City Island Recreation Center
Jul 25, 26, 1947 at 8:15 PM
1. The Real Truth: A Broadway glamour girl and her sister find themselves in love with the same man.
Directed by: Freddie M. Smith, Margaret Ford, Hazel Costello.
2. If Men Played Cards as Women Do: Four men playing playing cards in a most unusual manner. The fun is derived from the fact that a group of men at the poker table speak, behave, and think in the manner in which women are supposed to conduct a bridge game. It seems like a typical scenario: a group of men getting together and playing cards, but it’s the conversation that’s NOT so typical. The four men, whose personalities are all over-the-top, try to “one up” each other during their usual card game. Hilarity ensues and trumps the evening!
Directed by: Margaret Harris.
3. The Monkey’s Paw: A fantasy-tragedy centered around the disaster resulting when a man is granted the power to make three wishes come true.
Directed by: Cherie Colet
Cast: Ann Dreher, Carl Davidson, David Aldrich, Harry Broome, Rodney Reid
1. The Real Truth: Written by Ruth Raines as part of a playwriting contest sponsored by the Little Theater and held in May of 1947. As the winner, the author received a $50 prize.
2. If Men Played Cards as Women Do: Written by George S. Kaufman. First produced as part of Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revue circa 1921.
3. The Monkey’s Paw: Likely written by Louis N. Parker in 1907. Adapted from the short story by W. W. Jacobs published in 1902 in “Harper’s Weekly”.
Names of actors found in archival sources to have performed in this play, but whose roles were not listed.
