Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-04-08
JUNIOR CLASS OF
HIGH SCHOOL were
SNAPPY ACTORS
Junior Play Was Attractive
Entertai n m e mt and
Showed to Large and Ap-
preciative Audience.

The play 1.-The Laughing Cure" wa
nut on Friday evening by the JUNO
high school students, under tne ani'
slperyision Of Mrs. Bertha hayes
commercial teacher. 1t was slmpl'
hnt very true story of an ailing youne
wife and the attentive HUSBAND
whose efforts were unfailing in at
tempting to get relief for his. Wlfei
the old family pill doctor and ms
old fashioned ideas; Auntie Dolelui
and how she came to cheer up tne
patient by telling her how very thin
and weak she was, and that she Kne"
of somebody just like her who wasted
away and died; the CHEEKY brother
and sister, the funny Irish maid, VINO
thought the whole family was crazy
the pretty stenographer and the
youthful new doctor with his phil
osophy of life.
The stage was so homelike ana
natural. The fireplace with the blaz-
ing logs, the rugs, piano, scattered
with popular songs the comfortable
chairs, the library table and reading
lamp, and the other little touches
that go to make .homelike room.
Laura Hanson, the ailing wife with
no sense of humor, was taken by
Mary Chitwood; Clarke Hanson,
man of business and husband OF the
ailing woman, Twas played by Merlin
Hall; DR. Whitcomb of the old school.
and family physician, by Arthur Tye;
Gay Hanson, sister of Clarke Han
son, Celeste Harley; Kitty Clyde, the
pretty stenographer to Mr.. Hanson,
Marian Wetherell; Jimmy Mason
Mrs. Hanson's brother and with
great sense of humor, Byron Norell;
Mary Ellen Perry, the Auntie Dole
full, Maude Beaman, and Norah the
Irish maid Lucille Norell.
The students all had parts well
cuited b them and handled them
well. The young doct-
or's theory of life and the prescrip-
tion to unnecessarily ailing folks
would not bring much business to
the drug stores, but his philosophy
would be more pleasant to take. As
Auntie Doleful, in the characteristic
Did maid costume and grandma bon
net rocked to and fro and told all
The cheerful things to the i'll wife,
the audience thought Of how many |
sob sisters they were acquainted |
with, and how they resembled the
one sitting before them. The young
brother and sister with the sunshine |
and the quick. witted |
maid furnished good many laughs |
rhe pretty stenographer was reason
enough that the business man was
.empted to neglect his home affairs.
rhe old doctor of the old school and |
with his quack ideas, but easily lead |
,y the younger mind was also good.
Music for the entertainment was
by Delma Macdonald, at
he piano, Ed Trathen, saxophone,
lambert Cannon violin and Mr.. Sim
IN mandolin. Harold Whitson sang
wo selections Dreaming, and ''In
be Garden of My Heart, accompan-
ed ON the piano by Mrs. Hayes.
During intermission, two pretty
uniors, Clara Swain and Zoe Bun
lell dressed in orange and green
repe paper dresses carried baskets
made from the same colors and sold |
andy among the crowd. Every |
eat in the house was sold, and forty |
hairs brought in for extras. The
money from this entertainment is t. /
70 toward the Junior-Senior ban
uet.
The other play, miss Burnett
'ut One Over" also by the Junior
tudents, was a story of college life
nd how four girls try to slip one
'ver on rich friend of the college
aculty. The girls in the college
ormitory were Gladys Aldrich,
iladys Flesher, Anna Miller, Minnie
lohrer, Beryl Collins and Lila
loung. Each part was well de-
Ivered and everyone thoroughly en-
Dyed the entire entertainment. The
'enior class play is to be presented
n May.
The Misses LaNeva Writ and Dor
THY Sims were week end visitors
rom Cooling college, visiting with