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In the audience of Saturday’s performance of “Clarence Darrow,” a one-man show delivered by Ted Eiland at the Gay St. Theatre depicting the famous trials and eccentric personal presence which comprised the title character, will be one theatre-goer who has more than mere historical knowledge of the leading—and only — character.
Mattie Ball Fletcher, a wellknown Washington resident, celebrated cook and wife of the late William Meade Fletcher, said that her husband knew Darrow in Chicago in the first part of this century.
“I remember him saying how much he eryoyed Darrow’s company,” Mrs. Fletcher said. “I don’t know how they met, just that they were lawyers in Chicago at the same time.”
William Fletcher went on to practice in Philadelphia and Montana before returning to the county of his birth and marrying Mattie Ball.
“There’s a story I’ve heard for a long time,” said Mrs. Fletcher. “Darrow was a large man, with a big stomach. Once, in Chicago, he was trying a case and while his opponent was talking, he lit up a cigar. Well, the ash got longer and longer and the jury finally stopped concentrating on the other lawyer and just stared at his cigar, waiting for the ash to drop and bum his stomach.
“They said that he had done this on purpose by sticking a wire in his cigar.”
“Clarence Darrow” will be presented at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Gay St. Theatre, sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and Community (RAAC).
Bloodmobile visits
Warrenton Sept. 26
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at the Warrenton Fire House on Sept. 26 from noon until 6 p.m.
The bloodmobile last stopped at the fire house in July, but George
Borjes, blood services chairman of the Fauquier Chapter, said he hopes for a better turnout.
Aiming at a 90-pint target for the fiscal year, the unit has collected some 52 units of blood.
92.3%