The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1921-05-21
HIGH SCHOOL
Commencement
Week Record of PleaSur-
able Activities at Close
of School Year
WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES'"
PLAYED BY SENIOR CLASS

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The senior class play was a mark
ed success as an amateur production.
The characters in the play could not
have been chosen better and the play
seemed to have been written especial-
ly for Colville's seniors. what
Happened to Jones" was production.
with sufficient complication to keep
things interesting from start to finish.#
Jones was a travelling salesman
for hymn book house who sold play.
ing cards as a side line. The part
was successfully played by Wallace
Buckley, who was a scream in his
different roles.
A coincidence in the production was
the recurrence of the number 13.
The play was given on May 13 in the
year 1921, the numerals of which,
when added, give 13. There were
13 characters in the play, 13 pieces
of furniture on the stage, and with
out being so ordered the policeman's
uniform arrived with No. 13 on the
cap.
Synopsis of the Play
The professor, played by Louis
Foote, was expecting his brother, a
bishop from Australia, played by
Dana Isom, and a suit of clothes had
been ordered for the bishop to don
upon his arrival. Just before the
bishops arrival, the professor, ac-
companied by prospective-son-in-law
Richard Heatherly, played by Gaylord
Stolts, went to prize fight. Jones
was also at the prize fight. The
police discovered the fight and raided
it and the professor, Richard and
Jones fled by way of water spout
to the professors home. Jones,
finding the suit of clothes which had
just been delivered for the bishop,
put them on as disguise against
discovery by the police, as he did not
have the best Of a reputation anyway.
1t was then up to him to play the
part of the bishop. AS such he was
introduced to the. household of the
professor and married the professors
ward. In the meantime the real
bishop arrived and Jones claimed to
the real bishop that he, Jones, was
the dean.
The real bishop, unable to find the
clothes ordered for him, appeared
with a robe wrapped around him.
Just at this point, Bigbee, played by
Enos Rice, an escaped lunatic from
a sanatorium, enters dressed as an
Indian and overpowers the bishop and
sticks a feather in his hat. The
Indian is finally taken away after
considerable excitement. The bishop
finds the suit of clothes which Jones
had discarded and puts them on and
stands with his back to window.
A passing policeman recognized the
coat as that of Jones, because of a
torn coat tail and arrests the real
bishop who is soon released because
of his ignorance of the prize fight.
The professors sister-in-law, Alvina,
played by Cleo Scoles, falls in love
with the bishop and in the last act
when things straighten themselves
out, Alvina discovers that she is in
love with the wrong man, or thinks
she is. Jones furnishes an alibi to
the policeman who goes away salts
fed and everyone belives that Jones
is a man who always tells the truth.
Cast of Characters
Jones, who travels for a hymn
book house. Wallace Buckley
Ebenezer Goodly, Professor of An
atomy. ...........................Lo Louis Foot7
Antony Goodly, d. D., Bishop OF
allarat............-...-..... lsom
Richard Heatherly, engaged to
Marjorie. Gaylord Stolts
Thomas Holder, policeman......,....
Charles Vine
William Bigbee, inmate of sana-
torium. ..Enos RICE
Henry Fuller, superintendent of
sanatoriun. ames O'Neil
Mrs. Goodly, Ebenezer's wife
................................. Marie Lundblad
Cissy, Ebenezer's ward......................
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