Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-03-05
NINE All PLAYS
IN COMPETITION
Kent All Club to Compete
March 9Th at Caesar Rodney
and March 9th at Clayton
DOOR RECEIPTS DIVIDED

Comedy, drama and melodrama
will be combined to give two even
ings of entertainment on Friday,
March 6 at Caesar Rodney and
Monday, March 8, at Clayton when
nine one-act plays will be given by
All club members in the county.
Friday nights bill includes West
vile Club in "Hannah's Pitcher"
directed by Mrs. Levi DAILY. Cast
of the play includes Doris Mitchell,
Peggy Ann Munoz, Wilbatt Com
eggs, Peggy Warren, Betty Mitch
ell, Grace Jackson and Jack Webb.
With Mrs. Rxel Rosengren coach
ing, the Paradise Club presents
Elmer Cleans UP" with a cast
made up of Jack Dill, Alice Rosen-
gren, Anna Barto, Boyd Wander
grift and Jeanette Bostic. Third
play for Friday night is ASK
Nancy" with an all-girl cast given
by the Cardinal Juniors of Houston.
They are Phyllis Armour, Doris
Marvel, Hazel and Ann Sapp, Betty
Wootten and Albina Kielbasa.
Union Club will give Queen Anne's
Lace" with Kenneth E. P. Meredith
directing follows next in line and
boasts a cast composed of Marie
McGinnis, Otis Craig, Marjorie Bar
bour, Maurice Poole and Helene
Bowers. Climaxing the evening the
Clayton Clodhoppers present "The
Catalogue" and the cast includes
Harry Cloud, Marietta Legar, Dor
othy Hill, Robert Newman and
Merrick Horn, Jr.
Monday Nights Bill
The four plays for Monday
nights bill of attractions at Clay
ton are the following: 1.-THE Out
slider" presented by the Cheswold
Needle SINGERS, another all-girl
cast including Marie Rampendahl,
Gloria Strimel, Gloria Slater, and
Ethel VanPelt. Clayton Juniors
are giving two plays I'm Behalf of
Calf" with cast composed of
Robert Newman, Mary Louise Ely,
Murphy Aiosa, Billy Whalen, Flor
ence Hopkins, Francis Kitchens
and Nancy Hudson and another
Wild Cat Willie play which this
group has given so successfully for
two years. This year it is wild
Cat Willie's Lucky Number" and
the lucky characters arev Delaney
Pryor, Marlyn Rawlinson, Marie
Churchman, Francis Kitchens, The
odosia Hopkins, Ned Horn and
Shirley Richards. The fourth club
participating on oMnday evening is
Bay View presenting "Henry's Mail
Order Wife" Those in the cast are
Elwood Massey, Lloyd McNatt, AL
win Thompson, Bessie McNabb,
Margaret Kinsey and Eugene Will
son. Mrs. Blanche Lee has been
assisting them with the production.
These plays must come within a
playing time limit between 20 min
utes and 40 minutes. Youthful
dramatic artists taking part in the
play will be judged by Mrs. George
Ehinger, Dover, Mrs. Louise Hof-
fecker Burslem, Smyrna and Will
liam Catalan, member of the Do
ver School faculty. AS result of
the judges scoring the plays will be
ranked according to first, second
and third winner for each evening
with the highest scorer receiving is
percent of the door receipts, the
second receiving 10 percent and the
third percent. Remaining 70 per
cent will be divided equally among
all the clubs participating that ev-
ening after operating expenses
have been deducted. The outstand-
ing play of the nine given will be
All representative at the Delaware
Dramatic Festival at Newark, April
25th. Entertainment between plays
will be furnished at Clayton by the
Hawiian Trio and the McNatt
brothers of Bay View. At Caesar
Rodney, the Kenton Klubbers have
promised several numbers between
plays. Miss Helen L. Comstock,
Kent County Club Agent, promis-
es rural Delawareans real treat
during the two nights of All club
dramatics. She says all four club
members are enthusiastic about the
parts they are going to play. We
think this means real entertain
ment and we know it means lot
of entertainment for the low ad-
mission charge. William Dawson,
president of the Kent County Link
that sponsors this contest, points
out that rural dramatics are a step
in the direction of community rec
reation an essential of the war pro-
gram.