Plot and Cast of Delta Upsilon Play

Rehearsals for the Delta Upsilon play, "The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon," have been in progress for two weeks. Mr. A. S. Hills '00, instructor in public speaking, has again prepared the acting version and will have general supervision of the production. This play by Thomas Heywood is the eighth in the series of Elizabethan revivals begun by the fraternity in 1898. The play is an amusing and little-known specimen of Heywood's domestic drama, and deals more with comedy and farce than with romance.

Young Chartley had been betrothed to Luce, a girl of his own county, but the night before his wedding, he ran away to London, where the opening of the play finds him. Here he became much enamored of another Luce, a goldsmith's daughter, whom he planned to marry at the house of the Wise-Woman. Boyster, "a blunt fellow," also loved the gold smith's daughter, but he had made no progress in his courtship. Meanwhile the country Luce had come to London after Chartley, and, disguised as a page, she overheard the plans for the wedding. She then engaged herself as a boy in the service of the Wise-Woman, who carried on a flourishing trade in quack medicines, enchantments and fortune telling. Chartley had incurred the displeasure of the Wise-Woman, and she on learning from the supposed boy that the he was to wed Luce at her house on the next day, planned to repay him for his insults. She conceived the idea of disguising the page as a woman and marrying him to Chartley, giving at the game time Luce, the goldsmith's daughter, to Boyster. The following morning the masked wedding was cleverly carried out by the Wise-Woman, who sent each person away in a fright before the masks were removed.

Chartley soon became infatuated with Gratiana, Sir Harry's daughter, sought in marriage by a certain gentleman named Sencer. By clever deceit he won Sir Harry's consent to a union. The Wise-Woman was now sought by Sencer, Luce and Boyster. She promised that Sencer should forestall Gratiana's wedding and that Boyster should marry Luce. The last scene finds everyone at Hogsdon. Chartley, jovial and full of lies, was caught in his own net, and through his discomfiture everyone was made happy, including the inconstant hero, who returned to his first love.

In the following cast three parts have not yet been definitely assigned: Young Chartley,  T. F. Jones '06 Boyster,  H. Kempner '07 Sencer, Haringfield, Goldsmith,  G. W. Bricka '07 Joseph,  F. S. Howe '08 Old Chartley, Sir Harry,  C. W. Burton '08 Sir Boniface,  H. M. Holmes '06 Taber,  W. J. McCormick '08 Luce,  A. M. Hurlin '06 Second Luce,  T. W. Knauth '07 Gratiana,  R. S. Eustis '07 The Wise-Woman,  C. B. Wetherell '08

The play will be presented in Brattle Hall on Monday and Tuesday evenings, March 26 and 27, and on Thursday evening, April 5. On Wednesday evening, March 28, There will be a performance in Potter Hall, Boston, and on Saturday, April 14, the play will be produced at Wellesley.

The play will be presented in Brattle Hall on Monday and Tuesday evenings, March 26 and 27, and on Thursday evening, April 5. On Wednesday evening, March 28, There will be a performance in Potter Hall, Boston, and on Saturday, April 14, the play will be produced at Wellesley.