Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-13
Clever Portrayals in
Farce Comedy, "a
Full House" at Au-
gusta Opera House,
Monday Afternoon
and Evening

players of this city as high class en-
tertainers suffered not whit in
their presentation of "a Full House"
at the Opera House. Monday after
noon and evening. The play,
three-act comedy drama, kept the
big crowds laughing from the be-
ginning of the first act until the A.
nal curtain and had there not been
a word in the play, the expressions
on the faces of the cast would have
told only too plainly the parts they
were meant to interpret.
The curtain rose on an apart
ment, in very prosperous residen-
tial section, the owner of which had
gone away and sub-leased her apart
ment to a young lawyer and his
wife, recently married. The next
day after they had chosen this res
1dence, the groom, a part most ably
PLAYED by John. McDonough, was
compelled to go to Boston on a bust
ness trip for one of his clients, who
was also a personal friend and the
results of this trip formed the
whole theme of the story.
In order to make his trip all the
more a secret the lawyer told his
young bride, a role filled to perfec-
ton by Miss Dorothy Stone, that
business demanded his attention in
Cleveland and Immediately the
young husband went to Boston in
an attempt to get some letters which
his chum and client, Ned Pembroke
(Robert Faulkner) had thoughtless-
ly written to a girl, who afterwards
proved to be a well known chorus
girl and a character shrewd enough
n nit q1iZp nr tho 1ptfarS or hroalr
up Pembroke's latest and most per-
manent love affair.
At the same time a robbery &C.
Cured at the home of Ned Penn
broke's mother, and jewelry, valued
at $4,000, was stolen. The robber
in his getaway sleeps in the berth
Donough) and in a wreck the trav-
elling bags of the two parties are
changed and the burglar makes his
way blissfully onward with the
grip containing the love letters,
while Howell unsuspectingly makes
his way homeward with a grip con-
tanning the jewels and a complete
yegg's outfit, to face a wife whose
suspicious as to his real destination
have been nursed along by an aunt
who distrusts the male species of
the human race.
The solving of the complications
thus easily aroused kept the audi
ence in a continual gale of laughter
and there was not dull second in
| the whole performance. The part of
| Parkes, the English butler. acquired
by the young couple along with the
apartment, was played by j. Ber-
nard Sheehan, who gave his usual
| stellar performance and could be de-
pended upon to make matters worse
by habit of telling the truth in a
way to make it sound suspicious.
| The other servant was Susie, from
! Sioux City, a part played to such
perfection by Miss Anne Faulkner
] that she was the center of attrac-
/ ton throughout the play. showed
the second domestic of the Howell
| household. Susie was very DESTROYS
of getting back to her home in Sioux
! City and to gain this end worked
! her brains to the limit of her none
too brilliant mental powers, even to
holding the coveted jewels in her
possession for part of the time and
finally being induced to hand them
over to the crook at the mere men
ton of her home town.
| George Traynor, playing the part
Of Nicholas King. a man of the
| world and much addicted to help
ing himself to what other people
have in their possession, gave one
of the most interesting character
portrayals of the play. Admittedly
rather crooked in his dealings with
the rest of the human race, he
showed a dry humor as a full fledged
member of the underworld and a
cleverness bordering upon genius
when his liberty was threatened by
the officers of the law. Ills smooth
line of talk in which he induced
Susie to part with the Pembroke
! jewels for the sum of $3.50, the
price of a ticket to Sioux City, and
the same diplomatic manner of talk
ing which enabled him to collect the
! reward for the jewels which he had
stolen. pleased the large crowd
which witnessed the performances.
! Miss Harriet Enright, in the part
| OF the suspicious aunt, was Just sus-
picious enough to question every
move of her niece's husband and her
other nieces sutton and her narrow
minded view of their actions was an
| other feature that caused consider
able merriment.
The second niece, as yet unmar-
r1ed, but who had accepted the for
| merly thoughtless but now only too
thoughtful, Ned Pembroke, was a
| part most capably represented by
Miss Jane Faulkner. She proved to
have some ideas of her own as to
what kind of a wedding would be
IN order and her prompt refusal to
consider hasty marriage, kept the
audience in suspense as to whether
OF not the romance would ever end
in matrimony.
Joseph Grenier. John Albison and
Ainert wheeler played the parts of
poilcemen, the representatives Of
law and order whose desire To an
force the law was much greater than
their ability to find any clue which
might be of any value in returning
the stolen jewels to their rightfuI
owner. ~
Madelyne Allison. PLAYING tbe
part OF the chorus girl, who broke
emoroke's youthful heart and kent
ms IoVe letters, was as hard boiled
q vampire as one could wish for and
the Iact that her schemes to ruin
Neo s latest romance failed was due
entirely to circumstances a. ID NOT 10
the failure of her well laid pIans to
carry out her plot. ~ ~
Catnarine Larkin as the indignant
original owner of the apartment
VINO rushed home to GUST the unde,
sired tenants, and Mrs. Pembroke
FRANCES Faulkner) were parts that
caused their share of the merriment
ana their appearance completed the
cast OF one of the most successful
amateur plays staged in Augusta for
some time.