Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-05-28
COMEDY CLUBS bril- LIANT SEASON
CLOSES With SERIES OF MIXED
PLAYS, every ONE WELL RENDERED

In an artistic appeal and perfect
performance, the Comedy Club of
Grantwood brought it's season to
brilliant close on Friday evening In
q program which, in its various view
points, surpassed its many successful
efforts of years and in its bringing
out old favorites and introducing new
talent, demonstrated that 1t has not
suffered from its quiescent period dur
ing the war time. The excellent audi
ence In the Grantwood theater was
treated to very full evening in the
three one act plays and musical pro-
gram, followed by the dance to the
strains of the Unique Orchestra, led
by Mr.. Edwin Locate, junior, which
also introduced the program in lively
manner.
Joint Owners In Spain,' the first
play, was presented by Mrs. Edwin Le-
Cate, as director of the Old Ladies'
Home, and by Mrs. ]. II. Koch, Miss
Rachel Mutt and Mrs. G. Donaldson
as the homes inmates, all most nat
| ural in their charaeteriZations, with
Mrs. Koch and Miss Mutt taking the
| leading characters, both being accom-
| plished actresses in the clubs former
| history.
| This play, with its mingled pathos
and humor, made it's own appeal to
the audience, and was totally differ
ent in character from the one follow
Ing 1.-THE Threshold" by Mrs. Clarice
McCauley, whiclhAis an unusual play
of psychic <harm. Miss Marjorie
Sammis, as Granny, and the Girl She
Might Have Been" demonstrated new
talents In her wonderful double role
as granny Of today and the girl Of
80 .,s.I esss, SO rssc
tress, was a real surprise to her fell
low members, In her ability, as the
loving perplexed granddaughter. Mr..
G. r. Thayer's part, as the darkey
butler, was, as Is always with him, ex-
cellently taken, and Mr.. II. III. Mutt, the
sympathetic family doctor in psychic
contact with both granny and the girl
she might have been, received a real
ovation as he made his appearance
both in the play and later as he came
into the audience for Mr.. Mutt, one
of the oldest members of the club and
a fine actor, was making his last APP
pearance as such, because of APP
preaching removal from the town In
which he has been pioneer resident.
The play held the audience In
GREATNESS interest from its foreshad-
owing mystery in the beginning to Its
surprising close after the adorable
girl of the sixties tore herself from
the wheel chair of generation of
bondage and In the real revelation
vanished over the threshold of earth,
then it evoked storm of applause.
The soft harp strains behind the
scenes, by Miss Vivien Donaldson,
added to the artistic effect Of the
revelation, and in the third part of
the program she and her sister, Miss
Dorothy Donaldson, viollnist, played a
duet, with variations, the old favOrite
"Suanee River" amid the attractive
special setting of a drawing room.
This was Miss Yivien's first appear
ance with her large harp in Grant
wood, and both this selection and
her solo and it's encore were greeted
with prolonged applause as new
feature in the towns musical attrac-
lions.
Miss Dorothy DonaldsOns two vlo-
lin selections, "Liebes Freud" and
ave Maria," accompanied ably at the
piano by Miss Hannah Mandel, were
as always received with enthusiastic
appreciation by the audience to whom
the progress into professional excel
lence on the part Of the violinist came
as an agreeable surprise.
The close of the program was one
adapted to restoring the audience to
the humor for the dance for Love
In Cupboard" was a light anus
ing farce featuring the trouble of two
playwrlghts in their play and real
life, splendIdly acted by Mrs. w. J.
Mcdonald, Mrs. Charles Munson and
DIR. John White, all former popular
actors in the clubs plays and by Mr..
Clifford Hendel, who was another
young actor making his debut as such
and making good at 1t so that in this
as in the other presentations one could
find nothing 10 crlticise and many
were the expressions of appreciation
and delight by all the favored audi
tors during the social time afterward.