Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-11-29
HOME TALENT
PLAY WAS GOOD
Young Ladies Episcopal Club
Entertainment was
A Success

JIG CollcSe cOHeuy duuOuucet
for Friday evening, proved
great success, and reflects mucl
credit on the director, Mr.. Milton
Helm, who took one of the lead
ing parts as Robert Preston, ;
lawyer, proving himself not only
an excellent director but an ar
tlst Of the first water, for hi
handled the part with an cas-,
which would put to shame some
Of the so called Professionals
and together with Miss Sue Ev
ans as Marion Dayton, his ward
made a great success Of the plot
OF the play. Miss Sue. Evans was
quite at home in her role and the
ease with which she carried, il
out out deserves much praise
Stanley Palmer, known as FLAW
klns, the Butler by Leo Spring,
and Molly Bruce, of the Theta
Phi taken by Miss Jennie Gibson,
caused much laughter as they per-
formed their many duties as but
lc" and maid to Mr.. and Mrs.
Dick Preston and which had been
imposed upon them by the col
lege students. The Newlyweds,
Mr.. Dick Preston and Nellie,
lmpersonated by Will Trathen
and Lucille Wolfe were all that
could be desired, and the way they
tried to manage the affairs of
their household and the butler
and maid, was extremely anus
ing, and just as one would i'm
aglne a young newly married
couple would do under such try
ing circumstances, both endeavor-
ing to deceive the other as to the
real identity of the butler and
maid. Douglas Brown, by Lar
KIN O'Neil, a football player and
Miss Lottie Mellen as Phyllis
Lane, a football enthusiast, made
a hit with the Mountain Home
football players. Phyllis made
much OF the opening Of the first
act with her knowledge of where
the other girls kept all the nee
essary articles of wearing appar-
ell as they dressed for the foot
ball practice and to every inquiry
she referred them to the TOP
drawer. That receptacle must
have been somewhat larger than
the ordinary one in general use
for IN each case her guess seemed
to prove correct, from a rat to a
shoe, in fact everything seemed
to rest serenely in the top draw
er. 10 say that Douglas Brown
both looked and acted his part
well, would be putting it mildly. !
Harry Mellen as captain of the
varsity team, was exceedingly
good and the way he handled
this part would make one think
he'd fill the bill at our high
school. Even when he appeared
crippled in the great game, his
team was playing, his enthusiasm
was not dampened and tho he
did appear to be seriously in
jured, "broken back" among
other injuries, he said, he danced
around as he watched the final
stages of the game, from the club
house window, collapsed complete
ly as he heard the cry of "victo-
ry. " 1t was great. and if you
ever watched real exciting
game of football you'd surely un-
derstand just how he felt as he
In his crippled condition, urged
his team on to victory. Miss
Marie Evans as Imp, a Freshman,
was winner in the mischievous
way which she handled the part
assigned to her and won the ap-
plause Of all. The way she threat
ened to make mincemeat out Of
the villain for trying to make
others think she was telling false
hoods, was indeed realistic and
a hairpulling scene was only a.
verted when she presented the
handkerchief dropped in the lib
rary, with the curt remark that
Louise might need it when safely
lodged in jail. Miss Grace Chap
man as Louise Ross, known as
Miss Grayson, made an extreme
lv good villain and the way she
plotted and planned to gain the
valuable papers from lawyer Pres
ton s safe, was carried out in
splendid style while her heart to
heart talk with Douglas Brown
to whom these papers meant
much and who discovered her DO
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