Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — A Dramatic Club Organized. [ARTICLE]

A Dramatic Club Organized.

Adopting a premeditation of some months the first steps were taken on Tuesday for the organisation of a dramatic club, the hope being to make it permanent and to give frequent performances at the opera house. The meeting was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Healey, and was attended by most of those who are to take part in the first entertainment, which will probably be given in about three weeks.

Co-operating with Mayor J. H. S. Ellis, owner of the opera house, who is a member of the club, it is expected that the club will have practical control of the opera house,and if the plays given prove a suffeient attraction it is expected to have them practically the sole attraction at the opera house. Taking advantage of the experience of the Delphi Dramatic Club, which has been brnyfecd for several years, the local club will produce all copyrighted plays, and several of the ones that have been so successfully produced in our neighboring city will be put on here. The first play has been selected and the parts assigned and the cast will Include the following people who have appeared successfully in home talent performances in the past: Mr. and Orlan Grant, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Irwin, MS’. Van Grant, Misses True George, Nellie Drake, Queen Perry, Ethel McCarthy and Myrtle York, and the following young men: Herman Tuteur, Hurley Beam and Harry Eger.

It is expected to vary the cast in the different plays and to endeavor to use the very best talent available in the city. It Is hoped to follow the first performance with a musical comedy and in that to use a large cast, including all the musical talent In the city. Mr. Orlan Grant will have the management of the performance. If the plays are well enough received to Justify the hopes of the promoters it is aimed to increase the membership of the dflb and to pTbvide attractive rehearsal‘quarters and to supply the dub with everything needed to make it permanent.

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