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1867/68 School Year


Play Title: The Conjuror; or The Three Heirs

Author: Unknown
Dates Performed: Saturday Evening, October 12, 1867
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: Thespian Society
Venue: Washington Hall
Event: St. Edward's Day Festival:

Cast List

Lord Truman: R. M. Short
Sir George Truman: W. T. Dunlap
Mr. Fantome: M. J. McBride
Mr. Tinsel: J. Fitzharris
Vellum: J. D. Murphy
Mr. Abigail: F. Guthrie
Butler: N. Wood
Gardener: J. C. Keveny
Coachman: E. E. Hull

Notes: "At the end of each Act, except the last, the Band will discourse some excellent music. At the end of the Fifth Act a Minuetto will be played by the Orchestra."

Source(s) Scholastic Volume 1, No. 7, p. 6.


Play Title: The Recognition

Author: A Faculty Member
Dates Performed: November 27, 1867 and June 23, 1868
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: St. Cecilia Philomathean Association
Venue: Washington Hall
Events: Festival of St. Cecilia & Commencement

Cast List

Duke of Spoleto: James Page
Esquire Ricardo: James Sutherland
Prince of Macerata: Horace Moody
Count Bartolo: D. J. Wile
Antonio: Otis Walker
Balthazar: John Flanigan
Stephano: John Skelly
Leonardo: Asa Wetherbee
Gratiano: Robert Staley
Lorenzo: Edward Walker
Giacomo: Frank Ingersoll
Reginald: Louis McGinnis
Paolo: James Wilson
Zucchi: George Bower
Piedro: WIlliam Clark
Beppo: P. Cochran
Vicentio: James Dooley
Alphonso: A. Mitchell
Piccolo: M. Mahony
Marso: C. Sage
Andrea: E. Benoist
Orlando: John Raggio
Alberto: R. McCarthy
Gabrini: William Reynold
Castello: George Arbuthnot
Orazzi: John Mchugh
Colonna: Daniel Egan
Silvio: James McGinnis
Carlo: J. Broderick
Alfieri: Charles Dodge
Almeno: H. Benoist
Rafaele: W. B. Small
Manfred: John Dunn
Angelo: T. Batman
Rossi: J. F. Ryan

Notes: The Prologue was delivered by C. Dodge and the Epilogue by J. F. Ryan. The script is printed in Scholastic Vol. 1 Nos. 23, 24 & 26-29.

Source(s) Scholastic Volume 1, No.13, p. 1-4 & No. 23, p.4-6.


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