The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1926-12-27
CROWD Sees WINSLOW SENIORS
PRESENT adam AND EVA HERE
BY GERTRUDE THEIRS

"A lulA uouoc anu q nSll pledhCu
audience at the close of the even
ing's entertainment were the gra-
tifying results of the Winslow
High School Seniors play:
Adam and Eva" presented last
night, at the Washington auditori-
um.
The three-act comedy was riot
of fun and held the interest of the
entire audience. The exceptionally
well selected case of seniors filled
their parts in manner that
brought the amateur play on a
plane higher than the average, and
received the acclaim of local crit
les in dramatic art who witnessed
the presentation.
The first two acts, the scenes Of
which were laid in the Long Island
home of James King, rich man,
centered about the life of a pam
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the luXuries that money could buy,
had lost sight of the real love Of
home and the companionship of
family life. Tiring of the attempt
of their father to manage the house
in business-lifie manner, a plot
is conceived whereby a neighbor,
doctor Interested in the family
millions and the young unmarried
daughter, declares that Mr.. King
needs a lengthy rest in some far
off secluded spot. DR.. Jack Della
meter, played by Paul Evans, who
ably took the part, and Ivan Han
cock, as James King, was all that
could be imagined in an irritable,
worried father
Adelaide Martin cleverly carried
out the role of his daughter, Eva,
ready assistant in planning the
affair The scheme is discovered
by Mr.. King, but glad to leave for
a time he consents to go to South
America and to spend three
months there In his absence he
places Adam Smith (John Scott)
as business manager and paternal
head of the King household. Smith,
big, awkward but likeable young
chap has spent several months on
the plantation.
This role was particularly well
played, and won many enthusiastic
comments.
Clifton Dewitt (Parr Lancaster
son-in-law of James King, Julie
Dewitt, his eldest daughter (Laura
Smith, Aunt Abbie Rocker (Ina
Bender), his sister-in-law, Lord
Andrew Gordon, his would-be Sons
in-law (Clifford Bengston) all ac-
completes in the plot to have a
gay time while father is away, do
not extend to Adam Smith the
friendship he expects, and when
he refuses to furnish funds for
their extrayagant purchases and
games of chance, find excuses for
excluding him from their family
dinners and other affairs.
Clyde Brady, playing the role Of
Horace Pilgrim, furnishes a great
deal of amusement. Corinthia, the
parlor maid DAISY McGregor)
loyal friend to the family.
Perceiving that such conditions
proved a helpful little soul and
could not continue, Adam Smith
conceives the idea of announcing
that through radical change in
the stock market they are now
practically bankrupt.
Act three finds the King family,
including Lord Andrew, on u
chicken ranch in New Jersey, all
contentedly working. 1t is not un-
til James King arrives home for
the Christmas holidays that it is
by the young, business
manager that the bankrupt story
was ali scheme to bring about
an awakening.
Lord Andrew, who has also un-
dergone decided change, discov-
ers that it is Adam that Eva loves,
and gallantly retires, permitting
Adam to claim the girl OF r his
heart