Smyrna times., 1924-01-30
CENTURY CLUB HAVE PLAY
Opera House Crowded Friday Eeven-
ing to Hear the Home Talent Pro-
ductiOn "Mr. and Mrs. Polly Tickk"

ing to Hear the Home Talent Pro-
ductiOn "Mr. and Mrs. Polly Tickk"
The Smyrna Opera House was
crowded Friday evening to witness
the three-act comedy drama "Mr. and
Mrs. Polly Tickk," given under the
auspices of the Twentieth Century
Club. Miss Thelma Marie Richard
son of the Wayne P. Sewell Lyceum
Producing Company of Atlanta
Georgia, directed the talent and took
one of the leading parts in the play
that of "Daisy Anne Grey" playing
opposite to F. Charles LeCompte as
"Billy Lawson" When the curtain
rose on the opening scene, the audi
ence beheld Father Time and Dame
Fashion discussing the approaching
fashions for men and women. Father
Time read in his record book of girls
in hoop skirts and polk bOnnets as in
the days of long ago. Dame Fashion
saw in her crystal ball, men in ruffled
trousers and frills-all of which was
portrayed in an ensemble of music
composed of the entire cast. The
time was 1875. The women, on get
ting the ballot, took the reins of gov
ernment and gradually exchanged
places with the men. The women
were dressed in mannish clothes and
attended to practically all the business
leaving the men at home to do the
hOusewOrk, sewing, darning, nursing,
etc. The married men dressed in
frills and furbelows, and at the be-
ginning of the play seemed to have
lost all their masculine habits and to
have surrendered all of their male at
tire except their pants, to which they
held on with bulldog tenacity. The
comedy provoked much laughter.
Aside from the individual acting, the
chorus singing and skits made a de-
cided hit. 1t would be difficult to give
praise to one without praise to all.
Considering the short time given for
/ rehearsals, it was very good. The
cast of characters We're as follows:
/ Father Time ................ Henry Ennis
1 Dame Fashion .......... Mrs. Bayard culver
Girl of 1850 ............ Evelyn Stotesbury
/ Girl of 1878 .............. Thelma Robinson
Beruhled Dude ........,..... James McLain
I Male Flapper ................ Howard Green
The Woman Who Wants to Vote.
Mrs. Olive Shallcross
Another Who Says She Won't. Francis Sevi
/ Mr.. Polly Tickk ........ .... Rev. T. G. Hill
! Mrs. Polly Tckk. Mrs. Thomas CoverdalC
| Billy Lawson .......... F. Charles LeComptt
/ Daisy Anne ...... Thelma Marie Richardson
! Senator Zela Highbrow Mrs. James Pratt
Sullivan O'Brien ........... James Patterson
Capt. Bridget O'Brien ...... Emily Spruanc'
Mr.. Eva Edwards ......... W. +. Matthew
Mr.. Edna Ray .............. James Davidson
! Mr.. Mary lamb ..........A..... Irwin Herr
Mr.. Birdie Mae Harris Leslie p. Moore
Mr. Susan johnson ............ Harry JOne
Mrs. Eva Edwards ........ Elizabeth Wilson
MRS. Euna Ray ......-....... Helen Shaple!
Mrs. Mary Lamb ........-.. Christine klrb!
Mrs. Birdie Mae Harris. Roberta Denne!
Mrs. Susan Johnson ........ Alma Coleman
Mr.. Ruth Scott ............. Lyman Scottoi
Mrs. Ruth Scott ........ Mrs. Ernest Collin
Children of the Polly Ticks: Helen Harmon
son, Roberta Collins, Charles Swain. Bill,
Roe.
Chorus: Eva Stanley. Florence Arts. Rebecci
Williams, Caroline Stats, Elizabeth Hill
Margaret Hill Francis Alexander. Henrietti
Rothwell. Pauline Thornley,, Elizabeth Thorn
ley. Ruth Collins. Evelyn Harris Midre,