Carolina Playmakers Preparing Three New Plays, Nov. 9, 1924

Playmakers Leave the Hill Soon on Annual Tour. . . Carolina Players to Appear Here Next Friday Evening with Three New Plays

Chapel Hill, Nov. 8—With a repertory of three new plays, the Carolina Playmakers leave here Wednesday on their fall tour, which will cover the Eastern part of the stye.

They appear in Wilson Wednesday night, Goldsboro Thursday night, New Bern Fridy, Fayetteville Saturday, Red Springs Monday, Dunn Tuesday and Pittsboro or Durham Wednesday.

The Playmakers are not only presenting new offerings; the costumes and scenery, which are home-made, will also be new.

The plays will not be presented here before the return from the tour, but critical observers who have been watching the rehearsals say they measure up to the high standards set by previous performances.

The three new pieces and their authors are:

“The Honor of Bonaire” by Robert Watson Winston, former superior court judge, who at the age of 63 is going through college again, being a junior in the University for the second time;

“Politicin’ in Horse Cove” by Martha Boswell of Brevard; and

“The Shuffletown Outlaws” by William Norment Coxe of Rowland. All the authors are University students in dramatics. Playing in one of the casts is George Winston, nephew of Judge Winston, and son of Prof. and Mrs. P.H. Winston.

Members of Cast

The members of the casts are:

George Denny, manager of the Playmakers; Margaret Jones of Charlotte; George Winston of Chapel Hill; William Norment Coxe of Rowland; Robert Proctor of Lumberton; Louise Sawyer of Monmouth, Ill.,; Ben Hicks of Henderson; Brook Todd of Charlotte; John Farrior of Rose Hill; Frances Gray of Chapel Hill; Tod Wilson of Glenville; Aileen Sherrill of Newton; Lawrence Wallace of Smithfield; Probien Elmore of Dover.

Among the outstanding characters are Louise Sawyer, who came all the way from Illinois to studying playmaking in Carolina because she became interested in Professor Koch’s work while here on tour last summer with whom she had a leading roll; and Frances Gray, who made a hit with the Stuart Walker Company in Cincinnati, O., last summer; George Denny, manager, who has been with the Playmakers since their start here; and Margaret Jones, who is well known to Playmaker audiences.

From the front page of The New Bernian, Sunday morning, November 9, 1924.

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