The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1920-04-22
Schoolmates, the Senior Class
Play, Success.

Another of Miss Gladys Ruth Bridg-
MANS plays was presented in the Colonial
Theatre last Friday evening by the Senior
class OF the Belfast High school under
the able direction of Mrs. S. A. Parker,
the schools teacher of English. There
was large audience and unusual interest
was apparent from the first strains of
the High school orchestra to the fall of
the curtain on the last act
Inc orchestral selections, the piano
auet by Misses Bernice Hartman and
BARBARA Mchenney and the gypsy dance
and song. with Miss Elizabeth Hill &C
companlst, by Misses Hazel Head and
Jennle Roberts, in costume, were delight
ful features and reflected onlv credit on
this branch of school work, now under
the direction of Miss Margaret M. Mitch
ell of Or no.
1t is the first time the play has been
given and the text was from type-writ-
ten pages by this most popular author.
particularly of this style of work. There
is only one scene for the three acts-the
study at the Nelson home, thus obviatine
the usual long waits at amateur per
formances.
The cast was well chosen and there
was little acting required but a plenty of
real sport for the boys in foot ball man
agement, coaching, ETC., while the girls
have their club activities, party dresses
and ambitions to rival the boys in real
school life and activities.
Miss Elizabeth Hills of Searsmont star
red the cast in it's only difficult piece of
acting, when as Miss Beal, the teacher,
she was apparently genuine old maid of
the primest, stitfest sort. Not for an in
slant did she drop the character or hesi-
tate on her lines.
Miss katherine Brown as Helena, the
child in the Nelson home, was close
second to Miss Hill in sustaining the part
to which she is so well adapted-looking
pretty and tormenting the older pupils.
She brought down the house when she
ally as Peggy" the little Welch terrier
belonging to Ruth Dinsmore, but mas
querading on the program as Forward
Pass, by Margaret Dinsmore. Few Senior
classes can boast of such sweet and
dainty little girl.
Hazel Heald and Hope Dorman as
Elizabeth and Christine Nelson were 10y
al sisters to their brother Jack and sus-
tanned in a marked degree the elements
that make school life most interesting
Minor, but none the less attractive
parts, were we'll taken by Doris Allen as
Florence Allen, Louise Colson as Agnes
Stanford, Barbara McKenney as Rebecca
Fremont, Marguerite ingalls, as Olive
Austin, Bernice Hartman as Charlotte
Reynolds and Ava Burgess as Frances
Orcutt, members of the school.
The plot of the play was in the parts
taken and well sustained by the boys of
the class. Royce Miller as Jack Nelson
and karl Smalley as Arnold Stanford,
the former as manager and the latter as
a member of the foot ball team, came
dangerously near losing their honor when
they thought to substitute a professional
on account of Jack Withdrawing at the
last minute from the game with fract-
ured shoulder Jacks sister Elizabeth
came to their rescue and taunted Arnold
to the point of substituting for Jack and
winning the game and championship for
their school.
Maurice Cobb as Tony Allen, Tom
Lothrop as Tom Austin and Clyde Marri-
ner as George Brown looked after their
parts in the cast, also the girls in their
! club sessions, ETC., and incidentally studl-
ed little or tried to.
/ Several members of the Junior class in
fantastic costumes sold homemade can
dies between the first and second acts
and disposed of all of their goods when a
large part of the audience was anxious
to be supplied