1909 - 1910 Theatre Chronology

Author: FTT Department

Play Title: Until the Rising of the Moon

Author: Maurice Francis Egan
Dates Performed: Founder’s Day, October 13, 1909
Director: Profess Spiess
Stage Manager: Not Found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: Notre Dame Stock Company
Venue:

Cast List

Capt. Edward Arden: Claude Sorge
First Soldier: W. P. Downing
Captain Tom: Carl White
Sentinel: W. Bensburg
Ted, the Drummer: G. W. Clark:

Notes

Source(s) for the above: Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 43, October 16, 1909, p. 92.


Play Title: The Toastmaster

Author: not found
Dates Performed: President’s Day, December 14, 1909
Director: Professor George Spiess
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Dramatic Club

Cast List

Bill Morgan: Claude A. Sorg
Towel Fairfax: Louis W. Reps
Bob Kenmark: Thomas A. Havican
Henry Reed: James G. Kramer
Tom Ripley: Joseph C. Goddeyne
George MacIntosh: William N. Hogan
Professor Reed: Joseph B. Murphy
Mrs. Reed: George J. Ryan
Cynthia: Leo. C. McElroy
Buzzer: Harry J. Zimmer

Notes:

Source(s) for the above: Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 43, November 20, 1909, p. 174; also December 18, 1909, p. 227-8; 1910 Dome.


Play Title: The Prince and The Pauper

Author: adapted from Mark Twain’s Novel of the same name
Dates Performed: St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1910
Director: Brother Cyprian
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The Philopatrian Society

Cast List

Edward: George Clark
Tom Canty: Louis Cox
Miles Hendon: Frank McInerny
Henry VIII: William Bensberg
Earl of Herford: Bernard Bogy
Page: Walter Ward
Prince Godfrey: Joseph Peurrung
Servant: Hervey Ridgeway
John Canty: Edward Sippel
Sykes: Mark Broad
Sykes: Mark Broad
Dan Canty: Cecil Birder
Yokel: Martin Walter
Mad Sam: Roy Loebs
Anthony Gorse: Herbert Koelbel
Hugh Gallord: N. C. O’Brad
Humphrey Marlow: Thomas Burke
Pages and Jesters: Robert Gotfredson, Francis Logue, Milton Mann, Thomas Hogan
John O’Brien, Thomas: Walsh, Alfredo Zubiria, Raymond Loebs
Thomas Clark

Notes: The 1910 Dome describes The Philopatrian Society as “an association organized as a literary and social club to stimulate interest in public speaking.” The Dome
Cast List refers to M. C. O’Brad, while the Scholastic lists N. C. O’Brad.

Source(s) for the above: Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 43, March 26, 1910, p. 396; 1910 Dome.


Play Title: A Pair of Spectacles

Author: Not Found
Dates Performed: Easter Monday, March 28,1910
Director: Father Maloney
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: Senior Class

Cast List

Benjamin Goldfinch: Claude Albert Sorg
Uncle Gregory: Joseph Benedict Murphy
Paul: Paul Joseph Donovan
Dick: James Francis Redding
Lorimer: Martin Harold Miller
Bartholomew: Denis Augustine Morrison
Joyce: Jesse Henry Roth
Samuel: Charles William Murphy
A Shoemaker: Jesse Eustaquio Vera
Mrs. Goldfinch: George Washington Sands
Lucy: Leo Cyril McElroy

Notes:

Source(s) for the above: Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 43, March 5, 1910, p. 359, also April 2, 1910, p. 412; 1910 Dome.