El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-24
College Women
Make Merry in
the Birds GroUe

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IL PASO has so many good things
Il They begin with the morning sun
shine and the rose over the porch.
and end with Mount Frauklin's rrys-
FERROUS old head under the wheeling
stars or the Big Dipper and begin
again next morning. It IS such q
beautiful part OF the world 70 live IN.
and in so many ways the uleasantest
place In the world for ones home. but
NOT the least OF Il IS the tears and
laughter OF FL PaEo women folk. one
can always count on sympathy Tears
come quickly over the worlds pain
and sorrow, laughter bubbles I'd as
quickly over the funny side. some
times things are so funny the little
nils seem 20 jump with laughter and
certainly Franklin and the Juarez
mountains wrinkle I'D trying 10 keep
from grlnninE.
Tears and laughter were f0rthcom-
ing Saturday afternoon at the College
Woman's club picnic at the Country
club This club which holds a big
membership out Of the heart and
brains OF the town. having finished a
winter Of hard work. having seen
several big tasks successfully fin
ished, celebrated the end OF its year
with a flourish.
After a picnic luncheon Of ham
cream and cake a hundred women
and girls walked ont 20 the woods
where they found a wiEwaun. a totem,
logs, a fire. and an Indian woman
sewing beads on leather coat. She
was Glory OF the Morning. To her
came bounding a 1.-THE Iimbed. bronze
BOY Red Wing and a pretty maiden.
oak Leaf, her children Following
them came Ereat Indian medicine
man. Black Eagle. a stern unyieldInE
Indian who might have walked
straight out OF Cooper. They tell the
story and discuss red men and white
Uens Tor the father OF the children Is
a French trapper. They call him Half
Noon AS the story unfolds. Ha1F
Noon. the father, returns 70 his Wig
wan He tells his squaW he has
come but not 70 stay. that his father
across the great water has died and the
french king has called him back TO
take up the title and the estates and
he must 90. Glory OF the Morning Of
rers TO go with him TO sweep and grind
corn for him. but he tells her that
there is no place for an Iidian squaw
IN the French court, that she would
not be happy there. that her WAYS
would not be welcome Re has come
20 leave her but 70 take the children
20 France. After tears and discus
sion and denunciatlons the old Indian
Blac- Wing. advises that the children
musr make their choice. French
father or Indian mother. wigwam OF
court Oak Leaf, the girl. quickly de-
cides 20 follow her father out in the
world where she viii be given pretties
and have many white lovers Red
Wing. the boy. as quickly refuses TO
80 with his father He very proudly
remains Winnebago and chooses In
dian mother and tent in the woods
and Is very high and mighty over
everything that Is the white mans.
simple enough play but convinc-
Ing. There was that about it and
about the acting that made &c all the
world there was for its hour. Under
the big cottonwoods whose domes
were filled with the Fittings Of mea-
dow larks and hooking birds. the
little troupe OF PLAYERS soon had the
audience by their hearts. and when
Glory OF the Morning lifted her head
high, stung by the Frenchman's de-
sertion, or lowered It 10 the dust
begging for the children. body OF her
body. heart OF her heart. the audience
wept and wiped its eyes as one
woman, losing q handsome husband
and parting from children leaving
home for the world When Red Wing
with boEish arrogance and pride
swung himself about tauntinE his
father with being a squaW man, and
choosing the red mans way. the
audience thrilled as ~ &c were entirely
Indian boy hating the white blood
Oak Leaf IN the same way twisted
them about They smiled and smiled
over her. she was so pretty and so
sweet. and 50 eager for a. necklace.
Turning about. 10 listened 70 big
Black Wings long wise speeches on
Indian differences as n life depended
on not missing a word, and not a
one but had a turn OF the heart for
the good looking. mellow voiced
q e ne Az
the trouble.
The players by perfect simplicity,
clear euunciatiou. and entire absence
OF anything resembling elocutionary
efforts or false appeals OF any sort.
did so transport the audience that e
was Winnebago until the play was
done
It all goes TO prove that play acting
IS its finest when IL can be simple
There needs not stage or extraordin-
airy costumes. the worlds want the
story.
IL IS the story that counts. the liv-
ing and loving. the choosing. the eter-
nal discussion between the old and the
new. the 5uXtaposinE OF the mans
ideals with the woman's. the wrong
that argues right and the right that
sometimes argues wrong. These be
themes that never dull
Il was very fine OF the College
Womeu's club % give an afternoon
OF such perfect art as the little Indian
play with its light-of-love and its
deeper feeling IL was artistic in its
clarity and modulation and simplicity.
The bird and leaf chorus helped the
effect At one moment the rustlinE OF
the leaves overhead drowned out the
players voices as a big wind swept
the chords but the players stopped
Tor the interlude and took up the
thread OF the story as the wind died
down
The cast OF the play was as follows
GLORY OF the Morning. Mrs. Dora s.
Maldron. Haf Noon. the French
trapper and husband, AIRS. II. N. Fieid-
oak Leaf, the daughter. ARA. Charles