The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-27
AMATEUR STAGE WORK
Excellent Progress is Being Made
BY High School Students.

BY High School Students.
Interesting amateur EoIH is being
carried ~ at The Mankato High
school under The direction OF Miss
Selma Meilgren. public speaking
teacher and drama club advisor. At
the meetings OF the club, one act
plays. reports and interesting re-
2umes OF various plays have been
given. Nearly one -quaIter OF the
advanced class in public speaking
is given over to the study of plays.
Various one act plays are studied
and read. After the plot, atmos
phere, setting and characters are
Studied, much stress is placed on
the student getting inside the Charac
ter and making the auditory appeal.
At present the members of the class
have completed their work on The
Golden Doom" by Lord Duusany and
Two Crooks and Lady. by Eugene
Pilot. These performances are not
finished presentations as many of
the students nave never taken part
before in such work. At present the
class is Interested in writing plays
and hope 20 stage them for their
own pleasure.
The art class nf Miss Fffiie Conk-
ing has been very much interested
in helping Win scenery and cos
tuning. The miniature stage which
has been made by the manual train
ing boys under the direction Of their
teacher. d. n. Lind and two students,
John Vogt and Gerald Ellis, which
can be seen in the window of the
Free Press building.
The present setting is for the last
scene In Robert Timmons Roger's
one act play Behind Vatican Pic
ture." This will soon be changed to
scene in "A Trysting Place, writ
ten by Booth Harrington. The min
ature stage will be an essential part
of the art and drama departments of
the schoo! for it aids materially the
students 10 work out different scenic
effects. The ar. classes work out
the sets for the various perform
ances in pleasing color schemes and
good arrangement. and can actually
know the effects. produced when Ger
tain Colored lights are turned on as,
the little stage is equipped electri-
cally.
The drama>club Is composed OF
thirty students. Senior and Juniors
receive the honor Of being members
by strenuous try outs" and initia-
lions. Over seventy five applica
tons We're refused this year as only
fifteen members could be admitted
Norman NitzkOwSki was made pres
ident; Delbert Wood, vice president;
Ruth Macbeth, secretary; Leona Pc
terson, treasurer. For the presen-
tation of the three one act plays for
the public, Paul Gender was made
property manager; Lloyd kersey,
stage manager; Delbert Wood as
siStant stage manager. Maurine
Boie, costume mistress; tickets, I'm
manual Fleckenstein. The other
members of the club are Harriet
Glenn, Mildred Boie, Kathleen O'Con-
nor. Gladys Barkuloo, Elizabeth
Schmitt, Evelyn Stoddard, Myra
Jones, Dorothy Bierbauer, Eloise
Taylor, Mary Thomas, Herbert Brock
meyer. Lloyd Keogan, Kenneth Swift
ger, Arthur Williamson, Donald Fitz-
loft, Thorstein Olson, Sumner Carl
strom, Wilbur Peterson and Lynn
karp.
The three one act PLAYS that were
chosen to present to the public Tues
day evening at the Orpheum theatre
are 1.-THE Trysting Place" ''The
Knave of Hearts" and Under the
Vatican Picture"