The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-02-25
THE SCHOOL PLAYS.
The Pupils of the Princeton High
School Give Their Annual Plays
and Entertainment.
TenrySon's "Dream of Fair Women''
and Farce Comedy Presented
in Creditable Manner.

the high school has come to be the
literary and social event of the year
in Princeton. It is something that the
people of Princeton always patronize
willingly and literally, because the
entertainment appeals to them in two
ways.-from the standpoint of interest
in the high school pupils display of
both native and cultivated talent, and
also from that of desire to contribute
to the library fund of the school for
the benefit of which the entertainments
are always given. Each years enter
tainment brings before the public a
complete change of program and with
a cast of characters entirely new, and
it is always a genuine pleasure to wit
ness the production of the plays and
numbers on the program. The enter
tainment given at the opera house last
Monday night was fully up to the high
standard of those given in years past,
though it was of an entirely different
nature. The two main features were
Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women"
and "The Trial of Peter Sloper."
The entertainment opened with song,
"Forest Glee," by the chorus of male
and female voices. Appropriate to
the occasion was the address on
George Washington by Earl Kaliher
who referred to the life and character
of the father of Uncle Sam in a very
hn
tette, consisting of Prof. and Pert Sell
leck, Fremont Woodcock and Otto
Radeke sang "Doan We Cry, Ma
Honey.' and came back to answer
the place OF Guy Prescott who was
unable to take part on account of
sickness. Vernon Dickey gave an
Irish character sketch in very clever
manner. This was followed by the
production of ':Dream of Fair Wo-
2 men" which was read by Miss Grace
Morehouse who read the whole poem
without any prompting, and she did
admirably we'll with her almost fault
less menorizing. Her enunciation
was a bit weak and for this reason
the audience could not hear all the
lines, but this was a fault easily to be
overlooked. The phantom-like tale Of
Tennyson's depicting
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand
The downward slope to DEATH
was we'll presented. The costuming
and posing showed that the pupils had
been we'll drilled and history had been
closely read in arranging the cos
tunes. The characterization of the
play was as follows: Cleopatra,
Grace Sadley; Helen Of Troy, Mabel
Gennow; Iphigenia, Mary Patterson;
Jephthah's daughter, Jennie Whitney
Rosamond, Mary Steinbach: Queen
Eleanor, Ruth Briggs; Sir Thomas
Moore's daughter, Phoebe Westerling:
Joan of Arc, Hazel Jaax: Queen FL
their parts through the reading of the
poem.
Part two opened with ''Moonlight
Bells and Song" by the chorus and
the quartette gave another song after
which the curtain was rung up on the
trial Of Peter Sloper, who was ar
rested under the blue laws of Connec-
ticut for having dropped to sleep in
church. From the wierd woodlands
of Tennyson to this farce-comedy was
a great but rather appreciative jump,
and no sooner had jeremiah Goggles
opened his court for the trial than the
fun began. In the assignment of the
parts native ability had been we'll con-
sidered and for this reason all took
their parts splendidly, even to the con-
stable, Harold Selleck taking this part
with the utmost sang froid. But in
dividual praise is rather out of place
here as the whole cast is entitled to
4 praise for that matter. Earl Hatch
made a good justice, showing judicial
dignity, while the two attorneys, Jesse
Orion for the defense and Willard Sell
leck for the prosecution faithfully de-
picted the parts assigned them, their
address to the court being model coun-
terparts of the real thing so often
seen in a justice court. Monroe Ames
took the part of the accused and
while not exactly a sleeping beauty he
was good sleeper, but his attorney
explained away all his shortcomings,
and peculiarities. Lillian Kalihe1 and
nine little tots made hit as the family
of Peter. Miss Kaliher could show
grief as we'll as resent insult and i'm
jury just like woman can. Dafid
King as "Tim Scroggs'''. and Lena
Nachbar as "Sobrina Higgins In
love with Tim, were two interesting