Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-28
NIDDIES AS GIRLS
ARE COQUETTISH
Second Nights Performance of the
Masqueraders Laughing
Success
"PAMPERED PETS" PLEASE.
Midshipmen Chapline the Most Coy of
Maidens, and Midshipmen Steele
A Great Actor---Credit Given
Mrs. Barnes.

Mrs. Barnes.
When the curtain was rung down on
the third aud last act of ii e second
nights performance OF The NasQuer-
aders in Mahan Hall. the Audito-
rium) Saturday night. everybody was
asking everybody else Were those
beautiful girls on the stage really mid
shipmen ."
OF course they werre. but did you
ever see anything like il. The coy
ness OF "Cissy (Midshipman Cbapline)
her" grace. the coquettish manner
isms, the ~flirtatious" way u which
"she'used her eyes. and ali were char
acteristic of the real femme tho girl
OF today, the genuine article. short
skirts cosmetics and all Midship
man Chaplines girlishness suggest ed
that probably "Cissy" was giving a
lesson TO his sweetheart
Then there was that beautiful pink
checked Minerva " the prettiest girl
Of them ali, and with the true femi-
nine voice. She was so dainty Sc
sweet, and so charming that it was
almost Incredible that Minerva anc
Niidshipman Bailey were one and the
same
Midshipman Parker, as Marjorie, in
love with Richard. and Midshipman
Byington as Alvina Starlight. a maid
en- OF doubtful summers gave good
characterizations, even though their
voices were a little heavy for their
fanait,;na "a ttfrg apJ -g,,,o,,,l,,. .pr l.-.-
Helma the Swedish maid was a splen-
did character, impersonated by Mid
shipmaniIallardwh who was supposed nor
to see EN- koom owt. nor to see EN-
koom in. and did not see 'em nohow
Midshipman Hailard gave an excellent
Interpretation of the character
Midshipman Adams was acceptably
cast as Mrs Goodly, the ardently de-
voted wife who was ever unmindful of
her Grant husband, the scientist
OF the male characters, the one than
stood ont prominently as the star was
Midshipman Steele He was seldom
off the stage and around and about him
most OF the action of the play was laid.
When George Broadhurst conceived
the plot for the three-act farce com
edy What Happened TO Jones'" he
could not have fancied in his minds
eye a character more acceptable and
efficient as Jones" than Midshipman
Steele. He is perfectly at home on the
stage is easy. natural. delivers his
lines in a conversational style. and has
a mannerism all his own
Caught with the Professor" Rich
ard and the rest al a prize fight. with
the police on his train, also the dog
Jones is unceremoniously an inmate
of the Professors home, where he dons
the clothes of the scientists brother
the Bishop of Australia. who is ex-
pected on visit
One ludicious situation follows an
other until the climax, when the real
Bishop arrives and Jones faces him,
but, further carrying out the decep-
ton. Jones pretends the real Bishop
is an escaped inmate Of a nearby san
atorimm The Bishops clothes fiji
Jones, but Jones does not fit the Bish-
ops vocation, and he has difficulty in
maintaining the part from time to time
being caught" in ludicrous positions.
Midshipman Steele's acting is splendid
and entities him 20 rank in the profess
sional class 1t is to be regretted The
Masqueraders must lose one Of its very
best actors by graduation this year
Midshipman Sellman cast as Isben-
ezer Goodly. the Professor" /" scientist
and all-round dignifed man. yet who
for The sake Of science" was persuad-
ed by Richard to go to a prize fight
over Chaney's livery stable" gave a
splendid Characterization MiJship
man Sellman never forgot his imper-
sonation once and was the old man
from start to finish of the PLAY. He
deserves much credit
Midshipman Grosskopf. manager OF
The Masqueraders. made }he most Of
the small part Of policeman. and sus-
tanned he character creditably. A.
Richard Midshipman Hclcombe was
happily cast and did some coed acting
The character OF the real Bishop
impersonated by Midshipman Wnkin-
son. and that OF "Bigsbee" and Full
er" We're we'll taken
The entire performance was z credit
10 The Masqueraders." and was me
best ever attempted by the midship-
mems dramatic association, not so
much as to the character Of the play
presented, but as 70 the relative mer-
is Of its presentation.
Before the close OF the perf0r aanc
Manager Grosskopf came before the
curtain and thanked the audience for
their kindly reception OF The efforts OF
the performers, and said the pIesa n
tation Of the play was made possible
by Lieutenant Donavin and Mrs. Barnes
nee Gretchen Banks) who had given
valuable assistance TO those IN the
cast
His Wife" five-part emotional