The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-27
BRYANT PUP|[l
RARE L|NCU|S
Children of Preparatory 81
Present Playlets With h
ceptiOnal Ability.
SUCCESS OF LANGUAGE
COURSE EASILY PR0|
Wisdom Of Experiment Del
strated Beyond Question
Excellent Results.

The young students Of modern
guages of the Bryant Preparatory
scored n decided artistic and Iino
triumph yesterday afternoon in the
sentation AT the Eleventh ward /
Ing house Of three charming playlefs
playlst was in French and the otbe
in German. All three were we'll
dered and the ability OF the youn1
In acting and in the speaking OF IN,
eign tongues was remarkable.
While all showed talent and a,
the German students were esrt
good. They were costuned like
German peasants and spoke the lam
with the accent Of the native.
enunCiatiop and pronunciation wa.
markably good The little German
lets, adapted from German fairy
were delightfully."- presented.
The teaching Of modern lanEtiac
Lake, This was the first wear ths
struction in languages was given n
Lake schools below the high school
result Of this experiment has surr
the expectations OF those who hon
the most. Educators have LONE
cussed the advisabllity OF early m
ton i'll German and French and
classes at the Bryant were estab
with view to asccrtaining which,
not such instruction might provo
cessful and beneficial.
Speak German Like Natives.
The little plays produced yesterdl
the language students were pre-
with view 10 demonstrating wha
pills OF the seventh and eighth 4
have accomplished i'm their study Of
man and French. Superintenden
Schools n. II. Christensen. memh>
the German club Of Salt Lake and
persons interested in the progress
children attended the PLAYS.
The music. variations Of German
was by the Bryant school orchestr'
members OF which arc musicians Of
than ordinary talent and ability.
The little French play written b,
fessor De Poncet, instructor In =
was presented by the pupils In
OF the seventh and eighth grades.
pupils showed an excellent knoy
of the language and their pronunc
OF the French words and their
were good.
The first OF the German play
"Hansel and Gretel," a playlet al
from the German fairy tale of the
cutters children who are lost !
forest. This was presented deligl
by the children Of the seventh
The scenery and costuming was
lent and the presentation was one
would have been creditable In adu
Reynolds Gordon played the pt
the woodcutter with such grace Z
was hard TO believe that he wa
the real German peasant whose cl
ter he portrayed. Charles Peters
Hansel was n delightful German
His white hair with the wooden
and fantastic German costume m
delightful picture. Marjorie Nebel
the mother and Marjorie Burrov
Gretel were both good. They spok'
man we'll and proved real actresses.
Foulger was the witch who lived !.
house Of brow sugar. She execti
difficult bit OF acting .cleverly and
German like a native.
In Merry Farce.
The main event OF the programme
the production of Die Hoeckeln
by the German pupils of the eighth
This was decidedly mirthful faro
dealt with the troubles OF a gro
people. all OF whom had hooked
In this. Louis Gawan was the dil
Herr Won DeChahn; Ailccn ChrtHi
was the Frau Won Dachahn: Be
Meltzcr was their charming dau
Aurora: Royle King was the irrep
BILE Nikoas. passionately fond OF
rora. and Harry Guernsey was SC
lus. the meddlinE villain.
All of the pupils showed rare
and a remarkable knowledge OF &c
Tehy all spoke with the true Germa
cent and each was apparently as
di home with the German as with
lish. The Germans in the audience
particularly pleased with the produ
laughing mcrrIly at the farce and
ing warmly the pronunciation of the
man students. They said the Germ
the pupils was almost entirely free
an English accent and that the X
edge OF the language which tho
and girls had acquired in so short q
was astonishing.
Fraulein Meta Boettcher. instruct
German at the Bryant. directed the
formances. She was warmly conE
lated by those who saw the PLAYS.
marked ability as an instructor wa
PLAYED in the excellence OF the wo
the students.