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1915/16 School Year


Play Title: The Marriage of Kitty

Author: not found
Dates Performed: St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1916
Director: Professor Lenihan
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The Notre Dame Dramatic Club

Cast List

Traver's Clerk: Archibald Duncan
Sir Reginald Belsize: John Riley
Kitty's Maid: Richard Lightfoot
Norbury, a butler: William Fox
John Travers: Harry Scott
Kitty: Emmett Lenihan
Madame de Semiano: William Curley

Notes: The Scholastic also awards credit for the behind-the-scenes work on the performance to Brother Cyprian, Austin McNichols and Dudley Pearson. A good article on the history of the N. D. Dramatic Club appears on pp. 153-160 in the 1916 Dome.

Source(s) Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 49, March 25, 1916, pp. 421-2; 1916 Dome, p. 157


Play Title: Twelfth Night

Author: William Shakespeare
Dates Performed: May 31, 1916
Director: Professor Lenihan
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The Notre Dame Dramatic Club

Cast List

Duke Orsino: Frederick G. Slackford
Valentine: Thomas C. Kelly
Curio: Delmar J. Edmondson
Gentleman: Harold M. McCullough
Sir Andrew Aguecheek: Erich H. DeFries
Sir Toby Belch: Herman A. Cook
Malvolio: William B. Meuser
Sebastian: Edward G. Lindemann
Antonio: Frank C. Holslag
Clown: Austin A. McNichols
Fabian: Hugh W. O'Neill
Sea Captain: Rigney J. Sackley
Viola: Frank P. Goodall
Olivia: Charles J. McCauley
Maria: Richard E. Lightfoot:
Officers: Robert G. McGuire, Charles Laurens Cook
Pages: James E. Barry, Jr., Hubert B. Peugnet
Ladies: Francis Jennings Vurpillat, Arthur James Moore

Notes: The
Cast List
and other information on this play was not available at the time of printing of the 1916 Dome.

Source(s) Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 49, June 10, 1916, p. 587; 1916 Dome, p. 153, 1917 Dome p. 159


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