The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-24
STORY OF LITTLE PRINCESS.
Plot of Woman's Club Play to Be
Presented May 4 and 5.

What one Of us did not read, when
q child, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur
nett S Fascinating story of Sara
Crewe or The Little Princess.
The Brattleboro Woman S club is es-
pecially fortunate i'll choosing this
story to present in play form at the
Auditorium May 4 and ) under the I'll
rection of Miss Mary Fletcher Cox of
Springfield, Mass. The play follows
the story very closely The scene is
Miss Minchin S Select Seminary for
Young Ladies in London. Sara Crewe
is the star pupil of the school Her
mother is dead and her father, who
/. lives III India and has acquired an
enormous fortune there, has sent his
| little girl to London to be educated.
! The first act opens with wonderful
| birthday party, which Sara is giving
to her schoolmates. Although dressed
i'll silks and receiving wonderful pres
ents, Sara is still the most kindly and
unspoiled little girl III the school In
the midst Of the party a lawyer ar
rives to inform Miss Minchin that
Capt. Crewe has died in India, leaving
Sara pennileSs. In perfect rage
Miss ATinchin sends for Sara and tells
her what has happened. She takes all
her lovely things away from her and
orders her to the garnet to sleep, telling
her that in the future she will have to
work for living by helping in the
kitchen and running errands.
Act II shows the garnet room to
which Sara comes after her long hard
days of work. On this special night
Ermengarde and Lottie, the only two
tchildren in the school who have re-
imained loyal to Sara, steal away after
Idark and bring Sara box of goodies
With Becky, the little scullerv maid
who lives in the next room, they all sit
down to a wonderful party but Just as
they are starting TO eat Miss Minchir
appears and sends them all away and
|, poor little Sara goes to bed cold, tired
! and hungry.
+ Now it happens that next door t
{ the school lives a sick gentleman Will
his Indian servants. Ram Dass, his
: special servant, has told his master
f stories about the little girl who live
in the garnet and they plan to steal il
when Sara is asleep and fix the a.
( room all over. They 10 it this very
;. night and when Sara wakes She thin
= She IS still dreaming. She finally real
n ICES that she has a friend-someWher
i, and she knows not who it is.
. The last act takes place in the gar
% den of the Indian gentleman mex
y door. He is sick and worried becaus
II he cannot find q little girl for whom Il
il is hunting. He was Capt Crewc' 5 dea
friend and invested all Lis money 10
: him, which investment. AT the time O
i Capt. Crewe 5 death, looked like a fai
r ure, but which since had turned out I
re- be an immense fortune. His lawyer
= had searched every school in Paris fC
n little sara, to return her fortune I
her, but all III vain. The last clue
about exhausted when sara herself Al
pears to bring back the Indian gentl
man 5 monkey, which had run away /
- her garnet. On asking her name he III
covers that she is the very child /
e, has been searching for all these mont
i. and the play ends with Sara unde
Is fstanding tyervtnih3f and toa4iIaeha
m PLY with the Indian gentleman cv,
~ after
: The part of Sara will be taken !
80 Julia Simonds, Ermengardc by Eliz
u beth Crane, Lottie by Doris Old
Becky. the scullerv maid, by Jane y
Id ley, Miss Minchin h. Mrs. James
er Adams the LAWYER by L. B. Smith, Il
Il Indian Gentleman by f. Russell y
Wis and Ram Dass, the Indian scrvar
H. by Frank NJ. Cram
q The east also viii include teacher
20 pupils and visitors at Miss Minchin
;, school.