Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05

Who N.,s TIC .aiher OF hll dauri
=, In the tullneSs of time she disco
ed herself up in New England W
: out Il place 10 lay her head and b.
= ut the end of her resources, m.
= linaEclal and physical, she :ppe
, To strangers for assistance and re
thor %oodly offices by dying u
. mlnUtc., later in their back kite
just tor that the orphan daug
eventually grew up into an az
blossom OF a young thing who
away 10 the cl1y and almost mi
marrying into the aristocracy i
hadn't been discovered by mean
q rocket that she was of the ari
tocrary herself. 1t was Il brill
and original plot and Harriet wa
be congratulated. Which Har1
vas, -profuaely.
The point is that the play
finished and duly read by Geo
GIliiln and the rest although it ,
not be &;lid that Georgia approve.
it a. enthusiastically as the cast
must act it. Notices therefore
tie G@,c ;taG admission prices
uuIy printed in our paper with
"Hh1N.rc'ncnt prominent at the
tom that homemade candy woult
On sale between the acts; also
our opera house is built with a
door and removable seats for lust
purposc-that the affair would
Followed by a dance at which
cream and cake would be proculY
tor consideration. Harriet was
cl;ncd to feel peevish about that f
note. Somehow it distracted f
the quality Of her effort and gro
commcrcializcd the drama. We
pcct that Harriet had artistic t
permanent. Such things have hapl
ed.
There were rehearsals one nigl
week at first to which everyb
came late bringing the informa'
/ that they hadn't mad time to le
their parts very we'll but would
better next week. The second "
so many folks were absent that CT
E@w.ins got huffy and declared
# no more Interest was going to
taken in it than this they might
we'll chuck it all up right here
now. George agreed with her,
ing the spittoon copiously, and
he was glad to see somebody in
bunch showed traces of brains.
someone rctol'ted that Grace was s
because they wouldn't let her pla,
the Woodlands dance next week
for ever body not to mind her
as for Georgia, few opinions
OF him one way Or another wo
never have any affect on the wo
anyhow. And Mrs. Whipple sugges
that rohcarsals be held twice a w,
and Il third week there was so
4cnblance of q company who knew
least one-quartor of their parts. 7
fourth week everybody sent in W,
that they knew their parts letter p
feet and could say them in their sic
But a great sickness began to sc
the soul of Mrs. Whipplc because
advertisements had been running
day., and two hundred and sevent,
tickets had been sold and there had
been one complete rehearsal. Til
as happens in such affairs the nat
over the play being scheduled eli,
weeks ahead, about ten days befo
hand, everybody put in an appe
ancc at once and came into bella
action with such whirlwind of
1car.ing and fcvcrishness of prepa
ion that they lost their man
cr!pt5 and their cues and their ter
CTS and blamed everyone else
everything, and two people wall
out cold and their places had to
illcl by others, and one girl worl
20 hard over her lines she was tai
'ick-abed which made her mother
'larc that the pace the young TO
ivcd these days was q caution
would open the eyes of the dead.
All OF which having been duly
Town as it has been written in
book of the prophets since the d.
when small towns and Oddfellt
odges and depleted treasures w
'onng, brings US in the course
Kings to George Griffin, rehear
md eventually romance-for ]:
'urse and Mary had been cast to r
he leads in that little local tai
'lay.
George was a bony understood
lie fellow as hard as nails will
|uffy down on his Jaw, a quid of
acco in his check the size of 81
ems egg and a disposition someJ
CURED on life by reason of the nj
rails and suf'erings that were
eritare of his profession. He
tailed meters for the gas conn
aytimes and on show-niqhts a,
S property man at our onlv n
ouse. Property man! Georoie c
n was more. George was the w
pera house. Ask anyone who g..