Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-16
COMMENCEMENT At
COLBY OPENS WITH
COLLEGE PLAY

The 1O3rd annual commencement ex-
erciSes at Colby College were opened
Saturday afternoon with the presenta-
ton of the college play Masks and
Faces".at the City Opera House. The
large auditorium was filled to capaci-
~ with college students, and many
friends of the college who were all
well pleased with the initial perform
ance of the play.
The play went off very smoothly
throughout the afternoon and the act
ing of all characters was most excel
lent. Taking the leading part of Peg
Wellington. a qlick-tempered actress
whose wiles and beauty had caused
many man to lose his heart, Miss En-
lily Il. Heath. &c, of Waterville, made
a decided hit with the audience
throughout the play. Miss Heath took
the part with exceptional skill and
brought down the house with applause
not few times in the course of the
afternoon. The part was most dill
cult to play by Miss Heath carried
through in every scene.
Granville b. L. Vale, "a, Of Glen
Cove, n. Y. as Triplet caused gales
Of laughter to come from the audience.
Mr.. Vale took the exceediA;ly hard
part Of a poor painter, author, play
right and poet with skill. and his por-
trayal of this part with the several
witty and humorous lines kept the au-
dience laughing a better part Of the
afternoon. Mrs. Tripley. as played 10y
Miss Florence A. Plaisted. 90, of Wa
terville. was also excellent. Mrs. Trip
let's high-pitched and continual whine
at the poverty in which they lived was
a bit OF good acting. The Triplet chill
dren were characterized by Master
Noyes L. Erwin, Mistresses Julia
Wheeler and Flora Brown. They play
ed their parts we'll for the children.
Miss Ethel NJ. Reed, "a. Of Harmony,
took the part of young Mrs. Vale, also
playing her part well. Stephen B. Ber-
ry, 20, of Providence, r. l., assumed
the role of Ernest Vane, the young hus-
band of Mrs. Vane. and who was deeply
in love with Peg Wellington. The
young couple are reunited through the
pleading of Mrs. Vane and the big
heartedness of the actress. Manley o.
Chase. "a. of Hincllley, played the
part of Sir Charles Pomander well.
The titled gentleman takes a great in
,terest in the affairs of the women in
hhe play and with an intention of
causing trouble among some of them
he himself gets into mean situation.
In the supporting cast were Russell
NJ. Squire, '25, of Watervile, as Colley
Cibber, a equity old gentleman whose
synical manners and ways of speech
rig deeply into the art circle. Imam nj.
Richardson, PA, of Strong, and Edward
T. Baxter, '25, of Waterville. take the
roles of Mr.. Snarl and Mr.. Soaper. re-
spectively. These gentlemen as art
critics and inclined to be of the most
harsh opinion Of all of Triplet's work
and never fail to express their biting
opinions.
The evenings program was the an
nual Junior prize exhibition. which was
held at the First Baptist church. Pres
ident Arthur J. Roberts acted as pre-
siding officer, while Rev. A. E. Pollard
Jones offered prayer.
The first speaker on the program was
Charles Barnard Chapman of Roxbury,
Mass, who took for his subject Just
Folks" Chapman told of how none of
the great men could have become great
without the assistance of those who la
bored under them without recognition.
The second speaker was Miss Viola
Jodrey of Lee. Miss Jodrey took Tor
her subject Charity" in which she
said that 1t was not the giving OF
money away but rather the giving OF
values of life which counted as charity.
Miss Ruth Fifield of Portland as the
next speaker had for her topic The
Students Point of View" and told OF
the stand Of the students in the col
lagos on the question OF outside activf-
Ties ana the benefit derived from them.
Elmer Mcclellan Taylor of Winthrop
smoke on can American Humortss.
taking for the subject OF his talk =.