Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-24
JULIUS CAESAR AS
THE SENIOR PLAY
Central High Class Aims High
in Producing Shakespearean
Play This Year

The senior class of the Central high
school is rehearsing for Julius
Caesar" these days and planning TO
give the play at the Chestnut Street
Auditorium early in June. The nation
wide celebration of the Shakespeare
tercentenary originated with the
Drama League of America and the
pupils of the Central high school are
not one bit out of date even il their
building is not so modern. DESPITE
the difficult and heavy tragedy for
amateurs, in keeping with the cele-
bration which the year demands for
the death of the myriad minded
Shakespeare as well as in accordance
with.the talent which this years grad
uating class evinces along these lines,
backed by the efficient training of
Miss Annabelle Swartz, the class of
1916 of the Central high school will
give as its commencement play Julius
Caesar"
Judging from the success of former
plays, "Jedbury, Jr., presented by the
class of 1914, and THE College
Widow given by last years class, the
success of this play is assured.
synopsis follows: Act l, scene /,
Rome, street. Scene 2, a public
place. Caesar and his train en- route
to witness the races. Scene 8, a street
during q storm. Act II-Scene 1 .
Rome. Orchard of Brutus. Meeting
OF conspirators. Scene 2, Caesars
mouse. Scene 3, street, before +he
home of Brutus. Act III-Scene +,
Rome before the capitol. The assassi-
hatlon. Scene 2, the Forum. Act w
Scene l, house in Rome. Meeting
of the Triumvirs. Scenes 2 and 8,
camp near Sardis. The tent of Rrutus.
Act N-Scene l, the plains of Philippi,
Meeting of Antony and Octavius-rvith
Brutus and Cassius. Scenes 2 and g.,
place near field of battle. Scenes
and ., another part of the field.
WelI-BaIanced Cast
The cast of characters comprises:
Julius Caesar, Vernon Widder; Oc-
tavius Caesar, Marcus Antonius and
Lepidus, triumVirs after the death of
Julius Caesar Homer Kreider. James
Minnaugh and Edward Wallower;
Cicero, Stanley Wengert Marcus BIu-
tus, Cassius, Casca. Trebonius, Ligarius.
Decis, Brutus, Metellus Climber and
CHINA, conspirators against Caesar,
Charles Segelbaum, Horace Nune-
maker, Emlin Hall, Jay Smith, Her
bert Remmer, Ezra Strohm, Stanley
Wengert and Robert Michael Flavius,
Marullus and the cobbler, tribunes.
Jay Smith, Daniel Burkholder and
Lloyd Marcus; soothsayer. Paris Rapp;
friends of Brutus and Cassius, TitinIus,
Messola and Nolumnius; servants to
Rrutus, Strato, Lucius and Clitus
Howell Becht, Sara Maloney and Ezra
Strohm; Pindarus. servant to Cassius.
Paris Rapp; servant to Octavius, Will
liam Meyers; Calphornia, wife to
Caesar Miss Gertrude Wilson; Portia,
wife to Brutus, Miss Gertrude Ed
wards; citizens, guards, attendants.
etc. Miss Sara Faunce, Miss Ethel
Fisher, Miss Nita Spangler, Miss Eva
Selheimer, Miss Lillian Koch, Dariel
Rurkholder. Edward Wallower, Will
liam Meyers and Homer Kreider.
The opportunity to see and come
into touch with Shakespeare, especially
when his works are now in the lime
light in this tercentenary celebration.
is the high school play, and the door
is open-you enter with a mere ticket
BY all means do not allow the door of
opportunity to swing in your faces.