Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-06-20
SENIOR CLASS PLAY
PLEASES EVERYONE
Spacious Auditorium is
Packed on First
Night.
The PRIVATE SECRET AIRY
Commencement Play is the
Biggest Hit Of the
Season.
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY

wednesday, nlgnG the uTSC eXnlDl-
ton of the senior class play, "The
Private Secretary" was presented in
the high school auditorium. The large
room was packed with people, there
being about 800 in attendance, and
many were unable to secure seats.
The play was presented in manner,
which, it is safe to say, pleased every
one who witnessed it.
"The Private Secretary Is a farce
comedy portraying English life. There
is we'll developed plot and it contains
a strong vein of humor. Seventeen
characters are represented in the play
and their costumes as we'll as the
scenery is exceptionally realistic.
The comedy is presented in four acts.
The part of the Private Secretary is
taken by Arthur Mertzke and he does
full justice to 1t. Other important
factors are Lawrence Macdonald, Carl
Swinson; Gibson, Harold Hackett;
Macdonald from India, Joseph Bur
stein; John Marsland, Martin Arndt;
Harry Marsland, Ernest Savage.
The play deals with scenes of the we'll
to-do English folk. In the opening
act Lawrence MacDonald's London
quarters are shown. Young Mac
Donald is spendthrift and is deeply
in debt. He has a rich uncle, Mac
Donald from India, who has taken
great interest in him and wishes the
boy to have a good time and SOW his
wild oats, although, the two have
never met. Other characters intro
duced in the first act are Mrs. Dickson,
the landlady, Miss Margaret Shale;
Gibson, the tailor, who comes to col
lect bill from Macdonald; and Harry
Marsland, youthful friend of Mac
Donald, who has signed his name to
note which is about due.
The Private Secretary is on his way
to the home of John Marsland and be
stops at MacDonald'sr IS room. He is an
effeminate parsonage and in fact
mere milk-sop. Macdonald and
young Marsland plan to escape their
debts by leaving the Private Secretary
in MacDonald's apartments. Mac
Donald from India arrives and is
totally disgusted with the secretary,
whom he believes is his nephew.
At the home of Marsland, Macdonald
and Harry Marsland fall in love with
two young ladies. Macdonald is sup
posed to be the private secretary and
when his uncle arrives trouble begins.
All is we'll when the uncle dis
covers who is his nephew, the debts
are paid and the youths win the hands
of the young ladies.
Each character carried his part in an
excellent style and the play ran off
smoothly and rapidly which is the re-
suit of weeks of careful training on the
part of Miss Katherine Falvey. Dur
ing the changing of acts the Terbilcox
harp orchestra furnished music. The
realistic makeup of the characters is
the work of an experienced man from
Milwaukee.
The characters in the play are:
Lawrence Mac Donald, MacD nald
from India's nephew-Carl Swinson.
Mrs. Dickson, Lawrence's landlady-
Marjorie Shale.
Gibson, fash enable tailor-Haro.d
Hackett.
Harry Marsland, nephew of John
NJ arsland-ErnestS Savage.
Charles Roberts, a private tutor and
St ere tary- Arthur Mertzke.
Trip, a bill collector-George Mar
tiny.
Macdonald from India oseph
Burstein.
Porter-William Troy.
Knox, sheriff's officer-George Mar
tiny
Sarah Gildern, governess-Izero
English.
| Edith Marsiand, daughter OF John
| Observation-Disclosures Patterson.
| Eva Webster, Edith's chum-Marie
Macpherson.
John MarsIand, rich landowner
| Martin Arndt.
| Susan, m aid-Doris Metcalf.
Leon Armandale, country gent e.
man-WillIam Morse.