The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-12
MISS NANCY

The first installment of the Miss
Nancy Musical comedy was given Fri
day night at the Grand theater, and
played to a packed house. The seats
are sold out also for this afternoon
and tonight.
Among the hits of the evening was
the cake walk and maxixe dancing by
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jordan. with its
suggestion of professional ability, and
another feature of the play was the
interpretative dancing of Miss Hazel
Howe, finished dancer, and Mr.
Robert Biene. Mr.. Darwin Bradley
had some solos that were applauded
until the succeeding actors could
scarcely go on with their parts. f-r
AT the opening of the second act
there was some of the illuminated
gangway stuff, with things happening
in the aisles. A procession of girls in
evening dresses, came down the aisles,
carrying little flashlights, assembled
song, led by Miss Enid Stricken. in
front of the electric curtain. Closing
the first act was some scenic fireworks
in the way of q ribbon curtain, dark
and a serpentfne shower Just before
the first curtain fell Miss Marian Will
liams, in the American colors, posed
as the goddess of liberty.
The show was staged by Mr.. Charles
Younggreen and Mr.. Joseph Risteen,
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Mr.. Risteen, in feminine attire
through the second half of the per-
Torrance, got most of the laughs. The
leading parts were taken cleverly by
Mr.. Alden Weightman, Mr.. Frank Fa-
BILE. Miss Ruth Rooster. Miss Louise
Bell, Miss Helen Griffin, Miss Margar-
ct Ray, Miss Enid Strickler, Mr..
Younggreen, Mr.. Risteen. Mr.. Darwin
Bradley, Miss Altha Watson. Mr.. Will
lis Carney. The title role Miss Nancy,
was played by Miss Ruth Rooster.
The dances by the little boys and
girls were attractive and were given
by Katherine Ray, Catherine Cole,
Eleanor Campbell, Edna Peppmeyer,
Louise McGaw, Octavia O'Neil Alberta
Thoroman, Lucia F1oersch, Margaret
Morrison. John Knox Dillon, Robert
Johnston, Robert Merrick, Frederick
Watson, Garrett Porter, Ralph Dillon.
Kenneth McFarren, Dougles McEach-
ron, Thomas Johnston.
Miss Freda Belts had a wind dance
and Miss Doris Rosser a Spanish
dance. Members of other choruses
were:
Miss Harriet Hill, Mary Paxton,
Marian Williams, Doris Rosser, Carol
Thrall, Isabel Stewart, Dorothea Coe,
Ann Weightman, Esther Paxton;
Messrs. Chas. Kouns, Edw. Olander,
Robert Beine. Gale Morgan, yelling
ton Culver, Donald Taliaferro. John
Porter. Paul Mowers. Kenneth Ogilvie.
Misses Freda Belts. Hazel Boast,
Ruth Bomgardner, Lucille Bomgard-
ner, Harriet Risteen, Muriel March,
Irene Seery, Lois Strickland, Marjorie
Petro, Helen Whitfield, Esther Thomas
Messrs. Paul Mowers, Wendell Switzer,
Reid Morrison, Richard Barton, Eler-
lex Sharp, Morris Dean, John Elliott
Edw. Miller, Joe Hull, Kenneth Ogil-
vie, Leo Helm.
Misses Florence Fair, Alberta Slim
son, Beulah Hall, Helen Hunter, Kath-
crime Knowles Marg. -Thrapp, Doro-
thy Foster, Opal Farrow. Gertrude
Harline, Margaret S n y d a m, Beth
Hayes. Esther Macarthur. Barbara
farrell, Marian Dana, Harriet Ris-
teen.
The children's fancy waltz was done
by: Isabel Smith, Virginia Miller, Bet
ty Frost. Babbie Gault, Marian Reid
Elizabeth Sweeney, Charles Barnes
Jack Barnes, Don Perkins, VIM. An
derson. Jack Frost, George Carver
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