Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-01-31
BROAD CREEK ITEMS.
South River Residents 10 be Treated to
AIisgOricaI Play Rescue the
perishins'

The public is offered treat on the /
4th Of February. when the famous |
allegory Rescue The Perishing" will |
be given in Murray Hall, Crowns
VILE. at s D. m. The characters are:
Faith, impersonated by Miss Kate
Carr; Hope, by Miss Lillisn Worth
ington; Charity, by Miss Nina Baggeri
Religion, BY Mrs, Horatio Proctor,
nee Miss Dryden Worthington, and
the Outeast, acted by Miss Bertha
Hartshorn. with a chorus of angels 5
a background. The play is enacted
on the Waste of Despair, just out
side the Gates of Heaven, aud hinges
around the Scriptural text, And now
abideth Faith, Hope and Charity. but
the greatest of these is Charity.
The play is full of great principles
and great truths and will be appre-
ciated by all thinking people. In the
first scene Religion appears with her
messengers, Faith. Hope and Char
ity, and sends them forth into the
word upon the work of redemption. In
the second scene the Outcast wan
ders upon the Waste of Despair, and
there, in the bitter storm, she pouvs
forth her sufferings in words of inf
mite tragedy and pathos.
Presently she hears angels singing,
and, looking up, she sees the golden
gates of Heaven, with the shining
words above it: Knock, and it shall
be opened unto you Lacking con-
fdenct. she kneels and knocks at the
gates. In response, Faith comes out
and greets her. While she is talking
with her, Hope appears, and togeth-
er they argue with the Outcast, and
explain the mysteries of theology
and the church. but these things give
no comfort to the aching heart, and,
at last. in disgust, they give up the
attempt at her conversion, and shut
ting the gates of Heaven in her face,
they leave her outside in the storm,
in her filthy rags of unbelief.
2 Crushed with grief and despair,
the Outcast is abouc to wander
away into greater depChs of dark
ness, when she is arrested by distant
strains of heavenly music, and again
attracted by the shining words of
welcome above the gates, kneels and
knocks again. This time Charity ap-
pears and addresses her. She listens
to her sad story and passionate con-
fession Of sin, and then, assuring
ner of forgivene IS, folds her in her
arms of love, and leads her gently
within the gates. In the last scene
Religion appers. followed by Faith
| and Hope. Addressing each in turn,
l she asks what they have CLEANED
from the worlds harvest.
Showing her empty hands, Faith
says she has gathered nothing but
Vanity, while Hope displays a few
dead blossoms, hopes that have with
cred and died. Then Charity comes
out, leading the Outcast, trans
/ formed creature in robes of white.
Then follows a beautiful and touching
scene, in which the 0utcast is warm
ly welcomed by Religion. who places
on her head the Grown of Righteous
ness, brought on by Innocence, the
tiniest of all the angels, imperso-
mated by little Celeste Carter. a
maid of five years.
The gates of Heaven are now held
wide open by the sentinels, Miss
Eva Dorsey Carr and Miss MArgue-
rite Waters, blonde and brunette OF
the purest types, who form a strik-
ing and pleasing contrast, and within
the gates are seen the angels with
their shining -crowns and robes of
/ white, grouped around the Cross Of
Calvary, whose radiance streams forth
upon the kneeling~ figures of Faith,
hope, Charity, Innocence and the
Outcast, who is receiving the blessing
of Religion, while the angels burst
forth in glad, triumphant singing.
The chorus of angels are imperso-
mated by Misses Nellie Proctor,
Charlotte Hall, Elizabeth Lee, Eva
NJ. Carr, Ruth Lee and Elsie Ping
stem. The music for the allegory
will be furnished by the organ and
violin, played behind the scenes by
Mr.. Harry Schreyer and Mr. Her
man Holden, graduates of the Pea
body Institute, and members of the
Naval Academy orchestra. This al
legory was given at Murray Hall two
years ago, and met with such favor
that it was requested again.
There is touching story connected
with the authorship of the allegory.
The navy people of Annapolis will be
| interested to know that the writer
was a naval officer named Paul Bryson,
an highly educated man, who had led
a wild, dissipated life, torn and tossed
about by doubts ahd conflicting doc
trines, and where Faith and Hope
alone had failed, he was rescued from
the Waste of Despair by the Charity
c6 sweet Salvation Army lassie,
and brought to Religion. Out of the
fullness of his heart he wrote this
allegory-" Rescue the Perishing. >"
There are only three copies in ex-
itence, and one is in the hands of
Miss Bertha HartshJrn, former mem
ber of the Garrick Club, who plays d
the allegory with great success in sew
eral of the big theatres in Baltimore
for the benefit OF churches. 1t is by
courtesy of Miss Hartshorn that the
allegory will be presented flor the
second and last time at Murray Hall,
Brownsville, on Tuesday, February
4, at s p. m.
Besides the allegory there will be
a most amusing little come delta
called "A Fair Encounter" by Miss
Hartshorn and Miss Nina Bagger,
beautiful patriotic flag drill by twelve
girls in costumes of red, white and
blue; solos by some of the best sing