Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-23
DAUGHTERS DAY FOR THE
W0MAN'S CLUB

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Daughters bay at the Woman's
Club is always a delightful and well
attended meeting of the club year,
but. this years meeting Monday
night in the chapel of the Presby-
terrain church was unusually well at
tended and the play and musical
program presented under h direc-
ton of the Dramatic Department of
the Girls Club. raj most enthusiast
tically received. On this occasion the
Girls Club were the guests of the
women members and over 200 men,
bers of both clubs and guests were
present to enjoy the comedy en-
titled "A Day and A Night" writ
ten by Miss Grace Ruggeri and en-
acted quite skillfully by a cast of ten
characters in two scenes.
The scene opens in a coy room
of the would-be boarding house of
the Iecding character, Miss Dorothy
Briee. played by Miss La Verne De-
bamm. Miss Brice is filled with
ideaiistic notions on the subject of
boarding houses and her aunt, Mrs.
Clancy. enacted by Miss Dorothy
Hauden, arrives at the critical mo-
ment to assist her in her schemes.
whe boaruers begin to arrive at
once, a most unusual lot of charac-
ters, first the singer, Miss Gertie
Warbler, otherwise Miss Elizabeth
Dolan, followed by the demonstrated.
Isella Belt, Miss Alberta Williams;
the anti-suffragette, Miss Anna Jen-
sen, the suffragette and the teach
err. Miss Kathryn Herbert and Miss
Elsie Bernard; followed last but not
least by Juliet McBeth, the actress,
otherwise, Mrs. Rose Kempner. All
are ushered In and assigned to their
rooms after much discussion, by the
maid, Jennie. played by Miss Muriel
Haney and all invade the kitchen
and privacy of the colored cook,
Nanny Sue with Miss Rose Sacarny
in this role.
The plot involves itself around a
pie. Dorothy's first achievement
which gives the high strung actress
a nightmare and prevents the cook
from getting her proper rest. This
affords an interesting arrangement
for the second scene which OF curse
takes place that night. The aunt
asleep in the morris chair and the
cook sleeping in the living room to
keep warm are greatly frightened by
the actress who walks in her sleep
and rehearses the scenes from Mac
beth and the play ends quite as you
would expect with all leaving for
most sufficient The plot of
the play is extremely simple but the
characters and their interpretations
by the girls Monday night kept the
in an uproar from the be-
to the end. An amateur
play is always amusing because of
the audiences interest in the players
themselves but Monday nights per-
Torrance was Interesting not only
because of this but because of the
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every girl executed her part.
The stage settings were most eff
fective and c~leverly arranged by the
stage manager, Miss Marion Flo
ersch, with scenery generously loan
ed by. Counihan a. Shannon, and fur
from Albert Icons furniture
The play was given an added
touch by the program of delightful
musical numbers before, after and
in between the acts. Miss Thelma
soprano, a pupil of Miss
Killion's. sang charmingly.
g~raciously favoring with an encore;
Miss Clara Gill. pianist, a pupil of
piano solos with skillful technique
and Miss Amy Drysdale and Miss
Mildred Westcott sang a duet as the
the conclusive and effective number
of the program.
The business session preceding the
play was necessarily short as is
usually the case at the evening
meetings of the club. Several inter-
reports were heard and
among them the report of Mrs.
Dorsey. chairman of the
department of the club.
Mrs. Dorsey spoke of the forty eight
hour working week bill. the state
bill and the bill increasing
the widows pension $500 for each
child after which the club unani- |
mously voted to endorse the bills.
Mrs. Dorsey also urged the personal
a~dvocation of these bills to the sem
ator and representatives of the state.
An invitation was also extended
to the club members to attend the
exhibition at the Academy of
in New York some time next
The exact dates will be
announced later.