1875

Manhattan: Madison Avenue - 26th Street (East)

STAGE GROUP PLANS FOR 50TH BIRTHDAY Two Women, only Survivors of First Cast, to Attend Celebration Tomorrow. The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Amateur Comedy Club, Inc., will be marked tomorrow night at the Heckscher Theatre when the club presents its annual production, "Aren't We All?" by Frederick Lonsdale. Members of the club, one of the oldest amateur dramatic organizations in the country, gave their first performance on Feb. 13, 1885, in the University Club Theatre, Madison Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street, formerly the home of the late Leonard Jerome, whose heirs still own the property. The club presented on that occasion two plays "Which Is Which" and "One Too Many For Him." Roles in the first production were portrayed by Miss Katherine Montague, now Mrs. E. Pinckney Collins, and Miss Alice Witherspoon, now Mrs. George Pratt Ingersoll. They, the only survivors of the first cast, will attend the performance tomorrow night. [Newspaper article on back of this print is from the New York Times, February 12, 1935, page 18. It is pasted over a label that I cannot read.]

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection