Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-03-19
FANNY AND SERVANT
PROBLEM" FRIDAY
Comedy Drama to Be Presented ss
College Auditorium Tonight
CAST Coached by N. f. Reeid

The second all-college play of the
season and one of the biggest plays
of the year will be presented in the
form of three-act comedy drama.
Fanny and the Servant Problem"
Friday night, March 10, in the col
lege auditorium.
N. E. Reeid, an instructor and
actor of high standing throughout
the East, recently engaged by the
college, is coaching the production.
A large cast of over 20 members
have been hard at work under the
dictatorship of Mr. Reeid for many
weeks and have the play we'll in
| hand.
Burners orchestra has been en-
gagged to furnish special music for
the occasion. i,
The play, a comedy of situations,
is based on the following synopsis:
The Bennets-three generations
of them and % in number-are serv-
ants to the noble family of the Ban
tocks. Martin Bennett, a deeply re-
ligious man, is head butler, and
therefore grand ruler of all servants.
Years ago, however, Fanny quarreled
with her uncle Martin, and ran
away from home to join a burlesque
show. And now, just before the
opening of the play, young Vernon,
new lord of the Bantock family, at
tends the show, falls in love with
Fanny, and they marry-each total
in life.
At the rise of the first curtain,
the Misses Wetherells, aunts to Lord
Bantock, are preparing for the home
coming of the bride, and neryously
wondering about the type of the
creature Upon Fanny's arrival.
she and her uncle meet and recog-
nize each other, and at once, I'M
known to the Bantocks, violent
struggle begins between them Fan
ny attempts to take her rightful
place as Lady Bantock, and thus be-
come mistress over all servants. But
her uncle views her as the black
sheep of the Bennett family, and
deems it his duty to classify her as
a younger relative, until, with the
assistance of the other 20 odd, he
can train her in dignity and morals
to become a worthy Bantock The
struggle runs through the play
The personnel of the play follows:
Vernon Wethereil (Lord Bantock)
......... William Phipps
Misses Wetherell ..... Eloise
Brandt, Dorothy Cunningham
Fanny Bennett (his wife) .
................ Irene oliver
Martin Bennett (head butler) go.
......... Byron Jennings
Susannah Bennett (housekeeper)
Ruth Allen
Jane Bennett (boudoir maid) -.
Alice Tardy
Honoria Bennett (house maid) -.
. ... Louise Weeks
Ernest Bennett (footman) ana.
............... George Krous
DR.. Freemantel Family physician)
................ Merrill Head
George p. Newte Theatrical mag
nate) .......... Carl Anderson
Our Empire:
England ran. Dorothy Hildenbrand
Scotland ......... Mary Pentland
Ireland ...... Marcella Kartheiser
Wales ........... Dorothy Day
Canada ........ Gladys Burchett
Australia ...... Laura Clark
New Zealand -. Frances Roberts
Africa .........F loy Douglass
India ..........Je Jessie Kirkland
Newfoundland j.. . Katherine johnson
Malay Archipelago. . Marie Plasket
Straits Settlements. Viola Studer
The curtain for the first act will
rise promptly at S:15 o'clock. Re-
served seats are now on sale at
Watts Pharmacy.
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