The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-03-04
local TALENT PLAY
IS A BIG SUCCESS
1,,doe Howe's Cast Stage me
vada" before Rec0rd-break-
ing Crowd in Richland

Tho three-act melodrama, Nevada
s.ooed under the direction OF Judge
a Howes, a veteran actor OF the
nlaw & Erlanger company, was given
hefore a rd-breaking crowd last
Friday evening at Anon hall. Great
,red;t is due to Mr.. Howes for the
successful rendition of the play as he
was untiring in his efforts to bring
ant the best in each of the actors
given a part.
The Richland orchestra, which fur
n;ahed the music must be given many
words of praise. 1t is indeed treat
TO all music lovers to hear Mrs. Henry
Anthony on the violin. Mrs. Anthony
has devoted the greater part of her
life to music, playing with some of the
hest orchestras in Seattle for years.
The other musicians are of the best
and it would be hard to find their
anal in communities many times the
size of Richland.
The play was given under the aus
pices of Freedom Rebekah lodge of
Richland, many of the actors being
members of either the local l. O. 0. F.
or Rebekahs.
The leading role, as delineated by
Henry Anthony, was a fine piece of
work, Mr.. Anthony getting in just
the right shade of pathos in the part
az the demented miner searching for
his long lost claim.
Will Hopp, in the part of young
miner and A. S. Murray, as fugitive
from Justice, did their work in a cred
table manner, while Walter Thinner
man, surely is born comedian. The
Pantages circuit has many comedians
who might take few lessons from
Mr.. Zimmerman, both in regard to
acting and stage assurance.
Mrs. Glenn was a most comedy
"widder" and certainly made Walt
sit up and take notice when she let
him have cone" across the back with
the broom. It really looked to the
audience as though that whack were
the real thing, and no "play acting"
about it.
Harry Wheelhouse made credit
able william, although it is, hard for
the many friends of the genial Har-
~ 70 realize him in that part.
Both Miss Florence Kissinger in
the ingenue role, and Miss Anna Fall
Ion in the lead, were exceptionally
good, both the young ladies not only
acting their parts well but looking es-
pecially attractive on the stage.
But the hit of the play was the
comedian stuff of Messrs. Newell and
Teaehout, the former as a "Chink"
and the latter as a blackface per-
former. It would be hard to find the
equal Of these two local men on the
ordinary vaudeville stage and they
kept the house in a continual uproar.
It is to be hoped that in the near fu-
tire some local organization will put
on "rip-snorting" comedy to give
these able comedians chance to keep
the public laughing for a couple of
hours. Weber & Fields have nothing
on them.
The crowd in attendance was so
large that the s. r. o. sign was cal
led into requisition, the outside hall
crowded and many had to go home
disappointed, as they could not even
secure "look-in." AS result the
treasury of the local lodge was In
creased to an appreciable extent.
After the play was over supper
was served at the Richland hotel to
over thirty people, and also at Serr's
restaurant to a large number.
A dance was enjoyed by the young
1oiks after the supper, which conclud-
ca an evening long to be remembered
IN the annals of amusement in Rich
land.