Imperial Valley press., 1909-02-20
Excellent Work of Local Dra- matic Company in Diffi-
 cult Performance.
Women's Section of Ten Thousand Club Presents the Popular Drama of the Frontier For the Benefit of the City Park Fund, and the PIay-. CTS Make Good.

Home talent scored a success in the presentation of Arizona" at the Holt Opera House last Saturday night. In the face of really discouraging cir cumstances, in the way of recasting of characters a few days before the play was presented, and curtailment of scenes because of lack of stage room, the play was well put on.
 Naturally in an amateur perform ance, allowances are to be made for inexperience, but it is doubtful if 8 better balanced caste has ever under taken an amateur dramatic perform ance in Imperial Valley than the twenty persons who presented this play of western life.
 Without question, the stars of the evening were the women characters. Bonita Canby', as depicted by Miss Garnet Davis, was a refreshingly nat ural young woman, just back at her desert home in Arizona after attend ing school at San Francisco, but with the. love of the desert and the old home far verreaching the superb cial veneer of the finishing" school Her work was equal to that of pro fessional and won hearty applause.
 She was WI seconded by Miss Jan ice Meredith in the difficult part of "Estrella Bonham', young wife of a middle-aged army officer, wk2 tires of the monotony of life/st a military post on the desert aH is tempted in- to treacherous paths by an unprin- cipled younger officer, but whose love for her husband conquers in the end and effects a reconciliation
 "Pa Canby'' and Ma Canby" taken by LeRoy Davis and Mrs. Irene But terworth were excellent, each one giving their own peculiar conception to the characters assumed with a verve that suited the audience and won them much applause.
 Lena, the serving girl, victim of the wiles of the william Capt. Hodge man." was taken by Mrs. Grover Keeney, who gave fine portrayal of the German girl whose emotions are in tempest at the trial where she is called upon to deliver her lover to the law for punishment for murder.
 Miss Clara Johnson, as Miss Mo Cullough", a frontier school teacher who was metamorphosed into a red cross nurse, was sprightly figure in the action of this play and sus- tained her part we'll
 Jesse J. Colby, Jr., as Irony Mons tano," made typical vaquero, and was picturesque figure in the caste whenever he appeared. His wooing of Lena" with an admixture of good and bad English alike"-he learned well portrayed.
 "Dr. Fenlon," enacted by Phil D. Swing, proved a comedian who con vulsed the audience whenever he ap- peared "Col. Bonham" was DOT trayed in dignitied manner by Mar win Moore and Capt. Denton" and Capt. Hodgeman" were the trying characters undertaken by Daniel A. Leonard and Gilbert S. Helms with success.
 The support of the minor characters was good and pleased the audience. As with almost every amateur per formance, there were slight lapses which seemed of magnified propor- tions to the actors themselves, but which were amusing to those mem bers of the audience who knew the play and scarcely noticed by those who saw the production for the first time.
 The Park Committee Stock Com pany and the Women's Section of the Ten Thousand Club are gratified over the result and the cordial reception accorded this second entertainment of the series contemplated for the purpose of raising a City Park fund. More than $20O was taken in at the "ArIzOna" antartainmanf