The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-06
CLEVER PLAY.
Miss Elizabeth Holiday Again
Proves Her CapabiIity.
"The Owls Give Her Musical
Comedy "SchoOl Days."
PRONOUNCED SUCCESS.
Pretty High School Girls Make
Up the Cast.
Play Is Presented at Senator
Curtis Home.
PRONOUNCED SUCCESS.

school Days. as given by the To-
peka chapter of the long lost Owls at
the Curtis home on Topeka avenue last
night, was one of the prettiest little
amateur plays ever seen in Topeka
And it was undoubtedly the cIassiest
audience and the classiest cast that
has ever been seen in Topeka The
cream of the young high schol-college
set of the city were there. 1t would
be useless to tell about the color
make. style, brand cut, hang and
general characteristics of the dresses
worn by the crowd of young girls
They were all pretty and they all
seemed to fit the color of the occu-
pants eyes and it is supposed that this
is sufficient.
''School Days" is a little musical
comedy drama written by Miss Eliza
beth Holiday of this city. Miss Holli-
day not only has talent for writing
plays but she has ideas of her own in
acting them. Last night she exhibited
unusual talent in doing both. The
scene of the play is a college girls
room. There are twelve girls in the
room when the folding doors swing
back and they naturally are all talking
at once. Some doubled up and made
it twice-but they were talking any
way. All of sudden one of the girls
jumped from her chair and COM
menced humming "Childhood Days"
the popular little song that recently
struck Topeka and left the city a
serious wound-at least it is still
smarting. When the girls had finished
this song and had refused to respond
to the tremendous encore from the
parquet, Miss Marie Lagerstrom step
ped near the footlights per the request
of her college friends and started in on
a song entitled, Wont you have box
of candy" The song was adapted to
a number of the chappies in the front
row of the audience and judging from
the hilarious hand clapping and yelling
the words found a home. The chorus
in this song were eight college girls
in white f1ashy band hats and starched
white dresses. Some of them wore
their brothers coats and they were to
represent the boys of the chorus. Each
boy was equipped with a box of candy
and the peculiar little twist of the
circumstantfal evidence of close
observation during the gymnastics of
q, modern comic opera chorus.
-Four Songs Were Featured.
During the first scene Of the play
four songs were featured, Wont You
Have a Box of Candy by Miss Marie
Lagertrom, "Can You Guess by Miss
Margery Whitney. '"The New Reform
Queerness of Love" by Miss Betty HoI-
liday. The latter song made the hit
of the evening. Miss Holiday is a
cute little actor if the word is al
lOWdDIe. one OOeS NOT pay any aIten-
ton to her audience and her move
ments are graceful and full of action.
1.-THE New Reform also made a
decided prolonged strike with the
drawing room listeners. The singing
itself did but the remedies used for
the tanning of "polIyfoxing" did not
seem to take with the average boy
present. 1t developed in this song
that Topeka boys are pretty strong
on the 'spooning'' act, but if they do
accidentally overstep the girls code of
ethics they are perfectly safe because,
mo one finds it OUT
The second act, or section of the
play opened in the same college room
The same girls We're there but they