Madison Journal - Tallulah's First Little Theatre Performance
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Tallulah's First Little Theatre Performance
Madison Journal February 22, 1935

LITTLE THEATRE OF TALLULAH TO GIVE FIRST PLAY
Performance for Limited Number To Be Presented Tonight at Book Club

The Tallulah Little Theatre, recently organized here, will present its first performance tonight at 
8:00 o'clock at the Book Club and again on Monday of next week. Tonight's performance will be given 
only for the membership of the Tallulah Book Club, the organization sponsoring, and their 
immediate families.

The play written by a Tallulian, and directed, cast and staged wholly by Tallulah talent is entitled, 
"The Tangled Web," and concerns the dilemma of a happy-go-lucky Irish artist when suddenly visited by 
his straight-laced Scotch uncle who is financing his career. The uncomfortable predicament of having to 
find a wife and finally on short notice is followed by an unexpected denouncement when uncle finds out 
the truth.

The play is a three act comedy, taking about two hours to produce. The cast is as follows. Jerry O'Neill, 
a young artist, Otis Edgerton; Al Bowen, his best friend, Dr. Purvis; Mary Cadogan, Mrs. O'Neill protem, 
Elizabeth Holt; Matilde LaFeve, her friend, Marianne Ward; John Winters, Jerry's man, Mr. Robert Moncrief; 
Unc'  Davie Campbell, a Scotch banker, Dr. P. M. Gilmer; chauffeur, Ed Frierson.

Direction has been under Dr. Gilmer, while assistance in staging and lighting has been given by 
Mrs. R. L. Moncrief and Mr. Frierson.

The Monday performance will be open to the public and will also be given at the Book Club. Admission will 
be 35 cents for adults and 10 cents for children below high school age.

It is hoped that a good attendance will be given for these premier performances of the new organization. 
The cast has spent hard a work upon producing a really artistic performance, and the organization, one 
that has been needed by Tallulah for some years, is deserving of support and encouragement.

The play, a comedy, is fast moving, funny and well prepared, and it is anticipated that it will give a full 
two hours of laughs and chuckles. It is in the best traditions of the Little Theatre movement as it is wholly 
an amateur product, from authorship to production, and is wholly by Tallulah talent. The Tallulah Little 
Theatre requests your support and presence as it makes its initial bow to the public.