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Putnam, Windham County, Connecticut
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Putnam Catholic Academy students to perform 'Dora Dean,' a three-act family play by Virginia Mitchell, on two consecutive Sundays at their Church Street auditorium, with orchestra interludes. Cast includes Helen Audet as orphan protagonist.
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First Presentation of "Dora Dean" to Be Given at Academy Auditorium
Will be Repeated Following Sunday
Orchestra to be Heard
The first of two performances of "Dora Dean," a play in three acts by Virginia Mitchell, will be presented Sunday by the students of the Putnam Catholic Academy at the P.C.A. auditorium on Church street. The second performance will be given the following Sunday.
The program will be as follows: Plantation overture, the orchestra; "Dora Dean" (first act); Blue Danube Waltz, Orchestra; second act: Danza Calabrese, orchestra: and third act.
The entire action of the play takes place in the living room of Locust Grove, palatial home of the Deans.
The cast is as follows: Dora Dean, an orphan, Helen Audet; Mrs. Sarah Dean, her aunt, Claire Morrissette; Eugenia Dean, her daughter, Mireille Mary; Alice Dean another daughter, Emilie Sinclair; Howard Hastings, a neighbor, Doris Daley; Ella Grey Hastings, his wife, Imelda McCarthy; Stephen Grey, Ella's brother, Mary Barbara Jackson; Mrs. Louise Elliot, Howard's sister, Anita Fusco; Mrs. Leah, housekeeper at the Hastings home, Victoria Zaklukiewich; Bridget, servant at Locust Grove, Helen Marie Collins; Joey, the handyman, Christine Driscoll: and Uncle Nat Dean from India, Raymond LeVoyer.
Members of the orchestra are: piano, Imelda McCarthy, violins, Priscilla Bonin, Marie Lagace, Marguerite Cotnoir, Anita Gaudette, Elizabeth Douville and Katherine Anne Brindley; saxophones, Eleanor Marchesseault and Christine Driscoll; trumpets, Mary Claire Jackson and Irene Cote; clarinets, Claire Rompre, Helen Rouleau, Margaret Foley and Lucille Falcone; Marimba, Henrietta Talbot, and Mary Barbara Jackson; Drums, Marion Dailey; and conductor Rose Marie De Palma.
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Students of the Putnam Catholic Academy present the three-act play 'Dora Dean' by Virginia Mitchell, set in the living room of the Deans' home at Locust Grove. The cast features Helen Audet as the orphan Dora Dean, Claire Morrissette as her aunt, and others in family and neighbor roles. Orchestra performs between acts.