STROLLER ISSUE

The Kentucky Kernel
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
VOL XIII

LEXINGTON, KY., AVRIL 20. 1923

No. 27

LADY WIN DERM ERES FAN

STADIUM DRIVE STARTED

STROLLER PRODUCTION,

AT MEETING OF CAPTAINS

IS

INTERESTING

DRAMA

TUESDAY

Oscar Wilde Presents Comedy of

m

Manners, Visualizing Eng-

land in 1890.
FAN IS THEME OF PLOT.
Entire

Play is Intensely
ping and Entertain-

Large Number of Students Gather to Begin Work on
Drive.
$5,000

Drive

Grip-

RAISED AT DINNER.
to Close Friday Night
at Final Dinner

ing.

T

'

Meeting.

"Lady Windermere's Fan," the well
known play by Oscar Wilde, is a
comey of manners, and is a striking
and vivid picture of fashionable English life in the period of 1890. The
plot of the play is woven about ta
lovely fan, and is intensely interesting from all standpoints.
The play opens with the presentation of the fan to Lady Windermere
by her 'husband on he 21st birthday; during the day several people call
CAST OF "LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN"
on Lady Windermere, among them
After a long strenuous rehearsal in Mechanical Hall the cast of the 1923 Stroller play paused for a moment to
Lord Darlington, an ardent admirer,
pioture snapped for publication.
whom she discourages at every turn; have its
the Duchess of Berwick with her
Reading from left to right, bottom row Mary Lyons, Frances Smith, Lucille Stillwell, Virginia Shively, Earl M.
daughter, Lady Agatha Carlisle, also Heavrin, Mary Peterson; second row Mary Stofer, Pauline Park, Eleanor Mo'rse, Jeanette Lampert, Ida Kenney
calls and during the course of the con- - Risque, John Burks; third row James Chapman, William G. Finn, William Tate and John Walsh.
versation, the gossipy old Duchess in
forms Lady Windermere that Windermere is the subject of conversation
SEATS FOR STROLLER
STROLLERS WILL GIVE
HISTORY OF STROLLERS
for everyone, because of his intimate
PLAY NOW ON SALE
PLAY AT MAYSVILLE
relatidns with an adventuress who
REVEALS EARLY
has recently come ,to London.
PLAYS
Annual Production to be OpenFirst Night Will Be University
To make matters worse, that evenNight
ed Out of Town.
ing Lord Windermere insists that his
OF THAT ORGANIZATION
wife invites Mrs. Erlynne to her party,
The seat sale for the three perand when she positively refuses to
formances of "Lady "WinderThe first production of Oscar
have the woman in her home, Lord
"Lady Windermere's Fan" is
mere's Fan," opened at the LexWilde's play, "Lady WinderWindermere invites her on his own
Fourteenth Production of
ington Drug Wednesday at noon
mere's Fan" will be given at
initiative, even though his wife threatDramatic Club.
and the sale, especially for the
ens to insult her if she comes
Maysville Tuesday night and the
first night, which will ibe known
In the face of all this Mrs. Erylnne
FIRST PLAY IN 1919.
alumni and former students are
as University night, has been
accepts, and although Lady Windervery large. It will be a gala
endeavoring to make the trip
mere makes no public demonstration,
Dates For 1923 Production Are
event from the point of attendsuccessful. Miss Bottie Bar(Continued on page 8.)
April 26, 27 and
ance and parties have been made
bour has written to 50 citizens
28.
up ranging in size from 12 to 48.
of Maysville to enlist their inThe sale for Friday night has
"Richlieu" in 1910; "Brown of Har
MANY NEW PLAYERS ARE
terest and has contributed daily
also been good and a large
vard" in 1911; "The Virginian" in
publicity to the three papers.
crowd is expected for Saturday
1912; "The Lost Paradise" in 1913;
IN THIS STROLLER CAST
afternoon when rt is hoped that
After presenting
the play
College
the many club women from near"The
Widow" in 1914;
three times in Lexington, the
by towns will attend the perfor"Charley's Aunt" in 1915; "Father and
Stars of Previous Productions
cast will go on its third annual
mance.
the Boys" in 1916; "The Lion and the
Take Principal Roles ; New
Eastern Kemtucky trip and in adThe Stroller managers 'have
Actors Prominent.
Mouse" in 1917; "Mice and Men" in
two ideals for the production
dition to showing at Middles-bor- o
1918; "Under
Cover" an 1919; "The
this year, 'and one is that it
'
on April 30, Pineville, May
"Lady Windermere's
carries
Climbers" in 1920; "The Admirable
shall be the best ever and the
1, and
in- its cast the nalmes af new Stroller
Harlan, May 2. Miss
Crichton" in 1921; "The Thirteenth
other that the audience will be
Margie McLaughlin has taken
eligibles as well as mrre experienced
in 1922.
Chair"
comfortable and satisfied and
careof the Middlesburg pubfor this purpose fihey have done
That, in short is the history of the
stars all of which have been chosen
licity; Miss Kitty Conroy has
thier best to give a first class
Strollers: But there is a far greater
for their respective parts with great
written to Pineville the Strollers
production and have hung curhistory, 'beneath the titles of the findiscrimination.
have 'been most successful in
tains around the auditi'rium from
ished productions presented above a
Miss Frances Smith, Who will be
the past and as this their first
the edge of the balcony. The
much deeper, more profound history
time that Harlan is ito be includremembered for her cliarnrng porsound of the speakers voices
with a touch of human appeal if we
ed in the circuit they 'hope for
will he clearer and the aud'ence
trayal of the lead in "Tha
take a look into the archives of the
an unprecedented success.
more comfortable.
Chair" last year, has hsen awarded
Stroller dramatic club of the University.
one of the two leads in the play as
Lady Windermere.
-- KIn a manuscript left to the organiMiss Eleanor Morse, a senior, who
zation by that
CAMPUS CHATTER
NOTICE
' has taken leading parts in the Strollmemlber, who had every interest of the
At a meeting of the Tennis Club
ers each year has been rSji the secAt a meeting of the Philosophian club at heart, Leo Sandmann, we find held recently the following ofiicers
end lead as Mrs Erlyne, an adventurLiterary Society held Monday night an accurate account of the early be- were elected; President, Charles Spill-maess.
ginning of a dramatic club on the
Vice president, Eugenia O'Hara,
Miss Mary Lyons w 10 w it ever be at Patterson Hall, the following mem- campus of the University of Kentuc
Dewy Welsh. Those who
bers for the forthcoming year were We find that the club really begins in
remembered for her able interpretawish to play on the University courts
tion of Rosalie in "The Thirteenth elected: Elizabeth Wheeler, president; 1909, despite the fact that the club was are expected to
pay their dues of $1.00
Chair," is taking the part of Lady Marion Parsons, vice president; Row-en- a not really organized until December. with which
money the courts are kept
Plymdale.
1910, because it was in that year that
LouCoates, secretary-treasurein playing condition. Professor Dow-in- g
Miss Licil.e Stillwcli, :i new StrollProfessor MacKenzie gathered togethwill also receive dues from any one
literary critic; Lucille
eligible, as the Duchess of Ber- ise Carson,
er
er a group of students interested in desiring membership.
Bush, sergeant-at-armwick, a comedy role
very
the drama and studied it from a pracKThe society voted that the next
skillful handling, which she enacts
So
tical standpoint.
much interest
meeting which will be held May 7,
Professor
Noe will speak at the
with great ability.
by his students that
was manifested
Virginia Shivelcy as Lady will be an open meeting to which all the next year or the fall of 1910, they joint meeting of the V. M. C. A. and
Miss
will
former
members
Y. W. C. A., at Patterson Hall, Sunbe invited.
(Continued on page 5)
Numerous committees were appointed.
day night, April 22, at 6:30.
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The stadium campaign is onl It
was launched Wednesday night at a
workers' dinner in the girls' gymnasium by a selected group of about 120
of the most enthusiastic and representative men and women on the
campus. Into their hands was placed
the financing of the greatest enterprise
ever undertaken by the University of
Kentucky students, however, the responsibility does not rest solely upon
the leader's of the campaign but upon
evefry student in the University.
The dinner began af 6:15 by the
singing of a stanza of America, followed
by a short prayer iby Dean
Melcher. A light,
meal
was quickly and efficiently served by
several University boys, after which
the instructions for the drive began,
Major Webb, Professor of Physics,
presiding.
The first speaker was
Herbert :Graham, arlunjni secretary.
He stated the object of the campaign
the raising of $25,000 among the
students for their allotted part of the
amount required for the building of a
stadium, a basketball
auditorium,
and for the student loan. "This," he
said, "is, comparatively speaiking, a
very small sum. It is the cost of
running the University for a week
and an infintesimal part of the amount
spent in a year by students on pleasure alone." He impressed upon the
workers the vital importance of the
success of the drive its (importance
not only to the University but to the
(Continued on Page Four)
three-cour-

WEEKS OF HARD WORK
ON

STROLLER

PLAY

Entire Organization Unite To
Make Forthcoming Production a Success.
The work of the Stroller play is
shown when the story is presented by
an excellent cast working hard behind
the footlights for the entertainment
of the audience after weeks and weeks
of hard practice but all the workers
that have contributed to the finished
product do not appear and very seldom is the carpenter, the property man,
the electrician, the stage manager, the
business manager, publicity staff, direc
tor or president seen on the stage or
known to the publi cor student body.
This year a staff composed of President Heavrin, Director Burks, Stage
Manager G. K. Smith, Business Manager John Albright; Secretary Kitty
CoHroy, and members Bill Tate, Mary
Peterson, Ann Hickman, Bettie Barbour, Helen King, have worked out
the difficulties of the year's work and
regular reports have been made. A
rehearsal schedule has been publish-- d
weekly by Jimmie Chapman. It takes
hard work on the part of the designers of the scenery and stage setting
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