Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-27
VILLA CLASS To
PRESENT APLAY
Academy Graduates WIZ Produce
Shakespearean Comedy ON
Wednesday Night.
TWELFTH NIGHT is VEHICLE
Presentation to Be Held on Campus
in Early Evening, Beginning
at Sharp.


closing week at villa de Chantal,
and equaled in Importance only by
commencement morning, is the
play. The academy justly has won
fame for its outdoor presentations
of classic dramas. Aside from Ten
nyson's lovely The Princess" the
selections have been Of the Avon
bard and on next Wednesday night,
May 90, the senior class will pre-
serve the tradition and present
Shakespeare's mirthful comedy,
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will"
The play will begin promptly at Z,
so as to complete natures beautiful
stage setting with her own natural
lighting.
Twelfth Night" was the last of
Shakespeares joyful comedies and
combines tenderness and drollery in
a mastery fashion. 1t is full of
fun and one of the merriest ever
written in any literature. The ac-
ton never flags and gay scenes are
followed by graver ones, full of ex-
quisite poetry. The charms of mu-
sic, the tender sadness of hopeless
love never have been more beauti-
fully expressed than in this play.
From start to finish it is all a
joke" With a fnesplot, fSSt action
and plenty of good fun, Twelfth
Night" will furnish an evening OF
real pleasure to the public. The
proceeds are to go, as did those OF
field day, to the Red Cross ana
L OIL
hundred dollars was turned over to
the Red Cross from field day.
Pretty Dances Galore.
Dances will be given between the
acts and those who have seen other
portrayals of terpsichore on Villa
de Chantal greens will surely at
tend for this feature. A poppy
dance by the children of the kinder
garten, first and second grades,
promises to be delightful in cos
tune and execution. The sixth,
seventh and eighth grades will be
represented in new butterfly dances.
quisite. The third, fourth and
fifth grades will give two folk
dances in peasant dress, THE
Swedish Clap Dance" and ''Prin-
cess Royal" The first and second
academic classes will give a gar
land twining and the play will close
with stately dance by the whole
cast. adapted to Chopin's Polo
naise in A Major" The Frykman
orchestra will furnish the music.
1t is requested that friends at
tending in machines the evening of
the play please park in Sixteenth
avenue and in Twenty-first street,
thereby avoiding interrupting the
play and for safety to the public.
@The Plays the Thing"
The cast has been well selected,
there being an abundance of good
material and each member has
been chosen for some especial
to her part. The
dramatis personae is as follows:
Olivia, rich countess .....
.........Ch Charlotte Mccartney
Viola Rhoda Musfeldt
Orsino, duke of Illyria. ..
Loretta Rank
Sebastian, brother to Viola. go.
.............M Marie Campana
Antonio, sea captain. ..
Ruth CoOmes
A sea captain, friend to Viola.
............. Mary Murray
Maria, Olivia's lady-in-waiting
......-F Frances MaIoney
Ladies attending Olivia ....
Margaret Conway, Marie HebeI !
L ages
Mary Titterington, Camilla La
Mour, Mary Agatha Cassidy,
Margaret Burkhardt.
Gentlemen attending on duke
Valentine .........E Eleanor Koch |
Curio $3.50. Marguerite McManus |
Lord -............Fr Frances Wylie |
Sir Toby Belch, uncle to Olivia.
Naomi Murphy |
Sir Andrew Auguecheek $1,000.
Ethel Callahan |
steward to Olivia 800.
....... Elizabeth Peacock |
Servants to Olivia
Fabian Grace La Velle |
Feste, a clown .... Helen Prouty |
Priest .....-......... Mary Murray |
Sailors-Eva Vidal, Anna Rink, |
Gertrude Fennell, Denese McNally. !
Musicians - Editha Stackhouse, |
Lois Schillinger, Marie Vanden
Busche.
ofhcers-Kathryn Dolly. Martha
Tillmont.