Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-02-11
OVER THE
BACK FENCE
By MARGUERITE FINEFROCK

Hiya NeighbOr-We've been CO.
creed, bribed and even threatened
by members of the cast of "When
Shakespeare's Ladies Meet" to
write the following revue Of their
show, given Tuesday evening for
the Women's Federation. And fur
thermore we've been instructed to
use fancy SOC adjectives, not the
measly everyday variety. We
must do it, they say or else!
SO here goes:
"a large and enthusiastic audi
ence greeted the first performance
of when Shakespeare's Ladies
Meet, presented by the Playmak-
ers Tuesday evening in the Guild
Hall. This was the first of a SER
les Of one night stands to be
given while the play is enroute
to Broadway where the cast is con-
fident the show will have long
run.
No doubt the most outstanding
performance of all was that turn
ed out by Wandas Wood who, as
the mad Ophelia, played her role
so realistically that the audience
became hysterical. Margaret Muir
ply, as Katherine the shrew lived
up to her role as a woman of
"bombast and TRADES" as she
strobe about the stage offering
liberal advice in the art of love.
Alyce Boiling was her usual
sweet, ethereal self as the maid
Juliet in spite of a head cold and
a red nose. Mary Fall, as Des-
demona, gave an excellent per-
formance also. Languishing for
the love of her Othello who had
lattempted to smother her with
handkerchief, she gave her all
for the play with heartbreaking
sincerity. Ida Glickman as Por-
tia, on her way to that pound of
flesh business, made a charming
doctor of laws, giving freely of
her legal advice throughout the
play. Martina Moon as Cleopat-
IA, siren Of the Nile, brought the
house down the moment she step
ped on the stage. OF course it
may have been because of the gor-
Goous costume she was wearing,
but we'd rather think it was be-
cause of her ability to swing her
hips as she strutted about or be-
cause she employed the best Mae
West "come up and see me some
time" tone of voice.
All in all it was the most out
standing performance of the year,
the costumes we1e the best that
could be garnered from the clothes
closets of local friends and the
stage setting was masterpiece
of ingenuity. Even the most criti-
cal audience could not detect the
piano hiding behind its crepe
paper lattice work.
And now a word about Doris
Puffenberger, who did a soul stir
ring solo act before the play was
presented, TIE talented young
lady gave a monologue of some
thirty minutes duration, the ma
ture of which held the audience
spellbound and resulted in num-
erous curtain calls. The best we
can say for Dory is that she def
nitely out-Skinner'd Cornelia Otis.
This concludes the review, the
likes of which you'll probably
never read in the New York Times,
but we hope it meets with the ap-
proval of Shakespeare's ladies'. If
it doesn't they can go right ahead
and steal the letters off our type
writer keys, as they threatened,
and We'll never be able to write
another word.
-ll--II-
Total Proceeds of the March of
Dimes drive now in the bank
amount to $5067 and some odd
cents, topping last years drive by
more than $1,000. And Jim Ellen
berger, county director of the
drive, says there are still some
outstanding collections to be turn
ed in. The response has been most
gratifying and as city chairman,
cur thanks 10 all the organizations
whom we contacted, for their gen
erouS contributions. An unexpect-
ed donation to the fund was re-
Ceived this week from r. H. Reed
er, Of Lansing, Mich, drug sales
man, who left check for $25 with
Guy Benedict when he was in
town making calls. Mr.. Reeder
said he didn't believe it made any
difference what city or county re-
ceived his money inasmuch as it
was for such worthy cause.
-I---Il-
That Little Matter concerning
what had happened to the comic
strip "Barnaby" has been cleared
up, thanks to Mrs. C. A. Lawrence,
of Chambersburg, Pa. She SAYS
Barnaby is still going strong in
Philadelphia and sent along a