, 1922-04-13
DRAMATIC CLUB
IN SNAPPY PLAY
". S. P. amateurs PRESENT THE
TOWN MARSHAL" TO FULL HOUSE
COMEDY and MUSICAL spec.
lALTlES were Pleasing

The w. S. p. Dramatic Club staged
its final entertainment of the season
last Friday at the theatre of the in
stitution before an audience which
filled the hall comfortably, and
which applauded the efforts OF the
heartily. The offering vas
a comedy drama. entitled. THE Town
Marshal" under the general man
agement of Jerry Driscoll. assisted by
Wayne Dabney. as director.
The play was a lurid melodrama
from the tap of the gong and all of
the actors who took part. as we'll as
those who contributed to the enjoy
ment Of the audience by songs, in
strumental selections and mono
logues between the acts showed
marked ability, better than the aver
age amateur.
"The Town Marshal'fairly reeked
with crime from start to finish, and
was at times romantic. pathetic,
comical, sentimental and sensational,
but with the usual happy ending all
around. Harold Desmond (Hugh
Ethridge) had arrived in a strange
South Dakota town, and had shown
himself such an adept at detecting
crime, that he was soon made Town
Marshal, and right there his troubles
began in earnest. for he fell in love
with Laura Hartley (Roy Sanders).
the village belle and the daughter Of
Willis Hartley Drank Wilmarth) a
wealthy grain dealer, and also fell
afoul Of the Vaccinations of the real
william OF the story, Mark Jameson
Wayne Dabney) who was programmed
as '"lawyer OF evil tendencies"
which was certainly putting 1t mild
ly, for before the curtain fell lie had
stirred up such a mess that every
body in the cast was in trouble of
some kind OF other.
Jameson had succeeded in getting
William Torrance (Sam Roberts) in
to his clutches through knowledge
that Torrance had once served time.
for a crime he did not commit how
ever as 1t t%ranspired. The two burg
larized the home. or office, OF the
grain dealer and had taken an agree
ment for the purchase OF about all
the land in the state, which was about
to expire. which land had increased
immensely in value since the instru-
ment had been drawn up. Torrance
vas to be forced against his will by
the crooked lawyer to i~mpersonate
the party OF the first part" pay
Hartley a trifling $4,000 deposit
and get possession Of the land, which
would yield a profit Of 500 900 to
the Lawyer with evil tendencies"
out of which the man with a past"
to get his bit-whatever the law
yer chose to hand him.
Desmond, the Town Marshal, who
a regular Sherlock, at once
grasped the big idea. He suspected
T ov,fosNn ~ kh1 1,~1I,rr nrJ .thnr
things, and did not hesitate to say
30. This made the lawyer sore and
he dug up some dope on the marshal
the Village BELLE" who by this time
had fallen for Desmond good and
1t appeared that Desmond
was not the rue name of the marshal
and when confronted with this ac-
cusation he hung his head and made
no denial, which came near getting
him in dutch with the girl.
Two of the best characters in the
play. Uncle Jeb Jenkins Hugh
and key Levinsky (James
Hanley) never lost faith in the
prosecuted marshal and stood by him
until he was fully indicated.
Uncle Jeb was q tough old bird who
was about to embark on his third or
matrimonial venture and
whose whtriWind style of love-mak-
nag excited great Eiee and afforded
sonaeSyA3pAble pointers to the young
folks IN tie audience.
Leyf191ky on q occasion admitted
In o steGD whisper that he was a Jew.f
would never have been
II he Aad kept still. for he
later charged With having bought
day, too. vhish no real eLvinsky
woN1d do.
Finally the whole party. one or
two at Q time, wound mp at q desert
ed cabin In Piae Valley. where the
skein wal Strengthened out.