New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-03-10
Glass Of 1915
Prepares Play
PINERo'S COMEDY, 1.-THE HOBBY
HORSE" CHOSEN FOR THEIR
OFFERING.
WILL GIVE PRODUCTION April
BOTH OR MAY nth. FIFTEEN
IN THE CAST.

As5is usual at this season of the year
the Senior class of the New Ulm High
School is up to it's ears in dramatic
studies. 1t seems to be natural thing
for the human being to enjoy playing
at being someone different from himself
and children and young people partic-
ularly enjoy such stunts. That is what
makes the Annual Class Play given by
most High Schools one of the happiest
events of the entire school life. Grown
ups are not exempt from the weakness
shown by a desire to strut before an
audience in borrowed plumes and the
parents therefore look with indulgent
eyes upon the histrionic efforts of their
sons and daughters who 60 about in
an air of romance for period OF month
or six weeks in the early spring while
the play which is to crown their class
with glory is being painfully drilled
into the aspirants for stage honors.
This years class is no different from
those which have preceded it and their
enthusiasm runs just as high and they are
enjoying to the full their work preparing
for the great event. The following synop-
sis will give fsiends an idea Of what the
result is to be.
ACT I.
Spencer Jermyn, whose hobby is
racing and all that pertains to the race
course, has scheme on foot for furnish
ing a home for decayed jockies. He
breads to tell his wife because she
too has hobby and desires to furnish
the. same house as home for orphan
Children. Spencer and his wife quarrel
over, fhe Home,' and he goes away
to attend the races at EPSON. In the
meantime Miss Moxon, a friend Of
Mrs. Jermyn's, has fallen in love with
Jermyn's lawyer, Ralph Pinching. She
is to go as an assistant to the Rev.
Noel Bryce curate Of the poorest parish
in London but as Ralph has not pro-
posed she persuades Mrs. Jerrnyn to
go in her place and not to let her husband
know of the affair.
ACT II.
Mrs. Jermyn under the name OF Miss
Moxon has been acting as an assistant
at the home of Rev. Bryce for ten days,
when she receives a letter from Miss
Moxon. This letter tells her to come
home as soon as possible and also that
Jermyn and Pinching are in London
looking for curate for their Cookies
Home" Mrs. Jermyn feels very sorry
for Rev. Bryce and persuades. him
to answer the advertisement in the
paper for the curate for her husbands
home. Rev. Bryce's letter is so blunt
that she decides to word it differently
and he signs it without reading it.
Rev. Bryce is desperately in love with
Mrs. Jermyn whom he thinks is Miss
Moxon and is just telling her of his
love when Jermyn and Pinching come
in. They are searching for Jermyn's
son Allan who had run away few
years previous and have traced him to
this house. Mrs. Jermyn escapes from
the room without being recognized by
her husband, but unfortunately leaves
the letter behind. Pinching finding
the letter, is much pleased with the
wording of it and Bryce is hired on
the spot. Bryce thinks all this time
that they know he is opposed to horse
racing.
ACT III.
Miss Moxon and Mrs. Jermyn are
searching for some way to explain the
escapade to Mr.. Jermyn and Rev.
Bryce, when Jermyn and his son Allan
arrive. The son who is engaged to
the niece of Rev. Bryce knows Mrs.
Jermyn as Miss Moxon and not as his
stepmother. They discuss the situation
and he promises not to tell his father.
He starts off on horseback to explain
matters to Rev. Bryce but on the way
is thrown from his horse. Mr.. Jermyn
in the meantime has learned that Miss
Moxon, as he supposes, has been staying
at Rev. Bryce's and he tries to advise
not to marry her, and decides
% test her by bringing her face to
ACE with Rev. Bryce. A "depitation"
If jockies arrives from the home to
complain about the severity Of the
,urate but Rev. Bryce comes to defend
himself. Jermyn Immediately calls in
Miss Moxon. Explanations necessarily |
follow and Jermyn now learns who
The Miss Moxon' really was. Bryce
producesssa letter which he has inter