Woman's Club: A Comedy of Village Life The sates group of amateur, actors made their first bow to the Shanghai public on Monday at the Warlton Theatre with a performance of "Old Lady 31," a comedy written by "Raghel Crothers and Presented by the Dramatic partment of the American. Woman's Club under the able direotion "of Mrs. Gardner Crane, Chairman of the department. While the scene is laid in a small New England community in 1870, its cheery, wholesome plot made an appeal which is perennial and universal so that. the enjoyment Of its homespun philosophy. of life was not confined to the Aimeri. ans present, but captured—the whole! audiones.
The atmosphere of the play is quaintly picturesque and much admiration was expressed for the i ned by Mr, and painted by Mr, Ralph Peyton Grifin. the rick prologue shows Anglo, play: ed by Mrs. Crane, and "her hus band, Abe, or "Old Lady 30" tothe attendant should any' part of the apparatus stop funotione tioning, or should. there-be-undue a call' going Provision 3 is mad for same ing people in difficulties in cases, for instance, where. a -eubscribon cannot oF does not know how ta use the dial, Ju such onsed thet calling subscriber -is connected to attendant who con pug ita his Tino and complsto the oat for part in the suovesefal working' of Tamidity plays an important the plant anid steps have boon talon automatically to regulate. the, moisture in the air, When the; humidity roaches a certain "pot. centage, electric heaters and fana instantly are sob working and When the air is again ab its oer: root degree of dryness the heaters and fans automatically stop,
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