The Republican journal., 1921-04-21

| ScoTchlng hate, soaring Suspicion, burnt .
out hopes, then the cold ashes of dead
love-
The weather for the past week has
been chilly and damp. but Wednesday
gave US an ideal spring day.
The Travellers Club will meet next
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. w. R.
Howard, Church street, when Mrs. Fred
Waldo Brown will give paper on Alaska.
The annual meeting will follow the
Comments pro and con are very fire.
quently he I'd in relation to the vote on
the daylight savings movement. 1t is an
easy matter to call up member of the
City Government before the next meet
ing, Monday evening, May End.
reading.
Herbert 7. Andrews of Greenwich,
Conn, who has been so prominently fea-
tured in the Boston press for the past
week on. account of his unusual family
relations, was for several years a resident
of this city. His parents came here at
the time of the Duplex Roller Bushing
plants activities and lived at Cedar
street. Herbert attended the B. H. s..
and was some time employed in the Wal
do Trust Company's office with L. j. Pot
tie. He is remembered here as well
hammered, pleasant boy.
ARE You A MASON. Frank D. Hazel
tine Post, A. L., expects and should have
packed houses at their presentation of
this bright comedy in the Colonial Thea
tire Tuesday, April Goth. Its coach and
leading man, j. w. Flanders, is profess
sional and highly recommended. Asso-
ciated with Mr.. Flanders is cast of local
talent that will surprise the most critical
for the excellent manner in which each
one interprets his or her part. 1t was
selected with great care and each person
given a part because of special qualiflca-
tons which fitted them for it. The play
is built around MIR. Frank Perry, a
wealthy young bushes man of New
York city, who has promised his wife
that he would bee ONE Mason, The
Perry household is still under the influ-
ence of Mrs. Bloc dgood, the mother of
Mrs. Perry, and it is the wish of Mrs.
Blood good that Mr.. Perry Join the lodge.
Mr. Bloodgood has been an enthusiastic
member for many years-at least that is
the way it appears if we take Mrs. Blood
goods word for it. Perry, always anx-
ious to please his young wife, intends to
comply with his wife's WISH, who is
away on a visit to her parents. How
ever, Perry's bachelor friends fill his
time so completely that his wife returns
before the promise is fulfilled. Rather
than disappoint her Perry tells her that
a Il would go well until he can be made a
Mason. just to see how the best of plans
sometimes go amiss is the whole idea of
the play. One surprise follows another
so rapidly that there is not dull mo-
ment. One laugh brings on another until
it is nearly a continuous roar of laughter.
1t is clean, snappy comedy. that will
surely delight everyone who sees it. 1t
will be played both afternoon and even
ing SO that many can attend in the after
noon who otherwise would be unable to
see it. Mr.. Flanders takes the part of
MIR. Perry, while Miss Katherine Brier
PLAYS Mrs. Perry 1t is unusual to have
two people so well adapted for their parts
who have had such wide experience on
favorite in Belfast since her High school
days. One of the most difficult parts of
the entire play is that of Mrs. Bloodgood,
V which is interpreted by Mrs. Sumner c.
Pattee. In every scene she dominates
the situation as the one who holds the
purse strings, controls her own home and
her daughters as well. Mrs. Pattee has
appeared several times before Belfast
audiences, but never to such advantage
as in her present role. Mr.. Bloodgood is
Gplayed by Harold Ladd and if it is imag-
ined that he is henpecke husband just
watch the play develop and draw an
other conclusion He will be one of
the hits of the play. Miss Hazel Head
and Miss Alice Wardwell play the parts
of the daughters of the Bloodgoods.
They have only to act natural to inter-
pref their parts in the most approved
manner. Miss Doris Clifford as the Irish
Ecook is a scream and will bring down the
h ouse; Miss Elizabeth Doak, as the maid,
is excellent For the boys in the play
Ralph Clifford as George Fisher has one
;of the most difficult parts and although
this is his first appe arance in local plays,
he will make name for himself. Earle
,BraIey as an actor makes the most out of
his part and the way he handles himself
on the stage is sure to please those who
s ee him. Harold Stone as Ernest Nor
rison is also q new actor to Belfast and is
sure to be well received. Albert Miller
takes the part of the policeman. The
two biggest surprises will be Miss Eliza
beth Clements and Theodore Bramhall as
farmers from New York State. Their
parts call for clever &C ting and they will
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