The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-11
SENIOR GLASS TO
PLAY THE "CRISIS"
HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS EXPECT TO
SCORE SUCCESS IN DRAMATIZA-
TION OF CHURCHILL STORY
JANUARY is AND II.

The Senior Glass of the Bridgeport
High School will present, E'The Crisis, -
! winston ChurchiI1's own dramatization
| of his novel of the same title, the eV-
enings of January Is and IT at Warner
Hall. This is the first class to select
| the work of living playwright, the
| first to assume the added expense of
| a royalty ON their play. Moreover,
| they are pioneers in that they have
/ left the field of the classic drama in
which their predecessors won well de
| served laurels, and have boldly struck
/ out into the history of their own Unit
| ed States. Winston Churchills novel
/ is one of the great ones of the CEN
] fury, and becomes at once a captivaLt-
! ing play, with it's scenes laid in Mis-
! souri, during the most stirring period
of our country's history, that of the
great Civil War, its characters drawn
from the types of men which led in
that mighty struggle between the
North and the South.
Colonel Carvel (Bruce Sinonds) and
Judge Whipp1e, John Comley), repre-
sent the older generation, South and
North respectively. Stephen Bruce,
Games Lueey) of Boston, is the hero
of the play, whose splendid qualities
endeared him to and won the conf
dence of Abraham Lincoln, General
Grant and General Sherman. OF the
same generation in the South and OPP
posed to Stephen is Clarence Colfax,
William Andresl of whom General
Sherman said: ct like his grit; these
young bIoods are the backbone of this
rebellion. They were made for war.
They never did anything except horse
racing and coek-f1ghting = and how
| One of the most charming characters
in the play is the young German, Carl
Richter. CMax AmseD the hero Of a
| duel of national significance in Ger
many and still bearing the scar of it,
His love for America, the country of
| his adoption is inconpretensible to
EIiphalet Hopper. While one assur
bed that Hopper represents type Of
Northerner, it is type one would
rather forget. Abe 1Schwarz plays the
oughly despises such a character can.
and a thoroughly despicable villain is
the result.
! Of the four fiery Southern youths
only Tom Catherwood, Crank srnttl11
! joins the Union army. George Gather
wood, CFhomas LasharJ Maurice Re
made, Garry lsilverstone) join the reb-
els and are taken prisoners. One OF
the prettiest scenes of the play is the
opening of the second act, the fancy
dress party at Virgins. Carvel's,
louise Beard) when Puss Russell.
(Marjorie judy as Carmen, Anne
Maude Catherwood Gamma MacNa1na-
ra) as Ivan1oe's Rebecca, and Eh1-
genie Renault Qarcy Disbrow) as a
French Empress dance on the lawn
with the above named South erners in
the costumes of a, Toreador, Napoleon,
Friar Tuck, and Ffa1staff. This scene
1 IS SEf1k1nG contrast TO the Save
auction in Act I. and Camp Jackson
Day in Act III. Others who contribute
to the excitement or the hlTnor as the
scenes demand are Charles NcEIroy as
/ the kindly Mr.. Canter; Louise Cow1es
as Nancy the mother of Hester, the
quadroon of the auction sale; Josephus
(Arthur Keating9 the irresponsible free
negro servant of Judge Whipp1e, and
Manfney Easter Evelyn Shey) and
/ Ephriarn (EI11gh Tayloro Of Colonel
CarveFs household; Marjorie Allen as
Mrs. Brice; Harold White the auc-
! tioneer; and Maxwell Rosentha1, lead
| Act III, Donald Root, Howard Phillips,
! Robert Bishop, James Walsh appear as
soldiers and Maxwell Rosentha1, CAST
ner Miller, Raphael Korff, Harold
White in the mob.
f@The Crisis is play to quicken
! the pulse, a play of youth, a play of
the four years when the youth of this
country in their strength kept the
/ states together, saved the Union. Fifty
7 years ago the veterans of our city of
whom we are SO justly proud were
boys scarcely older than those of the
Glass of 1913. They lived the scenes
which the Seniors of B. H. S. are alb
sorbing through the genius of Win
ston Churchill. And as they. play
| their respective roles, living in the at
nosphere of those important years.
lthey will gain a knowledge of the
ideals of the men, who made that por-
ton of our history, which will never
Many theatre parties are forming.
not alone among interested friends but
among the intelligent public to wit
ness a play of Sterling merit, to have
/ their children see it. that they may
grasp in two hours time the causes
of that mighty conflict of fifty years
ago.
bers of the class and are also on sale
at Jackson's Book Shop