The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-12-13
SCHOOL PLAYERS
IN COLLEGE TOWN
LOCAL TALENT IN COMEDY
ROLES AT LIBERTY THE
ATRE DECEMBER 1s

"A IKE DECEMBER 18
Do not forget the best high school
play of the season. "a College
Town" will be given in the Liberty
theatre next Tuesday evening, Dec.
Is. Admission 35 and SO cents.
Story of the Play
Jimmie Cavendish, typical col
lege good fellow" is senior at
Bexley college. The night before
the opening of the play he has been
out on a lark and, in his rah rah en-
thusiasm has broken several windows
and painted a statue on the campus,
and to cap the climax, calls at the
home of Prof. Popp, the chairman
of the discipline committee, and
kisses his tyranical wife, who ans
wers the bell. He escapes, but loses
his fraternity pin. Mrs. Popp finds
this and sees Jimmie's name on the
back. The play opens the next morn
ing at Jimmie's boarding house.
"Ma" Baggsby, the mother of all
the college boarders, is expecting
her niece from Carolina to spend
Thanksgiving with her. The young
lady arrives and at once captivates
the fancy of Jimmie.
Plot Deepens
Matters are complicated by the ar,
rival of the. discipline committee hot
on his trail. He manages to get out
of the scrape by stating that he was
with his aunt the night before. His
Aunt Jane is thinking about endow-
inc a chair at the college and jim
mie works the discipline commit
tee. They insist ON seeing the aunt,
however. and Jimmie's two chums,
Tad and Shorty, each unknown to
The other agree to impersonate Jim
mics aunt.
Trouble Brewing
Mrs. Popp gives a faculty dinner
party in honor of Jimmie's aunt and
Tad goes discussed as a giddy old
maid. Mrs. Popp's brother, head of
the military department, proposes to
Tad in a ludicrous love scene. The
real Aunt Jane arrives from New
York and ~oes to the dinner party.
She is met by Tad and hustled away
,efore she meets the faculty. Things
re beginning to get very exciting
or Tad as the major insists on MAX
no love and the dinner party is full
f comic Interruptions.
The college glee club, after sere-
aiding the guests Of Mrs. Popp, are
reated rather shabbily and, out of
evenge, they "spike" the punch.
he innocent hen-pecked Popp says
he punch is better than usual and
axes too much In his exhilirated
tate he proceeds to lay down the
aw to his domineering spouse, but
rebuffed and led by the ear back
. the dinner party. Jimmie's ad
liration for Mrs. Baggby's niece
eepens and he obtains her permis-
ion to escort her to the Thanksgiv-
lg football game.
The Hero Rewarded
The third act depicts the excited .
ollege crowd on the sidelines of the
thanksgiving football game. 1t is
early the end of the first half and
lie rival team is winning. The Bex-
v rooters are all blue. Tad, still
sguised as the aunt, amazes Le-
ticus by smoking a pipe and root
Q for Bixley. Mrs. Baggsby and
al Aunt Jane arrive at the game.
he major. mistaking the real aunt
r Tad, renews his lovemaking,
uch to the lady's surprise. Tad ar
yes and explains the whole Joke to
e major. The major is indignant
ID threatens to expell Jimmie, but
finally passifed by Tad's threat
tell all about the majors lovemak-
q. The football men need Tad in
e game, as he is substitute player.
ley mistake Aunt Jane for Tad and
sh her out onto the field. She is
scued by Jimmie and, because of
heroism, forgives all the decep-
n. The game is won for Bixby by
nmie and all ends well.