The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-20
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 Redding. Aug. 2O.-The public event of the week will be the production of the operetta Esther" plans for which have been changed so, that instead of performances on two evenings one is to be rgiNeH ono Saturday q a fternoon and the other on Saturday evening, the hours being 3 and o'clock day
 light saving time. The Sanford School Terrace will provide a roomy stage, elevated enough to afford good. view from the surrounding lawn, and correct costumes and ade- quate scenery gre to be employed, the latter feature being in charge of P. Britt Nash. Ice cream and other refresh ments will be dispensed from booths on the grounds. The cast which con sists whclly of local talent is as fol- lows: Esther. Miss Katherine Bar nett; King Ahasuerus, J. B. Sanford; Hapaan,s ,Rey-a MT. Cook; Mordecai, Rev. Raymond Cunnin gham; Zeresh, wife of Haman, Mrs. Herman Smith; Mordecais sister, Mrs. Randolph Bradley: Phophetess, Miss Klara Klein: captive Egyptian Princess, the Countess Turezynowicz; Media1 Princess, Mabel Nichols; Persia Princess, Kitty Barnes; scribe, Neal Sanford; beggar, F. w. Roseneau; Hejai, Howard Luther; Herald Theo dora Sanford; Dancer to the king. Wanda de Goz6awa de Tueszynowicz; Assisting in the chorus are to be Misses Alta Bassett, Nancy Barnes, Violet Henderson, Frances Barnett, Marion Burr, Alice Sanford, Clara Stafford, Marion Osborn and Eleanor Osborn. The performance has been tnoroughly rehearsed under the cap able direction of Miss Katherine Blackwell, who has had much exper fence in handling like entertainments onH ca atigfactOrv sefitation may be expected.
 As it is an outdoor production stormyg yg5weather will necessitate postponenient.2 <. .ak-sa Sle sss.s9
 The calling of caucuses, the local Republican caucus being scheduled for Aug. 26, is a reminder that the season of real political activity has begun. Each caucus will select dele gates for the State. congressional and senatorial conveftfonss% From a local viewpoint the most interesting feature at present is the struggle for the senatorial nomination on the Repub- lican side. S. c. Shaw of this town and Judge S. A. Davis of Danbury are the leading contestants with Irwin c. Atchison of Sherman. eager to emerge from the background and grab the prize. All three have served in the lower branch of the Legisla- ture, MT. Sherman's three successive terms giving him the seniority as to experience in this respect. Two years ago he was. the Democratic as well as the Republican candidate. His long and earnest advocacy of woman suf- frage is viewed as a large asset in the matter of his present availability and the anti-suffrage record of Judge Davis as a corresponding element of weakness in the latter's case. this element of comparative strength and whakness being predicted on assump- ti6h that voting power will come to women In time for the November cleo ton. There is. however, an interesting possibility that MT. Shaw may be handicapped and perhaps extinguish- ed as a candidate by failure to secure the Redding delegatioq,a a contingency fdneshaowed JbN tfse turning down ad- minietered to him last spring by the caucus from which he sought election as a delegate to the State convention. Whether the hostility thereby widen ed still exists will not be fully dis closed until the Republican voters gather onsathe evening of the 18th. Committ eeS Chairman A A. Gorham was credited with the leadership of the Shaw opposition in the spring, it being further surmised that he was