The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-05-14
PLAY A SUCCESS
Senior Class Entertainment Pleases
Large Audience in Their Drama
tic Efforts Last Friday.

The graduating class of the Sank
Centre high school gave a dramatic
entertainment at the Grand Opera
House on Friday evening of last week
which was a great success entertain
lngly, artistically and financially.
| A flfteen-mlnute curtain raiser en-
titled "Box and Cox" was staged. Mrs
Bouncer, the thrifty landlady conceiv-
es the idea of renting the same room
to Box, who is a printer and works
nights, and to Cox, a halter who
works days. Cox gets holiday and
comes home to find his room occupied
by Cox and numerous complications
ensue. Kenneth McCullum took the
part of Cox and Carl Minette was Box
and Helen Allen made very salts
factory landlady. Thesyoung people
carried off their parts well and the
audience was highly p.eased with the
skit.
The main play was entitled "Mr.
Bob" and the plot hung on a case of
mistaken identity. The characters
were Rebecca Luke, a maiden lady of
an uncertain age who has a penchant
for cats. Her neice, Catherine Rogers,
her nephew; Phillip Royson; Patty, a
maid; Jenkins, her butler; Robert
Brown, law clerk, and Marion Bry-
ant, friend Of Katherine whom she
has nicknamed "Bob." Miss Bryant
pays visit to Katherine and Phillip
imagines from the fact that RATHER
inc refers to her as Bob" that she is
a husky young college athlete with
whom Katherine is in love and wakes
properly jealous. No end of odd sit
uatiOns arise and the audience was
kept on the qui vive during the en-
tire performance by unexpected de-
velOpements.
Russell Cooper played the difficult
part of Phillip in a creditable manner,
Fayette Cooper as the dude cockney
of Benson & Benson, "who came
down." was scream" and won round
after round of applause by his odd
gyratiOns and trick of voice and man
ner.
Frances Eddy acted the maiden
aunt in natural manner and carried
off her part in first class style.
Verna Scott as Katherine and YER
ona Bryant as Mr.. "Bob'' were excel
lent foils to each other. Their act
IilS was CACcucAI dIlu pISdScu VIC
audience.
Grace Noel as "Patty" was chic and
sweet and made a perfectly stunning
maid. We did not blame the butler
for falling in love with her and grace
fully yielding to all her whims. We
fell in love with her ourselves but we
wouldn't have our wife find it out for
the world.
S. P. Hansen, Jr., as Jenkins" the
staid and dignified butler was i'm
mense. He Collected" petted his own
dignity, dropped the "H's," and butted
in like genuie English servant. Pos
sibly he threw little too much I'M
ction into his love passages between
himself and patty" a trifle more
than the plot called for, but he was
justified under the circumstances. Ev-
en- the property cats entered into the
spirit of the play and pulled off an i'm
promptu cat fight on the stage that
brought the audience to their feet
with hilarious enthusiasm.
The play was well balanced and
each carried off his or her part
smooth, and the young people reflect
ed great credit on their trainers who
are to be congratulated on the unqual-
flied success of their efforts.
Mrs. Asa M. Wallace was the
makeup" artist and is entitled to
great credit for the skillful manner
She made up the different performers;
in fact the makeup of the cast was
equal to any on the professional
stage.
The play realized its promoters
S134.25 which will leave the high
school a neat little sum after all ex-
penses are met and the surplus will
be used in the purchase of victrola
for the high school.
Contributed.