The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-05-27
THE UNION DEPOT
Amateurs Stage Entertaining Play
By That Title
At THE OPERA HOUSE
Mirth Provoking Comedy is Present.
ed Under Auspices of Ladies OF
Episcopal Church

APtSSoPus
"From the moment when young
Johnny Brown is rudely awakened
by his ma to catch the train for Black
duck, until the closing song by the
College Quartet, the audience will be
amused by the different phases of
country and city life as seen in a union
depot.
That's what the bills said, and the
bills, being printed at the office OF the
Sank Centre Herald, which was never
caught telling lie, were consequent
ly reliable.
'The Union Depot" was what they
called it. BY ''It" is meant the play
presented at the Opera House on
Thursday evening, May 20, by the
women Of the Episcopal church. And
so we'll was the offering staged and
acted that the treasury of the church
was enriched by sum approximating
$4,000.
Of course, "play'' of that nature
hasn't any plot, or if it has, one has
to use a high power magnifying glass
to discover it. There is simply rail-
road station as background, a few
leading people who do the main part
of the work and a large number of
others who "fill i'm, as it were. This
condition ofsaffairs, it can readily be
seen, affords unlimited scope for
speciality acts, music and 'funny
business. The opportunity present
ed was embraced to good advantage
by the ''play actors" and the mana
gers of the production.
! There were "A people in the alleged
least" and every one was a star.
Naturally some of the stars scintillat-
ed more brilliantly than did others;
for does not the good book allege that
zone star differeth from another star
in glory? For Instance AL
Erwin shone and so did George O'Ga-
ra, but each emitted CLEANS of light
to say nothing of intelligence-of a
different character. You couldn't eX-
pect Rev. S. L. Mitchell and black
face John Whitson to do the same
song and dance act, because Rev.
Mitchell wouldn't and Whitson
couldn't. Dignified Ticket Agent and
Former Mayor J. w. Ward was con-
fined by his duties in the ticket Office
where he beamed and raked in imagi-
nary shekels for imaginary tickets,
hence he could not pirouette around
the stage.
But speaking of George O'Gara, he
was in his native element running the
depot lunch counter handing out re-
freshments, and the following day he
remarked that the net income consist
ed of two 'chips", few brass buttons
and six cents. Doc Kirghis, it may
be remarked in passing, was one of
the 'play actors" who patronized the
lunch counter freely. Query: did Doc
give George the 'chips"?
In the space permitted in this
article it is impossible to name each
factor" and tell all of the funny
things that were said and done. Suf-
flee it to say that the production was
well staged and that all the particip-
ants did well. A few things, however,
stood out SO prominently as to deserve
special mention.
Miss Campell was easily the ''lead-
ing lady" and the. star which shone
with the greatest brilliancy of all.
She took the character of ssMiss
Piper, an elderly spinster with cork
screw curls, an old fashioned sbon-
net", and the rest of her toilet to
match, and carrying huge bandbox
and large bird cage containing a
parrot. She was lonely and wanted
to find someone to ''lean upon. Her