Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-03-27 | Page 29 | Biblical Drama at Bungalow

I BIBLICAL DRAMA AT BUNGALOW I i h he e rs I 3 x jp n a f fn n 9 4 S t tt is s sy ty t s 3 s a v a i if iry 4 t is g f Kil D ry 9 t a af a f 1 J JS S 1 j u Principal characters in cast of The Maid of 0 f Persia T the Bungalow theatre this after atter t AT to oti Th Maid of Persia a Biblical drama in tour four acts will be b presented by b the Hebrew school chool of Con Congregation Congregation The cast Includes 31 performers and the play will be staged by Rabbi Joseph Hevesh with consider considerable considerable able elaborateness of d tail Tho The story Is la taken from the Book of Esther and 1 t Includes the incidents of ot the th fa life of at the Hebrew princess ss that have great dramatic value King Bing th the Xerxes of profane history Haman his prime minister Mordeca Mordecai and Esther Esthe are the principal characters The play pIa opens with the festivity in the palace of ot Shu Shushan Shushan l shan shah when in a drunken rage puts aside his fits queen and commands that the most beautiful maidens of the king s dom shall be brought bought before him himA Aft Act A t II 11 Is a street In Shushan Esther Esthera a young oung Jewish maiden malden is 15 chosen by b y Ii and taken to the palace The Th next act net sees her he installation as queen In the meantime Mordecai Mordecal al the uncle of Esther has incurred the enmity of Ha Haman Haman Haman man by refusing to bow before him Ha Haman Haman Haman man commands the total destruction of the Jewish people p ople the order orde to include Esther and Mordecai Mordecal In Act IV Esther Esthe petitions petition the king to dine with her he and at the banquet she Ehe informs of Hamans Haman s plot that threatens tier her destruction de ale destruction The Th last scene cen Is the fall of Haman and the Installation n of Mordecai In his place Two songs of charming melody are features of the performance They are the Maidens Song and the Purim Song The cast presenting the drama includes the following members of the Hebrew school king of Persia Sherman Lowenstein Haman prime minister Herman Eckstein Mordecai Mordecal a Jew Jewl Sig mund round Appleman court jester Leonard Meltzer Hegal head chamberlain Hy Hyman Hyman Hyman man Dutch prince of Persia Milton Morris a chamber chamberlain lain Isidore Appleman courtiers Joseph Axelrad Adolph Axelrad Sam KImeldorf herald Herman Esther Ca n a nI I Jewish maiden malden afterwards queen queen een of Per Persia PerIa sia Ia Fannie a prophetess prophetess prophetess etess Hattie Nathan ladles ladies in waiting wafting Bertha Dutch Jennie Appleman Sarah Sarah first fIst maiden malden Leah Hoffman second maiden malden Sarah Bielsky third thId maiden Tillie fourth maiden Jennie Weber fifth maiden malden Ma Marie Ia rie rie Richmond other maidens Esther Bielsky Sarah Bruckner Pauline Blum Pauline Kaplan Alice Landsman Ella I Time Tinie Wolf VoU Tillie Richmond I I 9 J JI I Y x i J c r R v x xI t I I I I R i I I I 1 k 4 i I Scene from The Lion and the Mouse which appears at the Colonial theatre at popular prices all this week