Camp Pasquaney - Annual Yearbook (Hebron, NH)

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70 THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL VVater Sports Day when the Pas- quanev Theatre presenfted T h e Scuftletown Qutlawsn hy XY. N. Cox, The Pipe in the Fields hy T. C. Murray. and jane Clay hy George M. Cohan. The Scuftle- town Qutlaw-s was written by a student in one of Professor Fred- erick Koch's plavwriting classes at the University of North Carolina. It is the recording of a true incident in the lives of the Lowrie gang, a tribe of Croatan Indian outlaws. The plav is not the work of an experienced playwright hut is the Photograph by F. O. Reed SAVELI WALEWITCH AND MADAME Our Delightful Russian Guests and Entertainers made more remarkahle hy the fact that the producers had made all the apparatus themfselves and were most dexterous in manipulating it. Monsieur and Madame Saveli XYalewitch were with us again this year. The former held his audience spellhound for over two hours. Both Monsieur and Madame were in native costume. The latter spoke verv charminglv as she descrihed the tolli songs which he was to sing. XYords cannot descrihe his delight- ful music. Of course the height of the dramatic season was reached on Photograph by F. O. Reed JOHNNY TILLSON AS JANE CLAY'

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, THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL 69 Photograph by A. 5. Cochran SCENE. FROM THE, SCUFFLETOWN OUTLAW5 entertaining moments with his 'dis- play of magic and- easy Ho-wing chatter. He teamed with Mogie', Morton for one of the best dfarky dialogues heard in these parts. Elihu Howland made his debut -as Ka playwright as well as an act-or in a sensational masterpiece enftitled, The Qld Mole Cigarette Test. I-Ie was supported by a well chosen cast. Willie de Zaldo and Tony,' Mendoza, two -o-f our representatives from Cuba, gave ra dialogue in Spanish with appropriate gesture-s which was highly amusing and well received. An-other outstanding hit of the year was the Ford Act of jimmy H-ooper, which was con- ceived by himself -and executed by Casey', Casler, Willie de Zaldo, Ujoei' Fox, Brad Higgins, Tony Mendoza, and F-red Jennings. A can -of pebble-s was the motor, twfo of the cast were the tires Qwhich had to be changed, by the wayj, and all kinds of difficulties were encount- ered and overcome. It would take t-oo long to describe the details but all who s-aw it will remember them with .a -chuckle. Un two -occasions we were enter- tained by outside ltalent. The Domino Marionettes from Tufts College gave a performance that was excellent entertainment. It was

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THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL 71 first attempt of a m.an to dramaltize the lives of -the people living around him, a-s a contribution to -a native folk drama in Ame-rica that will be just as p'oten't -and beautiful as the folk drama of Ireland. The casts -of the three plays. were a-s follows: THE SCUFFLETOVVN CUTLAVVSM By W. N. Cox Henry Berry Lowrie, Chief of Croatan Indian Outlaws .... John C. Matthai John Sanders, white man from Nova Scotia ..........,.. James Tompkins Stephen Lowrie, Henry Berry's brother ............. J. P. Wade Levering Rhody, Henry Berry's wife ............ ..... E lihu. S. Howland Luke Locklear, a young Croatan ........................ Edward A. Davis June, Henry Berry's niece ......................... Walter B. Mahony, Jr. James McQueen, alias Donahue, white man of Robeson County W. Dana Hardwick THE PIPE IN THE FIELDS By T. C. MURRAY of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin Mrs. Keville ................ Peter Keville .... Mrs. Carolan .... Martin Keville ..... Father Moore ..... Woodland fawn ..... .............Henry H. Brewster . . . .John G. Rouse, Jr. . . . . . .Richard Prouty . . . . . . . . Philip Geiger ....Carter C. Higgins .....Thomas M. Hart JANE CLAY By GEORGE M. COHAN Judge .... Jane ..... Mason .... Clerk ...... Steve 4 ....... C. Chase . . . .John B. Tillson . . . . .Frank Brewer .....Robert H. Chase . . . . . . . . .Sterling Pile Policeman ..... ......... P hilip H- Tyler Mgthef ,,,,,, .... T homas P. Prout, Ir. Detective ,,,, .... E rnest B. Watson, Jr. The production of these- three as the spirit of the boys. The plays was a most ambitious under- scenery for- The Scufl-letown Out- taking and the fine quality attained, lawsl' was all made by the boys and speaks well for the coaching as w-ell equalled that of the Pmfesslonal