'Sunshine' Wins Much Applause: the U.D.C. musical comedy at the Jefferson, Hilda Webb in the chorus of Birmingham beauties

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'SUNSHINE' WINS MUCH APPLAUSE. U. D. C. Musical Comedy Scores Hit At The Jefferson

Sprinkled with a lively group of dances, the clever musical comedy, "Sunshine," given under the auspices of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, began its first night of a four-night engagement at the Jefferson theater, Saturday.

The comedy is based on incidents in the lives of inmates of a sanitorium, who are suffering with all the well-known ailments, from nervous trouble to chronic alcoholism. The heroine of [the comedy is Evelyn Ketchum, as "Sunshine"; the cast is named.]

The chorus of a bevy of well-known Birmingham beauties brought applause. It consisted of Margaret Bass, Ethel Estes, Virginia Odum, Frances Lloyd, Camille Schine, Muriel Sims, Katherine Cooper, Marie Maxwell, Sara Fruitticher, Evely Knowles, Madeline Wilcox, Alice Carter, Lillian Farmer, Katherine Howle, Katherine Webb, Mildred Orr, Margaret Henry, Marion Gresham, Eula Harwell, Pat Bennett, Marian Scriven, Katherine Daniel, Hilda Webb, Mildred Mattison, Cassie Crowson, Nellie Kincaid, Jessie Darling and Elizabeth Boatrite.

Special dances staged in connection with the performance was a dance by Miss Mildred Adams and a dance by Rebecca Webb.

Citation: "'Sunshine' Wins Much Applause: U. D. C. Musical Comedy Scores Hit At The Jefferson," The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.), Sunday 26 October 1924, p. 46, cols. 2–3; image, Chronicling America, Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85038485/1924-10-26/ed-1/?sp=46).