Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-18
Comedy Given by
WOman's Club A
Pleasing Success

merely mary Ann, q comedy IN
four acts by Israel Zangwill was ad-
mirably presented before an audience
that taxed the City Opera house to
capacity Tuesday evening under the
auspices Of the Waterville Woman's
club. The cast Of characters was
made up entirely Of local people and
the play was one which would ordi-
narily be considered beyond the abil-
lily or amateur players. But such
was not the case Tuesday evening and
the comedy was handled in a way
which would have done full Justice
to a metropolitan. company.
AS the play, the length of which
did not in the least detract from it's
interest, unfolded, a number of the
strata of English society were de-
picted most realistically and the au-
dience was carried from a semi gem
teel lodging house in London's South
End to the elegance Of an aristocratic
manor.
Those in the leading parts, Abbott
+. Smith as Lancelot, struggling
composer and Merely Mary Ann, the
scrub girl of the lodging house, ac-
Quilted themselves in a way not soon
to be forgotten. Both have previous
~ been seen often on local stages
and their performances of Tuesday
evening put their regulations on a
still more enviable plane.
Peter who Is in business and Is a
close friend of Lancelot, was we'll
played by H. c. Marden and Francis
Bartlett as Herr Brahmson, the
music publisher, proved one of the
most enjoyable characters of the eve
ming. The superior acting of Mrs.
Eva Jackson as Mrs. Leadbetter. the
boarding housekeeper, and Miss Ruth
Bunt as her daughter made the scenes
OF the lodging house realistic indeed.
THOSE who portrayed thS British
peerage Mrs. Carl Green as Lady
Chelmer. a peeress confronted with
financial difficulties: Miss Ruth Abb
bott as Caroline. Countess of Foxwell
and friend of Lady Chelmer: Miss
Edna Cohen as Lady Gladys Valen-
tine. the countess daughter: Mrs.
George j. .Stobie as the Hon. Mrs.
Fftzgeorge and Miss Lena Drisco as
her daughter and Mrs. Willis Getchell
as Lady Glynn of the smart set. all
acted with much ability and their
performances were a pleasing ele-
ment of the play.
The performance was featured bv
number Of specially dances by the
little pupils of Mrs. Eloise Anderson.
Florence Stobie In a Buttercup dance,
Shirley Brown as a dancing doll
Hope Bradley in a Cinderella dance
and Cecilia Travers in a Polish dance
showed the results of careful prac-
tlce for their part and excellent in
struction on the part of their teach
er. The dances were beautiful and
the young dancers were roundly ap-
plauded.
Miss Extreme Flood acted as the di-
rectress of the comedy and the sue
cess OF the evening was due in no
small degree to her work. Mrs. Frank
Brown was the business manager
while Miss Katherine Boutelle had
charge of the tickets. The properties
were cared for by Mrs. Edward Ris-
ley, Mrs. George Weed and Mrs.
Webster Chester and Mrs. George
Stobie directed the advertising.
The music for the evening was fur
nished by the Waterville senior high
school orchestra under the leadership
of Mrs. H. C. Marden.
The cast: Lancelot, Abbott E.
Smith; Peter. H. c. Marden: Herr
Brahmson. Francis Bartlett: Rev.
odIHucl olHeuSe, LII. II. u. houston,
O'Gorman, Clarence Hale; Lord Vail
entine. Walter Day; Howard, Lind
say Dinsrnore; Telegraph Boy. Moves
Erwin; Mrs. Leadbetter, Mrs. Eva
Jackson: Rosie. Miss Ruth Blunt:
Kitty Trippett, Miss Katherine Bou-
telle; Polly Trippett, Mrs. Maurice
F. Mccarthy: Lady Chelmer, Mrs
Carl r. Green: Caroline, Miss Ruth
Abbott: Lady Gladys Valentine. Miss
Edna Cohen; The Hon. Mrs. Fitz-
george, Mrs. George J. Stobie: Row.
ena Fitzgeorge, Miss Lena Drisco:
Lady GlYnn. Mrs. L. Willis Getchell: