Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-22
SENIOR CLASS OF
SHORTRIDGE IN
THESPIAN ROLE
Daddy Long Legs Presented
With Credit to School
Cast.

An enthusiastic and demonstrative
audience filed the Murat last evening to
its seating capacity to witness the pres
entation OF Jean WebSters familiar
Daddy Long Legs" by the senior class
OF Shortridge High School. Gay parties
Of Shortridge folk filled the boxes and
the young players were forced to respond
to repeated curtain calls.
Catherine Cavins as Judy, the John
Greer Home orphan, who is taken from
the home and sent through college lust
like other girls by a mysterious un-
known guardian whom she calls Daddy
Long Legs. was charming, and Henry l..
Dithmer Jr.. as Jarvis Pendleton, alias
Daddy Long Legs, played the role OF the
aristocratic pedigreed Pendleton with
easy dignity. The story deals with Miss
Judy's life at college and her literary
career. Her unknown guardian. known to
her only as John Smith, gets decidedly
interested In his pretty ward. and as her
roommate's uncle and a Pendleton wins
her love, but she. fearing that he will
not wish a wife from 1.-The Home" with
no antecedents. of note, leads him TO be-
lieve that she cares for some one else. But
after several months unhappiness to both
she writes a letter to her guardian telling
him OF her trouble and asking him TO ad-
wise her. Pendleton, on reading the let
ter, which had been delayed on account
Of his illness, has his eyes opened, and
Judy's discovery that Daddy Lang Legs
and her lover are one and the same
brings the play to a satisfactory ending.
The party of Sallie Mcbride, Judy's
dearest friend, was cleverly played by
Miss Lucille Tyner, with Miss Helen l..
Bedell as Julia PendletOn who shared
the college suite OF rooms with Judy
and Salle Jimmie Mcbride with his pet
mustache was breezily played by Robert
Hartman. A mixture OF humOr and
pathos was introduced by the four little
orphan girls. Jeannetta Nunnamaker,
Helen Clener, Ella Pope and Florence
Hooper, and the ragged mischievous
orphan lad. Freddie Perkins, taken by
Robert Hollingsworth. Edison Wood as
Cyrus Wykoff. the grabbed trustee,
gave a realistic portrayal of the old
man. Marie Boyle, armed with lorgnette
and backed by long line of blueblooded
ancestry, made an effective Mrs. Pendle-
ton. Mary Barnes as the old nurse. Mrs.
Sample, with her caustic tongue and
telephone-eavesdropp was decidedly
amusing. Bessie Bryant as the hector
ing Mrs. Lippet, boss of the Home;
Miss Pritchard as the pretty Miss Pitt
chard, who brings Judy to her guardians
notice; Clarence Badger and Wade Dick
as the two elderly trustees, Silas Reagan
as the portly butler, Griggs and Kenneth
Church as the secretary, Walters, ali
gave splendid support in their roles.
The production was well staged and
the action moved along In a smooth
manner that was surprising in an anna
teur theatrical Offering, but due in
great measure to the capable coaching OF
George Somnes, who directed the play.
Other members OF the producing stan
to whom credit is due included George
Schumacher, business manager; Alex&n-
der Bowling, publicity manager: Edison
Wood. property manager; assistants,
Clarence Badger, Wade Dick, George
Daley and Fred Carter, costume commit
tee; Miss Nora Thomas of the faculty,
Barbara Brown and Dorothy Welhelm,
William Otto, class censor, and J. F.
Weinberger, business censor.