Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-12
|Sk0WHEGAN LOCAL NEWS
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| uO0US UUstOsO
| Malcolm Duncan Began Theatrical
| Career with Mansfield
The Lakewood Stock Co., Is ex-
tremely fortunate in having Malcolm
| Duncan as q member this season. Mr..
Duncan Is under contract with A. ii.
Woods, the well known New York
| producer, and he has loaned the ac-
| tor to the Lakewood management
| for the summer season. He will re-
| turn early in the fall to begin re-
hearsals in a new play for the COM
ing season.
| Two or three years ago Mr.. Dun
can spent few weeks at Lakewood
as a vacationist. He was so much
| taken with the place that he pur-
| chased a cottage on the lake. So
Mr.. Duncan enjoys the distinction OF
| being q resident Of Lakewood as
| we'll as a member of the organiza-
ton of players there.
| This week Mr.. Duncan will ap-
pear in "Ksmpy." the famous Nu-
gent comedy of which Howard Lind
say Is co-author. He began his stage
career with Richard Mansfield with
] whom he played for two seasons. AT
/ the close of the Mansfield engage
ment he knocked about in stock and
with road shows for a season or two,
returning eventually to New YORK TO
appear in the first Abraham Lincoln
play ever produced there. Henry B.
Harris saw him and Immediately
placed him under contract. He was
under the Harris management for
eight seasons appearing in such plays
as 1.-THE Lion and the Mouse" THE
Third Degree" 1.-THE Movers" and
"The Talker."
He then became leading man for
Mrs. Fiske, playing in Mrs. Bump
stead Leigh" for two years. He was
| in "Nightie Night" "Sonya". "Whfs-
pering Wires" and many other big
New York hits. He was. until he
came to Lakewood, in 1.-THE Back
slapper" at the Hudson.
He has been featured in pictures,
the most notable Of which was "The
Spendthrift" with Cyril Keightly
and Estelle Winwood.
Board Of Governors Elected for the
Lakewood Golf Club
The following board Of Governors,
who have the management of the
new Lakewood Golf Club in charge.
were elected at q recent meeting held
at Lakewood: L. C. TAT. Madison; G..
P. Merrill, Thomas e. Greenway Her.
bert L. SWEET. Skowhegan; c. S.
Humphrey, Charles e. Davis, Madi-
SON; Leslie H. Goldsmith, Skowhe-
gan; John B. Hymer, New York and
Lakewood; John White, Madison; G.
Allen Wentworth. Skowhegan; Roy
II. Marston. Skowhegan; William
1 Philbrick, Skowhegan. William Phil
brick was elected treasurer. A COM
lmittee made up Of Ernest c. Butler.
Roy L. Marston and William Phil
brick was appointed to draw UP q
set Of bylaws for the government OF
the club and present the same at the
next meeting. Over fifty have al
ready subscribed for the initial ex-
pense and the books are still open for
subscriptions in the hands of the
| treasurer, Mr.. Philbrick. Work on
the course began the first OF the
week under the able direction OF
Clarence Ayotte who was last year
employed laying out links at Houlton.
Miss Dorothy to Marry
| Many Skowhegan people will be In
terested in a wedding which is to
! occur on the 29th of June when Miss
Ruyb Francoy Dorothy becomes the
bride Of James Edward Daggett, Jr.
The ceremony will ltake place at IL
o'clock at the Elizabeth Avenue Bap-
| fist church at the Corner of Eliza
beth and Lyons Avenues at Newark.
N. J. Miss Dorothy Is the older
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert G..
| Dorothy, both of whom were formerly
! from Skowhegan. Mrs. Dorothy be-
fore her marriage was Miss Belle E.
ties, The bride is a niece Of Charles
Estes Of Skowhegan. She Is an ar
tist Of much talent and has received
excellent training. Miss Dorothy has
frequently visited in town since early
childhood and the family have many
friends here Mr.. and Mrs. James
Edward Daggett, Jr., will be at home
after the 18th of July at % Bay View
Terrace. Newburgh, N. Y.
Town Improvement Board Meeting
| A business session of sthe official
board Of the Town Improvement So
ciety was held Thursday afternoon at
the home Of the president, Mrs. Viola
F. Smith on Madison Ave.
The Helen Coburn Missionary So
ciety will hold its annual meeting
this Friday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Everett T. Goodrich on Madison
Ave-. when the officers for the COM
ing year will be elected and a pleas
ing program presented.
| Mrs. Emma Haskell and little Hell
| en- Smith were in Madison Thursday
the guests of little Helen's mother,
| Mrs. Alice Smith.
| Mrs. e. Pottle and son, A. Wyman,
who were called here the first of the
| week by the critical illness of Mrs.
Pottle's sister, Mrs. Mary Green, re-
turned Thursday to their home in
South Gardiner.
| Mrs. Melvin Palmer of Hinckley
was q business caller in town Thurs
| day.
Mrs. Gertrude Sanborn has opened
q tea room at her home on the d.
rect road from Skowhegan to Scion,
| q short distance above lakewood
q patient at the, Kennebec Valley
| hospital.
Attorney Charles o. Small Of Mad
week, presiding at sessions of the
county probate court.
Josph Coburn Smith, Colby '24,
now a student at Harvard college.
| Will attend Colby Commencement
next week.
| Rev. Herbert L. Nichols of the Meth
| odist church was in Canaan last
| night. acting az Commencement
| Chaplain for the grammar school.
Mrs. Mark Dinsmore was in Wat
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