe in a Paris
hotel. The costuming is modern
throughout and the scenery and cleo
trical effects are artistic and beau
tiful.
Dolly Dollars, the daughter of a
wealthy but illiterate Chicago canned
soup magnate who has rented a villa
at Henley for the season, is pursued
by flock of bankrupt noblemen.
Finney Doolittle, an eccentric book
worm secretary, given to quotations
from the classics, is mistaken by
Mr.. and Mrs. Gay for his master.
Lord Birmingham. and is introduced
10 Dolly as desirable suitor for her
hand. She. however, refuses TO
marry for a title only, so the real
Lord Birmingham (who is smitten by
her charms) instructs Doolittle 10
Keep up the deception, and causes
himself to be employed as Dolly's
chauffeur
The second act finds all the char
acters In Paris, where matters are
further complicated by Dolly falling
Ia love with the supposed chauffeur.
eventually Doolittle, being almost
compelled by her title-hunting par
ents TO ask her hand in marriage.
reveals his identity, and Dolly, in
revenge for the trick he has played
on her, treats Lord Birmingham in
the most supercilious manner. but
finally confesses her love and all
ends happily.