Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-05

the Villa de Chantal last evening gave
the last performance of the class
plays, The Hour Glass" by w. B.
Yeats and The Twig of Thorn at the
villa chapel The casts were vert
we'll selected and each young lady &C
quilted herself with much credit both .
to herself and to her teachers. Espe-
cial mention might be made of the /
work of Misses Marie Silvers and |
Helen Syron. The characters were i
taken as follows:
THE HOUR GLASS"
A Wise Man .... Marie Silvers
An Angel ...... Helen Silvers
A Fool ..........,. Helen Syron
Katherine, the Wise Mans Wife.
1890. $500. Margaret OConnell
ChIIuren -.'. ...'.-..'' 1890.
Katherine Stauduhar, Margaret
Maroney.
SIuuSuIS
Josephine Hahn, Angela Dris-
coll, Marie Beecher, Grace Code,
Katherine Maroney, Leah Potter.
THE TWIG OF THORN"
Scene laid in the cottage of Nessa
Teig. in County Galway, in the year
of the great famine.
Prologue .... Kathleen Looney
els 'ne "Oiiiai Vi 'iie mus
$50 Agnes NioulnLIs
a eI sNOoi Eud Ndlole
O0i"H' Nessa q htel
N"l saleI Molone!
US ann peasant
-,
- Dee0Nei
L III i""' priest
1900 naInleen LooneS
-r, oei' ONiiu - ioie Muiilsdn
- 80 Ii-e Ga oaCI una
80 MaI sarel " Coiineli
,,Iieiia '''''''' hatAerIhe MdroHey
rIN'..L 10 ''''''''' AISeid DIiscoll
~ a. III rleieh DIN eIs
iUiiaus HFace Ooue
The former is morality play, the
/ dominant note OF which is the trag-
/ edy OF soul. Inc leading character
/ Is a so-calied Niseman who long ago
not only lost falth IN God, but by his
| teaching destroyed the faith of his
/ pupils and OF all who came within
.
/ Al TINS point IN his career, when he
IS trying TO solve a perplexing pas
sage an angel enters his classroom,
bearing 10 MIN message-lts pur-
port that the unbel1eVer must die
WITHIN the hour and go to that hell
whose existence ne mas denied. The
VISION OF the angel however, mas re-
'I'eu the scepucs lalth and In re
Spouse 10 MS passionate and penitent
appeal he is promised salvation if he
can ma, before the sands in the hour
grass run out one person who be-
leVes. Inc scene that follows i:
snort out luIl or dramatic intensity a:
Ine professor seeks Tor a ray OF be
Ilei III the souls OF MS pupils, his wife
MS innocent children only to receive
from each and all the same answer
we uld pelleVe out you nave laugh
US DetIeF. Inc SANDS IN the uppe
SIdss are WelI-nlSh spent when h
: sees IelSue, the tooI' sitting On tn
i,ooI' ooun'tis MS pennies IN nj
80 "r aulon NE 81. Iuins 10 the haII.wl'
! Ecu 81 e"tuie WIN the same questions
naI19,t Toio,,n "i! 10 mere
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. ILL., - S'onuS Win III
/ b,,n,tToI .LH' uiiIti .H "isenIa
-, - VI eel i"ii' upon IA
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cIoeo - -. .tal.l. I"''oI 0oiiie
: 49,, - ~ IL IL anu WIFE
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n - W. ,-.e nt'is o,ie u"y anu Daoe III
-. C"iee HIes' tHe III
60 t P"H s, tne HLe thdt purlne
e 49, l, II "i-el en- 'iIe soul rejoice
=. - Zen aS Tue "orus lall upo
-, cal Vi 'le uoolLeu professor, IN
e., slams Vi sanu run OUT. II
( 10 inc uedlh ol the WISE
z 20. - 'he iool praying oeslo
o - tain Idiis upon u
Vi 'ne "estrlcheh student
:, aIouhu Ihelr dead maste
"Hoee hedu the 1901 supports.
i 'ne uooT Is seen once more the ange
. 'otae u oedr away the rescued sou
ne seIonu pay was introduced D
( MSS h"ll'ieeh looney' the class pre-
$ IueH'' VINO IN nicely expressed words
e gave the prologue.
S The Twig of Thorn" is a coined
N q Of h.