Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-03-09
OF
LOVE AT THE
OPERA HOUSE
Play to Be Staged At Opera House,
Thursday, March is, By Oxford
!. High School.

The girls Hi Y clubs Of the Oxford
High School will give play at the
Lyric Theater on Thursday evening
March 10th at .8:15 o'clock. The girls
of the club will be assisted in the pre-
sentation of this play by Miss Cath
crime Lovetts and number of town
and University girls and boys.
The play will be coached by Miss
Louise Allen of the Wayne P. Sewell
Producing Company.
The public is invited to support the
girls in their ambition to sponsor this
play. Come to the play and bring
your friend. A brief synopsis Of the
play follows:
Brief Synopsis of "the Microbe of
Love-"
In the town Of anywhere lives
number of charming young spinsters,
there being only five eligible bachelors
in the place, (and these five determ-
ined to remain unwed), the spinsters
see but little chance for them to over
come their husbandless condition; so
they decide to organize club for the
sole purpose of devising ways and
means by which they may secure
mates for their lonely hearts.
The "Microbe of Love" opens with
grand chorus of charming girls and
youthful bachelors. After their tri.
umphant flourish the spinsters begin
recital Of their woes and their hopes.
Among the many schemes Offered,
whereby they may secure husbands,
| is that of getting them from various
mail order houses by means of trad
ing stamps. But upon reading the
description of the men given as pre-
miums, with the various household
articles quoted, the hearts OF the
spinsters are saddened to find them
but a bargain counter lot and not
model one among them. However,
Madam Cupid enters with the love
microbes and guarantees it to pune
ture the male heart just as the boil
weevil does the cotton boil. Develop
ments prove that she knows what she
is talking about.
Nothing could be funnier than the
little left Over" scene which Will be
PLAYED between acts. They have
meeting to discuss the awfulness OF
their leftover condition. but instead
of getting sympathy they get only
roars of laughter.
The second act shows meeting OF
hte Bachelors Gu portraying chron-
illogical history of mans suffering
from the time of Adam, blaming each
and everything to the mischevlous
activities of woman. The initiation OF
Simon Shy into the Club of Safety
will bring pleasant memories to every
secret order man present.
Mr.. Henpeck, who has been work
ing double harness for some time,
visits the bachelors and warns them
against the spinsters scheme to lure
them into matrimony.
The last act is a garden party where
the spinsters have invited the bache-
lors to meet Madam Cupid. Here the
hapless, hopeless, helpless bachelors
become inoculated with the microbe.
The wrecking of this club and the
kidnapping of it's members is too fun
ny for expression.
The climax is the wedding scene,
which is perhaps the loveliest of them
all. made so by the dainty little flower
girls and ribbon bearers.
This brief scenario gives you only
vague idea of what your home
talent will do. Come and enjoy this
rare production full of wit, humor,
music and philosophy. The plot is
deft and it's lines and lyrics as, bright
as spangles and as refreshing as pat
tering showers on hot day. 1t is
| the kind audiences cheer and cheer
/ and 20 to see again and again.