Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-25
PLAY AGAIN IS
GREAT SUCCESS
Catholic Daughters Have Sec
ond Capacity House--AI
Receive Great Praise

Playing before a capacity house,
the members of the Miss Bob
White" musical comedy company,
last night scored another hit at the
Majestic theatre. This performance
marked the second and final showing
of the three-act play which was put
on by the John B. Rogers Producing
Company under the auspices of the
Catholic Daughters of America.
Every role was taken by local talent
and very few traces IT amateur the
al ~tricals could be found, despite the
Eifficult songs, dances, lines and ac-
4 lions.
The manner in which the princi-
pals carried out the plot was little
short of wonderful when the time of
preparation for this production IS
considered. The group songs and
dances were further evidence of he
utility of those taking part to quick
1y learn. Only ten days were cen
sumed by Director w. H. McGreevy
in rounding the actors and actresses
into form. 1t would be difficult at
times to realize that the perform
nnce was being presented by ANA
tours and not professional entertain
ers, so flawless were the actions of
the players.
Having proited by the first nights
experience the members of the cast
seemed to feel perfectly at home on
the stage and showed nc trace of
self-consciousness. Any rough spots
or uncertainties which might have
been evidenced at the initial per-
Torrance had disappeared and the
difficult production was presented
with the precision of clock-work.
From the tiniest member of the
Bubble Chorus" the opening num-
Der on the program made up of
about 1875 little girls, to the princi-
pals the players evidenced not a
single sign of stage fright and the
assurance with which they played
the parts set the audience at ease
early in the show and soon made
them forget it was an amateur pro-
duction.
The work of the members of the
cast proved ~conclusively that it is
not necessary to go out of the city to
secure theatrical talent. The same
remark was often heard, IF this is
an example of what Perth Amboy
Nan do after ten days rehearsing,
hat would be the result in the case
81 a production in which several
weeks of hard work were required?"
1t would be difficult to pick out
any particular persons and sing his
or her praises as each member CO
the cast had to excel along different
lines. 1t was generally conceded,
however, that the c1eve character
work of John Egan and James
Murray, who portrayed the two mil
~lionaires forced to become tramps
for two months as the result of a
freak bet, was largely responsible
f. the success of the show.
EgNn and Murray possess all of
the ease of born actors and were
able to put across effectively the sit
~uations about which the plot of the
cess of the play depended. Dotn
were extraordinarily versatile, their
eccentric dance numbers calling
numerous encores. Their COMEDY
songs lines and m%anoeuvers were
Ill that could be expected.
The other principals were at
their best last night. also Mrs.
Estelle Christopher playing the title
role of Miss Bob White to perfec-
lion. The song numbers connected
with this part were well sung and
her actions as the city girl, mas
uuerading as a milkmaid, were typi-
cal of any woman who found her
self in a similar situation. Phyllis,
portrayed by Mrs. Anna Delaney.
proved to be a .demure and quiet
Quaker girl, the daughter of the
pious and solemn thinking Friend
Samuel Rodd, played by Jack
Kelly. Jack. in love with Phyllis,
gave Francis Dalton an opportunity
to sing and dance. Miss Autumn,
of the select Colonial danes, proud
~Nossessor OF great ancestors, was
liss Ethel Lewis.
James Rhodes played the diff
cult role of Lord Bashful, the
Englishman in love with Phyllis,
with fine effect and his "fawther,
don't you know" was portrayed by
Richard Calvin, but it would have
been difficult to recognize the genial
alderman-at-Iarge in the guise of
the nobleman. Miss Josephine
Laub did justice to the role of Mag
gle, the maid, winning n of the
millionaire sons of the earth IN
the end. Bernard Toolan as O'Yank-
omin, the constable, and Asa RELY
as Deyere, the colored servant, COM
pleted the cast of principals.
The song and dance groups, con-
eisting of fox hunters, colonial
danes, milkmaids and farmers. fir
tation group, 81 Can't Leave the
Girls Alone" group, and the Jackies
! .oeated their successes of the first
night. The "girly'' number in par
ticular, in which Walter Mack sang
the solo part, being the lone man
with sixteen, won many ncores
The performance last night marks
the close of the second musical COM
edy of this type successfully put on
by the Catholic Daughters in this
city, "Miss Springtime" having been
presented last fall. The committee,
consisting of Mrs. M. M. Rodecker,
chairman; Miss Blanche VanSyckle,
tickets; Miss Katharine M. Leavy,
program; Miss Helen Deegan, adj
vertising; Miss Mary Lewis, talent;
Miss Grace O'Brien, finance, and
Mrs. Harry Neil, properties, has ex-
tended IN tho ATTENDING DuhHc the