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1948/49 School Year


Play Title: The Milky Way

Author: Lynn Root and Harry Clark
Dates Performed: November 28-December 2, 1948
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: University Theatre
Venue: Washington Hall

Artistic Staff

Director: Leonard Sommer

Cast List

Spider: Louis Garripo
Speed McFarland: Dan Caulfield, Jack Powell
Anne Westley: Martha Jo Harper
Gabby Sloan: Ed Goerner
Burleigh Sullivan: Pat McAteer
Jane Sullivan: Agnes Anthony
Eddie: Richard Blume
Willard: Jack Keane
Wilbur Austin: James Beymer

Production Staff

Stage Manager: James Beymer
Master Electrician: Robert Schmid
Properties: Leonard Costantini
Makeup Coordination: James Beymer
Program Cover and Posters: Charles O'Brien
Photography: James Ferstel
Business Manager: Edwin Kempf
Assistant Business Manager: William Doyle
Crew: Roger Vorce, Leo Stepanian, Lee Sheridan, Ed Jasta, Harry Oderman, Ed Kane
House Manager: Frank Finn
Head Ushers: The Blue Circle

Notes

Source(s) 1949 Dome, p. 334; Copy of Original Program, University of Notre Dame Archives.


Play Title: The Rising of the Moon

Author: Lady Gregory
Dates Performed: March 14, 15, 1949
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: ND/SMC Theatre
Venue: Washington Hall

Artistic Staff

Director: Francis J. Hanley
Producer: William J. Elsen

Cast List

Sergeant: Maurice Mahon
The Ragged Man: Jack Powell
Policeman B: James Maher
Policeman X: Donald Curran

Production Staff

Light Crew: James Beymer
Special Effects: James Beymer
Painting "Key of Heaven": Eugene Rossi

Notes

Source(s) Copy of Original Program, University of Notre Dame Archives; Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 90, March 11, 1949, p.9.


Play Title: Dust of the Road

Author: Kenneth Sawyer Goodman
Dates Performed: March 14, 15, 1949
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: University Theatre
Venue: Washington Hall

Artistic Staff

Director: Francis J. Hanley
Producer: William J. Elsen

Cast List

Peter Steele: Lawrence Lopina
Prudence Steele: Jean Richard
Old Man: James Carrig
Judas: Stephan Hauser

Production Staff

Light Crew: James Beymer
Special Effects: James Beymer
Painting "Key of Heaven": Eugene Rossi

Notes

Source(s) Copy of Original Program, University of Notre Dame Archives; Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 90, March 11, 1949, p.9.


Play Title: Monsignor's Hour

Author: Emmett Lavery
Dates Performed: March 14, 15, 1949
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: University Theatre
Venue: Washington Hall

Artistic Staff

Director: Francis J. Hanley
Producer: William J. Elsen

Cast List

Guide: Lou Garripo
Professor: Pat McAteer
Labor Leader: George Kashmer
Dowager: Jean Richard
Lawyer: Maurice Mahon
Artist: Helen Hearn
Gabriel Raphael Pagnani: Vernon Buckhart
Cardinal Perez: Lawrence Lopina
Monsignor Amato: James Beymer
"His Eminence": Stephen Hauser
Rt. Rev. Monsignor Michael Carey William Owen
Monks: Frank Malzone, Robert Nickodem
Swiss Guards: Richard Fitzgibbons, Leo Blaber

Production Staff

Light Crew: James Beymer
Special Effects: James Beymer
Painting "Key of Heaven": Eugene Rossi

Notes

Source(s) Copy of Original Program, University of Notre Dame Archives; Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 90, March 11, 1949, p.9.


Play Title: Shadow and Substance

Author: Paul Vincent Carroll
Dates Performed: May 11, 12, 13, 1949
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: University Theatre
Venue: Washington Hall

Artistic Staff

Director: Francis J. Hanley
Set Design: Francis J. Hanley

Cast List

Brigid: June Anderson
Dermot F. O'Flingsley: Jack Powell
Thomasina Concannon: Mary Jo Cowger
Father Carr: Leo Blaber
Father Kirwan: James Maher
Rev. Thomas Canon Skerritt: Stephen Hauser
Miss Jemima Cooney: Jean Richard
Francis Ignatius O'Connor: William McShane
Martin Mullahone: Charles Perrin
Rosey Violet: Hildegarde Vargyas

Production Staff

Assistant Director: James Beymer
Stage Manager: Pat McAteer
Set Construction & Painting: Francis J. Hanley
Costumes: Francis J. Hanley
House Manager: William Doyle
Head Ushers: Blue Cirle

Notes

Source(s) Copy of Original Program, University of Notre Dame Archives.


Play Title: Shadow and Substance

Author: Paul Vincent Carroll
Dates Performed: not found
Director: not found
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre

Cast List


Notes:

Source(s) 1949 Dome, p. 339


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