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1939/1940 School Year

Play Title: Seven Keys to Boldplate

Author: not found
Dates Performed: Nov. 2, 1939
Director: not found
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre sponsoring
The Jitney Players

Cast List


Notes:

Source(s): 1940 Dome, p. 125

Play Title: Brother Orchid

Author: Leo Brady
Dates Performed: Dec. 14, 15, 1939
Director: not found
Stage Manager: Richard Ames
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The ND Players of The University Theatre

Cast List

Fat Dutchy: Donald R. Gilliland
Freckles: John M. Murtagh
Dum-Dum: John M. Coppinger
The Gimp: Thomas W. Tearney
Solomon: Edward L. Holland
Dominic Battista: Salvatore Andriacchi
Little John Sarto: Jerry Flynn
Brother Nasturtium: William F. Mulvey
Brother Orchid: Jerry Flynn
Brother Hollyhock: Edward G. Hayden
Brother Geranium: Howard Essick
Abbot Jonquil: John A. McGrath

Notes:

Source(s) Play Program, PNDP 76-Pl-1 AB1.1 (ND Archives); The Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 73, December 1, 1939, p. 5.

Play Title: She Stoops to Conquer

Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Dates Performed: April 21 and 22, 1940
Director: Rev. Matthew Coyle
Stage Manager: Richard Ames
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre

Cast List

Sir Charles Marlow: John McGrath
Young Marlow: William Mulvey
Squire Hardcastle: William Hickey
George Hastings: Jack Boyce
Diggory: George York
Roger: Michael Kiely
Dick: Jack Quinn
Thomas: David Fitch
Stingo: William Scanlon
Slangy: Dick Houlihan
Jimmy: Michael Kiely
Mat Muggins: Jack Dunlavy
Tom Twist: John Flynn
Aminadab: John Specht
Mrs. Hardcastle: Miss Taafe
Kate Hardcastle: Miss Helene Cryan
Constance Neville: Miss Jayne Bunch
Maid: Miss Margaret Huryn
Pot-boy: Walter Brennan
Postillion: John Webster
Barmaid: Miss Dorothy Levendoski
Sleeping man: John Wood
Farmer: James McElroy

Production Staff

Make-up Artist: Brother Benitus
Costume Manager: Walter Brennan
Stage Properties: Frederick Hoover
Lights: Thomas Door
Objects of Art: Mrs. Julia E. Holmes

Notes:

Source(s) 1940 Dome, p. 133; The Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 73, April 19, 1940, p. 5, April 26, 1940, p. 13.
Summer, 1940

Play Title: Twelfth Night

Author: William Shakespeare
Dates Performed: not found
Director: Robert Speaight
Stage Manager: J. Stephen
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Summer Theatre

Cast List

Feste: Jack White
Sir Toby Belch: Bill Mulvey
Malvolio: Jack Boyce
Sir Andrew Aguecheck: Louis Ronder

Production Staff

Costumes: John Willmer

Notes:

Source(s) Play Program, PNDP 76-Mi-01 AB1.1 (ND Archives); The Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 74, Sept. 20, 1940, p. 11, 22.