The Princeton union., 1919-04-17
4 DELIGHTFUL PLAY
ANY Way Out, by High School Junior
Class, Furnishes Much Amuse-
ment to Large Audience.
Musical Numbers and a Jazz Band
Like Unto No Other Ever Heard
Enter Into the Program.

armory last Saturday evening by the
Junior class Of our high school was a
success in every sense of the word.
From the opening number to the grand
finale-which in itself was worthy Of
any stage-everything went off with
snap and sparkle which kept the
large audience convulsed with laugh.
ter and most thoroughly entertained.
The chief feature of the evening
was farce entitled "Any Way OUT
All in the cast took their parts with
enthusiasm. There wss Dan, breezy
carefree young fellow whose tendency
to make things easy in the present
stored up trouble for the future.
Around this tangle and his efforts to
lind way out the plot was built.
Morris Davis took this part with
naturalness, ease and grace His
stage appearance admirably suited the
part.
Perhaps the most difficult role to
act was that of Miss Canison, an ell
derly spinster bent upon conquest, re-
peatedly lead to hope, but doomed to,
disappointment, yet always able to,
make her maidenly ideal fit the next
possible candidate. 1t was the sudden.
transitions from coyness to outraged
dignity and anger that required un-
usual ability on the part of the actor.
But Mildred Howard was equal to the
part and played it as few who are old
er and more experienced could have
done. She further showed her versa
tility in a dialect reading entitled,
"Americano." e"s~~~ ..-,-~---.=
Deacon Smith was another charac-
ter part to balance that of Miss Cant
son. Roy Busch made an excellent old
man with an apparently hard outer
shell hiding soft heart underneath.
Both Roy and Mildred are to be COM.
mended for the way in which eacha
brought out the personality of char
acter so foreign to his own.
Margaret Pitman was her own VIM
ming self in the character of Sally.
But even the sweetest nature will give
way to anger, jealousy and scorn if
caught in a net of difficulties and mis-
understandings as Sally was, and
Margaret portrayed these emotions
one after the other most pleasingly.
Ruth Herdliska, as negro bent up
on revenge, stormed and threatened
and fought in a manner most convinc-
ing, but astonishing, when her natural
ly gentle and ladylike nature is taken
into considerations. =
Bert Jobson! Who wouldn't love,
Jobson, so simple, so kindly and so
loyal, but above all so funny? And
Theron Nelson made the most of the
part-in fact he was able to go Job
son one or two better. Surely no one
could have fitted the part better or
have been funnier, but Theron saws
it is natural.
Little Harriet Evans said she didn't
like to be boy but she was "corker''
nevertheless.
The special features introduced be-
tween acts were excellent and added
greatly to the success of the evening.
It is always pleasure to listen to
mr.. Garrison, who at the request of
the junior class, gave two solos. The
class songs, pleasingly rendered, gave
the audience an opportunity to see how,
many pretty girls and fine manly bows
compose the Junior class.
The trio sung by Ernesta Jesn1er.
Edna Mallotte and Julia Birkland,
and the duet sung by Ernesta and
Julia, accompanied by Vivian Holmes,
were delightful vaudeville numbers.
These features gave testimony to-
excellent training as we'll as much
natural grace.
The Jazz band! It is impossible to
lind point from which to begin
description. It is sufficient to saw
it was overwhelming. The enyious
seniors were heard to remark that this
number gave the juniors, under their
1lmble leader, an opportunity to tsact
natural" But then, the seniors had,
ample reason for feeling jealous and,
their pique by presenting q
beautiful ~ odorous bouquet at the,
lose Of this soulful CD performance.
Those of us who sat in the audience
AVE not only every reason for feeling
'roud OF our young people who all ac-
lultted themselves so creditabIy: but
:lso have we every reason for feeling
thankful that we have in our. schools
corps Of teachers who can so suc-
essfully handle an entertainment of
his kind. Particularly do we an
reclate this in a year like this when
he teachers and pupils have had so
1uch with which to contend, as re-