Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-05-24
PRODUCTION IS
CRED|TABLE ONE
High School Play
"As You Like
.PLEASES LARGE AUDIENCE
Special Costumes and Scenic
Effects Add TO Realistic
Performance.

None but words OF praise were
heard today about the production OF
Shakespeare's AS You Like It"
which was presented last evening sup
Elementary to the commencement ex.
ercises of the Santa Fe High School.
1t was really a creditable perform
ance and the commendatory express
sions were well merited.. Although
the play is one of the lighter efforts
of the great playwright the roles are
none the less eXaeting and especially
SO because of the lengthy yerbage to
be memorized
High School Hall was we'll filed
when the nour set for the play to
begin arrived and the audience indi-
Gated its appreciation of the portray
al with applause as spontane-
Gus as 1t was frequent and
hearty, The amateur players were
all well cast and acquitted them.
selves in a manner bespealIng careful
training for their respective parts un.
der the tutelage of \ Hfessor Garrison
and Miss Bach. Some &. he youthful
thespians displayed real histronic tai
ent but there is no need TO single out
any one or two for especial praise.
Suffice il to say that they were all
good and that is not stretching the
truth either.
Special Costumes From Denver.
Special costumes suitable to the
several characters involved In the 4
play We're, secured from. Lareer. IL
was to defray the expense thus incur
red and other expenditures required
for the presentation that an admission
was charged. The stage setting de.
picting the forest scene was realistic.
In fact genuine trees We're utilized in.
stead of painted canvas ones. The
background of ceiling and wall was
kalsomined blue representing the
sky. Footlights were installed on the
rostrum and will be permanent fix
lures.
OF necessity the first act of the play
was omitted. Principal Garrison ex-
planned that this was done for the
purpose of shortening it to save time,
and he then gave a brief synopsis to
refresh the memory of the audience.
He stated that in selecting a Shake
| spearean drama the faculty did not
| wish to appear presumptuous as many
Of the most noted actors and actress
es had found ample scope in 1t for
their histronic ability but he said 1t
was done that the pupils might have
| an acquisition of value in thus study
ing the great playwright's works.
The dramatis personae follows:
Cast of Characters.
| Duke, living in exile in the Forest OF
| Arden ..,......... Helen Laughlin
Jaques the Melancholy. Lord attend.
ing upon the exiled Duke ...
| .......,............ Edward Stafford
Amiens, Lord attending upon the ex-
| lied Duke. e........... Mary McFie
A Lord attending upon the exiled
| DuhC .IlOStIS lSkS
Oliver, eldest son of Sir Roland de
| Bois s,............Fe .Ferneley Wiley
Jaques, second son of Sir Roland
| ................... Gordon Goebel
Orlando, youngest son of Sir Roland
| ...............J John r. McFie. Jr,
Adam, servant to Orlando .....
| Clinton T Crandall Jr
| Touchstone, court jester. ......
| .................. Julius Loomis
Corin all old shepherd ....
Silvius, young shepherd, in love
with Phoebe. ...... Jacob Stafford
William, a country fellow, in love
with Audrey ... Eugene Fiske
Rosalind, daughter of the exiled
Duke. Dorlyska Crandall
Celia, cousin to Rosalind and daugh.
ter to the usurping Duke. .......
| ..............,.. II eiH EuuS
Phoebe a shepherdess. .'..........
! .................... Mary Friday
Audrey a country girl. Anne Newhall