In order that each member of the cast may be chosen on her merit alone, my old friend, Mr.Southard, kindly consented to come from Albany for the sole purpose of giving us the benefit of his great Shakespearian experience.

Allow me to introduce Mr.Everett Southard." He was greeted with a round of applause, and after bowing his thanks, the eminent actor plunged at once into the business at hand.
He spoke favorably of the idea of an all-girl cast, saying that each year many girls' colleges presented Shakespearian plays with marked success.

The main thing to be considered was the intelligent delivery of the great dramatist's lines.

The thing to do would be to find out what girls could most ably portray the various characters, it would be necessary to try each girl separately with a few lines from the play.

In order to facilitate matters, he suggested that those girls who really desired speaking parts step to one side of the room, while those who wished merely to make the stage pictures, step to the other.
Out of the eighty girls, about thirty-five only stepped over to the side from which the principal characters were to be chosen.