The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-04-20
JUNIOR EXHIBITION
TUESDAY EVENING
Class Presented For Old
Eli to Large Audience
Very Successful and Pleasing Work
Done by ActOrs-Much Praise Dnc
Miss LeaY1tt, Who Had Charge Of
Play.

MISS LeaFptt, VINO dhu SnhrRe Vi
Play.
Parents and friends who witnessed
the Junior exhibition in the Opera
house Tuesday evening greatly enjoy
ed the four-act play For Old Eli.
There was considerable good acting
in this amateur play. Several actors
showed marked ability and all showed
the greatest care in the preparation
of their parts. Thanks to Miss Hazel
Leayitts conscientious work on the
play everything went OFF with the
snap and dash characteristic of a real
track meet The music for the play
was one of the treats of the evening.
Skowhegan people always rejoice to
hear that Towne's orchestra will fur
nish music because they hope then to
hear some more fine cornet solos by
Victor Robbins whose playing is SO
wonderful for young boy He re-
ward" The class decorations con-
sisted of the motto Elaborate ct Vim
cite and 1912 in green and white
hanging over the stage.
The scene of Act / was laid in the
college room of Charley Walker, Cap
tain of the Yale track team. Walker,
who was Roy Steward, was a good
deal stirred up over the coming meet
and was quite fretty" with every
body. Soon some young ladies made
them call but left to hunt up
missing one Then Dick Carson,
tBlynn Goodrich) had a tete tete
with Helen Beckwith (Adelena Lam
dry), impersonating her cousin, Jack
Ludlow. Blynn made love from the
very beginning but on confessing his
real name met a chilling reception.
A fence was the distinctive feature
of the scenery of Act IL. Flirtations
of all kinds took place here. Gwen
Hardy (Lilia PIERCE proved herself
an adept in managing several beauX
at once, Dick Carson tried to make
peace with Helen but without avail
The college fellows were worried
about Dick as they heard he was
drunk and it was only one night be-
fore the great Harvard-Yale track
10 rH
Act III was very exciting The au-
dience almost thought themselves in
the midst of a great meet The
training room where the scene was
laid was full Of hustle. Different
Yale men were constantly coming and
going in their natty white suits to
take part in the meet The black
board was soon covered with the
scores. Dick Carson saved the day
For Old Eli"
Act ". was a reception and dance
at the home of Mrs. Fairfield (Berle
Lewis.) Here the heroes were all en-
tertained and the various love affairs
Strengthened out, though Beef
Campbell CRoland Kilkenny and
Jack Ludlow OLeon Symons) got in
to a fight over Gwen Hardy. Profes
sor Albright (Howard BuzzelD
moved through the play emphasizing
he was only assistant" to the amuse-
ment of all.
All ended well with the reconcilia
ton of Dick and Helen.
The cast of characters was as fol
lows Charley Walker, Captain of the
Yale Track Team Roy NJ. Steward;
Dick Carson, Walkers roommate.
Blynn o. Goodrich; Beef Campbell,
Roland c. Kilkenny; "Artie" Arm
strong, Guy p Thibeault; bill"
Bailey, Philip r. Burrill; Assistant
Professor Albright, Howard l.. Buz-
zell Jack Ludlow. Freshman, room
mate of Walker and Carson, Leon w.
Symons; Alice Fairfield Ludlow's
cousin, Edith r. Head; Edith Van
Norton, Nina l.. Perkins; Mary Cal
derwood, Marion e. Whittemore; Gwen
Hardy, Lila r. Pierce; Mrs. Fair
field Alice's mother, Berle T. Lewis;
Helen Beckwith friend of Alice, Ade-
lena NJ Landry; "Bub" Turner, Roy
IL Pratt; "spud" Foster Myron NJ.
Whittemore; Marion Douglass. Gala
b. Packard; Jim Dwight, Enrol c.
Chase; Tom Mccoy, Clifton e Whit
temore; Fred Jones, Everett l.. Mich
OILS; Ollie Ollcott, Frank B. Pooler;
Nike McCarty, the Yale Trainer Clar-
ence S. Dunlap; Sport" Hendricks
a 'mucker," Enrol c. Chase