Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1921-04-30
Senior Class of Custer High School Pre-
sents Mary's Millions to Full and
Appreciative House.

tlme, ana much credit rs due Mrs. +. II
Wilson, who chose the parts SO aply
and drilled the playe.s so ably.
The play, "Mary's Millions" has a
its setting, "Rocky Hollow" a New
England village of the present day, lht
first act of the play being within th,
walls of the Rocky Hollow postoffic,
and general store, the second act Straw
berry Festival on the village green, anc
the setting Of the last act being the same
country store as at first The cast Of the
play was as follows
Jack Henderson Harold Mclaughlin
"a Civil Engineer)
Jimmie Barnes s-----------P Paul Neayil
(Jack's friend from New York,
dealer in stocks and bonds)
! Ezra Stoneham Otto Alger
(Mary's Uncle and Guardian,
and the Storekeeper)
AbDa Boggs- ------ Francis Freeland
"a human aivver)
Count Victor De Seles---- Lloyd Parker
Another scene for a protective tariff
Mrs. Stoneham.----.--E Eva Wilson
lEzra's wife with ambilionsl
Eudora smith -----------M Mildred Hitch
(Stoneham's hired girl)
Countess Lola De Selles Myrtle Harris
lThe right kind of sister for Victor
Mrs. Amanda Nudge -- Blanche Kirk
(Wedded to her Ouija Board
Betty Barlowe- Helene Mclaughlin
(rhe Village Schoolma'am
Mary Manners .------- Mildred Trmble
An Heiress to Millions)
interviewer with the droll humor OF
the play, were the likeatle, life like
characters presented-with Harold Nc
Laughlin as Jack, who made no effort
to conceal his country 'bfinging-up" and
who was honest and straightforward in
hfs love making-his lady love being the
fair Mary Of the Millions" otherwise
Mildred Trimble). Mary herself was
young, winsome, inclined toward Jack
but felt she must obey her Aunt Jane in
all things, but her own natural impulses
finally led her to her triumph in the
third act-and Jack becomes her hero.
Eva Wilson, playing the part of Aunt
Jane, was especially good, as a naughty
egotistical grasping and ambitious lady,
who on all occasions, properly squelched
her too-patient husband, Ezra. Ezra
(played by Otto Alger) was a good repre-
sentation Of the hen -pecked husband
totally bereft of spunk, until, in the
third act he declared his emancipation,
for "even the worm will turn" you
know-albeit that worm be husband.
Eudora, rural spinster, sarcastic and
suspicious, and h0usekeeper for Aunt
Jane and Ezra, and beloved by Mary
was character we'll played by Mildred
Hitch. "Eudorie" did 'say yhe durn-
dest things, according to 0bija, old in
wisdom, but young in spirits; and Fran
els Freeland took this part splendidly
and surprised his audience in the last
act by asking "Eudorie'' TO 90 to the
parsonage with him-and Eudora was
surprised into consent.
Enter on the scene when Mary with
her Aunt and Uncle come home, a
Count Victor and his sister, Lola, whom
Aunt Jane would entertain, with the
hope of thwarting the love affair of Jack
and Mary-said couple being entirely
agreeable and Likewise coveting Mary's
Millions and her pearls. Lloyd Parker
as the Count and Myrtle Harris as the
Countess were both very good ia their
makeup and acting, Victor a hot house
product, incapable of thinking or acting
without the adyice of Lola who is
winning and resourceful, but not en-
treIy genuine.
Mary has friend, the village school
ma'am, whose name is Betty, with
plenty of common sense, but who hasn't
quite outgrown being youDgster,- -
lighthearted and pleasing, who in real
life" is Helene Mclaughlin; aud Jack
has friend Jimmie lalias no, Jimmie
Valentine, bat Pau NeavtlI breezy
slangy, happy-go-lucky city type, al
ways lovable and funny, who finally
must have Betty, and who finds much
en5oym ment himself (and is myrth-pro-
voking TO the audence) in making love
to the Countess when she appears, which
love making is entirely agreeabIe.to said
lady Jimmie is good-and funny-and
we can see that Paul will always seize
the opportunity, as 1t is presented.
One side light" in the play is Mrs
Nudge, who is a well meaning, motherly
soul, addicted to the spirits of the
Ouja variety. She rides her hobby to
the speed limit, and the rather difficult
to endure, is exceedingly funny, and
enters into the settlement of the steal
ing Of Mary's pearls in realistic Ouija
manner. Blanche Xix as Mrs. Mudg
was real Ouija success.
And then--oh yes!-there was VII
lage choir at the awberry Festival
said choir very rural and realistic in