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original group is Mr. Talbot Pearson, present director of the Little J^abrador s
Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana. Offers
Sir the organization Margaret has been an interested worker Opportu
and a., influential member, having served on the board of directors nities to
continuously from that date. She is now vice president of the Little 3\urse
Theatre and chairman of the Executive Committee. She has been box
office chairman for three years and has also assisted with the prop- J
erties and other departments, her interest centering in the actual work
of the theatre rather than in the acting. However, she has taken some Nursing & la snowshocs.
speaking parts notably "Fashion," "Liliom," and several Christmas
plays. She also has to her credit the successful direction of several a By B A R B A R A J A C K S O N
one-act plays presented at the Dallas Woman's Club.
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The success of the Dallas Little Theatre is evidenced by the fact
that it won the national competition trophy (Margaret was in the suc- !
cessful play) and has also been able to erect a beautiful new theatre
home of its own. The present director is Charles Meredith, who has A R D E L L A B A R T H (AT), is the head nurse of the Whisler Me-
succeeded Oliver Hinsdell. now in motion picture work. ^""^morial Hospital at Denison. She returned to us this year after
By unusual and special arrangement the Dallas alumnae of Alpha O a year in the Grenfell Mission in Labrador.
will reserve the lower floor of the Little Theatre for a matinee at each Two years ago she heard Doctor Grenfell lecture and was so fasci-
of the remaining plays this season and will make a small amount on nated by his description of the work at the mission that she wrote her
each ticket for their charity work. application and in about six weeks received her appointment. She went
to Labrador in July. After a journey of two weeks, she arrived at Bat-
The name of Margaret Bentley symbolizes Dallas Little Theatre tle Harbor where she performed regular hospital duties.
success and we hardly think of one without the other. In limited time
and space it is difficult to give due credit for the splendid work which In the middle of September, however, she was transferred to the
she has done. In addition she is quite active in Dallas club work, being village of Northwest River, "The Paradise of Labrador," which is about
on the board of the Dallas Woman's Club. She is also an active mem- one hundred and fifty miles inland. The trip was made by boat. As the
ber of the Dallas alumna? of AOI1. Recently she has taken an important boat passed the villages they were obliged to look for signals indicating
part in the "Trial of Vivien Ware," a radio play, presented in episodes that medical assistance was needed.
each night for several weeks.
One day they had been following a whaler for about ten miles and
Add to all this an unfailing friendliness and a charming personality had been watching the men on its deck skinning a whale, when an op-
and you have a slight picture of one whom Nil Kappa is proud to call erator came to them and informed them that there had been a shoot-
a founder.
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"The No 'Count Boy" ami the Belasco Trophy in New York.
Margaret Bentley sits in the rocker.
