Word: pickletop
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play, which is a comedy in three acts, is well written, both incident and dialogue being often very clever. The part of John Brattle, private secretary to Pickletop, was well taken by Carleton Noyes '95, and Walter Van Kleeck in a rather difficult piece of character acting gave a creditable performance. One of the features of the comedy is a serenade by Bailey, White, Norton, and Van-Kleeck...
...society, which has been to produce, not a burlesque, but rather a play which shall call for serious criticism, the play this year is a comedy in three acts, which are named respectively, Death, Resurrection, and Re-incarnation. The plot embodies financial difficulties, spiritualism and love. Mr. Pickletop, the cause of all the trouble, in order to avoid his creditors is spirited away to a haunted house, where he is confined longer thean necessary by his secretary, Brattle, in order that Brattle may marry the old man's daughter, although Pickletop unknown to the others had already picked out Brattle...
...cast will be as follows: John Brattle, a Harvard graduate and private secretary to Mr. Pickletop, Carleton E. Noyes '95; Budd Rogers, a disciple of Sherlock Holmes, W. L. Van Kleeck '95; Benjamin Pickletop, Charles E. Cook '93; Charlie Rivers, Justin Towne and Sandy Cutter, college men and friends of Brattle, A. E. Bailey '94, S. P. White '95, and M. G. Norton '95; Mr. Cheatham, Mr. Skinner and Mr. Sharpe, creditors of Mr. Pickletop, F. W. Merriman '95, F. A. Dorman '94 and W. S. Youngman '95; Eleanor Pickletop, William Frazar Lee '94; Bathsheba Primrose, a miss with...
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