The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-15
PARENT-TEACHER
PLAY MAKES BIG
HIT WITH CROWD

The Parent-Te4chers' association
play. AT the Union Station" at
tractsd 1000 people to the Moline
high school last evening.
F1fty-six names 90 to make up
the program. and besides these
there are q number which do not
appear on the program, such as .
dozen or more delegates, college
boys. athletes, newsboys, high
school girls, etc.
Many incidents such As every
body has laughed at some time or
other In a railroad station are pre-
scented. There is comedy and
pathos; humor and tragedy; songs
and dances.
Also there is much skillful act
ing. Mrs. Phoebe Schofield, Mrs.
Will briggs, Adolph Oppenheimer,
Albert Payton, Will Nicholson. Mrs.
W. o. Frances and the other two
score leading characters.
Phoebe hasn't much to do except
sit around waiting for q couple Of
hours. She also eats. Nearly ev-
cry minute of those two hours are
occupied by eating. Phoebe knows
how to sit, and she knows how to
eat. In all probability Mrs. Scho-
field has Indigestion today, but last
night she got the laughs.
Mrs. briggs doesn't do much ex-
cept talk, but talk she does. In the
play she is called Mrs. Garrulos and
she lives up. to her name, and gives
a sense of reality to the many
strange things which are forever
occurring while the passengers
wait for their trains.
Professor Oppenheimer is a wild
over with four children who are
hard to manage, but the professor
has winning way, aided by an ir-
ritable tongue, and finds himself
a bride at the station. Before the
show is over Mrs. C. F. Lundberg
becomes the new mother of the four
youngsters.
Officially Albert d. Payton is a
bootblack. although he is Mrs. Scho-
fields first rival for eating honors
in reality. During his two hours
performance, Mr.. Payton got away
so well that he is also probably
suffering from Indigestion today.
The Blackman girls. Barbara and
Marian, do an Indian dance with
their usual grace and charm, and
Dorothy Ainsworth and Mabel Eey
do a gypsy dance. which the audi.
ence wanted done over again. Il
will be tonight
The songs are given by Ruth and
Marcella Parmalee, youngsters who
play the parts of two of Widowel
Oppenheimer's children, Will Nicn
olson, the porter, Mrs. ARTHUR Ford
a coed, and Mrs. John Cunningham
prima donna.
Many other things are intermix
ed in the production. A henpeck
ed husband and his wife, a young
ster who knows how to ask cues
tons, q woman with q baby which
she entrusts to the helpless bach
elor's care, Farmer Corntassel, +:
pair Of newlyweds, a pretty girl VIII.
elopes, a couple of hayseeds an,
so on.
| Anyone who has ever spent an,
time sitting around waiting for ;
train will see something in thi
show that he or she has seen a
some railroad station.
The Introductory talk was de
livered by l.. A. Mahoney, superin
tendent of schools, who explaine,
the mothers clubs OF which tn
parent-teacher's association i
formed, and highly commende
their activities toward q better un
derstanding between teachers an
parents and between the school
and the public. Mr.. Mahoney ais
urged that a favorable vote be reg
istered tomorrow on the proposition
Of issuing bonds to the amount @
$4,000 to retire q like sum of bond
now outstanding.
The play was capably staged IN
der the direction Of A. H. Con
Ino1lx,