Evening journal., 1918-12-19
CHRISTMAS PLAY
AT HOWARD school
Scholars WillPresent Happy
Program in School
Tonight
PLAYLET TO SHOW
LIFE OF SOLDIERS

The Christmas play at Howard High
School this year VIII be under the su-
pervision and management Of the
freshman class. and. as usual. for the
benefit Of local charities. It vii be
given at the school this eevning.
The play Is called christmas Be-
yond the Trenches" and shows the ef-
forts Of a number OF refugee children,
French, German. Belgium, Russian,
italian and an American youth, to have
some sort Of Christmas, even amid tne
devastating OF war. To accomplish thls
end. the American boy summons Uncle
Sam and Miss Columbia to help play
Santa Claus. Uncle sam brings In HE
automobile toys, Christmas trees, sun
shine and butterflies, food, some Ar
menian refugees, who enact the sto.y
OF King Solomon and the Queen OF
Sheba. and finally some actors, who
tell the story Of the flrst Christmas.
The play Is under the direction or
the freshman class, led by the teacher
OF English, Mrs. Dunbar Nelson. Char
Rcters as follows: Pierre, the French
boy, Douglass Stubs; Gretchen, the
German girl, Pauline Jones; Hula, the
Belgian girl, Anna Benson; Irma,
Russian girl, Cora Anderson; Gratiano,
an Italian lad, Claude Wells; Cecelia,
an English girl. Madeline Brooks;
Jack, an American boy, Saunders Red
ding; Uncle Sam, Beatrice Wilson,
Miss Columbia, Sylvia Smith.
The Dance Of tne PO.atOes VIII be
directed by Miss Maude Anderson. The
characters are: Irish Lady, Wahnetah
McHeard; sweet potato, Maurice Rou-
selle; Irish potatoes, Edwin Anderson,
Harry Wright, John Hopkins, Harold
Gordon, Alfred Rouselle, Charles Jack
son.
Dance OF the Christmas Trees and
Toys will be directed by Miss Mary Z.
Johnson. The characters are: Madeline
Cooper, Marjorie Hopkins, Queen Nit
chell. Adsonia Burton, Stephen Craw-
ford, Dorothy Moore. Carroll Johnson,
Kennedy Ayres, Hope Benson, Andrew
Willis. Samuel Wilson, Alonzo Nc
Bride.
Dance Of the Butterflies Will be di-
rected by Miss Lillian Anderson. Those
who will take part are: Lillian Web
ster, Wahnetah McHeard, Mildred Mat
thews, Evelyn Brown, Helen Carter,
Elizabeth Hamilton. Emma Saunders,
Margaret Harris.
The pageant OF King Solomon and
the Queen Of Sheba will be directed by
Miss Nellie Nicholson. The characters
are: King Solomon, Alice Banton; the
Queen Of Sheba, Mildred Beachum. the
courtiers, Ethel burrows, Sarah Henry,
Lena Miller, Annie Wheatley, Marie At
kins Geneveive. Cannon, Myrtle Graves,
Irene Harvey, Eunice Stafford, Harriet
Wilson, Elizabeth Nelson, Elizabeth
Stubbs, Lorraine Hamilton, Beatrice
Hicks, Blanche Clark. Orpha Laws.
The Christmas pageant will be d.
reoted by Miss Helen Henderson. The
characters are: Mary, Dorothy Corbin;
Joseph, Douglass King; Angel Gabriel,
Myrtle Starkey; King Herod. Mary
Smith; announcing angel, Beatrice
Smith; three kings, Gilbert Jackson,
Raymond Curtis; Shepherdesses, Roset-
"a Frazier, Marion Wynd. Naomi Har-
rls, Constantia Beaujon, Edna Ander-
son, Lillian Brooks, Pauline Brown;
babes OF Bethlehem. Mildred Hinson,
Helen White. Gertrude Kelley, Martha
Stewart, Martha Evans, Mabel john
son; cherubs, Sarah Mason. Katherine
Porter.
Accompanies: Laurence Young. Flora
Hodges, Marion Wynd. Maude Ander-
son, Wayman Frazier. violin; Edward
Coberth, Violoncello; Charles Coursey,
cornet.
The Howard High School Orchestra,
directed by Miss Eta Roach, will play
during the evening.
The costumes were made in the sew
ing department Of the school under the
direction Of the girls in the training
school, led by Misses Dora Starkey and
Helen Gibbs.