The program again listed Rollo Lloyd as director. The leads were June Walker and Norval Keedwell. Among the plays presented was Winchell Smith and Tom Cushing’s Thank You, a story about an underpaid Reverend who cannot get along on his meager salary and relies on donations from his parishioners. His orphaned niece wages a campaign to get him a decent stipend and to regain his self-respect. After leaving New York, the piece played four years on the road, where it was “hailed by ministers and teachers as a powerful argument for underpaid educators and as the best friend the clergy ever had.”
[Borrillo, T. A. (2012). Denver’s historic Elitch Theatre: A nostalgic journey (a history of its times). Colorado. p. 131]
Theatre Staff:
- J. M. Mulvihill President
- George L. Roberts, Treasurer
- Rollo Lloyd, Stage Director
- Ben Webster, Technical Director
- George B. Ashworth, Art Director
Resident Company:
- Helen Menken
- June Walker
- Diantha Patterson
- Helen Baxter
- Mable Colcord
- Norval Keedwell
- C. Henry Gordon
- Butler Hixon
- George Farren
- H. Dudley Hawley
- Charles Waldron
Productions:
- Week of June 15: The Changelings, by Lee Wilson Dood
- Week of June 22: Rolling Home, by John Hunter Booth.
- Week of June 29: The New Poor, by Cosmo Hamilton.
- Week of July 6: Across the Street, by Richard A. Purdy.
- Week of July 13: Drifting, by John Colton and D. H. Andrews. Helen Menken replaced June Walker as leading lady.
- Week of July 20: Thank You, by Winchell Smith and Tom Cushing.
- Week of July 27: Zander the Great, by Salisbury Field.
- Week of Aug. 3: The First Year, by Frank Craven
- Week of Aug. 10: Gypsy Jim, by Oscar Hammerstein II and Milton Herbert Gropper.
- Week of Aug. 17: The Last Warning, by Thomas F. Fallon.
- Week of Aug. 24: Two Fellows and a Girl, by Vincent Lawrence.
