Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
WATERFOWL SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MAY a7slel6
THE WATERFOWL HIGH
The Class Play Cap
tivates Vast Audience

The class play at the Metropolitan
Monday evening was we'll rendered
throughout and reflected credit upon
the management and upon the partic-
ipants
The theme centered around college
life in college town. Robert Pres
ton, a lawyer, was entrusted with the
management of a large estate and
with the custody as guardian of the
deceased's daughter. These We're
the central figures and We're imper-
sonated respectively by Max Fisher
and Miss Clella Meadows in a very
clever manner, indicating high con-
ception of the parts Greatly in love
with each other, but each suspecting
the other of entertaining mere friend
ship, there were interesting climaXes
in their parts of the melodraE>a.
Dick Preston, young groom and
his bride, were assumed by Ralph
Ballantyne and Miss Arleta Kirlin,
and both acted SO natural that mere
novice in stage settings might have
mistaken them for the genuine, par
tieularly the assumption Of supreme
household authority on the part of
the charming bride.
1lSu AuuSlSOu DIS i1dwkillS, tlG
butler," and Jessie Nicol as Mollie
Bruce, each having been assigned
certain severe tasks by the Theta Phi
and other highfalutin college secret
societies, were captivating and in
variably brought down the house in
their sallles of wit.
Douglas Brown, the rightful heir
of the estate, in the person OF Verne
Giere, and Phyllis Lane, football en-
thusiast, through whose conspiracy
;; with the football captain young Doug
las was induced to come to the assist
ance of the local team, were likewise
central figures, Miss Sybil Pritchard
lacting as Phyllis. Douglas denunci-
alton or the part she had played in the
scheme, when he discovered that
she had supposedly toyed with his
affections in order to add efficiency to
the team, was so realistic as to win
the plaudits of the vast assembly
There were so many interesting
situations throughout the three acts
that a mention of tlieiisS in detail
Wotiid be cut of the question In a
weekly newspaper, but suffice to say
that all participants acquitted them
selves with especial credit Gertrude
Eng1esby, as LonIse Ross, the :adyen-
turess; Ralph woodward as the cap
tain of the team; Linton Hinds as
Jack Austin, the lawyers secretary;
Loretta Marx as the chairman of the;
Rushing Committee Git takes Theta
Phi to comprehend the full meaning
of the term); Frida Giere as the lit
tie Imp; Helen Hand as the girl with
a conscience; Grace Gowan, the maid
with the taste for literature (Miss
Gowan was brought forward as a sub
stit,lte at the last moment for Miss
Violet Watkins on account of the be-
reayement in the latter's family, all
appeared in the light or artists in
their respective parts and won merit
ed enconiums.
Others participating were the fol-
lowing: Fay Crawford as the step
mother of Douglas Brown and the CO.
conspirator with her daughter, Louise
Ross; Gena Strombotne as Polly
Price; Fay Nicholson as Elsa Err
nest; Gladys Gullick as Marjory Ar
mold; Margaret McHugh as Marie
Swift; Max Coplan as Ted Browning
Burnham Kinds as Ray Grove and
Iver Ecloy as Ole Olson.
The high school orchestra rendered
overtures between the acts, and al
together the class play of 1915 was a
pronounced success, both in point of
attendance and in the exceptionally
artistic rendition.