The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
MISS CASEY MANAGED IT
TO Her Individual Efforts Results
Are Largely Creditable - Besids
Being Business Manager She
Sold Tickets and Acted.

I Successful even beyond the hopes of
Miss Eleanore Casey who devised pro-
NOTED and managed it, the Red Cross
vaudeville given last night in the
Rhode Opera House Melted approx
mately 5000 for the Red Gross and
filed that popular playhouse with an
appreciative audience, full of enthusi-
/ assn over the delightful skits offered
and eager to contribute the price of
their ticket to the work for the sol
der .
The audience was representative.
Mrs. Zalmon G. Simmons, Mrs. A. II.
Lance, Mrs. E. O. Theirs, Mrs. Harry
Baldwin and dozens of other well
known faces were seen scattered
through it. Mr.. and Mrs. George Al
len were host and hostess to a party
which took the entire second row of
the left side Of the parquet and con
tanned the Messrs. and Mines. Harry
B. Robinson, Chester d. Barnes, r. N.
Kimball and others. In the front row,
just ahead Of them were Mrs. Frank
Wells and a party of young girls, in
Guiding beside her daughters, Miss
Elizabeth Wheeler who has just re-
turned from California. The lower left
hand box was interesting because it
had in il the officers Of the local mill
tary companies, the men who have vol.
unteered THEN. services without waiting
for the government to draft them
They included Captains Coney and Ed
ward Dayton, and Lieutenants Asbury
Vale, Springer, Alexander and Stein
art. In an upper box was Mrs. Mill
cent Northway, one Of Kenosha s four
enrolled Red Cross nurses and bevy
Of Kenosha Hospital nurses with her.
AL Outdid Themselves.
AS to the bill itself, too much praise
cannot be given it. With the excep-
tion Of one particularly good profess
sional number, every performer on the
big bill of twelve numbers, was an
amateur These amateurs had pre-
pared sketches which showed original
ity, hard work and foundation of
ability.
To talk with the smallest first, little
Marjorie Sershon, hardly as large as
minute, clad in the daintiest of little
pink frocks, carried her audience by
storm when as one Of the Just Kid
dies she and little Mary Rhode and
Eda Rosenblum carried the burden of
one of the most popular skits on the
bill.
Entirely Unconscious Of Self.
AS only the most polished of profes-
SIGNALS or extremely young children
are able to do, she lost all thought of
herself and retained the idea only of
what she was doing and in her shrill,
childish little voice, she piped out the
words of popular airs to the delight of
| her hearers who insisted upon her re-
| turning for an additional number.
Little Mary Rhode made another hit
as she opened her big blue eyes, gazed
| a moment at the great houseful before
her and then CALAMITY went to her
work Of reciting, and clearly and pref
tily told in poetry little tale quite
suited to her age and size. The third
in the team was little Eda Rosenblum
who danced very prettily, giving al
most a duplication of her work at the
military ball.
| She Wore Trousers.
| Neighbors,n IONA Gale s playlet,
| full of human heart throbs as well as
quaint humor and having the evan
escent charm which has endeared Miss
Gale to her readers, was presented by
carefully chosen caste, all of whom
were a credit to their coach, Miss
Grace Robinson. The characters which
stood out trife beyond the others
Iwere those of Miss Casey as the
tongue-tied Peter. With her panto-
mime as well as her lines she carried
much of the humor of the situation;
and Miss Isabelle Wells who entered
into her role of the complaining Miss
Moran with much spirit and Miss Doro-
thy Eddy who played Dianthy most
sympathetieally.
Singing Unusually Good.
HowardaSershon has voice of such
sweet timbre that he made an imme-
date appeal to his audience. It is sell
dom two finer voices find place on a
single vaudeville program than that of
Mrs. Alice Merritt Truax and Mr.. Ser
shon. Mrs. Truax was particularly
happy in her choice of selections and
she sang beautifully, and equally
pleasing to the audience, she made
very lovely appearance in her SHIN
mering white gown.
Dancing Quite Professional.
The Dewey Dancers were billed as
the Misses V. Persis Dewey, Georgian
ma and Virginia Pirsch, but there was
a diminutive fourth, tiny Miss Pirsch