New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-17

presented under the auspices II the Mcdowell
club.
THE CAST
Rads ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Mrzah chesis
Subka Lenore Phelps
Arram. Henry Hull
Michael ............. wright Kramer
Nanko ..................Ch Charles White Whttlesey
First soldier ...........C Charles Douyille Coburn
Second soldier Harold Herts
......,...,... Charles T. Peters
other soldiers. ............. Harold Butterheld
l...................W ". c. Belew
scene. The living room OF country doctor
IN the BALKANS. In a village which has been
taken by the enemy
Time.-Christmas Eve.
There were many interesting things at
the Mcdowell Clubs annual Christmas
festival, held at the Hotel Astor last
evening There were writer's and paint
ers and musicians and architects, all sorts
OF practitioners Of the arts in ali sorts
Of costumes and some I'm regular clothes.
There were tableaus arranged after
famous paintings. by Mr.. John Alexander;
a pageant describing America in the MAX
ing. songs and pantomime, and a general
dance for every body at the end
The most important part Of the pro-
gramme. however. was the one-act play.
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the hnehsh poet Mt. "oyes play Is iaIu
in the Balkans, in the living room Of
country doctor. in a village just taken by
lhe enemy ne "Ipe - III 'S''laS Eve.
The doctors wife. Rada. her twelve-year
old daughter. Subka. haf-witted school
master. Nanko. and two hostile soldiers
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