Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-15
Old South Missionary Play
A Success Tuesday Evening

Last evening the ladies of the Old
South League presented very sue
cessfully the three-act missionary
drama The Two Masters" written
by Bertha Cooper Fraser. The cast
Of characters was as follows: Mrs.
Van Horne, Mrs. James d. Nutting;
Mrs. Stuart, her mother, Mrs. Lottie
Hamilton: Janet McCrea. Harriet
Nutting: Rachel, Priscilla Hamilton;
Charlotte, Kathleen Andrews; Helen,
Elizabeth Coburn; Mrs. c. Won Der
Witt-Jones, Mrs. Ruth Hooper; the
President of the Culture Club, Mrs.
Frank s. Wingate.
The play opened in the home of
Mrs. Van Horne, who was reading
a letter from a former friend and
college classmate. now missionary
in China. This classmate, Mrs.
George McCrea, wished to send her
is year old daughter, Janet to the
United States to finish her educa-
ton at the college where she and
her friend had been educated and
she counted upon Mrs. Van Horne
not only to act as mother to Janet,
but also to influence her by her life
to return to China and take up her
mothers work. Mrs. Van Horne, in
the years that had separated the two
friends had grown worldly, had lost
much of her girlhood interest in
missions and was as she admitted to
herself, serving two masters. She
accepted the trust, however, and in
the second act, two years later, we
find her misgivings justified. Janet
SO admires Mrs. Van Horne that she
has unconsciously patterned herself
after her and grown away from her
mothers ideals. The third act was
later by another two years. Janet
had graduated from college and had
wholly given up the idea of going
back to China. Instead she had &C
copied fine position in a woman's
college. At a meeting of the Culture
Club. however, she heard the work
of the missionaries and of her moth
err ridiculed by Mrs. G. Won Der Witt
Jones and sprang to the defence, de-
Gliding finally to return to the work
to which her mother had dedicated
her life.
All the parts were well taken and
the story held the attention of the
audience. A silver collection was
taken for missionary work. Besides
the play there were other numbers
on the program that added to the
interest, and made the evening one
of real enjoyment for those who at
tended.
In connection with the play there
were several musical numbers. Car
roll Stevens and Miss Audrey Snare
sang two beautiful duets, "Baracole"
and Rock of Ages" Mrs. w. L.
Bradford at the piano. Between the
first and second scenes of the first
act Miss Ruth Johnson sang a de-
lightful solo, Just an Old-fashioned
Dear" She was enthusiastically en-
cored and repeated the selection.
During the interval between acts one
and two Mrs. w. z. Bradford played
a piano solo, while two tiny girls, the
Misses June Blake and Lorraine
Shepherd, took up a silver collection
for the mission work. They We're
very dainty and sweet in their pretty
little costumes and carried gay May
baskets to receive the collection. Be-
tween acts two and three Mrs.
Bradford played again. Her work is
always much appreciated and last
night was no exception.
Ice cream and cake were served
at the close of the play and very
pleasant social hour followed.