The Senior Christian Endeavor Society of the M.P. Church will give a play Friday night, May 11th, at the Court House, Asheboro. The play will be given at 8 o’clock sharp. They have been hard at practice on this play for the past three weeks, and they assure you all that it will not be only a grand success but a great play.
It will be remembered they, this same society, gave a play some several months ago that made a great hit with the people of Asheboro and the surrounding towns they gave the play in. This promises to be far superior to that play.
This play comes highly recommended, and it will be worth your time and money to attend this one. It is a setting in Northern New York, and is full of fun. Although some of the actors will have you in tears before it is over.
The play is a parable of a Mother’s love, over the neglect of her children. It is a drama in three acts, took place in Canton, New York, in a farmhouse. Aunt Deborah is an old Saint of 70 years, a widow of four boys and two girls. All married but two. John, her youngest, is a very bad boy, but later reforms and saves his aged mother from the poor house. Henry is a comical one, with his doo-daddle. They promise you a good entertainment, money’s worth, and plenty of laughter. If you can’t laugh, you better not come.
Synopsis
Act 1. Settin’ Room at the Underhill Farmhouse. An afternoon in late March. The good Samaritan.
Act 2. Same scene, three years later. A winter afternoon. A mother’s love.
Act 3. Same scene, two years later. A morning in autumn. The Prodigal Son.
Characters
Deborah Underhill, A Mother in Israel—Miss Lollie Jones.
Widder Bill Pinder, Leader of the Choir—Miss Bertha Presnell.
Miss Lowizy Loviny Custard, Sewing and gossip—Miss Treva Beck.
Isabel Simpscott, The village bell (belle?)—Miss Clara Presnell.
Gloriana Perkins, A Good as Gold—Miss Margauret Auman.
Sukey Pindle, The Widder’s Mite—Miss Beatrice Lowdermilk.
John Underhill, The Prodigal Son—Mr. Lacy Lewis.
Brother Jonah Quackenbush, A Whited Sepulchre—Mr. Earl Bulla.
Jeremiah Gosling “Jerry”, A Merry Heart—Mr. Mac Ridge.
Enoch Rone, An Outcast and a Wanderer—Mr. Robert Lloyd.
Quintus Todd, The County Sheriff—Mr. Glenn Callicutt.
From the front page of The Courier, Asheboro, May 10, 1923
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