New Ulm review., 1913-04-09
Seniors Ready
For Class Play
t.An American Citizen Will
Be Staged Tonight By
Class of 1913.
Plot Provides Plenty q
Thrills. Fourteen Charac
ters In Cast.

ters In Cast.
Members of the senior class of the
High School will present their Class
Play, "An American Citizen" at Tur-
ner Theatre tonight: Wednesday.
They have worked for weeks in prepar-
ing the production and their friends
are sure to be pleased with their ell
forts. Miss Heimerdinger has been
coaching them for three weeks and 1t
goes without saying that the work will
be the best Obtsinable with her assis-
tsnce. The parts are we'll assigned
and the young people are doing their
best to give good account of them.
themselves. The plot hinges on 90
English fortune willed TO ''An Ameri-
can Citizen.
The story opens just after the dis
appearance Of Brown who has misap-
propristed trust funds which he had
in charge. He has left locked In his
desk paper in which he says he has
committed suicide and his partners are
left to face ruin because they are un-
able to replace the money. One of the
partners, Cruger, is . son of % Eng
lish woman who had married an
American man sgsinst the wishes of
her brother, Sir John Csrew. Sir
John also had daughter, Beatrice,
who had fallen in love with an Ameri-
can. When Sir John made his will he
disinherited Beatrice and left his en-
tire estate to his nephew, Cruger, with
string" tied to it. He stipulated
that the nephew must renounce bis
American parentsge, change his name
TO that of Csrew and marry an English
woman before his thirtieth birthday.
It was also stipulated that he must not
share the fortune with his cousin Bea-
trice Carew who has been left with 80
pounds sterling to buy her mourning
and not another penny to her name.
Beatrice American lover is drowned
in Switzerland very shortly after her
fathers death and she goes to America
with Sir Bum, the executor of her
fathers estate, and his wife, Lady
Bum. While in America Sir Bum
again offers to Cruger his inheritance
and reminds him that but two days re-
main before his thirtieth birthday and
he must hasten his marriage If he is to
inherit the fortune. Cruger again re-
fuses but his cousin Beatrice calls
upon him and her plight as q penni-
less gentlewoman combined with the
difficulty in which his firm is as re-
suit of Browns dishonesty and the
immediate need of funds to replace
what Brown stole leads Cruger to re-
consider the offer of the Inheritance.
His partner, Bsrbury, suggests that q
marriage with Beatrice would solve
every difficulty and provide for the
young lady into the bargain. Upon
being consulted Beatrice consents to
go thru the form of marriage and they
do so and Cruger renoances his Ameri-
can citizenship takes the name OF Ca
rev, aud divides the fortune with lis
wife, Mrs. Bersford Carew. They
separate Immediately after the cere-
mony, she to return to England.
Other characters appearing In the first
act are Garcia Chaplin, q wealthy maid
en- lady of uncertain age and her
niece, Georgia, both of them being
great admirers of Cruger. Twas their
which Brown stole.
Otto Strobel, promoter of Western
lands also appears and succeeds in
getting Carew to invest q part of his
fortune in an Opera House Block in
Carbon Centre. Wyoming.
The scene of the second act is laid in
Mics during a carnival. The Carews
have been married a year but bsve
not met since the ceremony. During
The carnival they run across one
another and Csrew shows signs OF
great interest in bis wife. Beatrice
also seems to be recovering from the
leep sorrow of her lovers death. At
ibis most inopportune moment the sup
Dosedly dead lover turns up and proves
% be the suiciding Brown altho Bea-
rice knows nothing of that. Compli-
cations begin to pile up. Carew grows
ealous of bis wife's former sweetheart
md Beatrice returns the compliment
~ cordially hating Georgia Chaplin
Who is visiting with her Aunt Garcia
n Nice.
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