Show J 4 A i. i p t WAY DOWN 0 9 E EAST EAST AST f T The e Home Dramatic Company Will Present The Above Play at the Opera House February 27 2729 29 X f f The The Home Dramatic comp company ny will WAY Don DOWN ESTat EAST ST at the opera oper house on Saturday Febuary 27 and Monday h 29 with a u matinee Saturday f J Scenically the play will ill beJ be bo produced in tho the same ela elaborate bOr borate te teI I manner it has been in irk other years The rhe majority of the theatre theatre goers o r. r ar are are familiar with the story of Lottie Blair Parkers Parker's Parkers play As its title indicates her characters al' al are aie residents of New England I The Tho lo locale ale is typically rural The house and farm of Squire Bartlett furnish the scenes of the action The first setting show the rear of the h home mo and past pastures re rein in the distance Here th the squires squire's family are are assembled when a hapless Magdalene in the person of Anna Moore comes among them Sh She seeks work and nd after considerable ble hesitation on the on on the t pa part art of i the squire is taken i into to th the f family to hel help p about abou t the house J j f The Tho farmers farmer's sturdy son David immediately falls faits in love with h her r W- W fi th though ugh the farmer had ad intended I th that the hay boy should marry his bis l cousin Kate t The The second scene shows the sit sitting sitting ting g room of the squires squire's ires ire's home the folks folks' ready to attend a ax x surprise party at a neighbors t r Martha Perkins the village gossip e then appears upon the scene She has heard a story of f Anna Moores Moore's I past and her duty is isto isto 11 to relate it with a great deal of detail to the squire quire and his wife R Anna Moore says the gossip ossip has bas V been a mother and her child lies liesE buried in the Belden churchyard E r i C the gossip lays much stress on the fact that that there t t. is no wedding ring on the girls girl's finger The squire quire who believes r in living according to the scriptures scriptures scrip scrip- tures prepares to turn the tho girl from the house but refrains until he makes an to to ascertain the truth of the story The third act shows the kitchen of the squires squire's home ome A terrific snowstorm ra rages es outside The family and the tho nei neighbors are gathered ath red about abol H supper table The squire quire b has ir gone to Belden and b his s return return 1 is is awaited with much anxiety i ty None knew the nature o of f his errand but his his' wife und and the village hJ i ge busybody The squire r returns as the supper is placed placed-on pla placed ed edn on n the table H He Ho greets r ets ev everybody but Anna in his bighearted bighearted big- big hearted way Then he turns his wrath upon the girl irl denounces s her and ber-and and drives her forth into nto the storm Before going however the girl girl irl reveals the fl fact ct that she Las has been neen tho victim of ofa a m mock ck i m marriage a and ald id that her b betrayer trayer was was even even even-a a guest at nt the farmers farmer's I table The episode furnishes the i climax of the play y The f fourth act act shows hows a a maples maple s sugar sugar camp camp in a a. a New Now England fo forest eit The se search for Anna AnnaI Moore is is Jin in in progress She is I found in ina a s t more dead than alive The squires squire's forgiving forgiving for for- gi giving vin natt nature re asserts itself and the tho subsequent and prospective happiness of David Divid a and d Anna is the he natural sequence of the story While the t theme m of the story is serious ih there there r is a variety of humorous us' us incidents and comic c characterizations u These are found in in the pt personalities of Hi Holler HoUer the cho choir b y Rube Itu be Whippie Whip Whip- p- p pie the town c constable and Seth Holcomb a village no good thing with a penchant for lifelong lifelong life lon long bitters and Professor Sterling Sterling Sterling Ster Ster- ling a chasing butterfly summer boarder |