New Britain herald., 1915-03-02
" David Harum"
 Pleases Audience
 at Lyceum Theater

From musical comedy to rural drama is the step taken by the Lv- ceum stock company this week and good sized audience greeted the cast in "David Harum" last evening at this theater where there have been so many good plays and where the cream of the dramatic profession has appeared in some of it's greatest triunaphs. John Mullin is back in the company this week after his long illness and was warmly greeted when he appeared on the stage last evening" This is the cast in detail:
 Dick Larrabee, Factotum to David Harum Fred l.. Sutton Amos Bright, Landlord of the
 Tagle Tavern ...... John Mullin Chet Timson, Clerk to David Harum
 ....:......... Wyrley Birch Aunt Polly Bixbee, Sister to David
 .............. Adelaide Hubbard Deacon Perkins ...... William Ennis Eze1ill Swinney ...... E. M. Leonard Mary Blake, Ward of General Wol-
 sey .............. Emily Galloway David Harum. Banker and Horse
 Trader of Bonneville N. Y.
 ..... ............ Alfred Cross John LennoX, a Hero in Reduced
 Circumstances ..... Frank Wright Widow Cullum, Who Has Seen
 Better Days ......... Lois Bolton General Wolsey, a New York Law
 yer ......... l.. J. Fuller Bill Montaig, a Bonneville Tough
 George LarSins
 The piece is known to all theater- goers and those who have not seen it | have read it in book form. It is in l! three acts with the scenes laid in ] Bonneville, N. [. David Haru1n is a i banker in a small way. but also a i horsetrader and it is the latter busi- i ness he likes the best, while his gen. i uine manner in dealing in horse flesh 1 might lead one to think that he was i not always on the level but he was in ] reality a good man with a tender 1 recollection of his little boy who died 1 at an early age. David, however, did 1 trick Deacon Perkins into buying a l balky horse and one of the scenes shows the deac con in a rainstorm, the horse standing in the roadway refus- ing to move and he belabOring him with a whip. Then there is the poor widow who is being driven to the wall by a skinf1int who held the mortgage on her home; the school teacher who had been reared in luxury, but who came to Bonneville to earn her living and be independent, the bank off, cIals and David's housekeeper, Aunt Polly. Then there was also the bank, the balky horse, the barns, grounds and all those things which give a play atmosphere and make it go well.
 MT. Cross plays Harum in much the same manner as does w. H. Crane ! who has appeared in the title role a great many times. The character is different from those Mr. Cross has been playing, but he nevertheless in terprets the horse trader very we'll and shows that beneath the seeming 1 ly harsh exterior he has tender heart and is not only honest in every thing but horse trading, but is sym pathetic and generous. Miss Calla- way is the school teacher and was given a hand when she appeared in the opening ct. She has made so many friends since coming to New Britain that her entrance in a play is eagerly awaited. She was excel lent in the part and so was Mrs. H1b- bard as the housekeeper. Miss Bol- ton plays an aged widow thls week and we'll too, and it seems so strange to see the always lighthearted 1ngenue in black, her gray hair peeplng from beneath her hat, her skirt trailing on the stage and in tears instead of laugh fer which has generally been her DOT tion since joining the company. MT. 1 Wright. MT. Fuller, MT. Mullln, MT. Birch, Mr. Sutton, MT. Ennis ana Mr. Leonard were all good in the1r l respective parts and the performance on a, whole was very satisfactory.