Arizona republican., 1912-03-28
HIGH SCHOOL ACTORS
 AT SCHOOL 0F MUSIC

in four acts. will be presented at the School of Music tomorrow even ing. Friday. March %. at o'clock. The senior class of the higA school, is staging this play. but the per formance is being given for the benefit of the track team. The first annual Arizona all-state champion ship meet for high schools win be heId in Tucson on the 4th of April, and the proceeds of "Old Eli will be used iE sending the Phoenix track team to the old Pueblo.
 AS the play is given for the ben eft of the track team. i is very appropriately q story of college ath- letics and college life in general. The cast includes everything from the track hero to the college flirt. The part of Captain Walker "f the Yale track team k taken by John Creigh- ton who is really the captain of thr r II. $. team. and Beni. J. Kimber stars as Dick Carson. Walkers room mate The part of Carsons charming inamorata. Helen Beckwith. iS played in a most entrancing manner by Miss Ruth BettS: Gwen Hardy. the flashing flirt who keeps the boys all guessing. is called Miss Blanche Lin beck when on the ordinary earth and not in "Starlanl" The cast includes most of the best stage people in She high school. and that means that it includes number of the best in the city. Many of the players have ap- peared several times before in high school plays. Elk's shows ana other amateur thea,ricals. and every one of them is the thorough master of his part. The full cast is:
 capt. Walker of the Yale track
 team. John Creighton Richard Carson. Walkers room
 mate ............B .Benj. J. Kimber Artie Armstrong. ........J Jake Thoman Bill Bailey ...... Marshal BrOckway Beef Campbell ....... Charles Orme Assistant Professor Albright.
 ...............Pr Prof. C. l.. Michels Jack Ludlow. a Freshmar...
 ...... ........... Maurice O'Neil Mike McCarty. the train"r.......
 ....... .........A Allen Creighton Alice Fairfield. Ludlow's cousin.
 ........ ........... Bernicc smith Helen Beckwith. Alices friend...
 ......... .............R Ruth Betts Mrs. Fairfield ld.........L Louise Renaud Edith Van Norton Bervi Martin Mary Caldcrwood ..... Birdie Fowler Gwen Hardy ...... Blanche Lunbeck Members of the track team. and
 other supes in great numbers.
 f, room in the dorm. An enthusiastic crowd Of the sons of Eli and their girl friends are discussing college top ics. particularly the atheletic situa tion. Dick Carson meets Miss Beck with. and with Carson at least it's a case Of love at first sight. The setting for the next act shows the college campus with the famous Yale Fence in the background one CT the boys tells an excited crowd that Carson has broken training anI got drunk. Then Carson himself ap- pears and not a fellow in the crowd will speak to him except "Freshis' Ludlow. Helen Beckwith cuts him de liberately without giving him the smallest chance to explain.
 The third act shows the Yale train ing quarters during the progress Of the Yale Harvard meet. The boom ing cheers of the crowds are heard. All goes well for the blue anu white until Walker injureS his ankle SD badly that he cannot run in thc mile race. Then Carson. who has been ostracized and almost driven from the college by Walker and the other track men-Carson the outcast takes Walkers place and wins For old Eli"
 In the fourth act the usual dis entanglement takes place. and at last Carson is completely vindicatcd ana happily returned to the good sraces of Miss Beckwith.
 The evenings entertainment in cludes number of musical selec- tions between the acts. Miss Thiers will sing solo. and the high school quartette and orchestra are both on the program What with the play and the music there is every promise of most pleasing entertainment
 The tickets are being sold by mem bers of the track team. These tickets may be exchanged for reserved seats at the Adams Pharmacy. or the seats may be purchased there directly. The reservation was opened yesterday and last night almost a fOurh of the seats had been sold. There is expectation of capacity crowd. and d pleased crowd it is sure to be.