The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-05
Washburn Seniors Give Revised
Version Of College Widow.
Given With Real Professional
Dash From the Start.
AUDIENCE WAS LARGE
Also Furnished the Necessary
College Enthusiasm.
Football Heroes Make Last APP
pearance on GridirOn.


George AIDE would have been proud
of himself if he could have seen the
pretty girls. the good looking college
youths and the college spirit at his
play, "The College Widow at the
Grand last night. The senior class
Washburn'' at the Grand and it was
simply a local production of AIDE
famous play. But If college play
was ever made really collegy II was
made so last night There were al
most fifty students in some of the
scenes and they were all real college
students having gone through the
"mill' with the customary experiences
and moulding
cupid at Washburn" made de-
cided hit with the audience that com
pletely filled the Grand. Every scene
received round after round OF ap-
plause and deserved it. One stranger
in the city who sat behind the writer
asked his friend traveller what COM
pany this was. His friend "of the
grip was heard to answer don |
know what company it isl didn I
get a programme-but 1 know that l
never saw a company with such a
stunning bunch of girls" And this
was the general sentiment last night
The Washburn girls have always been
famed for their beauty and the senior
class has possessed an unusually
large number of them The men are
not so bad-and they screamed with
their rah-rah buds last night.
The play itself was presented with
a dash and vim. Not a moment was
missing and if nothing else was DO
ing, ''Skeet'' Adams or some one OF
the other famous Dramatic club
notables would jump in and fake
until the cues were taken up. There
were no dry administrators jerk
water comedian or a rugged up sltua-
ton to fill in the gaps A little love
story ran through the play and II was
carried through just like the campus
case with all of the necessary words
and actions.
Raw r. Uford acted as the leading
manor Brown the famous halfback
from Colorado who was waylaid IN
Topeka by the college widow. MISS
Katherine Ke1lam, and made to- play
on the Washburn football team by
strategy and in spite of the fact that
his father. Mr.. Jimmie Stewart, ana
his tutor. Mr.. Floyd Webb, tugged at
his coat tails during the whole play.
Unord Made a Hit
Ray Unord. is almost a pro-
fessional. He has been with the
washburn Dramatic club for num-
her of years and he has always been
one of the mainstays and the most
finished actors in the club. Unord
played the part of the hero, halfback,
lover and "most popular man" Last
night His part is the hardest TO pay
in the cast. The many falls from
the sublime to the ridiculous, the
necessity of being natural in the pail
room as we'll as on the football field,
the dealings with an irate father at
one minute and the college widow at
the next-all these things are taken
into consideration in the part of
Brown of Colorado. Unord did ex-
ceptionally we'll for this leading part
He has the right build for the position
and his voice and sturdy looks give
him the air of typical college man.
He made love just as well as he
played football and both of them won
him honor and pleasure. Unord acted
naturally, and did not kill the effect
of his position with nerve racking
speeches followed by cold chill Gains.
In the dramatic club play which will
come off in few weeks Ray UffOrd
takes the leading part again and he
will finish his college career in Wash
burn as one of the cleanest cut
amateurs the college has ever pro-
duced.
scene it might be we'll to say that the
Washburn students carried this out
with the utmost naturalnesS last night
and the president, dean and number
wives sat in boxes The music behind
the scenes. the grand march, the
fatigued dancers and the discussions
of the dance were Just like the things
only this but all of the students On
Guiding the strictest of Y. NJ c. A.
1rlen) smoked pipes and tailor mades''
and sVOre in loud terms because the
opposing football team had a chance
of winning. It would be an injustice to
Washburn to say that all of these
things looked natural but the student
actors made them natural just the
same
Katherine KeIIam as College Widow.
Miss Katherine Kellam. as the coll
lege widow played her part far above
the average of an amateur. It might
have been that her "peachy'' looks and
her natural "coyness" made her appear
above her part but her rendition of Il
difficult part was very popular with
the audience. Miss Kellam's gowns and
campus dresses were about the pref
tiest thing ever seen on Topeka stage
and combined with her Harrison Fisher
style she made a college widow, much
more attractive than the woman for
which the part was written Miss KEEL