Evening star., 1924-05-25
Plans Are Completed
For Benefit Play of
Goth Century Club
Woman Members to Present
Satire Based on Oil In
quiry at Shubert-Belasco
Tomorrow Night.

The women of the Twentieth Cen
tury Club virtually have completed
the arrangements and rehearsals for
the satirical play based on the oil
lease investigation doings in Wash
ington this winter and which will
he presented at the Belasco Theater
tomorrow night. The play is to
be given for the benefit of the Juve-
nile Protective Association.
The cast of characters in the play.
which is called "A Winters Tale of
Teapot Dome" is made public today
for the first time. 1t will be noted
that William Shakespeare has sup
piled all the characters, as he has the
basis in large part for the satirical
treatment of the oil subject. The
characters in the order of appearance
are these: First Witch, Julia Van
Schaick; Second Witch, Anna Jones;
Third Witch, Lou Pventiss; Mac Beth,
Anne Miller: Bottom. the ASS, Mabel
Swormstedt; Hannibal the Eelephant
Lenore Smith; Caesar, Alice Allen;
First Senator. Eliza Clark: Second
Senator, Elizabeth COville; Third
Senator. Anna Wiley. Brutus. Mana
Jackson; Cassius, Mary Mandenhall;
Touchstone, Mabel Hollister: Puck,
Carolyn Jackson; Ariel. Alice Dem
ing; First Gravedigger, Julia Van
Schaick; Second Gravedigger, Myra
Hendley; Ghost. Isabelle harrington; !;
Hamlet. Mary Mendenhall; Ophelia.
win; Juliet, Zenaida Merriam, Fall
staff, Agnes Newmyer: Pistol, Anna
Grover; Simple, Eva Chapline; Henry
Ford. Lou Prentiss; Claudia. Mary
Clark: Nero. Lillian Smith; Othello.
Anna Grover: Lady Mac Beth. Helen
Greenlees; Lear, Adelaide Pulsifer
Fool. Eva Chapline; Jacques, Justina
Way; Shylock, Adelaide PulSifer: First
Dromio, Anne Miller: Second Dromio,
isabelle Farrington; John. Myra
Hendley: Robert, Margaret Goodwin
Polonius, Frances Sidwell; Portia.
Mana Jackson; Mob, members of the
club, their daughters and the Mar
jorie Webster ballet.
Play in Two Acts.
The play has two acts. The three
scenes of the first act are THE
and Julius Caesar"
Between the acts the Teapot Dome
ballet will be given by Miss Marjorie
Webster and her pupils. Mrs. Milton
and Mrs. Davis will sing I Know a
Bank Where the Wild Thyme Blows
and the orchestra will play The
Poupee Ealsante" of Poldini.
The two scenes of the second act
are Midsummer Nights Dream" and
Much Ado About Nothing Two
songs will be introduced-"A Little
House on N and 70 Mr.. promo.
The postlude will be The Parade OF
the Wooden Soldiers" The leader OF
the orchestra will be Dore Walten.
The complete list of patronesses of
the play is here given for the nrst
time: Miss Mary b. Adams, Mrs. Ed
Miss Susan Baker, Mrs. John Beavers,
Mrs. Charles ]. Bell, Mrs. Frank
Barker, Mrs Clifford X. Berryman
Mrs. George c. Birdsall. Mrs: Delos A
William Bowie. Mrs Frank S. Bright,
Mrs. Henry X. Bush Brown, Mrs.
Edna X. Bushee, Mrs. Coner Brown,
Mrs James +. Carmalt. Miss Mildred
H. Clarke. Mrs. Edward c. Clifford
Mrs. James w. Crabtree, Mrs. Whit
Bradley Davidson. Mrs. Henry NJ.
Dawes, Mrs. Herbert L, Day. Mrs.
Frederic Delano. Mrs. Charles DENLY,
Mrs. j. ]. Dimon. Miss Katharine
Dougall. Mrs. Peter A. Drury, Mrs
Arthur Dunn.
Mrs. Franklin X. Ellis. Mrs. Amos
A. Fries. Mrs. David Du Bose Gaillard,
Mrs Christopher u. Garnet, Mrs. Lar
kin ". Giazebrook, Mrs. Eliot IL
Goodwin, Mrs. William Crawford
Gorgas, Miss Florence Grandin. Mrs
William Hard, Mrs. Clarence l.. Hard
ing, Miss Helen Harman, Mrs. Charles
NJ. Hendley. Mrs. Howard L. Hodg-
kins. Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mrs.
Loren Johnson. Mrs. Vernon Kellogg,
Mrs. Robert H. kelton, Miss Louise
F. King. Mrs. Augustus Knight, Mrs.
J. Wilmer Latimer. Mrs: Eugene L.
La Merle, Mrs. Fulton Lewis, Mrs.
William Mather Lewis. Mrs. Ed
ward G. Lowrey, Mrs. Charles
Graves Matthews. Miss Margaret
Merrill, Mrs. George F. Mitchell, Mrs.
Francois B. Moran, Mrs. Arthur F.
Musgrave, Mrs. George Myers, Mrs.
John J. Myers, Miss Emma Nourse.
Mrs. Theodore w. Noyes, Mrs. Thomas
w. Page, Miss Helen S. Perkins, Mrs.
Newbold Noyes, Mrs. Wallace Rad
cliffe, Mrs. Giles S. Rafter, Mrs. Fred
Reed, Miss Cora Rigby, Mrs. William
B. Rogers, Mrs. Daniel C. Roper. Mrs.
Cuno Rudolph, Mrs. w. P. Stafford,
Mrs Francis NJ. Savage, Judge Kath-
ryn Sellers. Mrs. l.. A. Simon, Miss
Caroline Smith, Mrs. L. D. Smoot,
Miss Aline Solomans, Mrs. W. E. SAT-
ford. Mrs. Edmond NJ Talcott Mrs.
Walter Tuckerman, Mrs. WILDER r.
Turner, Mrs. Tully Vaughn, Mrs.
Myron w. Whitney, Mrs. Richard
Yates, Mrs. Mark Reid Yates.
The play was compiled and adapted
by Mrs. Frederic E. harrington,
Club, assisted by other members of
the organization.
The play will be produced under
the direction of Mary Wright Balm.