Evening star., 1925-11-22
HILLTOP PLAYERS
PLANNING BIC TOUR
To Present "Monsieur Beau
CaIre" in New York, Pitts
burgh and Other Cities.

For the first time in IL years a stu
dent dramatic club of Georgetown
University is to leave the local pre-
cincts of the Hilltop for an invasion
of Broadway.
Swinging about the eastern and
western circuit during the Christmas
holidays, the Mask and Bauble Club
plans to present Monsieur Beau
Caire" to a host of alumni in five
cities for the benefit of the George
town endowment fund. Definite ar
engagements already have been made
by the Pittsburgh alumni to welcome
the players either December IS or l9,
following the initial performance in
Washington December IA. New York
alumni have invited the club to APP
pear on Broadway December %, and
unless plans go amiss the club VIII
visit Chicago. Cleveland and Buffalo.
where active alumni associations are
arranging for performances.
Old Manager Back.
BY coincidence the manager who
took the first Georgetown club TO New
York in 1914, Edward Met. Donnelly,
is TO resume that role during the hoh-
days Mr. Donnelly has returned to
his alma mater as a member OF the
faculty, and il is under his direction
that the Mask and Bauble Club Is
arranging for the staging of Booth
Tarkington's masterpiece.
The Georgetown players will char
ter a private car for their holiday
tour John Z. Laughlin. president OF
the Pittsburgh alumni, is arranging
for a ball in connection with the per
formanCe which will be given at one
of the principal hotels, all the thea
ters being engaged at that time. his
son, John Z. Laughlin, jr., is mem
Der of the cast. In New York II. Don
Keresey,, one of the most loyal OF
Georgetown supporters, Is planning
big reception for the student players:
A cast of y players, with an equal
number Of underStudies, has been
chosen for this ambitious program.
Members of Cast.
Members of the cast. including
understudies for each part, have been
chosen as follows: NJ Beaucalre,
Thomas G. Hagerty and Paul Lyons;
Duke of Winterset, Aloysius P. Kane
and Thomas p. Loughlin; Mr. Molly
neux, Joseph w. Madden and Will
liam c. O'Neill; Harry Rackell,
James P Cummiskey and Philip
Dean; Capt. Badger. Francis +.
Moran and Louis j. Twomey; Beau
Nash, Robert II. Christie and John
f. Mckone; Lord Tovnbrake. Clar-
ence Dussault and John +. OBrien;
Mr.. Bantison, Francis T. Monahan
and Louis S. Frick; Sir Hugh Gull
ford, Francis J. O'Connor and VIII
liam X. Gallagher; Henri de Beau
jolais, J. P. Cahill and John T
Doran; Marquis de Mirepofx' John
De Long and j. ]. O'Connor; Fran
co.'s. William F. Illig and John p.
Rim: Victor Henry Blommer and
+. Shelley Bambace; servant to
Nash, +. ]. O'Connor and James j.
Hannah; Lady Mary CarlySle, VIII
liam j. Ward, E. Laughlin and
Francis I. McGarrag ghy: Lady Nal
bourne, A. L. Kane and Francis l.
McGarraghy Lady Charlse, Joseph S.
Mullen and John +. Laughlin. jr.;
Lady Rellerton. Frank T. Ryan and
John F. Cavanaugh; Lady Barring
Gould. Stephen A. Mccarthy and J.
S. Mullen; Estelle, Charles Porter
Maloney and William B. Platt:
Marie, Horace A. Herlihy and
Charles L. Gleason.
Plans are under way for the junior
prom and diplomatic ball to be given
by the class Of 1927 of the School Of
Foreign Service at the Maytiower
Hotel, December II. This function
will be the first of it's kind ever
given by the school and the general
pIOIIl COIliIllliSt ID w VI Nib Al NOII-
junction with a committee composed
of Andrei Popovici, attache of the
Rumanian relagtion, and Senor Don
Benjamin Cohen, secretary of the
Chilean embassy, who are members
Of the diplomatic course at the
school
Paul H. Coughlin is chairman of
the general committee. a large at
tendance of foreign diplomats is
promised and the student body is
expected to give the prom almost
100 per cent support. Other mem
bers of the committee are J. Robert
Trainor, Robert T. Brown, George w.
O'keefe, Edward Cremey, Richard
Schieck, Robert G. Cass, ]. Edgar
Dick. George Donnellv. Frank Ahern,
\. Douglas Cook and Leo r. Dillon.
Three orchestras have been engaged.