Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-03
Whist Party

! 49, 1920 AAAAD eSAA CfVhll6~
Whist Party
Mrs. j. Il. d. Purington delightful
ly entertained six tables at whist
! Thursday evening.
|, Those present were MrsA Margaret
i Foster, Mrs. l.. Il. Carleton, Mrs. J.
III. Wellman, Mrs. j. A. Young, Mrs.
Everard French, Mrs. c. F. Marble,
Mrs. III. w. Stevens, Mrs. NJ. w. Wis
well, Mrs. E. p. Sturtevant, Mrs. w.
H. Davis. Mrs. Frank Farr, Mrs. G.
n. Towle. Mrs. u. M. Towle. Miss
Bertha Hudson. Miss Gertrude Long
, fellow. Mrs. w. ". Macomber, Mrs.
+ +. c. Leighton, Mrs. A. E. Snow,
Mrs. Lawrence Richmond, Mrs. r.
NJ. Chesley. Mrs. Lizzie Black, Mrs.
. w. M. Stockford, and Mrs. Carl
Bates. &<{
The auction prizes went to Mrs.
Ethel Towle, Mrs. Zadie Sturtevant
and Mrs. Frank Barr. Prizes in
plain whist were won by Mrs. Law
renee Richmond and Mrs. Carl
Bates.
Dainty refreshments were served
by the hostess assisted by Mrs. j. H.
Wellman.
Miss Gladys Chandler is visiting in
Boston.
Esther Rowell is passing the week
end with Miss Marjorie Rowell at
: Waterville.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. NJ. Brown and
Miss Gwendolyn Brown are passing
the week end in Westbrook.
Miss Elizabeth Larrabee is passing
the week end at her home in Water
vile.
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Cast for Drama "a Rustic Romeo
Rehearsals are under way for the
drama "A Rustic Romeo" which
| will be presented in connection with
the Ladies' Aid fair at the Town hall,
Nov. 22nd.
The cast of characters includes:
John JADE Doolittle, the heart smash
er of Chowderville. Harris c. Bishop;
Hiak Spinny, peddles tinware, wood
ware and hardware. everywhere,
Marsters E. York; Sid Roberts, who
yearns for the Great White1Way,
| Charles Pinkham; Azariah Figg,
storekeeper and postmaster, Joseph
G. Jordan; ,Grandpaw Blue, the old
| est inhabitant, Eugene E. York; Ev-
| alma Topper, the belle of Chowder-
| vile, Miss Elizabeth Larrabee; Miss
Diadeemy Dee, a lone lorn critter,
Mrs. Dora l.. Bishop: Mrs. Sarah Ell
len Spriggs. looking for third, Mrs.
Lottie E. York; Honeysuckle Spriggs,
| her little sunbeam, Miss Esther Ro-
we'll; also the society leaders of
| Chowdervilie and the Chowderville
| fire brigade.
The play is in two acts and is built
around the adventures of John Jabe
Doolittle, the Rustic Romeo, who is
proprietor of the hotel at Chowder-
Vile, on, Long Island. He~has been a
| lifelong butterfly and fliN and has
| proposed to every girl in Water
county and their mothers before
them. He answers a matrimonial
advertisement from a clinging blonde
named Flossie. The postal courtship
! progresses and the wedding is to
take place the Fourth of July at the
hotel. He confides his secret to- AZ
ariah F'igg. the postmaster, and to
Hink Sp:ilny. n tin peddler, The
lady arrives but proves to be a mid
| die aged widow with an uncertain
temper; her daughter, Honeysuckle,
a gay little flapper. accompanied by
a shaggy dog. Figg attempts to
chastise Honeysucke for stealing, but
| her mother rescues her and gives
ChowdervilIe a piece of her mind.
| The Rustic Romeo is horrorstruck
| at sight OF his bride, and attempts to
run away, but she captures him and
says the wedding must take place
I the next day. A mysterious robbery
occurs. Figg, the grocery keeper is
robbed of $40 and the audience is
kept in suspense until the final cur
| tain. for circumstantial evidence
| points to the guilt of anyone of four
parties. the Rustic Romeo, the tin
| pedler, the village bad boy. and Miss
| Dee, a lone, Torn critter of the village
who yearns for $40 to invest in pat
| ent medicines. Each of these char
acters is in turn suspected by Figg
and the audience, but no proof is at
hand, and the mystery is not solved
until the final curtain.
| In act ?, the bride, Mrs. Spriggs.
makes things generally unpleasant
for the Rustic Romeo, who finally. in
desperation. determines to run away
and not. marry her. Figg suggests
/ that he elope. Miss Dee ia the only
woman in the county who has re-
| fused him, and she offers to be the
sacrifice. Mrs. Spriggs finds conso-
lation in Azariah Figg. There is a
double wedding, Figg RECEIVERS his
$40 and all unite in a patriotic finale.