A clean, wholesome comedy, “Mrs. Tubbs of Shantytown” will be given by the Asheboro Graded School at the Capitol Theatre May 15th. It is full of wit and humor from the beginning to end.
Mrs. Tubbs, a widow, takes in washing. She and her children, in spite of poverty and privation, manage to enjoy life.
Miss Clingie Vine, the “Virginia aristocracy”, fails in her efforts to get Simon Rubbles for a husband, but she comes into possession of her fortune. She ten pays Mrs. Tubb’s debts to Simon, the “human hippopotamus” who wished to marry Mrs. Tubbs, and all are made happy. The love affair of the census taker and the young school teacher adds a pretty little romance to the play.
The characters are as follows:
Mrs. Tubbs—Miss Elyer Richardson.
Miss Clingie Vine, the boarder—Virginia Redding.
Simon Rubbles, a mercenary widower—John Hadley.
Tom Rairdon, the census taker—James Cox.
Miss Campbell, the school teacher—Frances Barker.
Quine Sheba Tubbs—Louis Swaim.
Billy Blossom Tubbs—Lawrence Hammond.
Punky Dunks Tubbs—Julia Rice.
Mrs. Hickey, a neighbor—Ellen Presnell.
Elmira Hickey—Frances Moore
From the front page of The Courier, Asheboro, May 10, 1923
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