St Georges High School - Lance Yearbook (Middletown, RI)

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Uhr mizhnm nf Zllnllg 5 N Saturday evening, February l5l'l'l, the Dramatic Association presented before a large audi- i QHCQ The YVisdom of Folly, a three act play by Cosmo Hamilton, never before produced in America. Under the able direction of Mr. Preston, the entire cast had learned their parts to perfection, so that the performance rendered would have done credit to professional ac- tors. The central figure of the play was the fluffy-minded lady. Mrs. Rose, who could not remember anything for more than a minute and therefore got all her affairs hopelessly mixed up. This ex- tremely long and difhcult part was admirably played by B. R. Kittredge, jr. Mrs. Rose, during the fifteen years of separation from her husband, has been receiving the constant attentions of three elderly gentlemen of the neighborhood, and each of them has persuaded her to sign a paper promising not to marry one of the other two should her husband obligingly pass away. Her husband dies and she becomes engaged to her three suitors in turn, only to find that f she cannot marry any of them. At this point her lawyer, Mr. liliot. who has framed the three documents, offers himself in place of the others and is promptly accepted by the harassed lady. ln addition to Mrs. Rose's matrimonial difliculties, her niece, Norah, has trouble with her lover, Arthur Caldicot, whose head is turned by theories, but he succumbs to her charms and consents to marry in the end. Tl11'0Ugl10llf fl1C pllly lilffl'CLlg0, ll1 fhC 1'0lC of Mrs. Rose, formed a center around which the others skillfully played. He was on the stage during almost the whole play, but not once did he falter or fail to get his Clever lines across. The parts of the three old men were played by I . G. l-ee as the Colonel, O. Prescott, '16 as the Admiral, and ll. Mcli. Henry as Mr. Shand-Shand. lfach of these three acted his part very well, showing the different natures of the peppery old soldier, the excitable Admiral, and the bombastic M.P. lf. M. Murray, as Norah, made a delight- fully attractive girl, being a pleasant combination of good looks and good acting, while XV. C. Prescott, as Arthur, carried off very well his rather difficult part of the foolish young man whose head is turned by theories. By his clever imitations of an elderly housemaid Steward, in the role of Minch, Mrs. Rose's servant, made a great deal out of a small part. To complete the cast il. R. Reynolds, as lfliot, the lawyer, made a good contrast to the ineffectual efforts of the three old suitors by his concise, businesslike manners. 4- The tremendous success of the play is very greatly due to the untiring energy of Mr. Preston, without whose splendid coaching it could never have been the finished product it was. This year the proceeds were given to the Se- cours Duryea, to be used for relief work in France. ' H. G. L. l YMRS. Rose A A 52

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