Milford chronicle., 1919-05-09
ALUMNI PLAY TONIGHT
MARCIA MANAGES WILL Be GIVEN IN
ARM0RY HALL

The comedy with music to be staged
in Armory Hall Friday evening. May
9th. under the auspices of the High
School Alumni Association and the
efficient direction Of Miss Edna f.
Colladay, is practically ready for
production.
The cast-all of whom are excel
lent-are letter perfect in their var
ious roles, the fine, large chorus sings
well and dances gracefully, and the
play moves along so smoothly the ac-
ton and business seem almost profess
sional. The lines could not be inter
preted to better advantage, nor the
roles better adapted to the people who
read them. The principals could not
have been more happily chosen, had
the parts been actually written for
them.
Tickets too, are selling rapidly and
we'll Be sure to secure your seat at
once if you want good one. for Mar
cia Manages" will be well patriOnized
as it deserves to be. A great many
hours of work have been upon it to
make it the finished production you
will see. Electrically, musically, So
cially and financially it will succeed.
Do your bit to help it along.
The money thus raised will be used
to provide a scholarship fund, an OBJ
iect worthy all the interest and CO.
operation of the entire community.
Toward this end a number of novel
ties have been introduced which it is
hoped will meet with approval and
enthusiasm. Milford has this spirit,
is indeed noted for it; let us demon
strate it for this educational object
as we have in other things.
A souvenir program and libretto
has been prepared, which will contain,
progress in the show but the words of
all the songs used thruOut the play.
These programs will be for sale, just
as the librettos of an opera are. Not
only are they well gotten up and print
ed upon excellent paper, but the songs
will remind you of a very pleasant
evening, and you will enjoy reading
them over in the days to come, as you
will recall the pleasure Marcia Man
ages" gave you when you saw it.
You'll want a souvenir to keep. You
couldn't have a better one than the
libretto-prOgram Put an extra dime
in your pocket and purchase them as
you pass in to see the show. They
will help you enjoy it, now and in the
future, and they will help the scholar
ship-fund along.
There will be good, homemade
candy for sale too. Not the kind you
get when it comes in boxes
out the delicious old-fashioned kind
hat Mother used to make; the kind
hat will melt in your mouth and make /
'ou wish for more.
And there will be flowers for sale
Llso. Not clumsey, awkward punches
If them, that must be carried in the .
land all evening but dainty, fragrant, .
title boquets, artistically arranged, .
With a protecting and decorative dolly
round the blossoms, to keep them
rom coming in too close contact with
pretty frock, and the stems wrabBed
n tin-fOil just as they would be if you
purchased them in the most modern.
p-tO-date flower-shop.
Some of the songs used in the show
words and music-will be on sale too
o if you like them when you hear
hem, you may buy them in the lobby
S you go out, just as you would if you
-ere attending the performance of a
Professional musical comedy.
Come and have a good time, and ;
clip the cause along. You'll agree
hen you see the show, that it was
orth far more than it costs you.
Marcia Manages" is a wholesome,
sfreshingly clever, well-written and {
comedy. The following {
a brief synopsis of the plot. {
Mrs. Jimmie Mainwairing (Marcia) c
role skillfully played by Miss Mar
lret Grier, is having a weekend
)use party, entertaining three en-. q
lged couples. all very good friends of \
rself and husband. The action of the +
ay is Immediately before and after /
e dinner on the last night of the S
,use party. 4
Mrs. Mainwaring fiatters herself on d
ways being able to successfully man b
Re any situation, however complicat- n
J, that may arise. This has always c
en a great joke with her husband, f
ID before the play opens, they have r
ade wager that by certain time L
is very night, in fact-a difficulty e
- a. AoI AAAelL AtAA 4ldAAA W al AllE Will q
It be able to manage. v
The interest of the story lies in what C
ppens, how it happened, and who o
Is the primary cause thereof and in II
e clever way in which Mrs. Main h
lring finally manages" to straighten C
e matter out. At the very last NOM b.
t it looks as if she were going to h
ie; the three engagements are tenn il
rally broken, and she is az her wits NJ
d to untangle the intricacies of the o
uation
The play moves from start to finish ID
d abounds in laughs. Each situation
its sequence is crisp, farcial and
Use with expectation as to what will
Dpen next. The interest is held
'oughOut by the unexpected solution tic
Mrs. Mainwaring troubles, and the W
son of them all comes as a surprise, CC
the very last speech. holding the in ev
est of the audience until the very Cl
{ moment of the finale. il;
There are twelve musical numbers. ic;
of them appropriately clever, and tr.
lodiously appealing: the pretty and Pl
ginal dancing with which the COM ha
is repleted is delightful as the play pa
we'll conceived. so