Show AMATEURS IX COMEDY I I I A Delightful Entertainment for the Benefit of Orphans Homo I Received i by an audience that taxed I tne JSignteentn wara nau t its utmost and inspired by a purpose that is thfr allpervading one in this period of depression de-pression amateur talent never appeared ap-peared to better advantage than last night at which time it appeared in an entertainment for the benefit of the Orphans home For the occasion there had been prepared pre-pared with great pains and elaborate detail a comedietta at climaxes Intensely in-tensely and convulsively comic which the playwright had very appropriately entitled The Broken Hearted Club and in which the susceptible hearts of a veritable congress of captivating maidens are exposed to the refined coquetries co-quetries of an almost equal number of gay suitors The dramatic feature of the evening was preceded by a musical programme and at its conclusion the curtain raised upon he following cast Major McCool a retired major Mr maor McGurrin Charies Pleydell of the Inner Temple Mr Scdtt Wells Frank Flexor of Guyslr C 1 Dull Dul Arthur Chomley of the Guards I Mr Eugene Connor Mrs LovebirdMiss Mabel Anderson Miss Ida ParkeMIss Phyllis Lynch Miss Aranunta Villowby Miss Minnie Taylor Miss Louisa LipscombeMiss LlpscombelIss Emily Curtiss Miss Cissy Maythonu Curtss MaythonuMHS E < Jyth Ellerbeck Miss Camilla SpoonerMIsl = Carrie Keate Miss Serena BrookMlss Edith Wcile Perkins the Maid To select a star from this cons lela tion upon which to lavish especial plaudit would be like searching fortheS most blazingj among the twinkling Pleiades The ladies were all temptingly tempt-ingly and exquisitely attired the gentlemen gen-tlemen appropriately and when the curtain finally descended it was to the most generous applause The dramatic feature of the event at an end the hal was cleared and a few minutes later the pavilion presented pre-sented a scene worthy the culture and refinement of ZIon |