The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-11-16
ATHENIANS MADE
A CLEAN SWEEP

Last night before 500 people the
lou literary societies of the agricul-
tnral college battled for supremacy il
dramatic art in yell and song contest
and the result was a clean sweep Of
the boards by the Athenian Literary
society.
The first farce presented was en-
actsd by the Herpersian Literary So
clety and was called The Doctors As
slstant, which portrayed a young doc
tofs assistant who accidentally gave
poison instead of medicine to one of
the patients, which causes a general
mix up. The victim called the police
put the doctor succeeded in saving the
situation by giving them all laugh
ing gas and the farce ended with
peals of laughter. The actors were
tephen Bjernsen, Chester Taylor,
denry Williams n Worth Couey.
Then followed the clever farce, First
Come. First Served, staged by the
Athenians, which was the hit of the
evening. The highly interesting plot
conferred around the love affair of
harry Barton who had been rejected
by Julia, an older sister of Josephine,
an act which Julia later regretted.
Inc oppoFtune appearance of Basil
Roystrom an English dude gave Bar
ton an idea that he might possibly be
successful in his attentions to Julia's
sister, Josephine, If he could interest
Roystron in the older sister and thus
overcome the objection of the younger
sister being married first. This would
nave been lovely if Roystron had not
immediately become enamoured with
the physical charms of Josephine. al
though the enthusiasm he exhibited
was of a languid, lukewarm type,
characteristic of Englishmen. How
ever, the Vivacious Josephine cleared
up the situation by explaining to
everyone present that Julia really did
care Tor Barton and the result of this
was the happy union of the two
couples which pleased boil Mrs, Tenn
pleton, aunt of the two sisters, and
ColCneI CHANCELLOR, their uncle. Regf-
nald Cooley as Basiu Roystron dis
played unusual histronic ability and
impersonated the blase Englishman in
MS every movement on the stage. Not
once did he forSake his character, a
1ault which is SO common in amateur
theaFlcaIs n i voice, walk and
gesture, and make-up served to keep
the audience in a continual laugh.
Euginia Ruff as Josephine won many
compliments for her splendid portray
al OF n sparkling little miss who
dearly loved her sister. Her voice
and stage presence is above the aver
age: To Arthur Ogaard too much
credit cannot be given for he handled
the part of a disappointed lover with
as much grace as is possible for n
In such a position. He has appeared
In amateur productions before and his
actlng last night served to raise his
hlgh reputation. Laura Taylor prob
ably possessed the best voice of ANY,
one of the participants in last nights
contest. Grace Shelton was indeed
the cold and naughty Julia and she
deserves mIlRh nrojSa fN, 6nn
portrayal of this part. AS Colonel
challenger, Dean Nehemiah was d
equity old man who attempted to heal
The breach between the lovers and he
succeeded eXcellently in playing the
part.
The third farce was presented by
the Castallans and was a basketball
shII' Inc outsider" supposed to
represent the A. C. The girls were all
good in their parts but special mention
must be made of Miss Bessie Thorn
who carried the part of the grief
stricken freshman whom DR.. Bait
hunked. The people who took the
parts in this were: Rosilla Ladd. Nellie
Even, Ferne Briscoe, Stella Monson,
Bessie Thorn, Mary Gibbons and Mary
Radcliffe.
The last number on the programme
was the comedy Who Gets de Reward?
presented by the PhiIomathian Liter
airy society. Somebody has stolen
some pearls n Socrates Frizzle and
his wife were busy trying to find the
culprit who was supposed to be a
foreigner. A Frenchman, a Dutchman
and an Irishman appeared and in their
amusing efforts to keep these foreign
ers until they could get Solomon Snuff
file, the village constable, many a laugh
occurred. The make-ups in this were
elegant. Homer Dixon as a negro
woman was undoubtedly the star,
closely seconded by Arnold Christian
sen who took part of the niger Iady's
husband.
Interpersed between the plays were
yell and song contests and again the
Athenians were declared Yictors by a
costume portrayal of the yellow and
the green tremendously rendered by
the society's male quartette. The vote
on this raj two to one in favor of the
Athenians while the judges made the
unanimous decision of the Athenians
for the best play. The judges were:
Miss Jensen of the Domestic Science
Department, Professor Doneghue and
Professor Bolley.
Following this was a social session
and a visit to the German village
which was open only to members of
the societies. Toe much credit cannot