The daily sentinel., 1906-05-23
Great Audience Delighted
With Class Day Exercises
The Young Ladies and Gentlemen Won HIGHEST
Admiration aud Proved Themselves a
Talented and Worthy Class

school board and mayor and city
council. In faultless legal diction,
the bounty and generosity of the class
was made known to its beneficiaries
it was a well-written production, and
its tone, its quiet humor was keenIy
enjoyed, even by those who were the
victims of its trusts
The principal event of the evening
consisted OF class play. partici-
pated in by eight young ladies and
gentlemen. Men, Maids and Match
Makers was the suggestive title.
and tells the story of the interesting
and dramatic plot. Maids and bache-
lors, with crossed heart strings and
misunderstood loves, were the in
nocent subjects of misccvious and
disquieting projects and devices of
one who posed as a rich aunt.
In the first Of the three acts, by a
ludicrous mistake the men and maids
were made acquainted, and mutual
attachments are formed, although
not disclosed. Unluclily. the ubiq-
utitous rich aunt, bereft of hear
ing and sentiment makes her appear
ance, and demands that her beloved
niece, If she wishes to share in the
estate of her affectionate aunt, shall
become engaged to a cousin, whom
the heart-broken young lady profess
ses to hate as cordially as she is hat
ed by him. The engagement is made
for convenience. and meanwhile
other hearts are enamored. and COM
psications, apparently beyond cor
rection. arise.
. One month later, to add to the gai-
ETY. of the scene, a dutch doctor. sum
moned to minister TO the ailiug fell
| inc of the cyer-present aunt. became
stricken with the ancient beauties
OF that lady and with protests of
| true love, pays unwelcome court
through the ear trumpet of the mon
eyed lady. misunderstanding for
/ lows misunderstanding in the affairs
of the young lovers, and after many
| laughable incidents the act closes
amid the signs of disappointed and
crossed maids.
The third and last act opens on
angry and vexed men and maids, the
waters of true love more turbulent
than ever. Explanation is attempt
ed and fails Protests on the part
of the infatuated men are met with
iaunts and provoking mirth on the
part of their beloved. The rich aunt.
with the ear trumpet through whose
device grief has come, divests her
[ self of wig and disguise, and as
tounds the party by revealing her
/ true identity. a maid and not the
elderly lady and snappy aunt she APP
peared to be. At the end, all are
made happy, and the curtain falls on
the Iudicrous figure of DIR. IImhoff.
the Dutch physician, persisting in his
effusive and rejected proffers of de-
votion.
Too much praise cannot be bestow-
ed up on the young men and women
who produced the play, and more
satisfactory and pleasing amateur
performance has not been witnessed
in Grand junction. Miss Josephine
GLADDEN.. as Miss Lillian Stewart, was
delightful in her genuinely feminine
portrayal of a difficult character, call
ing for varied moods and delicacy of
touch. As Katherine Howard, an
indolent and good-natured girl, teach
ing her lover to make proposals, MISS
Sadie Erickson deserves much com
mendation for the manner in which
she handled her part. Elizabeth
Everett. girl of strong whims and
pretty manners, was well PERSONAL
ed bv Miss Ethel Elizabeth Black
well. Perhaps the central and dom
inant character of the play was the
figure of the ancient aunt. wealthy,
and sordid in her conceptions of mar
riage. This difficult role was taken
bv Miss Elizabeth Ramey. and in all
the situations in which she appeared
whether as one of the girls or posing
as the rich relative. she Interpreted
the character with splendid ability
and self-possession.
DR.. Union, in the person of VIII
liam Beal, kept the audience laugh
ing at his lovemaking. AS Charley
brewster, a Young man who procur-
ed another to middle his love letters
Lucius Wells sustained his part sat
. isfactorily. James Irwin Miller was
splendid in his character as Roy Vim
vent, who was a failure as peace
maker. Excellent work was done by
Mr. Alya Vance. and in a spirited
manner. he appeared with ease in the
successive capacities as rejected and
accepted lover
MANY enthusiastic and favorable
comments upon the entertainment oil
last evening have been heard, the en-
tfra program elieiting much common
dafion from all who were fortunate
enough to be present The evening
was free from the monotony which
sometimes characterizes such occas-
ions. and it was indeed splendid ex-
hibition of the varied talents posses
ged BY the members of the class oil
1906.
Among the events of the scholas'
tic year and the commencement week
the exercises Of class day. given lasl
evening must occupy a prominent
Mace. and the young ladies and gen
tIemen who participated in the ex-
D., ercises are being congratulated on
on ali sides upon their ability to en-
tertain and amuse.
ON tomorrow night the commence
ment program will be given at inc
park opera house, the principal fea'
, ture Of which will be the address oil
chancellor Henry Buchtel OF the Den
yer University.
r u Smith and company's money
: making contest TO the boys and
-, talraa nIace tomorrow. All wide