St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
STYGIAN AND YET LIGHT.
No Darkness in the High school
Students, Memory

The presentation of "A House Beat
on the Styx" at the High school last
evening was a decided success Every
seat in the assembly hall was filed.
and the space at the end of the hall
was packed with those standing. TIL,
play was full of humor, being some of
the divers doings Of the associated
shades, and those participating did ex-
cellently, showing the result of careful!
training and hard, faithful work
In the first scene, act one, Sir Wal
ter Raleigh engages Charon az janitor
of the house boat The second scene
same act, displays a prettily laid ban
quet table, about which are seated a
company of departed spirits. with
George Washington as host. it being
his birthday. Among other funny bits
of dialogue carried on at this banquet
is a tale told by Baron Munchausen in
which he claims to have once killed
siXty-eight ducks with one shot using
a pearl for a bullet.
Act two, entitled "A Story-Teller's
Night" was exceedingly humorous.
In scene one, act three, the women
take possession of the boat While the
men are away at a prize fight and en-
gage in dancing and songs. The central
figure of this scene. and the best, was
Trilby, whose costume and pose were
wonderfully true to Du Maurier's ideal.
In the last scene the men return from
the fight to find the boat and women
both stolen. At this announcement
made amid tears, by Charon they first
indulge in loud weeping, and then all
join in song to the New Woman of
HadeS."
The characters were all well rendered
Ira Donnelly as DR.. Samuel Johnson.
Logan Tueper as Baron Munchausen,
Robert Wood as Napoleon, Harry Rob
ins as Oliver Goldsmith and May Muir
ray as Trilby,- being particularly good.
The cast was as follows:
Or. samuel johnson. Ira Donnelly
Boswell his bioerapher. ............. Fred SCOUT
Diogenes, the Greek philosopher
Albert Armstrong
Baron Munchausen. the greatest fabu-
list OF al time. ............... Logan Tucker
william Shakespeare, poet. John Egan
Bacon Ray Jackson
SIR Walter Raleigh ........ Lorenzo De Cou
George Washington .-....... Vernon Robbins
Columbus .........................L Leslie Smith
Confuc!us. Chinese philosopher
William o'Deli
Napoleon. .......................R Robert Wood
Duke of Wellington -........... Hugh Arey
Jonah Walter Howell
Judge Blackstone Harry Brooks
Oliver Goldsmith. author OF Vicar of
Wakefield" ...................H Harry Robbins
Charon, originally the ferryman of the
River Styx. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Earl Bond
Boy Observation-Disclosures. Willie O'Tooie
Goliath ...........................J John Mcclure
Samson NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Will Sanborn
Ophela OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Lila Marchand
Elizabeth Observation-Disclosures yrtis Bud .ong
Xantippe ......................G Grace Dampier
Queen of Sheba .................. Grace Barker
Cleopatra OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Sophia Harris
Zenobia Observation-Disclosures eryl Weber
Florence Nightingale .......... Leonora Peck
Martha Washington. .........N Nellie Kavanagh
Joan of Arc. .....................J Julia Tisdale
Lady Macbeth ....................B Belle Morse
Boadicea .........................M Mabel Griffith
DeSueHlOnd Lorna ttlSDee
Fedalma Observation-Disclosures Julia Rogers
Mary Stuart Observation-Disclosures Mabel Shaw
Trilby OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Murray
Lucretia Borgia ............. Mabel Stoughton