Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-29
HAS
CLOSING PROGRAM
STUDENTS RENDER TWO-ACT
MUSICAL, COMEDY
Chorus of Forty=fiVe Voices Opens the
Performance-"PoIIy's Rivals"
Was the Playette That
Scored

The Polytechnic high school was
formally closed for the season last
night.
After six weeks for preparation the
students rendered their two-act musical
comedy entitled "Polly's Rivals" which
met with great success.
The auditorium was Illuminated with
hundreds of incandescent lights which
span the hall from end to end in large
sweeping arches, giving very impos-
ing appearance.
The stage was draped with beautiful
curtains and elaborate scenery and
lighted by a three-tier row of foot
lights. A color searchlight at the rear
of the hall added greatly to give the
whole very theatrical effect.
At an early hour the auditorium was
crowded to the doors and long before
the curtain rose there was left no
standing room in the building.
The orchestra rendered number of
selections and the curtain rose twenty.
minutes late.
A large chorus of forty-five voices
singing in perfest harmony and sur
rounded by scenery illustrative of the
Thames river. England, was the first
SpeCldCle OI the evening.
The members of the churS We're
trained by Mrs. Gertrude Parsons and
her efforts were we'll rewarded by the
fine showing the young people made.
Frank Ragland, taking the part of
Ted DoOiittle, an educated fool, brought
roars of laughter from the audience by
his clever acting and witty sayings.
Miss Adamson Scores
High well earned her place as star
of the comedy.
The summer girls and Spanish dane
ers were also very attractive features
of the play.
Clarence Joy as DR.. Kyllum from
Pasadena made great success as an
NJ. d.. but he seemed more at home
when he knelt with the rivals.
Jack Warren taking the part of Duke
Ammi Innyt certainly was not in it.
as he lost his prospective bride.
The program was as follows:
"Polly's Rivals a musical comedy in
two acts
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Mr., High, California oil magnate. Frank
Lillard: Mrs. High, his better 80 per cent.
Lucy Whitttlesey; Polly High, a coquette,
Mamie Adamsoni H. Grey High, a college
chum Bernice White; Ted Doolitttle, an
educated fool, Frank Ragland; DR.,
Kyllum, from Pasadena, Clarence Jay;
NJ. le Comte de Champagne, French no.
bleman, Everett Charlton Lord Dilling-
ham, English nobleman, Ray Craig;
Biggs, his valet, Edwin Helzman; Lieut..
Won Dozen, German. nobeman, James
Brewer; Duke Ammi llnyt. Austrian
nobleman, Jack Warren; Prince Blowski,
Russian nobleman, Frank Dunwell.
Summer glrls-Margaret Lyeth. Mar
tonia Prince. Hazel Banks, Edith Holmes,
Clayton, Imogene Burns, Madge Moore,
Lucille Doner, Daisy Connell, Edith White,
Ellen Clarke, Lucy Powell, Lois Sessions,
Maud Binz and Lillian Moss.
College boys-Warrens Cain, James New
ton, Clement Refs, Orville Rowland, Park
Hyde, Harry Olmsted, Horace Barton,
Willard Buell.. Joe Potts Ernest Simmons
Spanish Norma Gould. Ruth
Miller, Marie Reichert, Mamie Cliff, Hazel
Ludwick, Mamie Adamson
Synopsis of Play
The High family rich Americans. are
touring Europe. In their train are several
foreign noblemen who are seeking Polly
highs hand and wealth. 1t Is reported
that the High fortune is swept way, and
all the rivals forsake them except one
just as he wins Poflys consent TO become
his bride. a second cablegram Is received
Stating that the lost fortune is retrieved
much to the chagrin Of the fortune
hunters
Act I--scene ON the banks of the
Thames river.